>>--[ ONLINE . . . CONNECTION STABLE ]--<< >>--[ SYSTEM READY FOR DEPLOYMENT: "CHRONICLE PROTOCOL // 7X-SIGMA" ]--<< >>--[ STORY FORMAT: ANALOG CONSOLE MODE // INITIATING . . . ]--<<
[ PHASE 01 :: INITIATE CONTACT ]
> SYSTEM LOG: 0020.HRS // SECTOR 9-G // DATE: 2247.07.10
> ALERT: ANOMALY DETECTED IN THE CYDONIA RIDGE ZONE
> TYPE: UNKNOWN OBJECT DESCENDING FROM LOW ORBIT
> STATUS: SILENT ENTRY -- ZERO HEAT SIGNATURE -- MASSIVE GRAVITY RIPPLE
> MESSAGE RECEIVED -- ENCRYPTED
> TRANSMISSION PATTERN: NON-HUMAN. FRACTAL CODE. FORMAT INCOMPATIBLE.
> TASK 01: DECRYPT FIRST CODE STRING
> ACTION: TYPE THE FOLLOWING USING ONLY UPPERCASE AND NO SPACES
> STRING: [ M1NDTH3PR0T0C0L1SAWAK3 ]
DATE: 10.07.2025 LOCATION: Isla Pena, 53 km southwest of Isla Nublar MISSION BRIEF: You are part of a three-person retrieval team sent to Isla Pena to investigate a failed off-grid genetics facility known as Project Charybdis. Communications ceased 11 days ago. Satellite imagery shows overgrowth, heat anomalies... and motion patterns that don't match anything on file.
As your helicopter touches down on the cracked helipad, fog begins to roll over the tree line like a living organism. The jungle smells like copper and decay.
Your team consists of:
Dr. Mireya Valez, xenogenetics specialist
Corporal Desmond Hart, ex-InGen security
You, mission lead, field tech and systems recon.
Your headset chirps.
VALEZ: “No welcoming party. Not even drones. Something's wrong with the air. My skin itches.” HART: “Movement—two o'clock. Something big. Not birds. Not human.”
The jungle answers with a guttural hiss.
⚠️ A severed control panel lies in the overgrown grass, marked "GENESIS GATE: MANUAL OVERRIDE." It's the only path into the facility.
TASK TO CONTINUE:
☑️ You must choose ONE of the following actions:
A) Inspect the control panel and attempt manual override. (Submit a scry card.) Enter the jungle to follow the movement. (Submit a fitting exploration card.)
C) Set up a temporary perimeter and wait for clearer visibility. (Submit a defense card.)
Type your choice (A / B / C) to proceed to PHASE TWO.
Awaiting input... █
A deep-space mining facility known as Red Helix-9 stopped responding 72 hours ago. You’re a salvage operator — Elias Varn, ex-military, now scraping for coin. A final transmission loops endlessly:
"Don’t trust the walls. They’re watching. They want skin. Please—"
A corporation drone ship drops you at the station’s docking bay. Something moves behind the airlock glass. It has too many joints.
PHASE 1: Initiation — “The Skin Door”
OBJECTIVES:
Enter Red Helix-9.
Find the source of the signal.
Do not bleed. Not yet.
As you step inside, the lights flicker — but not randomly. They blink in rhythmic code, pulsing like a heartbeat. The station stinks of iron, bile, and static. The walls are sweating.
You find a severed human face pressed flat against a viewport. It’s not rotting — it’s twitching, mouthing words silently. It’s trying to warn you.
Deeper in, you reach the Broadcast Room.
The console has been rewired with nerves. Pulsing meat cables snake into the floor.
The signal wasn’t a loop.
It’s alive.
It whispers your name.
CHOICE:
Tear the meat-wire out (you’ll anger it). [Submit a black removal card.]
Speak to the machine using your own blood as ink (you'll mark yourself). [Submit a non-removal black spell.]
The corridors have changed. You’re not walking on metal now — you’re walking on stitched flesh. Screaming echoes behind the walls.
In the Medical Bay, human bodies have been repurposed: ribcages unfolded into surgical tools, intestines braided into cords.
On the birthing slab lies something — a man, or what used to be one, his abdomen split open like a grotesque flower. Inside? Not organs, but miniature versions of the station, pulsing and alive.
The man whispers:
“They nest in us now. Breeding through math and agony. They’re not gods. They’re surgeons.”
