uA: Look at your nerf weapons
uA: Now back to my weapons
uA: Now back to your weapons
uA: Now back to mine.
uA: Sadly, your nerf weapons aren't mine.
uA: But, if they stopped using horrible stock and padded them properly, they could perform like mine.
uA: In a nutshell- nerf weapons suck. Yours, however, will last many many months of pummeling the crap out of things. Just don't do something stupid like hitting your family members in the head. You could legitimately poke someone's eye out.
uA: Actually.. just occurred to me. You mean Nerf -guns-.. Those are definitely awesome too.
uA: Also, name your damn memos. I've almost responded to last year's discussions about three times.
uA: Yea, this game installs all kinds of fast for some reason. I think it pulls down from some kind of central server. I'm looking up info as I go.
uA: Check lL's memo. I'll update there.
unassumingArsenal has begun responding to legitLegolas_Untitled
uA: As far as I know, it probably logs onto some offsite server with all the real data, we just get some game assets. That said, I think the co-op requires players to start servers, which is why we have the server and client. I'm still doing research.
uA: Give me a few minutes, and once iK gets in on the memo I'll start the server and have y'all connect. I've got the most stable net connection out of the four of us, so we won't have any latency issues or disconnects.
Sam's font is actually in #DEAD00 instead of Orange
Sam decides he'll fiddle with that later. Now to do some research on how to start the game up for four-player play, check his news aggregators, sales, commissions, and look for game-ending bugs or hilariously exploitable glitches in the SBURB beta. If anyone in this group of friends would be the type to buy ladders and sell poles, it's Sam.
unassumingArsenal began pestering unlimitedField
uA: Hey, did you finish your install of SBURB yet?
uA: Just finished mine, looking up how the game works while I fiddle with this sylladex.
Sam waits for a response from uF and tries rearranging where things are- capchaloguing a throwing knife and moving it to the inside of his wrist, putting the knives on his back just above his belt, and, to test something, seeing about having the axe hang as if from a frog, on his right hip.
It's not hard to move the knife around, nor to set where things are on his body. He will find, however, that he's only got so much room on his body to have things. At some point, things he picks up are simply not displayed. He can't access them, either. Instead, there's a pouch on his hip that appears. But he'll have to put things IN to take things out.
When he goes searching, there's very little in information into the game. It seems to be a multiplayer game, but that's all he can glean immediately. The first step seems to be to connect a server to a player. One to one ratio.
improbablekittenz: Bah, you're no fun.
improbablekittenz: Tell you what, I'll give you some cooooookiiieeesssss for those daggers.
improbablekittenz: Plus the sword of course.
Ben waits for sburb to do something while he chats away on pesterchum.
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lL: Wait wait wait...
lL: Who's eyes did you attack with your foam weaponry?
lL: What's it like to ride in an ambulance?
lL: I've always wondered about that.
lL: But yea, your sword is pretty sweet
lL: It's always good to have a melee weapon to accompany your firearms.
lL: I'll have to send you a gun. Sweet battles could ensue!
lL: lol, lemme get to that memo.
lL: WAIT! Which discussions did you almost respond to?
lL: I thought I had those hidden...
legitLegolas began responding to unassumingArsenal
lL: Don't talk down to my sweet connections like that bro
lL: Remember who the gamer is here!
lL: I got all the internetz for my kick-ass online skills too
lL: JK, but yeah, my connection is pretty tight, lag is the last thing we want to worry about.
lL: I really don't know how this whole individual game server crap works.
lL: leaving it to you to figure out, pester me when iK or uF show up.
lL: They got their beta today too, right?
Nick has been pretty preoccupied waiting for his friends. He's gone to his nerf gun horde and "aaaayyy"ed one of his handy dart pistols. He picks up the pile of legos from his busted glove and does his best morning Fonz impression with a yawning "aaaaayyyyy!" and, just in case his spirits get low, he "aaaayyy"'s the baseball trophy from his hitless season, to remind him when he's feeling down that it could be worse.
