The Omnivore Trials

Game Idea/WIP

Connor Reid

Jan 03, 2024

The Omnivore Trials: A Rehabilitation For Ratlike People

A spritual successor and meta-sequel to the 1995 video game 'Drowned God: Conspiracy of The Ages'

Short Horror Game

- Point & Click

- First Person Perspective

- 3D Renders but 2D navigation, etc

- Pre-rendered Backgrounds

- Inventory System

- Description/Investigation system

- Computer Interface

- Text Based (No voice acting)

- Cutscenes

- Animations

- Sound & Music

- Puzzles

- Journals/Manifesto

- Visions

- Floatation tanks as fast travel? Or to transition between worlds? Maybe he doesn't sleep in a bed? Possibly using an astrological chart in the darkness to pick where to fast travel to

- Some kind of item or puzzle related to translating and understanding ancient languages/scripts you encounter (Aramaic, Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Coptic, Cuneiform, etc)? Before doing this - talking to angels for example will just show Hebrew text on screen and afterwards it'll be shown in English

Tools & Software

Midjourney
Stable Diffusion
Photography

Photoshop
Fspy
Blender (3D Work)

Modo (Modeling)
Mixamo (Rigging)

Visionaire Studio (Game Engine)

Miro (Planning)
FMOD (Audio Implementation)
Ableton Live (Music)

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Overview

You are Number 7. Ezekiel.

You are living in someone else's house.

You are an intruder.

Don't be detected. Avoid them at all costs. Don't leave evidence. You DO NOT exist.

This is YOUR house.

At first the player is not aware of the fact that you are the phrogger/home invader living in someone else’s home. Waking up in your ‘own’ bed like it was a normal day. The family to begin with aren’t present in the home and arrive back from a holiday to Ezekiel’s surprise and fear - having him hide from them as to not make his presence known. The player must have some suspicion that he is an unreliable narrator and that the family are the invaders.

After their return - Ezekiel makes comments about the fact things have been moved around the house, food has been eaten, etc and is convinced he is sleepwalking or must have misremembered, etc. When on the family computer he closes their innocent tabs and slowly begins to search for more and more strange and unhinged things like ‘Gender Reassignment Surgery’ and ‘Where to buy a hospital gurney?’. Purporting that he may be a surgeon, in the medical field, etc at first but slowly creating doubt in the player.

Ezekiel is receiving messages from a higher power and having visions revealing the 'Great Truth' about mankind's origin and history - everything you've known, it's all been a lie.
These visions and dreams occur while sleeping in the attic of the House. Ezekiel visits The Garden of Eden/Paradise in which he is shown and gains ancient knowledge. A place of gnosis and learning. Beautiful, abstract, non-euclidean and alien; The player wanders around solving nonsensical puzzles, reading documents, being visited by angels and taking in the environment. You learn the 72 names of God and the explicit name of God ‘Shem ha-Mephorash' from the leaves of The Tree of Life. A Cherubim and flaming sword guard the entrance to The Garden.

Ezekiel awakes to having written a manifesto called ‘Cosmetology & The Omnivore Trials: A Rehabilitation For Ratlike People’ which outlines his intentions and missions on Earth. He has no memory of doing so.
Ezekiel plans on creating the sacred androgyny ‘Adam Kadmon’ from surgically stitching together various body parts from the family - he is convinced they are a subhuman species called ‘Omnivores’ and must be purified to inherit ‘The Great Truth’. They must be rehabilitated.

Ezekiel studies each invader as closely as he can while avoiding detection. Forming profiles for each family member and analysing them in their sleep.
Build, find and create surgical equipment, sigils and relics to perform the ritual; Cleansing their lips with hot coals. Adorning them in magick spells and amulets. Lastly, painting The Tree of Life on Adam’s body.

You will also develop the sequel to the video game 'Drowned God' called CULT on the family's computer at the end of each day before sleep. This is seen as a tool to be used for spreading the secrets of existence, providing the masses with a way to unlock ‘The Great Truth’…If they are worthy. Reshape yourself. Reshape now. Reshape history.

Fake ‘Drowned God’ Sequel Plot (CULT) :

- You must challenge and elude the Men In Black to find the final and 4th relic 'The Ark of The Covenant'.

- Legion (Greys/Aliens) are coming.

- You have disobeyed Kether & Malchut. There will be consequences.

