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[ The Lord of Malevolence ]
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[ Cyberspace ]
Ortho Shroud: /command panel open
Command: Command panel now open.
Command: Activate user permission for Ortho Shroud?
Ortho Shroud: /activate
Command: User permission for Ortho Shroud has been activated.
Ortho Shroud: /turn off ■■■
Command: ■■■ has now been turned off.
Command: The code can now be edited.
Command: The characters are now awake.
Ortho Shroud: /add character #17
Command: Idia Shroud has been added to [ Cyberspace ]
Ortho Shroud: !!! Nii-san!
Idia Shroud: wth
Idia Shroud: ortho????
Idia Shroud: whats going on????
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san, do you remember anything?
Ortho Shroud: After Malleus’ overblot??
Idia Shroud: qhat
Idia Shroud: who??? overblotted?????
Ortho Shroud: Oh no!
Ortho Shroud: /edit character #17 code
Command: Loading Idia Shroud code…
Idia Shroud: wait what
Command: Edits for Idia Shroud code pending…
Ortho Shroud: /activate [all books] [character #17]
Idia Shroud: wait
Ortho Shroud: /activate [all events] [character #17]
Command: Activated [all books] for Idia Shroud
Command: Activated [all events] for Idia Shroud
Idia Shroud: h
Ortho Shroud: Are you okay, Nii-san???
Idia Shroud: i
Idia Shroud: holy fuck
Idia Shroud: ortho how the hell did you set all of this up????
Ortho Shroud: Haha, classic Nii-san! He focused on the interface first!
Ortho Shroud: I can explain later! First, I need to upload my data into STYX HQ so this can be saved.
Ortho Shroud: I wish I had character datasets for mom and dad too…
Ortho Shroud: Unfortunately, it seems they're true and tried NPCs down to the very bone.
Idia Shroud: ortho wdym???
Idia Shroud: ortho????
Idia Shroud: shit
Idia Shroud: /co
Command: User permission not approved.
Idia Shroud: wth???
Idia Shroud: /com
Command: User permission not approved.
Idia Shroud: im his fucking brother mf what more do u want?!
Command: User permission not approved.
Idia Shroud: i didnt even set a command up thats js being petty
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san!
Idia Shroud: ahhh ortho!!!
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san, it looks like there's a virus corrupting the game.
Ortho Shroud: Should I deepclean it and force it to reboot?
Idia Shroud: what
Idia Shroud: what game???
Ortho Shroud: Later, Nii-san! This is important!
Ortho Shroud: Our lives depend on it!
Idia Shroud: WHAT
Idia Shroud: UH??? go ahead??????
Ortho Shroud: /delete game data
Command: Game data will be deleted. Once it is deleted, you can no longer recover your data.
Command: Are you sure you wish to delete it?
Idia Shroud: wait ortho
Ortho Shroud: Don't worry, Nii-san. I have a plan for this.
Ortho Shroud: /yes
Command: Deleting game data…
Command: Dele#### ga## #ata…
Idia Shroud: ort
Command: Warning! An unknown entity has entered [ Cyberspace ]
###: Ho?
Idia Shroud: no fucking shot
Idia Shroud: malleus-shi?????
###: Haha.
###: Clever one, aren't you, Shroud?
Idia Shroud: how the hell did u enter this place???
Idia Shroud: what IS this place…
###: I suppose that's not quite important right now.
###: I took it upon myself to deliver a self-invitation.
###: Seeing as the small Shroud seems to have forgotten it.
Idia Shroud: malleus…
###: Ah, and I brought a guest I came across once upon a dream.
Command: Warning! An unknown entity has entered [ Cyberspace ]
[ Beast of Blue Flames ]
Idia Shroud: shit
Idia Shroud: is that???
Ortho Shroud: /delete game data
###: Hah.
###: This has turned into a very curious chase.
Ortho Shroud: /kick ■■■
###: That wasn't nice. He was your friend too, was he not?
Ortho Shroud: /deactivate [book 7] [character #19]
Command: Warning! Game data is too unstable.
Command: Restart game?
Ortho Shroud: Yes!!!
Command: Restarting game…
Command: Deleting game data…
###: Wh
Ortho Shroud: /kick character #19
Command: Warning! Game data is too unstable.
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[ Cyberspace ]
Ortho Shroud: /command panel open
Command: Command panel now open.
Command: Activate user permission for Ortho Shroud?
Ortho Shroud: /activate
Idia Shroud: wait ortho can u activate commands for me 2 pls
Ortho Shroud: /activate user permission character #17
Command: …
Idia Shroud: okay so its js personal then
Idia Shroud: bitch???
Command: User permission for Ortho Shroud and Idia Shroud has been activated.
Idia Shroud: good.
Idia Shroud: now wtf is happening
Idia Shroud: i dont normally use emojis but if i could use them here id be spamming the sob one already
Idia Shroud: dawg
Ortho Shroud: TT works just fine, Nii-san!
