It's taken us a while to tabulate the results, but I'm here to announce the winner of the Scavenger Hunt. The winner will receive a thousand dollars - quite a prize!
[He clears his throat dramatically]
And the winner is...
[He raises his hand, and from somewhere the sound of a drum roll begins to rumble]
The Disciple!
Congratulations, dear. You can come to the government offices to claim your prize.
[OOC: Feel free to keep backtagging, of course!]
System apologizes.
Greetings Darstone users.
Battleship Condescension Helmsman System would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused upon arrival.
System is working to resolve occasional errors, however, corrupt data cannot be deleted.
In the meantime, System will edit each line of code individually to prevent miscommunication on the native network.
Helmsman System is compiling navigational data before gathering visual data of Darstone and its outskirts.
If users have any geographical, meteorological, or municipal information to contribute, please input below.
( encrypted to user Yoghl )
So if anyone wants to get outta here super quick you should come to me. I'm all about quests and junk, and the sooner I get back to Cake the better.
I'm Fionna, and this thing says I'm rooming with some dudes named Fran and Dolorosa. Hey, I guess.
Also, if Prince Gumball, Marshall Lee, LSP or anybody else from Ooo is here, I'd really like to know. Even if it's the Ice Queen. [A pause, then...] Actually, I really need to know if she's here. Somebody's gotta keep her from predatoring on dudes.
If those in authority of this city think they can keep a troll like myself from leavving, they'vve made quite the mistake.
Wwhile I'll admit their merits in technology are impressivve at best, especially for those of a lowwer species, it isn't enough to dazzle me, nor enough to keep me complacent.
I demand to be returned to my previous location. Such an arrogant display of technological powwer being used to abduct me and then discard me wwithin the confines of this stone-tomb of a city is an unforgivvable offense.
Or rather, forgivvable on the grounds that this mistake is rectified, but I'vve my doubts that'll happen.
For those of you wwho obvviously are not familiar wwith wwho I am, wwith the sleww of the inhabitants here being that of aliens, I am Orphaner Dualscar and I am not one to be jerked around so haphazardly.
For any of you wwho've got information on howw to get back, your assistance is expected, do not keep me wwaiting. For those of you wwho havve nothing of vvalue to offer, it wwould be wwise to keep your fucking traps shut and not wwaste my precious time.
II don't beliieve II've ever po2ted here before.
II gue22 II 2hould 2ay hii.
II'm 2ollux Captor.
...
That'2 iit.
No waiit that'2 not iit.
My roommate2, II felt a2 iif II 2hould iinform you II'm moviing out of our collectiive hiive 2oon.
Ju2t a head2 up.
Oh.
And al2o.
Anyone 2een any viideo game2 around here or what.
II gue22 II 2hould 2ay hii.
II'm 2ollux Captor.
...
That'2 iit.
No waiit that'2 not iit.
My roommate2, II felt a2 iif II 2hould iinform you II'm moviing out of our collectiive hiive 2oon.
Ju2t a head2 up.
Oh.
And al2o.
Anyone 2een any viideo game2 around here or what.
( cut for tl;dr panic mode: vomit )
Helmsman System to Battleship Condescension
Helmsman System to Battleship Condescension
HELMSMAN SYSTEM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED
Connection status: No direct connection available
Coordinates: UNKNOWN
Planet: UNKNOWN
Star system: UNKNOWN
No hostiles detected as of this message.
Requesting assistance from any and all intelligent life-forms.
Property of Her Imperious Condescension must be returned immediately, or face severe consequences.
Error: Cannot establish connection with Battleship Condescension
Will retry ii
Error: 01010111 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01110101 01110000 00101110
Error: Ψ 01101001 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011
Oh 2hiit
Oh 2hiit 2hiit iit hurt2 FUCK
Where am ii
Plea2e help me
Wiire2 2tiickiing out everywhere
IIt hurt2!!
Where the fuck am ii??
Where2 the 2hiip??
Where ii2 2HE?!?!
Oh 2hiit 2he2 goiing two cull u2 all!!
IIt2 all my fault!! Get out whiile you stiill can!!
