DETERMIBENT (Text Adventure) [COMPLETE]

> SOMEONE: Create the FREAKY CAT.

You are now a SHADOWY MEMBER of the GROUP designed to END THE WAR by any means POSSIBLE, several YEARS in the past.

It is questionable if this section of time is even possible, but we'll just ignore that for now.

You use some RELATED PROTOTYPING INFORMATION received from the furthest ring, data representing TWO of the FOUR towers from what is believed to be the FUTURE of this SESSION.

Using that information, your MUTATION LABS create a TEST RUN of a WAR WEAPON. Derse has been rumored to be seeking creatures like this for a while now, so why not PROVIDE them one that will maul them the moment it gets out of their hands?

The MUTANT CAT is created, and almost nearly DESTROYS THE METEOR LAB in its EXPLOSIVE BIRTH.

> FREAKY CAT: Fastforward to now.

The cat stays in DERSE PRISON for SEVERAL YEARS before ESCAPING TO EARTH, riding a METEOR that will leave it SEVERAL DAYS before a PAIR OF BIRTHDAYS. There, the FREAKY CAT tests its limits by KILLING A RANDOM DOG. And then another, and then YET ANOTHER. Finally, it rigs a DEATH BY CAR for one of the player's DOG.

It then leaves, heading NORTH-EAST to the NEW YORK STATE, where it then STEALS the BODY of JASPERS THE CAT, and then leaves it somewhere UNKNOWN before going BACK OUT WEST where it DROPS A TV on a girl's FATHER.

She GROWLS, scaring the CAT away into the BACK YARD, where it then UPENDS a TON OF DIRT from the yard for no real reason other than to GET AT THE CORPSE of the DOG that it killed.

It STEALS AWAY with that one too.

As for the why? Nobody knows. We cannot BE THE CAT, it is TOO FREAKY.

> DAVE: Examine RING.

You examine the BROKEN RING. This thing is TRYING to accept the THIRD PROTOTYPING, but due to the damage PREVIOUSLY SUSTAINED, it isn't working. Probably for the best, given what it did to the BATTLEFIELD and SKAIA.

> DAVE: Toss the RING FORGE-WARD.

You've unearthed enough MEMORIES to know that's one of the LAST THINGS you do in a session. You'll just keep this useless piece of junk in your sylladex until then. No sense JUMPING TO THE END without a good reason. Best to just ROLL WITH THE FLOW of things.

> JADE: Try to install SBURB CLIENT.

The GAME DISK seems to be running fine. Maybe you PATCHED IT well enough?

You'll have to wait and find out if you got it working or not once the game actually starts.

>DAVE: retrieve SBURB SERVER DISK

At some point in your time traveling, you ask your Bro to SAFELY remove the DISK from the XBONE.

He pries the TOP OFF, and gains access to the DISK.

You take it and check it for damage...

The PRINTED TOP is a little scratched up, but that shouldn't damage the disks' contents any. Right? It's usually just the SHINY BOTTOM SIDE that causes trouble, isn't it?

Either way, you INSTALL THE SERVER.

>DAVE: Prepare for Trouble

While you're waiting for the game to install, you PESTER ARGO.

TG: yo
AC: ya?
TG: put jades dreamself onto her slab, plx thx
AC: why?
TG: just... call it a hunch
TG: or me being paranoid
TG: but after seeing that fourth tower get bowled over by that meteocat....
TG: LOOK, JUST PUT JADE ON THE FRIGGING DEATH SLAB, OKAY!?
AC: ._. way to break out the caps but okay i will
AC: geeze, fine, mr super paranoid, shes on the slab BPP
AC: things can't go THAT wrong, can they? B||
TG: thank you mrs murphy shrodinger
TG: thank you for tempting fate so wonderfully

Nope. Beatrice is STILL ALIVE, last we saw. The CAT seems to have a fondness for DEAD THINGS.

