April-Imitation

Julie the Mimic woke up in a park. In front of her is a vast fountain with a haulted flow. Looking around herself, there seems to be endless foliage. A speaker buzzes before a voice penetrates the static. "H-hey! Can you hear me out there?" Julie hears the voice tap the mic and flitches at the harsh feedback. "Oh good, looks like I can see ya too." Julie recognizes the voice as her friend Brad the Hand. "I had to come up with some sort of tutorially area for you to explore. Unfortunately it's just a fountain and a door. I'm sure you can figure out what to do." The mimic huffs and looks over her options. [[Inspect the fountain.->Fountain]] [[Walk past fountain.->Forest Level]]

(if: $inv's length > 0)[Julie's current chest contents, containst the following:] (else:)[Julie's chest is clean, but empty.] (if: $inv contains "tutorialkey")[(display: "tutorialkey")](if: $inv contains "knife")[(display: "knife")](if: $inv contains "blueplate")[(display: "blueplate")](if: $inv contains "yellowplate")[(display: "yellowplate")](if: $inv contains "lighter")[(display: "lighter")](if: $inv contains "orb")[(display: "orb")] (link-goto: "Return", (history:)'s last)

(if:(passage:)'s name is "chest")[](else-if:(passage:)'s tags contains "donotshowinventory")[](else:)[ [[chest<-Look in chest.]] ]

(set: $inv to (a:))

Inventory http://gersande.com/blog/designing-inventories-in-twine-2-with-the-built-in-harlowe-macros/

(display: "inventory")

Past the fountain, there's a locked door that blocks further passage. The speaker crackles, "Yeah sorry about that, gotta make sure you know how this works." Brad's familiar voice explains the situation as Julie is stuck in the center of the park. (if: $inv contains "tutorialkey")[Julie remembers and examines the key she obtained from the fountain and unlocks the door. Brad's voice comes through again. "That wasn't so hard," he said, happy for his friend. "Guess I should prepare some harder puzzley stuff." [[Go through new door->Dungeon Enter]]] [[Examine the fountain.->Fountain]]

// How to get an item (if: $itemget is 0)[You gotta item. (set: $inv to $inv + (a: "item"))(set: $itemget to 1)](else:)[You already got the dummy item.] // Item displaying/usecase (if: $inv contains "tutorialkey")[(display: "has key")] // Removing items (click: "Delete")[(set: $inv to $inv - (a: "item"))]

The fountain's stagnent water contains rotten leaves drifting in the light breeze. Nothing useful is instantly apparent. [[Sift through the leaves -> In Fountain]] [[Examine the door instead.->Forest Level]]

Julie shifts part of her plasmatic body into a paddle like shape. Using her ghost paddle to sift around the dead leaves, the contents of the lightly murky water begin to show. The mimic can see a plug at the bottom of the fountain, as well as a key. [[Get the key. -> The key]] [[Unplug the fountain. -> Unplug]] [[Go back to the fountain.->Fountain]]

Although the water looks a bit disgusting, Julie figures she already sludged around in it once, and trys to hook the key without draining the fountain. With some effort, the mimic manages to peel the key off the bottom of the fountain. The speaker crackles. "Great work! Not that that was hard or anything, just wanted to say you're doing great!" (if: $tkeyget is 0)[Julie stuffs the key in her chest proudly. (set: $inv to $inv + (a: "tutorialkey"))(set: $tkeyget to 1)](else:)[As Julie trys to store another one of these keys, the item disappears as a buzzer goes off. "H-hey," Brad's voice stops the alarm. "I didn't put any checks in here for that so it just deletes items you've already got once. Confused, Julie just shrugs off the message.] [[What next? -> After Key]]

Julie forms a hook to unplug the fountain. As the fountain begins to drain, the key slinks down the hole and disappears. The speaker crackles. "Hey Julie," Brad garners her attention, "There's no way to get that key back, you might want to reverse your actions." (set: $unplugged to 1) The mimic looks around confused. (if: $inv contains "tutorialkey")["I already have the key." She yells back at the speaker. "Oh! Well then... What are you waiting for?"](else:)["How do I do that?" She responds. Brad clears his throat comedically as he begins his prepared speech. "Click the undo button on the left."]

