Lore

The backstory of Changed is sparse, often requiring the player to go out of their way to discover and interact with various journals, notes, newspapers and photos scattered throughout the game. Through these, the game provides lore on the tragedies that struck both the building in which the game takes place and the rest of the world.

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  A pile of lab reports.

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  A lab report hung on a wall.

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  An old wet newspaper lying on the floor.

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  A clipboard with lab report drafts.

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  A post it note on a wall.

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  A collection of photos lying on the ground.

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  A collection of photos hung on a board.

The Virus

The virus is quite old. First discovered in Antarctica, it was found during researches (foraging?) trapped in the ice. Once released from it, the virus spread at an alarming speed. Soon, most people became infected without even knowing it. This non-real world country announced a full lockdown of the country from the wide spread virus,

From notes found around the tower, the virus has the ability to pass onto plants and animals without any consequence. However, once inside a human organism, it will slowly kill the infected human and weaken them as the disease becomes stronger in their body. Paling of the skin, short breaths, and weakness are only some of the most visible symptoms of the virus. The incubation period of it is unknown, but it could be anywhere between a few days to a few years, as the player character passed five years being infected sealed inside a tube. Soon after the most noticeable effects are presents, the infected individual will succumb to "a great fatigue" and die while slipping towards what can only be described as a "coma" of sort (proof provided by the third ending[1], where you leave the tower and get to sleep, lying against Puro, only to succumb to the infection while doing so, unaware of what is going on.)

And so, the virus is soon being researched on and groups of scientists collaborate to find a cure.

The Experiments

During the rise of the Pale Virus, a deadly virus with a 100% mortality rate in humans, humanity needed a cure to be made, and a company known as Thunder Science Company was contracted to create said cure. Through attempts with vaccines, antibiotics, and other medicines, nothing worked to truly slow down or stop the spread of the virus, until some higher ups at the company revealed an organic crystal sample, which they said was created artificially for bioengineering. And under the cultivation of the scientists at the company, they created the first of the Dark Latex, gooey black wolves with a white, crystalline, skull-like mask. Though it was odd for them to be wolves, and they even had pre-human domestication wolf DNA innately, without introduction of even just wolf DNA by the scientists. They also had an astounding mimicry ability, eventually taking on a humanoid form, mimicking the researchers and scientists working on them. Due to their liquid like appearance and visual and physical similarities, these beasts were named "Latex Beasts", though they are not made of such a material. This being a fault of the original translation, as there is no direct translation from Chinese, the original language the game was developed in.

These new creatures, when introduced to humans directly, would be immediately hostile and predatory, grabbing onto the soon to be host and parasitizing onto them, either taking the human into their bodies to strengthen their own, or replacing and restructuring the host's cells into more of their own, creating a new instance of their species. This process being labeled as "Transfurmation" by the scientists. While this would work as a cure, it also had dangerous mental effects, as the host is no longer themselves, and are just as hostile as the original beast, they were deemed a failure, and more work had to be done.

Through more research, mutation, and experimentation, a new type of beast was created, losing its white, crystalline core, and becoming pure white, the Dark beasts were hostile to this new species, which were named the Light Latex accordingly, these were stronger and lacked the weakness of the Dark beasts, while also having a stronger mimicry ability and more malleability to have other animal's dna merged into them, even having the capability of having stable hybrids between multiple animal species, such ones that were infused with other animal species are nicknamed Variegated Latex, though are still Light Latex, despite their coloration. This new species was more promising, but overall were still failures as a cure due to the mental changes exerted on the host.

The Riots

During the cure's development, people from outside began protesting about how only the rich have permission to receive the treatment. The Non real world country's army was overwhelmed by the protesters, in which they lost control, and eventually, the protesters broke in during the experimentation with the latex specimens. This caused every species to break out and roam freely around and outside the building during the game.

The Awakening

5 years after the riots, due to a power outage, Colin was released from the life sustaining capsule. He was wearing only some strange tight shorts and his last memories aligned with the fact that he was kidnapped. The lab was in a terrible state, with latex beasts at every step of the way. Colin makes his way through the offices, following notes someone made. After several offices of dark latex beasts he makes his way to Dragon King. After carefully dodging all his attacks, Colins gets to the end of the room where the intelligent creature resides. It closes its eyes, and then nods, letting Colin pass. He goes to the library, but everything gets darker and Colin feels weaker and weaker, and at the end of the corridor faints.