High School Master Version 0.372 Apr 2026

End of Version 0.372.

You sit in your usual seat: third row, second from the window, where the morning sun makes the dust motes look like save icons. Your interface flickers.

You skip lunch and use the Janitor’s Key on the basement door. The server room is hot, humming, and filled with monitors displaying security footage of every hallway—but the footage is from different versions of the school. In one, you’re a freshman. In another, you never existed. Riley’s avatar stands in the corner, frozen mid-walk cycle, her dialogue box reading: “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to crash the timeline.”

When you arrive, Principal Harper (a recurring antagonist since 0.200, originally just a stat debuff but now a full character) offers you a deal. “Forget Riley. Pass the semester. We’ll write you a recommendation letter for any college you want. All you have to do is stop investigating.” High School Master Version 0.372

To free her, you must delete one of the 372 versions of yourself. The game asks: Which Alex Chen is the real one?

The bells ring once more. But this time, they sound like laughter.

[Riley’s name is not called. This is the 11th consecutive day. Sanity -2.] End of Version 0

Your objective updates: [Save Riley? Or save the timeline?]

“You’re back,” he says. His voice is calm, like a system notification. “Day 11. You always come here on Day 11.”

The bell rings again. . The hallway snaps back to normal—students pour out of classrooms, laughter returns, the lockers have handles again. Marcus is standing by the water fountain, perfectly fine, asking if you want to split a bag of chips. You skip lunch and use the Janitor’s Key

The clock reads . But your phone—an in-game item with accurate system time—says 8:13 .

You find him outside Room 117—the old computer lab, sealed since Version 0.312 after the “Sentient Gradebook” incident.