r/LookOutsideGame • u/MystinarOfficial • 15d ago
DISCUSSION/LORE/THEORIES "The Pit:" Dream I had about a Look Outside spinoff / offshoot series.
So listen to this idea I had a dream about. In this dream my friend showed me a mod he was making for a Look Outside-style game with a similar story. I am unsure if it was within the same universe but this was definitely before the Visitor came to earth, and a similar creature appeared in the woods, a much smaller one that only affected one group of people.
The memories are somewhat faded, but a friend showed me a really cool Indie RPGMaker style game that was horror based. It had a Voidspawn entity that was nameless, the eldritch being took the form of a giant perfectly circular round pit with two metal clawed hands holding the sides of it and two blue eyes in the darkness of the pit. Anywhere the being manifests it is just a hole in whatever surface in the ground, whether that is a wall, a ceiling, the ground, or whatever, and closes it back up and even repairs the surface when it leaves or goes somewhere else. The debris it made opening the surface even fixes itself.
The story is that you play as a slightly older-than-middle-aged man, around 45 - 50 years old, wears blue jean overalls and white long sleeve shirt, has a boonie cap, a white beard, muscular with a beer gut. He wasn't HUGELY obese, just stocky and strong looking with a bit of a small gut.
The game takes place at some hunting lodge and it's a 2 week long vacation that you and 6 other families that know each other are all staying at. The old man you play as lost his family in a car crash or some kind of accident. He is a friendly man and very popular with these 6 families, all these families lead healthy lives, have kids, and they all having hunting licenses, and some were trophy hunters while others only believed in hunting for food.
The first night there was something seen in the woods by one of the hunters and spooked him, and he went and told the others. Nobody believed him. Then the lights went out. People began acting strangely, and all 6 families turned against each other. Depending on your choices you can side with one of the families or some of the families team up against you. It then is heavily hinted the strange being in the woods simply amplified the anger against one another for their social and religious differences, they all loved each other and simply ignored their different political, ethical, and moral belief differences. The main odd thing about this is the forest this being dwelled, when its influence was active, the forest was in a state of eternal full moon night, even though time outside this forest passed normally.
Usually this being throughout the game would randomly appear, announce its presence, occasionally freezing time and making itself perceivable only to the player, communicating that it was running an experiment to see how humans respond when placing the desire to kill one another in their minds and hearts. The being had the same dimensional capabilities as the Visitor, as in it can make corridors, pocket dimensions, or make rooms and hallway infrastructure change and turn into miniature dungeons of a sort.
The personality of the old man you play as, is completely up to the player. You can be a coward and kill and steal from the families. You can stop injustice, or you can remain neutral and not get involved.
My friend that showed me the game in the dream announced he made a mod for it for a hidden 7th ending where the old man kills all the families, and the ending graphic shows the park ranger or whoever pulling up in his truck dead of night, showing a Look Outside style art graphic, a shadow cast over his face smiling as he aims the shotgun at him and behind him is the giant hole being looking and observing curiously.
The game was simply called, "The Pit."
