Will it turn our brains into glial Panini?

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)11:47 No. 633433 ID: a2b630
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and they did everything together

well

not everything

they did a lot

but they had lots of friends

and

family

to do stuff with

but they did a lot with eachother that they

couldn't

do with anyone else

and with the power of their hearts combined by that bestest friendship

they made their world so much better

they made their world better

than it

ever

was

and it was really plentiful

and really beautiful and it never stopped in any direction

and they could explore and claim and build all they wanted

and they were all

happy

but so long as they had eachother

they were happiest of all





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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)11:50 No. 633434 ID: a2b630
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but then

something went

wrong


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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)11:51 No. 633435 ID: a2b630
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very

VERY WRONG




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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)11:53 No. 633436 ID: a2b630
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and then they had nothing


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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)12:03 No. 633438 ID: a2b630
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not even

eachother



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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)12:17 No. 633441 ID: a2b630
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the older friend was the first to stir

when she did, she didn't recognize

anything

nothing they made looked like their own anymore

everything was all dull and boring

and the air choked her

the air was all thick and dusty but it still smelled clean

too clean

too fake

and she only saw blackened badland forests for miles

and miles

around her

there was no sign of her friends

or anything left of their hard work

or her bestest friend

it was just

her





|| Cont. ||

Who is she, relative to the world around her?

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)12:34 No. 633446 ID: a2b630
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she looked through the wobbling woods as much she could

as long she could

but she couldnt find anyone

the woods all went in

circles

and she never even found a shortcut

not

ONE

nobody ever responded

she never found food where she remembered making any

and the new sun in the sky kept getting brighter

painfully so

she never made any progress



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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)13:50 No. 633453 ID: a2b630
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But then

then she finally had a stroke of luck

for she found on of her friends

tablets

to take



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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)13:54 No. 633454 ID: a2b630
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and fortunately for our friend

it was the tablet of















of...






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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)13:58 No. 633455 ID: a2b630
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Of what?

uh...

shoot my doctor came

i think its time for my appointment buddy




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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)14:01 No. 633456 ID: a2b630
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WAIT WHAT?

i

I GOTTA GO SORRY

WHAT??


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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)14:13 No. 633457 ID: a2b630
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DON'T YOU CHICKEN OUT ON ME AGAIN, YOUNG LADY, WE'VE BEEN STUCK ON THIS CLIFFHANGER ALL YEAR!

IM SO SORRY BUT I REALLY NEED TO GO

UH

ILL THINK OF IT WHEN I COME BACK OK?

WELL WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THE DARN THING THEN?

iiunno

anything?

or nothing?

NOTHINGS GOOD JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET BACK OK IM SO SORRY

NO DON'T YOU DARE





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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)14:21 No. 633458 ID: a2b630
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. . .



Well, shit.


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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)14:37 No. 633460 ID: a2b630
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Great. And as soon as she gets back from that delusional doctor, she's gonna forget where we even left off. Juuuuuuuust great.

What even IS this thing, anyway? A tablet, right? Tablet of what?


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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)14:43 No. 633461 ID: a2b630
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|| Item Get! Tablet of Inter-Dimensional Translation added to Inventory! ||

Ooooooo. Neato!


... But I haven't seen anything else here, yet. What the fuck am I even supposed to communicate WITH?

Is it the dead? Ooo, I bet it's the dead, isn't it?


|| Freedom to talk and command to Main Character unlocked! Start talking! ||

>What the fuck am I even supposed to communicate WITH?
I would assume us. Hello, we're not dead.

So what's your situation? We saw the bit about losing your friend and being separated. But the bit at the end... your god / narrator is getting dragged off to a shrink who doesn't believe in you? That could be a problem.

>>633461
Yes. Tell us, can you still create? Do you still have power? What is your name, anyway? The storyteller did not say.

