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mkay so. been procrastinating on this but. member intros. how this is gonna work is this post is gonna be kind of a central point and everyone is gonna be a reply to it (bc if it was a thread and one post needed to be changed deleting it would mess with the whole chain). so, click here i guess?

oh yeah i think the first couple tutorial puzzles involved making numbers out of tiles, i think it's like "rearrange these to make the number ten" "ok here you go, 10" "great! now use this different set to make the number ten" "ohoho, the rest of the team is panicking bc these shapes clearly can't make those two digits, but i can see that there IS the right shapes to make the roman numeral x! i am Good At Puzzles"

elevator pitch: professor layton meets saw (note: i know basically nothing about either franchise). you and like four other people wake up in a complex controlled by a rogue ai who insists you solve all the puzzles inside within 24 hours or you'll all be killed. protagonist is named ink and is a trans man (or at a minimum implied to be). love interest(?) is named aether. after the tutorial section you go down several paths where the puzzles are all designed around the mentalities of one of your party members. first an old woman, who at the end of that path there's a garden slowly filling with toxic gas and she decides she'd rather die there in peace than continue on with y'all but then what's pretty clearly a replica of her catches up with you so she continues being a character. the next path is for this super ableist dudebro and has him getting into a bunch of fights with this other girl who's pretty blatantly autistic. the first puzzle revolves around his instinct that someone missing a limb isn't a full human, and for the last puzzle he has to choose to amputate a limb or die (which is brutal but good narrative bookending, also lmao get rekt). i think one of the puzzles there is about poker and another is about codebreaking? and i think there's also a couple bits where the world is glitching or something. it was still a wip when i last played but there's a bit at the end of what was at the time the most recent chapter where you have to choose between two doors and i chose a door and ink was like "wow what's this weird compulsion? anyways im doing Not That" which if id had the context at the time i would've understood that Kin Feels are what that caused!

(alas, one of these details is Not the name, which is probably the most important thing to remember)

feels like the whole lot of us have been reverting to thinking patterns we've long outgrown recently. cons: there's a reason we left these things behind? pros: remembered a significant number of details about a very cool browser game we played many years ago (like, before we even knew we were we)

chara and protag is kind of a weird cofronting situation. not that its uncommon exactly, even beyond "charas being Filled With Determination means theyre at least vaguely frontwards more often than not" this seems to happen a lot. but like, conceptually? you two seem like a weird pairing but here you are hanging out up here together huh