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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iii.
[Well, Ruby was excited to see him, but then there's the monster, turning and swiping at her with a hand. Thankfully, her Semblance is still a thing, so she flash steps right out of its range, stumbling from thin air right next to Qrow.
Phew!!]
That was close.
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[Ordinarily, he might actually let his niece handle this, but he's got some frustration to work out. He braces himself, and then pushes off-- on the other side of the creature in the blink of an eye, his scythe at the tail end of a slice.
Ruby might be one of the only people able to see the dashing strike, thanks to her Semblance. The strange monster falls to the ground, and Qrow straightens up, turning around.] Guess that's that. Thought it might last longer. Ah, well--
[Oh, it's getting back up. Qrow raises an eyebrow, and then leans to the side, looking past the monster at Ruby.] Hey, kiddo. This supposed to happen?
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And he does, as he tends to do, and Ruby is excited--and then the monster gets right back up.]
Oh.
[She nods at that, shrugging a little.]
Yeah that's kinda how things go here. It probably can't really be beaten. You know, like those scripted boss fights in video games?
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First good news I've gotten all day. [He's had a really annoying day, Ruby.] Feel up to a workout?
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Play it cool, Ruby.]
I mean. Yeah... I guess I could use a workout too.
[Nailed it.]
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Anything else I should know about this ugly piece of junk, or are we just gonna wing it?
[He's totally fine with just winging it.]