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Section 7 image descriptions

Full page descriptions for every page in section 7 with flashing images! Which was a lot. Damn you, Serenity. WV: Ascend will be its own post!

Trigger guide for this section is [link: here].

2589: WV: Use glowing green rock to open cans.

WV stands where the rock was. The screen periodically flashes green with BURP in white above WV, and his skeleton shows, with the uranium in his stomach above his pelvis.

Narration: You pick up the nugget of URANIUM and...

Oh that was so stupid. Why would you do that?

2609: ==>

[Panel 1] WV holds his hands to his face in amazement as cans of Tab flash back and forth beside him and the whole screen flashes various shades of pink.

[Panel 2] WV holds a can of Tab in each hand and looks wildly between them. The screen is tinted pink.

2610: WV: Consume several cans.

The screen flashes between WV pouring Tab into his mouth with the sound effect GLUG; four cans of Tab vibrating; and WV holding two cans of Tab that fountain over him. Everything is tinted pink.

Narration: You free the heavenly brown elixir from the jewels of pink carapace and imbibe like the wind.

It is so sweet and sugary. You wonder how so much sugar can fit in one can. Whatever mighty wizard concocted this potion is truly deserving of your fear and respect.

2615: WV: Type => SWITCH 2.

[Panel 1] The top right panel WV is looking at blinks off, and the top left one turns on. He turns to it.

[Panel 2] This shows a close-up of that screen; it shows the statue of the wizard Zazzerpan the Learned, missing a hand and part of his hat. A lock symbol blinks in the bottom corner of the screen, and the whole image is staticky and flickering.

Narration: You activate SCREEN 2.

The signal is garbled, and you have no idea what you're looking at. Some sort of filthy beggar pleading for help?

No one is around, And nothing is happening. You seem to be locked out of any sort of interaction with whatever's happening on this monitor.

2616: WV: Type => SWITCH 3.

[Panel 1] The top left screen blinks off, and the bottom left one turns on. WV looks at it.

[Panel 2] Dave, holding a broken katana, squares off against an orange sprite with a bird’s head and wings, and a sword through its abdomen. Li’l Cal lies in pieces on the ground. They are standing in front of a large air conditioning unit, the type used for a whole building. A lock symbol blinks at the top right corner of the screen, and the whole image flickers orange and staticky.

Narration: It's another one of these rapscallions. This monitor is locked too. You can't tell him what to do. Not that you really want to, since it just looks like more confusing nonsense to you.

You consider switching to SCREEN 4, but decide against it. You have a feeling that whatever's there would just confuse you even more, and you don't even really care all that much anyway.

2619: WV: Be the mayor.

WV stands proudly in the middle of the screen with his hands on his hips. There is a crudely-drawn hat on his head labelled HAT, with other crudely-drawn cans around him labelled BAMBOO SHOOTS, SEA WEED, PICKLES, and RADISHES. A plane made out of a can labelled ARTICHOKES flies by with a SHOOO noise. The roof of Can Town Hall is visible, and the firefly (again crudely-drawn) giving streaks of light all over the page. The background is light blue.

Narration: Enough of this nonsense. You are an important mayor and this absurd contraption has wasted enough of your time. You've got a city to govern with a carapaced fist! (Which is to say firm, yet polished, and supple as the situation demands.)

Anyway this will help you kill some time while you wait for that clock to count down.

2621: [S] WV: Lead your men to victory!

WV rearranges the cans seemingly at random across the board. Occasionally he throws some cans off the board to the floor. His movements seem jittery and he occasionally kicks the cans or nudges them around with a foot. He falls over and jostles the entire setup. The countdown clock shows on the sburb screen, which counts down through several hours.

A crudely drawn image of WV leading a parade of cans down a street decorated like Can Town appears briefly, then one of him driving a can of Tab like a car with the sidse effect VROOM. The images of WV drinking Tab in pink reappear, first the GLUG image and then the image of him making fountains of soda over himself. He holds the firefly in the amber, which flashes as the picture zooms in.

WV returns to the makeshift chessboard, then falls down as he realizes the white side has won, with “CHECKMATE” in white. He holds a Tab can marked with motor oil angrily, his thought bubble showing the symbols of the white and black king and a red X flashing over the white one. He accidentally pierces the can of Tab and gets soda all over his face.

The flash finishes with the countdown clock, which is now at 4 minutes 13 seconds.

Narration: You waste more than four hours on this tomfoolery.

2638: The words APPEARIFY appear on the monitor. A light flashes from the needle on the apparatus with the alchemical symbol on it, and a pumpkin appears on the pad with a dog face symbol on it.