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uA: From the looks of it, actually, the only way to get multiplayer working is to daisy chain servers together.
uA: That is to say, the only way to get the game working at all is to daisy chain at least two servers to each other. Well. I'm going to start my server up to see if anything happens. Maybe there's a config file or an ingame tutorial.
With that, Sam double-clicks the SBURB server program to get it going
nope, not "sandybrown", just DEAD00. ]color=#DEAD00[ like that. It's a hexcode
With that, Sam double-clicks the SBURB server program to get it going
Ben's Sburb doesn't do anything until he picks server or client. But Client will do nothing until there's a server available.
That said, Ben's client program gets highlighted when Sam starts his server. Now available.
Sam's program seems fairly... Low tech, actually. When it activates, it's simply an MSDOS prompt. Pretty colors and all, saying that this is Sburb and to connect to a client. But this doesn't look like the next generation of gaming.
His walkthrough, which seems to be updated as he refreshes it, says he needs to get a player.
Nick has been pretty preoccupied waiting for his friends. He's gone to his nerf gun horde and "aaaayyy"ed one of his handy dart pistols. He picks up the pile of legos from his busted glove and does his best morning Fonz impression with a yawning "aaaaayyyyy!" and, just in case his spirits get low, he "aaaayyy"'s the baseball trophy from his hitless season, to remind him when he's feeling down that it could be worse.
It all gets loaded in their fairly well. Seems his sylladex has plenty of room for whatever he likes.
He does see something else. A strife specibus. He's been told about this from his sister. Easy access to the weapon he likes best. Of course, once he uses it, it will only hold that type of weapon. Hrm...
Ben clicks the client program when it becomes highlighted, his eagerness is insatiable, and even if his mom were cooking cookies, which would be awesome, he would ignore them for this moment in life where he'll finally play the best game ever!
improbablekittenz: [to all]: Something highlighted on my comp, totally going to be playing any sec now.
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It all gets loaded in their fairly well. Seems his sylladex has plenty of room for whatever he likes.
He does see something else. A strife specibus. He's been told about this from his sister. Easy access to the weapon he likes best. Of course, once he uses it, it will only hold that type of weapon. Hrm...
Hmm. Nick checks his inventory for weapons, but already knows the dangers of his own possessions. He already has too many scars from attempting to make cool lightsaber battles for the interwebs. The Nerf guns would be cool, but they aren't really weapons.
Sword and guns are out. That's when Nick remembers the legos! First he's got to get them out of his 'dex though.
"GO LEGOS! BUILDING BLOCKS OF DOOM!" Nick shouts, thinking how weird an episode of NRS that would be, but awesome at the same time.
Once Nick gets the legos out, he begins reassembling his power glove he had made with it. While he's rebuilding, it hit's him that he's got his baseball glove too! That would really be handy to have around.
Nick stops thinking about his Strife Specibus as a weapons closet and starts thinking of it like a 'handy' toolbox.
Nick's going to be laughing to himself for days now. Handy toolbox of gloves. It's the corny stuff that get's him good.
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Ben clicks the client program when it becomes highlighted, his eagerness is insatiable, and even if his mom were cooking cookies, which would be awesome, he would ignore them for this moment in life where he'll finally play the best game ever!
improbablekittenz: [to all]: Something highlighted on my comp, totally going to be playing any sec now.
Or perhaps not. There's an elaborate loading screen with a spirograph involved. But that's about it. It opens... But there's nothing there. No screen. It just shows his desktop.
On Sam's end, on the other hand... Is a view of Ben's room. There's a toolbar across the top with a number of nifty icons, including a house-like pointer, an inventory icon, and others. As well as some sort of materials bars.
Hmm. Nick checks his inventory for weapons, but already knows the dangers of his own possessions. He already has too many scars from attempting to make cool lightsaber battles for the interwebs. The Nerf guns would be cool, but they aren't really weapons.
Sword and guns are out. That's when Nick remembers the legos! First he's got to get them out of his 'dex though.
