<<display CheckDeaths>>
<<setIllnessMessage>>
<<setEffectMessage>>
<<setFoodMessage>>
<<if $player["days"] == 0>>
<<linkappend "You haven't been feeling well lately." t8n>>
<br><<linkappend _illnessMessage t8n>>
<<mainChoices>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<<set $beginning to false>>
<<display NewDay>>
<<elseif
$player["taken"] == $player["cure"]
and $player["pills_left"] == 0
>>
<<set _curedText to
"The "
+ $player["taken"]
+ " cured your "
+ $player["illness"] + "."
>>
<<linkappend _curedText t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "But you still aren't feeling well." t8n>>
<<givePlayerIllness>>
<<setIllnessMessage>>
<br><<linkappend _illnessMessage t8n>>
<<mainChoices>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<<elseif _effectResults == 1>>
<<set _effectMessage to
"You think the side effects of the "
+ $player["taken"]
+ " are starting to fade away."
>>
<<linkappend _effectMessage t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "But you still aren't feeling well." t8n>>
<br><<linkappend _illnessMessage t8n>>
<<mainChoices>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<<elseif _foodMessage != "">>
<<linkappend _foodMessage t8n>>
<br><<linkappend _illnessMessage t8n>>
<<effectAndChoices>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<<else>>
<<linkappend _illnessMessage t8n>>
<<effectAndChoices>>
<</linkappend>>
<</if>><div id="story">
<ul id="sidebar">
<li>Days: <span id="day-num">0</span></li>
<li>Pills: <span id="pill-num">0</span></li>
<li><a id="menu">Menu</a></li>
<li><a id="restart">Restart</a></li>
<li><a id="credits">Credits</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="passages"></div>
</div><<set $deaths to recall("deaths", [])>>
<<set $pillCount to 8>>
<<set $effectChance to 4>>
<<set $daysToStarve to 7>>
<<set $daysToRestock to 7>>
<<display MedicineInit>>
<<display IllnessInit>>
<<display EffectInit>>
<<display FoodInit>>
<<display ButterChickenInit>>
<<display AudioInit>>
<<display Restart>><<set $player to {
"days" : 0,
"illness" : "",
"illness_messages" : [],
"cure" : "",
"treated_days" : 0,
"medicine" : "",
"taken" : "",
"pills_left" : 0,
"withdrawal_days" : 0,
"effect" : "",
"effect_days" : 0,
"effect_chance" : 0,
"lunch" : "",
"lunch_options" : [],
"days_starved" : 0
}>>
<<givePlayerIllness>><<set $illnesses to {
"sugar-coated hand" : {
"treated_by" : "Megasulin",
"description" : [
"There is a strange crystalline substance coating your hand.",
"Your left hand is red and sticky. It tastes like kool-aid.",
"It hurts to make a fist. Like there's granules in your finger crotches.",
"You lost your job when your boss shook your sore, sticky hand. They thought you were disgusting.",
"You woke up to a burglar licking your infected hand.<br><br>Luckily, it meant you caught them.",
"Something is really wrong with your left hand.",
"You can't quit tasting the substance spreading across your hand.",
"Your crystalized left hand is beginning to look like something a supervillain might have.",
"You tried to pet your dog, but your infected left hand is so sticky now that it got stuck in its fur.",
"You can't remember the last time you had food that didn't taste like the sweet crystals growing on your hand.",
"The crystals growing out of your hand are mesmerizing.",
"Your dog tried to eat your infected hand.",
"The crystalline casing on your hand is starting to rot your fingertips down to the bone.",
"There might be mold growing over your perpetually sticky left hand.",
"Your left hand is red, sore, and oh so sweet."
],
"death_days" : 12,
"death" : [
"the sickly sweet coating has grown from your hand, up your arm, torso, neck, and finally into your mouth. It was delicious, but it also suffocated you.",
"your sugar-coating slowly rotted your body like it would your teeth if given the chance."
]
},
"flippy-floppies" : {
"treated_by" : "Tranpex",
"description" : [
"You feel like a fish out of water.",
"You seem to have the wiggles again.",
"The urge to do the worm is overwhelming, even when no music is playing and it is not an appropriate time to dance.",
"You broke the TV remote by unknowingly flopping around on top of it.",
"You can't quit falling onto the ground and just wiggling about.",
"Another flailing fit is coming on.",
"You wiggled all the way to work today.",
"Something inside you says that all you should ever do is wiggle, jiggle, and higgledy piggle. And you're starting to think it's right.",
"You flipped your whole flop the other day.",
"You broke a finger while having a flop on your basement floor.",
"You didn't even get out of bed today. You just laid there. Wiggling.",
"Your wiggles are worsening.",
"You were asked to quit flailing around, or leave the restaraunt.",
"You've been having these flailing fits.",
"Wiggling is all there is for you now."
],
"death_days" : 8,
"death" : [
"you flopped so hard, it broke every bone in your body. It made flipping and flopping easier, but it made living significantly more difficult.",
"nothing sounded more fun to you than wiggling and waggling your whole being. Sounded even more fun than eating and drinking."
]
},
"transformations" : {
"treated_by" : "Augmensonide",
"description" : [
"You turned into a racecar the other day.",
"You keep painfully morphing into things that are not you.",
"You feel another transformation coming on.",
"While having a lunch with a coworker you violently morphed into a novelty bowtie.",
"The transformations are becoming more common.",
"You can't stop these unwanted transformations.",
"Something inside you doesn't want you to be you.",
"You turned into an ice cream cone for a whole hour the other day. By the time you finally turned back, you had been dripping down the sides of you cone.",
"You don't feel like your parts are fitting together the way that they used to.",
"Something inside you is broken.",
"One of your fingers turned into a fork the other day. It would have been cool if it wasn't so painful.",
"The bones in your arm keep tingling. You know they'd like to be something else.",
"You've never felt less like yourself than those few minutes you were someone else.",
"Your body keeps getting away from you.",
"You turned into a potted cactus. You'll never forget the feeling of spines slowly growing out from your skin."
],
"death_days" : 13,
"death" : [
"you finally just transformed into one thing that there's no coming back from: you, dead.",
"you transformed into a deer, and unforunately, your roommate is really into hunting."
