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A not-so-young toon stood in the space exhibit staring at a computer nearby, reading about some meteors coming to earth soon. with spaceships and planets around the area to educate the former children who came to learn about the stars and what was beyond our planet. and a rock dog sleeping nearby 

What's his name?

==> stupid badstro 

blarg! who are you?? shrimpo??

==> Astro Novalite

Thats right!

your name is Astro Novalite, and as mentioned before you are in the space exhibit area. nearby is a modern-day computer Vee got for the mains recently, after getting cranky with the old stuff here and wanting new info she just barely managed to get these through the old computers, shrimpo stole sprouts computer but he let it slide since he's not the "tech guy" and Gigi has yet to give dandy his computer back. the four of you have been playing around with the new tech, not much with the wifi signal but Shelly does love the dino game. Vee has been learning new code from these computers, she even made a simple chat client for us to use, and on that note 

==> Answer shrimp on text client 

oh... shrimpo, what does he want? 

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO started messaging Astro_Novalite

SS: BADSTRO!!
SS: BASTROS!!
SS: BADSTROS!!!

AN: what do you want...

SS: GEUSS WHAT

AN: what?...

SS: FUCK YUO
SS: HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAJHBXHJAHHAJHAJAJAHAHAJAHJSHJAJ

AN: Im getting off...

SS: NO QAIT
SS: BLOK HEAD AND SHELLY WNATS TO OLAY A COMPTIER GAME WITH US

AN: And Vee or shelly didn't decide to message me?
AN: how am I sure this isnt a prank?

SS: HOW THE FUCK AM I GOING TO ORANK YOU TJROUGH THE SCREN STUPUF???
SS: STUPUDSTRO
SS: STUPUD!!
SS: STUPID BADSTRO

AN: ...

SS: FINEEEEEEE

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO sent sburb_client.jar and (1) others 

SS: SE YOU LATR STUPID 

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO stopped messaging Astro_Novalite

well.. guess you'll 

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO started messaging Astro_Novalite

SS: MAKE SUR SHELLY GETS THE COPY TOO

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO stopped messaging Astro_Novalite

==> Astro, open the files 

You open both files, the client and server, and the game slowly downloads, with the loading circle moving in all different patterns and colorful backgrounds, helping it with its lucid feeling. The game soon loaded, and his screen showed the toon floor, specifically in the common area in the toon rooms where Shrimpo set his computer. he's surrounded by glisten, gigi, goob, and Finn, all wanting to use the computer 

Astro_Novalite started messaging SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO 

AN: so...
AN: how do you play?...

SS: OH
SS: FUCJ SHOULD I KNOW
SS: IM JUSR FUCKING UP VEES ROOM
SS: ABD UITS RELLY FUCKIN FUNNY

AN: good to know...
AN: ill ask vee then...

Astro_Novalite stopped messaging SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO 

Astro_Novalite started messaging Dino_Lover

AN: heyy Shelly...
AN: <3

DL: HELLO ASTRO <3333

AN: how have you been?

DL: I've been great ^_^
DL: I've been watching SOOO MANY new dino movies 
DL: did you know they found a new dinosaur called Fona herzogae?
DL: ITS SO FUN FINDING THINGS 

AN: ^_^
AN: I'm just here to send you the game file vee wanted us to play

DL: OOOO
DL: TAHTS RIGHT

Astro_Novalite sent sburb_client.jar and (1) others

AN: >3<

DL: >3<

Astro_Novalite stopped messaging Dino_Lover

alright, NOW you ask Vee how to play. all you've been doing is moving things around and messing with shrimpo, playing with the user interface you find the deploy button, showing a bunch of machines surrounding the walls of the common area. 

==>astro, message your green pal 

Astro_Novalite started messaging Vee 

AN: hey vee!..
AN: can you help me with this game?..

Vee: wait
Vee: this fucking shrimp is messing shit up
Vee: okay 
Vee: do you understand how to place things down correct 

AN: yeah?...

