Reality Stack.

[K25fF]

PROLOGUE: LAYER ZERO, LABYRINTH.



Person: INV
Level: Zero.
Health: 10/10
PMesh: 111 - A
AGE: Yes.

Current Layer: 0
Current Activity: Loitering.

And now you've got that all out of the way, is there anything you want to do?

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Attempted making this thing before, it failed miserably, and here we are! With a more indicative title, better art and so forth.
I hope it'll be more successful this time.

[PersonPerson]

Dance. Headbutt some walls. Jump on stuff.

[sonic3535]

> Show us the rest of the room
> INV: stand for Isaac Nathaniel Viewerson
> Take inventory
> Retrive eyes from behind that wall
> Explore

[Naristar]

Look for hair

[K25fF]

Dance.

You don't think you can dance. Dancing's for competent people.

Headbutt some walls.

Damage sustained.
Health: 9/10
Regen: 0.5t^-1

Ow.

> INV: stand for Isaac Nathaniel Viewerson

Jump on stuff.

> Show us the rest of the room

Moniker aquired. Character limit exceeded. Reset.

The name didn't take.

You are now standing on a thing.
This is what the rest of the room looks like. It's on the outer areas of the Labyrinth, which almost all looks like a featureless, grey set of rooms. Apart from the Utter Edges.

> Retrive eyes from behind that wall

Look for hair

> Explore

> Take inventory

Inventory:
Clothes (equipped).
Janus Key.

Search 'Hair'. Search 'Eyes'.

Searching...

Neither found.

You're surprisingly bereft of anything useful.
Instead of bemoaning your possesionless state, you wander through a set of completely identical corridors, looking for anything interesting.

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Thank you for the many suggestions.

[stagnantAntler]

>look for clues

[PersonPerson]

Roll through the corridors.
Bump into something important.

[Naristar]

Look out the black rectangle

[K25fF]

Look out the black rectangle

>look for clues

You look directly into an Inbetween. It's a link between the Layers, and basically permeates everwhere that reality can't be bothered to go. It's what the Janus Key is for.

Does that count as a clue?

Roll through the corridors.
Bump into something important.

You find someone else's Janus Key.

That's definitely a find.

Why's it so much better than yours?

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Ooooh, cosmology.
Annoyingly, this guy isn't an endless well of exposition.

[Naristar]

Eat the Key it will then be with you always

[PersonPerson]

This^

[K25fF]

Eat the Key it will then be with you always

This^

Edibility: Dubious.

Eh, what the heck.





CHAPTER ONE: LAYER MINUS ONE, BITTER.



... You're somewhere new.

Odd.

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Curiouser and curiouser...

[PersonPerson]

Examine stuff coming out of wall.
See if it's edible.
Eat it even if it's not.

[Naristar]

go backwards and see if where you started has changed

[K25fF]

Examine stuff coming out of wall.
See if it's edible.
Eat it even if it's not.

Analysis: Gremlin Tar.
Recommendation: Inedible, toxic.

Ew. It's the slime where gremlins come out of the walls. And no, you're not eating the poison. You have a bad reaction to poison.

go backwards and see if where you started has changed

It has a bit.

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New character discovered! 2/7 characters found!

[PersonPerson]

Kick them in the face and steal their hat.

[K25fF]

Kick them in the face and steal their hat.

Hat: Incompatible Chroma.
Unequipable.

Stupid Chroma system.

Ow. That's my hat.

Also, you woke it up with the face kickings.

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Talkings!

[tiresiasArchivist]

Apologize.

[PersonPerson]

Eat the hat.
Apologize while running away.

[Naristar]

Ask why the hell he was sleeping

[K25fF]

Eat the hat.
Apologize while running away.

Hat incompatible. Wrong Chroma.

Aaaaaaargh!

Ask why the hell he was sleeping

Apologize.

You give it its hat back.

Erm... Sorry for stealing your hat and kicking you in the face. That was probably wrong.
Eh. S'alright. You just woke me up, is all.
Why were you sleeping? This is a negative Layer! Monsters come out of the walls!
In positive layers, monsters come out of the walls too. It's a reactant to the prescence of unaligned trails left behind by Janus Key operators. And I was sleeping because I was sleepy.

[Naristar]

is his name ace?

[PersonPerson]

Fall asleep mid-conversation.

[causticlyOptimitious]

> Inv: That's probably his key you picked up. Return it.
> Ace: Take inventory. Change out of your pajamas.

[K25fF]

is his name ace?

Fall asleep mid-conversation.

Are you called Ace?
It's not really a name. More like a descriptor. Or a shortened descriptor. But yes, my moniker is-
Ace?
Zzzzzz...
Aw, come on!

> Inv: That's probably his key you picked up. Return it.

Hey! I think this is your Key!
Oh? It is. Thanks.
It's better than mine.
One Janus Key is very much like another. They have the same source, after all.

> Ace: Take inventory. Change out of your pajamas.

Inventory:
Clothes (equipped).
Janus Key.

You don't have anything other than your pyjamas.

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It's another inventory system! It's almost like all the systems will be like this!