CHIRAL: SIDE Y

Maybe There's Purpose
You Said Your Heroes Played Games
A Correlation.

Is It Possible
For You To Take Up Their Roles?
You Play Games Also.

>Well, that explains how all of you ended up here.
>But uh. Now I'm even more confused.
>Cause I'm not even sure I existed before this chat.
>Even less sure where to start on fixin any of this mess.

>I guess I should start by figurin out who's team I'm really on, since that seems important. Yellow maybe? Saw my reflection and was wearin yellow in a yellow room. So probably yellow.

>Oh, come to think of it, would your typing quirks have anything to do with the Heroes?

INPUT AGGREGATOR: phfssh
INPUT AGGREGATOR: that whole dealio with the "saw my reflection" ehh
INPUT AGGREGATOR: well i got reports from 7 counties that mister narrator was just showin ya that for shits n giggs
INPUT AGGREGATOR: but to be fair youre inputs not peeps
INPUT AGGREGATOR: so i can input it anyway
INPUT AGGREGATOR: aw yes

The chat fucking explodes. I mean it's still intact. The chat notifies you quietly that it deals with unbelievably huge quantities of posts every day. This is just these people's status quo.

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Nicopter: Well, that explains how all of you ended up here.
Nicopter: But, uh. Now I'm even more confused.
Nicopter: Cause I'm not even sure I existed before this chat.
Nicopter: Even less sure where to start on fixin’ any of this mess.
cripesalmighty: Ah jeez.
cripesalmighty: Well, at least I guess we can sympathize there.
YUPPERS: unfortunately it seems i remain the only INHABITANT with any MODICUM OF IDEAS
YUPPERS: though NEEDSPENSERING FRIENDS is never truly going to work
YUPPERS: it is a PLEASANT EFFORT to ENTERTAIN
Nicopter: I guess I should start by figurin out who's team I'm really on, since that seems important. Yellow maybe?
tiptopGipgop: Wait, but you’re typing in green text, and you’re typing with Nicopter’s name. What color is your background?
Nicopter: Green. But I saw my reflection and was wearin’ yellow in a yellow room. So probably yellow.
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cripesalmighty: Well that is just a wacky festival of different stuff all at once I guess!
cripesalmighty: How can you see your reflection but like, not look down at your hands and body and everything?
cripesalmighty: I can run through all the yellow rooms just to check really quick I guess!
YUPPERS: ON IT, no need to STOMP IT.
YUPPERS: save those LEG RESTS.
cripesalmighty: Thanks, yuppers.
Nicopter: Oh, come to think of it, would your typing quirks have anything to do with the Heroes?
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Crast Pactian: like numbers said, most of the heroes did have particular mannerisms in their speech.
Crast Pactian: and text.
Crast Pactian: but i don’t believe that that was an influence on what we’ve chosen to do with our styles since getting here.
tiptopGipgop: I was a complete and total hero fanatic back way before they actually got into their session.
tiptopGipgop: So when they saved us, I freaked out some, I guess. My terminal had a name prompt, and I’d never gotten to have a username, so I chose to use the same format as all of their usernames.
tiptopGipgop: All in this chatroom have vowed to forget about the days when I, myself, imitated a typing quirk to try and seem hip.
cripesalmighty: My lips are sealed, TG!!
cripesalmighty: Zack you have no idea it was the funniest goddamn thing in the world she was absurd.
tiptopGipgop: ZIP.
Hunk Chudfest: i menae afiu gieuss i got a yptiny quik rbut i wish i coudld type normal like ev eryone else
Hunk Chudfest: im an uncinteingleabel mess mostnfe the time :(
YUPPERS: oh, THIS?
YUPPERS: this mannerism of TYPING you speak of?
YUPPERS: certainly ADOPTED
YUPPERS: or INSPIRED
YUPPERS: the traditional ADVENTURING MANUAL TYPESET which HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANT PHRASES
YUPPERS: even CRIPES does such a thing
cripesalmighty: I’ve kinda been conditioned into it.
cripesalmighty: GREEN TEAM. YELLOW TEAM. MOCHA ENDING. INHABITANT. PAWN.
cripesalmighty: Cripes!! Those are just words that have to be all-capitalized for me for some reason.
tiptopGipgop: Well, of course you have to fully capitalize MOCHA ENDING.
tiptopGipgop: Even I do that.
cripesalmighty: Obviously, it’s the name of an actual super scary god.
EXA: like a twizzt of electricity to wake yu up.
EXA: big words means shouty words.
EXA: zzz-- ZITT
EXA: fzzt.
cripesalmighty: Oh my god we just spammed the chat full of complete bullshit.
Nicopter: Maybe There's Purpose
Nicopter: You Said Your Heroes Played Games
Nicopter: A Correlation.
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Crast Pactian: i have seen your keyboard, numbers, and it still befuddles me how you type so quickly.
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Nicopter: Is It Possible
Nicopter: For You To Take Up Their Roles?
Nicopter: You Play Games Also.
cripesalmighty: That would be so neat and sick!
cripesalmighty: Admittedly, um
cripesalmighty: They had a game world built just for them, that we were a part of. Pretty sure that with the MOCHA ENDING it all went away.
tiptopGipgop: I suppose that doesn’t rule out completing it far away anyhow.
tiptopGipgop: But I would question exactly how you are supposed to start such a thing.
EXA: push start
EXA: in the video
EXA: device.
EXA: HAIKOO
cripesalmighty: Yeah, but what video device?!?!!
YUPPERS: i have ATTEMPTED a NEEDSPENSE of the necessary DISK.
YUPPERS: according to the HERO DEFINITION.
YUPPERS: SEEMS WE DO NOT NEED IT ENOUGH.
tiptopGipgop: I always thought it would be very cool to be a hero.
tiptopGipgop: But we are… I don’t know.
tiptopGipgop: It seems to me we’re better suited outside of a fight, in some ways. Since dying and seeing half my friends reach an unfortunate end by their own hands, I haven’t really felt the compulsion to fight back.
tiptopGipgop: Well, I have, but it’s quickly doused with thoughts like ‘why would violence solve this problem?’ and ‘is there another way?’
Crast Pactian: i’ve done well, i see.
cripesalmighty: Okay, so.
cripesalmighty: I mean
cripesalmighty: TG can I say this?
tiptopGipgop: Is it the… light… that entire thing?
cripesalmighty: Yes, yes yes
tiptopGipgop: Dance around my part to play in this mess.
cripesalmighty: OK, so, pre-hero arrival, me and TG totally mapped up what we would be if we were heroes. I even drew myself a big gleaming sword made of light! (My fighting method would be with light of any kind because that’s how goddamn rad I would be.)
cripesalmighty: So I would be the FIGHTER of LIGHT!
cripesalmighty: I don’t think that’s even a thing but I definitely wanted to be it.
EXA: what did you obtain
EXA: original art of your herosona
cripesalmighty: Yep!
EXA: oh
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tiptopGipgop: Well, excited about heroshit as I might be, once I realized how much I was obsessing over it, I finally had the compulsion to stop.
tiptopGipgop: There’s a lot more value in just trying to become my own person.
Crast Pactian: to get back to your original question, zack,
Crast Pactian: since we have rambled for at least 40 posts now,
Crast Pactian: while we are a bunch of rambunctious folks with many big ideas and things to talk about
Crast Pactian: i question whether we are hero ‘material’, so to speak
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After reading all of that, the INPUT AGGREGATOR emits a weak wheezing noise that fills your nonexistent eardrum.