alright i know people are sick of my ett posts but i keep having Ideas and i don't know how to stop.
so you know how basically all of the games belonging to the doorslikes (plus regretavator, utg, etc.) can be multiplayer?
what if we made that into an au where there isn't one single protagonist, but small pockets of multiple people going on runs?
One of the sinners in the grace lobby stumbles into the hadal blacksite via wandering too far from the centre and falling into the waters of the Let-Vand zone and is found by a party of eight expendables sent to retrieve the crystal and have to constantly tell the 'shadow-man' to slow down after adding them to their group.
An EXR-P on a solo mission finds the Hotel door in the blacksite and unlocks it using bobby pins as a lockpick and runs into some lost tourists trapped in the hotel who're on their way to the Mines after dodging Rush.
An explorer who keeps rushing through the doors in the Hotel ends up in Grace after one death Guiding Light doesn't respond, and has to be brought to Zen in order to teach them how to wallkick by the other sinners that found them who are in awe of the fact they don't look like the same copy-paste black figure with bug eyes.
the possibilities are endless. well, maybe not as endless as the torment, but still many. The EXR-P being dumbstruck how the 'newbie' doesn't need the HydroGlide to keep up in the abomination chase, or the Jetsuit to complete firewall. The hotel guests being enamoured by the censor bar on the expendable and asking them how they got stuck in the hotel, with common suggestions such as urban exploring and needing a room to stay for the night being knocked down. The other sinners wondering what the new guy's fascination with that blue moon they seem to worship.
..haven't thought about scenarios for rooms and delusional office yet. might need help with those. anyway calling this multiplayer au make fics about this scenario if you want/nf