An ill-advised text-based adventure:
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An ill-advised text-based adventure:
If you were expecting some clever origin story, then sorry to tell you, you are in the wrong location. Go play some other game. Here, you are one thing, and one thing only: what I tell to you what you are. And in this case, what you are is NOTHING. Perhaps there is a person there, but what exists is nothing but a blank slate: no memories, no attached personality, and nothing that you can see. What is it that you have to do?
ENTER ACTION: ______My academy.
"...You have a blog?!?" (Yes, I do. Click.)
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Player "Zymf" has entered the game.[url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6567775#p6567775]QUERY:[/url] Zymf wrote:Soo.. This is like a good old text-based game where we have to post our actions? O.oANSWER:Correct. A fair warning, if you are expecting this to be your typical adventure, then the name of this undertaking will inform you of what you are in for.
ENTER ACTION: Look aroundYou find yourself in a room. What, really? Yes, really. You are in the wrong place for original starting locations. It is dark all around, and you cannot see very far. You are currently sitting on a bed. Nearby, there is what appears to be a toilet.
ENTER ACTION: ______Player "EspeciallyTheLies" has entered the game.[url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6568618#p6568618]QUERY[/url]: EspeciallyTheLies wrote:ooooo this looks fun. mastin - do we have to wait for you to respond to the first action? or will you create a running story, using each posted action in turn?ANSWER:It is both. You are each individuals, but as you explore your environment, you become aware of a mysterious link between you and other entities in nearby proximity. What this link is, you cannot know, but its existence is a fundamental truth. Though ultimately, your actions are your own, should you not specify otherwise, you will find yourself acting on the whims of others (unless they specifically state their action is theirs alone). It is through this link that you know yourself to also be in a room, and on a bed, with a toilet nearby, for you have also instinctively looked around, not deviating from the action. As this adventure progresses, it is an assurance that this link will get explored more intimately, showing what is and is not shared.
ENTER ACTION: ______Player "Blackberry" has entered the game.In [url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6568655#p6568655]post 3[/url], Blackberry wrote:ENTER ACTION: Do NothingThough you are aware that you are in a room, because it is very hard not to be aware of such things, and you feel it is a safe assumption you are on a bed, and feel as if there may be a toilet nearby, you make no action to further your knowledge, waiting for events to come.
ENTER ACTION: ______My academy.
"...You have a blog?!?" (Yes, I do. Click.)
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You look for an exit. The closest you find is the direction to your right. As you walk towards it, however, your face slams right into bars. Ouch. Maybe rushing into things was a bad idea. You look around again and find that it is nowpainfullyobvious the room you are in is in fact a jail cell. As if we could get any more unoriginal. You note that outside of your cell, you can catch glimpses of lines upon lines of other cells. In the distance, you can vaguely hear footsteps, but they are neither getting louder nor softer.
ENTER ACTION:_____My academy.
"...You have a blog?!?" (Yes, I do. Click.)
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[url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6568932#p6568932]QUERY[/url]: EspeciallyTheLies wrote:OMG I'M IN JAIL!?!?!?!!?It would appear so, yes.[url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6568933#p6568933]QUERY[/url]: EspeciallyTheLies wrote:i'm gonna die aren't i...That is a distinct possibility, yes.
action: yell out HEEEEEEY HEEEEEEEEEEY HAAAAAAAAALPYou scream out "HEEEEEEY HEEEEEEEEEEY HAAAAAAAAALP", finding an echo from those around you that share your link. At first, it seems in vain, but the footsteps you heard from before are getting louder...
ENTER ACTION:_____In [url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6568937#p6568937]post 9[/url], Blackberry wrote:ENTER ACTION: Listen to the voices in my headYou listen to the voices in your head to see what they have to say. You hear inside your mind, "oh this is fucked up mastin." What were you expecting, them to suddenly give you the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
ENTER ACTION:_____Player "Nicholas1024" has entered the game.[url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6568996#p6568996]QUERY[/url]: Nicholas1024 wrote:In particular, is there anything of interest about the bed or toilet?I do not know, you must tell me. Perhaps taking an action rather than asking a question will give you better results? Oh, and do not expect this sort of generosity in the future, I have already been too nice by giving you even that.
