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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 29, 2013 10:32:50 GMT -6
>Riot: Get to the post office Post Office LTD, The Plaza, Oxford Street, London-2:59 pm You’ve been waiting on the post office to open for a while. You’ve been sitting at a sidewalk café. You ordered a nice cup of black tea. It’s the closest thing to a nice Cup of Joe; you have to order you stuff oversea. It sucks majorly but it’s worth every cent to stay perfectly awake. Bluh, maybe you should’ve wakened up sooner. 12 Pm, fuck when do you ever get up this early? But you had a feeling your game was in the mail. YOU JUST KNEW IT. You’ve been sitting here for a while and now that you're wide away, you can go check it out. == > Head off to the Post office Good it’s open now. You pay for your drink and head inside. Your flat has shitty as fuck mailboxes. People’s stuff get stolen all the time and this wasn’t the time for your game to disappear now, so you got a P.O. box and you got your copy to be sent there.You got your key and you’re good to go. You’re a bit nervous, this is like the fifth time this week before you come here and it won’t be there. But hey you got a good feeling; you got a nice new mouse and everything. You’re so fucking pumped. You came across your P.O. Box at last. You placed your key in the lock and turned it. When you opened it, you couldn’t believe your eyes. There it was….YOUR GAME. It was here. OH. FUCK. YES. You snatched the game from inside and you sped off to your flat. You didn’t even bother to take the elevator. Ain’t nobody got time for that. You reached your apartment and you were instantly in your room. You had to find your laptop you had to get into contact with Dian like right the fuck now. You managed to find your laptop under your bed. Oh yeah you were on it last night. You opened you laptop and immediately signed into pesterchum. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
– timelessAnarchy [TA] began pestering bipolarAviator [BA] at 02:30-
TA: oi oi oi Di love!
TA: i got it I got thA gAme!
TA: cmon love, Answer we can git this shit stArted.
== > Wait patiently Like hell you can, you wanted to play the game as soon as possible. You feel like you’re about to explode if she doesn’t answer right away. |
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 29, 2013 17:06:26 GMT -6
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It was sometime in the morning when you received your copy of sburb. You had woken up early and waited by the door of your apartment for a long time before anything happened. You had nearly fallen asleep in the time between waking up and eating breakfast and actually getting the game. You went through no complications in this area, your game session was set and ready to go, you simply needed to wait for your client or server players to get ahold of you.
==> check phone
You have a few messages, one from your server and one from your client respectively. You quickly answer your client since she is to be working with you first out of all of them. After that is done, you message Adri about what in the world is going on.
You make an unfortunate mistake in that while you're texting and walking, you trip as your joint mechanism locks up, and drop your copy of the game into the air vent.
Classy Di.
==> Forget about your server and get that game!
Riot completely leaves your brain, an odd occurrence, as you run around the apartment looking for your swiss army knife. This takes up a lot of time, and no doubt your client is freaking out. It takes you a while but you unscrew the vent and reach in. You snatch up the games and immediately connect with your client.
And man does weird shit happen.
It is only after your client is fully connected and through the whole process of entering this thing that Adri has been calling the medium that you finally remember someone is supposed to be saving your ass right about now.
==> Finally pay attention to Riot you idiot.
Before you do this, you adjust your leg, hoping that it will work in perfect order during this session, and stash your cane/staff in your strife specibus. You want to act as normal as possible. You want Riot to not know of your little weakness for as long as possible. You for some reason do not want to disappoint him. That isn't weird for you to feel at all.
BA:ok, Im really sorry it took me so long to reply
BA: some shit went down
BA: nearly lost my copy
BA: saved my client's life
BA: all in a days work
BA: but really
BA: we need to connect, like now
BA: dear whatever the hell is up there please tell me you're still online
==> Go to the door
You anxiously await his reply as you download the second half of the sburb game... you download the client disc and resign yourself to the end of your normal life. You hope Cola survives this somehow.
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 29, 2013 17:24:57 GMT -6
== > Receive an answer Bluestone apartments, Flat 4D, Riot’s room 3:15PM Okay finally she replies. You thought you lost her for a minuet there. You played with your server disc. The moment she was good to go your popping this sucker in and get it cracking. You clicked open the window to read her message. Hmm that would’ve sucked if she lost her copy indefinitely. Why does she insist you connect now? You huffed and began typing away a response. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: thAts A jolly good spot of good luck. would’ve fucked up our trAin we got going an shit
TA: okay why do we need tA connect right away? What in bloody blAzes is goin on?
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 29, 2013 17:57:34 GMT -6
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You jitter a bit as you wait for Riot's response. Though it doesn't take long you feel as if you're seriously running out of time.
