Story of Thru the Lens


The story is as follows:

You (the player) receives a package from your deceased grandfather. The package contains A letter and a camera. The letter reads "Look thru the lens to unmask the truth of this world. Come to my mansion to help prevent the blindness that plagues this society". You get to your grandfathers mansion, the front gate is locked with a padlock. You decide to pull out your camera and look at the estate. You notice a friendly looking dog, so you decide to take a picture, but what you see is a rotting pile of gruesome mush with something shimmering in the pile. It is a key. You pick up the key hesitantly. You also notice the mailbox, it is old and decrepit. There seems to be a jewel inside. I'll take this for now, must have been my grandfathers.

You unlock the gate and head inside. The front entrance is 2 sets of grand stairs. Everything looks so beautiful, with a chandelier hanging from the center of the room. You remember the dog visual from earlier, maybe I should look thru my camera again. You notice the chandelier is really a man hanging, with a key dangling from his side. "can't reach it". There is a desk to the right, maybe I can use this. Weird, it is heavy, let me look at it with the camera..."It's a dead man slouched over... There is a jewel shoved into his chest cavity...This is horrible but I'll take it for now.

You enter the main hall, There is a door to your left, locked and no signs of being able to enter, a door in front of me, has a key pad, and a door to the right, looks like I can make it in, but as I go to reach for the door, you see something shuffle towards you, it looks human. You decide to look thru your camera, oh god, it's hideous and coming towards me! You panic and take a picture, which thankfully hurts the monster and makes it disappear, almost like an exorcism. It drops a note before vanishing. The note reads " Dr. Fredricks, I can't believe we have been living a life like this, forced to make everyone follow suit like a rat in a cage, only seeing what we want them too. I know the condition our world is in... it's just.. I'm sorry..." You go in to the room on the right.

You enter and notice it looks like a quaint little study, there is a laptop, it's on so you decide to look at it. You notice a not so settle document that you open, which contains a 3 digit passcode, must be to the main door in the hallway. You decide to keep searching the room, there is another note on the table. it reads "Dr. Lumberg, the tests with the virtue stone have proven successful, It puts everyone into a euphory state. They have no idea what their surroundings are like, now we just need to be able to spread this to everyone in the world. I just know we won't last long with out this...."

You noticed the book case on the far wall. it looks like it has been moved a lot. I'll move it. And there is a door back hear, but it is locked. This looks like a very unique key though. I guess i'll go back to the hall door and enter the keycode.

The keycode is accepted and I am now in what looks like a testing facility or lab. There is weird tubes with gross stuff floating around inside, with wires probed into it. A stretcher on the left, nothing is in it, oh god, the camera, I see a poor human strapped and looked to be tortured and gutted with a sharp object sticking out of the person's body. I did need a sharp object to cut down that hanging man, but this feels wrong on so many levels. I yank the knife out, guess this will do. I look around the room and notice a strange cardboard box, i'll open it. "SH*T", it is a head with a jewel shoved into the eye socket.,WTH. These must be important, if someone want to the trouble of hiding these things around.

Time to go back to the stairs and cut down that person. And get those keys. You go up the stairs, cut the rope and hear a loud THUD. Well that did it. You go back down and grab the key. This must be to that secret room, it is very unique looking. You make your way back to the bookcase door, unlock it, and enter... [8:34 PM]You enter into a secret lab, there are wires everywhere, one of those gross tubes with something floating in it and a large computer all hooked up to this weird stone in the middle of the room. It has three sockets, that looks like a perfect fit for the jewels you collected. Hmm, maybe I should look around first. You try the door again, well crap, it is locked, I am stuck in here now. You see a note in the back corner of the room, it reads "The misdeeds of us all, what have we done? This stone, it only caused a blindness to what is really going on. We ignored our problems instead of fixing them... I just wish I had a little more time, maybe, just maybe..."

This note looks like your grandfathers writing

You decide the only thing left for you to do is put in the stones you have...


****Spoilers*****

Ending 1: This is 0 stones, Interact with the stone in the room, you realize you can't do anything, you are stuck in the room, the screen goes dark as you utter "I'm sorry, I could have done something"(edited)

Ending 2: This is 1 stone. You plug the stone into a socket. You hear the door click and unlock. You start to walk to the door, but the screen goes black, you utter "What is this feeling, what am I turning into..?

Ending 3: 2 stones. As you plug them in, the door unlocks and the stone starts to let out a ringing noise. You let out a scream, as you Can't stop the ringing in your head, The screen goes black, an explosion goes 

Final Ending 4: all 3 stones. You plug in all stones, the stone crumbles in front of you, and the door unlocks. But you realize something, the world around, it looks like what you saw in your camera. You don't know what to do, so you just walk home, or at least what you though home was... (need a scene of a shadowy figure walking among a hellish landscape)

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Oct 31, 2020

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