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warriorsofsplatsville · 2 months
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Octa shook her head as she sat up. Well, she didn't think it was possible to even go unconscious in a virtual reality world, but here she was.
"Ohmycod!! Eight!!" Pearl exclaimed, zooming toward her. Pixels appeared around her, and she transformed from her drone body to her regular inkling body in a flash. "You alright? Your head hurting? Lemme check your eyes, kiddo!"
"I-I am alright, Pearl. Thank you." She put her hand outward to let the inkling know, pushing herself to her feet. "I am used to the bigger sort of falls. The two kids- they are alright?"
"Yeah, thanks to you. You broke their fall. Even though were in a virtual reality, seems that you can still feel pain. Annoying, if ya ask me."
"Oh! And Marina?"
"I've been waiting for you to wake up actually, Octa. I feel I have some explaining to do." Marina walked up to the two of them, the two agents in tow.
"Explaining...oh yes! Where are we, Marina?"
"We're inside a virtual reality known as the Memverse; it's a program that I designed for people, specifically those who have been sanitized, to regain their memories and sense of self." She explained, typing away at her laptop. "In fact, you should already be somewhat familiar. I had you playtest the beta version a few months ago while we were on the world tour."
"Hold up- so Octa knows about this place?" Mirage asked incredulously. "And she didn't say anything??"
"To be fair, the beta model of this place looked EXTREMELY different from now. I barely had the levels themselves modeled out. I bet she barely remembers me making her play through them."
"Yes...it all makes sense. I knew that the elevator felt familiar. You said that you wanted it to be like slowly rediscovering yourself, one step at a time." She nodded along.
"Yes...anyway, it was all fine, until it wasn't. There was a weak point in the main component of my system...one that I named Order. It went completely against my coding! Worse yet, someone found the insecurity and hacked into the Memverse and is changing it up! It's all going wrong..."
"Don't worry, 'Rina! We just gotta take out this hacker and fix the problem with the Order system right? You can just use your laptop and fix it!"
"I wish it was that simple Pearlie. You see...I may have borrowed the outline of the TARTAR program to make the Memverse. Permission from the human professor and Kama, of course. And uh...so you know those Sea Cucumber phones that have gotten crazy popular the last few years? Apparently, THOSE also used the outline of the TARTAR program, and...well, to not overcomplicate things, I may have accidentally gotten everyone that owns one of them sucked into the Memverse?"
Dead silence.
"How careless!!!" Minu exclaimed.
"I'm sorry! I had no idea the phones had the same coding! I meant to report it initially, but I got so caught up...ooh, I feel awful..."
"Nevermind. It doesn't matter now. Can't you just hard reboot the system?"
"That's the problem. You see, everyone has to be logged out before I can do that, but...there's THOUSANDS of people's consciousness logged into the Memverse. Dragged in against their will, unable to leave. If I were to do a hard system reboot, with all of us in here, it would sever the connection between our real world bodies and digital ones. In other words- we'd be stuck here forever. Goners."
"AAAAAGH! WHY WOULD YOU MAKE A SYSTEM THIS TERRIFYING?!?!?!" Minu exclaimed. "Then how are we supposed to get out?! Stop Tara?! Not die?!?!?"
"I do have one option for us: we stop the hack and malfunctioning software internally. We have to go to the control room. And the control room is-" Marina pointed to the top of the Spire of Order, which was now greatly expanded into the sky. "All the way at the top."
"So you are saying in order to save everyone's minds and stop Tara and Order, we must climb to the top of the tower?"
"Complete the game, yes. It's the only way! And you know what's in there already- it's a hefty task ahead of us."
"Nothing me and Eight can't pull off though! I can help her get to the top, no prob!"
"Pearlie, you're so amazing...!"
"Can we help too, or are we just sitting ducks?" Mirage asked in an annoyed tone.
"Oh, yes! Those lockers over there- they contain weapon palletes. I had downloaded weapon preference data from various people that I watched and heard from. If you look in there, you might find weapons suited to your style."
"Right."
The group head over to the lockers to check them out. "Sweet, a Tri-Stringer. Perfect." Mirage spun the bow around in their hands.
"Oh, that's Shiver's pallete!"
"Didn't realize Shiver used a bow..."
"You don't happen to have a spare pair of Dualies in here, do you?" Minu asked, looking through the lockers.
"I'm afraid not, little one."
"Here. You may use these ones." Octa handed the Dualies to the Inktoling girl. "I shall use this Splattershot."
"Oh, that's Agent 4's pallete! Good choice!"
"Oh, Theo..." Octa whined. "I hope we find him soon."
