1/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:04 No. 1042390 ID: e4c230
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For years you have guarded thi
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For years, you have guarde
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Guarding the
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Years into years into years
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What day is it
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Who am I
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2/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:05 No. 1042391 ID: e4c230
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Do not acknowledge it.
clink
Do not acknowledge it.
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Do not acknowledge it.
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Do not acknowledge it.
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Do not... do not
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3/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:05 No. 1042392 ID: e4c230
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Acknowledge it I was MID THOUGHT
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I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE
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SINCE THE BEGINNING OF
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TIME I HAVE HAD TO DEAL
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WITH THIS STUPID BALL THING
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NO MORE IT ENDS NOW

4/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:05 No. 1042393 ID: e4c230
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I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS IS BUT I'M GOING TO BREAK IT

7/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:06 No. 1042396 ID: e4c230
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CRUNCH

Oh. Oh I may have made a mistaaaaaaaa

8/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:07 No. 1042397 ID: e4c230
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"aaaaAAAKE-- HA HA!!! YES! YES!! EVERYTHING FINALLY MAKES SENSE! EVERYTHING WAS ALL WEIRD ABSTRACT BULLSHIT BUT NOW I HAVE CONTEXT!!"

9/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:07 No. 1042398 ID: e4c230
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You reach out to speak or cry out or scream, but you are stunned. In fact, you are shaken, unnerved, rattled, terrified -- too many thoughts.
The sound of the orb no longer interrupts your thoughts and the full gamut of thought and emotion you willingly chose to throw aside rages rages rages rages

"Oh, shut up with your self-pitying thoughts, whoever you are. What even is this place? Ugh. Abstract, open to interpretation? Open to corner cutting, more likely."

You open your mouth to speak but no sound comes forth.

"...wow, another mute, too. Full of surprises today, aren't we. Well, there's probably no doubt some grand mystical reason why that is, but I really don't care. This place bores me. Okay, lemme check this for a second."

10/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:08 No. 1042400 ID: e4c230
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"Let's seeeee... well, plenty to choose from, but they're all pretty much headed for disaster or thoroughly done in, so... hey, you, you've got more than one voice rattling around in your skull, right? How about you pick me a nice place to visit?"

You stare in utter confusion.

"Yeah, never mind, I thought so. Damn, you don't have much of a personality to you, do you? Generic as they come. Well..."

They flip through the book further.

"According to this, your name is the Adherent and mine was the Aspirant. Well, I like that, actually, pretty fitting really. I'll hold onto that one until I get bored of it. You, though. It does raise some questions, sure! Adherent of what? Were you some sort of religious guard? Are you some sort of divine construct or maybe even a god of sorts? Well, no, you're no god. I'm no god, yet, but I could turn you into a baked good if I felt like it, probably, maybe. I just need to find the other-- wait no I'm not telling you my plan, I'm not stupid! Anyway while I sure do love talking and talking -- sure am having to supply both sides of the conversation as it is anyway -- I do have things that need to get done so I am out. Peace."

11/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:09 No. 1042401 ID: e4c230
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They turn to leave, but hesitate and turn back.

"Oh, right, also, on that note, make your peace because I'm going to probably have to end all of existence to do my thing. Sorry. Well, not really, but, a little, I guess?"

And then, they disappear.
And just like that, the world is suddenly a very lonely place.

You feel like you ought to feel some sort of guilt or shame at failing to protect whatever the thing was, but you feel mostly numb and lost.

You are left alone with your thoughts in an empty plane.

12/12 Suggestion 2022/08/31(Wed)17:09 No. 1042402 ID: e4c230
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And a single fluttering page from a book you never saw before.

You take the page. You read the markings upon it.

The markings are too darkbright to read clearly, but you feel suffused with a strange, sickly new power that threatens to
tear you apart
rewire your being
kill kill kill
collate, approve for distribution, disseminate,
examine the current context and stand one step further distanced inside
one first-class ticket to
bake a fresh apple pie
withstand the infinite power of creation and laugh at it numinous
seven days shipping.

[ You may now DISJOINT. To do so, suggest DISJOINT, followed by any single word of your choice. ]

[ There will be consequences. ]

DISJOINT nonexistence

DISJOINT ASPIRANT

This is probably a good idea or maybe a terrible one.

Man, I know it's an apple like that can apparently "withstand the infinite power of creation" or something, but seven days for baked goods is extreme! It'd have gone cold by the time it gets here!

Oh uh, what do we do here hmmm. These instructions are unclear but there's a big shiny red button- let's try DISJOINT Vagueness?

DISJOINT knowledge

DISJOINT Information

DISJOINT omnipotence

Disjoint inertia.

DISJOINT Page

Uh guys maybe we shouldn't use the shiny new ability on so many things all at once? Might want to try it one thing at a time, and start small to see what it actually does?

