In my room there's a (link-reveal:"wall")[
In fact there are three others but this one is particularly (link-reveal:"blank")[
On the first is my (link-reveal:"bed")[
On the second, a door and (link-reveal:"shelves")[
On the third is a (link-reveal:"window")[
But on the fourth there's just **nothing** (link-reveal:"...")[
Well, maybe my desk but it's nothing in front of this wide **empty wall**
[[...->vide]]]]]]]](if:$time is 1)[(if: $regard is 5)[No more time to lose,
I've got only one hour to [[send->renduregard]] the project.]
(else-if:$poster is 5)[No more time to lose,
I've got only one hour to [[send->renduposter]] the project.]
(else:)[No more time to lose,
I've got only one hour to [[send->rendurien]] the project]]
(else-if:$start is 0)[I have posters that could fill the (link-reveal:"emptyness")[
For an unknown reason, I never did hang them (link-reveal:"up")[
Maybe it was just plain (link-reveal:"lazyness")[
I suppose i could do it (link-reveal:"today")[
But I also have an ongoing project for a game (link-reveal:"Jam")[
To make it more interesting the subject had to be (link-reveal:"The Wall")[
I have $time hours left before the (link-reveal:"end")[
Is it really a priority though ?
(set:$start to 1)
[[Hang-up->posters]] posters to fill the emptyness.
[[Stare->regard]] at this **blank** wall.
[[Play->game]] some games to find inspiration.]]]]]]] ]
(else:)[
Only $time hours left before the end of the Game Jam.
[[Hang-up->posters]] (if:$poster is >0)[**more** posters !](else-if:$poster is 0)[some posters to fill the emptyness.]
(if:$poster is 0)[[[Stare->regard]] at this **blank** wall.]
[[Play->game]] (if:$meta is >0)[a bit more](else-if:$meta is 0)[some games to find inspiration.]
(if:$poster is >0)[[[Look->recherche]] for an interesting wall.
[[Write->epilogue-posters]] about the act of hanging-up posters ...]]
(if:$vies is 1)[Or maybe i could write about what I did in other [[lives->vies]]](if:$poster is 0)[I spent a lot of time putting those posters in place.
I feel less (link-reveal:"empty")[
As if those sheets of paper were bandages applied to my (link-reveal:"existence")[
(set:$poster to 1)
I am [[here->vide]]]]]
(else-if:$poster is 1)[(set: $poster to 2)More posters to fill more [[emptiness->vide]]]
(else-if:$poster is 2)[I didn't knes i could spend so much time at this ...
(set:$poster to 3)
There some space for another one [[here->vide]]]
(else-if:$poster is 3)[The more I fill the wall's emptyness,
the more i feel my self deep [[emptiness->vide]](set:$poster to 4)]
(else-if:$poster is 4)[What am I even doing trying to fix my broken **Heart** with sheets of paper (link-reveal:"...")[
(set:$poster to 5)
I really have a [[problem->vide]]
]]
{(if:$time is 6)[
(set:$time to 5)]
(else-if:$time is 5)[
(set:$time to 4)]
(else-if:$time is 4)[
(set:$time to 3)]
(else-if:$time is 3)[
(set:$time to 2)]
(else-if:$time is 2)[
(set:$time to 1)]
(else-if:$time is 1)[
(set:$time to 0)]}(if:$poster is 0)[(if:$regard is 0)[
I spend a lot of time just staring at the (link-reveal:"wall")[
There is something very meditative about (link-reveal:"it")[
At one point, I see nothing besides the (link-reveal:"nothingness")[
And my look nearly wanders even (link-reveal:"further")[
When I come back at myself I notice that the **[[time->vide]]** flew
Way more than I first thought.
