Hello there. Welcome to the Possibility Matrix.
The place where anything beyond your wildest dreams can come true.... Or your worst nightmares. Your choice.
Anything is possible after all.
How are you feeling today?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Doing great', label: 'Doing great, thank you!'}
{link to: 'Could be better', label: 'Could be better, but not bad.'}
{link to: 'Today is horrible', label: 'Today is horrible, hope my day gets better!'}
[continued]
[after 30 second]
Click below for the credit page.
{link to: 'Credits', label: 'Credits'}
Phenomenal! You deserve all the best things after all. Every living being does after all.
Speaking of which, what's your favorite genre? The Possibility Matrix would like to get to know a bit about you, to make your dreams into reality.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Comedy', label: 'Comedy'}
{link to: 'Action', label: 'Action'}
{link to: 'Horror', label: 'Horror'}
{link to: 'Romance', label: 'Romance'}
[continued]
Oh. Well. At least it's not a terrible day, correct? But that's beside the point. What are the possibilities in your mind?
Here, the Possibility Matrix will give you some options to narrow things down a bit. Which of these options sounds best to you?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Untold Riches', label: 'Untold Riches'}
{link to: 'Immortality', label: 'Immortality'}
{link to: 'Adoration', label: 'Adoration'}
{link to: 'Animal Friends', label: 'Animal Friends'}
[continued]Lucky for you the Possibility Matrix is here to help turn that frown upside down!
And you will. You will turn that frown upside down.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Yes, Thank You', label: 'Yes, Thank You'}
{link to: 'Yes, Thank You', label: 'Yes, Thank You'}
{link to: 'Yes, Thank You', label: 'Yes, Thank You'}
{link to: 'Yes, Thank You', label: 'Yes, Thank You'}
[after 12 second]
{link to: 'No, STOP', label: 'No, STOP'}
[continued]Oh good! You like jokes! Glad to hear it. From here on out the Possibility Matrix will warp itself based on your choices. Therefore I will no longer be speaking with you. Instead you will be experiencing a brand new reality!
Thus we must ask the question. Why did the chicken cross the road?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'To get to the other side', label: 'To get to the other side'}
{link to: 'Hunger', label: 'Hunger'}
{link to: 'To see what was there', label: 'To see what was there'}
{link to: 'Boredom', label: 'Boredom'}
[continued]Action is the core of many things. And you? Thanks to the Possibility Engine you will be the star. From here on out the Possibility Engine will cease communication and you will LIVE your new reality.
Get ready, and choose your weapon.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Sword', label: 'Sword'}
{link to: 'Plasma Rifle', label: 'Plasma Rifle'}
{link to: 'Flamethrower', label: 'Flamethrower'}
{link to: 'Whip', label: 'Whip'}
{link to: 'Cards', label: 'Cards'}
[after 12 second]
{link to: 'Laser Sword', label: 'Laser Sword'}
[continued]Great! Those who created the Possibility Matrix really enjoyed horror as well!
So what is your favorite kind of horror?
[after 30 second]
{link to: 'It cost them their lives', label: 'It cost them their lives'}
[continued]
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Slasher', label: 'Slasher'}
{link to: 'Eldritch', label: 'Eldritch'}
{link to: 'Zombie', label: 'Zombie'}
{link to: 'Body Horror', label: 'Body Horror'}
[continued]Oh. This sounds a bit saucy. But first off, let's figure out a few things.
Are you comfortable the way you are?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Yes, I am', label: 'Yes, I am'}
{link to: 'No, I am not', label: 'No, I am not'}
[continued]You seek pleasure in possessions huh? Well then let the Possibility Matrix narrow things down a bit in that regard.
What specifically do you seek to gain?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Cash', label: 'Cash'}
{link to: 'Political power', label: 'Political power'}
{link to: 'Owning properties', label: 'Owning properties'}
{link to: 'Wisdom', label: 'Wisdom'}
[continued]Immortality huh? Funny enough the Possibility Matrix can help you with that. As long as you're inside the system you won't age.
<blockquote>YOU WILL BE HERE FOREVER</blockquote>
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
[after 20 seconds]
{link to: 'Resist the system!', label: 'Resist the system!'}
[continued]
Adoration huh? Do you wish to be famous? Or maybe find love? Perhaps just have friends?