- Focused mainly around Area 51

Ezekiel eventually cannot tell the difference between what he created in CULT, his visions and reality. Thinking the game is sending him messages, even though he programmed the game and it’s based on fiction. He is then convinced his next mission is to find The Ark of The Covenant and reunite the other three Relics (Rod of Osiris, The Holy Grail and the Philosopher's Stone) mentioned in Drowned God. These relics hold the power to reshape the world as one sees fit and hold insurmountable power. This is only possible by finding The Ark in The Garden of Eden - Which cannot be visited in the waking world.

Ezekiel gets in contact with Edward Cayce (The psychic from Drowned God) through a chatroom online and he informs Ezekiel that he is being monitored by ‘The Men in Black’, ‘Kether’ and ‘Malchut’. He finds out that there are some individuals who lived before the fall of Atlantis known as ‘Lost Angels’ or ‘Nephilim’. Ezekiel is one of these individuals, Kether and Malchut also. There have existed 6 before him and so far, none have succeeded. The Nephilim are currently fighting a battle that will determine the fate of man and the universe - each has their own interpretations and agendas about what Paradise should be like when they finally return to it and these ideologies clash.

Sharing this information eventually leads to Cayce’s kidnapping/death without your knowing and the MIB start impersonating Cayce to try to find more out about Ezekiel, his intentions and location. Ezekiel figures out this is a trap and he is being lied to, fearful of the information he has shared by confiding in Cayce. This adds an urgency and paranoia to the game to finish your mission; as they might come for you next. Was this all real?

WIP:

God’s Throne may be the last area in the game. Mirroring Ezekiel in the Tanakh’s vision of God and his Holy Angels (Cherubim, Seraphim and Ophanim). Will he die? Will he go mad? Will he reject the truth? Will he enter in peace and leave in peace?

Or should there be some kind of body horror interfacing with Adam Kadmon, God’s Throne or The Ark of The Covenant which involves cutting off your own limbs and attaching them to something, like what Ezekiel did to the family to create Adam?

Possibly combine/crossover Operation Sunray plot points/themes into this? The Ark of Covenant being worshipped by a cult of rotting, burnt people who do not realise it is a source of radiation. They use it to cook food, keep warm, adorn themselves with radioactive dust and consider it a blessing - even as their hair falls out, skin falls off and limbs are destroyed.

An 'Orphan Source' they think is magical which they ingest to give them insight and powers.

Bleak Ending? Transcendent? Bizarre and unfulfilling?

Is Ezekiel the same character as who we play as in Drowned God?

Ezekiel finding the book 'The Diary of A Plagiarist' by Richard Horne aka Enroh Drahcir from 1846 in the Library of Alexandria?

Lipton weapon, Havana Syndrome and sonic harassment?

Possible exploration of Area 51, military temples (Contains artifacts from ruins of The Library of Alexandria) and underground bunkers through some kind of astral projection by Ezekiel through his computer screen and into the game CULT. Experiments with human flesh, machines of mutilation, weapons that spread disease and miasma and weapons that drive people mad with sound. The instruments of torture are indescribable, something Ezekiel does not have the science nor knowledge to explain. There are creatures here though, stored in vessels...That are NOT of this Earth.

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Environments

Two separate worlds to explore

- Eden/Paradise which takes the form of your dreams and visions. A place of gnosis and learning. Beautiful, abstract, non-euclidean and alien. Full of nonsensical puzzles, visitations of angels and pieces of manuscripts. Find the Ark of The Covenant.

- The house. A dark, foreboding place of bodily horror, fear, change and tribulations. Where you will cleanse the subhumans to make the sacred androgyny 'Adam Kadmon'. Performing surgery on the family and stitching their parts together. Cleansing their lips with hot coals. Adorning them in magick spells and amulets. You will also develop the sequel to 'Drowned God' CULT on the family's computer at the end of each day before sleep.

