PHASE I [ ?? ?? ] It's impossible to tell time in this place, and everything looks the same, but it won't be long before you're probably sick of the tower. Time to get down -- unless you have magical powers or can fly or something, it'll probably be pretty tough, too. You could try to climb down, but the walls look pretty slick, and -- oh god, your arm just went through the wall, what the hell.
Whatever you do, don't fall.
If you fall, you'll be stuck falling forever. And ever. And ever. Looks like they didn't put a failsafe into ViViD for falling, so now you're stuck. You might see some other people stuck in the same glitch, falling forever a la Alice in Wonderland, but honestly? You're stuck that way until your game resets itself.
PHASE II [ ???? ] Either way, you've made it to the ground (somehow). The ground looks like... a half-finished city, really. There are streets, and houses... but some of the houses are unfinished, just four walls and no roof, or only three walls, or nothing inside, and a lot of the NPCs are completely faceless, or only have one line they repeat over and over again.
It's honestly pretty unnerving, especially since there's no soundtrack at all. You can just traverse this creepy hellscape in complete and utter silence.
And then the cars start to fly away.
That's definitely normal (is there anything about this game that isn't faulty?).
PHASE III [ ???? ] It's not safe.
You could be anywhere in this level, wandering, searching -- and then suddenly, it's there. As it appears, a battle theme starts, but it's distorted, eerie and off-pitch. There's something very wrong about this enemy, that's for sure. It can't be defeated, either. Attacks can harm it, and it can be tossed aside or fought, but it just gets right back up, bloodied and beaten, as if unstopped by anything it's feeling.
Over and over and over again.
Just don't let it touch you.
Because it will start to absorb you, code bit by code bit, until there's nothing left of you. It's a cannibalistic distorted monster, wonderful.
PHASE IV [ ???? ] If it wasn't apparent already, physics is a little weird here. One second you're walking along, and the next there's basically no gravity; you could jump wherever you want, clearing buildings in a single bound like the superman you were always meant to be. One second you're your normal amount of strength, and the next you could life cars (if you so chose), for no apparent good reason.
Sometimes the world just tilts, making the ceiling the floor very suddenly, and sometimes the floor drops out from under you entirely.
Anything that could go wrong with the physics here does go wrong.
Just try not to get caught halfway through a now-solid floor. That sounds really, really uncomfortable.
BONUS [ ???? ] Of course, it wouldn't be glitch central without something weird happening to you. And it could be anything -- one second you're fine, and the next your arm is twice as long as it should be, and totally noodly. Suddenly you have a mermaid tail or animal ears, or your head has rotated upside down (how is that even happening?). You're suddenly able to walk through walls, or drag objects to you by pointing at them.
If this was a video game (it is), it would be the faultiest game to ever exist, that's for sure.
(Still, teleporting from one side of the world to the other by jumping on a single spot on a flowerbed is kind of entertaining, if nothing else.)
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Oh, right. There's a weirdo in a door. What was his name? Began with an f, f-- ]
- fetish guy?
[ NAILED IT. ]
Is that you?
1/lol
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no subject
/returns from phone call
no subject
( nope he's gone he needs to reboot )
That... was not my intention!
( okay, he... kind of howled that last word )
OKAY NOW I'M DONE
Secondly, we debase the nature of scientific inquiry by concentrating only on the type of items which were investigated. As was made clear earlier, I had no interest in the presentation of your magical pocket, only that it existed! Which, in and of itself, is completely contrary to the laws of physics, rather like this very situation in which I find myself now...
( Trucy. stop him. )
This made an unpleasant work day so much brighter, jsyk ( 1 / 2 )
[ Because, seriously dude. All his sesquipedalian ramblings go in one ear and out the other, with Trucy barely staving off a wince. It's not that she's dumb, per se - in many ways, she's very bright and canny - but all of this goes over her head. There's a reason she excels in her art and drama classes and makes lower to average grades everywhere else.
Also, ew. Physics. Unless it's related to the physics of Alfred Borden's teleporting man trick, she ain't interested! ]
I'm sorry. You're not a fetish guy, you're --
[ If it didn't start with an F, then what? ]
Professional magician, do not attempt at home
[ Yeah, The Princess Bride™ might have been on TV last night... ]
i'm glad! sorry about the delay he's. uh. exhausting.
as for the name... UH A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT? but let's be real, Wesley Stickler doesn't know what a Princess Bride is or why it's on TV. )
Incorrect.
( wait no this is the mysterious maven of magical panties he should be more respectful. )
I- er. That is to say, my name is Wesley Stickler.
( and please help. )
No worries! c:
She's savvy enough to hear the "please, help" in his correction, and sets about doing exactly that. ]
Right, yeah. Wesley Sticker.
[ Trucy, that's still not correct?? ]
Here, give me your hand, I'll try to get you out of there.
no subject
he's not entirely sure how it'll work, but nothing else about this scenario makes sense, and his mind is working to try and figure out something to say, some observation that could be helpful and prove himself as good as he is.
... okay, so Wesley Stickler has problems with silence. what of it? well. not so much silence as times he can't hear his own voice.
... same difference. )