History NightmareFuel / TheSecretWorld

--> Do not panic. Do not [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch pan-pan-panic]]... panic... panic... panic...''panic...''

* Nightmare in the Dream Palace shows ''exactly'' why you don't want to upset [[MouthOfSauron John]]. [[spoiler:His mental landscape is disturbing enough, showing exactly how he transformed from a lonely man to fanatical cultist of the Dreamers to living Filth infection...and then his conscious mind catches up with you, and he decides [[MindRape turnabout is fair play]], casually turning your entire life into a movie and forcing you to fight old bosses for his amusement. Then he reaches [[TraumaButton Lilith]], and he ''panics''. Why? [[ParanoiaFuel Well, apparently even her memory can react to his presence]]...]]

** The Organ Smugglers: [[spoiler: The Orochi Group is now into OrganTheft, and can easily get away with it thanks to connections with the CDC and the police. Furthermore, the Dragon warns against [[FateWorseThanDeath getting captured by them]] - suggesting that they might [[WhoWantsToLiveForever exploit your immortality]] and have you [[AndIMustScream harvested for all eternity]].]]

* The Fear Nothing Foundation in Tokyo. Combines the psychological abuses and practices of real cults with supernatural elements. In addition, one of their members [[spoiler: caused the massive filth release in Tokyo that started the events of the game]].

* Nightmare in the Dream Palace shows ''exactly'' why you don't want to upset [[VoiceOfSauron John]]. [[spoiler:His mental landscape is disturbing enough, showing exactly how he transformed from a lonely man to fanatical cultist of the Dreamers to living Filth infection...and then his conscious mind catches up with you, and he decides [[MindRape turnabout is fair play]], casually turning your entire life into a movie and forcing you to fight old bosses for his amusement. Then he reaches [[TraumaButton Lilith]], and he ''panics''. Why? [[ParanoiaFuel Well, apparently even her memory can react to his presence]]...]]

* The Parking Garage mission in Tokyo. It's already dark, and full of sudden noises and jump scares. As you get farther enough into the garage, ghosts start appearing, parking gates open and close for no obvious reason, and a bunch of ghosts appear. If you pay close attention, it becomes apparent that [[spoiler: the assassin you saw in the security footage is also in the parking garage with you, following you down to the target.]]

** On a related note: [[spoiler:Every time a person goes through a tutorial mission, viewing the Tokyo Incident Team's disastrous scouting mission, ''they are unknowingly becoming an accomplice to repeated MindRape of the member who got stuck in the subway''. And it's going to ''keep happening'', because your society doesn't know any other way to prepare operatives for the Filth safely.]]

** On a related note: [[spoiler:Every time a person goes through a tutorial mission, viewing the Tokyo Incident Team's disastrous scouting mission, ''they are unknowingly becoming an accomplice to repeated MindRape of the member who got stuck in the subway''. And ''every member of the society leadership knows this'', but either do not care or consider it being NecessarilyEvil, because there's no other way to safely prepare for the Filth.]]

* The Fear Nothing Foundation in Tokyo. Combines the psychological abuses and practices of real cults with supernatural elements. In addition, one of their members [[spoiler: caused the massive filth release in Tokyo that started the events of the game]].

** The Death of Dr Armitage: [[spoiler: The description of the Doctor himself; plus, the fact that there's a Filth-infected occultist wandering the world, searching for writers who are willing to perpetuate his existence in their work in exchange for success. And the story also claims that, if you fancy yourself a writer, ''you'' might be visited by him one of these days.]]

* Amongst other things, the Dimir family. The farm where they live and work is creepy enough, what with all the dying vegetation and the angry guard dogs roaming around; then it turns out that most of the sausages hanging in the abbatoir are actually ''ghoul meat''- to say nothing of the innocent gnomes and fairies that have been made into stews here.

* "The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn." [[spoiler: Protected only by a gas mask, you finally get to see what's behind the Fog; once you follow the siren song past the thick banks of clouds, it turns out to be a pocket dimension owned by the Dreamers, where Kingsmouth has been rebuilt as a twisted WorldOfChaos-style parody of itself, with endless picket fences, ominously crooked houses, roads covered in sprouting Filth tendrils, a sea of wrecked ships floating in a sea of Filth, and all of it beneath a pitch-black sky. It's inhabited by Filth-infected duplicates of the Kingsmouth townsfolk, all of whom try to kill you on sight- because their real-world counterparts have recieved mild infections and are due to become Filth creatures in the near future. Worse still, there's no way to stop the Dreamers in this mission; the only thing you get out of the entire quest is the knowledge that Tyler Freeborn died trying to escape the Fog.]]

