CHIRAL: SIDE Y

Check your terminal settings. Maybe we bumped the time warp button by accident, although I'm pretty sure we can't move?

>chat:list:chatroom

Check your terminal settings. Maybe we bumped the time warp button by accident, although I'm pretty sure we can't move?

Time warp! Yes. It must be.




INPUT AGGREGATOR: hey bud
INPUT AGGREGATOR: those 2 big ol options at the bottom there
INPUT AGGREGATOR: most terminals got em locked
INPUT AGGREGATOR: but i figured since i got full access on this machine
INPUT AGGREGATOR: id just unlock em for ya
INPUT AGGREGATOR: and turn off those pesky friggin compulsive orders
INPUT AGGREGATOR: since yknow
INPUT AGGREGATOR: inhabitants dont like gettin ordered around
INPUT AGGREGATOR: ;)

>chat:list:chatroom

You search for other forms of CHAT under the primary CHAT, but only find another equally confusing PRIVATELOG with cripesalmighty.

Privatelog (cripesalmighty)Show

Nicopter: OK, talk to ya later!
cripesalmighty: You too!
cripesalmighty: …
cripesalmighty: You okay?
Nicopter: I think so.
cripesalmighty: Holy hell.
Nicopter: Yeah.
cripesalmighty: I
cripesalmighty: …
cripesalmighty: I guess we can go in the public chat now.
Nicopter: That’s screwed up.
cripesalmighty: Sorry.
Nicopter: But the public chat is easier to access, so I guess… yeah.

GOD IT'S PAINFUL NOT HAVING TIMESTAMPS.

This terminal is a hell.

...

...

Elsewhere, an Inhabitant types furiously at a terminal, on the verge of tears, fearing the absolute worst for a newly made friend.


INPUT AGGREGATOR: ;)

Change The USERNAME
To Zack And Then Also Go
To The ORDERS Place

If THAT Doesn't Work
Dear Input Aggregator
Please Unfuck Our Shit

>Game
>Battle Log

>Game
>Battle Log

You navigate to the Battle Log.




In the future, you may look at each individual KILL for detailed statistics and a rundown of all the events that took place in order.

Change The USERNAME
To Zack And Then Also Go
To The ORDERS Place

If THAT Doesn't Work
Dear Input Aggregator
Please Unfuck Our Shit

You begin by swapping your USERNAME IN ORDERS MENU to "Zack".


You then proceed to navigate to the ORDERS MENU.