Vee: okay 
Vee: place the Cruxtruder, Alchemiter, Totem Lathe, and Punch Designix 
Vee: and put them together don't be like this stupid crustacean 

==> Astro, move shit around 

you move the bean bags and TVs around to place the machines, getting startled by a small meteor landing next to you. 

AN: okay...
AN: now what?

Vee: open the Cruxtruder

AN: um...
AN: how?...

Vee: UIKUVCKHGCUYVKUTVJKKUVUTCUTVUV
Vee: drop something heavy on it
Vee: and put something in the Kernelsprite when it appears 

==> Astro, pick up a crate 

you pick up a crate and hover it over the cruxtruder, Gigi standing nearby. you drop the crate, open the crux thing, and accidentally drop the crate on the gacha pon, crushing her and a timer staring. 15 minutes left 

==> Astro, panic 

you start to panic, and so does everyone else on the screen, you hastily grab the corpse and try to move it elsewhere 

==> prototype 

you accidentally dropped the body in the Kernelsprite, dumbass

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A very pissy toon was communicating with a friend online sometime in the past, with others sitting nearby watching re-runs of their show on the boxy TV. What's his name?

==> Stupid fishhead

fuck you 

==> Shrimpo the shrimp

yes... 

your name is shrimpo, and you're talking to Shell Head, she is definitely NOT your friend, she is just the LEAST annoying person on this stupid talking app blockhead made, even though she has her stupid boyfriend to talk to. 

SS: AND EVERY TIME I USE THE KITCHEN THERE IS ALWAYS **SOMEBODY** COMING OVER TO EAT OR COOK SOMETHING 
SS: AND ITS ALWAYS ANIME FACE AND SPRINKLE FACE COMING OVER AND "HANGING OUT"
SS: AND BY HANGING OUT I MEAN A DATE 
SS: YOU CANT TELL ME CALLING YOUR FRIEND QUOTR ON QUPTE "MY CUPCAKE" ISNT FLURTIONG
SS: AT THAT POINT DROP YPIR PANTS AND GO CRAZY RIGHT NEXT TO ME
SS: I HATE SHARING THE KITCHEN WITH THOSE TWO
SS: OR ANYONE

DL: I mean...
DL: at least you didn't yell at them!

SS: AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I DIDNT?//??/?

DL: id hear it
DL: plus you seem okay when I'm baking with you

SS: THATS BECAUSE YOY ARE THE MOST TORABLE OUT OF EVER UBODY

SS: SO
SS: YOU?

DL: what?

SS: YOUR DAY
SS: YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY DAY
SS: SO IM ASKING ABOUT URS 

DL: oh!
DL: it was nice I guess ^_^
DL: I had a good conversation with tisha!
DL: I spent most of it with astro too <3

SS: TAHST GREAT

DL: talk to you latr shrimpy I've got some dino stuff to fill in !!
DL: <3

Dino_Lover stopped messaging SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO

SS: <3

==> Slam your head against the table

you slammed your head against the table, you should stop sending hearts to her because she is NOT your friend. You turn your seat to see other toons watching over your shoulder with giddy faces.

"You're going soft for her shrimpo..." Gigi teased, a sly grin resting on her face

"OH SHUT UP, SHES JUST THE MOST TOLERABLE OUT OF ALL OF YOU. I COULD GIVE LESS OF A SHIT IF ANY OF YOU DIE." you respond, Turing back to your computer 

==> shrimpo, give a shit half an hour later 

you can't give a shit half an hour later cause you're already at half an hour later and too focused on the newly made glowing ghostly looking gigisprite. because what the fuck.

"WHAT THE FUCK????" 

"My exact thought babe, I love her new red" glisten replied, walking into the conversation 

"THAT'S NOT WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU??"

