diff --git a/game/script.rpy b/game/script.rpy index 32b0a72..0c15bfe 100644 --- a/game/script.rpy +++ b/game/script.rpy @@ -355,4 +355,4 @@ $ anonscore = 0 $ tradwife = False pause 1.0 -jump start_da_fuckin_game_for_reals \ No newline at end of file +jump chapter_1.0 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/game/script/1.0.first-two-days-anon-meets-fang.rpy b/game/script/1.0.first-two-days-anon-meets-fang.rpy index 59404db..b40dfc7 100644 --- a/game/script/1.0.first-two-days-anon-meets-fang.rpy +++ b/game/script/1.0.first-two-days-anon-meets-fang.rpy @@ -1 +1,1950 @@ -#TODO: transfer DaScript appropriately to this section \ No newline at end of file +label chapter_1.0: + +#First Day of School +"January sixth." + +"Year 201M2020 BC." + +"Volcaldera Bluffs." + +"Weather conditions; cold as balls." + +"It’s my first time living close to water." + +"The idea of ‘marine layer’ is new to me, but I do understand morning mist." + +"This was like it, except infinitely more shitty." + +"The heavy fog makes navigating to my new school more difficult as I fail to see anything five feet in front of me." + +"Like a runt of a tree planted in the sidewalk that I swerve to avoid." + +"It’s my first time having to walk to school too." + +"My new apartment is in an awkward spot. Opposite side of town, yet no school or public bus to take me from there." + +"It’s my first day at a new school." + +"It’s the second half of the first semester of senior year." + +"I had six months left at my old school." + +"I can’t even imagine the kind of hell those six months would have been." + +"But this…" + +"I should take my mind off of it." + +"I whip out my phone, and consider the best way to make people upset online." + +menu: + "Reply to the obvious shill thread": + "I replied to the obvious shill thread" + + "Bait the obvious underaged poster": + "I baited as underage B&" + + +"The thread goes 404 right as I'm ready to post my well thought-out reply." + +"Better hide my phone before someone sees fit to take it from me, the only human around town. I think." + + +play music 'audio/effects/chatter loop.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"It’s the sounds that reach me first. The chatter of people milling about." +show rosaSilo at scenter +show stellaSilo at sright + +unknown "Bro" +unknown "It’s been too long!" +unknown "It was only three weeks *Giggle*" + +"I can make out the building now." + +"The fog shrouding gives the school an ominous vibe to it." + +"I look at the name written on the arch over the entrance." + +"Volcano High." + +scene outside school fog with fade + +A "Perfect setting for a horror game. Or maybe a shitty WAD." + +"The attempt at humouring myself just made me feel more alone." + +show anonphone +"A check of my phone says I’m 30 minutes early." +"Wonderful." +hide anonphone +"I move to the entrance, only to see all of the steps occupied by students." +scene stairs with fade +scene stairs at Pan((6000, 1200),(553, 169), 30.0) +"Their eyes turn to me. Expressions of confusion and contemplation. I can feel their judging stares, the same that had haunted me for four months previous." + +"I can already picture what they’re thinking." + +unknown "{i}Dude, check it out!{/i}" + +unknown "{i}Is that a skinnie?{/i}" + +unknown "{i}Where’s his spear? Aren’t they all like, spear chuckers or something?{/i}" + +unknown "{i}Bet he eats his own kind.{/i}" + +"They probably see me as some kind of circus attraction and nothing more." + +"Ha, I’m the freakshow among this cereal box mascot crowd." + +#(Scrolling Staircase CG here) + +"Taking acid is not nearly as colorful as going to Volcano High, I should write that down." + +"As I write '’write that down'' on my phone’s note app, I noticed the surrounding students stopped looking at me, which is good." + +"I can peep around the friend circles without a problem now." + +"Not like I'll ever be a part of one anyway." + +"?" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +play music "audio/OST/That Monochromatic Weirdo.ogg" fadein 0.5 + +scene fanglookback at Pan((0, 1080), (0, 0), 10.0) + +"Talk about wanting to stand out, I never thought it was possible to look like you were from a black and white twenties cartoon." + +"She does differ from the other technicolor students though..." + +"...in the worst way possible." + +"O-oh yeah. She's staring at me..." + +"...with that look. Fucking hell." + +"Has she never seen a human in her life?" + +"I fucking hate that look." + +"Contempt. Judging." + +"Everyone that has looked at me like that never proved to be anything more than an asshole." + +"Like I'M the anomaly here. She's just as dumb and insufferable as the rest of them." + +"She’s probably no better than me, miss ''my snout is so big I can land a plane on it''." + +"Go back to your friends." + +scene fangtalkingwithtrish with dissolve + +stop music fadeout 1.0 +pause 1 +play music "audio/OST/Beach Chill Out.ogg" fadein 1.0 + +"Huh. She did. I feel like I should say something." + +"I notice that all this time my knees were weak and my arms were heavy." + +"My feet carry me over the soggy grass as I look for somewhere else to be." + +stop music +stop sound + +stop audio +"On the side of the building is where I find sanctuary" +scene garden with fade +show anon neutral flip at scenter + +"It’s a small alcove of sorts." + +"The pavement is cracked to bits and the shrubs surrounding it are overgrown." + +"Even the bench, cracked paint on rotted wood held between two concrete legs, matched the ‘abandoned’ vibe of the place." + +"It was perfect." +"I flop down on the wet bench and the violent crack from it makes my heart drop." +"Almost perfect but good enough." +"I feel a tightness in my chest, and my lungs fight to draw air in." +"Head in my hands I can fully understand what I’ve done now." +"Six months in a new school." +"A year on my own in some rundown apartment in a town I know nothing about." +"All on my own." + +"Three weeks." + +"It took a day for me to want to change schools, and three weeks to make it happen." + +"And this is my life now for the next year. I think back to my old man’s ultimatum." + +"{i}Once the lease is done, Anon, either college or the service.{/i}" + +"{i}I don’t care which.{/i}" + +show naomiSilo at sleft +show naserSilo at sright +unknown "Would you happen to be Anon?" #Naomi +play sound "audio/effects/WoodSnap.wav" +hide anon +"I look up. The bench broke down." +"I lay on the ground, ass hurt from hitting jagged concrete and splintered wood." +"Thank god for jeans." +scene pathetic at Pan((0, 1031), (0, 0), 10.0) + + +play music 'audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg' + +unknown "Oh my goodness! Are you okay?" +"I groan" +A "Never better" +"I instinctively apply my ‘chill guy’ facade in the presence of strangers to hide how uneasy I am today." +"A hand is held over my face. In my pain addled confusion I shake it." +unknown "Naser!" +Nas "Right, right" +scene garden with fade +show naser neutral flip at nright +show naomiSilo at sleft +show anon neutral at acenter with dissolve +"The hand tightens around my own and pulls roughly." +"The force is enough for my feet to get under me, stumbling back up to stand before the pair of strangers." +"It also felt like enough force to pull my arm out of its socket." +show anon neutral at acenter +A "Uh... 'Sup?" +Nas "You're Anon, yeah?" +unknown "I'm glad we found you!" +A "...Who are you guys? Why do you know my name?" +show anon neutral flip at acenter with dissolve +unknown "Where are my manners! My name is Naomi, student council president and your guide. It’s my sincere pleasure to make your acquaintance Anon!" +show naomi neutral at sleft with dissolve +hide naomiSilo +Nas "We’re your welcoming committee" +A "O-kay then." +"Is that really necessary?" +N "I had this prepared just for you!" +"The orange one, Naomi hands me a brochure." +"Volcano High and You. A new beginning to adulthood." +"The title alone makes me gag. The pink one, Naomi, looks at me expectantly." +"The brochure is full of the typical trivialities." +"College prep, financial assistance, after school programs." +"None of it matters." +Nas "Babe, I’ve got some things to take care of." +show naser neutral flip: + xalign 1.0 yalign 0.0 +show naomi sad +with dissolve +"Naser looks back to the school entrance. I follow his eyes and see some people trying to lift a large speaker up the stairs of the school. " +N "O-oh." +N "I’ll see you at lunch, right Naser?" +"She looks dejected." +Nas "*chuckles* Of course." +show anon at aright +show naser neutral flip at ncenter +with move +"Naser pulls her into a hug and nudges his muzzle against hers. Is that how dinos kiss?" +"He leaves, running quickly to assist with the heavy sound equipment." +hide naser neutral flip with dissolve +N "ahem" +show naomi neutral with dissolve +"I turn back to Naomi. She smiles again, though there is a plasticity to it." +N "How about I show you the campus, Anon? We wouldn’t want you getting lost on your first day, now would we?" +A "Mm, sounds good." +scene hallway +show naomi neutral at sleft +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade + + +show hallway +play music 'audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg' + +"Instead of using the main entrance Naomi led me to a side entrance. Inside, the school looked like your stereotypical school hallway." +"Lockers and posters along the walls. Doors interspersed equally all the way down. More students milling about before class." +N "Anon, may I see your class schedule?" +"I pull the folded up sheet from my pocket and hand it to her. She unfolds it delicately and scans the page thoroughly." +N "Oh my gosh! We share a home room Anon!" +"Oh wonderful." +N "Speaking of, class will be starting shortly. Follow me. Mr. Tsuki’s classroom is this way." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg' + +"I follow after her to a classroom on the 2nd floor. The seats were being filled with students. I take one near the front, knowing I’ll have to introduce myself. I’ll probably be doing that for all my classes." +scene classroom with fade +"Fuck my life." +show anon neutral flip at aright +"The artificial ring of a bell blares from a speaker on the wall. With it everyone waits as the teacher finally enters the room and shuts the door." +show jinflip at sleft with dissolve +Tsuki "Ohayo gozaimasu curassu. Tudei yu habu e niu curassu-meito tsu Borukeino Hai" +"What" +Tsuki "Anon-kun puriizu camu appu zen intorudiusu yooru serfu" +stop sound +"Naomi coughs and makes a subtle nod up." +"OH!" +stop sound + +stop audio + +stop music + +"I stood from my seat and faced the class. Once again all eyes on me and the tightness in my chest returns. I inhale deep, willing my erratic heart to slow." +show anon neutral flip at acenter with move +show jinflip with move: + xalign -0.2 yalign 0.0 +show anon neutral at acenter with dissolve +A "Hey…" +"Again those eyes, just like three weeks ago." +A "My name is Anon. I uh…" +"Just like every day for the past four months." +A "I don’t really have any hobbies." +"I wanted to flee. Hide away. Anything to avoid those judging eyes." +N "Why did you transfer here?" +"My throat clenches. It’s an innocent question. But I think back again to it all." +A "uh… I…" +"There’s whispers now. The hushed tones, silenced snickers, blending with the everpresent stares. My heart hammers at my chest and I am sure that they all can hear it. See the cold chill racing over me." +Tsuki "Anon-kun, yuu du natto habu tsu ansaa zattu" +"His words snap me out of my trance. Only Naomi was looking at me. The rest were preoccupied." +"Either talking about their winter break. Or catching up on sleep." +"They’ve all been ignoring me the entire time." +Tsuki "Puriizu retaano tsu yo shiito, Anon-kun. Hai, nao curassu-" +"That was nothing like my Japanese animes." +hide anon neutral with dissolve +"Mr. Tsuki continued on, drawing what little attention there was to himself. I sat down, finally feeling the blood that had caught in my legs rush up, leaving me lightheaded." +hide jinflip with dissolve +"And I probably have to do this for each class today?" +"Double fuck my life." +scene black with fade +"Awkward introduction after awkward introduction to classmates that couldn’t care less kept me anxious the whole morning." +scene cafeteria +show anon neutral at aleft +with dissolve +"And there’s still the rest of the day to go." + +"Eventually, lunch comes around." + +"I don’t have the lunch card yet, so I settle for a pseudopizza." + +"The kind that becomes a viable weapon if you leave it alone for ten minutes." + +"No time to waste after exiting the line, I scan the lunchroom for an open seat." + +"I thought I had found a decent spot in the corner when disaster struck." + +show naser neutral with moveinleft: + xalign -0.1 yalign 0.0 +show anon neutral flip at scenter with move + +"Said disaster was a hand grabbing my shoulder and turning me about." + +"My plate of pizza shaped cardboard threatened to smear across my shirt." + +"I fought the momentum of the tray until the hand that had spun me stabilized it and me." +show naser explanatory +Nas "Whoa there! Nearly dropped your food Anon." + +A "Yeah, whose fault is that?" +show naser considering with dissolve +pause 2 +show naser explanatory with dissolve +Nas "...Yours?" + +"I swear to all that is good and holy." +show naser happy with dissolve +Nas "Wanna sit with us?" + +"What?" + +Nas "Wanna sit with Naomi and me? Since you’re new and all." + +"He points to a table where the living pink sugar rush is waving." + +"God damn it." + +"I don’t want to make a scene." + +A "Suuuure…" + +scene cafeteria +show anon neutral at aleft +show naomi neutral flip at sright +show naser neutral flip: + xalign 0.4 yalign 0.0 +with fade + + +play music 'audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg' + +"Before I even sit down the barrage of questions begins." + +show naomi explanatory flip with dissolve + +N "SO! How’d it go! Did you like Spears? Were you able to get what you need?" + +"I just nod along, starting to not pay attention." + +Nas "You looking forward to the rest of the day?" + +A "Not really." + +A "All these introductions, you know?" + +Nas "I get you, hard to talk to people you don’t know, right?" + +A "Something like that, yeah." + +A "Hell, last period I tripped in front of everyone. Talk about a first impression." + +Nas "I don’t think they’d care too much." + +N "Have you had any trouble since then? Do you have enough money for food today?" + +Nas "Oh, you’re short on food money man?" + +show naser flip unimpressed +show naomi flip sad +with dissolve +"I perk up at Naser’s interjection. Naomi looks disappointed for a second." + +show naomi neutral flip with dissolve + +A "Not really, just had to sign up for some handouts." + +"Naomi is starting to look disappointed I’m only picking up on Naser’s interjections" + +Nas "If you need a bit more extra chow, there’s going to be free refreshments at my si-- uh…" +show naser considering flip with dissolve +pause 0.3 +show naser neutral flip with dissolve +Nas "At Fang’s concert after school today" + +A "Your what?" + +Nas "Fang" + +A "Your brother or….?" +pause 0.1 +Nas "...Sibling." + +"What." + +Nas "Fang’s gonna have some extra pizzas for the show. You could take some home." + +A "I uh... dunno about concerts. Not really one for public events like that." + +Nas "Alright man, just thought you could use a few opportunities to make friends." + +"What was that?" + +"I’ll pretend that wasn’t meant to be malicious." + +A "I’ll consider it." + +show naomi sad flip with dissolve + +N "Hey! Don’t leave me out of the conversation!" + +show naomi happy flip with dissolve + +N "How about I help you pick out some cheap food after school?" + +N "I know some great vegan shops in the area!" + +"My stomach roils at the V-word." + +A "Maaaaybe another time, sorry. So about that concert Naser?" + +show naomi sad flip with dissolve + +"Dinner and a show? Sign me the fuck up." + +A "So what do they play?" + +Nas "Music." + +A "Music?" + +Nas "Yes." +show naomi neutral flip +A "What kind?" + +Nas "The kind you listen to." + +A "Wh- Well what genre?" + +Nas "The good kind?" + +A "You don’t know, do you." + +Nas "Nope." + +"Well, free food is free food. Sign me the fuck up" + +"I look at my pizza, noticing something is wrong." + +"I test it with my plastic spork and watch the cheap utensil shatter to bits." + +"I curse life for a third time today." + +"The dreaded ten-minute mark has passed, rendering my ‘pizza’ only useful as building material." + +show naomi happy flip with dissolve + +N "Oh dear. Naser why don’t you split your sandwich with him?" + +show naser annoyed flip with dissolve + +Nas "But it’s my sandwich!" + +N "It’s fine, we can split my vegan TLT!" + +show naser sad flip with dissolve + +"Naser shudders and looks at his own footlong philly sub longingly." + +Nas "S-sure thing, babe." + +"He tears the sandwich in two and hands me the larger half." + +Nas "Here, Anon." + +"I will never forget your brave sacrifice." + +"With that we all dig into our meal." + +"..." + +scene black with fade + +"--After school--" + +"My classes after lunch were the same as before it." + +"By now I had a rehearsed introduction that only the teacher cared about." + +"My classmates were disinterested and I would sit down to be forgotten." + +"I hope the rest of the year is just like that." + +"I just want to skate through it all." + +"All that’s left for today is the concert. And dinner." +scene door auditorium +show naser neutral at sleft +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade +"I wait outside the auditorium entrance with Naser, who was checking his phone for messages." + +Nas "Right, Fang says the show is starting in a bit. See?" + +show fuckedwingretard with dissolve + +"Naser turns the screen to me." + +"Fang: Piss off." + +"Fang: Is the pizza here?" + +"Fang: You can have a slice" + +"Fang: But after that you GTFO FWR" + +hide fuckedwingretard with dissolve + +A "FWR? Like, Franklin W. Roosevelt?" + +Nas "Nah. Fucked wing retard. Fang’s words, not mine." + +A "Is your uh… sibling always like this?" + +Nas "Fang’s...." + +show naser considering with dissolve + +"I wait for him to continue." + +Nas "Well um…" + +Nas "I mean, kinda?" + +A "Glad I’m an only child." + +show naser angry with dissolve + +"Naser glares at me." + +Nas "Fang’s still family." + +A "Ah, sorry. Just saying is all." + +show naser sad with dissolve + +"Naser deflates." + +Nas "You’re good, Anon. And yeah, they’re family but Fang’s just so… so…" + +A "Difficult?" + +show naser explanatory with dissolve + +Nas "YES! Difficult! And I don’t know why." + +A "Sounds rough." + +show naser considering with dissolve + +Nas "It is. Like, I know sh- THEY care but Fang doesn’t even wanna be around me." + +A "Hmmm." + +"Finally the doors open and I smell the cheesy, heart clogging goodness within." + +show naser happy with dissolve + +Nas "Sweet. Come on, Anon." + +hide naser with dissolve + + +play music 'audio/OST/we just turned on the microphone in our programmers_ house.ogg' + +"A caveman of a man holds open the door for everyone." + +unknown "Wait." + +"His massive hand stops me." + +A "A-ah. Y-yes?" + +"I’m guided to the side, away from the crowd that’s filtering into the auditorium." + +show spears neutral at sleft with dissolve + +unknown "So how are you feeling about our lovely school, Anon?" + +A "Uh…" + +"It’s the spear-shaped pin on his lapel that reads ‘principal’ that informs me of who this giant is." + +A "O-oh! It’s uh… nice? Cleaner than my old school." + +"He guffaws and slaps his chest." + +Sp "You can thank your classmates for that." + +"What?" + +Sp "Now, go enjoy the show." + +A "Yes sir." + +Sp "Oh, I do need you to come by my office tomorrow for some paperwork." + +hide spears with dissolve + +scene auditorium with dissolve +show anon neutral flip at aright +show naser neutral at sleft +with fade + + +"I nod and go back to the door where Naser is standing, holding it open for the last of the audience to go inside." + + +"Naser leads me and the large crowd into the shitty school theater." + +"The foyer has tables with boxes of pizzas stacked taller than me." + +Nas "You can take a couple boxes after, Anon. That should help ya out." + +A "Who the hell got all these anyway?" + +Nas "I did." + +"I take a box down from the stack. Others have already started stacking their plates." + +"I check the logo on the box." + +A "And to get so many larges from… \"Dino-moe’s Pizza\"?" + +A "That’s a couple hundred bucks though." + +Nas "Meh, ‘bout a month’s allowance." + +"A month? That explains that disaster of a jacket." + +A "So about the actual show-" + +Nas "I’ll check on them. Be right back." +hide naser with dissolve + +"Left on my own I stack my plate up with some quality grease topped delight." + +show anon neutral flip at sleft with move +show anon neutral at aleft with dissolve + +"I lean against the wall, chewing bits of supreme and observing the rest of the crowd." + +unknown "-nother shitshow-" + +unknown "She’s so stupid-" + +unknown "-they even bother?" + +unknown "Bunch of losers-" + +"Everyone seems to share the same sentiment." + +"So why the hell did they even show up for this?" + +"Naser finally comes back and opens the door to the main hall." + +"The crowd moves in, though I hang back so I can talk with Naser." + +show naser neutral flip at ncenter with moveinright + +A "What’s with them, Naser?" + +Nas "What do you mean?" + +A "The crowd. They were talking mad shit." + +show naser angry flip + +Nas "What?!" + +show anon neutral at acenter with move +show anon neutral flip at aright with move + +show naser angry flip at ncenter with dissolve +show naser angry flip at sleft with move + +"Naser grasps at the air unsure what to think or do at the moment. I think he’s angry" + +show naser table hit at sleft with dissolve + +#(Naser bangs the table, there is no text or indication on screen, only a loud banging noise and a screen shake) + +play sound "audio/effects/Slam.ogg" + +A "Whoa whoa." + +show naser angry flip at sleft + +Nas "Ugh, I should’ve known." + +show naser angry at sleft + +A "I don’t, what are you talking about man?" + +Nas "I brought them here so Fang has an audience." +stop music +A "Oh." + +show naser considering at sleft + +play sound 'audio/OST/ringtone.ogg' + +"Naser’s phone rings. He moves aside to answer it." + +show naser flip neutral with dissolve + +hide naser with moveoutleft + + +Nas "Fa-" + +"The voice on the other end is loud and shrill." + +Nas "Yeah I-" + +"He holds the phone away from his ear to save his eardrum." + +Nas "Okay okay I-" + +"The call ends and Naser sags." + +show naser sad at sleft with moveinleft + +Nas "I’ve gotta leave." + +A "Seriously?" + +Nas "Yeah, Fang doesn’t want me here. Said I’ll ruin the show." + +"Harsh." + +Nas "Look, whatever happens promise you won’t hold this against them." + +Nas "They're actually a really a nice person once you get to know them" + +A "Naser why did you just murder the english language in cold blood?" + +"Within I see the rest of the audience, huddled in groups around tiny snack tables." + +Nas "Even went to the trouble of switching out the seats for them. Naomi said it’d help." + +"With a huff Naser turns away, begrudgingly leaving the auditorium.:" + +hide naser with moveoutright + +"I enter the hall and take a seat in the back, away from the rest of the crowd." + +scene black with fade + +"The lights dim and the curtains are drawn open." + +stop music fadeout 1.0 + +scene fang band playing with fade + +"Onstage is a trio of people my age." + +"I think Fang is the drummer? He doesn’t look related to Naser, maybe it is the main front-woman?" + +"That must be Naser’s sister." + +A "Wh-" + +"Then why the whole confusion over her sex? For fuck’s sake." + +"I’m just getting thrown around today. I don’t know." + +"She looks familiar." + +"The band doesn’t bother introducing themselves." + + +play music 'audio/OST/The Hunt for more (You)s.ogg' + +"Instead the purple one begins plucking her bass." + +"It all went tumbling down from there." + +"What I thought was a guitar sounded horrifically wrong, far too heavy." + +"The lead guitarist was using a fucking bass." + +"And then the vocals kicked in." + +"It’s horrific screeching, combined with the amelodious shredding on a bass created a cacophony equal to hundreds of cats ritualistically sacrificed." + +"I fight the urge to cover my ears." + +"I don’t know too much about music, but even I know that you don’t use two basses in one band unless you know exactly what you’re doing." + +"Ooooooh nooooooo." + +"Ooooooooh God." + +"What were they thinking?!" + +"I looked back to the crowd to gauge their interest." + +"Surely I’m not alone in thinking this is an absolute travesty." +unknown "PFFFT AHAHAHA THEY STILL FUCKING SUCK!!" +#(In-CG insult layers) +window hide +$ i = 0 +while i < 20: + $ showCG() + pause 1 + $ i = i + 1 + +#(In-CG insult layers) + +"The crowd was standing, jeering and laughing with whoever said that." + +"More words were said but the laughter eclipsed them and the music." + +"Wait, what happened to the music?" + +"On-stage, the trio looked panicked." + +"The drummer was inching off stage, while the purple bassist was about to break down into tears." + +"But the frontwoman stood there. Stood her ground." + +#(In-CG insult layers) +window hide +$ showCG() +#(In-CG insult layers) + +scene fang band screaming + +unknown "FUCK YOU!" + +"She tossed her bass aside, raising both hands and proudly displaying a finger on each of them." + +unknown "FUCK ALL OF YOU!" + +unknown "NO ONE WOULD WANT TO FUCK YOU, BITCH!" + +"Pffft… That struck a chord with her." + +#(In-CG insult layers) + +window hide +$ i = 0 +while i < 5: + $ showCG() + pause 1 + $ i = i + 1 +#(In-CG insult layers) + +"I watch as she grabs her bass and takes the arm of the purple one, rushing off stage with the pink drummer." + +scene black with fade + +scene black with fade +window hide +$ i = 0 +while i < 3: + $ showCG() + pause 1 + $ i = i + 1 + +"Oh God I can’t take this, I’m gonna grow a 6 pack from laughing so much, I’m just gonna grab my pizza and leave" +scene auditorium +show anon neutral flip at aright +show spears neutral at sleft +with fade +"I turn towards the door and see Principal Spears, a fierce glare freezing me in place." + +Sp "Anon." + +"Oh fuck" + +"His voice is even more stern than this morning." + +A "Yes sir?" + +"He looks to the crowd and then to me." + +Sp "I don’t want to hear about any of this come tomorrow." + +Sp "I expect some goddamned maturity from you, Anon." + +Sp "You’ll be an adult once you graduate." + +A "Uh… Why me though?" + +Sp "I’ve taught many students, and I can tell these things." + +"His hand lands on my shoulder." + +"It’s grip was firm as it weighed on me." + +Sp "Listen here, Anon. You are not the only person in the world." + +Sp "Everyone’s fighting their own battles." + +"The hand squeezes before pushing me towards the door." + +show anon neutral at aright + +Sp "I want to see you in my office first thing tomorrow." + +Sp "Now get out of here, this is the only warning that you’ll get from me." + +Sp "Next time it will be campus clean-up." + +stop audio + +stop sound +stop music +"Behind me the principal’s voice shakes the room." + +show spears angry with dissolve + +Sp "WHOSE SORRY ASS AM I GOING TO HAVE TO SUPLEX!" + +scene hallway with dissolve +show anon neutral at aleft + +"Back in the foyer I see some boxes of partially finished pizza left." + +"I consolidate them all into a pair of boxes and make my exit." + +scene outside school +show anon neutral at aleft +with fade + +"The sun is starting to set now as I make my way home." + +play music 'audio/OST/Skinrow Soul.