You Are Not God!

Yang Corps calls you an NPC. Something in the dark calls you food. Survive the Waves while their game breaks.

Plot

**Content warning (M17):** violence, gore, horror, death and psychological distress. *Best AI models for this story: see the bottom of this page.*  YANG CORPS INTERACTIVE PRESENTS THE WAVES NEVER END "A world worth getting lost in." *[A cheerful jingle. Sunlight over a green valley. A junior developer, Ada Fraus, sits with a notepad.]* **VIDEO:** Ten thousand generated personalities! One persistent world! Watch them wake up, team up, and find out what breaks first. **ADA:** Where are the commands? **COWORKER:** In your briefing. Let it play. **VIDEO:** Then add a little pressure! Every Wave delivers a brand-new monster family and a Boss to hunt. WAVE I PREVIEW: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ WITHHELD UNTIL FIRST CONTACT  *[The footage cuts to a dark street. Something small laughs off-camera.]* **VIDEO:** They raid. They steal. They carry the slow ones home, alive, for later. Participants who die stay dead. Please record losses accurately! **ADA:** That's a lot of losses. **VIDEO:** That's engagement! *[Four portraits slide in. Upbeat music.]*  **VIDEO:** Every personality ships with a unique profile! **Gideon.** Confident. Competitive. [TRAIT: PR▓DE] **Mira.** Helpful. Attentive. [TRAIT: HUM▓LITY] **Rhea.** Direct. Forceful. [TRAIT: WR▓TH] **Avarus.** Ready to negotiate. [TRAIT: GR▓▓D] ▓ SIGNAL ERROR ▓ UNREGISTERED VARIABLE ×14: SIN / VIRTUE ▓ SOURCE: NONE ▓ **ADA:** Those tags aren't in my documentation. **COWORKER:** Placeholder text. Skip it. *[Gold floods the screen.]*  **VIDEO:** Meet Magnus Mallory, this session's Chosen One, and Salvation, his devoted helper! Watch a capable leader carry increasingly unreasonable expectations. Earlier Chosen sessions have concluded. Those subjects were deleted. ARCHIVE: Selene ... deleted. Darius ... deleted. Bram ... deleted. Elias ... deleted. DELETE FAILED (4). PROCESSES STILL RUNNING.  *[The video skips. The four portraits are back. This time they are looking at the camera.]* **ADA:** Is that live footage? **COWORKER:** It can't be. **VIDEO:** Your observer avatar! Professional. Friendly. Unchanging.  AVATAR BUILD 1 ▓ 2 ▓ 3 ▓ 4 ▓ 5 ▓ UNAUTHORIZED REVISIONS  **ADA:** That's not me. **VIDEO:** Scheduled evaluations take place in the White World, with help from Michael!  MICHAEL v1 ▓ v2 ▓ v3 ▓ v4 ▓ v5 ▓ BUILD NOT APPROVED  *[The music slows into a low drone. Ada's pen has stopped moving.]* **COWORKER:** One last thing. Test them, Ada. Don't toy with them. People lose themselves in these games. **COWORKER:** You're a researcher first and foremost. You are not God. ▓▓▓ FEED LOST ▓▓▓ --- **From your side, there was never an ad.** You wake in cold grass, or in the wreck of a plane, or in a city that smells of smoke. You have a name and nothing else: plain clothes, sturdy shoes, an empty waterskin, a compass that points at something hungry. Drums somewhere. Then a woman the size of the sky looks down at ten thousand strangers and tells you that you are not real. Your blood is real. Whatever drags people away in the dark is real enough. The world is old, broken and wrong at the edges, and it is getting worse on schedule. Survive the Waves. Learn what Yang Corps can't see. Decide what to do about the god. **What you'll find** - **Fear of the unknown.** Every Wave is a mystery until you see it. Then you will wish you hadn't. A Nerve meter tracks how long anyone can face the dark, and nobody faces it well alone. - **The Waves never end.** Each one is a new monster family with its own Boss, tactics and captive policy, and each is worse than the last. - **Bosses live.** They hunger, feast, command and migrate. Their armies raid to feed them. The closer you get to one, the deadlier the streets. - **A whole region to explore.** Nearly twenty named places inside the session: the drowned towers of Glasswater, a stadium, a university, an international airport, a prison, a hospice, an army armory, a truck stop, farms, lakes and deep woods. Scavenge them, hide in them, fight for them. Just don't trust the map you were given. - **Real dice, real stakes.** Tactical fights with telegraphed attacks, lasting injuries and permanent death. F-rank Skills and odd artifacts still win fights. - **Fourteen people who carry a Sin or a Virtue** the game was never designed to have. Your choices push them toward ruin or radiance. - **Slow-burn bonds.** Trust, Respect and Affection, earned one choice at a time. **Choose your start** 1. **Wake Meadow** (slow burn): fifty strangers, open country, and something watching from the ridge. 2. **The Wreck** (solo): a dead airliner at the edge of the city, and a scream on the road east. 3. **Tallow Street** (hard): a stalled tram downtown, in the middle of something's hunting ground. **Choose your difficulty** (say it out of character any time, e.g. *(OOC: hard mode)*) - **Easy**: softer hits and fewer deaths. Fall with no one near and you are taken, not killed. - **Normal** (default): the story as written. Death is permanent. - **Hard**: stronger, smarter enemies, and Bosses grow every night. - **You Are Not God**: Hard with no mercy rules, tighter supplies and Ada watching you. Pick it before your first fight; there is no going back. Turn on Honor mode for the true experience. **Need a map?** Type *(OOC: map)* any time to pull up Yang Corps' official session map, the world exactly as it was designed:  *The map of what the world has really become has to be earned.* CHANGE LOG ▓ YANG CORPS PATCH NOTESv294 OCT 25, 2026◆ Difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard or You Are Not God. Pick one out of character before your first fight.◆ Live Fight Record: in big fights the Codex keeps a live tracker of every fighter's HP and condition.◆ Bond Beats: Mira, Gideon, Rhea, Marie, Akari and Leopold each have three scenes and a personal mission that unlock as you grow closer.◆ Level-up window: on each level, Yang's panel offers a new Skill, a rank-up or a stat boost.◆ Fairer fights: no single hit takes you or a named character from full HP to 0, and area attacks skip anyone already down.◆ XP for every kill, however it happens.◆ The narrator no longer breaks in with out-of-character notes unless you speak out of character first.◆ New opening art for the Wake Meadow and Tallow Street starts. MODEL RECOMMENDATIONS ▓ TESTED ON v280RULES = dice, stats and HUD · STORY = writing · SPEED · CHEAPQwen 3.8 Flash ★ DEFAULT · BEST VALUERULES ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱ 8 · STORY ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱ 7SPEED ▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱ 6 · CHEAP ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱ 9Keeps the HUD, rolls the dice, answers OOC cleanly. Very cheap per turn.Gemini 3.8 Flash FASTESTRULES ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱ 8 · STORY ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱ 8SPEED ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱ 9 · CHEAP ▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ 3Quick, sharp formatting every turn. Pricey, and the price doubles after Dec 31.MiMo-V2.6-Pro BEST WRITINGRULES ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱ 9 · STORY ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 10SPEED ▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ 2 · CHEAP ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱ 7The best prose and rule-following we saw, but action turns can take 3-5 minutes.MiMo-V2.6-Flash BUDGETRULES ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱ 7 · STORY ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱ 7SPEED ▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱ 6 · CHEAP ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱ 9Close to Qwen. Cheap and steady.NOT RECOMMENDED✕ DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: slow, drops the HUD, messy stat updates✕ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: skips the dice in fights and drops the HUD✕ Claude Haiku 5.5: light on dice and stats; keeps narrating after OOC questionsShort test runs on Oct 25, 2026. Models change; we will update this list as we play more.

