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GAMERGIRL: Morbid Misadventures of a Digital Kind

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Anya Homura said:
5 bucks says we aren't even going to get any voting done, and most of this quest is spent talking to Spooks.
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Hmm... GamerSpooks? SpooksQuest?
Adhoc vote count started by Crilltic on Jul 18, 2018 at 8:35 PM, finished with 27 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
    [X] Julianne North
    [X] Professional Internet Rebel.
    [x] Escapist Extraordinaire. Play it, watch it, meme it, roleplay it. You went online to escape from the real world and the real things that hurt you. You went online to see a magical place where it could all go away, even if it was just for a few hours. You went online because in the online world the dreams in your head still had currency, and your imagination could fly away with the planes you crashed into mountains. Okay, maybe that's a bad metaphor, but you know the meaning. For you, what the online world was for, really, was to allow you to get a grip after a day of hard work and frustration. It was your place. When you died, you had an impressively large collection of games and an impossibly wide knowledge of obscure shows and manga. For you, even internet culture was its own form of escapism, and you know much of it inside and out.
    [X] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. Twitter was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
    [X] Lucinda 'Lucky' Oliver
    [X] Anna Muldoon
    [X] Callista
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In the name of the hot take, I'll punish you!

[X] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. Twitter was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
 
Cetashwayo said:
ShiftySpooks: And yet you CANNOT remember what happened last time. So yes, I may have confused some of the facts of film- to be sure, I do not call myself an expert, but I get the important things right. But don't let that distract you from the fact that in 1998 The Undertake threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
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Worst Hell in a Cell match. 0/10.
 
Fighting moderators by moonlight,
Losing appeals procedure by daylight,
Never running from a flame fight,
She is the one named GAMERGIRL

"wait that doesn't rhyme manus"

"no but the original didn't either you little shit"

[X] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. Twitter was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
 
Your definition of 'creative' is sickeningly limited. I feel genuinely attacked right now.

[X] The Creative Type, Artist Edition. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. You started to translate those dreams to visual form, translating imagination to colour and line. At first just on paper, then going digital, you began as a young aspiring artist among many. You rose above the teeming masses, spreading your wings and trying your hand at nearly every kind of artwork on the 'Net - you were like unto a queen of DeviantArt and the 'Boorus. As an artist, you took all sorts of work; nerds' 'original OCs,' furry commissions, porn, commissions of OC furry porn - name it, someone probably paid you to draw it once.
 
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[X] Callista

[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.

Let's forge a better world through the tales forged with our keystrokes!
 
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UPDATE 2: It's Just Me
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    • [X] Julianne North
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    Oh yeah. That's your name. They did always say you had your compass pointed in the right direction. Well, okay, no one said that. But you would have liked them to have said it. It would have been a nice little play on words.

    So you are Julianne North. Yeah. Or as most knew you as online, TrueNorth.

    [X] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. Twitter was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
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    And nobody ever played around with TrueNorth. Ever. Not if they wanted to keep their diginity intact. Online you were a banshee. A veritable Che Guevera sans the post-ironic merchandising. A rebel with a cause, and and that cause was abuse of authority. It started when you were six years old and your educational Fisher Price "edutational" video game dreck didn't allow you to spell out swears. It only got worse when you started playing runescape, and someone asked if you wanted to trade them a ruby sword for a mithril plate, and you barely knew what those words meant so you took the offer. Never again, came the gurgling cry at the back of your throat, the instinct to resist. The internet was full of injustice. Petty, to be sure, and much more easy to complain about comfortably than say, politics, but injustice nonetheless.

    You are TrueNorth, and you are...

    You are...

    [You have changed your name to TrueNorth]

    TrueNorth: im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive im alive

    ShiftySpooks: And a good morning to you as well.

    TrueNorth: im actually alive what is happening oh my god what i can feel i can hear where am i what is

    ShiftySpooks: Well, I would put a qualifier on the term alive, really. I wouldn't describe it in the same way as we might normally think of as living.

    TrueNorth: what
    TrueNorth: also what are you
    TrueNorth: also what is this and how am i talking to you without typing
    TrueNorth: come to think of it where are my fingers
    TrueNorth: come to think of it where is my entire body


    ShiftySpooks: Teenage girls. So impatient! So much asking! Oh, what did you do with my body, Spooks! Oh, how am I alive, Spooks? Oh how did I achieve functional digital immortality upon the passing of my soul onto the next world, Spooks?! So many questions.

    TrueNorth: i think i deserve to ask questions like wtf is going on here and what even are you

    ShiftySpooks: As the head scientist whose name I forget from the ever quotable 2011 adaptation of I, Robot with Will Smith in the starring role said, you must ask the right questions.

    TrueNorth: what

    ShiftySpooks: My apologies, I do get a little excited when I have the opportunity to quote that movie. Sorry, Alvin69 on SpaceFighters Forums, I, Robot the 2011 adaptation simply is the best version of the work!

