Nomanalive

How long can one ignore the voices in their head?

Nine years. To Mark, that was the limit. 

For the majority of his life, Mark White has been fighting a constant battle for his sanity. The voices in his head pushed him toward madness one whisper at a time, and the music he used to ward against them was gradually losing its effects. 
As his mental state slowly deteriorated, Mark spent more of his time working on a game he had been developing and lamenting his lack of romantic experience. 

One night, the voices dealt him a powerful blow, bringing their battle to an end. To his surprise, Mark won the battle, but that came at a great cost.

The voices might have disappeared, but a visual hallucination arrived to replace them, taking the form of a character from his game: Maids VS Apocalypse. Little did he know that the real apocalypse was already coming for him.

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Mark wasn't a big fan of heavy metal at first, but since it was the only thing that could drown out the voices in his head, he grew dependent on it over time.

In the last couple of years, it became impossible for him to focus on anything without blasting something into his ears. It should've been obvious that the music gave him some kind of boost yet it never even occurred to him that it might reflect in his stats.

'If it's like this then…'

With his Focus stat now more than doubled, Mark decided to try something he had meant to do for some time now. He pressed B to exit the status screen then navigated to the Shop at the very bottom of the Player Menu.

Tedious.