PRESS START – Forum Adventure
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This is a story about a robot, in a place, at a time.
Suggest what the robot should do to progress the thrilling plot and witness beautiful imagery as we take you on a ride to another universe.
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(Disclaimer: Story may not be thrilling, beautiful, take you to another universe or contain a robot, place or time.)
THE PLOT.
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You are a robot. This is all that you know, it seems.
You are in a room. You cannot remember what the colour is called.
There are two things here:
– One is a box-like box. It is looking at you with a red eye.
– The other is a stack of rectangular things with scribbles on them. You think they might be words. You think you probably can read them too.You have no idea what the green bar is.
You have no idea what the blue bar is.
You have no idea what the boxes are, or why only three of them seem to be open.
You especially don’t know what a [R]OBOT is. You do know what a robot is, however.What will you do?
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((You should demand further information from the speaker above you. It clearly knows something))
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((Seeing as how your shadow is completely circular, there must be a light source above you. Examine the light source.))
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You beep at the speaker. It turns out that you do not have a VOICE CHIP installed.
The speaker responds. It is distorted by static and definitely in a language you don’t understand.NEW KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED – Voice Chip Missing
NEW KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED – Foreign Language?You look down at the dark circle at your feet. You look up and see nothing but a roof of the same colour as everything else. You make the summation that this is ENTIRELY NORMAL for shadows and that your shadow will LIKELY REMAIN A CIRCLE for absolutely no reason in most circumstances.
NEW THEORY ACQUIRED – That Shadow is Totally Normal
You idly wish there was some sort of PILE OF DOCUMENTS around here that would explain things to you.
You momentarily ponder SEARCHING THE ROOM but think better of it.
You wonder if you have an INVENTORY but fail to follow through. -
((Examine the room while square dancing.))
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You decide to square dance around the room as a means of inspection. However, you have no idea how to square dance. Instead, you walk in a square pattern. You begin to rotate, giving you a better idea of the contents of the room.
There is a SPEAKER here. It DOES NOT SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE, whatever your language is.
There is a PILE OF RECTANGLES WITH WRITING here. You think you can READ them.You turn more, facing away from yourself for once.
There is a CURIOUS DOOR here. It is probably LOCKED. The colour is, you decide, a HORRIBLE choice.
There is a CURIOUS DOOR DEVICE here. It is probably the LOCK. It is staring at you.INSERT ACTION HERE.
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((Ask the door “Why so curious?” while smiling at it))
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Ignoring all of the obvious plot hooks, you interrogate the door’s face with a hearty ‘beep’. It stares at you blankly.
NEW(?) KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED: Voicebox Still Missing
Attempting to smile, you find yourself with an odd predicament. You don’t actually have a mouth.
NEW THEORY ACQUIRED: Mouth Drawn On With Marker
For now, you are stuck with the ‘=3’ expression. Perhaps if you acquired a MARKER you may be able to alter this.
The door says something to you that you don’t understand. It then says something that you do understand.
“PASSCODE? PASSCODE?” -
You read the notes. Finally. They’re quite informative, unlike almost everything else in this room. You sure are glad you checked those first, however!
That looks like your status screen! They also tell you what the things mean.
“1 – HP
Health points, an estimate of your
current health state and proximity
to destruction2 – EP
Energy points, an estimate of your
current auxiliary power for secondary
systems usage3 – INV
storage slots to hold secondary
items and tools – storage can be upgraded.”Someone has also scribbled a number here for some reason. What could that be for? You turn the sheet over and — hey, look! More scribbles!
You’re not sure what any of this means. Unless you are, in which case, good job!
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Try as you might, you can’t connect to a WiFi connection! The reasons you think this might be are:
1) You don’t know the WiFi password
2) There are no WiFi signals nearby
3) You do not have a WiFi-capable component anyway
4) What is a WiFis anyway, am I right?You await another course of action. There’s surely something in this room you haven’t looked at, right? Something, anything … what could it be … ?
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((Inspect your head for loose screws.))
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(( Wait for the answer to be revealed to you through divine intervention ))
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You fiddle around on the back of your head.
Clink … clank … rustle … clink …
Wait, rustle?There’s something on the back of your head! Frankly, you feel a little silly for not noticing it earlier. You tear it off.
Well, this is some cryptic bullshit. It says:
Do not
trust Vex
my friend
– RalThe red marker person has drawn a line through ‘do not trust’ and ‘my friend’, crossed out ‘Ral’ and drawn a little symbol that reminds you of a chain. You’re pretty certain this is either an important puzzle or dumb nonsense.
You await divine intervention on these cryptic plot-based shenanigans. They never come, which you are certain is a sign from above.