"GO LEGOS! BUILDING BLOCKS OF DOOM!" Nick shouts, thinking how weird an episode of NRS that would be, but awesome at the same time.
Once Nick gets the legos out, he begins reassembling his power glove he had made with it. While he's rebuilding, it hit's him that he's got his baseball glove too! That would really be handy to have around.
Nick stops thinking about his Strife Specibus as a weapons closet and starts thinking of it like a 'handy' toolbox.
Nick's going to be laughing to himself for days now. Handy toolbox of gloves. It's the corny stuff that get's him good.
Nick's client program, now installed, lights up. The server still seems a bit grayscale.
Nick begins the connection process to uF's host server. He also begins the process of installing his own host server. He's got to host sometime if this daisy chain's gonna work!
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Just like Ben, Nick's client seems to... Do nothing when it's actually activated. It doesn't move or do anything. It just shows his desktop.
On the other hand, Evan can now see Nick's room. And Nick. He seems to have a pointer to manipulate objects in the environment. There's some sort of 'tray' he can mess with that has objects in it. There's a 'money' system called 'grist' that's nearly empty. All sorts of odd things.
On Sam's end, on the other hand... Is a view of Ben's room. There's a toolbar across the top with a number of nifty icons, including a house-like pointer, an inventory icon, and others. As well as some sort of materials bars.
Sam drums his fingers on the keyboard, and alt-tabs to some music playlists. Time to get some tunes to go with that new game smell, since Sburb apparently doesn't have a soundtrack.
Awesome BGM started, he begins flicking around the screen.
unassumingArsenal began pestering improbableKittenz
uA: I know we talked about using webcams for gaming to see each other's reactions
uA: But not only did you pick the wierdest damn angle for a camera
uA: Sburb has built-in webcam compatibility, so I can see your room.
uA: The wierd thing? It's some kind of Augmented reality nonsense. I'm apparently supposed to start in your house.
Sam zooms in a little
uA: WOW.. how much did you SPEND on this thing? I can count the feathers on your bird!
uA: actually..
uA: I don't think that's a webcam.
uA: What the hell is with this game?
uA: I'm gonna try something.. one second.
Sam had spun his scrollwheel to zoom out to the corner of the room again, and wound up outside Ben's house. This was getting weird. He pulls down one of the smaller structures and finds a convenient spot in Ben's room to place it.
Ben plays along with Sams unexpected web cam rant thinking it was some joke.
improbablekittenz: Yah, I got a nice webcam.
improbablekittenz: It wasn't cheap. Like 500 bucks, my dad got it for me.
improbablekittenz: Strangggeee way to start a game.
improbablekittenz: But...
improbablekittenz: No **** it's not a webcame, I still don't own one.
improbablekittenz: Sam?
improbablekittenz: You're not making a damn lick of sense.
Ben is getting a little uncomfortable with Sam strange humor, and then watches as a chair appears in the corner of his room. He stares at the chair, it's a nice chair, sure, but it's not supposed to be there. Oddly enough the first thought to cross Ben's mind was not that he was crazy, but that he just wasn't paying attention enough to have noticed it before. A response from Ben either way was not had.
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Sam drums his fingers on the keyboard, and alt-tabs to some music playlists. Time to get some tunes to go with that new game smell, since Sburb apparently doesn't have a soundtrack.
Awesome BGM started, he begins flicking around the screen.
unassumingArsenal began pestering improbableKittenz
uA: I know we talked about using webcams for gaming to see each other's reactions
uA: But not only did you pick the wierdest damn angle for a camera
uA: Sburb has built-in webcam compatibility, so I can see your room.
uA: The wierd thing? It's some kind of Augmented reality nonsense. I'm apparently supposed to start in your house.
Sam zooms in a little
uA: WOW.. how much did you SPEND on this thing? I can count the feathers on your bird!
uA: actually..
uA: I don't think that's a webcam.
uA: What the hell is with this game?
uA: I'm gonna try something.. one second.
