Waterworks

For what it's worth, as someone who was only tangentially 'there', I thought those MSPAFA references were really fun!

>Is there a Universal Projector 02 anywhere? Is there anything anywhere, for that matter, or is this just a white void?

>Start fiddling with the projector and go back whence you came.
>Push random buttons and hope for the best.
>If all else fails, set everything to "default".

Need help filling and revising the TVTropes Page, if any of you stragglers are around.

>Whatever this thing is, maybe you need to cut the tape

> Put out the fire and look around

(That was awesome. I hope you'll leave links to Steelworks and Powerworks to your pages with them when mspfa will be fixed. You know, like Hussie did here: https://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003233)

>Connie, I think you're losing it.

> Maybe you can find in the tapes where you last left off?

>Going back to where you were before is probably a bad idea. You didn't have a way to get the hivemind out of your brains before, this might just be that way.

>Maybe you could put someone who is less awful in the role of the hivemind? Like how you just took over a goth and a short haired version of yourself?

The Steelworks and Powerworks references don't look like references if you haven't already heard of them. They flow pretty well as just being alternate universes. Sure, you had to be there, but you also don't rub my face in it.

>Connie, I think you're losing it.

You're pretty sure you crossed that line a while ago.

> Put out the fire and look around

You stomp out the flaming footprints before stepping back and surveying the situation.




In front of you is a giant, over-elaborate film projector.




Film is being pulled in from a massive reel on the side.




The other end of the projector is sticking through a hole in the empty space, which is next to a door, also in the aforementioned empty space.




You take a quick peek. Looks like your everyday movie theatre. At least from what you can see. It's dark in there.

> Is that a console on the machine? What can you do with it?

The console is locked with a password. Who would password-protect a projector? Who would even consider making a projector that could be password-protected?

> Maybe you can find in the tapes where you last left off?

Looking at the portions of film that are loaded into the machine shows you more of the same - the scene of a woman standing in a power plant. The spicy stuff must still be in the reels.




However, you're not certain you want to spend the time going through one of these things. They're massive!

>"Universal Projector," eh? What happens if you cut the film...? Do it!

You grab a portion of film that is already loaded into the projector and tear it. Somehow, this gives you two complete lengths of film.





You probably shouldn't do that again. You can see this getting messy real quick.

>Shit, who cares? Make a mess! None of this metaphysical stuff can be real right? It's just dumb dream crap.
>And if it is real then the only possible explanation intuits the existence of some godly being so start breaking crap and then they'll be forced to fix things and put you back in the waterworks where you're supposed to be, right?
>Throw a freaking tantrum. You've earned it.

>Go to auditorium
>Meet Superego for a sensible solution
>Plot: Happen

Quick, someone with too much time go through the archives and see if there are any changes resulting from the universe being torn.

>Is that a 7 character code or an 8 character code?
>Randomly mash keyboard
>Go have a chat with Superego down in the theater.

>The password is probably "password". Try it out.

>You know what, you've been having a really cruddy day, and that person in the theater is going to be on the receiving end of your misplaced rage. Barge your way down there, smack that paper out of their hands, and immediately declare that everything they like is dumb. Why must the innocent suffer so?

The password is filmreel

> Try out the most basic passwords:

12345678
87654321
qwertyui
asdfghjk
1q2w3e4r
00000000
11111111
<your birth date>
<your another important date>

>Connie, at this point, I suspect you are, quite litteraly, out of your mind.

>You should go talk to the person reading the newspaper in the theater.

>Maybe the password is... Slick...

>Try the password "Murderer"

> Try "PTCHOOOO", or maybe just "PTCHOOO" if there's only seven letters.

>Randomly mash keyboard

The console is looking for a password with 8 letters. You try out a bunch:

PASSWORD
FILMREEL
12345678
87654321
QWERTYUI
ASDFGHJK
1Q2W3E4R
00000000
11111111
MURDERER
PTCHOOOO

None of them work.




You're not sure how you'll ever be able to guess a password without anything else to go on.

You've never been good with passwords yourself, and on more than one occasion have ended up using your own name. Yeah yeah, it's a bad habit, you know.

You'd try that here, but Connie is still too short to be accepted. That is, assuming that the password even is eight characters long. Isn't it bad form to reveal any kind of information about a password? You don't know - as you said, you're not particularly good at this.

Look at the film reel into the future to the point where you put in the correct code

Murderer? Where did that come from?

>You aren't goig to guess the passworld at random without some hints at least.

>Go ithe theather talk to the person reading a newspaper n the front seat.

Also...
>Try "WakingUp", "capslock", "CAPSLOCK", "allusion" and other tangenial references to your current adventure.
>Check if the password can accept more than 8 letters, input "waterworks" if so

Eventually...
>Consider the password thing might be a decoy. Move onto the auditorium unless it's empty.

Murderer? Where did that come from?

Remember that flash where Connie saved Jose and murderer flashed on screen? I figured it was worth a shot. It's pretty much the scene from before we went off the rails, too.