Line #24 VideoGame/ElevenFortyFiveAVividLife


1	! Due to the nature of the game, all spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
2
3	[[quoteright:282:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mqdefault_59.jpg]]
4	[[caption-width-right:282:"We promised to stop digging randomly in our flesh."]]
5
6	''11:45 A Vivid Life'' is an InteractiveFiction SurrealHorror game released by Deconstructeam in 2019.
7
8	You play as Laynie, a young woman who steals an x-ray machine and a medkit to go out into the country and perform experiments on her own body, which she is certain [[ParanoiaFuel is not her own]]. There are [[MultipleEndings 5 endings]], each based off your conclusion of what happened to her body.
9
10	You can play it [[https://deconstructeam.itch.io/1145-a-vivid-life here]].
11
12	! This game contains examples of:
13
14	* ApocalypticLog: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Laynie at the beginning. She records the entire experience and her interpretation of what happened to the body in case she doesn't come back.
15	--> Did you get the tape recorder?\
16	This is gonna get weird.\
17	No matter what you hear, please, stay put.\
18	If anything were to happen to me, this transmission will serve as a testimony.
19	* ArcWords: "Please, come home". The person over the radio keeps repeating this phrase throughout the story as Laynie reports to them, and the person (different depending on which ending you take) who finds you at the end of the story repeats it to you one last time, with added context.
20	* BodyHorror: Throughout the game, you have to extract various items and [[SelfSurgery perform impromptu surgery]] to find out what happened to Laynie's body.
21	** You have to extract [[EyeScream Laynie's glass eye]].
22	** There's a chip [[{{Fingore}} buried in her hand]], which you have to extract.
23	** You have to [[TheToothHurts pull some of her teeth out, too]]. Before doing it, she says "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck I should have stolen]] [[DrFeelgood some vodka, too]]."
24	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Laynie's backstory in 5 of the 6 endings. You just have to figure out which it was.
25	* DomesticAbuse: One ending has Laynie attributing all of the strange things about her body to her ex-boyfriend, Johann, who abused her.
26	* TheGovernment: In one of the endings, Laynie is a [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]], and the government put a tracking device and a glass eye with a code on it inside of her to track her.
27	* HandWave:
28	** The fake teeth, the chip, and the thing in Laynie's stomach all end up back in her body after being examined, even when they can't, or shouldn't, be put back in.
29	** The strange parts found in your skeleton if the ending contrasts with them. For example, if Johann is the reason Laynie's skeleton is so strange, then why does she have a weird plastic mass in her stomach?
30	* HumanAlienDiscovery: In one ending, aptly named "Alien", Laynie realizes that she's just that.
31	* IdentityAmnesia: The premise of the game. Laynie can't tell who she is and why her skeleton is so weird.
32	* ManchurianAgent: One ending has you realizing that Laynie is this.
33	* MultipleEndings: 6 in total.
34	** [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]]: You were drafted as a child.
35	** [[TheGovernment Artificial]]: You're part of a dystopian society, and these are all adjustments made by the government.
36	** [[DomesticAbuse Johann]]: You had an abusive ex-boyfriend named Johann, and the injuries are resulting from him.
37	** [[HumanAlienDiscovery Alien]]: The strange parts of your body are all due to you being an extraterrestrial being.
38	** [[ManchurianAgent Activated]]: You're a Russian sleeper agent.
39	** [[IAmWhatIAm Acceptance]]: You accept that this is your body, and the [[FreakierThanFiction strange parts of your skeleton are natural]].
40	* NoodleIncident: If you click on the medkit before examining any new body parts, Laynie says to herself, "We promised to stop digging randomly in our flesh".
41	* NothingIsScarier: The premise of the game. You are absolutely certain that [[ParanoiaFuel the body you're living in is not yours]], and the abnormalities of your skeleton are because of a vague event you have no recollection of.
42	* TheRunaway: Laynie runs away to the country to discover what's up with her body.
43	* VomitIndiscretionShot: You get a full view of Laynie [[{{Squick}} throwing up the mass in her body]].
44	* SelfSurgery: You have to perform surgery on yourself many times before finding an ending.
45	----
46	-> Please, come home.

Context VideoGame / ElevenFortyFiveAVividLife