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Bomb Game: sensitIV! edition

[ you open your eyes to find yourself in a room that might look familiar if you just so happened to be a certified zombie survivalist. however, if you were lucky enough to avoid the zombie meet & greet, then welcome to the dankest heckhole in tokyo-f. ]

[ the overhead lights flicker often enough to instantly grind your gears, while simultaneously doing next to nothing to illuminate the dilapidated little room. though a chorus of moans and groans rise from outside, all the doors and windows are securely barricaded, making the shambling monsters a non-issue... though it's possible their existence alone may put you on edge. ]

[ or maybe that's the -fsssst- sound, a subtle hissing coming from what could have passed for fire sprinklers. for the duration of the game a colorless and odorless gas is going to be filling the room, one that clouds judgements and exacerbates anxiety. but, hey!, that's what the janky table and busted chairs in the corner of the room featuring cold tea and dry biscuits is for - a carefully curated space for you and yours to kick back, relax, and KEEP TALKING. ]

[ the center of the room is where the main event sits, a BOMB, with several thick cords snaking out from it connecting to a bunch of different buttons. the entire thing is housed in an unbreakable glass cube, with only the buttons in reach of your grubby hands. a tv screen is suspended overhead, currently displaying the rules & winning conditions, but that's all about to change... ]

[ in the meantime feel free to enjoy a particularly messy wall, one stained with all sorts of things from the last bunch that tried ~~and failed~~ to win, ew! ]

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"You can breathe a little easy. The bomb won't go off... this round."

Edited 2022-11-26 22:57 (UTC)

[ With a snicker-snack, the wire attached to the chosen button is cut. All that's left to do is wait.

Oh. Oh no. A red light beyond the glass starts blinking as a shrill sound pierces the air. The sound and lights intensity to an almost dizzying crescendo until it hits you full force - a push and a pull that seems to steal the breath from your lungs for a moment. And then all goes quiet.

Looks like that was the wrong wire to cut. ]

Please choose 1-2 of the following status effects:
🎊 Amnesia
🎊 Desire to Change Something About Yourself (aka Midlife Crisis)
🎊 Extreme Body Temperature Fluctuations ( Hot & Cold )
🎊 Forced Honesty ( you can lie but it's hard, and there's a physical ailment each time you do )
🎊 Heightened Emotions ( Prone to Anger / Affection )
🎊 Morality Flip
🎊 Powers Go Haywire
🎊 Temporary New Phobia

If you prefer, you can also choose 1-2 from the minor status effect category instead but you must choose at least 1 from the previous set:
🎉 Extreme Gullibility
🎉 Hanahaki
🎉 Hallucinations
🎉 Kleptomania compulsion
🎉 Lose A Sense
🎉 Must Vocalize All Thoughts
🎉 Speech is Censored or Autocorrected
🎉 Super optimistic / Super pessimistic

[Rude, his thought process was perfect!!

-Forced Honesty]

Temp New Phobia & Extreme Gullibility

[Brrr why does he feel so unsettled here.]

Guess that explains the bomb puns.

[ looks like he's going to explode, himself. ]

How are we supposed to diffuse a bomb?!?!

By solving the puzzle, presumably.

The letters at the bottom could be a cipher of some kind...

And something with P, since that's the only colored letter... do we need to remove all the P? [ squint. ] I... I don't think I even see any P. [ starting to freaking out. HE DOESN'T NEED GAS FOR THIS. ]

If it was removing letters, they'd probably feature more, right? L and E are both in the sentences, but they aren't marked at all.

...true. I'm guessing that last thing is an actual sentence, so can we guess what a word is and go from there, or is that too hard? [ he's going to go pound on the glass for all the good it'll do. ] BOMB TELL ME YOUR SECRETS!

...Somehow, I don't think that's going to work.

[Hmmm!]

Give me a second to look at the instructions? It's probably a rotational cipher of some kind, but I'll need to think it over.

What the hell is a rotation cipher?

It's when you take a sentence and then move all the letters by a certain number. So for example, if you rotated everything by one, A would be written down as B instead.

...so could P be the new A? Is... is that how this [ nerd shit. ] stuff works?

In this case, A is probably "e".

It's rotated by 4, you see. "Peace is found in the beginning of eternity and the end of time and space. Beware the sound you make when you open your mouth."

E should be safe.

What the hell was the P clue then, and... why is the puzzle telling me not to scream? I don't make eee sounds when I scream. [ going to kick the glass now. ] What the hell is this game! [ but, look, he's glad that izanagi solved the puzzle, because he's dumb as a box of rocks sometimes. ]

But, yeah, we can go with E. I... don't know what else to pick and... you're smart.

That's the number we're supposed to rotate by. It's the 4th letter both times, see?

I feel like I'm getting stupider the more I stare at this puzzle, but, yeah... okay, I think I finally get *that* part.

If you want to know how I decided on "E," it's the letter at the beginning of the word "eternity" and at the end of the words "time" and "space," too.

[ blink blink. ]

...huh, I

I didn't even notice that. [ HE FUCKEN HATES PUZZLES. ] I... I'm real glad you're here Izzy.

Don't speak too soon. Something tells me this isn't the only part of the game.

It did say the bomb can't blow up and that's all bombs do... so, yeah, there's at least going to be another round.

"Well, guess we didn't need that wire. But don't worry~ We replaced it with something explosive."

Edited 2022-11-27 03:34 (UTC)

[ With a snicker-snack, the wire attached to the chosen button is cut. All that's left to do is wait.

And wait.

....And wait.

Hmmmmm. Well, they say that no news is good news, and you don't feel any different. And is it just a trick of the light, or does the countdown on the bomb seem to be slowing down.

Congratulations. It looks like you cut the correct wire. ]

[Ughhhhhhhh.]

My reasoning was sound. There's no way the answer was anything other than E!

[WHAT HAPPENED.]

It was the most sound. It was at the end and the beginning and everything! Hey, bomb, [ flips the double bird. ] FUCK YOU.

Did we miss a step...?

[Doing some quick math because this is BUGGING him.

...

...]

The buttons were a cipher.

... [ using izanagi's cipher. ] Healer? W- Wait, does that mean E was I the whole time?!

It must've been. Ughh... we didn't solve far enough. I hate this!

I hate this too. You did a great job at that puzzle. It's probably rigged. I wouldn't put it past those moldy old jerks! Putting people in rooms with bombs and beeps and boops and [ covers his ears. ] it's all too much! STOP ALREADY!

Ughhh... Well, at least I know a thing about music, although...

[S.........QUINTS,]

This is... pretty abstract.

[ he's going to hunker down and tug at his ears. ] Just... just make it stop before I mash all of the buttons! I can't take it, Izzy. I'm going to kill that bomb, I swear, I'm going to get vengeance on that bomb for whispering all those obnoxious beeps and boops and beeps into my ears... [ he's trying to keep yammering loudly to drown out all of the noise, because, guess what, his new phobia has to do with LOUD NOISE. ]

[Ah shit.]

Alright, alright, let me just...

[Try and... figure this out... ugh the beeps are kind of getting to him, too.]

...A? And if A is 1, then...

How is music even a puzzle?! Music is supposed to be nice and relaxing, but all I feel is... is like I'm going to explode. [ the flames on his ears and tail grow bigger and brighter as he slowly loses his shit. ]

[ scoots closer to izanagi. ] Then A is the first letter of the alphabet. [ helping!!! ]

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Bomb Game: sensitIV! edition

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