ENTER ACTION: Carefully check the bounds of my environment.As the footsteps approach, you figure there is nothing better to do than examine your surroundings. You carefully feel out the environment. The cell you are in appears to be 10x10x10 feet. The bars are made of steel, each with a diameter of approximately 3 inches, and spaced every half foot. There is a door, but it is locked. The walls to either side appear to be metal, but the wall behind you as well as both the ceiling and the floor seem to be made of solid rock; you must be underground.
ENTER ACTION:_____My academy.
"...You have a blog?!?" (Yes, I do. Click.)
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In post 12, EspeciallyTheLies wrote:Action: hide under the bed and meditate, hoping to communicate via ESP to other beings in the jail.You hide under the bed. You feel the connection between you and the others active at the moment particularly strongly right now. Your thoughts are their thoughts, your actions are their actions...
In post 13, Zymf wrote:Action: Pour water from the toilet out on the hallway and then scream as loud and long as possible!You scoop water from the toilet (ewwwwwwwwwwww...gross. You did not even check to see if it was used!) and slather it onto the floor in front of you, and then you scream out as loud and as long as possible. A figure approaches from down a set of stairs, but is out of sight. Player_EspeciallyTheLies seems the closest to them, but player_EspeciallyTheLies (who you can see via previously-stated actions) cannot yet make out who the figure is, just that they are coming and about to be within visual range.
At your actions, you feel player_EspeciallyTheLies facepalm. What is done is done, though, so it cannot be undone. Perhaps some better coordination next time would be of use.
ENTER ACTION:_____As you have felt compelled to shovel out water from the toilet onto the path, you figure you might as well examine the toilet as you are doing so. Thankfully, you discover the water within is clean. It is a standard toilet. Think like this:
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The bed is a standard prison bed as well.
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It has a pillow, and a mattress. It is 8x4 feet, suspended 2 feet above the ground. It is made of steel, and screwed into the wall.
ENTER ACTION:_____Player "Snakes" has entered the game.In post 15, Snakes wrote:Action: Carefully examine walls and floor, checking for any possible weak spots or secret passageways.In spite of your thorough searching, you find no evidence of secret passageways. Though the rock is solid, with no chinks in it that you can use, you think it may be possible (albeit time-consuming) to dig through it...if only you had a way of doing so...
ENTER ACTION:_____My academy.
"...You have a blog?!?" (Yes, I do. Click.)
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How did I know it was going to be based on that?
Anyways uh if this is going to get me thrown into prison as well I might as well do something about it
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Player "orcinus_theoriginal" has joined the game.In post 17, orcinus_theoriginal wrote:action: take a seat and kinda just take a few deep breathsYou return to the position you originally were in: sitting on the bed, taking a few deep breaths of the freezing-cold stale air around you.
ENTER ACTION: _____Player "JDGA" has joined the game.[url=http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6569521#p6569521]QUERY[/url]: JDGA wrote:How did I know it was going to be based on that?
ANSWER:This game takes inspiration from many places. It may or may not in fact take inspiration from what you are thinking of. (It probably does.) However, if you think that things are that simple, you are wrong. Good luck...you will need it.
ENTER ACTION: Call out to the source of the footsteps we've been hearingYou call out to the source of the footsteps, and the figure draws nearer, now visible to player_EspeciallyTheLies (who is still connected to you) as a man.
ENTER ACTION: _____
Edit:Please try to avoid editing your posts as much as possible, since I'm more likely to miss them. JDGA's action will be edited in here momentarily.
Also note that it is in fact possible to bow out of the game; you will be considered a non-entity if you do so. But I'm taking every post in the game as a join request.Last edited by mastin2 on Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.My academy.
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You lay on the bed pretending to be asleep as the man passes by your cell, on the way to what you presume to be player_JDGA's cell.
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"...You have a blog?!?" (Yes, I do. Click.)
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