Flashdrive of Stockhume 2

> *"For the 13th of the distant year of 2006, Stockhume started its journey. Seven years, it ended. Now, exactly one month after Stockhume ended, two kids had an idea."*
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One of Andrea's (Watcher Rook) flashdrives. This one contains a potential text-based story game that she collaborated on with Elora. Although the concept never fully materialized, it held a special place for both of them, incorporating elements from prior Watcher lore and their circle of friends.

> *"I did always love the absurdism" -* Elora
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The game was intended to be an exploration of absurdism, a genre characterized by its nonsensical and unconventional themes. The game's narrative would revolve around a fictional world called Stockhume, which began its journey on the 13th of a distant year, 2006, and concluded seven years later. Exactly one month after Stockhume's end, the two young creators embarked on their own imaginative endeavor.

The game was structured into six distinct sessions: Omega (0), Delta (1), Beta (2), Alpha (3), Wynn (4), Sores (A), Iter (B), Bisener (C), and Telosmen (D). Each session would feature a varying number of players or characters, typically around four. Each character had their designated "starting location," which took the form of different temples within the game's world.

The temples served as the launching points for the players' adventures, providing a sense of direction and purpose within the game. They would explore the bizarre and surreal landscape of Stockhume, encountering peculiar challenges, enigmatic puzzles, and engaging in unpredictable encounters. The game aimed to immerse players in a world filled with whimsy, unconventional logic, and unexpected twists.

While the specific details of the story and gameplay mechanics were never fully fleshed out, the Flashdrive of Stockhume 2 preserved the essence of the collaborative effort between Andrea and Elora. It held the potential to transport players into a realm where absurdity reigned, and where their imaginations could roam freely within the surreal tapestry of Stockhume's whimsical universe.

### Session 0-Omega "NBLA" (Nebula)

Noxx, Blackk, Lacunaa, Avoidd

* Noxx: Void Sanctum of Floating Rocks and Nothingness
* Blackl: Void Sanctum of Boulders and Emptiness
* Lacunaa: Void Sanctum of Crystals and Holes
* Avoidd: Void Sanctum of Sand and Vacuums

### Session 1-Delta "KASK" (Cask)

Klung, Aziell, Saydia, Kellen

* Klung: Chaos Temple of Chaos²
* Aziell: Temple of
* Saydia: Temple of
* Kellen: Temple of

### Session 2-Beta "RHNK" (Rank)

Ruby, Hank, Neon, Kray

* Ruby: Life Shrine of Blood and Roses
* Hank: Void Shrine of Gold and Fire
* Kray: Doom Shrine of Mishaps and Science
* Neon: Blood Shrine of Ice and Machines

### Session 3-Alpha "BRED" (Bread)

Bran, Rach, Eika, Dust

* Dust: Life Go-Shintai of Ruins and Caves

### Session A-Sores "ECHI" (Ecchi)

Eta, Cam, Har, Ian

* Eta: Void Honden of

### Session B-Iter "HGVZ" (Higgs)

Harrey, Gast, Viska, Zaro

* Harrey: Cathedral of

## Noxx

A young man stands in the front of a cave. What is his name?

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⇒ Emo Wizard

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He calmly cuts the plaque in half. He has enough of your shit already.

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⇒ Noxx Shadecrwaler.

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That's better. It is obviously your name, oh what else could it possibly be?

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⇒ Go inside cave.

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You can't. You are already in it. You stops to ponder the thought and you waste 15 minutes on it.

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⇒ Go deeper into cave.

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You go deeper into the cave.

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⇒ Deeper

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Deeper.

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⇒ Deeper

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This is pretty deep.

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⇒ Yet Deeper.

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You yet deeper, ending up walking into a wall. Watch where you're going, numbnuts. Oh wait. You can't.

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⇒ Soz

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You promptly refuse his apology.

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⇒ Head back up.

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You realize it is too dark to see which direction is “up”

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⇒ Soz again.

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You refuse, yet again. At least you brought your trust lighter and a box of wood you were carrying around for no apparent reason which just found a use.

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⇒ Light box of wood on fire.

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You must first retrieve the box first from your inventory. You have the standard inventory processor, along with three slots. You cannot access your box of wood, which also takes up two slots for some reason.

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⇒ Pick up nothing.

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This somehow works. The lighter is shot from your inventory. You hear a crack a small distance away from you. There goes your trusty lighter.

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⇒ Put down the box of wood.

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You place down the box of wood, frowning as you hear a loud thump. Your inventory is now complete empty. Just like your soul.

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⇒ Stare at the box of wood.

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The box suddenly bursts into flames. What the hell just happened?

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⇒ Explore dimly lit cave.

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You see rocks. What were you expecting? A opening looms in a dark corner. It seems less than smart to go in.

