Headstuck [Goodbye.]

[liquidMountain]

This is fun.

[Roselalonde]

Why are there so many FAs with with the title [bodypart]stuck? Whatever, this is cool.

[GrisHarlequin]

Why are there so many FAs with with the title [bodypart]stuck? Whatever, this is cool.

Someone should make spleenstuck.

[Nameless1]

I suspect its a play on "headstrong" I don't know why, I just have that feeling.

[HEROLogan]

I was under the assumption that eventually someone will get stuck in the Land of Heads and Ale...

[hybridHelix]

it's called headstuck because VC isn't drawing it fast enough and it's stuck in his head. i have this on good authority.

[liquidMountain]

I thought maybe it was ALL in Jason's head.

[Naristar]

Are you in Jasons head?

[vengeanceCreed]

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-- tenaciousTincture [TT] started pestering hybridHelix [HH] at 17:17 --

TT: :D HH! Hey :C
TT: :D Stop being idle :C
TT: :D Jaden McIdleton...... :C
TT: :D i found a Fourth player! :C
TT: :D HEY :C
HH: uh
HH: hey molly
HH: you did what?
TT: :D I found a fourth player! I told you id get it done... :C
HH: i keep feeling like you're mad at me at the end of every sentence.
HH: but awesome! where?
TT: :D Har har haR :C
TT: :D I just used the random Encounter button :C
HH: a wild 4th appears
TT: :D tis gonna be aaaawesomE :C
HH: so is there some kind of vetting process or something or did you just grab the first deadbeat you could find sitting around his/her computer all day?
TT: :D I will have you know that there was a long and Troublesome process involved :C
TT: :D In either case we have a 4th player so we can get this show ont he road! :C
TT: :D Namely, some random dudef rom the internet. Nothing could possibly go wrong :C
TT: :D Aagggh thiS is no time to be idling again! You needt o be more excited!!!!!! :C
HH: he's going to be my server player, isn't he.
TT: :D Yeah He agreed to go first :C
TT: :D I guess he knows aboutt he game he said hes been looking For it for a while now :C
HH: am i going to die ._.;?
HH: you know what, forget it.
HH: no matter how bad he is, it can't be worse than here.
HH: forget i said anything.
TT: :D Oh har har. You can't die from video games!!!! :C
HH: right.
TT: :D Were gonna have fuN! :C
TT: :D Rrrrr. Cookies not responding again. Did yout alk to her recently :C
HH: oh
HH: no actually
HH: i'll try though
HH: so what do we know about this 4th player guy? did you get any information?
TT: :D well no, I mean we needed a fourth player and he seemed eager enough :C
TT: :D If hes really bad hopefully itll just let usk ick him out after we get starteD :C
HH: can we do that? i mean, it won't let us start without him. doesn't that mean i wouldn't have a server player?
TT: :D hmm :C
TT: :D I'll figure something out! :C
HH: you got it
TT: :D ThatS right I do! :C
HH: lol. brewed anything good lately? you're still the first place i plan on going if i ever get out of here.
TT: :D Always! Didnt you say You lived pretty close by? :C
HH: yeah, you could say that.
TT: :D Har har har so mysteriouS :C
HH: you might as well be in freaking australia for all the good it'll do me, but yeah.
HH: ok, i'm gonna go bug miss cookie. let me know when we're starting this up.
TT: :D okay, wev'e got a little while before he finishes DLing so Im gonna got ake care of some stuff. :C
TT: :D Hope you don't gett oo wrapped up in your Experiments before we play! :C
HH: ....ugh.

-- tenaciousTincture [TT] ceased pestering hybridHelix [HH] at 17:25 --

==> HH: Pester SM.

[vengeanceCreed]

Try as you might, you can’t seem to get Cookie to respond. She must be REARRANGING THE DIMENSIONS AND APPEARANCE OF HER BEDROOM again. You have a difficult time getting your head around exactly what she means by that, particularly the ‘dimensions’ part, but whatever. You’ve seen some pretty crazy stuff.

You are not really the type to pull NAMING SHENANIGANS, so we will simply introduce you as though we were introducing someone who already has a name. Ugh. That was so awkwardly worded.

You are now feeling intensely awkward.

This is actually not too unusual.

>

[vengeanceCreed]

Your name is JADEN TOBIAS. Your birthday is not so soon, but apparently no one's is except for THAT ONE GUY so whatever. You would think by this point in the narrative the mention of your birthday would stop being included as part of introductions since it's CLEARLY NOT INTEGRAL TO THE STORY BEING TOLD but whatever.

Your interests include PAINTING and CONSPIRACY THEORIES, and also NOT BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN A SECRET LABORATORY FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES. Because you are, in fact, being held hostage in a secret laboratory. For experimental purposes. No, for real. That's actually a fact. Your favorite things to paint are OTHER PEOPLE. Not really portraits, since that would involve other people being around in person, but it is nice to reflect on the life you once had through your memory of the faces of others. Also, new people you've never met because you JUST MADE THEM UP. You are particularly proud of the painting over your computer desk, which is of a PLACE YOU DID NOT MAKE UP except in the sense that you dream about it constantly. You do not have conversations with your people paintings, no matter how badly you want to.

Despite being HELD HOSTAGE IN A SECRET LABORATORY FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES you are allowed unrestricted Internet access because who the hell is going to believe you if you go on the Internet and tell people you're being held hostage in a secret laboratory for experimental purposes? So you have made some Internet friends, and they help to keep you sane. You are not actually that excited to play this SBURB thing you got ahold of, especially after the vague conversation you overheard which made it sound KINDA WEIRD, but video games do provide a nice escape from the monotony and occasional freakout terror of your lab rat life.

