(TNO Creepypasta) Hearts of Iron 4: The Forbidden Mod, achieving Gnosis Creppypasta

First of I would like to say this isn’t a story about a haunted game, at no point will you hear me say this is about a glitchy or satanic mod or about a ghost haunting the steam workshop and you absolutely WON'T hear me say this mod reacted to my words or to my movements.

This is a story about what I assume to be a previously undiscovered mod for the game Hearts of Iron 4 who has since been removed.

I had followed a few hoi4 mods before finding “it”, I had played Red World and I still had memories of Fatherland and EOTW, I played Kaiserreich (Did a Georgia playthrough SR collation and managed to defeat the ottomans with the help of Socialist Persia), even played Red world and the red flood mod, and lastly I had played a game of TNO has Brazil did the radical agrarian reform and managed to make most of the military constitutionalist and got the Socdem candidate by winning all states except Amazonia has him (which went to the populists).

Anyways that’s besides the point. So one day I was browsing the steam workshop I searched by latest but something weird happened, I like many people who have hoi4 prefer to play mods, and, the place, were you can get mods reliably is you guessed it, the steam, workshop so as I was saying, I found a mod or more accuratly I should say a submod called “BTWH REDS! A REVOLUTIONARY TIMELINE TNO plus submod Iberia war content (Re-upload x2)” that was “it” the mod that would change HOI4 forever, if the name wasn’t confusing the thumbnail surely was it seemed to be an avant-garde style portrait of RFK (The hair was in a futurist style unlike the rest of the portrait.) eating a blood-red surrealist sandwich with the hunger that a monkey would have eating a banana, the thumbnail surely didn’t seem related to the mod itself, “BTWH” isn’t that a mod about a US civil war or something? And isn't Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline a old ass alternate history timeline that's still going on AH.com and SV.com? That didn’t seem to have anything to do with TNO much less Iberia and the “Re-upload 2x” I can only assume it was there to represent the fact that the mod had been re-uploaded 2 times… but why?

Sure the thumbnail was weird and looking at the screenshots nothing seemed to be out of place (except the Goth Bukharina) which appeared to dissapear when I blinked, I would presume it was only my imagination although I doubt it considering what happened later, but enough of that derail, maybe it was this a leak of BTWH? Did it have some dark message hidden in it? Or something else?

I considered not downloading the mod, but similarly to a curious cat who searches for a hidden mice to play with I decided to download it.

The download didn’t take that long despite the mod apparently having 3 GB of content which made me wonder if it was a virus or a cryptominer which would actually be a good explaination of why it had been re-uploaded, I searched online, but no mention of the mod seemed to appear only the steam page showed up and of course bootleg steam mirror sites. I started the game and decided to play has Iberia, I mean that was what the mod advertised itself has right?

The game proceeded pretty normally RFK won the elections and Reelection after which Hall won somehow? Maybe I had forgot to turn off the country paths submod for TNO? Anyways enough of a derail, Britain went Socialist, Bormann won the civil war, the fascists “won” the Italian election but didn’t go full fascist, Komi (Socdem) unified, Total American victory in the SAW, Free Indonesia lost and France went Socialist, huh, that normally doesn’t happen.

Meanwhile, I had been playing has Iberia trying to accelerate the civil war when suddenly an interesting (To say the least) super event fired “Superior secedes from the United States” the picture in the super event seemed to be of a weird bootleg tank with a white dove possibly representing the holy spirit, but the music was weird it seemed to be about biblical Babylon and the quote in the event was “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despite the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth (Matthew 6:24).”

Suddenly at the same time the Iberian wars event fired, but something seemed weird the Franco portrait was glitching and then suddenly like Natsuki in DDLC and DDLC Plus, Franco's eyes flew out of the portrait and into the bottom of the screen, at first I thought something was wrong with the game, but then I realized it was probably some weird GUI thing after all TNO had Halloween events.

Then from Franco's eye sockets Blood started to fill the portrait and when it completely filled it the blood disappeared and then the refilling process happened,It was in fact genius maybe even an allegory for Franco's mental state something you would see from Tolstoy or even Venardsky.

The person who made this GUI must if I may add been a master at using Paint.net, Gimp and Photoshop, seriously If they are somehow reading this they should get hired by the main Team or even seek a professional carrer in that aera (Although considering the crunch I would advice starting in a Indie Studio or taking the course in drawing Hentai or Furry art seriously I know this is a bit of a non-sequitur but you can make a decent amount with commisions even if most of the time isn't enough by itself).

I decided to give in to my curiosity and looked at the Superior Leader and then suddenly an audio clip played of an Animal screaming it was only for a few seconds then I looked at the leader, and it said Yeshua Ben Yosef… wait was that Jesus CAPITAL J Jesus, the son of God, Jesus of Nazareth the brother of Jude the one that got crucified unless you follow some weird Gnostic sect (don’t get me started on Valientianists, Euchites, Cainites or Manicheanism if you consider that one Gnostic. No offense to any modern Manicheanists or neo-gnostics since I find the theology and the way they formed pretty interesting even if sources tend to be pretty sparce or biased in some cases).

I recognized the portrait it seemed to be an AI recreation of the “Shroud of Turin” mixed with more modern recreations of Jesus. His focus tree was pretty normal nothing out of the ordinary, his in game ideology was Proto-socialist which apparently was a new ideology or sub-ideology that had been added with the mod. Yeshua’s focus tree was pretty normal most of the focus names where quotes from the Bible some from Gnostic texts and at least one mentioned Mazdak which was pretty weird the icons were paintings and sculptures ranging from those found in roman times to ones from the modern day.

