Collaboration is Key

[teleportal9]

A (relatively) young man stands in his basement. This basement also happens to be his bedroom. Today, the 18th of August just so happens to be his birthday! It was 18 years ago that he was given life, and today, you get to guess his name!

Since, you know, people are traditionally given names when they are born. Giving it to them later would be weird. But you don’t know his name, so guess!

ENTER NAME: ____

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Hey!

So this is my little fan adventure. Let's see where it goes! I do the nice little writing, and my good friend does the pretty pictures. Collaboration is key with us (Oh, ho! See what I did there?!).

I have big plans, but they rely on you, my dear reader! Suggest away, and we will accommodate.

[Godbot]

Nerdhearst.

[Insani]

Cockthirsty Bloodmaggot

Hellak Jeffro

[nidawa]

athletic jock junior

[Whimbrel]

Derrick "Rick" Ghastley

[teleportal9]

> Enter name



Really? Athletic Jock Junior? Hellak Jeffro? Nerdhearst? You guys are bad at this. Let's give it another go...

> Try again



That's it!

> Examine room



Your name is Matt. As I said, it’s your 18th birthday today. Your parents are out right now, possibly getting you a gift or something, you don’t know. But it means you are bored right now, so why don’t we talk about what interests you?

You are an avid PROGRAMMER. You have programmed numerous games and other kinds of applications that are USEFUL but you mostly do it for the FUN OF IT. Another one of your friends is a PROGRAMMER, but you are TOTALLY BETTER THAN HE IS (no matter what he says). Besides your knowledge of computers and love of the INTERNET, you also have an extensive knowledge of the ARCANE, or at least THE RULES GOVERNING THE ARCANE in role playing games. You also take an interest in certain tales of HORRORTERRORS, but not to the degree of the previously mentioned friend. You supplement this with a love of SCIENCE FICTION BASED TELEVISON. You also REALLY REALLY LIKE GAMES.

What will you do?

[nidawa]

Program a game where you learn arcane knowledge, ya know to pass the time.

[apatheticEnigma]

Program some stuff.

[teleportal9]

> Matt: Program some stuff


Well at least we have some consensus about that.

You do have some projects you’ve been meaning to catch up on. Especially that one game you’ve reeeeeally been meaning to finish… Better see if the designer is online, even if he will just yell at you…



Nope, looks like someone else is going to yell at you.

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-- Chatlog --
***squishyWizard joined #chibiterror
Matt, birthday present! http://tinyurl/SBERBTORRENT
Topic set by eldritchScholar
WR: OH FUCK THIS
WR: NOT WHEN IT’S JUST YOU TWO
***wordlessRage quit (Quit: FUCK YOU)
SW: hey
AA: 8onjour

…Well this is going to be awkward. And you can't work on the game until the designer gets on! You really hope ES gets back from wherever he is soon…

Now what?

[TheFinalWraith]

Go to mspaintadventures.com of course.
Also identify browser.

[nidawa]

Go to mspaintadventures.com of course.
Also identify browser.

this definitely.

[teleportal9]

>Matt: Go to mspaintadventures.com



Ok, you open a new tab in your Golem web browser and open mspaintadventures.com.

Damn, looks like the EOA progress bar hasn’t changed at all. IT’S BEEN LIKE 2 MONTHS.

Oh look someone is pestering y-

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AA: hopy shit, i just remem8ered food is readily accessi8le.
***artfulAntagonist quit (Quit: Food)

Well fuck. Aren’t you Mr. Popular on your birthday of all days.



Oh, someone opened a Private Message with you and you hadn’t noticed. Maybe you are Mr. Popular after all!

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--Pesterlog--
-- eldritchScholar [ES] began pestering squishyWizard [SW] at 5:18 pm --
ES: MATT!!!
ES: sooooooooo since you don’t seem to be looking at the topic I’ll just tell you
ES: I found this awesome game which came out TODAY of all days
ES: consider it my birthday present = )
ES: you may need an Ethernet cord in order for the torrent to not take forever and a day
ES: knowing how shitty your wireless is
ES: …
ES: ooooooookay then
ES: you’re probably too busy headdesking over what AA just did
ES: so I’m gonna just hope you see this and go do something while I wait for you to finish the download!
SW: oh
SW: er
SW: i guess i’ll do that then

[TheFinalWraith]

Go on an epic quest to find ye ethernet cord.

[teleportal9]

> Matt: Get ye cord

You have no idea where your Ethernet cord is.

