Well let me just fire up my crossword solver here... how many words fit in those blanks?

78 * 143 * 5 * 36 = 2,007,720 possible solutions.

...fuck. And that's just limiting it to things that are actual english words. Unless we can hack some more of those characters, or we get a hint, or we abuse time magic to try loads and loads of passwords in a very short time, I don't see how we crack this before things go boom.

Just fire it into the sun! That's at least a million times bigger than the planet, and a lot more on fire already!

>>480974
Those sound likely except for 'Seven'.
Words I can find in order of likelihood: 'Sleep', 'Saved', 'Sever', 'Sated'

Lizbeth 2012/12/29(Sat)09:31 No. 481060 ID: b3ca75
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>The password is clearly 'Skeletor.'
I think you got the wrong pixel quest.
>Just fire it into the sun! That's at least a million times bigger than the planet, and a lot more on fire already!
I have no idea where the magical power is actually stored, or how big the machine actually is. I mean, I have nowhere close the power necessary to fire this whole city into the sun.
>...you know what, just look it up in the future-papers.
They all end before this point. I think Kevros was the one who got the closes.
His papers end with him getting killed by Wrath, so is doesn’t really help at all…

>Deactivate / Seven / Bliss / Perfection
Hmm, Seven doesn’t really fit… I think I’ve heard this before thought…
>Words I can find in order of likelihood: 'Sleep', 'Saved', 'Sever', 'Sated'
Deactivate / Sleep / Bliss / Perfection? …I think Oracle did say that the first time I was here… Oh right, He said that when we asked if we should Reactivate him at some point… huh…
[password accepted]
[Welcome Jacob!]
---
-nd here she comes.
I was afraid she would fail to guess the password. I mean, it would just be sad if she failed by tripping on the finish line…
Lizbeth, dear, Welcome to the machine!
MMMFF!!!
Please ignore him…
Well then, what is your command, daughter?
…what? Command what?
Why, what we are supposed to do with Virtue and all its power of course.
And, as a one of the group of people that don’t want the world to end, what we should do about that whole we are all going to die when the players leave thing Wrath…um…The non-Jacob Wrath was… ranting about, hmm?
So, in short, You got a machine that can change the game code, pretty much unlimited energy and an end of the world coming up, so have fun.
Oh, and take your time. I’ve stopped time.
…wha?

Insert Final fight_

World of infinite Kevros. Do eeet.

So... Pride is tied up because of all of you, he's the only one who's still crazy?

>Insert Final fight
What final fight? Isn't this a time stopped discussion where we can faff around as long as we like?

>what we should do about that whole we are all going to die when the players leave thing
I'm still not sure that's how this actually works. From our perspective, all evidence seems to point to fiction worlds continuing to progress after we check out. Hell, there are worlds that have outlived their original creators, and the original players/readers/whatever for that matter too.

Also, the "jump to the real world" plan isn't gonna work. No matter how much power you accumulate in this world, it's just a number in a computer in the other.

With the game ending thing we could remove the hard-coded end and make switch to being procedurally-generated from that point on.

>>481062
If everyone is Keveros than nobody is.

>>481060
Okay, look. I just remembered something important. There's a way we can interact with your world to keep it going even after the game ends. It's called ITQ. We can basically ask questions of you guys about the future, and you can answer them, and in that way the future will have happened. It's kindof like an extended epilogue.

As for the power to change the game... well, I'm not sure we should. What would we want to change? It has to be something in the present, or else the world would be destroyed by the paradox. As for escaping, I really don't think that's possible, and besides, we don't think it's worth unmaking Liz to do so. If you think you can change the game so that it has its own internal time so that we don't need to be here for it to keep going, then that would be optimal.

Hang on though, I noticed Clown isn't in here. Was the original person not directly involved in the project? Also, what's up with that rock and the blood splatter?

Also I thought you shot Pride in the face. What's he- oh wait you guys are all dead and these are your souls floating around in the machine. It's almost like Liz is dead now, huh? I think we should see what he has to say, even if it's a load of megalomaniacal bullcrap.

Oh, hang on. During our first meeting, before being revealed as Wrath, Oracle claimed that magic would end, not that time would end... and that we were the cause. I'm wondering which case is true... or if both cases are true? It's possible that Sloth basically turned Oracle into Wrath by reprogramming her... or she became Wrath because we changed the timeline when we had Jacob kill Pride instead of the other way around. I'm not sure what the end of the world really is, anymore.