Sam had spun his scrollwheel to zoom out to the corner of the room again, and wound up outside Ben's house. This was getting weird. He pulls down one of the smaller structures and finds a convenient spot in Ben's room to place it.
uA: Tell me if anything happens on your end.
The actual 'thing' seems to be a chair with... A screen attached? Odd.
Ben plays along with Sams unexpected web cam rant thinking it was some joke.
improbablekittenz: Yah, I got a nice webcam.
improbablekittenz: It wasn't cheap. Like 500 bucks, my dad got it for me.
improbablekittenz: Strangggeee way to start a game.
improbablekittenz: But...
improbablekittenz: No **** it's not a webcame, I still don't own one.
improbablekittenz: Sam?
improbablekittenz: You're not making a damn lick of sense.
Ben is getting a little uncomfortable with Sam strange humor, and then watches as a chair appears in the corner of his room. He stares at the chair, it's a nice chair, sure, but it's not supposed to be there. Oddly enough the first thought to cross Ben's mind was not that he was crazy, but that he just wasn't paying attention enough to have noticed it before. A response from Ben either way was not had.
The chair looks interesting to say the least. And "nice" is not the word for it. "Technologically advanced"? Maybe.
The actual 'thing' seems to be a chair with... A screen attached? Odd.
The chair looks interesting to say the least. And "nice" is not the word for it. "Technologically advanced"? Maybe.
Sam drums his fingers on the keyboard and alt-tabs to the guide to look up exactly what he did.
uA: OK.. so it looks like this is more than just an ARG. And I'm not even going to begin to try and figure out how it works.
uA: That's not a chair.
uA: It's a thing-I-don't-know-what-it-does but it's also not a chair.
uA: now, let's test something else.
Sam moves the cursor over to Ben's bed, and lifts it up, moving it to another part of the room to make way for a large platform with a tube sticking out of it.
uA: Ok, this thing costs 0.. "Grist" which I think is the budget system so we don't go making bad replicas of monuments or something. There's two more objects that cost 0, and I think they're supposed to be required for something in the game.
Hmm. Maybe he can fit it in between the bed and the desk. Probably won't be much space to move, but who needs that anyways?
Or maybe somewhere in the hallway.
unlimitedField: Let's see.
unlimitedField: Where's a good place to put this...
unlimitedField: Can't drop it on the bed, it's too big...
unlimitedField: Oh, by the way, your room might get a bit more crowded.
Sam drums his fingers on the keyboard and alt-tabs to the guide to look up exactly what he did.
uA: OK.. so it looks like this is more than just an ARG. And I'm not even going to begin to try and figure out how it works.
uA: That's not a chair.
uA: It's a thing-I-don't-know-what-it-does but it's also not a chair.
uA: now, let's test something else.
Sam moves the cursor over to Ben's bed, and lifts it up, moving it to another part of the room to make way for a large platform with a tube sticking out of it.
uA: Ok, this thing costs 0.. "Grist" which I think is the budget system so we don't go making bad replicas of monuments or something. There's two more objects that cost 0, and I think they're supposed to be required for something in the game.
The cylinder item seems to have some sort of display on it, but it's currently dead.
The guide seems to have just updated, even as Sam looks at it. Oddly, the previously precise wording has become a little disjointed. There's some typos where they weren't before. As if someone was typing a lot faster than normal.
This occurs just after you're guided to break a 'seal' on the top of that cylinder with something heavy.
Hmm. Maybe he can fit it in between the bed and the desk. Probably won't be much space to move, but who needs that anyways?
Or maybe somewhere in the hallway.
unlimitedField: Let's see.
unlimitedField: Where's a good place to put this...
unlimitedField: Can't drop it on the bed, it's too big...
unlimitedField: Oh, by the way, your room might get a bit more crowded.
It seems to require more space than a king sized bed. So hallway probably isn't the option.