]
},
"no sleep" : {
"treated_by" : "Malanuvia",
"description" : [
"You can't remember the last time you slept.",
"You've started dreaming when you're awake.",
"Every time you're in bed, you just lay awake, thinking of being awake.",
"The bags under your eyes have gone from sandwich baggies to duffel bags. And they're still growing.",
"You're body keeps telling you that you'll die if you fall asleep.",
"You've started to believe that sleeping is for the weak.",
"Sleep has gone from a good friend to someone you met that one year in summer camp.",
"You can't tell what is real and what is a dream. Which is weird because nothing is a dream when you sleep as little as you do.",
"You //always// feel like you could fall asleep, but you //never// fall asleep.",
"You're exhausted.",
"You're so tired that you cried at work.",
"Sometimes, in place of sleeping, your eyes just glaze over and you disassociate.",
"You're not sure if you know what sleeping feels like anymore.",
"//You're just so freaking tired.//",
"You've been awake forever."
],
"death_days" : 11,
"death" : [
"you died. The bad news is that you died. But the good news is that death is a kind of sleep.",
"you finally went to sleep. But you won't be waking up."
]
},
"loneliness" : {
"treated_by" : "Lovanafine Afluside",
"description" : [
"You don't have a single friend.",
"You aren't sure when the last time you talked to another person was. (Not even on the phone.)",
"You're just very lonely.",
"You thought you heard a ghost the other day and got excited that it would be someone to talk to.",
"No one likes you.",
"A coworker hissed like a cat when you tried to engage them in conversation.",
"You feel like you're wearing a people repelling spray.",
"You tried to invite the pizza delivery person in to watch TV with you.",
"Every interaction you have with anyone is //just// awkward silence. Like, the whole time.",
"Your brain says something is wrong with you. And it scares you that it could be right.",
"You've been having conversations with your dog that last much longer than a conversation with a dog should.",
"Sometimes you wonder if you're not even human.",
"You're just so awkward.",
"No one responds to your texts. And to be fair, it gives you a lot of anxiety to respond to any of theirs. So you usually just don't text.",
"You don't even know what to say. You never do."
],
"death_days" : 10,
"death" : [
"you lonelied yourself to death.",
"your loneliness finally just drove you to insanity. You began talking regularly with your pillows (and even developed a bit of a crush on one). You would post to social media and respond to your own posts only a few minutes later.<br><br>And worst of all, you spent all of your time either making or playing text-based video games."
]
},
"ancient appendages" : {
"treated_by" : "Palotensin",
"description" : [
"There are arms growing from your back.",
"The arms growing out of your back tried to pet your dog without you telling them to.",
"You swear you heard a voice come from the arms growing out of your back.",
"You lost your job. The manager explained that customers were disturbed by the arms growing out of your back, which had taken to reaching out at people if they got close enough.",
"You keep seeing people wearing robes outside your room at night. It could have something to do with the arms growing out of your back.",
"You keep having thoughts that are not yours.",
"It is painful to have arms growing out of your back.",
"No one can tell you why there are arms growing out of your back.",
'You noticed that one of the arms growing out of your back was holding a Post-it. It said "Are you ticklish?"',
"You woke up in your kitchen. The arms on your back were cooking an omelette.",
"The arms on your back are really hurting today.",
"You're worried your losing your mind.",
"You don't know if the arms growing out of your back are part of you.",
"Should you clean the nails of arms growing out of your back? They are quite dirty, and you're not sure why. You haven't used them for anything.",
"You're feeling self-conscious about the arms growing out of your back."
],
"death_days" : 3,
"death" : [
'the arms which sprung from your back finally grew long enough to wrap around your neck. As you took your last breath you swear you heard them speak in a hoarse, whispery voice.<br><br>"Did that tickle?"',
"the arms just kept growing and growing. Until one day, legs began to grow. And then a torso. And finally, a head. And the man who now lived on your back would sleep there, silently. And you would wait for the day that it would have meaning. And eventually, you died. And it never had any meaning. And it likely never will."
]
},
"bloodsplosions" : {
"treated_by" : "Ablatrol",
"description" : [
"You can't quit bleeding.",
"You wake up coughing and gasping for breath. If you had stayed asleep for much longer, you would have drowned in your own blood.",
"Your dog has taken to licking up your blood.",
"You've been like a blood fountain lately.",
"You're not even sure where you're bleeding from, but it's a lot, and it isn't stopping.",
"You've gotten used to the smell of blood.",
"There's just blood everywhere.",
"You can't remember the last time you ate something without blood on it.",
"You slipped in a puddle of blood the other day.",
"You can't use your phone now. There's too much blood on your fingers.",
"There is dried blood all over your apartment.",
"Customers at work have started complaining about the enormous puddles of blood in the aisles. Hopefully they won't fire you.",
"You can't think that you have that much blood left to lose.",
"You feel a little lightheaded.",
"You've been feeling a little whoozy."
],
"death_days" : 5,
"death" : [
"you finally just lost too much blood.",
"you drowned in your own blood. And maybe some of someone else's. It's so much blood that it's hard to be sure."
]
},
"ickiness" : {
"treated_by" : "Temozolid Decimectin",
"description" : [
"All of the cool kids make fun of you.",
"You manager took your nose and never gave it back.",
"You just sit around playing text-based video games.",
"You're super nerdy.",
"You're so unpopular.",
"The other day, you overheard your mom say that you were the least cool person she'd ever met.",
"No one wants to be friends with a huge square like you.",
"You have literally turned into a huge square.",
"You tried to wear sunglasses, but it looked so unnatural on your nerd face.",
"Whenever you walk down the street, people point and laugh.",
"You are icky.",
"You feel icky.",
"Everyone thinks that you're icky.",
"You collect strange things.",
"You have hobbies that make other people not want to talk to you."
],
"death_days" : 13,
"death" : [
"your lack of popularity eventually just spread to your brain.",
"you lived the rest of your life a square and died a square. Freaking square."
]
},
"fungal fever" : {
"treated_by" : "Andeine Agebisome",
"description" : [
"Fungi are growing all over your body.",
"The fungi growing out of your skins smell funny.",
"You feel thin web-like networks of mycelium thriving just under your skin.",
"Your dog keeps trying to eat fungus off of you.",
"Things around have you begun to decompose.",
"You shot off some spores the other day.",
"You are more mushroom than man at this point.",
"You've always considered yourself a fun guy, but the fungi growing out of your skin are making that a bit more difficult.",
"People have started calling you their Fungus Friend.",
"You feel most at home among the dead and dying. It feeds you.",
"The fungi growing off of your are spongey.",
"There are fungi everywhere.",
"You are just covered in fungi.",
"You can't stop the fungi growing out of your skin.",
"It can be uncomfortable to have fungi growing out of your skin."
