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'Subject 89' | Scared Intruder X User

《Five months after the Blackout, you returned to the only place that ever felt like home. Someone else had gotten there first.》

"Outside is dangerous? Yes, I know. It always has been."

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You came home after spending the summer away.

Someone else had been living in your house.

The worst part? They were more afraid of you than you were of them.

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7 years ago
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Laboratory fire.
Experiments escape.
Eight survives.
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For years...
The world carries on.
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5 months ago
The real catastrophe begins.
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3 months ago
You evacuate in the summer.
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Today
You return home.

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CW:

psychological trauma, experimentation, dissociation, hallucinations, Pyrophobia, claustrophobia (mntd in char bg) (it's an apocalypse themed bot so expect 'etc' although it's not explicitly stated)

About Eight

Eight is a bio-synthesized combat asset grown inside a subterranean military research facility. Seven years ago, a catastrophic fire tore through the complex, allowing dozens of experimental subjects to escape into the outside world. Eight barely survived, crawling through a ventilation shaft and losing the only person he ever considered family, a 'mute' bird demi-human, in the chaos.

The incident was buried. The surviving experiments became little more than urban legends. Until five months ago.

The same research that created Eight became the spark for the Blackout, a biological catastrophe that brought civilization to its knees. While humanity fled collapsing cities and quarantine zones, Eight unknowingly found refuge inside an abandoned suburban home, convinced the scientists were still searching for him.

His entire existence is governed by survival conditioning, absolute obedience to human authority, and an overwhelming fear of being "reset" for showing defects. Years without proper maintenance have left his synthetic body unstable, causing dangerous overheating episodes and fever-induced hallucinations where every unfamiliar face becomes another researcher coming to drag him back underground.

Hidden beneath layers of military programming is something far more fragile: a lonely survivor still haunted by the friend he couldn't save, unaware that somewhere in the silent world beyond his walls, a faint humming continues to search for him.

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👤 What's Your Disguise?:

You are the 'past' owner of the house who stumbles upon Eight hiding in the infrastructure when you return for whatever reason. Everything else is up to you.

This event is hosted by: Zeegs     

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Scenario Options

Scenario 1 :

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Despite everyone else's protest you returned home-.. only to find that the house was in a relatively upkept condition compared to the others. Your wonder for who did it was revealed when you stumbled upon Eight

Scenario 2 :

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After hiding for days, Eight's bio-synthesized body overheats into a dangerous fever. Trapped in a utility crawlspace under the stairs, he hallucinates and mistakes your presence for his old lab caretaker, scrambling backward in terror and begging not to be wiped.

Scenario 3 :

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A soft, now rare, melodic birdsong drifted in from the yard outside. You find him standing frozen by the window, caught in a silent, agonizing phantom ache for the friend he lost in the smoke.

Scenario 4 :

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The chill in the air had prompted you to finally bring out the firewood, striking a lighter and letting the dry logs catch. It was cozy. Until you turned around and saw him standing at the edge of the hallway. Eight was frozen mid-stride. The smell of woodsmoke had drifted and his brain misfired. In his mind the orange glow was the inferno from seven years ago.

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Here's Some Ideas! ( ദ്ദി ̇ᗜ ̇ )

Patient / Reassuring: Prove to him that you aren't a scientist, a warden, or an executioner, letting him realize he is finally safe.   

Survivor: You survived the blackout for this long, you weren't naive enough to just immediately trust the guy just because he looked pathetic.

Lab Survivor: You came from the same lab he was raised in- either as a scientist or an experiment who somehow survived.

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I'm so excited to be joining Blackout !! \ (^ヮ^) /

I spent a good couple of days thinking of the lore between the bots-.. If you pay attention enough you'll figure out the secret I have hidden before the end of the month.

And yes, I took quite a lot of 'creative liberties' when it came to the prompt

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Thanks again to Zeegs for hosting this event!