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Post by Testbug on Feb 12, 2011 17:01:14 GMT -5
===-==>So anyway, you start the long walk back to the arch. You cross the field, you ascend the turret, and wind up in front of the arch from before. Only now, you're being pestered! You wonder who it is. WHAT DO YOU DO? === [CHESS MODUS] King: iPad Queen: Wi-Fi Hub Knight: EMPTY Bishop: Sburb (Both Discs) Rook: DAD's Katana Pawn: Strange Figurine Base [STRIFE SPECUBI] polekind: Training Pole 2polekind: 2x Training Pole
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Post by Testbug on Feb 12, 2011 19:39:17 GMT -5
Shiro & Kitten: Be adorable moirails. -- apotropaicReverie [AR] began pestering wartimeStrategist [WS] --
AR: Shiro Shiro Shiiiiiiiro! AR: I made the computer work! < WS: Oh, hi Kitten! WS: I'm glad to hear that. WS: That's actually pretty impressive progress for you. WS: What have you been up to? AR: Oh golly I have just been talking to everyone I love <3 AR: Of course I love everyone, that is <3 AR: But some more than others~! AR: I already talked to Bustin and Tweak, now I'm with you < AR: I think I'll talk to Flynn next. He'll probably know the answer~! <3 WS: Wait, "the answer"? WS: The answer's 42. WS: But what's the question, Kitty? AR: Oh ummmmmmm AR: I'm supposed to do something important today! AR: other than celebrate Sir Krumples birthday. AR: But I also need a reason to talk to Flynn so I sorta would rather if you didn't answer it, Shiro <3 AR: But what are you doing! WS: Haha, I totally understand that. WS: And I'm actually wandering around the castle by my house. It's pretty dark here, so I'm kinda using the iPad to light my way through the darkness. WS: Apparently pestering chums makes every environment less creepy! WS: Have you gotten your prize from the contest yet? WS: The game? AR: It's not nice to make me lose the game, Shiro <3 AR: And um, I, um AR: There's a prize~? AR: Wait what contest~! WS: You couldn't have forgotten! WS: The writing contest that we entered. WS: There was a prize for the different winners. WS: Specifically, the prize was a copy of the trendy new game, Sburb. AR: What~? I was just putting up a lovely story I wrote! You should read it,it is beautifulllllll <3 AR: But um, I guess I won it then! AR: Although I dun think I'll be able to install such a thing as a game <3 WS: Oh god. WS: That's true. WS: It's okay, though. WS: I'll help walk you through it. WS: Hmmmm. WS: Question.[/font]
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Post by Testbug on Feb 12, 2011 19:40:25 GMT -5
===-==>. WS: If you found a giant computer screen in the bottom of a medieval castle, what would you think? AR: I think it must be lonely! AR: Maybe you should give it a hug, it's probably cold and sad! AR: Make friends <3333333 WS: Interesting perspective. WS: Huh. WS: A giant yellow-gold moon of some kind is on-screen. AR: Oooooooh! WS: Regardless, I can't see a power source. WS: Or any kind of interface. WS: Looks like this trip was a total bust! AR: ! AR: I know something like that! Sort of <3 AR: But I can't say it, I promised <3 WS: Wait, what?
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Post by Testbug on Feb 12, 2011 19:41:29 GMT -5
===-==>WS: Who'd you promise, Kitty? AR: Ahhhhhhh <:c AR: Someone super important! AR: She talks to me sometimes. AR: I think she's um, um, it's really hard to say! AR: But I can't really explain <:C AR: I don't think I can get her to talk to you either without you freaking out! AR: I'm really sorry Shiro <///////3 AR: Are we still friends D:> WS: Well... WS: Of course we're still friends, Kitty. WS: I'd just really really like it if you could let me talk to her. WS: Or tell me what this moon thing is! WS: But if you can't right now, I guess that's okay. WS: :/ AR: O-oh. AR: Um, well... AR: I'm sorry, this is all my fault </3 AR: I think I'll just, um, AR: Bye D:>
-- apotropaicReverie [AR] ceased pestering wartimeStrategist [WS] --
WS: :(Well, that could've gone better. WHAT DO YOU D OOOOOOO? === [CHESS MODUS] King: iPad Queen: Wi-Fi Hub Knight: EMPTY Bishop: Sburb (Both Discs) Rook: DAD's Katana Pawn: Strange Figurine Base [STRIFE SPECUBI] polekind: Training Pole 2polekind: 2x Training Pole
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 0:40:08 GMT -5
Shiro: maybe it has the 3 gees.You fire up your "Gee checker" app, and the results are unfavorable. No gees here, brah!
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 20:37:52 GMT -5
Shiro: Keep exploring. There's got to be some explanation for this rando computer screen. Well, you look around, and you can't really find anything! I mean, even with your iPad on the flashlight app, you can still only find this dumb bed! It's even made of rock. What the fuck kind of useless bed is this?