Then the Mothers arrive. Towering entities — insectoid silhouettes with translucent, skinless faces. Their arms are long needles. Their mouths split into petals lined with human teeth.
TASK:
Remove a live, twitching fetus from the slab and use it to unlock the next area. [a card that gains control]
Don’t let the Mothers inject you — or your body will start growing locks inside your flesh. [a Mother card]
You enter a cathedral-like space, lit only by pulsating brain matter embedded in the ceiling.
The walls whisper in languages you almost understand.
Hanging from the Neurocrucifix are dozens of people — or what’s left of them. Their brains are exposed, plugged into bio-organic interfaces.
You meet a survivor named Renn, who’s blind and speaks in riddles. He tells you:
“They come from the void between atoms. They want to know what pain is shaped like. You’re just the pen.”
To proceed, you must link your own mind to the crucifix — but doing so means reliving the deaths of every person who died here…
...from their point of view.
Every scream becomes a memory. Every cut, a map.
TASK:
Interface with the crucifix, unlock the spatial map embedded in the shared trauma.
Choose to cut out your own eyes to see the real path forward (literal or symbolic?).
>>> INPUT RECEIVED: [A] - Inspect the control panel and attempt manual override >>> PROGRESSING TO PHASE TWO…
JURASSIC ⚙️ PHASE TWO: "THE BREATHING DOOR"
You crouch beside the rusted control panel. It's scorched at the edges, like it caught a burst of power… or a fire. Underneath the vines, faded yellow letters read: GENESIS GATE - SECTOR ENTRY LOCK v3.2
A single port remains intact—old-school USB-C. Your field rig can link in.
You plug in.
The screen buzzes alive with a single blinking cursor:
ENTER ACCESS CODE: _ _ _ _
VALEZ (over comms): "Wait… that code might be in the archival schematics. Check the panel’s left plate. Engraving usually includes the bypass seed… if this system follows standard InGen protocol."
You brush away grime and vines. Faint text is etched:
If creation be our sin, let Eden burn for our sake.
[EDN-23B] :: FNV 5–1–9
Hart suddenly yells in the background: "MIREYA'S GONE. SOMETHING PULLED HER INTO THE TREES."
A bone-sharp screech splits the sky. Something huge crashes just beyond the fence line.
TASK TO CONTINUE:
☑️ Crack the access code.
Using the clue:
EDN-23B :: FNV 5–1–9
And the phrase: “If creation be our sin, let Eden burn for our sake.”
Determine the 4-digit access code.
(You may respond with your answer. If you’re stuck, you can ask for a hint, but every delay counts…)
> UPLINK AUDIO: *click* . . . *static* . . . "YOU HAVE ANSWERED. OBSERVER UNIT RECOGNIZED."
> SYSTEM CORE: PROTOCOL-7X IS ACTIVE.
> INITIATING WITNESS SEQUENCE.
> SCENE: You descend through rust-colored mist. Beneath you: cyclopean monoliths half-buried in Martian dust.
> The Object—black, angular, humming in **odd harmonics**—rests within a crater that *wasn't there yesterday*.
> Symbols shift along its edges. One of them glows when you look. It looks back.
> TASK 02: INTERFACE WITH THE OBJECT
> ACTION: DRAW OR DESCRIBE A SYMBOL THAT FEELS "WRONG BUT FAMILIAR"
> FORMAT: CARD, TEXT, IMAGE, OR SKETCH -- YOUR INTERPRETATION.
In the maze, you will make decisions on which way to go to get out. Around every corner could be a big problem. To participate in the Maze, just say so.
🔓 PHASE THREE: “THE COLD FENCE AND THE WARM TEETH”
The steel doors of Genesis Gate creak open, scraping against stone like an ancient jaw unhinging. The air behind them is cold… unnaturally cold. Emergency lights pulse a sickly red down a corridor streaked with claw marks and blood.
Corporal Hart grabs your shoulder. He’s breathing hard, bleeding from his side.
HART: “Whatever took Valez—it wasn’t a raptor. It was bigger. Taller. And it whispers when it moves. We need to find the command core and wipe whatever data they were building here.”
Your HUD flickers as you step inside the perimeter.
