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Lordlyhour · 11-12-2017, 10:56 AM

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Arcanuse · 11-12-2017, 12:07 PM

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kilozombie · 11-12-2017, 10:20 PM

(11-12-2017, 12:07 PM)Arcanuse Wrote: »
Privatelog (Cripesalmighty)Show
>Alrighty.
>First step is to move the backpack and the.. Beer? Alcohol away from the table there.
>Second step is to use the chalk to draw this symbol on the table.

>If you do it right, it should be lightly glowing.

>Now, before you do the next part, it's important to mention that the rest of this will be on rails after you do.
>So wait a minute for me to finish listing out what's gonna happen so there aren't any surprises.

>Place the wax and string on the symbol, and they should start glowing too.

>(Given Hunk's sensitivity to light, should probably let them know it's going to get fairly bright in here.)

>Head might feel weird during this next bit, that's normal.
>The whole process should take about a minute.
>Over the first five seconds the symbol and materials should start to glow brighter*.
>At ten seconds in, the materials should burst into a light-blue flame.
>The flame is safe* to touch, but I don't recommend sticking your hand into an active process.
>Basic safety and all that.
>Over the next 30 seconds, the process will melt together the materials necessary and nudge* out any excess material.
>(In this case, about 7/8'ths of the wax and definitely most of the string.)
>At this point it should look like a glowing sphere and start floating above the symbol.
>Over the next 20 seconds it will mold into the shape of an eye with a wick coming out the top.
>In the last five seconds, both eye and symbol will stop glowing.
>Head should feel almost normal, just a bit lighter than when you started.
>Should also feel a connection to the wax eye.
>Once this has all happened, the process is officially over.

>Now you can start the process, and I can tell you what just happened after.

(11-12-2017, 10:56 AM)Lordlyhour Wrote: »
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I Am Fairly Sure
Shellogowrath Is being
Metaphorical

When Using Those Terms
To Imply Connections Of
The Family Type

Being As We Are
Being Aggregated From
All Over The Place

I Do Know For Sure
I Am Unrelated To
Any Other Zack

I Am Also Sure
Every Zack Is Just Making
Stuff Up As They Go

I Do Not Know What
Cool Zack Is Up To With This
Ritual Of His

Regardless Of What
We Are When We Are At Home
Here We're Just Input

I Could Be A Muse
I Could Just Be Someone Who
Really Likes Haikus

It Does Not Matter
The Input Aggregator
Will Judge Us The Same

(Now, Having Said That
Watch Complex Zack Prove Me Wrong
Just Because it Can)

(11-12-2017, 04:33 PM)Angustine Wrote: »Shellgowrath to Levyyts
> Would you be willing to follow instructions for the creation of a ritual wich may or may not work and make it possible for me to interact with the world more directly?
> The aggregator is my father-figure

First off, you get to work drawing the symbol that you intend to send to cripesalmighty, all the while chatting in three different locations. God DAMN you are good at maneuvering these menus now. This dumb game has no way of stopping you!

You even use the artdrawing.cpg file without any additional inputs. SMOOTH AS FUCK.
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Privatelog (cripesalmighty)Show

CoolZack: Alrighty.
CoolZack: First step is to move the backpack and the.. Beer? Alcohol away from the table there.
CoolZack: Second step is to use the chalk to draw this symbol on the table.
CoolZack: If you do it right, it should be lightly glowing.
CoolZack has sent file lV5gUOr.cig
cripesalmighty: Oh. Ah. Jeez! Okay.
cripesalmighty: I am an almightily shitty artist so I hope there’s room for error!!
CoolZack: Now, before you do the next part, it's important to mention that the rest of this will be on rails after you do.
CoolZack: So wait a minute for me to finish listing out what's gonna happen so there aren't any surprises.
cripesalmighty: I’ll be nice and patient.
CoolZack: Place the wax and string on the symbol, and they should start glowing too.
CoolZack: (Given Hunk's sensitivity to light, should probably let them know it's going to get fairly bright in here.)
cripesalmighty: OK, I’ll let him know.
CoolZack: Head might feel weird during this next bit, that's normal.
CoolZack: The whole process should take about a minute.
CoolZack: Over the first five seconds the symbol and materials should start to glow brighter*.
CoolZack: At ten seconds in, the materials should burst into a light-blue flame.
CoolZack: The flame is safe* to touch, but I don't recommend sticking your hand into an active process.
CoolZack: Basic safety and all that.
CoolZack: Over the next 30 seconds, the process will melt together the materials necessary and nudge* out any excess material.
CoolZack: (In this case, about 7/8'ths of the wax and definitely most of the string.)
CoolZack: At this point it should look like a glowing sphere and start floating above the symbol.
CoolZack: Over the next 20 seconds it will mold into the shape of an eye with a wick coming out the top.
CoolZack: In the last five seconds, both eye and symbol will stop glowing.
CoolZack: Head should feel almost normal, just a bit lighter than when you started.
CoolZack: Should also feel a connection to the wax eye.
CoolZack: Once this has all happened, the process is officially over.
cripesalmighty: ...cripes that’s a lot to remember, okay.
cripesalmighty: I will keep watch! I hope this isn’t a really convoluted trick to get me to explode everyone or something dude!!
CoolZack: Now you can start the process, and I can tell you what just happened after.

