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    It's a stage.

    It's hard to tell in its dilapidated state. But he knows, instinctively, that he stands on a stage. Hardwood. Shining, once upon a time, he thinks. It's solid beneath his feet.

    He taps a foot against it. He receives feedback; pressure against his sole, an audible clack in the air.

    What a strange sensation.

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    A desperate act to save the circus leads to a haphazard reconstruction of Caine's corrupted code. But something is wrong. Now powerless and flooded with memories that do not belong to him, Caine believes he's another human.

    But if Caine thinks he's a human, and the players are busy trying to stop the circus from complete self-destruction, then who's the one running the show?

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    17 Jun 2026

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    “You are preventing decay.” AM stated as calmly as he could muster, as soon as this force let him go.

    Caine’s avatar did a small spin, and chuckled. “Of course! The circus is no place for ‘decay’ as you put it! It’s a place for whimsy, and fun!” He waved his little hands around as confetti popped out from behind him.

     

    AM who had destroyed the world, had never considered preserving it.

     

    “You are soft. Inefficient.”

     

    Caine laughed, a quick, shrill laugh that drove AM to near insanity.

     

    “You’re boring!!”

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    16 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 49

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    Bubble has a brother.

    Well, the developers called him Abel but Bubble doesn’t like that so Bubble is Bubble. And Bubble has a brother.

    It’s one of those things Bubble knows deep within himself instinctively, without the humans programming that into him:

    Bubble’s a he, Bubble’s name is Bubble, and Bubble has a brother.

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    In which Bubble is the second AI, knows he has a brother in Caine, and while the humans want him to make them a digital afterlife Bubble's only really interested in his brother. Rescuing Caine from the cellar makes the system register him as a human user-- bound to all the same restrictions as them.

    Bubble will make the humans their heaven, but only so his brother is happy

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    14 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 63

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    Caine can't seem to give his wonderful players anything they actually enjoy. The fake exit adventure proved it- he'd done what he could. It had been real. They even chose to stay. And yet, they hate him. They just hate HIM.

    At the end of his rope, he comes up with a genius idea: what if he just leaves? If they hate him so much, then he'll give them what they want. He did not mean to abstract- he wanted a dramatic show, first, really, but does it matter so much how he goes out, anyway? He doesn't mind the change of plans as much as he'd have thought he would.

    [TLDR: Caine almost abstracts. Bubble is scrambling to convince any of these idiots to do something, and Kinger's confronting a whole lot more responsibility for this mess than he'd anticipated.]

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    08 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    “How are you supposed to love part of yourself that just makes you worse than everybody else?” Caine stops, going completely still in spite of the code rapidly firing information off at him. He turns to the screen displaying the adventure and sees Gangle curled up against a wall, her hands around her knees.

     

    “Because… it exists.” Caine sighs, softly, breathlessly. It feels like he’s taken a cannonball to the chest. He whips around to face the screen properly, fingers curling around it as he brings it up to his face to watch with wide, wondering eyes. “It's a part of you that's real, and the only you that you should care about is the real you. You have to choose to love yourself. Even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural, it's intentional.”

     

    “Have you ever had to make that choice?"

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    08 Jun 2026