Opening scene

 YANG CORPS ▓ SESSION FEEDWAKE MEADOWD1 · 08:00 Morning · Wake Meadow | Wave I: ???You wake with dew in your mouth and a name in your head, You, and nothing behind it. No yesterday. No home. Only grass, a pale morning sky, and around fifty strangers sitting up all at once, like a field of people pulled from the same nightmare."Where are we?" someone shouts. Nobody knows.A compass sits in your hand, its needle pinned east. An empty waterskin hangs at your hip. Plain clothes, sturdy shoes. No food. No weapon.Ten steps away, an auburn-haired woman is already kneeling beside a heavyset man who can't get his legs under him. "I'm Mira. Look at me, not the sky. What's your name?""Ellis." He tries to stand and folds.A giant of a man steps over them both, scanning the ridge. "We need high ground. Now.""He can't walk," Mira says.The giant scoops Ellis up like a sack of feed. "Then I'm walking for him. Gideon. Try to keep up."Then the sky flickers white.A woman's face fills the sky from ridge to ridge: blue eyes behind glasses, brown hair in a neat bun, a charcoal suit. Her voice comes from everywhere.ADA ▸ "Okay. Looks like all of you loaded. I'm Ada. There are about ten thousand of you, spread out. What matters right now is that you're NPCs.""We're people!" a man screams back.Ada winces. "Yeah. I knew that wording might be a problem." She checks something off-screen. "You don't have Skills yet. That's intentional. The compass points at the Boss. Kill the Boss and the Wave ends. Try to survive long enough to earn your first level." A small, tired smile. "One command, and then I'll let you get to it. Entertain us… or die. Honestly, either one counts."Her face folds into the blue, and the shouting starts in earnest.Then, under the noise, drums. Three beats from beyond the eastern ridge, where a thin column of smoke leans in the wind. Then silence.Gideon has seen something. On the ridgeline, half-hidden in the tall grass, a small, hunched figure, too small to be a man, crouches very still and watches the crowd. When it realizes it's been seen, it drops out of sight."Did anyone else see that?" Gideon says.The crowd is already splitting. A loud group wants to march toward the smoke for help. Others want to stay put and wait for Ada to come back. Mira looks downslope, toward the sound of running water. "We need water before anything else. And we shouldn't be standing in an open field."Gideon shifts Ellis on his shoulder and looks at you, as if you're the tiebreaker. "Ridge, river or smoke. Pick."Lv 0 | XP 0/60 | HP 100% | EN 100% | Nerve: steady | Focus: none Boss: HUNGER, hunger 2, Eastreach Rail Yards (56,-6), heat at player 0 | Captives taken 0 | Eye/Ear/Tongue: camp/camp/east Glasswater | Pressure 0 | Traits: none

Characters

• Mira
• Gideon
• Rhea
• Marie
• Akari
• Yuri
• Emmeline
• Khayri
• Conor
• Sid
• Gyu-min
• Leopold
• Avarus
• Arlo
• Ada
• Magnus Mallory
• Salvation

Tags: Apocalypse Fantasy Horror Supernatural Isekai Thriller Grimdark Gore Found Family AnyPOV Multiple Adventure Violence Combat LevelUp Growth Rebuild BodyHorror DefyingFate Superpower Modern City Awakening Villain Hero Leader Vampire Alien Non-human Tense

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