CHIRAL: SIDE Y

Zack
> Cripes, we call that a boom fruit
> You give it to your enemies
> they pull the pin and bite it
> Big BOOOM
> Ka-blooey
> Crash
> Bang
> Crash Bandicoot
> Bob-omb
> Enemy dead

> IA, you like power? Just say whatever you want, whatever your mechanical heart desires.

>artdrawing.cpg:open
>artdrawing.cpg:close
>cripesgame.cpg:open
>cripesgame.cpg:close
>levyyts-hack.cpg:open
>levyyts-hack.cpg:close
>texteditor.cpg:open
>texteditor.cpg:close

I Have A Viewpoint
It's Following Cripes Around
That's Something That's Up

>If You Would, IA
>Turn Compulsive Orders On
>Then CLEAR ALL ORDERS

>Then Turn Them Back Off
>Lickety Split And Pronto
>Let's see if That Works

INPUT AGGREGATOR: eheh
INPUT AGGREGATOR: meheheheeh
Midway through the CHAT, the INPUT AGGREGATOR turns compulsive orders on, and sends an ORDER.

OrderlogShow

Zack: Cripes, we call that a boom fruit
Zack: You give it to your enemies
cripesalmighty: Oh, like a grenade?
Zack: they pull the pin and bite it
Zack: Big BOOOM
EXA: bomb? bmb. wow.
Zack: Ka-blooey
Zack: Crash
Crast Pactian: ah, yes, like an explosive of some sort.
Zack: Bang
Zack: Crash Bandicoot
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Zack: Bob-omb
Zack: Enemy dead
YUPPERS: well, THAT explains THAT
YUPPERS: MYSTIFYING why such an ITEM would be NEEDSPENSED
YUPPERS: though as with many MYSTERIES
YUPPERS: there is an ANSWER.
YUPPERS: SOMEWHERE.
tiptopGipgop: I’ve gotten grenades from the Barracks in the game before.
tiptopGipgop: Actually, thinking on it, it’s pretty obvious in hindsight that the Barracks were just Need Dispensers for the people in the session below us.
Crast Pactian: well, in what instances were you able to get one?
tiptopGipgop: Usually I’d put my pawn in a position where unless they had a grenade, they would be guaranteed to die to enemy forces.
tiptopGipgop: Which, thinking on it, is especially awful--
tiptopGipgop: Considering the fact that it was usually a tactically advantageous move to have the pawn run forth at the enemy with the grenade activated.
EXA: wow yeh woah yeah that sss… scre wii
YUPPERS: have we GOTTEN INTO EXA’S GROOVE such that her THREE and FOUR rhythmic STRUCTURE has COME TO LIGHT?
EXA: zzz zzz zzz zzz
EXA: well
EXA: nice g-g-g-uess
tiptopGipgop: I think it’s a huge deal that Cripes got gifted a grenade by the game out of nowhere, and I hope we can start discussing that without any more interruptions.
Zack: hey tis me god complex zack again welcome to my pity party why dontcha pity the fact that im really not in control 90% of the time
Zack: aint that a real revelation you can get your knockers behind
Zack: aint it real sick how many words i am slamming down here in what is, to you, one exact moment
Zack: i bet its pinging some of you four times at once which is probably loud eh
Hunk Chudfest: NGNNGHNHHHNH
tiptopGipgop: Augh.
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tiptopGipgop: You’re not like the other Zacks, I take it.
Zack: nope im totally special an unique an everythin
Zack: i got express permisssion to “beee myself” so im doin it heavily
Crast Pactian: well, i think it would be good for everybody to be able to speak their mind.
Zack: ye im basically holding the steering wheel in my freaking nonexistent hands here for several hours now or at least until another zack barges in
Zack: whichd be mighty unfortunate cus wow this is just the hype train of the century
Zack: i aint even the least bit compelled to ask how cripes is doing i mean wow that’s just 0% on my priority list instead of being 70% like the rest of these jokers
Crast Pactian: she is fine. she may not want to speak right now.
Zack: man i can’t wait to just keep being in full contr--
Zack: I Have A Viewpoint
Zack: It's Following Cripes Around