"umm... really i have no idea, but i look pretty cool. Connie would rock this though"

you let out a groan of pure annoyance as she yelled for the ghostly... well you don't got a name for her so ghostly bitch for now 

Connie floated into common room, before she can get a word in Gigi jumped towards her for a scare

==> Connie and Gigi: have a laugh

these two cant have a laugh because they have fused GIONNESPIRITE, that's what youre calling them now

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO started messaging Astro_Novalite 

SS: WHAT
SS: THE
SS: HELL
SS: HAPPENED 

AN: If I have to be honest I have no idea really
AN: looks like Connie and Gigi became one person now...

SS: WHAT

AN: They're apart of the the game now
AN: That's what I'm saying  

SS: WHAT

==> Astro, slap your face in annoyance 

You've already done that and you're not in the mood to do it again

you place a Pre-punched card near the angry guy, while behind you your sever player, Shelly, is placing the machines neatly.

DL: so..
DL: what next?

AN: next you drop something heavy
AN: but try not to crush me or pebble 

DL: gotcha ^_^

you watched as one of the rocket props floated above the cruxtruder, she dropped the heavy prop allowing the kernelsprite to release and a timer in sync with shrimpos, 12 minutes left. pebble barked at it as you drew a face on an astronaut plush. 

==> It's prototyping time 

you throw the plush into the kernel as Dandy and Sprout enter through the elevator. you turn to talk to your fellow mains. 

"hey you two!" you wave at the two, Dandy waved back while sprout stared at the spacemancernel "um... why is there a space ghost.." You turn to look at your kernelsprite  "Oh! I'm just playing a game with Shelly, Vee, and Shrimpo. It's not dangerous if that's what you're going to ask" Sprout let out a small sigh of relief 

"Oh!" sprout let out sigh "I thought a new toon just appeared" he chuckled as dandy got closer to it in curiosity 

==> Dandy don't touch that 

too late, the rainbow flower touches the single-spirited kernel 

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An adorable shell sat in her dinosaur-themed floor, its pretty dusty here too. Machinery was hastily and neatly placed around her. What's her name? 

==> The cinnamon roll toon 

I'M AN AMMONITE

==> Shelly fossilian 

that's it!

as noted before your friend, Vee, is placing the machines necessary to play, since trying to unzip and rework the game files kinda flipped who controls who's room.

==> Watch things go down 

you place a pre-punched card next to the newly prototyped dandysprite, sprout doesn't seem very happy about his friend being a part of the game. 

==> Prototype one of your dinos

you hear a loud thud to the left of you, seeing the open cudix whatever it's called, and a kernel! plus the 10-minute countdown. hope that doesn't mean anything important.

you look around the exhibit, there's so many creatures to bring back! you suppose a Brontosaurus skull will do well 

DL: so...
DL: I just put the card and the "dowel" in the lathe?

VEE: exactly 
VEE: then I'll place it on the Alchemiter to make
VEE: something 
VEE: the web I'm doing research is a little 
VEE: dead
VEE: Curiosity may have killed the cat
VEE: but satisfaction brought it back

DL: you searched that up didn't ya? ;3

VEE: ...
VEE: no...

==> carve 

you giggle softly, placing the dowel on its side and shoving its card in its slot, watching the machine do its thing. 

==> Others, punch a card 

Astro, Vee, and Sprimpo punch their retrospective cards and carve their dowels, with their server players placing their carved dowels on the Alchemiter. the machinery scanning and creating their artifacts as the meteors fall through becomes worryingly more apparent 

==> shrimpo, break

A bandanna suddenly appeared around your face, you start flaying around like a WELL AND NON PANIC FILLED TOON

"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING" you yell, feeling gionniesprite float next to you "I think you're supposed to break the pinata, bro" she replied, handing you what you guess is a bat 

==> Astro, organize 

A simple empty solar system set appeared in front of the TWO ARMED toon "Huh... a little simple but okay then..."

==> Shelly, play a game of Name the dino

a collection of dino toys and name tags spawned on the alchemizer 

Shelly: "Oh hell fucking yes"

==> Vee, get to cracking 

A set of encrypted screen

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a wonderful show host stood near their prototyped soda-fused friend, light peering in the holes in the ceiling made from meteors. What's her name?

