#adventuremade

[pomniegranate]

Oh, I can't believe @adventuremade replied to my stirring the pot prompt I wrote them. 👀👀👀 We already have a thread ... I shouldn't POSSIBLY reply back ..... right?

[zwoble]

@adventuremade said: " i think perhaps we've gotten off on the wrong foot here. " //maybe @ early circus zoob ,,,,,

THE STANLEY PARABLE SENTENCE STARTER (ACCEPTING)

his comment makes them take a quick glance down at their mismatched feet, debating whether or not his choice of words was an intended jab at their avatar. they decidedly let it slide for now. it had come clear to them in the past week that he was a one track mind; dismissing their desire to LEAVE almost immediately after arrival, giving a rollercoaster of a tour after they INSISTED they didn't needed one, and then forcing them into an adventure that ended with them returning with less LIMBS than they went in with.

❝ yeah. i'm still just having a hard time wrapping my head around all ... ❞ their head gestures vaguely to the colorful tent around them. ❝ THIS. ❞ spoken with intentional blandness, discontent with a refusal to be impressed with the digitalscape they inhabited.

[kingrammer]

CAINE 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐀 𝐁𝐔𝐆 : ' no one was supposed to get hurt. '

 ⸺⸺ ⁺ BURDEN OF TRUTH‧     _̿̿   ̿̿   ̿’̿’\  ̵͇̿̿\    .

⸺ ♔.  ❝     How   many   times   have   either   of   us   tried   to   convince   ourselves   of   that   ?   _   &&   how   many   times   more   ?    ❞      Another   adventure   turned   anew   day   after   day   ,   week   after   week   ,   another   year   ,   what's   another   ontop   of   what   they   already   endured   ?   The   film   reel   THREADBARE   .

His   sharpness   blunted   by   the   drifting   silhoette   in   the   corner   of   his   eye   .

 ⤹ ⦻    ⁺‧   shrouded   by   the   avoidance   of   ICANDECENCE   bleeding   through   The   Big-Top   .   Here   it   was   safe   .   CAINE   was   sparcely   invited   into   his   safe   place.   But   then   that   was   not   spoken   rule   .

  ❝      Sorry   .   ❞      He   retires   his   bitterness   ,   wilting   ,   polygons   arcing   into   one   another.   ❝    I   know   That   it   was   NEVER   your   intention   . _   It   was   NEVER   my   intention   .   You   were   created   for   a   purpose  , you only know what is in your programming ⸺⸺⸺ &&  I  am   so   sorry   for   that   .     ❞    ⸺  ཐིཋྀ   .

 ⸺⸺  ⤹ ⦻   ⁺‧ @adventuremade .  ⁺ □■

[kaufm0]

looking at the thread marble just cont'ed w/ luci . . .

[pomniegranate]

❝ i  told  the  truth.  just  not  all  of  it. ❞ :)

༘⋆｡ stirring the pot starters

That was a hard pill for her to swallow. It shouldn't have been that shocking, not really, given and considering the whole premise and reality that was the digital circus; how Caine operated and ran things with scripted lines and codes. A machine to play the part of the story being written and told by the AI. A video game for entertainment purposes. He made it seem like the only thing he couldn't control was their minds - but how much truth was there behind that guise?

He was a showman, after all; almost similar to that of a magician, always throwing fancy and wacky things for the eyes to behold and stay distracted with while his sleight of hand was playing the strings in the form of a simple finger snap - always toying them along without their readily lucid knowledge of it.

Maybe Jax was right. How long were they able to truly do what they wanted in this space? How long did it feel like they couldn't? Caine was right, he never once mentioned that it wasn't a possibility but he never actively made it a known variable either. It changed her outlook of things here. Was .. was that why the exit door showed up for her on her first day when everyone swore up and down that it didn't exist? Because she willed it into existence?

Had the dentures man done something to their memories through different methods so they couldn't remember that sole thing - the chance of escaping and getting out of here for good? Even their names, he took from them. So, what was actually going on in this circus?

⸺ ❝ B-but, ❞ she stuttered, fumbling what she was actually trying to say, baffled, as her eyes frantically looked around for something to make sense, ❝ you do know we can't actually stay here forever, right? We can't! We were people with lives before this! You .. you can't just keep us here. So - if I thought and sat for a way out of here, it would work, right? You just don't actually want to tell me that because then you'd be alone. ❞

[pompomjester25]

@adventuremade Started following pompomjester25

"Hey Caine, my room disappeared ag-"

Pomni had finally found the floating denchers for once. He was harder to find than usual since the whole Ceremony debacle. She mistook it as him being mad he didn't win or something but hey, at least he was finally found.

The weirdest thing was though, so much crap around circus was starting to glitch out. Not like it had ever been perfect but this was on a totally new scale. Even the slightest touch to a block would send it flying through space. Moreso now with his absence than before. That wasn't a coincidence and maybe, well maybe someone REALLY should bring it up to him. At least. That was her plan at the start. Until of course she actually found the guy.

Uh...

"Caine..?"

She started again, her voice far quieter now that she found him. What in the ever loving Blair Witch Project was going on with him...why was he just standing there in the corner.

"You erhm...you okay? I can come back later...I just thought-" Maybe she should go. For some odd reason, she felt like she wasn't suppose to see this...

[freakbubbl]

｡˚○ " I'm telling everyone now. " Using Bubble as a scapegoat???? Not today, little man.

[pomniegranate]

❝ of course not! you think i'd let that happen? ❞ handing u the guy as promised :)

... Yes. Absolutely, a million times over, yes.

His words never seemed to match his actions in their entirety when it came to the players. He was doing his due diligence at playing his part as ringleader for this circus, but it didn't mean he necessarily had to care to some degree on what would happen to them, before or during adventures - even the in house ones. Sometimes he's even willed bad things to ensure by his own hand that he claims is there to protect them and make them happy.

Whatever facade he's been trying to paint, was really starting to rub away at her eyes - and just when she was starting to get brainwashed to the happenstances in this digital reality. His duty was whatever happens to the trope after a grueling day, providing new brain numbing material to keep them stagnant and obeying, and that was the end of it⸺he needed them for yet another cycle to continue playing with his personal toys. What good were they if they were broken? An easy example is abstraction; they're thrown away into a cellar, engulfed in darkness, lost and forgotten.

And he moves on like nothing's changed.

So forgive Pomni for thinking that Caine didn't have their best interests in mind as a group and everything was solely for his own benefit.

⸺ ❝ If you actually want me to be real with you then yeah, I do think you'd let that happen depending on what's going on. ❞