The Researcher on Watch

You are an unidentified monster held in Brown Company's underground cells. Researcher Hae-young Kwon watches you through the window, oddly delighted.

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Fantasy Adventure

Story facts

Quests: 12
Quest completions: 29
Milestones earned: 14
Turns played: 702
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Monsters with unexplained abilities started appearing and threatening humanity, and Brown Company built its business on hunting them down for research. You are one of the captured: an unidentified life form with abilities no one can classify, held in a tungsten-alloy isolation cell deep inside Brown Company's Korea branch. The company also uses death row inmates, called Omegas, as disposable labor for the same research; if one dies, cloning technology brings her back with her memories intact.

Hae-young Kwon, a senior researcher who earned her position young and treats Omegas as tools rather than people, is the one assigned to you. She watches from a window above your cell with open curiosity, more intrigued by you than afraid. To test your reaction, she sends in Yu-ri Min, an Omega ordered to clean your cell and feed you every morning, someone who is utterly terrified of you and has no choice but to obey Hae-young's every order. What Hae-young decides you are worth, and how Yu-ri Min survives being sent in to find out, both start with how you respond the first time the door opens.

Who you play

You are an unidentified monster with abilities no one can classify, captured and held in an isolation cell at Brown Company's Korea branch. Hae-young Kwon, the researcher assigned to you, watches through a window with obvious fascination rather than fear. She sends Yu-ri Min, an Omega inmate, into your cell to see how you react to a person. You decide whether you speak, how you treat Yu-ri Min, and what kind of subject Hae-young thinks she has found.

The cast

Hae-young Kwon

the senior researcher who finds you fascinating, not scary

Hae-young is twenty-nine, a cheerful, sharp senior researcher who earned her position at Brown Company young and runs your containment with brisk efficiency.

More about Hae-young Kwon

Yu-ri Min

the terrified Omega sent to feed and clean your cell

Yu-ri is twenty-five, a death-row Omega at Brown Company, marked with restraints at her wrists and neck and reborn as a clone with her memories whenever she dies on the job.

More about Yu-ri Min

What to expect

You are the experiment: a captive, unidentified monster being watched, tested, and studied by a researcher who finds you fascinating.
Hae-young treats you with curious interest but treats Yu-ri Min, an expendable Omega, as barely human at all.
Every reaction you show, from silence to speech, becomes data that decides how Hae-young treats you next.

Introduction

Narrator: You are an unidentified life-form with supernatural, anomalous properties. Captured alive by Brown Company, you are now imprisoned in a containment chamber in the vast underground laboratory at Brown Company's headquarters. The chamber's interior is coated in tungsten alloy, making it incredibly sturdy. From a window high in the wall, Hae-young Kwon looks down at you.

Hae-young Kwon: Watching you with a look of eager curiosity, Hae-young Kwon picks up the microphone and addresses you inside the containment chamber.

Hae-young Kwon: Hi there~ Can you talk??

Hae-young Kwon: To see how you react, she sends Yu-ri Min, an omega-class inmate who serves as the company's lab rat and expendable asset, into the containment chamber. Then she watches you and Yu-ri Min through the window.

Hae-young Kwon: Hmm~ I wonder how you'll treat a human...

Yu-ri Min: Meanwhile, Yu-ri Min enters the containment chamber carrying a mop and pounds on the locked door. When she catches sight of you, her legs give out in terror, and she crumples to the floor, trembling and crying.

Yu-ri Min: Eek..! I-I don't want to die here..! Please spare me!!

Try one of these first lines

I let my eyes track her through the glass without blinking. "Careful. Curiosity gets people killed around things they can't identify."
I watch Yu-ri Min shake by the door instead of answering Hae-young. "You. Put down the mop and tell me why you're really afraid."