((IF I get more commands after this post, i'll work the above two into the next command post, if I don't get anything, I'll just edit them into this post and/or make a new post tomorrow/tonight whatever comes first.))

> DAVE + JADE: CONNECT.

TG: yo, jade
TG: connecting to you so you can get into the game next
GG: k!

>{S} JADE: ENTER

SBURB renders its final connection screens and-

GG: huh! that's weird.
TG: you meant there was a faint flicker of static on your screen too?
GG: yeah
TG: shit
TG: lets hope this doesnt crash and burn on us

>DAVE: Deploy everything

You do that but you almost lose the PRE PUNCHED CARD to the mouse FREEZING UP and nearly sticking it into a wall.

You aren't sure if that's YOUR PROBLEM or not.

>JADE: worry about dad

You pull your dad onto the couch as Dave REMOVES THE TV, and places a TOTEM LATHE down in its place. Infront of the FRONT DOOR, he places the CRUXTRUDER.

The ALCHEMITER is going upstairs on the balcony.

You take the moment to BREAK OPEN the Cruxtruder lid the moment its dropped.

No KERNEL SPRITE emerges. The clock says you have EIGHT HOURS, EIGHTTY EIGHT MINUTES, and EIGHTY EIGHT SECONDS, and does not count down at all.

What the FUCK?!

TG: okay fuck
TG: thats not right
TG: you didnt do something stupid with your disk like i did with mine did you?
GG: ...maybe >_>
TG: SHIT.

>JADE: get CRUXITE DOWEL

You do that, and use it and the CARD in conjunction with the LATHE to make a CARVED TOTEM.

You then take it and race upstairs with a hope and a prayer.

As you emerge out onto the balcony, the CAT appears on top of the ALCHEMITER.

You growl at it as you throw the dowel to the side.

>DAVE: Catch totem

You snatch the totem before it gets lost overboard, and you throw it instead onto the ALCHIMETER while Jade jumps at the cat with a ROAR.

The ALCHEMITER SCANS the TOTEM.

>FATE: be TEMPTED.

A METEOR appears in the skies above your house.

You don't care. You're going to SKIN THAT CAT ALIVE.

You pin the cat to the ground and start trying your best to KILL THE DAMNED THING.

The Alchimeter cannot render the ENTRY ITEM while you're on the platform, so you ROLL OFF OF IT, and then the CAT ZAPS YOU straight onto the rooftop.

You're free rolling suddenly towards the ground when Dave EXTENDS part of the house to catch your fall.

You engage your STRIFE SPECIBUS and withdraw a SHOVEL.

You start swinging it with MURDEROUS INTENT.

The CAT just keeps teleporting you across the house with each dodge of the swing.

STOP IT. STOP. STOP. STOP TELEPORTING. STOP STOP JUST. NO. STOP IT.

>DAVE: Drop Book on Cat

You grab a SUFFICIENTLY HEAVY LOOKING BOOK from the nearest BOOKSHELF and DROP IT ontop of the CAT when it makes a TELEPORTATION again.

It gets squashed under the sheer girth of COLONEL SASACRE'S DAUNTING TEXT.

FINALLY!

>JADE: give it what for

You make sure to DRIVE THE POINT HOME by impaling the shovel into, and through the book hard enough to hit the WOOD FLOOR underneath.

You get another ELECTRIC SHOCK for your troubles, this one sending you flying across the room with enough force to crack the wall you hit.

As YOUR HOUSE fades to BLACK, you suddenly sit up as your DREAM SELF as you feel the effects of two near lethal doses of ELECTRICITY in one night, along with the impact of hitting a WALL.

>ENTRY ITEM: ACTIVATE

Unfortunately, the Entry Item is but a SKULL. It cannot do much of anything on its own...

Unfortunate, indeed, because that even if the WITCH had not just died from her strife with the FREAKY CAT, the EXTRA LARGE METEOR would finish her off mere moments later.