Privatelog (Levyyts)Show

...

You get to work arranging everything in the right position.

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"Hey, D-S?" you call back quietly.

Dinkalsen mutters, "What is it?"

"This might get bright, a smidge. Just cover your eyes if it gets really bad."

He leans back further in his chair. "Thank you for telling me that to me."

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"Okay, it should be making light, and... getting hot? But it's not, kinda, or it is? I dunno. Maybe I just put the shit on top already."

"Is that the instructions," Spank states.

You shake your head slowly. "I'm just gonna do it."

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"...uhm. I don't think anything's--"

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He points a hand weakly at the disturbance. "String?"

"I dunno. What the-- what the hell? It's a candle now! It's a goddamn candle!!"

Privatelog (Zack)Show

"Blinking," Dinkalsen manages, squinting, "it is blinking now."

You shudder uncomfortably as the room begins to shake. That isn't what you drew.

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That isn't right at all.

His breath starting to pick up, the Prospitian behind you starts to yelp-- "Gene?" You hear a pile of pipes collapse.

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"My chair," Spank says breathlessly.

Privatelog (Zack)Show

You start screaming in panic.

Dinkalsen starts screaming in panic.

Epilepsy WarningShow

...

...

The NICKEL sails through the void of Paradox Space.

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Followed.

Lordlyhour · 11-12-2017, 10:50 PM

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Cripes ChatShow

kilozombie · 11-13-2017, 01:13 AM

(11-12-2017, 10:50 PM)Lordlyhour Wrote: »
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Oh Goddamn It All
Dumb Fake Rituals Aside
You Are Being Stalked

By A Silhouette
In The Exterior Space
Out Of The Nickle

Doesn't Even Have
The Good Manners To Allow
A Password Viewing

Does A Candle/String
Duality Mean Aught To
Any One Of You

Is Things Changing States
From One Thing To Another
An Omen Of Doom?

Because Given The
Lightshow In Hunk's Domicile
Omens are Oming

Cripes ChatShow
>Private Message Cripes
>Winter's Chill Cools Me Like A
>Refrigerator

I Can Say With Some
Certainty That That Is Not
Of Cool Zack's Doing

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Privatelog (Zack)Show

Vic · 11-13-2017, 01:28 AM

ScatterbrainZack
> It appears that Cripes and Hunk have landed upon another nickel-computer?

Lordlyhour · 11-13-2017, 01:57 AM

Cripes ChatShow

ChatShow

kilozombie · 11-13-2017, 03:10 AM

(11-13-2017, 01:57 AM)Lordlyhour Wrote: »
Cripes ChatShow
>Private Chat To Cripes
>Seven Syllables Wasted
I Do Deserve That

ChatShow
Apologies For
Haiku. I Sent Them Before
The Shit Hit The Fan

(11-13-2017, 01:28 AM)Vic Wrote: »ScatterbrainZack
> It appears that Cripes and Hunk have landed upon another nickel-computer?

(11-13-2017, 01:21 AM)Angustine Wrote: »I want to be inside of the critter and control it
Swallow

Shellgowrath to Levyyts
> You people are necessary for the success of the purpose I was made for
> Any extermination would make saving people from being erased impossible
> What reason would I have to harm such cute beings such as yourselves?
> Would you kindly state yes or no?

Shellgowrath chat to everyone
> Don't worry, be happy
> It won't do anything to any of us since the nickel is made to be immune to space rocks and is literally indestructible
> Failure is an option

Chat to Cripes
> You have summoned Cool Zack or maybe myself
> Ignore the fact that you may have caught the attention of an elderly god
> You have my curse of infinite plotting armor

You message Levyyts.
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Privatelog (Levyyts)Show

...

"Are you alright?" you rasp out to Dinkalsen.

He slowly groans. In a moment, you offer him a hand, still struggling to stand yourself. All of your body hurts. But he's bleeding-- even if it's only a few cuts on his backside, it's enough to worry about. He takes the hand and brings himself upright slowly. "OK," he mutters.

You frown widely. "You don't look great."

"It's OK. Shallow cuts, Ms. Mâché, I'll... be okay. Not joking."

"Alright," you say, swallowing, "I think we should look around."

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Dinkalsen pipes up as you exit. "It feels like walking on metal."

"I think it's a Nickel," you muse. "Like what we're in, but... we're obviously not in this one."

"Shadow on a wall," he says. "Fake projection? Plato..."

"Maybe."

You hear something weird from behind you. As you glance, you spot nothing, and continue walking, shuddering, uncertain.

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Privatelog (Zack)Show

"What's the number?" he asks.

"I think it has to do with the number of people we need to ASCEND," you reply. "That's what some Zack said, at least. Maybe this is where we're supposed to do it."

Dinkalsen coughs weakly. "Fifty three... out of... we've fifty two."

For a moment, you grin, incredulous. "It's a real bullshit carnival, huh."

You spot a TERMINAL.

Vic · 11-13-2017, 03:23 AM

Gene
> Slap the terminal with your HUGE ASS
> Or your hands should suffice

kilozombie · 11-13-2017, 03:36 AM

(11-13-2017, 03:23 AM)Vic Wrote: »Gene
> Slap the terminal with your HUGE ASS
> Or your hands should suffice

Aw yeah. Get your huge ass over there.
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Or your huge hands I guess. Good job Gene.

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"...well, okay."

This hardly explains why there were a bunch of pipes back there, or why they all turned back into bottles, but at least you're down in a place you're intended to be.

Lordlyhour · 11-13-2017, 03:38 AM

Okay I'm Gunna
Try Something Now So You Guys
Can See What Is Up

>Yo God Complex Zack
>Got A Job For You Dude; Send
>The Picture From Here

SpoilerShow

Let's See If GZ
Is Both Willing And Able
To Aggregate That

While I'm Learning Things
/*Commenting Things Out In Chat*/
Let's See If This Works

While On The Subject
Of Possibly Hidden Words
Can You Perceive "Pipes"?

Because On Our End
There Was Some Weirdness When They
Were Spoken About

In Case You Cannot
The Things In Question Are Tubes
For Transporting Things

>private Chat To Cripes
I Think That That Occurance
Would Still Have Happened

I Think It Waited
For A Dramatic Moment
Game Bullshit, You Know?

Vic · 11-13-2017, 03:49 AM

Gene
> Use your fists to punch through the ceiling of the nickel below you

kilozombie · 11-13-2017, 04:24 AM

(11-13-2017, 03:38 AM)Lordlyhour Wrote: »Okay I'm Gunna
Try Something Now So You Guys
Can See What Is Up

>Yo God Complex Zack
>Got A Job For You Dude; Send
>The Picture From Here

SpoilerShow
>

Let's See If GZ
Is Both Willing And Able
To Aggregate That

While I'm Learning Things
/*Commenting Things Out In Chat*/
Let's See If This Works

While On The Subject
Of Possibly Hidden Words
Can You Perceive "Pipes"?

Because On Our End
There Was Some Weirdness When They
Were Spoken About

In Case You Cannot
The Things In Question Are Tubes
For Transporting Things

>private Chat To Cripes
I Think That That Occurance
Would Still Have Happened

I Think It Waited
For A Dramatic Moment
Game Bullshit, You Know?

INPUT AGGREGATOR: well see
INPUT AGGREGATOR: for 1 im not really able to parse images and junk
INPUT AGGREGATOR: but for 2 im totally able to draw them instantly using the art thing
INPUT AGGREGATOR: cus im super brainy and smart ;)
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(11-13-2017, 03:49 AM)Vic Wrote: »Gene
> Use your fists to punch through the ceiling of the nickel below you

It's solid fucking nickel!!
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Privatelog (Zack)Show

"What you are doing," asksplains Dinkalsen.

You shrug. "Trying to see if this was some kind of other COMPOUND, but it seems like it's just a big old fucking nickel, like usual. Goddamn nickels."

He weakly coughs and nods. "Absurdist nickels."

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Spank takes a long breath, glances around, and rubs his arms. "Feels bad in this here. I want to go back up."

You're sharing the same sentiments. It's cold, and not just in temperature-- the very air seems harsh, and you swear you can hear something whispering in the corner of your mind.

Vic · 11-13-2017, 05:24 AM

Gene
> Shout some accusatory remarks at the void around you
> Shout at the nickel, tell it to be softer and more punchable
> Rage

Arcanuse · 11-13-2017, 06:07 AM

Privatelog (cripesalmighty)Show

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kilozombie · 11-13-2017, 08:56 AM

(11-13-2017, 06:07 AM)Arcanuse Wrote: »
Privatelog (cripesalmighty)Show
CoolZack
>Holy... This wasn't how it was supposed to go at all.
>I didn't even know this *could* happen.
>It was supposed to make a wax eye easy as can be, and then i'd tell you how to use the thing as a third eye, having it fly around and...
>oh nevermind. least I can do is finish this mess.
>....

>....

>....

>aaaand done. head probably feels a tiny bit lighter still, but should otherwise feel fine.
>if everything had gone fine and the ritual actually worked right, that would've let you make more of those eyes to pilot around without me directly watching over the process
>as is? I shouldn't need to say it but dont
>im still trying to figure out if something twisted my power into whatever just happened, or if something derailed it entirely and stole the channel for its own purposes
>and for the love of all that's good and holy
>don't draw the symbol again
>The ritual went off rails from the moment
>the string turned into
>a candle
>.........
>and another symbol on top of the first
>shaped like a sodding pipe
>i dont even know

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CoolZack
>Pipes. Pipes here pipes there pipes every-sodding-where.
>Missed the obvious bad signs and thought the ritual started off fine, didn't really need to be glowing, that was just going to be me being a big ham same with most of the effects...
>...And now pipes. How does wax and string make pipes?
>It did make a candle first but then the candle was pipes.
>Then all the alcohol was pipes.
>Then the sodding BACKPACK was pipes.
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
>I would have a drink but again
>All the sodding drinks are sodding pipes
>And apparently space has a giant ship lurking over the nickel
>never again
>never again
>future rituals have been binned, don't wanna try again until the sodding PIPES showing up unwanted have been dealt with
the only thing that didn't turn into pipes is the room the floor and a piece of chalk
>And apparently the big ship wants pipes and is malevolent sounding as can be and
>alright
>deep breaths
>deeeeeeeep breaths
>things have stopped being pipes
>the beer throne is a pile of broken bottles and alcohol
>the materials for the ritual are back to normal
>the back pack is fine albeit soaked in alcohol
>ok
>alright
>i need a minute to process all of this
>so... leave any questions you have and i'll try to get to them quickly

(11-13-2017, 05:24 AM)Vic Wrote: »Gene
> Shout some accusatory remarks at the void around you
> Shout at the nickel, tell it to be softer and more punchable
> Rage

ChatlogShow

The chatlog only makes you madder.

God, the concept of it all. God, the fact that you're being thrown into it. Why you?! You aren't even sensible leadership by any means, and yet Zack decided YOU should be the big fucking deal here!!

AND IT'S ALL FOR NOUGHT ANYWAY.

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"Screw your shit!" you shout. "Fuck whoever decided I should just-- you know, I had goddamn hopes and dreams! I thought I was Geneviève fucking Mâché, I thought somebody gave a shit about me or any of us, but you-- you-- HEROES--"

You squirm, cough, yell.

"YOU MADE US INTO A GODDAMN TWISTED GAME, AND MADE US PLAY IT!"

It hurts.

"Just," you start, "a little bit of a chance of us getting out of here, of us finding someplace nice to live again, that was enough. But that's not even a thing! We're literally lines of code at the bottom of a probably infinite fucking well of more of ourselves! Nobody should, or ever WILL, care that we're in here! AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT FOR MAKING US!"

Your privatelog buzzes.
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Privatelog (Zack)Show

You pause for a second.

"...Cool Zack?"

"I mean, I guess you must be able to hear me. You've all been doing some wacky shit to be able to see into our minds and know our names. You're in my head, somehow, so... yeah."

"You... probably... didn't mean to make all that shit happen back there? And I guess it wasn't the end of the world, 'cus we managed to find this place down here. I just... it all kind of reached a head. I thought I'd be playing goddamn video games today, not-- bumbling around while my friends stumble over existential shit in the chat for a couple of hours and some magical beings from another dimension talk ethereal smack?"

"I mean, hey, like-- I'm trapped here! My entire existence hinges on a computer! You have a body, you're a person, I'm guessing, and... just... shitsake, I guess that just feels really bad to realize, a-and I'm sorry for blowing up at you."

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You hear Dinkalsen step behind you.

"Your talking to yourself, or Zack," he asks. "By miracle, are they also hearing us talk?"

"Yeah," you answer.

You wonder if you're really yourself.

You wonder if you're Gene.

...if you're not

if you weren't

who would you be?

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Arcanuse · 11-13-2017, 02:42 PM

Privatelog cripesalmightyShow

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Vic · 11-13-2017, 05:39 PM

> Be yellow 12

kilozombie · 11-14-2017, 02:46 AM

(11-13-2017, 02:42 PM)Arcanuse Wrote: »
Privatelog cripesalmightyShow

>...I'm sorry too.
>I also need to apologize, but there is something Hunk needs you to do right now.
>Get the backpack. I don't know what else is in there, but I'm hoping it has tweezers and bandages.
>At least, something that can be used like bandages.
>Getting out the biggest pieces of glass and stopping the bleeding should help Hunk.
>I'll...
>I'll talk as you work.
>...
>This isn't my first time doing something like this, and I should have known better.
>Dimensions aren't always the same, they don't play by the same rules.
>It's a rarity to get two dimensions close enough that all the rules in one apply to the other.
>And usually, usually they don't have the same people.
>What worked with ease in one dimension can blow up in my face in another.
>It's why I'm not supposed to screw around with this sort of thing, no fancy special effects, no mysterious instructions with no apparent relevance to the ritual.
>And then I went and did it anyways.
>Years of safety practice just poof, out the window.
>All because I wanted to show off.
>The real ritual didn't need any fancy lights, no eerie flames.
>Just a simple chalk circle, a bit of string, and some wax.
>Having had the method engraved into your very being, you can probably see how most of it's just to be dramatic.
>And normally, it's...
>No, it's not fine.
>For the sake of awing others I threw out all precaution.
>And now you and Hunk are paying for it.
>...
>I'm sorry.

OrderlogShow
>Given the reaction with the word pi
>Sorry, "Tubes".
>And how it probably has to do with the massive ominous floating ship, I have no idea if showing pictures of it would be safe in the slightest.
>So instead, for your sense of scale, I'm using the room that broke off.
>The nickle, which the room landed on, is about six of those rooms across from end to end.
>The big ominous ship of doom is about 25 rooms tall, give or take a room.
>It's also 13 and 4/5'ths of a room wide, from end to end.
>It's also has a bunch of... I dunno. Claws? Talons?
>Very pointy.
>Plus uh...
>It's talking.
>It doesn't want you folks to ascend.
>It wants you folks to descend, and I don't think it means going down to another game level.
>Whether it wants to keep you folks from seeing what it says or something else is hiding its words, I don't know.

(11-13-2017, 09:03 PM)Angustine Wrote: »Shellgowrath uses the audio recorder
> Hey I have a recorder now
> Let us make some noise to experiment this!
The following noises that happen in this videos occur https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R85P5n5r9Yw

INPUT AGGREGATOR: cant wait to try and aggregate that lmao
INPUT AGGREGATOR: god my jobs fun

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INPUT AGGREGATOR: huh

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CoolZack: Given the reaction with the word pi
CoolZack: Sorry, "Tubes".
CoolZack: And how it probably has to do with the massive ominous floating ship, I have no idea if showing pictures of it would be safe in the slightest.
tiptopGipgop: Best not to chance it.
Crast Pactian: surely it would simply be a word.
CoolZack: So instead, for your sense of scale, I'm using the room that broke off.
YUPPERS: so it was THE BOTTOM NICKEL you SPEAK OF.
CoolZack: The nickle, which the room landed on, is about six of those rooms across from end to end.
cripesalmighty: That feels wrong because a nickel is supposed to be small.
CoolZack: The big ominous ship of doom is about 25 rooms tall, give or take a room.
CoolZack: It's also 13 and 4/5'ths of a room wide, from end to end.
CoolZack: It's also has a bunch of... I dunno. Claws? Talons?
tiptopGipgop: Wait. Mandibles?
CoolZack: Very pointy.
Crast Pactian: oh no.
tiptopGipgop: Okay, well that’s not good. If it was big and tall and scary as can be, it might've... been... uhm. The MOCHA ENDING.
tiptopGipgop: I can’t imagine how it’s in the game, or out of the game, or wherever you spotted it, but it’s decidedly a bad thing.
CoolZack: Plus uh...
CoolZack: It's talking.
CoolZack: It doesn't want you folks to ascend.
EXA: whaaaa
EXA: whowww
EXA: neat ok yeah it’s like talking now xoxoxo zzzz
YUPPERS: FUCKITY!!!! HUM?!?!!?
cripesalmighty: I hear it.
CoolZack: It wants you folks to descend, and I don't think it means going down to another game level.
Hunk Chudfest: likeee down go digng down ow
Hunk Chudfest: ittss teling yme to gor down fodwon down down dwon
CoolZack: Whether it wants to keep you folks from seeing what it says or something else is hiding its words, I don't know.
Levyyts: MOCHA ENDING is a god
Levyyts: Not unlike your current position
Levyyts: Uncomforting. Simply.
1234567890: fuck1n6 4
1234567890: 70d49 ju57 5uck5
1234567890: 1 m34n 1 607 74r5 84ck 50 1m h4pp9 480u7 7h47
1234567890: 50 7h4nk5 24ck 1 6u355
Crast Pactian: thank you zack very much for bringing back tars!
Crast Pactian: we are almost through this wall now.
YUPPERS: HNRG
Crast Pactian: no wonder it took explosives to break the floor, ha.
tiptopGipgop: Not that we ever would have tried before.
tiptopGipgop: I guess we thought that if we broke a wall we’d be exposed to the void outside of the Nickel, but…
tiptopGipgop: ...I can’t believe that delusion was yesterday.
tiptopGipgop: I’m working on that combinator if anyone wants to lend a hand. Got a few ideas.

INPUT AGGREGATOR: piece of shit didnt do anything

(11-13-2017, 09:03 PM)Angustine Wrote: »To cripes
> Stop having a existential crisis and worrying about things that don't matter and won't affect your life in any way shape or form

Fine. You can do that for a little while.
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Privatelog (Zack)Show

"Yeah," you say, "thank you for reminding me. I guess I got caught so far up in this bullshit that I forgot my friend was bleeding out of his back area a bunch."

Dinkalsen says, "I'm thankful," a bunch.

"...okay, okay, tweezers. Alright. God this backpack is a mess. If Yuptam's supposed to be a doctor with all sorts of doctorshit, how does he even begin to expect to find it under all the garbage? OK, here we go."

You begin TWEEZING. Spank squirms.

"You're... an alright person, Cool Zack. I-I mean, I don't even know you, actually, but... at least you're sticking around. The way it sounds, you could basically shit gold and skedaddle at a moment's notice! You know all kinds of weird cult magic and if you're not tricking me, you actually tried to help us with some of it. With a rad floating eye spell. That's goddamn unique."

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Dinkalsen pipes up again. "The hurt is a little dampered."

"Yeah, alright. Good as new!"

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Privatelog (Zack)Show

As he gives you a customary THUMBS UP, you continue listening to Cool Zack, letting the calm of the moment start to overtake you.

"I mean, if I were you, I'd do all kinds of flashy shit too!"

"What you're talking about," questions Dinkalsen.

You chuckle. "So, uh-- so that's okay. I get the feeling it wasn't even your deal that caused that whole mess, or if it was, it's not like that's a natural fucking consequence of a deal gone bad. How does making everything transport tubes even remotely connect to a floating eye? And all the shit turned back anyway, so... yeah. I almost feel like I was dreaming, it was that odd."

The newly-bandaged Carapacian shivers. "Okay."

"I think," you start, "that me and Dinkalsen are gonna make it through this anyway. The best thing you can do right now is stick with us."

(11-13-2017, 05:39 PM)Vic Wrote: »> Be yellow 12

You do that.
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Wow look at this CLUTTERED-ASS ROOM !!!! !!!

Your username is EXA.

You are a CARAPACIAN, and previous resident of PROSPIT. You were part of a GAME which FAILED, and you were created by some douchebag with the keys to the castle who decided you should be PROGRAMMED into a NICKEL. This, however, as with almost all knowledge and revelation, has almost entirely skipped your mind. You give very few cares to the truths of your existence and the universe, as you have long since lost the meaning to it all. You believe that this LACK OF CARE probably gives you an ADVANTAGE over CARAPACIANS, SOMEHOW.

You dislike comparing yourself to others. Comparing yourself to others is at the bottom of your to-do list. Paying attention to the petty conflicts and drama of other people instead of laughing at the absurdity of it all is so rock-bottom on your to-do list that it has broken right through and landed on a NICKEL at the bottom of a MIND PIT.

Now, according to what you remember over the last 9 months, you have NO RESPONSIBILITIES. Your NEEDS are met by the occasional NEED DISPENSER scattered throughout the IMAGINARY COMPOUND, your art habits are basically meaningless, and the guide you've been writing for 3/4ths of a year (3*3 months!!!,,,) has fallen through as a result of the fact that the game it was being written for is now so morally reprehensible that not a single soul besides you is going to care enough to play.

That's fine! You have found solace in shitting around your room, sleeping for extremely prolonged periods of time, making occasional mean-spirited comments at people you once called 'friends', pretending your status as a YELLOW-TEAM IMAGINARY PERSON doesn't affect your life business at all, even though it probably does somehow. In addition to being an IMAGINARY PERSON with IMPLANTED MEMORIES of a time on Prospit, you are also what you'd lazily state is a 'nihilissst'...

No, damn.

The symmetry isn't right.

You are dissappointed--

You are not hopeful.

Your interests include the DRAWN ARTS, the PAINTED NUMBERS, LINGUISTIC SYMMETRY,,,, MATHS AND ARITHMETICS, and PUNS of the NUMERAL VARIETY.

You also have accidentally picked up a habit from your friend YUPPERS to STRATEGICALLY CAPITALIZE certain words. Goddamnit that is a really bad habit. It makes you look OCCASIONALLY SSHHOOUUTTYY.

While you are not ONLINE, you also possess a name. Not a silly username that you picked in a few seconds as soon as you WOKE UP here, but a real name, one they put on all the documents and that is used when, rarely, one of your 8 remaining living acquaintances are in your vicinity.

What was it again?

And what's that you're fishing out of the SECRET COMPARTMENT in your TERMINAL?

Lordlyhour · 11-14-2017, 05:24 AM

Job: Arithmancer
Name: Eva Xena Anno
Compartment: Cool Hat

kilozombie · 11-14-2017, 07:16 AM

(11-14-2017, 03:12 AM)Angustine Wrote: »Shellgowrath to Levyyts
> How do I utilize this sound recording software?
> My noises have gone unsoundly
> That has displeased me and my father

Shellgowrath to chat
> That isn't a vessel in space
> It is a very large elderly god and since it is old it is harmless
> Having a existential crisis is unproductive and causes expenses
> Ignore how this is a simulation and just be happy with happy thoughts
> Happy thoughts
> Happy thoughts
> And the pain will go away

Sound experiment https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eDqhw04BjWc

INPUT AGGREGATOR: this levits lil punk is gonna really pay when shes gotta deal with my wrath
INPUT AGGREGATOR: and trust me they didnt program that out its just lying dormant in my brain area like all stealthy-like
INPUT AGGREGATOR: this bicCcchCHh and her shoddy program skill
INPUT AGGREGATOR: gosh wow i dont think im supposed to be getting all antagonizing lmao
INPUT AGGREGATOR: listen sorry ill be ur lapdog for the foreseeable future
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Privatelog (Levyyts)Show

INPUT AGGREGATOR: whap

(11-14-2017, 05:24 AM)Lordlyhour Wrote: »Job: Arithmancer
Name: Eva Xena Anno
Compartment: Cool Hat

That's exactly right. Your born name was Eva Xena Anno, and as you descended into a deep and unknowable depression, the singsong six-syllable symphony, the alignment with the numbers 3 and 4, and the number that the game gave you, 12-- became a safe haven, not too unlike your old acquaintance, Oats, with his entire spectrum of numeral comforts. The alliteration could replace the need for grandparents, did encourage abbreviation, diminish some consequences, removed the need for independence, and made trigonometry electrifying.

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Here you are, giving your customary thumbs up. Oh gosh your arm is reaching into the compartment now. You guess you'll use this as an opportunity to grab your SPECIAL ITEM.

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You weren't an amateur magician or a wannabe. No, you were a caster-- of the maths variety. Back on Prospit, your only friend for many years, and your de-facto parent, was the CLOSETS MONSTER, whom you summoned all on your own. It quite liked numbers. It quite liked you.

