Welcome to Document Zero.
Who are you?
[[Sam|The Rally]]
(if: $key is 1)[ [[I am Sam. End Game]] ]
(text-colour: "Red")+(bg:black)[People rally in the streets, all dressed the same as you, in thick grey hoodies.
They chant angrily, moving in a cacophony of noise.
It starts to rain lightly, so you pull your hoodie over your head, the people around do the same.]
(text-colour: "white")+(bg:black)["Here take this"] (text-colour: "Red")+(bg:black)[Toby passes you a leaflet:]
(text-colour:"cyan")[[Open the leaflet]]
(text-colour:"cyan")[[“No, I’m off to the library”|Mysterious Figure]]
We are many versions of ourselves. A moment can change us, and alter our paths forever, seemingly fracturing our story each time. The elasticity of destiny means the possibilities and endings are infinite.
Are you really Sam?
[[Play again|Document Zero]]
You read the cover, the noise of the crowd fades, your face tingles with fear:
"Leaked Document reveals secret government trials 20 years ago. - Experiments carried out in 2010 have allegedly successfully fractured time..."
(text-colour: "Green")[“Coming?”]
(text-colour: "Cyan")[["Yes," you follow the crowd|Close the Leaflet]]
(text-colour: "orange")[“No”]
(text-colour: "cyan")[[Make your way to the library to check scientific archives|Mysterious Figure]]
(text-colour: "cyan")[[Head straight to your Therapist's office. Your paranoia feels elevated|Go to Therapist’s Office]]
You stare at the crowd, just as someone in a march hoody turns away from you, but you knew they were watching.
(after:5.5s)[They pause for a moment, and you wonder if they will turn to face you again.]
(after:9s)[You catch your breath.]
(after:10.5s)[They hesitate.]
(after:13s)[Then slip into the library opposite.]
(after:15.5s)[[[You follow|Mysterious Figure]]]
(align:"==>")[You head for the door, your fear bubbling in your throat. You push the door open, and step inside the dimly-lit bathroom.
The light flickers.
(text-colour: "orange")["Hello?"]
You call. Nobody answers.
You beg(bg:black)[in c]arefully testing o(bg:black)[ut] the st(bg:black)[a]lls, opening them one by one, then swinging them open with force.
Each stall is empty.
(bg:black)[Y]ou fee(bg:black)[l] the hairs on your neck tingle.
You swing around, the sink tap drips lightly, and a badly lit mirror hangs above. Its one of four mirrors, but yours is the only one with condensation on it.
Written on the surrounding tiles are the words 'DOC 0' written in red.
You stare at the mirror, feeling watched.
(text-colour: cyan)[[Go to the mirror]]
(text-colour: cyan)[[Head straight for your therapist’s|Go to Therapist’s Office]]]
(bg:black)[You make it through town and push through the glass doors, and knock frantically on your therapist's door.
She answers calmly,"whats the matter?"
You feel faint from the adrenaline throbbing in your veins, for a moment you feel like you faze out.
You black out momentarily to the sound of the chanting crowd outside. It warps into the words "Doc 0!' as the chants become rhythmic, and then a clock.
(after:22s)[ [[tick tock]] ]]
You weave through the crowd, and push on the heavy doors of the library.
Silence.
Hushed voices of the crowd seem miles away.
You capture a glimpse of a hoody flash behind the last row. A door swings shut.
[[You follow]]
You watch in frozen confusion: a clear path begins to track through the beads of moisture, tracing the shape of one letter, then more, until it stops:
(text-colour:orange)["Imposter!"] You read it aloud.
Your eyes focus through the letter tracks, you realise that a set of eyes are looking straight at you.
(text-colour:cyan)[[Head straight to your therapist's office|Go to Therapist’s Office]]
(text-colour:cyan)[[You follow|Follow the Stranger]]
(textcolour: blue)[You climb up and touch the mirror.
The figure walks back through the blurred outlines of a rallying crowd behind the glass.
The figure turns to speak, shaded under the hood, their features indistinct.
"You are not Sam, I am Sam"
You push through the surface of the mirror, and feel it envelop you. Your surroundings distort, making you feel nauseous. Surrounded by sensations, you feel woozy and faint. You try to call out, but your voice crackles and reverberates in the distortion.
You black out momentarily to the sound of the chanting crowd. It warps into the words "Doc 0!” as the chants become rhythmic, like a clock.]
(textcolour: cyan)[ [[tick tock]] ]
(textcolour: blue)[You call out… ]
(set: $key to 1)[ [["Sam"|Document Zero]]]
(text-colour: Cyan) ["What happened today?"]
The voice of your therapist breaks the rhythm of the metronome, a 'tick' slows, as time slowed down.
You take a breath that echoes. You take in the familiar surrounds of her office.
(after:10s) +(text-colour: Cyan)+(bg:black)[ "What happened today?"] (after:10s)+(bg:black)[She repeats softly.]
(after:12.5s)+(text-colour: orange)+(bg:black)["I think I saw them again. They were at the rally... and then they went into the library-“]
(after:17s)+(text-colour: Cyan)+(bg:black)["The stranger?"] (after:17s)+(bg:black)[The therapist pushed her files on her desk into a neat pile.]
(after:21s)+(text-colour: orange)+(bg:black)["They left a clue."]
(after:23s)+(text-colour: Cyan)+(bg:black)["A clue?"]
(after:25s)+(text-colour: orange)+(bg:black)["Doc 0"]
(after:27s)+(bg:black)[She pauses for a moment. She subtly glances down at the pile of papers.
[[You follow her gaze]] ]
You look down at the paper, taking in the words. She gathers them up.
(after:4s)+(text-colour:orange)["Document Zero - Case-file - S.A.M?"] (after:4s)[You ask, feeling betrayed.]
(after:9s)[She tries to talk, but her words swirl around you. Events flash through your mind, except now you see several versions, almost identical, bar almost insignificant differences.
A realisation fills you. The hooded stranger that had haunted you was-]
(after:23s)+(text-colour:orange)["It was me?"]
(after:26s)[Or was it?]
(after:28s)[She calls your name. Her voice warps into the sound of the crowd outside... ]
(after:32s)["Sam!" ...but your cant speak, your whole body feels pulled from the inside.]
(after:36s)[You black out again...]
(after:37.5s)+(text-colour:cyan)[(set: $key to 1) [["Sam"|Document Zero]]]