Chapter 1: 14-5-23-21-16-4-1-20-5
I won't go into details as to who I am, and what my backstory is, since I don't want to waste your time knowing who I am and that you won't care, but I will just simply say this. To anyone who reads this, you simply have to bear with me what I've just seen. What you are about to read, is what I've personally seen while playing Splatoon's new singleplayer campaign that was launched with the new update. And ever since the events that have recently transpired, I can't help but blame myself for everything I've done.
So it all started out on a regular day on Saturday. I was in my own house, browsing through YouTube and watching Splatoon videos. Basically, I was trying to improve on my skills in Turf Wars, and ranked battles, trying to rise through the ranks. I was a Rank B-, and I've been having a hell of a lot of fun playing this game since I became level 10. I was bored after watching a few videos, and decided to see if anything new has arrived to the game where you play as a squid kid, so I went to Nintendo's channel, and something surprised me. I saw a video from Nintendo detailing that a new update to Splatoon has arrived that was released 6 hours ago with over about 300,000 views. I instantly clicked on it to see what this new update was going to show, and bring to the table. I saw that they announced two new maps for the update: "Suw-Shee Airship", and another called "Forest of Jellyfish". However, that wasn't the best part. The best part of the new update, is that they added a new singleplayer campaign where you get to interact with several characters along the way. That's what grabbed my attention the most: The fact that you could get to interact with Splatoon's characters in this new campaign, including the Squid Sisters themselves and some characters from the Octo Valley campaign! Seeing as how much of a fan I was of Marie's puns and jokes, I was thinking that maybe I could kill some time, and try out this new update's singleplayer campaign. I went to my Wii U, turned it on, and turned on the television screen which I rarely use, unless I play Splatoon and other games on the Wii U that require the television.
I instantly tap the Splatoon icon with the green squid on the Quick Start menu, and waited for the game to load. Even though it took a while, I always enjoyed seeing the squids on the loading times fly or swim upward along with the sounds that are heard. Once the loading screen is done, I'm treated to the view of Inkopolis' tower along with the Great Zapfish hanging on there, and I quickly press the ZL and ZR buttons. The usual shtick follows with the Squid Sisters showing the new maps along with announcing the new update, and then after that, something happens in the game that surprises me. An alarm goes off, as the Squid Sisters look shocked and announce that a disaster that they call "The Rainstorm" is about to happen in a couple of hours. But knowing that this was just a game, and that real time doesn't affect Splatoon, made me chuckle as the Squid Sisters tell everyone to "Staaaay fresh!" and end the news broadcast like they usually do. I was about to start playing some Turf Wars, until I saw something else that caught my eye on the Wii U's Gamepad. A phone icon. Pressing it, I was treated to a list with only 2 contacts on it. Callie and Marie. Knowing whom I am going to choose out of the two, I chose Marie, as long beeps can heard until a text box below appeared with a new icon of Marie that I've never seen before showing her full face with a green background in her Squid Sister outfit.
"Hello? Who is this?" I read what Marie was saying, and saw some instructions in the middle saying that I have to use the microphone on the Gamepad. Knowing what to do, I said to the microphone, acting like Agent 3: "Hey there, Marie! This is Agent 3!" I said to the microphone, and immediately after saying that, a new icon on the text box appeared, showing Marie with a happy expression. "Hey, Agent 3! What's going on?" The Squid Sister says, as I continue talking to the microphone. "Damn, this feature is so cool!" I thought to myself, as I respond to Marie's question as if I was talking to a real person on the other end. "Nothing much, Marie! Have you heard about the Rainstorm that's going to happen soon?" I said to the Gamepad, and soon, Marie responds with: "Yeah, I have! Seems like this week is going to "strike" us all down with this storm." I couldn't help, but laugh at that terrible pun Marie made, and what made it even better, is that while I was laughing, Marie's icon was covering her mouth with one of her hands and chuckling as well. The icon soon returns back to normal, with the Squid Sister shown smiling on it. "So, what do you want to do? You wanna come with me and Callie to the Calamari Region and visit Cap'n Cuttlefish during the Rainstorm for a week?" She asks, to which I smile happily, and respond to her question with the Gamepad's microphone.
"Of course I'm coming over there to stay with you both! Where and when should we meet?" I say to the gamepad, to which Marie's icon changes to her placing one of her hands under her chin, seemingly thinking about something until her icon returns to normal again.