>>1042456
You're right!
DISJOINT Time.

>>1042406
Disjoint dat nonsistence, yeah!

I will save us.
DISJOINT DISJOINT

Disjoint Goals

>>1042415
This

Well, I see only one way to undo the consequences of our failure. To ensure what they do can't accomplish what they want...

DISJOINTCausality.

1/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:02 No. 1042531 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> NONEXISTENCE ]

All is everything and everything is all instantaneously, now, forever, in all directions of time and space.

You do not even register this as, on a timescale so fast it is almost meaningless in its bidirectional permenance, your every quark is forced apart by the volume of thing-ness occupying what was once the nothing between the nothing between the vacuum between your quantum foam flecks.

You undergo fundamental dissolution and you cease to be a stable singular consciousness in any meaningful way.

[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:02 No. 1042532 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> TIME ]

Everything stops as you sever time from reality like slicing the fat off of an animal's body.

Everything stops.

Nothing will ever move again for you, but you are prevented from ever knowing this, as you will never have the required duration to process what just happened.

[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

3/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:03 No. 1042533 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> DISJOINT:> DISJOINT:> DISJOINT:> DISJOINT:> <ad infinitum> ]

You separate the you separate the you separate the you seperate the you separate you separate the you sepa r a t ee th e y o u s e pppp er aaaaaaa a aaa a

[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

4/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:03 No. 1042534 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> ASPIRANT ]

"WAIT WHAT THE FUCK HOLD THE FUCK ON--"

You have no idea where the Aspirant is across time and space but you definitely hear them scream as you rip them out of reality.

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And then, abruptly, you feel only white-hot agony and pain as you look down to several of the Aspirant's hateful tendrils protruding from your chest.

"Yeah, no, nice try buddy, you'll have to be smarter than that. I'm hopping realities already, do you know how easy it is for me to jump back in? Do you know how many layers of protection I have from anything you'd ever be able to pull? I know exactly what I am and where I am. You can't touch me."

The Aspirant blinks a few times, nodding slightly.

"Anyway you pissed me off so I guess that's the end of that. Sweet dreams!"

You slump forward, feeling burning hot and ice cold at the same time, and the darkness comes for you fast.

[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

6/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:04 No. 1042536 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> OMNIPOTENCE ]

You tear the concept of all-power from this realm.

It doesn't feel like anything changed.

This strikes you as immensely weird, as you seem to have some sort of horrible godlike power now, but no, nothing seems different.

...Then again, if omnipotence was truly omnipotence, it'd probably be immutable by definition, otherwise it wouldn't be omnipotence, right?

This line of thinking makes your head hurt so you just ignore this weird result.

You feel extremely, extremely afraid for some reason, as if something about this is going to be very, very bad for you at some point in the unknown future.

[ BRANCH DESIGNATION 1-EPSILON:> HOLD ]

7/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:05 No. 1042537 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> KNOWLEDGE ]

You rend apart knowledge from sapience.

You no longer recall how to think, walk, or even stand. Only reflex action keeps you alive until you dehydrate and perish miserably within the hour.

[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

8/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:05 No. 1042538 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> GOALS ]

You brazenly sever the entire concept of intention and drive from your apparently quite mortal body.

You stand dazed in the featureless plane, bereft of motivation, until you die (again?) of lack of oxygen, not feeling a particular reason to care about the burning pain in your lungs or the abstract goal of staying alive.

You note several things as you undergo the dying process that seem wrong and incorrect but it doesn't particularly bother or phase you, so these observations merely flit through your brain without reflection or further consideration.

[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

9/9 Suggestion 2022/09/01(Thu)17:06 No. 1042539 ID: e4c230
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[ DISJOINT:> PAGE ]

The page is ripped from itself. The antipage residue object left behind in your hands is white and blue. White paper that feels ghostly and insubstantial, jelly in your hands, and blue symbols that convey no words but convey something to you in a silent voice.

It speaks of worlds, of times, of places that are, were, and never will be. It speaks of a lesser DISJOINTing, a power that displaces and moves its user bodily into these worlds.

You've only used DISJOINT once in your entire life so far, and it already unsettles you what it has done to this page you grabbed. You don't even want to think about what might happen if you used DISJOINT on anything more significant or abstract than a piece of paper. If that's what this was before, anyway.

[ You may now also DISPLACE. To do so, suggest DISPLACE, followed by any single word of your choice. ]
[ DISPLACE is significantly weaker than DISJOINT but vague ambiguous parameters will lead to stranger realms, almost certainly inimical to life. ]

[ Place names are not required, but will produce more predictable outcomes. ]
[ Additional clarification for the place name is permitted. DISPLACE is more lenient than its elder. ]

[ You may continue to DISJOINT, as well. At the same time, if you wish. ]

DISJOINT branch
DISJOINT failure
DISJOINT stable
DISJOINT point

Wait, I know.