01010010 01110101 01101110 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100001
Help me 2iignle22
01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011
01000001 01001110 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010101 01001100 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01000101 00101100 00100000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101 01010011 00101110
WARNING: Bad code
Unable to handle paging request at
fan-proverbial(21117): 2hiit
local_optic_count[2] optics_running[0]
STATE: corrupt data
Error: Cannot restart system
Manual reboot required
WARNING: Please connect to a proper energy probe, or insert helmsman liquid nutrition formula.
[He's the kind of helmsman that isn't supposed to be removed. His mind and body shut down from the pain, and he falls into the first true sleep he's had in a long time.]
Helmsman System to Battleship Condescension
Helmsman System to Battleship Condescension
HELMSMAN SYSTEM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED
Connection status: No direct connection available
Coordinates: UNKNOWN
Planet: UNKNOWN
Star system: UNKNOWN
No hostiles detected as of this message.
Requesting assistance from any and all intelligent life-forms.
Property of Her Imperious Condescension must be returned immediately, or face severe consequences.
Error: Cannot establish connection with Battleship Condescension
Will retry ii
Error: 01010111 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01110101 01110000 00101110
Error: Ψ 01101001 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011
Oh 2hiit
Oh 2hiit 2hiit iit hurt2 FUCK
Where am ii
Plea2e help me
Wiire2 2tiickiing out everywhere
IIt hurt2!!
Where the fuck am ii??
Where2 the 2hiip??
Where ii2 2HE?!?!
Oh 2hiit 2he2 goiing two cull u2 all!!
IIt2 all my fault!! Get out whiile you stiill can!!
01010010 01110101 01101110 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100001
Help me 2iignle22
01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011
01000001 01001110 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010101 01001100 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01000101 00101100 00100000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101 01010011 00101110
WARNING: Bad code
Unable to handle paging request at
fan-proverbial(21117): 2hiit
local_optic_count[2] optics_running[0]
STATE: corrupt data
Error: Cannot restart system
Manual reboot required
WARNING: Please connect to a proper energy probe, or insert helmsman liquid nutrition formula.
[He's the kind of helmsman that isn't supposed to be removed. His mind and body shut down from the pain, and he falls into the first true sleep he's had in a long time.]
And you can call me P2ii, my name ii2 of no iimportance. Or "Psi" for tho2e of you 2marta22e2 that may be iincliined two comment on my text. Deal wiith iit.
2o, what are the chance2 II'm lucky enough two get thii2 apartment two my2elf? Or ii2 iit ju2t a matter of tiime before II'll have two play niice wiith other2? Becau2e that'2 not really 2omethiing II'm good wiith unle22 they fall under certaiin ciircum2tance2.
[ooc: If anyone would like to skip out on the typing quirk, just let me know!]
She takes a visible breath and says, somewhat stilted,] Hi. Willow. --That's me, Willow, my name, and. You should call me that. And you should email me?
Wait, sorry, I'm doing this in the wrong order. [She looks embarrassed, but then shakes her head and starts over, calmer now that she's getting into the rhythm.]
I'm Willow Rosenberg and I'm the official Darstone liaison to the newcomers. That means you, cause, if you're on this network, you're a newcomer-- a dimensional kidnap-ee. It's probably not government approved to say kidnap-ee, but that's okay because I work for them so I'm allowed to be especially disgruntled. Actually, even though I work for them, I'm in more or less the same position as you, I just got here earlier. When they needed someone for the job about a month ago I said yes.
Anyway... [Pause as she tries to recover her conversational thread.] Being the liaison means you should come to me if you have problems settling into the city, or if you need to talk to someone official and don't know how to reach them. I can get you in touch. I'm not responsible for deciding who gets to go home, so don't bug me about that or you'll make me cranky and mildly disapproving, and I don't like to be cranky.
But you really should email me if you need something. That's what I'm here for. I also do emergency response sometimes if something goes wrong with one of us, and trust me, I can handle it. So don't cause problems or you'll have to deal with me. [This is half bluffing and half honest confidence.] That means whoever sent those shadow things around during the festival, I better not see that happen again or I'm going to track you down, and there will be consequences.
[Her eyebrows go up in open evaluation.] Got it? Oh, and whoever's sending out the spying snakes, that's just creepy, but not illegal. So keep it not illegal or I'll sic the police chief on you, and she's scary.