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 20:46:18 GMT -5
Shiro: Pester someone about your current feelings! It's not safe to leave them like that!You open a pester with BA. It's a good idea, you feel. -- wartimeStrategist [WS] began pestering biomechArtisan [BA] --
WS: Hey, Colin. WS: You got a minute? WS: Kitten got upset at me. WS: And I found something that seems like it'd be right up your alley. BA: Ohai, Shiro. Yeah, I think I've got some time. BA: I'm guessing you've finally gone and checked out that castle? Figured it mocked you for long enough.WS: I'm laying on this stone bed actually. BA: ... Does it, perchance, have a symbol on it? WS: Yes! A red gear-looking thing. BA: I've seen this on a few event monitors in my dreams. Had some pretty disturbing connotations. WS: Wait, event monitors? WS: What have you been doing? BA: It's hard to explain. I've been having some major recurring dreams for a while. Observing events unfold on screens. The monitors are different but there's a whole lot of recurring elements. BA: Spirograph gates, planets being bombarded, two great armies fighting over some glowy blue thing... BA: And the more I think of it... BA: The more it seems to have to do with the game. BA: I think we're next. BA: Maybe that's why my dreams have been so urgent lately. WS: Well, assuming you haven't been doing LSD or any other hallucinogens... WS: I'm inclined to believe you! WS: You don't lie to me a lot, and you wouldn't joke about something this serious. WS: If you think this game is important... WS: AND that we're the next ones... WS: I guess we should get started! BA: Shiro, this is ME. If I didn't think it's important would I bother with an MMO Sims Knockoff? WS: ... That's so true. Here, let me get up and head back to my house.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 20:48:30 GMT -5
===-==>WS: So uh, do we know anything about this game? WS: I mean other than the box cover blurb? BA: From what I gathered, there's client-server ring, where the client does adventurey RPG stuffs while the Server manipulates the client's environment using resources gathered by the client from beating minions, quests, etc. WS: My REAL house? BA: Tl;dr. Client mines for fish, Server builds towers in the air. WS: ... Wait. WS: You're going to edit my house? WS: And build a tower made of mined fish? BA: Oh yes, and everything bleeds gushers. Jack Thompson must've gotten to the developers. BA: I think... BA: That the game has a tutorial of some sort. BA: Some kind of spirit guide. I've seen a bunch of those too, they take all sorts of shapes. BA: Problem is, whatever shape THEY take, the random encounters acquire traits of too. WS: Oh. WS: Look, Colin. WS: I know I've got this whole chess motif going on... WS: But the thing is, I'd really rather jump into this game. BA: Yeah, I think that would be a good idea. WS: So I've got the disc in. BA: Which one? WS: I'm running the client, and I've only found one applicable server. WS: You, I guess? BA: So it would seem. BA: I am running both apps but can't connect to a server yet. WS: Here we go! WS: Connection made. BA: ... Yep, I'm getting a connection request here. BA: And... Go![/font]
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 20:49:47 GMT -5
===-==>WS: ... So you can see me. BA: Yep. In all your white haired glory. XD WS: Uh. WS: Hi, I guess! WS: Well, you should start deploying whatever you can into my environment.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 20:52:14 GMT -5
Shiro: SKIP TO THE ENDWS: ... What... What is that? BA: ...I think we just prototyped your kernelsprite with a chess piece. BA: Specifically, the knight. WS: ... Oh. WS: Yay? BA: I'd be more worried about that countdown there.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:04:39 GMT -5
===-==>BA: Did you figure out what to do with that thing? WS: Well, I haven't really figured it out. WS: But I've only got like 5 minutes, apparently. WS: And gog dannit it's getting really warm! BA: Bloody shiny, this Katana. BA: I wonder... WS: So do I. BA: I don't recall seeing anything like it in any session I observed. BA: But it usually involves shattering something. BA: The entrance does, I mean. BA: We just need to figure out WHAT. BA: And how. WS: Let me try shattering the Katana! WS: SHIT fuck. WS: Okay that didn't work. BA: Stronger than it looks, eh... WS: Wait, when this meteor thing hits, what's going to happen to me? BA: You'd evaporate into a whiff of hydrogen, ozone and carbon monoxide. Unless you manage to enter in time. BA: ... Time... BA: I just had a random memory.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:06:19 GMT -5
===-==>WS: ... Well. WS: It's been a good run, I guess. WS: I'd rather die by my own hand than by the hand of the game. WS: Heh. BA: Time is Red. WS: And to think. WS: I woke up this morning thinking that I'd just be having another day. WS: I explored the castle, beat my dad... WS: Did all of this... WS: ... WS: Well, see ya, BA. BA: Red and White. BA: I see now. WS: If you talk to Kitten, tell her I'm sorry for making her upset!