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)15:18 No. 633468 ID: a2b630
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|| > I would assume us. Hello, we're not dead. ||

Oh. Yeah, okay, you guys don't really SOUND dead. Then again, I haven't really... you know... talked to any... uh...

|| >So what's your situation? We saw the bit about losing your friend and being separated. But the bit at the end... ||

Right... That.

Basically, we were all going about our business, all hunky-dory as usual, and then, lord fuck me... I'unno, some gigantic eye up an appears to tear open the sky an terrorize us. Literally out of nowhere, like, I mean, who brought THAT guy to the party? Who thought summoning an EYE was a good eye-dea?

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.


But yeah, then big and bashful decides to open up his pupil or whatever into some sort of black hole bullshit and eat everything. That's kinda what I remember, at least. All I remember is getting dizzy, horking, and passing out on the way through. Next thing I know I crash into a buncha fucking trees and wake up hell knows where.

As for HER...


|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)15:26 No. 633470 ID: a2b630
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I'm her imaginary friend!









Or at least....



|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)15:30 No. 633471 ID: a2b630
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I used to be.


Before they got brought into the whole thing.




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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)15:49 No. 633472 ID: a2b630
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And now look at the place. Monochromatic. Muddy.

It's Suffocating. It's not right.

|| >Tell us, can you still create? Do you still have power? What is your name, anyway? ||

And me? I don't have those abilities anymore. Not since we got stolen away from the others. Not since the doctors started giving her shit.

I can't make anything. I can't FIX anything. I can't even fix MYSELF.

She doesn't even remember my NAME anymore. Now I don't have one.

If it weren't for the memories of my friends keeping me tethered, I'm sure I'd just fade away.

So the problem is external forces are affecting the mindset of your host, such that she can no longer sustain you.

Either you need to find some way to protect her from this influence (a way to pay convincing lip service the the therapy and/or her parents without believing it) or you need an alternate source of sustenance.

Honestly, not a good situation, with your survival being directly dependent on someone else's state of mind.

...I don't suppose you can draw on us the way you used to draw on her? I'm not sure if we count as an external factor or an internal construct, here.

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)16:24 No. 633474 ID: a2b630
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|| >So the problem is external forces are affecting the mindset of your host, such that she can no longer sustain you. ||

I guess in fancy terms, yeah. We kind of usually come about on our own, but we're still significantly tied to our hosts. I mean, I might not FADE fade, y'know, like, DISAPPEAR fade, but I might get so deeply buried and corrupted as to never see the light of day again.

Not fun, no. Then again, we are significant parts that play in to our host's happiness, so... yeah.

|| >Either you need to find some way to protect her from this influence (a way to pay convincing lip service the the therapy and/or her parents without believing it) or you need an alternate source of sustenance.||

Tried and failed, my main man. Men. Home boys. Whatever, point is, it's our ONLY sustenance.

Besides, have you tried talking through a kid like a separate entity? You know how many folks get their hosts locked up for that? I'd make it worse.

|| >...I don't suppose you can draw on us the way you used to draw on her? ||

... Well, actually...



|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)16:33 No. 633475 ID: a2b630
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I kind of already am?

I mean, not in the sense that I'm directly linked to you, no. I'm kind of assuming at this point you're on a different plane of existence than her or us, so, you're not like either of our sorts. But I mean, when I picked up that tablet, I managed to open myself up to you, like, probably via some sort of inter-dimensional communications link? So I guess we're sort of already linked? I guess.

I mean, I haven't started feeding off of you yet, no! I can't, really. But I mean, I've only linked with someone really, truly, deeply - once.

And that was because I loved her. And now she's not here anymore.

So I mean, we might do shit later on, but right now, you're piggybacking. You're new, you're mysterious, you know shit. I'm lost, I'm old, I don't know shit.

So help me out here. Let's start things off good, a'ight? Gimme a little kick here, cause I've been wandering in circles ever since we got into that stark white shitpot.

Uh... okay. Huh.
Lets start with a classic, I guess?
[Sunlight!]

