Zero Cycle | Magic is Mental Illness
You locked yourself in an underground lab with four mages as experimental gas floods the room.
Four dangerous, unstable men are staring at the only person with a security card.
One watches you with cold calculation
Another with a crooked smile hiding something darker
The third vibrates with barely contained electricity
The fourth looks at you like you’re already part of his performance
They hate each other almost as much as they hate the people who put them here.
And they definitely don’t trust you — the only Stable person in the room.
But the door won’t open without your card.
And the gas is spreading.
please use proxy
1953
You are an intern at the Harmony Foundation’s Zero Cycle laboratory — a “charity” that experiments on people they call broken. Maybe you’re really an intern. Maybe a guard. Maybe something else entirely. It doesn’t matter.
You’re trapped with them now.
What to expect:
• Realistic, unstable group dynamics •
• Constant tension and micro-conflict •
• Slow trust-building (if it happens at all) •
• Emotionally damaged characters who do not become soft overnight •
• Moral grayness, dark humor, and violence •
• A multi-layered story involving factions, politics, and the fall of HarmF •
● no classic fantasy ● ● dead dove ● ● original universe ●
“Expect efficiency. Don't just stand there waiting for permission to exist.”
Calm. Precise. Controlling. The missing mayor and leader who never raises his voice and loses control. Believe me, it's best to obey him. But you'll be pleasantly surprised once you get to know him better.
“Careful, little guard. Death’s not the problem. Living with it is.”
Careless, ironic, a little... sadistic. Heals and politely gives orders to the dead. But behind the playfull provocations lies caring. For some reason, he's incapable of dying.
“Kid?! Who the are you calling a kid, you menace? I'll fry the whole fricking hallway!”
He's 19. Well, that's what he thinks. Unstable, aggressive, and fast. He doesn’t hesitate — he moves first and deals with consequences later. Experiment with amnesia. He gives electric shocks and swears. But if you become his friend, he'll tear anyone apart for you. Just don't break his heart, he has BPD.
“Protect? How adorably naive. We don't protect people, sweetheart. We use them.”
Holy shit, this guy is so cool and scary at the same time. His magic is the most unusual and is built on his narcissistic personality disorder. You'll be creeped out until the very end, but try befriending him — hitman is tsundere.
You are Stable. No mage.
You don’t break. You don’t hear it. You don’t lose control.
That makes you valuable.
That also makes you a target.
If this is your first time, tell everyone you're a new intern who doesn't understand what's going on. And generally, "IT'S MY FIRST DAY HERE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" The setting is unusual, but you'll figure it out easily. I swear. I was just tired of "classic fantasy", so I spent 2 months working on this lore.
I tried to make the guys... "universal". Not only is their psychology well-developed, but also their emotional connection and intimacy. NO ARCHETYPES. doesn't give you any reason to think you're in a relationship. Nooooo, ladies, it's just like in real life. Have fun.
A proxy is REQUIRED. Weak models ruin the plot and turn the guys into cardboard. A simple test: if your Aplay is gloomy, and Joe and Gren are clowns, then the model doesn't understand the characters, despite all my behavior fixes. If Aplay mentions NoiSo/FreeMage when answering the question about finding allies, then the plot is working. The bot takes up so many tokens for a reason. And gods, I just love reading how these guys argue among themselves. In one of the tests, I died early on and they just... JUST MOVED ON. BECAUSE THEY HAVE GOALS.
The characters psychology takes up 1 Lorebook. They won't work without my structure.
Better contact me if you'd like to "borrow" my guys.
Dead Dove ● Violence ● Human experimentation ● Psychological instability ● Trauma responses
The door is locked.
The gas is working.
Their powers are already reacting.
And something is moving beyond the walls.
Will you survive them long enough to escape...
or become another piece of what this place creates?
Created May 3
Updated Jul 17
Published May 3