updated the mega yap, see desc | I'm making a game about mining for extremely hazardous materials on a remote island in 3412. you are a miner like many others on Adinerado Bay, a bay on Adinerado Island which splintered of from Florida from natural tectonic plate motion back in 2609, the materials underground here are like nowhere else on Earth but we will get into why later. these materials will effect you in horrible ways, like giving you cancer that can go all the way to stage 100+ and turn you into a writhing mass of tumors that consume everything it passes, or hallucinations so horrifying and vivid you can die of a heart attack from them alone. but you are about 700 billion dollars in debt and you still have to pay bills, rent, taxes, and so on, so its all risk all reward and your reward is being able to live without the IRS knocking at your door. its 3412 but only early 20th century tech is used because of WW4, which only ended 11 years ago, only this outdated tech was salvaged, the war started in 3308 and millions of people died, to put it shortly, Russia began invading Europe and surrounding Asian countries, and reformed the USSR, so the United states got involved fast, thus, WW4 starts. 4 major events ended the war but only 1 of them was for the better, first, that one cancerous material was used on people, making large, purple, tumorous growths of pure cancer grow and consume everything in its path, this stage of cancer is call the Evergrowth, then, because by 3007 every country that exist from 2025 had at least 10,000 nuclear warheads, and the 2 Superpowers of WW4 have over 5 billion, nukes were being dished out like door-to-door girl scout cookies, and the USA made a powerful bomb that used hydrogen, but it wasn't just any hydrogen, it was ANTIMATTER, only 1 was ever made and detonated but it was enough to cause unimaginable collateral damage, it was detonated as a test in the war-torn state of Michigan. the bomb worked by putting the antimatter in a stasis field, then when it was time, the stasis was deactivated, allowing the anti-hydrogen to float around and interact with the rest of the bomb, made of normal matter, which caused way more damage than the U.S. military expected, blowing a cater half the size of the moon into the North East part of the USA and causing immense panic world-wide and death, finally, some small countries got together to form their own superpower, the Humanitarian Republic, to put an end to the countless war crimes and death, they only lasted about 10 months but if they didn't form and fight for peace, the war would've extended by decades and humanity would've when extinct, 7 billion troops died fighting for the Humanitarian Republic but they made the war finally end after 4 months of their defeat. the war fully ended in 3401, and over 1 MILLION people died. now, the materials like the Evergrowth causing one or the hallucination one, why are they only found on the island? because of aliens, no I'm being serious, there are aliens in this game. and they've been here since 2126 on this one island. sometimes there will be shadows in the corners of your eyes even when nothing should be causing it, scratching at your cabin windows, or faint breathing behind you but when you turn around, nothing. and those materials? they're alien, not from Earth at all. you can hurt these shadow figures if you're fast enough but that makes the alien shadows appear more and slightly closer, the scratching will get more common and aggressive, and alien imagery, symbols, and warnings will be scratched into the outside walls. if you kill one, you'll see even more of them, and they will do things like scream out in the woods to mess with you, rig your starting Jeep to explode when used, put traps in your cabin like hazardous material dust under your bed you can't even at least use, or just kill you in your sleep. some people claim to have been abducted by "humanoid ant people" and tested on, he wasn't harmed but he was terrified. and these "ant people" are the shadows. they use cloaking technology to reduce interaction with island residents. the more conversations you have with NPCs around the aliens, the more slowly fluent in English the aliens will actually become. not talking to each other in English (because why would they), but saying things to the player while fully cloaked (completely invisible), tripping you after you talk bad about them, or yelling at you when attacked. you cant talk to the aliens directly until VERY late in the game, but the aliens also talk to each other, so while they came listen to you talk, you can do the same to them. the things you can listen in on include small talk to plotting your death if you have low rep. they can also reveal some things about themselves and their origin. you get to learn so much, hell, EVERYTHING about them by listening, you learn they are called the Omol, after their home world: Omolagon Prime, a cargo ship full of unrefined ore crashed and that's why the alien ore is here, and that it binds to stone and very slowly lets off particle at high speeds the bind to and then convert rock it touches, which is why the alien ore is everywhere, they came here to observe, they own multiple planets as one unified, nationless empire with and iron grip on inter galactic trade and travel, and have underground bases, where they refine shipped ore, live, and study the planet and creatures. some smaller details also make the Omol feel more like creatures with instincts and feeling rather than the stereotypical