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +Sp "{i}You are not the only person in the world.{/i}" + +"Pfft. Like I don’t already know that. There’s like…" + +"The classmates that all ignored me today." + +"Naomi’s annoying ass." + +"That fucking caveman of a principal." + +"Naser, whose been a bro." + +"Naser’s Sis-" + +"Oh." + +"Shit." + +"..." + +scene black with fade + +#Meeting the Band +"-The Next Day-" +play sound "audio/effects/Alarm.ogg" + +"*BLEEP* *BLEEP* *BLEEP* *BLEEP* *BLEEP* *BLEEP* " +stop sound +scene room anon dark with fade +"The bane of all sleep echoes violently by my head, swiftly erasing any traces of slumber." +"Still without the energy to turn the alarm off, I stare at the ceiling for a bit, recalling the events of the last few days as an exercise." +"The school, if you could call it one." +"My new friends, if you could call them that." +"That band, if you could call it such." +"Great idea Anon, start the day by dissing everything you've done so far in your new life." +"No wonder you're so damn popular." +"Finally, I lean out of bed and turn the alarm clock off." +"I have a good forty-five minutes before I need to be at school, and it takes twenty to walk." +"That leaves twenty-five minutes to get ready." +"With practiced movements I execute a proper combat roll from bed, tackling the floor and headbutt it into submission. My foe defeated, I groan in victory." +show anon neutral at acenter with dissolve + +"My new bed is half the size of what I’m used to." + +"The hardwood (or is it vinyl?) floor is cold as hell." + +"From the purview of the floor, I look around my room again." + +"A tiny one room apartment with only a computer, bed, television, and fridge." + +"A whole year in this shithole." + +"... Guess I gotta take it one day at a time." + +"Picking myself up, I slide into todays’ (and everydays’) clothes and pour myself a bowl" #of off-brand cereal I picked up the day before. +"My eyes scan over my phone while I shovel my sugary breakfast into my mouth." +"*Scroll*" +"*Crunch*" +"*Scroll*" +"*Crunch*" +"Like a poorly oiled machine until it runs out of fuel with a noisy slurp." +"Soon enough it's time to leave for school. I grab my backpack and slide it over my shoulders. I take my jacket off the hanger and" +"…" +"I take off the backpack and put the jacket on." +"Opening the door blows the cool morning air in my face, and I stop to take a deep breath." +scene skinrow +show anon neutral at aleft +"Day four out of however many days are left in the year. So far so good." +scene outside school +show anon neutral at aleft + + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' +show outside school fog + +"I approach the grand building, looking to find a place in line between the other students trundling into the front doors." +"The halls before class are as crowded as always, hundreds of students filing in unison towards their homerooms." +"By now I was starting to be able to make my way around on autopilot, I've walked the same path twice already after all." + +"Even after the longest sleep of my life, I still feel miserably tired and ready to crash once again." + +"I found another entrance at the side of the school that has less students on it. The less the merrier." + +"I check my clock once again - I’m early. Fucking hell. Should have shitposted a bit more." + + +play music 'audio/OST/The Hunt for more (You)s.ogg' + +"Why am I here so early again?" + +"Think I had to do something." + +"Oh yeah." + +"I should talk to Naser. Give him my version of events." + +"That way he won’t kick {i}my{/i} ass." + +"Wait." + +"Oh goddamn it." + +"The principal also wanted to see me. Shit, probably gonna get some demerit or whatever rich schools do as punishment." + +"I had almost forgotten." + +"Please Raptor Jesus just let this be the last time I need to deal with stuff like this." + +"Get it over with so I can finally just slip my way through this year." +menu: + "Naser's a bro": + jump naserBro + "I don't wanna piss off the caveman.": + jump pissOffCaveman + +label naserBro: + +"Principal caveman can wait. I want to apologize to Naser about yesterday…" + +"I hope I can be nice to him this time." + +"Great job, Anon!" + +"He saves you from soy poisoning by sacrificing his footlong, and how do you repay him? By laughing at his sister." + +"There he is, I hope he’s not too busy." + +"..." + +"I just realized I don’t know what to say to him" + +"\"I wasn’t laughing AT your sister, I was laughing WITH the crowd\"" + +"No, that sounds bad" + +"\"Weird sisters, amirite?\"" + +"I might be retarded. I just told him I’m an only son yesterday." + +"\"Can’t help it, dude. Some people just won’t amount to anything in life. Sorry.\"" + +"This isn’t time to be edgy, Anon." + +"As I try and fail to find some way to explain myself to Naser I also fail at actually finding Naser." + +"How the fuck did I even end up in the tard yard?" + + +play music 'audio/OST/That Monochromatic Weirdo.ogg' + +"What feels like a space decade of walking, or really just half an hour I find the crippled pteradon being accosted by a VERY pissed off purple midget." + +unknown "-SAID YOU INVITED ALL THOSE ASSHOLES!" #trish + +Nas "Wait, Trish, you don’t understand-!" + +T "DON’T CUT ME OFF YOU GRAY PIECE OF SHIT!" + +"Students are clearing out of the way, just trying to get to their classes." +scene hallway with fade +show trish angry at tleft +show naser neutral flip at nright + +"This must be a common occurrence." + +"The diminutive triceratops, Trish, bows her head and charges Naser." + +"He just holds a hand out to her forehead." +show naser shocked flip at nright behind trish with dissolve +show trish fury: + xalign 0.0 yalign 10.0 +show trish fury with move: + xalign 0.75 yalign 10.0 + +T "GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME!!" + +Nas "Trish, I’m not going to fight you again." + +Nas "The principal’s already gotten onto me about the lockers from last time." + +Nas "Believe me, I had no idea the concert would have turned out like that." + +T "LIAR!!" + +Nas "I just wanted to make sure you guys had an actual audience-" + +T "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!?" + +Nas "You know what I mean, come on..." + +T "Argh!" + +show trish angry at ncenter with dissolve + +"She stops trying to gore Naser and throws her arms to her sides." + +show naser unimpressed flip with dissolve + +T "Screw you!" + +T "Even if you weren’t trying to mess with Fang!" + +T "Screw! You!" + +"She stomps off." + +hide trish with moveoutright + +show naser annoyed flip with dissolve + +Nas "{i}*Sigh.*{/i}" + +show anon neutral at aleft with dissolve +A "What was that all about?" + +show naomi neutral flip with moveinright: + xalign 0.6 + +N "Oh, Anon." + +N "Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing." + +Nas "Y’know, girl issues, right? Haha..." + +show naser sad flip with dissolve + +A "Sure…" + +A "Sounds like she was grilling you about the concert." + +Nas "..." + +N "Some concert, right?" + +A "Actually, about that…" + +A "I, uhh…" + +#play sound "audio/PANoise.ogg" +pause 1 +Sp "ANON MOUS, IF YOU ARE NOT IN MY OFFICE WITHIN TEN MINUTES I SWEAR ON MY DEAR FAMILY I WILL PERSONALLY MOUNT YOU ON MY WALL." +#play sound "audio/PANoise.ogg" +pause 1 + +A "..." + +"A layer of cold sweat makes its presence known." + +show naser neutral with dissolve + +Nas "It can wait, the office is down this hall on the right." + +A "I know the way, but thanks." + +"Naser waves and heads off." + +hide naomi with moveoutleft + +"Guess it’s to the principal’s office with me. Again." + +"And thinking about him makes me think about last night." + +Sp "{i}You are not the only person in the world.{/i}" + +"Poor Naser, man. Just wanted to help his sister." + +"But it’s not like he did anything wrong." + +scene hallway +show naomi angry at scenter +show reed explanatory flip at rright +with fade +"Just as I reach the office the sound of clinking glass draws my attention to the apricot asspain and some pink raptor." + +N "Is that contraband, Reed?" + +Re "Bro, you’ve known I’m in a band for like, a year now." + +N "No! Contraband! In your backpack!" + +Re "Hmmm… nah, I left my games at home." + +"Naomi facepalms, or whatever counts as a facepalm with a snout." + +N "Reed! You have a bong in your backpack!" + +Re "...But we aren’t in Britain?" + +N "Ugh, you’re impossible…" + +hide naomi with moveoutright + +"Naomi huffs and returns her focus to a stack of papers on the desk, leaving a satisfied raptor in her wake." + +show reed happy flip with dissolve + +Re "Heh, works every time…" + +"I need to learn how to do that." + +Re "S’all ‘bout misdirection…" + +"What." + +Re "Deuces." + +hide reed with moveoutright + +"The fuck just happened?" + +show naomi neutral flip at scenter with dissolve + +N "Oh! Anon, I didn’t see you there!" + +N "Just in time to finish your paperwork!" + +A "Paperwhatsit now?" + +N "Go inside, Principal Spears will finalize it with you now." + +"Paperwork? What fucking paperwork? I’m pretty sure all that stuff was finished before I even came here." + +"Whatever. Probably a detention slip or whatever the principal has planned." + +scene office spears with dissolve + +"I open the door to the cramped office, expecting to see a gruff cave of a workspace." + +"Instead, it was a fairly well furnished space complete with armchairs and cabinets of old photos." + +show spears neutral flip at sright with dissolve + +Sp "You going to stand there forever? What are you waiting for? Sit." + +show anon neutral at aleft with moveinleft + +"I plant myself in one of the armchairs and sink a bit lower into the cushion than expected." + +"Perks of being a human, I guess." + +Sp "I believe I told you last night to be here first thing this morning." + +"Shit!" + +Sp "Tell me, do I have a stutter?" + +A "..." + +Sp "Speak." + +A "N-no, sir." + +Sp "{i}*sigh…*{/i}" + +Sp "Take this as a learning experience, Anon." + +Sp "Punctuality gets you far in life." + +A "Yes, sir." + +Sp "I let you off the hook last night because you’re a new student." + +Sp "I meant what I said last night." + +"Hopefully not about the whole pile driving thing." + +Sp "Still, I didn’t bring you in here to lecture you." + +"He didn’t?" + +Sp "Not many people have to use the school’s financial services." + +A "What?" + +A "Financial services?" + +Sp "All the paperwork’s done to get you a special lunch card for the semester." + +Sp "You don’t have to worry about paying until after graduation. No interest, no down payments, none of that." + +A "I uh… What’s happening, sir?" + +Sp "You signed up for the financial services, correct?" + +Sp "Naomi told me you needed help with food and even had the papers filed out." + +"Naomi?!" + +Sp "Allow me to double-check real fast." + +Sp "NAOMI!!" + +show naomi neutral at rleft behind spears with dissolve + + +play music 'audio/effects/Alarm.ogg' + +"Hello tinnitus my old friend…" + +N "...." + +Sp "....." + +"Oh god am I stuck like this?" + +Sp "-dismissed Naomi. And just to be absolutely clear, Anon did ask you for this, correct?" + +N "Well, he {i}is{/i} in need of assistance, right?" + +N "Otherwise he’s stuck with the budget meals." + +Sp "Anon?" + +"I glance between the two." +"It probably wasn’t malicious, but still…" + +"I’m not getting involved in office politics today." + +A "... Yes." + +N "Oh, lovely!" + +N "Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any other prob-" + +Sp "You may leave now, Naomi." + +N "Oh! Yes sir!" +hide naomi with dissolve +"She leaves the office and Spears clicks the papers on his desk into a stack." + +Sp "Hate to do that, but she goes on for ages." + +Sp "Anyways, go ahead and sign here. Here. Here. Initial here. Date here. Print your name here." + +"I didn’t catch any of that." + +A "W-what?" + +Sp "Just kidding. You’re good to go, Anon, and don’t forget this." + +"He holds out the poorly laminated lunch card for me to take." + +Sp "Just keep in mind," + +Sp "As a senior, this semester is your last, your biggest chance to figure your future out." + +Sp "Even if you’re new to all of us here at Volcano High, we’re here to help you make the most of it." + +"Huh…" + +A "Thank you, Mister Spears." + +"Mr. Spears nods and gives a small smile." + +Sp "You can come in anytime. I’m always here to listen. Except for topics relating to estrus season." + +"I sense great exhaustion in that last bit." + +"I thank Mr. Spears one last time and head to homeroom." + +"..." + +scene black with fade + +jump postCavemanConference + +label pissOffCaveman: +"Probably best I try and not make the principal pissed at me." + +"Campus beautification sounds like slave labor. And my arms are strictly for shitposting and gaming." + +"I try to recall the way that the pomelo primadonna showed me to the office." + +"I somehow found myself in the potato ranch at the back of the school." + +"Fuck am I tired already." + +scene hallway +show reed neutral at rleft with dissolve + +A "How the fuck did I end up here?" + + +play music 'audio/OST/That Monochromatic Weirdo.ogg' + +unknown "Don’t worry man, it happens to new students all the time…" + +A "Wha-?" + +"Some pink raptor smelling of very heavily burnt grass surprises me." + +unknown "If you’re looking for the office you’re gonna wanna go thataway." + +A "Oh- thanks." + +unknown "Yeah, no problem, man…" + +unknown "I’m about to go myself, but I forgot something in my locker." + +unknown "See ya." + +hide reed with moveoutright + +"He walks off down another hallway." + +"I should follow the directions he gave me." + +"Oh wait..." + +"Was that the drummer from last night?" + +"Huh." + +"As I near the office I can feel a heavy tension suffusing the air." + +"In front of the principals’ office is Naomi and some other chick, engaged in a heated conversation." +show naomi angry at scenter with dissolve +show trish angry flip at sright with dissolve +unknown "Come on, Naomi, there’s no reason at all for you to keep us from selling merchandise at school!" + +N "Very sorry, Trish, but we’ve already told you before that due to your friends’… record… we can’t allow you to sell on school grounds." + +N "Seven times, in fact." + +"The purple one, Trish, throws up her hands in frustration." + +T "Six! This is the seventh!" + +N "Go ahead and fill out a form if you really want to try again." + +T "I saw last time you just threw it in the trash without reading it!" + +N "It was illegible, Trish. You should work on your handwriting a bit." + +T "ARGH!" + +T "I don’t have time for this, I need to go track someone down." +hide trish with moveoutleft +"She stomps away, leaving Naomi to deflate a bit." +show naomi flip at scenter with move +A "That anything important?" + +N "Sorry you had to see that, Anon." + +N "Oh, I didn’t notice we were blocking the door from you, my apologies." + +A "The principal asked to see me early, I’m not really in any rush." + +N "Very commendable of you, though!" + +N "Go right ahead on in." + +A "Sure, thanks." + +scene office spears with fade + + +play music 'audio/OST/we just turned on the microphone in our programmers_ house.ogg' + +"I open the door to the cramped office, expecting to see a gruff cave of a workspace." + +"Instead, it was a fairly well furnished space complete with armchairs and cabinets of old photos." + +show spears neutral flip at sright with dissolve + +Sp "You going to stand there forever? What are you waiting for? Sit." + +"I plant myself in one of the armchairs and sink a bit lower into the cushion than expected." + +"Perks of being a human, I guess." + +Sp "Punctual like I asked. I like that, Anon." + +Sp "I trust that what happened last night won’t become a recurring problem with you?" + +A "No, sir." + +Sp "Good. I meant what I said last night." + +"Hopefully not about the whole pile driving thing." + +Sp "Still, I didn’t bring you in here to lecture you." + +"He didn’t?" + +Sp "Not many people have to use the school’s financial services." + +A "What?" + +A "Financial services?" + +Sp "All the paperwork’s done to get you a special lunch card for the semester." + +Sp "You don’t have to worry about paying until after graduation. No interest, no down payments, none of that." + +A "I uh… What’s happening, sir?" + +Sp "You signed up for the financial services, correct?" + +Sp "Naomi told me you needed help with food and even had the papers filed out." + +"Naomi?!" + +Sp "Allow me to double-check real fast." + +Sp "NAOMI!!" + +show naomi neutral at rleft behind spears with dissolve + +"Hello tinnitus my old friend…" + +N "...." + +Sp "....." + +"Oh god am I stuck like this?" + +Sp "-dismissed Naomi. And just to be absolutely clear, Anon did ask you for this, correct?" + +N "Well, he {i}is{/i} in need of assistance, right?" + +N "Otherwise he’s stuck with the budget meals." + +Sp "Anon?" + +"I glance between the two." + +"It probably wasn’t malicious, but still…" + +"I’m not getting involved in office politics today." + +A "... Yes." + +N "Oh, lovely!" + +N "Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any other prob-" + +Sp "You may leave now, Naomi." + +N "Oh! Yes sir!" + +hide naomi with dissolve +"She leaves the office and Spears clicks the papers on his desk into a stack." + +Sp "Hate to do that, but she goes on for ages." + +Sp "Anyways, go ahead and sign here. Here. Here. Initial here. Date here. Print your name here." + +"I didn’t catch any of that." + +A "W-what?" + +Sp "Just kidding. You’re good to go, Anon, and don’t forget this." + +"He holds out the poorly laminated lunch card for me to take." + +Sp "Just keep in mind," + +Sp "As a senior, this semester is your last, your biggest chance to figure your future out." + +Sp "Even if you’re new to all of us here at Volcano High, we’re here to help you make the most of it." + +"Huh…" + +A "Thank you, Mister Spears." + +"Mr. Spears nods and gives a small smile." + +Sp "You can come in anytime. I’m always here to listen. Except for topics relating to estrus season." + +"I sense great exhaustion in that last bit." + +stop music +scene hallway +"I thank Mr. Spears one last time and head out." + +"Naser should be around here somewhere, I wanted to talk to him before class." + +"There’s still a bit of time before the bell." + +"But where would Naser be hanging out about now?" + +scene hallway + +"Maybe near the cafeteria? This place serves breakfa-" + +unknown "WAOOOH!!" + +"With the screech of a banshee, a blur of purple launches itself onto an unsuspecting student." + +"Everyone in the hallway pauses to watch as a midget of a triceratops attempts to bring down the taller raptor student." + +unknown "IMMAKILLYOUTRIGGA!" + +"The student body collectively rolls their eyes and continues on, choosing to ignore the pissed off trigga as she finally forces the helpless guy to the floor and sits triumphantly on his chest." + +"I’m pretty sure some would pay good money for this treatment." + +"The ineffectual pummel-slapping included as she flails at the raptor’s face." + +T "You were there last night weren’t you?!" + +unknown "YES, ALRIGHT, I WAS! GET OFF ME YOU PSYCHO BITCH!" + +T "You owe my band an apology!" + +unknown "WILL IT GET YOU OFF OF ME?!" + +T "If it’s good enough." + +unknown "ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, I’M SORRY, JUST GET OFF!!" + +"Wait, she’s in the band that played yesterday?" + + +stop music + +"I… Should get out of here." + +"Last thing I need is whatever’s going on here." + +"I discreetly slip away, down the nearest hall." +scene black with fade +scene hallway +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade +A "That happen often…?" +show naser neutral flip at ncenter +show reed neutral at sleft +Nas "Does what happen often?" + +show naser neutral at ncenter with dissolve + +A "WAH!" + +"Naser’s leaning against a set of lockers, along with that guy from before." + +"The other one’s making a throat-slashing gesture, waving a palm across his neck." + +A "Uhh… nothing important." + +show naser neutral flip at ncenter with dissolve + +show reed explanatory with dissolve + +unknown "So as I was saying, bro…" + +unknown "BXR, best tactic in the game, y’know?" + +show reed neutral with dissolve +show naser considering flip with dissolve + +Nas "Erm, yeah... Makes sense, I guess?" + +Nas "Anyways, Reed. I’m sorry for how things went last night, I didn’t think those assholes would laugh at you." + +"Oh." + +show reed unimpressed with dissolve + +Re "Nah man, s’cool." + +Re "They called me because they wanted me to kill bugs crawling on the drums with a couple sticks, I don't know why a bunch of people came there to watch it" + +Nas "Right... And you’re absolutely sure Trish is taking it okay?" + +show reed explanatory with dissolve + +Re "Hell yeah, man. Nothin’ goin’ on in the Trish department at all." + +"Reed suddenly reaches into his pocket and retrieves his phone, tapping away at a shockingly long password." + +show reed shocked with dissolve + +Re "Oh, sick! Right, gotta go. Catch you later, amigo." + +hide reed with moveoutright + +"The raptor bolts before Naser can respond, undoubtedly related to the triceratops." + +Nas "Weird guy." + +A "Uh, Naser, I actually wanted to talk to-" + +"{i}DING-DONG BING-BONG{/i}" + +Nas "Crap, can’t miss my homeroom today." + +Nas "Sorry, it’ll have to wait a bit." + +A "It… no, that’s fine." + +A "See you later." +hide naser with moveoutleft + +stop music +"Naser heads off down the hall and I go to my own homeroom." + +"..." +scene black with fade +jump postCavemanConference + + +label postCavemanConference: + +"The periods pass and eventually it’s lunchtime again." + +"I’ve been focusing a bit less on class, and more on getting a routine down to avoid unwanted confrontation." + +"It’s like it’s only me and the teacher in class, phasing out everyone else." + +scene hallway +show anon neutral at acenter +with fade +"I follow the flow of students towards the lunchroom, mindlessly looking about the halls." + +"Passing by the athletic awards case, a decent amount of group photos have Naser front and center." + +"Apparently this school is pretty well known for their track team." + +"In a similar vein, Naomi is present in a good deal of the photos in the academic achievement case." + +"The last case was reserved for general awards, I guess trophies that don’t belong anywhere else." + +"The school has a few commendation awards for their efforts to stop bullying." + +"Feh, they pass those around to every school." + +"Looking around, there’s several posters on the walls here." + +"All simple slogans to stop the evil bully menace." + +"A fat lot of good those did me at my old school…" + +"They always went all in with those efforts." + +"One time they even got the whole student body into the auditorium to watch a short movie." + +"Some frail, pasty kid gets pestered by a chubby, buff bully." + +"The kid ended up trying to run away and got hit by a car, with the credits scrolling over a scene in the hospital." + +"Everyone in class just said things like ‘man, good thing I’m not like that bully.’, ‘yeah, if I ever see a bully like that I’ll help the kid!’" + +"Then they went right back to talking about me." + +stop music + +"... No use feeling bad about the past." + +scene cafeteria +show anon neutral at acenter +with fade +"I’m here now." + +"With the lunch card in my possession I’m able to snag something actually edible." + + +"I should run the math on how much I’ll end up owing, but I feel more like indulging myself." + +menu: + "Grab the cookies you fatass": + "Why not both?" + + "That sandwich looks good": + "Why not both?" + +"Hence my tray stacked high with desserts and the tastiest looking sandwich from the lunchline." + +"Looking around for a place to sit I see the aggravating creamsicle waving at me." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Summertime Synth.ogg' + +"Next to her is Naser with a complicated expression." + +Nas "{i}I just wanted to make sure you guys had an actual audience-{/i}" + +"Shit. I go and sit across from Naser and Naomi." + +scene cafeteria +show anon neutral at aleft +show naomi neutral flip at sright +show naser sad flip: + xalign 0.4 yalign 0.0 +with fade +N "I see you’re making use of the lunch card." + +A "Yyyyeeeaaaaah…" + +N "But all those sugars! All that is bad for your health, Anon. This school’s vegan options-" + +"I tune her out with the help of a crunchy sugar cookie." + +"A glance at Naser and I notice that he’s just poking at his pasta." + +N "Naser sweetie, you shouldn’t play with your food." + +show naser neutral with dissolve + +Nas "Huhwha- OH! Anon, what’s up?" + +A "Not much. And you?" + +Nas "Yeah no, totally good!" + +"His following laugh sounds hollow." + +N "Naser…" +show naomi sad flip +show naser sad flip +with dissolve +Nas "Yeah yeah. It’s just…" + +show naser angry flip with dissolve + +Nas "Fang stayed home today. The concert was a shitshow and wanted to avoid everyone. I knew I shouldn’t have invited all those guys." + +show naser sad flip with dissolve + +"Naomi places a comforting hand on his shoulder." + +A "I uh… Yeah… That crowd was harsh." + +Nas "What happened after I left?" + +"Naser looks at me pitifully." + +Nas "Trish gave me a general idea, but I have to know…" + +Sp "{i}You are not the only person in the world.{/i}" + +"Ah, shit." + +A "The band never made it past the first song. Someone said they ‘still’ sucked. " + +show naser angry flip with dissolve +show naomi shocked flip with dissolve + +"Naser grits his teeth." + +A "Whoa whoa, calm down man." + +Nas "What else? Did they say anything about Fang?!" + +unknown "{i}NO ONE WOULD WANT TO FUCK YOU, BITCH!{/i}" + +A "...Yeah… I don’t think you’d want to hear it though…" + +Nas "And? What happened after! I’m gonna kick all their asses!" + +N "Naser! Please calm yourself!" + +"{i}I realize now that I had been laughing with them.