label chapter_12A: #Lets all go to the Museum play music 'audio/OST/to_swagger.ogg' fadein 1.0 scene room anon dark with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "Later that night after school Fang texts me." pause .5 show anonphone with easeinbottom pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Alright i got a plan" pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} a plan?" pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} To make sure the concert goes off without a hitch" "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} First we need to learn right from the source" pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} the source?" pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Theres an old museum of fine arts doing a special exhibit on music next week" "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Lots of stories of bands pulling through last minute right?" "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} If we study from those old guys we’re guaranteed to do great!" pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} is it really that simple?" pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Sure!" "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Were gonna learn how old bands did well, were gonna play our music at prom, everyones gonna love us, and its gonna be great." pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} that’s a lot of ‘gonnas’" pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} And youre gonna come with me" pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} what about trish and reed?" pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Sending them to a bunch of old record shops to cover more ground" "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} So itll just be the two of us" pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} sounds like a plan." pause .5 "{i}Fang:{/i}{fast} Meet me at the galleria at three alright?" pause .5 "{i}Anon:{/i}{fast} i’ll be there." pause .5 hide anonphone with easeoutbottom pause .5 "I put my phone down and look around my room." "Do you need to dress special to go to museums{cps=*.1}...{/cps}?" "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}Not sure if that would be good enough." pause .5 stop music fadeout 4 "It’s probably fine, I shouldn’t be getting so worked up." "I get to spend the whole day with Fang, after all." pause .5 scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" pause .5 play ambient 'audio/effects/city loop.ogg' fadein 3 scene museum with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "The fine art museum turns out to be a relatively modern building right in the middle of the galleria." "Exactly the last kind of place I would expect Fang to be seen at." pause .5 "I almost regret my decision not to wear my dirty dress clothes before seeing Fang already waiting for me by the entrance." show fang neutral flip: yalign 0.0 xalign 0.9 with dissolve "Seeing me approach, she drops her cigarette and grinds the butt to ash under her heel." pause .5 stop ambient fadeout 4 play music 'audio/ost/dragging on and on....ogg' fadein 1.0 show anon neutral: yalign 0.1 xalign -0.2 show anon: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.2 with dissolve pause .5 F "Took you long enough." pause .5 "Here’s your one chance Anon don’t fuck it up." show anon shrug with dissolve A "Kept you waiting, huh?" show fang happy flip with dissolve F "God, you’re such a dork. C’mon, the music exhibit is inside." show anon neutral with dissolve "Thankfully admission to the museum was free." show fang: ease_cubic 1 xalign 0.6 pause 1 show fang: easeout 1 xalign 2.3 show anon: easeout 1 xalign 1.3 show fang happy with Dissolve(.25) hide anon hide fang with dissolve scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "She leads me by the hand through the front doors, and I immediately feel the temperature fall at least ten degrees." "Are museums always this cold?" pause .5 "The music exhibit is all the way in the back of the museum, past several rooms of abstract modern art." pause .5 F "What a bunch of junk." A "What, you don’t want to buy a painting made with dino egg yolks and whites for ten million?" F "What a steal!" A "What about a sheet of paper with an url to a picture of a fridge for fifty grand?" F "You’re messing with me." A "It’s true, I’ll show you when we get out of here." pause .5 scene museuminside with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "We reach the exhibit hall with the big words ‘THE STYGY MOLDRIX EXPERIENCE’ hanging over the door." "Despite it being a limited time event on the life and times of a famous musician, there’s only a few dozen people here." pause .5 F "Finally!" F "Alright, Anon, get ready to take notes!" pause .5 A "Notes{cps=*.1}...