Chapter 144
Chapter 144
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: NoNamed
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I didn't read the latest posts first.
To figure out what had happened in chronological order, I scrolled the board all the way back to early January 2024, when I had quit the game and stopped visiting the community altogether.
[Developer, please add the entity I made to the game!][0]
[What do you think of this? It's an entity I spent a week thinking up!][0]
[Whoa, this is awesome. Really well-made entity. I even drew pictures for it lol][3]
Back in the days when posts begging to add user-created entities flooded the board.
That's when I gradually lost interest and quit the game.
"No further back I can go."
To be precise, I could go further.
[Does anyone clear this thing?][23]
[Ugh, barely past 100th car and got screwed over and died][3]
[Woo! Survived to 300th car already! Gonna set a new record!][67]
But the further back I went, the more the text glitched out and became unreadable.
'Let's start from the moment I quit.'
The post from the exact moment I quit wasn't anything special.
[Check out the entity I made!][38]
[Beginner's Guide Part 7: Farming Safe Entities][80]
[Why haven't you added the Hypno Uncle entity, damn it? I keep requesting it! Please add it!][75]
The usual: user-created entity boasts.
Game guides.
Nonsensical rants.
'This one?'
Among them, the ID 「NoNamed」 caught my eye.
[Title: Holy shit, finally logging in after forever and what the hell is this?]
[Writer: NoNamed]
The game's totally fucked, fuck
Full of kids, it's like it straight-up tripped into Skibidi Toilet, SCP, Backrooms, Lobotomy Railroad territory.
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Just one of the complaints that naturally surged as extinction-level entities multiplied.
But it was a bit different from the others.
[Comments]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: Long time no see?]
The community admin—and developer of "Survive Against the Entities"—had replied personally.
Why would the developer, who never left personal comments, reply only to this person?
I quickly tried clicking both IDs to check their post histories, but the feature wasn't available.
[Writer: Dude, what is this? Every other thing is city extinction, country extinction, humanity extinction, world extinction, Earth extinction. Hell, even universe extinction? Half the endings are extinctions now.]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: People keep making overpowered entities, what can I do?]
[Writer: Sigh, tone it down a bit. With all these powerhouses popping up, the game's too hard.]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: Sorry sorry, but we got some funding from Kickstarter this time, so we've got more hands on deck. Got some budget leeway too. Planning a big event to add lots of good entities, so don't worry.]
The one cardinal sin on a community board was cliquey chit-chat.
Especially from admins or sub-admins—it was a surefire way to ruin the board—but the admin didn't care.
[LovePeaceBreadHateWar: What the hell? Developer cliquing?]
└[LoveBreadHatePeaceGetLost: You don't know him? He's a big name. Back when Entity Survival was tanking, he advised the dev to make a gallery and add multiple endings. Helped out with tons of other stuff too.]
└[LovePeaceBreadHateWar: Still cliquey as fuck though fuck.]
He had the shield of being a longtime user who'd helped develop the game from the early days.
Plus, since he'd just returned after a long absence, it didn't spark much backlash from other users.
[[Orange Tag]Admin: Oh yeah, made all those entities you requested. Adding them to the game tomorrow lol]
[Writer: For real? You made those? Must've been tough.]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: It was a pain. That's why it took so long. You asked an indie dev for some seriously advanced tech.]
[Writer: When's the update?]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: Sending you the test version. Wanna try it?]
[Writer: Sure, you know my email, right? Send it there.]
No more comments after that.
I scrolled to the next posts. Even after a while, no more from NoNamed.
[Title: Survive Against the Entities Upgrade Event!]
[Writer: [Orange Tag]Admin]
Hello? Admin here.
Thank you so much for always enjoying Survive Against the Entities.
Thanks to you all, Entity Survival hit 1 million Steam sales.
To celebrate, we'll be adding new entities.
Overseas users are joining this time, so expect even more additions.
If your original creation gets added to the game, we'll gift you an in-game achievement badge—so please participate!
Submissions via email; details on the Steam page!
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[Comments]
[BurgerQueenIsTruth: No badge, gimme a Hamburglar!]
[MagDonaldoSenseiShrimpChamp: Finally time for my ninja to get added!]
[CyberTurtleNeck: Steam page says 200 new entities? Holy shit, it's already a mess—aren't you adding way too many without countermeasures?]
└[NoLottieShrimpBurgerWhatElse: Saw it too, but this time it's focusing on lore expansion and transcendent entities over extinction-grade ones?]
So they did hold an event.
I scrolled further ahead.
There was an announcement that the event had ended, but it said to check the game or wiki for additions, so I couldn't see.
'They held these events pretty often.'
Once more a month later.
Then again the next month.
'Three times total.'
Each time adding 200 entities.
