The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing



""I've never heard of this particular summer camp, but it was cheap and we were broke.""

A Let's Play of Animal Crossing: Wild World by Chewbot, a Darker and Edgier version of the cute little game you know and love.

This is the story of eight-year-old Billy and his wondrous adventures at "Camp". Arriving at what seems to be an innocuous summer camp with nothing but the clothes on his back (the driver took off with his things in the trunk), Billy quickly finds himself in an empty house with a dead land line and no way of escape. He's quickly informed that he's in debt for a house he didn't buy and then swindled into working for Tom Nook, a Mafia-like raccoon he suddenly owes money to.

...But there's more. Something is off about the camp; there are no other kids around except him, and the only company he has are that of animated talking animals. Everyone in the camp seems to be in on some secret, and Billy can't trust any of them. Some of them even disappear suddenly during the night, leaving without a trace. With his world spiraling out of control, Billy takes matters into his own eight-year-old hands and attempts to find out what dark, dirty secret this cute little place is keeping...

And it all goes downhill from there.

Can be found here. Happy reading and sweet dreams.

Other Let's Play style stories he's written include Plague and Treachery On The Oregon Trail, which is much Lighter and Softer than this story, for those who might have trouble sleeping tonight.

"No toilet, no sink, not even a goddamn chair. I get a cardboard box, a candle with no matches and a boom box that only plays one song. And it fucking skips."
 * The Alcatraz: Much of the story is about Billy's attempts to escape the camp.
 * And Then John Was a Zombie:
 * Apocalyptic Log: Nook's diary.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The description of Billy's "new" "cabin":

"Tom Nook:."
 * Artifact of Doom: Those aren't all that they seem...
 * Art Shift: The LP slowly goes from screenshots to drawn artwork. Goes into full effect in the pro-box ending.
 * Audio Adaptation: Only Chapters 1 and 12 were done.
 * Ax Crazy:
 * Baleful Polymorph
 * Big Bad: Tom Nook,
 * Biological Mashup
 * Body Horror: If you consider body horror, then yeah.
 * It's revealed that, but for real horror,.
 * Book Ends: Anti-box ending only.
 * Choose Your Own Adventure: It works out about as well, too.
 * Crazy Survivalist: Billy. Did we mention he's only eight years old?
 * Crap Saccharine World: The epitome of this trope. Everything's all cute animals on the outside, hard-to-top horror on the inside.
 * Cute and Psycho: Billy in the anti-box end.
 * Dark Fic
 * Darker and Edgier
 * Deconstruction: More or less showing just how disturbing finding oneself in a world full of Anthropomophic Animals and not being able to leave would be. To say nothing about how most of us would react to being confronted by such creatures in Real Life.
 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * Downer Ending:
 * Driven to Suicide:
 * : In some ways,
 * Eyepatch of Power: Well, it's more of a band aid, but it doesn't make little Billy any less badass.
 * Eye Scream:.
 * Face Revealing Turn: does it here (spoiler warning).
 * Fate Worse Than Death: In hindsight, is bad, but  is even worse.
 * Fisher Kingdom
 * Fridge Logic: In-universe; Billy wonders how Penny could send a balloon message every day without being noticed, how she stole Nook's notebook, and how she escaped from Nook. He ignores all of this in favor of allowing himself to believe that he's finally found someone he can trust,
 * Genre Savvy: Billy, most of the time. For example, in the pro-box ending,.
 * Hope Spot: The early balloon arc. Billy gets messages in balloons from a girl named Penny, someone who might be an ally; from this he starts piecing things together about the camp, and he eventually figures out that there are other kids and they might even be able to escape all together...
 * I Am Spartacus: Played with.
 * Infant Immortality: Averted, and how!
 * Kick Them While They Are Down:
 * To be entirely fair,
 * Let's Play
 * MacGuffin: Subverted with the Gyroids.
 * Metamorphosis
 * Multiple Endings: Pro-Box or Anti-Box. Take your pick.
 * No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: . Chewbot states that he chose this because of how brutally raw beating someone with your fists is.
 * One-Scene Wonder: Mr. Resetti appears in the anti-box ending to yell at Billy for and give him a life lesson.
 * Only Sane Man: Billy
 * Precision F-Strike: Invoked many times, despite the fact that the narrator is only eight years old.
 * To be fair,
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Tom Nook, a few times.
 * Subverted in that.
 * Sanity Slippage
 * Schmuck Bait: for people who come into it knowing what to expect. "Hey, it can't be that bad... *several chapters later* FFFF-...
 * Shout-Out:
 * Chapter 10 is called "Weighted Companion Box."
 * Chapter 8 is called "Heart of Darkness." While this seems to be a coincidence at first, in this chapter, acts very similarly to Kurtz from the novella.
 * Sir Swearsalot: Billy, who happens to be 8 years old.
 * Smug Snake: Tom Nook, or at least how Billy sees him.
 * Sugar Apocalypse
 * Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted in the final chapter.
 * The End - or Is It?: In the epilogue, Billy wonders... If the
 * Title Drop: Of the original game.
 * Town with a Dark Secret
 * Was Once a Man:
 * Wham! Episode: Chapter 10. Boy, howdy.
 * Chapter 8 as well, because this is when Billy finds out, among other things, that
 * Wham! Line:
 * Town with a Dark Secret
 * Was Once a Man:
 * Wham! Episode: Chapter 10. Boy, howdy.
 * Chapter 8 as well, because this is when Billy finds out, among other things, that
 * Wham! Line:


 * Also, in the form of the picture of that Billy pieces together.
 * " died unloved and alone in a dirty hole like an animal".
 * Where Are They Now? Epilogue:
 * X Meets Y: Animal Crossing meets Silent Hill. Yahtzee probably did it first, but this one actually did it to even more disturbing levels.
 * Either that or Animal Crossing meets The Island.
 * Animal Crossing meets Lord of the Flies, in Tom Nook's own words.
 * Turned Up to Eleven, apparently.
 * Maybe some Island of Doctor Moreau, for good measure?