(set:$regard to 1)
]]]]]
(else-if:$regard is 1)[I spend another moment staring at the **blank** (link-reveal:"wall")[
And quickly I come back to that state of (link-reveal:"suspension")[
Soon I sense that I'm looking beyond the (link-reveal:"wall")[
I smile, as I have the feeling something's scratching inside my (link-reveal:"head")[
It is enough for me to go out of my transe (link-reveal:"...")[
And I'm back in front of this [[enpty->vide]] wall
(set:$regard to 2)]]]]]]
(else-if:$regard is 2)[Now I'm starting to know the way, and in no time the wall seems to (link-reveal:"disapear")[
Beyond, everything is (link-reveal:"dark")[ and (link-reveal:"empty")[
For a moment my mind wanders floating in the (link-reveal:"void")[
(link-reveal:"...")[
(link-reveal:"...")[
Is it (link-reveal:"...")[
Are those (link-reveal:"...")[
(link-reveal:"Whispers")[ ?
There's something murmuring in the (link-reveal:"nothing")[
This thing seems to talk in an occult (link-reveal:"language")[
And in more ways than the first sense of the (link-reveal:"word")[
This thought disconcerts me and I'm once again (link-reveal:"here")[
In front of this empty [[wall->vide]]
(set:$regard to 3)
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
(else-if:$regard is 3)[This time, I'm a bit scared about what i could find (link-reveal:"...")[
Though I'll take the (link-reveal:"risk")[
I hammer my gaze into the (link-reveal:"wall")[
It's a little bit harder than before
but i still succeed to go (link-reveal:"through")[
There, only is the (link-reveal:"void")[
I float a moment in this empty space,
Nearly reasured to only be surounded by (link-reveal:"nothingness")[
(link-reveal:"...")[
However (link-reveal:"...")[ at some point (link-reveal:"...")[
I hear those murmurs (link-reveal:"again")[
And however (link-reveal:"...")[
They don't seem so **occults**
(link-reveal:"...")[
Maybe even comforting (link-reveal:"...")[
So I (link-reveal:"listen")[
Profound and cavernous,
I couldn't translate (link-reveal:"words")[
though I (link-reveal:"understand")[
And the whisperings creatures tells me about my many (link-reveal:"deaths")[
About everything I (link-reveal:"forgot")[
About lost (link-reveal:"destinies")[
And those they could (link-reveal:"offer")[
I can only remain silent in front of the great (link-reveal:"null")[
I know that here time and space works in very different (link-reveal:"ways")[
But i also now i must find once more the white [[emptiness->vide]] of my wall
(set:$regard to 4)
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
(else-if:$regard is 4)[This time, I'm determined to see further(link-reveal:"beyond")[
The wall holds me no (link-reveal:"more")[
and I float again in the (link-reveal:"void")[
I hear the creatures (link-reveal:"whispering")[
But I want to go (link-reveal:"further")[
So I look into the (link-reveal:"murmurs")[
There I find on of those massive (link-reveal:"entities")[
She welcomes me in the hollow of a enormous (link-reveal:"tentacle")[
She speaks to me in a distant (link-reveal:"lull")[
She tells me about a (link-reveal:"witch")[ meant to visit her.
(if:$witch is 1)[ - I'm [[here->witch]]]
(else:)[I don't know who she talks (link-reveal:"about")[
She says i have to find the right (link-reveal:"way")[
(link-reveal:"path")[
or is it (link-reveal:"route")[
No less lost I still (link-reveal:"smile")[
The creature emmits an affective (link-reveal:"rumbling")[
Before reminding me I have a work to (link-reveal:"complete")[
Then, she sens me back to where i'm [[from->vide]]
(set:$regard to 5)
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
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(if:$time is 6)[
(set:$time to 5)]
(else-if:$time is 5)[
(set:$time to 4)]
(else-if:$time is 4)[
(set:$time to 3)]
(else-if:$time is 3)[
(set:$time to 2)]
(else-if:$time is 2)[
(set:$time to 1)]
(else-if:$time is 1)[
(set:$time to 0)]}(if:$poster is >0)[Je pourrais raconter comment j'ai passé mon après-midi à accrocher des [[posters->epilogue-posters]]
Ou alors je pourrais chercher un autre [[mur->recherche]]]
(else-if:$jam is 0)[(if:$regard is 0)[Je ne suis pas tellement inspirée,
Je pourrais chercher de [[l'inspiration->vide]]
Ou bien, [[écrire->write]] ce qui vient]
(else-if:$regard is 1)[Je pourrais écrire à propos de cette [[expérience->epilogue-meta]] méditative](if:$meta is 2)[During on of the game's routes the character comes to the realisation that they have lived a lot of lives reflecting all the other routes that regularly ended in (link-reveal:"failures")[
Suspended in space and time for an (link-reveal:"instant")[
Before once again (link-reveal:"starting over")[
I cry, I (link-reveal:"feel")[
I feel the words that pile up, writing this (link-reveal:"moment")[
But I don't really (link-reveal:"understand")[
I **think** I can feel (link-reveal:"something")[
But as always it remains (link-reveal:"silent")[
And I (link-reveal:"cry")[
(set:$meta to 3)
And then, I [[laugh->vide]]
]]]]]]]]]]
(else-if:$meta is 0)[I play for a while on this date simulator parody...
