HABIT's Tournament

**HABIT's Tournament** was the second known tournament conducted in the HT layer. A follow up to Factory Tournament 1, it ran from October 1, 2015 through March 26, 2016. However, due to that layer's Amrett resetting the timeline repeatedly, the game actually lasted for 26 years (before being erased from history).

The original game wiki can be read here. (**Note**: not all information on the wiki is accurate to the canon of Survive the Trials or Destroy the Trials.)

## Notable Participants

* #00/Liam. Known to the Rabbits as Martin "Marty" Christian (a name he borrowed from his murdered friend from Tournament 1).
* #01/Arin. Leader of the Angoras. Known to the Rabbits as "Mom". Punished by being blinded in one eye.
* #20/Tony.
* #102/Megan. Paranormal investigator. Entered the game with a plan of binding HABIT to a vessel and exorcising/killing him.
* #130/Caleb.
* #152/Garrett.
* #164/Patrick.

## The Game

HABIT's Tournament was conducted primarily on Skype, with calls taking place in various chat rooms. Participants were known as Rabbits, and were divided into three teams: the Angoras, the Netherland Dwarfs, and the English Lops. Each team had a division Leader and a division Runt. The Shade of HABIT running the game communicated with the Rabbits mainly through typing in the chats, and through posting on a Tumblr blog.

The game had six trials, which echoed the first six trials of the original Seven Trials of HABIT. In addition, there were several supplemental tasks (recording yourself jogging, keeping a dream journal), as well as tasks assigned to specific Rabbits (normally carrying out assassination attempts).

## Notable Events

* #00 escapes from prison, murdering one of the Rabbits live during the first ever division call.

## Full Plotline

Registration for HABIT's Tournament opened on the game's official Tumblr blog in early September. Before the game began, Patrick (#164) set up a HABIT-approved Skype chat for those who had signed up (or were interested in joining).

In the weeks leading up to the game, the soon-to-be Rabbits were directed to a series of videos on Marty's YouTube channel (d0uble+n0thing). Marty, dressed in an orange prison uniform, introduced himself to the Rabbits and sarcastically congratulated them on throwing their lives away in the game. In subsequent videos, he shared the (alleged) story of how he became HABIT's pupil, and engaged in various unsettling activities (including drugging and murdering a man in a rabbit mask and carving up a dead body).

One of the videos, seemingly filmed sometime in the past, showed a younger, more innocent Marty conversing on the phone with an unseen young woman (whom he called "Ammy") about an internet game. A subsequent video showed Marty tearfully attempting to make a phone call; another video, released at a later date, showed the same young woman calling Marty and begging for help before Marty shouted at her and angrily hung up, leaving her to HABIT's tender mercies. The Rabbits were informed by HABIT that the woman was Marty's former lover, and that she had been the second winner of the previous Tournament One.

On October 1st, the Rabbits were sorted into their divisions, and the chat rooms opened. Several Rabbits received private messages from someone using the handle "find.the.way". This angered HABIT, who ordered the Rabbits to reveal the contents of their messages and to block the sender immediately. He warned all the Rabbits that anyone caught speaking to find.the.way in the future would suffer dire consequences. However, many of the Rabbits continued to correspond with find.the.way in secret. A number of them suspected that the mysterious person was the Woman On the Phone from Marty's videos, even though HABIT vehemently insisted that she dead.

That same evening, HABIT hosted the first three division calls. The Angora call was interrupted when Marty (who had escaped from prison that same day) burst into the computer room of Rabbit #02, beating him to death with a baseball bat. On the heels of these shocking events, the English Lops and the Netherland Dwarfs tried (unsuccessfully) to help Evan escape from an abandoned house where he was being held captive and stalked by the Rake.

As the game progressed, the Rabbits began to receive documents containing journal entries from a former player in Factory Tournament 1, known only as "L.K.". It soon became clear that certain events in the tournament were mirroring events from the past: Arin was blinded in one eye, through which she started seeing black shadows, much like a blind boy from the Factory game who had had "visions"; various players in the English Lops found themselves stalked by the Slender Man (whom the documents called "The Gorgon"), while the Netherland Dwarfs had to contend with the Rake (which the journal writer called "the dog"). Additionally, one Rabbit in each division received a box containing tools to help them deal with their otherworldly pests (a device to detect sigma radiation, an airhorn) and items significant to the original EverymanHYBRID channel (such as playing cards marked with the names of the three channel runners, and a copy of *House of Leaves* by Mark Z. Danielewski).

In December, the Rabbits who had been interacting with find.the.way were invited to a late night call in a secret chat. Find.the.way got on camera, revealing themself to be Amrett. She explained that she, along with several other survivors from Factory Tournament 1, had been rescued by Doctor Corenthal and taken to his personal Eden.