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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Leanne | Resonance of Fate
[She's been here before.
Well. Not exactly. Not the same tower... but there was one, long ago. Two whole lifetimes ago, by her counting. She walks right up to the edge, heels clicking on the surface. It's more slippery than metal, whatever it is; all that's really missing is the wind.
There's not much down there. Lights. Perhaps people, those that made it down. Perhaps they never stopped falling.
It's funny. She's been here before, and Leanne knows what comes next. But this time, there's no urge to jump.]
[ PHASE III ]
[The battle music is not the only sounds as hollow gunshots ring out into the empty city. Leanne can hold her own plenty well, but every time the... thing... goes down, it gets right on back up again. It's beginning to look like running might be the only option, if this carries-
She fires the trigger. Her gun jams. Of course it does.]
Damn it! Not now--
[ PHASE IV ]
[Physics. Leanne laughs at you. For what feels like the umpteenth time, the wall is the floor and vice versa. She's expecting that, and the sudden shift of gravity only causes a minor scuffle as her heels scrape along the new ground. Even the sudden switch of ceiling to floor won't catch her off guard, after so many acrobatic hours of gun-
That elegance? An illusion. Leanne trips as she lands, faceplanting into the wall-now-ceiling-now-floor. Ow.]
Phase IV
[The loud young man tries to sound helpful, even if he doesn't look very helpful right now. It seems the latest turn caught him offguard as well, leaving him sprawled on the now ground some yards away, but at least he can see her.]
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She raises an arm - ow - to wave reassuringly in the direction of the disembodied voice.] I'm fine! I don't know about getting up if gravity's going to do that again, though...
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Phase IV
[There's a voice from somewhere behind Leanne, and the sound of the stranger it belongs to promptly crashing to the ground as gravity decides it wants to do some kind of 180, sending Raven head over heels and flat onto his back.]
Oww-- [He rubs his poor old man back where he landed on it...! And then spots Leanne sprawled nearby.] --Oooooh...
[His bruises and whiny noises are all but forgotten when he spots a pretty girl! And if she's wearing a skirt, he may or may not be at the prime viewing angle to try and get a peek up it, so he's not about to get to his feet any time soon. #priorities]
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Two of them. Three? She's lost count somewhere along the way, but when you live with two guys and one of them qualifies as a full time perv, a girl's gotta take precautions. Enjoy the skirt view, since that's all you'll be seeing.]
It got you, too? [That splat sounded worse than hers!
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Oh, you sweet girl. I think I just bumped my back, gonna lie here until it gets better... I-I don't think you should move either, in case you got hurt!
[Master plan: go. He cranes his head. Still can't see up that skirt, though, so...]
In fact, could you lift your leg? Looks like it might have a nasty bump on it.
[Please do it. You know you want to. Give him even just a glimpse--!]
Phase III
It stumbles and falls to its knees, Kara pulls out her knife, and quickly kicks at it before she gets out of the way.]
Now! Shoot it!
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By the time Kara pulls away, Leanne half-way to targeting the beast; when she calls, it's not long before she has it in her sights.]
On it!
[Three shots ring out, aimed at its eyes.]