Locations:

Eden/Pardes/Paradise

Divine Garden (Guarded by Cherubim & a flaming sword. Within the garden is a pillar of fire and smoke which Ezekiel must climb that extends to the higher Gan Eden)

Tree of Life (The leaves of the Tree adorned in the 72 names of God which will reveal the explicit name 'Shem ha-Mephorash')

Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Primordial Waters (The ruins of Atlantis, the AI ran Earth Coincidence Control Office, Joint Analog Numerical Understanding System computer system & site of Atum's Blue Lotus)

The Ark of The Covenant (Some kind of highly radioactive fuel source? Some kind of explanation of why it kills so many people in holy scripture)

God's Throne (Domain of God's Throne/Chariot and the Cherubim, Seraphim and Ophanim)

The House

The Attic (Once Ezekiel begins sleeping there it becomes more adorned with reliefs, relics, Occult symbols, etc as days pass)

Living Room

Bedrooms

Toilet

Basement (Where the rehabilitation of The Omnivores will take place and Adam Kadmon will be created. Notice the 'As Above, So Below' reference)

Kitchen

Area 51

Underground Bunker
Military Temple (Contains the Library of Alexandria and/or The Akashic Records)

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Character Names

- Ezekiel or 7 (Prophet from the Tanakh who has visions from god and sees the throne of god and his angels).

- Family (Names unknown to begin with, the mother is deaf)

- Sophia (Mother)

- Aster (Father)

- Rose (Daughter)

- Adam (Son)

- Edward Cayce

Manifesto name

- Cosmetology & The Omnivore Trials: A Rehabilitation For Ratlike People

Game Titles

- The Omnivore Trials: A Rehabilitation For Ratlike People

- Aion (Possible subtitle?)

- Aion: God of The Ages

- CULT

(Only 'The Omnivore Trials' visible in logo. No subtitle)

References

- Drowned God - Both the game and the real story of Harry Horse

- Myst

- Riven

- Ring

- Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

- Bad Day On The Midway

- The Dark Eye

- Home invaders, stalkers and phroggers

- My experiences growing up

- Bible, Tanakh & Gnostic Gospels

- Zoroastrianism

- Mythology

- Conspiracy Theories

- Rosicrucianism

- Alchemy, Occult & Alternative History

- Kabbalah

- Carl Jung

- The Double

- Man In The Iron Mask

- House of Leaves

- Blue Velvet

- 3-Iron

- MyHouse.WAD

- Discover My Body

- Water Womb World

- Following

- Quern

- One Hour Photo

- Silent Hill 4

- Xenogears

- Bloodborne/The Paleblood Hunt

- Stalker/Roadside Picnic

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Quotes

"As Above, So Below"

"Trust too deeply and you will know the wickedness in men's hearts"

"Man is a mortal god, god is an immortal man"

"The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?"

"I believe in God, only because I'm well educated"

"It's hard to tell whether the world we live in is either a reality or a dream."

”They say that the Earth will have to be destroyed twice, once by water, and this has already happened...In the future it will be destroyed for the second time by fire”

"Do I even exist? I don't feel like I'm here yet"

"I am a cosmonaut venturing into the unknown inner spaces of the unconscious. I bring back scattered fragments of the dream and try to weave some semblance of coherence"

"I don't think words make everything understandable"

"Slip Into The Supreme"

"Do not be afraid" (Most commonly spoken phrase in the bible when angels appear to humans)

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Lore

Chapter 1: As Above

Osiris awoke, so that he might lead the Children of Man in the Garden, and took a wife, and they lay together in the Union of the Sun and the Moon.

And great was the Love that our Lord had for his wife, and called her Isis, that she may be the Moon, to stand at his right hand.

Then they made Man in their image, to give them dominion over the Garden, to live in peace with each other and the animals in a union of balance in both light and dark.

Four men entered pardes (Paradise/Eden) - Azzai, Zoma, Acher, and Akiba. Azzai looked into the Garden and died; Zoma looked and went mad; Acher apostatised and attempted to destroy the plants; Akiba entered in peace and departed in peace.

One law was made, that they might not touch or see the Tree of Life, the Kabbalah, for all the secrets in there would bring harm unto the children.

Then Horus came into the Garden, and saw that the Secret was safe, for the Firebird, The Rod, The Cup, and the Stone were not destroyed.

So he took up dominion over the Nephilim and taught them how to cut stone with light and turn water to fire.

When Horus heard that Osiris had taken a bride He was angered and cried out "Why hast thou so defiled thyself that thou might lie with an animal?"

Then Horus, for he is the Serpent, hid in the Garden that he might trick Isis.

When Isis was alone in the Garden, Horus came to her and said, Am I not fair to thee that I would show you the greatest of the secrets, the Tree of Life? Come and I will show thee.

And Isis answered not and was afraid, for she knew that the Serpent meant to harm her.

And when Horus found that Isis would not aid him betray Osiris, he plotted with his conspirators to kill Our Lord.