A system map loads on your tablet:
lessCopyEdit-- SITE-B_OMEGA FLOORPLAN LOADED --
> YOU ARE HERE: GENESIS GATE
> NEXT OBJECTIVES:
A. MAIN SERVER NEXUS (north wing)
B. GENETICS LAB 4 (east wing)
C. POWER CORE (sub-basement)
Suddenly, a scream blares from your comm—Valez is still alive. The signal's pinging from Lab 4, but the sound of claws on metal says you're not alone.
TASK TO CONTINUE:
☑️ Choose ONE location to head next:
A) Server Nexus – to extract/wipe data Genetics Lab 4 – to attempt a rescue
C) Power Core – to attempt full facility shutdown
Type your choice (A / B / C) to proceed to PHASE FOUR.
Use caution. You're being watched. █
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ALIENVERSE, PHASE 01
>>--[ ONLINE . . . CONNECTION STABLE ]--<<
>>--[ SYSTEM READY FOR DEPLOYMENT: "CHRONICLE PROTOCOL // 7X-SIGMA" ]--<<
>>--[ STORY FORMAT: ANALOG CONSOLE MODE // INITIATING . . . ]--<<
[ PHASE 01 :: INITIATE CONTACT ]
(Your input is required to proceed to Phase 02.)
JURASSIC, PHASE 01
📼▶ [UNIVERSAL SYSTEM INTERFACE - JP94.X TERM v1.0]
ACCESSING FILE: "OPERATION BLACK FOG"
CLEARANCE: LVL 4 (INTERNAL EYES ONLY)
RUNNING SIMULATION MODULE: INCIDENT LOG [SITE-B_OMEGA]
>>> INITIATING PHASE ONE
📍PHASE ONE: "THE LAND THAT BREATHES"
As your helicopter touches down on the cracked helipad, fog begins to roll over the tree line like a living organism. The jungle smells like copper and decay.
Your team consists of:
Dr. Mireya Valez, xenogenetics specialist
Corporal Desmond Hart, ex-InGen security
You, mission lead, field tech and systems recon.
Your headset chirps.
The jungle answers with a guttural hiss.
⚠️ A severed control panel lies in the overgrown grass, marked "GENESIS GATE: MANUAL OVERRIDE." It's the only path into the facility.
TASK TO CONTINUE:
☑️ You must choose ONE of the following actions:
Enter the jungle to follow the movement. (Submit a fitting exploration card.)
A) Inspect the control panel and attempt manual override. (Submit a scry card.)
C) Set up a temporary perimeter and wait for clearer visibility. (Submit a defense card.)
Type your choice (A / B / C) to proceed to PHASE TWO.
Awaiting input... █
THE LATTICE, PHASE 01
PHASE 1: Initiation — “The Skin Door”
OBJECTIVES:
Enter Red Helix-9.
Find the source of the signal.
Do not bleed. Not yet.
As you step inside, the lights flicker — but not randomly. They blink in rhythmic code, pulsing like a heartbeat. The station stinks of iron, bile, and static. The walls are sweating.
You find a severed human face pressed flat against a viewport. It’s not rotting — it’s twitching, mouthing words silently. It’s trying to warn you.
Deeper in, you reach the Broadcast Room.
The console has been rewired with nerves. Pulsing meat cables snake into the floor.
The signal wasn’t a loop.
It’s alive.
It whispers your name.
CHOICE:
Tear the meat-wire out (you’ll anger it). [Submit a black removal card.]
Speak to the machine using your own blood as ink (you'll mark yourself). [Submit a non-removal black spell.]
Just gonna submit this to Tear the meat-wire out. Hope it is ok that the card not 100% fits the lore
THE LATTICE 🔪PHASE 2: The Birthing Slab
OBJECTIVES:
Explore the Medical Bay.
Find a way to stop the station from shifting.
Avoid the "Mothers".
The corridors have changed. You’re not walking on metal now — you’re walking on stitched flesh. Screaming echoes behind the walls.
In the Medical Bay, human bodies have been repurposed: ribcages unfolded into surgical tools, intestines braided into cords.
On the birthing slab lies something — a man, or what used to be one, his abdomen split open like a grotesque flower. Inside? Not organs, but miniature versions of the station, pulsing and alive.
The man whispers:
Then the Mothers arrive. Towering entities — insectoid silhouettes with translucent, skinless faces. Their arms are long needles. Their mouths split into petals lined with human teeth.
TASK:
Remove a live, twitching fetus from the slab and use it to unlock the next area. [a card that gains control]
Don’t let the Mothers inject you — or your body will start growing locks inside your flesh. [a Mother card]
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/fluidic-thoughts
THE LATTICE 🧠PHASE 3: Neurocrucifix
OBJECTIVES:
Find the Bridge.
