I’ve been reading headlines and things are looking down. It's 5:22am for me, but for you it's (current-time:). I think we can still make this work.
[[What's your name?]]
(set: $coffee to "1")
(if: $coffee = "0")
(else:)[no coffee]
[[what's your name?->3]]
(set: $name to (prompt: "Introduce yourself:"))
Thanks!
I’m Buzby, but you can be Buzby too. Let’s be Buzby together. Look,
I wrote us a poem. (click: "poem")[
O Fairest flower,
slipped away into obscurity
upon a backdrop
flickering
pixel by pixel
and honored, still,
by our devout
compliance
]
I enjoy poems, and writing them helps calm me down.
I hope you like them too.
Anyways I need some [[help]] with something now that you're here.
First I should probably tell you a bit about myself. Several minutes ago, I entered my [[password]] into my laptop. I change it every 3 days according to a staggered rotation of digits and letters.
(transition: "pulse")[It's cold]
wait(mouseout-replace: "wait")[come back]
I want to start a chain of overpriced cafes called (link-reveal: "save ")[our soul]less(click-replace: "less")[ from sin]
{(live: 0.3s)[
(either: "hehe", "sorry", "not funny", "ignore it", "nevermind")
]}
{(live: 0.5s)[
(either: "tick", "tock")
]}
{(live: 0.1s)[
(either: "never", "let", "the", "room", "sit", "stale" )
]}
{(live: 0.01s)[
(either: "never", "let", "it", "back in", "our", "room" )
]}
<form action="testinput.asp" method="get">
<c> Username: <input type="text" name="fname"><c><br>
<c> Password: <input type="text" name="pname"><c><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
(set: $makeCake to (confirm: "Transform your best friend into a cake?"))
(confirm: "teststring")
(set: $okay to (confirm: "press OK"))
(if: $okay then (print: [[enough]]))
Double-click this passage to edit it.
Double-click this passage to edit it.
{(live: 2s)[
(either: (confirm: "wait"), (confirm: "sorry"),(confirm: "stay with me"))
]}
(text-style: "underline")[Time]{(live: 3s)[
(either: " ", "ly", "less" , "[['s Passage]]")
]}
Remember, those pictures I showed you? haha. Those were good times.
{(live: 5s)[I have a confession to make, $name...]}
{(live: 10s)[Here goes...the folder we're working on... it wasn't the first folder that's showed up.]}
{(live: 15s)[They've been showing up most nights for the past few weeks now. The one I showed you was pretty tame. But there are clues in all of them! And now you're helping me solve this one, okay? (link-replace: "Thanks.")[Thanks.] ]}
Is this a poem too? {(live: 8s)[(either: "It's 8:88pm", "It's 0:00", "It's late" , "It's 5:55pm", "It's early")]}
(text-style: "underline")[Coffee]
Lifeblood
King of kings,
Golden seat
Thoroughbred
On and on we trudge.
(if: $coffee > 1)[Stained teeth]
(if: $coffee > 2)[And a crooked, deathly grin](if: $coffee > 4)[{(live: 0.5s)[
(either: "...", " ")
]}]
(if: $coffee < 2)[Sorry, I'm very tired.
Where are my manners...
Would you like a tour of the apartment?]
Where should we go?
[[Kitchen]]
[[Bedroom]]
Spare Room(if: ((history:)contains "Kitchen") && ((history:)contains "Bedroom") && ((history:)contains "Front Door"))[(click-replace: "Spare Room")[The Stench(click-replace: "The Stench")[please, I don't want to go there](click-replace: "please, I don't want to go there")[we're a team](click-replace: "we're a team")[forgive me.](click-replace: "forgive me.")[(text-style: "blurrier")[[[BACK TO WORK.->BACK TO WORK.]]]]]]
[[Front Door]]
(set: $coffee to 1)
(link-repeat: "Drink coffee")[(set:$coffee to it + 1)]
You have had $coffee coffees.
(text-style: "underline")[Kitchen]
I once encountered
An exemplar
Who cleaned all of their
pots and
pans before
eating and said:
"A single hallowed mound of
Hardened neglect,
Slick with dish soap,
Slumbers lazily
And speaks of ill will"
Let's have some more [[Coffee]](set:$coffee to it + 1), there isn't much of anything else in here.