{/i}" + +A "I left after that. Principal Spears was fucking pissed. Even threatened to suplex them." + +show naser sad flip +show naomi unimpressed flip +with dissolve +"Naser sags, emotionally spent." + +Nas "Haaaaah.... Fuck… So that’s why she stayed home…" + +N "If Fang wishes to stay home then that is her prerogative. You just need to give her some time, Naser." + +show naomi considering flip with dissolve + +"While she said that I noticed a strange expression cross over Naomi’s face." + +Nas "I know babe. I just wish I could help them more." + +A "Yeah. If you need any help Naser, I owe ya for the pizza." + +jump chapter_1.5 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/game/script/1.5.fourth-day-of-school.rpy b/game/script/1.5.fourth-day-of-school.rpy index 59404db..3e2400e 100644 --- a/game/script/1.5.fourth-day-of-school.rpy +++ b/game/script/1.5.fourth-day-of-school.rpy @@ -1 +1,1518 @@ -#TODO: transfer DaScript appropriately to this section \ No newline at end of file +label chapter_1.5: + +scene black with fade + +"We finish eating and make small talk until the bell signals us to go to our sixth period." + +"Day two out of however many left is now out of my way." + +"I’m fairly certain that if Naser found out I laughed too I’d need to avoid him." + +"Those cheeto covered claws look like they’d freakin’ hurt, man." + +"With that drama now past me I can just disappear and cheese through the rest of the year like I’m invisible." + +"Oh when June hits it’s gonna be so sweet." + +"Amen to that." + +"..." +pause 1 +scene room anon dark with fade +"-Two Days Later-" + +"Alarm is off" + +"You know the drill." + +"Combat roll, head butt, victory screech." + +"Breakfast, shitposting, clothes." + +show anon neutral at acenter with dissolve + +"I’m pretty good at this." + +"I think I’ve finally found a pretty good routine for the rest of the year." + +"I might have to go easy on the shitposting though, yesterday I might have over indulged…" + +"But…" + +"I’ve succeeded in turning invisible, not completely but so far I’m happy." + +"Even the stupid stuff with Naser seems settled, I can just cruise through schooling and shitpost in the evening." + +"Perfection." + +"Day four out of however many days are left in the year. So far so good." +scene skinrow with fade +show anonphone at center with moveinbottom +"It’s a bit of a walk, so I get my phone out and start posting on a shitty imageboard." + +"Baiting people into replying to my posts isn’t the most rewarding of hobbies, but it passes the time." + +A ">Meteor dodgers" +A ">having jobs" +A "pick one and only one." + +"That oughtta get a few." + +"Just before I hit the reply button, I sense the air behind me turn warmer. A few wildflowers growing in the cracks of the sidewalk bloom in seconds." + +hide anonphone with moveoutbottom + +scene black with fade +pause 3 +scene outside school +show anon neutral at acenter +with fade +"She’s here." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg' + +N "Good morning Anon!" + +A "It could have been." + +show naomi neutral at rleft with moveinleft + +"Naomi catches up to me." + +N "You say something?" + +A "Good morning." + +A "Don’t you walk with Naser to school? Where is he?" + +show naomi sad with dissolve + +N "... He went early today to help set up another student event." + +A "Oh. He’s certainly someone you can count on for that." + +show naomi happy with dissolve + +N "He really is! I’m so proud of him!" + +A "Yeah…" + +show naomi neutral with dissolve + +N "Umm… Anon, have you seen our lovely award-winning school gardens yet?" + +A "Gardens win awards?" + +N "They do! Come on, I’ll show you." + +A "Actually, wait, I don’t really wan-" + +"Naomi grabs my hand again and when I come to, we’re already there." + +scene flower garden +show anon neutral at aright +show naomi neutral at sleft +with dissolve + +N "And here they are, our school’s flowerbeds!" + +N "Aren’t they just magnificent?" + +A "Please stop dragging me by the hand." + +"She is right though, the gardens here are absolutely stunning." + +"I can’t tell what’s more colorful, the bushes of flowers, or the students that tend to them." + +A "Yeah, the gardeners here do a great job." + +N "Hm? Oh, yeah, you can thank the gardening club for that." + +"Naomi guides me through the gardens, occasionally giving tour trivia." + +"I can’t shake the feeling something’s on her mind, though." + +N "And here’s where the freshmen planted flower seeds at the start of the school year, by the end they’ll bloom wonderfully…" + +N "..." + +N "And then the… Uh…" + +show naomi sad with dissolve + +"What’s going on here?" + +"Is she coming onto me?" + +"I want to ask if she’s upset about something, but is that even right of me to do?" + +menu: + "Ask what’s up": + jump naomiWhatsUp + + "Not my place to pry": + jump naomiNotMyPlace + + +label naomiWhatsUp: +A "You alright?" + +N "Hm?" + +A "Something’s bothering you, right?" + +N "Not really… A bit, I guess…" + +jump naomiStressMerge + +label naomiNotMyPlace: + +"Nah, I don’t know her that well." + +"If it’s something personal Naser can help her with it." + +N "I’m sorry, I’ve been a bit stressed lately, Anon...:" +jump naomiStressMerge + +label naomiStressMerge: + +N "I’ve just been worried about Naser recently…" + +A "Something wrong with him?" + +N "No, nothing’s wrong…" + +N "It’s more that he worries a bit too much for that… sister of his." + +N "Oftentimes when I’m with him, he’s anxious about something she’s done." + +N "I’d just like him to relax about it a bit more, I suppose." + +N "Is that selfish of me to say?" + +A "I mean…" + +A "I’ve never had a girlfriend, but I imagine that it’d be a bit inconsiderate to constantly be worried in front of her." + +A "I dunno." + +"Naomi nods her head a bit, staring at her shoes." + +N "Sorry, I just wanted to share with someone." + +N "Guess I ended up doing the same thing I’m complaining about here, huh?" + +A "Don’t sweat it." + +show naomi shocked with dissolve + +"She checksher phone and jumps a bit." + +N "Oh! I’m going to be late!" + +N "I still need to check in at the front desk…" + +N "Really sorry, Anon, but the tour will have to end here." + +A "It was fine, hopefully it just doesn’t make my allergies flare." + +hide naomi with moveoutright +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"She waves and runs off to a side door." +"I should be getting to homeroom soon, too." +scene hallway +show anon neutral flip at aright +with dissolve +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' + +"I push open the usual side entrance I take and enter the hallway that’s starting to become familiar now." +play music "audio/OST/That Monochromatic Weirdo.ogg" fadein 1.0 +show fang considering with dissolve: + xalign -0.4 yalign 0.0 +"Still occasionally glancing at the room numbers just to make absolute sure, I noticed someone in the countercurrent walking past." + +"It was one of the bass players from the concert two days ago." +"Naser said she was his sister, right?" + +"Glancing at her for a moment, the expression on her face sort of reminds me of something." + +"It was probably just leftover embarrassment from the concert, but she seemed to have a lost look on her face." + +"Or maybe it was confusion." + +"Or a mix of the two...?" + +"Either way there's something on her mind." + +"I can't help but think that that must be how I looked on my first day." + +"But it was my first day of school, she had been going here all year." + +"What's her excuse then?" + +"Either way, doesn’t look like she recognizes me." + +"Objective one out of whatever of the current year is accomplished then, next one is memorizing the class schedule." + +"And that says it’s home room in fifteen minutes." + +"Home room which I share with Naomi." + +"{i}*shudder*{/i}" + +"She’s just too… too {i}sweet{/i}... and like… Obnoxious... " + +"Ugh, I can’t find the right way to put it, but she feels so… movie-like…" + +"Like an act." + +"Day four, Anon. day four." + +"What the hell?" + +"Why is she scratching herself?" + +"Is she a junkie?" + +show fang neutral at scenter with move + +"OH GOD DON’T COME ANY CLOSER." + +"I DON’T WANNA GET SHANKED BY A JUNKIE PTERODACTYL." + +F "You...uh...SKINNIE." + +A "Y-yeah?" + +F "Did you see where they went?" + +A "..." + +F "The group with the uh..." + +F "uhhh…" + +A "Dinosaurs?" + +F "No! Yellow hoodie, red hair, pink tail, hair buns…" + +A "Are you describing one person?" + +F "What? No!" + +F "it’s multiple!" + +A "They’re dinosaurs though, right?" + +F "WHAT?" + +A "I don’t know where they went!" + +F "uuuuuuughhhhhh" +hide fang hiding with moveoutright +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"And just like that, she’s gone." +play music "audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg" fadein 1.0 +"I seem to have this effect on women." + +"I call them poison pheromones." + +"But it is relieving that she didn’t recognize me. Guess Naser didn’t tell her." + +"The staccato of the bell signals my tardiness for class." + +"My class with Naomi." + +"If there is a Jurassic God, please make Naomi miss home room today." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade +"I’ll even offer a goat sacrifice!" + +scene black with fade + +"..." + +scene science class +show anon neutral at aleft +with fade +"The day passes uneventfully until fourth period, Science Class." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' + +"I find a seat near the back of the room and watch the clock hands tick down the remaining few seconds to the bell." + +"Right before the tone, one last student rushes in, out of breath." + +"Oh, it's that girl again. I guess we shared a period or two on the first day and I just didn't notice." + +"She strides across the room, taking her seat without a word." + +"Strangely, nobody seems to acknowledge her. Not even a sneer or chuckle." + +"That’s odd. Given how many people were there that night, you’d expect at least a couple of snickers." + +"But there she was, being completely left alone… Or ignored." + +"Seems almost worse than getting laughed at." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"The lingering chatter in the room dies out as the teacher stands from his desk, moving to the front of the room." +show farnsworth at sright with dissolve +Drf "Good news everyone!" + +Drf "Today we'll be having a lab on magnetic fields." + +Drf "Find a partner and get prepared." + +hide farnsworth with dissolve + + +play music 'audio/OST/Many Such Cases of Being So True.ogg' + +"My heart sunk as those dreaded words passed my ears." + +"'Find a partner.'" + +"I know it’s pointless, but I at least have to try. Maybe someone was out sick." + +"With my luck though, I’ll probably just end up with that fossil of a teacher." + +"With everyone else already starting on the assignment I resign myself to working twice as hard." + +show farnsworth at sright with dissolve + +Drf "Hurry up Mr. Anon, your partner is waiting for you" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"...What" + +Drf "Very well. Fang" + +Drf "If you would be so kind to sit next to your new partner." + +"I sat in momentary confusion as someone took the seat next to mine." + +show fang neutral with dissolve: + xalign -1.0 yalign 0.0 + +#--not brazil, Forced text speedup through the following 4 lines + +play sound "audio/effects/Alarm.ogg" + +"SPAGHETTI ALERT!! SPAGHETTI ALERT!!" + +"DEFCON LEVEL TWO" + +"THERE IS A FEMOID WITHIN ARMS DISTANCE LOOKING AT ME" + +"DEPLOY ALL SPAGHETTI LOCKDOWN MEASURES" + +F "‘Sup." + +A "Thanks, you too." + +"SHIT! RECOVERY MANEUVERS NOW!" + +A "I mean, hey. Not much. You?" + +"CHAD RECOVERY SUCCESSFUL" + +stop sound fadeout 1.0 + +F "None of your business. Just do the damn assignment and don’t bother me." + +A "O-oh. You upset right now or something?" + +F "What was your first fuckin’ clue. Last time I’ll say it, just do the assignment and don’t. Bother. Me." + +"Okay! Got to keep coolheaded." + +A "So this assignment, then." + +scene black with fade + +"With that we open our books and start on trying to decipher who Lorentz is and why his force is magnetic." + +"Things are going well for the first few questions, I remember a bit of it from that one time I tried to make a railgun." +scene science class +show anon neutral at aleft +show fang neutral: + xalign -1.0 yalign 0.0 +with fade + +pause 1 + +show farnsworth at sright with moveinright + +Drf "How are you two doing so far?" + +F "We are… Fine, Dr. Fernsworth." + +Drf "I see, and you Anon?" + +A "Yeah what she said." + +show fang angry + +"Why is Dr. Fernsworth making that face?" + +"I turn to Fang to ask her what the deal is and-" +show anon neutral flip at acenter with dissolve +"Oh." + +Drf "Oh dear" + +"Mistakes have been made." + +F "She?" + +A "...Yes?" + +"Oh Raptor Jesus almighty this is the absolute worst case scenario." + +F "I. Am. Non. Binary." + +"How was I supposed to know something so trivial would set something like this off?!" + +F "Well?!" + +A "..." + +"I can’t bring myself to say anything!!" + +F "Oh, OH, so that’s how it’s going to be, huh?!" + +Drf "Fang…" + +show fang very angry with dissolve + +F "YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST SPIT IN MY FACE AND THEN- AND THEN GIVE ME THE COLD SHOULDER?!" + +F "I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW-" + +Drf "{b}FANG{/b}." +show fang shocked with dissolve +stop music +"It feels like the world just stopped." + +"All eyes are on Fang." + +"And in Fangs’ eyes I see something flash briefly." + +"Judging by those exaggerated movements and the eloquent speech, this is something Fang had been practicing." + +"This was supposed to be a big moment where she stopped an evil bigot and the whole class would clap." + +"In all her planning and practice Fang had made one crucial error." + +"Nobody cared." + +Drf "Please consider stepping into the hall for a moment." +show fang angry +"Sh- Fang is quick to exit the room. Dr. Fernsworth turns a sympathetic look towards me." +hide fang neutral with moveoutright +show anon neutral at acenter with dissolve +Drf "Forgive them, Anon, you must understand that Fang is… Experiencing issues." +hide farnsworth with moveoutleft +"What the fuck just happened…?" + +"Well, she blew up at me when I called her a she…" + +"She was already upset about something before…" + +"She was upset before because of the concert the other day?" + +"Looks like I just pushed her over the edge." +scene black with fade +pause 1 + +scene science class +show anon neutral at aleft +with fade + + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' + +"After a few moments Fang comes back in and sits down without a word." + +show fang sad flip at sright with moveinright + +F "...Sorry." + +A "Uh, don’t worry about it." +show fang sad flip with move: + xalign -1.0 yalign 0.0 +show fang sad with dissolve +"." +".." +"..." + +show anon neutral flip with dissolve + +"Now that I think about it, something’s off." + +"Fang claims to not be male or female, but the clothes she’s wearing are clearly provocative." + +"It’s almost like she’s showing off her femininity." + +"Then why?" + +"Why would someone be wearing revealing clothes in contradiction to their identity…?" + +"It’s almost like they’re just looking for attent-" + +"Then suddenly, it hits me. I recall memories of a slightly younger Anon, running around school with a cape, pilot goggles…" + +"… And three plastic katanas." +show fang angry +"That was a quick way to get sent to the principal's office." + +F "Are you even listening to me?!" + +A "Dowhatnow? Wasn’t paying attention." + +F "Yeah, I could tell." + +"She mutters as she turns back to the assignment." + +F "Uh.... You’ve been staring at me for the past 5 minutes. Freak." + +"Judging by the looks of the class, and both of our current social standing, we’ll probably be working together a lot more." + +menu: + "Sorry for calling you a girl...": + F "Non-binary people don't owe you androgyny" + "Sorry Fang I should have known from your feminine appearance and dress that you are, in fact, non-binary...": + F "Non-binary people don't owe you androgyny" + +"Doesn’t seem like it’s something she wants to hear right now." + +A "So um, your Naser’s sister, right?" + +F "SIB-ling." + +A "R-right. Sorry." + +F "…" + +show fang neutral + +"There’s a brief pause until Fang speaks up again." + +F "Yes. Naser’s my baby brother, why do you ask?" + +A "I was just curious, Naser has been helping me settle into the school." + +F "Of course he did. Just wish he’d keep out of my fuckin’ business for two seconds." + +A "Uhh… Sure." + +"Actually, thinking about Naser…" + +N "{i}It’s more that he worries a bit too much for that… sister of his.{/i}" + +N "{i}Oftentimes when I’m with him, he’s anxious about something she’s done.{/i}" + +A "...He told me about what happened the other day." + +A "Sorry to hear something like that happened to you and your band." + +show fang considering with dissolve + +F "..." + +show fang neutral with dissolve + +F "What do you care?" + +A "I… Dunno." + +"Suddenly my shoes seem more interesting than the conversation at hand." + +A "Just think it’s messed up people would go to a show just to laugh at you." + +F "Feh." + +show fang happy with dissolve + +F "Guess you aren’t that awful…" + +F "Unlike every other guy in this school." + +A "..." + +"The rest of the period passed between continued small talk with Fang." + +"She seemed to be controlling the conversation though." + +"When the bell rang, Fang whips out her phone and immediately starts tapping away." + +A "You going to your next class?" + +F "Who cares about being late?" + +A "Fair. See you then." + +hide fang neutral with moveoutright + +"She lazily waves a hand at me and I make my way to my next class." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade +"Unfortunately, fifth period is mathematics." + +scene black with fade +pause 1 +scene classroom with fade +show carldelewski at sleft +"I’m barely keeping myself awake while Mr. Carlesiidewski is giving a lecture on the inverse of tangents." + +carl "ANON!" + +"I sit ramrod straight at the direct address." + +carl "Are you frickin’ listening? Come finish this frickin’ problem on the frickin’ board." + +"Just one social disaster after another today." + +show anon neutral flip at acenter with dissolve + +"Hesitantly, I slide out of my chair and trundle my way to the whiteboard, trying to decipher the runes I'm expected to make sense of." + +"Only I never made it to the whiteboard." + +"Three rows down and my foot catches on a loose backpack strap in the isle." + +"Luckily I fell sideways and there was a cold hard desk in the way to catch my fall." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Those Other Two Weirdos.ogg' + +"To the chuckles of the rest of the class, I look up from my final resting place to see a massive pink and white muzzle." + +Re "Dude." + +"Like a deer caught in headlights, I can only stare and wait for him to continue." + +Re "You’re on my desk man..." + +"My senses return to me, and I quickly get up, picking up and returning the pencil that flew to the floor in a flurry of apologies." + +"Then I recognise just whose desk I fell on." + +"It’s that drummer in Fang’s band." + +"Don’t I just have the luck of the devil?" + +"Giving one last apology, I head to the front of the room to solve the whiteboard problem." + +"I tried solving the problem to the best of my ability." + +"Still took a solid two minutes." + +"After circling my answer, I look expectantly at Mr. Carlesiidewski who gives a nod." + +"Finally turning around to return to my seat, I freeze." + +"Right there in the front row is the last member of the band, Trish." + +hide carldelewski with fade + +"I stumble back to my desk." + +"Mr. Carlesiidewski gives each row a stack of papers to pass back." + +carl "Alright, here’s the frickin’ homework covering today’s lesson. Use page two-seventy-nine. I’ll give you the last…" + +carl "Fifteen frickin’ minutes of class to work with your frickin’ peers." + +"Mr. Carlesiidewski returns to his desk and pulls out a math book with a monthly romance novel crudely stuffed inside it. With very detailed centerfold with the way he turned it sideways." + +"Looking ahead to Reed’s desk, he’s been joined by Trish who is trying to get him to get started." + +"I think I can feel their eyes following me…" + +"Back at my desk, I glance over the math sheet." + +"Page two-seventy-nine, right?" + +"Looks like I finally get to use that phonebook of a math textbook." + +"...Where is it?" + +"I open my backpack, and instead of my math textbook…" + +"Is the Saturnia Collectors Edition Art-book I splurged on yesterday." + +"I’m frozen. Can’t move an inch." + +"Did I grab the wrong book this morning? Is someone playing a sick joke?" + +"How could I bring this to school?!?" + +"Something bounces off my head and lands on my desk." + +"It’s enough to snap me back to reality and I shove my backpack under my desk, furiously zipping it." + +"On my desk is a balled-up wad of paper." + +"Oh great. I was hoping to avoid these chain notes." + +"I unfurl the ball to read the note." + +"{i}Look up.{/i}" + +"I look up and see the purple one waving me over." + +"Fuck." + +"Grabbing my stuff I shuffle over slowly to the duo." + +show trish neutral flip at tright with dissolve +show reed neutral at rleft with dissolve + +Re "Sup compadre." + +A "Uh… Sup?" + +T "See? He’s my class partner so I look out for him." + +T "How are YOU looking out for your class partner, Anon?" + +T "Enforcing the social contract, having good conduct and mutual respect so you can leave class and go on with your life?" + +A "Uh....What’s this about?" + +T "A certain friend of mine is partnered with you in Science, right?" + +"Wait. Oh!" + +A "You mean Fang?" + +T "They just messaged me before class, said they had to be partnered with a skinnie bigot - then proceeded to show them." + +T "I had a feeling you’d be him." + +"Am I gonna have to tolerate humiliation from these meteor dodgers too?" + +"My head is starting to hurt. Hopefully we can just get started on these math exercises." + +A "Yeah, that was me. I apologized, though." + +T "I know and I appreciate it." + +T "I’m Trish and this is Reed. We’re Fang’s best friends." + +A "Uh-huh." + +T "What about you? Now you tell us about yourself." +stop music fadeout 1.0 + +"RED ALERT." + +"There is no way I’m telling anyone, especially {i}these{/i} people." + +"And if they find out where I was a few days ago…" + +A "Uhh... I’m Anon and I’m a human. I got here Monday." + +A "That’s all." + +play music 'audio/OST/Those Other Two Weirdos.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +T "We know that. We want to know where you’re from, what have you been doing since you got here, if you have any friends…" + +A "I-I’ve been doing nothing. I don’t really care about friends." + +"She doesn’t look very convinced by that answer." + +T "Right." + +Re "You know that Naser dude, right...?" + +T "Hey… Yeah, I saw you with that slut Naomi earlier, too…" + +"Trish squints her eyes at me." + +A "T-they were my welcoming committee, they helped me with getting settled, nothing besides that." + +T "Riiiiight. Didn’t Naser or Naomi invite you to anything...or…?" + +A "No. I don’t remember. I’ve been trying to get them off my back. But w-why you ask?" + +T "We had a concert last week, Naser and Naomi invited a whole bunch of assholes to ruin it. Suppose if we had seen a human in that crowd we would remember, right?" + +A "Y-yeah. Haha." + +A "I-I mean, concert?" + +"I don’t think they invited me here to solve math problems." + +T "We have a band. I’m the lead bassist, Fang’s the vocalist and secondary bass, and Reed is the drummer." + +Re "...And the songwriter." + +T "He just comes up with the funny song titles." + +A "Uhhh...that’s very neat! Would love to listen to your band someday." + +"I drag my chair backwards and clumsily rise from my seat" + +A "It was great meeting you guys, I’ll be going back to my desk, though…" + +T "Wait, I’m not done with you yet." + +A "What? I really should get started on the homework...?" + +T "It’s important. Look at me." + +"She has a very serious look on her face." + +"She’s not saying anything, her glaring through the back of my skull makes me think she means business." + +T "Fang is happy. They found something about themself they finally like, and I helped them through a dark time. They made up their mind." + +"They? Themself? No wonder Naser seemed so confused by this." + +T "They don’t need people in their life that might hurt or confuse them. They have us, and the band. We’re trying to make it for ourselves." + +A "O...kay?" + +T "I look out for them because I care for them. They’ve been hurting because of those dicks, I’m doing my part in assuring them." + +"Was that what I saw her doing earlier?" + +"Looked more like a one trigga trig-out." + +A "I don’t understand." + +T "My point is, don’t upset Fang." + +"I just wanted to solve math problems." + +A "I, er... yes, ma’am." + +"Once again she’s just glaring at me." + +"Fucking hell my stupid legs, stop shaking." + +"I’ll take this opportunity." + +A "Uh… thank you for the lesson, Trish. I’ll keep that in mind. See ya." + +Re "Wait man- you want this?" + +"Reed holds out a sheet of paper." + +"Wait, it’s a copy of the homework assignment-" + +"And it’s complete?!" + +A "Wait, I thought you were the one needing help?" + +Re "Shhhh, the friend of my friend who’s the friend that helps me is also my friend too." + +A "I don’t think that’s how the saying goes...?" + +Re "You’re sharp, Anon. Razor sharp. Friends?" + +"The bell announces lunchtime, and the rest of the students collectively rise and start shuffling out the door." + +A "Lunch hour, been a blast talking to you guys." + +hide anon neutral with moveoutleft + +"I swiftly snatch up the backpack by my leg, flashing an earnest sympathetic smile at them - or at least I thought it was one." +scene hallway with fade +show anon neutral at acenter +"As I power walk out of the classroom I swear I caught a glimpse of Reed waving goodbye." + +"A shame I have other places to be. Namely away from the pissed off midget." + +"Sorry man, you seem like a good guy. But with that tiny tyrant?" + +"Not in this lifetime." + +"That was the worst fucking experience in a long while. Almost as bad as actually dealing with Fang in class." + +"Here I was thinking I could be invisible for the rest of the year," + +"...And now I have classmates talking about me behind my back on their phones, probably for the rest of the school year." + +"At least it’s the best period of the day now." + +"Wonder what to get for lunch today…" + +"Wait." + +A "What’s that smell?" + +"Oh no." + +"I duck into a corner and rip the backpack open." + +"What should have been my lunch card, binders, and horrendously embarrassing art