{/cps}?" "Fang grabs me by the forearm and rushes the two of us into the exhibit." show fang happy: yalign 0.0 xalign -1.0 show anon neutral: yalign 0.1 xalign -0.8 show fang happy: easein_cubic 1 xalign -0.1 show anon neutral: easein_cubic 1 xalign -0.25 with dissolve pause .5 "Once inside, she gives me her phone." F "Take pictures of everything for me, okay?" A "Dowhatnow? Uh, okay, sure{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" F "Let’s start with{cps=*.1}...{/cps} uhh{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" "She scans the room briefly before pointing giddily to a guitar hanging inside a case." "Despite being several decades old, the guitar was clearly well looked after." "The lacquer on the wood gleamed under the spotlights and the metal didn’t have a speck of rust on it." show fang: easein_back 0.75 xalign 0.0 show fang surprised with Dissolve(.25) F "OH! OH! That!" A "What is it?" show fang: ease_cubic 1 xalign 1.3 show anon: pause .5 ease_cubic 1.5 xalign 0.6 show fang happy with dissolve "She sprints over to the case and I have to catch up making sure I don’t drop her phone." show fang: easein_back 1 xalign 1.4 show fang very happy with dissolve F "It’s Stygy’s famous guitar!" pause .5 show fang happy flip with dissolve F "It’s actually a right handed piece, but Stygy was left-handed but couldn’t afford a lefty guitar, so he re-strung a regular one so he could play it." F "This guitar was the one he used on his last show at an informal gig in some jazz club in London, a few days before he bit it while OD-ing on drugs." pause .5 A "Yeah, that’s pretty cool." "I caught maybe half of that." "Either way, I snap several pictures from various angles while Fang continues her sermon." F "Alright, what’s next?" show fang: ease_cubic 1 xalign -0.6 pause .55 show anon: easein_back 1 xalign 0.25 yalign 0.05 show anon fear with Dissolve(.25) pause .5 "She drags me along to the next display case, a few vacuum-sealed pages with various scribblings on them." show anon: ease 1 yalign 0.1 show anon neutral flip with dissolve F "And these are some letters he hand-wrote to his father! If my dad wasn’t such an asshole he could have pulled some strings and let us play in the precinct!" show fang: easeout 0.75 xalign -1.5 pause .25 hide fang with dissolve show anon: ease_cubic 1 xalign -0.1 pause .5 "I try keeping up with her ramblings while taking pictures, but somewhere along the way I lose her in the twisting corridors." pause .5 show anon neutral with dissolve A "Oops." "I stand in place looking around a bit, but she’s nowhere in sight." pause .5 "She can’t have gone far, guess I’ll keep taking pictures of things." show anon: ease_cubic 1.5 xalign 0.3 pause .5 "My eyes are drawn to a monitor on the wall playing documentary footage." "It was a clip of Stygy playing the national anthem as a protest song or something." "It sounded kinda cool, I’ll give him that much." play ambient 'audio/effects/chatter loop.ogg' fadein 4 stop music fadeout 4 pause .5 show fang happy behind anon: yalign 0.0 xalign -0.3 show fang: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.75 with dissolve show anon: easein_back 0.5 xalign 0.25 show anon fear with Dissolve(.25) F "Ooh, that’s a good find, Anon!" show anon sad with dissolve "Fang’s voice makes me jump as she reappears out of nowhere." F "Maybe we could play something like that, show us as a champion of the common man!" show anon neutral with dissolve A "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Glad I could help." F "I saw some good stuff in the next row over we can go check out. too." show fang: easeout_back 1 xalign 1.8 show anon: pause 0.3 easeout_cubic 1 xalign 2.0 pause .5 hide anon hide fang with dissolve "She drags me away from the screen to whatever it is she wants to take ‘inspiration’ from." pause .5 stop ambient fadeout 4 play music 'audio/OST/The Hunt for more (You)s.ogg' fadein 1.0 scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "I’m glad she’s having fun and all, but{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" "I wish this was more of a date than a research assignment." "But I guess she’d feel the same way if I bombarded her with anime." "She has her interests and I have mine." pause .5 "Maybe after this I can take her to a restaurant." "We’re in a city, but there’s bound to be something relatively cheap nearby." "It’d be nice, talking about the pictures and things we’ve been taking over some burgers." pause .5 "It’s only four-thirty now, it’ll be about dinner time by the time we get out, too." "Pretty decent timing, sounds like a good plan." pause .5 "Fang drags me around a few more exhibits, cataloguing the various paraphernalia and stopping occasionally to obsess over some minor detail." "Eventually we loop back around to the entrance." pause .5 scene museuminside show anon neutral flip: yalign 0.1 xalign 0.25 show fang considering flip: yalign 0.0 xalign 0.7 with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "Fang looks back at the room we just came from." A "You about ready to go?" F "Maybe{cps=*.1}...