],
"death_days" : 5,
"death" : [
"the fungus took over your body.",
"fungi feasts on your feets. And the rest of you."
]
},
"new feelings" : {
"treated_by" : "Neoxitrol",
"description" : [
"You're feeling things you've never felt before.",
"You're uncomfortable with yourself.",
"You can no longer describe yourself.",
"You're scared.",
"You used to understand your mind, but now it does things you can't comprehend.",
"You feel things differently now.",
"Even old feelings have been recontextualized and made unfamiliar by the new way you feel now.",
"You don't know who you are.",
"You've lost your sense of self.",
"You would rather feel nothing than have these feelings that you don't understand.",
"You've become increasingly difficult to be around.",
"You feel differently.",
"You don't know how you should feel.",
"You can't control your emotions.",
"You're uncomfortable."
],
"death_days" : 14,
"death" : [
"you feel your final new feeling: death.",
"you finally just //quit// feeling and no longer have to worry about new ones."
]
},
"sitcomming" : {
"treated_by" : "Formopex Retrozolid",
"description" : [
"Your life has a laugh track now.",
"Every day of your life seems to have some lesson at the end.",
"No one around you acts like a real person.",
"You're not sure if you're the only one that hears that weird music.",
'Every time your dog comes in the room, you hear voices saying "Awww..."',
"You can't die.",
"You can't lose.",
"You can't think bad thoughts, and it's scaring you.",
"Everyone has been far too friendly with you lately.",
"You can't feel pain.",
"The world sometimes seems to be black and white. You're hoping it's just a trick your eyes are playing on you.",
"Your boss came over for dinner the other day. Your boss would never come over to dinner.",
"Things feel wonderful, and you know they shouldn't.",
"You're happy for the first time ever, and it's making you miserable.",
"Your family room only has a few walls now, and exists inside some larger building."
],
"death_days" : 7,
"death" : [
"your show was cancelled.",
"you continued being happy, laughing, always solving all your problems in a convenient amount of time. And you lived forever. If you can call that living."
]
},
"twigginess" : {
"treated_by" : "Silvacion",
"description" : [
"The ends of your fingers thin out into sticks.",
"There are leaves growing out of your skin.",
"Customers at work have been complaining about the sap you leave on everything you touch.",
"Your skin has become rough and stiff.",
"There are more arms growing out from your existing arms.",
"You're having an increasingly hard time seeing.",
"You feel most at home outside, which is unlike you.",
"It's becoming more and more difficult to move. You just want to stay planted to one spot all day.",
"Hard protrusions are exploding out of your skin all over your body. Some have flowers.",
"You think about the sun too much.",
"You think about dirt a lot.",
"Bugs have become increasingly attracted to you.",
"Your dog seems to think you aren't human anymore.",
"The other day there was sap dripping down your leg. You aren't sure where it came from.",
"You have a hard time bending your arms, which seem to want to just shoot out from the sides of your body and remain there."
],
"death_days" : 4,
"death" : [
"you finally go out to the yard and let your transformation complete. You are a tree now.",
"you harden, stiffen, and wake up one day unable to move from your bed. You die slowly, and painfully there, with nothing to which you can attach your new roots, and no world that wants you for anything but your death."
]
},
"bacterial bunches of oats" : {
"treated_by" : "Roxastin",
"description" : [
"You smell like honey and death.",
"There are green, lumpy patches of goop spreading all over your body.",
"You taste sweet, but terrible.",
"Your skin is tender and sore where green lumps have appeared.",
"One of the green lumps growing on you is fuzzy.",
"Your throat has been hurting.",
"You have a distinctive cough that is upsettingly wet. It makes your dog bark.",
"Your coworkers have been telling you that you don't look like you feel well. Which makes sense because you don't.",
"It hurts to pee.",
"You bumped into someone by accident, and they made a disgusted face at the stickiness of one of the green lumps stuck to your arm.",
"You think the green lumps growing on your body might taste good in milk.",
"Your skin around the green lumps looks inflamed.",
"You're worried the green patches on your body might be contagious.",
"The lumpy and sticky patches of goop growing on your body have been multiplying quickly.",
"The green patches on your skin are itchy."
],
"death_days" : 10,
"death" : [
"the green patches just continued to spread, until eventually, you were nothing but green goop.",
"layer after layer of skin was penetrated by the green goo. It eventually made its way into your body and killed you pretty quick."
]
},
"common hot" : {
"treated_by" : "Tinzadryl",
"description" : [
"You check your temperature, and it's really low.",
"Your nostrils feel empty and dry. It hurts to breathe in.",
"You have no mucus at all.",
"There is a tickle behind your eyes. It's why you've been coughing out of them.",
"Your boss sent you home the other day after hearing the bad eye cough you had.",
"Your head feels light, like it's hollow.",
"You've been coughing out of your eyes again.",
"You feel so bad, it's making your headache go away.",
"Thinking this would just last a couple of days, you called off work.",
"You're all cleared out.",
"You feel really awake and peppy all of the time.",
"Your temperature is low again.",
"You can't get comfortable. You've thrown your covers off every night for a while now.",
"Your cheeks are sore.",
"It feels good to swallow because it soothes your sore cheeks."
],
"death_days" : 20,
"death" : [
"the common hot you contracted turned deadly.",
"what should have been a simple disease to take care of killed your stupid self."
]
},
"off-the-chain-ed-ness" : {
"treated_by" : "Benzoretin Becloran",
"description" : [
"You started a fire the other day.",
"You told your boss he could go freak himself. Needless to say, you were promoted.",
"You smashed every single plate in your house.",
"You punched your bedroom wall until your knuckles were bleeding.",
"Nothing is extreme enough for you anymore.",
"Everything feels so boring.",
"You stole some clothes the other day. You didn't even bother looking at what it was you were stealing (a pantsuit). You just felt like taking something.",
"You learned how to skateboard, and you never wear a helmet.",
"A friend mentioned that your high fives feel much more aggressive than usual.",
'You have started to say things are "radical" unironically.',
'You are always "keeping it real" these days.',
"No matter how aware you are of another person's gender identity, you address them as dude.",
"You can feel a chemical imbalance in your brain.",
"You've taken to carrying around a switchblade.",
"You can't remember the last person you saw that you didn't give in to the uncontrollable urge to flip them off."
],
"death_days" : 6,
"death" : [
"you tried to do a skateboard trick that didn't end well.",
"you finally snapped and did the most extreme thing you could think of. To the extreme."
