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Til Death: Reanimated
Fujji, Canada / main-district
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Asa Makadori BOT 11/20/2022 10:03 AM
you sit down, today, another boring day.
10:04 AM
you look up at the dark sky, with the lights of the city almost blinding your view
10:04 AM
you want something interesting to happen. You want an irregularity in your schedule
10:05 AM
what should you do?
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Rhys 。.゚+ 11/20/2022 10:06 AM
@ectoMycologist suggest...)
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ectoMycologist 11/20/2022 10:06 AM
(jackal consorts likely somehow integrated themselves into towns so i think itd be funny if one showed up later anyway)
10:06 AM
Notice large purple moon.
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// HOLY SHIT JACKAL BUCKY
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// MF ASA???
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Asa Makadori BOT 11/20/2022 10:07 AM
you look at the same purple moon you've looked at for a week. You need to head to class soon. Another boring day.
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YOU FUCK!
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Asa Makadori BOT 11/20/2022 10:08 AM
hm?
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Isaac Pines BOT 11/20/2022 10:08 AM
JUST BECAUSE I SYMPATHIZE WITH THE MOUNTAIN MURDER DOESNT MEAN IM FUCKING EVIL PRICK
10:08 AM
WHYD YOU DUMP BOILING HOT COFFEE ONTO MY SWEATER?? NOW ITS RUINED ASSHOLE
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ectoMycologist 11/20/2022 10:09 AM
Isaac: Do something equally as insulting.
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Isaac Pines BOT 11/20/2022 10:09 AM
you can't really do anything. You just spit on their face, as you run away
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Asa Makadori BOT 11/20/2022 10:09 AM
you feel a gust of wind as you stare at the interesting man. You stand up, and follow him
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A modified bus pulls in. Someone steps out of it.
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:16 PM
.. It's you.
5:16 PM
Your hands are in the pockets of SLAV's jacket.
5:17 PM
You find a LIGHTER in one of the hand pockets.
5:17 PM
Slav you nic-addicted bastard.
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Flint only finds one cigarette in the pocket.
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:25 PM
you bump walk past a guy in a jacket (flint). And stop
5:25 PM
watch where you're walking asshole
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:28 PM
jeez sorry.
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Does Flint examine the cigarette?
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:28 PM
oh, you smoke kid? I see the lighter in your hand
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:29 PM
.. He feels familiar.
You examine the CIGARETTE.
no I'm borrowing the jacket.
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:29 PM
heh, whoever you're friends with is rad dawg.
5:29 PM
you light a cigarette
5:29 PM
you new here?
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:30 PM
im looking for a friend.
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:30 PM
oh? Who you looking for.
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:30 PM
he went up here after something bad happened and blocked me from texting him.
5:31 PM
blonde guy, wearing a sweater with a square on it not much taller than me
5:31 PM
kind of an asshole but in an endearing way
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:31 PM
name?
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:31 PM
isaac pines.
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:31 PM
I know a lot of assholes. In a gang of a ton of em
5:31 PM
... Isaac, huh?
5:31 PM
yeah he's living in my apartment dawg.
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The cigarette reads "For Flint."
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Rhys 。.゚+ 11/21/2022 5:32 PM
((slav: you don't know how long you are gonna live, so why not smoke?
5:32 PM
(( devious
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:32 PM
Sigh. You light the cigarette slav left for you, and rip off of it.
guess i smoke now.
COUGH.
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// Easy revenge!
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:32 PM
god this shit is gross how do you stand it
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// so good
5:32 PM
// he isn't jaded yet....
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:32 PM
pFFTT LOL, you think I smoke REAL CIGARETTES??
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:32 PM
literally tastes like how burnt tires smell
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:33 PM
I smoke herbal cigarettes
5:33 PM
you take a puff
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:33 PM
filthy stoner anyway just take me to your apartment so you can shank me or whatever
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:33 PM
still helps me keep calm
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:33 PM
gives me hope of finding isaac i guess
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:33 PM
nah man, he's at school. Pretty sure the last time I saw him, he was heading to the occult club.
