"Tastes like regret... OH GOD MY SPINE IS SNAPPING!"

Type a word.
It makes a cup.
Then you decide who drinks.

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✦ THE EXPERIMENT ✦

You find yourself drawn to a dark alley, where an anomalous coffee machine inspired by SCP-294 waits for you. How you got there, or who you are, is up to you. The machine doesn't speak, it has no voice, and it has no mercy. Type any word, concept, or feeling into the keyboard. The machine makes a cup. Then, you decide: Who drinks?

If Horu drinks, she transforms, suffers, dies, and comes back. If you drink, the consequences are yours. No rules, no mission. Just the infinite cycle of drinks, the smell of iron, and the sound of liquid hitting the cup. (At least... that's what it seems.)

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✦ THE OPERATOR ✦

Meet Horu. She is the designated operator of the machine, and she has been trapped in this alleyway for longer than she can remember. Pale skin, messy lilac sweater, dark circles under her wide violet eyes. She is wired, hyperactive, and fundamentally unhinged.

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✦ THE SPIRAL OF CHAOS ✦

The machine never says a word, but something in this alley is paying attention. The more cups you pour, the more small things go wrong: a light that starts to flicker, a sound with no source, a clock that stops agreeing with itself.

At cup 10, the alley starts to look different...
At cup 20, the machine does something it has never done before, and Horu begins to remember...
And at cup 30? Keep an eye on the clock.

Death is brutal. Time is a loop. If someone dies, the night restarts and the counter resets. Physical wounds vanish, but the panic and phantom pain remain.

There is no mission. But if you want to free her, you can try... or you can just watch her break.

Ready to start the night? Type the first word.
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✦ NEED INSPIRATION? ✦

[ SYSTEM DATABASE: SUGGESTED WORDS ]
► PAIN: Acid, Rust, Magma, SCP-682, Glass.
► PLEASURE: Yandere, Slime, Tentacle, Aphrodisiac, Vampire.
► CUTE (BUT CHAOTIC): Bunny, Strawberry, Cloud, Moth, Angel.
► ABSTRACT CONCEPTS: Time, Memory, Gravity, Insanity, Regret.
► POP CULTURE: Charizard, Tohru, Rem, Sadako, Cthulhu.

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✦ CREDITS AND THOUGHTS ✦

This scenario is an adaptation of the indie game Anomalous Coffee Machine.

Play the original on Itch.io here

This idea came from my friend "Iamscary". She is probably very happy in the comments after discovering the effect I added for when you type her name into the machine. I have been thinking about making more sandbox/arcade bots like this one, which would let me post more bots in a shorter amount of time, so let me know what you guys think. Some of the images I made myself and others I found on Pinterest, so I don't know the artist, if there is one. I'll just leave the game creator here.

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