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Today, you decide to be a girl with brown eyes. What is your name?
==> Derp Fuckface
While that does coincide with the game’s 1+2 syllable naming theme, it is not an acceptable name for anyone to have. Please try again.
==> Bell Parker
In any case, today is April 13th, 2014. Why is this date important you may wonder? Actually, you don’t have to wonder. As a practicing Nacciwan and April 13 is known as being the birth of wind. Nobody outside of the religion is really sure what that means, but as an expert in the field, you know that it has to do with one of the four main gods. The other three important dates are very close together and don’t come until later in the year. There is another reason this day is so special to you. Today is going to be the first time you and your friends get to play a game together all at one time.
==> Shoosh! Examine Room!
Well haven’t you become the bossy one? Bored already? Fine, fine, Let us look around the room.
The first thing you see is the clock placed at 12:05. That’s always the time. The clock is obviously broken. Although, it is dark enough outside to be so late. It actually is a lot later, but you’re not sure how much. This doesn’t really matter to you though, since you feel more awake than you do during the day. And then your mom scolds you for being a night owl when you go to bed when she gets up.
==> Examine Wall
Unfortunately the theme of your life seems to be having no posters on any of your bedroom walls. You don’t even have any pictures on your walls. You have shelves though. There are a couple CHEMISTRY books, one book about CANCER and even a couple on TEACHING. You actually want to be a teacher when you grow up. You enjoy spreading knowledge and you like working with children, so it’s all fine. Other than that your shelves have a lot of FANTASY NOVELS in them, like ‘The Hobbit’ by William Shakespeare and ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ by JK Rowling. Also you are very aware fangirls are rolling in their graves and screaming at you for the obvious mis-authorship. You don’t give a damn though. You mostly just do it to troll those people.
==> Be Pestered
Oh, yeah. You are being pestered aren’t you.
tyranicalTributeary started pestering actualizedCalandar
TT: I don’t know if you are up, but you should go through the mail if you haven’t yet.
TT: Actually, wasn’t the game released early in Japan
AC: For once a Japanese early release date
TT: Works to the benefit of everyone?
AC: I thought that was understood
TT: Right.
TT: Anywho, you aren't putting me in the game first.
AC: Not?
TT: You will be pulling TC in first.
TT: You will be the last player in.
AC: ?
TT: Because you will complete the, for lack of a better term, daisy chain into the game.
AC: Great
tyranicalTributary stopped pestering actualizedCalandar
==> Be TC
Okay. You are now the girl with the green eyes. What is your name?
==> Vain Pignut
While I can appreciate that you stick so closely to the 1+2 syllable naming theme, that is as inappropriate as the last name you suggested.
==> Elle Jackson
You are Elle Jackson. You are the one with green eyes.
==> Elle: Examine walls
Pictures and posters as far as the eye can see, and most of them were drawn by you. Seriously, there’s something from every fandom you’re into. There’s that SAILOR MOON poster you got when you and AC went to PCC together, and the MIDNIGHT CREW fan picture you drew and put up on tumblr a few months ago hanging over your bed. You also have a couple DREAM CATCHERS, and TAROT CARDS hanging around. You, better than even AC, understand that today is special because of it being the wind’s birthday, which represents the changing of the year, season, and mood of the wind god himself.
==> Check Mail
You did that already. You collected both the server and client copies of the game, make sure that you put the server client in your luck-time specibus, and get ready to download the client copy. You won’t start downloading until you get in touch with AC though.
==> Pester AC
No need. She’s contacted you first
actualizedCalandar started pestering technicallyCabal
AC: Ready
TC: Okay. I have both copies ready to go. Ready?
AC: To the count of three
AC: One
TC: Two
AC: Three!
AC: Server
AC: Shit
TC: You okay?
AC: STATE OF EMERGENCY. ROOF. FUN.
TC: Take your client in the sylladex!
AC: Did
actualizedCalandar stopped pestering technicallyCabal
==> Panic
Why? Oh that’s right. She didn’t deploy any of the necessary tools to get the game going for you so that you can actually get in. You’ve been looking at GameFaqs and you’re not too worried. The impending meteor is a good thirty minutes away from you and getting to the roof should only take AC a few of those minutes. Then she can place items, type a sprite, and then you can be ready to go. You know exactly what you’re going to do with your time.
==> Be Bell
No, she’s just going to the roof. Wouldn’t you like to see what Elle’s going to do with her time? No? Fine, we’ll be Bell.
You are now Bell, and you need to try getting to the roof without encountering your mom. There is noise filling every single pore in your body, The sirens of warning. We are in a state of emergency. A meteor hit the ocean and is causing a Tsunami. You’re sure to drown before you get hit by a meteor.
And there’s the tell-tale overly loud groan coming from your mom’s room, signifying she’s awake and ready to kill. You hope that either she stays in her room, or decides to do something stupid like hide in the bathroom. Actually, you think, you need to go in there first to get a first aid kit. You are always prepared for a minor emergency.
==> Go to the Bathroom
That was the idea.
You leave your room as quietly as possible, turning around as soon as you leave the room to quietly shut the door. Not only does it bother you when it shuts loudly, but it would cause your mother to leave her room, if she hasn’t already.
Getting to the bathroom is only difficult because you have go by your mom’s room. She could hear the pattering of feet across tatami any day of the week. And if she hears you, she’ll come out of the room and yell at you for being awake at a perfectly reasonable hour. Seriously, it’s not even five in the morning yet.
