Day 43 - [Text]

[babel_hacker]

[One day, something shows up on the screen. It looks like a pixel sprite of something.

In the background, there seems to be falling poffins of many different colours. After a while, text begin to show up and a small Porygon is bouncing around at the corner of the screen.]

Poff Poff Poff!
Poffin!
Poff Poff Poff!
Poffin!
Press the BUTTON! Poke the Poffin!
Make more Poffins!_

[It seems like someone wants people to make more Poffins. And that someone is Fortran, Atsuro’s Porygon, who’s hijacking its trainer’s PokeGear. It has been a while since it did it.]

How many will you make?
But don’t cheat or I will know, you jerks!_

[It can totally make better stuff than whatever Atsuro’s making for that programming business.

After a while, his trainer may show up...]

(OOC: Poffin version of Cookie Clicker by Fortran. Warning: it’s easy to waste time on Cookie Clicker. Just let me know if you want Atsuro to pop up.)

Comments

[text]

[captainash]

DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS THING, IT WARPS YOUR PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME AND CAUSES POKÉMON REVOLUTIONS!!!

[This little PSA comes seven hours after Fortran's message. Seven lovely hours spent ignoring his progressively hungrier team as he kept telling himself just a few more clicks.

No wonder his couch is on fire.]

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[puppetnurse]

How would you cheat at this game?

[Because really all you do is click the poffin...IT'S A VERY ADDICTING GAME. She's been playing with it for an hour or so now while traveling...really helps to pass the time.]

[text] 1/2

[babel_hacker]

[By that point, Atsuro already got back to his PokeGear (seven hours was more than enough for him to find out) and is torn between laughing and being pretty exasperated. Fortran is basically laughing at that announcement inside the device right now.]

HA HA HA
HA HA HA
HA HA HA_

[text]

[babel_hacker]

[Okay, time to be a responsible trainer right now.]

Sorry about what Fortran unleashed onto the network. But what do you mean by Pokemon revolutions?

[WHAT HAPPENED.]

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[babel_hacker]

By messing around with the code!
Duh_

[Fortran not everyone is made of data and can enter computers like you...]

[text] ...sob I'm lost in this game now, I have 50 grandmas, help

[pipers_son]

Oh, this is really fun! I like it a lot! Did you make this???

[This might be coming from Joker's 'Gear, but it's certainly not Joker. One with actual fingers, too, although he'll keep quiet about this for now. Just Zoroark nature to pretend to be things they aren't. That's his excuse anyway.]

[text] i'm half torn between apologising and laughing evilly

[babel_hacker]

Yep, yep, yep!
I put it all together!_

[Well, most of it. The technical aspects are easy for Fortran, but the sprites took it too long to make.]

Because we all need more Poffins, duh_

[text] I avoided it for so long too, you *fiend*

[pipers_son]

I think I'm a little jealous. I can't do something special like this. Joker wants to teach me some tricks but I'm scared.

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[superordinary]

...This game sure is addictive.

[ GUESS WHO JUST SPENT THE PAST TWO HOURS AND A HALF PLAYING IT. ]

The Grandmas saying things like "It'll all be over soon." concerns me.

[text]

[captainash]

LOOK, I WAS JUST PLAYING A LITTLE BEFORE LUNCH, SINCE I HAVE A DAY OFF FROM WORK.

THE NEXT THING I KNOW, MY COUCH IS ON FIRE AND MY HOUNDOOM IS SITTING THERE, AND MY WATER-TYPES AREN'T EVEN PUTTING IT OUT!!!

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[puppetnurse]

...messing around with the code?

[This girl is definitely one of those people who is made of data and can enter computers. She's not even one of those people who can understand code if you showed it to her...]

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[copycat]

[She's spent maybe a half hour playing it, she punches in her reply after realizing she's running late to do something.]

Wow, I'm hungry now after playing this.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

[Holy crap, man.]

Just how long did you play for?

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[babel_hacker]

[Just don't mention it to Fortran's trainer. Atsuro would be so interested in it...]

The source code!
The body!
The soul!
The very being of all things programming!
Mess with it, you can change how it works!_

[text] I will gladly accept the blame

[babel_hacker]

Scared?
Tricks?
What kind of tricks and how bad can they be?_

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[babel_hacker]

Oh?
Concerns you how?_

[IT DOESN'T SEEM THAT WORRYING TO IT.]

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[babel_hacker]

[If no one's hungry after this, they're either already full or hate sweets. Whoever hate Poffins can get out.]

Of course!
Who wouldn't after seeing so many yummy Poffins?_

[text]

[captainash]

...Since I downloaded it? BUT DEFINITELY NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR MY WATER-TYPES TO SOMEHOW ENJOY THE PRESENCE OF FIRE, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???

[text] I was trapped all day weh

[pipers_son]

They're not hard tricks. I like doing them and it makes Joker happy. But if I get good at them, then I'll have to do them in front of people and that's scary.

If I could do things like this, then I wouldn't have to do anything in front of people! I could just make things and make them happy that way.

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[superordinary]

It sounds ominous.

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[babel_hacker]

Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Or it's harmless._

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[copycat]

I might go buy some, do you know which store has them?

[text] I was trapped all day weh

[babel_hacker]

Wow, you're a scaredy cat.
But that's okay!
Making these stuff isn't hard if you know programming!

[text]

[babel_hacker]

If you downloaded it roughly around when Fortran posted it...

Wait, that long? You got so absorbed in the game that you forgot to pay attention to your Pokemon?

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[babel_hacker]

Bakery! Bakery!
They should have them!
Or you can force someone to make them for you._