==> reply to him
BA: This game is really kind of fucked up
BA: you have no idea
BA: its like going to be the death of us, Im not even joking here
BA: Ill explain more when you connect
BA: its hard to understand without seeing what you can do
BA: Ill help you through it until you get the hang of it
BA: but we have to move or I wont get a chance to do this
==> prepare for connection
You move around a bunch of shit in the apartment to make room for the contraptions, doing your best to not limp as you do so in case Riot connects without telling you. You prepare yourself for the worst.
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 30, 2013 11:40:58 GMT -6
== > Connect to Dian You stuck the disc into the slot and watched as the game loaded unto your screen. It wasn’t too long. You scan through her replies once more. Death of us? In literal terms? Well shit, this game means some serious business. Which means if you don’t get this shit done, Di can die. Fuck. You ran to your sister’s room, she wasn’t in today. DAMNIT, you forgot about her. You’ll message her after you sort this mess out. You swiped her extra phone and was relieved to see she actually installed pesterchum. You logged in from there and responded back as the screen was finishing loading. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: Alright Di the gAme is loadin as we speAk
TA: fuck our deAths cAn be legit? Fuck we gottA get yA outtA there then
TA: okAy the dAmn thing finished loAdin now whAt?
== > make some room on your desk You think this would be better to do at a desk. You walked over to your desk and shoved all the unnecessary junk off of it. Your laptop started to beep. Uh oh, you didn’t charge it and you’re room is too messy to see where the damn charger is. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: bloody hell
TA: Me lAptop is dyin
TA: ill be right back lickety split
== > Clean your room Ain’t nobody got time for that. You just flip your room upside down; you pull everything out of everywhere. Your rushing in searching for you stupid charger causes a mountain of clothes and junk everywhere. Shit you’re never going to find it now…. but wait your sister’s room is pretty clean and you both have the same laptop. You can just us her charger! Brilliant. == > Go into your sister’s room You snatch up your laptop and your copy of the game and go to your sister’s room. You jump onto of her bed; the charger was still plugged in. Smashing, you hook up your laptop and it beeps with life charging steadily. You wipe the sweat from your forehead and look to the phone. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: Alright di im All set from end here
TA: just tell whats it i gottA do
You look out the window to see dark clouds rolling in. Amongst the clouds where rain, this is some rain. It looks like the rain is on fire. Shit, this is no time for Adele to be setting any fire to any rai- wait. You walk to the window; on closer inspection you see…meteors? What in all of hell is going on out there? |
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 30, 2013 15:49:59 GMT -6
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You have pushed enough room out of the way and you feel your phone buzz. Thank god... or not, Riot is seriously scaring you here.You had barely gotten to your client in time, if he wastes too much time then she could be screwed.
==> reply to him
BA: Yeah, as far as I can tell its litteral possibility of death
BA: which is scary but right now its the only way we can survive
BA: or thats what Ive been told
BA: Im sure youre seing the shitstorm of meteors
BA: or you will see it soon
BA: ksdfhklhlkja
==> Fall
You already did that. You forgot to WD-40 your leg and it basically collapsed under you yet again. It doesn't take you long, but it feels like forever before you manage to drag yourself into your room (which is fortunately clean and barren of any items she would be embarrassed for Riot to see). You quickly message him again.
BA: my bad, I fell and squashed my keyboard
BA: Im good now
BA: you need to connect to my client disc
BA: it should look something like Di.client or something?
BA: not sure, I cant remember what I wrote down as my name, but its something like that
BA: then you should see my house
BA: dont qestion how, I have no idea
BA: once you see me deploy the alchemiter, cruxtruder, and the totem lathe some how
BA: make sure I can still walk around though
The minute you finish typing you fix your leg. If it broke down again any time before getting into the medium, there could be hell to pay. You don't have time to talk to Riot about this, no matter what kind of shit he would throw.
You wait patiently for the guy whose about to save your life.
This isn't cliche at all.
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 30, 2013 17:00:47 GMT -6
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TA: dont worry love
TA: imA getchA outta there just hAng tight
== > Connect to client You finally managed to tear your eyes away from the awe of the ominous showers and got back to the laptop. You scrolled to find Dian’s client and clicked to instantly. The screen flipped to the house as she stated. Wow her house looked…. clean, compared to your shit. It was Amazing, you’d play around with it but you don’t have time. You scrolled about looking for the objects you found the Alchmeiter and the Cruxtruder, good. You use your mouse and place both large contraptions in a nice open space. Next you found the totem lathe. Ugh there wasn’t enough room. You had to find a way to fit it into room without blocking her off. You had an idea, if you can see her house, maybe… you can do stuff to it. You had to test it quickly. You looked around for something to pick up. Hmm, the end table off the side of her bed should do. You pointed the mouse to the end table and you picked it up. Whoa it worked, a meteor suddenly smashed too close to your building. The vibrations caused you to send the end table off and out the window. Oops. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: my bAd
TA: just needed to test somethin
== > Make some space Okay so you can manipulate her room and shit, that’s good to know. You just need to make some space is all. You pick a corner of her room; you highlighted the corner to make some more space. The bam it happened. Whoa this shit is the coolest thing you’ve ever done. If only this shit was trying to kill you all. Once the space was made, you placed the lathe down. You also made a walkway from the door to the center of the room. There she won’t be blocked off. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: Alright di I got everything plAced down
TA: WhAts next? GottA get this shit down fast. I can see the meteors on the horizon
TA: one o them Almost hit me buildin
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 30, 2013 17:20:07 GMT -6
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You watch as your room is slightly destroyed. Well Riot did a better job then you could have of moving things around. And holy shit there is now another corner in your room. Sure you had done that yourself, but you were not expecting the extra addition. He wasn't doing too bad with this, but whats worse is your nightstand was gone. In it had been a doll you were planning to prototype your kernel sprite with. Now, you had no idea what to do. You would have to think of it as it came up.