    TrueNorth: i just came back FROM THE DEAD AND AM TALKING TO A GLOWING EYE and you want to talk to me about a BAD MOVIE FROM 2011 what is your PURPOSE

    ShiftySpooks: Well frankly now you're just being rude. I have a very specific reason to bring up I, Robot.

    TrueNorth: Oh really
    TrueNorth: what is it

    ShiftySpooks: ...I really like that movie.

    TrueNorth: kill me again I want to go back to being dead this is a stupid afterlife mom was right i should have been a better christian

    ShiftySpooks: Well hold your horses there young lady because do I have a story for you. As it turns out you're not actually wrong! This is an afterlife of sorts. It's a digital afterlife! But you really are quite dead. It turns out we're in an emulated reality, and you're an emulation of sorts, and I believe it was Bobby Hanson, or was that a baseball player, well whoever it was, they had a theory of the future where there were these kinds of Ems, and we're- well, you're, my dad was an antivirus- there's a situation where you're not really real but also real at the same time. Digitally real.

    TrueNorth: i legitimately have no idea what the fuck you are talking about spooker and i'd prefer if you started speaking some serious explanation right now because i want to have something to write about on my blog when i wake up from this nightmare

    ShiftySpooks: It's really quite simple. Julianne Moore died about 72 hours ago. You are not Julianne Moore. You are Julianne Moore's implanted avatar.

    TrueNorth: It's NORTH, not moore

    ShiftySpooks: She is a great actress, though. Loved her in Chloe. She was sensual yet serious.

    TrueNorth: PLEASE

    ShiftySpooks: Okay, okay. What I was trying to say is that you, the body, is dead. Julianne North was declared dead on the scene and has passed away. But you, the avatar, is very much alive. In fact more alive than most. A usual avatar needs to be repaired with fragments but you're just fine and dandy once you get a jot of memory. The ones you have are just extra!

    TrueNorth: what is a fragment, what do you mean im dead, what do you mean im my avatar that's like saying that a horse is its emoji that's just stupid you're stupid i want this to stop where's the off switch

    ShiftySpooks: Fragments are the remnant pieces of avatars after their owners die or disconnect their cranial implants. Usually they're tiny. For example, at this moment you have no less than eleven active fragments stitched into your digital consciousness. We actually had a heated argument earlier. They're quite the snarky bunch. One of them wanted me to make you remember you were an artist but I honestly can't stand artists so I didn't really listen to that one. Really though, a bunch of hosers, the lot of them.

    TrueNorth: but I did do some art esp. when i was younger and even putting that aside do i have like fragments of people inside of my head

    ShiftySpooks: Well I wouldn't quite call it a head, but yes the amorphous code that forms your consciousness does have stitched together fragments. They're a teaching aid.

    ShiftySpooks: In fact, I'm going to open the floor to them. This is your opportunity to tell little North over here any kind of reassurance possible. Remember, she's quite troubled, and she hasn't even heard about the coconut crew yet. That's sure to scare the everloving bejeezus out of her.

    TrueNorth: the who

    ShiftySpooks: The coconut crew. You'll meet them soon enough. They're a memetic infestation that consumes emulated consciousness and uses it to produce more of themselves and spreads via bad humour.

    TrueNorth: words are like- they're coming out of your- not your mouth but im reading them and im processing them but im not getting any output, that's how i feel right now, that's my mood

    ShiftySpooks: Well you're starting to get the computer lingo downpat. Soon you'll be surfing the web like a pro! That said I'll leave you to it. You and the fragments will have to figure out how to get along before the coconut crew comes along because if not- well then you're really in for it, I gotta say.

    TrueNorth: i am having a bit of a panic attack atm but otherwise cool yeah

    ShiftySpooks: Great! Talk to you later. Or not! I might have to clean up the digital crumbs left behind by the coconuts. Either way, have a great time, and remember to have fun.

    [ShiftySpooks has left the chatroom]

    TrueNorth: okay i don't really know what's going on, i don't want to know...i just kind of want to go home and i don't feel like i can and i don't have anyone or anything else to talk to so like- idk, idk yeah, it's fucked, idk can you guys help me out here i am not in a good way right now and oh my god im talking to "fragments of digital consciousness" to save me from coconuts?? idk, but i am just- idk i don't know what else to do

    Your task is to engage North in conversation. You'll need to share a consciousness with her and guide her along, so although you don't know much else about the coconut crew than North, you have to try and calm her down. There's an instinct within you that says that if North is not in a good mental state she'll be more vulnerable to whatever is coming.

    [] Try to cheer North up with memes.
    [] Cheer her up with sincere care for her wellbeing.
    [] Cheer her up with a pep talk.
    [] whatever the hell else you lot come up with

    (my apologies to anyone who voted a little later, I wanted to get the ball rolling really quick on this so we can start getting to the more meaty parts, don't worry too much about whether one or another vote won because I'll play around with these a lot)
     
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    • [X] Cheer her up with a pep talk.

