xaq_the_aereon: I caught it...now what? (Hato Game Over)
Xaq ([personal profile] xaq_the_aereon) wrote2013-01-06 08:00 pm

Shall we play a game?

Alright everybirdie, the results from the earlier post are in, and now it's time to reveal what I was gearing towards: a game.




(UPDATE: As of 5:20 PM local time, 01/09/2013, all achievements have been unlocked!!)

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It is New Year's Day, and to celebrate, you have joined some of your classmates from St. Pigeonation's to go down to the local shrine. As you get there, you notice the place is strangely empty, even compared to its usual sparsity of visitors. As you get further in, however, you see why: a Komodo Dragon has apparently decided to sunbathe in the middle of the shrine grounds and scared everybirdie off!

"The Black Serpent of Agony has appeared!" The startled, slightly agonized cry of the luzon who stands beside your group startles you...where'd he come from, anyway? Before you can ask, he tosses you a pen used in drawing manga. "Go forth, Scarlet Knight of the Sephirot! It is your destiny to wield Sae'krom, the holy spear, and slay this beast!"

Looks like you've picked up a weird one, my friend. Rummaging through your backpacks, you and your classmates scrounge together a few items you can use to deal with the situation. Things do not look very promising, however, as all that you have are a packet of Tat-P pudding mix, a unicycle, a paintbrush that (for some reason) is still wet with purple paint, a packet of millet seeds, the key to your locker, a unicycle, and the loony luzon's pen.



To play, reply with what you wish to do, such as "Use Unicycle on Self" or "Coo at Sae'krom." Grammar doesn't have to be perfect; as long as the system can make sense of what you say, that should work.
(UPDATE: Due to [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq's excessive and increasingly confusing use of them to the point of literally leaving me with a migraine, ANGHELISMS WILL NO LONGER BE ACKNOWLEDGED. Your text entry is simulating a controller input for God's sake.)
If you wish to use the Move command, simply say "Move to ____" using the following list as reference:
-Shrine to move to the center dot on the mini-map
-Entrance to move along the lower-left path
-Woods to move along the central-right path
-Spring to move along the upper-left path behind the shrine.
So, for example, if you wanted to return to the entrance, you would type in "Move to Entrance."

After you have entered a command, the system will reply letting you know the consequences, for good or ill (most likely ill) of your actions. Afterwards, assuming you didn't get yourself horribly maimed or killed, you can input another command and try again.

Good luck, and try your best to survive this latest peril to come to Littledove Hachiman City!

UPDATE: There is no need spoiler-tag your replies; I only spoiler-tagged the game so that it didn't take up a boatload of space on your page on the off-chance you didn't want to play.

UPDATE: Okay, since this has come up a number of times now: While other characters get mentioned in the text a few times, the only 2 characters you're able to interact with in any way on the first screen are yourself and the Komodo dragon.


ENDINGS UNLOCKED: 6/6
-ENDING 1: Say Your Prayers (Normal End) (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-ENDING 2: Tale of the Dragonslayer (Bad End) (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] davidn)
-ENDING 3: There Goes The Neighborhood! (WTF End) (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] davidn)
-ENDING 4: True Pudding Awaits! (Pudding End) (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-ENDING 5: Coo The Hell Do You Think I Am!? (Good End) (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-ENDING 6: Coo This, I'm Outta Here! (Lame End) (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] kjorteo)

ACHIEVEMENTS UNLOCKED: 14/14 (UPDATE: 100% Complete!!)
-Say Your Prayers - Unlock the Normal Ending (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-Komodo Dragonslayer - Unlock the Bad Ending (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] davidn)
-Gigaflare - Unlock the WTF Ending (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] davidn)
-Coo coooo!! - Unlock the Pudding Ending (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-Hatodammerung - Unlock the Good Ending (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-I Quit! - Unlock the Lame Ending (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] kjorteo)
-Out of Body Experience - Leave yourself behind. (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] kjorteo)
-Lighten the Load - You probably didn't need that stuff anyway. (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] kjorteo)
-Multi-Killed!! - Die 10+ times (Communal achievement ultimately unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] kjorteo)
-That is No True Pudding! - Discover the label mixup in your inventory. (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] davidn)
-It's Millet Time - Mmm, tasty! (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty - Give yourself a makeover! (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-Can I Keep Him? - Aww, I guess not. (unlocked by [livejournal.com profile] xviith_et_seq)
-The Obligatory "Get All Other Achievements" Achievement (Hatogate 100% Complete!)

[identity profile] xaq.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 12:06 am (UTC)(link)



(Well, that was certainly anticlimactic...)
Edited 2013-01-08 00:07 (UTC)
premchaia_pre4: (akari)

[personal profile] premchaia_pre4 2013-01-08 12:09 am (UTC)(link)

All right, so unless this is an entirely different set of GOODS, I don't have anything else to use here… let's see. >USE UNICYCLE ON STONE IN FRONT OF SERPENT.

[identity profile] xaq.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
**PARSER INTERPRETING CONTROLLER INPUT IN TEXT FORMAT AS "USE UNICYCLE ON SAE'KROM"** (These games all involved an on-screen cursor rather than text input. Besides, there's no stone in front of the Komodo dragon that I can see. o_O)

You spend several minutes trying in vain to find a means by which the two items could combine, before finally giving up. Your dreams of this hodgepodge collection of items forming a gestalt mecha lie dashed before you. Curses!


(Well, that was...interesting...)
Edited 2013-01-08 00:16 (UTC)
premchaia_pre4: (akari)

[personal profile] premchaia_pre4 2013-01-08 12:21 am (UTC)(link)

I know about the on-screen cursor part, yes. That's why I figured I could aim at the Grey Expanse in front of the Black Serpent in the first place! However, if that can't be tried again, then maybe just >USE GREAT WHEEL OF KARMA ON BLACK SERPENT OF AGONY?

[identity profile] xaq.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
**PARSER INTERPRETING COMMAND AS "USE UNICYCLE ON KOMODO DRAGON"**

For reasons nobody but you can fathom, you hurl the unicycle with all your might towards the lizard...which, given your comparative size, falls about a foot short.

The komodo dragon looks over at the unicycle, its eyes widening. A moment later, an elated grin spreads across its face. "My unicycle! I've been looking all over for that! Wherever did you find it? Oh, thank you so much!"

With that, it hops up on the unicycle and pedals off into the woods. ...It raises a good question, though; where DID your classmates get that unicycle from? Oh well, the creature is gone now, so that's that sorted! The path is now safe and clear for you to continue.


(W...what?!)
premchaia_pre4: (akari)

[personal profile] premchaia_pre4 2013-01-08 12:39 am (UTC)(link)

>SAVE. MOVE TO TEMPLE OF ETERNITY. (I am tempted to do some other things first, and it may or may not turn out that I should have, but…)

(Do you actually have the “correct” routes planned behind the scenes, by the way, or are these completely improvisational?)

[identity profile] xaq.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
**PARSER NOT BOTHERING TO DESCRIBE HOW IT TRANSLATES YOUR INPUTS ANYMORE...**

(File saved.)

With the lizard out of the way, you and your classmates proceed to the shrine. You write your wishes on the placards provided by the shrine staff, hang them up, ring the bell, and clap your wings together for a moment of prayer.

Mission accomplished, you all head downtown to a nearby restaurant to grab a bite to eat!

(Game Over)

(ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: SAY YOUR PRAYERS)


(Congrats, you've unlocked another of the game's endings! ...And to answer your question, I spent a few minutes last night parsing out the details for pretty much everything you could do in the game.)
Edited 2013-01-08 00:49 (UTC)