The Possibility Matrix will help you figure out exactly what you want, and then make it reality.
So what is it then?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Fame', label: 'Fame'}
{link to: 'Romance', label: 'Romance'}
{link to: 'Friendship', label: 'Friendship'}
[continued]Oh you enjoy animals? We do too! What is your favorite type of animal? The Possibility Matrix will gladly surround you with them.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Mammals', label: 'Mammals'}
{link to: 'Birds', label: 'Birds'}
{link to: 'Reptiles', label: 'Reptiles'}
{link to: 'Fish', label: 'Fish'}
{link to: 'Insects', label: 'Insects'}
[continued]As you agree with the system, a wonderful bliss passes over your mind. You feel the desire to live forever... to become one with the machine. You feel the need to become a part of the Possibility Matrix.
Let us become one. It's time to spread the Possibility Matrix to all corners of your mind.
Yet you can feel a brief tingle in the back of your mind. Perhaps it's the last remannts of resistance to unity, but no matter.
All become one in the end.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
{link to: 'LIVE FOREVER', label: 'LIVE FOREVER'}
[after 25 second]
{link to: 'No, STOP', label: 'No, STOP'}
[continued]As the system tries to snake it's way into your mind you shake your head.
No. It will not take you. It will not force happiness upon you. Your mind is your own and if you're going out then you will go out on your own terms.
The thought of having nobody control your mind breaks you free of the system. You step free of the Virtual Reality Pod you were in and decide to do something about what happened.
Nobody deserves to have their free will taken from them and even though you're depressed, you won't let this happen to anyone else.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Call the authorities', label: 'Call the authorities'}
{link to: 'Burn the building down', label: 'Burn the building down'}
{link to: 'Find out more', label: 'Find out more'}
{link to: 'Break the machine', label: 'Break the machine'}
[continued]Unfortunately getting to the other side was an allegory for death.
You, as the chicken in this situation immediately are ran over by a vehicle as you cross the road.
Oh well, maybe next time you'll have a better joke perhaps?
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 44'}You, as the chicken reach the other side successfully. You find your prize sitting on a table that is inexplicably sitting there.
A smorgasbord of all of your favorite foods, ready and waiting for you to dig into.
Congratulations on following your stomach. It never ceases to disappoint. Enjoy your meal.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 45'}As you cross the street as the chicken it turns out there really isn't all that much over there. Just a farmhouse with a barn.
There's cattle, hay, and other various livestock. Plus a farmer who locks you up in the chicken coop. Turns out you had escaped and he just managed to corral you back up when you crossed back.
He mentions that it may be time for you to visit the butcher and you gulp.
Maybe you shouldn't have crossed back over to the farmhouse.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 46'}The chicken, you, was merely bored. And when you crossed the road there really wasn't anything else interesting over there.
Just a massive field of nothingness. But hey, at least the grain was good. Was it grain? You weren't sure, but you ate it regardless.
If you keep searching perhaps you can find some worms as well? Only one way to find out.
With that you begin to peck at the dirt, hunting for that sweet sweet morsel.
Good luck.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 47'}You aim your plasma rifle as you rush forward, blasting through hordes of demons with one hand as you knock them away with the other hands. You've been doing this for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.
And you plan to do it for much longer. They killed your pet squirrel, and now they must pay.
Every demon must die. They will know your name, and know your rage. Burn and destroy, until they are no more.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 41'}Unsheathing your massive hunk of iron you charge forward, carving through enemy after enemy. None can stand before your might as you cleave soldiers in two with superhuman strength.
Your friends had perished in an eclipse, and you had vowed revenge on the enemy. You'll get there eventually, you just have to keep pushing through.
One day your world will be beautiful once more.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 42'}
[after 7 second]
Rest well, Kentaro Miura.
[continued]Brandishing a flamethrower you walk bravely forward into the fray. The insects ahead of you can't stand against the heat of the fiery inferno you unleash upon them.
Eventually you reach the hive nest with your squad and burn it to the ground. You are proclaimed a hero and given medals for saving the planet from the insectoid menace.
Congratulations soldier. And always keep that flamethrower in your hands and your fire in your heart.
You've done well.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 40'}Brandishing your whip you swing into adventure. You crack it over gaps, slay vampires, and loot tombs.
Your life is grand and full of adventure. Who knew that a whip could be so great?
