Erica: Enter

<theDM> ===START===
<theDM> As you press the start button, the game crashes
<Erica_Stevens> Oh, though you were curious about the nature of the Working, it's probably for the best that it failed.
<theDM> Then, another window pops up, entirely black with silver text on the top.
* You are now known as theDM
<theDM> >Hello!
<theDM> >Welcome to Sh------
<theDM> Most of the word is too glitched for you to read
<Erica_Stevens> You wave at the screen, and take a moment to try to figure out whether any spell of this nature would be complex and complete enough to actually respond to that.
<theDM> It does not respond to your waving, and instead continues on its premade script
<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!
<theDM> >Instead, you have me!
<theDM> >I'm a state-of-the-art AI designed to start your entry process, and facillitate your progress through the game!
<theDM> >Now, let us begin!
<theDM> >Initializing machine placement...
<theDM> > . . .
<theDM> You hear a loud thud directly behind you, quickly followed by two more elsewhere in your house
<Erica_Stevens> You turn around in your spinny office chair.
<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
<Erica_Stevens> You turn the wheel
<theDM> Roll STR
<Erica_Stevens> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=12 ] | {12}
<theDM> The wheel begins to turn, but not enough to pop the top
<Erica_Stevens> You try to climb up the tube a bit and open the top with your wand.
<theDM> Roll Str
<Erica_Stevens> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=14 ] | {14}
<theDM> Your wand cracks a tiny bit, a miniscule hairline fracture, but you get the thing open!
<Erica_Stevens> You'll need to repair that later. Burns don't sound appealing. Ah, at least the thing's open now. You turn the wheel.
<theDM> Out of the top pops a flashing, peach orb with a spirograph in the center, which immediately glitches out of your line of sight
<theDM> After that, several peach cylinders pop out, each made of a strange material you haven't seen before
<Erica_Stevens> You captchalogue one of the cylinders in your Grid modus.
<theDM> It is captchalogued
<theDM> You have the feeling you could get more if you kept turning the wheel
<Erica_Stevens> Afterward, you open your scorched door to the rest of your home.
<theDM> Directly in front of you as you open your door is another strange machine, this one long and thin, with a place to put one of those cylinders, as well as a slot
<theDM> Next to it, you see a punched captchalogue card
<Erica_Stevens> You place the cylinder in the thing, and check out the slot.
<theDM> The slot is somewhat deep, rectangular, and obviously wants something to be put inside of it to activate the machien
<Erica_Stevens> You probe the slot with the card that was left nearby.
<theDM> The card clicks into place, fitting nicely inside.
<theDM> As it does, carving needles descend in from the section of the machine directly of the dowel, and a button begins to blink/
<theDM> Carve Dowel?
<Erica_Stevens> You press the button.
<theDM> The carver descends, producing a carved dowel.
<theDM> The curves of the dowel are unlike anything you've seen before, but it does look kind of cool
<Erica_Stevens> Nice, you place it back into your sylladex
<Erica_Stevens> Then, you proceed further away from your room, down to your living room.
<theDM> And there is the source of the final thud
<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 sits in your living room
<theDM> But, before you can do anything else, you are accosted by the flashing thing from before
<theDM> It blinks furiously at you, demanding your attention as an unread timer ticks down
<Erica_Stevens> You step toward a storage closet underneath the stairs, your component pouch is stored there, most likely.
<theDM> It blocks your path, forcing you to take a step backwards
<theDM> !!!!!
<theDM> It flashes harder, glitching around the room
<Erica_Stevens> You grab a golden statuette and throw it at the orb thing, intending to distract or placate the thing.
<theDM> It dodges
<Erica_Stevens> You attempt to judge its intent
<theDM> Roll Insight
<Erica_Stevens> !roll 1d20+2
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=18 ] | {20}
<theDM> It looks like it wants that thing you just carved for some reason
<theDM> The unknown timer continues to count donw
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<Erica_Stevens> You uncaptchalogue and present the vase thing.
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<Erica_Stevens> You follow.
<theDM> It looks like you could put the vase thing on the smaller, raised platform
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<Erica_Stevens> You do so.
<theDM> With a flash, an object appears on the main platform
<theDM> A puzzle cube of some kind, made of the same, peachy material of the dowel
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<Erica_Stevens> You pick up the cube and fiddle with it
<theDM> You feel the heat of something bearing down on you
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<theDM> As you do, the flashing seizure orb absorbs the original carved dowel
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<Erica_Stevens> You turn your gaze from the cube to look up, still messing with it.
<theDM> The puzzle cube begins to glow a bright white, as does the kernel
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<theDM> Then, everything goes white.
<theDM> ===End===