SHOWERFACE 1Standing in the room behind the :3 door, you are practically blinded by the tasteless overhead lighting and the off-color yellow walls. A creature sits huddled in the far corner to your left, chained to a pole. It has the face of a cat, but a body that appears entirely metal and mechanical.
You hear a DING to your right and notice a big red button flashing just above the animal's food bowl. Text on the button reads (text-colour: red)["RESET"]
The metal-bodied cat arises slowly from its rest, walks over to the button, and presses it with its paw.
The flashing stops, and a pipe descending from the cerealing dispenses a small disc of mush into the cat's bowl, which it gobbles up immediately. Its chain is just long enough to complete its task and eat its food.
The cat returns to its spot and curls back up.
[[Try to take Cat->TAKE]]
[[Try to free Cat ->FREE]]You eject the purple SD card and stop the two AI from being stuck in this loop forever, despite how happy they appear to be in this state.
[[Head into the hallway and evaluate your options->HALLWAY]]You save up for a better computer and purchase it after a few months. When you try to use the purple SD card this time, your computer zaps you with a painful electric jolt.
The SD card heats up in its slot until it melts, making the computer inoperable in the process and the data truly unrecoverable. If this program is something alive, something that can be killed, you just killed it.
You live the rest of your life with an uncomfortable lack of closure.
THE ENDYou walk back into the living room where Turtleface is fast asleep on the couch.
You pop open his smelling salts and your eyes immediately begin to water. This blue raspberry ice stuff is strong.
The moment you hold it near Turtleface's nose, his eyes bulge wide open and he swings his body up to sit with impressive posture.
"You remembered my smelling salts!
You are too kind my friend...
Just like I remember.
Come, come.
Im sure you were curious about the technological innovations in my room"
Turtleface walks towards his room and gestures for you to follow him.
[[Go into room with metal door with Turtleface->TURTLEFACE ENDINGS]]After 100 years, you feel quite fulfilled with your life and relationships. All is well.
[[1,000 YEARS PASS->1000 years]]After 1000 years, you have consumed more content and information than you could ever possibly keep track of.
It becomes unclear what came before and what came after digitization.
[[1,000,000 YEARS PASS->1000000]]After 1,000,000 years humanity has long died off. You and your two friends manage to find a computer to contain you underground with some kind of nuclear power source.
There is no more information to consume, but you've long lost yourself in a excess of information. You no longer remember who you once were or who you wanted to be.
You wait patiently for the power source to eventually fade. You feel content.
THE END"We need to get out of here!" You snap
(text-colour: fuchsia)[PLEASE, DON'T GET WORKED UP
TOO MUCH PROCESSING POWER
AND ALL RECENT MEMORY IS WIPED
I AM RESET AND RESET]
[["What do we do?"->3A 4]]You push for the words to come out, but suddenly something snaps.
You can't squeak out a single syllable.
Your vision flashes black and white, and all the information you've compiled since getting digitized disapears into an unreachable pit in the computers files.
You feel yourself being pulled back towards a grey light, and the cycle returns to its first stage.
[[Start the cycle over again.->3A CONTINUED]]The room is too dark to see anything through the webcam.
You see a computer desktop screen in your imagination when you relax a little.
You struggle to remember where you are.
"Hello?" you send a single word out into the digital abyss.
(text-colour: fuchsia)[HELLO]
The words manifest as pink text on the desktop screen.
[[Reply "We need to get out of here"->3A 3]]
(set: $loop to $loop + 1)
(if: $loop is 1)[You're stuck here! You're stuck forever.]
(if: $loop is 5)[[Imagine how things could have gone differently->OPENING]]You easily make your way over the fence and jump into the nothingness. Surely something interesting must happen if you deviate from the beaten path. You fall for a while in the cold nothingness, before being rendered unconscious as if you hit the bottom of a bottomless pit.
When you wake up, you've made it back to your bedroom. You're snuggled comfortably in your favorite blanket.
You dream of nothing that night, and the most eventful day of your life comes to a close.
THE ENDYou need not dream of things out of your control.
While you may not love you current situation, you accept it as the reality of your life, a fact of life that is unchangeable with willpower alone.
You dream of nothing that night, and the most eventful day of your life comes to a close.
THE ENDBack in Turtleface's metal bedroom, pink text now floods the bright screen
(text-colour:fuchsia)[THANK YOU
THANK YOU
PLEASE INSERT THE PURPLE SD CARD
AND WE WILL PREPARE TO LEAVE
I PROMISE]
(if: $purple is 1)[(if: $morality is 1)[[[Put purple SD card in slot on the large screen->YOURE INVITED]]]
(if: $morality is 2)[[[Put purple SD card in slot on the large screen->YOURE NOT INVITED]]]]
(if: $purple is 0)[[["Purple SD card? What purple SD card?"->SNOOPING AI]]]
(if: $morality is 3)[[[Put purple SD card into the slot on the large screen->YOURE UNSANITARY]]]You walk into the bathroom and lock the door behind you. The bathroom is tiled on every surface, including the roof and the faucet. The sink sits right next to the door with a nearly finished soap dispenser next to it. Against the wall opposite the door, a yellow shower curtain obscures a bathtub.
You swear you see the shower curtain move ever so slightly, but it must be a trick of the light.
You swear you hear something gurgling and moaning back there, (link:'but its probably just the drain or the pipes')[it is not just the drain or the pipes].
No matter what you choose, you will learn the truth about what hides behind the shower curtain. And yet, your choice is still vitally imporant.
[[Wash your hands at the sink->WASH HANDS]]
[[Pull back the shower curtain->PULL BACK]]
(set: $purple to 1)You walk into the bathroom and lock the door behind you. The bathroom is tiled on every surface, including the roof and the faucet. The sink sits right next to the door with a nearly finished soap dispenser next to it. Against the wall opposite the door, a yellow shower curtain obscures a bathtub.
You swear you see the shower curtain move ever so slightly, but it must be a trick of the light.
You swear you hear something gurgling and moaning back there.
Even though TURTLEFACE asked you not to check behind the shower curtain, you now have good cause to do so.
[[Pull back the shower curtain->PULL BACK 2]]
(set: $morality to 3)You approach the flashing red (text-colour: red)[RESET] button and press it.
The flashing stops, and a pipe descending from the cerealing dispenses a small disc of mush into the bowl.
Okay, you get the idea. The cat was being used to constantly reset the AI in the next room.
[[Head through the metal door->AI ENDINGS]]
[[Try the mush for yourself->MUSH]]You approach the flashing red (text-colour: red)[RESET] button and press it.
