(A loose sequel to my previous spambird game featuring a bird-shaped fleshhorror on a spaceship.)
You were hatched from an egg, under a bright light, and spent your first two weeks getting fed tasty stuff. You don't know what it was, but it was tasty!
Eventually you started fluttering around, singing, and turned orange. And just when you started figuring out how to fly, someone grabbed you, knocked you out, and you woke up in a cage.
The cage sucked. The room was nice, all shiny and full of decorations. And humans, squids, smelly animals, giant slugs.. all kinds of things walked past. But there were only a few sticks in there and nothing understood your chirps.
But one day.. a little one comes up to you, and creeps towards your cage. You twitter and chirp. And the door opens! Out you fly, into the room, through a few doors, and into a much bigger space. A nice space.
A space with eight trees and all the sunshine and water you could want! Eight trees. Eight! Sour fruit tree. Small fruit tree. Flower tree. Tall tree. Nut tree. Smooth tree. Sticky tree. And Pointy tree.
They have seeds to eat, nectar to drink, fruit to eat, and there's a fountain of water. And lots of interesting stones and small bushes, some of which have berries and flowers of their own! And above is this clear dome and above that is the sun! Except when there are clouds and rain. There is also the doorway to here, and the city outside, with so many buildings and so much space. But in here is better, as there are eight trees, and nobody stops you when you sing!
Well, things were perfect. Until they weren't. One day, there was fighting. Two people came into your space, and jumped around, flinging fire and lightning at each other. They did flips and fired glowy things at each other. There was much noise and the walls and the trees got hit. There was damage and scorch marks and in the end, the two of them killed each other dead!
You were so scared it took some five minutes before you poked your head out.
While there was a great amount of noise coming from inside, it was quiet in your dome. And there was something lying there on the ground, right in the middle of all this. Something tiny, glowing green and yellow.
You tapped it with your beak.
You're knocked onto your back, wings spread out. Inside your mind are strange visions, of the world, spinning through space, the stars at night, and the galaxy at a whole. You're a tiny orange-and-black bird, and this is too big for you.
Some time later, you awaken, stand up, and fly back to your perch. There's something in your head, but you dismiss it. More worryingly, you are now smart. This is the planet Onyx, and you don't feel perfectly content with your eight-tree universe anymore. Apparently there's a whole planet, with billions of people. A whole galaxy.
And you're hungry again. How long were you out? You find more seeds and fruit and eat your fill, and then sleep on this for tomorrow.
Day 1
You wake up, and the sun has come up again. The place is still mostly a mess, but the two bodies have been removed, along with some of the mess being cleared, but the trees are still damaged. At least the water feature still works.
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Topic: Shadows over Onyx (Read 1210 times)