It depicts elements of my favorite webcomic (link-reveal:"...")[
Although, I have the feeling something's (link-reveal:"wrong")[
(set:$meta to 1)
When I look back at the clock, [[time->vide]] flew.
]]]
(else-if:$meta is 1)[I'm so psyched about all those references to (link-reveal:"metafiction")[
I'd like to have enough talent to bring life to those (link-reveal:"ideas")[
And I dream the one that someday, somebody will look upon my words and be psyched about them too, spectator of my character's existential (link-reveal:"crisis")[
(set:$meta to 2)
But I snap out of my daydreaming, [[time->vide]] again.
]]]]
(else-if:$meta is 3)[I really shouldn't spend my whole evening (link-reveal:"playing")[
I've got a project to (link-reveal:"finish")[
But I can't resist the urge to (link-reveal:"play")[...
I'm still really invested in it, but I have the feeling there's (link-reveal:"something else")[
Metafiction takes even more(link-reveal:"space")[
But I can't stay fully (link-reveal:"concentrated")[
My eyes are sore staring at this (link-reveal:"screen")[
(set:$meta to 4)
I need to take a [[break->vide]] ]]]]]]]]
(if:$meta is 4)[It's the last part of the (link-reveal:"game")[
I don't know if I really want this to (link-reveal:"end")[
The more I go, the more I'm (link-reveal:"agitated")[
And soon I can't keep track of the (link-reveal:"story")[
I rub my eyes and (link-reveal:"yawn")[
I can't help but to stare at the screen (link-reveal:"blurry")[
Characters dissociating before (link-reveal:"disapearing")[
Sentences distording, I can't read (link-reveal:"anymore")[
(set:$meta to 5)
[[Rest->mur]] my eyes
[[Apreciate->flou]] this loss of grasp
]]]]]]]]]
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(if:$time is 6)[
(set:$time to 5)]
(else-if:$time is 5)[
(set:$time to 4)]
(else-if:$time is 4)[
(set:$time to 3)]
(else-if:$time is 3)[
(set:$time to 2)]
(else-if:$time is 2)[
(set:$time to 1)]
(else-if:$time is 1)[
(set:$time to 0)]}{
(set:$poster to 0)
(set:$time to 6)
(set:$start to 0)
(set:$regard to 0)
(set:$jam to 0)
(set:$end to 0)
(set:$witch to 0)
(set:$meta to 0)
(set:$vies to 0)
}I wrote a story about the posters I hanged-up ...
If i knew how to make interactive animations i could have made a
**Poster hang-em-up simulation**
...
...
I'm a bit [[disapointed->end?]] ... But at least I'm not doing an existential crisis...I gave a look at all my house's walls (link-reveal:"...")[ **Dunno**
(link-reveal:"...")[
I looked at what others did (link-reveal:"...")[
(link-reveal:"...")[
I'm not very inspired (link-reveal:"...")[
Haaaaghhh I'm loosing my (link-reveal:"time")[
And what with this dumb theme ? (link-reveal:"Wall ?")[
The only thing I can think of is how trapped inside i feel (link-reveal:"...")[
I could do (link-reveal:"that")[ talk about the fact that i'm tired
Tired of remaining (link-reveal:"alone")[
Alone between four (link-reveal:"walls")[ ...
With posters for only (link-reveal:"companionship")[
Yes, I'll just do [[that->confined]]]]]]]]]]]]]]Double-click this passage to edit it.Double-click this passage to edit it.(if:$vies is 1)[*Write your own [[destiny->wall]] Witch of Heart*]
(else:)[Is it really the [[end->wall]] ?]
