Himamori Pota Sees Sanity Gauge Hit Zero in Collab Horror Tolerance Test
Playing alongside a senior colleague, the streamer cleared all three stages of the game’s diagnostic and then compared score charts on screen.
VARIUM — Himamori Pota of Varium played a horror-themed fear tolerance diagnostic game with a senior colleague on Monday, and about 56 minutes in, the on-screen sanity gauge dropped to zero. Pota, who introduces the persona as a strong hamster hero, kept playing and reached the end of the stage.
The game casts the player as a test subject observed by an in-game administrator named Teres. It first records a baseline for judgment, memory and observation, then runs three stages built around being startled, hiding and fleeing, and measures how far those abilities slip under fear. Both talents played the opening ability tests together, and Pota said the numbers-memory test gave particular trouble.
“Does that mean I’m not sane anymore? I haven’t been sane the whole time anyway.” — Himamori Pota, after the gauge reached zero
In the first stage, Pota searched a house for five ghosts and threw salt at each one while collecting donuts and glowing donuts kept behind doors that flash a password for an instant. Pota forgot the password more than once and was startled repeatedly, but cleared all five ghosts about 34 minutes in. The colleague remarked that Pota threw salt so quickly that the colleague was still reacting when the ghost was already gone.
The second stage, set in a hospital, tied a sanity gauge to creatures that drain it if the player meets their eyes or hears their voices. Pota closed eyes and covered ears with mouse clicks, hid from other creatures, lost the route several times and watched the gauge fall from 30 percent to 3 percent, 1 percent and then zero, with the colleague calling out directions throughout. A third stage, built around running away, followed and ended around the 71-minute mark. Afterward Pota said the effort had produced roughly a liter of sweat.
The results screen rated Pota’s fear tolerance as decent. Pota’s strongest score was judgment in the first stage, which the game linked to the speed of the salt throwing, and the readout said tolerance to being startled was highest and observation stayed steady under fear. Pota then placed the colleague’s results next to the stream’s own, and the two charts looked quite different. The in-game administrator closed with remarks questioning how accurately the test measures fear.
Chat filled with laughter at the reactions, calling the first stage a debut as a reaction comedian, and the stream drew 18 paid messages. Pota ended the stream about 83 minutes in and said another collaboration is scheduled for later this week.
This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.