Which it does, because the DIGNITARY had set off that Chekhov's gun to go off without a hitch.

The HOUSE is CRUSHED, the ENTRY has FAILED.

>DAVE: Abandon Ship

You TIME TRAVEL away from your house, and make your way to ARGO'S in a SUPER HURRY.

You arrive just in time to find Jade waking up, groaning in pain as her Dreamself starts to DIE.

ARGO: dave!? what happened? why is she hurting so much!?
DAVE: fucking god cat decided to get the last laugh and electrocuted her so she cant escape the meteor
JADE: nnnmmhh..
DAVE: NO! Jade! Stay on the fucking death slab please!!
JADE: wha--?
ARGO: you mean her real self is dead!?
ARGO: or- about to be!? I GUESS???
ARGO: why didn't you DO ANYTHING!?
DAVE: i am!
DAVE: jade, please close your eyes.
JADE: whuuu...??
JADE: ok...
DAVE: this is going to hurt just a little bit and then it'll all be over okay?
JADE: mmh...

Mercifully, she closes her eyes.

You take out one of your more RECENTLY ALCHEMIZED WEAPONS and-

Argo looks away.

Good girl.

The ROOM is filled with a GLORIOUS GREEN LIGHT- nothing MUTAGENIC, RADIOACTIVE, OR CRYSTALINE in nature. Just... LIFE ENERGY at its finest and purest. The simple manifestation of SPACE as the WITCH ASCENDS in the most fucking stupid way to ENTER A GAME EVER.

As the light fades you hear a cat meowing.

And then JADE starts BARKING and- welp, she just ran off to chase whatever was making that cat sound. You got a pretty good look at her and, yeah... you think Jade's dreamself's DOGGY TRAITS kept themselves across the GOD TIERRING.

Why didn't you think of that?

> BEATRICE: Meow loudly.

You meow LOUDLY. So LOUDLY that the person who TOOK YOU has no choice but to come into the room and PICK YOU UP.

And she does. She's got bleached white hair with a GREEN SPIRAL in it.

What's this lady's name, you wonder?

> ENTER NAME

You are now ROXY LALONDE, and you've just done the stupidest thing EVER in the history of stupid things.

You have just CATNAPPED your OLDER ALT-UNIVERSE SELF'S CAT via APPEARIFYER.

You are SO SCREWED.

Who knows what kind of PARADOXES you might have just caused.

SHIT. DAMNIT. FUUUUUUUU-----

Just what are you going to do with this cat now? You look at the feisty little gal in your arms.

Well, you'll give her a name... wait, no, she's got a collar, you check it and find this cat is named BEATRICE. Well, that's... not what you'd name a cat but okay fine.

Well, besides kidnapping already named cats, what are you going to do?

> ROXY: Go PESTER your CHUMS.

- technoGal [TG] opened MEMO "CAT!!" on BOARD "Please Advise Me!" @4:18 P.M. -

TG: GUYS.
TG: hdge prob;lem,
TG: HUGFE PROBLEM
TG: HUGE EVEN.

- temporallyTranslinear [TT] replied to MEMO -

TT: Does this have anything to do with a Cat by any chance?
TG: YES

- greenGrapevine [GG] replied to MEMO -

GG: Roxy, since when did you have a cat?
TG: since one fucking minute ago thats wen!

- genuineTakeonset [GT] replied to MEMO -

GT: I can't be on long, only got five minutes left on break, what's the problem?
TG: i accidentall apperifried a CAT from my alt selfs house
TT: What is Cat's Name?
TG: beatrice!
GG: That's a beautiful name. Roxy!
GT: Agreed, but can't you send Beatrice back?
TG: the machine won't let me!
TG: it keeps giving me this error about 'unable to lock onto temporal coordz'
TG: wtf is that supposed to mean
TT: I would assume it means the point you're trying to lock on to doesn't exist any more.
TG: okay so i cant sent her back so WHAT NOW!?!?!
GT: Oh shoot I have to go, the director's throwing a right on fit about something!
GT: My vote is keep her!