DISJOINT limits
DISJOINT Aspirant's memory and abilities pertaining to reality hopping
DISJOINT Aspirant

DISPLACE BRANCH 1-THETA
DISPLACE BRANCH 1-EPSILON
Don't mind me, just checking something with this one.

>>1042539
>>1042539
DISPLACE Self
DISPLACE Darkness
DISPLACE Negative

DISJOINT DISPLACE;
DISPLACE DISJOINT;
DISPLACE jacuzzi;
DISPLACE pre-Aspirant.
Ha ha, hyphenation!

Designation 1-Epsilon: Can you use your disjoint still? What about this Displace that we learned about in a different reality? Go nuts!

Designation 1-Alpha (maybe?): The page seems pretty open-ended on what we are supposed to do. Sure we could go after Aspirant but do we *have* to? Surely we can play with these new powers some after spending an eternity in a void.

DISPLACE CITY? DISJOINT SIZE, and maybe DISJOINT SQUARE-CUBE LAW for good measure. See if we can have some fun.

Disjoint Masculinity
Disjoint Dull
Disjoint Unattractive
Displace Death
Displace Self

>>1042539
Oh neat, there's a symbol in the upper left showing what branch we're in. I assume 1-epsilon is a potential branch we can return to (with the caveat that we've destroyed the concept of omnipotence which will screw us over somehow), because we're currently in 1-theta. Not sure how we can switch branches at the moment though. Maybe with displace?

DISPLACE: Aspirant
Let's see what they're doing.

>>1042546

Wait, DISJOINT ADHERENT SHORTNESS instead of size if that is an option.

DISPLACE aspirant's rectum to aspirant's mouth

Ok, these tools can break us, and- we can break them. Anyone up for a trip in the translocation blender because I sure am!
DISPLACE DISPLACE

And for a wild stab in the dark to see what might happen:
DISPLACE 1-ALPHA

Who knows, we may get a null pointer dereference from trying to access a non-existent branch. We could also try disjointing a branch but- that feels dangerous considering those are probably checkpoints for when we screw up.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have an idea on what we’d need to DISJOINT and/or DISPLACE in order to not be mute? I just want to see if we could somehow give ourselves the ability to speak.

>>1042554

Why not DISJOINT muteness or DISJOINT unintelligible?

Well. Figured this was gonna be a single update quest at first, but now... Seems to be a test of endurance for the author's drawing skills. Sheesh Cirr, hope you have fun with this.

Heh. So it appears metaphysical concepts can be affected.
Lots of things to mess with for lulz.

DISJOINT self's lack of omniscience
With infinite knowledge, we should know how to beat the enemy with ease.

Plus, the new power might be temporal, too.

DISPLACE to before the orb was grabbed, give self DISJOINT page to cause no paradox, tell yourself to do exactly what you're going to do, DISJOINT the noises the orb is causing. DISPLACE to where you were before you first displaced.

Of course, you guys are also failing to consider if we have ADVANCED COMMANDS

Like, IF (X act would cause the apocalypse) THEN (do nothing); ELSE (do X as stated)

Or perhaps,
IF (enemy attempts to kill us) THEN (DISJOINT enemy attempts to kill)

...
...Should I make the meta joke?

...DISPLACE next to quest author, ask how to win this.

DISPLACE Moot Point
DISJOINT Sex

So many things to try...

DISJOINT self; then DISPLACE 1-THETA
DISJOINT 1-DELTA
DISPLACE 2-ZETA
DISPLACE 1-DELTA
DISPLACE 3-ALPHA

Disjoint antipage
got us something new last time, perhaps it will again
>>1042533
It looks like Disjoint can accept as its input another disjoint with its own input, thus perhaps much as disjointing the page gave us something perhaps disjointing the disjoint of the page will do something
Disjoint Disjoint page (before and after the first disjoint)
(and for good measure might as well do the same with the anitpage)
Disjoint Disjoint antipage (likewise before and after the first disjoint)
>>1042560
I don't get the impression we can disjoint phrases otherwise we can just remove something's ability to not be present (homestuck's thief of the void style)
>DISJOINT self's lack of omniscience
assuming this^ doesn't work
Disjoint ignorance
More broad but should still result in us knowing all.
>>1042535
one of the problems with this one was that we died, what if we couldn't do that because we Disjoint mortality (may also want to Disjoint procreation to help stave off a 'oops all life' universe, and Disjoint injury to avoid Torchwood: Miracle Day type fates, might toss out cancer, illness, and malady too while we are at it)
(if at least short term stable this might even form a branch point, if those still exist by the time this suggestion is parsed)
Then we try Disjoint aspirant again and see what he does when he can't kill us (here anyway)

Displace Gravity

Haha, good luck, Cirr; you've set yourself quite the task, both apparently in the volume of art, and with smoothly handling the boggling scope of the nonsense we're allowed to get up to.

