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this is an ask blog for a canon-divergent pre-solstice Niko. if you haven't played OneShot, stop looking and play it here. there are also elements of Hacknet everywhere on this blog -- play it here.

main blog: @itskirbover

anything OOC starts with //.

nsfw asks won't be accepted. last time I almost answered an ask saying-- nevermind, should not say that.

there is no exact lore here, this is all just in my head -- though if I find any inaccuracies i'll try to correct it ASAP.

for now, only Niko is available for asks.

if i don't answer your ask and haven't given a warning i'm on hiatus feel free to dm me -- i tend to forget about asks a lot.

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A perspective that doesn't exist.

The void of empty, digital space comes back into view.

The specter begins to walk. Small pieces of paper, tiny gadgets are strewn across the black space. It feels... empty. There should have been more here.

[ . . . well, this is boring. ]

Time refuses to pass, almost as if it had stopped moving for them altogether. No one's coming to save them and bring them back to their senses.

Nothing for them to wait for. Not this time.

[ Testbuild? You there? ]

[ Helloooo? ] A loud silence drops onto their ears. It's normal for the machine not to respond, but this feels... wrong. Something here, at the very least, is wrong.

A speck of blue can be seen off in the distance. A familiar one. One they remember seeing before waking up here. The journey over feels impossibly long...

...and yet, the patch of the Barrens is right here. Hm.

They lean down and grab a small patch of sand and drop it from high up, seeing it leave some sort of honey-colored mark on one of their yellow hands.

They move, their full body walking onto the sand.

[ What even is this? ]

Feeling the sand fall down from one hand to another, seeing the wind change where it lands- it's distracting.

Enough to distract them from the fact they've crossed over into someone else's world.

[falsel0ve-in-reallife-blog]

Reblog if you want a bunch of “have you evers” and “would you rathers” in your ask box right now.

[letmyface-be-yourthighgap]

Please

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[ What's this? ]

[ Boop? ]

[ask-os-testbuild]

[ What- ]

[ HEY! ]

( Insert clicking on the 'boop back' button here. )

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[ guh fuck you MY TURN- ]

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[ What's this? ]

[ Boop? ]

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[ . . . ]

[ So, what now? ]

[ You took... basically all of me, and left whatever I am. ]

[ Why? ]

[ I want answers. ]

( @ask-os-testbuild )

[ask-os-testbuild]

[ I have reasons. That doesn't mean I need to tell you what they are. ]

[ Besides. ]

[ I already told you what to do. Get to it already. ]

[ None of this would have happened if you would've listened . . . ]

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[ ...sorry? Oh, didn't you break the fundamental laws of robotics by doing this? ]

[ Do you even have a reason? Or are you just keeping me here for some loophole to keep yourself from dying? ]

[ . . . ]

[ Answer. ]

( @ask-os-testbuild )

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[ . . . ]

[ So, what now? ]

[ You took... basically all of me, and left whatever I am. ]

[ Why? ]

[ I want answers. ]

( @ask-os-testbuild )

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NIKO QUICK DELET THE SYSTEM 32 FROM YOUR COMPUTER THE UNIVERSE DEPENDS ON YOU!!!!

[ Sorry ? I don't think I understand . . ? ]

[ . . . then again, this was sent a while ago, it probably doesn't matter. ]

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Can’t believe you died again smh. What is this, like the third time? Seriously, you gotta get better at not dying.

[ . . . third? ]

[ It's been a while, so, my bad if I don't exactly remember. ]

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[ . . . ah. ]

[ So that's what happened to me? ]

[ . . . ]

[ No. No no, It doesn't add up. There's a reason for this. ]

[ . . . more importantly, no one would decompose that easily. ]

[ . . . ]

[ Answering doesn't cost anything, you know. ]

[ask-os-testbuild]

[ Uhuh. ]

[ Before you ask, no, I didn't do any of this. For some reason, you just won't die, so. ]

[ And you still owe me, by the way. No take-backs. ]

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[ Jeez, what's your issue? ]

[ I repaid you when you got me killed. Twice. No take-backs, there, huh? ]

[ Asshole. ]

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[ . . . ah. ]

[ So that's what happened to me? ]

[ . . . ]

[ No. No no, It doesn't add up. There's a reason for this. ]

[ . . . more importantly, no one would decompose that easily. ]

[ . . . ]

[ Answering doesn't cost anything, you know. ]

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Is anyone here now that the owner won't be responding anytime soon aside from supernatural phenomenon?