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:09:08 GMT -5
===-==>BA: It all makes sense. WS: Bye! -- wartimeStrategist [WS] ceased pestering biomechArtisan [BA] -- BA: And so... It begins.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:38:13 GMT -5
===-==>Meanwhile, on a distant moon, a game of chess lies finished. The eternal stalemate broken by an accepted loss from a prince.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:38:52 GMT -5
Prince: Oversee dominion.The prince looks over his vast kingdom, and turns his eyes skyward, to one particular cloud reflecting a single moment elsewhere in paradox space.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:40:20 GMT -5
Cloud: Reflect.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 13, 2011 21:42:21 GMT -5
===-==>WHAT DO YOU DO? === [CHESS MODUS] King: iPad Queen: Wi-Fi Hub Knight: EMPTY Bishop: Sburb (Client) Rook: DAD's Katana Pawn: Strange Figurine Base [STRIFE SPECUBI] polekind: Training Pole 2polekind: 2x Training Pole
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Post by Testbug on Feb 14, 2011 19:24:21 GMT -5
Dream Shiro: Tour your dominion. You can already tell you don't have long. The cold grip of a glassy appendage is shifting around your arm in your awakened state. It's pretty unsettling. But you need to do what you can while you're asleep. Awake? Whatever. You arrive at the tower of your moon sister, and she is maybe sleeping. Maybe she is awake. You can't tell from down here. You'd fly up, but you're already waking up. Buh.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 14, 2011 19:25:13 GMT -5
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Post by Testbug on Feb 14, 2011 19:29:42 GMT -5
===-==>GLASS IMP ATTACKS. STRIFE. >Assault >Avert >Avoid WHAT DO YOU DO? === [CHESS MODUS] King: iPad Queen: Wi-Fi Hub Knight: EMPTY Bishop: Sburb (Client) Rook: DAD's Katana Pawn: Strange Figurine Base [STRIFE SPECUBI] polekind: Training Pole 2polekind: 2x Training Pole
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Post by Testbug on Feb 14, 2011 21:55:28 GMT -5
Shiro: Abluhhhhhh
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Post by Testbug on Feb 14, 2011 21:56:04 GMT -5
===-==>It has little effect.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 14, 2011 21:57:36 GMT -5
Shiro: ASSAULT like hell. This is super-effective! Besides, these imps are actually made of GLASS. WHAT DO YOU DO? === [CHESS MODUS] King: iPad Queen: Wi-Fi Hub Knight: EMPTY Bishop: Sburb (Client) Rook: DAD's Katana Pawn: Strange Figurine Base [STRIFE SPECUBI] polekind: Training Pole 2polekind: 2x Training Pole Also, you're NOT on prospit.
Prospitian updates are lined in orange-yellow. Normal ones are in black.
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Post by Testbug on Feb 15, 2011 22:01:38 GMT -5
Shiro: Level up for slaying the imp.Wooooo. Level GET. Autistic Shut-In no more!
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Post by Testbug on Feb 15, 2011 22:06:02 GMT -5
Shiro: Reap the rewards.
+250 boon dollars.
+40 Grist capacity.
Also +50 Quartz Capacity cause why the fuck not.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
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[CHESS MODUS] King: iPad Queen: Wi-Fi Hub Knight: EMPTY Bishop: Sburb (Client) Rook: DAD's Katana Pawn: Strange Figurine Base
[STRIFE SPECUBI] polekind: Training Pole 2polekind: 2x Training Pole
[SBURB STATS] 22/50 Grist 16/50 Quartz B$150
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Post by Testbug on Feb 16, 2011 19:44:45 GMT -5
Shiro: Lift shirt. Examine abdomen for any badass scarring. What? Why would there be- Oh. That's right. You (the readers, not John-You) don't even know what happened! It's pretty safe to assume that up to the point of chatting with BA, everything was really linear. After that, things got kinda fuzzy. After you were done fucking around in the castle, you headed home and slapped the Sburb client disc in. biomechArtisan hooked you up and set down a whole bunch of stuff. The Alchemiter, the Cruxstruder, Punch Card station, and the totem lathe. As well as the Pre-Punched Card for the Katana, which was your item needed to get into the medium. Before that even happened, your Kernelsprite was prototyped with the Black Knight Chess Piece, creating the knightsprite. It's so adorable you have no idea. The katana came in a sheathe, and unsheathed itself before you got your dirty little hands on it. In trying to break it, you found it indestructible. After realizing exactly what was going to happen to you if the meteor hit, you tried to take your own life. You attempted to stab yourself, to little avail. As soon as the katana touched your skin at the force it was going at, it became non-solid and phased through your body. Your house, yourself, and parts of the castle disappeared completely, only to reappear elsewhere. You, yourself, then fell asleep. You woke up on Prospit, after losing a game of chess to an unseen assaulter. After a little bit, you noticed a cloud depicting you asleep. You tried to tour your dominion, but the glass claw of an imp in the real world shook you in such a way that you woke up, but it was swiftly defeated. You now stand where you are. Alive. Awake in our world. And able to dream as a moon prince on prospit. Prospit updates will have a yellow-orange border, and real-world updates will have a black border. This is the current system.
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