5:34 PM
yo btw, you use pesterchum?
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:34 PM
This guy looks like the total opposite of a gang member. If anything he looks like he'd have ended up more like you if he hadn't sold himself off to a gang.
5:34 PM
croakr.
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:34 PM
they intertwine
5:34 PM
want my chumhandle? You seem chill
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:34 PM
sure. im tetrahedronHeap.
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:35 PM
ghostlyBiologist
5:35 PM
you add the dude to pesterchum
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Wicked Wain of the West 11/21/2022 5:35 PM
inb4 they know eaxh other
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:35 PM
well, got to head off to see my Twink of a boyfriend
5:35 PM
oh Dave, how I love your feminine ass.
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ectoMycologist 11/21/2022 5:35 PM
(DIE
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Wicked Wain of the West 11/21/2022 5:35 PM
(normal way to talk about someone to a stranger
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John Egbert BOT 11/21/2022 5:35 PM
you walk away, smoking your cigarette
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:36 PM
alright jeez i know youre gay dont need to fucking point it out.
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Rhys 。.゚+ 11/21/2022 5:36 PM
(Dave wears thigh highs
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Wicked Wain of the West 11/21/2022 5:36 PM
(we been knew
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:36 PM
Fujji highschool.
oh look ist right there
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Wicked Wain of the West 11/21/2022 5:36 PM
(everyone i know that has kinned dave at one point has worn thigh highs
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Flint Turing BOT 11/21/2022 5:37 PM
You walk your way to FUJJI HIGHSCHOOL.
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Wicked Wain of the West
(everyone i know that has kinned dave at one point has worn thigh highs
// not me though
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Rhys 。.゚+ 11/21/2022 5:37 PM
((not yet
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// never
5:38 PM
// they look uncomfortable and i refuse to get gentrified
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demeter!!
// they look uncomfortable and i refuse to get gentrified
Wicked Wain of the West 11/21/2022 5:38 PM
(i counterbalance by not shaving my legs
Rhys 。.゚+ started a thread. 11/21/2022 6:42 PM
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/8/2022 5:43 PM
you are skating home from school, as usual.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/19/2022 3:36 PM
You trip Jack.
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//walking for 11 days straight
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/19/2022 7:33 PM
You trip, and fall facefirst onto the ground. “owwww… what the hell”
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DreamilyDrifting 12/19/2022 7:33 PM
Jack: Phryggin' uncool...
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AAHASHAAHAHAHAHA
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/19/2022 7:34 PM
You trip, and fall facefirst onto the ground. “owwww… what the hell”
@Jack Bodin (@aloe bama) - jump Heh.
7:35 PM
What’s the scholar doing out here?
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 10:37 AM
"I'm just going home dude, what about you?"
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 10:38 AM
YAWWWWWWN your home is a SNOOOZE
10:38 AM
nothing much. Avoiding home like usual. You wanna hang out?
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 10:39 AM
Jack shrugs. "Sure, why not?"
10:39 AM
"Where do you wanna go, dude?"
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 10:42 AM
the arcade obviously
10:42 AM
everywhere else kinda fuckin sucks unless you have money to eat out
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 10:43 AM
"yeah, true... alright, let's go!" You hop on your skateboard, and follow Phrygia.
