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  1. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Candid: Expose

    "You probably won't be able to get through, but take a peek at that locked door before checking the security room." "You're gonna take both rooms in the hallway?" "If we take the approach that Zero would have to specially prepare everything for us, then he probably left the unlabelled room...
  2. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Candid (Aoi and Maria)

    Everything about the room is boxy. The dimensions are perfectly cubic, the chair you woke up in was as square as could be, the TV in the corner is an old, old model — a large, dusty CRT — and there are brown cardboard boxes littered about the place. If not for the plush red carpeting covering...
  3. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Box: Unobserved

    It isn’t a conscious decision that drives you to action. There is nothing coherent about your thoughts right now. Everything is clouded over with pain. All you can do is collapse against the box. It shifts backward ever-so-slightly, stubborn, but not unmoving. Weakly, you bring your arms up...
  4. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Box: Dead Cat

    You can’t bear it anymore. You don’t care about the tests, you don’t care about the game, you don’t care about the fact that Zero can apparently cause you major mental distress from a distance. You just want the pain to stop. You fumble with the handle, your fingers shaking from the...
  5. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Box (Junpei and Aoi)

    A splitting headache wakes you. It drives a hiss from between your teeth, makes you screw up your still shut eyelids in pain, pushes you to turn on the seat you’re lying on and wedge your face between the backrest and the cushion. It isn’t so painful that it prevents you from thinking, isn’t yet...
  6. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Designer: Custom

    “So Zero is Brother. This confirms it.” “Documentation on cloning confirms that Zero is a cult leader?” Sigma’s taken over the computer, glaring at the screen that the puzzle revealed. You’re left to lean against the bookcase behind the desk, staring over his broad shoulders. “Brother...
  7. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Designer (Maria and Sigma)

    You should probably be more surprised than you feel right now. “Maria, stop! You can’t!” Honestly, you’re only surprised she found a weapon so easily. “Why should I?! Four more of us have to die anyway, why shouldn’t it be her?!” The context clues are telling you that you sacrificed...
  8. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game

    If this was a video game, the ending you got probably wouldn’t be available until you saw all the others, which is what I should’ve done, but I decided to reward thinking outside the box instead.
  9. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Mortality: Fleeting

    A buzzing at your wrist breaks you from your musing. Five minutes left and no progress to show for it. You growl softly and lean against your console, staring at the tower that Sigma stubbornly refuses to leave. …Hang on a bit. Doesn't that look like… "Hey, Sigma," you call out, getting...
  10. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Mortality (Junpei and Sigma)

    The water is at ankle-height. It’s soaking your socks. At least Zero had the decency to wake you up in a chair so your butt isn’t wet. Sigma’s stoic about the situation, like usual. Junpei— “So it’s dark and wet and we have to walk to find our way out? Why not give us a fedora and set a...
  11. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game

    sorry for the delay, this chapter was longer than usual and the week wasn’t fantastic
  12. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Pawn: Junpei and Phi

    Junpei seems well. That's the only thought going through your mind right now, that Junpei seems well. He's on the camera feed now, in the middle of a featureless white room, looking down at his bracelet with a concerned expression, free of any harm physical or mental that you can see. It's a...
  13. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Literary: Chekhov’s Gun

    “Emergency escape protocol has been activated.” A toneless female voice rings out tinnily from the panel in the coffee table but still echoes in the silence of the room. Carlos lowers his feet to the ground and gives it his full attention, while Maria raises her head from her knees to look at...
  14. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Literary (Carlos and Maria)

    You wake up curled in a plush chair, your face buried in the armrest and a hand buried in the cushions. It's not the least comfortable you've ever been waking up, but your body is certainly complaining about the contortionist position you've taken. Carefully, you stretch your legs off the seat...
  15. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game

    Switching over to posting on Saturdays to match SV for my own convenience. Depending on what Fragment is chosen (read: if the chosen Fragment has been written or not), there will be a post either here or on SV next week, and I’ll alternate sites from there. You might be asking, “how do you...
  16. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Misgiving: Armistice

    You allow yourself a moment to imagine it. The vitriol that would drip from your lips, the shock would appear in Sigma’s eyes, the denial and assurances he would bring to bear. He didn’t mean to make you feel this way, he couldn’t possibly know how uncomfortable he made you, never mind the...
  17. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game

    The answer to this question is a bit of a spoiler, unfortunately. I will give you this, though: the game doesn’t end when Akane dies. Zero, proper mastermind that he is, doesn’t just clear the board because his favorite piece got taken out. He’s a multitasker, thank you very much. Situations...
  18. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game

    Hey all, had a shit week so neither of my weekend postings are ready for readers. They’ll both be ready next week. Over on SV, I answered a question as sort of compensation, so if there’s anything you guys want to know, feel free to ask and I’ll pop in throughout the week to answer. No...
  19. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game
    Threadmarks: Pathogen: Prevention

    You don't give yourself any time to overthink things. "Aoi." Instead, you walk right up to Diana, plant your foot behind her heel, and grab her by the back of her sweater. When you swing yourself backward, she trips and has no way to catch herself, flying backward directly into your...
  20. CypherZero

    Zero Escape: Zero Win Game

    i forgot the thread mark, fixed. let me know if you’d like/prefer to get the fragment and chapter titles in the actual body of the story rather than just the theeadmarks
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