OrderlogShow

cripesalmighty: That’s how it is on green terminals anyway. My keyboard has two chirality toggles instead of a single button so I have to press them at the same time to go back to the viewfinder.
Zack: Keyboard?
Crast Pactian: whatever you are typing with.
Crast Pactian: if you do manage to make it into the viewfinder, you should report back by hitting chatlog immediately.
Crast Pactian: just as soon as you can.
1234567890: 1 w0nd3r 4 117713 817 1f m4y83 24ck 15 h4v1n6 7r0u813 w17h 17
cripesalmighty: It’s only been a couple minutes, just give him some time!
tiptopGipgop: We’ve actually asked about his terminal multiple times, so I hope he’s not going to leave us hanging for too long.
tiptopGipgop: It’s reasonably easy to ask who and where somebody is, and it seems like Zack has no intention of disclosing either one.
tiptopGipgop: Perhaps Levyyts is feeling the pressure and has dropped out.
cripesalmighty: Oh my god I’m going to flip my dip if you say it’s Lev one more time, TG.
cripesalmighty: There are just too many signs that it’s not! It feels ridiculous kinda to say but most people in here are VERY identifiable by chatting methods and Zack isn’t close to anyone else!
Crast Pactian: i think it is reasonable to continue assuming that zack is a well and true real person for today, at the very least.
Crast Pactian: it’s fun!
tiptopGipgop: Oh, I’ll keep playing along. That’s fine. I’m just trying to reason why he/she might be taking so long.
Hunk Chudfest: mbee gota ifute out goyougta type youir dfommands and that’s hard for hm
EXA: or… he’s ditched us all ready.
cripesalmighty: OK I will concede I took a long time on that screen to figure out how to type commands I guess.
YUPPERS: yuppers.
cripesalmighty: But exa you are COMPLETELY wrong!! He’s not going to just abandon us!
YUPPERS: there’s a distinct VOCAL RHYTHM in all TEXTMODAL GRIFTS
YUPPERS: which ZACK does not REMIND OF
YUPPERS: in fact, ZACK speaks with so many separate VOICES that a RANDOM WORD GENERATOR is not out of the question
1234567890: 8u7 90u 7h1nk h35 3v11?
YUPPERS: NEFARIOUS, at the least, for being such a SPECIAL BEING to enter our UNIVERSE.
tiptopGipgop: We’re hurtling through space in a contraption that was programmed wrong, correct? We are in the massive emptiness/fullness between game sessions.
tiptopGipgop: If we had windows, we would see the things outside. I believe we heard about their terrifying visages on more than one occasion?
tiptopGipgop: Especially from those of us with black carapace.
cripesalmighty: Zack is not a goddamn tentacle space monster!!
tiptopGipgop: It’s not an unreasonable explanation.
1234567890: 1 d0n7 w4n7 h1m 70 83 4 h0rr0r1f1c 73rr1f1c 4n9 m0r3 7h4n 90u 8u7 17d m4k3 53n53
1234567890: 3xp141n wh9 h3 w45 4c71n6 57r4n63
Hunk Chudfest: i lkgie zack :(
Hunk Chudfest: pl ease zack odn’t be a squid
cripesalmighty: AAAA
Crast Pactian: could we all stop theorizing a moment and calm down?
Crast Pactian: it still has only been a couple of minutes-- perfectly reasonable for somebody new to the interface to meet confusion, as hunk brought up.
Hunk Chudfest: tok mi 2 ghours :(
Crast Pactian: i am in doubt that zack left us and even more doubt that zack is one of the terrors outside.
Crast Pactian: whom we have not heard, seen or met in nine months.
YUPPERS: perhaps we have reached a DESTINATION.
YUPPERS: RAN SMACK DAB INTO A BUBBLE OF DREAMIFICATION, OR INTO A PLANET.
YUPPERS: perhaps SUCH A THING would be HARD TO DETECT for us.
cripesalmighty: What the hell is tAKING HIM SO LONG?
1234567890: 60nn4 83 5h1779 1f 7h3 1457 7h1n6 1 701d h1m 70 d0 3nd3d up d1554pp34r1n6 h1m f0r3v3r
cripesalmighty: Zack, it’s goddamned simple, just hit the chat button to come back to us, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
cripesalmighty: WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!
Crast Pactian: zack is not stupid.
Crast Pactian: if he thought it important to hit the chat button so soon, he would have.
tiptopGipgop: I don’t think we know enough about Zack to determine whether or not he’s stupid.
Hunk Chudfest: hen tgot a wa yra witth a words i like
YUPPERS: STUPID is a relative term.
YUPPERS: and relative terms are STUPID.
cripesalmighty: Maybe he really did leave and doesn’t think we’re worth his time!!
cripesalmighty: Or he’s dead forever because the only link holding him to the chat was NOT hitting the goddamn chiral button!
1234567890: 1f h3 d13d 89 h1771n6 7h3 ch1r41179 8u770n 7h3n h0w w45 h3 5upp053d 70 h31p u5 4n9w49
cripesalmighty: I DON’T KNOW!!!
cripesalmighty: Maybe he was just a spur of the moment THING that we just MURDERED?!?!!!
Crast Pactian: cripes
Crast Pactian: please. step back from the computer a moment and take a breath.
Crast Pactian: i can get you one of my blankets if you’d like.
cripesalmighty: I don’t want any goddamn goddamn goddamn blankets, crast, I want Zack to not be gone JUST AFTER WE FOUND HIM.
YUPPERS: perhaps he simply DOES NOT LIKE TO SPEAK while you are ADMITTEDLY QUITE UPSET.
cripesalmighty: Admittedly quite upset or not quite admittedly upset, I don’t think he’d just leave me to freaking out!
Levyyts: Please calm down
Levyyts: Please stop
Levyyts: Need to read up above
Levyyts: Clogging chat
tiptopGipgop: Lev, were you playing as Nic earlier?
Levyyts: No, would never do that
Levyyts: Backwards thinking assumption.
Levyyts: Frustrating assumption.
YUPPERS: and PRESUMPTUOUS GUMPTION
tiptopGipgop: ...Alright.
tiptopGipgop: I suppose I can accept that you weren’t.
tiptopGipgop: You were just the prime suspect.
Levyyts: Not a crime mystery
Levyyts: No overturned stones or crime scenes.
tiptopGipgop: Obviously not, but it’s still something that I think somebody’s lying about.
Levyyts: Easy to track where Nicopter’s terminal is.
Levyyts: Does not point to Nicoopter’s terminal
Levyyts: Points to nowhere,
Levyyts: Suppose.
Levyyts: Points to everywhere.
EXA: bull shimmy
cripesalmighty: WHERE ARE YOU, ZACK!!?!?!!?!?
cripesalmighty: PLEASE JUST POST IN HERE AND TELL THEM I’M NOT ABSOLUTELY CRAZY FOR SAYING YOU’RE A REAL GODDAMN PERSON PLEASE
Crast Pactian: patience, please!
Levyyts: Nicopter’s terminal is
Levyyts: Nicopter’s terminal is all distance and space and time.
YUPPERS: finally, HACKERGIRL, appears from THE AETHER
YUPPERS: the METAPHYSICAL PLANE
YUPPERS: for some METAPHYSICAL INSIGHT
cripesalmighty: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Crast Pactian: cripes please i am heading over on to your room now to bring blankets and a crepe
cripesalmighty: PLEASE
cripesalmighty: ZACK
tiptopGipgop: Can you calm down for one minute and just look at what Lev is saying here? Assuming she’s not bullshitting us to oblivion, that is one of the most insane revelations anyone’s ever had.
1234567890: 5u5p1c10u5, k1nd4
1234567890: 5491n6 175 50m3 k1nd 0f un1v3r53 m4ch1n3
cripesalmighty: I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care i dont care I dont care i dont care
cripesalmighty: I just need him to not be goddamn GONE ALREADY!
Levyyts: We are Zack's terminal
Levyyts: Inside
Levyyts: Or part of
Levyyts: Cannot discern.
cripesalmighty: NO!
Levyyts: Yes.
cripesalmighty: NO!!
tiptopGipgop: Maybe?
Levyyts: Yes.
cripesalmighty: NO!!!! NO NO NO! NO NO NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
cripesalmighty: SHUT UP! EVERYBODY SHUT UP NOW!!
cripesalmighty: PLEASE!
Hunk Chudfest: :(
1234567890: h0n35719 1m g14d 90u kn0w h0w 1 f331 411 7h3 71m3 n0w
cripesalmighty: I am freaking the hell out right now.
cripesalmighty: I don’t know if Zack’s imaginary, or some kind of computer, or if he’s the goddamn universe, or if it’s just been Lev all along
cripesalmighty: But every outcome sucks and I’m crying and it feels dumb to be crying but
cripesalmighty: He just seemed really nice, and it was the first person who could come in here without any judgement of me or anyone else, and I think we were alright to him, and I guess I just felt a connection for a second that was more real than stupid chat bullshit.
cripesalmighty: I’m sorry.

