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Post by friday on May 4, 2012 20:09:14 GMT -5
> Friday: Install game.This doesn't seem like a very good idea! Your LAPTOP is old and faulty, but you suppose you don't have any other choice. You would normally borrow the other LAPTOP belonging to your SIS for gaming, but that doesn't seem like an option right now, as she gets UNDERSTANDABLY ANNOYED with you taking without asking. Even if she's not HOME at the moment, it's still a worse idea. Cringing, you insert the first DISC and try to be as gentle as possible, as if that would help somehow. Despite your worries, you find yourself grinning a little at the sight of TWO DISCS. They remind you of the old NANCY DREW PC GAMES you played years ago. Some of the REALLY OLD ones required two discs, sort of like this. You have a feeling this will be a lot more awesome than Nancy Drew, though. The LOADING SCREEN seems to be working just fine, though your LAPTOP doesn't seem to happy about it. Dang, you really need to get a new one. > Friday: Captchalogue stuff while you wait.Actually, it would probably be a better idea to SHOWER. If this game involves your friends looming over your shoulder and watching everything you do, you might not want to be in your pajamas with hair resembling a COCKATOO. Or a ROOSTER. Heh. Even if you look like this most of the time, it doesn't change the fact that you look RIDICULOUS. Clean yourself up! > Friday: SUPER SPEED SHOWERAw yeah, you're clean in five minutes. Having SHORT HAIR rocks. Now that that's over with, you decide to TIDY your room up a bit. You doubt anyone would appreciate looking at all of this JUNK, but there's only so much you can do in the time you have. The LOADING SCREEN shows that everything's almost ready. Your INVENTORY SYSTEM isn't built for speed, though. The model maybe be simple, but your PUZZLE MODUS can frustrate you to no end. All it requires to retrieve an item is an ANSWER to any problem it happens to spit out. Of course, this means it will obviously ask the most perplexing of RIDDLES at all of the worst possible times. You've never been one for RIDDLES. Thankfully, the usual shtick is just handing out regular puzzles. You aren't sure if the importance of the item is related to how hard the puzzle is, but it sure would EXPLAIN a few things, if that happens to be the CASE. Quickly, you cavort around your room, TIDYING like a maniac. Everything's looking a little more in-place now, and you check your SYLLADEX for any excess JUNK. You're always on the lookout for stuff to COLLECT, so there's NO TELLING what could be in there. Yep, just as expected, there's an awful lot of JUNK in here, too, mixed in with things you use regularly. You can't find it in yourself to get rid of anything, though, no matter how useless this stuff might seem for the given sitation. Hey, who knows, maybe you'll get to trick someone into eating one of those ZOMBIE MINTS you're always carrying around. (Mmmm! Brain flavor!) > Friday: Now that that's out the way, go pester someone.quixoticAficionado [QA] began pestering unorthodoxCavalier [UC]
QA: hey tamia, my game's nearly installed and it looks like you were ready to play QA: before you went off somewhere... QA: wanna be my server?? Looks like everything's taken care of for now. You feel like you're MISSING SOMETHING, though. Weird.
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Post by icon on May 5, 2012 2:43:33 GMT -5
What an astute observation. It's not like you could have figured this out from anything else, like reading over a few of the posts on the previous page or anything ridiculous like that. Ha ha, as if. You glance over the Pesterlog, though. Looks like Draco wants to be your server player... from what you can tell, that means he gets to mess with your furniture? That's a thing he can do? And sees you? You don't actually recall that being a thing in the PLAYER'S MANUAL. Anyways, it doesn't seem like that's too bad a plan. Getting prepared earlier in the game will make coordinating everything much easier for when you end up doing... whatever the heck you're going to end up doing. Bliffin' computer games, sometimes. More effort than they're worth. You decide to write up a QUICK RESPONSE to Draco, though. IC: Sure, I guess... IC: I don't really see why that would be a problem IC: Although I still need to get these discs installed... IC: But this means we can enter the chain sooner, right? IC: And the sooner we get set up the sooner we can get things moving, right? IC: I mean, as long as we aren't the last people in the chain IC: That would kind of suck, haha You suddenly sense a vague hint of DRAMATIC IRONY. Oh well, probably nothing to get worked up over. Might as well make your room look a bit more presentable while you wait for these DISCS to load.