The second item is a square platform about four times that big. On the platform is an additional circular platform of some sort with some sort of symbol on it. At the corners of the base platform is some sort of... Stand?
lL: Dude, that's huge!
lL:Maybe the living room?
lL: Or kitchen.
lL: Or attic! That's got some room, it's just hot up there.
lL:Hope the floor holds...
lL:Just try not to bug Sis too much.
lL:It's her "special day", you know?
Nick quickly finishes rebuilding his lego-glove and attempts to clear away some space in his room, brushing aside piles and piles of clothes to make room for the platform. Maybe there's enough space in here if the room wasn't so terribly messy.
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lL: Dude, that's huge!
lL:Maybe the living room?
lL: Or kitchen.
lL: Or attic! That's got some room, it's just hot up there.
lL:Hope the floor holds...
lL:Just try not to bug Sis too much.
lL:It's her "special day", you know?
Nick quickly finishes rebuilding his lego-glove and attempts to clear away some space in his room, brushing aside piles and piles of clothes to make room for the platform. Maybe there's enough space in here if the room wasn't so terribly messy.
uA: Look at your nerf weapons
uA: Now back to my weapons
uA: Now back to your weapons
uA: Now back to mine.
uA: Sadly, your nerf weapons aren't mine.
uA: But, if they stopped using horrible stock and padded them properly, they could perform like mine.
uA: In a nutshell- nerf weapons suck. Yours, however, will last many many months of pummeling the crap out of things. Just don't do something stupid like hitting your family members in the head. You could legitimately poke someone's eye out.
uA: Actually.. just occurred to me. You mean Nerf -guns-.. Those are definitely awesome too.
uA: Also, name your damn memos. I've almost responded to last year's discussions about three times.
uA: Yea, this game installs all kinds of fast for some reason. I think it pulls down from some kind of central server. I'm looking up info as I go.
uA: Check lL's memo. I'll update there.
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uA: As far as I know, it probably logs onto some offsite server with all the real data, we just get some game assets. That said, I think the co-op requires players to start servers, which is why we have the server and client. I'm still doing research.
uA: Give me a few minutes, and once iK gets in on the memo I'll start the server and have y'all connect. I've got the most stable net connection out of the four of us, so we won't have any latency issues or disconnects.
Sam's font is actually in #DEAD00 instead of Orange
It's not hard to move the knife around, nor to set where things are on his body. He will find, however, that he's only got so much room on his body to have things. At some point, things he picks up are simply not displayed. He can't access them, either. Instead, there's a pouch on his hip that appears. But he'll have to put things IN to take things out.
When he goes searching, there's very little in information into the game. It seems to be a multiplayer game, but that's all he can glean immediately. The first step seems to be to connect a server to a player. One to one ratio.
My helpdesk should you need me.
improbablekittenz: Tell you what, I'll give you some cooooookiiieeesssss for those daggers.
improbablekittenz: Plus the sword of course.
Ben waits for sburb to do something while he chats away on pesterchum.
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lL: Who's eyes did you attack with your foam weaponry?
lL: What's it like to ride in an ambulance?
lL: I've always wondered about that.
lL: But yea, your sword is pretty sweet
lL: It's always good to have a melee weapon to accompany your firearms.
lL: I'll have to send you a gun. Sweet battles could ensue!
lL: lol, lemme get to that memo.
lL: WAIT! Which discussions did you almost respond to?
lL: I thought I had those hidden...
lL: Don't talk down to my sweet connections like that bro
lL: Remember who the gamer is here!
lL: I got all the internetz for my kick-ass online skills too
lL: JK, but yeah, my connection is pretty tight, lag is the last thing we want to worry about.
lL: I really don't know how this whole individual game server crap works.
lL: leaving it to you to figure out, pester me when iK or uF show up.
lL: They got their beta today too, right?