... Any questions? About me or about what's going on? It's really mostly answered in the guide on your mirror, but I am answer girl if you have something else.
How many of you are supposed to be dead
Or something close enough to it
[But seriously, Tavros hasn't really introduced himself fully to all these wonderful new people! And what better way then through the splendid art of rapping! It's to be quite dope so he certainly hopes you lend him an ear/eye. Eye since this is, uh, text, he's typing the rap. Hopefully that will not be a problem.]
[Okay, preparing his notes and- wow they are a little soggy, he got water on the, uh- okay okay, he's got this.]
oKAY SO i AM READY TO START THIS,
i HOPE YOU ARE READY TO READ THIS,
bECAUSE i AM READY TO WWRITE THIS,
rIGHT THIS,
nOWW,
aS IN RIGHT NOWW,
oKAY LET'S GO,
i'M tAVVROS,
jUST TO START, tRYING TO HELP YOU GET TO KNOWW THE METAPHORICAL ROPES,
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bUT THIS MOST FLYFISH GUY HERE'S GOTTA REEL OUT SOME LINES MOST DOPE,
rESPECTFULLY,
aND MOST ASSUREDLY,
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(lIKE ME, sINCE IT IS ME WWHO IS THE ONE WWRITING THIS OUT,)
aM HERE TO LET YOU KNOWW i AM MOST DEFINITELY IN tOWWN, oR UH, wwHATEVER THIS PLACE IS,
wwELL IT'S A PLACE THAT'S PRETTY AWWESOME AND HAS ALREADY GIVVEN ME A HALIBUT TIME GETTING TO KNOWW EVVERYONE,
sINCE THERE'S A LOT OF ONES,
aS IN PEOPLE, tO GET MY KNOWW ON WWITH,
tO INTRODUCE THIS FISH,
pRINCE,
sINCE,
i MOST DEFINITELY WWISH,
tO KNOWW AS MANY OF YOU INTERESTING FELLOWWS, aS WWHALES GIVVE BELLOWWS,
wwHICH IS A LOT,
sO UH,
aS i WWAS SAYING, tHE NAME IS tAVVROS,
aND i'M A TROLL, a SEADWWELLER,
sO DON'T BE A BENCH DWWELLER AND SWWIM UP TO BAT,
bUT NOT REALLY, iT WWOULD BE GREAT IF YOU DID NOT UH, aCTUALLY HIT ANYTHING,
uNLESS IT'S KEYS,
sO THAT WWE CAN CONTINUE TO HASH IT OUT,
aND, oR, rAP IT OUT,
iN A WWELCOMING AND RESPECTABLE MANNER,
[Pause...]
wwORD,
hey darstone working on a lil present for you all but heres the thing
im a man of science and tech
cold steel and hot moves
give me an ianything and id be done in 5 fuckin seconds
its this mirror that doesnt seem to get basic programming
trying to access the video function to see if i can get it to take still photos aka turn this hunk of junk into a camera
not working out
piece o shits fighting me at every damn turn
i can play around with the options and add some variables but it wont stick without the soft work-free hands of a mage so im told
anyone wanna work on this with me??
itll be a party i promise
only catch is no pay unless you also want to figure out the profit margins behind fantasy mirror communicator microtransactions but hey
if youre up for the challenge why wouldnt i be?
business is business
names dave strider by the way
not handing out any autographs right now so dont even go there kids
( ooc: font-free transcription )
im a man of science and tech
cold steel and hot moves
give me an ianything and id be done in 5 fuckin seconds
its this mirror that doesnt seem to get basic programming
trying to access the video function to see if i can get it to take still photos aka turn this hunk of junk into a camera
not working out
piece o shits fighting me at every damn turn
i can play around with the options and add some variables but it wont stick without the soft work-free hands of a mage so im told
anyone wanna work on this with me??
itll be a party i promise
only catch is no pay unless you also want to figure out the profit margins behind fantasy mirror communicator microtransactions but hey
if youre up for the challenge why wouldnt i be?
business is business
names dave strider by the way
not handing out any autographs right now so dont even go there kids
( ooc: font-free transcription )
Hey, does anyone mind if I crash on their couch tonight? Apparently one of my roommates is a psycho fishperson with territory issues who keeps threatening me with a trident.
[OOC: Context]