You sit on top of your sword. You've won.


...


You've become the new final boss who rules this land. You may leave, yes, but if you enter the save after you've won... the game will prompt you with a question: Play Again? If you say yes, you will enter the game as a new player, and the final boss is YOU FROM YOUR PREVIOUS SESSION, lifebacks and all! The prices are jacked too, your past run ruined them, they're even worse than before.
It's newgame plus for those who, for some demented and ungodly reason, wanted an extra challenge.

Curtains

This is a soundtrack for a game that does not exist, for a menu that you must imagine: a menu that brings you through screens of preparations and anticipations, a screening for personalization of your imagined experience beyond this feeble space peppered with floating words, numbers, and sliding bars that will likely be ignored. On your journey, you will die in excess and appear back here in this space to begin again and again. The first room, the last room, it doesn't matter. You will parish until the job is done, until the lord of this world is crushed, until you sit where he sat as the new god of a world that despises you.

Welcome to the Odyssey of Pain. 

So It Begins

You wake up in a chasm underground. The mouth of the cave is ahead, light from torches beyond the exit fill the abyss, and a hellish abomination that hardly fits in this grotto stands between you and the exit. It's going to try to kill you in heaps of unique, disgusting fashions.

HP-50
DMG-6,000

You have a sword hilt and leather armor with holes in it.

HP-1
DMG-1

Good luck.

(also the dungeon theme if you... actually manage to survive this...)

Death Chamber

When the abominations catch you, you enter a battle that's horribly unfair. You're still a fly compared to these giants. You're hard to swat but they'll get you eventually.

That is, unless you're not a total loser, of course.

Bloody Knuckles

Observant players will notice oddities: stairs that lead nowhere, an abomination dead before you've slain it atop a trap door, a crack in the wall just wide enough to squeeze through... those oddities will lead you to hidden areas, pockets of life in this hell hole of a chasm.

It is here where you may take much needed breathers and discover special supplies. If you could stay forever, you would, but you have a game to win. Wasting away in a tiny hole in a wall will solve nothing.

Hidden In Plain Sight

You made it. You escaped the catacombs made up of your own dead bodies. Hip hip hooray.

You walk out the exit and feel a wave of burning hot air hit your face and deal one damage. The grass is dead, the trees are dead too, weeds coat every surface, it's dryness sucks the moisture from your skin, and surrounding this acre of land are insurmountable cliffs crawling with giant spidery abominations with wings and singers. Climbing that is certain death, you're forced to traverse through the land and enter some caves to progress, in hopes of uncovering a more hospitable resting place. 

Settlements are small, but plentiful, peppered upon on the towering rocks and the weeds and the misshapen scaffolding that could collapse if you death stared at them hard enough. The people aren't as demented as the settlers in the dungeons, but they're hardened from years of living in this dry crater, from the ventures into caves for supplies and water, and from eating the abominations and giant spiders for food.

A giant sword towering over the mountains lingers in the far distance.

Maybe other places are better than this.

Oh look! A shop!

The Surface

So. You thought you could just cheat death that easy?

You're stuck in the gameover screen, but... you can move. You can control your character, you're a ghost with ghost items and the game isn't over yet.

There's something hiding in the blackness behind the words.

Game... Over?

It smashes through the words and buttons you're all too familiar with like they were glass, the shards stab into the entity and it melts to fuse with the pieces. Bloodshot eyes split open all over it's head, several tendrils surround you. Up close, you can see that they're made of endless, rotting, charred remains of you. It's made of your previous attempts' failures.

You have to fight this thing, and it makes the abominations you faced look like BABIES. You don't wanna know what'll happen if you parish now.

HP: 1000
DMG: 30,000

Survive.

Nope! It's not over!

Upon death, something speaks to you.

It speaks in tongues in tones so low that it rattles the rib cage in your chest.

You can only make out one thing: you aren't supposed to be here.


This plays when you're killed by the Gameover Boss, and it also plays when you manage to kill it, it congratulates you curtly in a gurgling, strained voice made of thousands of voices combined, and melts to form a bridge. You remain in this dark place with only one path ahead of you.

Void Screen

This will play if you manage to run away from The Shop Man's guard and leave the shop before he grabs you.

