conversations: human
conversations:  Elibazeth is currently loading sBurb up into her computer. It seems like it'll be a while, so she does other things while it does, but once it nears completion, she takes a seat in front of her computer.
  
  It loads... And displays a timer. 15:00.
  
  What will you do?
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Xavier puts sBurb into his computer and starts to load it. While he waits, he amuses himself by pretend-fencing in his room with the fire poker, almost accidentally putting a dent in the wall.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth will start trying to click buttons on the computer. Trying to get past the timer screen.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by Potato_Priest 
   Xavier puts sBurb into his computer and starts to load it. While he waits, he amuses himself by pretend-fencing in his room with the fire poker, almost accidentally putting a dent in the wall. 
   
  
  The client loads without any real issues. On screen, you can see Elibazeth in her room, clicking away on her PC. On the edges of your screen are various buttons, of unknown purpose.
  
  
   
   Originally Posted by Illven 
   Elizabeth will start trying to click buttons on the computer. Trying to get past the timer screen. 
   
  
  It seems to have borked your computer over-nothing you do gets you off the screen. Not even Alt-F4 or Ctrl-Alt-Del seem to be working.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by JNAProductions 
   The client loads without any real issues. On screen, you can see Elibazeth in her room, clicking away on her PC. On the edges of your screen are various buttons, of unknown purpose. 
   
  
  First I'm going to try to use some sort of direct message software to inform Elisabeth that she's on my screen.
   
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
  Elizabeth, my screen is showing your room.
   
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  [Maine - Paisley's House]
  Paisley sets down her work, having successfully finished the last of three conveniently unspecified but unmistakably heartfelt gifts for her friends. She'll see about getting them mailed today---given her aunt and uncle's affluence, she can afford pretty fast shipping, so they should all be out in about a week at most. It'll be a nice way to celebrate this interesting game they're going to play together, though she's got to wait for Xavier to get set up with Elizabeth.
  
  Taking her phone with her, she walks into her uncle's study and into the relatively small walk-in humidor she's not supposed to be able to unlock. Her uncle's weird cigar closet is full of interesting smells, though she's never really wanted to actually smoke one.
  Standing there, she pulls up her Pesterchum app and decides to see how Orion is getting on.
   
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
    CM: ey'up
  CM: are you excited for this s burb game or whatever it's called
  CM: it sounds r8 interesting but also r8 complex  
   
conversations: Beans:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth pulls out her now buzzing phone looking at it, she looks into the phone and looks alarmed covering her chest with her arm.
  
   
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
  
   Yeah, but this has got my computer on the frizz, did you install some sort of malware on it? 
   
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by Illven 
    
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
  
   Yeah, but this has got my computer on the frizz, did you install some sort of malware on it? 
   
   
   
  
   
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
    RR: What? No! I just opened sburb and my computer showed your room.  
   
  
  I take a picture of my computer screen and send that in pesterchum too.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Pesterchum 
  
   But I didn't sign any waviers? The company is going to get the balls sued off of it.  Elizabeth protests.
   
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  The timer steadily ticks down.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Xavier going to click on Elizabeth's computer and see if that gives him any options.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Xavier 
  As you go to click on the computer, a new app pops up on your computer. One you don't really remember downloading. It reads "Trollian". Regardless of whether or not you go to click on it, it pops open, revealing some text.
  
   
   Spoiler: Trollian 
     NO TIME! JUST LISTEN!
  
  THE BUTTONS-CLICK ON THEM, PUT THE TOTEM LATHE, CRUXTRUDER, AND ALCHEMITER SOMEWHERE EASY TO REACH!
  
  AND WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU!   
   
  
  
  What do you do? Look behind you? Explore the menus, looking for those... Whatevers? Or something else entirely, possibly ignoring that annoying yellow text?
   
  
   
   Spoiler: Elibazeth 
  You hear a rustling behind your door.
   