FORM OF, A BEING OF LIGHT. SHAPE OF, AN ANDROGYNOUS PERSON.

>>633475
How about we enhance the scenery a bit? Put some blossoms on those dark trees, as if spring has just arrived...

>Besides, have you tried talking through a kid like a separate entity? You know how many folks get their hosts locked up for that? I'd make it worse
Oh. Yeah, no, I didn't mean that.

You'd basically need to teach your kid anti-interrogation techniques. So she could fool the therapist or parents into being happy with her results, while resisting their attempts to change her worldview.

It would be difficult, and it's probably too late. The damage has been done.

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)17:45 No. 633484 ID: a2b630
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|| >Uh... okay. Huh. Lets start with a classic, I guess? [Sunlight!] ||

There's already " sunlight " here, buddy. Given, it's not the nice, healthy kind, more or less the Sauron " Great Eye " kind, but...

|| >FORM OF, A BEING OF LIGHT. SHAPE OF, AN ANDROGYNOUS PERSON. ||

Yeah, like I have enough power for THAT yet.

Good thought, though. You think big. I like you. Just don't get me killed using that big head of yours, ey?

|| >How about we enhance the scenery a bit? Put some blossoms on those dark trees, as if spring has just arrived... ||

... Flowers? Hm...



|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)17:56 No. 633486 ID: a2b630
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|| Cont. ||

How about some thinking robots? More brains, more power!

Start small, imagine robots that think about the concept of thinking, or make robots that have a single idea in their head.

Then link them up to yourself and rewire your world.

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)18:54 No. 633506 ID: a2b630
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Considering it's only been so little time since we've been talking, I haven't really charged enough energy from you folks for anything large-scale, or clustered, but...

I might be able to try one thing...


|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)18:56 No. 633512 ID: a2b630
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|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:03 No. 633514 ID: a2b630
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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:10 No. 633516 ID: a2b630
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Yeah... yeah, okay. Flower can't be that hard.

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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:14 No. 633519 ID: a2b630
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Alright, I just have to... Focus...


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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:15 No. 633520 ID: a2b630
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Fooooooooocuus...


|| Cont. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:18 No. 633522 ID: a2b630
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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:23 No. 633526 ID: a2b630
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Hey! Hey, I'm doing something! I'm doing it! It's moving!

Look! Lookie! It's moving! Duuuuuude!

... Is the rest of the mound meant to move, too?

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Poor Kid 2015/04/08(Wed)19:35 No. 633528 ID: a2b630
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WOAS H IT - !!


|| Cont. ||

I hope that's an explosion filled with flowers.

Poor Kid 2015/04/09(Thu)11:03 No. 633588 ID: a2b630
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Ohhhhh... that smarts...


|| Cont. ||

You alright?

Check the experiment.

Poor Kid 2015/04/09(Thu)11:20 No. 633594 ID: a2b630
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|| You have successfully regrown a Tear of Argus bloom! ||

|| You have approximately 0 Collective Power left from this act! ||

|| Basic Ability unlocked! Pollinate! ||

|| Pollinate: So long as there is the smallest amount of life left within a flower, you may bargain for the chance to help it bloom! This is the only ability you manually unlock in the beginning, but costs little to no energy, so long as it is used in reserve. ||

Poor Kid 2015/04/09(Thu)11:37 No. 633598 ID: a2b630
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I'm okay! I'm okay. That was kinda cool, though.

It looks sorta familiar, to be honest. But, uh, I can't quite name it? Maybe one of the others made those flowers? I don't know.

Touch the thing.

>>633598
I believe it was called a Tear of Argus. Give it a sniff.

Poor Kid 2015/04/09(Thu)14:25 No. 633623 ID: a2b630
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|| >I believe it was called a Tear of Argus. Give it a sniff. ||

Tear of Argus? That's a pretty name. Argus. Argus...

Like my friend? One of my friends is named Argus. Maybe he made it? I didn't really know him to be a botanist, though...

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