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Post by Elcie on May 5, 2012 17:58:06 GMT -5
Elcie: Return.You've given up on the sock. There is just no catching that dog when he doesn't want to be caught. Defeated, you return to your computer, where you discover that someone is pestering you. Elcie: Answer TerraIA: Hey sorry about that IA: My dog is stealing my laundry... IA: It looks like the server software finished installing when I was gone, though! IA: Let's see. Elcie: Connect to TerraWhen the game finishes loading, you can see Terra's room on you computer screen, along with some controls that look like they can be used to move things about. So. Cool!!! Elcie: Wave and say hi!She can't actually see you, you know. (You wave anyway.) IA: HI!!! :D I can see you!
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Post by Celestial on May 5, 2012 18:26:41 GMT -5
> Celestial: Watch your screen in aweWow. Just, wow. You wouldn't have believed that stuff if you hadn't seen it yourself. > Celestial: See something flickering outsideOh hey, it's here! What perfect timing, as usual. > Celestial: Respond to HunterDC: I'm as clueless as you are. DC: But I think all of that was supposed to happen. DC: I dunno, go outside and look around? DC: I'm afraid I've got other business here. DC: If anything really bad happens, pester me incessantly. DC: I think I'll notice. > Celestial: Look outside your windowYou turn around and look outside, admiring your view of the sea briefly. However, your admirations are cut off as you notice the very peculiar WHITE WEEWOO sitting outside your window. It seems to have gotten the message last time that it shouldn't MATERLIASE inside the house. You get up and open your window, giving the weewoo the signal it needs. It flickers green and teleports inside to land right beside you. Feeling lucky, you take out the BIRDSEED from your sylladex after two tries. Opening the packet, you pour some onto your hand and offer it to the weewoo. He/she stares at it for a bit before giving it an experimental peck and making it vanish. Not by eating it. Just by teleporting it, like it has done with all the other bird food you've tried to offer it. Clearly you must be doing something wrong. You put the rest of the birdseed back into your sylladex, lest the order of the items gets muddled. You like keeping everything organised. Suddenly, the weewoo disappears. You hear your housekeeper coming up the stairs. For some reason, the weewoo hates your housekeeper and she has no love for it. You sit there and pray she doesn't enter. You don't want to deal with her right now. > Celestial: WaitThankfully she passes. Now, with that out the way, it's time for you to respond to your server player and maybe get this show on the r- > dirjri2hqwi3hnhateihehreopmforiceasidhhhh=dnoirkddeq-it's time for you to NAP. You feel really tired after guiding Hunter though everything and you didn't get much sleep last night. You flop down onto your bed in your clothes and promptly fall asleep. > Celestial: Be dreamselfYou are your dreamself on the planet of DERSE. All around you the whispers of the HORRORTERRORS echo but you've learnt to ignore them. The dream is always the same and unlike your real life, you remember every instance of what happened here when you wake up here. Not in real life though, nobody remembers their dreams in real life. You just know that this exists. Having woken up, you decide to go for a little flyabout. It's one of the things you really love about being here, the ability to FLY. You wish you could do it ALL THE TIME. You leap out of your tower window and soar above the spires of the purple planet. You love this place, you really do. Purple is your favourite colour after all. Even though everything here is pretty grim, it has its charm. Everything dark and horrifying is beautiful after all. Expect probably the Horrorterrors lurking above. You don't look at them. Instead you look down and see the CARAPACES below you. You wave to one and he waves back, albeit hesitantly. You fly on, swooping and soaring playfully. You're tempted to go check up on the dreamselves of all your friends but decide against it, for now. The crazy idea to prank Jack Noir comes into your head but you decide against it. That guy gives you the creeps. Maybe another time. Man, you don't feel very daring today. Maybe because this is only a nap instead of a proper sleep. Still, you can't deny that it is nice to fly.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 18:58:29 GMT -5