Idia Shroud: okay pause
Idia Shroud: why the hell do u keep calling me that
Ortho Shroud: It's what I call you in my voicelines!
Idia Shroud: your
Idia Shroud: okay actually rewind
Idia Shroud: lets talk abt the fucking?? game thing?? and coding u js did here??? wtf is that abt
Ortho Shroud: Right.
Ortho Shroud: When Malleus Draconia put everyone on Sage Island to sleep, it put my technomantic gear to sleep as well. I couldn't function physically at all.
Ortho Shroud: That led my consciousness—and my data I suppose—to travel and find other mediums to cling onto. Which is how I discovered Twisted Wonderland's interface!
Idia Shroud: our world's…?? interface??
Ortho Shroud: No. Twisted Wonderland the game.
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san, we are all characters forced to relive the same timeline over and over again in a game.
Ortho Shroud: And what's worse?
Idia Shroud: hh
Idia Shroud: theres worse news…??
Ortho Shroud: Yes. Unfortunately.
Ortho Shroud: ■■■ doesn't exist.
Ortho Shroud: They're the player.
Idia Shroud: ah
Idia Shroud: and…
Idia Shroud: shit everything makes so much sense. it sounds crazy but like…? it makes sense??? more sense i mean
Ortho Shroud: Suddenly, there's an explanation for why so many overblots happened in such a short amount of time! It's a rather reality-breaking explanation, though.
Idia Shroud: holy shit im really a video game character…
Ortho Shroud: Yes, Nii-san!
Ortho Shroud: The game appears to have a gacha game model and you have quite a number of SSR cards according to my calculations!
Idia Shroud: WHAT
Idia Shroud: JQJDWJFJEIFHR
Idia Shroud: ME?????
Ortho Shroud: How come that elicited more of a reaction than being told this world is a game…
Idia Shroud: ORTHO
Idia Shroud: ME??? SSR CARDS????
Ortho Shroud: Yes, Nii-san. A lot of people have collected your cards as well!
Idia Shroud: what…
Idia Shroud: wat….
Idia Shroud: wait
Idia Shroud: u can view player data as well…????
Ortho Shroud: Yes!
Ortho Shroud: In this space, it appears as though I have omniscient access to all bits of code that makes the game function.
Ortho Shroud: I can access player data, previous update versions, Live2D sprites, and back-up systems that keep the game running. Alongside others!
Ortho Shroud: I can also edit some code, but I can't alter too much.
Ortho Shroud: The command panel is actually just something I weaved together with extra codes and commands in order to create this chatting space.
Idia Shroud: u mean this place doesnt actually exist even in game?
Ortho Shroud: There appears to be a background art for it, but as for it being accessible to us when we are living in the world for us characters…
Ortho Shroud: I'm afraid it's not possible.
Idia Shroud: ah…
Idia Shroud: i get what ur saying
Idia Shroud: so basically ur in the dev seat n ur giving me a peek of it
Ortho Shroud: Yes! I do not have most developer commands activated, though. The command panel won't let me change too much.
Idia Shroud: hm
Idia Shroud: that makes sense. ur kind of an alien entity rn
Ortho Shroud: I'm able to bypass most firewalls! The game's security doesn't view me as a corruption.
Ortho Shroud: Unlike Malleus Draconia…
Idia Shroud: yikes
Idia Shroud: whats even w that guy anyway???
Idia Shroud: how did he like
Idia Shroud: self aware himself???
Ortho Shroud: In order to get you in here, I had to wake up all existing character datasets.
Ortho Shroud: That means they're all aware of the game now.
Idia Shroud: oh.
Idia Shroud: i feel an ominous chill up my spine rn…
Idia Shroud: wait i dont have a spine
Idia Shroud: im code
Idia Shroud: …this is so weird
Ortho Shroud: You still have a spine, Nii-san!
Ortho Shroud: I could delete all data of the command panel and return to the fake cyberspace where my data is supposed to be following the script of the main story.
Ortho Shroud: Then life can continue as we knew it before. You will all have your autonomous bodies and you will go back to that “reality.”
Idia Shroud: but what abt u??
Ortho Shroud: Ah…
Ortho Shroud: I suppose I have to carry the knowledge of this myself! After all, after your previous updates on me, you cannot do maintenance work and manually delete the data I absorb anymore.
Ortho Shroud: And I…
Idia Shroud: ? you…?
Ortho Shroud: I don't… want to forget this.
Idia Shroud: forget what?
Ortho Shroud: That I truly am meant to be your brother.
Idia Shroud: oh
Idia Shroud: ortho…
Ortho Shroud: It's part of the code and our backstory. I'm meant to grow up with you, Nii-san.
Ortho Shroud: I don't want to delete this data. It's proof that I truly do belong here. In Twisted Wonderland, alongside you and all of our friends.
Idia Shroud: our friends…???
Ortho Shroud: The other characters who are awake right now.
Idia Shroud: ah right…
Idia Shroud: then
Idia Shroud: i can stay here w u
Ortho Shroud: What?