"I was thinking about us three going to the Inkopolis Train Station right now, but seeing as though the train won't leave in about several hours, why don't you go do some Turf Wars first before we go to the Calamari Region?" Marie says, her avatar on the icon smiling as I begin feeling weird talking to an actual in-game character. How come Nintendo has been able to pull this whole talking to a video game character thing? That's what confused me most about the update, seeing as the guys at Nintendo were able to perfect this new feature on their first go is what strikes me as odd. I ignore thinking about this too deeply, and continue talking with Marie through the Gamepad, despite it feeling rather awkward.
"A-alright, Marie! I'll see you and Callie later!" I awkwardly say to the Gamepad, as Marie in the text box bids me farewell, her icon changing once again to her waving a hand at me.
As I exit out of the new feature, I decide to find where this train station that Marie was talking about during my "talk" with her, and find a locked down train station. If I guess correctly, this must be where the new singleplayer campaign must take place, and it hasn't opened yet. I try walking into it, only getting a notification saying that I have to wait for a while until the train station has opened up. This is strange, considering the fact that Splatoon doesn't really follow on real time at all. So instead of just standing outside of the station waiting, I decide to do some Turf Wars in order to kill some time for myself.
Once I enter the lobby, I notice something peculiar about my inkling that grabs my interest. Instead of having a neutral expression and looking around the lobby area he's in, he has a happy smile on his face with his eyebrows raised, looking even more prepared than he already is. Thinking that this is a new model change for the inklings, I nod at the new change as I pick the Regular Battle option, and wait for a battle lobby to be found. After a while of waiting, a lobby was found, but what I see confuses me even further. All of the people on the lobby have japanese names, and are level 50's while I am only about level 26. Strange, considering that lobbies that I usually come across don't have every player in the lobby as a level 50, so I just shrug this aside, and begin playing the new map that the update has brought: The "Suw-Shee Airship".
Recommended Music: Super Mario Maker - SMB Airship Theme Remix (By Jugebox98)
The location is set in a flying black airship of some kind in the skies above the ocean, bearing the logo of the Squid Sisters on it as my team begins splitting up through the airship. What grabs my interest about this map, is that it has several platforming sections where you need to avoid falling off the airship and getting splatted along with some wind physics that I had to be careful off. But that doesn't stop my interest in this map. Another thing that I found in the map, were several crates containing armor pieces from the Octo Valley singleplayer campaign. Strange, that a feature from Octo Valley would be here, but I grabbed the armor pieces I could find. However, I wasn't the only one who has found these armor pieces. Some of the enemy team have found armor pieces as well, and use it to their advantage as they try to annihilate my team. Using strategy and quick thinking, I quickly turned my inkling into a squid, and rushed to where the enemy team was as I threw a Splat Bomb at them. Half of their team were splatted, as I began painting the turf around me with a purple color.
While inking the map, I spotted that all of my teammates have been dead for longer than they should along with the enemy team as I was just inking the map around me, eventually reaching the spawn point where the enemy team was. No one on the enemy team hasn't even spawned yet, which was rather confusing to me. They must have left the game, or lost their internet connection as I continued turfing the area around me. There wasn't even any signs of tension or battles after I destroyed the enemy team, just my inkling by himself. Eventually, the timer reached 0:00, as Judd appears on the screen, dancing in excitement as the bars filled up. He takes out the purple flag, as the victory jingle is played. However, I was very confused upon seeing that there was only one inkling standing in front of the screen. My inkling. He still had the same look he had while I was selecting which game mode I wanted to play in the lobby, bearing a happy smile on his face, even though my teammates are gone. I was rewarded with coins soon after as the experience bar rised up, almost reaching level 27. I was impressed by the map, but somehow disappointed, that my teammates just left me alone all by myself.
Recommended to stop the music.
When I returned to the lobby, I saw that the level 50 players are no longer in the lobby, which I didn't seem to expect. They must have gone to find a different lobby for themselves, considering that I must have intruded their level 50's only lobby that I call it. While waiting, I noticed that the squids flying in the background are no longer moving upward but downward instead. I thought that this was a new style for the waiting area, and after a while of waiting, I was treated to... a level 1 player? And another, and another, and another until the lobby was filled with just level 1's. I was just confused at what's going on. First only level 50's, and now only level 1's? I'm beginning to suspect, that there has to be something wrong with this new update, but there was no time to ponder about that. It's time to play the second map this new update is offering me: The Forest of Jellyfish.
Recommended Music: Splatoon - Splattack!
