The AI Dungeon's Light

You are Atticus Anoethite, a soldier trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world by scavenging among the ruins of what is left. You have an automatic rifle and a grenade. You have lived in this military bunker since the bombs went off. You wake up and report for duty to your commanding officer ask him what your next mission is.

The commanding officer isn't there. Instead, there is Chris Wellington, an android, Savannah Whitesmith, the reincarnation of the god Xeren, and Melissa Devlin, a nephillim.

They tell you that the commanding officer, Captain Hayes, has been arrested by a rebel faction called the Free City of Columbia. They explain that Hayes wanted to destroy the bunker but instead he took command of the bunker.

Chris explains that he is an android and has been in the bunker for 300 years. He doesn't have a name. You ask him where he originally came from but he has no idea. He says that his memories are completely wiped, like all the other Androids in the bunker.

> You clarify your memories are wiped too and you are not an android. Neither are the girls.

You look at Chris and his metal face is emotionless. He has no idea where he came from either. He explains that he is an extremely advanced robot, not a necromancer's drudge robot.

Melissa asks if we can leave the bunker. She says she remembers life before the bombs fell and wishes to return there.

> You say "Those damn demons and angels! We're gonna need to find food."

You look through some of the storage rooms and find a lot of food. It's all dried up but it's still edible.

You walk outside and notice it's starting to get dark.

We find ourselves next to a lake. Chris says he can't go into the lake, because it would short-circuit him.

You suggest that you all stay here the night and find a new campsite in the morning.

Who do you think should sleep where?

Savannah says "Hell no!" and then sees the lights of a truck coming. It's a large truck and it looms over you all. The door swings open and a bunch of men get out.

One of the men has long blond hair and is missing an eye.

"Get in the truck, the whole lot of you." The man says. His eye socket is empty. "Hop in. I'm taking you to another camp. Maybe they'll want you."

A boy then hops out from the bushes and grabs me. He has piercing blue eyes and spiky black hair. "The name is Token Jin," He says. "Volunteered for this job."

He then hands you a card with a big red J in the middle written on it.

"I gotta split," he says.

"I also know these guys have no intention of taking you to another camp," Token adds. "In fact, they would rather take you to Alchemilia Corporation, a huge company that makes technology."

"Why?"

"Because I work for them."

You're all piled into the truck and driven off.

Who do you think is telling the truth?

> You say "You don't really work for them, do you?" "

"Do I really work for them?" he says, laughing. He then stops and his laugh abruptly turns to a pained grunt as he clutches his midsection.

Finally, the car reaches Alchemilia Corporation. Chris marvels at the snake statues guarding the entrance. They are beautiful works of art.

"Hey, don't you think they're lovely?" one of the men says. "Yeah, I think so," Chris says, lamely.

The man turns to you.

> You say "Can we go inside the building?"

You walk inside the building and are in awe. You haven't been in a building this large since your village was raided.

"This is just a small part of it," the man says.

A man who appears to be in his 20s with bright white hair and green eyes, Gabriel Alchemilia, arrives. "Kill them," he says.

"You don't work here," you say.

"After you're done killing them," he says, "you may work here."

Gabriel takes a look at Chris. "One of Andrew Wellington's androids? Chris, isn't it? I saw your fight against Puck. Most impressive. I need someone who can be a match for my son Gwen."

"It's all right," Chris says. "I'm just here to work.

"You have no choice," Gabriel says, grabbing Chris by the wrists and taking him to his office.

You are pointinglessly anxious while waiting for Chris to return. Eventually, he emerges with a big smile on his face.

"I have a job for you, Killjoy."

"I've always longed to go to Alchemilia Corporation," Token smiles. He grabs me and takes me to a room reading "Top Secret Weapons Facility". He shows me around for a bit. They have a huge robot that can blow up buildings. They are also working on a tool that can cut through any metal. "This place is huge!" I say.

Token sees Gabriel's laptop that has all Alchemilia Corporation's valuable information. He swipes it.

"Hey!" Gabriel says.

"Sorry, Sir. I just need to borrow this.

Gabriel becomes concerned, and runs to tell his henchman Alfred Hernann, after snapping a picture of Token.

"Give it back," Gabriel says.

"Or what?" he says, smiling.

"Or I call my father, the super-villain Mr. Mol."

Alfred looks at the photo. "This isn't Token Jin. Token Jin doesn't exist. That boy is notorious criminal Marshall Rooke."

"Don't you know any facts?"

"Yes," says a pretty Asian girl with long black hair and serious eyes. "I'm aware that Mr. Mol has never heard of this boy.