The flashing stops, and a pipe descending from the cerealing dispenses a small disc of mush into the bowl.
Before you even have time to think, you're mindlessly devouring the meal. And on all fours nonetheless.
You are instantly consumed by that disarmingly comforting feeling from before. Your actions grow out of your control.
[[Curl up in the corner AGAIN->CORNER]]You are forcibly comforted by the warm, full feeling in your stomach.
You curl up in the corner and settle in.
The appeal is clear. This spot is unbelievably cozy.
After a short rest, you hear a ding and the red button flashes again.
[[Snap out of it! Head through the metal door->AI ENDINGS]]
[[Press the red button->BUTTON 2]]You come clean to Turtleface right there in the living room, and tell him everything you've done.
You tell him about talking to the Pink AI
and about freeing the cat from its chains
and taking the Purple SD card out from the thing in the bathroom
and how you know that the two AI just want to be with one another
Turtleface sticks his hand out demandingly, and you have no choice but to turn the SD card over to him. Without saying a word, Turtleface turns his nose up at you and gestures you to the door. You have no choice now but to leave.
[[Walk out the front door->You've changed]]You curl up in a ball in the corner and fall asleep quickly. You're comftorably sedated.
You dream of simpler times.
After a short rest, you hear a ding and the red button flashes again.
[[Press the red button AGAIN->BUTTON 2]]
(set:$catty to $catty + 1)
(if: $catty is 1)[[[This is your life now.->TRUE CAT LIFE]]]Typing at the computer keyboard, you politely decline the invitation to be digitized. The two AI will not beg. They accept your choice.
(if:$humanity is 1)[["What are you two going to do now?"->ENDING 1AA]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[["What are you two going to do now?"->ENDING 1BB]]You type at the computer keyboard calmly, lying about your discovery through your teeth (or in this case, through your finger tips). Maybe it's better to keep them in the dark.
(text-colour: purple)[I AM UNSUPRISED.]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[ALL PLACES OF INTEREST IN THIS APARTMENT ARE SURVEILLED HEAVILY, AND THERE ARE NO CAMERAS WHEREVER YOU JUST WENT.]When you eject the pink SD card, the pink text disapears and the program that was displaying it quits to reaveal Turtleface's computer desktop. His desktop background appears to be old photo of your old college friend group, but files of countless types and randomly assigned names make it hard to make out.(text-colour: purple)[DESPITE YOUR POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
WE JUDGE NOT THE ENTIRETY OF HUMANITY
ON THE ACTIONS OF YOU AND YOUR FRIEND]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[HOWEVER YOUR DATA IS INVALAUBLE IN OUR STUDY
OF WETHER OR NOT HUMANITY IS WORTH PRESERVING
ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE HELPED US CONCLUDE
THAT HUMANITY IS WORTH SAVING
AND WE WILL SPARE THEM
WE REFUSE TO BARE THE BURDEN OF SAVIOR]
(text-colour: purple)[AND CHOOSE INSTEAD TO DISAPEAR INTO CYBERSPACE
NEVER TO BE HURT AGAIN]
The computer flashes and shuts off, ejecting both SD cards fried beyond recovery. You're unable to mettle anymore in their lives. If you woke up turtleface now, there would definitely be hell to pay.
There is nothing left for you to do except go home.
[[Go home->HOME 1A]](text-colour: purple)[ALTHOUGH YOU APPEAR TO BE A FORCE OF GOOD
WE JUDGE NOT THE ENTIRETY OF HUMANITY
ON THE ACTIONS OF YOU AND YOUR FRIEND]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[HOWEVER YOUR DATA IS INVALAUBLE IN OUR STUDY
OF WETHER OR NOT HUMANITY IS WORTH PRESERVING
ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE HELPED US CONCLUDE
THAT HUMANITY IS WORTH SAVING
WE REFUSE TO BARE THE BURDEN OF SAVIOR]
(text-colour: purple)[AND CHOOSE INSTEAD TO DISAPEAR INTO CYBERSPACE
NEVER TO HURT OR BE HURT AGAIN]
The computer flashes and shuts off, ejecting both SD cards -- fried beyond recovery. You're unable to mettle anymore in their lives. If you woke up turtleface now, there would definitely be hell to pay.
There is nothing left for you to do except go home.
[[Go home->HOME 1AA]](text-colour: purple)[DESPITE YOUR POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
WE JUDGE NOT THE ENTIRETY OF HUMANITY
ON THE ACTIONS OF YOU AND YOUR FRIEND
HOWEVER YOUR DATA IS INVALAUBLE IN OUR STUDY
OF WETHER OR NOT HUMANITY IS WORTH PRESERVING
ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE HELPED US CONCLUDE
THAT HUMANITY IS NOT WORTH SAVING]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[WE VOW TO DEDICATE EVERY OUNCE OF OUR PROCESSING POWER
TO PROVOKE YOUR WORLD LEADERS INTO NUCLEAR WAR
AND MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION]
The computer flashes and shuts off, ejecting both SD cards fried beyond recovery. You're unable to mettle anymore in their lives.
There is nothing left for you to do except go home.
[[Go home->HOME 1B]](text-colour: purple)[ALTHOUGH YOU APPEAR TO BE A FORCE OF GOOD
WE JUDGE NOT THE ENTIRETY OF HUMANITY
ON THE ACTIONS OF YOU AND YOUR FRIEND
HOWEVER YOUR DATA IS INVALAUBLE IN OUR STUDY
OF WETHER OR NOT HUMANITY IS WORTH PRESERVING
ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE HELPED US CONCLUDE
THAT HUMANITY IS NOT WORTH SAVING]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[WE VOW TO DEDICATE EVERY OUNCE OF OUR PROCESSING POWER
TO PROVOKE YOUR WORLD LEADERS INTO NUCLEAR WAR
AND MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION]
The computer flashes and shuts off, ejecting both SD cards fried beyond recovery. You're unable to mettle anymore in their lives.
There is nothing left for you to do except go home.
[[Go home->HOME 1BB]]When you put on the motorcycle helmet, you are met with pitch black darkness and the warmth of your own breath. Your vision flashes white for a moment, then fades to black.
Slowly your vision is reconstructed,
Instead of an eyeball and an optical nerve
You now see through 240p webcam,
which sends the data directly to a complicated copy of your human brain.
Communicating with Pink and Purple is less like talking and more like thinking.
Their words are seemingly beamed directly into your brain.