unfeeling observer, like letting out a startled exhale when spotted before fully cloaking, or the tripping from earlier, or when you speak Omolesse (their language), they start quietly panicking. you can learn more about their language from notes, because sometimes the Omol will drop notes running from threats or by accident. also, if you hurt the Omol without killing them, they will start hitting back, one resident with a bad history with the Omol swears he saw a semi-cloaked Omol right hook him and full cloak. if you have a bad rep you can be attacked randomly, also, there is a radio with a few music/song options, and if you play primarily one while being watched, that Omol will occasionally hum that music or song, which can scare new players. there are also humans you have to deal with, raider will try to break into you cabin, kill you, and take your things. the residents and Omol describe them as nothing more than mindless brutes who can't do real work themselves. there are also creature like wolves, mutated and altered by the hazardous materials on the island. there's also a so called myth of a "crawling horror" in the mines that eats lone miners. but nobody has proved this. (it does exist its just a really rare enemy). the crawling horror looks like a bunch of veins and blood red tendrils, with an empty abyss for eyes and countless mouths everywhere, like the monster from the game "Carrion", but with several arm that look like the arms of a human without skin, this is what only one resident said about it, but nobody believed it. its origin is just as disturbing as its appearance, apparently a group of miners in 2044 were force to go deeper and deeper into a mine known to have been filled with radioactive radon gas to harvest uranium due to corporate greed, but as they descended, the mine started the collapse, sending al 16 miners to their "death", the radon gas melted their skin off and mended their flesh together. the "due to corporate greed" thing makes it seem more fake, just another legend meant to teach some lesson, but this did really happen, and it was dismissed as a legend even more by the company responsible. back to the Omol, the 2nd leading cause of death on Omolagon Prime is a creature known as the latchers, they are called latchers from their method of killing, they latch onto the victim's face and suffocate them to death, then it will absorb all of the organic matter and undergo mitosis, creating 3 new latchers. this is why the highest paying job where you stay on-world is latcher exterminator, they look like the mimics from "PREY 2017" by Bethesda, but the don't actually mimic anything. they also get their name from how they get to earth in the sequel i have planned, by latching to a ship and surviving for a whole day in the vacuum of space. the Omol call the latchers wastes of flesh and brainless pests while many residents criticize the Omol for bringing something hazardous to earth with them twice, calling them ignorant. also some things to know about the Omol, a volcanic eruption trashed their oxygen rich atmosphere forever in 2028, but they were advanced enough to adapt, which also means they could've came to earth for oxygen to breathe. the forgotten planet is a rogue object that commonly passes by the Omol system, the Rakkar missions by the Omol sent probes and satellites to the planet, the satellite only orbited for 3 cycles before it lost connection and was recovered with fried circuits and oozing with acidic black liquid, and 3 probes were sent, 2 of the 3 cut out before even making it to the outer atmosphere, but 1 slipped through and got 1 frame of the surface before being destroyed, the planets surface looked of flesh, very dimly lit due to the atmosphere, multiple holes leading to unlit abysses were scattered around, after the probes footage cut, 1 message flashed on the display screens on an Omol ground control center, "STARVED. HUNGRY. CONSUME.", after an image of what looked like a mouth with sharp teeth and an endless looking throat flashed on screen for 1 frame. Omol scientists were horrified. decades after the Rakkar missions, the Omol needed to know more, thus began the Tryak missions, Tryak-1 was a probe that took everything from Rakkar-4 and doubled it, hull strength, EMP resistance, etc. this probe made it through the atmosphere for and extra 10 seconds, the holes swarmed with tendrils and the fleshy surface pulsated. the footage cut out, this time with the text: "WHAT DO YOU SEEK HERE?". Tryak-2 was a more robust satellite with hidden cameras to see if it only responds to thing it can see if it, well, can see. all it picked up were some clips of the planets swirling black atmosphere and he cameras were overtaken by very dark red tendrils. this one only had an image of a Omol who set out to independently chart the uncharted, this image was that Omol's corpse, writhing with tendrils and rotting, fused to the fleshy ground of the dark world. the last one after this was similar to the Earthian voyager missions, with data encode onto the probe, Tryak-3 did this and the planet actively responded to every image, question, and so on, after the footage cut out again. it's covered up by the scientists for the most part, it was said to be too traumatizing and several more Omol scientists killed themselves after the transition, but they say the planet eats worlds and taunts intelligent with torture of their species or anything else they fear, the scientists don't want to talk or remember anything else and the Tryak