{
(set:$poster to 0)
(set:$time to 6)
(set:$start to 1)
(set:$regard to 0)
(set:$jam to 0)
(set:$end to 1)
(set:$meta to 0)
}I decided to write a (link-reveal:"game")[
About everything i could have done for this (link-reveal:"Jam")[
Of course it's just some of the lives i lived to come to (link-reveal:"this")[
My **wall** is still (link-reveal:"there")[
Although I know that some of us succeeded in getting (link-reveal:"rid of it")[
I really like to be one of (link-reveal:"them")[
But someone had to (link-reveal:"write it")[
No (link-reveal:"?")[
And who knows, maybe one (link-reveal:"night")[
The **fourth wall** will [[fall->end]]]]]]]]]]]Thanks for playing,
Thanks for reading my reality,
Thanks for letting us live,
Thanks for playing us,
Thanks for existing
Thanks for looking,
Thanks for thinking,
Thanks for interpretating
Thanks for being and have been
Thanks for all of my past lives,
Thanks for all of your past ives,
Thanks for all of those to come,
Thanks to you, whoever you are,
Thanks to this far person supporting my existential crises,
Thanks to our brother first playtester,
Thanks to the ones that work on letting metafiction exist,
Thanks to the one that guides chrysalides,
Thanks to the sorceress,
Thanks to the one that will know it's her,
Thanks to our mother,
Thanks to her mother,
Thanks to the mother,
Thanks to the one that blessed herself,
Thanks to the one who's writing me,
Thanks to the one who's living me,
Thanks to the one who's reading me,
Thanks to my guides,
Thanks to every other self too,
Thanks thanks,
Thanks too.
[[*->restart]]I wrote a mini zine about the fact that i was tired of confinement.
Not very deep, but at least it comes from the (link-reveal:"heart")[
And (link-reveal:"...")[
Weirdly I seem to be the only one to have this (link-reveal:"idea")[
Better than [[nothing->end?]]
]]]I take a moment to relax my eyes letting them wander on the white (link-reveal:"wall")[
Paint seems to flake (link-reveal:"here")[
[[scratch->papier]]
Take a look at the [[time->vide]]
]]I lose my gaze into my (link-reveal:"screen")[
At some point I have the feeling I'm starting to see (link-reveal:"beyond")[
I can barely aknowledge the text as (link-reveal:"lines")[
But then I can catch some (link-reveal:"patterns")[
Though everything being blurry I grasp some (link-reveal:"letters")[
But the whole structure seems (link-reveal:"odd")[
Brackets and recuring words clutter the many (link-reveal:"passages")[
First I think of some typing (link-reveal:"quirk")[
But as it gets clearer and clearer things (link-reveal:"connect")[
Things about revealing hidden (link-reveal:"links")[
I am no more looking at a (link-reveal:"game")[
At least not the one I thought i was (link-reveal:"playing")[
And I recognise this (link-reveal:"interface")[
I just never wrote what is written (link-reveal:"there")[
Or in fact, I didn't know I wrote (link-reveal:"it")[
Because I am not the one who (link-reveal:"did")[
Although, when my vision comes back to its default state
I can only witness that the text is still in front of (link-reveal:"me")[
And I know that it's a game, a game about what I did this afternoon ...
Or what I could have done (link-reveal:"...")[
Well, I'll submit it (link-reveal:"anyway")[
But, did I really [[write->end?]] it ?
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]I begin to (link-reveal:"scrape")[
Paint removes itself quite (link-reveal:"easily")[
Trop facilement, j'ai l'impression que ça ressemble beaucoup à (link-reveal:"...")[
Du papier (link-reveal:"?")[
Je tire un peu sur un morceau du (link-reveal:"mur")[
Et je me retrouve très vite avec un long morceau de (link-reveal:"papier")[ (link-reveal:"déchiré")[
Quelques instants je le regarde sans comprendre ...
