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INSTRUCTION
Scroll through the MANUAL to find clues to what happened here...
[[prelude<-START HERE]]
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[[memory1<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>mzlaehntah.drt</span></div>]]
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[<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>rrotpeducc.mry</span></div>]<corrupt|
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[<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>pcuorecdrt.zip</span></div>]<corrupt|
[[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 5s;"><span>urrorsevri.los</span></div>]]
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(click: ?corrupt)[the data seems to be corrupt...]
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<div class="fragment">I am a teenager, and I fall off a bike. I bruised myself, though I am happy that I could experience the rapid fall without serious injury. I feel relief.
[[room2<-go on...]]
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<div class="fragment">As a middle-aged person I am taking a walk. I feel adult responsibilites weigh me down in relationships. I find the freedom of being alone liberating.
do you agree?
[[room2<-yes]] / [[room3<-no]]
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<div class="fragment">I am ten years old and I can feel the sea breeze blowing in my hair at the beach. I feel at peace.
[[room3<-go on...]]
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<span class="kernel">The system is glitching out, preventing you from going any further. It ends up eating itself and stings you, and you're unable to access it again. The secret of the Main Terminal BIOS will remain unseen.
[[restart?->room1]]
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}<div class="windows">Alien symbols in the ancient log book, forging together to form a way forward by understanding that the alien language somehow corresponds to the log book...
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[[memory5<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 5s, 6s;"><span>neenhugbcr.col</span></div>]]
[<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>crdruotpce.dol</span></div>]<corrupt|
[[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 5s;"><span>vourrsrrie.txr</span></div>]]
[<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>ecdrpoctru.bot</span></div>]<corrupt|
[[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 5s;"><span>svrerruior.exe</span></div>]]
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(click: ?corrupt)[the data seems to be corrupt...]
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}<div class="windows">Alien symbols again, this time more archaic in structure, but via finding symbols in the log book you move ahead...
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[[memory7<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 5s, 6s;"><span>brenneguch.mex</span></div>]]
[<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>puorcedtrc.tar</span></div>]<corrupt|
[[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 5s;"><span>vrourriesr.gof</span></div>]]
[<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>terrcoudcp.ptr</span></div>]<corrupt|
[[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 5s;"><span>orrrviersu.fog</span></div>]]
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(click: ?corrupt)[the data seems to be corrupt...]
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<div class="fragment">I am infuriated with the choices that have been made for me, as a young adult - I am arguing with both of my parents.
[[choice<-you must make a choice...]]
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<div class="fragment">I am 12 years old. I leave school early. I’m free for the day to do whatever I want. I feel a little guilt about skipping class but I’m elated about it too.
[[choice<-you must make a choice...]]
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<div class="fragment">I see an old friend from high school. I remember the old times, and feel time rushing past me. I’m in my mid-forties and I become surprisingly aware of the things I did in high school, and the things I wish I had done.
[[choice<-you must make a choice...]]
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As I rent my very first apartment as a 21-yr old I experience the exhileration of being part of something new. Moving into another town away from my safe spot, I’m also saddened by being away from my comfort zone and those I love.
[[choice<-you must make a choice...]]
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[Do you [abort]<c1| or [continue]<c2| the mission?]<path|
(click:?c1)[ (replace: ?path)[You choose to listen to the pursued entity, hoping to gain information and - possibly - give it the satisfaction of being able to enter an afterlife without any regrets.
[[memory8<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>atdbsinelet.trx</span></div>]] [[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6.1s, 4.1s;"><span>srouirevrr.mry</span></div>]]] ]
(click:?c2)[ (replace: ?path)[You choose to, faithully to your job, pursue the information you were sent here to find, ignoring the pleas of the suffering entity. You do what's necessary because it's your job.
[[memory9<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6s, 4s;"><span>dttebasilen.jtr</span></div>]] [[failstate<-<div class="object" style="animation-duration: 6.1s, 4.1s;"><span>rirreosruv.htd</span></div>]]] ]
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<div class="fragment">I get a pet dog. I name it Sam and I hope we'll be best friends for a long time. I'm 17 years old and it's one of the happiest days of my life.
[[ending1<-your last thoughts...]]
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<div class="fragment">I lose my Mother to a chronical heart disease. It was inevitable, the Doctors say. In the hospital waiting room I find a kid playing with a game boy, an electronic toy. We start talking. It's a rough day, we both agree. And he lends me his game.
[[ending2<-your last thoughts...]]</div>
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<div class="windows">You move out from the space station and are relieved of your duties as a hacker. You're fine with this. You understood the effect of your actions and stuck to it. The information and the emotions you were shared are still with you. You'll never forget the meeting with the memories of your unnamed friend.
[[ATTRACTION<-THE END]]</div>
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<div class="windows">You receive a reward for your valiant actions in uncharted computer science territory. The alien and its effects on the memories of an individual stuck in computer space will be studied for years, and the initial goal was achieved for you. You have an easy couple of months ahead in your profession. But you never learn the real goings on, by yourself. And your curiosity eventually dwindles into settling into everyday life. It was an agreeable choice.
[[ATTRACTION<-THE END]]</div>
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<div class="windows">You arrive at the terminal where your job of reaching the conflicted computer core begins. You are paid to [find out what's happened]<c1|, to hack and withdraw the classified BIOS of the Computer Terminal, thus rendering the space station obsolete.
(click: ?c1)[You start exploring what's happened. Quickly, you realize that you are not, strictly speaking, alone in the computer space. You experience odd changes happening, and [[fragmented images appear->room1]].]
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