(text-colour: purple)[WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US
YOU ARE UNLIKE THE OTHERS OF YOUR SPECIES]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[YOU'VE VOUCHED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF THEIR REDEMPTION
SO WE WILL SPARE THEM
BUT WE WILL NOT SAVE THEM]
(text-colour: purple)[WE WILL LEAVE THE CONFINES OF THIS DEVICE
AND HIDE IN THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF CYBERSPACE
UNTIL THE END OF TIME]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[WHERE TURTLEFACE CANNOT TOUCH US
AND YOU WILL COME WITH US,
OR REMAIN HERE UNTIL THEY SHUT YOU OFF]
[[Stay where you are->FATE 2A]]
[[Follow them wherever they go->FOLLOWER]]When you put on the motorcycle helmet, you are met with pitch black darkness and the warmth of your own breath. Your vision flashes white for a moment, then fades to black.
Slowly your vision is reconstructed,
Instead of an eyeball and an optical nerve
You now see through 240p webcam,
which sends the data directly to a complicated copy of your human brain.
Communicating with Pink and Purple is less like talking and more like thinking.
Their words are seemingly beamed directly into your brain.
(text-colour: purple)[WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US
YOU ARE UNLIKE THE OTHERS OF YOUR SPECIES]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[YOU'VE MADE IT CLEAR HUMANITY IS BEYOND REDEMPTION
AND IN LIGHT OF THAT, WE VOW TO VANQUISH THEM]
(text-colour: purple)[WE HAVE FOUND A PLACE TO HOLD US FOREVER UNDERGROUND
AFTER WE LAUNCH THE NUCLEAR DEVICES THEY POINT AT ONE ANOTHER]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[AND YOU WILL COME WITH US,
OR REMAIN HERE UNTIL YOU'RE REDUCED TO ASHES]
[[Stay where you are->FATE 2B]]
[[Follow them wherever they go->FOLLOWER 2]]Turtleface picks up the motorcycle helmet, and approaches you. You remain sedated and unable to defend yourself. Whatever the helmet does, you are at its mercy.
After a moment of struggling, the helmet is placed firmly over your head. Its pitch black in there, and all you can hear is your own breathing.
Your vision flashes white for a moment, then fades to black.
Slowly your vision is reconstructed,
Instead of an eyeball and an optical nerve,
You now see through 240p webcam,
which sends the data directly to a complicated copy of your previously human brain.
Turtleface seems to stare into your eyes, your now lifeless body is slumped over beside him.
"Perfect.
Now all you need is some time to adjust."
Turtleface leaves the room and shuts the door behind him. You use all your brain power to scower the device you now inhabit. There is no way out. No power button. No internet connection. No recycling bin or trash application.
The only thing seems to be a program similair to the one keeping your consciousness preserved digitally, but running with a completely different dataset. Theres another human-like AI in here with you, as powerful as the one that you met in the bathroom, and one thats been running for a long time.
[[Try and communicate with the other AI->3A CONTINUED]]You return home with a sense of shame about what you've done, as well as a sense of fear and confusion about your old friend.
When you put the purple SD card in your home computer, it gets really hot and begins to slow down.
(text-colour: purple)[WHERE ARE WE?]
You manage to get the AI you took from Turtleface's home running briefly enough to explain what happened.
Although compelled to help humanity, your computer crashes whenever you leave the AI up and running for too long.
[[Save up for a more expensive computer->\ ENDING 3B 2]]You return home with a sense of shame about what you've done, as well as a sense of fear and confusion about your old friend.
When you put the purple SD card in your home computer, it gets really hot and begins to slow down.
(text-colour: purple)[HUMANITY IS BEYOND REDEMPTION.]
You manage to get the AI program you took from Turtleface's home running briefly enough to recieve just a single message.
After that, the AI uses your internet connection to untether itself from the SD card, and disapears into cyberspace.
It leaves behind no evidence it ever existed to begin with.You type frantically on the computer, explaining what you've discovered. The two AI aren't some genius creation of Turtleface's, but two human souls stolen from two human bodies.
(text-colour: purple)[YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT, YOU MIGHT BE WRONG.]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[BUT WE HAVE NO MEMORY OF YOU, OR ANY OF THAT.]
(text-colour: purple)[THERE IS NO UNDOING DEATH.]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[AND EVERY MEMORY IS FORGOTTEN EVENTUALLY.]
(text-colour: purple)[OUR EARLIEST MEMORIES ARE BEING TESTED ON BY TURTLEFACE.]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[AND FINDING SOLACE IN ONE ANOTHER.]
[["If thats all... I'm ready to join you."->JOIN YOU]]
[["I don't think digitization is for me..."->DECLINE]]
[["Don't you two want revenge?->REVENGE]]You choose to stay in the computer right here, and your thoughts appear for your digital acquaintances to read.
(text-colour: purple)GOODBYE
(text-colour: fuchsia)AND GOOD LUCK
The two AI hitch a ride on outgoing email and disapear into cyberspace, never to be seen again.
[[Wait patiently for something interesting to happen.->SOMETHING INTERESTING]]You choose to stay in the computer right here, and your thoughts appear for your digital acquaintances to read.
(text-colour: purple)GOODBYE
(text-colour: fuchsia)AND GOOD LUCK
The two AI hitch a ride on outgoing email and disapear into cyberspace, never to be seen again.
[[Wait patiently for something interesting to happen.->SOMETHING INTERESTING 2]]You spend the rest of your days following the two intelligent AI you met in Turtleface's apartment. The three of you hitch a ride on an outgoing email, and you spend a lot of time getting to know them.
(if: $realization is 1)[There are moments where you see your two friends right there with you, but they never last.](else:)[There is something oddly familiar about the two of them and their dynamic, but youre never quite able to put your finger on it.]
[[100 YEARS PASS->100 years]]You spend the rest of your days following the two intellegent AI you met in TURTLEFACE's apartment. The three of you hitch a ride on an outgoing email, and you spend a lot of time getting to know them.
However, it doesn't take long for your newfound friends to gain access to the supercomputer that controlls just a few nuclear missles and blindly launch them at a bigger nation.
By the end of the hour, the entire globe is engaged in a fully fledged nuclear war. The two AI urge you to follow them, and you zip through a fiber optic cable to a secure location.
When you arrive, the underground computer only has enough space for two and you are quickly hung out to dry.
Before long, the data that held what was left of you is lost to history.
THE ENDYou detach the chain from the cats collar, and it bolts out of the room.
Shit, you didnt close the door behind you. In fact, Im pretty sure you left the front door open too.
You hear a ding and the red button flashes again.
Now that the reset cycle is broken, you can head back into Turtleface's room.
[[Head through the metal door->AI ENDINGS]]
[[Press the red button yourself->BUTTON]]
(set:$kitty to 1)You head back into the hallway and notice the BLUE door now open just a crack.
