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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phase ii!
Izuminokami-kun! [ That's always a bit of a mouthful but he hopes to gain his attention to stop him from storming off from all the strangeness. He even starts to wave his arm so that he might stand out instead of the legless dogs and faceless NPCs.
He's catching up at least! If only slightly out of breath -- ] Phew. Izuminokami-kun...did you happen to just get here?
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Hearing his name is enough to distract him momentarily, however, especially when it sinks in a second later that that voice is familiar. And thank goodness for small blessings. That speck of something he knows is comforting.
Don't get him wrong, though, Kanesada is still really weirded out about this whole situation.
He cautiously walks away from the zoomhound - who knows what it's capable of - to meet Mikazuki halfway.]
Ah, Munechika-san. Yeah, I just...showed up?
[Whatever that means?]
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Oh? Ah...you came at such a strange time. Though I am happy to see you! [ even if they're surrounded by glitches ] You don't appear harmed or anything of that sort, are you well?
[ He asks that while looking Kanesada over for any visible injuries. Other than being a little ruffled, he seems fine. Which is always a relief...Grandpa may be fussing a little but he's old...it's fine. ]
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No, no, I'm strong, I'm fine.
[Not a scratch on him! His hair is probably all kerfluffled from the tower, though. That's a shame.]
What do you mean, strange time? I get this whole place is strange, but...
[Vague hand gestures at the glitchy town!!]