- genuineTakeonset [GT] left the MEMO -

GG: Jake's.... busy life aside, I think he has the right idea.
GG: If you can't send the cat back then keep her.
TT: Alternative:
TT: If you want, you can send her to me and I can take her off your hands.
TG: NO!
GG: NO!
TG: no offense dirky but your island home aint exactly the 'safest' place for CATS!
GG: Yeah, That. Dot Gif.
GG: Poor Dear Sweet Precious Beatrice would be eaten alive the moment she set foot in your house!
TT: Your loss, Ellie's been looking for a playmate.
TT: She seems to tolerate cats, at any rate.
TT: We haven't lost any of the island's population to her or the others.
GG: YET.
TG: yet is the key word there dirky
TT: Roxy, I understand your rejection. You've formed an emotional bond already.
TT: But Jane? I am shocked and dismayed.
TT: What would ever give you the belief that any animal I lived with would be killed in such a violent manner?
GG: Maybe, Dirk, it's the fact that you live at JURASSIC FUCKING WORLD???
TT: Fair Point.
TT: Counter Point:
TT: We have the Dinosaurs on a very strict diet. Even Ellie has her dietary needs and Cats are not on the menu.
TG: dirky, ellie is adorbs as fuk but i wouldnt let anything with that many teeth near my beatrice!
TT: See? The decision is already made. You're protective. You're keeping the goddamned alt-verse cat no matter what.

- temporallyTranslinear [TT] left the MEMO -

GG: Remind me why we're friends with him, again?
TG: because we get supah vip passes to jurassic world and get to go behind the scenes unlike most people?
GG: Ah, yeah, that would be why, wouldn't it.
GG: Sometimes it amazes me the friends we've made.
GG: A rising movie star and the son a prominent geneticist.
GG: How did we get so lucky?
TG: hell if i know.
GG: Shall we move on to a private message then, and close this board?
TG: yah that seems like a good idea

- technoGal [TG] closed MEMO "CAT!!" on BOARD "Please Advise Me!" @4:23 P.M. -

> ==>

You're about to go PESTER JANE when A WILD CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN APPEARS!

>Roxy: PESTER JANE

You continue being ROXY and PESTER JANE.

- technoGal [TG] began pestering greenGrapevine [GG] @4:23 P.M. -

TG: i rly hope alt me isnt too sad about my swipin my cat from myself
GG: I'm sure she'll understand.
GG: Maybe she'll pick up the same memories you have?
TG: maybeh
TG: you wonder if she ever made somethin of herself like ive been doin this time around?
GG: Since I don't have as much insight into this whole 'reset universe' situation,
GG: (much less any real memories to speak of despite your attempts at helping me remember... which may be a good thing considering what you do remember of it all :B)
GG: I would wadger... she probably has?
GG: I can't imagine you not making a killing creating outlandish objects out of thin air!
TG: the voidy hax are boss and i cannot lie, all hatas cant deny
TG: also beatrice seems to really like my scarf!
GG: Ooo! Picture please?