The sound of birds chirping are heard as I get a view of the wonderful tentacle trees, rivers and beautiful landscape before the battle begins. This seemed like a weird place for a battle between inklings, but it was a fresh change of pace from the usual modern city areas as I began turfing the grass and wooden ground below my inkling. What's strange, is that the inklings on my team seemed to walk away from me, seeming to ignore me as I just went alone to splat some inklings and win for my team. I easily manage to adapt myself to this new map, and take in the sights it has to offer. Looking at my Gamepad, it seemed as though half of the map has already been covered in my team's ink, and I looked back up to see an inkling on the enemy team appear. I was about to splat her, only for her to run away instead of fighting. This seemed like a stupid move at first for the inkling girl, but I won't waste my time with a single inkling on the enemy team as I continued painting the ground below me a purple color.
As the timer reached its 1 minute mark, the song didn't change for some reason to the "Now Or Never" music, and just remained the same. Strange, but it didn't phase me. The message still popped up about the players having to hurry up, to which even though the enemy team was losing, I still kept turfing the map until the point where I arrived to the enemy team's spawn. I saw that the inklings on the enemy team had worried looks on them, as they turned into squids and tried to hide from my inkling. I soon heard a chuckling sound coming from my inkling, as I began splatting the inklings on the enemy team. What I soon noticed, was that the music has stopped, and that the sound the inklings make when they get splatted sounded more painful than they usually sound. Even the ghosts of their inklings didn't appear, the little flying squids that go upward with a sad look on their eyes. After splatting the enemy team, I soon saw that my team had left me alone by myself once more, along with the enemy team having left the game as well. "What the hell is going on here? Why are players leaving the game whenever I splat them?" I thought to myself, but stopped wondering as the timer ran out. The usual happens with Judd dancing, and pointing the flag to my team that have won. What struck me in shock, is that my team has turfed about 90% of the map, while the enemy team had only splatted about 10%. I couldn't help, but feel bad for the enemy team, but it was time to move on as I saw my level and experience points go up while getting some coins from the battle.
When I returned to the lobby, I saw a notification that Callie and Marie had something to report in their news station, and I pressed the button as the game took me to Inkopolis Plaza and see the Squid Sisters' news report. The logo flashes across the screen, as the two inkling cousins appeared on the screen. (For those of you who don't know, they are cousins as stated by one of the sunken scrolls.)
The usual shtick goes with the Squid Sisters, until they begin announcing the new maps the game has chosen. Instead of maps being chosen, the two inkling girls announce the lobby being closed for a week, since the Rainstorm from what I heard earlier is coming in about an hour or two. This was unusual, since the game hasn't even done something like this before. They soon say, that they will be going to a place to stay for a while, and have fun there while the Rainstorm is in effect. It soon ends with the two doing their usual finishing motto and pose, as I return to the Inkopolis Plaza. I was about to move my inkling, until I see a notification that I have a phone call. I press the phone icon, and see that Callie is calling me as I press her icon.
"Hey, Agent 3!" An icon appears with Callie bearing a joyful smile on her, along with her winking one of her eyes at me with a purple background behind her as I talk to the Gamepad once more like I did with Marie, still finding it a bit awkward and strange.
"Hey, Callie! What's up?" I say to the Gamepad, to which the Squid Sister's icon on the television changes to her having both of her golden eyes opened while bearing a normal smile.
"So, Marie was talking to me about you wanting to come stay with us both for the week while the Rainstorm is in effect?" She asks me, to which I reply that I want to, since the turf wars and ranked battles would be closed off. Her icon soon changes to her fist pumping the air, while looking overjoyed as I can't help but smile at the icon.
"Really!? Thanks a million, Agent 3! We'll see you at the Train Station soon!" She happily says, as the call ends. I soon see that the train station has now been opened, as I move my inkling towards it. While doing that, I notice some inklings looking at me with somewhat nervous looks, along with some even backing away from my inkling as I pass by them. This seemed a bit weird for me, but I ignored it as I moved my inkling down the stairs to the subway station where the Squid Sisters are, excited to start the new singleplayer campaign.
Author's Note: And there's the first chapter for the Genocide version. For me, I honestly think that a creepypasta style would fit this to make things more scarier. And trust me, I've seen a LOT of bad creepypastas here on this website. But I tend to make this one unique, and stand out from the rest.
I kind of want to base it off of the NES Godzilla creepypasta, so I won't spoil what happens. Anyways, I hope you're looking forward to the next chapter! (Which will be released after I release the first chapter of Day 6 in the normal version!)
Also, the title needs to be deciphered in order to find out what it says. Use the alphabet, and decipher the numbers!
1 = A
2 = B
3 = C
-Lord Apoplexy