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Tomie Wants to Get Married Expansion - v1.3801 ... |WORK| File Classification: SCP-Ito-009 | Threat Level: Keter (Narrative) Author: Dr. Akasawa, Digital Ethnography Division Status: ACTIVE MEMETIC HAZARD – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE RAW

PROLOGUE: THE PATCH NOTE THAT GREW FLESH On October 17th, a seemingly innocuous update went live on a niche Japanese indie game forum. The game was Tomie Wants to Get Married , a satirical dating sim / psychological horror hybrid created by the anonymous developer "Uzumaki_Studio." Version 1.3801 was billed as a "quality-of-life expansion" adding new marriage routes, bridal skins, and a "Honeymoon Sandbox Mode." Within 72 hours, three of the beta testers had vanished. The fourth was found in a love hotel in Shinjuku, having surgically removed his own left eye and replaced it with a ceramic marble painted to resemble a mole. His only statement: "She said I wasn't looking hard enough." This document is the complete, annotated post-mortem of Expansion v1.3801 . What follows is not a review. It is a warning.

PART I: WHAT WAS TOMIE WANTS TO GET MARRIED? (A REFRESHER) For the uninitiated, the base game (v1.0) released in 2022 was a masterclass in subversion. The player controls "Kosuke," a salaryman who has a chance encounter with the impossibly beautiful, eternally youthful Tomie. Base Game Mechanics:

The Adoration Meter: Unlike standard dating sims, you are not trying to raise Tomie's affection. You are trying to keep it stable . Too low, she loses interest and finds another "suitor." Too high, she becomes obsessed, and the game triggers the "Divine Flesh" event (a non-standard game over where Tomie regenerates from your blood). The Rival System: Every male NPC in the game is secretly in love with Tomie. Your goal is not to win her heart, but to survive her heart while convincing her that you are the only one worthy of marrying her—without being murdered by the other suitors. Tomie Wants to Get Married Expansion - v1

The original ending was nihilistic: Tomie cannot be married. She is a fractal of vanity. Every proposal ends with her laughing, cutting off her own hand, growing a new Tomie from the stump, and asking, "Which one of us said yes?" It was art. It was also a memetic vector waiting to bloom.

PART II: V1.3801 – THE "ETERNAL VOW" EXPANSION The patch notes for v1.3801 were beautiful. Disturbingly so. They were written in a poetic, flowing script that did not match the developer's previous terse, bug-fix style. Highlighted Changes (Official):

New "Purity Lock" System: If the player keeps the Adoration Meter at exactly 50% for 30 consecutive in-game days, a new dialogue option appears: "Propose without expectation." The "Bridal Archive": A gallery mode featuring 38 new Tomie "forms"—each representing a different decade (1920s Flapper Tomie, 1980s Bubble Era Tomie, etc.). Honeymoon Sandbox: An infinite procedural generation mode where you and Tomie are alone on a deserted island. The goal is to "build a home that will never rot." A Hidden "True Route": Unlocked by sacrificing all other suitors to a well behind the school. The game then whispers: "Now there is only one mirror." The game was Tomie Wants to Get Married

The Unspoken Change (Discovered by Data Miners post-disaster): The game's executable grew from 2.1GB to 4.7GB. The difference was not code. It was 2.6GB of high-resolution, meticulously rendered JPEGs of Tomie's face—each one slightly different. A single frame for every human emotion. When analyzed, the metadata on these files contained GPS coordinates. Real ones. Locations of every unsolved disappearance in Japan over the past 40 years.

PART III: THE WALKTHROUGH THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST We have reconstructed the "winning" path for v1.3801 from the hard drive of the Shinjuku victim (hereafter referred to as Subject-4). He did not hack the game. He obeyed it. Step 1: The Purity Lock (Days 1-30)

Ignore Tomie's flirtations. Do not compliment her mole. Do not give her flowers. Treat her with the cold, mechanical politeness of a convenience store clerk. Subject-4 noted in his journal: "She hates it. She splits into three clones just to argue with each other about why I won't look. I stare at the wall. The wall has cracks. The cracks look like veins." What follows is not a review

Step 2: The Proposal Without Expectation (Day 31)

At exactly 50% Adoration, Tomie pauses. The music stops. A texture of a traditional Shinto wedding chapel loads over the screen. Kosuke says: "I don't want to own you. I just want to stand beside you while you devour time." Tomie smiles. A genuine smile. Not the mocking grin. The game saves. The file name is FOREVER.dat . Do not open this file. It is not a save. It is a contract.