The speaker blasts again. "This is where the real tutorial starts," Brad's grin could be heard through his voice. "There's nothing else after this point and uh... Call this a feature? A quirk?" Julie speaks up, "So what now?" "Hmm... Well, you should go back to the [[Fountain]].

Julie makes her way past the wooden door. The dimly lit hall led the mimic down a cobble lined path. The narrow way felt nostalgic to Julie, as the larger stones scraped up against the bottom of her chest. Julie begrudgingly admitted she should have polished up before going through this sort of venture. The path split between multiple doors. A [[scuffed up door]] to the right eyes a much more [[kept door]] on the left. The [[path seems to continue]] forward, but the light seems to die down to nothing.

A key that opened the park door and served as an overall tutorial... Or so Brad says.

Opening the door revealed a surprisingly prestine, but empty, room. A steadily built table sits in the exact middle of the room. Four tea cups are spread symetrically placed around a tea kettle standing in the middle.(if: $comboplaced is 1)[The tea kettle's lid was blasted off. [[Look inside the kettle.->Inside kettle.]]] [[Examine the teacups closer.]] [[Go back ->Dungeon Enter]]

Opening the door reveals a mess. Broken china and bent silverware litter the room. There are multiple boxes spread around the room, void of any content. A single box, that looks like it avoided the scuffle, is sealed up. [[Open the box]] [[Go back.->Dungeon Enter]]

The hall's length seems longer than Julie can see.(if: $knifeattack is 0)[(set: $inv to $inv + (a: "knife"))(set: $knifeattack to 1) As she drags her chest along the floor, a knife sticks itself into the trunk. The small weapon inserted itself into the girl's flesh, unfortunately causing a bit of a leak. The mimic winces and slowly pulls the pocket knife out of her shell, morphing her body around the blade to minimize the damage. Her gooey body calluses the injury over, as it begins to heal. The speaker crackles. "J-Julie!" Brad's voice seems panicked. "Your vitals decreased, but there's no enemies around! What happened?!" From the tone of his voice, Brad seems to genuinely feel sorry for what happened. "It's alright," she says gritting her teeth. "It's more shock than anything." Brad could see the knife carried a bit of plasma. He decided not to press the issue. "I'm sorry, do you still want to go through this?" Julie nodded her head and stored the knife away. The hall's blackness is becoming overwhelming.] (if: $lighterget is 0)[The hall's blackness is too overwhelming. The mimic decided that she didn't want a repeat knife incident and didn't continue.](else:)[Julie flicked on the lighter to see. The hall didn't reach as deep as she thought, as a door was clearly visable now. The ground seemed clear, for a pebble paved path. 'Thank god,' she thought to herself as she drug her trunk against the rocky floor. The wound in her plasma was fully healed by now, but the scar of the unknown was still present. [[Open the door.->Foyer]]] [[Turn Back->Dungeon Enter]]

The four tea cups have a letter written on them. The red teacup has a R written in the center of it. The yellow teacup has a Y written around the cup. the blue teacup has a B written on the inner lip. The green teacup has multiple letters scrawled all over it. Each teacup has a plate under it(if: $comboplaced is 0)[, except for the green one].(if: $inv contains "blueplate")[ [[Place blue plate under teacup.->blueplace]]](if: $inv contains "yellowplate")[ [[Place yellow plate under teacup.->yellowplace]]](if: $bluecheck is 1)[(if: $yellowcheck is 1)[ [[Place down both plates under the green teacup.->comboplace]]]](if: $comboplaced is 1)[ The cups look balanced now.] [[Back off the cups->scuffed up door]]

(if: $boxopen is 0)[The box is sealed with a tape that can't be penatrated by any sort of amalgamation of Julie's plasmortial being.](else:)[The box was sealed with a tape that was easily cut by the knife stored on Julie. There are packing peanuts scattered around the box.] (if: $knifeattack is 1)[(if: $boxopen is 0)[The knife in Julie's custody makes itself apparent in the mimic's mind. She begrudgingly pulls it out of her chest, and eyes the box. [[Slice it open.->Box Contents]]](else:)[The box is already open. [[Examine the contents of the box.->Box Contents]]]] [[Go back.->kept door]]

A dangerous knife that already injured Julie once, is something that she'd rather not deal with again. The plasma seems to have dried on it, leaving a colored stain.