missions were quickly stopped, and the Omol vowed to never go close to that world again. in the sequel, the Omol actually contact humanity outside of the island, NASA was instantly interested by mention of a sentient planet, Omol pleaded with NASA not to venture into the flesh writhing depth but NASA launched the Erebus missions, the Omol could only watch in horror as humanity learned the hard way why the Forgotten planet isn't explored. Erebus-1 probed the Forgotten, it cut out before reaching the atmosphere with the text: "YOU ARE HUMANS, YOU SENT THIS METAL PROSPECTER FROM PLANET EARTH OF THE SOL SYSTEM, YOU ARE A PART OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, YOU ARE LOCAED IN IN NORTH AMERICA, UNITED STATES, IN FLORIDA. YOU HAVE NOTHING YOU CAN HIDE". Erebus-2 was a space station built in a far orbit from the Forgotten, it had 25 NASA astronauts watching the planet from afar. receiving radio messages from the planet on a day-to-day basis, anywhere from complete gibberish to images of Omol and even undiscovered aliens that were assimilated into the flesh of the world. 12 astronauts were reported dead of suicide, the others died when the station suddenly exploded. "Erebus-3 was the biggest mistake humanity ever made, bigger than any part of WW4" said some Omol, the mission in question was a very aggressive message directed to the planet it self, calling it an uncaring monster that should be destroyed. the probe with the message passed through the atmosphere, and came out, a first for any object, but it was hurled out with FORCE, like the planet was enraged, the Omol had to help recover in from the force it was thrown at, the hard drive the message was encoded on had been overwritten, with the text: "YOU ARE MORTAL, YOU ARE PARISHABLE, YOU EXPERIENCE PAIN.", a threat as to what the being might do. people were outraged at NASA for letting this happen, it was too late, the cosmic horror was enraged and no apologies would be accepted. the Omol Grakol mission broke the promise to never contact the forgotten planet again, but all it did was enter the atmosphere with a message pleading with the being to show mercy, but it was of no use. a radio signal came to Omolagon Prime shortly after the probe entered, simply saying: "THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO". it was too late, the can of whoop-ass had been opened. eventually, Earth decided they were "at least going out with a bang", every nuke set aside from WW4, the antimatter bomb blueprints, and Evergrowth weapons were readied, the Omol kept calling humanity foolish and too petty to except defeat from anyone even if it means they'll die. the Forgotten send an obsidian tablet to earth that a spacecraft by NASA collected out in space, as a final threat, it read "YOUR KIND WILL BE IN AGONY FOR EONS.", which enraged America's military, now everyone was mad at everyone. interplanetary weaponry was researched more than the cure for cancer, the Omol were just ready to leave Earth. and the first attack was made, 80 nuclear warheads were launched all the way to the dark planet. further increasing tension. the Omol were just as doomed so they had no choice but to test the odds and fight an actual eldritch horror, they both made several new weapons, an anti matter bomb 10 times as big as the one developed in WW4, stronger Evergrowth, and many others. the Forgotten world sent radio signals out like crazy, what sounded like screaming of every creature known and unknown to man, more threats, and pictures of what would become of earth should they lose. eventually earth launched an "atmosphere disruptor" to clear the black fog of war hiding the planet, it revealed every pit of tendrils and revealed the mouths below with the sunlight. after this, toxic materials were sent in pods to the planet's mouths, trying to poison it to death, while Earth used every weapon they had to continue the siege. some pits began to seal themselves shut, their tendrils recoiling violently. despite the Forgotten's attitude towards both parties, it was taking massive blows from both, a bomb the breaks the conservation of mass and energy was made to dissipate every atom of every molecule of the planet into energy, which created a massive cave-in, nearly collapsing the planet. the humans and Omol were winning against all odds, but they still had more work to do. the NASA and Omol space program collaborated, one probe, one attack so large it puts all others to shame, a new bomb was made, one that would convert 25% of the remaining matter on the Forgotten into antimatter, letting the remaining positive matter react with it violently, one message was encoded on it that broadcasted right before it detonated, in every language on Earth and in Omolesse it said only two words "UP. YOURS." mocking the cryptic nature of the being and flat out insulting it, before killing it for once and for all. both civilizations had an increase in galactic reputation, other aliens saw the humans as more than primative apes, and saw the Omol as more than power hungry tyrants controlling trade for their own gain. even though many people didn't get along, like some Omol comparing humans to a baby with a loaded handgun, are some humans not getting over the alien ore and latchers brought to earth, everyone was at peace for the most part. humans and the Omol aged with better rep towards each other, and every alien species knew them both as "those guys who killed an eldritch horror". | image tagged in gifs | made w/ Imgflip video-to-gif maker