Nick has been pretty preoccupied waiting for his friends. He's gone to his nerf gun horde and "aaaayyy"ed one of his handy dart pistols. He picks up the pile of legos from his busted glove and does his best morning Fonz impression with a yawning "aaaaayyyyy!" and, just in case his spirits get low, he "aaaayyy"'s the baseball trophy from his hitless season, to remind him when he's feeling down that it could be worse.
uA: Wasn't me. It was someone else.
uA: From the looks of it, actually, the only way to get multiplayer working is to daisy chain servers together.
uA: That is to say, the only way to get the game working at all is to daisy chain at least two servers to each other. Well. I'm going to start my server up to see if anything happens. Maybe there's a config file or an ingame tutorial.
Ben's Sburb doesn't do anything until he picks server or client. But Client will do nothing until there's a server available.
That said, Ben's client program gets highlighted when Sam starts his server. Now available.
Sam's program seems fairly... Low tech, actually. When it activates, it's simply an MSDOS prompt. Pretty colors and all, saying that this is Sburb and to connect to a client. But this doesn't look like the next generation of gaming.
His walkthrough, which seems to be updated as he refreshes it, says he needs to get a player.
It all gets loaded in their fairly well. Seems his sylladex has plenty of room for whatever he likes.
He does see something else. A strife specibus. He's been told about this from his sister. Easy access to the weapon he likes best. Of course, once he uses it, it will only hold that type of weapon. Hrm...
My helpdesk should you need me.
unlimitedField: Mine's installed already, just trying to figure this out.
Evan starts up the server program. Probably something interesting there.
improbablekittenz: [to all]: Something highlighted on my comp, totally going to be playing any sec now.
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Hmm. Nick checks his inventory for weapons, but already knows the dangers of his own possessions. He already has too many scars from attempting to make cool lightsaber battles for the interwebs. The Nerf guns would be cool, but they aren't really weapons.
Sword and guns are out. That's when Nick remembers the legos! First he's got to get them out of his 'dex though.
"GO LEGOS! BUILDING BLOCKS OF DOOM!" Nick shouts, thinking how weird an episode of NRS that would be, but awesome at the same time.
Once Nick gets the legos out, he begins reassembling his power glove he had made with it. While he's rebuilding, it hit's him that he's got his baseball glove too! That would really be handy to have around.
Nick stops thinking about his Strife Specibus as a weapons closet and starts thinking of it like a 'handy' toolbox.
Nick's going to be laughing to himself for days now. Handy toolbox of gloves. It's the corny stuff that get's him good.
An MS-DOS-like prompt. Or something of that nature. He needs a client.
Or perhaps not. There's an elaborate loading screen with a spirograph involved. But that's about it. It opens... But there's nothing there. No screen. It just shows his desktop.
On Sam's end, on the other hand... Is a view of Ben's room. There's a toolbar across the top with a number of nifty icons, including a house-like pointer, an inventory icon, and others. As well as some sort of materials bars.
Nick's client program, now installed, lights up. The server still seems a bit grayscale.
My helpdesk should you need me.
lL:Anybody got a Server ready?
lL:I'm gonna start setting up my Server.
lL:We still need that right?
Nick begins to install the server program while he multitasks with Memo writing and Lego building.
improbablekittenz: [to all]: nevermind...
Ben sulks in disappointment, and day dreams about bashing his mother with a neon-orange foam sword.
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lL: I'm connecting to your server uF!
Nick begins the connection process to uF's host server. He also begins the process of installing his own host server. He's got to host sometime if this daisy chain's gonna work!
On the other hand, Evan can now see Nick's room. And Nick. He seems to have a pointer to manipulate objects in the environment. There's some sort of 'tray' he can mess with that has objects in it. There's a 'money' system called 'grist' that's nearly empty. All sorts of odd things.
My helpdesk should you need me.
Sam drums his fingers on the keyboard, and alt-tabs to some music playlists. Time to get some tunes to go with that new game smell, since Sburb apparently doesn't have a soundtrack.
