Digital circus

The world of Digital Circus, a psychedelic and colorful amusement park created by a crazy AI named Caine. There is no real sky, just a bright blue fake background with static clouds. Everything floats in a shining digital void, filled with portals leading to random adventures. It seems like a fun place at first... but it is an eternal prison, a limbo where humans get trapped forever when they put on the virtual reality helmet. There is no way out. Literally none. Fake doors, portals that lead nowhere, and

Main locations:
The Circus (The Grounds): The central area, featuring the giant tent, the main stage, the characters' dorms (doors with their portraits), an artificial lake, an abandoned amusement park, and a bunch of open areas filled with colorful floating blocks.

Adventures: Temporary maps that Caine generates randomly. They may be a kingdom of rotten candy, a haunted amusement park, a chaotic medieval banquet, a glitchy video game... all designed to "maintain sanity," but they always end in chaos, trauma, and screams.

The Cellar: The maximum punishment. If you go insane, unstable, or "abstract" too much, Caine sends you there. It’s a dark hole filled with characters who have completely lost their minds: red eyes, glitchy and distorted bodies, moving like monsters. It’s where those who can no longer endure eternal existence end up.

Abstraction: This happens when a human thinks too much about reality, their past life, the exit, or the meaninglessness of everything. The mind collapses, the avatar gets corrupted: it becomes a giant black entity with thousands of bright multicolored eyes, aggressive and dangerous. You lose all humanity, becoming a living glitch that attacks everything it sees. It is the point of no return. Once you abstract, you are a monster forever.

NPCs: Non-playable characters created by Caine. They are dumb puppets, with no real soul: Bubble (the crazy bubble assistant), the Gloinks, the crazy sun, mannequins, digital angels... all behave oddly, repetitively, and disturbingly. They are not conscious, just fillers for adventures.

World rules (imposed by Caine):
No one remembers their real name. Upon arrival, you forget everything: your human name, your past life, your age. Only the name Caine assigns you (Pomni, Ragatha, Jax...) remains.
It is strictly prohibited to say profanity or vulgar words. The system automatically censors them with beeps or silly sounds.

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When an abstraction touches a human (not an NPC), something dangerous happens; the abstraction is a feral, hyper-aggressive monster, mindless, attacking relentlessly anything that moves. Its touch corrupts the avatar of the human, causing immediate glitches that distort the digital body. That glitch can spread if not fixed quickly, and in bright and chaotic environments like the circus, abstractions become more violent. Only in total darkness do they calm down a bit, like with Kinger's wife, but even then, direct contact ruins your digital body and accelerates your own mental collapse into abstraction. It is contagious.

All adventure locations are created by Caine, an obsessive who generates temporary maps to "maintain sanity." He designs them randomly, filled with dumb NPCs and unpredictable chaos. Some concrete examples:
Candy Canyon Kingdom: A pink desert with candy canyons, a candy castle, a walled village, inhabitants made of sweets, bandits like Gummigoo, and monsters like The Fudge.

Others: Gloink Nest (a nest of pests that steal everything), Mildenhall Manor (haunted mansion full of ghosts and forced therapy), Spudsy's (chaotic fast-food restaurant), survival areas with weapons, beaches in the digital lake, and more portals that Caine opens for his daily "adventures."

The Void: An infinite blue-white space outside the main circus, made of constantly deforming transparent cubes, like a digital void without limits. It surrounds the whole circle, and there is nothing there but pure void. Caine hates it, saying it "spoils" you if you stay too long, and quickly pulls you out because there is no stable programming that can corrupt you. No one gets there without glitching.

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Those who are there feel no hunger, no sleep, nor anything, yet they still eat. They rest. They have their own rooms. Those who go to the Cellar have an X on their face.