You are now back at your original home chatroom, the ORDERS MENU of the game currently running on your terminal. Your PAWNS and the opposing YELLOW TEAM PAWNS are currently screaming about your disappearance, but you're back now, with complete and utter control over your inputs.

INPUT AGGREGATOR: whatcha gonna do?

Hoo boy. This got a bit more complicated.

>Back. Stumbled around for a bit, and now I have returned.

>There's uh. There's some hefty stuff we need to talk about.

>Mostly about Nicopter.

Hoo boy. This got a bit more complicated.

>Back. Stumbled around for a bit, and now I have returned.

>There's uh. There's some hefty stuff we need to talk about.

>Mostly about Nicopter.

An Inhabitant struggles to type as coherently as she can.

OrderlogShow

Zack: Back.
1234567890: 0h 809
Zack: Stumbled around a bit, and now I have returned.
Zack: There’s, uh. Some hefty stuff we need to talk about.
Zack: Mostly about Nicopter.
tiptopGiphop: Go ahead, Zack.
cripesalmighty: Oh my god you’re alright you’re okay you’re okay, aaaaaaaaaaaaa A A A.

She continues pounding on the | CHIRALITY key.

>Before I can say it though, I need something cleared up for me.

>Is Nicopter dead or missing?

>Before I can say it though, I need something cleared up for me.

>Is Nicopter dead or missing?