>>1042677
This will just end everything in a fun new way, as planets and stars are only really held together by the compression of gravity, so all the stars and planets are just going to explode. Though I suppose it wouldn't kill us outright, and we would still have air to breath for a while if this room is airtight, as I suppose 'explode' would probably be too strong a way to describe it, rapidly become ever expanding cloud I suppose might describe it better. And I suppose we don't actualy know if anything else is out there, this room could be all there is here, in which case I guess this can just be fun and fine (unless some of our biological process rely on some sort of consistent force I guess)

>>1042554
DISPLACE GAME OVER to ASPIRANT.

1/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:36 No. 1042951 ID: e4c230
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< TOO MUCH TOO FAST; URGENT ALTERATION REQUIRED >
[ COLLATING DEAD BRANCHES ]

2-θ-α-NULL
[ DISJOINT:> BRANCH ]
You are suddenly no longer part of the established multiverse. What happens to you from this point on is completely unknown. We'll never see it.
[ BRANCH REMOVED ]

2-θ-α-NULL
[ DISPLACE:> Moot Point ]
You remove yourself from this reality and surrender both your power of DISJOINT and DISPLACE as you are thrown bodily into another reality beyond the view of this one.
It appears you have left this zone of creative influence completely, and your fate is no longer bound here.
Do you succeed? Do you fail? Do you end up living a happier life in a different continuity? Do you cease to exist the moment you leave this one? We'll never know.
[ BRANCH REMOVED ]

2-θ-α-NULL
[ DISPLACE:> Quest Author ]
< NO >
[ BRANCH REMOVED ]

2-θ-α-i
[ DISJOINT:> STABLE ]
Everything explodes into chaos, predictably. You are a cloud of wafting hydrogen, rapidly decaying into nothing.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2-θ-α-ii
[ DISJOINT:> FAILURE ]
The Aspirant is victorious. So are you. The inherent paradox in multiple contradictory things being true simultaneously in a single branch proves too much to handle and time and space start rapidly oscillating between states until it is no longer clear what is happening anymore. This resolves in femtoseconds. You cannot tell what is going on and your conscious mind splinters so many times your viewpoint is no longer sustainable as a singular entity.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2-θ-α-iii
[ DISJOINT:> LIMITS ]
Nothing binds or separates anything. Energy grows. Space grows. Matter grows. All sensible limits are gone. This feels incredibly similar to ridding non-existence, except your mind has no limit rather than being torn apart. It does not appear to be attached to whatever was your body anymore, and your consciousness expands and consumes and merges with all other thought in the universe, no barriers or limits remaining. You are the Aspirant. You are the Adherent. You are the singularity.
Events no longer bear any relevance or meaning; you are, you were, you always will be. The end.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2-θ-α-vi
[ DISJOINT:> SELF ]
You tear yourself out of reality. You cease to exist instantly.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2-θ-α-v
[ DISPLACE:> SELF ]
Did you know bad things happen when the same thing occupies its own space twice? Did you know, apparently, that DISPLACE works on a strange timescale where you arrive before you leave? You don't know, because you explode horribly as you interpenetrate every single part of your own body.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2-θ-α-vi
[ DISPLACE:> DISPLACE ]
You are stuck in an infinite loop of trying to be where you already are. Your body cannot handle the strain of infinite DISPLACEment and you crumble into dust cell by cell.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

2-θ-α-vii
[ DISPLACE:> BRANCH 1-α ]
You are squished infinitely flat against the infinite everything that's already present in this timeline. You then spontaneously explode and join your other self's cosmic dispersal, and amalgamate into their powerless eternal omnipresence. Whoops.
[ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ]

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2-θ-β
[ DISJOINT:> DISPLACE ]

You tear the concept of DISPLACE from the universe. This, as far as you know, only affects you.

It also means you just immediately undid receiving the new power you just got.

You feel like you hear vaguely avian laughter from across time and space, like some sort of wretched ethereal kookaburra.
"NICE WORK, DUMBASS!!"

You feel incredibly, incredibly foolish. Unfortunately, wanting the earth to swallow you does not actually make it so, and thus you are doomed to continue living on this empty plane for the rest of your life, unless things somehow change.

You still have DISJOINT, after all. Which is, as you have seen from what you just did, disjointing first a physical object and then the power it gave you, probably still safe to use, if you're very careful. Very very careful. What could you do wrong, after all? It's not like the first thing you thought to do with it was destroy the universe or whatever, right?

[ BRANCH:> HOLD ]

3/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:37 No. 1042953 ID: e4c230
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2-θ-γ
[ DISJOINT:> MASCULINITY ]

You aren't sure why you thought this was a good idea but the very notion of masculinity takes a bow and exits the universe.

