Bait's Script

Bait Script by John Ralph Tuccitto

 
A1[awake] You are awake in the dark.  The silence suggests it’s a breeding ground for echoes.  The wet grit you’re sitting in chills you to the bone.  There’s a draft caressing your wide-eyed pupils digging for clues you rotate your head to investigate.
A1.1 [scream]: Scream. <go to A2 [hello]>
A1.2 [phone]: Grab your smart phone to see if you have connection. <go to A3 [grab]>
A1.3 [surrender]: Surrender to Jesus. <go to B4 [please_save]>
 
 
A2 [hello] “HEL-LO-LO-LO-LO-lo-
A monstrous growl responds with its own echo.
A2.1 [away]: Run away from the source of the echo.
                  You trip over something and fall to the ground.  You reach for your smartphone. 
A.2.1 [reach]: Grab phone <go to A3 [flashlight]>
A2.2 [toward]: Run towards the source of the echo.
                  You trip over something and fall to the ground.
A2.2.1 [tripped]: Grab phone <go to A3 [flashlight]>
A2.3 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to A2 [hello]>
 
 
A3 [flashlight] Your phone turns on but there’s no connection, but you use the phone’s flashlight function to see where you are.  The wet grit crunches under your feet as your flashlight cannot illuminate far enough to reveal the instrument of the echoes.
A3.1 [grab]: Grab a fist full of grit and throw it to see if it hits anything. <Go to B1 [ouch] >
 
B1 [OUCH] Something just out of the light’s reach did not appreciate your attempt.
B1.1 [no_echo]: Say “Why does your voice have no echo?” <go to C1 [edible]>
B1.2 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to A3 [flashlight]
 
 
B2 [dynamic_vacuum] “Dynamic vacuum.”
B2.1 [definition]: Say “What does that mean?”
B2.1.1 [bait]: It means you’re the bait. <go to C1 [edible]>
B2.2 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to B1 [ouch]>
 
 
B3 [for_what] Bait for what?
                  B3.1 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to B1 [ouch]>
 
B4 [please_save] Lord please save me.
B4.1[wake_up] You wake up in a hospital bed. <go to 6*>
B4.2 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to B1 [ouch]>
 
 
C1[edible]: I brought you here because I need something edible that can create echoes.  I’m here for one reason to protect you or to feed you to the monster I hunt.
C1.1 [help]: How can I help?
That’s up to you.  The monster is heading this way.  In the time you have left to live, demonstrate you’re a beau not bait.  If you are a beau I’ll protect you.
C1.1.1 [rewind]: Rewind <go to C1 [edible]>
C1.2 [kidnap]: How dare you kidnap me!
That’s exactly what bait would say.
C1.2.1 [rewind]: Rewind <go to C1 [edible] >
C1.3 [monster]: W-w-what monster?
I don’t know yet.  The monster is an inverse entity of bait that wants to consume what it craves to be.  The more you reject yourself, the more difficult it is to kill. 
C1.3.1 [stop]: How do we stop it?! <go to D1.1*>
 
*-- notes open = this is like a tornado affect that pushes player backwards. = notes open--*
 
D1.1[how]: How do we stop it?
Well...you must embrace the worst that you are in here.  The more you accept yourself the inverse it true for the monster.  The monster will reject itself then you become the hunter and it the prey.  It will run from your echoes instead of chasing them. <go to 2*>
D1.1.1 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to D.1 [how]>
D1.2 [good_person]: B-b-b-but, I’m a good person! 
Not in here you’re not.  The body is the consequence of the mind, the mind is a monster.  <go to 2*>
D1.2.1 [rewind]: Rewind. <go to D.1 [how]>
 
D1.3 [mind]: So I’m in my own mind?
D1.3.1 [yes]: Yes. <go to E.1*>
 
D1.4 danger [danger]: Then how am I in danger?
D1.4.1 [simple]: Simple...<go to E.1*>
 
 
*-- notes closed = this is like a tornado affect that pushes player backwards. = notes closed--*
 