]
}
}>><<set $medicines to {
"Megasulin" : {
"description" :
"Megasulin combats symptoms related to excess sugar consumption.",
"treats" : "sugar-coated hand",
"reacts_to" : "Kheer",
"side_effect" : "bitterness",
"withdrawal_days" : 4
},
"Tranprex" : {
"description" :
"Suffering from flippy-floppies and other unexpected and unbearable dangles and droops? Try Tranpex.",
"treats" : "flippy-floppies",
"reacts_to" : "Samosas",
"side_effect" : "stiffness",
"withdrawal_days" : 5
},
"Augmensonide" : {
"description" :
'Do you ever find yourself turning into a lizard, wolf, or balloon that says "Congratulations on your new slippers"? Augmensonide might be right for you.',
"treats" : "transformations",
"reacts_to" : "Chicken tikka masala",
"side_effect" : "permanent transformation",
"withdrawal_days" : 10
},
"Malanuvia" : {
"description" :
"Not sleeping well? Well, Malanuvia might help with that. Maybe. It just sort of depends. But it could. But no guarantees. But buy it anyway.",
"treats" : "no sleep",
"reacts_to" : "Tandoori roti",
"side_effect" : "constant sleep",
"withdrawal_days" : 7
},
"Lovanafine Afluside" : {
"description" :
"Feeling lonely? Everyone knows that loneliness is an issue that can only be cured with over-the-counter medications. Get Lovanafine Afluside today.",
"treats" : "loneliness",
"reacts_to" : "Dal soup",
"side_effect" : "feeling nothing",
"withdrawal_days" : 3
},
"Palotensin" : {
"description" :
"Palotensin combines the fast-acting relief of drugs with the unattainable relief of comprehending the terrors of the human mind.",
"treats" : "ancient appendages",
"reacts_to" : "Palak paneer",
"side_effect" : "portals",
"withdrawal_days" : 14
},
"Ablatrol" : {
"description" :
"Ablatrol keeps //your// blood where in //your// body.",
"treats" : "bloodsplosions",
"reacts_to" : "Paneer tikka masala",
"side_effect" : "unnatural cravings",
"withdrawal_days" : 3
},
"Temozolid Decimectin" : {
"description" :
"You are sooo uncool! But that's okay. A lot of people are. And despite what some might say, you //can// become cool. Just take some Temozolid Decimectin!",
"treats" : "ickiness",
"reacts_to" : "Shrimp saag",
"side_effect" : "too cool",
"withdrawal_days" : 3
},
"Andeine Agebisome" : {
"description" :
"Andeine Agebisome fights off the common (but deadly) fungal fever.",
"treats" : "fungal fever",
"reacts_to" : "Aloo gobi",
"side_effect" : "mycelium mind",
"withdrawal_days" : 9
},
"Neoxitrol" : {
"description" :
"Neoxitrol. For when you don't understand how you feel and don't want to.",
"treats" : "new feelings",
"reacts_to" : "Lamb biryani",
"side_effect" : "brainsplosions",
"withdrawal_days" : 15
},
"Formopex Retrozolid" : {
"description" :
"Is the world changing, but you're not? Are you becoming increasingly scared of things which, to everyone else, are mundane? Try Formopex Retrozolid today.",
"treats" : "sitcomming",
"reacts_to" : "Lamb rogan josh",
"side_effect" : "outside of time",
"withdrawal_days" : 6
},
"Silvacion" : {
"description" :
"Silvacion is the most effective remedy for twigginess on the market today. Comes in cherry, grape, or unicorn flavor.",
"treats" : "twigginess",
"reacts_to" : "Vegetable jalfrezi",
"side_effect" : "withering",
"withdrawal_days" : 9
},
"Roxastin" : {
"description" :
"Do you smell that? It's fruity, but rotten. Sweet, but disgusting. Familiar, but unknowable. That's the smell of the world telling you to take Roxastin.",
"treats" : "bacterial bunches of oats",
"reacts_to" : "Mango lassi",
"side_effect" : "laser eyes",
"withdrawal_days" : 12
},
"Tinzadryl" : {
"description" :
"One of the most ubiquitous names in the drug industry, Tinzadryl can cure just about anything. It's main use is as a treatment for the common viral infection colloquially known as the common hot.",
"treats" : "common hot",
"reacts_to" : "Naan",
"side_effect" : "uncommon illnesses",
"withdrawal_days" : 6
},
"Benzoretin Becloran" : {
"description" :
"Benzoretin Becloran is a powerful medication used to treat severe cases of off-the-chain-ed-ness. Use Benzoretin Becloran with caution.",
"treats" : "off-the-chain-ed-ness",
"reacts_to" : "Chicken jalfrezi",
"side_effect" : "on-the-chain-ed-ness",
"withdrawal_days" : 2
}
}>><<set $effects to {
"bitterness" : {
"description" : [
"You've been increasingly rude to people.",
"You no longer care about... well... much of anything.",
"You're feeling exceptionally bitter about the world.",
"You told your friend that you hated them, even though you don't think you do.",
"You hate everything.",
"Nothing tastes good anymore.",
"You punched a wall the other day. You don't know why.",
"Everything tastes like broccoli",
"You're bitter.",
"You're feeling better, but there is something wrong with the rest of the world.",
"In a fit of grumpiness unlike your typical self you let your dog run away.",
"Everything smells like farts.",
"You don't care about your own birthday.",
"You've become unkind.",
"You don't like who you are now."
],
"days" : 9,
"death" : [
"As a side effect of the Megasulin, you've grown so bitter that you just don't want to do anything. Just sit there and scowl. Be grumpy. Not eat. Sleep. Drink. Just be //bitter//.",
"You were rude to the wrong person, and, well, it was the //really// wrong person. You died."
]
},
"stiffness" : {
"description" : [
"You can honestly barely move.",
"Every movement you make sounds like the entrance to a haunted house.",
"A finger snapped off while trying to bend it.",
"You can't bend your fingers, so you just grab things by clapping you palms around them.",
"The creak of your legs moving made your dog bark today.",
"You were in a car accident because you couldn't make your head turn.",
"Your bones aren't cooperating with you.",
"You're so stiff that you worry you might be dead.",
"You are so stiff that you stiffed your waiter at a restaurant last night.",
"Yesterday, you just snapped out of your car like a branch off of a tree."