{/cps} just trying to think if we missed anything{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" A "I’m pretty sure we got everything, you could probably reconstruct the entire exhibit using only these pictures I took." F "I guess{cps=*.1}...{/cps} just can’t have this part of the plan go wrong, you know?" show anon: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.15 show anon neutral with dissolve A "About that, I’m still not sure what your plan is meant to-" show fang: easein_back 0.75 xalign 0.85 show fang shocked flip with Dissolve(.25) F "OH WAIT!" stop music fadeout 4 show fang: easeout_cubic 1 xalign 2.2 pause .25 show fang surprised with Dissolve(.25) hide fang with dissolve "She dashes off back into the room we just came in, leaving my words dangling from my mouth." pause .5 "While I’m gone her phone buzzes." pause .5 play music 'audio/OST/Summertime Synth.ogg' fadein 1.0 "{i}Trish:{/i}{fast} hey r u rdy to mt up lik u sad we wud?" pause .5 show anon sad with dissolve "What{cps=*.1}...{/cps}?" "It says these ebonics come from Trish, but I didn’t know they were meeting later{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" show anon neutral with dissolve "This’ll throw a huge wrench into my plan earlier{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" pause .5 show fang neutral flip: yalign 0.1 xalign 1.6 show fang: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.7 with dissolve pause .5 F "Alright, sorry, I’m back." A "What was that about?" F "Sorry, had to hit up the gift shop." A "Oh." "That explains the fuck-ugly tie-dye monstrosity tied around her headcrest." pause .5 A "You uh, got a text from Trish, I think." "I hand her back her phone." pause .5 show fang: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.75 show fang happy flip with Dissolve(.25) F "Oh! That’s right, I told her and Reed that we’d meet up after we were done with everything." pause .5 A "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}I see{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" F "Right, so I’ll tell her we should meet at-" A "Actually, Fang, hold on a second{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" show fang neutral flip with Dissolve(.25) F "Hm?" A "Before we all meet together, do you want to stop by a restaurant or something, just the two of us?" pause .5 "She thinks to herself for a moment and smiles." show fang happy flip with Dissolve(.25) F "Of course, I dragged you along this whole time after all." A "Don’t worry about it." A "I think I can get us something from that taco truck I saw on the way in." F "Alright, I’ll tell Trish to wait a bit." show fang: ease_cubic 1 xalign 0.4 pause .5 show anon neutral flip with dissolve show fang: easeout_cubic 1.5 xalign -1.0 show anon: easeout_cubic 1.5 xalign -0.6 pause 1 hide anon hide fang with dissolve pause .5 stop music fadeout 4 scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "Instead of Fang dragging me through the museum, we walked out casually hand in hand." pause .5 play ambient 'audio/effects/city loop.ogg' fadein 4 scene museum show anon neutral flip: yalign 0.1 xalign 0.3 show fang happy flip: yalign 0.0 xalign 0.7 with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "I think I saw that truck a block east from here{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" A "By the way, do you take pollo or asada or what on your taco. Please don’t say leng-" show fang: easein_quart 1 xalign 1.0 show fang surprised flip with Dissolve(.25) F "Wait!!" show fang surprised behind anon with dissolve "She stops dead in her tracks, head jerked to the side." show anon neutral with Dissolve(.25) A "Huh?" F "Look!" pause .5 "I peer at where she’s pointing." "Some poster on the museum wall, it’s an advertisement for a documentary playing in the museum’s mini theater." "And{cps=*.1}...{/cps} it’s a documentary on Stygy Moldrix." show fang shocked with dissolve F "I didn’t see this on the way in, we have to see that too!" A "But what abou-" show fang sad with Dissolve(.25) F "I know, I know, I’m sorry Anon{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" show fang: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.95 show fang sad flip with dissolve pause .5 "Her eyes plead with me for mercy." F "Just bear with me a while longer?" pause .5 "I{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" "Well, it’s not like the truck’s going anywhere, at least." A "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}Fine. Let’s go{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" show fang: easein_cubic 0.4 xalign 0.75 easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.85 show fang very happy flip with Dissolve(.25) show anon: pause .15 easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.375 F "Oh, thank you Anon!" A "Yeah, I know this means a lot to you." show fang happy with dissolve F "Come on, the next showing is in five minutes!" "Already I’m being dragged back inside." show