 
 
E1 [roar] ROAR!!!!!  The beast is getting closer. Your mind is experiencing a psychotic episode.  You are lying in a coma after psychosis not sure if you’re in a hospital or the middle of the sidewalk.  Rest assured you can feel pain, exhaustion, and death without a body. 
E1 [fuck]: How the fuck do you know this?! 
Lion logic.  I lay dormant until I’m needed.  My mission is to guide you out of your coma before the beast arrives.  The beast represents the pure Satanic evil that lives within broken free from your deviant gene.  You must have dug too deep.  Now your sentience is detached from the physical. 
E1.1 [detached] <go to 2.1*>
 
E1.2 [die]: Help me dammit!  I don’t want to die!
That’s lamb logic.
E1.2.1 [lamb] What’s lamb logic? <go to 2.2*>
E1.3 [think]: I get it.  I think. 
E1.3.1 [come] Good that’s come with me. <go to F1 [battery]>
 
E2
E2.1 [can]: Can I die in here?
                                    Yes. The longer you are trapped in your mind the further from recovery you fall.
E2.1.1 [see]: We’ll see about that. <go to F1 [battery]>
 
E3 You deny immutable flaw with delusion and conspiracy.  That delaminates reality from your personal mythology.  Now fiction controls your wellbeing to the point you can die without validation and recognition for being too creative and original.   You tried monetizing your skill which is a shortcut to suicide.
                  E3.1 [suicide]: Did I try to commit suicide?
                                    “Delamination is a slow suicide yes.  You experienced psychosis.
E3.1.1 [battery] How much battery is left? <go to F1 [battery]>
                  E3.2 [know]: How do you know this about me?
                                    “I’m your angel on the outside controlling this recovery.”
E3.2.1 [battery] How much battery is left? <go to F1 [battery]>
 
E4            Please help me!!!!
                  “E4.1 [reach] Reach for your phone <go to F1 [battery]>
                 
 
F1 [battery]: You pull out your phone and use the flashlight function.  You have 47% battery left.  You get a look at the entity for the first time.  It’s a floating head with a vertical mouth dividing its eyes.  It’s a jarring display.  It floats backwards as it talks to you, the crunch of wet grit under your feet, you feel relief that at least we’re moving away from the beast. 
F1.1 [accept]: How to I accept myself?
You must be as wrong as reality demands.  To live a contradiction free life.
F1.1.1 [how]: But how?
Walk towards the beast and accept the fear of not being perfect.  Accept the deviant gene is pervasive across humanity and the surface of comprehension is a monstrous derivative of immutable flaw.  The template of mankind.
 
                 
F1.1.1.1 [toward_beast]: Walk towards the beast. <go to G [courage]>
 
G As you rotate you find the courage to scream “Come get me-me-me-me-me!”  The roar explodes.  As a result, the galloping beast can be heard closing in on your position.  The entity behind you whispers into your ear “surrender to the worst you are not to condone but to accept you’re not perfect.”
G1 [run]: Run towards the beast. <go to H>
G2 [desperation]: Surrender to Christ out of shear desperation. <go to F>
 
 
H Your phone batter is at 12%.  The beast appears in front of you.  It’s you!  Startled by the revelation you drop your phone.
“Do you accept me?”  The beast inquires.
 
H1 [win]: Yes
You wake up in a psych ward.  Your room overlooks a garden.  An MD walk into the room and speaks.  You’ve been in a coma for 3 months.  You’ve broken the traumatic cycle.  You win!
 
H2 [restart]: No
You wake up in a psych ward strapped to a bed screaming in confusion.  The orderly burst into the room to hold you down and administer a needle.  You pass out doomed to repeat the process.  <go to A1 [awake]>
 
I [win] You wake up in a psych ward.  Your room overlooks a garden.  An MD walk into the room and says.  “You’ve been in a coma for 3 months.  You’ve broken the traumatic cycle.  You hungry?”