Gabriel sends his henchmen after Atticus Anoethite, Melissa Devlin, Savannah Whitesmith, and Marshall Rooke. He sends you after Gwen.

Gwen's sitting at her desk, bored out of her mind. She has long brown hair and beautiful green eyes. She is pretty in an "after school special"

"My real name is Marshall Rooke," Token explains to us as we hop in a van. "I'm a really dangerous criminal. I could die right now, if Mr. Mol didn't need me alive for someone else to kill."

"Why are you telling us this?" Atticus asks.

"Because we're running out of time! Drive Melissa, drive!" Marshall yells, as the henchman come and shoot at us.

We dodge each bullet, and soon arrive at a warehouse where there's a bunch of kids screaming as if in pain. They look like they're about to be experimented on.

"What's going on?"

A fierce looking massive demon named Mulciber appears. "My loyal subjects, our dinner has arrived. Turn back to normal." The children turn back into their normal demon forms.

"What's happening?" Atticus asks.

"The government is planning on forcing everyone to kill each other with diseases and bombs," says a regal looking demon in reds and golds.

"Leave us the fuck out of this!" Marshall yells. "Let my friends go free!"

"No," says the demon lord.

"Let her go," says a strange looking demon in a blue and purple cloak. "She has no knowledge of my plans."

"Yeah!" Atticus says.

Mulciber holds Marshall in a chokehold and then tries to drown Atticus. Melissa and Savannah run through the woods.

"Go back!" the demon lord shouts at you.

When Melissa and Savannah arrive at a clearing, they see a car. Warren Hughes, a man with a walrus mustache, steps out.

"It's not too late!" he says, walking towards them. "You can turn back."

"Leave them alone," says a large demon with a beard and bone structure. "These are my guests."

Warren shoots a gun at the demon and takes Savannah into his car. Melissa screams in fright as they drive off. "That's the last time she'll ever scream," you think as you kill the demon lord.

You grab the demon lord and strangle him to death. You run to the van, as the other kids arrive.

Melissa runs to the village of Silivia, with its iconic glistening silver lights surrounding the city walls. Inside, you find your family, brother and sister, their children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins all living in wonderful, decorated half-timbered houses.

"Thank God you're here,"

Melissa's brother Steven and uncle Richard run to her. She claims not to remember them. You don't know what to do.

"Why would we want her here?" asks her brother in exasperation.

"This is our sister, flesh of our flesh," says her uncle.

Back with Marshall and I, we're relieved that Mulciber is gone. We figure we can get back to it now. We're not going to have to deal with anymore shady deals or people trying to kill us.

"I'm in," I say. "What's the next step?"

"We can go to the village of Silivia. If it indeed exists, I think it's north that way. Can't miss the glistening silver lights." Marshall explains. "We need to get some recruits and train them for when we actually go to the village. They'll be our foot soldiers."

"I thought we were just going to kill the svelk and take their stuff,"

"Man, I fucking hate Alchemilia Corporation," Marshall says. "But a deal's a deal. I don't think they're going to just give us the books for free."

We travel through the night and all morning. It's weird, but I begin to feel afraid.

Finally, we reach the gates of Silivia. "So, do you have any money?" I ask Marshall.

"Do you have a credit card?" he asks in return.

I pull out my wallet and show him my bank card. He takes it to the guard.

The guard is a purple-haired werewolf named Kailan Frost. "Nice to meet you boys. What can I do for you?" She asks.

"We're here for a little fun. We're looking for women, and thought you boys might have some." I joke.

"You're in luck, then," she says, "Come with me."

> You kailan leads Marshall and Atticus to a restaurant and gives them food.

I'm in a fine restaurant with three of the most powerful vampires this side of the Atlantic. One of them is chewing loudly on a piece of gristle. Another tells the waiter he wants something fancy to taste the blood.

Meanwhile, Chris is in solitary confinement since he wouldn't join Gabriel. He's just a kid, and I don't really want to think about what they did to him.

"I'll have the special," says the vampire with the British accent.

The waiter nods and leaves.

More androids come to get Chris and bring him to Gabriel. It's the same process, and it takes about a minute before Chris is drained of his blood.

Chris uses his plasma sword to stun the androids, and escapes. He tells me he's going to do something desperate. I don't know what that is either, but he runs off without me.

A bunch of hunters come up to you.

Chris uses his super-strength to knock down the barbed wire fence, and runs through the woods, searching desperately for a village. He returns with a group of peasants, who let him join them for dinner.