fang: easeout_cubic 1 xalign 2.0 show anon: easeout_cubic 1 xalign 1.1 pause .5 hide anon hide fang with dissolve pause .5 stop ambient fadeout 4 "I guess seeing a movie with Fang isn’t the worst thing in the world." pause .5 scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" pause .5 scene theater with Dissolve(1) pause .5 play music 'audio/ost/fighter.ogg' fadein 1 "Well this sucks." pause .5 "I feel my stomach grumble for what feels like the fiftieth time, once again regretting not even buying an overpriced bag of popcorn." "Stealthily as I could, I check the time on my phone before the light can distract anyone else." "It’s been thirty-six minutes since the documentary started, only a few more to go before I can escape." "I glance over at Fang, who has been so engrossed in the film that she hasn’t so much as looked at me this entire time." "Resigning myself to my fate, my eyes return to the screen which is currently going on about Stygy’s fourth unfinished studio album." "How exciting." pause .5 "I would have just slept through it if I knew Fang wouldn’t be upset with me." "Not just because of how interested she is in Stygy Moldrix, but because I wouldn’t be taking notes." "As the screen fades and the lights turn back on, I silently thank Raptor Jesus for ending my forty-minute torment." show fang happy: yalign 0.0 xalign 0.0 show anon neutral flip: yalign 0.1 xalign 0.75 with Dissolve(1) pause .5 F "That was really good! A lot of ideas for the band!" A "Er{cps=*.1}...{/cps} yeah, it was cool I guess." "Just please get me out of here." A "Now about that food truck{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" F "Oh! I told Trish and Reed that we could meet at the Galleria food court, we can get something to eat there." pause .5 "Really not looking forward to being anywhere near Trish but food is food." "Part of me just wants to call the date here and go home." "Not that it was ever much of a date to begin with." pause .5 A "Alright, let’s go then." "At least I can talk to Reed about Rock Ring or something." "Fang smiles and leads me back out of the museum and towards the food court." pause .5 scene foodcourt show fang neutral: yalign 0.0 xalign 0.6 show anon concerned: yalign 0.1 xalign 0.2 with Fade(1, 0, 1) pause .5 "I still think this is a bad idea, I’m still not over what Trish did and I doubt her mind has changed much either." show fang considering with Dissolve(.25) F "Stop being grumpy, Anon, you’re just hungry." "For fuck’s sake." show anon sad with Dissolve(.25) A "Fang, someone filled my locker with a shit-ton of hentai they printed out last week. It’s not okay." show fang neutral with dissolve F "That’s just some dumbass at school, we can get some food and it’ll be fine." show anon neutral with dissolve pause .5 stop music fadeout 5 play ambient 'audio/effects/teenagecrowdfarloop.ogg' fadein 6 "We round the corner and I immediately lock on to a certain triceratops." show anon: easein 1 xalign -0.3 show fang: easein 1 xalign -0.15 with None show reed sunglasses flip: yalign 0.1 xalign 1.95 show trish neutral: yalign 0.0 xalign 1.0 show reed: easein 1 xalign 1.6 show trish: easein 1 xalign 0.75 with dissolve pause 1 "Trish and Reed were already eating at one of the tables." pause .5 "Fuck that." A "I’m gonna go get something to eat first{cps=*.1}...{/cps} you want anything?" show fang unimpressed with Dissolve(.25) F "Nah, I’m good. Not that hungry." show fang neutral with dissolve "Extra order of fries it is." pause .5 "I split off from Fang to find a place to get food from." pause .5 scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "I glance over my shoulder to see Fang saying something and hugging Trish, both of them turning to look over at me." "Trish looking significantly less enthused than Fang. No surprise there." pause .5 "I stand in line for a Cretaceous Fried Chicken stand and order my food, savoring every moment I wait and don’t have to interact with Trish." "The moment doesn’t last long and I walk over to the table, food in hand." pause .5 scene foodcourt show fang neutral: yalign 0.0 xalign -0.5 show trish neutral flip: yalign 0.0 xalign 0.8 show reed sunglasses flip: yalign 0.1 xalign 1.4 with Dissolve(1) pause .5 # minor change so the descriptions doesn't clash with the visuals # "I take the seat between Fang and Reed, which puts me straight across the table from Trish." "The only remaining seat puts me straight across the table from Trish." pause .5 "Of fucking course." pause .5 show anon neutral behind fang: yalign 0.1 xalign -0.4 show anon neutral: easein_back 1.5 xalign 0.2 show trish neutral flip with dissolve pause 1 "I place the basket of fries in front of Fang and she immediately starts digging in." "So much for not being hungry." show reed happy sunglasses flip with Dissolve(.25) "Reed gives me a thumbs up, wearing his giant oversized sunglasses again." show reed sunglasses flip show trish unimpressed flip with dissolve "While Trish