I do know one thing for certain- even if magic dries up, people can still survive on the surface via non-magic technology. Farming! Livestock! We might have to actually create some books to teach them how to do that stuff, though, since they're so reliant on magic right now. Also I'm not sure if livestock exists anymore. We might have to create that too. Probably food crop seeds as well, just so they get a head start on things. Oh, we'd want to create like, a year of canned surplus food for them so that they survive long enough to get the food industry going, too.

It's time.

Summon the biggest fish.

Lizbeth 2012/12/30(Sun)08:07 No. 481231 ID: b3ca75
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>World of infinite Kevros. Do eeet.
Tempting…
>If everyone is Keveros than nobody is.
…how does that make any sense at all? I mean, that’s like saying that if everyone was human no one would be.
>It's called ITQ.
Are you really willing to gamble everything on that some stupid pixel based quest on the web would get enough of following that people actually would want to ask us questions?
Well, you’re very pessimistic…

>It has to be something in the present, or else the world would be destroyed by the paradox.
We can’t actually travel through time, we can only change the game code. Nothing is stopping us from changing things that’s already happen. As long as we don’t go overboard, that is. That would probably just corrupt the game further.
But what about Sloths plan?
He was dumb?
>Hang on though, I noticed Clown isn't in here. Also, what's up with that rock and the blood splatter?
That’s not a rock, that’s a tarp covering Clown mutilated body.
We didn’t really see eye to eye about some of our philosophies .
To be fair, she did try to kill us first.
>So... Pride is tied up because of all of you, he's the only one who's still crazy?
No, he’s just a douche that doesn’t really know anything worthwhile about anything.
That dick still hasn’t paid for the last poker night we had.

>Wrath, Oracle claimed that magic would end, not that time would end... and that we were the cause.
Well, from a certain point of view, he was telling the truth. Magic kind of does end when times end and it’s because you are leaving that it happens, so…
>Create Books, Livestock, Seeds, Canned food, material.
Now, that is a good idea. We’ll get right to it after you leave.
Wait… after I leave? And aren’t you coming Gravs?
We have to be careful with the game code, or else we’ll just corrupt the game. Don’t worry about the magical build up, we are using up just enough to… hinder it from blowing up, hmm?
And someone have to stay here and make sure that this idiots doesn’t do anything stupid.
>Summon the biggest fish.
Yeeeessssss
How about no. That would just make a big boom, remember?
But Lizbeth want’s big boom…

>I'm still not sure that's how this actually works. From our perspective, all evidence seems to point to fiction worlds continuing to progress after we check out. Hell, there are worlds that have outlived their original creators, and the original players/readers/whatever for that matter too.
But are they the same people? And can they still live even when no one is creating a world for them to exist in? Are we really willing to gamble everything on that we won’t freeze in time?

Insert Full Freezer_

>>481231
The question, do you still exist even when people do not observe your universe. It's like that cat in a box question. One does not know if the cat is dead or alive until they look inside. Thus things being as they are now, if we live you are at the same time alive and dead.

Okay, whatever you decide to do better involve crossdressed Kevros and giant harmless explosions.

>Are we really willing to gamble everything on that we won’t freeze in time?
...well on the plus side, it's not like you'd be in a position to even notice when it happens.

But putting aside our skepticism for the moment and assuming the world really does work that way, what are we supposed to do about it? You've already rejected allowing us to just keep interacting with you (ITQ and sequels), you claim setting up time dilation (ie, 1 year for us equals the age of the universe for you or whatever) can't be done, and you've rejected the idea of ascending someone inside the game to "player" status so nothing ever stops. And escaping the game is just loony. So what the heck does that leave?

>>481242
Let spam bots be the players? Those things will be around forever.

Lizbeth 2012/12/30(Sun)09:52 No. 481250 ID: b3ca75
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>It's like that cat in a box question.
The one that is always dead when you open the box? That’s not really that reassuring…
>You've already rejected allowing us…
Rejected? What have we rejected?
Well, Sloth and Wrath did reject some ideas…
Wasn’t Sloth and Wrath bat shit crazy and was trying to destroy the world?
Oh yeah…

>(ITQ and sequels).
Well, a sequel isn’t going to happen and trusting ITQ is risky but doable. I think it’s more that Graven is pessimistic than anything else.
I’m not pessimistic, just realistic.
And you just proved that you’re pessimistic…
>setting up time dilation.
Should work… We do have the ability to remove the 1 year limit know that we have access to the game codes. Thought the question is what happens to us after the dilation?

