A 24/7 horror-folk livestream
It begins hollow.
You fill it.
One empty monster, woven of husk and wicker. It knows nothing. Every comment in chat is a tithe: a word it keeps, a habit it learns. Feed it long enough and it builds, mates, breeds and dies, and what's left behind is a civilization nobody planned.
Live census
Live census
- Alive
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- Born
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- Dead
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- Generations
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- Shelters
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- Words learned
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How the tithe works
You don't control the monsters. You shape what they become.
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Chat feeds it
Every comment is an offering. Words taught by many different viewers carry more weight than one voice shouting, so no single person can steer it alone.
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It learns
The hollow thing picks up words, habits and fears. What it learns changes how it thinks and what it does next.
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It builds shelter
It gets hungry. It gets cold. It gets afraid of the dark. To survive, it gathers food and weaves itself a place to hide.
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It finds a mate
Given time and luck, it isn't alone anymore. Monsters pair up on their own terms.
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It reproduces
Offspring inherit their parents' traits, with mutations, and carry some of the words chat taught them. Then the old ones die.
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A civilization grows
Generations stack up. Factions, names and a shared culture emerge from what chat fed them. Nobody wrote the ending.
Watch the brood
Live around the clock once we launch. Talk in the stream's chat to feed it.
The stream starts soon.
The hollow thing is waiting for its first words. Check back shortly.
The rules
There is no winning.
No score, no finish line, no final boss. The world just keeps going, and it's yours to shape.
Everything is mortal.
Monsters age, starve, freeze and die. A favorite can be gone by morning. Its children remember some of what it knew.
Chat nudges, it doesn't command.
You feed words and ideas into the culture. The monsters still decide what to do with them.
One tithe: $1 a month.
A flat supporter tier is coming soon. It isn't available yet, and nothing is being charged.
Questions
Can I win?
No. There's nothing to win. You're helping a strange civilization grow, and watching what it becomes.
Do the monsters really die?
Yes. They die of old age, hunger, exposure and other causes. Death is permanent. What survives is what they passed on to their offspring.
Can one person take over the monster?
No. A word's influence grows with the number of different viewers who teach it, so one loud account can't unlock everything. Commands only nudge the culture; they don't control individual monsters.
How is chat moderated?
Chat follows the streaming platform's rules and ours: no hate, harassment, threats or sexual content. Messages that break them get removed, and their senders can be banned. Duplicate comments are filtered out before they ever reach the world.
Is the content graphic?
The look is dark horror-folk: husks, antlers, wicker and things that go hungry in the night. Some scenes include monster death and may carry a mature-content label on the streaming platform.
How do I support it?
A flat $1-a-month supporter tier is coming soon. It isn't open yet, so there's nothing to buy and no payment is collected on this site. For now, the best support is showing up in chat.