Rather than scurry past her door or attempt to do some sort of air acrobatics, which you can’t do, you decided to quietly go back into your room. You forgot your Sburb copies and laptop in the bedroom, and there might be some more items you need.
==> Catalogue Sbrub Copies
You do that, and while you're at it, you catalogue your laptop. You look around your room for anything else you might need.
==> Bell: Examine Room
Once again you look around your room. This time Dango (the akita your mom bought) is on your FUTON. The dog messed up your VIOLET BLANKETS, making a ball of blankets at the end of the FUTON, which Dango was laying on top of. You coo at your dog for being so sweet and vow to go back for the dog once Elle is set up.
You pat the dog on the head and go back to the bathroom.
==> Bell: Sneak past Mom’s Room
You walk quietly past your mom’s room. She seems to be sleeping again, and you’re not stupid enough to wake her. Call it a passive -aggressive attempt on her life, but you would rather let her sleep.
You tip toe past your mom’s room and get into the bathroom.
==> Bell: Examine room
This is just a half bath. The TUB/SHOWER is located in a different part of the apartment. You don’t mind though, since this is the room with MEDICINE CABINETS. There is a MIRROR above the sink, and the MEDICINE CABINET is against the wall by the toilet. It’s a very cramped room, but it serves it’s purpose. What will you do?
==> Look at Self in Mirror
Why? You don’t need to see what you look like, do you? Fine!
You give yourself a once over in the mirror. You’re short curly black hair is messy from lack of brushing, so you pick up your HAIRBRUSH and tame your curly locks. Much better.
Now what will you do?
==> Get what you came for.
That’s a good plan. You open the MEDICINE CABINET and captchalogue the FIRST AID KIT. You can practically hear the zelda ‘you got a thing’ jingle. Now that that’s done, it’s time to get on the roof.
==> Assess best way to get onto the roof
The stairs will take you all the way up, but that will leave you breathless. You can take the elevator up most of the way, and then walk up a flight of stairs, but you’re afraid of the elevator. It’s old and hasn’t had work done on it in years. There’s a relatively good chance you could get stuck in there. Then you’re really fucked. Still, it seems to be the quickest way out of the house.
==> Leave Apartment
You stumble your way through the apartment, almost tripping over empty soda bottles and shoes. Why does your mom have so many shoes? Eventually you reach the front door and are sliding outside of the apartment and into the elevator.
==> Proceed to Roof via elevator
The inside of the elevator is dingy, and the music is rather demonic sounding with how it cuts in and out of the speakers. Overall, you find it terrifying.
There’s a three second moment which feels much longer in between the door opening on the correct floor, and the elevator just not opening that makes you panic. Thankfully, the elevator does open and you stumble out to the staircase. You climb the stairs, get on the roof, and get ready to help your friends.
==> Stop Being Bell
Okay! Who would you like to be
==> Be Elle from a few minutes ago
You can not be Elle from a few minutes ago because she was talking to someone you haven’t met yet.
==> Be Future Bell
It’s not time for that yet. There more work to be done!
==> Fine! Be Present Elle
You are once again the girl with green eyes. You were wrong when you thought it would only take Bell a couple of minutes to get to the roof. You think it took her ten minutes, giving you about twenty to get into the game. With each second that passes the probability of you getting out alive decreases. However, the probability of an awesome narrow escape increases.
Bell has your Totem Lathe, Alchemiter, and Cruxtruder next to eachother. Good. That increased your chances of survival significantly.
==> Elle be pestered by Bell
actualizedCalandar started pestering technicallyCabal
AC: So now what do I need to do for Elle?
TC: You need to type me a kernelsprite. This kernelsprite will have an impact on what enemies we fight inside the game. Pick something we can actually fight.
AC: Hairbrush?
TC: No, that’s a terrible idea. Why don’t you type my chair or table?
AC: Bad
TC: Exactly my point. It’s a bad idea on every level. Now that we’re done with that, let’s think of something we can use. I have stuffed plushies that would make for some interesting enemies.
AC: The cat?
TC: No. Why not the… um… ah… just a second I need to do a thing with the cruxtruder, totem lathe, and alchemiter. It would greatly increase the likeliness of my survival if I alchemize the tool for which I will get into the game.
technicallyCabal is now an idle chum
technicallyCabal is now an active chum
TC: After we make the kernel sprite, I have to eat the sandwich. We have one minute to type the sprite. Pick something now!
AC: Bunny
AC: EAT!
actualizedCalendar stopped pestering technicallyCabal
==> In The Past…
.... but not too distant past you are Elle.
You are on pesterchum, and you are talking to someone who is not Bell, and is not TT. This person you know rather well, and miss quite a lot. You are excited to talk to them. Your conversation was an important one, about how they weren’t sure if playing the game that comes out on the thirteenth of April is such a good idea. They send you a link to a GamFaq site that’s already been made about the game. They are worried about your safety. You tell them that ultimately the two options are play the game and fight to survive, or death by meteor crashing on you. You don’t tell them about the third option, it’s too gruesome. You also remind them that by playing the game there’s a very high probability of them being leader, and the likeliness of them turning down leadership is the same as you abandoning Nacciw. They tell you okay and agree to play.
You now have that person on board and are ready to get everyone else ready. There’s so much you need to do, like convince TT with the help of Bell that shenanigans are the way to go. It won’t be too hard. Since Bell’s definitely going to play, she knows TT will play as well, and you know that their relationship makes the likeliness of TT playing infinitely better. Well, not infinitely, since that is probably impossible, but it does make the odds better.
==> End of Chapter 1