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⇒ Go in opening.

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You enter into a dark corridor. Big surprise. It is dark once more.

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⇒ Retrieve pile of burning wood from other room.

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You attempt to inventory the whole pile of wood which is also on fire. You somehow succeed. You feel heat radiating from your inventory as it glows violently

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⇒ Go to dark corridor.

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You can now see somewhat decently. It's getting really hot in your inventory, which is also glowing  brighter by the second. Oh hey, it's a can of turpentine.

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⇒ Pick up turpentine.

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[inventory explodes, sending burning embers everywhere] Oh crap. Who could have known turpentine was that flammable?

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⇒ Head back up to surface.

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You walk back up to the surface. This cave is your storage area. You obviously know the in's and out's of it

## Bran

Your name is Bran. You have been chosen to test and play SBRBIA 2 Alpha. It is so elite in fact, you are the only of your kind invited to playtest! Though you guess that probably comes with the fact that it was completely random, and you had achieved nothing to get it. What do you do?

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⇒ Wait for the console to boot up.

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You sit there for a split second and do nothing. It's not like you could have done anything in that short of a time, anyway. Your console is now on.

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⇒ Boot computer up and connect console, put in disc and download.

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You waltz to your conveniently placed Personal Computer, and do the series of events stated before. The download is now in session.

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⇒ Open SBRBIA 2 and unlock console

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The game opens, and you are brought up to your grist cache. Oh wait. Your father is standing behind you. Looks like he has another idea. You are forced to abscond your room and into the yard, where a swing awaits.

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⇒ Walk past the swing and down the stairs to the dock, put boards and equipment into the boat.

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As you pick up a board, to put on the boat for esoteric reasons, you acquire a splinter. The pain is so unbearable you almost pass out. But you fell back first into the boat from the pain. Oh hey, it's a meteor.

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⇒ Grab the console and check the news while researching what to do in the event of armageddon.

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You imagine some weird guy in a blue robe and hood shouting “DEEP IMPACT” and doing some sort of windy thing. Aside from that, searching “meteor pr8nks gone wrong 2016” doesn't accomplish much. The only thing in your news feed is “SBRBIA 2 Alpha Release”.

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⇒ Jump on a jet ski and have as much fun as possible while armageddon comes.

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Even though there is water all around you, the approaching meteor makes it very hot outside. You get more and more bored the longer you ride. You also realize that the jetski is getting low on fuel. It would be much cooler inside where the AC is on.

You hear a musket crack somewhere off in the distance.

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⇒ Get off Jetski then go upstairs to the computer and finally play SBRBIA 2.

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Luckily, your Dad has left, so you are free to play SBRBIA 2. First of all, you didn’t even know consoles could access a terminal, which adds even more confusion when it starts searching for a “Client” and “Server” player, who you cannot even define.

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⇒ Attempt to play a game.

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Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a Game to Play.

This stuff is weird, what can you do

## Hank

A young man stands in his room, no, it is not his birthday. He stands in his room for a reason, and that was to find his arms, of which he has concealed somewhere inside of his [house].

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⇒ Walk to arms display.

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You walk over to a glass-encased Arms Display that you keep in your room. The prosthetics sit there, majestically waiting for the day they can be used. You keep this in case things get too hot to handle, which is never.

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⇒ Grab your left arm, your trusty Meteor Harpoon Gun.

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You suddenly, and violently, grab your left arm. Noticing in the process, that it is not a Meteor Harpoon Gun.

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⇒ Grab another one of your arms, a semi-ancient musket.

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Fit for a Dad, how did your Musket get into the prosthetic collection? You place the Semi-Ancient Musket into your inventory. The Meteor Hammer takes slot two.

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⇒ Pretend to fire musket at punching bag.

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Making sure that your Musket isn’t loaded, you squeeze in a few shots at the Punching Bag you keep in the corner of the room, doing really sicknasty parkour in the process of getting no-scopes, and prancing about your room.

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⇒ Put back the two weapons.