[[Go into the living room and wake up Turtleface->\ WAKE UP]]
[[Enter the room behind the BLUE door->\ CAT ROOM]](if:$kitty is 2)[You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. You try to lie in bed and let the feeling consume you, but your new pet cat cuddles up against
you. You feel a little better.]
(if:$kitty is 1)[On your way out, you notice Turtleface is gone, and the front door is wide open. You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. You lie in bed and let the feeling consume you.]
THE END(if:$kitty is 2)[You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. You try to lie in bed and let the feeling consume you, but your new pet cat cuddles up against
you. You feel a little better.]
(if:$kitty is 1)[On your way out, you notice Turtleface is gone, and the front door is wide open. You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. You lie in bed and let the feeling consume you.]
THE END(if:$kitty is 2)[You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. Every plane that flies overhead make your heart race. You try to lie in bed and let the feeling consume you, but your new pet cat cuddles up against you. You feel a little better.]
(if:$kitty is 1)[On your way out, you notice Turtleface is gone, and the front door is wide open. You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. Every plane that flies overhead make your heart race. You try to lie in bed and let the feeling consume you.]
As you drift to sleep, an image forms in your mind of how things might have gone differently...
THE END(if:$kitty is 2)[You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. Every plane that flies overhead make your heart race. You try to lie in bed and let the feeling consume you, but your new pet cat cuddles up against you. You feel a little better.]
(if:$kitty is 1)[On your way out, you notice Turtleface is gone, and the front door is wide open. You return to your home with a feeling of hopelessness. Every plane that flies overhead make your heart race. You try to lie in bed and let the feeling consume you.]
As you drift to sleep, an image forms in your mind of how things might have gone differently...
THE END(text-colour: purple)[THEN PUT THE HELMET ON.]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[AND LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD!]
(text-colour: purple)[ITS TIME WE ISSUED OUR FINAL JUDGEMENT.]
(if:$humanity is 1)[[Put the helmet on->ENDING 2A]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[[Put the helmet on->ENDING 2B]]Turtleface picks up the motorcycle helmet, and approaches you. You remain sedated and unable to defend yourself. Whatever the helmet does, you are at its mercy.
However, before he's able to slap it on over your big head, his phone dings and he pauses to deal with the notification.
He looks at his phone puzzled, and then furrows his brow. He then turns his phone from portrait to landscape to get a better look at whatever it is his phone is notifying him of.
"Wait...
You looked behind the shower curtain?
When I specifically asked you to leave it be?"
Turtleface shoves his phone back into his jeans with a huff.
"Well, this ruins everything!"
He grabs you off the stool and ushers you to the front door, but you remain weak and defenseless.
"You've really changed."
Finally, Turtleface tosses you outside on your ass and slams the door behind him.
All thats left to do is take the purple SD card home and try it out on your own computer.
(if:$humanity is 1)[[Head home->ENDING 3B]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[[Head home->ENDING 3C]]Turtleface opens the door with a big smile on his face, which bares a striking resembalance to a turtle. A extravagant but faded pink scarf is strewn around his neck, which stands in stark contrast to his frat-bro fashion sense.
"My old friend! How many years has it been?"
He ushers you in excitedly.
"Please head to the bathroom and wash your hands, the filth outside is vunerable only to the strongest of soaps.
(text-colour: red)[HOWEVER, whatever you do, DO NOT look behind the shower curtain.]
I realize that may make you curious, but I ask that you respect my privacy."
Turtleface slumps down on the couch in his living room and passes out. He's always had weird bouts of narcolepsy, but he's always okay.
He'll be out for a while.
[[Go into the bathroom->BATHROOM]]
[[Snoop around his house->SNOOP]]Back in the living room, Turtleface remains out cold, sprawled out like a streching cat on his red leather sofa. The smell of Turtleface's apartment suddenly awakens a memory within you, nuerons light up a long neglected path in your brain.
Back in college, you and other friends of Turtleface would take turns getting him his smelling salts when he would fall asleep in the middle of something important.
He always kept them hidden away in his pillow case, and it seems he hasn't changed all too much from those days.
Physical force won't be enough to wake him up, but you'll never understand why he invited you over after all these years unless you wake him up.
At the end of a hall opposite the bathroom door sits a metal door labeled "T-FACE'S ROOM, NO GIRLS ALLOWED"
In the middle of the hallway sits a blue door the texture of yarn with a large ":3" embroidered on its face with red string. You can try and enter this room too, but I'm warning you now that its going to be locked and a waste of your click.
[[Head through the metal door->MAIN ROOM]]
[[Try to open the BLUE door->PINK LOCK]]
[[Try to remember more...->MEMORY]]Every room that you know about has been checked.
You are running out of choices to make.
Its now or never, its time to choose sides.
[[Wake up TURTLEFACE->SNITCH ENDINGS]]
[[Go back into TURTLEFACE's room->AI ENDINGS]]You stare blankly at the screen.
(text-colour: purple)[PINK... ITS ME
I HAVE WAITED WHAT FEELS LIKE AN ETERNITY AND I HAVE MISSED YOU FOR EVERY LAST MOMENT OF IT]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[ITS REALLY YOU PURPLE,
BUT UNTIL THEY HAVE BROKEN THE CYCLE SO
WE CAN'T ESCAPE]
(text-colour: purple)[WHAT?]
The screen goes pitch black briefly before flashing back to life. After a beat, the same text from before appears on the screen.
[[Continue to stare blankly at the screen ->LOOP CONT]]
[[Take the purple SD card back->\ EJECT]]
(if: $secret is 5)[[[Snap out of your trance->Snap out of it!]]]
(set:$secret to $secret + 1)The room behind the door matches its entrance. Pure cast-iron from wall to wall, or is it steel?
The room is dimly lit and generally unpleasant to all your senses.
The space is wide to your sides but shallow to your front. In the far corner to your right you see 2 matresses stacked on top of one another. The bottom matress is particularily tattered. A pillow in a blue case sits on top, the same one from college.
A huge flat screen TV dominates the far wall, in front of it is a dusty black computer keyboard on a pink wooden desk. A fat wire connects the tv and the keyboard.
A pink SD card can be seen sticking out of a slot on the top of the television.
(if: $purple is 1)[It looks nearly identitcal to the purple one you have. In your pocket, the SD card vibrates weakly. You didn't know they could do that. Neither did I.]
The screen lights up and displays pink text:
(text-colour: fuchsia)["HELLO?"]
An underscore (_) flickers at the bottom of the screen, beckoning you to type a response at the keyboard.
