see the 'about!' menu in roadscape odyssey 2 for more context roadscape odyssey series -- maycithegal.itch.io ---- January 27, 2025 ---- they found the child... but... in the third game's source code… fuck, i can’t even begin to describe what happened. i thought maybe, just maybe, they’d come back… as some sort of missing person recovery case. but no. this isn’t a recovery. this is something else. they were transformed. and now, they’re not just a kid anymore. ...they’re a fucking monster. the kid, who used to call themself a 'bad lad' all the time, still calls themself that, even as this godforsaken entity. 'bad lad.' that’s what it calls itself. it still uses the same tone, like it’s proud of it, like it’s laughing at me from beyond the grave but it’s more than that. much more. the kid.... now 'comma'.... dubs itself that because they always used a shitload of commas in their journal entries, according to news sources.... they thought it made their thoughts sound smarter or something. i don’t know. and now that goddamn quirk has turned into its fucking name. and this entity... it IS that kid, but it’s also not. i wish to god it wasn’t. it’s twisted. it’s wrong. it’s something straight out of a nightmare i never should have fucking created. comma’s face.... jesus christ..... looks like a fucking bowling ball that got shoved into a blender with random shit and a necronomicon.. then satan fucked the hellish cocktail like it was some weird twisted erotic fanfic that’s been circulating on ao3, written by a messed-up user who’s seen way too much deviantart and satan rule34... and then somehow, out came a baby. but it wasn’t a baby anymore. it was smeared and twisted, as if someone sandpapered it into submission, covered it in red glossy paint, and turned it into a grotesque mockery of life. this thing… comma… it’s the child, but it’s not. not anymore. it’s like looking into the abyss and watching it stare back at you, mocking you for everything you’ve done. and i can’t even look away. it haunts the game now. and it haunts me. i keep thinking about everything i could’ve done. i keep wishing i had never fucking made roadscape odyssey. i wish i had just walked away when i had the chance. but i can’t undo any of it now. i have to keep going. i have to finish this damn series, even if it destroys me. even if it makes me lose what little i have left. the guilt is too much, but i know i can’t stop. not now. not until it’s over. i don’t sleep anymore. every night, i stay up... working... working on the code, trying to fix this nightmare. trying to fight this thing. trying to fix the shit i started. my grades are falling. my whole life is falling apart. i’m failing high school. but none of it matters. because when i close my eyes, i’m trapped in this nightmare that never fucking ends. and no matter how hard i try, i can’t escape it. but i’m not fighting this alone anymore… there’s one other character in Roadscape Odyssey III. it’s not just protag anymore. this time, there’s sider too. i don’t know what sider can do. i don’t know if they can even help. but they might be able to do something. anything. maybe they’re the key to ending this. i don’t know what yet, but i have to hold onto the hope that sider can do something—because if they can’t… if there’s no way out… then i’ll be trapped in this nightmare for the rest of my life. i just hope i’m not too late to fix it. Copyright (c) mayci_voxel. All rights reserved.