(text-style: "underline")[Bedroom]
There's hardly time to sleep, when we're so close to {(live:8s)[(replace: "so close to")[so far from]]}understanding the files. We make progress every moment, and the crucial{(live:8s)[(replace: "crucial")[crooked]]} truth draws nearer. I hear the echo of a quiet cry from the Spare Room(click-replace: "the Spare Room")[deep within our minds].
Categorically optimized piles of clothes frame the chamber in perfect symmetry. The bed looks dusty.
Don't let the [[Coffee]](set:$coffee to it + 1) get cold, it's {(live: 3s)[
(either: "early", "late")
]}
A Gift(click-replace: "A Gift")[<img src="xylophone-5-0-s-307x512.jpg" alt="Mountain View" style="width:304px;height:228px;">]
(text-style: "underline")[Front Door]
(set: $unplug to 0)
We could go to a café. But it's already {(live:1s)[(if: $unplug is 1)[(stop:)](else:)[{(live:0.2s)[(either: "4:55am", "6:00am", "3:12pm", "1:18pm","too late", "2:22", "7:01", "12:12", "21:30", "17:12", "19:55")]}]]}.
The fucking clock is broken. Unplug it(click-replace:"Unplug it")[{(live:0.5s)[(either: "0:00", " ")]}]
We don't need it, not when we're so close to figuring out the files. They're very important, and you've been very helpful. We don't need to go out there to a café. We'll open our very own café here, and call it "Buzby & $name's", or would you prefer "$name & Buzby's"?
We have all the [[Coffee]](set:$coffee to it + 1) we'll ever need.
Something was different today:
Among my neatly alphabetized work-related folders was an aggressive outlier, a folder I had never seen before. (if: ((history:)contains "the text") && ((history:)contains "the image"))[I already told you all of this. Twice. Sorry.]
It looked like this (click-append: "this")[<img src="American-Horror-Story-icon.png" alt="the folder" style="width:50px;height:50px;">
I think it's from a TV show or something, weird.]
Inside were two files: saturn.jpg and instructions.txt
Which one should we open first? You can choose for us, $name.
(unless:((history:) contains "the image"))[[[saturn.jpg->the image]]]
(if: ((history:)contains "the text") && ((history:)contains "the image"))[I've got your back, $name.
I hope you have mine.
Let's work [[together->The Code I]]]
(unless:((history:)contains "the text"))[[[instructions.txt->the text]]]
What time is it?
(if: ((history:)contains "the text") && ((history:)contains "the image"))[{(live: 7s)[(either: "What day is it?", " ")]} ]
(text-style: "underline")[The Image]
Our densely ravished
Modicum mystery
Bastard child of coherence and mockery
More poems! Sorry, I get distracted sometimes. We're here to look at saturn.jpg(click-replace: "saturn.jpg")[<img src="KronosGlitch.png" alt="the folder" style="width:240px;height:400;">]. Looks like the file is corrupted. What do you think it means? Honestly I'm a bit freaked out by this whole thing. Maybe it's a [[virus->password]]...
(text-style: "underline")[The Text]
I try to write, but slip and
Fall, inondated by mediocrity -
I gasp for air and choke, unimpressed,
as stale ideas fill my throat.
This paper-thin creation,
Once my child,
Yellows and rots
in afterthought.
Right, the text file! What do you think the instructions could be for? It looks kind of messed up, and I don't want you to download anything that might give you a virus{(live:20s)[(click-replace:"virus")[[[virus->password]]]]}, so I just copy-pasted everything that was in instructions.txt for you.
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Remember those words we found together? "leuven" and "formula", right? When you told me I wasn't crazy! That was really nice of you to say, $name.
I did some more research, and it turns out that Leuven is a town in Belgium. They have this statue: Fons Sapientiae(click-append: "Fons Sapientiae")[<img src="fons1.jpg" alt="fons1" style="width:240px;height:400;">]
He reminds me a bit of myself.
It's uncanny really, the broken skull, hollow eyes, drinking problem... Haha. I'm only kidding about the drinking problem.
[[I can stop whenever I want]]
(text-style: "underline")[The Code]
Meaning, surely
Ripe but hidden
Betwixt the mangled
Speak of circuits
Jargon - dimorphic
Zero to one
And one being nothing
And we being chosen
I've been looking at these files for a while now, and I think I found something. What does this look like to you?(click-append: "this")[<img src="clue1.png" alt="clue" style="width:300px;height:120px;">] Those numbers in the middle row stand out, right?