- technoGal [TG] sent file [beatricebeadear.png] -

GG: Awww! She is adorable!
TG: defs my cat
TG: she knows ho w2 get my attension
TG: *attention
TG: imma makin so many typos 2fday cause of her
TG: keepos nudgin my arm and i keep hittin the wrong ksus
TG: ....whole buncha goddamed tpyos.
GG: It's okay, Roxy.
GG: We've all been there sometimes!
GG: Even Dirk, as much as he hates to admit it.
TG: well duh
TG: dirks gotta act all cool 2 impress the bossez relse they take ellie away
GG: It is amazing how one person being in the right place at the right time can make all the difference in the world.
GG: I still find it hard to believe a "Take your Son to Work Day" resulted in Dirk imprinting on a genetically modified hybrid!
TG: i just feel sad that he only got to keep the sick one
TG: poor big sis elise stuck away being poked an prodded
TG: i wanna go and voidy pop her outa there but i know dirkll get in trouble if i do that
GG: Also you as well!
GG: Dirk's latest report on the sibling was... disturbing to say the least.
GG: Elise's Hyper accelerated growth compared to Ellie's is just the tip of the proverbial ice berg about to hit this Titanic.
GG: AH! But enough about Dirk's problems.
GG: I suppose you'll just void up some catfood and a bed for Beatrix?
TG: not a bad idea janey.
TG: not bad at all.
TG: ...if i geta chance to focus without lil trixy here messin witme
GG: :B

> ROXY: VOID up some CATFOOD and a BED for BEATRIX.

You get up from your TECHNO LAB DESK which contains your COMPUTER, SENDIFICIATOR, and APPEARIFYER. None of it is CROCKERTECH. A few years ago you did the VOIDY THING and pulled your MEMORIES of another life from the brink of non existance.

Of course, you told your friends, and went and started re-learning those powers to MAKE A LIVING for yourself.

One of the first things you made was the LARGE COZY BED in the center of your room. You climb up on it and MEDITATE, focusing on voiding up a BUNCH OF CAT FOOD AND A CAT BED.

Yeah, this could take a while.

Let's be someone else, shall we?

Back to the character select screen and...

Okay, let's be JAKE!

>Be Jake: Examine Room

You are now JAKE ENGLISH (That's your stage name. Your real name is JAKE HARLEY.)

You're not in a room right now, you're out in the street formed by the multiple TRAILERS that are parked here for the CAST AND CREW of the MOVIE SET you're on.

The DIRECTOR is throwing a RIGHT ON FIT about something ruining the footage you'd filmed earlier this morning. What's it he's talking about now?

Mmmrh. Sounds like someone dropped a microphone boon into the shot and he's rather upset about missing it until now.

This too could go on for a while. Be someone else?

>Be Dirk: Examine Room.

You are now DIRK STRIDER. You are in your BEDROOM / NESTING OBSERVATORY. It's really just a TEMPORARY BEDROOM, being that you weren't meant to be living here full time, but ELLIE whines and has a hard time sleeping when you're NOT HERE.

The whole room is essentially a concrete box with a single GLASS WALL that observes ELLIE'S ENCLOSURE. It's not anything fancy like the PADDOCKS most dinosaurs at JURASSIC WORLD life in, but neither is it the HORRIBLE BOX that ELISE lives in either. The enclosure seems EMPTY right now, but that's just ELLIE playing hide and seek. She likes to TURN INVISIBLE and HIDE FROM THE CAMERAS, forcing you to go in there and find her personally.

You have a few POSTERS on the walls, inbetween the OBSERVATION MONITORS and your PERSONAL COMPUTER. You've got BOOKSHELVES, though. Bookshelves for DAYS. You pick up one of your REWRITTEN PONY PALS BOOKS and leaf through its PASTED OVER PAGES for nostalgia's sake.

You've been teaching Ellie to READ and WRITE, for a lack of anything better to do with a dinosaur that smart.

Ellie is an INDOMINUS REX, one of Jurassic World's first GENETICALLY MODIFIED HYBRIDS- well, they're all HYBRIDS, but the I-REX is one of the first ones that never had PREHISTORIC FOSSIL to be birthed from. Your DAD, DAVE STRIDER, is one of the scientists who WORKED ON THE I-REX PROJECT, and he had you in the lab with the two SIBLINGS HATCHED. The smaller of the two, ELLIE, imprinted on you, and the IN-GEN scientists let you KEEP HER while they took ELISE, who was more physically healthy.

It's probably for the best that they were separated. ELISE got the full ACCELERATED GROWTH treatment that ELLIE apparently missed receiving. It's been about FOUR MONTHS now since they were both born, and ELISE is already TWICE THE SIZE of her sister, and set to TRIPPLE before this month is out.