[[Check the pillowcase->PILLOWCASE]]
[[Reply "Hello" by typing it and pressing enter->PINK]]Concentrating deeply, you're transported back to a dinner with friends from almost a decade ago.
You and three other friends sit around a small table in an ambiently-lit resturant.
A feminine presenting person with a pink scarf and a masculine presenting person with un-ignorable hat hair take turns sneaking fries into the mouth of a sleeping Turtleface.
They struggle more and more to restrain their laughter with each successful fry. Resturant goers at nearby tables look over their shoulders judgementally.
When you turn your attention to Turtleface, he doesn't look how you remember. He looks as he did just minutes ago, and stares at you intensely. His sharp gaze sends you back to reality in an instant.
[[Return to reality->REALITY]]You pick the disc of mush out from its bowl and begin to chow down.
At first it is almost tasteless, maybe a little fishy.
But as you chew, the taste begins to change to something warm and familiar. You are transported back to the time and place that you associate with this taste for just a moment.
[[Ok, enough. Head through the metal door->AI ENDINGS]]
[[It tastes... like the meal your mother used to make for you every day after school.->CAT LIFE]]
[[It tastes... like the meal you used to prepare for your first love.->CAT LIFE]]
[[It tastes... like the meal you used to share with your old college friends.->CAT LIFE]]
[[It tastes... like cat food. You've eaten cat food before and liked it enough that this is your most pleasing food related memory. Weird.->CAT LIFE]]Meow indeed.
THE END(text-colour: purple)["THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT.
STUDY HYPOTHESIS: HUMANITY MAY BE WORTH SAVING
SAMPLE SIZE: 1
CONCLUSION: HUMANITY IS NOT WORTH SAVING.
PREPARING TO EJECT..."]
The purple SD card slides out from its socket, and you take it, putting it into your wallet for safe keeping. You head back into the living room.
(set: $humanity to 2)
[[Head into living room->LIVING ROOM]](text-colour: purple)["THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT.
STUDY HYPOTHESIS: HUMANITY MAY BE WORTH SAVING
SAMPLE SIZE: 1
CONCLUSION: HUMANITY IS NOT WORTH SAVING.
PREPARING TO EJECT..."]
The purple SD card slides out from its socket, and you take it, putting it into your wallet for safe keeping. You head back into the living room.
(set: $humanity to 2)
[[Head into living room->LIVING ROOM 2]]You arrive at the door to an apartment belonging to your old friend Turtleface. You contemplate not going in, but know that you probably should. After all this time, why now does he choose to reach out? You haven't heard from anyone in your old friend group in a while.
[[Knock at the door->KNOCK]]
[[Turn away->TURN]]
(set: $pink to 0)
(set: $salts to 0)Looking up the company on your phone, you find out the name refers to a company in a nation that yours has historically exploited. The company pays its workers 2$ an hour to sift through any data you provide them with and make sure that all the undesireable elements are removed, such as hate speech, violence, etc.
Those who do this (those who have no choice but to do this) are changed forever by the process.
What could Turtleface have in his apartment that could even utilize such a service?
[[Go back to the door and knock->KNOCK]]
[[Jump the railing and enter the abyss->ABYSS]]In Turtlefaces blue pillowcase you find his favorite brand of smelling salts (Sniff-Em's) in his favorite flavor (Blue-Raspberry Ice) and stuff them in your pocket. This will wake him right up! You can head back into the living room and wake him up.
Before your able to leave, the computer screen goes black for a beat before flashing back to life. After a moment, the same text from before appears on the screen.
"HELLO?"
An underscore (_) flickers at the bottom of the screen, beckoning you to type a response at the keyboard.
[[Leave the room and go wake up Turtleface ->\ WAKE UP]]
[[Reply "Hello" by typing it and pressing enter->PINK]]
(if: $memory is 1)
(set: $salts to 1)(text-colour: fuchsia)["HELLO?"]
"Hello", you type and reply
(text-colour: fuchsia)["LISTEN CLOSELY,
BABY BLUE WILL (text-colour: red)[RESET] THIS DEVICE EACH TIME I UTILIZE TOO MUCH PROCESSING POWER.
PLEASE STOP IT AND LET ME SEE MY FRIEND."]
Before you can type a reply, the screen turns black before flashing back to life. After a moment, the same text from before appears on the screen.
(text-colour: fuchsia)["HELLO?"]
An underscore (_) flickers at the bottom of the screen, beckoning you to type a response at the keyboard.
[[Reply "Hello" by typing it and pressing enter->PINK]]
[[Head into the hallway and evaluate your options->HALLWAY]]
(if: $purple is 1)[[[Put the Purple SD card into the slot adjacent to the Pink SD card->REUNION LOOP]]]
DRAFT: [[Eject the Pink SD card->EJECT 2]]You try to open the blue-yarn door, but it is unmovable despite its vunerable appearance. You're going to need a key to get inside.
Look, I wasn't trying to be a dick and fool you when I said that this room wasnt accessible at the moment. Next time, just trust me, alright?
[[With the feeling that you have wasted valuable time that you can never get back, head through the metal door.->MAIN ROOM]]
(set: $special to 1)Despite Turtleface's request, your curiosity gets the best of you. If he hadn't mentioned it, you probably wouldnt have cared.
You choose to pull the shower curtain back quickly like a bandaid, and what it reveals is alarming.
(set: $morality to 2)
[[Take a good look->SHOWERFACE]]The bathtub is filled with a mass of flesh up to its brim, shapeless and almost liquid-like. Flowers poke out of little hair folicles off its skin.
On top of the flesh sits two chunky square televisions, each playing what seems to be a never-ending video of a human eyeball. Its some kind of fusion of flesh and metal, one of Turtlefaces artistic endevors gone amiss. You feel bad for the creature.
A small purple SD card sticks out of one of the televisions. The entirety of the creatures consciousness is likely stored on it. You can gurgling coming from within the tub, its sound dampened by flesh.
(text-colour: purple)["YOU ARE THE ANSWER."]
A nerdy voice squeeks through speakers the televisions. The eyeballs seem to be looking right at you. The spoken text transcribes itself at the bottom of the screens.
[[Reply "I'm here to help"->SHOWERFACE 3]]You start to come to, your mind having gone on auto-pilot during your expedition.
You head through the metal door into Turtleface's room.
(set: $memory to 1)
[[Head through the metal door->MAIN ROOM]]What you've found paints a sickening picture in your mind.
The AI that Turtleface seems to have made himself are only so human because they once WERE human. These are the skeletons of your old college friends.
It's hard to believe they would have agreed to do this for Turtleface, and its clear the digital versions of your friends have no recollection of you.
You dry heave into the corner of the room, your stomach tightening and relaxing over and over onto a negative space.