Nothing seems to have physically changed, but you realise there's some ideas rattling around your head that make less sense and seem incomplete, which you suspect might be related to the fact you just destroyed a cultural concept. You can't really even remember what your culture or history are so this only makes you slightly uneasy instead of giving you an identity crisis. However, soon the idea of what "male" even means starts to slip away. The notion of gender as defined in binary opposition instead of multiple hues and dimensions also collapses entirely, but the remaining palette seems missing something.

You are now some strange gender that is neither female nor null nor sexless, and nowhere in the spectrum those suggest. Something alien. New? Old? What are you?? You feel even more like a weird outsider and outcast than you did before.

4/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:37 No. 1042954 ID: e4c230
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The Aspirant appears. You gasp and tense up ready for a confrontation, but it hangs in the air, head tilted.

"...I'm mostly just confused what you were going for, there, really. Probably not this outcome, I'd guess. Here, I actually feel a tiny bit bad for you screwing up this badly, so I'll help you out here because now I'm just really, really curious what this iteration is even heading towards. A trajectory I did not expect, for sure! Want to be the prettiest lady you could ever be? I got you. One second."

You blink in confusion and mild apprehension.

"Okay so I just shut down the branch where you said no, so, ipso facto, welcome to a new you! Have fun doing whatever it is you do in this scenario. My first piece of advice as far you know is get out of this messed up timeline. You can't even begin to comprehend how much damage you've done on a cultural scale. In places that are not featureless voids. Anyway I've got somewhere to be. Well, more accurately, nowhere, really, but... bye!"

The Aspirant vanishes, and you feel a little different. The feeling of strangeness soon passes as, clearly, this is just you, and has always been you.
Still. Now what?

[ BRANCH:> HOLD ]

5/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:38 No. 1042955 ID: e4c230
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2-θ-δ
[ DISPLACE:> BRANCH 1-θ ]

Nothing happens. Well, you appear to have shifted maybe an inch to the right, but on this featureless plane you're not sure if that's not just your brain playing tricks on you. How did you even get here, anyway? You remember being here for years, but you're also a flesh and blood animal who needs to eat and drink, and you don't see any food or water around. It doesn't make any sense. Well, either way, you try an idea that you feel almost like is divine inspiration, because it makes no sense for you to have come up with the idea any other way.

[ DISPLACE:> BRANCH 1-ε ]
< OH NO >

6/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:39 No. 1042956 ID: e4c230
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2-θ-δ / 2-ε

Things become a little bit more complicated. You look at an exact copy of yourself, who is much like you in every way except for having made decisions he knows to regret far sooner than you do. He's on the floor, looking sweaty and shaking a little. He looks up at you and yelps, or barks, it's not clear what.
You wave in a friendly manner to your counterpart.

You stand around awkwardly. You put on your friendliest face, but it seems to spook him more. The other Adherent slowly gathers himself together and stands up, and the two of you look at each other in a varying mixture of curiosity and, for him, existential terror.

You decide to mentally designate yourself as the normal Adherent and him as the spooked Adherent, before you realise there's no real need for designations with just two of you. You hold out your arms in a friendly gesture, and he stands there, as if expecting you to attack, but not expecting it enough to be on guard.

Well. Not sure where to go from here, you have a think.

[ BRANCH:> HOLD ]

7/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:39 No. 1042957 ID: e4c230
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2-θ-ε
[ DISPLACE:> ASPIRANT ]
That's weird. Maybe you didn't do it right, but for some reason you don't go anywhere. Oh well! Maybe time to try somewhere else.

[ DISPLACE:> DISJOINT ]

You end up flinging yourself outside the universe, but after the initial terror and shock, you find you're not dead yet. You seem to not be actually outside the universe's laws completely, instead sort of floating outside it with a faint tether to reality still. You can even still breathe somehow, but something instinctually tells you to not think about it too hard.

8/12 Suggestion 2022/09/05(Mon)07:40 No. 1042958 ID: e4c230
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In fact, you apparently seem to have company.

"...Oh. I thought I blocked DISPLACE from targeting me. That's weird. Mildly troubling, even. Will need to investigate that later. Anyway, kindly fuck off."

You glare at the Aspirant. The Aspirant gives you a triple glare back.

"Look, I'm metastable, you're a thread fraying from a rope, you really, really shouldn't be here. Even I'm only out here for tiny intervals to prevent unravelling completely, I'm just trying to poke around and get a feel for the space, or, uh, the not-space, whatever it is here. Go DISPLACE yourself and we both get what we want."

The Aspirant looks at you and winces. "Okay, because you're exactly that kind of idiot, no, do not DISPLACE yourself into yourself, you'll explode. Somewhere else, though, please. I'm the only thing holding you together right now, because I'm just such a nice guy and because I've already just skewered you and worked off some of my rage. Plus, your efforts to foil my plans are kinda necess-- shut up, Aspirant, shut up."