==> variable vamble

????

==> vee version 1

that's way better. you are Vee version 1, or just Vee as you are better known. your dear friend brightney had accidentally prototyped herself while helping you fix the mess shrimpo was making. now about those holes...

==>Vee, lookup you looked up at the ceiling holes, and instead of revealing the floor above it you showed a green sky

VEE started to message SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO

VEE: shrimpo, can you zoom out of my room and see what's outside?

SS: WHY

VEE: Tell me what's outside

SS: FINE 
SS: BUT ITSS JUST GOUNG TO BE DANDYS
SS: BULINNG...
SS: UM
SS: THIS ISNT 

VEE: What?

SS: ITS VERY GREEN
SS: AND COMPUTARY 

VEE: Can you make a staircase to one of the ceiling holes
VEE: And a proper one

SS: GOD YOURE LAME

VEE stopped messaging SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO

shrimpo began stack boxes and other climbable objects on top of each other towards one of the bigger gaps 

==> vee, climb 

you begin climbing up with Popneysprite following close, you lift your chubby little body through the hole and onto the roof. balancing yourself on the exposed pipes and metal as you stare at the tall towers filled with corrupted computer screens 

Popneysprite: "w0w! L0CAV!"

vee turned her head towards her prototyped friend 

Vee: "W...What?" 

Popneysprite: "land 0f c0mputers and virus! a place made just for y0u!" 

she turned her attention back to the land

Vee: "Computers yeah..." 

==> shrimpo, make a bigger hole 

you grab one of the bigger crates and slam it against the ceiling, making a bigger hole for vee and the messed up brightney to crawl through. sounds of a sudden thunderstorm raging outside 

DL: so...
DL: vee is in a new world now?

SS: GUESS WE ALL ARE

DL: that explains the dino roars outside...
DL: hehe

SS: WHAT??/?

DL: don't worry shrimpo!
DL: I know how do deal with these guys !
DL: ^_^
DL: oh wait
DL: there's a guy with a dino head here
DL: TTL <3

Dino_Lover stopped messaging SHRIMPO_SHRM IMPO

shrimpo growled a little when Shelly stopped messaging, now that they're probably separated from being in new lands, it gave you a small bit of anxiety. god imagine what Astro feels, his girlfriend is now worlds apart from him...

==> shrimpo, Stop worrying and beat up an intruder 

goob gives out a loud yell, you turn around and spot a black imp standing near him. it's not a twisted but it Has Gigi's head, you chuckle a little 

==> STRIFE

what?
you get cobbled on the head by a medkit, asshole 

Shrimpo: "OW FUCK!!"

==> SHRIMPO, AGRESS 

a simple response to this is a punch of your own, it growls as you slam your fist against its head but a pottery plant to the head kills it quickly. it bursts into a bundle of gusher-looking items 

Nursegigisprite: "Yesh, you okay goob?"

goob: "yeah.. I just wanted to give it a hug, it looked grumpy" 

glisten: "And you'd think that would work?"

goob: "yeah! it works on shrimpo! sometimes..." 

==> shrimpo, talk to badstro 

you roll your eyes, getting on your computer to talk to sleepy with gigi handing goob a bandage 

SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO started messaging Astro_Novalite

SS: ASTEO!!
SS: ASTRO!!!
SS: BADSTRO

AN: what do you want 

SS: MAKE A WOLE
SS: IN ONE OF THE WALLS

AN: um...
AN: why?

SS: TP SEE MY WORLD
SS: OR LAND 
SS: OE WHATEVER
SS: ITS VERY LOUD OUSTSDE 

AN: I guess I can just...

==> Astro, copy and place a door near the elevator 

you use the newly obtained "grist" to copy a door and place it next to the elevator since there's nothing behind that wall. you zoom out to see shrimpos land, a vast ocean with a raging storm out with the floor that that they're on sitting on an island with many ingame enemies surrounding the building 

AN: it looks
AN: stormy outside
AN: are you sure you wanna go out?

