|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[my eyes open]]
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(show: ?passage1)
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|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[i see a long corridor]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[it's very bright]]
|passage34)[(transition: "dissolve")[i pause]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[look [[up->ceiling]] ]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[and [[down ->floor]]]]
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{(live: 7s)[
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i'm holding a tube,
|passage15)[(transition: "dissolve")[it sticks into my arm]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i can't remember when i started holding it]]
|passage35)[(transition: "dissolve")[i must have forgotten picking it up]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[i need to [[move]]]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[i start [[walking ->sterile]]]]
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(show: ?passage3)
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the corridor is sterile, untouched
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[there is so much light]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[but it hangs in ways it shouldn't,]]
|passage44)[(transition: "dissolve")[leaving these spaces that are hidden]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[not to [[look ->look at]] at,]]
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[i need to [[keep moving ->keep going]] ]]
{(live: 1s)[
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{(live: 2.5s)[
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{(live: 6s)[
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]}
{(live: 6.5s)[
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i try to think of when i first knew of here
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i don't know where what i know comes from]]
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]}
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there are windows, i look [[out]]
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[people say it's a lie that outside is too cold]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[people say outside is safe]]
|passage0)[(transition: "dissolve")[ [[keep moving ->thefaces]] ]]
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(stop:)
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i don't want to be here
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[i want to know what outside is ]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[i try to [[think]] myself outside]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[to [[feel]] the truth of it]]
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{(live: 4s)[
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(live: 2s)[(go-to: "after2")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "wheel")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "image9")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "image10")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "flash")]my feet touch the wall
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[i'm here, end of the corridor]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[the tube in my arms]]
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(live: 7s)[(go-to: "image8")]there is a small button
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[it blinks twice ]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[i [[wait]]]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i [[blink ->hook]] twice back ]]
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it seems to lead outside
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|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[is it a glitch]]
|passage9)[(transition: "dissolve")[we've been told never to go]]
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{(live: 7s)[
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{(live: 9s)[
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{(live: 11s)[
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(live: 13s)[(go-to: "hospitaldoor1")]|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[suddenly i feel so cold ]]
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(show: ?passage1)
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]}
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[but i don't know if it is from the door ]]
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[or me ]]
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(show: ?passage6)
(stop:)
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{(live: 6s)[
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(live: 9s)[(go-to: "last")]i
[[go outside ->go through]]
i
[[stay ->go back]]
i stand for a long time
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[and look out of the window]]
|passage76)[(transition: "dissolve")[at some point i'll need to go back]]
|passage77)[(transition: "dissolve")[to the tube]]
|passage775)[(transition: "dissolve")[start again]]
|passage78)[(transition: "dissolve")[not now]]
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{(live: 6s)[
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{(live: 10s)[
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{(live: 8s)[
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{(live: 12s)[
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]}
(live: 15s)[(go-to: "end")]this is the end
(live: 4s)[(go-to: "q2")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "text2")]
(set: $ceiling to 1) the tube is gone
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[a door opens ]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[i hadn't seen it before]]
{(live: 3s)[
(show: ?passage2)
(stop:)
]}
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i step [[forward]]]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[i step [[back]] ]]
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(show: ?passage3)
(stop:)
]}
{(live: 5s)[
(show: ?passage4)
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{(live: 1s)[
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(live: 2s)[(go-to: "handle")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "secondwood")]
i glance for a moment
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[first there is nothing, empty]]
|passage9)[(transition: "dissolve")[then, in the wall, i think i see a [[face]]]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[i probably imagine it]]
|passage10)[(transition: "dissolve")[[[keep moving ->face1]]]]
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{(live: 3s)[
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{(live: 6s)[
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]}
(live: 2s)[(go-to: "woodface")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "blink2")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "corr")]people say there is a group of others outside
|passage0)[(transition: "dissolve")[a group of people who know the truth]]
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[a group of people with power]]
|passage11)[(transition: "dissolve")[who control us]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[we call them [[the faces ->morefaces]]]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[ [[keep moving ->doordoor]] ]]
{(live: 1s)[
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{(live: 4s)[
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{(live: 6s)[
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{(live: 8s)[
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(live: 2s)[(go-to: "noface")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "corridor")](live: 3s)[(go-to: "end")](live: 1s)[(go-to: "moving")](live: 3s)[(go-to: "woodfacelook")](live: 1s)[(go-to: "moving")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "grass")]
(live: 2s)[(go-to: "thefaces")]seeing a face
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[anywhere]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[proves that outside is safe]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[proves they are lying to us]]
|passage35)[(transition: "dissolve")[proves we don't need to be here]]
|passage36)[(transition: "dissolve")[this is what people say]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[so we watch for the faces]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[for proof that this, here is all a lie]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[[[keep moving ->doordoor]] ]]
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at a window
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[i look closely ]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[i can see frost ]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i remember the frost first appearing ]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[not understanding ]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[i remember it being so cold ]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[you couldn't bear to think about it ]]
|passage10)[(transition: "dissolve")[ [[keep moving ->image6]] ]]
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{(live: 12s)[
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(live: 2s)[(go-to: "wheel2")]i hold still
|passage0)[(transition: "dissolve")[press my hand against the wall]]
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[i think i feel]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[it's [[warm]]]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i [[keep moving ->wink]] ]]
{(live: 1s)[
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{(live: 6s)[
(replace: "feel")[(transition: "dissolve")[imagine]]
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(live: 2s)[(go-to: "after2")](live: 3s)[(go-to: "image66")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "daydream")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "daydream2")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "blink2")](live: 1.5s)[(go-to: "hospitaldoor2")](live: 1.5s)[(go-to: "hdoor3")](live: 1.5s)[(go-to: "keep")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "button")]<div id="first-passage">
(css: "font-size:120%")[[[ START ->landing]]]
(css: "font-size:70%")['is it more foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?'