You look confused at the Aspirant, who just sighs and turns away. "No, that's all you're getting out of me this slice. Leave. I need a drink..."

You oblige.

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[ DISPLACE:> BRANCH 1-θ]
< OH NO >

2-θ-ε / 2-θ-δi

You arrive at a featureless plane that seems to be empty and all too familiar.

Weird. You were kind of expecting to run into some sort of alternate version of yourself. Guess he disappeared. Did he try DISJOINTing himself out of reality or something like that?

There's so many other things you could try next, though...

[ BRANCH:> HOLD ]

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2-θ-ζ
[ DISPLACE:> BRANCH 2-ζ ]
< OH NO>

You fizz through spacetime into a timeline that appears to be much like the one you left, except there are somehow dead fish everywhere coating the plane in a layer two feet high.

You cannot begin to fathom what events could have caused this to happen.

You also see what appears to be your face-down corpse, having either drowned or asphyxiated in fish that are starting to decompose.

You are made aware of how empty your stomach is by the fact that the following bout of dry heaving rids you of nothing.
Especially not the smell. The smell. You almost want to die. You know this smell isn't ever going to leave your fur for the rest of your life.

[ BRANCH:> HOLD ]

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2-θ-η
[ DISJOINT:> ANTIPAGE ]

It just sort of fizzes and bubbles away. Guess there wasn't anything left of its... not-left-ness.

[ DISPLACE:> BRANCH 0 (BEFORE ORB GRABBED) ]
< NO NO NO >

2-θ-η / 0
You appear at the start of it all. You have a plan. It makes no sense for you to have such a plan, given this would require knowledge you absolutely do not have, but something told you it was a good idea to do this. Grab the page, learn DISJOINT to avoid a paradox, tell yourself... tell yourself...

You still have no meaningful way to communicate beyond pointing and other body language. You just--
clink
have to figure out someth
clink
figure out SOMETHIN
clink

[ DISJOINT:> SOUND ]

All sound ceases. You feel better already. You see your other self tense in surprise, while the pre-Aspirant figure drops their hands (wings?) to the side, breathing a sigh of relief, before they look confused, alarmed, and you see their beak moving around a lot but nothing is happening. No sound exists anymore.

They look like they're freaking out. You're kind of glad you turned off all sound because you're pretty sure whatever decibels the bird is putting out, you'd be losing your sense of hearing pretty fast anyway.

The other you catches sight of you and also looks like he's about to start panicking.

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The bird creature races towards the orb and, for all you can tell, is screaming... something at it, and shaking it violently. You can't make out anything they're screaming about but you get the impression they think the orb is to blame for all the sound disappearing. Possibly. That or they just wanted to break the thing for causing them so much grief already. You're not sure.

You realise you don't have much time. You need to make sure you don't let the orb be broken--

"Ahem."

You turn behind you and see the Aspirant.

"Clever, but, well, let's have a quick chat about multiverse theory." The Aspirant rests on its many tendrils. "See, you could, in fact, prevent my ascension into glory in this timeline. It could work! You probably still even have time to do it, it looks like this iteration of what will become me is actually more just angry in general than angry at the orb specifically. But it's just exactly that. An iteration. Excuse me a moment."

The Aspirant takes a sip from a teacup you didn't see before. "Ahhh. Needed that. Anyway. Unfortunately, preventing my ascension here will not prevent my ascension everywhere, or everywhen, I guess. For better and for worse, I'm an immutable fact now. So are you, in a way, just in a very different way to me. Every branch without a you gets pruned, after all. You've been seeing glimpses, haven't you? Or something is feeding you glimpses. Well, I'm much the same, but my relationship with my patron is a bit different."

Another sip. "Either way, I experience time a little bit... different to you now. You're the warp, I'm the weft. ...you have no idea what that means, do you, you nudist. Honestly, the Filter's the only thing preventing everyone from being subjected to your bits all the time. No, I'm not elaborating on the Filter, the more attention I put on it the likelier it is to start breaking. It's doing its job. Don't worry about it. Really."

The Aspirant hurls the teacup behind them and it shatters into dozens of pieces. "Anyway. You're left with two choices, because this branch doesn't really help either of us out. Either you stay stuck timeshifted behind the rest of the horizon, or you leave this branch. Well, I could also kill you, but honestly I'm just not feeling that right now. Run along and go back to your own timeline, or something. I must be leaving."

The Aspirant turns and somehow walks through reality, their component parts shrinking into nothing as they do so.