They'll smash abominations out of their way just to have a chance of catching you, they hate petty thieves and you're top of the list. If you fight him, using the stolen items won't work, he'll just take em back to return them after he stomps your teeth in. He won't kill you, but he will hurt you and hold a grudge for your crimes.

It keeps playing if you do battle with him.

HP: 5000
DMG: he uses The Shop Keeper's weapons, you're cooked but you'll live. Any death is purely on accident, he says "ahh sh--" before you explode.

You should have just payed for it, you're no better than those abominations trying to eat people. Monster.

GET BACK HERE!!!

. . .

There is a legend: he who has The Blade Of Horrors controls the Abominations. The instant you step out that secret area, all hell will break loose. All NPCS, everyone and their grandma's grandma chases you, the shop keeper chases you, the guard chases you, Stretch Man appears and chases you, everything murder runs at you when you enter their field of vision. You hold what they believe to be the key to their salvation, or their total dominion over the world, and they're gonna kill you to try to take it from you.

They will continue to chase you forever until you beat the game or die trying. Even cliffs will chase you, they'll slide like CHESS PIECES!!! THEY'RE KILLING EACHOTHER AND CLIMBING OVER EACH OTHER TRYING TO TAKE THAT SWORD!!! It was hidden for the safety of the people, the thing's just a useless sword, but they won't know until you die with a Lifeback Item and return to find them doodling with the sword and depressed out of their minds. YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!!!

What have you done.

This is nightmare mode in an already nightmarish game, making it to The Sword of Legend triggers a cutscene where you ride a crowd of people up the sword, entering L.O.R.D's throne room atop the sword hilt. This makes him back away slowly, then jump out a window. He's outta there. If you survived that, you're stomping him easily. Hell. No.

Blade Of Horrors

You made it to the real Sword of Legend: the giant one in the distance that towered over those mountains and cliffs.

You fought tooth and nail to get here, you're teeth and nails are gone you fought tooth and nail so damn hard. You're a mess.

Just as you were about to walk into the sword tower, something leaps off of the very top. It falls,  super hero lands behind you, and stands tall above you, taller than than anything you've ever faced before. Their head is shrouded by a bronze helmet shaped like a lion's face, a pitch black cloak shrouds their whole body in darkness. L.O.R.D will see you now.

He cackles and speaks solely in riddles too complex for you to discern any underlying messages, and he swings his arms outward. It opens the cape, his chest cavity is open and his ribs are centipede legs, a metal ball inside the blackness inside glows and sucks life out of the ground. It glows brighter and fires a death beam at you. The final battle has begun.

If you die, he stabs himself to enter The Forgotten World with you, he has a Lifeback Item too and he'll chase you relentlessly no matter where you go, you have to fight him and he has to squash you to maintain his authority. He's gone mad, he's INSANE!!! The guy throws abominations at you like snowballs while citing Shakespeare incorrectly, making up his own riddles that make absolutely no sense at all, he sucks life out of his own people to fuel his death beams and everything. Stretch Man appears and watches the fight go down from afar, The Shop Man and The Shop Guard join the fight against him too if you've never stolen anything.

Everything has culminated in this moment, this battle, this war for power. 

In the end, you either defeat him and take his place on the throne atop the sword of legend, or you die... and RETURN TO THE START TO DO IT ALL AGAIN!!!

HP: 100,000
DMG: 10,000

L.O.R.D

When you kill an NPC, all the music stops in that room. The others look at you like they look at the abominations.

It's possible to become the strongest being in this game, you can become strong enough to one shot every boss. The problem is that you'll never get past that barrier playing normally: you cannot hunt abominations, they hunt you. If you got EXP elsewhere... maybe... you'd be able to turn the tables. Elsewhere... like the NPCs.

Killing three NPCs triggers this dialogue with The Shop Man and this track when you see him next:

"When you kill a person once, that might be an accident. When you kill two people, that's a problem. When you kill three, that's where I draw the line in the sand and say this: if you keep doing that, you're gonna end up worse off than one of L.O.R.D's victims, aight? Quit it."

He doubles his prices.

The Zero Path has begun. You begin hunting NPCs for EXP, they run from the sight of you, but you're faster than them. They won't escape. They drop their life savings, you can afford items again and The Shop Keeper, knowing you're the only one who can possibly defeat L.O.R.D, and with heaps of money presented to him, begrudgingly grants you the items for a pay and triples the original price.

