Leaky Piping

## Description

Leaky Piping is a page found through Re3koning\_inc's main page, Revelation, accessed through the main search. It's one of two areas that help you find out the truth behind the Mindcrash and how it came to happen due to Outlaw, rather than Tim's takeover of Teentopia. The page features four links to several different screenshots from ChitChat conversations, with each link only accessible through Second Sight.

## Pages

### Leaky Piping 001: The Mystery of the Deleted Zones

Leaky Piping I gives a brief look into why half of Starport Castle Dreamstation's residents moved to The Freelands and why the Zone was created to begin with. There are three screenshots here.

The first two are from Dylan and Adrian on October 7th, with Adrian asking Dylan to do something about the "geeks" and how they're taking over Hypnospace. Despite Dylan explaining geeks were practically a third of the citizens and made up half of the zones in the Hypnospace City Menu, he eventually gives in to Adrian's demands and makes a new zone, Starport Castle Dreamstation, to move everyone to.

The last screenshot is a conversation between Dylan and Roddy Wall on October 15th. Roddy asks Dylan if he had something to do with the "Starport Castle Dreamville" thing, and Dylan says they had a team of interns trying to solve a problem, and that they chose to put a few zones together on their own server. He says that he forgot Roddy's pages were there, and that he himself should have been watching them for him.

Roddy says this is okay, though it would have been nice to know ahead of time. He also notes that his connection has started to get a bit slower, though Dylan replies that it probably hasn't propagated fully yet. The screenshot cuts off after this.

### Leaky Piping 002: Dylan's Bad Car Game

Leaky Piping II gives us a look into the making of Dylan's game "Outlaw" and possibly how it ended up causing the Mindcrash. This page also features three screenshots with Dylan, Adrian, and Samantha Clausson. Each of them was taken on November 5th.

The first screenshot shows Dylan explaining that he is working on knocking out bugs in Outlaw and that he wanted to let everyone know that he was going to be testing it with a few of the Enforcers that night. He says he would really like to get it out by the Y2K update, though Adrian simply replies, "ok if u think u have the time." Sam then responds a minute after that she is not trying to be rude, but she does not think there is any time to test Outlaw when they were currently trying to address bugs within Hypnospace itself.

The second screenshot follows this same conversation, starting with Sam telling Dylan that he knows they can't finish the game on time. Adrian tells Sam to mind her manners because Dylan is a "Whiz Kid." Dylan responds at the same time with an outburst saying he can finish it and that it would be nice if there was more than one person in the company that actually understood how huge the game could be for Merchantsoft and Hypnospace. He also claims to be the only person with a creative vision, while Sam's simply doing her constant boring "drone" work.

The third screenshot follows with Sam only replying "Wow." After a bit of time to cool off, Dylan responds to Sam around 2:11 pm and apologizes for exploding. He says that the game has to happen and outlaw will be released for the New Year Update, as it is the only way Cyberworldz won't crush them. He also mentions that it is indeed ambitions, but he's really trying to keep all of their jobs, implying that they were all on the verge of losing their jobs and possibly the company at this time.

Adrian only follows by saying it is true that Cyberwoldz has good graphics and games, and that they need to "get this on the balls," not acknowledging his brother's stressed outburst at all, and instead agreeing with him on getting the game done as soon as they possibly can.

### Leaky Piping 003: Nam

Leaky Piping III gives us a look into a conversation between Adrian Merchant and Artie Dispenza, with Adrian stressing worries about losing the partnership with Grays Peak Cola Co. around November 24th. This page features exactly two screenshots, unlike the usual three from the past two pages.

The first screenshot starts with Adrian asking Artie for help, and Artie responding with "Namaste" as a greeting in return. Adrian goes on to explain that he's torn apart about grays peak cola co, due to it being such a big client and seemingly starting to get cold feet with it and Merchantsoft's current deal. He needs guidance from his friend to bring them back, because Cool Punk was such a big mess. Artie tells Adrian that he knew this was already troubling him, due to it 'filling his eyes as he spoke at the investor meeting that very morning.' He tells Adrian he's not centered.

The second screenshot starts with Artie asking if he's still with him, and if his quiet corner is ready. Adrian responds saying yes he is at the quiet corner in his mind and that he's in his "comfy giraffe chair too". This screenshot doesn't seem as important as the previous one, but it is very silly and can still be sent to Samantha as evidence in the case of finding out whose behind the Mindcrash.

### Leaky Piping 004: This Sounds Bad

Leaky Piping IV features three screenshots from a conversation between Dylan and Adrian talking about Beefbrain and what the Hypnospace Headband does to people and their sleep schedules. The conversation took place on December 22 and December 23.

The first screenshot has Dylan saying that he's no medical expert, but if he was reading the email correctly, people weren't getting enough sleep when using Hypnospace. Adrian responds by saying that lazy bums who stay up late watching TV don't get good sleep, so whats the point, as if Dylan was the one telling him this and not the doctor's email itself. Dylan instantly defends himself saying its not his point, and that Adrian should just not worry about it. If people are getting tired after Sleeptime, then they should just get on fewer nights per week. "People are responsible for their own choices. Too much ice cream will kill you, but no one does studies on that."

The second starts with Adrian saying "Yea....Hypnospace is like ice cream.....its good." Dylan then notes it's their study, it was privately commissioned by Merchantsoft, so it could just stay private. Barbara only suggested it as a way to deal with the Beefbrain Rumors that were being spread by M1nx, but they would find some other way to deal with them so it wasn't a problem. Adrian seems to agree but still worries and makes sure to ask Dylan if Beefbrain is fake, because it would be bad for PR if it was real.

The third is a conversation between Sam and Dylan on the 23, with Sam saying that she's guessing Dylan is still working on trying to get Outlaw out in the Y2K update. She explains she doesn't mind working on HSPD, but it wasn't the job she was hired to do. Dylan dismisses her by saying they're uploading a press review demo of Outlaw currently, and that as long as the team puts in the hours, it should be there by the Y2K update for sure.

Sam notably and reasonably is skeptical of the game being out so soon and continues to ask Dylan to pause his plans for it, telling him they need to get more people to crack down on the stability of the update instead. Sam explains that she just ran the update last week and it gave her the worst headache of her life, and says that she thinks it could seriously hurt people.

## Trivia

* In **Leaky Piping O3: Nam**, there's a Time Typo in the first screenshot that makes it seem as if Artie traveled back in time to respond to Adrian. The time starts at 3:17 pm, and ends at 2:25 pm, despite still being November 24th.