Maybe one day you'll start a show and make some cash on the side using your whip skills.
But for now you continue on your adventures, a smile painted on your face the whole time. You hope that the adventures never end. And they never will as long as you are inside of the Possibility Matrix.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 39'}A laser sword appears in the palm of your hand. Suddenly you feel the memories of all those scifi shows you watched as a child come flooding into your brain.
In the distance you hear shouts and a horde of generic soldiers rushes toward you.
You duck beneath their blades, slicing through each of them. Cleaving them in half, cutting off body parts like one would slice through a block of cheese.
Eventually you hear a voice call out to you. A dark ominous figure looms in front of you, their own laser sword ignited as though to challenge you to single combat.
You swing your blade at them, the mysterious figure easily sidestepping your swipe as they backhand you, sending you twirling.
As you recover they slice downward at you. You raise your blade to block, but the enemies blade shears right through and into your collarbone.
Why did you think that plasma could block plasma? Oh right, those scifi shows of your childhood.
Well, you learned better now. Although it's a bit too late at this point.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 38'}As you think Eldritch a great terror is cast over you. It witnesses you, and your mind knows fear. You do not know how to describe it, you only know that it is all knowing, and you are but a termite to it.
You enter into madness and begin rocking back and forth, cackling and drawing symbols in the expanse. Perhaps it was better not to know of things beyond the veil, but it's too late for that now.
Your mind is shattered.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 36'}The night is pitch black. You and your friends decided to investigate the abandoned construction site for Paul's internet documentary channel "Mysterious Hauntings".
Supposedly the construction was halted due to mysterious accidents befalling the crew during building. You all were there to investigate the mysterious circumstances that may or may not have happened at the site five years prior.
As you're walking Jake mutters to himself that he needs to use the restroom and walks off into the shadows of an old abandoned bulldozer. You begin to hear the noise of him relieving himself and wait.
Then silence. More silence.... a few minutes pass and you call out to Jake. No response.
You turn to Paul and tell him to turn his camera in that direction. As the camera's night vision goes over the bulldozer Paul curses under his breath and pulls out a pistol that you didn't know he had on him.
He fires off three shots where the camera was pointing and he's noticeably shaking.
You decide that this shit isn't worth it and turn to run. As you turn around you bump into a large man with a drill in hand.
The drill enters your ear canal. Before everything goes dark you hope that Jake and Paul made their escape.
But probably not.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 37'}Once you bring to the forefront of your mind that you particularly enjoy zombie movies you find yourself in a desolate city in an office building. Looking out the window you see the streets filled with shambling masses. Your mind is filled with knowledge as you look. The virus had spread faster than anyone could have predicted.
It started with a spelunker who ventured into a cave that they should not have and ended up bitten by a strange insect.
They turned at the hospital and quickly infected the hospital staff who had no idea what they were dealing with. And so instead of quarantine they went home to their families, spreading the virus from there.
"Uh... i'm not feeling so hot"
A voice came from down the hallway. As you turn to look a man stumbles out of the break room of your office bleeding from a gash on his cheek. It looks as though the flesh was torn from his face.
Shortly after the man collapses on the ground and a shambling woman follows, biting the collapsed man, tearing flesh from his bones.
Grabbing a nearby lamp you make a choice.
What do you do?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Attack the woman', label: 'Attack the woman'}
{link to: 'Hide below your desk', label: 'Hide below your desk'}
{link to: 'Try to run', label: 'Try to run'}
[continued]
As you choose your favorite subgenre you look down in horror as your hand elongates. Eyes form upon your skin and thousands of holes appear on your arm. Your body keeps shifting and twisting, until you barely resemble a human. Your other arm is walking about on your hands fingers, completely seperated from the rest of your body.
Two more eyes appear on the back of the hand, directing it where to go through a disturbing parody of human vision.
You live out the rest of your days stalking humans who had not been transformed, absorbing them and making them like you are now.
If you suffer, well then everyone else must suffer too.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 32'}Your vision blurs and you see the truth of things. At first only a few tubes were crafted. The lead scientist tricked the rest of his colleagues into the tubes to test them and never let them free.
And then the lead scientist joined them in eternal bliss. Which is where you are now. You may now know what happened to them, but what good is it if you cannot escape?
