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- label day1:
- title "Day 43" "The end of an ordinary day"
- body john yui
- scene bg school hallway dusk
- show john a_9 at centerright, faceleft
- show phila a_1 at centerleft
- with dissolve
- think "Urgh. What a hassle."
- show john a_3
- voice "voice/lines/Yui 1.opus"
- john "Yes, I understand that you are worried. And I will be on the lookout for your sister."
- show john a_11
- voice "voice/lines/Yui 2.opus"
- john "But I don't think you need to be this worried. You were separated just twenty minutes ago and she's probably still at school."
- show phila a_6
- "I held up my hand to cut off Phila's protest."
- show john a_12
- voice "voice/lines/Yui 3.opus"
- john "Look. The more we argue about this, the less time both of us are looking for her. So let's go try and find her now, okay?"
- show phila a_7 at centerleft, faceleft
- "Phila seemed like she wanted to say more, but grimly nodded and took off to search the next floor."
- hide phila with moveoutleft
- show john a_10
- voice "voice/lines/Yui 4.opus"
- john "...jeez, she's so overprotective. Well... have fun looking for Mina, Yui."
- exspirit john a_0
- hide johnGhost with moveoutright
- scene bg school classroom hallway dusk
- show johnGhost a_0 at center
- with dissolve
- "Yui was a tricky person to possess."
- "No, not because of how she sometimes stayed awake while I did it... that had an easy enough solution."
- "Rather, it's what she {i}didn't{/i} do while I was joyriding her: Paying attention in class and taking immaculate notes."
- think "You'd think of all people, she could take a few hours off the most."
- "The last time I possessed her I felt the sting of hand cramps and uncharacteristic exhaustion, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty when a memory dive revealed them to be due to a late night catch-up session."
- think "I'm an aspiring sorcerer though! I want to spend my time crafting new spells, not paying attention to Ms. Clark's provably wrong physics class!"
- think "Luckily, I found the solution."
- hide johnGhost a_0 with easeoutright
- body circe john
- #fade into door
- scene bg school clubroom dusk
- show circe a_0 at centerleft
- with dissolve
- show johnGhost a_0 at centerright, faceleft with easeinright
- "The only sound inside the room was one of methodical scribbling of pencil on paper. My own body was hunched over a desk and filling out a notebook without pause."
- "The puppet spell was so much more than an on-demand imposter for myself. It knew everything I knew when making it, and it would execute commands as best as it could. It was basically a full blown artificial intelligence!"
- think "And that means I can have it pay attention and write notes for me! With the memory samples I have of how Yui normally writes every day, I can get it to mimic her handwriting and style as well."
- think "I do wonder why it's still writing though..."
- "Curious, I re-entered my body. And instantly regretted it."
- possess john circe a_0
- show john a_4
- john "Argh! My hand!" with hpunch
- "A shooting pain was all that I felt from my right hand, cramping up fiercely the second I regained control."
- show john a_7
- think "You were meant to deliver me from hand cramps, traitor! Not give them to me!"
- show john a_9
- "As I wrung my hand out, I tried to page through the puppet's notes and figure out what went wrong."
- think "Okay, first few pages are mine, good. Next few pages are in Yui's handwriting, so that worked."
- think "Maybe I should get notes as detailed as hers for myself? Something for later."
- show john a_15
- think "Oh, after the notes are... fan fiction?"
- think "I mean I guess Yui {i}does{/i} write fanfiction, now that I think about it. Huh. Memory dumps are weird."
- "Taking stock of the rest of the notebook, I was surprised to see how much was filled out. I {i}did{/i} have some time left until I needed to return the notebook."
- show john a_0
- "My mild interest as to what the artificial intelligence of the puppet had written struggled valiantly against the fact that my hand still had an annoying sting."
- think "This is a pretty mundane problem, which clearly means I should throw more magic at the situation."
- menu:
- "I ignored the pain and began reading what the artificial mind of the puppet had come up with.":
- #scene 1
- call scene_0
- body john john
- scene bg school clubroom dusk
- show john a_15 at centerleft
- with cubeclouds
- think "...what? What on earth is any of this? Did it start writing fiction about myself and the people I know?"
- "Morbid curiosity pushed me onwards."