"Ah, right...Agent 4 is also stuck in here somewhere, isn't he?" Marina sighed. "What a mess this all is...I'm so sorry again..."
"Don't beat yourself up, Reens! It's all that Tara lady's fault!" Pearl winked.
"Oh! I do have something that might help!" Marina flipped her laptop open. "I may not be able to do a hard system reboot, but I can hack into the hacked system a little bit! If you ever need extra lives, extra damage protection or armor, more Pearl Drone upgrades, more rewards and cheaper vending machine prices- I can do all of that! I just need Prlz to power them- you should've gotten some on that last run through you did to save me! Here, I'll explain in better detail..."
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"Are they seriously still trying? Those idiots!"
"Now, now, Mirai. Getting irrational will get us nowhere. You do want make a new world order, don't you? Where everyone is happy?"
"Of course I do! The world is terrible...but here, I can make a perfect world where no one suffers. Mama...Mama will be proud of me!"
"She will. But in order to do that...you must enforce the rules and stomp out any defiant ones."
"Stomp out the chaos..."
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"You're a smart kid. Stick with me, and both of our dreams of a perfect world will come true."
"..."
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ruushes · 5 months
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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)
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loudlittleecho · 4 months
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muffinshark · 9 days
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"Proud as a peacock, but... my little love."
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ah-jiing · 8 months
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A young Wizard’s best friend.
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rokkunzenith · 6 months
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kanis-things · 2 months
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running to beat the elder brain
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wroniec · 3 months
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Mystra
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birdeedraws · 18 days
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another house tressym doodle. she takes a nap on a warm terracotta roof <3
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ankle-beez · 18 days
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Tara Strong got fired from the upcoming indie cartoon "Boxtown" for her disgustingly racist comments about Palestinians and now she's going on multiple different interviews trying to slander the show's crew and calling them antisemites. (Video after the tweet)
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If you'd like to support Boxtown and its crew on their future endeavors follow their social medias below:
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lizah-aart · 2 months
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Can't believe that Gale doesn't appreciate such a precious gift.
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@splattales​ (continued from here!)
Queenie hadn’t expected to see another human besides Vulture or Annalise, but this was a welcome surprise. Or—was it? An unseen force tugs at her shoulder, warning her to get back. Despite turning the idea over in her mind, she isn’t about to turn tail and leave.
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“Is that so?” says Queenie, though not impolitely. From the vibes she was getting, she deems it appropriate to lie. “Julia—Lady Julia, as I was once known. A pleasure to meet you, Professor Tara.”
She doesn’t offer her a handshake, but nods. “I intended to ask Vulture about his proficiency in chemistry, but if he’s not here…”
Tara returned the gesture, even bowing slightly for the supposed noblewoman. “ A pleasure to meet you as well, Lady Julia.”
Tara wasn’t too surprised about the woman not offering her hand, Tara was still trying to het rid of that pesky sticky blue ink, but her smile persists. 
Her left hand balled into a fist. tightening at Queenie’s mention of ‘Vulture’s expertise’. She carefully slides her hand behind her back, careful to not let the other see it. “Oh, Vulture would probably trip over his feet trying to do anything. He’s a bumbling idiot, and I mean that in an endearing way, fufu.” 
She brings out a cloth from her back pocket, wiping her hands down from various filths on them as she continued. “Besides, you don’t want his knowledge. He barely knows left from right. If you want an expert’s suggestion, you’ll come to me. I am the best of all the professors in the group after all...you won’t find anyone smarter.”
She waves her hand, ushering Queenie to come inside. “Come, come! Make yourself comfortable. Please excuse the mess, there was....a little incident just a day ago.”
The room seems clean, organized. Her leather coat was hanging on the back of the swivel chair, which was in parked in front of the desk. The desk was a little messy, a few papers lying around, and there were several tabs open on the computer itself. It looks as if Tara was searching for something within the database. 
There was one thing that was noticeable. To the door on the right of the desk, there were mysterious blue stains coming out from just underneath the door. The door itself was in terrible shape, looking like it had been sealed but then opened with great force. It looked to be locked at the moment. 
Tara pulls up one of numerous chairs in the corner in front of the desk, which she then took a seat at. She swept some of the papers aside, and began to fidget with what looked like a toy watch. “So. You wish to ask about chemistry, Lady Julia?”
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heheheku · 2 months
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and we’re back to silly sketches
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inquissien · 1 month
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A kitten at heart
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alinamgh · 1 month
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Gale Dekarios, extended.
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ravennowithtea · 5 months
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Thank you to everyone for your continued support this past year! 💖
I hope you all have a warm holiday season, filled with light and love, and spent with those most precious to you <3
❄️ Happy Longest Night ❄️
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