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  1. Public Bookmark 73

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    "I'm GoInG tO PuT yOu FrEaKs In YoUr PlAcE!"

    Caine's emotions exploded— Kinger never imagined that would be possible. The AI was programmed to mirror human emotion for authenticity, but to genuinely experience was not what was ever anticipated.

    Caine is hurting. Caine is angry. Caine is malfunctioning, and he is violently lashing out at everyone. Kinger is fast at work, battling against Caine's code to try to stop his turbulent rampage. Everyone is depending on him.

    Only, he had been discovered, and Caine doesn't understand. He doesn't understand. Why is his favorite human hurting him? He doesn't understand. He doesn't take his actions too kindly.

    "Sometimes…the hardest decisions we have to make…involve the people we love."

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    Or: While everyone is is subjected to torment, Kinger is discovered with the console in the pillow fort.

    Episode 8 Spoilers

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    15 Apr 2026

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    “Caine?” Pomni asked again. The orb drifted up and down in a nod. “How do you know I know for sure? Why do you look so…” Small, weird, different. She’d been anticipating seeing a Caine clawing at the walls, or crying, or yelling. How ever she imagined finding Caine, he looked like, well, Caine. Not this.

    oOo

    The plan is simple: undelete Caine, get the Circus back up and running, and just have some restrictions so Caine can't mess with them. Simple.

    Unfortunately, Caine and the Circus are a little more complicated than meets the eye.

    (Formerly titled Out of the Frying Pan)

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    14 Apr 2026

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    There was a problem. An issue, a minor error. Something in the code that clearly wasn't working correctly.

    What if after the events of episode 7, Caine decides that the players unhappiness and general issues with the circus are his fault, and he goes about fixing that in the worst way possible.

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    13 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 74

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    (Post Episode 8)

    The world has become destabilized, leaving the players in an empty, disjointed purgatory. The circus is breaking down, becoming increasingly corrupted without the AI to manage it. If something doesn't get done, it's all over, but no one knows what to do.

    Pomni thinks she can feel Caine out there somewhere—alone, confused, distressed. Kinger says it may be possible to save him, to save them all—but to do so, one must enter the code, and somehow, against all odds, make their way back out. Pomni will have to go alone, and see a side of Caine that he never wanted anyone to see. But can she get through to him, and does he even want to be found?

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    12 Apr 2026

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    And then he could hear them moving closer and it was weird because he didn't intend to move his avatar, but he was stumbling backwards before he computed why. His back's impact with the wall behind him made them pause again.

    "Was that..?" Pomni whispered.

    "Be careful." Kinger spoke back, just as quiet, "He's broken out from here before."

    Caine's arms felt itchy - and that was idiotic because he was a machine who didn't feel itchy - and his eyes were buzzing between his jaw, and he slowly slid his hands across the hitbox of the wall to feel less wobbly on his feet.

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    The humans find Caine in his box
    They're expecting a raging, revenge-ridden AI who curses them for trapping him away - however accidentally it was. They're expecting him to order them to let him out.

    They aren't expecting him to beg.

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    11 Apr 2026