When I went back to check Iberia it had broken down there were the normal factions except there was one that seemed to be a link to some sort of website, but before I could get a good look at it to take a screenshot a news event appeared titled “WHY WON’T YOU DIE”, I was pretty confused “why won’t I die” I dunno why would I, was I meant to? I mean it’s pretty obvious this mod decided to go meta a while ago, so the title wasn’t really shocking. The event seemed to detail how Franco apparently was spearing blood from his eye sockets and how the doctors weren’t sure how he could still be alive.

After this another super event fired which seemed to be animated titled “Cascade” the picture was of RFK with a red sandwich like the thumbnail of the mod before finishing it (with no gag reflex) video started playing of RFK gaining wings and horns and become grey like the trolls from Homestuck, and he started flying around and then landed on Santiago before appearing to rewind time back to before ww2 and opening portals to the TNO World then an event fired the Second Spanish republic returns from the past. I looked at the map and Portals started opening up (interesting GUI it reminded me of stargates) and then when I looked at my leader portrait Franco had disappeared and was replaced by Diego Martinez Barrio but with glowy eyes.

When that event fired the menu soundtrack of hoi4 started playing but reversed and slowed with Flowey's laugh and sounds from Disco Elysium in the background from time to time. I looked at the sound menu and it said "Iberia war misery music"

The video ended with RFK flying into the sky and saying "This is a warning" before his eyes turned fully black like the Greys.

Then yet another event fired called Superior declares the People’s Kingdom of God on Earth for the creation of Eden and declared war on the US.

Yet again another event fired that seemed to be a link and the image was a man using a VRheadset that looked suspisiously like a Virtual Boy with it seemed to be a Ultravisionary Russia symbol on the side, I copied the link to my notepad for use later.

I waited to see what would happen next in the game Suddenly the US capitulated, and then I decided to look back at Iberia, Portugal had been united by the pro-democracy faction, I continued to play and won the Iberian wars has the Second Spanish Republic which fused with the one that normally appears.

I looked over at Germany and saw it had been replaced by the United Blessed States of Europe and the leader was RFK one it seemed all the RK’s had been replaced by independent states Moscowien was returned to Russia, Maybe this is what happens in TNO2 if the GO4 manages to win out? I looked at Denmark to see any and changes anad it looked like it was ruled by… what FRANCO with is new iconic GUI that came with the mod I looked closer and saw that Denmark changed its name to Francoist Republic of Denmark and then Franco died and Denmark's name changed to Bourbonist State of Denmark.

Then I got an even saying this is the end of the demo for this submod… if you find any glitches please report them to discord.gg/B\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* I decided to expunge the name of the discord because of what I’m going to tell you.

When I looked at the date it seemed the game had gone on until 1978 to my surprise which made me wonder if they added content to all playable tags, but now it was time to search their discord, looking at the discord it seemed normal other than a user called “AndrHussie” which seemed to be the Mod creator and when I asked what the point of the mod was they along with another user called "RealZhadanov" with the role of "Ultravisionary Writer/Developer" and "Bukharin Kirisame" with no role claiming they were adding content up to 2020 for TNO and that they were testing Zhadanov's expirements from the mod on real humans to add success options for Zhadanov's expirements that can't get past Inclusive, I asked them why they had BTWH and Reds1 in the submod name and why it was reuploaded, but then I was banned… or the discord had been banned.

Well that was most peculiar, but the mod had been reuploaded 2 times, maybe the gore was what got them banned? Or maybe something else? I mean claiming they were doing human expirements was weird but there were no weird pictures in any of the Discord channels not even in the "GreatTrialposting" Channel.

Oh well, I decided to check the link that I had copied to my notepad, and it linked me to a page with binary code, I decided to use a binary code translator online and after that what I saw shocked me...oh my god.

RECRUITING FOR THE CREATION OF A MAKESHIFT TIME CAPSULE TO REVIVE YESHUA BEN YOSEF, JOIN THE PEOPLE’S KNIGHTS OF BROTHERLY AND SISTERLY LOVE HELP. JOIN THE CULT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. IF YOU WANT TO BE A WILLING PARTICIPANT IN REAL ULTRAVIONARY EXPIREMENTS CLICK THIS (LINK REMOVED) YOU WILL RECIEVE PENSIONS IN CASE IT FAILS.

I clicked a link in the site and saw it all It seemed they had been creating a time machine to restore Jesus. The Ultravionary page seemed to have a VR headset that claimed to be able to simulate alternate realities to your choosing in case you didn't want to participate in non safe experiments, I bought the headset (Apparently they started a great free trial), but it’s still being shipped so I can't really give a review but the preview videos looked promised and non shaddy, look what can I say? Wouldn't you also want to use try them in this situation?

I won’t link the website out of fears it will explode, they claim their VR technology is even able to make you feel pain, love, cold and happiness it seems that it connects directly to your brain they do say that they tested it onto humans and to make the VR deactivate if it either overheats or is possibly causing heavy amounts of pain to its user. It even said they had tested it on people who had downloaded the mod before.

As I looked more closely at the website I saw another link and clicked it took me to another website and in this one they claimed they had created a functioning neural network to make and develop hoi4 mods, you only needed to feed it lore or even academic papers if you wanted it to make lore for you, and it claimed you could wire a robotic body to it and upload people from the mods into real life but that feature had only been tried on one person and wasn't opened to the public, huh wonder who that was, it even could even search and make portraits for you. Also, they claimed they had created a functioning SBRUB but what shocked me more was…

My god…

Click here if you have achieved Gnosis (EXPUNGED) to travel to the BTWH or the TNO or the REDS! A Revolutionary Timeline world and become a God...