is making a face somewhere in between judgemental and open contempt." pause .5 T "So what took you so long? He wasn’t wasting your time again, was he, Fang?" show trish neutral flip with dissolve "Welp time to clock out of that conversation." "I’m sure they can have a riveting discussion without me." "It’s just one meal after all, I can ignore Trish for an hour and then Fang and I can leave." pause .5 "Digging into my basket of chicken tenders, I pull out my phone and head straight to the armenian graphic design forum." pause .5 show fang: linear 0.5 alpha 0 show anon: linear 0.5 alpha 0 show trish: linear 0.5 alpha 0 show reed: linear 0.5 alpha 0 show anonphone with easeinbottom pause .5 "There’s another Grugsnax thread I can shitpost in to pass the time." pause .5 "Every once in a while I look up from my phone and catch Trish giving me a death glare before turning to look back at the others." "Before long my train of thought is broken by Fang saying{cps=*.1}...{/cps} something." stop ambient fadeout 4 F "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}so Anon, what do you think?" pause .5 show fang happy: linear 0.5 alpha 1 show anon: linear 0.5 alpha 1 show trish: linear 0.5 alpha 1 show reed: linear 0.5 alpha 1 hide anonphone with moveoutbottom pause .5 A "Uh, yeah. That sounds good?" pause .5 play music 'audio/OST/sage goes in all fields.ogg' fadein 0.5 show trish smug flip with dissolve pause 1 "Trish looks smug. What did I agree to?" pause .5 F "Great! We can try Trish’s new song in the next rehearsal!" T "I’m surprised you agreed to that, I would have thought you wanted us to play some anime song instead." pause .5 "She’s just loving this, isn’t she." pause .5 Re "Hey man, that sounds kinda fun." show trish considering flip with Dissolve(.25) show reed: pause .2 easein_back 1 xalign 1.425 "Reed is qualed by Trish’s sneer." pause .5 "Know what. I don’t care any more." show fang neutral show trish neutral flip with Dissolve(.25) F "Maybe{cps=*.1}...{/cps} but let’s talk about that later. I’m cravin’ a milkshake now." show fang: easeout_back 1 xalign -1.0 pause .25 show fang neutral flip with Dissolve(.25) hide fang with dissolve "Fang gets up and turns to a nearby smoothie booth." "Leaving me here." "To deal with this. These." pause .5 show trish smug flip with dissolve T "So, Anon{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" "Her grin is just short of vicious." T "So happy you agreed to my idea." T "Guess you’re starting to get some good taste." T "Better than any of that weeb-pop trash you’ve got on your phone." pause .5 "I pointedly ignore her. She’s trying to get a rise out of me." T "Maybe I’ll make a somebody out of you too." T "Maybe{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" "My fist clenches tightly beneath the table." pause .5 menu: "It's not worth it.": pause .5 "I can see it now." "I've had about enough of this.": pause .5 "Just before I get up I think through it one more time." "Her stupid horn jammed right in her eye." pause .5 "I sigh." "My fist unfurls." A "Yeah, sure, whatever." pause .5 "God this was a waste of a day." "Normally I would love just spending time with Fang, but she’s been so preoccupied with the band lately." "I don’t even know why she needed me today when all she did was drag me around." "And now being anywhere near Trish is the cherry on the shit sundae." pause .5 "Fang returns a few moments later with a milkshake in her hand." pause .5 show fang happy: yalign 0.1 xalign -1.0 show fang: easein_cubic 1 xalign -0.5 with dissolve pause .5 F "What’d I miss?" T "Just talking to White Knight about his taste in music." pause .5 show dimmer_light behind anon, fang, trish, reed with Dissolve(.25) "Fuck this." "I can’t deal with this any more." hide dimmer_light with dissolve A "Shit, I just got a text from the post office. Says my dad’s prom suit came and I wanted to get there before it closed." show anon: easein_cubic 1 xalign 0.3 show anon neutral flip with dissolve A "Sorry to do this Fang, I gotta go. See you at school tomorrow." "I hate lying to Fang this way but I just can’t stand being around Trish any more." show fang sad with dissolve F "O-oh, it wasn’t anything I did, was it?" A "Everything’s fine, I just want to be ready for prom and your show." show fang neutral with dissolve "That seemed to put her at ease." F "Alright{cps=*.1}...{/cps} we still have a bunch to talk about for the show. See you tomorrow, then." Re "Peace, dude." pause .5 show anon: easein_cubic 0.75 xalign 0.225 ease_cubic 1 xalign 0.3 show fang: pause .75 ease_cubic 1.2 xalign -0.3 "I give Fang a reassuring hug and promptly head for the exit, not missing Trish’s dumb smug face as I pass her." stop music fadeout 4 show anon: easeout_cubic 1.25 xalign 1.4 pause .25 show anon neutral with dissolve hide anon with dissolve pause .5 scene black with Dissolve(1) pause .5 "God damn it." "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}" pause 1 return