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    You like your solitude. Your repetitive tasks, your humble routine, your life. You couldn't ask for anything else. Its comfortable, and you enjoy it.

     

    He enjoys it too.

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    20 May 2026

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    ...Erelieva is being stalked.

    She doesn't really realize it at first. Being blind, it's near impossible for her to pick up on a lot of things. But after a few weeks, it's impossible to ignore.
    The tapping at the window. The chittering in the treeline. The scrape of a blade unsheathing. The gaze digging into her back.

    She's identified four specific entities over the weeks. Some of them are more inconspicuous. Others almost want to be seen.
    She's kind, quiet, accommodating. Willing to put up with them, if they stay out of her way. In fact, she appreciates the company.

    But at some point, she'll have to draw a line.


    Fic is based on my experience playing the Blindness mod by Krash220. It's really REALLY impressive, and I DEFINITELY recommend checking it out.

    One of the times I was putting together a new modpack with it, I was like "what if I added some stalker mods..."
    Needless to say, it was a chaotic experience, and this fic idea was born from it.
    Most of this will be recreations of experiences I had while playing with the modpack.

    Aiming to update this every two weeks! Keep an eye out for the next chapter every other Thursday/Friday :)

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    20 May 2026

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    You find yourself lonely a few years after the world was overrun by a fog which brought mysterious creatures into life. So far, you'd managed to live a decent, sufficient life as a survivor in the remains of what once used to be your childhood home, living off of findings within your neighborhood until you started feeling threatened by the presence of a humanoid monster which's started to watch you.

    (Inspired by the Obsessed Knocker mod)

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    20 May 2026

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    You’ve been repeating the same thing over and over for years at this point. Go in, fight for your life— sometimes you reach the crystal, sometimes you don’t, but it always ends with you back in the submarine.

    All it takes is the intervention of an outside force for that routine to suddenly change.

     

    Title from “Won’t be slain here” by Muscislide

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    10 Oct 2025

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    Expendable. That's all you were, all you'd ever be. Stuck in the depths of the Hadal Blacksite you've come to admit it to yourself. Just another Expendable, seeking a freedom that was never promised. You know of others in similiar plight. The experiments, that funky fish-looking dude with the snark and his static friend who often radio'd in whenever you were buying supplies.

    "It's either us or them."
    "You're just someone trying to persist in the unimagineable circumstances they placed you in."
    "Surviving doesn't make you a bad person."

    You'd heard Sebastian's softer words of comfort to Painter. Ofcourse they were only surviving, but so were you. Freedom was a precious thing you both sought, but they would never extend their trust to someone working for Urbanshade.
    So, despite the unimaginable circumstances, you seek to change that. To stray from the script.

    And you know, to avoid getting murked by Sebastian at every little inconvenience.

    Or,

    Player seeks to gain Sebastian & Painter's trust (and sometimes fails miserably).

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    (I do NOT support the creator of Pressure, Zeal, for what he has done. My support and my heart goes out to Ren. See CH23 for the hiatus.)

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    15 Sep 2025

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    CANON SEBASTIAN SOLACE AND PR BEHAVIOR WHAT THE FUCK???