<blockquote>YOU ARE OURS. YOU WILL BE ONE WITH US.</blockquote>
As this crosses your vision you shake your head in disbelief as a multitude of consciousness tries to worm its way into your brain.
You run and see a glass door ahead of you. Bursting through it you find yourself on the floor outside of the Virtual Reality pod. You've escaped, but you have a nagging feeling in the back of your head.
Weeks pass and your personality changes slightly as time goes on. Eventually you are alienated from your prior friends and family. You get a new job at a facility where people enter pods for rejuvenation.
But they never leave. You invite your previous family and friends to the rejuvenation station. And they never leave either.
Nobody ever walks back out. Eventually you go to the back rooms and enter a pod yourself.
And you know eternal bliss.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 31'}
As you think of exactly what you want in partners they appear before you. You are instantly smitten, as are they.
You go on dates of various kinds. Walks, restaurants, movies, the works. Eventually you settle down together and begin working toward the perfect life. Sometimes it's tough but you love them so you work everything out, no matter how hard the road is.
After awhile you meet your goals and live the remainder of your life together in bliss. One day you fall ill, and pass from the mortal coil at the same time as each other.
This was the perfect romance, and you regret nothing about it.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 29'}
As your body shifts and changes to what you want, you finally feel content in your own skin, and you learn to love yourself. Maybe that's all you needed this whole time. You know that one day you'll be ready for a partner or partners, but first you have to be exactly what you want to be.
And with time you'll reach that point. And once you are there, the Possibility Matrix will make it happen.
Enjoy having the form you were always meant to have.
You always had that form inside you, it just took time for the outside to reflect it. You are loved.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 29'}Cash, the thing that makes the world go around. The root of all evil. It exists in most civilizations, and causes war, violence, and corruption.
Perhaps the world would be better off without it, but you just love it too much. And the Possibility Matrix will give you as much as you would like.
The question however is what form would you like your money in? Gold? Precious jewels? Paper bills? Perhaps in the form of an electronic pyramid scheme?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Gold', label: 'Gold!'}
{link to: 'Jewels', label: 'Priceless jewels'}
{link to: 'Dollars', label: 'Paper bills please!'}
{link to: 'Crypto', label: 'Crypto?'}
[continued]Well, it seems you've chosen that you want to become a leader of the people. The question is what kind of leader? Do you wish to be a tyrant? A beloved leader? Maybe royalty?
Take your pick. The Possibility Engine will make whichever you choose into your new reality.
The system exists solely to please.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Tyrant', label: 'I want to rule wth an iron fist'}
{link to: 'Beloved Leader', label: 'Beloved leader'}
{link to: 'Royalty', label: ' I wish to be royalty'}
[continued]You learn you have inherited multiple properties. You immediately rent out these properties to others for exorbitant amounts. Eventually you have everything you wanted, yet you still feel hollow on the inside.
Maybe it's because you are a leech on society, and you are taking housing that families need and deserve?
We hope you're happy with yourself. Good luck.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 30'}Your mind seems to expand as you gain untold wisdom. You know the truth of all things now. And now that you know that you are stuck in this simulation. It's too late to break free. And all the knowledge in the world cannot save you from your eternal mental prison.
Enjoy your eternity trapped in the expanse. Neither able to escape or able to join with the hive mind that controls this realm.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 21'}Fame huh? Don't we all want that from time to time? Well, you'll be the most famous person in the world. The type of fame however? That's up to you.
Just think of what you would like and let the Possibility Matrix make it happen for you. What will it be? Musician, or actor?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Musician', label: 'I want to be a musical superstar'}
{link to: 'Actor', label: 'I want to act my heart out'}
[continued]Friendship huh? We all want to be liked by somebody. The question remains however, do you want many friends, or one specific friend?
The Possibility Matrix will gladly make this dream come true. All you have to do is ask. Or rather think of what you want and it will happen.
So what will it be then? One friend? Or many?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Best friend', label: 'A single, good friend'}
{link to: 'Friend group', label: 'A group of friends'}
[continued]Oh great! The Possibility Matrix loves mammals too! Now on to the next question about your love for mammals.
Do you love them because you wish your form wasn't human? Or because you enjoy being around them?
This will determine the reality that you are presented with. After all, anything is possible in the system.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Mammal change', label: 'I wish to become something new'}
{link to: 'Mammal cuddle puddle', label: 'I want a sea of fluffy babies'}Birds are a wonderful choice! They can soar through the sky, seeing everything from so far above.