Your chumhandle is hybridHelix and a lot of things really freak you out. this possibly includes capitalization but it is not a topic that usually comes up so you can't be sure. but also capitalization. ._.

You might also be just a tad on the unlucky side.

> What will you do?

[djinn]

> Examine your greatest masterpiece!

I love this character.

[HEROLogan]

>Taste your paint!

[Legendary]

>Take a nap to distract yourself from your problems.

[Naristar]

paint something new!

[Jolt]

>exposit on the kind of experiments you are put through in this underground lab.

[TheFinalWraith]

Smile and wave at the camera.

[djinn]

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Congrats on your graduation to the main forum |

[liquidMountain]

It deserves it.

Anyway, make standard daily scream for help.

[whimsicalGuru]

Pssssst. Creeeeeeeed. I'm drawing some fanart of this awesomeness. It's my favorite adventure on here. Just letting you know. Hehe. ;D

>REMINISCE ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSSSS
>Talk to your imaginary friend about your feelings...

[vengeanceCreed]

Smile and wave at the camera.

The cameras are always there. They watch you pretty much around the clock. You’re actually not certain whether that’s true or not, but assuming they are seems like a pretty safe bet. After all, video can just be recorded with the press of a button, and watched later on if something happens: one of those many SAFEGUARDS to PREVENT YOU FROM ESCAPING. Someone doesn’t necessarily need to be sitting there watching what’s going on, although you always get a weird feeling that MAD SCIENTIST FELLOW whom you always see spends a lot of time watching whatever monitor that video feed ends up on.

He seems like a really weird guy. Mostly because he is always saying totally random stuff that doesn’t seem to make any sense to anyone, specifically his coworkers and you. Also he always carries a piece of VERY STRONG-SMELLING CHEESE in his breast pocket. Regardless, it just seems like something he would totally do. You would hesitate to call him your GUARDIAN in any way, shape, or form, since he doesn’t stop the experiments from happening (in fact, he facilitates WAY more than he actually prevents), but he has been there as long as you can remember and far more often than any of the other SCIENTEERS and it’s kind of weird.

> Exposit on the kind of experiments you are put through in this underground lab.

[vengeanceCreed]

>exposit on the kind of experiments you are put through in this underground lab.

You have been HELD HOSTAGE IN A SECRET LABORATORY FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES for the better part of a year now. If escaping by mundane means were possible (look at you thinking phrases like ‘mundane means’ to yourself, as if you have any grasp of what other means there might be..!) you would have done it a long time ago.

The experiments are a real grab bag, and generally never very fun with a couple of exceptions every now and then. You spend about as much time pushing levers, pulling buttons, and TAKING TESTS BIZARRELY REMINISCENT OF ONLINE ‘WHAT <BLAH> ARE YOU?’ QUIZZES as you do testing what seems to be HIGHLY ESOTERIC TECHNOLOGY. Following each test is a battery of medical testing. That is really your least favorite part of all. If you considered everyone who’s handled your blood to be family, there would be a HUGE fucking gathering for the holidays.

> Examine your greatest masterpiece!

[vengeanceCreed]

> Examine your greatest masterpiece!

You examine your DREAMSCAPE PAINTING.

You don't know what this place is called, but you have been having lucid dreams there for years. Mostly you wander around and do whatever you please (which has helped more than you realize in keeping your sanity), and there are lots of nice bug people who seem to think you’re REALLY AWESOME.

It's been explained to you that recurring dreams aren't unusual for those who have endured extraordinary trauma, but you have your fair share of bad dreams, too. There's something different about this place.

At certain times you think of it as a nice escape from the waking nightmare your life has been.

> Paint something new.

(( AUTHOR'S NOTE: This painting [as with all the paintings in the room] was made by hybridHelix's player! ))

[vengeanceCreed]

paint something new!

Wow, okay, that took a while. Thanks to DISCOUNT TIME SHENANIGANS we are presently in the present where you have already finished something new. You failed to actually paint anything; painting takes a reeeally long time, and you decided to take the more practical route and sketch your idea out first.

Sketching first takes much less time and lets you sort of preview the composition and sort out details beforehand because PAINTING WITH OILS IS HARD AS FUCK and takes goddamn forever. The level of detail you felt you had to achieve in order to satisfactorily translate the image you saw in a cloud in a dream onto paper is what made the sketch take so long in this case. It’s actually surprising that you remembered it this vividly. It feels like the more you thought about it, the more bizarrely in focus the image became.

In either case, art is not something you can simply whip up in a few short lines of exposition. Particularly this little doodle which you are quite happy with even though it portrays a totally random dead guy with whom you are completely unfamiliar and whom you have never met and will NEVER MEET. As you understand there is NO POSSIBLE WAY this image could ever HAUNT YOUR FUTURE, which only makes sense because it is just SOME RANDOM BULLSHIT YOU SAW IN YOUR CRAZY GOLDEN DREAM LAND. By which, of course, we mean that you have no real understanding of why you see these things. You are pretty sure you’re losing your mind like whoa.

Great success.

> Take a nap to distract yourself from your problems.

(( AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ahhhhh! Holy crap. :O Thank you all so much for your kind words, and a BIG MCLARGEHUGE "You're Awesome!" to hybridHelix for creating all of Jaden's paintings and sketches!

I'll be dropping two more updates today, after which the story will be open to suggestions once again. ))

[hybridHelix]

(( "doc, i keep seeing dead guys in clouds in my dreams. is that normal?" ))