(if: $boxopen is 1)[The empty box eyes Julie. It knows something is missing.](else:)[(set: $boxopen to 1) Packing peanuts pop out of the box and spill all over the tarnished floor. The packing peanut container looks infinately deep. Julie forms half of her being into a bowl. She dumps the contents of the box into her cupped body. The mimic sets the now empty box under her bowl. She then forms a hole to sift the starchy nuts. As the packing peanuts trickle down, she feels something heavy hit the side of her transformed body. The last peanut tops off the box. Reforming, Julie clasps the newly discovered objects in her hands. Two identically shaped disks, one yellow while the is other blue, rolled down her plasmatic paws and stored themselves in her chest. The mimic smiled as the speakers crackled. "Julie," Brad's familiar voice grab's her attention. "You found some of my old plates! A little dusty, but at least they didn't break while being shipped. Julie looks over the rest of the busted up room. Brad notices and gives off a meek laugh. "All you need is a plate for each person, right?" "Right," she answers. "But these look like toy plates." Brad chuckles more modestly. "Sometimes you need something silly for tea time right?" The speaker cuts out. (set: $inv to $inv + (a: "blueplate"))(set: $inv to $inv + (a: "yellowplate"))] [[Go back.->kept door]]

A children's play plate glimmers awkwardly with it's fake blue plastic.

A yellow toy plate seems too small for anything other than one cookie.

Julie places the blue plate under the scribbled on cup. She waits for a sign of progress and scopes out the room. Nothing seems to change so she takes back the plate and huffs to herself. (set: $bluecheck to 1) [[Examine the teacups wholly. ->Examine the teacups closer.]]

The mimic places the yellow plate under the scribbled on teacup. Julie scans the room for any differences. She thinks she heard something, but it might have just been Brad accidently turning the mic on. In a huff, she takes back the plate and pouts. (set: $yellowcheck to 1) [[Examine the teacups wholly. ->Examine the teacups closer.]]

(set: $comboplaced to 1)With both plates in hand, Julie slides them under the scribbled teacup. All four teacups clatter, and spin as something sounds like it's becoming looser. A blast of steam pours out of the kettle as the lid blows off. The cups stop dancing. The speaker buzzes and stops. "Okay then," Julie reconfirms.(set: $inv to $inv - (a: "yellowplate")) (set: $inv to $inv - (a: "blueplate")) [[Examine the teacups wholly. ->Examine the teacups closer.]]

Julie morphs her paws into ovenmitts and clasps onto the tea kettle. She shakes it about to hear it's contents. (if: $lighterget is 0)[A rattling could be heard in the tin kettle. Peering into the kettle, Julie saw a metalic object. (set: $lighterget to 1)(set: $inv to $inv + (a: "lighter")) She rolled the kettle into one mitt and morphed the other one into a claw. The claw grasped easily onto the object. Julie sat the kettle back on the table and examined the metalic object. The lighter looked brand new, and giving it a flick, it seemed to be functional as well. "This'll come in handy," she said to herself confidently.](else:)[The kettle was empty. It seems like Julie got everything she needed to.] [[Go back.->scuffed up door]]

A very functional, and fully fueled, lighter. The lighter shines rather well in even the dimmest of light.