Avoid eye contact with any reflective surface.
Do NOT sleep.
You enter a cathedral-like space, lit only by pulsating brain matter embedded in the ceiling.
The walls whisper in languages you almost understand.
Hanging from the Neurocrucifix are dozens of people — or what’s left of them. Their brains are exposed, plugged into bio-organic interfaces.
You meet a survivor named Renn, who’s blind and speaks in riddles. He tells you:
To proceed, you must link your own mind to the crucifix — but doing so means reliving the deaths of every person who died here…
...from their point of view.
Every scream becomes a memory. Every cut, a map.
TASK:
Interface with the crucifix, unlock the spatial map embedded in the shared trauma.
Choose to cut out your own eyes to see the real path forward (literal or symbolic?).
>>> INPUT RECEIVED: [A] - Inspect the control panel and attempt manual override
>>> PROGRESSING TO PHASE TWO…
JURASSIC ⚙️ PHASE TWO: "THE BREATHING DOOR"
You plug in.
The screen buzzes alive with a single blinking cursor:
You brush away grime and vines. Faint text is etched:
Hart suddenly yells in the background: "MIREYA'S GONE. SOMETHING PULLED HER INTO THE TREES."
A bone-sharp screech splits the sky. Something huge crashes just beyond the fence line.
TASK TO CONTINUE:
☑️ Crack the access code.
Using the clue:
Determine the 4-digit access code.
(You may respond with your answer. If you’re stuck, you can ask for a hint, but every delay counts…)
ENTER ACCESS CODE: _ _ _ _
Awaiting input... █
ALIENVERSE PHASE 02
>>--[ DECRYPTION ACCEPTED ]--<<
>>--[ CODE VALIDATED // ACCESS GRANTED ]--<<
>>--[ SIGNAL THREADING . . . LINK ESTABLISHED ]--<<
[ PHASE 02 :: SURFACE CONTACT // ENTRY NODE EPSILON ]
(Respond to proceed to Phase 03.)
FEAAAATTTUURRRED MYSTERY BOXER
Welcome to the Maze
the saga survivals are still ongoingIn the maze, you will make decisions on which way to go to get out. Around every corner could be a big problem. To participate in the Maze, just say so.
i don't know where to start so i added everything to the vault
>>> INPUT RECEIVED: REQUEST FOR CLUE
>>> OVERRIDING TIME DELAY… BUT SOMETHING IS MOVING OUT THERE.
🔍 CLUE ONE: "EDN-23B :: FNV 5–1–9"
The phrase “If creation be our sin, let Eden burn for our sake.” suggests that “Eden” (EDN) is the key.
EDN-23B likely means E=5, D=4, N=14 (alphabetic positions).
“23B” might translate as 2 + 3 + B = 2 + 3 + 2 (B = 2) = 7, or represent positions in the alphabet (W = 23).
FNV 5–1–9 might hint at a sequence of letters-to-numbers or offsets.
Think: “EDEN” converted into numbers might give something like 5-4-5-14. But a 4-digit code may require compressing or summing these numbers.
HINT:
The first two digits of the code are tied directly to EDN (the letters’ numeric values).
The last two digits come from the 5–1–9 clue.
Would you like me to narrow this down further and give you the first two digits of the code?
>>> INPUT RECEIVED: 2314
>>> PROCESSING ACCESS CODE…
█ ACCESS CODE VERIFIED
█ GENESIS GATE OVERRIDE ACCEPTED
█ WARNING: INNER SYSTEMS DESTABILIZED
█ OPENING DOOR…
🔓 PHASE THREE: “THE COLD FENCE AND THE WARM TEETH”
Corporal Hart grabs your shoulder. He’s breathing hard, bleeding from his side.
Your HUD flickers as you step inside the perimeter.
A system map loads on your tablet:
Suddenly, a scream blares from your comm—Valez is still alive. The signal's pinging from Lab 4, but the sound of claws on metal says you're not alone.
TASK TO CONTINUE:
☑️ Choose ONE location to head next:
Genetics Lab 4 – to attempt a rescue
A) Server Nexus – to extract/wipe data
C) Power Core – to attempt full facility shutdown
Type your choice (A / B / C) to proceed to PHASE FOUR.
Use caution. You're being watched. █