* The Filth. Not the material itself; black eldritch goo is rather trite in these settings, and tentacles are meh. But what it does to the contaminated? How they scream and cry for you, stop stop they can't stop, please stop stop me? Or that underneath, in areas and lands where the world and reality itself has been blasted away by the stuff, underneath it all, [[ArcWords]]we are made of stars?

* The Filth. Not the material itself; black eldritch goo is rather trite in these settings, and tentacles are meh. But what it does to the contaminated? How they scream and cry for you, stop stop they can't stop, please stop stop me? Or that underneath, in areas and lands where the world and reality itself has been blasted away by the stuff, underneath it all, we are made of stars?

** The Phantom Email: [[spoiler: Spam emails aren't just examples of annoying junk mail - they're actually messages from a rogue AI haunting the internet, trying to perpetuate the existence of the characters of each email and getting angrier and angrier as it's pleas for attention are ignored. And those chain letters that threaten you with death or injury if you don't continue the chain? The entity sometimes makes good on those threats. Even worse, the man who found and printed out this email for you to find was none other than Tyler Freeborn, and did this two days before he made his fatal journey into the Fog.]]

--> ''' You are ''all'' made of stars...'''

** [[ApocalypticLog The notes of Doctor Schreber]] includes several disturbing notes and headers, the least of which is probably "Methodologies for opening the Event Horizon of Endless Hunger in the chest cavity"

* "A Dream To Kill." [[spoiler: Your FauxActionGirl companion turns on you, knocks you out, straps you to a table, reveals herself as the BigBad, and then ''cuts off your legs.'']]

* ''A Dream To Kill." [[spoiler: Your FauxActionGirl companion turns on you, knocks you out, straps you to a table, reveals herself as the BigBad, and then ''cuts off your legs.'']]

* "The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn." [[spoiler: Protected only by a gas mask, you finally get to see what's behind the Fog; once you follow the siren song past the thick banks of clouds, it turns out to be a pocket dimension owned by the Dreamers, where Kingsmouth has been rebuilt as a twisted WorldOfChaos-style parody of itself, with endless picket fences, ominously crooked houses, roads covered in sprouting Filth tendrils, a sea of wrecked ships floating in a sea of Filth, and all of it beneath a pitch-black sky. It's inhabited by Filth-infected duplicates of the Kingsmouth townsfolk, all of whom try to kill you on sight- because their real-world counterparts have recieved mild infections and are due to become Filth creatures in the near future. Worse still, there's no way to stop the Dreamers in this mission; the only thing you get out of the entire quest is the knowledge that Tyler Freeborn died trying to escape the Fog.]]

* The Filth. Not the material itself; black eldritch goo is rather trite in these settings, and tentacles are meh. But what it does to the contaminated? How they scream and cry for you, stop stop they can't stop, please stop stop me? Or that underneath, in areas and lands where the world and reality itself has been blasted away by the stuff, underneath it all, we are made of stars?

* The Filth. Not the material itself; black eldritch goo is rather trite in these settings, and tentacles are meh. But what it does to the contaminated? How they scream and cry for you, stop stop they can't stop from hurting, can't stop from hurting others? Or that underneath, in areas and lands where the world and reality itself has been blasted away by the stuff, underneath it all, we are made of stars?

** And then, TheReveal. [[spoiler: The Black House isn't evil, just very, very angry at the fact that the townspeople vilified it and its owner, who was honestly a good person.]]

** And then, TheReveal. [[spoiler: The Black House isn't evil, just very, very angry at the fact that the townspeople vilified it and its owner.]]

* The Black House. Subverted in that it is one of the easiest early missions to grind for XP on the account of there being no monsters to fight. Then again, there are [[NothingIsScarier no monsters]] to fight, [[MalevolentArchitecture just the house itself...]]

** And then, in the mission following this, you venture into the Dimirs' basement: [[spoiler: it turns out to be an abandoned Soviet bunker, used to house all the magical creatures that the Dimirs capture before they're finally slaughtered and eaten. Most of them are ghouls, but at least one was an innocent satyr.]] Worse still, in the Dragon ending to this mission, it's implied that [[spoiler: Silviu spent time down here as a child, getting a taste for murder- possibly while imprisoned in the same cells as his ghoul victims.]]

** And then, in the mission following this, you venture into the Dimirs' basement: [[spoiler: it turns out to be an abandoned Soviet bunker, used to house all the magical creatures that the Dimirs capture before they're finally slaughtered and eaten. Most of them are ghouls, but at least one was an innocent satyr.]]

** And then, in the mission following this, you venture into the Dimirs' basement: [[spoiler: it turns out to be an abandoned Soviet bunker, used to house all the magical creatures that the Dimirs capture before slaughtering them. Most of them are ghouls, but at least one was an innocent satyr.]]