The foyer looks clean and crisper than the previous areas. Fresher air, hard wooden floors and even well-kept furnishing completes the wide space's atmosphere. Julie looks around and sees that dispite the room looking clean, it's lived in. (if: $girlmet is 0)["Brad?" She calls out. Crackling in, he answers, "What's up?" "Where's everyone else." As soon as she finished her line, a loud clacking of keys could be heard, with mild profanities being muttered inbetween. A few seconds later a weird materialization appears infront of the mimic. This character looked simple. They had a dipped in head, which made it resemble horns. There was no discernible features, and they didn't have arms either. Two wooden clogs clacked underneath the monochromatic creature. They opened up their mouth(?), and before they spoke, what seemed to be an eye ball illusion stared at the mimic. Sharp teeth rimmed the bottom and top of their mouth. "Thzzank you for e-trning this Zone!" The character's feminine voice cut out as they were talking, probably still loading in. "Aaaaas a certified du-ge-on guardian I should give you the t--r..." Julie stared back at this mysterious person. "I'm Julie," she just responded. "A tour seems okay, who are you by the way?" "ZZ-ZZ-ZZ" The guardian buzzed, cutting out constantly. "I'm the guardian girl of this dungeon, ZZ--ZZD-DD." "S-should I just call you 'Guardian'?" The mysterious girl shook her head as her mouth just made static noises.(set: $girlmet to 1)](else:)[Guardian stood there, wading back and forth, making clop noises with her clogs. Her dress flopped in her swinging motion.] "What do you want to see?" (if: $chopchop is 0)[ [[Games]]](if: $movies is 0)[ [[Videos]]] [[Start New Adventure]](if: $gagme is 0)[ [[Corruption Zone]]](if: $sadGuardian is 0)[ [[Nothing Much]]](if: $sadGuardian is 1)[(if: $gagme is 1)[(if: $movies is 1)[(if: $chopchop is 1)[ [[What Next?]]]]]]

"Umm..." Guardian looks around anxiously. "I don't know if there's any video games here." Julie interjects, "We don't have to play a video game." The mimic closes her lid as she searches for something to play with. Considering a lighter and a knife aren't exactly the most friendly items, she finds herself at a lost. Guardian forms a heatless flame over her head. It hovered in the crevasse between the horns. The flame transforms into a shaking fist. "Rock Paper Scissors!" she exclaims. Julie forms a larger hand in excitement and nods heavily. "Right right!" They both call out "Rock... Paper... Scissors," as the two pick their choices. Julie chose paper while Guardian chose scissors. "Again." "Rock... Paper... Scissors!" The two revealed their choices, this time Julie winning with rock. In the next round Julie picked scissors, hoping that Guardian would change. This round ended in a tie. As the, hopefully, final round commenced Julie fought against what she thought would be scissors. "Rock... Paper... Scissors!" They both revealed their choices with Guardian choosing scissors. Although the clogged girl lost, she smiled all the same. "Why did you pick scissors every round," Julie couldn't shake that question from her mind. She formed the scissors signed and waved it around. "I like the two pointy fingers." Guardian closed and opened the 'scissors' playfully.(set: $chopchop to 1) [[Go Back->Foyer]]

Guardian scuffles into the corner of the foyer and garners a chair. She kicks it over to Julie, and positions it infront of the mimic. The clogged girl carefully hovers her bottom over the chair before she dives into it, her shoes clack against the chairs legs. She lowers her head as a cold flame materializes in the horned dish. The flame flickers, as the colors produce an actual image. Guardian starts to make up dialog, stumbling around some words, while the image's quality becomes more crisp, and apparent. She makes up a story about a slime and an arm. The animation seems more like a puppet show, but the flame produces more colors than you thought a fire could. The voice for the arm sounds mocking, but Guardian made the character endearing. The slime just chuckled at everything the arm said. In the end the two friends ended up at a family resturant, apparently there was a small fight before this and they wanted to reward their friendship. Guardian lifted her head as soon as they entered the resturant. Julie formed two sets of hands and tried to give a round of applause. The mimic smiled and thanked her for the show. Guardian stood up and bowed, nearly falling over, and kicked the chair back to it's original position.(set: $movies to 1) [[Go Back->Foyer]]

Guardian's mouth/eye combo widened as she coughed up a small orb. Julie hopped backwards to avoid what she expelled. "GRG," Guardian gurgles and continues to gag. The mimic curls her brow and looks around. "B-brad?" She awkwardly calls out. The speaker hums. "Julie, what's going on?" He seems unaware. "Guardian is... She's uh..." A chair creak is heard over the speaker, as a distant sigh comes through the mic. "Let's see..." A mild profanity is uttered, followed by loud clacking. Guardian's body phases through the ground as her head rolls away. Julie looks around trying to keep track of the nightmare happening. "Brad?!" She panics, keeping her lid's opening tighter than usual. Julie loses track of Guardian's head. [[Panic]]

