four friends play a game together

wait what do you mean that's another story? --shared liveblog sideblog!--

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About the Players

Pilot (Pronouns: any/none) (Intro Post) (Tag)

Poppet (Pronouns: she/her) (Intro Post) (Tag)

Reverb (Pronouns: he/him, xe/xer) (Intro Post) (Tag)

Ghost (Pronouns: any) (Intro Post) (Tag)

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GUYS. I THINK I FOUND A NEW ARG

today i saw a blazed post from @jadedresearcher on an infinite gender generator and there were some Funky Links so i've been going down various rabbit holes and all their connections are new blogs with stuff clearly attached to an arg

it's all surrounding a (presumably fictional) piece of lost media, a game called zampanio. there appears to be VERY little engagement with it so far and all the posts are new, so i'm posting this to put out a call for any fellow arg fans to get on this with meeee

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keeping some notes here for future reference:

@ask-togigageta appears to be an askblog for characters related to this universe. they've been posting for a few months but their only engagement has been from an account called @maoushoujoella. that account has very little content besides links to...

line the pieces up

well, im freaked out. quick emergency video update, sorry the quality is shit:

i am currently at work and can't watch this, which is driving me up the wall. the blog that posted that video is @offlinesequence. offlinesequence (raz/kralie) has been posting for a while but it's mostly normal tumblr stuff, this is their pinned post. if you go down the zampanio tag on their blog there's more.

@youcantreadtheworlds is also attached to this, though i haven't personally been able to delve into their account too much yet bc it's setting off my unreality issues crazy bad, sorry soldiers, but there are a few links there that i will follow when i am on my personal computer and not my work computer

and of course i found all of this through the pinned post on jadedresearcher's account, https://www.tumblr.com/jadedresearcher/686771369365651456/wait-whats-the-zampanio-retro-game?source=share. this appears to have the basics of the game/info

other links (found through the gender generator)

knucklessux.com/HydrationSim/ : this appears to be useful as a link for the zampanini website, and has a lot of seed codes that i'm unsure how to use

http://farragofiction.com/CatalystsBathroomSim/bathroom.html : sburb-esque game with branching paths

http://eyedolgames.com/Zampanini/index.html - doordash-esque website with a name obviously related to zampanio

i'm finding the name "martin" come up a lot so far

i will update this with further findings, feel free to rb with more info

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ok im caffeinated and i was moving too fast. the jadedresearcher post is from 2022 this may be old news? but some of this still seems very new so i'm keeping this post up. if any of y'all know more than me pleaseeeee hmu

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alright gang it's on. let's crack this thang

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musings on the shadow razor

i still am unsure of the relationship between the killer and the eye killer. when the killer dies, then the innocent will breach and turn into eye killer. the newspaper clipping also told me that the eye killer was active after the killer's victims tapered off in 1994 (presumably due to dying).

i already know that one of the shadow artifacts, the shadow razor, is owned by the killer.

i'm pretty sure that the shadow razor is the same thing as the quatro blade mentioned as an artifact. (quatro, of course, being a play on quattro gilette razors and also the number 4). according to the wiki it is the eye killer's artifact.

so, presumably, eye killer got it from the killer at some point?

if you ask the ouija board where the body is, it will tell you that the quatro blade hides.

also i dont know much about the mirror world right now. might be a yongki thing, might be a loopist faction thing.... might be both or neither

also from devona's silly rides where she talks about her dreams that are real:

""Oh um..   I think this ride was about... One time I heard that if a blade is SHARP enough, it could cut you and you wouldn't even feel it, you'd just look down and you'd be bleeding and that was so so scary but all I could think about is what would happen if there was a blade that did it no matter HOW sharp it was, no matter how much it ripped and tore into you. If you could never ever know you got cut you could just bleed to death or get a fatal infection from ANYTHING. I didn't sleep that night because how would you even TELL if you'd already been cut?""