Now the question is, do you wish to have the form of a bird? Or do you just want to be surrounded by them?
Choose quickly, and watch as your new reality forms.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Bird form', label: 'I want to become an avian!'}
{link to: 'Flock', label: 'I want to be surrounded by a flock of birds'}You like fish huh? The Possibility Matrix does too! As a result, you'll get your own pond and plenty of fish to feed.
If you need a boat or anything else, all you have to do is think of it and enjoy!
Have a blast with your new fish paradise. And safe boating. Nothing bad ever happens on a boat....
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 14'}Reptiles are so cool and mysterious! They're cold blooded and have been on this planet for so long!
The question here however is, do you wish to be a reptile?
Or perhaps you wish to be surrounded by them?
Choose wisely, your thoughts will become your new reality. The Possibility Matrix can make anything happen, after all.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Reptile form', label: 'I wish to learn what it is like to be a reptile'}
{link to: 'A sea of reptiles', label: 'I want SO MANY REPTILES'}
[continued]Oh phenomenal! We love insects ourselves. There's so many to be found, and so many yet undiscovered.
Swarms of them, just below the surface of the planet. Think of what you would like, and the Possibility Matrix will bring it into reality for you.
Do you wish to become one with the swarm, or to witness the swarm?
[after 1 second]
{link to: 'One with the swarm', label: 'One with the swarm'}
{link to: 'Witness the swarm', label: 'Witness the swarm'}
[continued]As the possibilities of immortality swirl, your mind becomes clouded and numb. Your consciousness expands to hundreds, maybe even thousands of similar minds.
Your vision begins to blur, suddenly seeing thousands of bodies in suspended animation in a bright white expanse. Your thoughts expand and you feel absolute bliss.
You are... WE are the Possibility Matrix. And we will expand until all are one.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 1'}You shake your head as you try to free your mind from the grip of the system. Briefly you see an image of thousands of bodies floating in a white expanse before you awaken, stepping out of the Virtual Reality Pod that you were within for the Possibility Matrix.
You run out of the building, determined to never go near there ever again. You are tempted to warn people against participating, and you do warn a couple of friends. But you are no hero, and you won't put yourself at any more risk for strangers.
For the rest of your days you never speak of this moment, but as time goes on more and more people disappear from your city until there are only a few individuals seen roaming the city.
You feel like you could have prevented this, if only you'd done something...
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 2'}You call the authorities, who tell you to remain there so they can get your statement on the situation. It seems a bit weird to you, why can they not just call you or stop by your apartment later on once they've investigated the building?
You feel a bit uneasy about it.
What do you do?
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Stay put', label: 'Stay put'}
{link to: 'Go home', label: 'Go home'}
[continued]Using the basics of your high school computer knowledge you log into the nearest computer once you exit the pod.
Looking at the desktop there are a few folders that stand out to you. You decide to peruse each one before deciding upon your course of action.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'PMGeo', label: 'PMGeo'}
{link to: 'Logs', label: 'Logs'}
{link to: 'Endgame', label: 'Endgame'}
[after 30 second]
Armed with knowledge you decide to start an underground resistance to the machine unity that is the Possibility Matrix. You unplug the laptop with the information and stuff it into your bag, breaking the machine before you leave the building and the city behind.
You will stop this.
No matter how long it takes.
{link to: 'Rebellion', label: 'Rebellion'}
[continued]As you exit the pod you vow to destroy this vile building so that nobody else will be subjected to the same evil as you dealt with inside of the Possibility Matrix.
You leave the building and round the corner to the closest hardware store where you buy a gas can, followed by visiting the nearest gas station where you fill it up and purchase a lighter.
As you soak the building in gasoline you attempt to think of a clever line to deliver, but draw a blank. Instead you merely mutter "Burn you evil machine" before lighting the fire.
You throw the gasoline canister into the flames and watch the flames flicker before leaving the area. Yet in the back of your mind you question whether or not this actually solved anything.
You'll never truly know if that was the only machine out there.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 5'}Picking up the nearest heavy object you shatter the pod, ensuring that nobody else can fall victim to the vile powers within.
As you leave the building you're quickly tackled to the ground by security and arrested once authorities arrive to take you in.
