It Really Should Be Acknowledged, In One Way Or Another, That Amy Saved Shadow's Life.

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Nothing could break the thick tension of a young, emotionally detached adult being with their equally emotionless and distant family members—well, maybe everything but a mysterious illness outbreak. As the virus begins to spread like wildfire, you struggle to progress through sudden grief and loss, kissing all normalcy goodbye. 

With life, as you know it, crumbling in shambles and danger continuing to lurk around each turning corner, you're forced to reconcile with your estranged family and survive with an unlikely group of survivors. Learn how to navigate through the end of the world as you know it.

content warning: Graphic depictions of violence, injuries and blood, death, trauma, body horror, explicit language, references to assault, mental and physical abuse, drug and alcohol usage, and sexual content. Suggested for mature +16 audiences.

what will remain?

Agreeing to be dragged along to some boring town in the middle of midwest butt-fuck nowhere, forced to leave the exciting college life behind—your friends, your freedom, your childhood home—all because your mother fell head over heels with some new guy. You loathed even the thought of it all: no bustling malls, the constant silence, the small-minded people.

Yet here you were, stuffed in a car with your life in boxes, with your little brother in the front acting like nothing in the world could bother him, and your mother clinging to the steering wheel as if it might help with holding her broken life together.

You were supposed to start working at your new job, your brother was supposed to start school, and your mom was supposed to be happy again.

None of that happened before you could even really settle in.

A bloody cough. A sudden scream. A neighbor is missing his arm, turning feral and bloody before your eyes. One moment, you were rolling your eyes at your mom’s hopeful smile, the next you're bashing head's in with a wooden fence picket.

Suddenly, you’re no longer just the angry kid dragged to a new life you never asked for. You’re the only one who can keep your brother safe, scavenging for the bare necessities, navigating panic-stricken streets, passing through overcrowded quarantine zones. 

Now, you have to take lead. You have to make impossible decisions. You have to survive—for your family, for new allies, for yourself. With every horror you face, every life you take, and every moment earned through blood and grit, you start to feel something shifting inside you.

In the end, the question isn’t just whether you'll survive…but what will remain left of you.

STORY FEATURES.

Choose your character's name, pronouns, sexual identity, appearance, and even survival style. 

Form stronger or ruin the current and new relationships that you have.

have the choices you make throughout the story effect your survival experiences and significant plot changes. 

Figure out just how far you're willing to go when it comes to the safety of your family and allies. 

Customize your favorite melee or ranged weapon of choice.

Engage or escape—looter or shooter. Learn which fighting style truly fits your character. 

Decide who you should indulge your trust in: family, friends, or the government.

ROMANCE OPTIONS.

Along the way, experience unique character routes depending on your section of RO's and your relations with them:

.ᐣ  Cal/Cass ( F/M ) — A brooding, hard headed, easily annoyed firefighter with useful survival knowledge due to their career, an expected natural born leader forced to carrying too much on their plate, the type of person that you learn to tolerate or want to strangle. 

5’11” Short/shaved ginger hair, light eyelashes and light blue eyes, muscularly toned figure, tan white skin adored in brown speckled freckles, with a light scarlet blushed cheeks.

.ᐣ  Ezra/Ellie ( F/M ) — A inventive, easily overwhelmed, chatter mouth journalist intern with an encyclopedia of seemingly random knowledge especially about conspiracy theories, weird legal loopholes, and old physical media, frantic note taker, a nail biter who has the knack for problem solving and being resourceful.

5’9” curly long black hair, dark brown eyes like boba, mostly torso, lengthy awkward looking figure, golden brown skin, thick rimmed black glasses.

.ᐣ  Saint ( F/M ) — A scarily observant, quirky, sly trouble maker with a smiling klepto addiction due to being in and out of cuffs, has a odd hobby of exploring abandoned places and trespassing restricted areas, knows a lot of “urban knowledge”. 

5’7” unkempt shaggy short black hair, brown eyes, slight lean muscular figure, tan olive skin, has tattoos on both forearms and hands, silver eyebrow piercing on right side.

.ᐣ  Ray ( M ) —  A rational, strong hearted, nurturing mechanic with a protective nature over his daughter, an ex-police officer with a troubling pass that he can’t seem to shake, can talk to anyone as has if he’s known them for years, a sharpshooter even with partial vision he falls back on  instincts and muscle memory.

6’2” buzzed coily hair, blind in one but the other open eye is light brown, in shape dad-bod, deep brown skin, has a scar that travels from the right side of his forehead to the top of his cheek. 

OTHER LINKS.

RO INTROS

ALLY INTROS

KOFI

....dedicated to all the apocalyptic loving losers like me and most importantly @anya-dev and her inspirational interactive novel scout :)

THEY SO SILLY AND LOVELY

they're in polymarous relationship, im the witness. I can tell.

being a multishipper is so funny bc i'll make a horrifically long post defending sonadow and then i spend 10 minutes reblogging shadamy

Sonic Big Bang! Yeyeyeye!

Go check out @l-sincline’s fic it’s so cool!

As well as other artists @yourkidding and @eloscore!

That one drama cd when Rin thinks Gou is dating someone and assumes its haru is always running on my mind like why he immediately assumes like that? Does Haru and Gou often seeing each other off screens? This is canon fr if Rin immediately assumes she's dating Haru, lol.

Were there any canon harugou moments that are close to your heart or all of them are headcanons?