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// wait do you think phryg would be out to jack already
10:52 AM
// maybe thinking about it
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(if they're good friends then maybe
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(also should we make a thread or something
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// theres no one else here
11:17 AM
Phrygia goes to the Arcade.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:18 AM
Jack follows, grabbing his board as he goes inside.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:20 AM
so which one do you wanna hit first
11:21 AM
personally i wanna do that terminator salvation one
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:21 AM
“the pinball machine looks pretty cool”
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:22 AM
OOOOH MY GODDDDDD YOURE SUCH A NERRDDDDDD
11:22 AM
no one CARES about BLACKTHORN THE PINBALL MACHINE
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:22 AM
“ITS COOL OK”
11:23 AM
“especially when you have to hit SMILEY right in the CPU at the end”
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 11:23 AM
Jack & Phrygia: Play that game called POLYBIUS in the corner over there.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:25 AM
hit smiley in the cpu what are you a robofucker
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:25 AM
“no that kills him”
11:25 AM
“did you NOT read the comics”
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:25 AM
you sure youre not horny for smiley like half of the internet
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:26 AM
“im NOT”
11:26 AM
“Alph is better anyways”
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:26 AM
uh huh uh huh uh WHAT
11:27 AM
we’re not getting into blackthorn sexyman discourse but if i had to p- wait whats that over there
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:27 AM
“wait what”
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Jack Bodin
“Alph is better anyways”
// wait actually. Would people in the rp also be in blackthorn
11:27 AM
// like sergey and maud
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no they’d be switched with other characters
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// oh thank god
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:28 AM
“wait what”
@Jack Bodin (@aloe bama) - jump like. That polybius thing over there
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:28 AM
“what the-should we check it out?”
11:31 AM
NO NO NO NO NO N
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 11:32 AM
yeah we should
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Phrygia walks over to POLYBIUS.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 11:33 AM
You nervously walk to it behind Phyrgia.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:24 PM
The game screen flashes with bright and disorienting colors. The letters of the title, POLYBIUS, drop down from the top of the screen, and spin before remaining static.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:25 PM
Huh. Neat.
12:25 PM
Phrygia presses start.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 12:25 PM
"wait-"
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:25 PM
The game begins, text popping up on screen.
ENJOY ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE
12:26 PM
Two triangles appear on screen, assumedly player avatars. The triangles continually shrink into themselves while at the same time remaining the same size. It hurts to look at.
12:28 PM
// I SAW THAT
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:28 PM
hell yeah something actually stimulating
12:28 PM
Phrygia begins playing.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:28 PM
1 LEVEL COLOR CENTER
12:29 PM
Brightly flashing squares of color fall down the screen continuously. It seems you have to destroy them.
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Pew pew pew
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Pew pew pew
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:29 PM
As each square is destroyed, the background continues to flash faster and faster, with more and more colors.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:30 PM
this is some crazy stuff Jack!
12:30 PM
Phrygia grips the controller more tightly.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:31 PM
There are a number of HUD elements and text on the bottom of the screen, but it's entirely unclear what any of them mean.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 12:32 PM
"yeah... dude what IS this game"
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:34 PM
who cares we have bombs now
12:34 PM
Phrygia begins firing the SPECIAL WEAPONS
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BOOM BOOM
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:34 PM
The bullets fired by the player triangles are occasionally replaced by letters that spell words in sequence.
T E R T I U S O C U L U S
12:34 PM
A P E R T A
12:35 PM
Eventually, the squares are too plentiful for either player to keep up with.
12:36 PM
As they hit the bottom of the screen the background begins flashing slower and slower, with fewer and fewer colors. Instead, strange and disorienting black and white patterns begin flying across the screen.
(edited)
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 12:37 PM
"hey what the fuck"
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:38 PM
S E N S U M R E L I N Q U E R E
12:39 PM
As Jack and Phrygia unwillingly let more and more squares reach the bottom, they begin to notice less and less of the world around them. Sounds outside of the machine dampen in their minds. Their vision focuses on the game and their peripheral vision darkens.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:39 PM
Phrygia is transfixed.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 12:40 PM
You can't stop staring...
12:42 PM
"dude..."
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:43 PM
Suddenly, the game goes dark, and everything stops. More text appears.
12:43 PM
2 LAYER
12:43 PM
FACE FEATURE
12:44 PM
A red light on the top of the cabinet blinks rapidly.
12:44 PM
Both Phrygia and Jack's faces appear onscreen, though in low quality due to the limited technology.
12:45 PM
Phrygia's face appears on Jack's side of the screen and vice versa.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:45 PM
HUH??
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:45 PM
The controls seem to move different parts of the face, making the face emote - in a rather distorted fashion.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:46 PM
Phrygia spins her joystick around.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:46 PM
Jack's eyes look around onscreen.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:48 PM
Freaky.
