Waterworks

>Reasons for life come and go but those who are awake can be ready when things change.
>If this much could happen in just five years... whose to say it's going to last?

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smuchsmuch, I don't think this is after the end of the story. After the end of Waterworks, maybe, but I think this setup is more of a sign that LuFa plans on going somewhere with the plot after that adventure or part of the adventure is over.

What is this city's specialty?
How's that depression going? Does anyone know?

Hi, just asking if theres a discord server for Waterworks?

Hello there, 'fraid there isn't one.

If you're thinking of making one, I suggest you think otherwise as it's not really needed. He does hang out in some outlier servers.

Blegh. You really need to get off your ass and do something meaningful for once. You thought you had something going on, but as you sat back and kinda just... let yourself go. Then, after a while, you get up to take a look around and realize that the world's left you behind.

hey connie got any friends, or maybe hobbies? try those, or get some by joining an activity club

better than doing the whole self-destructive angsty wallowing-in-regrets-and-helplessness thing

Well, there was José... You should have been up front with him and actually offered to do something together that didn't involve you being miserable.

As far as hobbies go... Your bathroom could use a bit of a tune-up. You used to be so meticulous when cleaning it. However, because it was so perfect, no one (including yourself) ever really wanted to use it. After a while, you guess you just gave up. What's the point in cleaning something that will just get dirty again?

Still, that's no excuse for your current behaviour. You can do whatever you want. You could pull a virtual reality helmet out of a vending machine right now and connect to the internet. That's where everyone is these days. People from all over the world join up to live, learn, dream and create together. Musicians host digital concerts where millions attend. Art is painted, programs are written... There will always be someone or something that will be there for you.

...Except it isn't real. You're a bit hung up on that part.

One argument that you keep giving yourself is that the people are real, and so are the relationships that you have with them. A rational person would agree, but to be frank, you're having a little bit of trouble suspending your disbelief.




Anyway, it looks like you've reached the "bus stop".

Technically, these aren't traditional busses. They're more like shuttles that literally get shot to other terminals. Imagine a cross between a maglev and a bullet train, and then remove the track. That's the sort of stuff you're dealing with here. That, and garbage cans that can pass the Turing test.




You enter the terminal. Things are so quiet, you wager there's likely a shuttle already docked in there, just waiting for someone to board it so it can go somewhere.




You can go anywhere you want, but you always find yourself bouncing back and forth between nothing and nowhere-in-particular. The day begins with you sulking over breakfast and ends with you in bed, your body too preoccupied with your self-medicated alcohol poisoning to offer up any surprises. You could do this forever. But did you ever want to?

You should pull Slick's helmet out of storage again. It's been a while, maybe it'll do you some good to see him again.

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Well, we're going out with a whimper instead of a bang, but at least we're finally going out. Intermission's done. I've got a lot of animating ahead of me.

I have some stuff to talk about. I've already made a blog post, but I'll reiterate down here.

I've been thinking on the previous update, and I've decided to remove a part of it. Namely, the bit with the animation...

I want to commit to that setting, but I've come to realize that nobody needed to know any of that at this point in the adventure. There's no point dropping it in the middle of a bunch of stuff that still needs to be tied up. I've removed the content of the update itself, but the YouTube link will still be available to serve as a testament to my hubris.

I have to secure some hosting for Waterworks' images and animations. Dropbox will stop supporting public links on September 1st. If I don't get my shit in order by then, the adventure will go down until I've got everything organized and re-mirrored.

After that, I need to work on the animation that should hopefully be the last nail in the coffin and finally bring us back to the Waterworks proper. So, while this is happening, this adventure will effectively be on hiatus. I will post an update on the blog in due time and assess what has been done - If I haven't made enough progress, I'll scrap the animation and we'll do things the old fashioned way.

Please bear with me as I continue to dig myself out of this hole. I'll try to keep everyone posted on the tumblr...

It's a bit late for me today... I'll post this update to the tumblr and the mirror tomorrow. Thank you, and have a good night.

Looks like I happened to find the forums and catch up at a good(?) time. Good to see this is still a thing. Although, apparently I missed a world-buildy thing? Shame. Anyway, I'm caught back up so I can once again wait for updates like everyone else.

>Here's something that'll cheer you up. Subway graffiti. Show the interior walls who's boss, you're a real-deal rebel!
Or
>Whoa-whoa, Connie, stop daydreaming. You're fighting for control of your being, remember?