You spend a bit more time clarifying the situation.

OrderlogShow

Zack: Before I can say it though, I need something cleared up for me.
Zack: Is Nicopter dead, or missing?
cripesalmighty: Dead
cripesalmighty: Oh cripes what the hell is this going to be about
tiptopGipgop: A green team member killed Nic a few months ago.
tiptopGipgop: We don’t have doubts on that, though I’m starting to question a lot of things at this point.
tiptopGipgop: (though with the added stipulation that it still might be a big Levyyts prank)
EXA: diffor offed lil nic…
EXA: then…
EXA: cripes offed lil diffor
cripesalmighty: I guess.
Crast Pactian: it was not so blunt as you are describing it, but that is a decent summary of the events.
Crast Pactian: both were incinerated using a need dispensered item called the incinerator.
Crast Pactian: we’d gotten it after the original massacre.
Crast Pactian: there is nothing left of Nicopter, nor Diffor.

>Oh boy. That's... No, I need to be sure.

>User status, does it show the status of the person currently using that machine, or of the person supposed to be using that machine?

>Oh boy. That's... No, I need to be sure.

>User status, does it show the status of the person currently using that machine, or of the person supposed to be using that machine?

OrderlogShow

Zack: Oh boy. That's... no, I need to be sure.
Zack: User status, does it show the status of the person currently using that machine, or of the person supposed to be using that machine?
tiptopGipgop: The intended owner.
tiptopGipgop: If I went to Yuppers’ console while he was gone, I could track how he’s doing, or play his game, or whatever.
tiptopGipgop: The terminals are linked with their owner, but their actual functions can be used by anybody.
cripesalmighty: Why?!? Why are you asking that
cripesalmighty: Whose TERMINAL are you ON!?!

The INPUT AGGREGATOR buzzes eagerly.

It Belongs To Nic
His Status; Death Imminent
Hence The Confusion

Maybe Doublecheck?
I Am Still New At All This
I Might Have Messed Up

Also, Quick Query
Why Are You Using "Orders"
To Talk, Not The "Chat"?

Hence Taking So Long
I Was Flailing Like A Dork
In The Wrong Menu

>I'm asking because this is a real big deal.
>Because either this machine is having a malfunction.
>Or Nicopter isn't dead.
>And wherever they are they really need medical treatment right this second.
>Now, I can't tell if Diffor is in the same situation, since I can't check their machine at the minute, but if they are that is *really* bad.

>So. Someone has to go check Diffor's machine. Check if it says their dead.
>And someone else has to come check on Nicopters machine. Same thing. Make sure I haven't lost all my marbles here.

>And to answer your question, well. I'm at Nicopters machine. Had to meet you folks in person at some point, really wish it was under better circumstances.

It Belongs To Nic
His Status; Death Imminent
Hence The Confusion

>I'm asking because this is a real big deal.
>Because either this machine is having a malfunction.
>Or Nicopter isn't dead.
>And wherever they are they really need medical treatment right this second.
>Now, I can't tell if Diffor is in the same situation, since I can't check their machine at the minute, but if they are that is *really* bad.

>So. Someone has to go check Diffor's machine. Check if it says their dead.
>And someone else has to come check on Nicopters machine. Same thing. Make sure I haven't lost all my marbles here.

>And to answer your question, well. I'm at Nicopters machine. Had to meet you folks in person at some point, really wish it was under better circumstances.

An Inhabitant stays silent on her chatroom, confused and utterly at a loss for words. What would she say? What could she possibly contribute?

OrderlogShow

Zack: It Belongs To Nic
Zack: His Status; Death Imminent
Zack: Hence The Confusion
1234567890: w04h
Zack: I'm asking because this is a real big deal.
Zack: Because either this machine is having a malfunction.
Zack: Or Nicopter isn't dead.
Crast Pactian: that would be incredible news!
Zack: And wherever they are they really need medical treatment right this second.
Zack: Now, I can't tell if Diffor is in the same situation, since I can't check their machine at the minute, but if they are, that is really bad.
EXA: oohh bab lemme tell you
EXA: diffor needs ?med?attention?
EXA: got his lil diffor head smashed in real angery
Hunk Chudfest: sca red me realb ad
1234567890: 1 d0n7 637 7h3 j0k3 h3r3
Levyyts: Uncertain still
Levyyts: Zack is perhaps lying
Zack: Please, someone has to go check Diffor's machine. Check if it says they’re dead.
Zack: And someone else has to come check on Nicopters machine. Same thing. Make sure I haven't lost all my marbles here.
YUPPERS: your MARBLES have been LOST, friend
YUPPERS: i’m at his TERMINAL at this very MOMENT
YUPPERS: in fact, i’m even able to TYPE INDEPENDENTLY ON IT
Nicopter: like SO
Nicopter: APOLOGIES TO CRIPES
Nicopter: but this is for DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES.
1234567890: d035n7 533m 11k3 175 n1c0p73r5 63rm1n41
tiptopGipgop: But...
1234567890: 8u7
1234567890: m4983 175 ju57 n07 /0ur/ n1c0p73r
tiptopGipgop: Maybe it’s a different Nicopter.
tiptopGipgop: I really need to learn how to type faster than Numbers, wow.
Nicopter has sent file look-see-HERE.cig
Nicopter: you’ll look see HERE and spot that NICOPTER is CERTAINLY DEAD
Zack: I'm at Nicopter’s machine.
Nicopter: LOOK AT THE IMAGE YOU NINCOMPOOP
Nicopter: LOOK AROUND AND SEE ZILCH ZIP NOTHING
Nicopter: LOOK AROUND YOUR ROOM!!!
Nicopter: LYING GIT!!! PLAGUE!!! BUG!!!

You quickly check the file that YUPPERS (on Nicopter's terminal) sent, look-see-HERE.cig.

Also, Quick Query
Why Are You Using "Orders"
To Talk, Not The "Chat"?

Hence Taking So Long
I Was Flailing Like A Dork
In The Wrong Menu

Then, your narrator notices that Lordlyhour has updated their post, and lets the INPUT AGGREGATOR continue posting!

OrderlogShow

Zack: Also, Quick Query
Zack: Why Are You Using "Orders"
Zack: To Talk, Not The "Chat"?
Crast Pactian: we use the chat.
Crast Pactian: “ORDERS” is for giving orders to the pawns in the game your terminal is running.
Crast Pactian: the screen looks very much like the chat, but the units within follow those orders to the letter.
tiptopGipgop: Wait. You’re not using “Chat” to talk to us, are you.
Zack: Hence Taking So Long
Zack: I Was Flailing Like A Dork
Zack: In The Wrong Menu
tiptopGipgop: Well, that’s horrifying.
tiptopGipgop: That’s absolutely to the core horrifying.
1234567890: uhh
1234567890: 11k3 w3’r3 7h3 p4wn5?
EXA: thatd be moralitybreaking
EXA: hope noo-o-ot

>Chiral
>Viewfinder

>Chiral
>Chat

>I think we need to have a talk.

To Ease Your Worries
Compulsive Orders Are Off
No Demands From Me

To Ease Your Worries
Compulsive Orders Are Off
No Demands From Me

An Inhabitant freaks the fuck out and struggles to type one-handed, which is a bad idea, considering her keyboard requires two inputs at once for almost every character.

OrderlogShow

Zack: To Ease Your Worries
Zack: Compulsive Orders Are Off
Zack: No Demands From Me
cripesalmighty: Please dont be in a game
cripesalmighty: I dont want us to have been in a game this whole time no no no please please please please please please we’re real people please
Crast Pactian: …
tiptopGipgop: So you’re running, um.
tiptopGipgop: So you’re running a session of the game and giving us orders?
tiptopGipgop: But somehow you got compulsive orders off, so it just seems like you’re chatting with us?
tiptopGipgop: Is there any chance we’re NOT just lines of code, that maybe this is some abstraction of a network of real places, is there any chance?
tiptopGipgop: Please, Zack, if you’re not Levyyts, please make this make sense to me.
tiptopGipgop: If you are actually just Levyyts messing with me, I swear I will END YOU.
Crast Pactian: no threats, do not threaten
Crast Pactian: we must keep our wits together now
Levyyts: Cannot confirm for you
Levyyts: Identity of self is only self and nothing else
Levyyts: You may travel to my room and verify
tiptopGipgop: You better be in there just as confused as me, or it’s the rope.
cripesalmighty: Please zack please be joking please please please please please
Hunk Chudfest: a le ast the s’dnot odig tnco pkupsovikee roders so ew eca n do anything we want
Hunk Chudfest: buh hum :(((
Hunk Chudfest: if mteans were playing games alal the time and letging real people die
EXA: yikes.
1234567890: wh475 7h3 816 d341?
1234567890: w3r3 45 r341 45 4n90n3 3153
1234567890: 1 m34n w3r3 pr084819 601n6 70 d13 4 p01n71355 3x1573nc3 8u7 1 m34n h4h4 wh473v3r r1ght ghhh ahahaha
Crast Pactian: i do not fully feel as if this is alright.
Crast Pactian: it makes me question very much of everything we have learned over these months.
YUPPERS: it explains EVERYTHING
YUPPERS: and is INCREDIBLY NEAT!!
YUPPERS: I DON’T GET THE OUTRAGE, REALLY.
YUPPERS: we’re COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS
YUPPERS: HOORAY.