12:48 PM
She mashes some buttons.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:48 PM
Text on the bottom of the screen reads "KAMERATECHNIK". The text flashes.
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Phrygia Shepard
She mashes some buttons.
DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:48 PM
The face makes a variety of expressions, many looking rather... Pained.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 12:51 PM
"what the- what are you doin with my face"
12:51 PM
You press some random buttons.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:51 PM
Phrygia's face onscreen acts about the same.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:51 PM
hey, it looks funny.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:51 PM
Suddenly, both faces reset to their default.
12:52 PM
Text flashes onscreen.
12:52 PM
TEST
12:52 PM
WHICH IS MORE REAL
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:52 PM
huh?
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:52 PM
Both faces contort into painful looking expressions. Though, both have noticable differences.
12:53 PM
Seems you should mess around with the facial controls.
12:54 PM
A pattern moves slowly in the background.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 12:55 PM
> Seems you should mess around with the facial controls.
@DreamilyDrifting - jump > Phrygia does exactly that.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 12:55 PM
Jack's face doesn't seem all that unusual when messed with.
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(pause
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 1:45 PM
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 1:47 PM
DO YOU LIKE HOW I DREW THEM THOUGH
1:47 PM
I DID THESE FROM SCRATCH (edited)
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SO GOOD WHAT
1:52 PM
FROM SCRATCH???
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 1:53 PM
YEAH
1:53 PM
I used a reference of course but these are handmade
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so cool
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DreamilyDrifting
DO YOU LIKE HOW I DREW THEM THOUGH
YEAH
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 2:24 PM
(some fixes)
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oooooo
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DreamilyDrifting
(some fixes)
Rhys 。.゚+ 12/22/2022 2:27 PM
Floride stares
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 6:05 PM
// @aloe bama @hades
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 6:13 PM
You also mess around with the controls.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 6:14 PM
Jack, through messing around with the controls, brings Phrygia's face to a neutral state.
6:14 PM
...
6:14 PM
6:15 PM
Text flashes onscreen. PRESS ANY BUTTON TO SELECT
6:16 PM
Seems either player should press a button on their side to select their face as "more real".
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potatoisgood 12/22/2022 6:17 PM
(that's a neutral face if i ever seen one
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 6:21 PM
“uhhhhh”
6:21 PM
“mine looks more real dude”
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 6:21 PM
// note: jack has phrygia's face and phrygia has jacks
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 6:22 PM
nnnnnnno. it’s mine.
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DreamilyDrifting
// note: jack has phrygia's face and phrygia has jacks
// in terms of which ones they're manipulating right
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 6:23 PM
// yes
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demeter!!
// in terms of which ones they're manipulating right
// right...? sweatig
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 6:23 PM
Phrygia presses her button first.
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 6:25 PM
“wait-“
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 6:26 PM
The machine releases an ear piercing tone.
6:27 PM
Though, strangely, it doesn't exactly hurt to listen to. It's almost soothing.
6:28 PM
The faces contort again.
6:28 PM
TEST 2
6:28 PM
WHICH IS MORE REAL
6:34 PM
// @aloe bama @hades
6:35 PM
// wait no I mean
6:35 PM
// they should play with their controls again
6:35 PM
// a new instance of faces (edited)
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Jack Bodin BOT 12/22/2022 6:35 PM
You mess around with the buttons.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/22/2022 6:35 PM
You do too.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/22/2022 6:36 PM
Both faces look normal.
6:36 PM
Odd.
6:37 PM
Phrygia: Press a button again before Jack messes something up.
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Phrygia Shepard BOT 12/23/2022 10:29 AM
Phrygia presses her button.
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DreamilyDrifting 12/23/2022 10:32 AM
Jack's face changes just before Phrygia presses her button.
10:32 AM
10:32 AM
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Jack Bodin BOT 1/6/2023 12:23 PM
He moves the joystick.
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DreamilyDrifting 1/6/2023 12:24 PM
The faces disappear.
12:25 PM
The screen goes black, more text popping up on screen.
12:25 PM
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