==> Get to the cruxtruder
You make your way to the machine, wondering what kind of cruxite it would produce.
THAT DOESN'T MATTER RIGHT NOW, PAY ATTENTION TO RIOT.
BA: Ok, I need you to hit the top of the cruxtruder with something big and bulky
BA: it needs to weigh a lot or else it wont open
BA: then it will tell us how long until im dead
BA: also, I need you to give me the pre-punched card
BA: for some reason that is what will get me away from here
BA: once we get all this shit done you need to talk to your server immediately and go save your own ass
==> Wait by the cruxtruder
You wait patiently for Riot to continue, but also send him more information
BA: we also need to do this thing
BA: where you, I dont know
BA: "prototype" the thing that comes out of the crux
BA: but Im not sure what to do it with, it needs to be something dumb so that the imps wont turn out super powerful
BA: I had a ragdoll, but you effectively threw that out the window
BA: so if you see anything interesting tell me
BA: I also realize how little sense all that made...
BA: I can explain later if you need me to
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 30, 2013 21:54:38 GMT -6
== > Find the doll Damnit you always manage to mess up any ways. Okay all you have to do is find where the end table went. You zoomed out so that you were out of the house. Okay it didn’t get too far. But fuck, you can reach it. It’s outside some limit you have. Okay this is easy just make the closest house bigger, then you should be able to reach. You highlight the wall closest to the doll and make it a bit bigger. There, that should do it. You grabbed the doll and place it back in the house. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: okAy i got thA doll
TA: now ill get A heAvy Ass object
TA: oh An yA look cute in person btw~ ;-)
[/color] == > Get something heavy You zip around the house looking for something to open the crux thing. This box seems heavy enough. You bring the box back to the room. You lift it up with the mouse and slam it on top of the Cruxtruder. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: Alright love yer good to go
TA: Anything else yA need?
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 30, 2013 22:11:37 GMT -6
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==> Be frustrated
Riot is extremely insufferable, it is no wonder you weren't frustrated with him earlier.
BA: this isnt technically in person, youre still behind a screen
BA: we dont have time for flirting right now!
BA: but thanks
BA: I guess
BA: seems you have the advantage right now
BA: SHIT DUDE
==> Dive out of the way
You had received the rag doll, a fond present from your cousin from many years ago, but as you were paying attention to the doll and your psterchum, Riot had dropped a box on the cruxtruder. You dove out of the way as the box and its contents went flying. You fortunately land well and your leg holds up.
BA: careful next time!
BA: though I guess you wont be doing anything like that ever again I hope
BA: either way be careful
BA: and dont forget the punched card! put it by the totem lathe
You walk up to the cruxtruder and the kernel sprite, and quickly throw in the rag doll. Suddenly the mass of confusion becomes your rag doll in a ghostly form. It is kind of weird to see it like that. You dont have time to deal with it though, you walk up to the cruxtruder and turn the wheel.
The cruxtruder yields a cruxite similar to your favorite color.
Interesting, how did Sburb know?
You looked at the timer on the cruxtruder. You only had 3 minutes. You had to get moving.
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 30, 2013 22:42:08 GMT -6
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TA: relAx doll i didnt to
TA: these fuckin meteors they keep hitting too close
TA: they keep creAtin these tremors an i slip me hand o bit.
TA: An ye ill give yA the thing
TA: but uhhh ‘ow do i do thAt?
== > Sit there confused This wasn’t time to do so, but you honestly were confused. The tremors are getting worse now. They’ve become more frequent. Perhaps NOW would be a good time to contact Rako. You need to save your ass too. The ground shook fiercely this time and the was a loud boom. Louder than anything you’ve heard today. Suddenly you lose connect. WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK HAPPENED? == > Investigate You run to the window to see fire on the horizon. Well fuck, the Internet company you pay to is up in smoke. Well you think so, how else could you lose connection? You pay a lot of money for the best connection. Shit shit shit shit shit shit! You have to get connection A-fucking-sap or else Di is dead! |
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 30, 2013 22:57:53 GMT -6
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==> sigh
You sigh, this isn't rocket science. The punched card is in a very simple place, isn't it? Riot should have been able to find it easily.