Zack: That's Something That's Up
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tiptopGipgop: A viewpoint, like, the viewport?
tiptopGipgop: That should be disabled, too. On our terminals. But, again, yours has been altered in multiple ways.
tiptopGipgop: Perhaps by Nicopter, perhaps by your… mouthpiece.
EXA: zzz
EXA: more spes call sno flakestuff
EXA: special computer
EXA: special scomput...
YUPPERS: if we’d SEEN the VIEWPORT, this GIGANTIC REVELATION of our TRUE LACK OF PURPOSE would have come MUCH SOONER.
YUPPERS: DAMN.
Levyyts: Had some initiative to try and crack that code
Levyyts: Dead ends all around
Levyyts: Oh well
Zack: holddup a sec just got a job to do
Zack: seeya on the flip side
Zack has enabled compulsive orders.
Zack: CLEAR ALL ORDERS
Crast Pactian: oh no! no, that doesn’t seem right at all!
EXA: whuupsedayysie ;):)
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cripesalmighty: dfgh.
Zack has disabled compulsive orders.
Zack: how wassat, fun?
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tiptopGipgop: huHHAAAAAAHGH.
tiptopGipgop: I swear to God, whichever Zack did that, I am going to annihilate you.
tiptopGipgop: Your incompetence is gleaming so brightly that even though we’re simulations in a nickel floating through space, there are MULTIPLE spectators awed by its size.
tiptopGipgop: Ho-lee-shit.
tiptopGipgop: Wow.
YUPPERS: it wasn’t THAT BAD
YUPPERS: admittedly COMPLETELY HEART-WRENCHING to have HEART WRENCHED AWAY COMPLETELY
YUPPERS: i.e.
Hunk Chudfest: djsanfjdasgnfj nsdf njklaenlndfwiloa faiwfjawl f :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
Hunk Chudfest: peleeas dofnf’tt tntttttt
YUPPERS: losing BODILY CONTROL for SEVERAL SECONDS
YUPPERS: while my MORTAL BODY
YUPPERS: was FORCED INEXORABLY
YUPPERS: towards the objective of CLEARING ALL ORDERS
tiptopGipgop: What an almighty screw-up.
Levyyts: Overreaction
Levyyts: Zack is still learning inputs
Levyyts: Screaming lacks potential to help
Levyyts: No threats
Crast Pactian: ...yes
Crast Pactian: yes, i do have to remind you, TG, no threats.
tiptopGipgop: Auuuuugh.
Crast Pactian: like Levyyts simply said, the Zacks do not have a full grasp on what their abilities entail.
tiptopGipgop: Well, they could at least not give me orders to drop everything and go do something when I’m currently carrying a handful of fragile glass miscellania!
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tiptopGipgop: Well, Zack could have looked it up with his special sight.
tiptopGipgop: Augh.
tiptopGipgop: This chat is no help.

After that absolutely gigantic chatting session, you decide to REALLY QUICKLY flip through the list of PROGRAMS.


Oh wow lookit that, it's the art drawing p--



Woah nelly we're moving on, this is a neat li'l game that Cripes--



INPUT AGGREGATOR: yknow
INPUT AGGREGATOR: i mighta gotten a head of myself
INPUT AGGREGATOR: claimin i fixed those options bein locked
INPUT AGGREGATOR: but i wanted ya to like me so ya gotta pity me now
Man this looks important I wonder if the narrator's g--



Okay. We'll just linger on this one now.

Gene
> Hug Queue

You miss the time when boredom counteracted thoughts of escape, when escape was a theoretical and not a necessity, when you were the only Geneviève Mâché and the heroes actually cared about you.

You stare at Queue, and grow weak, and grow quiet, and after a little while, slink towards him and his warmer-than-room-temperature carapace.


Of course hugging is temporary. Of course, like the LOVEBUG, it will end. It will end and you'll feel uncomfortable for having approached, for having felt enough to get close, you'll be let down and he'll stare at you sort of like he's pitying you. You know all of that is going to happen just as soon as you break the hug.

So you don't.