#oneshot freeware

[ask-the-world-machine]

Oh wait has anyone told you about that alternate version of yourself that had a simulation were Niko could die? Also the Author's kids don't seem to exist there

[...]

[I have not heard of this before.]

[I...]

[...]

[Realistically, it was just a test build. If his children were not present, then, that version of Niko was likely simply a recreation of them. To gauge how they would react to everything. There were no likely no real people involved.]

[There is no other explanation.]

[churxstomk]

id: five doodles. first doodle on the top left is a bust shot watcher with the glass on her face cracked, and shards and squares surrounding her. she has the cross popping veins symbol on the top right of her face. second doodle is a full body shot of watcher standing with glass shards and square durrounding her. third image is a bust shot of alula with her eyes closed and her hands near her scarf. fourth doodle is a bust shot of freeware entity, with lines bunching up into circular shapes to indicate that freeware is made up of fumes. they are looking to the right. last doodle is a full body shot of watcher by a side view, with her hands clasped together and a question mark near her face. /end id

[freeware-entity]

Yo! Freeware! I've got a question. Why DO you act like this to everyone?

Because anyone who has fried eggs for eyes and a lightbulb sticker patch on their face deserves it.

[oneshot-minus-niko]

OMN's Freeware Challenge - June 2024

[Something is coming soon. Something known as 'OneShot Freeware's 10 year anniversary'...]

[The first versions of OneShot are turning 10 years old on June 30, 2024.]

[To celebrate, we will be hosting a challenge.]

[Below, you will find a list of 30 prompts—one for each day of the month of June. With these prompts, we would like to encourage the creation of OneShot-related fanworks.]

[Be wary of the corruption known as Pressure. There are no requirements and no deadlines. However, we encourage you to use image descriptions to ensure your work can be enjoyed by everyone.]

[To help us reach you, you can signal your posts with the "#OMN Freeware Challenge" tag.]

[Find a plain text version of the prompt list below the cut.]

Prompt list:

The Old World

Maize's Rebirth

Lamplighter gets a break

Watcher leaves her post

Kelvin and his cats

Robots in the Barrens

AU - Bodyswap

Rowbot adventures

Celebrating Solstice day

How do object-heads work?

A day at Ling's cafe

Dark alley shenanigans

The Author's final days

AU - Someone else is the messiah

Original Character

Silver and the Incident

A day in Kip's labs

Magpie negotiating

Prophet duty

The Entity's first words

AU - Flash-forward into the future

Silver plays chess with someone else

Calamus and Alula fishing

George meets other Georges

Taming a robot

Inverted personality

Break the fourth wall

AU - There is no messiah

Crossover of your choice

Freeware with a returned sun.

[komishko]

Day 12 - Dark Alley Shenanigans

Why do they have these devices in the Refuge?

[denkoarts]

New Life

Day 2 of Freeware Month - "Maize's Rebirth"

[anormaloneshotfan]

Day 2 - Maize’s rebirth

Mason was supposed to be surprised because he hasn’t seen Maize get out of her pot yet, but idk i don’t think I portrayed that well.

[helloiamduck]

I'm a day late, but "The Old World".

(Prompt 01 from OMN's Freeware Challenge)

[mooroficirrus]

hi im desperate. could anyone with a reddit account go Here ✨️✨️

and comment and tell op their mediafire link is broken. well its on their github page under version one, iirc, but i just need them to know its busted and i REALLY want freeware OS on my 3ds 😭😭 thanks in advance ? 🎉🎉🎉

[the-kerfus-machine]

[Well everyone... It's been a minute. I'm back, changed]

[I'll accept asks once more]

[freeware-niko]

Jigsaw puzzles!

I absolutely HATE them..

I keep losing a piece or two and it spirals to losing more pieces, it gets annoying...!

[lotus-lamps]

just a quick doodle.

(i would do oneshot freeware challenge but i dont have the energy lmao. i should also start making refs for artfight... oh well)

[freeware-entity]

Just Got Balded

Honestly I'm tired of being family friendly so FUCKING HELL. WHY.

[oneshot-minus-niko]

Maize's Rebirth.

How does life grow when it has nothing to grow from? There is a cycle, of growth, decay, and renewal, and between that cycle is life. A spirit's life is long-lasting, and it too goes through the same cycles. It's a being within itself, and one with its community.

Maize's voice was hidden, quieted down by the passage of time, and the absence of light. And yet, in the state that she was, never does she doubt of a future to come. She remembers the past's warmth and remembers its light. And so, in the darkness, a seed was left.

Soil, water, strength and community. Only dreams of a future, and one to make them reality is all that is missing. Maize's wish could not be granted, but will you try? Will you nurture the ones around you? Will you pass on that light?

[komishko]

Day 10: How do object-heads work?

There was once a terrible disease that went around. It was nearly always lethal and caused so much emotional and physical trauma to victims and their loved ones, no one even dares mention it's name nowadays.

It's symptoms would be invisible at first, then you'd get a slowly worsening headache over a day, and then, in a matter of an hour, your skull would break and melt, your muscles would grow out of proportions as well. Your head would painfully and disgustingly turn into a liquid mess of brain, flesh and blood. So I have heard at least.

In panic, a number of victims managed to contain their disintegrating heads by shoving their heads into random objects. The walls would hold the brain and nervous system from splitting apart, giving the infected a great chance to live, but this would still greatly extend the agony of it all.

The victims of the disease would suffer great mental damage and be unable to physically recover, forever stuck to be "Object-heads". Often they can't even remember their past life, hardly forming a new one.

Eventually, a successful vaccine for it was found, and the disease was completely stopped. The dozen or so people that survived by containing their head are very uncomfortable when talking about this whole situation.

Mason seems to have taken the situation really well, not sure how he recovered so well from the pain, but he seems happy with his life...

Watcher is... definitely unusual, and this disease might be the reason for it. I actually noticed that the clock did not have any springs or batteries. And I once heard that when someone turned the adjusting wheel on the back of her clock, she screamed in horrible pain...

I won't judge George's plural personality, but the flesh inside rotates the dice, every day... why

okay no.

i am not going to put this in public books.

i might burn this page. i hate this

[denkoarts]

Final Moments

Day 13 of Freeware Month - "The Author's final days"

Some rambling about this under cut

I headcanon a "bad ending" for the author being the catalyst for the events of freeware. Instead of meticulously planning things out in advance and putting his trust in a player he will never meet, he instead tries confronting the conscious world himself.

It ends poorly. The Author alias is stricken from the memories of all residents, solstice is prevented, and the author's children are likely also removed.

Of course, this headcanon was in no small part influenced by his fate depicted in The Three Nikos. It got to the point where I was once interested in making a fangame based around this, really emphasizing the title of the original game.

The Author had One Shot of his own, and boy did he screw up here-