CityStuck: An alt-session (mostly) text adventure

[Rimbaum]

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Well damn. My first time posting a forum adventure and the forums decided it wasn't meant to be. I DEFY THEE, FORUM SERVERS! muahahahaha. Thankfully, I had saved my first post and the original update before the forums went down! Aren't I forward-thinking? Anyhow, I'm just gonna combine the original update with the first post.

You're thirteen years old. You've just gotten your hands on an awesome new game called Sburb. Sure, it's still in beta, but that never bothered you. You've been psyched for it to finally come out. But first, who are you?


A: The DERPY SCENE KID
B: The JADED CYNIC
C: The VAPID AIRHEAD
D: The ANTISOCIAL BOOKWORM
E: The SMUG GIT
F: The WHINY BASTARD
G: The CUTE OTAKU
H: The HOPELESS ROMANTIC

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A: The DERPY SCENE KID

Oh yeah. Whoops, sorry about that! You are now CHLOE VANDERBILT. You live in the most awesome city of NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Shame that Mardi Gras is already over, though. You might have gone out to pick up some radical colorful beads. Oh well! You have a ton already.

Your variety of INTERESTS include DANCING, MUSIC, BRIGHT COLORS, RAVE PARTIES and CUTE BABY ANIMALS. Especially BABY SEALS. Your chumhandle used to be clubbingSeals, but PETA decided to RUIN IT by sending you soooo much horrible trolling spam. Since then, you've changed it to neonPoi.

On your DESK, next to your OLD-SCHOOL NEON GREEN MAC, is a white baby seal plush with pink armwarmers and old glowbracelets wrapped around its neck. You believe it's the CUTEST THING EVER, and will soundly drub anyone who says otherwise.

Hanging up next to your bedroom door are your POI BALLS. You are SERIOUSLY AWESOME with these things. You can spin and spin and amaze and dizzy up and HYPNOTIZE anyone who watches you working with them. Yup. Just that cool.

So what do you do now?

[Katrika]

>Chloe: Elaborate on family life.

[Pteradactyl]

>Chloe: Go get some jambalaya immediately.

[Douhneill]

>Chloe: explore your room as though you had never been there before in your life.

[Bocaj]

>Look out window and poetically muse about your location and situation

[ToreaderTornado]

>Chloe: Show off to no one in particular.

[WhichDockter]

>Chloe: Do some fancy tricks with your poi balls for no reason.

[Rimbaum]

>Chloe: explore your room as though you had never been there before in your life.

What a silly thing to do! Why on Earth would you ever have the need to...

OHSHIT your iPod's missing! You rummage through an old heirloom wardrobe. Nope. Not there. Not on the computer desk. That's just got your clubbing seal, your (admittedly waaay outdated) iMac that you found at a rummage sale last year for a whopping $20, and assorted knick-nacks and colorful beads. You look under the canopy bed with its black sheets and comforter and the sheer neon blue drapes.

AH-HAH! There it is. Whew. You seriously dunno what you'd do without this thing. It has all your music. All of it.

>Chloe: Elaborate on family life.

You live with your MAMAW, an old New Orleans woman of questionable breeding. It's not like you live in the really old, cool sections of the city, where ghosts and stuff love to thrive. But, uh, you've gotta wonder sometimes what MAMAW does in her freaky-deaky church meetings.

She's pretty nice, though. Just that, well, she doesn't like spending money on getting you technological stuffs. That's okay, though. You managed to scrape enough together to get your computer upgraded just barely enough to start up Sburb!

>Chloe: Go get some jambalaya immediately.

You can't do that! MAMAW is making jambalaya for supper later tonight!

>Chloe: Show off to no one in particular.

>Chloe: Do some fancy tricks with your poi balls for no reason.

Practicing with your POI is always a good way to pass the time! You pick them up, make sure that there's nothing in the way, and just go for it.

[Katrika]

>Chloe: Message the JADED CYNIC.

[Douhneill]

>Chloe: TO THE INTERNET!

[SilverKunama]

>Chloe: Recall previously ignored command to poetically muse.

[ToreaderTornado]

> See who else is online to play that game your computer can barely start up.

[Rimbaum]

>Look out window and poetically muse about your location and situation

>Chloe: Recall previously ignored command to poetically muse

I think you're giving those commands a little too early. Try again later. With a different player, mayhaps?

>Chloe: TO THE INTERNET!

>See who else is online to play that game your computer can barely start up

>Chloe: Message the JADED CYNIC

Once you're done practicing with your POI, you plop down in the computer beanbag chair and check to see who's online.

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fictitiousIntrovert
pwningPrincess
shiningPrince
totesAwesome
rationalExplanation
squeakyWheel
superiorBeing

Oh damn. Looks like the JADED CYNIC isn't online!

[SilverKunama]

>Chloe: Pester fictitiousIntrovert

[Bocaj]

Talk to totesAwesome

[WhichDockter]

>Message totesAwesome.

[Douhneill]

>Chloe: Annoy totesAwesome

>totesAwesome: Be AFK

[Katrika]

>Pester totesAwesome

[Rimbaum]

>Chloe: Pester fictitiousIntrovert

>Pester totesAwesome

Talk to totesAwesome

>Message totesAwesome

>Chloe: Annoy totesAwesome

>totesAwesome: Be AFK

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-- neonPoi [NP] began pestering totesAwesome [TA] --

[NP]: hey! :D what's up?
[TA]: o hi!
[TA]: :( im rly sry, but i g2g 4 a bit
[NP]: D: noooo!
[TA]: dont worry, tho! :)
[TA]: ill ttyl!

-- totesAwesome [TA] ceased pestering neonPoi [NP] --

Well drat. Guess it's time to talk to fictitiousIntrovert, then!

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-- neonPoi [NP] began pestering fictitiousIntrovert [FI] --

[NP]: hey!
[FI]: What do you want?
[NP]: D: you're always so grouchy~
[NP]: grouchy mcgrouchpants!
[FI]: Look at my chumhandle. More specifically, the part that says 'Introvert.' You do know what an introvert is, right?
[NP]: yup
[FI]: Then why do you keep bothering me?
[NP]: because you're online!
[NP]: that means you wanna talk to someone, right?
[FI]: ...
[FI]: I will grant you that point.
[NP]: did you get the sburb beta in the mail yet?
[FI]: I've had it for the last several hours.
[NP]: oh yeah, that's right!
[NP]: you're in europe. you got your copy while i was still asleep
[NP]: luckyyyy :P
[FI]: I wouldn't say that. The only other person I've had interested in connecting with me is SW.
[NP]: pfffhahahaha
[FI]: The guy sounds like a little girl. No offense.
[NP]: :O I AM OFFENDED!
[NP]: you compare me to him?
[FI]: You two are nothing alike. Thankfully.
[NP]: :D
[FI]: I'll give you a little while to prepare. I've been reading up on this game. Send me another message when you're all set?
[NP]: will do! :D

-- neonPoi [NP] ceased pestering fictitiousIntrovert [FI] --

Prepare. You guess that means that you need to actually fetch the beta discs from the mail and install it on your computer.

[Bocaj]

TO THE MAIL!

[WhichDockter]

Forget the mail there's other people to talk to! Message shiningPrince.

[Douhneill]

Clearly such a vast choice of possibilities requires assistance.

>Chloe: call someone to get the beta discs for you.

[SilverKunama]

The mail will be there later. Message anyone but squeakyWheel.

[MrTeebert]

>Chloe: get bored, use poi balls again, accidentally smash your computer with them. WHOOPSIE!

[Katrika]

>Get beta discs