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[VoidSlayer]

Open the recycling bin.  Scary.  Maybe run XYZZY.

We should probably not cruise the new demon explorer to random web pages.

[PaPaj]

Open up Hieronet youtube and blast Spooky Scary Skeletons through the speakers

[Olith McHuman]

Sacrifice some windows install disks to placate this linniks demon.

[Gwolfski]

Sacrifice some windows install disks to placate this linniks demon.

Summon Mac OS to deal with linniks

[wierd]

MacOS is spineless and pitiful (If we are looking at period software).  You used to be able to download classic mac system software direct from Apple at one point, free of charge.  I will see if they still offer the images... just for S&G. (Nope, they have definitely taken it down. There are other mirrors available though.)

Just that MacOS from that era wont run on x86 hardware. It was motorola 68k based hardware.


Besides, Tux-Daemon seems like a more friendly system daemon than the under-horror that breaks the task tray for no reason. He was just angry to wake up in a windows system, that's all.  Feed him some deep ones, and he will be just fine.

[Rose]

Pit the penguin against the toad.

[Gatleos]

Hey, Look! It fixed the taskbar!

Nah, if you look closer, we're currently on the Deeper Desktop from Before the Dawn of Time, where the icons all fell. Look at the maximised scryglass picture again.

Let's get this cleaned up, there we go. Near as you can tell, this is the computer's original desktop, before the false one appeared above. The taskbar is completely non-functional, but you brought your own start button so that's alright.

Okay. Let's try and take this one step at a time. Step one is...

Quick! End process! delete that file!

Emergency shutoff if we have to!

You have no idea what would happen if you shut this thing off right now, but if things get really bad, that could be an option. The Daemon that was summoned up on the false desktop doesn't seem to be coming after you. You could always try deleting the file, see if that helps.

Shit! It's write-protected itself somehow.

Code: (linniks.es) [Select]

import eldertongue : summon;

void main() {
Daemon linniks = summon("abberation/tux");
linniks.initHunger();

Entity[] entities = getLocalEntities();
foreach(ent : entities) {
linniks.provokeMadness(ent);
}
linniks.addDirective("gather", "sigils");
linniks.addDirective("consume", "system32");
return 0;
}

However, you can read the contents of the file. Looks like it's written in ElderScript. It looks like an interpreted language, but after writing and testing a couple of small scripts you can't seem to get them to run like this one did. Maybe you need some specialized software?

Sacrifice some windows install disks to placate this linniks demon.

Uh... there are like, a thousand AOL trial disks in the corner of the room. Is that close enough?

I am curious what the aura monitor has to report about the rampaging tux install daemon... Or scryglass, that could be fun too.

aura monitor, anyone?

You would think about examining the Daemon with the Scryglass if it was around. As for the Aura Monitor...

Well, it hasn't moved at all. It only responds to changes in the desktop background; now that you've found the real desktop, you may be able to experiment with it.

I reccoment we try downloading OS software/wine next.

NOPE no no no no no no no no no we're not installing any more weird OS-related software, we're not here to fill this computer up with unknown eldritch viruses.

Just need to clean the screen off and realign the icons.

Good idea. Let's clean up our work area a bit.

Much better.

Open the recycling bin.  Scary.  Maybe run XYZZY.

Well, you've already looked at the only file in the recycle bin, and you doubt that "linniks" Daemon has enough traits in common with the undead to be affected by that spell, considering its origin in a PROFANE SCRIPT and all. It is important to keep these disks in mind, however, in case you need them.

Open up Hieronet youtube and blast Spooky Scary Skeletons through the speakers

You're going to choose to not die of brain explosion and just blast it from regular Youtube for now. It's about 1am at this point, so you hope no noise complaints are ma--

A wadded up note arcs out of the computer tower and bounces off your head.

Cool, another bit of completely illegible writing, from... something... in the room on the other side of the computer tower.


Alright. You have an unknown being trying to communicate with you, two more unread Necronomicon pages to go through, two possibly-close-by beings haunting your hard drive, and some programs and documents to experiment with. Where to next...?

Spoiler: Documents (click to show/hide)

Unneeded documents are now being deleted.

Code: (email) [Select]

From: Michael Kisielewicz
Date: Friday, April 9, 1999 4:22 PM
To: Qalzsx'wa The Engorged
Subject: Project Status

Hail Qalzsx'wa,

Just shootin' ya an electronic mail, wondering how the whole Y2K project's coming along on your end. It's been a little difficult getting these messages across without the Hieronet router set up, so I was wondering if you heard back from the support team at Hells-Deathwell. See, we have to sacrifice a goat in the conference room every time we send one of these emails without a persistent Outer Realm connection, and the whole logistical side of shipping live animals to the office is getting a little tough to manage. So if you could get in touch with them that would be greeaat.