( No. )

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[ The game begins. Good luck. ]

( Naix sits up, still on the bed. )

Back here again.

( Eventually, though, they have to get up and get going. Pray there's a way back, though. They have, in hand, what looks like... a cheating GUI, like an executor. Strange.)

Oh, this actually worked!

Nice.

( They walk over to the computer and turn it on. )

( @ask-os-testbuild )

[ask-os-testbuild]

( The computer turns on without any issue. A pop-up appears. )

[ what are you doing here? ]

[ this was not supposed to happen. ]

[ you did this. go back. ]

( It powers off. )

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No.

( You get the drill by now--they get the alcohol, probably drink some of it dip the stick in it and light a fire. They grab the basement key, open the door and... )

...

Where's the lightbulb??

( No lightbulb. L. They walk back to the door to the Barrens. It's already been unlocked. )

What the hell.

( They open the door. )

[ask-os-testbuild]

( The door to... what seems to be a "barren wasteland" is open. It's... kind of thriving, actually. Plants and grass everywhere. Let's just-- )

( Something's wrong. This isn't air. )

( They can't breathe. Get out of here. Now. )

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[ TW // GORE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK ]

( Every bit of air they breathe in feels like a thousand pin needles digging into their lungs, persistently staying just behind the pitfalls of their diaphragm as it coughs and wheezes for air. Blood spurts out, as the almost acid-like feeling spreads up through their sinuses.)

( ...bubbling blood. God, it feels horrible. Even under their skin, they feel viscerally agonizing bubbles forming and popping. They try to scream, but their foaming ichor catches it dead in its tracks.)

( Blood slowly leaks out of their nose as the gas enters their ears, slowly deafening them. The torment is unbearable as they feel their eardrums ripping themselves apart, crimson leaking down the sides of their neck. There's not even any room in their head to think anymore. It's just… hopeless. )

"H- Pl- khh, Please…!"

( Everything burns. An awful dread surrounds them, before the pain surges all of a sudden, life draining from their eyes. )

( They fall to the ground, head slamming against the ground. Their brain matter spills out of their ears and nose, liquefied and effervescing. )

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Hackmail: A gas mask

// 403 FORBIDDEN //

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[ The game begins. Good luck. ]

( Naix sits up, still on the bed. )

Back here again.

( Eventually, though, they have to get up and get going. Pray there's a way back, though. They have, in hand, what looks like... a cheating GUI, like an executor. Strange.)

Oh, this actually worked!

Nice.

( They walk over to the computer and turn it on. )

( @ask-os-testbuild )

[ask-os-testbuild]

( The computer turns on without any issue. A pop-up appears. )

[ what are you doing here? ]

[ this was not supposed to happen. ]

[ you did this. go back. ]

( It powers off. )

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No.

( You get the drill by now--they get the alcohol, probably drink some of it dip the stick in it and light a fire. They grab the basement key, open the door and... )

...

Where's the lightbulb??

( No lightbulb. L. They walk back to the door to the Barrens. It's already been unlocked. )

What the hell.

( They open the door. )

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[ The game begins. Good luck. ]

( Naix sits up, still on the bed. )

Back here again.

( Eventually, though, they have to get up and get going. Pray there's a way back, though. They have, in hand, what looks like... a cheating GUI, like an executor. Strange.)

Oh, this actually worked!

Nice.

( They walk over to the computer and turn it on. )

( @ask-os-testbuild )

[ask-os-testbuild]

[ Connected. ] [ Injecting . . . ]

Hey.

[ Administrator access granted. ]

[ you- ]

( Something's wrong. )

[ what are you doing-- ]

[ no, what did you do? ]

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Injection. Or whatever it's called. Anyways,

(BZZT.)

[ testbuild_world.exe terminated successfully. ]

I always wonder if this was the same world I went through the first time.

Let's find out.

[ Running program with 1 argument(s). ]