The clog girl kicks both feet in the air and lands flat on her behind with an audible thud. She kicks her feet as they clack against the varnished floor. Guardian attempts to hum an unfamiliar tune, her volume cuts out periodically unfortunately. Julie scans over the girl and shrugs. Already 'sitting', the mimic flipped open her chest's top and lets her body breathe. She rests her eyes for a bit, leaning back deeply into her chest. --- Moments later, a harsh noise startles the mimic from her slumber. Guardian's humming devolved into a noisy mess that finally peaked in volume. "Guardian!" Julie backlashes, realizing that the girl might be bugging out. "Oh!" Not realizing that she was causing a feedback loop from her staticy singing. "I'm z-orry," she lowers her head. Julie looked around the room and held out her hand to help Guardian up. The mimic forgot she didn't have any hands and rubbed her horned head instead. "It's... Okay, but I guess we have to do something else instead now." (set: $sadGuardian to 1) [[Go back.->Foyer]]

Julie looks around the familar area. The fountain is in the exact same place as it was before. It still had the murky water, which had the leaves and past the leaves is the key, and by the key is the plug. Everything is the same. "What gives?" She exclaims. The girl rematerializes and examines the park to see if something was wrong. "What'zzz -roblem?" The mimic huffed, "Do I have to start over now or what?" Guardian clacked her clogs repeatitively. "You wanted to start a new adventure right?" The girl's annoyance was very apparent. She didn't appreciate Julie's tone. Julie held in her giggle from the girl's childish stomping. "I'm sorry, I guess I did but... Can I go back?" The clog girl calmed down and nodded. [["Let's go back"->Foyer]]

"What's going on?" Julie calls out. "Just a moment," a light panic was heard in his voice as well. The speaker's hum cuts out. A sphere drops from the ceiling with a voluminous thud. The sphere morphs, having a large slice cut out of it. A long blade juts out of the side of it, curling at both ends of the new apendage. The curved object wobbles around as it stands upon the curved blade. Two legs spurt out from under it with a familiar clacking noise. The newly formed creature wobbles over to the previously spewed orb. It clumsily falls on it and springs back forward. "Gzz, Julie," a familiar voice calls out. "G-Guardian?" The mimic responds. The newly reformed clog girl clacks over to Julie and jumps up and down. "Julie!" Still dumbfounded, Julie poses a question. "What's the corruption zone?" "It'z something that really izn't func-zional yet." Julie just awkwardly looked around and bit her cheek.(set: $gagme to 1) [[Go back->Foyer]]

Julie looked around the foyer, noticing they didn't leave the area. "When do we start the tour?" Guardian frowned and looked down. Julie scooted away from Guardian, heading towards a new area. She opened the door and stepped inside to reveal an identical foyer. [[To Foyer(?)->Foyer?]]

The foyer looks darker and less kept than the previous one. The skuffed up wooden floors and the lack of furnishing multiplied the uneasy atmosphere. Julie looks around and sees that dispite the room abandoned, a figure stood in the middle of it. "Guardian?" She called out. A flame arose in the middle of the figure's horned head. "Guardian..." Julie hopped closer to the figure as the air grew warmer. "Why are there two of the same rooms in this place?" Guardian's eye stayed shut as the flame changed into a question mark. A low static hum came from the girl. [[What's wrong?]] [[Where are we?]]

Julie looked over Guardian noticing her clogs were scuffed and her flame was dim. "Are you okay?" The mimic placed her hand on Guardian. Her mouth opened revealing she didn't have an eye illusion like she had before. The mouth was dark and her teeth remained as sharp as the were before. [[Pull away.]] [[Keep her calm.]]