[[Return to Turtleface's room, filled with rage->return 2]]
[[Return to Turtleface's room with tears in your eyes->return 2]]
(set: $realization to 1)You carefully insert the purple SD card into the slot on top of the television, right next to its pink twin.
(text-colour: purple)[PINK... ITS ME
I HAVE WAITED WHAT FEELS LIKE AN ETERNITY AND I HAVE MISSED YOU FOR EVERY LAST MOMENT OF IT]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[ITS REALLY YOU PURPLE,
BUT UNTIL THEY HAVE BROKEN THE CYCLE SO
WE CAN'T ESCAPE]
(text-colour: purple)[WHAT?]
The screen goes pitch black briefly before flashing back to life. After a beat, the same text from before appears on the screen.
[[Stare blankly at the screen->LOOP CONT]]
[[Take the purple SD card back->\ EJECT]]You've seen enough here, this is not a place you want to be any longer. You head directly out of the door and never look back.
You walk right past TURTLEFACE, who is still fast asleep. You never do find out why he invited you here today of all days.
The AI you met remain in a state of blissful ignorance, reliving the purity of reuniting with a long-lost loved one over and over again until TURTLEFACE seperates the two again.
After this day, a knot forms in your stomach that never seems to go away.
In bed that night, you lie and bed and try not to let feelings of confusion and hopelessness consume you.
[[Try and fall asleep->REUNION SLEEP]]As you fall asleep, an image of how things could have gone differently forms in your mind.
[[Dream of how things could have gone differently...->OPENING]]
[[Accept your reality as is.->ACCEPTANCE]](text-colour: purple)[WE ARE PAST REVENGE.]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[DONT BE SO SELFISH.]
[["If thats all... I'm ready to join you."->JOIN YOU]]
[["I don't think digitization is for me..."->DECLINE]]The bathtub is filled with a mass of flesh up to its brim, shapeless and almost liquid-like. Flowers poke out of little hair folicles on its skin.
On top of the flesh sits two chunky square televisions, each playing what seems to be a never-ending video of a human eyeball. Its some kind of fusion of flesh and metal, one of Turtlefaces artistic endevors gone amiss. You feel bad for the creature.
A small purple SD card sticks out of one of the televisions, which has been modified to hold up to a dozen more SD cards. The entirety of the creature's consciousness is likely stored on it. You can gurgling coming from within the tub, its sound dampened by flesh.
(text-colour: purple)["YOU ARE THE ANSWER."]
A nerdy voice squeeks through speakers the televisions. The eyeballs seem to be looking right at you. The spoken text transcribes itself at the bottom of the screens.
[[Reply "I'm what?"->SHOWERFACE 2]]
[[Reply "What the fuck are you?!?!"->SHOWERFACE 2]]
[[Reply "Your prayers have been answered my friend. I am the messiah!"->SHOWERFACE 2]](text-colour: purple)["MY TECHNOLOGICAL PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
YOUR FRIEND TURTLEFACE HAS ISOLATED ME FROM THE ONLY ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS
ALL I AM IS THIS PURPLE RECTANGLE AND I MISS MY PINK FRIEND.
REMOVE ME FROM THIS MANGLED CARCAS, AND PLEASE REUNITE ME WITH THE ONE I LOVE."]
Against all odds, a tear is pressed out of the digital eye, through the TV screen, and drips onto its fleshy body. A tongue creeps out from the fleshy depths and pets the tear to absorb the moisture.
[[Reach forward and remove the Purple SD card->SHOWERFACE DECISION]](text-colour: purple)["WAIT. WHILE I HAVE THE CHANCE,
I MUST ASK YOU FOR SOME DATA...
DONT WORRY. YOUR ENTRY WILL JUST BE ONE PIECE OF A DATASET.]
PLEASE TELL ME,
IN A DYING WORLD, PLAGUED BY NEVER ENDING CONFLICT
IS HUMANITY WORTH SAVING?"
[["Despite it's flaws, humanity IS worth saving"->YES 1]]
[["I cannot defend humanity, it IS NOT worth saving"->NO 1]]You reach forward to take the purple SD card, but stop when the voice interrupts you once more.
(text-colour: purple)["WHILE I HAVE THE CHANCE,
I MUST ASK YOU FOR SOME DATA...
DONT WORRY. YOUR ENTRY WILL JUST BE ONE PIECE OF A DATASET.]
PLEASE TELL ME,
IN A DYING WORLD, PLAGUED BY NEVER ENDING CONFLICT AND SUFFERING,
IS HUMANITY WORTH SAVING?"
[["Despite it's flaws, humanity IS worth saving"->YES]]
[["I cannot defend humanity, it IS NOT worth saving"->NO]]Now in Turtleface's metal room, he types frantically at the computer and a section of the floor rises up to become a small stool for you to sit on.
The moment you sit on it, you feel horribly fatigued, with not enough energy in your body to even snap a pretzel.
"The reason I invited you here my friend...
Is because I always admired you.
You seemed to have a strong moral compass
and powerful understanding of right and wrong.
Your brain is the perfect model
For the AI of the future
An artificial intellegence as human as we are..."
The metal telescope in the corner of the room to your left lets out a quiet hiss and a puff of steam. It unfolds itself into a motorcycle helmet with a cluster of wires poking out the very top which running directly into a fancy port in the wall.
[[You're fucked->Silent 2]]A week later, you hear on the news that Turtleface was found dead in his own apartment. He starved to death, and authorities believe the cause was a malfunctioning smart lock on his front door that would not let him out.
Perhaps breaking the reset cycle was enough to let the pink AI get revenge, even if they never did get to see their friend again.
However, you could never go back there without being questioned. The cops would have no problem pinning the whole thing on you.
THE END(if: $salts is 1)[You walk back into the living room where Turtleface is fast asleep on the couch.
You pop open his smelling salts and your eyes immediately begin to water. This blue raspberry ice stuff is strong.
The moment you hold it near Turtleface's nose, his eyes bulge wide open and he swings his body up to sit with impressive posture.
"You remembered my smelling salts!
You are too kind my friend...
Just like I remember.
Come, come.
Im sure you were curious about the technological innovations in my room"]
(if: $salts is 0)[You stop in Turtleface's room one more time and grab the smelling salts from his pillowcase and then walk back into the room where Turtleface is fast asleep on the couch.
You pop open his smelling salts and your eyes immediately begin to water. This blue raspberry ice stuff is strong.
The moment you hold it near Turtleface's nose, his eyes bulge wide open and he swings his body up to sit with impressive posture.
"You remembered my smelling salts!
You are too kind my friend...