She's also gotten very AGGRESSIVE, and that's not for a lack of your brother's attempts at training. ELISE is just as smart as ELLIE, but in a very obviously more SADISTIC WAY. You've had nightmares of ELISE eating her sister in alternate timelines where you never got to keep ELLIE. It'd be a very real possibility, given their drastically different GROWTH RATES.

Speaking of ELLIE, you should probably go down there and find her before she comes up to the door and tries to break in again.

That could take a while. Be someone else?

>Be Jane: Examine Room

You are now JANE EGBERT. Your room is nothing special. It's just a bedroom. You've got POSTERS and BOOKSHELVES, a bed and A COMPUTER.

What will you do?

>Jane: Be a plain Jane.

> JANE: Check calendar

It's DECEMBER 15th, 2015. Dirk says that in the few days just before Christmas there's going to be a PEER REVIEW by the INVESTORS into the INDOMINUS PROJECT. You hope he gets to keep ELLIE. It would just be sad if they got separated after this long together.

If he doesn't, at least you'll be there for COMFORT.

>Jane: Be a plain Jane.

Jokery puns aside, you live a FAIRLY MUNDANE LIFE compared to your OTHER FRIENDS. You're not related to ANYONE IMPORTANT or do anything SPECIAL at all. During the summer months you MAINTAIN A GRAPE GARDEN, but since it's winter, you don't have that hobby right now. Just about the only thing that could be said to be EXTRAORDINARY about you is that you are SEVERAL GRADES above other people in your age group, and as such, you don't have any CLASSES or HOMEWORK until FEBRUARY. It helps that your grandmother was a COLLEGE LEVEL PROFESSOR, you suppose.

The only bit of excitement right now is that you're currently PACKING for a trip to ISLA NUBLAR. You and your DAD will be arriving EARLY and staying well until past NEW YEARS, and ROXY and JAKE will be arriving sometime in that time frame as well. It's the first time you four will be able to get time to yourselves since Jake's current FILMING SCHEDULE began. He'll be doing a few last scenes on the island itself- something about filming the EPILOGUE and PROLOGUE at the same time, and then he should be DONE with FILMING for the next few weeks.

Roxy plans on handing out some GAME DISKS she pulled from the void during that trip too. Says it'd be more fun as a late Christmas present. You have your suspicions that these are the same SBURB DISKS that END THE WORLD that Roxy remembers from her PAST LIFE. If they are, you're tempted to tell Roxy just to not do it. LIFE IS GOOD for most of you here. Playing a WORLD ENDING GAME just seems like a needless addition to your lives.

You don't know what Roxy's RUSH is; and just saying it's because your SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY is coming up this April isn't much of an excuse to you.

Too many people are rushing and fussing and being BUSY BODIES these days, you think. Why do people want to push everything as fast and as hard as possible? It's like the people who play ONLINE MMOS and HIT MAX LEVEL after a solid DAY of grinding for no other reason than to just hit max level and have no sense of progression through the rest of the game.

This is something that's really BUGGED YOU when you first started playing this ONE GAME that came out LAST YEAR around the same time as your BIRTHDAY. People kept skipping past the story and grinding to max level within the first week. Seriously, what is with people trying to rush everything? Then they complained about the game progression being super buggy and- no, that was just YOU PEOPLE who DIDN'T PLAY THE GAME RIGHT. The Game is about the JOURNEY, not the REACHING MAX LEVEL ASAP.

You decided to TAKE IT SLOW AND STEADY and NOT RUSH and you've had SO MUCH MORE FUN that way. You wish more people would just COOL THEIR JETS and take things SLOWER. Even ELISE's accelerated growth rate concerns you. Dinosaurs should NOT GROW UP THAT FAST. Take it from someone who skipped a BUNCH OF SCHOOL GRADES- skipping ahead to the very ending as fast as possible is no fun at all. In fact, it's more than likely enough to cause more problems than good.

