GET OUT

[knux400]

Ah, this must be the computer room.

Before you proceed any further, please verify that you are a True Gamer and are worthy of operating this grand and intricate machine.

Assuming you are a True Gamer, look around the room for a keyboard or a set of switches or some other way of inputting commands, like the remote control from before.

If you are not a True Gamer, then... go play more video games until you feel you are worthy.

[Lucy]

Ah, this must be the computer room.

Before you proceed any further, please verify that you are a True Gamer and are worthy of operating this grand and intricate machine.

Assuming you are a True Gamer, look around the room for a keyboard or a set of switches or some other way of inputting commands, like the remote control from before.

If you are not a True Gamer, then... go play more video games until you feel you are worthy.

Computer? You think to yourself, like the job?? You can't see any bookish clerks around here. You aren't much for gambling either. And, you don't know what video is. As for a keyboard, you can't see any boards in here at all, or any keys. You walk up to the white screen, there's some sort of large panel like box with buttons on it? Is that what you meant? They buttons here are marked with letters, you understand them all but don't quite know why, they're very much not of your tongue.

You've really confused yourself this time.

What is to be done?

[knux400]

Where have you been???? All the actual computation workers have been slowly losing their jobs since the invention of the electronic slide rule. Since then, digital computation devices have only gotten more and more complex, to the point where pretty much any menial calculation task can be performed in seconds with a digital computation machine if you know which buttons to press.

An entire world awaits at your fingertips, young creature, all we must do is activate this machine.

Start simple, look for a button that says POWER, ON/OFF, or has an O with an I intersecting it halfway through. Failing any of those, try hitting the wide, blank button on the bottom of the board. Watch for any response on the screen.

[Lucy]

Where have you been???? All the actual computation workers have been slowly losing their jobs since the invention of the electronic slide rule. Since then, digital computation devices have only gotten more and more complex, to the point where pretty much any menial calculation task can be performed in seconds with a digital computation machine if you know which buttons to press.

An entire world awaits at your fingertips, young creature, all we must do is activate this machine.

Start simple, look for a button that says POWER, ON/OFF, or has an O with an I intersecting it halfway through. Failing any of those, try hitting the wide, blank button on the bottom of the board. Watch for any response on the screen.

Where have you been? What do you even mean. You've been in [untranslatable] working as a porter, the calculators are doing their jobs just fine there's not an electric calculator yet. You really don't know what you're even on about here. But if you say so, you think to yourself at yourself.

You find the circle with a line through it. The screen goes dark, but still lit up, and displays ">q_", the _ is blinking. The wide blank button results in a small space between the q and blinking _. You touch the lit panel, its made of glass. You haven't seen this much glass in one location before, it's making you slightly nervous to be around such an amount of highly valuable material. This is a "screen"? Those are usually paper or cloth but you're not going to question your own judgement on this.

What is to be done?

[Guest]

SUDO APT-GET VIM

[aotihav]

Hang on! bombarding you with a strange image


Please find the specific style of buttons and symbols that matches the box you have in front of you.
The blue button will remove the space that the wide blank button made. The red button will (hopefully) do something. The other buttons can be matched with symbols we send you.

Try pressing the red button, we don't know enough about what (if any) letters could be added after the q_

[Lucy]

SUDO APT-GET VIM

Hang on! bombarding you with a strange image


Please find the specific style of buttons and symbols that matches the box you have in front of you.
The blue button will remove the space that the wide blank button made. The red button will (hopefully) do something. The other buttons can be matched with symbols we send you.

Try pressing the red button, we don't know enough about what (if any) letters could be added after the q_

You appreciate a warning before a vision. Interesting. You think it resembles the first of these, the "ANSI". You press the blue button which removes the space and then the red button. The "screen" changes and reads "bash: q: command not found". Seems like some sort of automated typewriter system? Or something. Electric book that changes the words. They layout of this typewriter is unlike any you've seen, and also in a language you shouldn't be able to understand, but do.

You type sudo apt-get vim and hit "enter" again. It reads "[sudo] password for:"

What is to be done?

[Guest]

look around, the answer might be written down nearby

[knux400]

/rm rf

[Lucy]

look around, the answer might be written down nearby

You did think of that earlier, but no there's nothing around and certainly nothing you could see. Real dark in here.

/rm rf

Says that's not the password champ, you think to yourself.