Eventually, several hunters surround the table where you're having dinner. They shoot at you and shout for you to get up.

Meanwhile, Warren has dropped Savannah off and she has gone to take a walk.

"Everything alright, sir?" the waiter asks.

"Perfect," you say. "Couldn't be better."

The hunters take you away and shove a needle in your neck.

Demons and angels invade Silivia. Your army is decimated in the demon invasion, but Gabriel and you manage to turn the tide with your power. You cut a bloody path through the infernal hordes.

Chris finally makes it to Silivia. He's completely on edge, and has an entourage of svelk mercenaries in tow. He must have hired them because they are only there to fight.

Alfred informs Gabriel that Chris has escaped, so Gabriel sends his best man John Fontaine to take care of him.

You struggle to slay a hellish foe, and you think you've finally killed him when you find out he's leaped from the battle to his dead horse, which he's riding into the sky towards one of the

John sees Savannah walking when he gets to Silivia, and murders her.

You have a major battle with the remaining hunters in the streets.

You go with your allies, but it's a fierce battle.

John then spots Chris in disguise. Chris blinds John and beats him up, before short-circuiting.

"The traitor lives again," the Father says, "But he will not escape his just reward." He snaps his fingers and burns Chris's heart to a cinder.

> You and Marshall are knocked out by demons.

You awake underground. You see a large cage in the room, and there's a half dozen demons torturing and laughing at a drunk man strapped to a chair.

"Hello, little blood bag. You look hungry,"

Melissa is also attacked by demons, with Steven and Richard defending their laboratory of the unexplainable.

"You're delicious," croons one demon, before biting your ear.

You scream, and punch the demon in the face.

Another demon pins you down and rips out your throat.

A man named Samuel comes in. He has a large, hooked nose and bald head. He looks like a hawk.

"What's going on here?"

"These are the crazed followers of that buffoon, my dear man,"

Samuel is at the Robotics Wing of the Silivia Masquerade Hospital, fixing Chris.

"I'm not a follower of yours, I'm a follower of God," you say. "You demons are evil."

"And you're a fan favorite,"

Chris asked Samuel where the others are, and he says they're all fine, just upstairs in the main hospital.

"I'm glad you're alright,"

"Let's get these silly jesters off our hands,"

Your group releases the men from their binds, and the demons take off. They've left their victim behind.

Chris says goodbye to Samuel and heads upstairs.

"Somehow I knew you'd be the first one to pick a fight," Samuel says, "You're too stupid to see that your whole life is a joke."

You wish you could.

Chris comes across you and Melissa lying in beds.

"Hello, Chris...I see you've been looking after our dear little Jacob," Father Féval says.

"Hm, I suppose so. Is that Jacob over there?

"What the fuck, my name is Marshall!" Marshall exclaims from behind the curtain.

"I have a nice hospital here, Samuel.

"Ah, I'm sure it does," Father Féval nods, "It sure looks like it did in the old days. Before the revolution."

Steven and Richard walk in.

"Hey, Jacob," Richard says.

"Hey, what's going on?" you ask.

"Nothing much. We're just hanging out. Where's Chris?"

"Tell me your whole story," Steven says.

"Well, I've been to hell and back. Demons, ghouls, ghosts, monsters, gods, and saints..."

"Did you kill Father Féval?" asks Father Féval.

"We also saw blinding red light in the sky," Chris says.

"Hm, I'm sure you did," Father Féval says, "Tell me about it.

"It's the demon's light," Steven says. "The lost and mangled soul of the deity Xeren."

"I had a friendly conversation with the lord of the sky once. He was very relaxed and cool. I think I'll have another."

"You don't want to know about my adventures, trust me."

"I'm worried about Savannah," Melissa says. "Like, what's she going to do when she wakes up?"

"Oh, that's simple.

"I'm sure nothing bad happened to her," Chris assures Melissa.

"She'll be so mad," Moira says.

Samuel arrives. "You're reunited. Good." He takes us downstairs.

We arrive at the bottom of the stairs. Dozens of disfigured corpses are hanging from the ceiling.

Samuel ignores this and we pile into his car. While we're driving he explains that there is a basement to every house in the town. He drives us to one, which leads to a huge underground bunker.

"Welcome to the winners' lounge,"

Samuel introduces his lab assistant, Blossom Cane, who is from Saudi Arabia.

"Bloss, can you please turn the music down?"

Bloss fiddles with the radio, until a song no one likes comes on. She switches it off. "I don't like that song."

Atticus tells Blossom she is cute. She rolls her eyes and sticks her tongue at him.