book…" + + +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like To Ignore Problems.ogg' + +"Was instead a half dozen glass flasks, bags full of… something, and all sorts of machinery I didn’t recognize." + +"Someone… someone else has my backpack… and that book." + +"If they see..." + +A "..." + +"This backpack…" + +"It's from the Reed guy, I’ll bet." + +"When I rushed out of class…" + +"Fuck me." + +"On the other hand…" + +"I could get a medal of honor for turning all this stuff in..." + +"Think you can even get a bit of cash for reporting stuff like this." + +"...What am I thinking?" + +"Any amount of money is NOT worth my power level being revealed." + +"I can't ruin my life. Not again" + +"Especially not with these losers." + +"A half-hour until lunch period ends. Good." + +"I need to find Reed." + +"I double back to the classroom I just left and find it empty." +"Fuck." + +"Maybe he’s getting his lunch now. Cafeteria then." + +scene cafeteria with fade +show anon neutral at acenter + +"I sprint through the school hallways, already familiar with the layout, looking for the drug dealer." + +"The colorful crowd in the lunch line makes it difficult to pick Reed out, so I have to carefully scan the room." + +"I finally spot the pink raptor at the end of the queue, tray in hand and incriminating evidence on his back." + +"The world must be fucking with me since {b}I’m{/b} the one currently carrying a mini-cartel in a backpack." + +show reed neutral at sleft with dissolve + +A "REED!" + +"The stoner drummer turns my way as I try as calmly as possible to approach him." + +Re "What up, my guy?" + +A "I uh…" + +"I give the backpack a bump, causing all the dubious glassware within to clink." + +A "Think you got my backpack, Reed." + +Re "Huh… Was wonderin’ why this felt lighter." + +"He holds out my backpack to me." + +Re "‘Ere ya go, man." + +"We trade backpacks, I’m careful to hand his over while simultaneously examining mine still within his grip." + +"It doesn’t look like he opened it at all but…" + + +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like To Shitpost.ogg' + +A "Thank fuck…" + +Re "Why’re you so worried bout the bag, man?" + +"Shitfuckfuckfuckfuck." + +A "Becaaaauuuuuse…" + +"Don’tbringuptheartbook." + +"Think you dumbfuck, there’s gotta be something you can say-" + +"Naomi I owe you a fruit basket!" + +A "My lunch card!" + +A "I wouldn’t have been able to get my lunch without it." + +show reed shocked + +Re "Oh. Oh! Oh fuck, dude I’m sorry to hear that." + +"What." + +show reed explanatory + +Re "New kid in school AND you need the lunch card?" + +Re "Do you like, wanna hang with us? You look like the lonely type." + +"FUCK no." + +A "Naaaaah, I’ll be good. I just needed my-" + +Re "Come on bro, I’ll introduce you to the whole band." + +A "You don’t have to-" + +Re "Y’know... reward your good deed with a good deed." + +A "What." + +Re "I’ll like, be your first friend, Anon." + +A "What." + +Re "Yeeaah, man." + +A "I appreciate it, but… Y’know…" + +Re "You worried about Trish, bro?" + +A "..." + +Re "Yeaah, she can be a bit rough, but she’s great." + +A "Isn’t she on a crusade to assault everyone that laughed at your concert?" + +Re "Oh yeah, she does that sometimes, don’t worry about it." + +A "Hrmmm…" + +Re "‘s fine for you to be worried." + +Re "You’ll see, she’s plenty nice." + +"Maybe I was a bit quick to judge..." + +"See, there’s Trish now." + +show trish neutral flip at tright with dissolve + +T "Hey, Reed." + +T "Sorry, gonna have to return that crowbar a bit later than I promised." + +T "Also, I got vengeance on another one of those jerks." + +A "Those aren’t… related, right?" + +T "Who’s asking?" + +"I need to get out of here." + +A "Well Reed, thank you for talking, I’ll just be on my wa-" + +Re "Hoolld on man, Trish just got here." + +T "Reed, what’s all this about?" + +Re "Anon here and I had a little… mix-up?" + +Re "Anyways, he was a total bro about it…" + +Re "And he’s like, super poor and stuff." + +T "How poor?" + +Re "Y’know that lunch card thing they advertise on the school brochures?" + +T "Bull." + +Re "Show her, Anon." + +A "I’d rather not…" + +T "Oh my goodness you poor soul." + +Re "Literally, even." + +Re "So I figured, why not be a bro back to him?" + +Re "Like uhhh…" + +Re "Be his legit welcome committee." + +A "I appreciate the thought, but uhh...I should really be going right about… now, bye." + +T "Oh, Fang, what took you so long today?" + +show fang sad flip: + xalign 0.9 yalign 0.0 + +"Why meeee…" + +show fang shocked flip at sright + +F "Yo. Wait, is that Anon? what’s {i}he{/i} doing here?" + +"No, it’s the other new human transfer student with the dress sense of Rex Luthor." + +show fang neutral + +A "Heeeey Fang. Good to see ya again. Well lunch is almost over so I’ll-" + +Re "He’s poor." + +T "Like, super poor!" + +F "How poor?" + +T "Y’know those lunch cards they have on posters near the principals’ office?" + +F "Wow. That is hilariously depressing." + +"I hate everyone here." + +F "Anyways, that doesn’t answer my question of why the skinny loser here." + +Re "Man, Anon’s like a total bro an’ I’m his {i}first{/i} friend an’ we’re gonna be Rock Ring buddies for the rest of the school year!" + +Re "Then like… he’ll be my business partner an’ we’ll sell enough goods to get half the country high an’ like, fuck narcs and fuck the IRS too." + +A "..." + +F "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh. Trish?" + +T "The morons swapped backpacks and now they’re best friends or something." + +A "Yeah. That. And now I’m gonna go grab my lunch so-" + +Re "We can all grab some together." + +T "...Well, Reed {i}is{/i} a good judge of character…" + +F "Is he?" + +A "...Didn’t you already grab your lunch, Reed?" + +Re "Yeah. I want seconds, man." + +"What." + +"I look at Reed’s tray and see that it’s completely empty." + +A "When did you- How?!" + +Re "Come on, man, I’ve got a mean case of munchies." + +"I end up walking to get food with Trish, Reed and Fang." + +"Every time I consider ditching them, Reed says or does something to keep me with the band." + +"Fuck my life." + +"I’m able to hold the makings of a conversation with Reed, but it feels like I’m talking to space." + +"Trish was listening in while we made our way to the lunch room, but was more focused on her talk with Fang." + +F "What do you mean my halter top is ‘out’ right now? I haven’t noticed a difference." + +T "I’m telling you, the next thing is going to be leotards." + +F "No, fuck that. I would never wear something that retarded." + +"As for Reed…" + +Re "...So… You play videogames, right?" + +A "Yeah, I got a couple consoles and a toaster of a PC." + +Re "Only Xrox… Battle Saurs is sick…" + +A "Pachystation has a better lineup overall." + +Re "But like… Stony-games are all lame… like, just movies lame..." + +A "You can’t prove that." + +Re "I can." + +A "Huh?" + +Re "Get your phone out man… Look up {color=#66cc33}'LW_S9znpklI'{/color}.." + +A "How did you say that out loud?" + +Re "Just look it up man…" + +"What’s the harm?" + +A "..." + +menu: + "Look the link up": + $ webbrowser.open('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_S9znpklI') + pause 5 + "What on earth…?" + + Re "Pretty hilarious right?" + + "What is this, a shitty Netstix cartoon knock off?" + + A "It’s funny in a way, yeah." + + jump PostCheckLinkOut + "Save it for later": + "I'll save this one for when I get home." + jump PostCheckLinkOut + + +label PostCheckLinkOut: + + +Re "Xrox is better anyways, you see the whole lineup they had prepared for..." + +"Reed delves into his rant about console differences." + +"I thought he was just an airhead, but…" + +"I totally can’t get a read on this guy." + +F "Well, anyways." + +F "The lunch lines aren’t going to get any shorter." + +F "We should hurry and pick one." + +scene cafeteria +show anon neutral at aleft: + xalign 0.3 yalign 0.1 +show reed neutral at rleft: + xalign -0.1 yalign 0.1 +show fang neutral flip at sright: + xalign 0.8 yalign 0.0 +show trish neutral flip at tright: + xalign 1.0 yalign 0.1 + +"Once we all got our food, we all stand around chatting a bit more outside the line." + +"Trish and Fang babble to each other about their daily activities all through the lunch line." + +"Reed on the other hand has pulled out a tablet from his backpack to show me something." + +Re "So like, y’know we got a band, yeah?" + +A "Er, yeah. Trish brought it up earlier and all." + +Re "Check it. I’ve been recording our practices." + +"Fang and Trish both look at me expectantly." + +"Fuckshitfuckokay you can do this." + +A "Cool, lemme see." + +"Even through the poor recording quality I can see and hear just how atrocious the band is." + +play music 'audio/OST/The (audiophile edition).ogg' + +"I bite back the grimace threatening to come out as I give the video my full attention." +stop music +F "W-well?" + +T "We’re great, right Anon?" + +A "It’s uh… certainly original." + +T "I know, right?" + +A "But like, why two basses?" + +"Fang glances at me from the side. Weird." + +T "It’s our style!" + +A "I-I see." + +"What do I say here? I can only give feedback on games I haven’t played, not music!" + +menu: + "I like the double tension on the G strings.": + "The three stop moving in line and look back at me." + + "The synchronization between the melody and the submelody compliments the reverb well!": + "The three stop moving in line and look back at me." + + "Very nice ironic reference to Beethoven’s Für Elise.": + "The three stop moving in line and look back at me." + +"Think I messed up." + +F "How could you tell?" + +play music 'audio/OST/Bayside Bumming it.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +Re "Jeez man, you got the ears of a bat?" + +A "Uhh, just something I picked up." + +F "I didn’t know you knew about that sort of thing, Anon…" + +Re "Yo, next time we have a concert… You gotta come along." + +F "...Maybe…" + +"Trish glowers at me warily." + +T "I dunno, maybe if he actually talked about himself for once." + +"Nope, nah uh, no way, abort!" + +Re "Yeah, man, go ahead. None of us are judgin’. I’m not at least." + +A "Well…" + +"Fang Reed and Trish" "Ohfuck. Sorry Anon, we gotta bail." +show fang neutral flip +show trish neutral flip +hide trish with moveoutright +hide fang neutral with moveoutright +hide reed with moveoutright +A "Huh? Where-" + +"They’re already gone." + +"Pretty impressive how fast they can move even with their hands full." + +"But what could’ve made them run like that?" + +N "ANON!" + +show anon neutral flip at acenter with move +show naomi neutral at sleft with moveinleft +show naser neutral with moveinleft: + xalign -0.6 yalign 0.0 +"Oh." + + +"I turn around to see Naser and Naomi approaching, food in hand." + +N "I knew I’d find you here with the others, Anon!" + +N "Shame they ran off, why do they do that?" + +"Her shrill goody goody sugary voice is piercing through the chatter of the lunchroom, I don’t wanna reply if it means hearing more of her voice…" + +N "Tell me, Anon! What were you and Fang talking about? I didn’t know you were friends!" + +N "I wanna know about everything!" + +"Oh help me, God. I just can’t catch a break." + +"I just want to go home…" + +"But there's still half a day to go…" + +Nas "Hey Anon… you uh...seem kinda low energy, are you alright?" + +"The Anon you are trying to reach is currently having an existential meltdown." + +"Please leave your message after the scream." + +N "Aaaww, he's just thrilled to make new friends!" + +Nas "Yeah man, good on you. You’re quite the extrovert!" + +"I’m mentally screaming, I swear I just want to get out and never come back." + +Nas "Was that really my sibling you were hanging with?" + +A "Fang and her friends, yeah. Strange group, I know." + +N "I’ll say." + +Nas "Sh-they’re not that bad once you get to know them." + +A "Colorful folk, I know." + +Nas "Uh...no...I mean -THEY-..." + +A "Hm?" + +Nas "Fang!" + +A "Uh-huh… sure hope so. Seems I’m going to be her lab partner for the rest of the year." + +Nas "Whoa." + +"Naomi pauses for a second." + +Nas "Honestly. They’re just going through a phase man." + +A "That phase include rants about non-binarism?" + +Nas "*sigh* Fang hit you with that too?" + +N "What a great opportunity for real friendship Anon! I’m so happy for you!" + +Nas "...?" + +A "...?" + +N "If there’s anything Fang needs in these trying times, it’s a new friend to talk to!" + +A "Uuuuuh, I don’t know about that, you know how they is, right?" + +N "I would love it if you tried! Naser would appreciate it!" + +"Would he?" + +Nas "Whoa, calm down, boo. That’s not how it works...and I don’t think…" + +"The bell’s loud sound rings on our ears" + +"A rush of relief and dopamine overcome me." + +"I’m free." + +Nas "Uhhh...we’ll talk later, Anon. I’ll have to keep my eye on you, though." + +N "don’t worry, Naser. I know Anon is of good character!" + +"What is she talking about?" + +"You know what, it don’t matter. Nonathiss matters." + +"Only useful thing I learned all day." + +A "Uhhhh...I guess I’ll have to go now, see you around." + +"Be a little nicer, Anon" + +A "Ask if you need anything, I’ll help you out." + +N "Oh I’ll hold you on that one! Just you wait, hahahahahah!" + +"Nice. Now you’ll never get them off your back, now. Congratulations." + +Nas "Hey, take it easy, man!" + +N "Come Naser! We have a busy day today!" + +N "Oh, sure." +scene black with fade +stop music +A "See ya." + +"..." + +scene black with fade + +#jump StartOfChap3 - commented out 6/12/21 - confuses with new file consistency + in line with og script +jump chapter_2.0 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/game/script/2.0.showing-up-at-band-practice-and-giving-feedback.rpy b/game/script/2.0.showing-up-at-band-practice-and-giving-feedback.rpy index 59404db..130765a 100644 --- a/game/script/2.0.showing-up-at-band-practice-and-giving-feedback.rpy +++ b/game/script/2.0.showing-up-at-band-practice-and-giving-feedback.rpy @@ -1 +1,765 @@ -#TODO: transfer DaScript appropriately to this section \ No newline at end of file +label chapter_2.0: + +#Band Practice +#label StartOfChap3: commented out 6/12/21 - confuses with new file consistency + in line with og script + +scene black + + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' + +"-One Week Later-" +scene classroom with fade + +"It's math. Bane of retards and lazy intellectuals alike." +"And teachers too, judging by the lack of a certain coomer teacher." +"Substitute today, which means busywork. Group problems busywork specifically." +"Of course, I can't escape this any more than I could have escaped the lab partner assignment." +"At least here I have the opportunity to just keep to myself for an hour." +"I don't even bother attempting the assignment, instead pretending my phone is a calculator and spending the first half shitposting about video games I haven’t played online." +"The second half, interrupted by something pointy to the back of the dome." +"*sshk*" +"I can feel something stuck between my chair and my back." +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like To Shitpost.ogg' fadein 1.0 +"I fish around and pull out a crumpled paper airplane, a completed set of problems." +"...this is Reed's. And it's..." +"...done? Even the extra problems that I don't even bother with because they take another ten minutes each." +"I turn around to see that technicolor burnout waving me over. He's sitting next to Trish." +"She's giving me the evil eye." +"At least I think it's the evil eye. Whatever that expression is, it clashes with her smile." +"Might as well see what they want." +"As I weave through the maze of desks squished together with partners more interested in their phones than the worksheet, I catch a hint of whatever Reed and Trish are talking about." +show reed unimpressed at scenter +show trish neutral flip at tright +with dissolve +show anon neutral at aleft with dissolve +Re "...Honesty is the best policy, eh?" +Re "...Bad juju to keep somethin’ bottled up..." +show reed neutral with dissolve +"Reed grabs hold of another chair and sets it on Trish's other side, nodding in my direction before taking a big pull from whatever he's got in that thermos on his desk." +"The widening of his pupils suggest its more than just Roarbucks cold brew in it." +show trish happy flip with dissolve +T "Hey, Anon!" +A "You guys need something?" +T "Nah, just wanted to chat a bit since we got the time" +show trish neutral flip with dissolve +"There’s something in her tone of voice…" +" It’s like she's getting ready to gore me with those nubs she calls horns." +A "...Sure" +show reed explanatory with dissolve +Re "Imma let you two get to whatever… gonna go for a refill..." +"He shakes his thermos and heads for the door." +"What's in that anyway?" +Re "Don't ask..." +hide reed with dissolve +"Fair enough." +"...Wait..." +"Fuck it." +show trish neutral flip at tcenter with move +T "So… Anon… You and Fang?" +A "...You and Fang what?" +T "They’ve been talkin’ about you." +A "They?" +show trish unimpressed flip with dissolve +"The tiny triceratops rolled her eyes dramatically." +T "Fang. Fang’s been talkin’ bout you." +A "All good things, I’m sure." +"Fang’s been talking about me? That’s dumb." +"Oh yeah. The phones." +"All we’ve been doing is more labwork in science." +#[CG of mad scientist Anon with a railgun aimed at Dr. Fernsworth] +#God I wish we had time for this CG +"Last Thursday I tried to remember how to make a railgun." +"To show I could, of course." +F "{i}Pfft, I could make one too.{/i}" +"She seemed unimpressed at the time, but…" +A "Was it about making a railgun?" +T "Er… Yeah, it was." +T "What exactly are you talking about with them?" +A "Just science stuff." +A "The railgun is just something I happen to know though, picked it up from an old game." +show trish neutral flip with dissolve +"Trish raises an eyebrow." +T "...Right." +A "Why do you ask?" +T "You learned to make a deadly weapon from a video game?" +show trish unimpressed flip with dissolve +"Her tone is flat. Unlike her chest." +A "I wouldn’t say deadl-" +T "Don’t interrupt." +show trish explanatory flip with dissolve +T "Why would you think that it’s a good idea to make a weapon in class?" +T "How did you not get in trouble?" +A "Spears actually did talk to me, said something about the ‘great equaliser’." +show trish annoyed flip with dissolve +"Trish grabs the bridge of her snout." +T "This is why men are useless." +"She continues to mutter to herself. All of it incoherent." +show trish unimpressed flip with dissolve +A "Is there a point?" +"She rounds back on me, anger painted clearly on her face." +show trish angry flip with dissolve +T "Look, Anon, YOU may be into that stuff, but leave Fang out of it." +T "They have better things to do than… than…" +T "Than play with some man-child’s lethal toys!" +show reed shocked flip at rright with dissolve +Re "Whoa… Harsh…" +show reed neutral flip with move: + xalign 1.1 +"Reed slumps into the seat next to Trish, sipping on his thermos of…" +Re "Just agua, bro…" +"Thermos of water…" +"What the-" +Re "What’d I miss?" +show trish explanatory with dissolve +T "I’m just trying to tell Anon here that he shouldn’t be telling Fang how to make a fuckin’ gun in school." +show reed explanatory flip with dissolve +Re "Why not?" +T "We’ve been over this." +Re "We have? When?" +T "Less than five minutes ago." +Re "Thought we were talkin’ about Anon?" +T "Yes!" +T "And specifically!" +T "We were talking about Anon’s gun!" +show trish neutral +show reed shocked flip +with dissolve +"Heads start to turn." +show reed happy with dissolve +"Reed grins at them all" +Re "Then how bout these guns?" +"Reed places his hands on the back of his head and flexes his biceps." +show trish unimpressed with dissolve +show trish angry with dissolve +show trish considering with dissolve +show trish angry with dissolve +"Trish’s face is a blur of emotions. At first confused, then fucking pissed, then aroused, then back to fucking pissed, all in the space of an attosecond." +T "Not those! The one he made with magnets!" +show reed neutral flip +Re "But like… how do magnets work?" +"*DING-DONG BING-BONG.*" +"All at once all the students giving the clock a blank stare stand to attention and file out the door." +T "I-I… Damn it, Reed!" +"Trish punches Reed in the shoulder, gives me another evil stare, and saunters out the room." +hide trish neutral flip with moveoutright +Re "Hey." +"Reed’s pats me on the shoulder." +show reed neutral flip at scenter with moveoutleft +Re "Bruh." +show reed happy flip +"He gives me a thumbs up and exits as well." +hide reed neutral flip with moveoutright +"Leaving only the substitute teacher, looking at me from her desk impatiently for me to leave." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"Guess it’s her lunch period, too." +show anon neutral flip +hide anon neutral with moveoutleft +scene black with fade +"..." +scene cafeteria +show anon neutral at aleft +show naomi neutral flip at scenter +show naser neutral flip at nright + +show cafeteria +play music 'audio/OST/The Top of the Social Ladder.ogg' + +"Naser ended up dragging me to sit with him and the magenta motormouth again." +"Naomi hovers over Naser, who currently has Gucci under his eyes." +Nas "So, I uh… Talked to the soccer team earlier." +Nas "They’re going to make the first game after all." +N "Isn’t that great, Anon?" +A "..." +Nas "I also… Got the L&L Club to finally take down their christmas decorations…" +Nas "So… The library’s clean again…" +"Naser’s head lands in his chicken salad, then he jerks wide awake." +show naomi shocked flip +N "NASER!" +show naser shocked flip +Nas "OH GOOD LORD NOT THE WATER-" +A "..." +show naser sad flip +Nas "Ugh… Sorry." +Nas "...Did you say something, Anon?" +show naomi unimpressed flip +A "Naser, you look like you fell into another blender." +A "What’s going on, big guy?" +Nas "Don’t worry about it…" +Nas "Just some… Family problems last night…" +A "Like what?" +Nas "Ugh…" +N "You don’t have to tell him if you don’t want to, dear." +show naomi happy flip with dissolve +N "Why don’t you wipe that alfredo sauce off your cute little face." +"She’s so saccharine she’d give a third world country diabetes" +Nas "It’s my sister again…" +"Why is it always his sister with him?" +show naomi unimpressed flip +N "Aww…" +Nas "I was going to sleep last night, when I heard something downstairs." +"...When did this turn into an interrogation?" +Nas "It was about one or two in the morning. I checked what it was, and…" +Nas "Fang was just, standing in front of the microwave." +Nas "Staring at the dino nuggets rotate inside." +"At one in the morning?" +Nas "At one in the morning." +show naomi neutral flip +N "This is a personal issue, isn’t it?" +N "Wouldn’t you rather just be enjoying lunch with us?" +Nas "I just need advice from someone at this point, Naomi." +N "But from Anon?" +A "But from me?" +show naomi considering flip +"Naser continues." +Nas "I asked her what she was doing, and she just…" +Nas "Just says ‘fuck off…’, so I think ‘maybe dad will help’." +Nas "...He didn’t." +Nas "...They just got into a shouting match." +Nas "Screamin’ bout her lack of control an’ dad was pissed an’-" +show naomi sad flip +N "Poor baby." +"Naomi wraps her arms around Naser’s head, cradling the tired pterosaur in her bosom." +hide naser with dissolve +"There’s a rumbling snore and it’s clear that Naser has checked out." +A "...Riiiiiiiight…" +"Naomi looks distraught." +N "He’s always like this…" +N "But it’s been getting worse recently..." +A "Going unconscious?" +N "Trying to help. Wearing himself ragged." +N "That Fang…" +N "We should help Naser." +A "What, by talking to Fang?" +N "By taking him to the nurses office." +"Ah fuck." +"Naomi looks at me with the biggest, wettest doe eyes possible." +A "Alright alright. He doesn’t look that heavy anyway." +N "Only a hundred and sixty pounds." +A "How do you- nevermind." +scene black with fade +"Naomi puts herself under Naser’s left arm, motioning me to take the other one." +"I sling his arm around my back and-" +"GOOD LORD HE’S HEAVY." +N "Alright, the Nurses’ Office is down the main hall on the left side, near the front desk." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"I’m clenching my face too much to be able to speak, I can only get a slight nod out." +"..." +scene hallway with fade +"After dropping Naser at the nurse and leaving before Naomi could argue with her about staying, the lunch bell rings." +"With music at the ass end of the campus I have to sprint through the halls." +"Fuck today, I avoided gym class for a reason." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Dino Destiny Reader.ogg' + +"Halfway to Music class, I slam into somebody and tumble to the floor." +scene black +A "Augh..." + +scene hallway with fade +show stella neutral at stleft with dissolve + +unknown "You…" + +A "AH!" + +"Sorry, sorry sorry!" + +show anon neutral flip at aright with dissolve + +"I get up from the floor and look at the stego who bumped into me. The plates on her back twitch as she looks me up and down." + +unknown "Judgement…" + +"A chill rolls over me." + +show stella considering + +unknown "Karma? No. No, maybe second chance?" + +"She draws closer, a contemplative expression on her face." + +show stella explanatory + +unknown "Ah, I see now." + +A "What?" + +unknown "You’ve important choices to come." + +A "I do? Wait back up what the fuck are you talking about?" + +unknown "This." + +"She reaches toward my chest, plucking something off of it. She holds it up for me to see it’s some oversized playing card." + +A "Still lost." + +unknown "It’s you. Your card. You are on the precipice of a great ordeal. Many difficult points of divergence and contention are coming your way. Reflect on them." + +"I think about asking the green weirdo to make sense, but the bell is about to ring." + +A "Yeah, thanks, sure. Sorry, gotta dash." +show classroom at scenter with dissolve +stop music fadeout 1.0 + + +show bandroom + +"I slam into the band room door just as the late bell trills, panting and sweaty." +show jingo at sleft with dissolve +jingo "Good timing, Mr. Mous. Just in time for free period." +"What…" +jingo "Take up anything you like and have fun." +"The teacher then took to his extremely lavish loveseat, threw on a pair of headphones and blacked out." +hide jingo with fade +"I looked at the scattered instruments, left alone for whatever reason." +"Dent looking brass and cracked woodwinds. Even a bass with a missing string." +"Wow. I feel like that right about now." +"I reach for one at random, taking a wooden… thing…" +"It looks like an oak tree made love to an eggplant and this is the aborted monstrosity in Mexico." +"Whatever, I melt into my chair and pull out my phone. Seems a majority of my classmates have a similar idea." +"I’ve some shitposting to do." +"Let’s see…" +show anonphone with moveintop +#phone overlay with Elliot Raptor, and the text ‘he made some valid points :^)’ +"Ah yes, perfect. Click post aaaand now to wait." +hide anonphone with moveoutbottom +"Nefarious deed for the day done, I look around the room out of boredom." +"Oh fuck no." +"Fang has a weapon of mass hearing loss." +"I’m covering my ears in preparation when the ptero-rist starts strumming and…" + + +play music 'audio/OST/Beach Chill Out.ogg' + +"Oh wow." +"I still have my hearing." +"In fact she’s actually playing something pleasant." +"It’s mellow. Relaxed. A slow rhythm that carries a strange nostalgic hint to it." +"The difference between this and the performance is night and day." +"What gives?" +"Looking a bit closer, she’s swinging her tail a bit to the rhythm." +"She uses her tail as a metronome?" +"Suddenly, the phone slips from my hand onto the floor." +stop music +A "SHIT!" +"The sound it makes as it clatters on the ground is a klaxon of pants-shitting terror." +"It lies face down on the isle." +"Do I really want to pick it up and potentially face a harsh reality?" +"Schrodingers’ crack." +"...I can’t just leave it there." +"I pick up the phone and slowly turn it over." +"It’s the moment of truth." +"...No cracks?" +"Thank the Lord." +show fang considering at scenter with dissolve +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like This Chick.ogg' +F "Yeah, you got lucky." +show fang happy with dissolve +"Fang has stopped playing and is throwing a small smirk my way." +"I should probably say something…" +"Her playing is pretty good, I'll compliment that." +A "That sounded way better than in the video Reed took." +hide fang shocked +show fang angry at scenter +"..." +"Wrong choice of words." +F "You’re still not off my shit list, watch it." +"Quick Anon, think" +A "Why didn’t you play guitar back then, you’re obviously a lot better with it." +hide fang angry +show fang neutral at scenter +F "Would’ve if I could’ve." +A "What do you mean?" +"There’s an empty seat next to Fang." +"Finders’ keepers, I guess." +F "The band is just Reed, Trish, and I." +F "So we all have to decide by majority what happens." +F "Reed says using a bass is more unique, and Trish always says how it’s a ‘promising business model’." +A "But it sounds like you play the guitar much easier than a bass." +F "I play the bass just fine." +F "I think the problem is more that if you want to make an unconventional band layout, you damn well better know what you’re doing." +F "If you’re anything short of masterful it won’t sound good." +F "And when it comes to music, it either sounds good or it doesn’t." +F "Simple as." +"She continues strumming." +A "But it’s just a high school band, right?" +A "Shouldn’t it just be fun?" +F "It is, yeah." +A "Even though you’re just doing what they want without getting a say in it?" +"Fang flinches and misses a note." +F "..." +F "It’s not like that…" +F "It’s just… Trish says… I mean… God damn it." +F "Look, we’re better with two basses. Trish and Reed say so." +stop music +A "The au--" +"Uhp" +"Fuck" +"I almost said 'the audience at the concert' to her outloud." +F "What was that?" +play music 'audio/OST/fighter.ogg' fadein 1.0 +A "Nuthin’" +"Fang growls at that." +F "You know what, we’re having band practice after school today." +F "Just show up and see for yourself." +A "And what if I don’t?" +F "You’ll be a little bitch that’s wrong." +"Oh." +"In that case." +A "Fuck you, I’m right, your band sucks with two basses, and you shoulda been on guitar!" +"I lock eyes with her." +F "Fuck you!" +A "Fuck you!" +F "Fuck! You!" +A "FUCK YOU!" +show jingo at sleft with dissolve +stop music fadeout 1.0 +jingo "Aaaaand we’re caaaaaalm now." +"Fuck me." +"..." +hide jingo with fade + + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' +show hallway + +F "Hurry up, dweeb. If I can keep ahead of you while carrying two instruments, you can speedwalk." +A "You sure you don’t want me to carry one?" +F "Pfeh." +"Fang is leading me back to the auditorium with both the acoustic guitar ‘borrowed’ from the music room and her bass in hand, one over each shoulder." +"When we eventually get to the auditorium, Fang stops." +"Is something wrong?" +A "Uh, is everything-" +F "The doors, moron." +"She swings the guitar cases on her shoulders around a bit." +"Oh." +"I step around her and grab the hanlde, pulling the door wide open." +A "Ladies first." +"Fang growls and stomps on my foot as she walks past." +"..." +A "FUCK!" +F "Hurry up already." +scene bandroom +show reed neutral flip at rright +show trish neutral at tcenter +"Inside, Reed and Trish already have everything set up onstage." +show fang neutral with moveinleft: + xalign 0.2 yalign 0.1 +show anon neutral with moveinleft: + xalign -0.1 yalign 0.0 +"Where does Reed keep that huge drumset during the day?" +show trish very happy flip with dissolve +"Trish waves her arms from the stage." +T "HEY, FANG! WHAT TOOK SO LONG?" +F "HAD TO GRAB SOMETHING." +show trish unimpressed +"Trish squints in the spotlight, then finally notices me." +show trish indignant +T "What-" +T "What’s he doing here?!" +"Fang slings both cases onto the stage, then climbs on herself." +F "Proving a dumbass bigot wrong." +A "So you admit there’s smart ones?" +show fang angry +show jewlcase at truecenter: + xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 zoom 0.3 + rotate 0.6 + linear 0.3 xalign 0.05 yalign 0.12 + linear 1.5 yalign 5.0 +"Fang then ripped something from Trish’s hands and threw it at me." +show trish angry +T "What the fuck?!" +"It strikes against my head with a dull *tonk* and lands on the ground in front of me." +show jewlcase at truecenter: + xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 zoom 1.0 +"Looking down at the makeshift shuriken, it was a copy of 'VVORM DRAMA’s new hit single Indragon Onslaught'" +hide jewlcase +show trish indignant +T "Fang! I just made that in art class!" +A "It looks like picasso had a seizure." +show fang considering +F "He was being an ass!" +A "I was." +show reed explanatory flip +Re "Like… are we on break now?" +T "We haven’t even started!" +show reed neutral flip +T "Fang! Why is Anon here?!" +show fang neutral +F "Like I said, proving him wrong." +A "More like proving me right." +T "Proving him wrong how?" +Re "Like… Playing guitar, right? Ya wanted to play your guitar…" +T "What?" +F "Yes! I mean-" +A "Ha!" +F "No, I mean Anon thinks that if I used a guitar instead of bass the music would sound better." +show trish neutral +T "What? No wayyyy." +F "I know, right?" +Re "Woooow… Way to try throwing everything off, Anon..." +F "Mm. Let’s just go through ‘I Need Meth Money By Tuesday Night And If I Don’t Get It I Will Stomp On Your Child’." +"Don’t say ayy lmao." +F "Three… Two... One.." +#half life flash bang +scene black +pause 5 +"My mind went blank." +"I don’t know what happened during the time when it was blank" +scene bandroom +show trish neutral at tleft + + +play music 'audio/OST/The Hunt for more (You)s.ogg' + +"I look to the stage and see Fang, panting, looking distressed." +F "S-see? Totally awesome, r-right?" +"Not the word I would use." +show trish explanatory with moveinright: + xalign -0.2 yalign 0.1 +show anon neutral with dissolve: + xalign 0.3 yalign 0.1 +show reed neutral flip with dissolve: + xalign 0.9 yalign 0.1 +show fang neutral flip with dissolve: + xalign 1.6 yalign 0.1 +A "...I think you should give the guitar a try." +show trish angry +T "Oh shut up, you don’t know anything about music." +F "Might as well. That’s what I brought him for, after all." +T "You’re really siding with him on this?" +T "We already decided VVURM DRAMA is better with only drum and bass, remember?" +show reed explanatory flip +Re "Yeah man… WAY more unique that way." +A "Aren’t there like two bands in existence that pulled it off?" +Re "That means there’s a chance then, yeah…?" +A "It can’t hurt to try, right?" +show reed neutral flip +show trish angry +T "You don’t get a say in this, it’s a band decision and we already made our choice." +F "Maybe he’s right, Trish. What’s the big deal?" +T "The ‘deal’ is we’re wasting enough time as it is when we should be practicing!" +T "Especially wasting time on playing guitar when it doesn’t match any of our stuff." +show fang angry flip +"That clearly struck a nerve." +F "‘Wasting time’ playing guitar? What’s THAT supposed to mean?" +"Fang rounds on Trish, jabbing an accusing finger into the little triceratop’s surprisingly voluminous chest." +F "Every time I want to make changes you guys always overrule me!" +F "Even when it’s something like playing my favorite instrument in my own band!" +"Yikes." +show trish indignant +T "Come on Fang, you know I didn’t mean it that way!" +T "We decided that democratically, right Reed?" +Re "Yeah, but… like, there are only three of us, y’know?" +"I’ll hate myself for this…" +"...this is already getting too intimate for me..." +"...but maybe I should say something." +"It’s only going to get worse if I don’t" +"But this seems like a personal argument between them." + +menu: + "Speak Up": + jump GuitarQuestionSpeakUp + "Stay Silent": + jump GuitarQuestionStaySilent + +label GuitarQuestionSpeakUp: +$ fangscore += 1 +"Fang does seem very passionate about playing guitar." +"It could only help their music, right?" +show trish unimpressed +show fang surprised +A "Just give Fang a chance, have you ever even let them play guitar with the band?" +"That seemed to stop Trish in her presidential yeezys." +show trish neutral +T "I- uh, well… not really. We voted on it in our first jam session together." +"Fang made a weird face, like she couldn’t believe I was standing up for her." +"Honestly I couldn’t believe I stood up for her either." +"But god dammit I’m winning this challenge!" +A "If you’re really Fang’s friend, you should at least let them try." +"..." +"Trish’s mouth opened and closed, as if she was trying to find the right words." +"She threw up her hands and let out a frustrated sigh." +show trish unimpressed +T "Fine, I guess we can try it with the guitar…" +jump postguitarscene + +label GuitarQuestionStaySilent: +"Can’t guarantee their style won’t be better than dogshit if I lose this challenge." +"Certainly can’t get worse." +"This is between the members of the band." +T "In the end, majority still rules." +T "I’m sorry, Fang, but we can’t get into creative squabbles like this all the time." +T "And you already agreed to it, right?" +"How controlling." +show fang sad flip with dissolve +"Fang hangs her head in defeat." +F "I guess so…" +Re "Hey man, Fang… Don’t let it get to you so hard…" +show reed explanatory: + xalign 0.7 yalign 0.1 +Re "We just gotta get it out of your system’s all, right...?" +Re "Like, y’know, get it all out now so you don’t have to later, yeah…?" +Re "Like Trish said…" +T "I never said that." +Re "Cuz’, that’s how these things work, right? You know until you don’t, and then all the rest is wack." +T "I… Guess?" +T "What?" +Re "It’s like the bigger picture, you got Fang playin’ bass with all us…" +Re "And they’re all ‘ohh yeah good thing I’m not thinking about playing other instruments, yeah yeah,’" +Re "And you’re all like ‘see, I told you so’..." +T "Yeah, so we should let them play now to get it all out for later!" +T "Wait…" +"If there were any cameras rolling, they’d be zooming in on Trish’s face." +F "Thanks, Reed." +show trish unimpressed +T "Yeah, thanks a lot." +jump postguitarscene + + +label postguitarscene: + +F "Alright, this time we’re doing I Gave The Special Kids The Jonestown Special And Now I’m Going To Jail!" +"...I’m gonna need Raptor Jesus after this one..." +F "And a three, two, and…" + + +play music 'audio/OST/That Almost Sounded Good.ogg' + +"Opposed to the nostalgic tune earlier, Fang rapidly strums on her borrowed guitar." +"It’s fast and rough but the tone carried doesn’t melt my eardrums." +"Watching and listening now I can see and hear the difference clear as day." +"They’re actually not bad." +"Not good, not by any metric worth it’s weight." +"But at least I don’t cringe so hard my spleen erupts from my side and creates a splash zone." +"I find myself bobbing to the song, in fact." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"And just as I consider the song ‘gittin’ gud’ it ends." +"I feel a little disappointed that the show ended so soon." +"Then I remember it’s not a show at all." + +play music 'audio/OST/Bayside Bumming it.ogg' + +"And that I definitely won." +"There’s sweat dripping from Fang’s brow, and her black clothes are clinging to her a bit more tightly." +"The grin on her face stands out the most though." +F "See! Totally better with a guitar Trish!" +A "Ha! I win!" +"Trish, Reed, and Fang turn to look at me." +F "Oh… OH! OH GOD DAMN IT!" +A "So you’re now a normal band?" +F "I mean…" +"Trish scowls." +T "A vote then. Who votes if we stick to drum and bass?" +"She’s the only one to raise her hand." +T "fff… And against?" +"Even I raise my hands along with Reed and Fang." +T "You stay out of this Skinnie!" +A "Skinnie?" +F "Yessss!" +Re "So like… do we gotta redo all the songs?" +F "It’s only one instrument line." +F "Shouldn’t take too long." +T "Ugh…" +T "There goes our main marketing strategy." +"Marketing strategy? I thought she was a triceratops, not a rhinorex." +"I’m abusing my good luck here so I probably should leave." +A "That was very fun you guys, I hope I can see you all play more...again...better now than it was before...uuuhhhh…." +A "We’re cool right? Bye!" +A "So uh… I guess I should go now?" +"As I move to the door Fang calls out." +F "Wait!" +F "We uh…" + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' + +"I look to see her fidgeting onstage." +F "We couuuld uh… OH! Feedback! We could use your feedback!" +T "We what?! Fang, from him!" +Re "Like... He’s alright but… like, for real?" +A "Wha-" +F "He’s been helpful! So why not? Reed, back me up here." +Re "mmmm… Kay… Anon should stay…" +show trish indignant +T "REALLY?! BUT-" +show trish unimpressed +show fang happy flip +F "Anon, you’ll stick around a while, right?" + +A "If you guys’ll order some Dino-moe’s, sure." + +"The three of them just stare blankly." + +"Wait. Auditorium. Pizza." + +"Fuck." + +"Ohfuckohshitfortheloveofallthatisholywhynow." + +A "I-I mean, uhh…" + +A "Actually, I have to go. Like, right now. So... Bye." + +F "Why? I can spring for pizza if you’re too broke." + +A "Nah nah nah, no need." + +A "Plus I just remembered, I have to do uh...important things." + +F "More important than our music?" + +A "Err, yeah. See I have to go return a blu- a book!" + +"Fucking hell mouth, don’t go slipping weebtalk now!" + +A "See it’s WAAAAY overdue and I can NOT afford the late fee." + +Re "Wait a minute…" + +"?" + +"I almost didn’t recognize Reed’s voice, he said that way too sharply" + +Re "...the late date is like...two weeks...Are you up to something, Anon?" + +"He sounds completely lucid and didn’t slur any words…" + +"Oh no." + +"SHUT IT DOWN" + +"SHUT IT DOWN" + +"THE PINK CUBONE KNOWS" + +A "It’s from the library near my place. Suuuper strict. Y’know how public libraries are like." + +Re "riiiiiight." + +T "WILL YOU JUST FUCKING LEAVE ALREADY?" + +"I love you, Trish." + +A "sure, bye." + +"I scramble away to the exit. I turn to make my way out of there, on the stage I hear…" + +T "THANK YOU." + +"I uh….hear them chattering…" +F "Okay now how about ‘I’m Not Sure Why But The Burglar Joined My Threesome." +"Don’t think about a Threesome with Trish and Fang, Don’t think about a threesome with Trish and Fang, they’re meteor dodgers for crying out loud!" +"..." +"Ok, just for one second" +if persistent.lewd == True: + scene lesbo with fade + pause 20.00 + scene black with fade + +"Fuck." +"..." + +jump chapter_3.0 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/game/script/3.0.Anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy b/game/script/3.0.Anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy index 59404db..9defc4b 100644 --- a/game/script/3.0.Anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy +++ b/game/script/3.0.Anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy @@ -1 +1,599 @@ -#TODO: transfer DaScript appropriately to this section \ No newline at end of file +label chapter_3.0: + +#Music class +scene black with fade + + +play music 'audio/OST/Skinrow Soul.ogg' +show outside school fog + +"-The Following Monday Morning-" +"I haven’t been able to focus much lately." + +"My original plan is in absolute tatters." + +"As opposed to staying silent and not facing any conflict, I’m now all buddy-buddy with the school reject club." + +"And then there’s Naser and Naomi as well, and all their issues…" + +"At any moment I feel I’m going to get found out." + +"Trish would certainly beat me senseless." + +"Fang might as well…" + +"Definitely Naser." + +"All this shit happening, I can’t even get into my favorite hobby." + +"I don’t think I’ve made a single forum post in three days." + +"I stare down at my phone screen and see a sea of threads to post in." + +"And yet, I have nothing to say." + +"Wait, it’s already seven?!" + +"Fuck me, I dragged my feet too much!" + +"I sprint the rest of the way to school." +scene classroom with fade +"Luckily, I’m able to slink into homeroom without the teacher molesting me for a tardy pass." +"Classes tick by in the daily slog, and like all things, lunch eventually comes to pass." +scene cafeteria with dissolve +show anon neutral flip at sright +"I grab a packaged lunch from the omnivore line and begin looking for a place to sit." +"By now it’s a foregone conclusion, I already know what happens next." +N "Anon!" +"Right on cue." +show naomi neutral at sleft with moveinleft +show naser neutral behind nanomi with moveinleft: + xalign 0.25 yalign -0.0 +"Naomi rushes over, followed by Naser. I’d really rather not deal with her anymore today." +N "Come on, Anon, let's continue our conversation from earlier!" +"I need to think of something, and fast." +A "Err, sorry. I already promised Fang I’d be eating with her." +"Smooth." +N "Oh..." +"Oh!" +"I’m glad to hear you’re trying to be better friends with Fang!" +Nas "Well hey, this is a welcome surprise!" +A "Right. Actually, she doesn’t eat in the cafeteria, does she?" +Nas "Didn’t she tell you? She hangs out with her band in the auditorium." +A "She’s allowed to do that?" +N "I’ve asked Principal Spears before, he sees no issue with it." +A "Huh. Anyways, I uh… Don’t want to keep them waiting!" +Nas "See you." +N "Have fun!" +A "Right. Bye!" +hide naser with moveoutleft +hide naomi with moveoutleft +"I turn away from the two and leave them behind in the cafeteria." +scene bandroom +"Now that i’m in front of the auditorium when it isn’t crowded for once, I can get a decent look around the foyer." +"The walls are as vine-covered as anywhere else in the building, but the ones here have small magenta flowers blooming on them here and there." +"I suppose there’s different kinds of vines, wouldn’t make much sense otherwise. Never really thought about it until now." +"I peer into the small window in the door to see Fang’s gang lazing about within. Reed is messing with some box on a table, and Fang and Trish are sitting on the first row of seats chattering to each other." +"I put my hand on the doorhandle and hesitate a bit. Then I pull it open." +"The squeak of the door echoes through the near empty auditorium, and immediately all three turn their heads and stare." +"There’s an awkward pause that goes on for just a bit too long. Eventually Fang calls out from her seat." +show fang shocked at scenter with dissolve + + +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like This Chick.ogg' + +F "What the hell are you doing here, dweeb?" +hide fang shocked +show fang neutral at scenter +show anon neutral flip at sright +A "Hiding from Naomi." +"Fang throws her head back and goes limp on the shitty wooden chair." +F "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGHHHHHH, THAT BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH." +show fang considering +"..." +A "..." +F "..." +A "..." +"Fang lifts her head back up." +show fang unimpressed with dissolve +F "Ffffffffine, you can stay." +"I go sit a few yards away from Fang and Trish on the theater seat. Reed turns back to that device he was messing with before." +"Looks like a projector?" +A "You don’t like Naomi?" +show fang angry with dissolve +F "What was your first fuckin’ clue? That stupid bitch, acting all high and mighty all the time." +T "Hey, Fang." +F "Oh look at me I’m super smart and nice to everyone and everyone likes me so if you disagree with me I get the moral high ground no matter what!" +"Fang lets out some combination of a snort and a sigh." +F "No different than Naser. What a couple." +F "Ugh, whatever. What was she doing to bother you?" +A "She’s been pestering me about every little thing since school started. Granted, she’s been a big help in some cases, but jeez she’s overbearing sometimes." +show trish neutral at tleft with dissolve +T "Fang?" +F "I’ll say. Sometime in the first semester she ended up helping me with a major science project. We only had a day to do the whole thing." +A "You waited until the last day for a major grade?" +F "It… That doesn’t matter. Shut up." +F "Anyways, Naomi insisted on helping me, and I just went along with it. She ended up just bossing me around for eight hours." +show trish indignant +T "HEY GUYS DID YOU FORGET I’M HERE TOO?!" +show fang neutral flip with dissolve +F "Oh, right. What were you talking about Trish?" +show trish neutral +"Trish pulls a cardboard tube out of her backpack. She pops the top of the tube open and pulls a rolled up poster out and unfurls it." +T "This! Tada! Our first poster!" +A "VVURM DRAMA? That’s an… interesting name… and what’s with the date on it?" +F "Trish wants-" +T "We need to have an actual show! Not some dumb school show. We need actual people who matter to show our genius to!" +"Genius? More like retardation." +show fang sad with dissolve +F "I don’t know Trish." +A "Yeeeaaaaahhhh I’m with Fang on this one." +show fang neutral +show trish unimpressed +"The glare Trish levels at me was akin to a very dull knife." +T "You don’t even know how good we are!" +T "That was simply a practice session!" +T "Since you’re Naser’s friend too, just know HE ruined our first concert. Right Fang?" +F "Ugh, yeah. If he hadn’t invited all those cocksuckers…" +A "Still I think-" +show trish angry with dissolve +T "It doesn’t matter what YOU think!" +"Whoa, where did that come from." +show fang happy with dissolve +F "Let’s drop it for now. My tuna sandwich is getting cold." +show trish smug +"Trish grins in victory." +Re "Dude… ya got told…" +"What the fuck am I doing? I’m dead if I out myself here outnumbered" + +"Trish tore at me like she knew I was there." + +"Had to happen EVENTUALLY." + +"I hope that’s not the case." +show trish neutral +"I finally get to opening my omnivore lunch. A BLT, some chicken nuggets, and an orange." +"I take my first bite of the sandwich and-" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"*DING-DONG BING-BONG*" +"Are you kidding me." +"I cram as much of the sandwich into my mouth as I can and close the box." +"Reed puts the projector in the corner of the room, and Trish makes for the exit with Fang. I follow after, cheeks still filled with food" +scene hallway with fade +show fang happy flip at scenter with dissolve +show anon neutral at aleft with dissolve +"Next class is… Music, that’s right. I’ll be walking with Fang then." + + +show hallway +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Moment.ogg' + +"The three all wave each other goodbye and Fang turns towards our shared class." +"May as well make some small talk." +A "So, uh… What’s your favorite band, Fang?" +F "My favorite band, huh…" +F "Guess it’d be something like The Skinks… Maybe the Fossillies?" +A "‘Oi, tha’ ‘ere’s sum pre’ey bri’ish tayste, yeah?" +F "Pffft." +"She turns away to hide her snickers." +F "Shut it." +F "I’m sure your favorite is much better." +A "I’m into…" +#>>Boomer rock +#>>Obscure hipster shit +#>>Anime openings and video game OSTs + +menu: + "Boomer rock": + jump regardlessofselect + "Obscure hipster shit": + jump regardlessofselect + "Anime openings and video game OSTs": + jump regardlessofselect + +label regardlessofselect: +"Fang holds a hand up to her beak." +F "AHAHAHAHAHAHHA. God you are such a dweeb" +"I flash her my biggest shit-eating grin." +A "Least I don’t need a ‘loisence’ to listen to it." +F "Oi luv, didn’ share me taystes to get rallied on, bit rewd, innit?" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade +"The two of us banter with each other with increasingly strong british accents all the way to class." +scene classroom with fade +"..." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Dragging on and on....ogg' +show bandroom + +"ARGH!! This stupid-" +"Define a Treble clef? I don’t know what a Treble clef is! I don’t care about this shit, it won’t ever be useful." +"Fuck this, who can I cheat off of?" +"I lean back in my uncomfortable chair hoping to pop my spine back in place." +N "{i}Oh! What if you asked Fang for help?