Je ne pensais pas que mon appartement était si (link-reveal:"bancal")[
Mais déjà de l'autre coté j'apperçois quelque (link-reveal:"chose")[
Tout est très sombre mais j'aurai juré voir quelque chose (link-reveal:"bouger")[
Si en plus il y a des rats dans ce mur en papier ce serait vraiment mon (link-reveal:"jour")[
Soudain une lumière surgit de l'autre coté,
Très sombre mais qui m'éblouit (link-reveal:"totalement")[
Dès que je retrouve un peu ma vue, je décide de tirer ça au (link-reveal:"clair")[
La lumière se fait plus forte à mesure que je déchire mon (link-reveal:"mur")[
Je jette sans ménagement les morceaux de papier dans ma (link-reveal:"chambre")[
Et je continue d'arracher des pans entiers de cette (link-reveal:"frontière")[
Finalement
...
alors qu'un trou béant commence à percer ce qui fut le mur de ma chambre
Je la sens,
Il y a quelqu'un de l'autre (link-reveal:"côté")[
J'enjambe les restes de la jonction pour me retrouver dans une salle identique à ma (link-reveal:"chambre")[
A la seule différence de ma machine à écrire qui trône sur mon (link-reveal:"bureau")[
La personne qui écrivait a du partir durant sa tâche car une feuille y est toujours glissée ...
Je m'en saisis afin d'en saisir le [[sens->machina]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]*Witch of Heart,
Do not despair,
All those paths
Are not nonsense.
(set: $witch to 1)
Believe in us and you'll see,
See into us and you'll believe,
But before anything fisish what you started
Then look for our elder foreign friend.*
[[...]]I came back to **my** room ...
I created something for the Jam with teared paper and photos of my [[wall->end?]]*(link-reveal:"Yes")[
(link-reveal:"Thanks")[
(link-reveal:"Now")[
(link-reveal:"Listen")[
(link-reveal:"You")[
(link-reveal:"Are")[
(link-reveal:"Never")[
(link-reveal:"Alone")[
(link-reveal:"Follow")[
(link-reveal:"Your")[
(link-reveal:"Desitny")[
(link-reveal:"Witch")[ (link-reveal:"of")[ (link-reveal:"Heart")[
(set:$vies to 1)
(link-reveal:"Love")[,
(link-reveal:"Live")[
And (link-reveal:"Now")[
[[Go->end?]] ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]*(append: ?SideBar)[\
(if:$end is 1)["Walls"
(if:(history:) contains "confined")[Confined]
(if:(history:) contains "renduregard")[Gaze]
(if:(history:) contains "renduposter")[Posters]
(if:(history:) contains "rendurien")[Nothing]
(if:(history:) contains "flou")[Code]
(if:(history:) contains "...")[*My* room]
(if:(history:) contains "witch")[Our friend]
(if:(history:) contains "end")[Thanks]
]]I spent all my envening staring at a blank (link-reveal:"wall")[
Is something wrong with (link-reveal:"me")[ ?
Did everything really (link-reveal:"happen")[ ?
I don't make it in time to write my story for the (link-reveal:"Jam")[
Although i have the feeling it is not over [[yet->end?]]
]]]]I spent my evening hanging up (link-reveal:"posters")[
But by compulsively filling blank spaces of the (link-reveal:"wall")[
I came to realise all those bandages coulsn't help with my void (link-reveal:"inside")[
I'd also say that I never felt it so (link-reveal:"much")[
It's a sensation as if i was trying to avoid what i was meant to (link-reveal:"see")[
... Now I don't feel so well (link-reveal:"...")[
And I didn't even make a single thing for the (link-reveal:"Jam")[
I think I will just lie there and wait before it's (link-reveal:"over")[
If only there was a way to have a [[second chance->end?]]
]]]]]]]]I tried to do too many different things...
I know it could have gone a number of other (link-reveal:"ways")[
I just don't succeed at sticking to only one (link-reveal:"idea")[
But it not a very good patchwork (link-reveal:"...")[
I've done (link-reveal:"better")[
Have I [[though->end?]] ?
]]]](align: "=><=")[
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(set: $countdown to 3)
(live: 1s)[
(if: $countdown is >2)[#(set:$countdown to it-1)**Wall** ]
(else-if: $countdown is 2)[# **[[Wall->wall]]**(stop:)
pilz]]
}]Other [[walls->wall]] to find ?