[[Maybe we can switch them for their corresponding letters, where 1=a, 2=b, etc. to look for a clue->Work]]
(text-style: "underline")[Fun]
Let's take a break and play
(text-style: "blurrier")[Sharpening] our collective mind
To better (text-style: "blurrier")[pierce]
Those crooked codes
(text-style: "blurrier")[Slice] apart what we cannot know
(text-style: "blurrier")[And slit the supple throat] of obscurity
<img src="fons3.jpg" style="width:190px;height:190px;">
We can have lots of fun together! Want to play a [[video game->Video Game]]?
(set: $version to "version 1.7")
ENGL366 Final Project
Buzby
by Michael Smilovitch
$version
[[Start->1]]
<img src="fons2.jpg" alt="start" style="width:240px;height:400;">
(text-style: "underline")['s Passage]
Our cheap delineations
Sheets of rice-paper
Between hapless cycles of the sun
Our time, our time
It floats along
And duty takes a
Vicious hold
Why did you click my title? This obviously isn't meant for you, $name.
Sorry. I'm getting frustrated. I should take a walk. I need a [[Coffee]].
Great idea! We make such a good team.
3-1-5-19-1-18(click-replace: "3-1-5-19-1-18")[c-a-e-s-a-r
A Caesar cipher! Of course! Do you know what that is? It's where letters are shifted over according to a key. So if the key was "1" abc would become bcd. If the key was "23" then abc would become xyz.
And so forth.
There must be more information hidden in the text file, we just need to decode the Caesar cipher. But what should we use as the key...There's much more [[work->Work I]] to be done.]
(text-style: "underline")[Work]
I've been looking things up
I think I found another hint in the
files. I tried all the keys starting at 1 using a website I found. It was exhausting, and mostly nonsense, but with the key "13" I think I found something! Check out this screenshot (click-append: "screenshot")[<img src="clue2.png" alt="clue2" style="width:500px;height:360px;">
Look closer(click-append: "closer")[<img src="clue3.png" alt="clue3" style="width:300px;height:200px;">
It says "leuven" and "formula" in there!
[[I'm not crazy right?->Work II]]]]
(text-style: "underline")[Work II]
It slips away,
But grasps me firmly
The (current-time:)-blues
Our shared seconds echo
Obscure
Foreign master
What else can we [[share->Fun]]?
{(live:15s)[What time is it?]}
So in this statue, Fons is holding a book which has a formula! Remember how the code told us "formula"??
Look!(click-append:"Look!")[<img src= "fons5.png" style="width:240px;height:400;">]
I looked up "Geluk" and it translates to "Happiness"!
A formula for happiness! I was right about this being important. You wouldn't listen. You wanted to wander around and investigate that horrible smell(click-replace: "horrible smell")[<img src= "Kronos.jpg" style="width:240px;height:400;">] didn't you?
[[Keep working->Work III]]
Take a break(click-replace: "Take a break")[[[Keep working->Work III]]]
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(text-style: "underline")[The Code II]
You frustrate me, $name.
Distraction about
Please keep me on track
There's something I've found
Your insight is shoddy
And not truly "ours"
My focus is sacred
Transluscent as [[stars->The Stench]]
I think we can fix the image if I run it through a few filters.
It's as easy as
one(click-replace: "one")[<img src="KronosGlitch.png" alt="one" style="width:240px;height:400px;">]
two(click-replace: "two")[<img src="KronosGlitch2.png" alt="two" style="width:240px;height:400px;">]
three!(click-replace: "three!")[<img src="Kronos.jpg" alt="one" style="width:240px;height:400px;">]
{(live: 8s)[Very interesting...(click-replace: "Very interesting...")[Very interesting... Maybe the important part is Francisco Goya, the artist. Or perhaps it's referring to the myth of Saturn eating his children. We'll need to do some work on [[the text file->The Code II]] and then come back to this. It is fascinating though, I hope you're as excited about all this as I am!]]}
(text-style: "underline")[The Stench]
Rot, heavy
Sickening air
The Spare Room(click-replace: "The Spare Room")[Leave it.]