You probably need some sort of guide for this electric screen book computer whatever it is. And some damned light.

What is to be done?

[knux400]

I'm assuming the screen is black and the text being written on it is white or some other color. If that's the case, you should be able to get a tiny bit of extra light by filling the screen up with letters. Hold Shift and M down for a minute or two so the screen fills up with Ms. Why M? Everyone knows capital Ms are the densest letter, of course!

[Lucy]

I'm assuming the screen is black and the text being written on it is white or some other color. If that's the case, you should be able to get a tiny bit of extra light by filling the screen up with letters. Hold Shift and M down for a minute or two so the screen fills up with Ms. Why M? Everyone knows capital Ms are the densest letter, of course!

You hold the "shift" button and the "M" button. It does give you a different letter, like the tone keys on a typewritter. Neat, you think. The amount of light produced by this is...not a lot. You look around some more. This room is truly massive, seems to go on forever. You spend about 2 minutes [difficult translation, best match: cantering] down one of the very long set of shelves past the numbered wired boxes. The numbers on the boxes seem to be going down as you go, you estimate it'd take you a good 2 hours to reach 0.

A chill runs down your spine, the air in the room shifts slightly.

What is to be done?

[Headful_of_Eyeballs]

Type in "password12345"- maybe that'll unlock the computer

[Endboss Empress]

Leave the room, you definitely have better things to do than faff around with strange boxes and typewriters and crap. Is there anywhere else nearby you haven't investigated yet?

[Lucy]

Type in "password12345"- maybe that'll unlock the computer

Well sure if you say so, you say to yourself. You head back to the typewriter and type in password12345 after typing the thing that needed a password again. Nope. Not the password. Ah well.

Leave the room, you definitely have better things to do than faff around with strange boxes and typewriters and crap. Is there anywhere else nearby you haven't investigated yet?

You know what, that's some solid advice. The heat in here was getting to you anyway.

You head back to the white room. It feels cold in here now, relatively. A few of the seeds are missing from the vent! A house gnome might be around. You aren't really sure you could catch it without a trap.

There's always the room with the water jets, haven't been in there yet. You still don't know whats at the top of the shelves, even though they get hard bordering on impossible to climb some ways up. There's the prospect of the hot shelves and box room, there could be something at the end of that, you did feel a change in the air there, did something change?

What is to be done?

[aotihav]

Search for something that may be able to deflect the miserable wetness jets from the water room while you return to the hot shelves box room and proceed in deeper. Maybe you can accomplish two things at once. Maybe you can pull one of the wired boxes off the shelves, disconnect it and use it as a shield? Either way something was Happening there and Happening is better than things being in Stagnation.

[Lucy]

Search for something that may be able to deflect the miserable wetness jets from the water room while you return to the hot shelves box room and proceed in deeper. Maybe you can accomplish two things at once. Maybe you can pull one of the wired boxes off the shelves, disconnect it and use it as a shield? Either way something was Happening there and Happening is better than things being in Stagnation.

You're right me, you think to yourself, you don't want to get blasted directly. You're gonna get wet though. Kind of inevitable. You don't need one of those strange boxes anyway, or the shelves in the hot room. You know exactly where to get something. You pick up the axe again and head to the supplies room and hack into one of the shelves. It falls at your feet. It is about time you investigated the wet room.

You enter the wet room and hold the wooden board against the jets of water, you still get wet. This room is not very long, and you get to the end of it. There is a door on the side of the room at the end you couldn't see labeled "exit".

You have gained +1 migraine points.

What is to be done?

[knux400]

Assume the door does not actually lead to an exit, that way it will be a pleasant surprise if it does. Once your expectations are properly tempered to avoid disappointment, open the door.

[Lucy]

Assume the door does not actually lead to an exit, that way it will be a pleasant surprise if it does. Once your expectations are properly tempered to avoid disappointment, open the door.

You put your hand on the doorknob, a strong and loud voice echoes through your mind; ONCE YOU LEAVE YOU MAY NOT RETURN. You gain a second migraine point. You open the door, there seems to be nothing here. As in literally, nothing, its a shadow, as though the wall was made of pure darkness.

What is to be done?

[knux400]

Do we have all the supplies we can currently obtain at this venture? Do we have any unfinished business with anything in the other rooms? If not, proceed onwards into darkness.