The Lore of “Molly”

This is Molly. I need to know more about Molly.

Picture from the title screen of the game "All In Hole," featuring the character Molly. Molly is a blue humanoid, with a gemstone for a chest, wearing a pink domino mask, carrying two handsful of random stuff including gems, candy, and at least one fish.

Molly is the hero character of “All In Hole,” a silly iPhone game. Every level consists of a flat plane, with a large number of random objects scattered about, and you control some sort of a black hole, which you use to flit about the level and attempt to consume certain of those objects in a limited amount of time.

Each level (there are, reportedly, many thousands of levels) requires you to collect specific things. In this case, we have been tasked with finding and collecting 177 pieces of sushi, 28 ballpoint pens, 17 rolls of tape, and 3 calculators.

Molly (or are we, the player, an avatar of Molly?) can open some sort of hole? portal? to other places, where most objects are arranged and stacked with disturbing precision. In this place, objects’ normal spatial relationships make little sense; boots can be the same size as cars and tractors, and living creatures are frozen in some sort of perpetual stasis.

But it gets stranger!

Picture of an anthropomorphic yellow submarine. It's smiling. The pic is captioned "Submarine Race".
Molly, and our (compatriots? enemies?) regularly engage in submarine races!
We “drill up,” implying we are deep underground!
We grow gardens somehow, despite being underground (or underwater)!
When we’re not gardening, we’re engaging in knife, er, pickaxe fights!
And then sometimes a hundred of us go to space?

Molly can open apparent singularities to strange alternate realms. She is somehow simultaneously underground, underwater, and in the furthest reaches of the stars. She seems to have control over gravity itself, and her demands are as inscrutable as they are insatiable.

I need a story mode for this game like I need 177 pieces of sushi.

The Lore of “Molly”

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