{/i}" +"I crane my head, looking for Fang. At her own desk she’s filling out her assignment page easily, drumming her fingers on her desk. Almost looks like she’s strumming honestly." +"Agh, and that’s another thing. Who the fuck made guitars?! Fuck trying to memorize frets or whatever the fuck." +"Oh shit, she’s looking at me now." +"She tilts her head and taps her sheet." +"OH!" +"I respond with an eyeroll and finger gun at my temple. My thumb hammer drops and I fake die in my seat." +"Fang shakes her head, returning to her assignment with a tiny smile gracing her beak." +"I look at the papers we need to finish. Fuck me, how the hell are we suppose to finish these by the end of class?!" +N "It can’t hurt to ask, though, right?" +"Maybe the neon Nero had a good point." +"Still, interrupting her now might piss her off." +"FFFFFfuck. I’ll flip a coin." +#>>> Heads, ask Fang for help +#>>> Tails, leave Fang alone + +menu: + "Heads, ask Fang for help": + jump Heads + "Tails, leave Fang alone": + jump Tails + + +#>> Heads, ask Fang for help +label Heads: +$ fangscore += 1 + + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Atmosphere.ogg' + +"Guess that’s that." +"May as well get it over with." +"I slink out of my chair and go around to Fang’s desk." +show anon neutral at aleft with dissolve +A "Uh...." +show fang shocked flip at sright with dissolve +"She jumps in her chair" +F "How’d you get- don’t scare me like that!" +A "Sorry…" +hide fang shocked flip with dissolve +show fang neutral flip at sright +"I look at her work and see she’s only a quarter done. Fuck, I hope we have enough time." +A "sooo… You seem to be capable of deciphering dead languages." +F "Wha-" +A "canyouhelpmewiththis?!" +F "Help you with the assignment?" +A "....Yes. I don’t get any of this. It’s all moon runes to me." +F "How’d you even join this class?" +A "Only elective that had an open spot. Even though it’s mid semester and I’m expected to be at the level of everyone that’s been here all year." +"Fang leans her head down and holds her hand on top of her muzzle." +"I’m guessing that’s supposed to be like pinching the bridge of your nose." +F "Whatever, it’s fine if the teacher gives the greenlight." +show reed king rex with moveinleft: + xalign -0.35 yalign 0.0 +Re "It’ll be fine." +"Fang and I jump several inches." +F "What are you doing here?!" +A "And what’s with the costume?" +"Reed is in an overly large inflatable T-rex costume." +Re "Gotta get a signature for this absent note, man…" +Re "Anyways... Mr. Jingo doesn’t care about if you use, like, partners and stuff… He just wants the work done…" +A "I… I see. I didn’t know you were also the school mascot, Reed." +Re "There’s, like, pockets in here man… You get to bring a lot of cool stuff… As long as you clean it after…" +"I’m not even going to bother at this point." +F "Thanks, Reed." +Re "s’all good, man…" +"Reed gets up and goes to the teachers’ desk in the corner of the room." +hide reed king rex with moveoutleft +"I turn back to Fang expectantly." +F "I’m not getting up. Get your crap and sit down already." +A "Thanks." +"..." +jump PostFlip + +#>>Tails, leave Fang alone. +label Tails: +"Guess that settles it." +"Fang wouldn’t want to be bothered right now anyways." +"Looking back to my paper, I try once again to make sense of the questions and music notes." +"Write the following notes in both Treble and Bass clef." +"...What?" +show reed king rex flip at rcenter +Re "Yo, you should have like... asked Fang for help, man…" +"I have to grab the desk to keep myself from falling out of my chair." +A "Reed, what the fuck are you doing here?!" +Re "Just getting an absent note signed by teach, man…" +A "And what’s with the outfit?!" +"Reed is in an overly large inflatable T-rex costume." +Re "School mascots are pretty cool… You wouldn’t believe the things they let you do with these…" +"I’m not going to ask for clarification." +Re "But, uhh… You should get some help or something…" +Re "I’ll ask the teacher for you…" +A "No, Reed, you don’t have to-" +Re "YO, TEACH! THIS GUY NEEDS SOME EXTRA HELP!" +"All eyes turn to us. The desk makes a nice ‘conk’ sound when my head hits it." +show jingo at sleft +jingo "Does he really?" +jingo "Err… Someone… Fang! You help him with the packet." +"Fang glares daggers at the two of us." +A "Thanks, Reed." +Re "Hey, no problem man! I gotta go…" +hide reed +"Reed shuffles over to the teachers’ desk in the corner to get his signature." +"Fang calls out from her chair." +F "I’m not getting up. If you need help grab your stuff and get over here." +"The damage is done. May as well at this point." +"..." +scene classroom with fade +show fang angry flip at sright +show anon neutral at aleft +jump PostFlip + +label PostFlip: + +F "Jesus... you suck at this" +A "No shit, I don’t know what half this shit is!" +F "God, they tell you about treble notes in Elementary, it’s E, G, B, D, F for treble and G, B, D, F, A for bass!" +A "How the hell do you know any of this" +"Anon then realized, he is horrendously fucking stupid." +F "I’ve been into playing music since pre-k" +"... Roll with it" +A "So does it take that long to learn that horrid thing?" +"I point at the class’ electric guitar" +show fang neutral flip with dissolve +F "Nah, I started with piano. I didn’t get my first guitar ‘til freshman year." +A "The piano? Isn’t that the hardest one?" +"I have no clue what i'm talking about" +F "Maybe for some, but I started early and got ahead. My grandma had an old piano she would let me mess around with." +F "She would try to get me to play all kinds of songs, mostly church stuff because she wanted me to be a little goodie two shoes like she was. It... was fun." +F "Then I started taking piano lessons privately because my mom saw that I was interested in it, and in middle school I joined the band for awhile!" +show fang happy flip +F "Only quit because of marching season, I was not wearing a dumb uniform." +show fang unimpressed flip +"Fang gets a strange expression, a mix between a blush and a scowl as she returns back to her snappy attitude." +F "You done with that yet? It's taking you way too long, rather have you out of my way." +"Cute." +"I show her the half-finished worksheet." +A "I still don’t get this fucking part." +F "It’s literally three classifications, it’s really easy" +A "It doesn’t list them!" +F "Did you even read the page?" +"Fang then grabs the paper and points at the top right. In a small box is a list of three types, woodwind, brass, and percussion." +A "Oh..." +F "You need me to still help you with this or do you have it from here?" +"Of course I have it, I know this shit, it's just 3 catagories" +"Percussion is simple enough. Getting the differences between woodwind and brass is a bit harder." +A "Right. You know your stuff. Band stuff." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Summertime Synth.ogg' + +"I heard a sigh from Fang" + +F "I can’t believe this." + +A "What is it?" + +F "Why did you leave your old school?" + +A "Wh-" + +A "Where did that come from?" + +F "Just wondering, though I think I know the answer." + +A "Why do you care?" + +F "You’re here for just two weeks and already you’ve wedged yourself in with my friends." + +A "I didn’t really have a choice there, Fang." + +A "I just...wanted to cruise through this year. I’m not good with friends." + +F "Sorry, just had a feeling. I myself haven’t gotten many new friends in a few years..." + +F "It’s like I make people avoid me... I don’t like new people…" + +A "That's weird." + +F "Fuck em', you know?" + +A "Sure." + +F "You act like you have a hard time socializing, I’m not seeing it." + +F "Makes me think you didn’t leave your school out of necessity, but because you really must have fucked up royally." + +F "I know your kind." + +"I-I, what did Fang mean by that? It all just came out of nowhere - I mean jeez-" + +"We’re talking about how she can’t get friends and now she wants to know about THAT…" + +"Oh God. I’m getting hot." + +"It’s Trish. She told Fang and she knows everything." + +"Play dumb? Hopefully that will work." + +A "I have no clue what you’re talking about." + +F "Honestly? Me neither." + +show fang neutral flip with dissolve + +F "You’re just some loser that knows NOTHING about music." + +F "And yet you come in from your cave where even their parents must’ve wanted you gone." + +F "But still you’re now BOTH my science and music partner, on top of worming your way in with MY band and with MY friends-" + +F "Anon, what is there TO understand?" + +show fang happy flip with dissolve + +"She’s laughing." + +A "..." + +F "Hey, you ok?" + +A "..." + +F "That’s funny, come on." + +A "..." + +A "Haha." + +show fang neutral flip with dissolve + +F "I'll almost miss you when you leave and start finding your own friends." + +A "Whatever you say, Fang." + +"With a roll of her eyes she returns to scrolling through her phone again. I seriously wonder now what she meant." + +F "I gotta go." + +A "Y-you’re leaving so soon?" + +F "I’m going to the bathroom, stupid." +hide fang neutral flip +show fang neutral at sright +hide fang neutral with moveoutleft + +"..." + + +play music 'audio/OST/you can_t sage here.ogg' + +"She knows." + +"But how?!" + +"She left her phone on the desk." + +"I can see the imprint of the password being illuminated by the room’s lamps" + +"It… It wouldn’t be right." + +"...I have to know." + +"I reach over to pick up the phone." + +"Some movement in the corner of my eye solidifies me." + +"Why’s Reed still here?!" + +Re "..." + +A "..." + +Re "... {i}*snrrrk*{/i}" + +"Oh thank Raptor Jesus. He’s asleep." + +"Fang’s password is…" + +"Wait, only the ‘one’ key is smudged?" + +"I guess it’s worked until now…" + +"Ah, the messenger app." +#TODO: IMPLEMENT MESSAGING GUI +#do we even have time for this? +#maybe this will be a post release update +#lmao as if +#--refer to Writer1 for the entirety of the texting part as he wants it to be more interactive. +"... There’s surprisingly not a lot." + +"Seems they interact mostly in person." + +"...What did I even just accomplish?" + +"I shouldn’t have looked." + +"All because of my paranoia… I just violated someone’s privacy." + +"I can feel a pit open in my stomach." + +"I shouldn't have done it." + +"Trish is Fang’s friend. Not me." + +"God damn it, Anon. The fuck is wrong with you." + +"I set the phone back where it was." + +"A glance back at Reed and I confirm that he’s still unconscious." + + +play music 'audio/OST/Bayside Bumming it.ogg' + +"What’s another secret to keep?" + +"Each one just building on the last, the growing maw in my gut threatens to make me violently ill." + +show fang unimpressed flip at sright with moveinright + +F "Oi!" + +"I’m startled as Fang retakes her seat." + +F "Did you manage to do {i}anything{/i} on the sheet?" + +"I simply shake my head as I show her the incomplete worksheet." + +show fang angry flip with dissolve + +"Fang sighs frustratedly." + +A "Look if I’m being a bother-" + +F "It’s simple you dweeb." + +show fang neutral flip with dissolve + +"Fang began breaking down the questions, her tone less condescending than when we initially started." + +"The way she explained it was infinitely better than how Mr. Jingo did at the start of class." + +"Over time the sheet was slowly filled in, things finally starting to click now." +F "Looks like you got the hang of this bit. Good job, dork." +"Fang smirks a bit." +"I see a chance to strike." +A "Helps to have an actual decent teacher." +show fang surprised flip with dissolve +"The slight red tint tells me I was right on the mark." +"There’s also the steady *thump thump thump* of her tail on the back of her seat to clue me in. I can’t help thinking of tugging on the appendage." +"Wait, the thumping." +"*Thump thump… thump thump thump… thump thump… thump thump thump*" +A "Hey uh… Is… Is your tail drumming right now?" +F "Hm? Oh, that. Kinda." +show fang neutral flip with dissolve +A "Kinda?" +F "I’m feeling out a rhythm. Thinking of a new song." +A "Is that normally part of the creative process?" +F "Maybe, maybe not. Are you done with the packet yet?" +"I groan." +A "Still got half a page left." +F "That’s just a crossword puzzle. I’m not helping if you can’t do even that." +A "I know, I know." +"I have to resort to good ol’ logic to solve the crossword. The longest and shortest words are easy enough to figure out." +A "But, uhh…" +F "Hm?" +A "Thanks for helping me. With the assignment I mean." +show fang considering flip with dissolve +F "Uhh… Yeah. Sure." +"There’s that red tint again." +F "I’ll help again… I mean, if you need it." +A "Really? Thanks." +F "Yeah, just-" +show fang neutral flip +"*DING-DONG BING-BONG*" +"That’s the bell telling us to piss off to the last period. Crap, I still got a few words left." +scene black with fade +"I guess the last few words and rush over to the teachers’ desk to turn it in. When I turn back I catch sight of Fang leaving the room in a hurry, tail between her legs." +Nas "{i}She’s not that bad once you get to know her.{/i}" +"Guess he was right after all." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade +"God, I feel like a jerk now." +"..." + +jump chapter_4.0 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/game/script/4.0.fang-and-anon-cut-class-to-talk-on-the-roof.rpy b/game/script/4.0.fang-and-anon-cut-class-to-talk-on-the-roof.rpy index 59404db..0d296db 100644 --- a/game/script/4.0.fang-and-anon-cut-class-to-talk-on-the-roof.rpy +++ b/game/script/4.0.fang-and-anon-cut-class-to-talk-on-the-roof.rpy @@ -1 +1,2547 @@ -#TODO: transfer DaScript appropriately to this section \ No newline at end of file +label chapter_4.0: + +#Gardening Club +scene skinrow +show anon neutral at aleft +play music 'audio/OST/The Top of the Social Ladder.ogg' + +"It’s been a couple of days since I snooped on Fang’s phone." + +"The guilt still weighs on me, but I’ve found a way to cope with it." + +"Even more aggressive shitposting on a Hungarian steak sampling vlogsite." + +"And I would be enjoying my day by myself in my apartment playing games and shitposting." + +"It’s Saturday after all." + +"Except I’m walking to school." + +"Fuck my life." + +"As it turns out the school keeps a log of what the wifi bandwidth goes to." + +"And the IT guy probably wasn’t too thrilled to see I’d been using it to download the entire Saturnia collection." + +"Spears sentenced me to one week ‘Campus Beautification’ for using taxpayer money on a few dozen gigs of videos." + +"Well, now I know to space the torrenting out a bit more." + +"As I get closer to the dreaded building, the more the thought of ditching crosses my mind." + +"But then the thought of Principal Spears pops up and violently pile drives it into a prius. Weird thought but enough to discourage me from ditching." + +"So here I am now walking to the side and where the gardens of the school are." +scene flower garden +show anon neutral at acenter +with fade +"I can see others are here as well, probably all for detention too." + +"Wait a sec. Isn’t that Fang? Why is she talking to that green weirdo from before?" + +"Wait another sec. Are they getting closer?" + +"No, I am." + +"Why did I walk up to them?!" + +show fang neutral at sleft +show stella neutral at stleft + +"Seeing Fang only makes the guilt more intense." + +"I cast my gaze aside instead." + +"The flower bulbs are still closed for the winter, but a few are peeking out." + +show rosa neutral flip at sright with fade + +play music 'audio/OST/Ramo de Rosas.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +Ro "I see you are admiring our work! The gardening club takes much pride in our flowers!" + +"BWAHSHIT!" + +"For such a… large girl she’s surprisingly stealthy." + +St "Good morning, Rosa! Ready for today?" + +Ro "¡Sí! It is a beautiful day for gardening, isn’t it?" + +A "Err… you WANT to be here?" + +show fang considering + +F "Rosa’s the head of the gardening club." + +"Judging by Fang’s tone, she’s been through this kind of detention multiple times already." + +show fang neutral + +Ro "Oh! Does he wish to join our club? Is that why he is here? Stella! Stella, we have a new member!" + +St "Oh, wonderful!" + +"My eyes are drawn to the green stego, who I immediately recognize from that encounter with the cards." + +A "Hey, you’re that weird stego from the other day." + +show stella sad + +"Her smile falters ever so slightly. Did I get the wrong person?" + +St "My name is Stella… And I’m not weird…" + +A "Right. So what was with the Pocket Raptor cards?" + +St "I was just saying what my tarot guidebook told me…" + +show stella explanatory + +St "The, uh… work of an astrologer is to show people what fate has in store for them." + +St "And that’s what I do!" + +A "Astrologer? Really?" + +St "But there will always be those who aren’t able to accept what their fortune tells." + +A "A, that’s retarded. two, astrology is retarded. And thirdly, that sounds like something from a bad video game." + +show stella sad + +St "N-no! I uh… awwwww…" + +"The sulky stego is pulled into a hug by the happy hispanic girl." + +Ro "There there, Stella. You’re still my friend no matter how much of the black arts you believe." + +show fang happy + +F "Pfft, you’re one to talk about ‘believing black arts’, Rosa." + +F "You and your magic dino in the sky." + +Ro "Ay pinche pagana… you’re lucky I don’t-" + +show fang neutral + +play music 'audio/OST/we just turned on the microphone in our programmers_ house.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +Sp "GET ALL YOUR ASSES OUT FRONT RIGHT NOW!" + + +"The caveman’s bellow reverberates throughout the entire school, even though I’m pretty sure he wasn’t using the PA system." +hide rosa +show rosa neutral at sright +hide rosa neutral with moveoutright +"Not wanting to piss him off even more, I follow the others to where Principal Spears has a few other students gathered in front of him." +hide stella with moveoutright +"The only one I recognize is the guy Trish had in a headlock that one day." + +F "Didn’t expect you of all people to get detention." + +"It takes me a moment to realize Fang is talking to me." + +A "I, er... used too much of the school bandwidth." + +show fang happy + +F "What, Spears catch you downloading porn in the library or something?" + +A "No! Just torrenting, like, TV shows that I can’t get on cable." + +"She raises an eyebrow like she doesn’t believe me but doesn’t follow it up." + +"She must never find out about Saturnia." +scene black with fade +scene garden with fade + +show spears neutral flip: + xalign 1.2 yalign 0.0 +show anon neutral: + xalign -0.4 yalign 0.1 +show fang neutral: + xalign -0.1 yalign 0.1 +show rosa neutral: + xalign 0.5 yalign 0.1 + +Sp "I’m glad you could make it, Anon. I think that’s just about everyone." + +"Not that he gave me much of a choice." + +Sp "Alright, I’m sure you’re all familiar with Rosa, she’ll be supervising you for campus beautification today." + +Sp "If I hear a bad word from her about any of you…" + +"I think I can fill in the rest." + +"Spears nods to Rosa, who reminds me of Naomi with how overly happy she looks." +hide spears with moveoutleft +show rosa with move: + xalign 0.9 yalign 0.0 +show rosa flip with dissolve +Ro "Thank you all so much for coming out to help with campus beautification today!" + +Ro "If we all work hard and have a good time we can get done before you know it!" + +"How can anyone be so enthusiastic about coming to school on the weekend?" + +Ro "So by the end of the day we need to get weeding done in the gardens, as well as replanting older flowers, and some of the vines are ready to be trimmed back!" + +show fang unimpressed + +F "{i}*groan*{/i}" + +St "Make sure you all get a pair of gloves, and to return them before you leave!" + +"Fang raises her hand." + +Ro "Fingerless don’t count." + +"Fang lowers her hand." + +St "You should all pair off now to split the work evenly, decide amongst yourselves." + +"Even in detention, the partner curse haunts me." +show rosa neutral with dissolve +hide rosa neutral with moveoutright +"Everyone else almost immediately groups off." + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating the Moment.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"Leaving just me and take a wild guess who else." +show fang neutral flip with dissolve +F "I don’t like how often this is happening." + +A "Can’t say I’m a big fan either." + +F "Whatever, let’s just take vine trimming and get this over with." + +"Fang starts heading to one of the ladders already set up near the wall." + +A "Wait, don’t you need gloves?" + +show fang happy flip + +F "What? I’m not a wuss." + +F "You get some if you’re so concerned about getting a few cuts." + +"I just don’t get this chick sometimes." + +"I get a pair of gloves and some loppers and rejoin Fang at the ladder." + +F "Alright cool, gimme the snippy thing." + +A "I don’t like the idea of you with a weapon very much." + +"She flashes an evil grin." + +F "Hold the ladder steady while I do this." + +F "I’ve been here a few times, this is the easiest job of the three." + +A "If you say so…" + +"Fang is quick to scale the ladder, leaving me to hold it in place." + +"I wish I could shitpost on my phone right now to distract myself but my hands are occupied." + +"Fang’s disregard of me is made extremely clear as she carelessly lets the remnants of dead vines rain down on my head." + +"Kind of glad I don’t have hair because I can’t imagine how bad it would be to have these sticky plant bits tangled in it." + +show fang angry with dissolve + +F "Oi! Shift the ladder over!" + +A "But you’re still on it." + +F "Don’t feel like getting down. Come on, you can’t be that weak." + +"Whatever. I shimmy the ladder to the side, Fang’s weight making the process more difficult." + +"Damn my scrawny arms." + +show fang happy with dissolve + +F "Alright this is good." + +"She goes back to clipping vines and dropping them on my head." + +"It’s started building up on my shoulders and neck now." + +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like To Shitpost.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"And now the spots the vines have touched start to itch." + +A "Hey." + +"She remains focused on the vines, dropping the largest clump directly on my face." + +A "HEY!" + +"Nevermind. The follow up clump was even bigger and lands right in my mouth." + +"After I finish spitting the wad of dead vegetation from my mouth I try one last time to get her attention." + +label movie: +A "FANG!" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +image fang tail = Movie(play="animations/fangtail.webm",loop=True) + +scene fang tail with fade + +"Through my blurred vision I can make out Fang’s tail, slowly shifting side to side." + +"And an evil idea comes to mind to get her attention." + +"There’s a less evil one, too, something that’d just shock her." + +menu: + "Tug Her Tail": + "I reach out to her when she drops another clump into my eyes, blinding me." + "Tug Her Ankle": + "I reach out to her when she drops another clump into my eyes, blinding me." + +"I blindly grasp at her until my fingers brush against something covered in scales." + +"I give the appendage a sharp tug." + +scene black with fade + +"There’s a shrill cry above me. That got her attention." + +A "Stop dropping shi-" + +"Suddenly stars explode in my sight impaired eyes and I fall backwards." + +"There’s a ringing in my ears and I try to blink the vines and stars away." + +scene garden +show fang very angry at sleft +show anon sad flip at sright +with fade + +play music "audio/OST/Many Such Cases of Being So True.ogg" + +F "NEVER. DO THAT. AGAIN." + +"Do what? The fuck did I do?" + +F "Fucking pervert." +show anon angry flip at sright +A "What the fuck did I DO?!" + +"When I can finally see again Fang has her wings drawn together behind her and her hands clasped on something also behind her." + +scene black + +"I think I fell in the flowerbed behind us. It’s actually sort of soft." + +F "You pulled my TAIL!" + +scene garden with fade +show fang very angry at sleft +show anon sad flip at sright + +A "I thought that was your ankle!" + +F "Why the fuck would you think my TAIL was my ANKLE?!" + +A "Because I couldn’t see because YOU kept dropping fucking vines in my eyes!" + +F "So you pull my fucking tail you perverted fuck!" + +A "You weren’t listening to me when I was trying to tell you to stop!" + +show anon unimpressed flip at sright + +"We’re both out of breath and staring daggers at each other." + +"My eyes are still bleary and starting to itch now because of the plants." + +"Fang is still protectively holding her tail as if I’ll pull it again." + +show fang unimpressed with dissolve + +F "Wha-why is your face all red?" + +A "I was {i}trying{/i} to tell you!" + +A "These vines fuckin’ hurt!" + +F "That makes no sense at all." + +F "Oh wait. Yeah. Humans." + +"She tosses another discarded vine on my face." + +A "Cut that out!" + +F "Hah!" + +show fang happy + +A "I could report you for allergy abuse." + +F "That’s the weakest threat I’ve ever heard." + +F "Actually, in general you seem a bit milquetoast around people." + +F "What gives?" + +show anon neutral with dissolve + +"I start prying off some of the vines stuck to my clothes." + +A "It’s like, why waste time on certain people, you know?" + +show anon neutral flip with dissolve + +A "It wouldn’t be worth my time to do something crazy." + +"Fang leans forward on the ladder, pretending to be hurt." + +F "Aww, I’m not worth your time?" + +A "Some people certainly aren’t." + +A "Just never meant to amount to anything or do anything important." + +"She drops the smug expression for a second." + +F "Anyways, you should get up." + +F "Rosa will kill you if she sees you crumpled in her stupid flowers." + +play music 'audio/OST/Fuck You I Like To Ignore Problems.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"A yell echoes from somewhere across the schoolgrounds." + +Ro "He {i}WHAT{/i}." + +F "Shit, hurry up!" + +A "Hang on…!" + +"I try leaning up. The bush has intertwined with my clothes." + +A "I’m stuck!" + +F "You actual…!" + +"Rosa scrambles over and starts pulling at her hair when she sees me stuck in the bush." + +show fang surprised with move: + xalign -0.5 yalign 0.0 +show rosa angry at scenter with moveinleft +show anon fear flip with move: + xalign 1.5 yalign 0.0 + +Ro "Wh-yo-why- ARGH!" + +Ro "¡ESTÚPIDO! ¡¿QUÉ CLASE DE RIDÍCULA Y PATÉTICA EXCUSA DE HOMBRE ERES?!" + +Ro "Wait… Your position…" + +"She points a burning finger up at Fang." + +show rosa angry flip with dissolve + +Ro "Did {i}you{/i} push him!" + +show fang surprised with move: + xalign -0.8 yalign 0.0 + +"Fang’s skin goes a shade paler." + +show anon neutral flip + +A "Uh... no, I fell on my own." + +A "Sorry…" + +show rosa angry at scenter with dissolve + +Ro "SORRY? What kind of pendejo manages to fall that hard into my Middlemist Red Camelias that hard on his own?!?" + +"I shrug apologetically." + +Ro "I just… URGH! Do you have {i}any{/i} idea how long it takes for those to bloom!" + +Ro "Name! What is your name?!" + +A "Er, Anon…" + +Ro "An-on! Why are you still in there? Get up niño, get up!" + +"She grabs one of my hands and wHOA-" + +A "You trying to rip my arm off?" + +"She grabs a bicep proudly." + +Ro "I say all the time. Outside work is good for your health!" + +F "Think I’ll stick to stealing the occasional protein bar from Nasers’ stock." + +Ro "Wait, An-on, why is your face so red?" + +A "The uh, vines. Guess I have an allergy." + +show rosa bossy at scenter with dissolve + +Ro "Oh, no, no no! You must stop working vines then!" + +"She points back up to Fang." + +show rosa bossy flip at scenter with dissolve + +Ro "You! Get down from there, you are both switching to weeds!" + +F "{i}Uuuuughhhhh…{/i}" + +F "...Allright, whatever." + +Ro "Go, go now! And no more tripping!" + +scene black with fade + +"We go exchange our equipment for weeding trowels." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"Once we get directed to a place in the dirt to start, Fang and I diligently continue in silence for a bit." + +scene garden with fade +show anon neutral flip at sright +show fang neutral at sleft + +F "... Why did you lie earlier?" + +A "Hm?" + +F "About how I kicked you." + +A "Uhh…" + +A "Spur of the moment, I guess?" + +A "Seemed like the easiest way out of getting in more trouble?" + +F "... Sure." + +A "What do you mean sure?" + +F "Sure it was the easiest way to get out of trouble?" + +A "Uh… " + +F "Why did you {i}really{/i} do it?" + +A "What do you mean?" + +F "You know, your reasons, real reasons? Your recta ratio." + +A "Recta ratio? Fancy words outta you." + +A "But I don’t understand..." + +F "You fucking moron what was your motives? Why would you care?" + +A "Uhh… " + +"I had to think about that for a moment. Why {i}did{/i} I do that..." + +F "... You said something before." + +F "About how some people won’t ever amount to anything." + +A "Oh, uh, yeah. That was, uh…" + +F "What did you mean by that?" + +"Why the fuck is she so curious?" + +A "I dunno, you’d probably think I’m some creep for saying this…" + +F "I already think you’re a creep." + +A "Fair but fuck you regardless." + +show fang flip off hostile with dissolve + +"Her retort is a prominent flipping of the bird." + +show fang neutral with dissolve + +A "I dunno, It’s like, the world is too full." + +A "And there’s only gonna be more people as time goes on." + +A "Eventually we’ll run out of food and resources, but culture will be too far gone to really fix anything." + +"Fang stops digging for a moment and gives an attentive stare out of the corner of her eye." + +A "Midwits and morons have kids like crazy. The number of smart people in the world remains stagnant." + +A "Or even goes down over time." + +A "Nobody is immune to propaganda, and useful people can be indoctrinated right into the crowds." + +A "Y’know?" + +F "..." + +A "Told you it’d sound weird." + +F "No, actually, that’s… Wow." + +show fang happy with dissolve + +F "That’s actually exactly how I feel about things!" + +"She what?" + +"Fang is acting strangely enthusiastic all of a sudden." + +F "Right like, in all of history, if you {i}really{/i} look at it, the smart people have never even once had to answer to the excess." + +F "Back in the day, innovation was propelled by smart people working with other smart people." + +F "Trying all sorts of new things the masses would have hated." + +F "Like rock music, right?" + +F "People hated that at first." + +F "When {i}my{/i} band takes off, I’ll get to rub it in everyone’s faces." + +F "All those cock goblins. It’s like everywhere you go, there’s a hundred dumb people for one person worth anything." + +A "What’d you call it before? Excess?" + +F "Yeah, like Naomi." + +A "Right." + +F "Most people in the school, even." + +A "I can see it." + +F "... Maybe Reed? Not sure." + +"...?" + +F "Rosa and Stella, definitely." + +"What the-" + +F "Naser, too, unfortunately. Oh, well." + +F "All of them, sheep." + +"Too casually brush everyone aside like that…" + +"What does she think of me, then?" + +A "If you think so little of Rosa and Stella and everyone, why hang out with them?" + +show fang neutral with dissolve + +F "... I don’t like being alone. You don’t need to know any more." + +F "As long as they aren’t the sort of people that showed up that day at our concert…" + +F "Those lazy, talentless, inconsiderate, self-righteous, condescending excuses for peers." + +F "Thinking they can just make fun of our music." + +A "Haha, yeah, those guys sucked. Their insults weren’t even that creative." + +"Fang’s arm jerks back violently, pulling a bundle of weeds and topsoil out and onto my jacket." + +A "Hey-" + +play music 'audio/OST/you can_t sage here.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +F "What is that supposed to mean?" + +"Her eyes scrutinize me thoroughly." + +"But why-" + +"Oh." + +"Oh shit." + +"My foot tastes a bit salad-like today. Damn gardening." + +A "Er, just… gossip I heard from classmates afterwards?" + +"We both know that’s a lie." + +"I feel anxious as Fang continues watching me." + +"I watch it happen, as if in slow motion, as comprehension dawns on Fang." + +"Her voice is low." + +"Accusatory." + +show fang very angry + +F "...you were at the show?" + +"My heart stops." + +"There it is." + +"I couldn’t have hoped to hide it forever." + +"Fang stands over me, her wings spread wide and her shoulders shaking." + +"I… how do I explain this?" + +"We’re close enough friends now, right?" + +"I could probably even joke about it a bit." + +menu: + "Explain it to her honestly, she should understand by now": + jump beHonest + "Joking is a good way to move past mistakes.": + jump jokeAround + +label beHonest: +$ anonscore += 1 +play music 'audio/OST/Summertime Synth.ogg' fadein 1.0 +"I guess honesty is the best policy." + +A "Well, Naser did invite me to your concert... and I did end up going." + +show fang angry + +"Fang’s expression hardens and she crosses her arms." + +A "He told me there’d be free food so I figured why not? It’s not like I knew it was going to end up the way it did." + +F "So why did you tell us you didn’t go?" + +A "Because I kept seeing your psycho friend hunting down everyone else who went, why would I make myself a target?" + +F "Trish was only looking for the dicks who…" + +F "Did you laugh at us too?" + +"She jabs an accusatory finger at me." + +A "Fang, I-" + +F "Did. You. Laugh?" + +"I open my mouth to answer but the words aren’t coming to me." + +"Fang seems to pick up on my inability to answer." + +show fang very angry + +F "I fucking knew it." + +A "Look Fang, I’m sorry, right? I didn’t know-" + +F "I can’t believe you right now!" + +"Fang begins to storm off and I try to chase after her." + +A "Fang, wait!" + +"But my self-defeating clumsiness seems to have a different plan and my foot catches on the pile of discarded gardening tools." + +"The world spins and I land on my ass where we were weeding." + +scene black + +"At least something broke my fall…" + +"Wait. Isn’t this the flowerbed?" + +"Suddenly an orange terror descends upon me like I set off some sort of alarm." + +Ro "¡MALDITO CABRÓN PELÓN! ¡QUÍTATE DE AHÍ PORQUE ESTÁS APLASTANDO LAS FLORES!!!" + +scene garden with fade +show rosa angry at sleft + +A "Err… Sorry?" + +Ro "Ay Dios mío...do you have any idea how long it takes those to bloom!" + +Ro "And for you to just tumble onto them AGAIN!" + +jump postAnonLaughReveal + +label jokeAround: +play music 'audio/OST/Summertime Synth.ogg' fadein 1.0 +"We’re good enough friends now, right? This’ll be fiiiine." + +A "I know that you guys sounded so bad you never made it past your intro." + +"Her eyes narrow. Eh, maybe if I…" + +A "I was expecting dinner and a show, not a comedy skit." + +show fang ultra angry + +"I know I’m not the best comedian but still nothing?" + +"No, wait, I think I hear some cracking." + +"Oh, that’d be her knuckles popping." + +"Fang’s face twists into a sneer and her hand slowly comes up into a fist." + +"I may have overestimated my comedic talents. Or our friendship." + +scene black + +"My head snaps to the side, a burning sting radiating from my cheek." + +"My foot catches on the pile of discarded gardening tools." + +"The world spins and I land on my ass where we were weeding." + +"At least something broke my fall…" + +"Wait. Isn’t this the flowerbed?" + +F "You fucking asshole…" + +"Fang storms off, shouldering past Rosa, who is stunned silent." + +"Rosa isn’t stunned for long though, and suddenly an orange terror descends upon me like I set off some sort of alarm." + +Ro "¡MALDITO CABRÓN PELÓN! ¡QUÍTATE DE AHÍ PORQUE ESTÁS APLASTANDO LAS FLORES!!!" + +scene garden with fade +show rosa angry at sleft + +A "Err… Sorry?" + +Ro "Dios mío...do you have any idea how long it takes those to bloom!" + +jump postAnonLaughReveal + +label postAnonLaughReveal: + +show anon neutral flip at sright + +"I jump to my feet and quickly inspect the damage. The entire section of flowerbed where I had landed was imprinted with my outline like a snow-angel." + +"Just my luck." + +A "Rosa, I didn’t mean-" + +Ro "It doesn’t matter what you meant!" + +Ro "Once is forgivable, but twice! TWICE!" + +Ro "¡¡QUÉDATE QUIETO QUE TE JURO POR RAPTOR JESÚS QUE TE GOLPEARÉ CON LA CHANCLA!!" + +St "Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" + +show stella unimpressed at stleft with moveinleft + +"I am saved by a green stegosaur grabbing the mighty arm of judgement out of the air mid-swing." + +St "Rosa, remember what we talked about!" + +"Steam erupts from Rosa’s nostrils like a bull." + +show rosa considering with dissolve + +Ro "..." + +St "Don’t use physical force to make people hurt, alright?" + +A "Th-thank you St-" + +St "That’s what manual labor is for, right?" + +A "..." + +Ro "...Yes… Yes, of course." + +show rosa bossy with dissolve + +Ro "You! An-on, you will help extra two hours after everyone else! Two!!" + +A "For flowers?!" + +Ro "For flowers!" + +A "... Are you sure you wouldn’t rather just beat me?" + +Ro "I can do both!" + +St "Where did Fang go?" + +show stella + +A "I uh… Did something I shouldn’t have." + +A "She ran off…" + +Ro "You ruin the flowers of friendship like you do of my labor!!" + +St "You should go find Fang and apologize. And bring her back." + +St "If you don’t share someone’s pain, you can never understand them." + +"Did this bitch just quote Naruto of all things?" + +"If I weren’t being directed to leave I would have bailed anyways." + +A "I saw her going towards the parking lot, I’ll be right back." + +Ro "You better!" +hide anon neutral with moveoutleft +scene outside school with fade +show anon neutral at acenter with moveinleft + +"There aren’t many cars in the parking lot, so finding Fang shouldn’t be too hard to find." +play music 'audio/OST/Beach Chill Out.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"That pair of wings rustling in-between two parked cars is probably a hint, not sure." + +"I silently approach, hiding behind the other cars in the lot." + +"She’s huddled around the passenger door of a garishly yellow minivan." + +"Wait, is she…?" + +"Shit, I gotta stop her." + +A "Fang, what are you doing?!" + +show fang very angry flip with dissolve: + xalign 1.4 yalign 0.0 + +F "Fuck off, fuck-knuckle." + +A "..." + +A "Fang, don’t break into a teachers’ car, we’ll get-" + +F "Shut the fuck up cunt smuggler I’m focusing on this." + +A "..." + +"I’m over it." + +A "Why are you doing this?" + +show fang angry flip + +F "... It’ll be fun." + +F "Hehehehe…" + +F "Why, you want to join in on a joyride?" + +"She looks at me like it’s a genuine question." + +A "No, I don’t." + +show fang kicking with dissolve: + xalign 1.6 yalign 0.0 +show anon fear at sleft with move + +A "Fang, what are you doing?!" + +A "Stop kicking the car!!" + +A "Damn it Fang!" + +A "I don’t know what more to say," + +A "except I’m sorry." + +A "I messed up and that was a dick move," + +A "But if you keep this up we’ll both be going-" + +F "What do you care?!" + +F "We’re already in detention, what’s a FEW MORE DAYS?!" +show anon angry with dissolve +A "... TO JAIL, FANG." + +F "GO." + +F "AWAY." + +A "YOU WANT TO GET OUR PARENTS INVOLVED?!" + +"Fang stops kicking the glass, drained of energy and out of breath." + +show fang sad at sright +show anon neutral +with dissolve + + +"Thankfully, the glass isn’t even scratched." + +A "... You’re right for being angry at me, you’re talented and skilled, and I got nothing to show for myself, and what I did was wrong.." + +A "But you’re better than this, come on." + +F "..." + +"Fang won’t look my direction." + +"At least she hasn’t started kicking the car again." + +"... Might be a good idea to give her some space." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"All of a sudden I feel like I shouldn’t be here." + +play music 'audio/OST/you need gopher chucks.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +unknown "HEY!!" + +unknown "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING TO MY CAR?!" + +"We freeze." + +menu: + "Get out of there.": + scene black with fade + "GET OUT OF THERE.": + scene black with fade + "GET THE FUCK OUT OF DODGE.": + scene black with fade + +"Fang immediately bolts towards the front of the school." + +"I follow after, legs pumping furiously in an attempt to both catch up to Fang and avoid the teacher screeching at us from behind." + +"I see Fang veer into the school, the door closing slowly after." + +"By the jacket on my back I’m able to slip in just before the door shuts completely." + +"Fang is panting in the stairwell near the door. And I’m sure I’m redder than I was earlier with the vines." + +scene garden with fade +show fang angry at sleft +show anon neutral at aright +F "Why… hah hah… did you… follow me?" + +"Why?" + +A "Be haaaaah… because… I’m sorry…" + +"Her snear returns and she makes to turn away." + +A "I fucked up. Yes, I was at that concert. And yes, I laughed. I never expected to actually become your friend." + +"Her wings block my view of her." + +"But she hasn’t left yet. Maybe I can fix this after all." + +A "I just wanted to coast through school. I was happy being a loner." + +A "I’ve always been one, after all." +show anon neutral at acenter with move +hide fang neutral with dissolve + +"Without a word Fang climbs the stairs." + +play music 'audio/OST/The Hunt for more (You)s.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"Fuck." + +"I consider following but her silence was evidence enough she wants nothing to do with me." + +"And standing here by myself I have time to think of my own admission." + +"If Fang leaves me alone, I’ll get exactly what I want. Right?" + +"She could probably talk Trish and Reed into leaving me alone too." + +"I’ll get the easy life I wanted." + +"So why the fuck do I feel absolutely empty right now?" + +"I sigh and slump over on the stairs." + +A "Can today get any worse?" + +show stella neutral at stleft + +St "Karma would suggest yes." + +"Oh." + +"You know, I always thought that tempting fate thing was just a dumb cliche." + +"It still is. But maybe Stella has a good point about astrology." +show stella explanatory +St "Rosa! I found our errant runaway!" + +"I hear the shrill screech of a latina banshee approach." +show rosa angry at sright with dissolve +Ro "Where did you go?!" + +Ro "You were supposed to get Fang and return! RETURN!!" + +A "Oh… Right. Yeah, uh… Sorry." + +Ro "You will be sorry!" + +St "There’s two hours left for the rest of the students, but that makes four for you." +show rosa neutral +Ro "Do not worry An-on! We stay as well!" + +A "... Greaaat." +scene black with fade +"The next few hours were grueling hell." + +"Carrying bags of the most rancid smelling fertilizer back and forth…" + +"Clearing entire sections of flowerbed of weeds using only a trowel…" + +"Tilling the same flowerbeds by hand..." + +"I don’t think the phrase ‘backbreaking labor’ was supposed to be literal." + +scene garden with fade +show rosa neutral at sleft +show anon neutral flip at acenter +Ro "As is expected of hombres!" + +"I could already tell that by the end of the day I would have crippling arthritis." + +"Fang returns eventually, but still won’t talk to me and just sticks nearby cutting vines." + +"Only an hour has passed, but I’m about ready to sleep for days." + +Ro "An-on! We will now be replanting the flowers you destroyed!" + +"‘Destroyed’ is a harsh word…" + +A "But I don’t know anything about planting-" + +Ro "You speak nonsense! Come here, now, I’ll teach you!" + +"She motions me to get on my knees next to her and hands me a clump of dirt with a juvenile daisy in it." + +Ro "I will dig the hole, you will place it in. Very simple!" + +"I somehow almost drop the flower." + +A "Y-yeah…" + +"I don’t even {i}want{/i} to think what would happen if I mess up a third time." + +"Rosa points up at Fang, who is still aggressively trimming back the vines." + +Ro "Fang, do you want to plant some, too?" + +F "I’ll… pass." + +"With a practiced hand Rosa clears out a cylindrical hole deep enough for the clump to go in." + +Ro "Okay, it’s ready." + +"My arms are practically rubber from today’s work and are faltering to the point pieces of dirt are being shaken off." + +"A little bit from the hole, I have to catch the whole thing when it slips from my grip." + +"Rosa puts her hands around mine to steady them before I drop it for real." + +Ro "Veeery easy, like this…" + +"The bulb is placed in the hole and we let go." + +"Rosa quickly fills up the patch of dirt with the trowel, leaving only the stem and flower visible." + +Ro "You did it!" + +A "Doesn’t seem like I did much at all…" + +Ro "Hush now. We still have dozens left to plant." + +"A keening whine rumbles from my mouth." + +A "Can’t I just take the beating instead? Please?" + +F "I’ll do that if you really want." + +Ro "Do you want to borrow my slipper?" + +A "I’d prefer the shovel. Aim right here, and do {i}not{/i} resuscitate me after." + +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating her Company.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"Fang’s chuckle helps to lighten my mood immensely." + +"Maybe…" + +"I continue replanting flowers under Rosa’s caring yet Orwellian supervision." + +"At noon the bellowing of our principal calls us back up to the front of the school." + +Sp "Thank you all again for showing up today." + +Sp "I hope that through your hard work all of you learned a valuable lesson." + +"I catch Fang rolling her eyes from the corner of my vision." + +Sp "Please do stay safe on your way home, and try to keep out of trouble in the future." + +Sp "Dismissed." + +show rosa bossy with dissolve + +Ro "Not you, An-on! You stay!" + +Ro "Right! And before everyone goes…!" +show stella explanatory at sleft with moveinright +"Stella approaches holding a covered pot and paper plates." +show rosa neutral with dissolve +Ro "I made lunch for everyone!!" + +"The small crowd gets a bit more energetic." + +Ro "Home cooked Mole Poblano! Enough for seconds and thirds!" + +"I graciously accept a plate and stack it high with salty-sweet goodness." + +"The hot food is absolutely heavenly, reinvigorating me as I bite into the mexican meal." + +F "mmmm… so filling…" + +A "Yeah… Wish I could cook like that…" + +"Wait." + +"I look around and see that the only ones left are Rosa, Stella, Fang and I." + +"Even Spears has gone home." + +A "Fang, ab-" + +Ro "Alright An-on, back to work! You still owe me two hours of heavy lifting!" + +Ro "Oh don't be sad. You are a natural greenthumb!" + +Ro "When you are not laying on my flowers, that is." + +"I don’t really… Get compliments." + +"It’s just circumstance, it’s not like I'm actually any less lazy or unskilled." + +F "Hold on, I’m not done yet." + +play music 'audio/OST/Dino Destiny Reader.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +St "We can wait a bit while you two finish. You need all your energy after all." + +"These guys aren’t half bad." + +"I thought they were slave drivers, but then again I did ruin their hard work." + +A "Stella, I’ve been meaning to ask…" + +A "Why {i}are{/i} you like this?" + +St "Like what?" + +A "You know, the whole thing with astrology and quoting…" + +A "..." + +A "...video games." + +St "Oh, I dunno, I guess it’s just the stuff I like." + +A "Right…" + +St "Why do you ask? Ooh, are you interested in it, too?!" + +A "I, err… maybe some other time, Stella." +scene black with fade +"The rest of lunch passes by without incident, and I’m left savoring Rosa’s delicious cooking." + +"Like they say, the first rule of Mexican food: the more it looks like raw sewage, the better it tastes." + +"The next two hours of work fly by relatively quickly without Rosa and Stella breathing down my neck." + +"Replant the rest of the flowers I had crushed, all done by me." + +"Collect all of the discarded vines and clippings into compost bins, all done by me." + +"Carry all of the tools back into the maintenance shed." + +"Take a guess who did it." + +play music 'audio/OST/west_coast_kicking.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"Fang stuck around for some reason, even though I don’t think she had any other work to do." + +"But now my prison sentence is finally over and I’m free to go." + +"My feet hurt, my arms hurt, my back hurts." + +scene garden +show rosa neutral at sleft +show stella neutral at stcenter +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade +Ro "Anon, you did such a good job today! You should sign up for the gardening club!" + +St "Yeah! You could come and help out with {i}all{/i} of our meetings!" + +"I just want to go home." + +A "That’s… I’ll just… think about it." +hide rosa neutral with dissolve +hide stella with dissolve +"I walk away before either of them can push joining their club further. I’m too tired to argue." + +"Fang seems to have disappeared, guess she didn’t want to stick around longer than she had to." + +"As I pass by some of the gardens I take a moment to admire my handiwork." + +"As much as I didn’t want to be here, I have to admit they look a lot cleaner than before." +show fang neutral at sleft +F "See? That’s what doing some actual hard work for once can do." + +"Fang’s sudden appearance from behind me makes me flinch. I guess she stuck around after all." + +show fang happy + +F "A wimp like you could use it, too." + +"So now Fang is suddenly talking to me, again?" + +A "Yeah, sure…" + +show fang angry + +F "Now all the important and beautiful plants can thrive without any of the useless weeds choking them up and holding them back." + +"Oh right, I almost forgot Fang thinks people like me are barely worth the oxygen." + +"Not that I really blame her after earlier." + +A "Yeah, well, don’t let the weeds like me get in your way…" + +"I sigh and turn away from Fang, beginning my very achy walk home." + +"Time to go and sleep for twenty hours." + +show fang neutral + +F "Anon, wait." + +"I stop in my tracks. Now what does she want?" + +A "Look, I said I was sorry, okay? I laughed at you guys and ruined your concert." + +A "I don’t care if you never want to talk to me again, I just don’t know what else you want me to say." + +F "Anon... It…" + +show fang sad + +F "It’s not the concert I’m upset about." + +"What?" + +A "It’s not?" + +F "I mean, maybe a little bit, but..." + +F "I’m mad because you kept it from me, okay?" + +F "It’s just… I haven’t made many friends in, well… a while." + +F "I don’t want to lose an actual friend over stupid bullshit like that." + +F "I just thought you would have trusted me more to tell me the truth…" + +A "I… is this why you stuck around earlier?" + +"She hesitates before nodding, like she needed to convince herself." + +F "Not that it matters but… I’m sorry too." + +A "You… for what? Kicking me in the face?" + +show fang happy + +F "I {i}might{/i} have overreacted a bit earlier but you did deserve that." + +F "I’m sorry for calling you one of the weeds. You’re not a weed, you’re… I dunno, a mushroom or some shit." + +A "A mushroom? Not like a cool tree or a cactus or something?" + +F "Hell no, you’re not {i}that{/i} cool. Mushrooms take all the bad shit and turn it into nutrients for all of the good plants, y’know?" + +F "Plus you kinda look like one, too." + +"Fucking rude." + +A "That’s like the nicest thing I think I’ve ever heard you say." + +F "Now you’re pushing it." + +"I let out a sigh of relief. Can’t say that’s how I expected this conversation to go." + +A "I guess we’re both assholes, then…" + +F "Heh, yeah… friends?" + +A "Friends." + +A "So, uh… why do you know so much about mushrooms, exactly? Reed?" + +show fang considering + +"Fang gives me a sideways glance and smiles a bit." + +show fang neutral + +F "Spend enough time around Stella and Rosa and you pick up a few gardening facts." + +A "Yeah, first impressions aside they’re pretty alright I guess. Stella’s a bit weird and Rosa is a walking stereotype." + +show fang happy + +F "BWAHAHA!! A dork like {i}you{/i} calling Stella weird?" + +A "A dork like me has every right to call out Stella." + +F "Sure, sure. Anyway, I’ll be seeing ya, Anon." + +A "Yeah… See you…" + +hide fang with moveoutright + +"Fang strolls away, humming some tune I’ve never heard." + +"Left alone now with just my thoughts I find myself feeling a great weight lift from me." + +"Friends, huh… I can’t recall the last time I had a legitimate friend…" + +A "{i}Some people certainly aren’t.{/i}" + +A "{i}Just never meant to amount to anything or do anything important.{/i}" + +A "..." + +A "I just don’t know anymore." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade + +"I set off for my apartment, body sore but spirit soaring." + +"..." +#Heart to Heart +play music 'audio/OST/punk_revamp.ogg' fadein 1.0 +"One month now. Five to go and I’ve found myself in a predicament." +"I’m enjoying my time with Fang." +"Most of the time just talking about stupid shit." +"Like our mutual love for wire-fu and comedy movies." +"{alpha=*0.5}{i}We are both ventriloquist, ventriloquist, ventriloquist. We are both ventriloquists and we practice every day.{/i}{/alpha}" +F "{alpha=*0.5}{i}He carries a basket{/i}{/alpha}" +A "{alpha=*0.5}{i}He carries a paper roll{/i}{/alpha}" +"{alpha=*0.5}{i}and we don’t have cysts. But there is one thing that’s for sure friends, we are ventriloquists.