> Hunter: Respond.You figure you don't need to pester Celestial right now. You will respond to Draco, however. HF: Yeah, it's pretty much the end of the world over here, too. HF: 2012, woo HF: Anyway, now I just need to figure out what to holy crap what's that > Hunter: Greet imp.There is a monster in your house, you do not need to be polite to it! You toss your hat at the creature... and it bounces right off. This sucks. Luckily, your dog chases it out of the house. ...WAIT WHERE IS YOUR DOG GOING!? COME BACK! This is going extremely badly and you need help. > Hunter: Tell Dad in the kitchen about the end of the world.You decide to get help from your dad. You run into the kitchen and find... black sludge, but no Dad. ...Uh oh. > Hunter: Pick up Strife Specibus from the floor.Dad seemed to have dropped a riflekind specibus, which he used as a kid for BB guns. Sadly, there's nothing in it, but you're sure you can find something gun-like in your room to use with it. You personally hate guns, but until your can weaponize your hat better, you have no choice. > Hunter: Equip self in a more hard-boiled manner.You retrieve your MINI MARSHMALLOW GUN and SQUIRT GUN from your room. You dual-wield them, guns akimbo. Now you're ready to take on some monsters. Speaking of monsters... > Hunter: Respond to sprite.You still have no idea what your sprite is saying. It's some weird monster thing! But... you figure that if throwing the monster pencil sharpener at the kernelsprite turned the sprite into that... > Hunter: Prototype something incredibly stupid.You reject this suggestion. You decide to prototype some one incredibly stupid. You use your marshmallow gun to knock one of your crappy Neopets crafts off your bookshelf and into your hand. It was supposed to be a little car designed to look like your buzz, JINZO. Hopefully this crappy facsimile is enough to work as him. You chuck the crappy car directly at your sprite's head.
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Post by Rosalie Dylas (Maddy) on May 5, 2012 19:22:52 GMT -5
>Be Spades Slick
No.
>Fine, be Jack Noir
No
>Yes
No
>Be Jack Noir
Why?
>Because
Fine.
You are now Jack Noir. You enjoy knives and you have a rather large collection of them. You love using the knifes for stabbing people. OH BOY Do you love stabbing people. It is the best feelings in the world. It is so amazing you can't just stop at one stab, you have to stab the person over and over again. It sure is fun to stab people.
You have to do all the boring paperwork on Derse but you usually ignore it because it bores you, hence it being boring. You oversee quite a few things here on Derse, you are quite an important guy, if you say so yourself. And you do! And you are rarely ever wrong, if you do say so yourself. And you do again!
What will you do?
> Jack: Stab something
There is nothing to stab around here! You are currently walking around in some hallway somewhere in Derse doing important things.
You lament that there is no thing to stab around here.
> Jack: Take out your favorite knife
You don't like to show favoritism, you love all your knifes equally. Instead you pull out a random one. It is a nice knife, very good for stabbing.
> Jack: Stab something
There is nothing to stab! You stab the air a few times out of frustration.
It just isn't the same.
> Jack: Find something to stab
You happen to be walking by a window, how lucky for you! You glance out of it to see one of those enjoying kids in PJ's flying around.
You get in an itch in your stabbing hand, which is both of them.
> Jack: Chase after PJ kid
You make your way out of the random Derse building and onto the streets. You see the PJ kid flying around happily.
You ready your knife and take chase.