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth gets up, and checks the door confused.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by JNAProductions 
    
   Spoiler: Xavier 
  As you go to click on the computer, a new app pops up on your computer. One you don't really remember downloading. It reads "Trollian". Regardless of whether or not you go to click on it, it pops open, revealing some text.
  
   
   Spoiler: Trollian 
     NO TIME! JUST LISTEN!
  
  THE BUTTONS-CLICK ON THEM, PUT THE TOTEM LATHE, CRUXTRUDER, AND ALCHEMITER SOMEWHERE EASY TO REACH!
  
  AND WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU!   
   
  
  
  What do you do? Look behind you? Explore the menus, looking for those... Whatevers? Or something else entirely, possibly ignoring that annoying yellow text?
   
   
   
  
  Xavier is going to look behind him.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Elibazeth 
  Behind the door appears to be a midget dressed in an imp costume. This would normally be the most pressing matter, but a slightly more pressing matter is that he's holding a knife.
  
  He seems oddly content, though-he's rummaging through, of all things, your curtains, with the knife occasionally catching and tearing them.
   
  
   
   Spoiler: Xavier 
  On your screen, you see Elibazeth go to and open her door.
  
  Behind you, you see a dark stormcloud rapidly approaching through your window.
   
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by JNAProductions 
    
   Spoiler: Xavier 
  On your screen, you see Elibazeth go to and open her door.
  
  Behind you, you see a dark stormcloud rapidly approaching through your window.
   
   
   
  
  Xavier thinks about how nice it is that he isn't out on the river during the storm, and turns back to his computer, looking for the buttons mentioned by Trollian.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Xavier 
  It takes some doing, but within maybe a minute, he finds the various buttons to summon the machines. Each one is about 10'X10', and some 7 or 8 feet tall. As he looks for a place to put them, though, he sees Elibazeth staring down a small man with a knife, facing away from her.
   
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  The ****!  Elizabeth asks alarmed before slamming the door shut, and looking in her room for weapons.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  The small man hears her, and turns around as she slams her door. She can hear him pounding on it and stabbing at it as she looks around for a weapon.
  
   
   Spoiler: Strife Specibus Selection 
  Pick something. Anything. You can use it as a weapon with whatever die is appropriate for your class. Note that, until you find another Strife Specibus, you are LOCKED INTO this weapon type.
   
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth grabs her guitar to use as a sort of cudgel.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Strife Specibus-Guitar 
   
   
  
  
  Elibazeth steels herself, grabbing one of her instruments as a weapon. It feels oddly light and dexterous in her hands, for some reason.
  
  Meanwhile, the timer keeps ticking down.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Trying to help Elizabeth in a timely fashion, Xavier attempts to fit one of the machines in the air above the small man.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  The cruxtruder drops on top of the imp-man, crushing him in a pile of black goop.
  
  It also, unfortunately, crushes directly through Elibazeth's hallway floor, crashing down a level.
  
   
   Spoiler: The Cruxtruder 
   
   
  
  
  As it drops, it shifts from side to side, landing on edge. The impact knocks the cap loose, revealing a glow inside-however, the cap is still partially on.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth moves to look at the strange machine.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Something seems to be bumping against the interior. It glows with an inner light, and doesn't seem aggressive, just insistent.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Pesterchum 
    RR:Is that your house? How'd the game designers know what it looked like?  
   
  
  
  Also, Xavier tries to get his perspective to be able to move on the computer so he can follow Elizabeth's movements.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Replies 
  
   I dunno. This is really starting to freak me out.  Elizabeth replied.
   
  
  
  Elizabeth will try to see if the machine has a door or anything.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  It's a simple right click and drag to move the camera, though it seems limited to Elibazeth's house. A little searching reveals it includes a "snap to player" functionality, automatically going to wherever Elibazeth is.
  
  Meanwhile, she clambers down the new hole in her house to reach the Cruxtruder. A little jimmying later, and she pops the hatch open, revealing...
  