Exhales
Erosion, CO2,
And the float of (text-style: "shudder")[dead] skin cells
Dense, emanating
{(live: 10s)[(text-style: "shudder")[Rot, heavy
Sickening air
The Spare Room
Exhales
Erosion, CO2,
And the float of dead skin cells
Dense, emanating]]
}
{(live: 14s)[(text-style: "shudder")[RotheavySickening airThe Spare RoomExhalesErosion, CO2,And the float of dead skin cellsDense, emanating]]
}
{(live: 16s)[(text-style: "shudder")[RotheavySickeningair[[The Spare Room->Migrane]]Exdthe float of dead skin cellsDense, emanating]]
}
(text-style: "underline")[{(live:4s)[(either:"Migraine", "The Code III", "The Voice")]}]
{(live:30s)[(text-style: "shudder")[[[GET OUT OF MY HEAD->The Voice]]]]}
{(live:20s)[(text-style: "shudder")[{(live:0.6s)[(either: "shut up", "leave me alone", "the stench", "the child", "the stench", "shut up", "SHUT UP", "shut up", "get out", $name)]}]]}
$name, $name, $name...
Why must you insist that we do things (text-style: "shudder")[your] way. What happened to (text-style: "shudder")[us,] $name!?
{(live:14s)[{(live:0.1s)[(either: "we", "grow", "sicker", "as", "the", "Spare", "Room", "grows", "stale", $name)]}]}
{(live:10s)[{(live:0.01s)[(either: "never", "let", "it", "back in", "our", "room" )]}]}
{(live:9s)[{(live:0.01s)[(either: "we", "grow", "sicker", "as", "the", "Spare", "Room", "grows", "stale", $name)]}]}
{(live:0.8s)[(either: "Rot, heavy", "
Lifeblood
King of kings,
Golden seat
Thoroughbred
On and on we trudge.", "I’m Buzby, but you can be Buzby too. Let’s be Buzby together. Look,
I wrote us a poem. ", "This paper-thin creation,
Once my child,
Yellows and rots
in afterthought.","I once encountered
An exemplar
Who cleaned all of their
pots and
pans before
eating and said:","A single hallowed mound of
Hardened neglect,
Slick with dish soap,
Slumbers lazily
And speaks of ill will", "The Spare Room", "The Stench")]}
[(transition: "pulse")[(text-style: "underline")[The Voice]]]
My simple enemy
How you skirt the fringes
Of {(live: 2s)[(either: "our", "my", "your")]} every
Thought. Keeping me ill-
Advised and astray
Negligent, most of all
So negligent
I'm so sorry,
But the voice kept me away
The voice kept me distracted
$name's voice.
$name's twisted voice.
My demon,
Obsession
I'll take you there, $name.
You've worn me down.
This screen, burning away at my eyes
And leaving hollow relics
Day after day.
And we were so *close*, $name. We were so very close.
[[Follow me]]
(text-style: "underline")[The Spare Room]
Squandered
The stench
Sour, unholy water
In a dusty bottle
Just out of reach
The Migrane, The Stench
Did you like my poems?
All that work(click-replace: "work")[work] we did together
For days upon days upon
Days spent alone
Without your cursed Voice(click-replace: "Voice")[Voice]
(But always with Coffee(click-replace:"Coffee")[coffee])
How you
{(live: 4s)[(either: "Shouted", "Whispered")]}
At me;
Disruptive-
Resonant.
This Spare Room's crying subsided
Last week, perhaps
Or the one before
For me, or us
And now we can visit
Since your work is complete
I could have fed it
I didn't
The smell, putrid
Of decomposition
From the lone crib in this crypt
I would have named it after you, $name
How you cast your spell over me
You agreed and agreed and
Enabled and enabled
My Creation, My Child(click-replace:"My Child")[my child]
Left to stagnate
Day after day
As we struggled with The Code(click-replace:"The Code")[the code]
A greater good perhaps, but left
Unsolved - this twisted case
This broken young
Our broken young
And the slowly rotting [[reality->end]] of our plight.
Written and implemented by Michael Smilovitch using Twine 2.0.11
(text-style: "underline")[Sources:]
"American Horror Story Icon"
by atty12 via www.iconarchive.com/
Caesar Cipher Tool
by Robert Eisele via www.xarg.org/
Fons Sapientiae Postcard
by Francky Leyn via www.cs.tufts.edu/
"Leuven Fonske Fochplein Fons Sapientia"
by Johan Byloos via http://www.panoramio.com/
"Fons Sapientiae"
by Jef Claerhout via http://statues.vanderkrogt.net/
*Saturn Devouring His Son* by Francisco de Goya
via www.wikipedia.org/
Glitch images produced with "Image Glitch Tool" by Georg
https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/
Inspired thematically by The Ring (Verbinski 2002) and The Babadook (Kent 2014)
Thank you for playing $version of Buzby
[[Credits->reality]]
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