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Post by Celestial on May 7, 2012 8:50:40 GMT -5
> Celestial: See Jack NoirOoh, speak of the devil! The stabby bureaucrat is chasing after you now. He's always been good for a laugh and he is the best one to prank. The guy doesn't have any sense of humour. > Celestial: Fly AwayBut today, you decide to fly higher, out of range of Jack's knives. If there is one thing he is good at, it is stabbing things. You don't want to be stabbed by him, you've only just began to have fun and play the game. And besides, you like your dreamself. Quickly, you fly back to your tower. It's been an exciting enough night and you really should be getting back. Your server is waiting and your client might be in trouble. > Celestial: Wake upYou wake up, rested and refreshed after your nap. You don't remember much of the dream, except that it involved flying. You like flying. You wish you could get to do it more often. But now, there is work to be done. And it looks like your housekeeper was in here while you were asleep. It's a good thing she did not wake you up, although you figured that she learnt her lesson from last time. So today, she just brought you tea. Plain earl grey, with no milk, sugar or even biscuits. She wants you to watch your figure after all. Bleh, her and her trying to make you into a right proper lady. > Celestial: Get secret stash of sugarYou take out the secret sugar satchet (yay, alliteration) and put three spoonfuls into the mug of tea. Now that that's taken care of, you decide to check up on your client. > Celestial: Pester HunterDC: Ok, I'm back. DC: Seems like you're handling things well. DC: That's certainly an...interesting prototyping. > Celestial: Pester CandyDC: Heyo! DC: You want to start being my server player, since I'm done with Hunter? DC: I'd like to get this show on the road. =D
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Post by Terra on May 7, 2012 13:27:25 GMT -5
> Terra: Respond to Elcie.MW: Oh, that's not good. D: MW: But yay! MW: ...you know which is responding to which You look at the screen. It now says: Oh, my gosh, this is so exciting. You can't wait! > Terra: Press [ENTER].You press enter. A loading screen comes up. So exciting! It finishes loading, and your computer monitor...looks no different from before. But you see Elcie is pestering you again. > Terra: Respond to Elcie.MW: ...oh wow. MW: ...that's kinda creepy. MW: But cool! MW: Now what do we do? There's, like...stuff we have to put down and then a timer and a thing I have to put a thing in or something, right? MW: ...that was astonishingly nonspecific of me. Hang on, I'm going to look at the walkthrough again > Terra: Pull up walkthrough.You cannot pull up the walkthrough, because your attention has been caught by something else. Something big. And fiery. And headed right toward your house. > Terra: Move toward window.Yup, there's no mistaking it. It's a METEOR. > Terra: Panic.You do not panic. You are too cool to panic. Instead, you alert your friends in what is certainly not a fake calm way at all. Your calmness isn't fake. You're perfectly calm. MW: Uh...is it just me, or is there a giant meteor headed toward my house? MW: 'cause omg if I'm hallucinating that's pretty bad MW: ...of course, an actual meteor would be pretty bad, too MW: ...help MW: Uh... MW: Does anyone happen to know anything about a meteor that might be heading toward Earth right around now? MW: I mean. MW: Just. MW: You know. MW: Hypothetically.
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Post by Lizzie on May 7, 2012 13:53:27 GMT -5
>Eliza: Respond to CelesGC: Uhh, sure? GC: I don't know how to work this thing... >Eliza: Flail around and try to work newly-installed gameYou flail around like an idiot as you click every button on your screen. One of them accidentally /might/ have started a connection with Celestial. (it did) >Eliza: Mutter angrily when the PLEASE WAIT screen comes upYup. You do so.
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Post by Elcie on May 7, 2012 16:49:03 GMT -5
Elcie: Investigate meteor.This doesn't sound good. You try to zoom out the view on your screen to get a look for yourself, but you can only zoom out as far as framing Terra's house onscreen and there's no way to look up in the sky. Elcie: Answer TerraIA: D: I can't zoom out further than your house, so I'm just gonna have to take your word for it but IA: man IA: Maybe it's just a part of the game? IA: I mean, what are the odds of this happening now? o_o;;;
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2012 17:28:23 GMT -5
> Hunter: Fondly admire creation.(The background is from a replica of my room I made in Minecraft since I didn't feel like drawing that, but had the Minecraft room already made) It worked! It's alive! It's alive! It's... probably not the best idea you've ever had but it will be fun. Anyway, maybe this guy can talk now. JINZOSPRITE: Hey Hunter! What's up? HUNTER: Jinzo! It's good to see you. I'm playing this game and... JINZOSPRITE: Hey, I know more than you do, actually. I'm a sprite now! ...Or I might be a 7-Up. But anyway! Part of my power is knowing all about this game and telling you about it. HUNTER: Oh, cool! ...So where are we? JINZOSPRITE: Your house! HUNTER: ... JINZOSPRITE: OH! Right! Sorry! This is your Land in the... Medium Large? Anyway, right before your house got smashed by a meteor, you did that snowman thing, right? HUNTER: Meteor!? JINZOSPRITE: Didn't you even look out the window? It was big, fiery, and coming right at