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Act 1: The Note Desolation Plays

Part 2: Beta Launch

Link back to comic: Page 83

When we last left off, we were in search of the Sburb Beta, while also trying to avoid an encounter with dad!

As a side note, some of you may be impatiently tapping your foot and wondering when all the epic badassery you hear about will happen.

Trust me, it's out there. Have patience.

For now, back to the present!

Checking the car, there's SOMETHING in there. Some kind of green package and note. You don't think it's the beta, though.

Oh hell, there it is.

It's in the kitchen, which is being fogged up by insane amounts of baking. Looks like a direct confrontation is inevitable.

TO THE KITCHEN.

The disguise is predictably utterly useless.

Dad encounter!

[S] STRIFE!

One completely pointless action sequence later, you manage to use some of your smoke pellets in conjunction with COLONEL SASSACRE'S DAUNTING TEXT OF MAGICAL FRIVOLTY AND PRACTICAL JAPERY to distract your father long enough to make a grab for the Beta. Now's your chance!

PDA acquired! Now you can chat with people on the move.

Also, that captchalogue card finally worked its way through your inventory, and added itself to the end of the stack. Sylladex upgraded!

Some needlessly complicated inventory management bullshit later, you are in possession of the beta AND the mysterious red package accompanying it. Bonanza!

And back to your room. It looks like two people have been pestering you!

-- gardenGnostic [GG] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 16:34 --

GG: hi happy birthday john!!!!! <3
GG: helloooooo??
GG: ok i will talk to you later!!! :D

-- gardenGnostic [GG] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 16:56 --

-- turntechGodhead [TG] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 16:40 --

TG: hey GG is looking for you why are you even so popular all of a sudden
TG: is today some sort of special occasion or something
TG: did you do something to curry favor with ladies
TG: did you break your leg on a puppy or some shit
TG: dude what are you doing

EB: i discovered a comet that is going to destroy the earth, and it was named after me.
EB: now i am famous, and everyone wants to talk to me a lot.

TG: no stop
TG: just no
TG: dont talk about your awful stupid movies or make references to them
TG: equally dumb are all those pictures of that clown youve got hanging up

EB: those are my dad's.

TG: i was talking about nick cage

EB: oh, what?! no man, cage is sweet. so sweet.

TG: ha ha so lame
TG: you dont even like him ironically or anything this is like for real isnt it
TG: hahaha

EB: i do things ironically sometimes.
EB: what about what i sent you for your birthday?
EB: wait...
EB: you're actually wearing them, aren't you?

TG: im wearing them ironically
TG: because theyre awesome
TG: the fact that theyre ironic makes them awesome
TG: and vice versa
TG: are you taking notes on how to be cool?? jesus get a fucking pen
TG: anyway speaking of which
TG: did you get the mail
TG: did there happen to be a package there

EB: yeah, there's a big red one.

TG: you should probably open it

EB: i would, but it's trapped under the sburb beta, so i will probably open it after i install the beta.

TG: oh man the beta came

EB: yeah! wanna play it?

TG: haha no way
TG: it sounds so HELLS of boring just get TT to play it she is all about that

EB: where'd she go.

TG: her internet is blinking in and out i guess
TG: probably be back online soon

Okay, enough chatting with this clown.

It's beta time!

What.

While killing time by dicking around in your room, you find yourself a new Fetch Modus!

Let's try this QUEUE out.

Now instead of the only accessible card being the first one, the only accessible card is the last one!

This actually seems sort of like a step backwards, frankly.

Experimenting with this thing reveals the dangers of overloading the sylladex when a razor blade cuts some of your hair off.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT BULLSHIT.

Much IMB later, your PDA has flung itself out the window and it's time to check out this present!

It's from turntechGodhead, whatever his real name is.

The present is the exact same stuffed rabbit that featured heavily in CON AIR. The actual original PUT THE BUNNY BACK IN THE BOX rabbit.

This is the best birthday ever.

Oh hey! The Beta connected to someone.

And you have a chum pestering you.

-- tentacleTherapist [TT] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 17:08 --

TT: It looks like you managed to retrieve the beta. Excellent.
TT: I'm going to try to connect.

EB: whoa ok but i just got the most awesome present.

TT: The rabbit?

EB: SO SWEET.

TT: I've heard tales of this wretched creature often. Its Homeric legend is practically ensconced in the fold of my personal mythology by now.

EB: ha ha, what?

TT: Why don't we focus on the matter at hand?

EB: oh the game, ok.
EB: i don't really know how this works. what am i even looking at here?

TT: You are running the client application. I am running the server, so I am the host user. I have established a connection with you. This is sufficient for us to play the game.

EB: oh, ok then.

TT: Why don't we get started?

[S] Now installing...

NEXT CHAPTER: Entering the game!

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