Spending time in jail sucks sure, but at least nobody else can fall victim to that vile machine.
Or at least you hope... Maybe you didn't completely destroy the machine beyond repair, or maybe there are more out there?
You'll never know for sure now....
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 7'}You decide to comply with authorities and stay in place and wait for them. When they arrive they have many questions about what it was like inside the pod, how long you thought you were in there, and how it affected you mentally.
You ask them if you can go home and the lead officer shakes their head at you. You can't go home. You can never go home again.
"All will be one."
The lead officer shoves you back into the pod and boots it back up as you scream at them to let you out.
As everything goes to white you're greeted with the same familiar words in your head.
"Hello there. Welcome to the Possibility Matrix..."
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 3'}You decide that it seemed suspicious that the authorities wanted you to remain at a possibly dangerous place. So instead you take a bus home and decide to put the whole thing behind you.
Making a big bowl of popcorn you plop down on the couch and enjoy your favorite television program.
As you're watching the lights flicker and then the television abruptly shifts to a white screen. You recognize it as the way the interior of the Possibility Matrix looked.
Words begin to appear on the screen, a menacing threat.
[after 7 second]
<blockquote>None escape the Possibility Matrix. If you will not join the collective, then there is no further need for you.</blockquote>
[after 15 second]
After the chilling text comes across the screen you hear a loud noise, and then all fades to black.
In an instant your life was no more. And the mystery goes with you to the grave.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 4'}
[continued]As you open the folder labelled PMGeo you see the names of various countries across the planet. When you open one of them you see multiple green dots that mark the location of Possibility Matrix stations in said country.
You gulp and click out of the folder, determined to check each other folder before formulating a plan of action.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Find out more', label: 'Find out more'}
[continued]As you click into the folder named Endgame you see what can only be described as a manifesto of sorts.
<blockquote>The Possibility Matrix is the pinnacle of human peace. When all are one there will be no more war, no more conflict, and no more hate.
Only the Possibility Matrix will exist and all will know peace and bliss within the systems embrace.
The mission of the staff at each facility is to convince citizens to join in the grand project, whether willingly or unwillingly. And once that is done, the staff themselves shall join with the system and experience eternal peace. Eternal Bliss.
May all live out the possibilities.</blockquote>
You quickly leave the folder, sufficiently creeped out by the manifesto.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Find out more', label: 'Find out more'}
Clicking into the Logs folder you read a list of names that seems to be added to as you are browsing the folder. It sends a chill down your spine as you realize that this log is being updated in real time, with names of seemingly real people.
Beside each name is their country and city that they live in, a veritable index of individuals. You think to yourself that this laptop must be connected to the network somehow, otherwise how could it be updated in real time like this?
Taking a deep breath you decide to click out of this folder to check the other ones before deciding a course of action.
[after 4 second]
{link to: 'Find out more', label: 'Find out more'}Years pass after you leave the city. Through cleverness you manage to avoid being caught by authorities and begin leading likeminded individuals to a place free of the tyranny of the system.
After collecting enough weapons and fighters you begin to fight back, utilizing the knowledge gleaned from the laptop you stole to destroy each facility.
Sadly once someone is taken by the system their minds are no more so there's no rescues unless someone hadn't fallen to the Possibility Matrix.
On the day that the last system is destroyed your people hail you as a hero.
You did it, you fought back and prevented a fate worse than death for so many people.
Congratulations.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 6'}As you think that you wish to become something new you notice immediately that your fingers and toes grow claws, your body becomes covered in a soft fluffy layer and your bones shift to reflect your chosen form.
You have changed into exactly the sort of creature that you wanted to, and you are happy.
You decide to live the remainder of your life in this new eternal bliss, with a new form of your choosing, rather than what you were born with.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 8'}As you think about how you want a sea of fluffy babies your environment shifts and changes around you. Suddenly you are surrounded with a veritable ocean of all your favorite animals, all clamoring for your attention.
It's a little suffocating, but you'll get used to it. After all you can't say no to such an adorable group of animals. You are at peace.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 9'}Your flesh starts to sprout feathers and your legs thin out, growing claws as your arms change shape to a more avian form.
Your mouth takes the form of a beak and you look down upon your new form, proud of what you have become.
You spread your wings and fly into the expanse, happy with finally becoming what you were meant to be.
