Waterworks

> Go meet the person in the movie theater. Ask them, what's in the news.

>Well obviously none of those passwords worked. You did it wrong. You're supposed to mash the keyboard with your head, not your hands.
>Kick the machine defiantly before moving on.
>Sneak up on the figure in the theater and shout at them to provide a scare.

>ConnieC

*Hivemind*

*Hivemind*

Seconding hivemind, but also, if it is correct and the machine turns on:

>Enter the cinema, and notice superego

>Well obviously none of those passwords worked. You did it wrong. You're supposed to mash the keyboard with your head, not your hands.

You suffer a spontaneous lapse in judgement and decide to try a few more passwords. With your head.

WakingUp
capslock
CAPSLOCK
allusion
waterworks (that one's too long)
ConnieC (that one's too short!)
Hivemind

Still nothing.




This console is dumb, but you're even dumber for trying to enter a password with your face.

You're going to go and check out that theatre now.

>Be prepared for anything, ranging from a rematch with the hivemind, your Superego, your Id, Slick, your biological family, RR, Juliet, THE TRUTH, etc.

As Wakaliwood says, expect the unexpectable.

>Console: Level Up

Good news, mspfa is back online and working. Are you going to upload the rest of it there?

> That was actually impressive, typing with your head. Did RR taught you to do it?

>While it wouldn't accomplish anything at all, watching you injure yourself IS pretty funny, if you wanted to keep doing that for a while. Just a suggestion.

>Just strut into the theater like you own the damn place. Hurl your jive around like there's no tomorrow. March forward knowing there is no groove to match your own.

>Be the Ego. Know how awesome you are and that this ship wouldn't sail without you. Show off as you enter the theater

Be the Ego.

She already is, by definition.

Be the Ego.

She already is, by definition.

Yeah, but she could do better showing it off.

>Be prepared for anything, ranging from a rematch with the hivemind, your Superego, your Id, Slick, your biological family, RR, Juliet, THE TRUTH, etc.

You've already seen so much, you're not sure how you couldn't already be prepared.




Your eyes adjust to the darkness as you head down the stairs. You go all the way down to the front row, where you think you can see someone reading a newspaper.










Two fingers. She only has two fingers.

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This update is small, but I wanted to make sure I had something to post - Today is Waterworks' 8th anniversary!

> Have a seat she's pointing at. It's close to stairs and well placed strategicaly.

> Ask, how she's able to hold a newspaper without an opposable thumbs.

>Only 2 fingers? Aunt Gertrude was a hog farmer. Aunt Gertrude, is that you?

Of course she only has 2 fingers.
Any more than that and conceivably she might flip someone off by accident.
And that would be unconscionable, wouldn't it?

Congratulations on making it this far!

>Steel yourself in case this is a jumpscare or something bad happens.
>Mysterious Figure: Provide calming tea, wine would make this worse.

Oh, the metaphor? Why, yes, I did enjoy the metaphorical hivemind absorbing my metaphorical consciousness. No idea what you were going for with that one, though.

>Dance like a crab out of respect and sympathy for SE's loss of fingers.

>Make sure it is really your superego and not an impostor, ask something only your superego could know the answer for!

> Superego: Congratulate Ego on the 8 year anniversary.
> Ego: Have no idea what she's talking about; it's easy to lose track of time in one's head, but you're pretty sure it hasn't been that long.

>Ego: Sit down and be ready.
>Superego: Offer some metaphorical tea. It's the polite thing to do in society, after all.

Don't worry about the two fingers thing. Some people are just like that, don't judge. By the way, what did she mean by metaphor?

Oh. Uh. You guess that makes sense.

You assume the theatre is her doing. If she wanted to hurt you, would she have bothered to go through all the trouble?

...Well, the hivemind certainly did.




You sit down. As long as you remain cautious and prepared for anything, nothing will catch you off guard.

Do you have any snacks?

She's still got that newspaper up between the two of you. It's starting to get annoying.

> Ask, how she's able to hold a newspaper without an opposable thumbs.

That's fine and all, but when you're talking to someone, there's this little thing called eye-contact...




Dammit, now you're curious. Do you ask her to put the paper down and get on with it? Or do you have her keep it up, because some morbid part of you really wants to see how long she can talk to you while holding it up. If there was another part of you that was responsible for personifying dramatic tension, she'd be rolling in her grave.

...You'd also better ask her a few regular questions too, if you have any. Can't forget about those.

Questions!
>Why a theater?
>If you set this up, why can't you just poof in snacks?
>In polite society, we make eye contact when talking.
>Can we see the rest of that paper there?
>What are we going to watch? Memories or shenanigans?
>Seriously though, why two fingers?
>Anything interesting in the papers?
>Is there a limit to these questions?
>Am I approaching the limit?
>Have I hit the limit?
>Are these questions pointless?
>Since you are the superego, which could be considered the opposite of the id, I would expect just a negative of the id. But CC, the ego, is already more of less like that and I see you are mostly black instead of the near pure white that a color negative of the id would be. So I guess this questions is WHATCHA LOOK LIKE?
>How do you feel about the whole hivemind such and such that went on and is currently going on?
>Do YOU have any questions?