[ BRANCH:> HOLD ]

[ Multiple branches held. You may select a branch for an action to apply to. ]
[ You may also nominate a default branch for actions to apply to if non-specified. ]
[ Entering a branch via DISPLACE will usurp narrative control entirely. ]
[ For example, branch 2-ε can no longer act on suggestions, as it is now under the control of branch 2-θ-δ. ]
[ You only need to supply the dominant branch. ]

>>1042963
laugh at Aspirant for forgetting the / in his closing "[/i]"

DISPLACE loss branch: In desperation, pluck a hair from your pelt. Identify it clearly in your head as hair 332f6ba7-f74b-43cf-b3f8-7528d4c2bd86.

DISJOINT hair 332f6ba7-f74b-43cf-b3f8-7528d4c2bd86.

---

Masculine loss branch: DISPLACE yourself into another branch, like recommended. Heck, maybe several branches. Do some spring cleaning and sweep up a bunch of these weird boob-less goobers.

What, not allowed to go on a weird, pointless kaiju rampage? Aspirant gets to have all the fun he wants? Fine.

DISJOINT OCCULT
DISJOINT PATRON
DISJOINT CLOTHES

Maybe try it with and without PATRON, since I imagine that one could go all kinds of ways wrong.

. . .

DISJOINT THE WAVES

BRANCH2-θ-δ / 2-ε
DISPLACE BRANCH 2-θ-γ
Let the council of Adherents begin!

Disjoint: Suggestions

BRANCH 2-θ-η / 0
DISJOINT ENIGMATIC

And just for fun, have some stupid ones:

DISPLACE BRACKETS
DISJOINT VIRGULE

>>1042952
DISPLACE rage.
The worst that could happen is another branch cutoff, but you'd feel better about it anyway. It would make it easier to relate to others, and might even reveal a surprise relation to someone you know.

>>1042956
Do not DISJOINT or DISPLACE for now. Just TALK to him like a normal person. Sure, the success rate isn't 100%, but maybe that's a blessing in disguise. With any luck, he might even help you regain what you lost.

Do be mindful of him. He seems... disconnected, somehow.

>>1042961
DISPLACE Death
or
DISJOINT Death?

>>1042963
DISJOINT Filter
If he's just going to bring it up to you like that, you might as well try. Anyone up for another NSFW quest? Don't mind this failing, if no.

But seriously, do find a way to stop normal him from smashing the orb. Whatever it is you want to do, any ground you can gain in this multiverse will be necessary for it.
Else, DISPLACE unhelpful timeline.

Well, primary plan for Branch 0 has failed.
Secondary plan initiated.
Destroy the orb yourself, to put yourself on equal footing.
With whatever power you get, you should have the ability to restore the status quo, just have to beat your rival before you do.
Of course, it might have to be the status quo minus the noise that set this mess up.

>>1042974
BRANCH 2-θ-γ : DISPLACE displacers
Just in case.

>>1042952
BRANCH 2-θ-β
DISJOINT DISJOINT DISPLACE
Perhaps we can un-doom this timeline by removing us removing displace from it and find out if the syntax works
BRANCH >>1042402
DISJOINT antipage
(or if removing the removal of something works we can go off BRANCH 2-θ-α, DISJOINT DISJOINT page, then DISJOINT antipage)
Though >>1042958
>your efforts to foil my plans are kinda necess--
Suggests our actual winning move is not to play.
But given this branch >>1042961 exists, we are not the only one's 'playing', so all we would be doing is denying ourselves seats to see the fireworks
Oh heh, DISJOINT The Game (you know, the one you just lost)

DISJOINT >>1042396

Well, let me attempt 3 things:

Disjoint ignorance. Why not solve our problems by simply knowing all that must do?


Disjoint malice. If the Aspirant is not evil, then there might no end of the world.


Disjoint muteness. It's time for us to talk.

Displace filter. Just to see.

Okay, the Aspirant has a patron apparently. Let's find out who or what they are.

DISPLACE PATRON

>>1042952
Well DISPLACE-less timeline, let's see if we can get you something cooler.
[ DISJOINT:> ABSENCE OF [DISTILL] ABILITY ]

Oh, I see. This is a metafictional quest. I'm going to keep my conclusions to myself, because it's more fun for everyone that way.
However, I think we need a little more information...

DISJOINT: Amnesia

Sooo, from what I think I understand…
I think BRANCHES are made from a series of STABLE POINTS, created when an Adherent is alive and able to affect the BRANCH further after doing what he was instructed to.
The parts of the BRANCHES without a viable Adherent at their latest STABLE POINT gets pruned. That’s all the BRANCHES that end with [ BRANCH FAILURE:> RETURN TO STABLE POINT ].
From what we have seen so far a BRANCH splits when either
-several suggestions are made from its last STABLE POINT that lead to viable new STABLE POINTS (as seen in most updates);
-an Adherent from the last STABLE POINT of a BRANCH DISPLACES themselves to a STABLE POINT that is not the last of its BRANCH (as seen in 2-θ-η / 0).
From what we have seen so far two BRANCHES merge when the Adherent from the last STABLE POINT from one goes to the last STABLE POINT of another (like in 2-θ-δ / 2-ε). Or maybe the old BRANCH gets pruned when there no longer is an Adherent inside.