Ok so there are literal CRUMBS when it comes to canon HaruGou content but I could still probably write a 17-page thesis on what they are and why I love them. In short, however, my fave moments are:

Reunited for the first time since middle school in Haru's living room and Gou is just eating up Haru's muscles (first guy she does so with, therefore her first love in my eyes).

Haru remembering that she liked being called 'Kou' instead of 'Gou' hngggg (this is where I OTP'd HARD).

His SMOL SMILE when he hears that Gou's joining the club so that they'd be enough members to make it an official team ahhhhh.

'Why do you swim, Haruka-senpai?' MY HEART.

Their general 1-2-1 talks in seasons one and two, when they discuss swimming/Rin/futures. They are comfortable enough and trust each other to talk about these things with one another!!

When they?? Went to the?? Shrine together??? Just the two of them??? To get their fortunes??? WHILE THE OTHERS WAITED OUTSIDE?? GAH.

That super cute moment when Haru's all distracted by some mascot thing and Gou is tugging his jacket from behind trying to get him to listen to her, I DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE TOUCHING.

OK really grasping at straws here but that time Haru looked at her in her yukata for like 0.5 seconds literally birthed a thousand fics in my mind.

Gou makes him mackerel flavoured chocolate for Valentines Day LIKE WHO DOES THAT.

That one drama CD when Rin thinks Gou is dating someone and immediately assumes that it's Haru. Not any of the other guys. His first thought was Haru.

There's probably more but that's my top 10 lol.

The Bureau Tumblr Is Open!

The Bureau Tumblr Is Open!

This is the official tumblr page for The Bureau! It’s an interactive novel being written and coded in ChoiceScript. Questions are open to the public and you can find the demo for the first chapter here: https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/wip-the-bureau-chapter-1/99993

Or you can play the game directly from here: https://dashingdon.com/play/morbethgames/the-bureau-wip/mygame/

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Chapter 3 is officially done, putting an average playthrough of the first 3 chapters at 52k words per playthrough! Chapter 4 here we come!

Total Word Count: Over 550k

Tachibana Izumi - 立花 いづみ

【A3!】

Stop Being Denial, Haru. [Haru x Gou]

—Haru would never admit he has a crush on Gou.

Haru always wondered,

Why his eyes never stopped staring — at the silhouette of the young girl, her small body, which he could seemingly grasp, hug and kiss so easily.

No, the last was too much.

But Haru would always wonder.

What was so special about Matsuoka Gou?

She was beautiful, indeed.

Always smiling, obviously.

Cheerful, she had a positive aura like the sun in the morningy.

But was that a reason for Haru to secretly stare at her all the time? Sometimes, he was grateful to be able to hide his feelings behind that flat, emotionless expression. Gou would never notice if Haru's cheeks blushed slightly when the girl accidentally touched his hand, nor would she know if Haru's lips parted slightly when she complimented his triceps.

Gou wouldn't know, she was probably too dense.

Yes, that's a good thing. Haru didn't want others to know his feelings either, especially Gou.

Of course, no one should have realized that he secretly harboured a slight interest in Gou. It seemed he had underestimated the world too much — more precisely his childhood best friend, Tachibana Makoto. "You seem to be paying a lot of attention to Gou lately, Haru." Haru didn't know how his best friend knew when he was so sure he had hidden that slight interest well. It seemed that nice guys were hard to fool.

There was no way Haru would admit it.

"She's our manager as well as our friend, is it wrong if I pay attention to her?" Haru replied in an indifferent tone, he ate his mackerel calmly. Makoto smiled faintly like a mother who had just found out her son was lying. "You clenched your fists when Nagisa hugged her."

"Nagisa should learn about people's personal space."

"You gave Rei a sharp look when he complimented Gou's ponytail pretty."

"His compliments sounded perverted."

Makoto laughed. "Well, if you don't like her I guess it wouldn't hurt if I asked her out, right Haru?"

Haru bit his chopsticks hard. Makoto laughed innocently.

Fuck, he just walked into his trap.

Haru was silent, though he found it a little annoying to hear Makoto laughing innocently when Haru was a little embarrassed about being caught. Makoto stopped laughing, it seemed that he noticed Haru who was silent like a statue, his soft eyes looked at Haru, but Haru chose to look away. "So, you like her Haru?" Makoto asked, just to be sure.

Haru was silent, for about a few minutes before answering. "A little."

A little, you mean a lot, isn't it? Makoto thought to himself in confusion, it was so hard to get Haru to tell him honestly how he felt.

"You should ask her out then."

Haru was silent, again. "No way, I'm graduating next year." His answer sounded a little hesitant, there was an implied sadness with anxiety. "But, are you really okay with leaving it at that? Is it okay for her to date someone else and not you?" Makoto seemed so determined to convince Haru to declare his love for Gou, of course he wanted to but it wasn't easy.

But, the thought of Gou dating someone else and he just looking on, wondering if things would be different if he was more honest was much harder to accept and annoying, yet he found it irritating too.

Haru placed his chopsticks on top of his lunch box. "I'll take her out for a walk this week."

"Good luck, Haru." Makoto smiled, he secretly proud that his best friend can be more honest and at least trying confessing his feelings.

Well, anyway Haru could win that swimming race and getting the first place, why not try to win Matsuoka Gou's heart too?

—Epilogue.

Well, of course. Haru forgot his biggest obstacle.

"What are you doing in front of my house and asking about my sister, Haru?"

"Onii-chan!"

Gou's big brother, Matsuoka Rin, a psycho siscon.