>ascending someone inside the game to "player" status.
Can we even do that?
In theory, yes. Thought we don’t know if that would actually stop the world freezing or not… And we need some souls to ascend…
“Cough”
Oh, yeah…
Oh, I want to suggest stuff, can I?
Well, now I have even more reason to stay here…

>And escaping the game is just loony.
That we agree on.
>Let spam bots be the players?
Just as loony as trying to escape.
I’m just fine with the size of my… tools, thank you very much.
>Okay, whatever you decide to do better involve crossdressed Kevros and giant harmless explosions.
Of course.
…I’m so going to stay.

So let’s see… we can either trust ITQ to keep us alive…
Set up a jump to the future…
Or ascend to GODHOOD! MUHAHAHA!
Um…
I mean, players… yes, players.
Oh, and we got to get Graven out of here.
What? We can’t just leave these loony’s in charge of this thing!?

Insert loony bin_

>The one that is always dead when you open the box? That’s not really that reassuring…
The one that is in a superposition state of life and death until you open the box, at which point the wave function collapses and the cat will either turn out to have been alive or dead all along (assuming, for whatever silly reason, that the cat itself doesn't count as an observer to the radiactive decay and release of the poison). Jeeze, it's like you guys don't know anything about quantum mechanics thought experiments.

If you're just putting a cat in a box to see if it dies from lack of air you're doing it wrong!

>What? We can’t just leave these loony’s in charge of this thing!?
Well yes, but what are we supposed to tell MAgs after we leave you here?

>Choose a route!
...what if we ascended everyone to godhood player status? That way we get the benefits without giving a few the ability to abuse their power.

Or if that doesn't work, we could go with time dilation. If the heat death of the universe kicks in before time grinds to a halt, it's not like anyone will notice (actually, it's not like anyone would notice time stopping in a year, either).

>trust ITQ to keep us alive…
Yanno, I think I'm going to support Grav's pessimism on this route. Your world isn't serious or consistent enough for people to reliably keep coming to ask questions. By this point we accept it's all wibbly wobbly timey wimey mind screw illusions and bullshit.

Hey orange haired dude with the funny visor, who the fuck are you? I seriously haven't seen anybody like you until now.

Can we eliminate all clown data from the game code?

>>481250
Oh, speaking of Wrath... why were there golems built based off of you guys and programmed to try to kill Liz? And also built to be various degrees of crazy? What was the point of that?

How about, for the plan to keep time from ending, we use ALL the plans? Set up some folks to be players, make our epilogue's timestamps for each update set in increasingly far points in the future (something like 1 year, 5 years, 50 years, 100 years, 5,000 years, 100,000 years, 5 billion years), and we'll try asking some questions in ITQ? Also make sure to remove any hardcoded limits on the calendar.

Hang on though, there's an issue with characters becoming players. They will be that way forever. Won't they eventually just go completely crazy due to being alive for that long?

We could always setup a route for normal people to go God, and replace the crazies once they reach a certain level or milestone.

>>481261
That's Freya. She's a dwarf. We saw her once in one of our past-window dream things, then her golem got killed horribly offscreen by Clown.

Lizbeth 2013/01/01(Tue)10:58 No. 481690 ID: b3ca75
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>Well yes, but what are we supposed to tell Mags after we leave you here?
…that I’m sorry. For everything… oh, and tell her papers actually spoke the truth… and that I deserve this.
I’m not just going to leave you here.
Liz, I’m dead. There is a reason that no one else has ever cheated death. Please, let me move on?

>Why were there golems built based off of you guys and programmed to try to kill Liz?
Because of all the security measures we put in Virtue. He was programmed so only we should activate the focus crystals, except if we died, then Virtue should get the authority to control them. To detain him from just killing us of if he ever went haywire, we also programmed him to be both unable to harm us in anyway and not getting control of the crystals if he ever succeeded in offing us personally somehow. Of course, he got around this by “accidently” killing us in the initially sundering of the surface, creating perfect copies of our bodies and sticking our souls in them, programming us to attack an insane super powerful mage, whom he later released into the world when he had gotten enough power to proceed with his plan.
…Isn’t that a little too complicated?
We’re still not sure if he had to do it like this to bypass his programming or if he did it because he was a sadist and wanted to watch us suffer for 4000 years.
I’m guessing a little of both.
Well, if anything, that does kind of proves that he was insane…
>...what if we ascended everyone to player status?
…But they there wouldn’t be anyone left for them to play?