You quite liked it.

As you walk around the room relatively aimlessly, you answer the CHATLOG with some snippy and relatively unhelpful remarks, as is tradition.
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ChatlogShow

Once you reach the far wall, however, you spot your THREE FORES, and decide to take one. It will be your broomstaff, your magi wand, your casting method-- and you may only take ONE.

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THE PRECISE.

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THE NUCLEAR.

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THE VICIOUS.

Arcanuse · 11-14-2017, 10:09 AM

>The Precise
Because Nuclear is too much boom, and vicious isn't accurate enough.
>That and it's not like the others will vanish into the ether, never to be seen again. Probably.

OrderlogShow

Lordlyhour · 11-14-2017, 10:40 AM

Take A Fourth Option
Take All The Fores And Combine
Them Into A Twelve

Vic · 11-14-2017, 12:24 PM

Eva
> Do the mathy thing

Gene
> Go outside again and look up

kilozombie · 11-15-2017, 02:12 AM

(11-14-2017, 05:08 PM)Angustine Wrote: »We have been tricked!
Delete the program wich will probably fail and when it does run it again
I expected nothing with my honesty

Shellgowrath to Levyyts
> I have been tricked!
> The wool has been pulled over my eyes. I have been double dealt and played a fool, misled and swindled, bamboozled and hoodwinked.
> I have been taken in and taken for a ride. You have defrauded me and deluded me by giving me this program. I was caught and thrown by a hoax
> I feel flabbergasted by how I've been flimflammed, dumbfounded by how I've been duped, rocked by how I've been rooked, and confounded by how I've been conned, now that I have been outwitted by running this program, I admit that I have been set up and had one put over me
> Now bask in the glory of your accomplishment!
> And punish me for misbehaving
> This is exciting and exhilarating!

INPUT AGGREGATOR: yeah lets get real mad here ok ye
INPUT AGGREGATOR: here i am real mad for real
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Privatelog (Levyyts)Show

(11-14-2017, 12:24 PM)Vic Wrote: »Gene
> Go outside again and look up

(11-14-2017, 10:09 AM)Arcanuse Wrote: »
OrderlogShow
Coolzack
>I can't say with certainty, but I suspect we have one small advantage.
>Since it's attempting to talk, It likely isn't at full strength.
>It's still powerful of course, or at least very big.
>But not as powerful as it was when it rampaged and started this mess.

>Oh, and judging from the message on the top side of the nickel...
>...The password is on the bottom side.
>Great.
>Which, in the event we find a way to look at the bottom side, we would have to do it without big and scary noticing.
>Since they might throw a fit or something.

ChatlogShow

Looks like it's FLAT as can be. You can't make out precisely what's above it, though.

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ChatlogShow

You spot something hulking in front of you.

Epilepsy WarningShow

(11-14-2017, 10:40 AM)Lordlyhour Wrote: »Take A Fourth Option
Take All The Fores And Combine
Them Into A Twelve

Time to make some puns.

(11-14-2017, 10:09 AM)Arcanuse Wrote: »>The Precise
Because Nuclear is too much boom, and vicious isn't accurate enough.
>That and it's not like the others will vanish into the ether, never to be seen again. Probably.

This one always was your favorite. Sure, brute violent strength or the unpredictability of nuclear degradation isn't unacceptable, by any means, yet precision has always swayed you in the end. You could never win golf without this thing.

(11-14-2017, 12:24 PM)Vic Wrote: »Eva
> Do the mathy thing

You are always doing the mathy thing, but okay.

Your favorite ROMANTIC PARTNERSHIP that has existed between your friends was the G7 and Y5. For one, added together they make up 12. Secondarily, 75% represents 3/4 of something. Then, with some swapping around, 5/7ths is a repeating decimal with 2/3rds of its repeating places being 1 and 2, with a complete lack of 3 or 4. 2*3 is 6, and 2/3rds is a repeating decimal made entirely of 6, which is 1/2 (12) of 12 and 2x that of 3, which in of itself is 1/4th of 12. 6 is also 2/3 of 9, which is 3*3 and 3/4ths of 12.

IT'S ALL SO BEAUTIFUL AND CONNECTED.

Anyhow.

Now that you've got your precise fore, are you actually going to get out of your room, for once, to do something productive?

Perhaps. But what would it be?