He took the firebird, the Rod, and slew him. This is the first Truth, and is the testimony of Baphomet.

And a great cry went up to Heaven, when it was learned that our Lord was dead, and would not walk in the Garden again.

Then, brother fell on brother and fought like beasts, and slew those they most loved, even their wives and children were not spared the sword. Much blood was spilt to his name, and the suffering was terrible, so great was their love for Osiris.

This is the last part of Genesis, the history of the people of Isis, the Nephilim, and the secret remains that Men have kept the identity of the goddess hidden, though her signs are everywhere, if you have eyes to see them.

Here ends the first Garden, though this paradise shall come again, for the world goes on forever.

"Climb the Tree of Life to Heaven Ten apples to the spiral stair. First the lodges, then the Realms, To Chesed, Binah, Din, and Chokmah. Judgement gives the Sun and the World. Where then, the hidden realms?”

Chapter 2: So Below

In the beginning existed only a great chaotic cosmic primordial ocean (Nun) before a Blue Lotus flower arose on the ocean floor. Seeded by the immaterial God of The Sky (Horus). The flower then blossomed - Emerging the self-created (Atum).

He was the first god of the material world, creator of himself. Seeing the nothingness around him, he determined to create a world. He had intercourse with himself, becoming pregnant and using his mouth as a womb. When he spat out his gestation, he created the twin god and goddess named Shu and Tefnut, siblings and lovers who shared a single soul.

There was still no light in the primordial darkness, and Atum could not find his children. He ripped out both his eyes in desperation and sent one to look for Shu and Tefnut - The other to Illuminate the darkness. Once his eyes and children returned to him and upon seeing his creations - He could not help but weep - Bringing life into being.

Due to his betrayal and slaying by his kin in his home province of the immaterial - Osiris decides to flee to the material world in opposition to both Horus and Isis - Which results in their great displeasure and eventual plans to kill their lord again; as they do not think humanity are worthy of inheriting Paradise and living in the second Garden.

Isis - God of the material and immaterial worlds. Said to be the most powerful of all gods, with the power to control fate itself.

Horus - God of the Sky, claims he is the last of his kind but this is not true. Son and creation of both Osiris and Isis. In opposition to Osiris and first to make contact with humanity after the Roswell incident. Made deals with The Majestic-12. The creator and/or ally of Legion - which appear to be artificial creations; as they have barcodes on their hands, are suffering with genetic disorders that worsen with time and are referred to as 'Automatons' by Baphomet. It's also possible the Horus gene was used to create them and they are a genetic hybrid - which would explain their insistence on continuing genetic experimentation on humans. Possibly seeking a solution to their inherited obsolescence.

Is Horus as malevolent as he seems?

Osiris - God of the dead, The Drowned God, a Non-Human Intelligence who fled his home of the immaterial, founding Atlantis on Earth and shepherding humanity before The Great Flood. Both husband and creation of Isis - His death and Exodus from the immaterial caused him to forget his origins and past. Bringing with him only the innate truth of humanity.

He took Isis as a wife on Earth in a holy union of the Sun and the Moon. He was eventually betrayed by her and Horus. Being drowned in a deluge, resurrected and imprisoned for eternity as The Drowned God. His 'death' resulted in the loss of The Great Truth in humanity's collective unconscious and cemented their fate to live in the realm of the material - losing their privilege to walk among God's and The Garden of Eden. Humanity spends their future relearning and uncovering what they have lost.

Is he truly as benevolent as he seems?

Atlantis is an AI ran base and representation of Paradise in the material world that non-human intelligence (Osiris) created. Inhabited by both primogenial humans and Gods alike. It was used for genetic experimentation by Horus and Legion without Osiris' knowledge. Horus creating the 'primitive' human race which would eventually make up the twelve tribes.

It was suddenly abandoned and eventually fell into ruin due to humans lacking the knowledge to operate and maintain it - This brought about a great flood orchestrated by Isis which drowned the great city and Osiris along with it - leaving it eternally forgotten.

After the deluge, the dominion of the sons of god was over and now the twelve tribes of humanity spread to the four corners of the world.