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To drop the items, you have to fill your inventory further, so you look for possible items to pick up in the room. The following items you think you can inventory are: Prosthetic Arms, Broken Seven Ball, Laptop, or you can take a bunch of stuff from the Really Shitty Pile of Extensive Homemade Weapons.

```
⇒ Pick up a muffin.

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There is no, and has never been a Muffin in this area, you are quite sure of that fact.

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⇒ Go to your arms storage and open the ammunition cache.

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You open the Arms Case and push aside multiple Arms. A handle is seen in the area you cleared, and as you open the trapdoor, Musket Rounds, as well as many other types of ammo are revealed.

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⇒ Pick up an Old Fashioned Gunpowder Horn.

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Inside of the Ammo Cache is a Gunpowder Horn, like from the old times. You inventory the Gunpowder Horn, shifting the Meteor Hammer and Musket.

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⇒ Pick up Musket Rounds.

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The Musket Rounds are placed into your Ammo Bag, which doesn’t appear to be on this plane of reality. The Rounds can be summoned every time the Musket is prepared to fire, and fired.

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⇒ Pour gunpowder in the musket and load a musket round.

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The Musket already has Gunpowder in it, and a Musket Round pops into existence ready for use.

The Musket is ready to fire.

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⇒ Dramatically fire the musket at the punching bag. Fire the Musket, be the Alamo.

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You spin around in a circle a few times before accomplishing this sugoi feat. In a quick motion, you run at the Punching Bag and fire, sending the padding everywhere. Your Dad is awakened by the noise.

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⇒ Quickly reload and fire the musket a few more times before Dad comes in.

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Rapidly filling the Musket with the Shoe Horn and making a giant mess of your room, your Dad walks in. He immediately begins shouting profanities and such, and you instantly regret your recent life decisions.

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⇒ [CS] Hank: Abscond.

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In another tab, you open up Edurad, Snowstorm, and listen to it while running about pages showcasing your house.

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⇒ Pretend you are Edurad and jump out the open window with a musket slung over your shoulder.

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## Neon

A young woman stands in her bedroom. What is her name?

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⇒ Nu-Master Tobster

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Error. Fuck off, douchebag.

```
⇒ Neon Baetus

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Out of all the possible combinations of twenty six different letters, you choose the correct name.
Good job, what do you do now?

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⇒ You sit there in boredom, accomplishing absolutely nothing.

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Achievement unlocked: Counsel Poptatpo

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⇒ You still accomplished absolutely nothing.

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Achievement Accomplished: Counsel Poptatpo II

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⇒ This is a complete waste of time. Go check the calendar.

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Up against the wall of your Home is the Calendar you set up only just recently. This thing is here for one purpose, and one purpose only, to reflect your Birthday, which coincides with the release of the SBRBIA 2 Beta, a game you have been anxiously waiting to play for about a month now.

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⇒ Go play something else while you wait.

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You then realize you have no other game, and the first game you will ever play will be the Beta.

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⇒ Use the power of discordant to summon Blue Dragon game, with memorized save file on it.

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You squawk and screech, and retrieve the game. Of course the Beta isn't your first game. That's completely silly. You walk to your extensive collection of games.

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⇒ Pick up SEN and play Dragon Spirit

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You pick up the SEN, but nothing happened. Some idiot forgot to plug the game in. Funny, how you have to manually put in the games you want to play.

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⇒ Move the system to TV and try to get it working.

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You plug in the system and load the game. You are ready to have a nice long session of pure gaming. But your guardian thinks otherwise. She appears with a box of instant noodles, and offers you a pack.

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⇒ Go into the kitchen and fix noodles.

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You enter the room of culinary imperfections, as you stand there, pondering how to fix a packet of instant noodles. They don't look like they needs to be fixed, it isn't very broken.

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⇒ Magically learn how to fix noodles and contemplate pounding narrator's face in later.

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You have no idea what you just thought up. You go back to your original idea and get a pot.

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⇒ Wait for water to boil.

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You waste three minutes of your life staring at a cast iron pot. It finally starts to boil.

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⇒ Drop noodles in the pot.

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You carelessly drop the noodles into the pot. The scalding water goes everywhere. You continue staring at the pot.

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⇒ Wait for noodles to cook.

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As you are waiting, your parent pokes you in the shoulder with another pack of instant noodles, trying to get your attention.

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⇒ Ask what they want.

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She holds a blue package out to you, with a note taped on the top.

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⇒ Read note.

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You look down at the note.

*Hey! Happy birthday babe!*

*I just wanted to send you a present! I hope you’ll like the SBRBIA 2 Beta. It's still a pretty recent game (the release was today lol). Shoot me a text once you download and boot it up.*

*<3 Hank*

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⇒ Send a text to Hank and take SBRBIA 2 to your room.

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You inventory the box. Your inventory is now completely full.
[Inventory (in order): Box, Phone, InstaNoodles Package] You cannot get your phone. The inventory management doesn't allow it.

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⇒ Fuck around with inventory to figure out how to work it.

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You pick up a radio. The empty wrapper pops out, landing on atop your head.

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⇒ Use telekinesis to move wrapper

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You accomplish nothing. Kinda like before. The wrapper doesn't move, but you have gained (1) Headache.

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⇒ Curse the gods that gave you a headache.

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You shout a dozen different insults. After you are content with your knowledge of verbal profane vocabulary, you finally decide to open your phone.

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⇒ Check text.

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*Hank: Hey babe, did you get the package?*

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⇒ text back

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