Awesome BGM started, he begins flicking around the screen.
unassumingArsenal began pestering improbableKittenz
uA: I know we talked about using webcams for gaming to see each other's reactions
uA: But not only did you pick the wierdest damn angle for a camera
uA: Sburb has built-in webcam compatibility, so I can see your room.
uA: The wierd thing? It's some kind of Augmented reality nonsense. I'm apparently supposed to start in your house.
uA: WOW.. how much did you SPEND on this thing? I can count the feathers on your bird!
uA: actually..
uA: I don't think that's a webcam.
uA: What the hell is with this game?
uA: I'm gonna try something.. one second.
Sam had spun his scrollwheel to zoom out to the corner of the room again, and wound up outside Ben's house. This was getting weird. He pulls down one of the smaller structures and finds a convenient spot in Ben's room to place it.
uA: Tell me if anything happens on your end.
improbablekittenz: Yah, I got a nice webcam.
improbablekittenz: It wasn't cheap. Like 500 bucks, my dad got it for me.
improbablekittenz: Strangggeee way to start a game.
improbablekittenz: But...
improbablekittenz: No **** it's not a webcame, I still don't own one.
improbablekittenz: Sam?
improbablekittenz: You're not making a damn lick of sense.
Ben is getting a little uncomfortable with Sam strange humor, and then watches as a chair appears in the corner of his room. He stares at the chair, it's a nice chair, sure, but it's not supposed to be there. Oddly enough the first thought to cross Ben's mind was not that he was crazy, but that he just wasn't paying attention enough to have noticed it before. A response from Ben either way was not had.
"I've always been a fan of reality by popular vote" - Stephen Colbert (in response to Don McLeroy)
GPolukranos, Kill ALL the Things!G
unlimitedField: Let's see if I can figure out how this works.
The actual 'thing' seems to be a chair with... A screen attached? Odd.
The chair looks interesting to say the least. And "nice" is not the word for it. "Technologically advanced"? Maybe.
The "smallest object" swiftly turns out to be... Some sort of large platform with a tube sticking out of it. It's a lot bigger than the bed.
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Sam drums his fingers on the keyboard and alt-tabs to the guide to look up exactly what he did.
uA: OK.. so it looks like this is more than just an ARG. And I'm not even going to begin to try and figure out how it works.
uA: That's not a chair.
uA: It's a thing-I-don't-know-what-it-does but it's also not a chair.
uA: now, let's test something else.
uA: Ok, this thing costs 0.. "Grist" which I think is the budget system so we don't go making bad replicas of monuments or something. There's two more objects that cost 0, and I think they're supposed to be required for something in the game.
Or maybe somewhere in the hallway.
unlimitedField: Let's see.
unlimitedField: Where's a good place to put this...
unlimitedField: Can't drop it on the bed, it's too big...
unlimitedField: Oh, by the way, your room might get a bit more crowded.
The cylinder item seems to have some sort of display on it, but it's currently dead.
The guide seems to have just updated, even as Sam looks at it. Oddly, the previously precise wording has become a little disjointed. There's some typos where they weren't before. As if someone was typing a lot faster than normal.
This occurs just after you're guided to break a 'seal' on the top of that cylinder with something heavy.
It seems to require more space than a king sized bed. So hallway probably isn't the option.
The second item is a square platform about four times that big. On the platform is an additional circular platform of some sort with some sort of symbol on it. At the corners of the base platform is some sort of... Stand?
The last item looks like a lathe.
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lL:Maybe the living room?
lL: Or kitchen.
lL: Or attic! That's got some room, it's just hot up there.
lL:Hope the floor holds...
lL:Just try not to bug Sis too much.
lL:It's her "special day", you know?
Nick quickly finishes rebuilding his lego-glove and attempts to clear away some space in his room, brushing aside piles and piles of clothes to make room for the platform. Maybe there's enough space in here if the room wasn't so terribly messy.
unlimitedField: Living room it is.
Evan takes a look at the living room to see if there's enough space. Preferably somewhere against the wall - he wants to save space for later.
There's room. If he moves the couch. And the TV. And the fireplace. And possibly a boatload of pictures.
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