The pots are set up on your little balcony, finally. You've always wanted a garden of your own.
[[Turn them on->Hum]]
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POT PLANTED: $pot
(if: $pot is "NOTHING")[- [[PLANT SOMETHING->Plant pot]]
](else-if: $pot is "PANSIES")[- [[WATER DEAD PANSIES->Water pansies]]
- [[EXTRAPOLATE DEAD PANSIES->Extrapolate pansies]]
]
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SEED INVENTORY:
[[DEAD PANSIES->Plant pansies]]
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The geneseed emulator swirls in your perepherial vision making you feel nauseous. Your finger is pricked, a drop of blood falling into the digitising void, added to the mixture.
The seed flickers before your eyes, fading between pixelated and smooth - static snaking across it.
With a small pop the seed falls into into the palm of your hand. It's rust red and black veined, straining against itself, you're afraid it'll burst.
[[quickly plant it in the soft soil->Garden]]
(set: $pot = "PANSIES")
The geneseed emulator starts, swirling in your perepherial vision making you feel nauseous.
A slice of flesh is taken from your hand. Following the instructions on the HUD you go into the house and place it in the microwave.
You set it to DECOMPOSE, thirty seconds should be enough.
(link: "...")[The microwave dings and you open the door, the stench of death rolling over you. Gagging you return to garden and the pot digitises the remains.
The seed flickers before your eyes. More real than the HUD it fades between pixelated and smooth - static snaking across it.
With a small pop the seed falls into reality and you catch it in the palm of your hand.
It's a pale grey, wasted and fragile, you're afraid it will crumble into ash.
[[gently plant it in the soft soil->Garden]]]
The geneseed emulator swirls in your perepherial vision making you feel nauseous. A spark sets your plasgrass on fire. Panicking to put it out, you don't even notice the flames being sucked into the digitising void.
The seed flickers before your eyes, fading between pixelated and smooth - static snaking across it.
With a small pop the seed falls into into the palm of your hand. It's plasma-like, pulsing glowing blue, white, and orange. It seems to be growing warmer by the second..
[[plant it in the soft soil before it burns you->Garden]]
The geneseed emulator swirls in your perepherial vision making you feel nauseous. You go inside and rummage through the small collection of items your grandmother left you. You find an old coin, with some monarch's head on the back. You return to the garden and toss it into the digitising void.
The seed flickers before your eyes, fading between pixelated and smooth - static snaking across it.
With a small pop the seed falls into into the palm of your hand. It's a regal purple veined with orange, heavy in your hand and with an intimidating presence.
[[reverently plant it in the soft soil->Garden]]
[[Garden]]
[[Garden]]
The geneseed emulator swirls in your perepherial vision making you feel nauseous. It beckons to your hands with a knifed claw, left first then right.
[[Give one to it->Choose a finger]]
[[Garden]]
[[Garden]]
The geneseed emulator swirls in your perepherial vision making you feel nauseous. You hear a high pitched whitsle followed shortly by a roar, a flash of golden scales and a burst of flame that singes your eyebrows.
The seed flickers before your eyes, fading between pixelated and smooth - static snaking across it.
With a small pop the seed falls into into the palm of your hand. It's golden and shimmering opalescent and sits still and quiet in your hand, yet you can't help feeling wary, as though it were watching, waiting.
[[slowly plant it in the soft soil->Garden]]
It plays with your fingers running over them one by one.
[[pull away]]
Snip. It takes a finger, the wound cauterised and healed instantly. (text-color: "pink")[Mark the finger it was holding when you pulled away in whatever manner feels comfortable] The flesh is stripped from it and the bones flicker before your eyes, fading between pixelated and smooth - static snaking across them.
With a small pop they fall into into the palm of your hand, changed. They look like old ivory with green flecks that scurry around just beneath the surface. You're afraid they'll break through and crawl inside you.
[[plant them in the soft soil before they do->Garden]]
Exploring the relationship between the digital and real worlds. Which is "real"
- you have two pots drawn on your arms: left and right
- as you have adventures in the game and explore the digitised gardens your plants grow
- you draw them on your arms and they act as stored variables needed for the adventures
The pots hum to life, the electic swell making your head swim.
The [[HUD->Garden]] flickers on across your vision.
TOMATOES - BLOOD GIANT VARIETY
DEAD PANSIES
FIRE ASH
SNAPDRAGON TRAPS->Plant snapdragons]]
PUMPKINGS->Plant pumpkings]]
STRANGE-WATER LILIES->Plant lilies]]
BRILL STREAMERS->Plant streamers]]
BONES->Plant bones]]
AUBERGINE SQUARES->Plant aubergine]]
WHALE OAKS->Plant oaks]]
(set: $times_watered= $times_watered+1)
|display>[[[stop watering->Garden]]]
{(live: 2s)[
(replace: ?display)[
(either:
"[[stop watering->Garden]]",
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!",
"help me... please. gods, please stop. sAVE ME!",
"Do you know why you are doing this? I can only assume not.. no one who knew woul-",
"fuckING HELLLLL",
"not again",
"a thousand shrill voices cry out, their screams a song, pleading to the gods above. wailing, sobbing despair, pure and uncluttered. the gods remain silent"
)
]
]}
(if: $times_watered < 3)[
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NOT ENOUGH [[WATER->Garden]]
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(else:)[
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[[BEGIN EXTRAPOLATION->Grow daisies]]
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]]
(set: $pot = "NOTHING")
(set: $missing_finger_hand = "none")
(set: $missing_finger = "none")
(set: $times_watered = 0)
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