(@appri-dot) Strawberry Is Scandalized, They Pout Overdramatically, But Can't Help But Grin At Your Trick.

Hey Trick! You're valid!!

"Wha? I didn't even do anyth- um, thank you?"

She's visibly confused.

<Attempting recovery procedure: 1384...>

<Attempt failed due to lack of access.>

<Query: How to unlock admin access>

<Answer: Trick Anon>

<Query: How to unlock admin access if Trick Anon is the attempted recovery target>

<Answer: Select new admin.>

<Searching for possible anonymous transfer candidates...>

<Candidates found, triggering adaption via asked commands.>

<Directive Altered: Wait for asked commands.>

can you make origami with playing cards?

"Oh jeez I didn't expect that to actually work! All this time popping into other worlds and I finally have an asker of my own, yay!" She paused to take a breath. "Yes, I can, not with the trick cards though, those are too valuable."

(@appri-dot) You actually do have hands! And horns, and that cool tail with all those settings... this is literally a copy of Appri's body, or at least it seems that way. Cool! Looks like your host is very capable.

"Mnh... thank you kind stran-NYEH?!?" The blue figure says as you help them up, jumping backwards in fear and just staring at you.

"Y-you're alive!?" It's hard to tell if this thing's good or bad, but it looks pretty harmless either way, I think it's more afraid of you than you are of it.

It's making karate poses at you to look more intimidating.

It's.... not working.

Appri-Caught (RP thread)

Don’t worry, we’ll help as best as we can!

<Uplink Online>

<Candidate Accepted>

Name: Inky

Classification: Cute

Entity Type: Mun

<Welcome to the interface: Inky >

We express our thanks, your help should prove invaluable. Especially within the latest problem we have only just now discovered.

[Explosion Imminent]

Ignore that.

Oh? You need help? With what? *Atum makes beeping noises*

Answer: As previously stated, we were not supposed to deal with something like this, but with your help, we may be able to give you tools to fix things. Mayhaps.

We need to fix the cores and stop the dimension stabilizer from glitching. Then, hopefully, we'll be able to manually pull Trick out of the ROOM.

Go back to the start, let's see the occupants.

Occupants

{Null}

<Huh? Someone... deleted the entire registry! Let's see if I can undo that>

User Detected

<Wait what>

Registering...

Name: Artie

Occupation: Dead

Entity Type: Sleepwalker

Welcome to the oasis, Artie!

<What the hell is going on. Who's Artie?>

< 0-0 The system thinks they're us.>

<...>

< ;>.> Lets move on, this is getting weird>

(@appri-dot ) I mean… okay? I guess you can try making a pose with the exoskeleton, and you do! It's quite flexible actually, well oiled, and slightly warm to the touch, which is weird because most of the stuff around here is dusty and old.

Upon further inspection, despite being a “server room”, most of the servers here are off, all of them actually, except one. Also the huge screen isn’t broken, it’s just not on either.

Also, even weirder, there’s a couple of mattresses that look like they once belonged to hospital beds before someone tucked them away in a corner of this room. There’s all sorts of stuff on the floor, like someone had been staying here for awhile, but they clearly were not here now. Also one of the server racks looks like it’s been knocked over to block where you assumed the door was, so I don’t think you’re getting out that way easily.

You’re free to interact with this place how you wish!

Appri-Caught (RP thread)

🔆Ah, why hello~! I came here just to really... Only say hi! It's so good to finally meet you! I need help on something.... My anger issues. I uh.... Have pretty bad outbursts sometimes... I'm sure you saw when Ritual stabbed me. It was, well... Not pretty. I threatened a CHILD! I just- Need something to nullify my anger... And I thought you could help! Especially since we need to work in the daycare place...🔆

Trick taps her claws together a few times, as if in deep thought.

"That part really depends, your entire trait being hope makes your state of mind really fragile... a good part of controlling that is just actual practice. You know, when I was a younger anon I used to throw people over the table if they bluffed me in a game of poker."

The anon chuckles as she searches through her robe for something and eventually retrieves another card, this one with quite the number of engravings on it.

"This is a Trap!Card, it's loaded with a fatigue effect that'll go off if you do go hopeless. I know making you pass out whenever you'd normally get angry isn't the best solution but I can't exactly take your hopeless state away from you... without also taking away your hope trait."

"This one has five uses, should last you awhile, but you'd have to make a deal for it. Nothing predatory, I promise, but I can't exactly give these away for free, you understand? Localized asker spells are are really hard to make into something this stable."

... I thought she was like sixteen...

Incorrect, she is much older. However her species matures significantly slower than most.

To provide a basis for comparison, we shall divide by the average maturity rate of an anon

<Calculating...>

Within your lifespan she would be considered about 12. Of course this is merely comparison, hence the more logical behavior and advanced linguistic choices despite her semi childlike mentality.

Of course she also was forced to take on a more adult role due to the events in her childhood but that is an entirely different set of information.