The Gnosis truly did not drown in the deluge though - they would find the AI (NOAH) ran biomechanical Ark which Osiris left for them to create their own life and what was left of Atlantis; Finding in their own DNA who created them and how. Humans would go on to conspire to hide this information for generations. Encoding it in art, writings, teachings to pass on the information to those worth of possessing such knowledge. Passed down from Atlantis to Egypt, down through the Twelve Tribes, from Moses to Solomon to the Shambala Monastery, to the Messiah and the Madonna, to the Holy Lodge of the Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion, the Rosy Cross, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the 33 levels of Freemasonry stored in the buried vaults of the Vatican.

Legion continued to experiment on humans throughout history without their consent.

The Kether Lodge (Fallen angels or Nephilim of the material world) worship Osiris with a heavy focus on technology, logic and patriarchies . Believes there are no conspiracies and the universe is only governed by Chaos. They desire to reshape Paradise and return to it. Most definitely malevolent.

The Malchut Lodge (Fallen angels or Nephilim of the immaterial world) worship Isis, exalting nature over technology and emphasise emotion over logic. They desire to reshape Paradise and return to it. Most definitely malevolent.

In 1945 the Vatican having recovered a UFO wreck during Mussolini's time in office and making a deal with the USA to have religion be kept in power and the USA being made to not disprove the existence of god by revealing the discovery of NHI - They would only hand over the ship if they maintained this disinformation for the entire foreseeable future. The Vatican would then maintain that none of this occurred in return and suppress the truth - Supporting the USAs agenda to keep the existence of UFOs and NHI a secret. This was the first recovery of an intact craft of exotic origin.

After the rapid escalation of knowledge of the existence of NHI due to the Vatican's UFO exotic craft recovery, the dead pilots recovered in The Roswell Incident, etc. Horus made contact with the MJ-12 and made perverse deals with them to assure mutual secrecy of both parties agendas - all the while allowing himself greater control and leverage.

During The Last Days, humanity will uncover the records of Atlantis in The Library of Alexandria and know that Solon did not lie in his account to Plato of the great primeval city that once existed in the Atlantic ocean.

And when the Four Creatures align (Leo, Taurus, Scorpio and Aries) the world will be covered by fire. Does this allude to a nuclear destruction caused by The Ark of The Covenant? Destruction or purification by God?

”They say that the Earth will have to be destroyed twice, once by water, and this has already happened...In the future it will be destroyed for the second time by fire”

The events of 'Drowned God: Conspiracy of The Ages' unfold - Number 6 uncovers The Great Truth and succeeds in uniting three Relics (Rod of Osiris, Philosopher's Stone and Holy Grail) but ultimately fails to find the fourth and final relic, The Ark of The Covenant due to intervention by MJ-12. Number 6 meets 'The Relic Hunter' or Number 5 who also failed in his task. The only difference being he recovered only one relic but this happens to be The Ark but informs Number 6 it cannot be found in the material world. He ultimately gives up his material and immaterial body - Which allows Number 6 to inherit his findings and hopes he does the same; Allowing the possibility of the next reincarnation to uncover this wisdom. The next incarnation being Number 7. Ezekiel.

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Systems

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Design

Music References:

Drowned God
Pathologic 1 & 2
Silent Hill
Fallout 1 & 2
Darkness Within
Planescape: Torment
Bad Mojo
Lovely Sweet Dream (LSD)
MDK 2
Thief 1, 2 & 3
Descent 2
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Einstürzende Neubauten
Warp Records
The Residents
Lustmord
Swans
Dark ambient
Industrial

Cursor References:

HUD References:

Puzzle Design & Ideas:

Music/sound based puzzle involving interfacing with the JANUS computer in the underwater ECCO base ran by AI. Through manipulation of symbols the system allows humans to communicate with underwater beings by converting it into ultrasonic or infrasonic signals which are played into the water. The same in reverse is also true. The player will be matching symbols to sounds and vice versa.

Adam Kadmon ritual puzzle involving arranging body parts, stitching them together and chopping them apart. Performing ritual magick by cleansing their lips with hot coals. Adorning them in magick spells, sigils and amulets. You will reference a visual guide of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and your manuscript.

Alchemic puzzle involving making homemade tinctures to use on the family for transmutation and anaesthesia purposes.

In Alchemy there are three main elements called the three primes or 'Tria Prima' of which all material substances are made; Sulphur, Mercury and Salt. Sulphur represents the soul, Mercury the spirit and Salt the body. Mercury is the transitory element between Sulphur and Salt - The medium through which invisible and immaterial consciousness can be placed within the world and reside in matter.