'No wonder there were so many entities I didn't know.'
Normally, users hated frequent events like this, but since they weren't just adding extinction-grade ones, the complaints were minimal.
[[Notice] Entity info posts: please use the new Entity Board.][37]
[Survive Against the Entities New Guide: Befriending Transcendent-Grade Entities][225]
[Transcendent-grade entities make it a bit easier.][35]
[Not many extinction-grade additions, but tons of entities stronger than extinction-grade lol][37]
[Transcendent-grades are comfy, but feels like a dating sim. Screw up relations and instant game over lmao. Yanderes?][112]
[The pinnacle of containment fiction is power creep, as I always said?][30]
Scrolling further, I finally found another NoNamed post.
'March 11th.'
Three months before I came to this world.
[Title: Took forever to recover my ID and password after so long.]
[Writer: NoNamed]
Phone auth doesn't work when the world's different.
Learned something new.
I've spent decades here, but only a few months have passed there.
Wild.
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[Comments]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: Long time no see?]
[Writer: Long time. Wanna catch up proper, but first try so not perfect yet—can't talk much]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: ?]
NoNamed never replied again.
'Next one's April 11th.'
A month later, NoNamed posted again.
[Title: I thought it was all a regression.]
[Writer: NoNamed]
But it wasn't.
If it was regression, those horrors wouldn't exist, right?
This was possession.
I always got mad in novels when protagonists didn't notice possession.
What, are they idiots? Wouldn't they remember key scenes or words from a novel they enjoyed?
But nope.
Then again, anyone seriously thinking they've possessed into a game or novel is the idiot.
Usually, you brush it off as a mistake or forget.
I did too.
And I lost everything.
A game is most fun when it's just a game.
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[Comments]
[OvertimeToday: What the fuck is this retard?]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: You okay? Why's KakaoTalk not working?] [OtakuSensation: Diary shit goes in a diary, not here fuck. Stop bragging about cliques with admin.]
I scrolled on.
'This time May 11th.'
Another month later, NoNamed posted.
[Title: Sometimes I think]
[Writer: NoNamed]
That living here is meaningless.
Death doesn't scare me anymore. But being tormented by those things even after death? No thanks.
I want to go back to my original world.
My last shred of conscience won't let me.
Funny, after all the people who've died because of me.
Contradictory, huh?
Weird, right?
Everyone here is from the original world too.
I've treated them as real people.
But lately, I've been thinking.
Not that this world is like the game.
That I've entered the game.
That they're not living people—just data.
That's why I'm numb to their deaths.
Maybe that's why dragging in original world people pricks my conscience.
Maybe my instincts distinguish real from fake.
57 minutes.
See you next time.
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[Comments]
[SickGoldfishHermit: Even off-topic bullshit is long-winded.]
[[Orange Tag]Admin: Hacked?]
[ArmyStewLunchMeat: Is this guy an entity?]
I scrolled to the end.
Clicked NoNamed's final—and latest—post.
[Title: What if the entities were real?]
[Writer: NoNamed]
55 minutes.
What if safe entities really existed and let you live a special life?
What if dangerous ones existed and you became a creepypasta protagonist?
What if extinction ones existed and you got that thrill of not knowing when you'd die?
56 minutes.
How would you feel?
Fun?
Special, like a novel protagonist armed with meta-knowledge?
Or die pathetically like a cocky extra in a horror flick?
57 minutes.
Sorry, using this space to apologize to you all.
Truth is, I don't know how it'll turn out.
If the worlds merge, or one destroys the other, or both warp weirdly.
58 minutes.
Or maybe only parts change.
Some from our world cross over here.
Or some from here go to ours.
59 minutes.
Hell, even if I can go back.
You don't know till you try, right?
[Comments]
[None]
I'd read everything.
Right on cue, the time limit hit and the community disconnected.
[You have gotten too close to the parallel world.]
[To prevent collision, you may reconnect after sufficient time has passed.]
[Reconnection possible in: 9,999 years, 17 hours, 53 minutes, 37 seconds.]
I'd bookmarked it ahead, so I requested reconnection, but it was impossible in my lifetime.
'NoNamed reconnected repeatedly. Must've contacted the original world's community differently than me.'
I opened the window and lit a cigarette.
'Doesn't matter how, he slashed the reconnection wait to almost nothing. Couldn't eliminate it entirely, so he posted monthly.'
I hadn't gone looking, but now I knew why I'd come to this world.
"If something comes, something goes."
If I came here, maybe someone went back to the original world.
Maybe NoNamed.
"Would he really go back?"
Or is he still here?
"If he's still here..."
Far off, I spotted a Foundation vehicle.
I stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray and shut down the computer.
"He's probably still searching for a way right now."