ya. Anyway this here is the... I promise not to mess up the name this time, Land of Insomnia and Spheres. > Hunter: Wonder about Dad and your dog.HUNTER: Insomnia and Spheres, huh? Sounds interesting... Hey, Jinzo, can you use your sprite powers to tell me where Dad and my dog, Stella, went? JINZOSPRITE: No can do on the dog, but your Dad was taken by those monsters, to the kingdom of Terse! HUNTER: What!? JINZOSPRITE: But more on that later, you've got some imps to smash! > Hunter: Smash some imps.You pull off some gun moves as impressive as you can be with a marshmallow shooter and a squirt gun, which is to say, not very impressive. Actually, Jinzosprite does most of the fighting. But, you manage to clear the imps out of your room enough to slam the door. And now it looks like people are pestering you. > Hunter: Respond to Celestial.HF: Heh, Jinzo is awesome, don't question it. HF: But apparently my Dad was kidnapped by monsters! Jinzo said something about a kingdom called Terse? You know anything about that? HF: Also, I think I got some of that Grist you were talking about earlier from those imps. Is there something you can do with that Grist now to help me out? > Hunter: Check in on memo.HF: Uh HF: Well hypothetically that may or may not have happened to... HF: Why are we speaking in hypotheticals? A meteor almost hit my house too right before I entered the game. It... sorta means you need to hurry HF: Also, Eliza, Icon, I dunno if you're paying attention to the memo, but... HF: I'm hanging out with Jinzo IRL right now HF: I'm not sure exactly how this is possible but it's pretty awesome
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Post by Roughtiger on May 7, 2012 18:19:17 GMT -5
> RT: Get on with it!Indeed. You begin to install the game. While you wait, you put some more junk into your inventory. With all the new items in, the last lot begins to go into storage. It's going to be a pain when it's time to retrieve that stuff. At least you have two empty cards to spare! Which is kinda strange. MEH. You're the queen of junk! No doubt about that. You haven't even cleaned out your rubbish bin since. . . .ages ago! You wonder if there are any new living organisms within the bin yet. > RT: Proceed to pick up more stuff.You pick up your trusty crowbar. You love this thing a lot. However, it's only purpose was to push firewood into a roaring fire. Now that you don't have a fireplace anymore, It just sits there looking sad. > RT: Contact someoneYou have no idea who you're suppose to contact. You get confused pretty easily, actually a little to much. You decide to pester Shade. wroughtTigress [WT] began perstering aceAscension [AA]
WT: Hey. WT: ..... WT: I have no idea what I'm really doing. 8D WT: Shall we start this tomfoolery?
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Post by Celestial on May 8, 2012 18:31:36 GMT -5
> Celestial: Respond to MemoDC: Huh, a meteor?! DC: I've got nothing. DC: But I cannot believe that it just a coincidence. DC: We better hurry up. DC: Give me a second > Celestial: Grab your binoculars and run outside.You grab your trusty binoculars before running outside. You run past your housekeeper without so much as a by-your-leave, which is going to bite you in the behind later but you don't care. Stepping outside, you head for the hill on which rest the strange structure known as the FROG TEMPLE, because of the enormous frog statue on top of the central, biggest pillar. It is locally known as Froghenge. There were always teams of archeologists trying to figure out what it was actually for, to no avail. It is however located on the tallest hill for miles and you get an excellent view from it. You run up the hill and look up at the sky. There is a strange glowing object heading your way. You adjust your binoculars and discover, as you thought, that there is a meteor heading this way. Without wasting any time, you run back home. > Celestial: Confront your housekeeperShe notices when you come back. You gaze upon the small, matronly and yet somehow slightly imposing figure of your housekeeper. She lectures you on how a proper lady would not leave without saying goodbye and would take off her coat and shoes when indoors or spend so much time on the computer and all that jazz. Why is she so obsessed about making you into a proper lady? Isn't it a bit too late now? You're not a kid anymore. But you have no time to argue with her. You make all your excuses and apologies, take off your swishy coat and shoes and bring them with you to your room, closing the door but not before agreeing to tea now and lasanga later. For a moment, you are quite happy, since you do like your housekeeper's lasanga but then you remember the meteor. That lasanga is going to have to wait. > Celestial: Respond to CandyDC: You'll get the hang of it. DC: Tell me when you've established a connection and are ready to put stuff in. DC: I'm kind of on a timer here. > Celestial: Respond to HunterDC: Wasn't going to. Hey Jinzo! DC: Terse? Does he mean Derse? DC: If so, that rings a bell. Not sure what bell though. But as soon as I remember, I'll definitely tell you. DC: And as for the Grist, let me check... DC: Ooh, yes, there is definitely something I can do with that! > Celestial: Deploy Punch DesignixYou take the PUNCH DESIGNIX and try to place it somewhere where it will actually fit and not block anything. The living room and Hunter's room are out of the question so the only option is the kitchen. Thankfully this thing isn't as big as the Alchemiter. You wonder what you can do with it.