>ALL the plans.
Clearly the best plan.
>Won't they eventually just go completely crazy due to being alive for that long?
We’ve been alive for thousands of years, and we’re not crazy.
I’m a one eyed cucumber >: D
Mostly not crazy.
We should always just change the people who are players, right? Throw out the ones that are insane and so forth. Of course, we need someone to oversee the whole thing that’s not insane…
“Cough”
Right, we got a plan. All the plans. So scamper of to the real world so we can start, Liz.
B-but Graven? Dammit Graven, stop being difficult and come with me!
NEVER!

Insert isn’t it over yet?_


Um… Jacob? What are you looking at?
…I have no idea!

>>481690
"So you DON'T want Mags and I to double-team you until you can't walk straight? Darn, I was looking forward to that. Maggy will be heartbroken.

Oh, and if you deserve this for whatever you did, then what exactly do you think Maggy the assassin deserves?"

>>481690
Have the characters be the overseers. Then if the players abuse their power or go insane, the characters have a means to fight back. The characters being played get to decide if they don't like the players, and can call for replacements. That's their advantage. The players get to live for a very long time and experience lots of stuff they normally wouldn't. That's their advantage.

It's a balance! So that way Graven doesn't have to stay behind. Besides, if Graven tried to be overseer forever eventually he'd have the same issue players have, and who would decide who replaces him?

Also, Graven. In our dream we changed the future so that you were alive at the end. Don't give up, dammit. Heck, we have a reality-changing machine here. We can just set you=alive, right?

Oh, and one last thing. We need to put something in to make sure new characters are chosen for the players to suggest for. I mean, Liz probably won't want to live forever, and she might have an accident anyway. The other characters are mortal. So, there needs to be some sort of method for people becoming player characters. I think it should be pseudo-random; it should probably pick people who are going on adventures or have other interesting problems to solve.

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:46 No. 482242 ID: b3ca75
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>We need to put something in to make sure new characters are chosen for the players to suggest for.
Well, we can easily chose which character we will follow from here. Everyone got a line in their data which can be changed to a 1 so they become a new player character. That is after all what happened to all your party members.

>Maggy will be heartbroken.
She’ll get over it…
That’s cold.
…I-I mean...um… I don’t want to return, okay?
So you DON'T want Mags and me to double-team you until you can't walk straight? Darn, I was looking forward to that.
W-W-WHAT!? I… I… stop teasing me, dammit!
I’m not teasing. You know I’m a nymphomaniac. You just can’t admit something that good should happen to you.
Or he’s gay.
Well, in that case we got gender changing potions and Kevros.
You’re scaring the poor boy, Liz…

>Oh, and if you deserve this for whatever you did, then what exactly do you think Maggy the assassin deserves?
She only killed people she didn’t know!
But you only killed someone in an accident.
I tried to kill her father so I should marry her mother, dammit! That not really something you just forgive and forget!
um…
>Don't give up, dammit.
Never mind that… Listen, I know you’re scared about admitting these things to Maggy, but you regret it, right? You know you made a grave mistake, so please, don’t make another. Do you really think Maggy deserve this?
…
Oh, and just a reminder. You do realize the one you tried to murder is standing right here. I mean, most people would be quite… angry that you killed their wife and is about to kick their daughter will they are down, hmm?
I been wondering about that. Why are you more scared about someone that loves you in the mortal world then several crazy psychopaths that are stuck in a place where you can feel pain but not die?
…right, Liz, let’s go have that threesome or something…
Sweet.
And don’t say anything about this to Maggy. I’ll tell her myself so she can murder me as soon as she hears it…
of course.
Bye now! …and remember, we’ll be watching!
Time jump is a go!

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:46 No. 482243 ID: b3ca75
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~1 year after Virtue event.

I now pronounce you fabulously man and wife. Darling, you may now kiss the bride, ja?

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:46 No. 482244 ID: b3ca75
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~10 years after Virtue event.

-And that’s why uncle Serge is not married.
I still can’t believe you didn’t give back my legs when you were in that machine.
Sorry, I had other things on my mind then.
Besides, isn’t it quite a bit easier to hold that oath of chastity now when you don’t anything to break it with?
I shouldn’t even have had an oath of chastity if I still had my legs… stupid golem legs…

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:46 No. 482245 ID: b3ca75
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~80 years after Virtue event.