    Okay I dunno if North can hear me right now or not so uhh-
    This is like the difference between School and Summer-instead of occasionally dealing with schoolwork and ocassionally goofing off and having fun it's having fun all the time! Only replace fun with 'being online'.
    And what sound like the equivilant of Zombies are coming to attack us via peer pressure.
    We can stand against the tide! Or get out of the way and hide. I'll back you up either way North!
     
    Hmm. I have half the thought that the eye might be based off Squishy... as a result, I feel this might be the best option:

    [X] Try to cheer North up with memes.
     
    Oh, do you want to me um... say stuff? Heh, that's kinda hard. I'm not a super social person? I try to be but it's mostly like... online, though you can probably relate to that?

    I know things seem like they kinda suck. But things will get better! The important thing that people need to do in bad situations is look forward, because a bright new future awaits them. It may seem dark now, but sometimes the dawn is on the horizon.

    And you know, inspirational stuff like that? I'm not super good at pep talks and all that jazz, but this is stuff that I think that if we all work toether, we can get through.

    (Forgot the mechanics of the quest lol)
     
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    This is like the difference between School and Summer-instead of occasionally dealing with schoolwork and ocassionally goofing off and having fun it's having fun all the time! Only replace fun with 'being online'.
    And what sound like the equivilant of Zombies are coming to attack us via peer pressure.
    We can stand against the tide! Or get out of the way and hide. I'll back you up either way North!
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    TrueNorth: okay uh hi there voice person in my head id just like to say thanks but i also dont need to be talked down to tbh i am 16 but i have toughed it out with some real dicks online, i even dared them to @ me
    TrueNorth: but like thanks for the zombie analogy now i feel better that there are zombies coming to eat us

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    You don't want me trying to figure out how to cheer you up, tbh.
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    TrueNorth: even in the afterlife i cant escape stupid boys trying to be tough (are you a boy? does it work like that? i dunno if it does probably not but) point still stands i dont need this shit from u like what are u gonna do make a bad pun i am going to be eaten by coconuts

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    Oh, do you want to me um... say stuff? Heh, that's kinda hard. I'm not a super social person? I try to be but it's mostly like... online, though you can probably relate to that?
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    TrueNorth: wow this one's actually nice i might warm up to the voices inside of my head pretty soon if this kinda attitude keeps up (the one sentence to put u in therapy), but also can we keep in mind that your a fragment of a person so im being told by like- an amputated hand how hard it is for them to socialize and i really want to feel bad but its also a talking hand
    TrueNorth: or maybe its more abstract tbh i cant seem to imagine my body its just everywhere
     
    Cetashwayo said:
    TrueNorth: even in the afterlife i cant escape stupid boys trying to be tough (are you a boy? does it work like that? i dunno if it does probably not but) point still stands i dont need this shit from u like what are u gonna do make a bad pun i am going to be eaten by coconuts
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    Oh no, not acting tough. I'm just very morbid. My usual idea of inspirational is closer to 'eh shit sucks but everyone's gotta die someday'. This is not exactly inspiring, to most people.

    When I try to cheer people up they usually tell me to shut up for being too depressing, is the point.
     
    Terrabrand said:
    When I try to cheer people up they usually tell me to shut up for being too depressing, is the point.
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    TrueNorth: well okay thanks buddy but u do know that ur job is to help ME like im really sorry your depressed but i feel like i need to keep repeating this because u guys arent getting the message, im going to be eaten by coconuts
    TrueNorth: wait sry was i perpetuatin that im just really nervous and a little scared i didnt mean to be mean
     
    I mean let's look at it this way. Things are really... strange, yes. But they're fucking coconuts. Surely we can take fucking coconuts. The only way we'll be beaten by fucking coconuts is if we let ourselves be beaten. If we fight, we'll win!
     
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    TrueNorth: well okay thanks buddy but u do know that ur job is to help ME like im really sorry your depressed but i feel like i need to keep repeating this because u guys arent getting the message, im going to be eaten by coconuts
    TrueNorth: wait sry was i perpetuatin that im just really nervous and a little scared i didnt mean to be mean
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    Here's my suggestion. Threaten to make them into a pina colada. That'd surely do the trick in stopping them from attacking you.
     
    TrueNorth said:
    or maybe its more abstract tbh i cant seem to imagine my body its just everywhere
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    Did you need to imagine your body when you were alive?

    Relax. It is what it is, and you are what you are. And what you are is some sort of posthuman AI, apparently.

    ... So, out of curiosity, what's your position on ruling the internet from the shadows like a russian botnet on steroids?
     
    veekie said:
    Well on the bright side you can now literally post without stopping to eat or sleep anymore?
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    TrueNorth: well i definitely wont eat a coconut again (i dont think you can but i wont now FOR SURE)

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    ... So, out of curiosity, what's your position on ruling the internet from the shadows like a russian botnet on steroids?
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    TrueNorth: idk u can plan that part out for me i just kind of want to go home and not be here i like the internet but not enough to fight coconuts thanks to a glowing eyeball
     
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