2645: WV: Appearify Can Town.

The appearifier flashes, and a pile of cans, both food and Tab, appear. The firefly in the amber appears on top and then bounces down to the pad.

Narration: You nudge the numbers a bit more and appearify a bunch of cans. This is so much more efficient than walking back to the other room to get them.

You are to believe that time is at a premium, after all.

2646: WV: Deappearify the pumpkin.

WV beats on his head with his hands alternately while in the background crudely drawn images of WV wearing dunce hats flash back and forth. The background says DUMB over and over in purple.

Narration: Does this machine look like a DEAPPEARIFIER to you?? Honestly, the idea that an APPEARIFIER could both APPEARIFY and DEAPPEARIFY things is so laughably ridiculous, you would wish someone would DEAPPEARIFY your brain and REAPPEARIFY it with a brain that is more smart and less dumb.

2649: WV: Appearify firefly out of the amber.

WV holds the amber in which the firefly flashes. There is a flash, and he looks at the amber to find the firefly gone. He then watches as the firefly floats from the left of the screen over to him and lands on his head.

2650: ==> The firefly blinks on WV’s headwrap, scattering rays of yellow light. He looks up at her.

Narration: You release your blinky new friend. You will give her a name when something suitably whimsical occurs to you.

2651: WV: Adjust time dial to appearify rotten pumpkin.

Panel 1: The firefly blinks above WV’s head as he turns.

Panel 2: WV stands in the previous room that had become Can Town, before he sets up. The image is labelled “THE PAST”, and a green reticle focuses on the rotten pumpkin.

Narration: You and SERENITY consider new ways to waste more time with the APPEARIFIER. You are assuming she is a girl firefly even though you are not really sure that fireflies can even be girls.

You target the extremely tasty ROTTEN PUMPKIN that was sitting in the other room hours ago.

2652: ==> The appearifier’s screen says PARADOXIFY, and the appearifier flashes and appearifies a green pumpkin made of jelly. It quickly loses shape and becomes a pile of green sludge.

Narration: It seems the APPEARIFIER cannot appearify something if it will create a TIME PARADOX.

A GELATINOUS GHOST PUMPKIN appearifies and quickly dissolves into a pile of UNAPPETIZING SLUDGE.

2653: WV: Appearify the grate over the entrance to the facility.

Serenity flashes a message to WV as they both stand near the appearifier, jelly still on the pad—the word’s “LETS GO!!!” appear above her in Morse code.

Panel 2: WV adjusts the elevation dial of the appearifier to state ‘350.7’.

Narration: Serenity blinks a message of urgency. You nearly forgot that while trapped in amber she was witness to all your tomfoolery and dillydallying in the other room, and knows the timer is about to expire. It is time to get this show on the road and escape.

You reset the coordinates with the RIGHT GREEN BUTTON again, and this time only adjust the elevation by approximately 10 HUMAN MEASUREMENT UNITS.

2654: ==> The appearifier flashes and the bars to the grate appear on the appearifier pad, stuck partway through the gelatinous mass and white hot at the ends.

2655: [S] WV: Hasten to the exit post-haste!

Music with a tick-tocking noise plays. WV grabs a pumpkin and loads many cans into it, kicking some and stacking others. Serenity flashes in morse code HURRY UP! WV misses a can of TAB, which flies and lands on the green button with the map of the facility on it. WV picks up the top of the pumpkin and puts it down on the table display, then picks up the meterstick and combines it with the TRUSTY KNIFE and stabs around with it, before appearing to giggle and putting it behind him. Serenity asks, IS THIS REALLY NECESSARY???

WV drops the pumpkin top and then descends on it and eats it in a flash of sound effects like BURP, CHEW, and CHOMP. Serenity flashes THIS IS INCREDIBLY SILLY! WV picks up the pumpkin with a handle put through it and grabs a poker (still red hot) to use as a stick to carry the makeshift pumpkin knapsack.

WV goes to the small circular room in the center of the facility, Serenity following behind, and begins to climb the ladder, stumbling slightly. Sunlight appears from the hole previously covered by the grate and draws closer—then the music breaks (slows to a halt) and the gate zooms back out. WV falls onto the floor, and his items land scattered around him. The pumpkin lands opening-down on his head like a hat.

The last screen has the word “PSYCHE??” in purple, while WV beats his head with alternate arms below, crudely-drawn WVs with dunce caps flash back and forth all around, and the word DUMB scrolls across, both backwards and forwards

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