MR. PULP
sleepless / bureau-adjacent
NET NUCLEUS presents a debt simulator
OVEREXTRACTED
a barista is only as steady as their debt
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01
Botch a pour and your tremor grows. The cursor wanders. The timing lies. The next mistake gets easier — and the creature across the counter leans in. You can always breathe. Breathing costs time. They count time.
HOLD & TRACE THE HEART — your hands are already shaking
02
Five of them. Each with a voice you will learn to hear in the blips. Hover to be spoken to.
THE CHOIR
plural / practicing a note
THE LONG PATRON
tall / patient / wrong
THE REGULAR
inherited the habit
THE COLLECTOR
the debt, embodied
03
YOU OWE
$0
IIIIIIIVVVIVII
Quotas keep the Collector off your back. Freedom needs more: surplus, tips, nerve. Every night you walk home, check the answering machine, and sleep badly. Your aunt left a message. The message is forty years old. It arrived today.
04
A good cup tempts the guest's coin. Double or nothing. Triple, if it feels heavy. Win, and it offers again, meaner. The desperate gamble. The careful walk away. Try it:
[ CLICK THE COIN ]
05
8craft minigames, all sabotaged by your own tremor
17random events — the bulb dies, the coins whisper, the milk fights back
5regulars with literal voices — every letter blips in their throat
12story beats with choices that cost more than money
4ways to gamble what you cannot afford
1debt. it is the whole point. it knows your name
480×270honest PSX pixels — vertex wobble, affine swim, dithered dark
~40minutes per run, if your hands hold
the night shift starts now
OPENTHE DOOR
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