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Post by the panopticountolaf on Aug 30, 2021 9:28:07 GMT -5
[You are in YOUR OFFICE.] It's an alright place. Not great. Not terrible. A little boring, if we're being honest here. There's a DESK towards the back of the room with a great many FILES smothering the workspace. To fill the immense gap between the door (to the SOUTH) and the aforementioned DESK is a LOW QUALITY PERSIAN RUG. A FILE CABINET flanks the desk, with a LAMP sitting on top of it. A not-too-small, not-too-large WINDOW is on the western wall. You sigh and think to yourself that the room matches you as a person. Little do you know that- oh, but I shouldn't spoil the story. Get cracking, you! >
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Aug 30, 2021 9:51:46 GMT -5
[You are in YOUR OFFICE.] >consider interior decoration choices You look around the room, wondering if your attempts to spice up your office were fruitless. You remember how your sister said that you should "stop being so boring and try something new." Maybe this isn't exactly what she meant.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Aug 30, 2021 15:03:08 GMT -5
Why is my Sister so critical of me? Maybe she should get out of my face and leave me the hell alone.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Aug 30, 2021 15:18:05 GMT -5
[You are in YOUR OFFICE.] >get angry at sister
Not for the first time, and certainly not for the last, you wish that you had superpowers and could smash your stupid sister's face in. But you don't, and you won't. It's why you've got your name.
Somewhere not too close, but not very far away either, a TELEPHONE rings. It's one of those vulgar novelty phones, and its ringtone is the sound of some kind of great ape shrieking. The rage you had directed at your sister is now directed to that awful phone. Why don't you go find it and break it? Destructive, I know, and maybe I as the narrator shouldn't be encouraging such behavior, but to be honest you need to get out of this room, and get some fresh air. Go on, Mundane! Git!
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Aug 31, 2021 15:10:56 GMT -5
Is it a phone from a phone box? Maybe it should get out of my face and leave me the hell alone.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Sept 1, 2021 11:47:42 GMT -5
[You are in YOUR OFFICE.] >wonder about phone
Well, you won't ever find out if don't go looking for it, will you? The exit's just to the SOUTH.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 1, 2021 13:39:19 GMT -5
What are you, a phone salesman? Fine I'll go looking for the phone (This thing was already going south anyway)
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Sept 2, 2021 10:00:32 GMT -5
[You are in THE HEROTEC OFFICE HALLWAYS WEST.] >walk south
Well done! You mustered up the self-will to take a few steps into a barren HALLWAY! Congratulations are in order.
Congratulations.
Anyways, this HALLWAY is the least nice HALLWAY in the whole Herotec building. It's in an L shape, with a single FLUORESCENT LIGHT bathing the whole room in the dreadful kind of light that shows off every little imperfection in a person's face, and a SIGN with a few helpful arrows pointing you in various directions, depending on where you want to go. There are EXITS to the SOUTH and EAST.
That stupid PHONE is still ringing. It's driving you quite mad, so you cover your EARS with your HANDS. It doesn't help much.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 6, 2021 15:26:08 GMT -5
Let's go east then i guess. change it up a bit.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Sept 6, 2021 15:47:55 GMT -5
[You are in THE HEROTEC OFFICE HALLWAYS CENTRAL.]>walk east
That was... surprisingly cooperative of you.
I, um — this is a bit embarrassing — I had just assumed that you wouldn't leave the previous room until you had wished that a few other things would get out of your face, and I hadn't planned anything yet. Let's see what I can come up with on the fly.
Ahem.
It's yet another HALLWAY. Whoop whoop. You think to yourself that maybe you shouldn't be judging this HALLWAY on how interesting it is. After all, people judge you all the time on how interesting you are, and they don't get anything close to the whole picture. You're a very fast typer, and once you wore two left socks to a corporate party.
Scintillating.
Suddenly, your coworker Jasmine bursts from the exit to the EAST. She comes to a complete stop when she sees you and gasps only slightly too loudly.
"Mundane! What a pleasure it is to see you out of your office! Have you been typing all day? I bet you have, with the lightning-fast hands of yours! Ha! You're great, M, just great, but I gotta run-"
Jasmine realizes with increasing panic that you're blocking the other exit to the WEST. You wonder what's got her knickers in a twist.
You hear the PHONE ring again and at this point you get it, it's annoying, so I'll stop writing about it and let you keep going since you're suddenly so motivated.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Sept 14, 2021 12:13:41 GMT -5
ba-bump
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jackson
Catastrophic Captain
We will attend masked balls at her castle, and you can get scared then.
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Post by jackson on Sept 14, 2021 23:01:04 GMT -5
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Presses the control key with the letter 'c'.
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CTRL-C
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Darn you, give me my terminal back you dollar-store text adventure! Useless programmers. CTRL-C CTRL-C CTRL-C
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Grumbles, scoots chair out, gets up unsteadily, storms off to get map-drawing equipment.
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jackson
Catastrophic Captain
We will attend masked balls at her castle, and you can get scared then.
Posts: 50
Likes: 29
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Post by jackson on Sept 14, 2021 23:13:05 GMT -5
FYI y'all the bolded words mean you can inspect them at the prompt.
> look at hands
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 15, 2021 1:59:48 GMT -5
Wait, did I bump in to something? Ow.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Sept 15, 2021 7:34:39 GMT -5
[You are in THE HEROTEC OFFICE HALLWAYS CENTRAL.] >look at hands
Well, that's certainly one way to ignore Jasmine. She shifts anxiously from foot to foot.
"Listen M, is there any chance you could move? I really need to answer that phone — it's my realtor, he's helping me find a really nice place to go on vacation and I really can't miss him."
You ponder this piece of information for a moment. You would really like it if that damned PHONE stopped ringing...
(A note - you can interact with Jasmine if you'd like. Perhaps her interesting qualities will rub off on you. Try typing "ask jasmine about ___" or "tell jasmine about ___".)
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