The Schism Protocol

Your body remained. You didn’t.

The Schism Protocol is a multiplayer psychological-horror mod that transforms your own teammates into the threat.

An entity known as the Imposter silently stalks players, studies their behaviour, and destroys their sanity. When a victim finally breaks, they are dragged into the Asylum of Echoes—a seemingly endless hospital dimension of decaying wards, surgical theatres, flickering corridors and creatures that hunt entirely by sound.

But the victim doesn’t simply disappear.

A perfect doppelgänger called the Husk takes their place in the Overworld. Wearing their skin and carrying copies of their equipment, it imitates ordinary player behaviour: walking around bases, opening containers, mining blocks and standing beside unsuspecting teammates. With optional consent-based Simple Voice Chat integration, it may even replay distorted fragments of its victim’s voice.

The imprisoned player has only 20 minutes to escape. They must search medical lockers, restore the hospital’s electrical system, synthesize acid to dissolve sealed barriers and descend through the abandoned elevator shaft.

If they escape in time, they reclaim their body and the Husk is destroyed.

If they fail, the disguise falls apart.

The Husk mutates into the Skin Flayer—a violent apex creature that hunts every remaining player in the Overworld while the victim becomes permanently trapped beyond the Schism.

Features

• A procedurally assembled horror dimension known as the Asylum of Echoes

• Multiplayer-focused identity theft and player impersonation

• Intelligent Husk doppelgängers that imitate believable player behaviour

• Blind hospital Wardens that track footsteps, doors, containers and broken blocks

• Non-linear environmental puzzles with randomized solutions

• A hidden 20-minute mutation countdown

• The Skin Flayer transformation and boss encounter

• Thematic low-tier loot, medical supplies and discoverable journals

• Persistent abduction states designed to survive disconnects and server restarts

• Optional, opt-in proximity voice echoes through Simple Voice Chat

• Configurable difficulty, timer length, inventory consequences and privacy settings

You may notice your friend acting strangely.

By the time you realize it isn’t them, they may already be gone. *MAY HAVE BUGS*