],
"days" : 2,
"death" : [
"You can't move. Like at all. You sit in your bed stiffly, like a ruler. Until you just simply die there.",
"You drop your phone, and, even though you know that as a side effect of the Tranprex you've become exceptionally stiff, you try to bend over to get it anyway.<br><br>You snap clean in half."
]
},
"permanent transformation" : {
"description" : [
"You turned into a freaking lamp. Like, permanently.",
"Oh god. This is your life now. You are a lamp.",
"You turned permanently into a lamp, and you aren't even plugged in.",
"You transformed into a lamp. And it's not even a pretty one.",
"You are trying to adjust to your new life now that you have transformed into a lamp.",
"You're a lamp now. And being a lamp is the worst.",
"Your dog almost knocked you over today. It is the most emotion you have felt since the you suddenly and permanently transformed into a lamp.",
"You hate your new life as a stupid, ugly lamp. But there is nothing you can do about it. You're a lamp.",
"You are permanently a lamp now. So, there's that.",
"You don't know what to do. You've permanently turned into a lamp. You would cry if you could, but you can't because you are a lamp."
],
"days" : 5,
"death" : [
"Lamps don't live.",
"You lived and lamp and you died a lamp."
]
},
"constant sleep" : {
"description" : [
"You decided to sleep in. Forever.",
"You couldn't wake up this morning. And you still haven't.",
"Instead of waking up, you've decided to just sleep walk.",
"Ssshhh! You're still sleeping!",
"You're actually still sleeping. This is just a very vivid dream."
],
"days" : 2,
"death" : [
"After taking the Malanuvia, you've done nothing but sleep. Which is sort of like death. So.",
"Let's hope you dream of nice things.<br><br>You know. In death."
]
},
"feeling nothing" : {
"description" : [
"You're not feeling so lonely anymore. In fact, you're not really feeling anything.",
"You forgot how to smile.",
"You can't remember if you've ever loved anyone.",
"You didn't cry at your grandma's funeral the other day.",
"Your coworkers have taken to calling you robot because of your supposed lack of emotion.",
"You no longer laugh if tickled.",
"You used to write poetry, but you can't anymore.",
"You don't care.",
"Your dog doesn't make you smile anymore.",
"It's no longer satisfying when water is cold straight out of the tap. It just seems mundane to you now.",
"You burned your mouth with hot tea in an attempt to feel something. Nothing.",
"Everything seems gray and dreary.",
"You're not worried about having friends anymore.",
"You're actually still lonely. But you just don't care anymore.",
"You keep feeling like you should be upset, but you never are."
],
"days" : 8,
"death" : [
"After losing all feeling as a side effect of the Lovanafine Afluside, you start going to desperate measures to feel something. And well, eventually those desperate measures meant death. (Don't worry though. You didn't feel a thing.)",
"You no longer feel anything. You can't be happy, sad, angry, lonely, hungry, worried, satisfied, poetic. I mean, you might as well be dead."
]
},
"portals" : {
"description" : [
"You wake up somewhere that is not your home.",
"The sun is gone.",
"Your teeth have started talking. In fact, there is a whole little city operating out of your mouth.",
"You're in an endless void. It smells like pineapple.",
"You're suddenly being operated by a team of tiny rats. There are tiny little rats just everywhere.",
"The world keeps flashing in and out.",
"Things keep changing.",
"Your keys aren't where you left them. Instead, they are attached to an anglerfish's fin ray.",
"All of your house's doors and windows have disappeared.",
"Your dog started talking the other day. It didn't have anything very interesting to say though."
],
"days" : 5,
"death" : [
"There was a flicker of light and suddenly you were somewhere else. Somewhere where you were dead.",
"Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Where are you? Oh god."
]
},
"unnatural cravings" : {
"description" : [
"You feel like eating your mug.",
"You decide to give your dog to a friend after having thoughts of eating it.",
"You wake up to your pillow missing. It seems you've eaten it.",
"You couldn't help but taste one of your fingernails. Not bad.",
"No food sounds good to you anymore.",
"You're dying to eat just about every object that's not food that you see.",
"The only thing stopping you from eating your car is the practicality of such a feat.",
"You wonder how much of yourself you could eat before you couldn't.",
"While microwaving some leftovers, you salivate (at the thought of eating the microwave).",
"You're never full.",
"You're always hungry.",
"It seems weird, but you've decided that leaves make a good snack in the fall.",
"They asked you to leave the park after finding you gnawing on a bench. It just looked so delicious.",
"Your house tastes saltier than you would have thought. But then again, you wouldn't have thought you'd be tasting your house.",
"You're having thoughts about eating your phone."
],
"days" : 7,
"death" : [
"Your stomach just decided it had enough. You died. It was something you ate.",
"You knew that unnatural cravings were a potential side effect of the Ablatrol. But you never would have guessed that it would lead you to slowly eat yourself."
]
},
"too cool" : {
"description" : [
"You've become too cool for school.",
"Everyone thinks that you are super awesome.",
"You unironically do finger guns at people. They sometimes swoon.",
"You've taken to wearing sunglasses at night. (And actually pull it off.)",
"No one can stop you."
],
"days" : 2,
"death" : [
"You became too cool as a side effect of the Temozolid Decimectin, and you drowned in adoring fans.",
"Your body, mind, and soul exploded due to the massive size of your ego.",
"After taking the Temozolid Decimectin, you were too cool for school. Unfortunately, this stupidity led to an early death."
]
},
"mycelium mind" : {
"description" : [
"You are one with all.",
"You communicate through underground networks.",
"You live off death.",
"You may be poisonous to humans now.",
"You're developing a primordium.",
"You are made up of a threadlike structure.",
"You are in everything.",
"You are everything.",
"You've developed gills."
],
"days" : 3,
"death" : [
"As a side effect of the Andeine Agebisome, you live the rest of your life underground, surviving off of decomposition. It's a surprisingly happy life.",
"You die. But you live on through everything you're connected to."
]
},
"brainsplosions" : {
"description" : [
"There is a war happening inside your head.",
"You'd like to scoop your eyes out with a spoon. It might relieve some of that enormous pressure.",
"Your head is throbbing.",
"There is a thunderstorm in your brain. Each lightning strike makes you wince in pain.",
"Your mind is hurting.",
"You can barely stand because your brain keeps crashing against your skull.",
"Your very existence seems to be collapsing in on itself, starting in your brain.",
"You can no longer think.",
"//You are in pain.//",
"The inside of your skull is on fire.",
"There are fireworks in your skull.",
"You don't know if you can go much longer with this pain in your head.",
"//Something is very wrong.//",
"Oh god. Your head hurts.",
"Pain is radiating from your brain and through you in your entirety."