> Matt: Check bed



Hey Chibiterror. The cord isn’t on your bed, that’s for certain, and with all the clothes under it, you don’t think there’s room for an Ethernet cord below. It’s not because you think that someone is hiding under there or anything. Nope. There’s just simply too much stuff under there for there to be a cord. Can’t you see all those articles of clothing? Just can’t be there.

> Matt: Check bookshelf



It’s not on the bookshelf. May want to check some of these books out later, bone up on some programming jargon or arcane lore. It would also be a good idea to clean up all those dice that you keep throwing when they roll 1's.

> Matt: Check closet



You have a lot of shit in your closet. No cords though.

> Matt: Check through the other set of door



Oh no. It’s definitely not in there. You are not checking in there. You are not going into the PANTS ROOM.

[Roselalonde]

> Admire poster in closet.

[nidawa]

> Admire poster in closet.

this also wonder why the hell you have some fairy wings looking thing in you closet/contemplate wearing them.

[teleportal9]

> Matt: Examine poster



This is your one true hero.

Neil Patrick... wait for it... Harris.

You hope you can be cool enough to look that awesome riding a unicorn one day.

> Matt: Examine fairy wings



You have no idea how these got in here. You swear!

There's a little note attached.

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Notelog:
Dear Tiffany,
Since you are in fact Princess Tiffany Fairyel of the 8utt fairies, I thought you would need some wings to go with your title. Don't ask when I put these in here. Joyeux anniversaire.
-artfulAntagonist

...Yeah you really should have seen that one coming.

And no, you really don't feel like explaining this silliness right now.

[TheFinalWraith]

Check the cushions of your chair.
If you still can't find it, leave your room.

[teleportal9]

> Matt: Check chair cushions



You have got to be fucking with me. Let's just get out of here.

> Matt: Go upstairs



Uhm. What?

Huh. There's a brick wall in the way. That's new.

You're going to need some kind of weapon in order to break this wall down and find the perpetrator (and your cord)! Better head back down stairs and retrieve your weapon of choice.

...What was your weapon of choice again?

[TheFinalWraith]

Obviously you have shoekind.
Break the bricks with a textbook Rider Kick.

[nidawa]

No it must be bookkind.
beat some sense into that wall.

[teleportal9]

> Matt: Retrieve arms weapon



Oh yeah, you'd been meaning to assign your STRIFE SPECIBUS to BOOKKIND for a long time now. Better captchalogue one of these bad boys.

> Matt: Captchalogue a book



Ok, you captchalogue your Python coding manual. It's pretty heavy, should work. It gets stored in your sylladex by your MODUS OF HOLDING. Whenever you need to retrieve an item, your modus produces a bag for you to reach into and pull out the item. You only grab the wrong item once in a while.

> Matt: Allocate book to strife specibus



You check the back of your STRIFE SPECIBUS for the KIND ABSTRATUS you have in mind for it.

> Matt: Select BOOK



Your STRIFE SPECIBUS has been ALLOCATED with the BOOKKIND ABSTRATUS.

The BOOK has been moved from your CAPTCHALOGUE DECK to your STRIFE DECK.

> Matt: Time to break that brick wall



You are ready. It's go time wall. Get ready to feel your 600 pages of fury.





Oh god what?!



Ok. So that wall was just some inflatable prank. That your good FRIEND, who was probably here visiting for your birthday, had put up to confuse you. And then you attacked it, and in the process knocked said FRIEND out cold.

Right.

This is going to take some explaining to do. But he won't be awake for a while yet, considering the force that went into that book.

Now what?

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Hey, just wanted to take the time to thank everyone who is reading this! It means a lot that the hard work we're (ok mostly my partner) putting into this is actually appreciated by someone other than us. So once again, THANK YOU! Things will be a little hectic for the next few days for me especially, so we bring you this mega update in return for the next couple of days of absence. Have fun, and MAKE SUGGESTIONS!

[TheFinalWraith]

Wonder how your friend could maintain that cool pose while passed out.

[nidawa]

Matt: Put those fairy wings on the friend prankster and pretend you meant to do it from the beginning. A counter prank and mistake cover-up all in one.

also before i forget you're welcome Teleportal9 and good friend (~notmia), thanks for the adventure.

[teleportal9]

Hey, just wanted to let people know that updates will be incoming as soon as possible, but my partner has fallen ill and there's not much we can do about that When she gets better though, I promise there will be plenty of shenanigans to be had. In the meantime, I do love me some suggestions