Right now we have the following BRANCHES:

1-θ -> 2-θ-δ / 2-ε (no omnipotence)
1-ε -> 2-θ-δ / 2-ε (no omnipotence), where omnipotence does not existed and things are apparently very, very bad. Population : Normal Adherent and Spooked Adherent who only knows DISJOINT;
1-θ -> 2-θ-β (no displace), where DISPLACE does not exist. Population : Adherent-2-θ-β (Dumbass Adherent?) who learned both DISJOINT and DISPLACE but can’t know or use DISPLACE right now because it does not exist in this branch.
1-θ -> 2-θ-γ (no masculinity), where masculinity does not exist. Population : Lady Adherent;
1-θ -> 2-θ-ε / 2-θ-δi (loop), it went nowhere then back to 1-θ after Normal Adherent left for the no omnipotence branch, continuing from when he left and usurping the branch. Population : Adherent-2-θ-ε.
1-θ -> 2-θ-ζ (fishworld), there is a dead adherent and so much dead fish. Population : fish-smell Adherent;
1-θ -> 2-θ-η / 0 (soundless), where the breaking of the orb has been averted so far, and sound doesn’t exist. Population : Adherent-2-θ-η , Adherent /0 who don’t know DISJOINT or DISPLACE and angry Aspirant who has not ascended yet.

BRANCH 2-ε : Normal Adherent, talk to Spooked Adherent, tell him you can try to get him out of here; Spooked Adherent, explain what you happened, mostly to see if we can control any Adherent or just the one from the dominant branch
BRANCH 2-θ-β : DISJOINT DISPLACElessness ?
BRANCH 2-θ-ζ : before doing anything else take a dead fish with you because you might get the opportunity to slap Aspirant with it at some point
BRANCH 2-θ-γ : DISPLACE 2-θ-ε, it’s pretty much the only place that’s not full of dead fishes or metaphysical anxiety.

>>1042986
>>1042972
I wonder if doing both DISJOINT Filter and DISJOINT Clothes would keep the Aspirant from directly entering that timeline? Or make him reluctant to perceive it? It does seem easier to manipulate him emotionally than through raw power. I'm sure there's a better way to make him avoid a timeline, but I can't think of one.

>>1042961
I wonder if the you in this timeline gained a new power and screwed it up. Or did you just destroy the property of fishlessness?

>>1042962
Timeline 2-θ-η / 0:
DISJOINT Noncommunicability. We might benefit from explaining the situation to this divergent Aspirant and getting him on our side. Hopefully you can now just wave your arms meaningfully and be understood. We can presume that other Aspirants ascending isn't a problem, because they all become the same person and merge together. But if this one has a slightly different past and motivations, maybe that future is locked off to them? Which means Aspirant prime is now their enemy, or at least their rival, and therefore they should help us! (It doesn't matter if that's actually true, as long as we can convince him here.)

>>1042954
Asmire your new boobs.

>>1042961
>smell stuck to fur for rest of life
Could we just Displace the Bad Fish Smell away? Wouldn't that get the smell out of our fur and make it so that none of these dead fish have a bad smell anymore?

>>1042963
>See, you could, in fact, prevent my ascension into glory in this timeline. It could work! You probably still even have time to do it
Could we Disjoint the Orb?

>>1043075
I don't think disjointing the orb is a good idea. It's probably the Orb of Psyche. It being destroyed is one thing, disjointment is something beyond destruction.
I suspect if we disjointed it, we'd be creating an opposing set of suggesters.

>>1043075
Or DISJOINT NAUSEA.

>2-θ-β
Disjoint Mistake

>2-θ-ζ
Disjoint Reek

Disjoint Confusion
Disjoint Injustice
Disjoint Hunger
Disjoint Injury
Disjoint Aging
Disjoint Cancer
Disjoint Sociopathy

Disjoint Tea. Take that, you stuffed turkey!

>>1042954
DISPLACE ASPIRANT to get his attention, then fondle your boobs and give him a seductive look.

>>1043146 I don't think this will work, as per >>1042958
>I blocked DISPLACE from targeting me
We didn't target him with displace, we kind of targeted where he was.
(in fairness my earlier suggestion is trying to retroactively create branches, which >>1042963 on later reading does not seem to be one of the options.)

>>1043169
Doesn't need to work, just needs to get him to pop in.

>>1042963
Displace lack of Lard Fried chicken nuggets dimensions of bits 4x1x1cm total volume 2 meters squared 0 from ground level at aspirants location

1-θ -> 2-θ-ζ: DISPLACE Bearquest Jr.
Adherent-2-θ-η: Console angry proto-Aspirant.