],
"days" : 5,
"death" : [
"The storms become too much to bear.",
"And with a crash, it all comes to an end."
]
},
"outside of time" : {
"description" : [
"You're always confused.",
"You can't remember if you've heard this song before.",
"People are doing the lindy hop and people are breakdancing.",
"People drive flying cars now.",
"Humanity just discovered fire.",
"You decide to get out your Jell-o mold and make some vegetable pie.",
"Your grandpa just turned five years old today.",
"You haven't even been born yet.",
"You are thousands of years old.",
"Today is your seventeenth birthday, and tomorrow is your seventh.",
"There is no today.",
"There are dinosaurs!",
"Your hair goes down past your butt now.",
"Your clothes aren't fitting right.",
"You're there when the Atomic Bomb is tested."
],
"days" : 12,
"death" : [
"As a side effect of the Formopex Retrozolid, you cease to exist as we once knew you. But you are still around. Sometimes.",
"While existing sometime alongside dinosaurs, you are eaten."
]
},
"withering" : {
"description" : [
"You begin to shrivel up.",
"You feel like nothing but a husk.",
"Your skin is flaking off uncontrollably.",
"You're dry.",
"You're rotting.",
"Bugs have begun to eat away at you."
],
"days" : 4,
"death" : [
"You shrivelled up, dried up, wasted away to nothing.",
"Bugs ate away at you until there was nothing left."
]
},
"laser eyes" : {
"description" : [
"Your eyes are burning.",
"You can't stop your eyes from watering.",
"No matter how much you blink, you can't get your eyes to not feel like they are on fire.",
"Your boss looked concerned about how red your eyes were at work the other day.",
"You woke up to find a hole burned next to you in your pillow.",
"Red lights randomly shot from your eyes the other day.",
"You can't get rid of this terrible burning pain radiating from behind your eyes.",
"You feel like your eyes could fall out of your head.",
"There is an enormous amount of pressure behind your eyes.",
"You might be losing your vision.",
"Sometimes you find burn holes in your walls. You think they might be related to the awful sensation behind your eyes.",
"A coworker said your irises looked red and it was creeping them out.",
"Your friend blamed you for a little burn on their finger. They said it was from a little light that shot from your eyes.",
"The skin around your eyes is singed like its been set on fire.",
"You think there might be a fire somewhere deep inside of you. And it wants to come out through your eyes."
],
"days" : 10,
"death" : [
"As a side effect of the Roxastin, you gained an extremely painful superpower where lazers shoot out of your eyes. It also killed you.",
"You burned to death from the inside out."
]
},
"uncommon illnesses" : {
"description" : [
"Your bones are trying to escape from your body.",
"Your toes have started to fall off.",
"Your heart tickles.",
"Your right arm keeps swinging in previously impossible 360° circles.",
"Grape juice keeps leaking from underneath your pinky finger nail."
],
"days" : 3,
"death" : [
"You spontaneously combusted. While Tinzadryl helps with common illnesses, it only invites the uncommon ones.",
"Your bits and pieces came all apart into a people spaghetti. While Tinzadryl helps with common illnesses, it only invites the uncommon ones."
]
},
"on-the-chain-ed-ness" : {
"description" : [
"You always obey authority now, regardless of how extreme their requests.",
"You got all of your work done for once.",
"You were focused on what you should have been focused on for the entire day.",
"It's easy for you to listen to others.",
"You have a great attention span.",
'You told a friend to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" the other day.',
"You no longer mind when you don't have time for anything besides work.",
'You called the police when you saw a "suspicious individual" the other day.',
"You've become boring.",
"Even your dog thinks that you're boring."
],
"days" : 6,
"death" : [
"You lived a boring, by-the-book life and died a boring, by-the-book death.",
"Snitches get stitches, and you're a snitch."
]
}
}>><<set $foods to [
"Kheer",
"Samosas",
"Chicken tikka masala",
"Tandoori roti",
"Dal soup", "Palak paneer",
"Paneer tikka masala",
"Shrimp saag",
"Aloo gobi",
"Lamb biryani",
"Lamb rogan josh",
"Vegetable jalfrezi",
"Mango lassi",
"Naan",
"Chicken jalfrezi"
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<<set $deathMessage to "You died randomly. Oops.">>
<<set $takenToday to false>>
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<<if $player["effect"] == "">>
<<mainChoices>>
<<else>>
<<set _worriedMessage to
"You're worried it might be a side effect of the "
+ $player["taken"] + "."
>>
<br><<linkappend _worriedMessage t8n>>
<<mainChoices>>
<</linkappend>>
<</if>>
<</widget>>
<<widget "mainChoices">>
<br><br>
<<if $player["medicine"] == "">>
<<link "Go to the pharmacy." "Pharmacy">><</link>><br>
<</if>>
<<if $player["lunch"] == "">>
<<link "Eat something." "Lunch">><</link>><br>
<</if>>
<<if $player["illness"] == "no sleep">>
<<link "Try to sleep." "Feeling">>
<<display NewDay>>
<</link>>
<<else>>
<<link "Go to sleep." "Feeling">>
<<display NewDay>>
<</link>>
<</if>>
<<if $player["medicine"] != "" and not $takenToday>>
<<set _medicineMessage to
"Take your " + $player["medicine"] + "."