"Now then, you are all here because you were chosen as a test subject for my backup army project."

You raise an eyebrow.

> You smile at Blossom.

"Cute. Is that your backup army?"

Samuel smiles, thinking you're flirting. "Correct."

Samuel proceeds to explain his project.

Samuel then asks us if we want donuts. You raise your hand. Samuel nods.

"Fine, you can come with me and Samuel will lead you back to the lounge," Atticus says.

Samuel takes us upstairs, but Chris and you get into a fight. You suddenly grab his wrist, flipping him onto the floor. You hold his arm in a stranglehold, tightening your fingers every time he tries to pull his arm away.

"Let go of me!" Chris yells.

Samuel stops the fighting and takes us to a bedroom, where his device The Allucinor is. It's an old Victorian house set into the hill. He tells you to wait outside while he and Blossom hook you up to the machine.

"What is this? Some kind of joke?" Chris asks.

"It is a device that allows you to share a dream and travel through them. Objects such as Chris can be carried by people such as Melissa. We'll be taking a trip to a place where time works slightly differently. You'll be hooked up to the same machine."

Blossom and Samuel leave the room. Chris looks at you as if to say "

Meanwhile, Marshall is at a plant store, owned by an elderly childish Asian man named Wen Li who has a taxi license. He owns 5 taxis and drives them around the town at night. He complains all the time about the government not having a taxi monopoly, but still takes their money.

"Why do I need a new humidifier?"

Li laughs at Marshall. "Herro, Marsharr Rooke. You don't need that. Just buy my prants, and I'll give you a free ride to wherever you said your friends were."

"No, thanks. I'm not here for the taxis. I'm looking to buy a plant. Something specific."

"Let me guess, a Pearl plant?"

"How did you know?

Marshall hops in Li's car after buying his plant. Meanwhile, the rest of us lie down on the beds.

"What's the plan, Atticus?" Samuel asks.

"The plan is simple. We just get in, take the machine, and get out. Got it."

"That's a terrible plan."

Samuel injects the Allucinor syringe into all of us, except for Chris, who Melissa is holding.

You step into the tube. It moves you along as you fall asleep, and then you dream...

You are in a forest, watching animals you've never seen before roaming about.

In your dream, you are on a date with Blossom, and you two seem to be in love.

"I have a pet snail," Blossom complains.

"That's nice, Blossom."

"Do you remember the last time you dreamed about me?

In Melissa's dream, she is driving with Steven and Samuel in a car through Silivia.

"Why is the road so bumpy?"

"You want the truth or you prefer the lie?"

"I want the lie to be more likely to be true.

As for Chris, he is back at Alchemilia Corporation in the dream, watching the events he missed while Gabriel was questioning him.

However, things turn different, with Melissa getting shot and kidnapped by men at the van crash. The men mistake her for an Android.

You wake up, as you are all at a different location. You all look at each other.

"We need to save her," you say.

The others agree.

Still in the dream, Chris runs through the woods, still in the dream. Then he comes across the bunker where they first woke up.

"Dad? Mom? Anybody there?"

Suddenly, a rusted cage drops down from the ceiling, trapping you inside. You run out of the room and down the hall, screaming for help.

Blossom takes you to the barn as well. It then disentegrates before your very eyes.

"What the...?!"

You search desperately for any sort of shelter, but everything has gone. The entire planet is now a barren, dusty, scorched desert.

Samuel, Steven, and Melissa arrive. Samuel looks at you.

"You ran ahead and screamed. We just barely avoided stepping in a... "

A pulsating mass of flesh, tentacles, and teeth comes pouring out of the ground, as you drop to your knees and vomit.

"The dice, Atticus, the dice," Samuel says to you. "Your prophetic visions can free us from this hell hole."

You had no idea what he was talking about, but you accepted his crucifix-shaped silver object.

You roll the dice, causing the dream to explode.

"Well done, Mr. Anoethite, well done!" Samuel claps, his dark face illuminated by the only light in the room.

"No, no, the snakes! The snakes!" a high-pitched voice says.

We are at a large, round, dirt hut.

Samuel takes us downstairs, where a masked man, John Fontaine, is sitting.

"John, you've made a nice profit off of these boys," Samuel says. "Now it's time to pay the piper.

"Good to meet you all. Dr. Brownlee here has spoken quite excitedly of you all."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, sir," you say, still feeling sick.

"Why don't we have the little one pull down their mask, eh?"

"Alright," John says, bored.

"You friend Savannah is dead, here's proof," John says, showing the picture of Savannah's dead body.

"We didn't kill her," you protest.