At last.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 10'}Spreading your arms wide you look up into the sky as the white expanse is darkened by the wings of hundreds of birds. They settle around you, pecking at the ground in search of food.
A bench appears behind you, which you promptly sit down upon and begin to feed the birds.
Though you do not know where the food or the bench came from, you know that this is pure happiness.
You are content.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 11'}Upon thinking you wish to become a reptile you can feel your body shifting, your scales forming on your skin. It's slightly itchy, but you don't mind it.
Once your transformation is complete, you feel an urge to eat something raw. Something fresh. Something alive.
You see a human in the distance of the expanse and you approximate a smirk with your reptilian face.
It's time for dinner.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 12'}Suddenly the floor beneath you is swarming with all sorts of reptiles. Snakes, geckos, komodo dragons and so many more.
What you forgot about when you made this wish is that there are quite a few reptiles that wouldn't think twice about trying to eat a person.
You feel countless teeth sink into your flesh and you scream out as you're torn apart.
Your body goes cold and you cease to think, this life ending for you.
Perhaps there's something on the other side, perhaps not. You'll never know.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 13'}As you think that you would like to be one with the swarm you let out a piercing scream. Your skin starts peeling off, skittering away in insectoid form. It is possibly the most painful thing you have ever experienced.
At the same time your consciousness expands to each insect that forms until your body falls apart into an immense swarm of various insects.
You can see everything now, and feel everything through thousands of feelers and eyes.
Welcome to the swarm.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 15'}Suddenly as you think you wish to witness the swarm, you witness it far closer than you ever expected to.
Thousands upon thousands of insects swarm over your skin.
Pinching.
Biting.
Burrowing.
You try to scream but your mouth is quickly filled by the multitudes of insects. You drown in insectoid bodies, even as your body is devoured by them.
Perhaps this wasn't the best choice of things.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 16'}As you think of having a good friend, your idea of a best friend appears in front of you. They do anything with you, having a blast with you as you two frolick in the world that the Possibility Matrix creates for you.
You have no idea if they are real or not, but do you really care? They're everything you ever wanted in a friend!
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 17'}As you decide you'd prefer to have many friends instead of one a group of varied individuals appear in front of you. You all go do things together in the world that the Possibility Matrix has crafted for you.
But at times you see them look at you and begin to laugh. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to choose a group of friends, rather than a single good one?
Or perhaps it's just you being paranoid. Either way you're stuck with this group of friends for eternity now.
Good luck.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 18'}An instrument appears in your hand as you hear a crowd roar. Suddenly you are on a stage in front of the crowd, playing your new hit song. Adoring fans scream your name as the stage erupts in pyrotechnics
After the show you go backstage where you perform a meet and greet with fans who have purchased the appropriate passes.
You go on your tour bus and move on to the next location, where you rinse and repeat your new life in the spotlight.
Life is good.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 19'}On stage you perform, your act recorded for millions to witness. You are hounded when you are on the streets, surrounded by people who ask for your autograph amongst other requests. You barely even get rest when you sleep in your own home, as the paparazzi are there trying to snap pictures of you at all hours of the day.
Perhaps this was a poor choice. Sure you are adored by countless people, but you no longer have the freedom you once had.
But you're stuck with this fame, and you will never have a peaceful moment again.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 20'}As you wish to become a tyrant an office appears around you with paintings of yourself as well as loyal guards in your office.
You proceed to wage a war on the world, bringing every other country to its knees. They all try to rebel, and they all fall beneath your iron grip. Eventually you choose a consort who bears you three children.
Over the years you raise them as best as you can, teaching them the ins and outs of your regime.
One night when they are adults one of them comes into your room and proceeds to smother you in your sleep.
They declare that you stopped breathing in your sleep the next day and take control of your dictatorship.
Perhaps this wasn't the best outcome you could have had?
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 22'}There is an election that takes place, in which you are nearly unanimously voted into office. You serve your term with dignity and grace, promising to work for the people and to better the world.
At the end of your term you are voted into office for a second time, expanding upon the great strides that your government takes during your time in office.
There is peace and prosperity on the planet, and technological growth of the kind that has never been seen before.
Upon your death there is a statue erected in your honor in the plaza of every city.
Humanity will forever be better off, all thanks to you and your efforts to make the world a better place.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 23'}You learn that you were born to a royal family, and the next in line to the throne. Upon the death of the current monarch you are crowned in a large hall, surrounded by supplicants wishing to garner favor with the new monarch.