BA: riot, its in the same list
BA: the same place as the cruxtruder was
BA: and all that junk
BA: riot....
BA: RIOT
BA: I swear to god riot where are you!
BA: I have like 3 minutes and youre not answering
BA: Im really NOT keen on dying right now
==> Freak the fuck out
You have no idea what to do. As far as you know, your server is the only one who can give you your punched card that will bring you to your medium. Your medium is your only hope, and you have no idea how you can save yourself from the upcoming meteor.
All you can do is worriedly message Riot and wait by the totem lathe with one of the cruxites set up to be made.
BA: riot
BA: I will do just about anything
BA: just please get moving
BA: please please please please please
BA: dont tell me your internet is out
BA: this is not the time
BA: oh god please
BA: just answer already
You are scared for your life, and of course right then a meteor scares you as it hits only a few paces away from your house. Things shake and a good amount of your room and things fall off of your shelves. You duck and cover, waiting for the worst.
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 30, 2013 23:14:28 GMT -6
== > locate another source of internet connection Okay this mean you have to leave the flat. But where were you going to get Internet from? Everyone had the same provider as you in the building…well accept…the superintendent. He uses another company because he hates this one. You still aren’t sure why. You can easily connect to his….SHIT his is password safe. You shuffled about, you have to think of something quick. Uhh, uhhh, uuhhhhhhhhh, Oh! The code should be located underneath the modem. Brilliant, the superintendent doesn’t like you so he won’t let you in if you ask nicely. There’s only one thing to do. You have to break into his house and steal his internet. That shouldn’t be too hard. It wouldn’t be the first time you’ve done it. You gathered up your laptop and the charger, 75% battery life should do some good. You dump everything into your modus and run down the to the superintendents apartment. == > Knock first You do this first to ensure no one is home. If he was home, he would’ve answered by now. This should be simple. You take out a credit card you borrowed from you sister. You jimmy the door a bit and slip the card under the door. The door opened fairly easily. You’re not surprised, the locks are pretty simple to pick if you use the right item. You run inside his house, you ran for the living room where you past the modem many times before. You pulled the wire out and connected the wire to your laptop to get direct connection. You also wrote down the WPA key so if he came around, you can bolt for it and still have access. You get back to game and you read the messages. You find the punch card quickly and dropped it for Di. [style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]
TA: sorry fer scArin yA Di
TA: bloody meteor hit me Internet provider but I got A new connection
TA: I dropped thA cArd fer yA
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Post by DIAN DUBOSE on Mar 31, 2013 14:36:59 GMT -6
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==> cool down
you calm down when the punched card appears next to you. You don't have time to check your pester chum, you need to get moving. Quickly inserting the card into the lathe (which takes 2 tries since you got it wrong the first time, these things are like usbs!). The lathe quickly scratches out a design... it sort of looks like a graphic glitch. Interesting, but you have no time to continue this thought.
==> Put the thing in the alchemizer
You successfully put the cruxite totem onto the alchemiter and hit the button. With a flash, suddenly a wooden marionette appears. It looks like a simple, not even painted doll. Invisible strings seem to animate it as it jolted, standing up.
It spots you easily, and began to move mechanically, and began to remove it's own leg. Oddly enough it eas the same side that Di was missing a leg. The doll opened up the leg and pulled something out. It connected the leg again and bent down to hand Dian the item.
It was a model airplane. Sort of. It was one of those simple planes that would still fly, but they were made of light wood. It was very cool, and suddenly she knew what to do.
BA: thanks riot
BA: I dont remember what this looks like
BA: but here goes nothing
==> Throw the plane
You throw the plane out the window, through the air, and at the meteor.
==> Enter the medium
The plane saves your life and brings you away from the danger that is the meteor, and instead brings you into a new danger. The medium. You haven't seen it yet, but no doubt your land is outside the window.
BA: uh
BA: thanks for saving my life riot
BA: like
BA: a lot
BA: I hope your internet doesnt drop again
BA: as far as I can tell i have a permanent web connection
BA: somehow
BA: I dont know
It is sort of weird to be grateful to someone who you really dislike. And yet like at the same time?
God, being a teen is confusing as hell.
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Post by RIOT LAWLESS on Mar 31, 2013 19:35:44 GMT -6
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TA: not A problem love
TA: i hope me shit don’t get fucked up but I should jet from here
TA: i cAn still get into trouble fer breAkin An enterin
TA: ill see yA on thA other side
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