Eric: Enter

<theDM> ===Start===
<theDM> As you launch the file you just downloaded, a small window pops up on your screen
<theDM> The background is black, with a glitchy, light blue spirograph, a button that says START, and the word "Sburb" in big, friendly letters
<Eric_Stevens> You drag your mouse over to the start button, and click.
<theDM> As you do, the screen glitches
<theDM> Sburb is replaced with the word "Showtime" for a split second before your screen goes black
<theDM> Soon, white letters begin to type themselves across the pitch black screen
<theDM> >Hello!
<theDM> >Welcome to Sh------
<theDM> The rest of the word is too glitched for you to read it
<theDM> >Normally, players of a Sburb instance would have what is known as a "server player" connect to them and walk them through the beginning of the game, but that won't be needed here!
<Eric_Stevens> You nod, and press space
<theDM> >Instead, you have me!!
<theDM> >A state of the art AI who will fill that roll for you
<theDM> >The game you're about to play is highly individualized, so being at the mercy of another player is no good
<theDM> >Now let us begin!
<theDM> >Initializing machine placement...
<theDM> >. . .
<theDM> You hear a loud thud just behind you, followed by two more in what you believe is your living room
<theDM> >Done!
<theDM> >Have a nice day!!
<Eric_Stevens> You walk off to investigate
<theDM> Right behind you is a large, square machine with a tube in the center, a wheel on the tube, and a timer counting down
<theDM> 5:35
<Eric_Stevens> You turn the wheel
<theDM> Roll STR
<Eric_Stevens> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=8 ] | {8}
<theDM> The wheel turns a tiny bit, but not by much
<Eric_Stevens> You leave toward your living room, it's clear that you aren't supposed to use this one yet
<theDM> There are two other machines in your living room
<theDM> A long, thinner one with a slot and a place to put some kind of cylinder-shaped object, and another large, square one, but this one has a tall pole on the side, a small platform for a cylinder, and a large, flat platform instead of a thick tube
<theDM> You also notice a captchalogue card on the ground
<Eric_Stevens> You captchalogue the card
<theDM> You gain a punched card!
<theDM> It looks like it could fit in the slot on the thin machine
<Eric_Stevens> You put the card in the slot
<theDM> It snaps in just right.
<theDM> Pointed carvers come out of the section above where the cylinder would go, waiting to activate.
<theDM> Now you just need something to carve
<theDM> 4:11
<Eric_Stevens> You go to the bathroom next to your room, and captchalogue the shower curtain rod
<theDM> You achieve a shower rod!
<theDM> So what do you plan to do with it?
<Eric_Stevens> You try to lever the wheel with the rod you found, that should make it a bit easier
<theDM> Roll STR with advantage
<Eric_Stevens> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=6 ] | {6}
<Eric_Stevens> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=7 ] | {7}
<theDM> It still refuses to budge as the time ticks down
<theDM> One more shot?
<Eric_Stevens> Yes
<theDM> Roll it again!
<Eric_Stevens> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=19 ] | {19}
<theDM> The wheel gives, launching a flashing orb and several light peach cruxite dowels into the air around you
<theDM> The flashing orb immediately begins glitching around, refusing to stay in one spot for a single moment
<Eric_Stevens> You captchalogue one of the dowels, go back to the living room, and place the dowel in the carvers
<theDM> 3:23
<theDM> It accepts, carving the dowel into a strange, curvy shape.
<theDM> The Kernelsprite blinks in and out of reality, demanding your attention
<Eric_Stevens> You look at the weird glitchy ball thing
<theDM> It's the same color as the cruxite, and it seems to want something, but the relentless glitching is making it hard to tell what
<theDM> Either way, it's annoying, and you have something you need to do
<theDM> The final machine awaits
<Eric_Stevens> You open your front door and head outside for a bit
<theDM> You see something very, very wrong
<theDM> Meteors rain down, setting the trees around you on fire
<theDM> Your mother sees you open the door, and shouts at you to hold it open for her
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<Eric_Stevens> You hold the door open, and wait to go inside
<theDM> She runs past you, back inside, obviously scared of the hellfire raining down outside
<Eric_Stevens> You slip inside and slam the door
<theDM> It slams shut behind you, and suddenly you're being accosted by the kernelsprite again
<theDM> Your mother is extremely confused about what is going on in here, seeing the machinery
<Eric_Stevens> You examine the kernelsprite, and try to figure out its motivations
<theDM> roll Insight
<Eric_Stevens> !roll 1d20+2
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=2 ] | {4}
<theDM> You have no idea what it wants
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<theDM> Maybe it wants the dowel?
<Eric_Stevens> You grab the dowel and reach over to it.
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<theDM> Are you giving the carved dowel to the kernelsprite?
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<Eric_Stevens> Yes
<theDM> It absorbs the carved dowel, now displaying a similar shape on it instead of the spirograph from before
<theDM> You realize you might have needed that
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<Eric_Stevens> You run to grab another dowel and carve it
<theDM> It carves just like the first
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<Eric_Stevens> You put the carved dowel on the smaller platform on the platforms
<Eric_Stevens> *platform thingy
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<theDM> As the timer ticks down, the Alchemiter begins scanning
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<theDM> Just as it finishes and summons an object, the world goes white
<theDM> The flash does not come from the item, however
<theDM> It comes from the kernel sprite
<theDM> Everything goes white
<theDM> :00
<theDM> ===End===