SS: IM SURE ITS FINE

AN: there's a bunch of little angry guys out

SS: I JUST KILLED ONE EARLYER 
SS: A GOOD KNOCK ON THE HEAD IS ENOUGH

==> shrimpo, go outside 

you walk down the hallway and towards the door, nurse Gigi following close 

Nursegigisprite: "so... ready +o see LOSAS?"

Shrimpo: "W...WHAT?? CAN'T YOU GUYS JUST SAY THE NAME?? AND HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW THE NAME??"

Nursegigisprite: "Land of shrimps and s+orms! and one, i+ adds to some drama+c effect, and +wo, I'm a par+ of +he game now! i know many +hings, plus I'm good with medical s+uff and wha+no+ 

Shrimpo: "THATS.... NICE"

you open the door, getting a nice breeze of a raging storm 

Shrimpo: "LITTLE WINDY OUT HERE"

Nursegigisprite: "SURE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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a soaked toon is currently beating up a gigi-shaped imp after realizing that walking through a raging storm isn't the best of ideas, his friends are investigating the machines in the little movie corner, we already know his name 

==> Shirmpo, hit him with a suplex 

You throw the imp on its neck, popping it into more grist over the floor. you quickly get up and dust your shirt thing (it's not a dress and you'll bite at anybody who says that it's a dress) and go back to the computer to mess around with Vee for shits and giggles

VEE started messaging SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO

VEE: Shrimpo !!!!
VEE: stop it !!!!!!!!

SS: EHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEEHEHEH

VEE: I'm trying to figure out how these things work !!!!

SS: ITS NOT HARD SHOVING A CARD INTO A SLOT   

VEE: that's the thing !!!
VEE: we dont have those cards !!

VEE: okay I found some
VEE: STOP MESSING UP MY ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SS: EHEEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHE

VEE: JUST
VEE: AYYH
VEE: P3SSD3CK
VEE: type that in your totem lathe and see what happens 

VEE stopped messaging SHRIMPO_SHRIMPO

==> shrimpo, be skeptical 

you wonder if you should do what she says, this might be her form of revenge. curiosity does kill the cat... but at the same time, the satisfaction brought it back. you walk over to the pile of uncarved totems the others made and are lying on 

Finn: "hey shrimpo!- "

Shrimpo: "NO"

Finn: "okay"

==> Carve

You place the totem on its side and type in the code Vee sent, watching the lathe do its thing. you grab the carved totem and let the scanner on the alchemiter scan its scanny thing to scan the totem. a box laid on the pad "STRENGHT SYLLADEX: USE YOUR STRENGTH TO GET YOUR STUFF!!! (12 cards included)" 

so... it's an inventory, every toon literally has this, but you only have 3 slots... 

==> shrimpo, equip this... somehow 

pshh that's easy, you just place it in your trinket spot, you only have your brick on you because trinkets are for wussies! you now have a SYLLADEX, used for inventory purposes

specifically a sylladex that depends on your strength. you store a can of pop, you try to retrieve it with an orange gripper appring instead 

shrimpo: "OH... SO THIS IS HOW WHERE GOING TO DO THIS...."

==> get grippy

you squeeze this thing with ease, your soda can appearing gently in your hands. hell fucking yes

==> shelly, scan

"Clean kind sylladex: incase you like things neatly! (12 cards included)"

DL: this is definitely something tisha would use...
DL: is there anything else on that old sylladex website?

VEE: there isn't anything that really fit you
VEE: it was either a forest animals guessing game or that

DL: :T
DL: no dinos?

VEE: no dinos
VEE: yet

DL: :D

==> Shelly, gift the box to Tisha 

you assume that she's here on this floor, you saw her earlier before you entered the game 

Shelly: "hey Tisha?!"

dinoTishasprite: "yeah?"

Shelly: "Do you-"
Shelly: "..."

dinoTishasprite: "..."

==>shelly, equip the sylladex

might as well use it till Vee finds something that suits you