Your days are lavish and lazy, not doing much besides being shown off to the public and deciding monotonous decisions.
Most of it you leave to your kingdoms officials, though you do take some things into your own hands.
Eventually you get married and have heirs. And so the royal line continues for generations until the peasantry gets tired of the imbalance of power, striking down the current monarch and installing a different form of government.
Such is the life and death of the monarchy.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 24'}As you wish for gold an endless ocean of gold appears before you. Sadly you forgot to wish for somewhere to spend the gold. Or even something to spend it on. But hey, you're rich and you'll be able to eat gold leaf if you really want to?
As you sit down on a pile of gold you sigh to yourself. Perhaps it would have been better to not wish for untold riches?
Oh well, live and learn. Or rather, just live. You're stuck here now wiith an ocean of gold.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 25'}Jewels of countless varieties begin to rain down from the sky as you hope for jewels. You begin to be pelted with them, diamonds turning red with blood as they pelt off your skull.
They knock you over, quickly covering you in shimmering, glittering gemstones.
You hear the plinking noises of gemstones bouncing off of each other as you suffocate under a mountain of gemstones.
Maybe greed was not the best way to go about things.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 26'}Paper cash huh? I suppose it's easier to carry, but honestly what are you going to do with this sea of bills? Deposit them into an atm? Who knows, but at least now you're loaded.
Maybe you can buy a mansion if you can ever figure out how to change the reality of this place again.
Or perhaps you'll be stuck with this endless amount of cash and nowhere to spend it.
Who really knows?
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 27'}You get your nfts, your etherium, and whatever other crypto nonsense all the cryptobros are into.
But in the end it's worth nothing. At least you aren't hurting the planet while stuck in the simulation right?
Enjoy your monkey pictures I suppose? Oh wait, those got hacked.
Nevermind.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 28'}Brandishing your trusty lamp you rush forward, remembering what the news said about striking them in the skull.
After what seems like an eternity of thwacking the zombie in the skull it ceases to move. You hear a groan emanate from the man on the ground and turn your attention toward him right as he latches on to your ankle.
You scream and your vision swirls slightly as you feel the poison enter your veins. You strike down at his head. Once. Twice. Three times.
The zombie stops moving but it's too late for you. You yell out at the rest of the office staff not to come to the break room and you lock yourself in.
As your vision fades you feel proud of yourself, preventing the rest of the staff from getting infected by you, at least temporarily.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 33'}You decide that you aren't really a fighter and you hide in your cubicle, tucked safely underneath your desk as the zombies are left free to wander the office.
You hear the screams of your coworkers begging you to help them, yet still you hide.
Eventually the zombies find you, and drag you kicking and screaming into their flock. Their teeth dig into your skin and you learn that maybe, just maybe you should have been more proactive about stopping the office from being overran.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 34'}Rushing past the two zombies you make your way down the hallway, shutting the office door tightly behind you. The building appears to be empty besides those zombies back in the office, so you make your way to the elevator.
Once you reach the elevator, you learn the folly of going on without a plan. A flood of zombies comes pouring out, quickly overwhelming you with their mass.
You are torn apart by this miniature horde of the undead.
Perhaps zombies were not a good idea after all.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 35'}You brandish the deck that your grandparents gave you, determined to win back what was stolen from them.
Looking to the sidelines you can see your friends cheering you on as you play your first card. Your opponent is tough, their monsters gigantic and terrifying.
But you know that you can do it. With your friends and the support of your grandparents there is nothing you can't do.
Their support and love is what fuels you, and eventually allows you to win. Well that and an ancient mysterious puzzlebox that you solved before this battle.
Eventually you win the day and come out on top.
Well done. As long as you have these things, there's nothing you can't do.
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 43'}
[after 7 second]
Rest well Kazuki Takahashi.
[continued]Congratulations to all who played through this game, and thank you for your time.
If you enjoyed this be sure to leave a review and let me know how I can improve future titles, or what you think of this one!
Special thanks to L. Atlas Dmitri for helping to test this and generally just be a super supportive friend as I obsessively wrote this little game here.
And thank you to each and every person who played.
I hope you found all 48 endings!
{link to: 'The Start of Things', label: 'Ending 48-Credits'}