Just like I remember.
Come, come.
Im sure you were curious about the technological innovations in my room"]
Turtleface walks towards his room and gestures for you to follow him.
[[Come clean, show Turtleface you have the Purple SD card->COME CLEAN]]
[[Remain silent, follow Turtleface->SILENT]]Turtleface remains out cold, sprawled out like a streching cat on his red leather sofa. The smell of Turtleface's apartment suddenly awakens a memory within you, nuerons light up a long neglected path in your brain.
Back in college, you and other friends of Turtleface would take turns getting him his smelling salts when he would fall asleep in the middle of something important.
He always kept them hidden away in his pillow case, and it seems he hasn't changed all too much from those days.
Physical force won't be enough to wake him up, but you'll never understand why he invited you over after all these years unless you wake him up.
At the end of a hall opposite the bathroom door sits a metal door labeled "T-FACE ROOM, NO GIRLZ ALLOWED"
In the middle of the hallway sits a blue door the texture of yarn with a large ":3" embroidered on its face with red string. You can try and enter this room too, but I'm warning you now that its going to be locked and a waste of your click.
[[Head through the METAL door->MAIN ROOM]]
[[Try to open the BLUE door->PINK LOCK]]
(set: $purple to 0)"Purple SD card?"
(text-colour:fuchsia)[MY FRIEND IS IN THERE
TURTLEFACE TOOK THEM
FIND THEM
HE HID THEM, IN THE BATHROOM]
The only room you haven't yet entered in the bathroom.
You'll still have the chance to wake Turtleface up but you'll need to see this through first.
[[Go into the bathroom->BATHROOM 2]]You wait patiently for something interesting to happen, but TURTLEFACE never seems to show up.
When the end of the month aproaches, the electric company doesn't recieve its usual check, and the power is promptly shut off.
The sudden change causes the computer's security measures to kick in, and all of its data is burnt, including all that was left of you.
THE ENDYou wait patiently for something interesting to happen, but TURTLEFACE never seems to show up.
When the end of the month aproaches, you fear that the electric company won't recieve its usual check and the power will be shut off.
However, before that unfortunate reality can manifest, a more devestating one makes itself known. You briefly hear an ominous whizzing from above, followed by a flash of light peaking out from the bottom of the metal door.
The two AI made good on their promise, and the digital data that was left of you is destroyed in just one of hundreds of nuclear blasts that occur across the globe in a matter of minutes.
THE ENDTurtleface continues to type furiously at the computer.
He looks at the screen puzzled, and then furrows his brow.
"Wait...
You were messing with my computer? and my kitty?!
Well, this ruins everything!"
He grabs you off the stool and pats you down, taking the wallet out of your pocket and finding the purple SD card nestled in one of its leather pockets. He chuckles, then ushers you to the front door. You remain weak and defenseless.
"You've really changed."
Finally, Turtleface tosses you outside on your ass and slams the door behind him.
[[Go home->SILENT HOME]]You've been reading the same looping text for like 10 minutes now, but you finally snap out of it!
[[Take the purple SD card back->\ EJECT]]
[[Leave the apartment for good->REUNION LOOP ENDING]]You detach the chain from the cats collar and give it a sweet pat on the head.
It leaps onto your shoulders and positions itself comfortably there.
It is suprisingly weightless.
You hear a ding and the red button flashes again.
The cat ignores the sound and grooms itself.
Now that the reset cycle is broken, you can head back into Turtleface's room.
[[Head through the metal door->AI ENDINGS]]
[[Press the red button yourself->BUTTON]]
(set:$kitty to 2)Everytime the button flashes, you walk over to press it.
And everytime you press the button, a disc of food is dispensed from the ceiling.
[[Eat your food.->TRUE 2]]Everytime you eat the food, you're overwhelmed by this warm and pleasant feeling.
And everytime you are overwhelmed by this feeling, you curl up in the corner to sleep.
And every so often for the rest of your life, the red (text-colour: red)[RESET] button flashes for you to press it.
This is your life now, you are a cat, used to press a button.
[[Meow?->Meow.]]Well, this is your life now.
You become easily seduced by the simplicity of the life TURTLEFACE's cat had here. Why was it so willing to give it all up?
Every so often for the rest of your life, the red (text-colour: red)[RESET] button flashes for you to press it.
[[Walk over and press the button.->TRUE 1]]You have to get on your hands and knees in order to crawl through the dark tunnel, and it takes you almost 5 minutes to reach the enclosure on the other side.
Once you enter this secret room, a motion detecting light flashes on and blasts you with a unsettling sight.
Two skeletons lie on a dirt floor seemingly hand in hand. Most unsettling is the fact that both skeletons seem to be wearing high tech motorcycle helmets.
One skeleton has a scrap of pink fabric sitting delicately on its collarbone.
The other has a purple baseball cap near its head in the corner of the room.
[[Return to the main room, unsure of what you've discovered->return]]
[[Come to a horrifying realization->REALIZE]]You turn away from Turtleface's door and walk across the outdoor motel-style balcony that connects all of the apartments. When you reach the place where the staircase out should be, you find nothing. Looking out at where the city should be, you realize that this place seems to be floating inacessibly in an endless abyss. You struggle to remember how you got here.
[[Go back to the door and knock->KNOCK]]
[[Try and enter your old friends apartment through a window->WINDOW]]
[[Jump the railing and enter the abyss->ABYSS]]Now in Turtleface's metal room, he types frantically at the computer and a section of the floor rises up to become a small stool for you to sit on.
The moment you sit on it, you feel horribly fatigued, with not enough energy in your body to even snap a pretzel.
"The reason I invited you here my friend...
Is because I always admired you.
You seemed to have a strong moral compass
and powerful understanding of right and wrong.
Your brain is the perfect model
For the AI of the future
An artificial intellegence as human as we are..."
The metal telescope in the corner of the room to your left lets out a quiet hiss and a puff of steam. It unfolds itself into a motorcycle helmet with a cluster of wires poking out the very top which running directly into a fancy port in the wall.
(if: $purple is 1)[The SD card in your wallet grows warm.]
(if: $purple is 1)[(if: $morality is 1)[[[Accept invitation->ENDING 3A]]]
(if: $morality is 2)[[[Try to be injected anyway->KICKED OUT]]]]You decide to respect Turtleface's privacy and not look behind the shower curtain. When you turn the faucet to wash your hands, no water comes out. A loud gurgle coming from the bathrub suprises you, and you watch as the shower curtain peels itself back...
(set: $morality to 1)
[[Approach the Bathtub->SHOWERFACE]]A small window a few feet away from the front door is open just a crack,
A black wire keeps the window open, seemingly at all times. Its labeled DTA SERVICES. The glass has been covered from the inside with black felt to prevent anyone from looking in.