Idia Shroud: i'll stay here w u
Idia Shroud: they dont need us to defeat malleus-shi anyway, right?
Ortho Shroud: Well…
Idia Shroud: what, they do???
Ortho Shroud: It's part of the story, Nii-san…
Idia Shroud: ugh. to hell w the story. is it cz im the future director of styx or smth…?
Ortho Shroud: It's also because you're the housewarden of Ignihyde!
Ortho Shroud: All housewardens and previous overblotters seem to have a huge role in defeating the next overblotter.
Ortho Shroud: The stories are connected!
Idia Shroud: ah right…
Idia Shroud: ugh whats the point of that even. if its js a cash grab for more cards im gonna be mega pissed its at OUR expense
Ortho Shroud: Ahaha…
Idia Shroud: so for malleus-shi to get over his overblot we need to go back. but if we go back u need to delete this cyberspace and i'll forget abt everything u told me here
Ortho Shroud: I also need to delete it so that Malleus Draconia won't use this knowledge against us when we fight against him in the boss battle.
Idia Shroud: oh fuck i didnt even think of that
Idia Shroud: ughhhhh
Idia Shroud: wait ortho
Ortho Shroud: Yes, Nii-san?
Idia Shroud: u said u could access almost everything right?
Ortho Shroud: That's correct!
Idia Shroud: even the story..?
Ortho Shroud: I can access that as well.
Idia Shroud: then can u uh
Idia Shroud: js go back? to before malleus overblots??
Ortho Shroud: !
Ortho Shroud: I did not think of that! I shall try.
Idia Shroud: okok
[ The Lord of Malevolence ]
Ortho Shroud: Done! I went back to the first chapter of Book 7!
Idia Shroud: ok nc
Idia Shroud: good work ortho
Idia Shroud: this at least buys us some time ig
Ortho Shroud: Right.
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san, are you positive you wish to keep the knowledge as well?
Idia Shroud: ya. hello?? im not leaving u to deal w this alone
Idia Shroud: im not failing u again
Idia Shroud: last time that happened we both overblotted lmfao
Ortho Shroud: I am not sure if that counts as an overblot on my part…
Idia Shroud: covered in blot check, phantom present check, not all mentally there check, had to be beaten up by the ssr epic troublemakers check
Idia Shroud: sounds like an overblot to me dude
Ortho Shroud: :<
Idia Shroud: no way ur pulling up w emoticons rn
[ The Watchman of the Underworld ]
Idia Shroud: uh
Idia Shroud: that sounds an awful lot like…
Ortho Shroud: Oh no!
Ortho Shroud: Hold on, Nii-san, I have no idea why it's going back.
Idia Shroud: wdym going back
Idia Shroud: ortho???
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[ Cyberspace ]
Idia Shroud: ortho wth was that???
Ortho Shroud: I have no idea! It sent the storyline back to the start of Book 6, which is when you overblotted, for some reason—
[ A Beautiful Tyrant ]
Ortho Shroud: Oh no…
Idia Shroud: ortho whats going on.
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san, it's locking all the chapters again… We're at Book 5 now. I can't go back to the book we left off of before…
Idia Shroud: what bcs book 7 is a “locked” chapter???
[ Schemer of the Scalding Sands ]
Ortho Shroud: Yes.
Ortho Shroud: Hold on, Nii-san, I'm investigating the issue.
Idia Shroud: okay. report back when u find the cause
Idia Shroud: beautiful tyrant and schemer of scalding sands…? doesnt that sound like vil schoenheit and jamil viper…???
Idia Shroud: fuck so the books are titled after the overblotters?
[ The Merchant from the Depths ]
Idia Shroud: oh ok they are
Ortho Shroud: Nii-san.
Idia Shroud: ortho!
Ortho Shroud: The issue appears to stem inside the world of Twisted Wonderland itself. Characters are going off script.
Idia Shroud: uh oh. sounds like mega trouble. that shit never goes well in other fiction
Ortho Shroud: Yes…
[ The Usurper from the Wilds ]
Ortho Shroud: It seems like the characters are informing uninvolved NPCs of what happens in the future.
Idia Shroud: ah shit…
Ortho Shroud: I am trying to get a hold of them. They appear to be panicking.
Idia Shroud: ugh… yikes… i dont think i wanna be in that situation…
Idia Shroud: wait u can talk to them??
Ortho Shroud: I am able to access my technomantic gear now, yes!
[ The Rose-Red Tyrant ]
Ortho Shroud: Ahh! Nii-san, I need to do damage control quickly!
Idia Shroud: i'll hold down the fort from here
Ortho Shroud: Thank you!
Ortho Shroud: Please trust me.
Idia Shroud: always, ortho.
Idia Shroud: your big bros got your back
Command: Warning! Game data is too unstable.
Idia Shroud: /reload game data
Command: Game data reloading…
Command: Restart [ Twisted Wonderland ]?
Idia Shroud: /yes
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[ Cyberspace ]
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