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Post by Tam on May 8, 2012 22:22:14 GMT -5
You do so with unrivaled enthusiasm. But he's just heavy. You completely fail to move his massive rum-fueled bulk, which predictably continues to crush your weak pathetic limbs. > Tamia: Abscond![/u] You cannot abscond! And you would not even if you could. That's just not how these things go down. How these things do go down usually involves a few minutes of brawling while you desperately struggle to get the upper hand, a great deal of unsportsmanlike swearing, and you getting your butt kicked halfway across the house. If your life was cleverly animated to fit an awesome soundtrack, it would probably rather appropriately be playing Beatdown right now. Unfortunately, your life is not cleverly animated, and even if it was, this round of strife would have been over way too fast to warrant any kind of musical accompaniment. Your bro proceeds to kick your butt halfway across the house without having to draw a weapon once. Today may be a special day in other regards, but in this one it is depressingly typical. When it becomes clear you are in no shape to continue your strife, your bro turns away from you, swipes the CLIENT DISK from the pile of mail on the kitchen table, and disappears. To the victor goes the loot, as per the strife rules that your bro made up years ago after he'd figured out that you would never be the victor. Dang it, Bro. > Tamia: Read memo.[/u] Your sylladex helpfully places your IPHONE at the top of Stack 3, correctly predicting your current desire to distract yourself from reality using any means available. From where you lie at the foot of the stairs, you scroll through the memo and read all your friends' updates. It turns out it's the end of the world and you're probably all going to die in a meteor crash unless you play the game your bro just stole. So that's cool. > Tamia: Respond to Friday.[/u] UC: yeah sure, sounds like fun =D
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Post by Draco on May 9, 2012 4:59:38 GMT -5
>Respond to memoDD: Well glad to see that chaos is beginning to rain down on other people as well. DD: Did anyone else get wheels of cheese, or was that just me? DD: I mean, a wheel of cheese? Really? DD: Maybe if fell from a plane or something.... DD: I should really stop rambling and do something I think. DD: .....I'm still here....... DD: Ok, leaving this time for reals. >Draco: Stare at the computer screen some moreLet's see what the game says now. ... You wonder for a few minutes if your copy of the game was tampered with. You can understand if you aren't connecting with anyone right now, they are actually busy. However what it's telling you seems a bit odd, but a muffin does sound good. Draco: Search for muffinsYou think there are some new muffins in the kitchen, so you get up to go get them. You don't worry about anyone bothering you right now, since your parents went off somewhere for the day, leaving you alone. They should be fine during the chaos, they can take care of themselves. You walk to the kitchen and spot your targets. Draco: Take muffinYou reach out for the muffin and take it. Nothing dramatic about it. You're about to take a bite when you hear a weird noise. You have a feeling what it is, but don't want to turn around. Draco: Turn aroundYou don't want to, you want to enjoy your muffin. Draco: Turn around, NOW!Fine. You turn around and spot a Weewoo staring at you. And like clockwork, several of your cats appear and try to attack it. And like always the Weewoo disappears causing the cats to look around confused. Draco: Return to room with muffinYou nom on the muffin as you return to your room. You stand in the doorway when the Weewoo appears again on the door. The door has been in need of fixing for a week or so, but you haven't felt like fixing it. The Weewoo shouldn't cause any problems though. Draco: Get hit by falling doorWait what? It seems the Weewoo was just heavy enough to make the door fall over, onto you. You black out, muffin still in your hand. The Weewoo disappears. Draco: Visit DerseYou awaken on Derse. Wait, no you don't. You just see darkness, and your dream self snores in his dream bed. Lazy dream you in your purple pajamas.
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