The Word That Means Nothing

Here's where I feel I should apologize for putting yet another MS Paint Adventures inspired thread here.

But I'm sure none of you want to hear it. And I don't care to tell it.

So, on with it then.

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>Game: Begin

Your name is ZIVEN NEVIZ. It is a rather unusual name in your culture, but your parents saw fit to give you it, so you aren't one to argue. You have a passion for COMPUTER PROGRAMMING and THINGS OF A MECHANICAL PERSUASION, as well as BLASTING SOME SICK DUBSTEP (partly to annoy your parents). You are an UNFLAPPABLY-STOIC SLACKER, except when programming is concerned.

You are currently in your BEDROOM for an as of yet unexplained reason. To your right is your BED, with your NOTEBOOK OF MYSTERIOUS BINARY SCRIBBLINGS upon it. On your wall is your INEXPLICABLE POSTER. Over in the corner is an HALF-FINISHED HOMEBREW ANDROID.

What will you do?

edited 7th Nov '11 4:13:40 AM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

>Retrieve arms from underneath bed

mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's mean

>Add arms to android, now it's a little more completed!

edited 5th Nov '11 6:08:12 PM by WackyPancake

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."

>Retrieve arms from underneath bed

You already have arms. You could see where confusion on this matter could arise if the only depiction of you available to a player is done by a TERRIBLE ARTIST working with Paint.NET.

edited 6th Nov '11 11:26:40 AM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

Watch Strange Explosion

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

Just to be upfront about how this works, I'm not always taking the first command, or all of them. I'm choosing one or more from the list.

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

>Examine Half Finished Android

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

> Look for microchip.

Always hiding my keys in the bug bucket, you bastard dog.

>Refresh soul with warm soda

"If there is a hole then it's a man's job to thrust into it" - Ryoma from New Getter Robo

>Examine Half Finished Android

It's nothing special - a homebrew general-purpose anthromimetic automaton made of pieces of scrap steel, a NYZAC-2700 CPU for the main processor. In other words, something you've been throwing together in your spare time using a combination of junkyard and underground market parts. You've decided on the working title Ziv-Bot v1.

>Look for microchip

You might as well get some progress done while you're waiting. Where did you leave that Z-115 chip?

You find it next to your NOTEBOOK OF MYSTERIOUS BINARY SCRIBBLINGS, and promptly install it in the android's CPU. You...don't actually recall what this one's for, but you remember it being necessary for it to be properly finished.

>Refresh soul with warm soda

You retrieve your secret underground-market soda from under your bed. Given that there's no refridgeration device down there, it's pretty warm. Still worth it though; this shit is contraband nectar of the laws.

edited 7th Nov '11 1:44:15 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

>Pose with your robot, practicing for when something awesome happens.

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

>Pose with your robot, practicing for when something awesome happens.

That would be VERY SILLY, and NOT VERY STOIC AT ALL. But you have to let loose every once in a while.

Grabbing Ziv-Bot by his single arm, you strike a SUITABLY DRAMATIC TEAM POSE. Ziv-Bot...just sort of hangs there. Oh well.

edited 6th Nov '11 3:38:00 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

>Leave room, look around

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.

>Leave room, look around

You leave your room through the door opposite your bed.

You see you are in the HALLWAY, which is constructed of white-painted metal, just like every other room in your house*

. A VIEWING APERTURE is located right in front of you*

^{that is, left of your room, on your house's west wall}

. To your right is the UPWARDS GOING TRANSPORTALIZER*

^{It's not actually called that, but that's what you've dubbed it}

. To your left is a door leading to the KITCHEN/DINING ROOM/LAVATORY*

^{technically, Zyxynians don't have a specialized room for that last one}

.

A map of Ziven's house, to ease confusion.

edited 7th Nov '11 1:16:40 AM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

Check the hallway for enemies

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

>Check the hallway for enemies

You don't see any enemies. Why would there be enemies? On Zyxyn, no-one ever antagonizes anyone else. That would be INEFFICIENT.

Of course, there are occasionally WHISPERS ON SECURED FORUMS about a time when Zyxynians lived on the SURFACE, a place inhabited by the most terrible of BEASTS. To combat this, your race became coldly methodical and ruthlessly efficient, and focused their efforts towards technology so they could live in the skies.

But those are just silly legends.

edited 7th Nov '11 1:45:15 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

This adventure is being rebooted on the MSPA forums. It seems there's a lot more interest in this sort of thing there. Sorry to waste anyone's time. Link soon for anyone interested.

EDIT: And here it is.

edited 9th Nov '11 1:33:11 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

Plus 1 early reader DEFINITE READERSHIP FROM ME.

edited 8th Nov '11 8:59:35 PM by Rivux

mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's mean