  An orb of light. Spouting incomprehensible gibberish.
  
   
   Spoiler: Xavier 
   
   Spoiler: Trollian 
     GET THE OTHER MACHINES DOWN NOW! YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME! SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME!   
   
  
   
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Huh, what?  Elizabeth says drawing the guitar closer to herself.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Xavier is going to put the other machines down on the ground floor of elizabeth's house, trying not to block off any doors.
  
   
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
    RR:Sorry about your floor. What is that thing?  
   
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  The glowing orb bounces up and down near Elibazeth, continually spouting inane nonsense that appears to maybe be some kind of language? But probably not.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  After putting down the machines, Xavier is going to click on the orb to see if it gives him any information or options.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  The orb pops up with a name when clicked on:  Kernelsprite .
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Pesterchum to Elisabeth 
    RR:My screen says that thing is a 'kernelsprite'.
  RR:I have no idea what that means, but it sounds like some sort of digital fey.  
   
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler 
  
   Aren't fey all naturey?  Elizabeth mentions.
   
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: Pesterchum 
    RR:That's how they're portrayed in D&amp;D, yes.
  RR:I think they come from Celtic mythology
  RR:Not sure about that tho
  RR:Don't step into any 8-bit goomba rings, eh?  
   
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  The timer continues to count down. Outside the window, Elibazeth can see a faint shadow, coming from high above the clouds.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth will attempt to look outside the window.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  High, high in the sky-miles up-is what seems to be a rock. Coming down rather quickly.
  
  The timer counts down.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Reminded of the storm by Elizabeth's movements, Xavier is going to look outside his own window to check on it.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by JNAProductions 
   High, high in the sky-miles up-is what seems to be a rock. Coming down rather quickly.
  
  The timer counts down. 
   
  
  Elizabeth will post attempt to post on facebook about a meteor, coming down, before starting to leave the house.
  
  (Is she alone in the house.)
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by Potato_Priest 
   Reminded of the storm by Elizabeth's movements, Xavier is going to look outside his own window to check on it. 
   
  
  Xavier pokes his head out just in time to have a bucket of rainwater slam into his face. He backs up, closing the window, as the lights flicker and go out.
  
  His home is without power.
  
  
   
   Originally Posted by Illven 
   Elizabeth will post attempt to post on facebook about a meteor, coming down, before starting to leave the house.
  
  (Is she alone in the house.) 
   
  
  Elibazeth manages a post from her phone, and heads to leave the house, abandoning the machinery that Xavier had placed. The kernelsprite continues to follow her, bouncing and jiggling like a madman.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Anything you want to help with?  Elizabeth snapped at the kernelspite.
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  The kernelsprite jiggles some more.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Originally Posted by JNAProductions 
   Xavier pokes his head out just in time to have a bucket of rainwater slam into his face. He backs up, closing the window, as the lights flicker and go out.
  
  His home is without power. 
   
  
  Xavier checks to see if his computer and phone are still working.
  
   
   Spoiler: Pesterchum 
    RR: Testing
  RR: Power just went out here b/c of storm  
   
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  When checking your phone, you see it's still working. However, it only has  (3d20)[ 24 ]  percent battery left.
  
  Your computer is wholly dead.
conversations: JNAProductions:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler 
  
   Oh, right. You have storm, I have meteor.  Elizabeth mentioned.
   
conversations: Illven:
conversations: human
conversations:  Spoiler: More Pesterchum 
    RR:A meteor? Find cover fast  
   
  
  
  Noticing that it's fairly chilly and dark with the power out, Xavier goes to light a fire in the woodstove. He steps outside and grabs some logs and kindling from the dry area under the awning, then brings it back inside and uses some newspaper and matches to get a small blaze going.
conversations: Potato_Priest:
conversations: human
conversations:  Elizabeth will attempt to take cover from the meteor.
conversations: Illven: