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900852 No. 900852 ID: 3d1cb0

welcome back to A Strange Machine
we are currently on chapter two: the void

You are currently surveying the void with your new friend, Trixie, who was introduced but not really.

Your general ideas are maybe a jetpack? Or possible start generating more rooms and make a sort of maze-like interior to The Void? Oh, the possibilities are endless!

also dialogue will just be in text form now because writing it down got kinda tiring after a while
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No. 900854 ID: 094652

Start with a basic modular platform. See what works best for you in the void.
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No. 900859 ID: 3d1cb0
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900859

>>900854
>make a modular platform
T: Well, its not really that simple. Thats kind of a really specific thing to make a -nade for, and even if we made it some other way, you'd probably need to know way more about this machine than I do. And that's saying a lot considering i am a living embodiment of a manual for this machine.
T: But...I do happen to know what IS that simple. I need your wrench, and that spare door-nade that you made.

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No. 900860 ID: 094652

Are we making a minecraft construction wrench?
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No. 900864 ID: 3d1cb0

She flips the switch that has been newly opened on the top of the machine and the one red circle sort of... turns off? And the two greyed out circles then turn the bright red the original one was.

She sets the machine to Urgent usefulness and potato intelligence.

[color:0099FF]T:Alright. Stand back, this might send some shockwaves your way. You know, what with the merging of atoms and forcing bonds, breaking the laws of physics, stuff like that.[/color]
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No. 900865 ID: 3d1cb0
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900865

>>900864
fuck forgot the pic and the color didnt work correctly but you get the idea
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No. 900867 ID: 3d1cb0
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900867

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No. 900868 ID: 3d1cb0
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900868

She ends up with a golden wrench with a switch on it.

T: Don't worry, this switch isn't nearly as hard to understand as the others. This one just turns it on.
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No. 900870 ID: 3d1cb0
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900870

Trixie begins fiddling with the now upgraded wrench without really explaining anything. You decide to just watch what she does for now.
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No. 900871 ID: 3d1cb0
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900871

T:And...There!
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No. 900872 ID: 3d1cb0
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900872

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No. 900873 ID: 3d1cb0
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900873

T:Well, there you have it!
T: You now have a tool at your disposal that can make doors, edit and create rooms, and generally get you wherever you want. I also coded in a little thing that can lead you back here if things get too hot to handle, which they always do.
T: Have fun, and come back if you need to!


She returns to the original hallway, presumably to sleep.
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No. 900880 ID: 094652

Make a space station!
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No. 900899 ID: 3d1cb0
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900899

>>900880
>make space station
Hmm..
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No. 900900 ID: 3d1cb0
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900900

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No. 900901 ID: 3d1cb0
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900901

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No. 900902 ID: 3d1cb0
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900902

You have no idea what you're doing.
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No. 900903 ID: 3d1cb0
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900903

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No. 900904 ID: 3d1cb0
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900904

Yeah you just ended up downloading some model somebody else made. Although, you're not really sure how there could possibly be someone else uploading these "models" because you're not sure if anyone else exists nor is there any clear source of internet connection here.
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No. 900933 ID: 094652

>>900904
That is... not what I meant.

Ah well, let's roll with the creative process and add other constructions to connect to this room! Put a garden room north, and a laboratory in the south!
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No. 900970 ID: 3d1cb0
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900970

>>900933
>garden
Alright. The concept of "North" is kind of a stretch here, but you're assuming that "North" is the direction the machine was in in relation to you when you first just kinda...spawned in you guess?

You make a seperate room to the north of the current one.

You also found a way to tag rooms when you make them, so now hovering over it says"Garden". Neat.
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No. 900974 ID: 3d1cb0
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900974

The interior has basically what you'd expect, maybe.

There are four bushels of nondescript generally flower shaped things to the left there. Yup, those sure are flower.

In the middle you have fruits, you think. You're not really sure how they're being grown but they are. There's also a huge bush of unknown berries?

You forgot to mention that you got all this from the "OBJ" tab; so whether or not any of this is edible is uncertain.

And the last row is just vegetables. Yknow, carrots, radishes, onions, garlic you think, lettuce.

Oh and there's also a pumpkin. Yeah.
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No. 900975 ID: 3d1cb0
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900975

>>900933
>laboratory
Ok, you make a laboratory opposite of the garden.

You build it up a floor so you have a bit more room to spare (because the hallway isn't in the way).
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No. 900976 ID: 3d1cb0
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900976

You're not really sure what to put in here though.
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No. 900983 ID: 4f1cbc

>>900873
She's not coming? Oh well, at least you have a way to talk to her, and a remaking reality tool.

>>900970
In the absence of a map or a planet with a magnetic north, "north" is just a convention you choose, so yeah, it's fine.

>>900976
Scanners? Machines? Bubbling vats of chemicals? A computer? A vacuum chamber? Air hoses and gas lines and electrical outlets?

I suppose it depends on what kind of science we want to do with this lab.
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No. 901004 ID: 3d1cb0
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901004

>>900983
Seems like a plan to you.
You enter Object mode.

In this mode, instead of looking up how you want your walls to look, you get look up a massive database of objects by using tags based off of what they are and where they come from. And here's an example; a Pumpkin.

Although, you obviously don't need a pumpkin in your laboratory as you are not made of black carapace.
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No. 901006 ID: 3d1cb0
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901006

It appears there are actually two people making things!

You really can't wait to meet these...two people.

You think they're people, anyways. They might be aliens or something. Who knows.

Anyways, the Lab Computer seems like a bit much for your purposes, so you just get the laptop.

You'll also do you a favor and skip through the rest of the searches and get to the final product.
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No. 901007 ID: 3d1cb0
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901007

Yup.

Preeetty sciency.
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No. 901096 ID: 4f1cbc

>>901006
Aliens can be people too, Miss Occasionally-a-Shark-Girl.

>>901007
Go fiddle with your new computer! Is there any cool stuff on it? Is there an internet connection? Can you communicate with anyone?
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No. 901134 ID: 3d1cb0
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901134

>>901096
You haven't actually used it yet, but yeah now would be a good time to considering you just now made it exist.

You push the power button and wait.
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No. 901139 ID: 3d1cb0
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901139

Took a little longer than you were expecting, but here we are.
Whoever was previously on this computer didnt log out, so you immediately are on the desktop.

You do seem to have internet, and there are a few folders, a recycling bin, and some sort of readme file.
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No. 901142 ID: ceb185

Check the readme then the recycling bin.
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No. 901149 ID: 3d1cb0
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901149

>>901142
>readme
You open the readme file.
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No. 901151 ID: 3d1cb0
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901151

You read.

"heyo!!!
this message was autogenerated to explain a few things.
my name is Ozivec, and each of these hard drives are nagged from some random spot in time to be given to you.
not all of the information on the files may be true to life, so dont get fucked up over anyone or anything mentioned or in these files.
they may have existed then, but they don't now. and that's all that matters.

cya! <3

-Ozivec

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No. 901153 ID: 3d1cb0
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901153

The recycle bin seems to just have some junk files. Maybe caches or something.
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No. 901154 ID: 094652

>nagged from some random spot in time
Methinks we should limit the usage of the Strange Machine, use 3D-printers here and now instead of stealing from various... places.

Go back to the machine and get a generic USB stick. Find one that's empty.

Next, a nanofabricator.

Finally, use the browser to find new blueprints.
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No. 901156 ID: ceb185

Open a junk file in a text editor just to be sure. If you have internet you'll have access to a binary translator.
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No. 901468 ID: 3d1cb0
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901468

>>901154
Hm? Oh yeah! You were going to put a 3D printer here when you were building it, but you decided against it since you could literally make anything with either the big machine in the hallway, or the little golden tool Trixie made for you.

Again, you're not actually sure if thats her name. Although you guess since you MADE her, you'd get to choose her name, but...

Whatever, getting off topic. You're pretty sure its just that this specific laptop is stolen from other timelines or whatever, not that the tool happens to steal things from other timelines. It does, however, have the ability to do so, which is...a little bit scary you have to admit.
>>901156
You open the weird binary trash things in Writepad, but to you it doesn't seem like much. You see some words in the nonsense (SAD) but besides that there doesn't seem to be anything.
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No. 901474 ID: 3d1cb0
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901474

>>901468
Forgot to mention, putting the filenames through a binary converter gives the word grey.
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No. 901621 ID: 3d1cb0
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901621

...Sure is...quiet around here...
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No. 901622 ID: 3d1cb0
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901622

...
The fuck was that?
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No. 901623 ID: 3d1cb0
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901623

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No. 901625 ID: 3d1cb0
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901625

Hmm...
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No. 901626 ID: 3d1cb0
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901626

Well you guess its back to doing whatever you were doing before you turned arou--
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No. 901627 ID: 3d1cb0
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901627

Oh...uh...
Hey there...cube friend! Haha!
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No. 901640 ID: 094652

Oh hey he brought something! Good cube! Who wants their edges polished? You do! Yes you DO!

Make a new room northwise: cube racing track.
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No. 901642 ID: 5b18f6

High five cube, read book?
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No. 901697 ID: 3d1cb0
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901697

>>901640
Yeah sure you'll...make that racing track later. Sounds like a cute idea, you guess...
>>901642
>high five
They do not have hands.

Actually, you wonder what they'd be like if they had hands.

...euh, thats a weird image.
What about...legs?

Oh. Oh that's worse.
God, kill it. Why are you still thinking on this subject?
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No. 901698 ID: 3d1cb0
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901698

Hm?
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No. 901699 ID: 3d1cb0
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901699

Oh. You guess they left a phone?
Also where'd they go?
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No. 901700 ID: 3d1cb0
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901700

You say hello.
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No. 901701 ID: 3d1cb0
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901701

Woops! Sorry, wrong number.
I apologize for the inconvenience!

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No. 901702 ID: 3d1cb0
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901702

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No. 901807 ID: ab52c1

Does the phone have an address book?
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No. 901939 ID: afdebc

Huh, didn't realize the cubes could move. Or carry things. ...or prank you.

I'm conflicted between being proud and being confused!

>You're pretty sure its just that this specific laptop is stolen from other timelines or whatever, not that the tool happens to steal things from other timelines. It does, however, have the ability to do so, which is...a little bit scary you have to admit.
It might be less scary if it's using a copy function rather than a cut... but there's really no way for us to know that.
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No. 902119 ID: 3d1cb0
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902119

>>901807
It does, in fact, have a contacts app, but there are no contacts attributed to it. You guess the green cube was unable to add Trixie to the contacts of this phone with its definitely existent hands.
>>901939
You sure hope its just copying hard drives or whatever. You wouldn't want to, some time in the future (or you guess the past??) be judged in a court of law for the data of some random person.
(screen flipped to portrait to show entire phone)
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No. 902149 ID: 094652

>>902119
Android on an android on an Android. Hee.

Check contacts and see who else is in the void.
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No. 902150 ID: ab9ca4

Try the browser. Maybe there's online info about strange machines, infinite voids and cube friends.
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No. 902158 ID: b1b4f3

Check browser.
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No. 902210 ID: 3d1cb0
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902210

>>902149
As was previously mentioned, the contacts are unfortunately empty.

>>902150
You open the web browser to find it was last opened to some kind of forum site attributed with that golden reality-bending wrench you were using to make these rooms. Apparently this wrench was originally designed and developed by Gear Laboratories, and was going to be mass produced until...well, you don't know really.

There's also a phone number for the founder of the company, presumably named Alex. (117)413-5252.
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