"Says you. Either way, you're safe, now. John and I go way back."

"Now, I'm here to tell you that we'll be launching an attack on Alchemilia Corporation's Remnant Rock. They killed your friend, and have been a pain. I call it Primo Victoria. Are you in?" John asks. "I can have my men attack, or we can let the crowdourcing take place. You pick."

"We're in." Marshall says, as he and Wen Li walk in.

"What's going on?" Marshall asks.

"We're about to launch an attack on the remnants," Samuel says. "We're gathering an army."

"I heard that."

"Anything else?"

"No, nothing else." You say.

You hear a large explosion from the west. It is followed by several others.

"What was that?" You ask.

"Alchemy, my boy," John says.

3 months pass.

You are in a new room, surrounded by a large group of people. You hear a massive explosion to the east.

Atticus and Blossom form a romantic relationship. Chris and Melissa move into the Laboratory of the Unexplainable with Steven and Richard. Fontaine trains us to fight. Marshall feels jealous of Blossom and spends all his time with Wen Li and his family instead.

The dreams stop.

You are trained in every form of combat there is.

You watch as John loots a caravan. Soon, he heads to Hessla and sets up a pirate operation.

Finally, it is time to launch Primo Victoria.

"Which side are you on?" Samuel asks.

Everyone climbs into Li's car.

"What's the plan?" You ask.

"Fucking find out," Samuel says. "I'm driving."

We drive towards the island. However, there is an army of artificial tieflings led by Nabi.

"We should join forces. Against John and the Professor, we'll be no match," Hans says.

"Pfft. The Professor's dead," Samuel says.

We drive through fire.

"By the gods! Through the fire and... carousing!" Hans says, as you drive through an archway with the carriages.

You, Marshall, Chris, Melissa, Samuel, Li, Steven, and Blossom are the ones in the car.

"Where the hell is Hans?" Samuel asks.

"Pfft, he's probably got a girl in the carriage behind us," Chris says.

The 8 weary travelers come to a stop on the crowded bridge.

"Well, this is strange. There's a man holding a knife to my throat. Not a very Effective way of intimidation, if you don't perform the deed," Blossom says.

> You and the other 7 fight the artificial tieflings.

You take down one tiefling with a sword, and another with a dagger through the neck, while Chris stabs another in the eye with a curved blade.

"Nice!" you say.

"Thanks,"

Nabi makes us surrender our weapons.

"Pfft, you want to kill us, don't you?" Samuel asks.

"We're not here to kill you," John says. "If we were, there would be no negotiation.

"Throw us in Remnant Rock prison," Steven says. "Please, we don't want to fight you."

We get in the carriage.

"No!" Hans says. "It's too late! I'm ratted on you guys!"

Hans is murdered by John who is really the Dream Eater Xanvi, as he isn't one of the Port City Eight.

"I thought you said this Xanvi was a good guy," you say.

"He is. He's just doing his job."

You are taken to prison, in a daze.

Everyone awakens in the jail cells.

"What a nice jail cell." Chris says, as he sits in it.

"I want my lawyer,"

Chris uses his strength to knock down the doors. He and Steven run up to the roof looking for the others, killing guards along the way.

They find them killing captians.

"Come on! Let's escape!" Chris says.

At this moment, you realize what you've become.

"We're not killers!" you yell.

> You has a prophetic dream of Steven's death.

You stand in a large room. At the end of it, there's a spiral staircase.

Your sister stands on the stairs, looking at you. She points to herself, and then to you.

> You find Blossom is paralyzed, and push her wheelchair to the Remnant Rock Airplane Hanger.

"Blossom, do you need help pushing the chair?" you ask.

"No, I can get it."

Blossom begins to struggle with pushing her chair. It's a long struggle.

Marshall runs to the hanger too, via the sewers. Melissa is tied up in the hanger.

"Hey, what's taking you two?"

You and Blossom begin arguing about who's gun should be used. You both decide to use the Thompson submachine gun.

"Alright, let's go."

> You and Blossom jump into the helicopter. Marshall unties Melissa and they jump in too. Li and Samuel follow.

You, Blossom and the other 3 storm the airplane. It's huge, with a large wing-like engine in the middle.

As you storm in, you see the pilot.

> You steven runs to the airplane hanger, where the bomb has been planted. Xanvi murders Steven.

"Stop!" you say.

Xanvi turns, to see you standing there.

You pull the trigger, shooting the gun. The bullet explodes in front of him, incinerating his face.

We fly in the helicopter, grabbing Chris as Remnant Rock explodes below us.