>>
<br><<linkreplace _medicineMessage t8n>>
<<if $player["medicine"] != $player["taken"]>>
<<set $player["withdrawal_days"] to 0>>
<</if>>
<<set $player["taken"] to $player["medicine"]>>
<<set $takenToday to true>>
<<set _newCount to $player["pills_left"] - 1>>
<<updatePillCount _newCount>>
<</linkreplace>>
<</if>>
<</widget>>
<<widget "setIllnessMessage">>
<<if $player["illness_messages"].length <= 0>>
<<set $player["illness_messages"] to
$illnesses[$player["illness"]]["description"]
>>
<</if>>
<<set _illnessMessage to
$player["illness_messages"].random()
>>
<<run $player["illness_messages"].delete(_illness_message)>>
<</widget>>
<<widget "setFoodMessage">>
<<if previous() == "Lunch" and $player["lunch"] != "">>
<<if $player["effect"] == "unnatural cravings">>
<<set _foodMessage to "Even " + $player["lunch"] +
" doesn't taste good to you right now.">>
<<else>>
<<set _foodMessage to "That really hit the spot.">>
<</if>>
<<else>>
<<set _foodMessage to "">>
<</if>>
<</widget>>
<<widget setEffectMessage>>
<<if $player["effect"] != "">>
<<set _illnessMessage to
$effects[$player["effect"]]["description"].random()
>>
<</if>>
<</widget>>
<<widget "updatePillCount">>
<<if _args.length > 0>>
<<set $player["pills_left"] to _args[0]>>
<</if>>
<<script>>
let pillNum = document.getElementById("pill-num");
pillNum.innerHTML = State.variables.player["pills_left"]
<</script>>
<</widget>>
<<widget "givePlayerIllness">>
<<set $player["illness"] to Object.keys($illnesses).random()>>
<<set $player["illness_messages"] to
$illnesses[$player["illness"]]["description"]
>>
<<set $player["cure"] to
$illnesses[$player["illness"]]["treated_by"]
>>
<<set $player["treated_days"] to 0>>
<<set $player["effect"] to "">>
<<set $player["effect_days"] to 0>>
<</widget>>
<<widget "die">>
<<set $deathMessage to _args[0]>>
<<set $deaths.push(_args[1])>>
<<goto "Death">>
<</widget>>
<<widget "note">>
<span class="note">_args[0]</span>
<</widget>>
<<widget "alert">>
<span class="alert">_args[0]</span>
<</widget>>
<<widget "title">>
<span class="title">_args[0]</span>
<</widget>>
<<widget "subtitle">>
<span class="subtitle">_args[0]</span>
<</widget>>
<<widget "switchAudio">>
<<if _args.length <= 0>>
<<audio ":paused" loop play>>
<<audio ":playing" pause>>
<<if $playing == "music">>
<<set $playing to "silence">>
<<else>>
<<set $playing to "music">>
<</if>>
<<elseif $playing != _args[0]>>
<<audio ":playing" pause>>
<<audio _args[0] loop play>>
<<set $playing to _args[0]>>
<</if>>
<</widget>><<note "//The pharmacy is restocked every seven days.//">><br><br>
These are the medicines that are available:<br><br>
<<if $availableMeds.length == 0>>
<<set _medCount to random(2, 3)>>
<<set _meds to Object.keys($medicines).shuffle()>>
<<for _i = 0; _i < _medCount; _i++>>
<<set $availableMeds.push(_meds[_i])>>
<</for>>
<<if not $availableMeds.contains(
$illnesses[$player["illness"]]["treated_by"]
)>>
<<set _cureChance to random(0, 2)>>
<<if _cureChance >= 1>>
<<set _cure to $player["cure"]>>
<<set $availableMeds.push(_cure)>>
<</if>>
<<set $availableMeds to $availableMeds.shuffle()>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<for _i = 0; _i < $availableMeds.length; _i++>>
<<capture _i>>
<<set _linkText to $availableMeds[_i] + ".">>
<<link _linkText Medicine>>
<<set $selectedMed to $availableMeds[_i]>>
<</link>><br>
<</capture>>
<</for>>
<br><<link "They don't have what I want." "Feeling">><</link>>What sounds good?<br><br>
<<if $player["lunch_options"].length == 0>>
<<set _option_count to random(1, 2)>>
<<set _possibleFoods to $foods>>
<<for _i = 0; _i < _option_count; _i++>>
<<set _food to _possibleFoods.random()>>
<<run State.temporary.possibleFoods.delete(
State.temporary.food
)>>
<<set $player["lunch_options"].push(_food)>>
<</for>>
<<if $player["taken"] != ""
and not $player["lunch_options"].contains(
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["reacts_to"]
)>>
<<set _reactChance to random(0, 2)>>
<<if _reactChance >= 1>>
<<set $player["lunch_options"].push(
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["reacts_to"]
)>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $player["lunch_options"] to
$player["lunch_options"].shuffle()
>>
<</if>>
<<for _i = 0; _i < $player["lunch_options"].length; _i++>>
<<set _food to $player["lunch_options"][_i]>>
<<set _link_text to _food + ".">>
<<capture _food>>
<<link _link_text "Feeling">>
<<set $player["lunch"] to _food>>
<<set $player["days_starved"] to 0>>
<</link>><br>
<</capture>>
<</for>>
<<if $player["taken"] is "">>
<<link "Butter Chicken." "Feeling">>
<<set $player["lunch"] to _food>>
<<set $player["days_starved"] to 0>>
<</link>>
<<else>>
<<link "Butter Chicken." "ButterChicken">>
<<set $deathMessage to "And just like that, it's over.">>
<<set $deaths.push("Butter chicken")>>
<</link>>
<</if>>
<br><br><<link "Nothing." "Feeling">><</link>>$medicines[$selectedMed]["description"]<br>
<<alert "//WARNING: DO NOT TAKE WITH BUTTER CHICKEN.//">><br><br>
<<link "Buy it." "Feeling">>
<<set $player["medicine"] to $selectedMed>>
<<updatePillCount $pillCount>>
<</link>><br>
<<link "I don't want $selectedMed." "Pharmacy">><</link>>$deathMessage<br><br>
<<link "Go back. Die again." "Feeling">>
<<display Restart>>
<</link>><br><br>
<<switchAudio "music">>
<<note "You've died from:<br>">>
<<for _i = $deaths.length - 1; _i >= 0; _i-->>
<<if _i == $deaths.length - 1>>
<<print $deaths[_i]>><br>
<<else>>
<<note $deaths[_i]>><br>
<</if>>
<</for>>
<<run memorize("deaths", State.variables.deaths)>><<print $butterChickenEndings.random()>>
<<switchAudio "silence">><<if not $takenToday and $player["days"] > 0>>
<<set $player["treated_days"] -= 1>>
<<elseif $player["taken"] == $player["cure"]>>
<<set $player["treated_days"] += 1>>
<</if>>
<<if $player["taken"] != "">>
<<if $player["effect"] == "">>
<<set _effected to random(0, 5)>>
<<if $player["lunch"] ==
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["reacts_to"]
>>
<<set _effected to random (3, 5)>>
<</if>>
<<if _effected == 5>>
<<set $player["effect"] to
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["side_effect"]
>>
<<set $player["effect_chance"] to $effectChance>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<if not $takenToday>>
<<set $player["withdrawal_days"] += 1>>
<<elseif $player["withdrawal_days"] > 0>>
<<set $player["withdrawal_days"] -= 1>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<if $player["effect"] != "">>
<<if $player["effect"] !=
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["side_effect"]
>>
<<set $player["effect"] to "">>
<<set $player["effect_days"] to 0>>
<<set $player["effect_chance"] to $effectChance>>
<</if>>
<<set $player["effect_days"] += 1>>
<<if $player["lunch"] ==
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["reacts_to"]
>>
<<set $player["effectChance"] += 1>>
<</if>>
<<if $takenToday>>
<<set $player["effect_chance"] += 1>>
<<else>>
<<set $player["effect_chance"] -= 1>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<if $player["lunch"] == "">>
<<set $player["days_starved"] += 1>>
<</if>>
<<set $takenToday to false>>
<<updatePillCount>>
<<if $player["pills_left"] == 0>>
<<set $player["medicine"] to "">>
<</if>>
<<set $player["lunch"] to "">>
<<set $player["lunch_options"] to []>>
<<set $player["days"] += 1>>
<<script>>
let dayNum = document.getElementById("day-num");
dayNum.innerHTML = State.variables.player["days"];
<</script>>
<<if $player["days"] % $daysToRestock == 0>>
<<set $availableMeds to []>>
<</if>><<set $butterChickenEndings to [
'<<linkappend "Oh god." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Oh no." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Everything starts spinning." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Whirling." t8n>><br>
<<link "Twirling." Death>><</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<linkappend "There is a troll stranding across the room." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "\\"Come, my little troll baby.\\"" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You go to it." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You embrace it." t8n>><br>
<<link
"You know that you are finally home."