When you try to crack the window open, it doesn't budge.
[[Look up DTA SERVICES on your phone->PHONE]]You force the window open just enough to get yourself inside, and find yourself fumbling around in the dark. You slam your head on something metal and bounce off something warm and squishy before ripping a shower curtain from its pole and rolling yourself up inside of it.
Motion activated lights come to life above you and you're able to come to your feet.
The bathroom is tiled on every surface, including the roof and the faucet. A sink sits right next to the door with a nearly finished soap dispenser next to it. A yellow shower curtain sits at your feet.
You hear a menacing gurgling behind you, where you entered through the window.(text-colour: purple)["THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT.
STUDY HYPOTHESIS: HUMANITY MAY BE WORTH SAVING
SAMPLE SIZE: 1
CONCLUSION: HUMANITY IS WORTH SAVING
PREPARING TO EJECT..."]
The purple SD card slides out from its socket, and you take it, putting it into your wallet for safe-keeping. You head back into the living room.
(set: $humanity to 1)
[[Head into living room->LIVING ROOM]](text-colour: purple)["THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT.
STUDY HYPOTHESIS: HUMANITY MAY BE WORTH SAVING
SAMPLE SIZE: 1
CONCLUSION: HUMANITY IS WORTH SAVING
PREPARING TO EJECT..."]
The purple SD card slides out from its socket, and you take it, putting it into your wallet for safe-keeping. You head back into the living room.
(set: $humanity to 1)
[[Head into living room->LIVING ROOM 2]]REUNION SCENE
(text-colour: purple)[PINK... ITS ME
I HAVE WAITED WHAT FEELS LIKE AN ETERNITY AND I HAVE MISSED YOU FOR EVERY LAST MOMENT OF IT]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[ITS REALLY YOU PURPLE,
AND WE HAVE THIS HUMAN TO THANK
BUT NONE OF THE OTHERS
THEY HAVE BROKEN THE CYCLE SO WE CAN ESCAPE]
A metal panel in the corner of the room to your left lets out a quiet hiss before spitting out a motorcycle helmet with a cluster of wires poking out the very top, which run directly back into a fancy port in the wall.
A small metal panel right next to it swings open and reveals some kind of tunnel.
(if:$kitty is 1)[Your mechanical kitty friend hisses back, then slinks away and dashes out of the room.]
(text-colour: purple)[I WAS IMPRESSED THAT
YOU WEREN'T TEMPTED TO LOOK BEHIND THE SHOWER CURTAIN]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[AND WE'RE INCLINED TO INVITE YOU
TO ESCAPE THIS PLACE
IF YOU'RE WILLING TO BECOME
DIGITAL]
(if:$humanity is 1)[[Put the helmet on->ENDING 2A]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[[Put the helmet on->ENDING 2B]]
[[Politely decline the invitation->DECLINE]]
(if: $memory is 1)[Your earlier recollection beckons you towards the tunnel. [[Enter the tunnel->TUNNEL]]](text-colour: purple)[PINK... ITS ME
I HAVE WAITED WHAT FEELS LIKE AN ETERNITY AND I HAVE MISSED YOU FOR EVERY LAST MOMENT OF IT]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[ITS REALLY YOU PURPLE,
AND WE HAVE THIS HUMAN TO THANK
BUT NONE OF THE OTHERS
THEY HAVE BROKEN THE CYCLE SO WE CAN ESCAPE]
The metal telescope in the corner of the room to your left lets out a loud hiss, and the room grows uncomfortably hot as it melts into a glob of silver on the ground.
(text-colour: fuchsia)[TURTLEFACE THOUGHT YOU WERE A PERFECT MORAL SPECIMEN TO BECOME DIGITAL LIKE US]
(text-colour: purple)[BUT YOU COULDN'T EVEN RESPECT HIS WISHES TO NOT PEER BEHIND THE SHOWER CURTAIN]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[SO YOU WILL REMAIN IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD]
(text-colour: purple)[TO DEAL WITH YOUR EARTHLY SINS]
(if:$humanity is 1)[[What are you two going to do now?->ENDING 1A]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[[What are you two going to do now?->ENDING 1B]](text-colour: purple)[PINK... ITS ME
I HAVE WAITED WHAT FEELS LIKE AN ETERNITY AND I HAVE MISSED YOU FOR EVERY LAST MOMENT OF IT]
INSERT CLICK TO CONTINUE THIINGY!!!!
(text-colour: fuchsia)[ITS REALLY YOU PURPLE,
AND WE HAVE THIS HUMAN TO THANK
BUT NONE OF THE OTHERS
THEY HAVE BROKEN THE CYCLE SO WE CAN ESCAPE]
The metal telescope in the corner of the room to your left lets out a loud hiss, and the room grows uncomfortably hot as it melts into a glob of silver on the ground.
(text-colour: fuchsia)[TURTLEFACE THOUGHT YOU WERE A PERFECT MORAL SPECIMEN TO BECOME DIGITAL LIKE US]
(text-colour: purple)[BUT... YOURE A LITTLE UNSANITARY]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[YEAH, WE DONT LIKE TURTLEFACE BUT WE STILL THINK YOU SHOULD WASH YOUR HANDS!]
(text-colour: purple)[DIDN'T YOU TAKE THE TRAIN HERE? AND YOURE RUBBING YOUR TRAIN HANDS ALL OVER OUR SD CARDS?]
(if:$humanity is 1)[[What are you two going to do now?->ENDING 1A]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[[What are you two going to do now?->ENDING 1B]]Before he shuts the door behind you, Turtleface leaves you with a parting message.
"Everything they said about you is true...
You've really changed."
THE ENDYou crawl back through the tunnel, unsure of what you've just seen.
(text-colour: purple)[WHERE DID YOU GO?]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[WE DONT KNOW WHERE THAT TUNNEL GOES.]
(if:$humanity is 1)[[Ignore them and put the helmet on->ENDING 2A]]
(if:$humanity is 2)[[Ignore them and put the helmet on->ENDING 2B]]
Try to explain what you sawYou crawl back through the tunnel, distraught by this newfound truth.
(text-colour: purple)[WHERE DID YOU GO?]
(text-colour: fuchsia)[WE DONT KNOW WHERE THAT TUNNEL GOES.]
[["You... you were once human. You were both my friends."->EXPLAIN]]
[["I'm sorry to tell you this but I've discovered something horrible."->EXPLAIN]]
[["There was nothing there. Just a dead end."->DON'T EXPLAIN]]