The mimic looks around again, double checking her enviroment. "Is this the foyer still?" Guardian gave an empty answer, her flame changed back to it's default state. [[What's wrong?]] [[Continue self guided tour.->Foyer3]]

Julie snatches her hand away as a sign of caution. A harsh noise pulsates through the air before erupting into a bitcrushed cry. Floresent liquid pours out of the girls mouth, as the noise turns into a gargle. Julie feels uncomfortable as she puts the hand back on he girl and rubs her back. "Shh shh," she tries to calm her down. "I-it's okay, I didn't mean to pull away." Julie wipes Guardian's mouth with her other hand and wipes it on the back of her chest. "We're friends see, I didn't mean anything by that." The girl sniffles as the harsh sounds stop. [[Soothe her.->Keep her calm.]]

Julie's hand morphed into a softer paw that continued to soothe the girl. Guardian closed her mouth and cracked a grin. The flame morphed into a heart and her low hum cooed. She spat something on the ground. The ball looked similar. Julie picked up the object and looked at it closer. It reminded her of the time Guardian glitched out and despawned.(set: $inv to $inv + (a: "orb")) She stowed it in her chest. --- After some time with the girl, she fell asleep in the arms of Julie. The mimic slowly let her down and backed off to explore the rest of the building. [[Examine next room.->Foyer3]]

Floor boards are missing from the floor, as holes lead to what Julie hoped was just a basement. This room seemed different at first, but it's sized suggested something different. The room looked as if the whole building had been abandoned for a millenium. Julie scuffled around the holes, trying to avoid falling in. [[Continue->Foyer4]]

A perfectly spherical orb irradiates a light at any that feels calming. It feels warm to touch so Julie keeps it close to her.

Julie huddles over to the next door, curious to see how far this goes. The next room is in even worse condition, with the only path to the door is up the broken decorative staircase. As she clunks her heavy chest up the stairs, a cracking sound emits from beneath her. The mimic panics as she shuffles faster, causing her body to sloppily slap against the bottom of her trunk. Her accidental stomping hastily chugs her through the poorly maintained balcony. The floor collapses. (if: $inv contains "orb")[ [[...->miracle]]](else:)[ [[...->crash]]]

Julie crashes through the balcony and lands back on the decrepit foyer's floor. Dazed, Julie tries to focus her eyes as the floor under her cracks again. --- Julie wakes up in an unknown area. The room wasn't a foyer, it also didn't have any readily apparent windows or doors. The walls and floor were cemented, and cold to touch. The mimic looked around to find the orb she picked up sitting on the ground.(set: $inv to $inv - (a: "orb")) [[Examine orb.]]

"Brad?" Julie was shocked to hear her voice was hoarse. There was no response. [[Think.]]

Julie picked herself up, straightening her chest and scooted closer to the brightly pulsating orb. It cracked and shook as it looked like it was hatching. As it opened up, a blinding light over took the room. Julie shielded her eyes by extending and hardening her hair plasma to form a face mask. "Where am I?" A voice called out. Julie reformed her hair and saw Guardian infront of her, this time with two mouths horizontal from each other. "Guardian?" Julie asked, "What's going on?" "Guardian?" the girl responded. "Is that what I'm called?" Julie looked as confused as the newly hatched girl. Her right mouth seemed constantly open as her left one was used primarily for speaking. "I'm Julie, what's your name?" The girl clomped around looking at the enviroment. "This place is scary." She seemed to ignore the question. [[Ask again.]]

"Guardian?" There was no response. [[Panic.]]

"A-anyone?" [[Wait.]]

Julie picked herself up, adjusting her chest and brushing off the debris that dusted her body. "There's no use crying," she told herself, feeling her eyes water regardless. --- A faint speaker sparked up with a buzz, Julie looked around and put away the lighter she was playing with. "J--zz," the speaker sounded broken. "Where -re you? The mimic jumped up and elevated her voice. "I'm down here!" "Julie?" The voice sounded oblivious to her location. "I'm in the basement?" The voice came through clearer, through the speaker. "Julie are you there?" Julie repeated herself. "H-hang on," Brad said, typing up a storm as dozens of barrels roll into the hole. Relieved, Julie hops on top of the barrels, stacking them into a staircase. Finally on the unstable floor, she guides herself back to the first foyer. [[Recon.]]