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Blogs

https://odinsrazor.tumblr.com/ https://jadedresearcher.tumblr.com/ http://www.knucklessux.com/Blog/ https://jadedresearcher.itch.io/zampanio

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wasn’t expecting to see our blog in the google results... wait, sheet cake?

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it has occurred to me that i've never actually explained what zampanio. is? here

like, i reblog things with zampanio all the time, but i've never actually explained what that means lol

so ok uhhhhhhh 5 am crimson rambles go

ok. so there's this game, from like, the 70s or 80s i think, called zampanio. no one knows what it's really ABOUT besides that it's supposedly really fucking weird. there's also no documentation about it too far in the past, because apparently stuff about this has a tendency to just. disappear. and the people that KNOW a lot about it seem to either vanish or fly off the fucking handle. which is already wacky enough. but, like, the main thing about zampanio is that since the source material is so unknown beyond, like, the vaguest vibes, there's a billion different unrelated fangames about it with nothing in common besides some vague thematic elements? like, there's zampaniosim, which is this massive sprawling network of god knows what that has like, twenty billion different fictional characters from other games in it i think? i heard something about magnus archives and lobotomy corp and i don't understand most of it but it seems very cool. and there's also some rpg maker game someone made called zam2anio? and i played it for like 10 minutes and it's incomprehensible but in the best way. and there's also this discord server that is like, also a puzzle or something? and that's its own thing? and also leads into other things, maybe??? it's insane. but the really cool part is that since the source material is just. Not. you can kinda just go hog wild with different things in different fandoms and have it still be A Zampanio Thing. i'm currently retooling a mario fanfic i came up with literally in elementary school into A Zampanio Thing. it doesn't matter what fandom you're in, you caj make it zampanio. it's genuinely very cool and unique and i like it a lot. i'm not very caught up on a lot of the individual things people have been making but the vibes are immaculate and it ends up making this massive nonsense patchwork of a fandom that somehow all fits together, and just, it's the best

so yeah, go check out zampanio if you haven't already, look it up, play/read/look at some of the stuff people have made, maybe make your own zampanio thing if you wanna, you won't regret it. probably. unless you turn into a monster or something, except actually if you did you probably wouldn't regret it anyway because you'd be a monster so whatever

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lmao ok, of course this was my hundredth post

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starts typing Z...a...m...p... into search bar. gets jumpscared when "Zampano", the word i was going to type, pops up in the search suggestions

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did some exploring. well not really exploring. some whatever. in South. also earlier today looked at some other ARGs with some friends... Zampanio is a bit similar to some of those ARGs at least in some respects. love when things use AI generated images for the unsettling not-quite-real quality that they have

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big fan of this quote:

"The plain and raw Truth of the matter is that all of us are background characters in someone else's story. Is that, then, a cause for despair? I think not. Equally are we all of us protagonists. Your Relevance is given wholly by you and the people you care for. And that is all there is to say on the matter."

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https://youtu.be/fD-cEiaNMfw

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Spent a while in East trying to figure out what was going on with it, and also trying to collect(?) as many “Memories” as possible. And recording my screen because I was pretty much speeding through it without time to read the things... well guess what, I couldn’t find the button to stop the screen recording, and had to force quit the program, losing the entire recording. Something something the rot takes all or whatever

Also this

what kind of women is this fella trapped in a maze with and where can I meet them /j

also my mouse pointer is continually flickering now so I’m going to restart computer I guess

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It’s hard not to die in EastEast. But you can still die even if you(?)’re dead!

Ria -> Breaching Match -> burns everything (can ‘take’ match to prevent further rooms from burning)

Eye Killer -> Breaching Eye Killer -> kills peewee (reducing him to a grave. graves can’t enter doors which means the only source of movement is to descend. dying does not appear to be undoable. at least for peewee. npcs can be found in other npcs' innerworlds.)

JR breaching does nothing

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well this wasn’t what I meant to do. I think. not sure I did this.