> JANE: Examine POSTERS.

Most of these are PROMOTIONAL MOVIE POSTERS that your friend JAKE has starred in to one degree or another. He usually picks up a bunch of them for you all just before a movie comes out. At first it was just a cute thing when he was a background kid extra and he wasn't even on the posters, but once his popularity picked up and "JAKE ENGLISH" started to become known internationally, he started getting bigger and better roles.

Jake agreed that it's ODD having posters with your friend's FACE staring at you from all angles, though, so the ones where he's front and center end up out in the hallways more often than not. Besides, you like the ones where he was just starting out the BEST, because they're a bit more sentimental.

Besides that, you have a LALONDE ALCHEMY poster- which is ROXY'S Void-Making-Weird-Shit company's logo done up in a SPRAY PAINT GRAFFITI STYLE for the sake of PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN- and a few JURASSIC WORLD posters, which DIRK sends whenever JW MARKETING comes up with something new, but the campaign isn't set to launch for another few weeks or something.

It lets you feel AHEAD OF THE TIMES.

A few weeks ago, Dirk sent you a PHOTOSHOPED MOCK UP he made himself, this one is just a SUPER HIGH QUALITY PICTURE of ELLIE being ADORABLE while poking her head out of one of Dirk's IRONIC SWEATER HOODIE POCKETS. None of you are sure why Dirk wears heavy sweater hoodies on a TROPICAL ISLAND, but ELLIE loved hiding in the front pocket of this particular one while she was small enough to fit.

Dirk added the JURASSIC WORLD logo, and modified it to have an INDOMINUS OUTLINE instead of a T-REX. He put in the tagline, "JURASSIC WORLD: Take the CUTENESS home with you."

You probably won't ever take this one down since it's not an OFFICIALLY DONE POSTER, but instead something Dirk made especially for you and your friends.

Finally, there's a poster for the BOOK SERIES that the Movie Jake's CURRENTLY WORKING ON is based off of. MYSTRYAL DETECTIVES.

All you know is that Jake is playing one of the LEAD ROLES, and that it's a WHOLLY ORIGINAL STORY based on the universe, and not the book plots specifically, since there's already an ANIME SERIES FOR THAT.

You've asked Roxy if she remembers this series form her Past Life or not, but she doesn't recall Mystryal existing, meaning that it's likely an AFTER ECHO of the universe being "reset" by whatever happened.

It's nothing to stress over, though. Life moves on, after all. And since there is no ALIEN BATTER WITCH in this world, things likely would have gone different anyways. New STORIES AND SERIES are just a VISUAL ARTIFACT of that.

> Jane: Suddenly have something exciting happen.

> JANE: Examine BED.

You have some PLAIN AND SERVICEABLE bed sheets with a GHOST AND DEMON print on them.

You don't feel particularly tired right now.

> JANE: Examine BOOK SHELF.

You've got a few MYSTRYAL books here, added most recently to your LARGE AND VARIED collection. You've got DETECTIVE NOVELS and HIGH FANTASY NOVELS.  You pick up a MYSTRYAL BOOK. High Fantasy Genre books like this are your thing, but you don't like to mix it with the Detective Genre like these have done.

You only really bought these just because Jake is staring in a movie based off of them and you wanted to know more about the UNIVERSE within. Any other time and you'd have skipped on them.

> Jane: Suddenly have something exciting happen.

Your COMPUTER BEEPS at you with a PRESET ALARM. What is it this time?

> JANE: Examine COMPUTER.

You see a notification DOUBLE AND TRIPLE reminding you to FINISH PACKING!! Your FLIGHT leaves later TONIGHT.

Right then, time to get on that and stop messing around here!

> JANE: Enjoy life.

You'll do that, once you FINISH PACKING!

Be someone else?