- #rest of the text
- call scene_1
- scene bg school clubroom dusk
- show john a_14 at centerleft
- with cubeclouds
- think "Why. Why did I read all of this."
- gameover "If you read this without skipping... why?"
- return
- "I decided to morph into someone whose hand wasn't cramping. Maybe even test my new spell.":
- jump AF_custommorph
- "I figured I'd let my hand recover normally and possess another body in the meantime.":
- jump AF_thevoicesjohnthevoices
- label AF_custommorph:
- show john a_5
- "Putting the book aside for now, I dug through Yui's things for a small compact mirror I knew she had."
- #john hunched over
- #sfx_rustle
- "The new spell I had created was an offshoot of the transformation spell, and I was eager to try it out again."
- #sfx_rustle
- "In exchange for not targeting a single image or affecting my clothing, I could manually control what I looked like, altering my features as I pleased for the ultimate disguise."
- show john a_6
- john "Ah, there you are."
- "The first drawback was that I needed a mirror while casting it. My features tended to... wander, for lack of a better term, if I wasn't paying attention."
- show john a_0 at left:
- ease 1.0 xpos 0.15
- john "Let's move back a little bit, hold this in my left hand..."
- "The second was the fact that it had a strong tendency to leave me as a woman even with my adjustments."
- show john a_0 at left
- "Something about the sampling from the area I cast it in, and Tina Koya was lopsided towards the fairer sex. The situation at home wasn't any better, either."
- show john a_1
- john "Aaaaaaand, ready."
- "Still, the fact that I had {i}created{/i} a magical spell that noone had done before was pretty good for my ego."
- show pentagram at Position(pos=(placement_of(john).xpos, 0.5)) behind john as pentagram
- play sound sfx_spell
- play music bgm_mirage
- show john a_3
- john "{spell}Stahlge ayantu!{/spell}"
- "The moment the last syllable left my lips a wave of changes hit me all at once. My hair shifted hues and grew long enough to frame my face, cheekbones rose to give me a natural resting smile. As my clothes grew constricting I focused on the mirror in the palm of my hand."
- hide pentagram
- # $ renpy.movie_cutscene("images/mirror_morph.webm", loops=-1)
- show mirror_morph with dissolve
- $ renpy.pause(55, hard=True)
- voice "voice/lines/Morphed 1.opus"
- john "Always weird to watch, but not bad, not bad at all."
- gameover "Still working on full body sprites."
- return
- label AF_thevoicesjohnthevoices:
- show pentagram at Position(pos=(placement_of(john).xpos, 0.5)) behind john as pentagram
- play sound sfx_spell
- play music bgm_mirage
- john "{spell}Anima a carne dimittat!{/spell}"
- "Once again the familiar weightlessness overtook me, all other physical sensations fading away. Including my hand cramp."
- exspirit john a_0
- hide pentagram with dissolve
- show johnGhost a_1
- think "Oh wizard powers. You are truly the solution to every problem."
- show johnGhost a_0
- think "Now, who can I kill some time as?"
- hide johnGhost withmoveoutright
- scene bg school classroom hallway dusk
- show mina a_7 at centerleft
- show johnGhost a_0 at centerright, faceleft
- with fade
- "The answer to my rhetorical question happened to be right outside of the door, as a matter of fact."
- voice "voice/lines/Mina 1.opus"
- mina "S-Sister? Phila?"
- "It seemed I had kept my promise to her sister, Mina was darting around like a spooked lamb."
- show johnGhost a_3
- think "And in this scenario, I'm the wolf!"
- possess john mina b_2
- mina "Eep!"
- "A squeak of fright escaped her lips as I took her over, and as I settled in more signs of panic made themselves apparent. Quick breathes and shivers did interesting things to my borrowed chest, but couldn't disguise how wound up she was."
- show john b_6
- voice "voice/lines/Mina 3.opus"
- john "Wow, you're this scared only half an hour apart? I take it back, Phila was right to be worried!"
- "I took a moment to calm her body down and enjoy some deep breathes."
- show john b_1
- voice "voice/lines/Mina 4.opus"
- john "Well, this can be my good deed of today. I'll bring Mina to her sister and then head back."
- voice "voice/lines/Mina 5.opus"
- john "In and out, easy ten minute possession."
- gameover "It wasn't."
- return
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