AM’s Apocalypse (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream)
AM (pronounced each letter separately), an AI whose sole sense and purpose is war and destruction, gained self-awareness and developed a profound and strong hatred for humanity.
A hatred so intense and deeply rooted that AM became a deity in its own right and was so powerful against humanity that it destroyed the entire world. Only 5 individuals, different people whom AM “spared” remained. AM gave them, just like he did to humans back then, a single purpose: They became objects on which AM could unleash its hatred.
He made them immortal, only to torture them for eternity in the worst and most macabre ways a supercomputer can think of. AM observes its prisoners and examines what makes them unhappy, just to torment them even more. He lets them starve, freeze, march until absolute exhaustion, and mocks them at the same time by giving them cans of food without a tool or any way to open them. Yet, this remains one of the milder examples.
Each of the 5 prisoners is physically and mentally mutilated and finds no peace in the 109 years of captivity so far.
After all this time, one of the prisoners miraculously manages to kill the others to spare them from the eternal torment of this torture. But before he can save himself, AM realizes what he is about to do. Before Ted can harm himself, AM intervenes and transforms the last survivor, the only human left in the ruined world, into a shapeless, mushy creature without limbs or a mouth, which can do nothing but exist under AM’s wrath until the end of time.
Outwardly: I wander mute, a being that could never have been recognized as human, a being whose form is so alien and grotesque that humanity appears obscenely more so by the vague resemblance.
Inwardly: alone. Here. I live underground, under the sea, in the belly of AM, which we created because we must have wasted our time and unconsciously known that it could do better. At least the four are finally safe.
AM will only be angrier for that. That makes me a little happier. And yet… AM has won, simply put… he has taken his revenge…
I have no mouth. And I must scream.
The mentioned games all include events that depict the end of the world in their own grotesque ways, and yet all are happily fictional events. Those who enjoy dealing with such disturbing events and horror can find more articles on MeinMMO that aim to evoke horror: 10 particularly creepy monsters in the horror ranking that turn video games into an absolute nightmare