Death
>><</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<linkappend "You just hear music." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You hear music." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You just hear music." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You just hear music." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "There\'s music." t8n>><br>
<<link "You just hear music." Death>>
<</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<linkappend "Have" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "you" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "ever" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "wondered" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "what" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "will" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "happen" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "when" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "you" t8n>><br>
<<link "die?" Death>>
<</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<link
"It seems like something terrible always happens."
Death
>><</link>>',
'<<linkappend "Is someone there?" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "." t8n>>
<<linkappend "." t8n>>
<<linkappend "." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Hm." t8n>><br>
<<link
"I don\'t think we\'re alone."
Death
>><</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<linkappend "Holy crap!" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "It\'s a freaking party in here!" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Dude." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "This is freaking awesome." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Woah!" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "What the?" t8n>><br>
<<linkappend
"That dude just ate a live
raccoon!" t8n
>><br>
<<link "Sick." Death>><</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<linkappend "You\'re in outer space." t8n>><br>
<<link "And there are puppies!" Death>><</link>>
<</linkappend>>',
'<<linkappend "You decide to go to the circus." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You don\'t know why." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You hate the circus." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend
"But you think maybe you could have a good
time." t8n
>><br>
<<linkappend "Watching clowns." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "And elephants." t8n>><br>
<<link
"And so you go to the circus."
Death
>><</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
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'<<linkappend "That really hit the spot." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "But it didn\'t." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You lie to yourself." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "You do these things thinking they make things better." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Make things easier for you." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "But they don\'t." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "They make things worse." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Make them scarier." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Make them harder to enjoy." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Make them harder to understand." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "And we all know that you are scared." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "And hurting." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "And we want to help you." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "We //need// to help you." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "So don\'t lie to us." t8n>><br>
<<linkappend "Or yourself." t8n>><br>
<<link "Because that didn\'t hit the spot." Death>>
<</link>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>
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<</linkappend>>
<</linkappend>>'
]>><<if $player["days"] > 99>>
<<die
"You died peacefully in your sleep last night."
"Old age"
>>
<<elseif
$player["treated_days"]
<= -$illnesses[$player["illness"]]["death_days"]
and $player["effect"] == ""
>>
<<set _deathMessage to
"Left untreated, "
+ $illnesses[$player["illness"]]["death"].random()
>>
<<set _cause to "Untreated " + $player["illness"]>>
<<die _deathMessage _cause>>
<<elseif
$player["effect"] != "" and
$player["effect_days"] >= $effects[$player["effect"]]["days"]
>>
<<if player["effect_chance"] > 1>>
<<set _effectResults to
random(0, $player["effect_chance"])
>>
<<else>>
<<set _effectResults to 0>>
<</if>>
<<if _effectResults >= 2>>
<<set $player["effect"] to "">>
<<set $player["effect_days"] to 0>>
<<set $player["effect_chance"] to $effectChance>>
<<else>>
<<set _cause to $player["taken"] + " side effects">>
<<die
$effects[$player["effect"]]["death"].random()
_cause
>>
<</if>>
<<elseif $player["days_starved"] > $daysToStarve>>
<<set _starved to either(true, false)>>
<<if _starved>>
<<set _deathMessage to
"You died of starvation. Should have eaten more "
+ $foods.random().toLowerCase() + "."
>>
<<die _deathMessage "Starvation">>
<</if>>
<<elseif $player["taken"] != ""
and $player["withdrawal_days"] >
$medicines[$player["taken"]]["withdrawal_days"]
>>
<<set _withdrawalDeath to either(true, false)>>
<<if _withdrawalDeath>>
<<set _deathMessage to "Withdrawal from " +
$player["taken"] + " proved too much for you."
>>
<<set _cause to $player["taken"] + " withdrawal">>
<<die _deathMessage _cause>>
<</if>>
<</if>><<title '<<link "As Prescribed" Feeling>>
<<display Restart>>
<</link>>'>><br>
<<subtitle "//A surreal game about illness and death.//">>
<<switchAudio "silence">>
<<script>>
$(function() {
$(".title").on("mouseenter", function() {
console.log("Entered.");
SimpleAudio.select(":playing").pause();
SimpleAudio.select("music").loop(true).play();
State.variables.playing = "music";
});
$(".title").on("mouseleave", function() {
SimpleAudio.select(":playing").pause();
SimpleAudio.select("silence").loop(true).play();
State.variables.playing = "silence";
});
});
<</script>><<cacheaudio "music" "audio/warmaceuticals.mp3">>
<<cacheaudio "silence" "audio/loud-silence.mp3">>
<<audio "silence" volume 0.075>>
<<set $playing to "">>Created by Not-Only But-Also Riley
//Warmaceuticals// by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/3suaqag2RWzo0gqa1lYZtS?si=hunka0fgSFSNvyt0_VQaoQ" target="_blank">Fez Goat</a>
"Loud Silence" Sound Effect from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=75803" target="_blank">Pixabay</a>
<<return "Go back.">>
<span class="alert cursive">Thanks for playing!</span>