>Connie: See Slick again

Heh, well bronze isn't so bad. Glad that the intermission is over.

Connie: contain/defeat the hivemind, already

> a few reality checks are in order what with the hivemind business still unsettled and your id down and out. unless you can rage counter this bs reality that is.

>have a glass of water it does the body good.

>Connie: try to remember, when all of this went wrong exactly? What happened then?

loading Your vision focusing eventually returns to you. running




cryonics - 100% Who/what are you doing here? You think that you're Pvt. Chambers id match, but the last n-1 thing you remember querying was a snow globe classified being thrown at you. true

What happened to you merge order, this place unknown, and everyone else? no signal

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Not the most elegant return, but I'll take it.

Blog post for those who aren't in the know.

Oh, huh. I didn't know this was a thing, I sorta kinda stole/traded this account with the previous owner, so I suppose I didn't really clear out their subscription thing. I'll go ahead and give this a read in the morning then, see if I like it, then do something or other. Either be a +1 or just clear the sub.

Run diagnostics, what's our current status and what items do we have?

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Welcome back.

So I bet this is where "it" began.

Show Console Command List. Type/say/think "help" or "debug" or "console command list" or something...

>Do a quick figure 8 on your skates to make sure you're in working order.

>Call the Lift.

>Do a quick figure 8 on your skates to make sure you're in working order.

You're not sure that you can false. Your roller skates searching for roller skates feel sticky, and the wheels searching for wheels aren't spinning properly allocating material.




hardening Never complete mind, you spoke too soon. ready




You're a little sluggish unknown, but can still get around calculating circumference.

Run diagnostics, what's our current status and what items do we have?

...Diagnostics? nominal

You're we having trouble thinking CPU straight optimal performance. Your mind is fuzzy unknown. It's like there's a million voices multithreading all speaking at once in the back of your head localhost cluster at optimal efficiency. Each one is cryonic bridge active trying to tell you something interfacing according to neuron blueprint, and it's hard to focus update priority.

>Call the Lift.

However, it's hard to ignore the lift as it is currently blocking obstructing your path keys valid, calling lift.

...Somehow, the lift manages to activate itself while you're thinking loading about it.

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I don't know if there's enough time in the day for me to maintain a daily update schedule... I might need to drop it to every-other day... You'll know when/if it happens.

>It's all coming back now. Weep for your fallen comrade.

Can... someone remind me of who that is? I thought I remembered a lot of this story... but I don't know who we're controlling and who is dead over there. I guess I forgot a lot from before the Sister Rescue, Mental Break, and Time Skip stuff.

This is one of the green guys from the interlude we've been in for a whiile now (starts here: https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1169). It's all a long flashback by Jose (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1169) untill we finaly catch back to Connie

Basicaly the Blue biys are hired to steal some time travel machine briefcase from a secret governement facility under a school whcih contain all kind of crazy tech.
The green guys were the guards and tried to kill the blue gang, they were all killed instead in a long series of shenanigans.

The one where contolling now was Pvt Chambers, part of he green gys. (Youngest,whose role was reconaissance and decryption according to alpha the wolf looking guy whose body we see n the last update (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1474) ) and who was the sniper of the group. He got Tubbed. hard (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1865 , https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1883)

Which means we're still not back to the waterwork, we're still in the secret base, however this some time later)

During the intermision he was holding Jose at gunpoint with Jos's own gun. Jose threw a snowglobe (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1464) at him which somehow froze him solid ( https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1465 ) and them smashed him in tiny pieces with the butt of his gun (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1467)

Alpha used a nanotech copy of something called the boss key (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1478) who was supposed to bring Chamber back and give him power (one assume) but it didn't quite work, it makes the pieces gow but Jose was prtty quick ont he draw. and scattered them.
Instead as we see in the end of this flash, it hit the locker in the room and a petry dish of veryy familia black goo (https://mspfa.com/?s=43&p=1519) and thus we're slowly tying to the main plot and pvt Chambers was a zombie.
Some kind of nanotech half frozen black goo zombie with still a sense of identity, somehow

>Recognize fallen comrade (Examine Corpse).

Pvt. Chambers: Try to radio the rest of your squad, via the private channel that only you can access thanks to your headset mic thing.

> OH GOD IT'S ALPHA, HE'S DEA- Wait, how did you get up here, anyways? Weren't you a few floors down earlier?

> ... did *you* do this?