{/i}{/alpha}" +"Almost every day now I’m either at her desk helping her in Science or working on a lab with her." +"Or she’s sat next to me decrypting the mystical arts of Not Sucking at Music." +"I’m talking more with her than anyone I’ve ever talked with." +"Not to mention lunch and after school. It’s less hiding from the tangerine tyrant and Naser these days and more spending time with Fang and Reed." +"Even if he’s constantly checked out." +"And smells of burnt skunk." +"The fuck is he on, anyway?!" +scene bandroom +show anon neutral at acenter +show reed neutral at sright +Re "It’s carfe, bro…" +"...what?" +Re "Carfentanyl." +"..." +"Whatever." +"Fang and the gang (heh) are pretty alright." +"Trish though…" +"Every day she gives me the same look of distrust and a put-upon sigh." +"As if I’m some kind of chore to deal with." +"Whatever. S’not like she matters in the long run." +"But I find myself having these weird thoughts lately." +"Like, is any of this real or not?" +"I tumble backwards." +"Off of the stage." +show anon neutral at aleft: + xalign 0.5 yalign -0.1 + linear 1 rotate -90 +hide anon neutral with dissolve +"Woah" +A "ow…" +Re "bro….. That sucks….." +"It’s lunch time now, and I guess I dozed off." +"Too many late night ‘study’ sessions." +Re "You like… need help?" +A "ffff…. Just fix the projector Reed." +Re "‘Kay… Almost done…" +show anon neutral at aleft: + xalign -0.8 yalign 0.0 + linear 1 rotate 0 + ease 1.0 xalign 0.0 yalign 0.1 +"I hobble to my feet, feeling out the bruise blossoming on my shoulder." +A "Hrrrrg… Stupid fuckin’ stage." +"I consider jumping back up, but find the stairs up more appealing." +scene hallway +show anon neutral flip at acenter +show trish unimpressed at tleft +play music 'audio/OST/i_have_no_clue_what_im_doing.ogg' fadein 1.0 +"Going up the stairs, Trish suddenly grabs my shoulder, pinning it to the wall." +"She leans in close, looking me dead in the eyes." +A "Uhh…" +A "Can I help you?" +T "Don’t play dumb." +T "Something’s up with Fang today." +"She gestures to where Fang is sitting." +"Fang’s picking at her lunch with a fork, not eating a bite." +"Now that I think about it, she has been a bit distant today." +T "They’ve been like this since band practice yesterday." +"Wait, what?" +show trish angry with dissolve +T "Did you do something to them?" +"Do something? What does she mean?" +"Does she think that Fang and I…" +#if persistent.lewd == True: +# show howlewd at truecenter with dissolve +# pause 3 +# hide howlewd with dissolve + +T "OI!" +A "What? No! I don’t think at least." +A "Why are you so concerned?" +A "Everyone has a bad day every now and then, right?" +T "Fang and I have been friends for ten years now." +T "Not once have I seen them this upset." +T "You’re the only new thing around here." +T "It can’t be anyone else." +T "So. What did you do?" +A "I swear I haven’t done anything with Fang." +A "Look, we’ve got music next. I’ll ask Fang what’s up then." +"Trish glowers. We both glance at Fang to see her still sitting there with her untouched food." +T "You’ll talk to Fang? You’ll probably make it worse. I should be the one to talk with them." +A "So why haven’t you?" +show trish unimpressed with dissolve +"Trish’s mouth shuts with a click." +"I stare her down." +"Her eyes harden and she finally speaks." +show trish annoyed at tleft with dissolve +T "...Fine… but you better not fuck up." +"She lets go of my shoulder, stuffing her hands in her jacket pockets with a huff." +hide trish with moveoutright +"I finally return to where I was sitting on the stage to continue finishing my lunch." +scene bandroom +"Right when I plant myself on the ground Reed speaks up." +show anon neutral at aleft +show reed neutral at scenter +show trish neutral flip at sright +Re "Aaaaand… Done!" +A "Done? With the projector?" +Re "That’s right, man… Now we can watch movies… Shows… Pornos… All that." +T "We’re not watching porn in school." +A "Not with that attitude…" +"Trish throws an orange slice at me." +Re "So what do you guys wanna watch…?" +"I can’t think of anything that would be appropriate around normal highschoolers." +"Trish raises her hand and jumps in place." +T "How about the Count of Monte Cristo?" +Re "Oh, I know that one! The actors in that one are pretty great…" +A "Oh yeah. I love the VA work." +"Trish and Reed stop and stare at me." +play music 'audio/OST/The.ogg' fadein 1.0 +T "..." +Re "..." +"Crap, was it something I said?" +T "What-" +"*DING-DONG BING-BONG*" +"Saved by the bell!" +"I look to Fang and-" +"Oh." +"When did she leave?" +A "Oh, Fang left already. I’ll go catch up with her." +A "BYE!" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade +"I make record time out of the auditorium, leaving a still confused Trish and Reed." +"..." +scene classroom with fade +"Fang isn’t in music class when I get there." +"I tap out a quick message to her on my phone. I take a spot next to her seat and wait." +"Maybe she just needed to use the bathroom." +"..." +"It’s been about twenty minutes." +"I’m starting to get worried." +T "{i}{alpha=0.5}Something’s up with Fang today.{/alpha}{/i}" +"Hmmm..." +"I looked at my phone, and the message I sent her way just before class started." +show anonphone at scenter +A "Hey. Wanna talk?" +"Still unseen?" +"..." +T "{alpha=0.5}{i}you better not fuck up.{/i}{/alpha}" +"God damn it." +A "Mr. Jingo! I need to use the bathroom!" +"..." +"One guitar-shaped bathroom pass later I’m scrambling through the halls." +scene hallway with dissolve +"If I were a non-binary teenage pterodon having a crisis, where would I hide?" +"Someplace only Fang would go..." +"The family bathrooms!" +"There are only two in the building." +"I sprint to the first bathroom, closer to the back of the school and nestled away in the special needs area." +"My knuckles rap against the door, locked and preoccupied." +A "Fang? You’re missing class and I seriously need help with this sheet music." +play music 'audio/OST/Dino Destiny Reader.ogg' fadein 1.0 +unknown "The one you seek is elsewhere." +"Who the fuck… Wait…" +A "You’re that weird stego chick…Stella?" +St "That’s very rude… And I’m not weird…" +A "Whatever, do you know where Fang is?" +St "...Not here… Can you please leave? I have a nervous bladder." +"I turn away from the door and sprint to the front of the school where the other bathroom is." +"It’s while I’m moving briskly through the empty corridors of the school with un-tuned guitar in hand that I find divine providence." +"Or rather." +"The feathers floating by the window provide me with the clue I need." +"I look out the window, and while I can’t look up to see for sure, the shadow that she is casting on the ground below is enough verification required." +"My feet climb the steps easily, but my mind is ill at-ease." +"The hell is wrong with me right now." +"Why do I feel anxious right now?" +T "{alpha=0.5}{i}What did you do?{/i}{/alpha}" +"What if I did do something?" +T "{alpha=0.5}{i}Fang and I have been friends for ten years now.{/i}{/alpha}" +"I’ve known her for barely a month. And why is it my problem to fix?" +T "{alpha=0.5}{i}Not once have I seen them this upset.{/i}{/alpha}" +"I can’t stop the gnawing feeling in my chest." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene roof day +show fang neutral: + xalign -0.2 +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade +"I’m at the door to the roof now. It’s shut, but by the handle I notice a piece of cardboard tucked between the door and frame, keeping the latch open." +F "Good job, dork." +show fang happy +"Fang smirks a bit." +"Damn it all. Fang’s problems first, then I can figure out my chest." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"I open the door and am immediately blinded by the sun." +"I shade my eyes." +"The door clicks shut behind me." +A "Oh… shit…" +show fang neutral +F "Whose the- Anon?... What’s with the guitar?" +"Fang is sitting atop the stair enclosure looking down at me." +A "Mr. Jingo’s hall pass. I uh… Kinda need help with sheet music again." +F "Wow. You really suck at music." +A "Yeah. I really do." +"I find the ladder easily enough and climb on top of the tiny hut." +play music 'audio/OST/Appreciating her Company.ogg' fadein 1.0 +"Around Fang are scattered feathers." +A "You alright? The feath-" +F "Preening." +"What." +"Fang sighs. She holds one of her wings and gently brushes her fingers through the feathers." +F "I’m preening my wing." +"She winces. A feather drifts to the floor." +A "That looks painful." +show anon neutral flip at acenter behind fang with move +"I move closer." +F "A little." +"I sit down next to her and look out at Volcaldera Bluff. It’s a beautiful view." +"It’s a distraction." +F "You ever…" + +menu: + "stay quiet...": + jump quiet4b + "Interrupt": + jump interrupt4b + +label quiet4b: +"There’s a time to speak and a time to listen." + +show fang sad + +F "... You ever feel like you just don’t matter?" + +"Fang stares at the vista of Volcaldera but her eyes are vacant." + +F "I feel like no matter what I do, I’ll never be able to make something." + +F "I try and try but nobody likes the ways I express myself." + +show fang angry + +"She growls." + +F "Not once after all the work I’ve put into VVURM DRAMA has anyone ever told me it was good," + +"Her eyes wetten. Her voice roughens. Her shoulders quake." + +F "nobodies ever said ‘Good job, Fang! Can I get a copy of that last song on CD’ ." + +F "I’ve been playing music since I was basically in diapers and all I have to show for it is a shit reputation." + +show fang very angry + +"Her hand curls into a fist. Her nails bite into her palm, and I can clearly see the minute trickle of blood." + +F "How much harder do I have to try to get people to notice me!" + +"Her fist crashes down on the floor." + +show fang ultra angry + +F "Even my own parents!" + +F "When dad looks at me it’s like he just sees a lost cause!" + +F "\"Oh, Fang is the scene teen, better focus on the one that ISN’T broken so we don’t screw up again!\"" + +"She punctuated her shouts with her fist, striking the roof beneath her." + +"Her fist lands softly one final time, uncurling to reveal the bleeding grooves her sharp nails have left." + +F "..." + +show fang ear cover + +"Watching her break apart, it’s causing the dull pain in my chest to intensify." + +F "Why can’t I be popular like him?" + +show fang very sad + +"Fang deflates completely. All her anger gone, replaced with melancholy." + +F "Naser doesn’t have to try at all!" + +F "Even crippled, he just breezes through life!" + +F "Why does he get straight A’s?" + +F "Why does he get my parents’ attention?" + +F "Why do I have to be the burden on everyone?!" + +show fang hiding + +"She grabs her knees and buries her face in her lap." + +A "..." + +menu: + "stay quiet...": + jump quiet4c + "Interrupt": + jump interrupt4c + +label quiet4c: +F "And the worst part is he can’t even hate me." + +show fang sad + +"She picks her head up." + +"Rivulets of tears and orange eyeliner run down her cheeks and leave bright stains on her knees." + +F "I can tell him to fuck off every day and he’ll still be there the next." + +F "As if nothing fucking happened." + +F "He’s a constant reminder of everything I can’t be." + +F "He’s a goddamned boy scout!" + +F "Lil’ Mr. Perfect!" + +F "And I’ll always be in his fucking shadow!" + +F "I can’t just change, just magically get better at everything even if someone like Naser tries to help." + +F "And it’s clear he wants to." + +F "But the sheer difference between us…" + +F "It won’t ever happen." + +F "But my brother tries." + +F "He’s always trying. He just FUCKS UP!" + +F "Every. Fucking. Time." + +show fang anguish + +"She wipes a tear with one of her hands, but leaves a bloody smudge instead." + +F "Naser knows who he is." + +F "I don’t even know what I am." + +A "..." + +"Do I step in now…?" +menu: + "stay quiet...": + jump quiet4d + "Interrupt": + jump interrupt4d + +label quiet4d: + +show fang ultra angry + +F "WHO AM I, DAMN IT?!" + +show fang very sad + +F "I can only define myself by the thing’s I’m not." + +F "I’m not a good band player." + +F "I’m not a good sibling." + +F "I’m not a good friend." + +F "I’m not a good person." + +F "My mind is a fucking mess. In my head it’s all…" + +F "My thoughts… they’re all fucking foggy. Half the time I’m hating myself." + +show fang hiding + +F "‘Am I who I say I am?’ Maybe? Not really…" + +show fang anguish + +F "The other half I’m daydreaming of being something special." + +F "That I’m different from everyone. Above them… I know more than them." + +F "They’re both lies. I’m fuckin’ lying to myself but…" + +F "It’s like I’m just here to be a drain on myself and others." + +F "I’m stuck with myself, I can’t just drop everything and try other things now." + +F "It’s just too late for that." + +F "There’s too many ways to fuck up." + +F "Music is the only thing I’ve ever been decent at, and even then…" + +"She looks to me desperately, at a loss for words." + +"..." +menu: + "stay quiet...": + jump quiet4e + "Interrupt": + jump interrupt4e + +label quiet4e: +$ fangscore += 1 +$ anonscore += 1 +A "..." + +F "..." + +show fang very angry + +F "Why won’t you say anything?" + +F "Here I am begging for help and you haven’t said a word!" + +F "You’re always so sure of yourself, yet here you are listening to me in a crisis and you can’t say anything?!" + +"Fang grips my jacket with both hands, digging in." + +scene fangroofcry with fade + +F "What is it you have that I don’t?!" + +F "What is it you want from me?!" + +F "What is it I want from you?!" + +F "When you got here a few weeks ago you were just some nobody kid without friends who lives alone on financial assistance!" + +"She’s shaking my arm around." + +F "And now everyone I know is friends with you!" + +F "You have no talents, no specific knowledge anywhere, no real personality…" + +F "WHAT IS IT WITH YOU THAT YOU CAN LACK AN IDENTITY BUT KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE?!" + +"Honestly I…" + +A "dunno" + +F "...What…" + +A "I dunno how to say it. All I know is I’m me…" + +F "You’re… You?" + +"I struggle to find the right words." + +"Fang stares pleadingly. Eventually she buries her eyes in my jacket arm." + +A "It's like.. I don’t know..." + +A "You’re trying to be something you’re not." + +A "It needs to happen naturally." + +"Fang looks up from my arm." + +F "Naturally…?" + +A "If you are forcing this… whatever... then it's like some misplaced idea or like, a refusal to leave the comfort zone..." + +A "Argh, what I’m trying to say is…" + +A "I ended up trying to be someone else too." + +A "To the point that I rejected who I really was and started to fuck myself up." + +A "I’m not about making others' notice me, or about being great at something." + +A "I just do what makes me, well, me." + +A "I'm the only me here, and I think it's safe to assume that there's several of you. Like, you don’t know, you said it yourself." + +"Her fingers tighten around my arm." + +"I’m not certain she’s breathing right now." + +A "And there’s tons of different people going through what you are right now, trying to force their egos, only to reject who they really are." + +A "Not to undermine your feelings or anything." + +A "And at the end of it all, I’ve accepted that ‘I’ am, and will always be, ‘me’." + +A "Ya see?" + +F "I have to… Figure it out myself…?" + +"Fang’s grip loosens." + +scene roof day +show fang ear cover at sleft +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade + +"She puts her hands around her knees and lowers her head." + +"Her expression is one of complete resignation." + +F "I don’t… I can’t do anything on my own." + +F "How am I supposed to do something like this?" + +A "You aren’t alone." + +A "I’m here. Reed and Trish are here. You already know Naser wants to help." + +F "..." + +show fang very sad + +A "It doesn’t need to be all at once." + +"Fang looks back to me and gives a sad smile." + +F "... Alright…" + +show fang sad + +"She tries to dry her tears again, only to smudge her face with blood and makeup again." + +"I remove my jacket and offer the sleeve to her." + +"She sniffles, then grabs it to wipe her eyes." + +"...It’s laundry day anyways." + +show fang happy with dissolve + +"After returning my jacket, Fang looks to me again with a somber smile." + +A "Why did you come up here?" + +F "It’s nice up here. Quiet." + +A "But why? And why alone?" + +F "To think. Maybe to throw myself a pity party. I do this every year." + +A "Up here?" + +F "Nah… Just somewhere I can be alone." + +A "Every year though?" + +F "... Since I was 11…" + +A "Jeez. What happened?" + +show fang sad with dissolve + +F "I broke Naser’s wing." + +"Ah. My foot tastes extra salty today." + +F "We used to be really close. He looked up to me." + +F "I was supposed to watch him. I’m his big sister after all." + +F "He had asked me if we could really fly." + +"Fang stretched her wings to highlight that." + +F "I said ‘of course’... I looked away for a second and then it happened…" + +F "He jumped off the bluff." + +"Her eyes become distant, and I can only guess just how vividly she’s reliving this moment of her past." + +F "I watched as he jumped. As he bounced off the cliff and into the water." + +F "I climbed down as fast as I could, hoping to God he wasn’t dead." + +F "But the current… Dad and the lifeguard had to go in because the current was too strong." + +"Her voice quakes as she’s engulfed in her memory." + +F "When mom came with the medic-" + +show fang hiding + +"Fang chokes back a sob and continues." + +F "Naser was… I thought he was dead…" + +F "...Covered in blood…" + +F "...Limbs mangled…" + +F "My baby brother, just 9 years old, had jumped off the bluff, thinking he could fly!" + +hide fang +hide anon +show fanganonhug +with dissolve + +"Fang’s eyes grow wet again. Without a second thought I draw her into a hug, comforting her." + +"Her voice is muffled by my jacket but she continues." + +F "I’m why his wing is a fucking mess. I did it…" + +F "So why…" + +F "Why doesn’t he hate me…" + +Nas "{i}{alpha=0.5}She’s still family.{/i}{/alpha}" + +A "Because you’re his sister." + +"Fang flinches in my arms, but doesn’t pull away." + +A "You’re the one that’s hurting, Fang. Not Naser." + +"I surprised myself there. I honestly don’t know how I managed this conversation." + +"I let go of Fang and lean back, giving her some space. Her breathing is evening out, and she looks far more composed now." + +hide fanganonhug + +show fang sad at sleft +show anon neutral flip at sright + +F "... I’m sorry for what I said earlier." + +A "Huh?" + +F "About how you’re a nobody." + +A "You’re pretty much right." + +F "Maybe, but I shouldn’t have put it so harshly." + +F "All this time I thought people like you were…" + +F "Useless? Something like that." + +F "But here you are, proving me wrong time and time again." + +A "I get what you mean." + +A "I could say the same to you as well." + +A "I’ve been breaking your rules like you’ve been breaking mine." + +F "Maybe we’re both just useless nobodies." + +show fang happy with dissolve + +"She chuckles to herself." + +jump postFangAndAnonTalk + +label interrupt4b: + +"She seems at a loss for words." + +"I should say something." + +A "You’re feeling helpless, right?" + +A "Like you don’t matter?" + +show fang sad + +"Fang looks at me with desperation." + +F "Y...Yes…" + +A "Here’s what I think…" + +jump postinterruption + +label interrupt4c: +"Here’s a good place to butt in." + +A "You aren’t a burden to me." + +show fang sad + +"Fang removes her head from her knees and looks to me with pleading eyes." + +F "What?" + +A "I’m your friend too, right?" + +A "I don’t think you’re a burden." + +"Fang sniffles a bit." + +A "Here’s what I think…" + +jump postinterruption + +label interrupt4d: + +"Now’s a good time." + +A "You’re Fang." + +show fang sad + +"She looks to me with tears streaming down her cheek." + +A "Even if you don’t see it, you’re still you." + +A "The Fang I know likes music, bad movies, and doesn’t take crap from any adults." + +A "Am I right?" + +"Fang nods slowly." + +A "Here’s what I think…" + +jump postinterruption + +label interrupt4e: +"Here we go." + +A "It’s never too late to try something new." + +F "...I can’t." + +F "I just can’t." + +show fang sad + +A "You have support from me and Naser, right?" + +F "..." + +F "...Maybe..." + +A "Here’s what I think…" + +jump postinterruption + + +label postinterruption: + +"I put my arm on Fang’s shoulder." + +A "You’re in a pretty bad spot right now." + +A "Self-improvement is hard, but there’s nothing to be gained without sacrifice, right?" + +"Fang gives a slight nod." + +A "You need to step out from your comfort zone more often, even if you think there’s no time." + +A "There’s no harm in diversifying, right?" + +"Fang looks away from the coastline and to me." + +F "... I don’t know. Maybe you’re right..." + +A "You could also try harder to get along with Naser." + +A "I guarantee there’s not that much in the way between you two." + +F "...You’ll be there to support me, right?" + +A "Sure." + +F "I don’t know if I’m strong enough to do all that…" + +A "I believe you can be." + +A "Being weak is nothing to be ashamed of." + +A "Staying weak is." + +A "You don’t have to do it alone." +hide fang +hide anon +show fanganonhug +with dissolve + +"Fang embraces me tight." + +F "Thank you." + +"We sit in silence for a few minutes." + +".." + +"..." + +"...." + +"Eventually, she lets go." + +"Fang’s breathing is evening out, and she looks far more composed now." + +label postFangAndAnonTalk: + +scene roof day +show fang neutral at sleft +show anon neutral flip at aright +with fade + +F "Hey, can I see that?" + +"Fang points at my oversized hall pass." + +A "Yeah, sure" + +hide anon +hide fang +show hallpass +with dissolve + +"She takes it from my hands, our fingers brushing for a second." + +"She blushes while she handles the acoustic bathroom pass." + +F "I think… I think I finally got the tune, Anon." + +A "Tune?" + +"She finishes tuning the guitar and tests it. With a nod to herself Fang begins strumming." + +"The rhythm is slow and the tone is soft, enough so that her humming blends perfectly with it." + +"I lean back, bobbing my head along to the impromptu music." + +"The streaks from her tears that had once marred her pretty face only help the highlight her soft smile now." + +"I hum along now too, which causes Fang to giggle. The rhythm is slowing to a crawl, the song about to end." + +F "With a meteor coming soon" +F "Everyone’s going to die" +F "So I’ll say to everyone" +F "Goodbye Volcano High" + +"The lyrics surprise me, but I shrug it off." + +A "You ready to get up?" + +"Fang nods and wipes her tears one last time with her forearm." + +"I stand and pop my back, looking out over the fence at the ground below." + +"From here I can see the afternoon sun starting to encroach on the skyline of the small coastal town." + +"Turning to Fang, I crouch a bit and extend my hand to her." + +"She moves her bloody hand to take it, but hesitates." + +"..." + +"..." + +"She softly grasps my hand." + +"She winces in pain." + +"You know…" + +"It’s strange, I expected the alarms to go off again, but…" + +"This feels different, somehow." + +"More natural." + +show weridkissu +hide hallpass +with dissolve +"I’m careful to hoist her to her feet. Mindful of her injured palm. But her beak accidentally bumps into my cheek on her way up." + +stop music fadeout 5.0 + +"Ah, there they are." + +"Fang’s eyes contact and she instinctively hops backwards, covering her muzzle with her hands and turning her head away in her flusteration." + +"I clench my lower jaw and look at my palm, slick with sweat and her blood." + +"The silence continues for an immeasurable amount of time." + +A "Haha… So that’s how dinos kiss… Haha…" + +hide weridkissu +show fang happy at scenter +show anon neutral flip at aright +with dissolve + +#[Internal screaming sfx here] + +"FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFU-" + +F "Haha… not really haha… haha…" + +A "Ha ha… haaaa… uh…" + +"I look for something, anything, to end this awkwardness." + +"Like the guitar hall pass. Wait…" +stop music fadeout 1.0 +"I check my phone, seeing that Mr. Jingo’s class will be ending in 10 minutes." + +show anon sad flip +play music 'audio/OST/she_fucks_human_men.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +A "Fuck… the assignment…" + +"Fang finally looks my way again, though her face is still flush." + +show fang surprised + +F "What?" + +A "Mr. Jingo’s assignment. There’s no way in hell I’ll be able to do it at home." + +F "Pfffft." + +show fang happy +show anon neutral flip + +"Fang’s hands try to cover her beak, failing horribly to contain her giggles." + +F "Hehehehehehe. God, you really suck at music." + +"I glare at her." + +F "haaaaah... Why don’t you just drop it? It’s an elective anyway." + +"Because I need to maintain my GPA for college." + +A "Because… I kinda like it…" + +"I blush and look down to the entrance of the roof below us." + +F "Hmm… maaaaybe I’ll help you…" + +"Fang hops down, her wings easing her landing." + +F "I owe you for the fuckin’ therapy session anyway." + +A "Oh thank fuck." + +"I climb down the ladder. Those wings must be really convenient." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +show fang surprised flip +show anon fear flip +play music 'audio/OST/we just turned on the microphone in our programmers_ house.ogg' fadein 1.0 +Sp "WHO THE FUCK IS UP HERE!" + +"The door flies open, off its hinges, through the suicide fence and over the side of the building, crashing loudly on the concrete below." + +scene roof day broken +show fang shocked flip at sright +show anon fear flip at aright +with fade + +show spears angry at sleft with moveinleft + +Sp "I KNOW SOMEONE IS DITCHING UP HERE! MY HUNTING INSTINCTS CAN TELL!" + +"Oh double fuck." + +A "Uh…" + +Sp "YOU!" + +"Principal Spears looks at us, finger pointed at me as if to fire a special beam cannon through my chest." + +Sp "In all my god damned years… On top of the roof! Explain. NOW!" + +"Bullshit mode activate." + +A "I got lost looking for the bathroom?" + +"Spears incinerates me on the spot." + +F "Estrus season?" + +"For a brief instant I picture Fang in a bikini." + +#if persistent.lewd == True: +# show howlewd at truecenter with dissolve +# pause 3 +# hide howlewd with dissolve + +"Hot." + +"Fang gets a similar stare and withers down." + +Sp "I’m not stupid. Ptero estrus season isn’t for another few months." + +Sp "Empty your pockets. Now." + +show anon neutral flip +show fang neutral flip +with dissolve + +"I reduce myself to hoover flags. All I had on me was my phone and a ratty wallet held together with hot glue and duct tape." + +"Fang does the same, dropping her own phone, a spare guitar pick, and an unopened pack of cigarettes." + +"Spears looks at Fang dead in the eyes, rips the package open, and stuffs every cigarette in his mouth at once." + +"To our mortified stares, he chews them until they are a brown glob and spits it over the fence, landing on a rather oriental looking car." + +Sp "Anon. Go to class. Now. Fang. To the Nurse’s." + +scene bloodywing with dissolve +play music 'audio/OST/Skinrow Soul.ogg' fadein 1.0 + +"I look to Fang one last time. She looks a mess." + +"Her wings are ragged, feathers misaligned and a clear patch of them missing on one." + +"Stains on her legs from her make-up, tears and blood." + +"Drying blood on her hands, arms and beak." + +"Eyes puffy and red from crying." + +"But her smile… was…" + +"I wave her goodbye and wordlessly return to class." + +scene bandroom with fade + +"I only have a few minutes, but I can’t focus on the assignment. I’ll have to take it home as homework." + +F "{alpha=0.5}{i}Hmm… maaaaybe I’ll help you{/i}{/alpha}" + +show anonphone at scenter with moveinbottom + +"I take out my phone and consider messaging Fang again." + +"!" + +"My heart thumps roughly in my chest. Just what is with me today." + +hide anonphone with moveoutbottom + +"All this drama… When did my life become a soap opera…" + +"Heh… even included a dramatic kiss…" + +"I look at my hand, her blood now dried and dusty on my palm." + +"Did… That count as a kiss?" + +"I mean, it was unintentional. She backed off and all." + +"..." + +"Jeez, my insides feel like liquid." + +"Surely that’s just my disgusted reaction to Spear’s scare tactic up there." + +"Nah, this isn’t fear. Unlike a bottomless pit the feeling is..." + +"Pleasant…" + +"Yeah, I kinda like it. Hmmmm…" + +"I wonder if Fang-" + +"!" + +"The feeling intensifies. But why? I only thought of-" + +"It’s not as if she-" + +"But-" + +"..." +stop music fadeout 1.0 +scene black with fade + +"Do I like Fang?" + +"!!!!!!" + +"..." + +"Fuck." + +"..." + +jump chapter_5.0 \ No newline at end of file