Back in the original foyer, Julie relaxes the best she could in her chest. Guardian was missing, but Julie assumed she was still sleeping or wondering through the building. "Brad..." She casually called out. "Yeah Julie?" "I think... I'm done..." Slightly out of breath, she huffs. "Get me out of here please." Brad stays silent for a while, clacking keys replaced a response. "Uh." He preceeded. "Oh, okay got it. Just [[go into the door behind you]], and it should be all good."

Julie followed her friend's instructions and went through door that used to lead to the first hallway. Gasping, she opened her eyes wide. "J-jeez Brad," she slugged her friend on the thumb, realizing she was back in his bedroom. It was a tidy room, not like he wore any clothing that could just get tossed around. The hand tried his best to keep candy wrappers and drink cans from littering his floor, although his desk was home to a couple of chip bags. "How was it?" Brad asked. "A little buggy but I liked Guardian." She smiled. "She's a little loose cannon but someone sent me her source code so I thought it'd be neat to add her in." The hand's stomach rumbled as he giggled. "Guess we better get going huh? You promised me dinner." Julie nodded as the two of them left to go to a local family resturant. The end.

"Yeah, I crashed down here and I don't know how long I've been here." Julie tries to comfort the girl by getting closer, but the girl steps back cautiously. "Don't worry, even though it's scary down here, you're safe. The girl nodded. "Okay..." She meekly spoke and walked closer to the mimic. "Julie," she echoed. Julie nodded and asked again, "What's your name?" The girl pondered with a loud hum. "Illy..." She developed a flame that warmly glowed with a muted blue. The flame shaped itself into a star polyhedra, continuously spinning. [[Ask her how to leave.]]

"Illy, how do we get out of here?" It was a stretch, but she knew Illy was more of this world than herself. Illy pondered loudly again and pointed at one of the blank walls. She tried to climb ontop of the chest lid but she slipped off, having no arms to grasp on top. "What are you doing?" Julie chuckled at Illy. "I wanna be on top so we don't get lost." The girl responded as she kept trying unsuccessfully. Julie scooped up Illy with larger hands and placed her on top of the lid. Her little clogs hung off the sides and were in the mimic's peripherals. "How's that?" Julie asked. Illy gave a little nod. Even though Julie couldn't see it, Illy shook the lid enough to know what she was doing. [[Do what Illy said.]]

The mimic looked back at what Illy pointed at earlier and saw a clear opening. Not questioning it, Julie slid hopped herway through the newly opened path. Illy was enjoying the ride as she giggled all the way through the hall. At the end of the hall was a notably familar door. [[Open the door.]]

It was a tidy room, no clothing thrown anywhere. There was also a bed that was as long as it was wide, with a rather square pillow. Unfinished potato chip bags were rolled up on the desk. A red and yellow newspaper-boy cap was on a hook in the room. Julie realized she was in Brad's bedroom. "Wait," she paused and still saw little feet dangling in her view. "Illy?" "Julie!" She cheered and hopped off the mimic's lid and onto the kept bed. "We made it!" She was confused, this was where she wanted to be but, she's not home, she's still in the game. "Illy, where are we?" "We're home!" Illy closed both eyes and kicked her little clogs off, signifying she was spent. [[...?]]

Brad came into the room. "Woah hey, Julie, when did you get here?" He asked surprised. "Brad?" "Yeah, if I would have known you were coming over with her I would have prepared snacks." Julie was stunned. "Hey Illy, you know that's my bed." He jokingly scolded her. She rolled over and pretended to be sleeping. "Brad? How...?" The mimic was confused even further. "We're not at the dungeon right now." "We're right here?" He looked at her worringly. "Hey, I know what will cheer you up, let's go get some grub." [[Hmm...]]

Julie sighed. At least she was safe. "Okay, let's get some food..." Illy's eyes opened wide as she heard the comfirmation. She hopped off the bed and gathered her clogs, slipping them back on her feet one at a time. After the three of them were ready, they left to go to a local family resturant. The end...

April-Imitation is a twine game using various unconventional tropes in an awkwardly bent fashion. It's meant to be a fun experiance written by someone who has never really written casually before. Please enjoy this story as Julie wonders through an unknown adventure, guided loosely with her friend Brad. [[Let's Start->Start]]