#v. outlast

[foppishmuses]

@hereticalmother

How lost had Dwight managed to get? This trip to Arizona had not gone how it was supposed to. It was supposed to be a cheap, easy vacation he could actually afford to take time off for. Of course, all he had managed to do was get himself lost in the Painted Desert. He’d long run out of water, and he was starting to get seriously sunburned. Now that night was falling, that wasn’t a problem anymore, but it was starting to get cold. And Dwight didn’t know what came out in the desert at night. He had been promised the trip to the next town would be quick and easy. He didn’t know how he had managed to fuck it up so badly.

To his great relief, Dwight could make out a collection of buildings in the pink-orange light of the setting sun. Sighing with relief, Dwight made his way closer to civilization.

[serendipitydetective]

@hereticalmother

Dirk knew, somehow, that he was needed in the Painted Desert, but he wasn’t exactly dressed for the occasion. He’d foolishly kept his normal attire of skinny trousers, a shirt and tie, and a bright green jacket. By the time his rented Jeep brought him to any kind of civilization, he’d shed the jacket and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, but he was still way overheated. His hair was messy with sweat and he felt entirely unsuited for anyone to see him.

At least he’d brought a lot of water. He’d been responsible enough to do that, having seen a lot of cartoons set in the desert as a child. He wished he’d thought to bring food too. His stomach was growling and he was wondering if he’d have to try to figure out how to grill cactus for dinner. As he pulled up to the buildings he’d seen in the distance, he grabbed another full water bottle from the pack he’d brought. He kept it with him as he got out of the Jeep.

The place stank of fire and death. Dirk didn’t want to get out of the safety of his vehicle and hesitated before going into the village, hovering near the door before he managed to gather up the courage. He knew he needed to. He didn’t know why he needed to, but then, he rarely did. He pushed himself to go into the burned village.

It wasn’t long before he ran across the first body. Then another, then another. It was filled with dead people everywhere. What the hell had happened here? Dirk veered in a random direction to throw up all the water he had drank. A body lay in the shade near him, turned away from him.

[businessbender]

@hereticalmother

Okay, so, this was a small snag in Varrick’s plan. He hadn’t expected the Murkoff Corporation to get so bold with its rivals--mostly because he hadn’t known they’d been up to such insanely shady business to begin with. Varrick was annoyed that it took this much for him to find out about it. He felt like he’d been caught with his pants down, and he hated that. He was never outplanned, but this time he had been, mostly by brute force, which really irritated him in particular. Varrick had a certain finesse to the way he went about his business. He didn’t expect other people to be on his level, but really, kidnapping the rival CEO and shoving him in some shithole insane asylum that broke every law on the books? Classless. A good plan, admittedly, and one that had worked, but there was no class to it. Varrick couldn’t wait to get out and leak it to the press. It would destroy Murkoff. Varrick Industries could easily take control of the market when it got out that Murkoff were actual, real life supervillains.

Of course, he had to figure out a way to get out. Varrick didn’t doubt that he would. He was a genius of a caliber rarely seen. He just had to avoid all the shady customers who already had their minds warped by Murkoff. Harder than it sounded--that was pretty much every other “patient” trapped here. They were as dangerous as the doctors. The way some of these guys had been eyeing him did not give Varrick a good feeling. First things first: find some allies. It couldn’t be that hard to turn the feeble-minded to his side. Anything had to seem better than Murkoff if you’d been trapped in this hellhole for long enough.

It was supposed to be lunch. Varrick didn’t have time for food. The shit they served here wasn’t good enough for him anyway. He clicked his knife on his cup for attention and found they were both plastic and made a disappointingly tiny noise. No one was paying attention to him. He could fix that, but maybe it was a blessing in disguise that the only way to get everyone in the room looking at him was to stand on the table and orate. He didn’t want the guards noticing any funny business. Instead, it would be better to start one at a time. He scanned the room for anyone who looked like they would be open to conversation.

[ectobiologlitch]

outlast verse is essentially sburb newgame+ where the walrider is exta dlc

[ectobiologlitch]

💋

John darts leans up on his tiptoes and gives her a kiss on the cheek. He pulls away quickly, blushing red, like he's done something scandalous. "If you beat the boss in the game I'm showing you, maybe, um... I could reward you with a kiss? Like some kind of King Arthur thing. Haha. Just a thought."

[businessbender]

Yank

The sudden removal of his tie is fast and violent enough to make Varrick choke. "Woah, take it easy, tiger," he blurted out, but he managed to keep his confident smile. "We can do this, sure, but we need a little art to it. I'm not just a brilliant business and inventor. I'm an artist too, you know. A film-maker. You ever heard of the greatest action hero in film, Nuktuk? That was me."

He keeps talking through the open door as he deserts the poor, destitute woman to grab a video camera. Murkoff had made her radioactive or something. Sad, but a perfect insider tip to help Varrick's bottom line. He could destroy Murkoff if this got out, so he figured it in his best interests to give her everything she wanted. He was hoping to avoid having her actually touch him as much as possible, though. She'd spent a lot of time in the desert with no indoor plumbing. She was quite pretty, to be fair, but Varrick rarely had sex to have fun.

"Let me make you a movie star, babe," he said, holding up the video camera and gently pushing her into the mahogany desk. "Put on a show for me."

[ectobiologlitch]

outlast au

as a 13-year-old in 2009, john believes he played a video game with his three best friends. in actuality, it was a virtual reality game created by murkoff to test on their developing brains. john and his friends (including another group of children mutated into strange creatures they call “trolls”) gained strange, otherworldy abilties as a result of this experimentation. john himself has the ability to “rewrite” the fabric of the universe, a power that he used to help his friends escape and regroup in texas, where they grew into adults while hiding from murkoff’s watchful eye.

[serendipitydetective]

Outlast AU

In the early 1990s, a young British child named Svlad Cjelli shown to have anomalous powers was taken in by Blackwing, the CIA division tasked with searching for, studying and controlling anomalous entities. In 2000, Project Blackwing lost funding and was dissolved. Its assets were bought off and collected by the Murkoff Corporation and Svlad was taken into their clandestine testing operations. He saw horrible things while he was there, but the universe conspired to help him escape before he could be too physically harmed ore mutated. Now on the run and going by the name “Dirk Gently,” Dirk drifts from “case” to “case” all while unknowingly helping the universe set up for the rise of the Walrider.