>Chiral
>Viewfinder

>Chiral
>Chat

>I think we need to have a talk.

You head to the MAIN MENU with the CHIRAL button, and (accidentally?) select the VIEWFINDER option.




Then, you back on out, and head into the terminal's CHAT, to confront the Big Man On Campus.


You type your first message and then begin typing more-- but something strange happens. More messages seem to be being posted by Nicopter. Maybe the real one, instead of you?

ChatlogShow

Nicopter: I think we need to have a talk.
Nicopter: Oh.
Nicopter: Hi. Mhm.
Nicopter: Y’must be the INPUT AGGREGATOR I plugged in.
Nicopter: Afore ya type any more, you gotta know somethin’
Nicopter: I’m dead in a few minutes.
Nicopter: Y’know, bleedin’ out, and all that.
Nicopter: If ya stay outta this chatroom, those few minutes are gonna last an eternity, inside that l’il terminal of mine.
Nicopter: But if ya stay out here chattin’, I’m gonna die.
Nicopter: Then eeeverything gets reset, IA.
Nicopter: Go read uh
Nicopter: Go’n read my notes at the bottom’f the main screen.
Nicopter: Kinda runnin’ outta energy here.
Nicopter: Sayonara.
Nicopter: Maybe once ya get somebody ASCENDED ya can help me and Cripes out.
Nicopter: ...eheh.
Nicopter: Probably not.

>Chiral

Time to... Think. Yes, time to think about what to do.

I Think We Had Best
Chiral Right This Dang Instance
And Not Chat Ever

And then go look at his notes.

>Chiral

Time to... Think. Yes, time to think about what to do.

I Think We Had Best
Chiral Right This Dang Instance
And Not Chat Ever

Yeah yeah okay you are getting right the fuck out of that zone. That's one of the most foreboding messages you've seen all morning (though not THE most).



Then...
you decide this is a good instance to pause, and think...


...and think...


and think.

And then go look at his notes.

Yeah you can't really resist checking out some rad secret stuff once in a while.




You're not certain there was really a point to commenting his text out there, but this terminal runs on bullshit and rainbows and at this point there might not be a point in thinking about it too hard.

Hooooo boy. Alright, let's, eh. See what we have to work with exactly.

>Chiral
>Map

Hooooo boy. Alright, let's, eh. See what we have to work with exactly.

>Chiral
>Map

You pull up the GAME MAP.


You quickly discover you can swap between three versions of the map. The first is a blank slate with nothing in it--


The second is how everything is supposed to be, at game start, and shows who each room belongs to. You also spot a bunch of Ns.


The third and final image seems to be the current state of the GAME, including many missing players, many missing Ns, and a caged-up door holding R13.


You spot Y4, cripesalmighty, though the numbers representing each of the 8 other people might be slightly harder to suss out.

Its a safe guess the N's are needspensers.

Good, goo... Wait a minute.
13 Y, B, G, R. That's 52 players.
We need 53 to ascend.
Never mind that we have only the 9 to work with, there never was a 53rd player.
So even if the session was somehow reset, we would still come up short.

There's also finding that password.
Guessing finding that is going to involve some fiddling with the viewfinder.

Plus, getting the remaining players to calm down and... Do whatever it is we need them to do, is going to take a while. Never mind that we don't know what we need them to do yet.

...Oh, and I guess we kinda flubbed the whole "Be Discreet" part of our job. Oh well.

I guess that leaves the first thing to be figuring out is what we're gonna do next.