You've slaughtered towns worth of people. You can one shot the abominations now. At first, they behave like normal, dying in one hit when doing so, but... eventually, they start to run too. They run from you, and you chase them down and destroy them, dishing out all the pain and suffering onto them that they once dished out onto you. Your weapons are awful. You kill more NPCs for more of their savings, you're growing bigger and taller from the strength, and you stomp into The Shop Man's store with pockets fat with loot. He throws an insane price at you: 500,000 silvers for the arming sword. You slam a giant bag onto the table, 500k and another 50k for the tip, you don't care. He takes it. You take the arming sword, or any other item you choose to buy.

The cycle repeats itself.

The cycle repeats itself.

The cycle... won't end until you become the strongest.

Let's Talk.

The Shop Guard decides enough is enough and goes rogue, he tries to kill you. He's not strong enough. You are stronger.

He falls into The Forgotten Realm and melds together with it's flesh. The next time you enter it, after his death, he will confront you at the bridge, mangled and deformed and swollen from The Fallen's malformation. Enough is enough. If he can't defeat you in the living world, he can defeat you in the Forgotten World.

...he's strong, he's almost as strong as you. Almost.

During the battle, he rants about justice, about how evil you are, and when he begins to lose, he thinks out loud. He'll just reform, right? Well, not quite. Bits of him will assemble, but The Fallen are amalgamations of different cadavers, he'll only be his whole self once. This is his one chance. He fights and fights, you continue to whittle him down piece by piece. Eventually, he's only a torso and a head. Then, nothing at all.

You will become the strongest.

We Meet Again, Thief

You've become strong enough to defeat Stretch man. He laughs so loud it hurts as he crumbled to the ground, melting into it one last time.

...in the living world, anyways

Congratulations! Now he's in the Forgotten World and OH GOD HE'S MERGED WITH HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, NO!!! NO!!! STAY BACK-- he behaves the same, but he's gonna keep getting worse and worse throughout the Zero Phase, because your kills only feed his growth. He'll become faster and faster, stronger and stronger, until you can't run away, but... by the time he can catch you, you're already too strong, huh.

You're getting stronger too. He becomes obsessed with you, obsessed with defeating you and becoming that chaotic evil funny man again, and he thinks you're ruining his fun. He hates you for it. He wants you to die because of it, and he's gonna try to beat you at your own game just to rub it in when he stomps you.

...

He'll run from you if you hurt him too bad, he's not gonna just sit there and die. He's got a game to win, against you. That is... until you deal so much damage, you one shot him. He curses you for it, he goes on a huge spiel about you kicking his sand castle and throwing that sand in his eyes, he throws a tantrum like a child, and his frustrations melt like a sand castle would as he does.

You defeated The Stretch Man, the strongest enemy aside from L.O.R.D himself.

The Real Stretch Man

The game throws everything it has at you. Everything.

Every enemy left, every NPC, L.O.R.D himself (or your past playthrough you if you're doing this on hard mode,) The Shop Man smashes together a bunch of Lifeback Items and triggers them all at once, tearing a hole in reality for The Fallen to join the fight.

Everything left is struggling desperately to live.

One by one, you pick them off, and they fight harder with each loss, angrier and angrier, sadder and sadder, more ferocious and unpredictable and chaotic, but... you're stronger than them. You're the strongest now.

Everybody dies. The Shop Man punches your chest till his knuckles bleed, screaming at you while you stand there, bored and waiting for the game to end.

You destroy him too.

Scream At The Meteor

This plays everywhere in the game when you've wiped out all life within it, you've defeated everything and now you dwell within an empty world, completely, and utterly alone until you leave the session.

Nothing can kill you when Charcoal is playing, traps bend against you, pit traps do no damage, there's no escape but to leave, and leaving will give you a unique Void Screen where ____ says "This world is now yours, avatar of (player name)" and you just get spat out into the Menu.

Trying to Play Again the world forces you to fight what you've become in the starting room, as a new player with nothing. It's unwinnable, Void Screen plays as the theme.

Zero

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Three Minutes and Twelve Seconds

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Wish

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