W-who’s t-there?
It’s me Kev, Lizbeth… your wife?
…w-who?
…

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:47 No. 482246 ID: b3ca75
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~100 years after Virtue event.

…I miss you, Kev…

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:47 No. 482247 ID: b3ca75
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~1000 years after Virtue event.

-And this machine, even though build thousands of years ago, is still fully functional.
Amazing…

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:47 No. 482248 ID: b3ca75
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~100.000 years after Virtue event.

-bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, 482178292751298750127-

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:47 No. 482249 ID: b3ca75
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~??? years after Virtue event.

One bottle of beer on the wall, one bottle of beer! Take it down, pass it-
The Universe uses Heat Death!
The Universe has been slain!
…Welp, what now?
>Summon the biggest fish.
Yeeeessssss....

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:47 No. 482250 ID: b3ca75
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Warning, fish mass exceeds that of normal values! ERROR! The Universe has committed an illegal action and will shut down! All your unsaved date will be lost! Have a nice day.

But the universe was dead! DEAD I TELL YO-

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:48 No. 482251 ID: b3ca75
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>rage quit and go play Civ or something.
That it! Fuck this game! It Civ Time!

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)11:49 No. 482253 ID: b3ca75
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The End.

You got the GOOD ending!

No ending can be considered a good ending without bikini Kevros.

DOPEFISH LIVES!

>Why are you more scared about someone that loves you in the mortal world then several crazy psychopaths that are stuck in a place where you can feel pain but not die?
Jacob, you have officially won back all the cool points you lost being an asshole to us.

>Liz outlives all her loved ones
Oh damn. Forgot we should have probably made her a real girl.

Oh well, at least Kevros had a sexy ageless wife his whole life? That's something.

>Civ
Alright!

So obviously, Hans gets to play the Huns. Only we renames them the Hans. And Liz gets to be Lizabeth the great of Lizland.

>>482254
Well, obviously, we missed the best ending.

>>482253
Yay! Pity about Liz having to endure endless eons out in the middle of space with nothing to do, but I honestly expected her to get burnt up when the sun turned into a red giant near the end of its life cycle. I *did* bring up her immortality during the whole discussion but oh well. As for Serge uh well whoops? Poor guy, he really got the short end of the stick.

>>482260
He was never an asshole to us. It was Sloth the whole time, aside from our past-window visions. Goddamned broken-ass Virtue machine.

Wow Ira is a dick. Time jumping to the end of the universe, and in a non-interactive cutscene? And why couldn't our universe the whole dopefish? T_T

>>482291
Jumping to the end of the universe was my idea. It's to ensure that time doesn't end prematurely.

Lizbeth 2013/01/04(Fri)13:14 No. 482307 ID: b3ca75
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>No ending can be considered a good ending without bikini Kevros.
>Turn everyone into Kevros.
Wait, why did you change everyone to Kevros except me?
Because I need something I can reward Kev with I like to watch~ Kev 245, 634 and 163D. Please have some fun with Graven.
Of course, mistress…
…Please kill me now…
And Kev 12, please attend to my royal bum.

You got the TRUE ending!


>And why couldn't our universe the whole dopefish?
…um…Dopefish lives?

Now that is the best end. Even if Lizbeth's children will be inbred.

Oh, are we jumping around timelines now to check out multiple endings?

Let's see one where we made Kev immortal alongside Liz (what happened to her children anyway?), remembered to give Serge his legs back, and probably some other thing we're forgetting. Magic spaceship so L&K won't wind up floating forever in the void of space with nothing to do?

MY DOPEFISH ARE DEEEEEEEAD

If its alternate endings, I would like to see the lesbian lizard wizard harem ending.

Lizbeth 2013/01/07(Mon)07:18 No. 483280 ID: b3ca75
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>MY DOPEFISH ARE DEEEEEEEAD!
Lizbeth can breed breathe in space!
>I would like to see the lesbian lizard wizard harem ending.
You haven’t unlocked that ending. Please play again to unlock it.
>what happened to her children anyway?
Like most children, they grew up and died of old age. You do kind of loose the connection to people after a few generations though.
>Even if Lizbeth's children will be inbred.
Wincest is the best cest!
…Ew…

>Disbelive the illusion!
Lizbeth disbelieves Sloth’s True Illusion!
…
…
…
…
…
SON OF A BI-

Insert It’s not over yet_
Nah, just kidding, it’s over. Quest completed! Thanks for reading!

Yaaaay! Thanks, Lizbeth! We loved you!