China Mieville, The City & the City]
(css: "font-size:400%")[FACES]
(css: "font-size:80%")[an interactive experience about conspiracy and illusion]
<div>
(set: $floor to 1)
(live: 2s)[(go-to: "text2")] (set: $move to 1)
(live: 2s)[(go-to: "sterile")] the faces are a group
|passage0)[(transition: "dissolve")[people with power]]
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[they live outside]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[they watch us]]
|passage01)[(transition: "dissolve")[they control us]]
people say
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[we live in the corridors]]
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[[[keep moving ->face1]] ]]
{(live: 1.5s)[
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{(live: 4.5s)[
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]}
{(live: 7.5s)[
(show: ?passage3)
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{(live: 10s)[
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a seed vault,
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[sticking out of the rock face,]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[will save us]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[we carry tubes of seeds to the end of the corridor]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[that is all we do now]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[it's all that is left to do]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[walk up and down the [[corridor ->corridors]]]]
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]}
{(live: 1s)[
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{(live: 6s)[
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{(live: 9s)[
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]}
{(live: 10s)[
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i think of what this view used to be
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[i find it hard to remember sometimes]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[to know if a memory is a memory]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[or a memory of something i’ve imagined ]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[or if i’m imagining now ]]
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[i haven't been outside for years]]
{(live: 11s)[
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{(live: 2s)[
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]}
{(live: 4s)[
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{(live: 6s)[
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]}
{(live: 9s)[
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(live: 14s)[(go-to: "thefaces")]the faces live outside
|passage0)[(transition: "dissolve")[and they watch us]]
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[sometimes you see a face]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[a glance,]]
|passage22)[(transition: "dissolve")[a moment,]]
|passage23)[(transition: "dissolve")[out of the corner of your eye,]]
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[that's them there, watching]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[if you see a face it's [[proof]]]]
{(live: 2s)[
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{(live: 7s)[
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{(live: 11s)[
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it shouldn't be warm
|passage0)[(transition: "dissolve")[it's cold outside]]
|passage01)[(transition: "dissolve")[the wall shouldn't be warm]]
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[i want to hide my thoughts]]
|passage2)[(transition: "dissolve")[the faces are watching]]
{(live: 1s)[
(show: ?passage0)
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(live: 7s)[(go-to: "feel2")]i hold still
press my hand against the wall
i think i imagine
it's warm
(live: 3s)[(go-to: "wink")]it seems to lead outside
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(show: ?passage5)
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|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[and then at the sunlight on the floor]]
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[for a second i see a face]]
|passage8)[(transition: "dissolve")[it disappears]]
|passage9)[(transition: "dissolve")[we've been told never to go outside]]
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{(live: 14s)[
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{(live: 16s)[
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(live: 18s)[(go-to: "hospitaldoor1")]it seems to lead outside
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[i look at it for a long time ]]
{(live: 1s)[
(show: ?passage5)
(stop:)
]}
|passage7)[(transition: "dissolve")[is it a glitch?]]
|passage9)[(transition: "dissolve")[we've been told never to go]]
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(stop:)
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{(live: 7s)[
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(stop:)
]}
{(live: 11s)[
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(stop:)
]}
(live: 13s)[(go-to: "hospitaldoor1")]did the faces exist?
(live: 4s)[(go-to: "q33")]what did you know?
|passage1)[(transition: "dissolve")[(link: "leave")[(goto-url: 'https://melaniefrances.itch.io/faces')]
[[start again ->begin]] ]]
{(live: 3s)[
(show: ?passage1)
(stop:)
]}(live: 2.5s)[(go-to: "danger")]where were you?
(live: 4s)[(go-to: "q43")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "wooddoor")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "snow")]we're told that it's too cold to go outside
|passage3)[(transition: "dissolve")[we can't survive there anymore]]
|passage35)[(transition: "dissolve")[we'd perish]]
|passage4)[(transition: "dissolve")[sometimes i feel i want to leave]]
|passage5)[(transition: "dissolve")[can you feel a truth?]]
|passage6)[(transition: "dissolve")[do you need to know it?]]
|passage9)[(transition: "dissolve")[ [[keep moving ->light]]]]
{(live: 4s)[
(show: ?passage3)
(stop:)
]}
{(live: 2s)[
(show: ?passage35)
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]}
{(live: 8s)[
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]}
{(live: 9s)[
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]}
{(live: 6s)[
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{(live: 11s)[
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was it cold outside?
(live: 4s)[(go-to: "q4")](live: 2s)[(go-to: "start2")]<div id="first-passage">
(css: "font-size:70%")['is it more foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?'
China Mieville, The City & the City]
(css: "font-size:400%")[FACES]
(css: "font-size:80%")[an interactive experience about conspiracy and illusion]
<div>
(css: "font-size:120%")[[[ START ->landing]]]