Thanks a bunch,
Michael


Code: (README.txt) [Select]

Hey there, just a couple of notes before you dig in to the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.
First, certain parts of the .pdf file seem to shift around at random. This is normal,
and there isn't anything I can do about it. Sorry.

Second, most of the pages in this book WILL cause you to go insane if you look at
them long enough. I do NOT recommend looking at pages unless you know they
are safe. I don't know of many pages that are safe to look at, but you can start with
pages 33, 98, and 422.

Finally, some of the pages in here seem to refer to Hieronet URLs. If you see the
Hieronet icon in the corner, that's what it is. Have fun!

-Steve


Code: (linniks.es) [Select]

import eldertongue : summon;

void main() {
Daemon linniks = summon("abberation/tux");
linniks.initHunger();

Entity[] entities = getLocalEntities();
foreach(ent : entities) {
linniks.provokeMadness(ent);
}
linniks.addDirective("gather", "sigils");
linniks.addDirective("consume", "system32");
return 0;
}


Spoiler: Programs (click to show/hide)

Sigil Tablet
Scryglass of X'tpylix
Aura Monitor
Hieronet Explorer

Spoiler: Pages (click to show/hide)

Signature Page
Bowie's Message
?

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Floppy disk (XYZZY)


Floppy disk ()


Floppy disk (backup)


Red dry erase marker


Win98 Phone


Floppy (blank)


Floppy USB adapter


Selfie Stick

[helmacon]

Read the other known safe pages in the necronomicon I guess.

[Rose]

Get an antivirus on that thing. Hieronet might have one that works on eldritch.

[wierd]

If we can pass directives to the tux-daemon using the profane script, we can use it to perform many useful functions!!

Hop on Heironet explorer, and see if we can find an API reference for the Tux-Daemon, and a syntax guide for Profane Script. (though, it appears to be some abberation of object-oriented language with C-style line ending syntax and main process invocation... At least it isn't PERL.)

Replace the background image with something cute and adorable. Possibly something related to father dagon and mother hydra. (We need to feed tux-daemon, after all.)

Also, if we have a picture of the company CEO, we can use the afore mentioned syntax and API guides to craft a profane scriptlet that produces a local entity object populated with enough data to satisfy the "cause madness" directive. This will surely have only positive outcomes.



In response to the angry note from the creature behind the system chasis door, use the red dry erase marker to write "USE ENGLISH" on the back of the note, and throw it back in.

[VoidSlayer]

Wait, does google translate work on the Hieronet.

Anyway, we should stick to URLs in the necronomicon for now.

Also it looks like it gets local entities and the entity that is local to the program is the summoned one?

Is the start menu still working, the one we brought with us?

[Paxiecrunchle]

If we can pass directives to the tux-daemon using the profane script, we can use it to perform many useful functions!!

Hop on Heironet explorer, and see if we can find an API reference for the Tux-Daemon, and a syntax guide for Profane Script. (though, it appears to be some abberation of object-oriented language with C-style line ending syntax and main process invocation... At least it isn't PERL.)

Replace the background image with something cute and adorable. Possibly something related to father dagon and mother hydra. (We need to feed tux-daemon, after all.)

Also, if we have a picture of the company CEO, we can use the afore mentioned syntax and API guides to craft a profane scriptlet that produces a local entity object populated with enough data to satisfy the "cause madness" directive. This will surely have only positive outcomes.



In response to the angry note from the creature behind the system chasis door, use the red dry erase marker to write "USE ENGLISH" on the back of the note, and throw it back in.

I badly wish to upvote your post, it is amazing.

[wierd]

I wondered about the context for local entities myself.  Is is local to the script's context, or local to the vicinity of the computer?  Either way, if we can inject into the script and create a local entity in the script context, it would still be parsed and processed by the tux-daemon, so we need some way to inject into the script process, or to invoke the tux-daemon with our own profane scripts.

For instance, we might be able to tell it something along the lines of:

Code: [Select]


import eldertongue : invoke;
import stdio;

void main() {
Daemon linniks = invoke("abberation/tux");
linniks.bind();

Entity[] invocation_entities = newLocalEntity("CharlesDexterWard");
foreach(ent : invocation_entities) {
linniks.EntityBehavior.addDirective("obey", "instructions");
linniks.EntityBehavior.addDirective("protect", "invocation_entities");
}
sys.stdout.write(linniks.Directives.list);
return 0;
}



[Maximum Spin]

Is the start menu still working, the one we brought with us?

May be wise to avoid clicking that button until we have at least checked with the scryglass whether it still says "RELEASE".

[wierd]

(Just in case anyone is curious why I am mentioning deep ones, father dagon, and mother hydra, it is a tongue-in-cheek reference to some obscura about Tux penguin's appearance from the linux mailing list from ages past, coupled with Shadow over Innsmouth's tale of what was given in exchange for supplication to those two eldritch gods. An evil version of Tux would likely not become compliant and useful until AFTER gorging on something, such as said deep ones. )