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[DinosaurusRex_x]

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[qwertyuiopas]

> It seems this place dislikes being empty, as it immediately starts to fill again...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Since it is probably confusing, here is the path that the update followed:

It starts at the green, each colour is a post. You can see how the purple overlaps, crossed, and overwrites itself and the others, quite messily (Because, for once, someone used backticks (`, the same key as ~) instead of regular single-quotes (', the key under "), and ASCII art does not work without some assistance. Ironically, that assistance can be found in Armok's post, also present in this update. But you cannot see it, so how does it work? Ask Armok, or figure out yourself! (Note: Until I noticed it, I was going to replace the increasing number of spaces with something like '[x: ,42]' after some cutoff point that is consistant with previous updates (longer than the previous longest run of spaces), so that it *looks* like it was planned from the start. Note that the 'looks like it was planned from the start' applies to just about everything, I never bothered thinking up or writing down those things, it is all made up on the spot (though sometimes it was made up on the spot in an update before it was used, and in that case, it was made up on the spot if I had forgotten it by the time it was needed)

[Armok]

Wait, what are they going to ask me for? I have no idea what's going on.

[qwertyuiopas]

((You used a certain bit of BBCode, and accomplished a goal that many of them failed. Just look at any time someone typed a 2d figure, and it was completely ruined because the line breaks were ignored...
It also affected the way some characters responded, but not all of them, the rest were changed by something else... Rather ironic that that something else caused problems for you in the past, as well, preventing you from seeing some neat effects... (and preventing me from having to think of some neat effects for you to see...)))

[qwertyuiopas]

Either you are incredibly lucky, or something wants you alive, because the changing glyphs just missed you, and left a nice bridge at the same time.

>_

(Was that a cleverly place comma, a luckily placed comma, or both? I can't tell...)

[Armok]

lucky, I'd say. (not this one thou)

[Furtuka]

blah,blah,blah,blah,blah,balh,bahl,balah'sdfgsfdg'd,h's,b'd,f',vsd,f',vb,f',gb,dft,ghf'gd, I have no idea what I am trying to do here

[qwertyuiopas]

New theory: This place is actively trying to kill you, and doing so quite incompetently.

>_

(Note: next text starts from the last e in 'here' (lower left corner, vertical, written in a downwards direction) if the first character is , or `; the space below if it is >, <, ^, V, or a space (or any non-printing character or character sequence that hasn't been discovered yet); or the space on the bottom row otherwise, as an implicit space is assumed if there is none.

Confusing, isn't it.

Unrelated, if you want to see how well you understand the mechanics of this, consider what "VVVV[x:@,12]..V>" would do, without the quotes. I don't recommend it as the next suggestion, because that would be uncreative, and I really don't recommend it anywhere else, because then it wouldn't have the intended result

And, once again, note the difference between ' and `. It's just as important as it would be in a shell script (and apparently ` is known as a grave accent just about everywhere else, but commonly a backtick or backquote when used on it's own in such scripts and other programming uses. Terminology, eh?))

[Armok]

x,xx,xx,xx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxxx,xxxx,xxxx,xxxxx,xxxxx,xxxxx,xxxxxx,xxxxxx,xxxxxx,

[qwertyuiopas]

New new theory: It's just incompetent, and got lucky when it nearly hit you.

>_

(Commands, in the form of [word:arg,arg...] may be accepted if they make sense. For example, [flood:.] makes sense as a way to flood-fill with . characters. Interesting side-note: [WALL OF TEXT] would have, if typed, resulted in a literal wall of text, filling the entire next line, it's not just a replacement for excessive input.)

[Darvi]

[flood:*]

[Armok]

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[TolyK]

[checkerboard:$]
[!checkerboard:0]
[tile:#]

[Nivim]

 (You have more patience than I, Qwerty. Anyway, if our character hasn't been obliterated next update...)

[RESET-CURSOR]
fff,f,&fW`W`fff
[WAITTURNS:1]
thi,
[WAITSTEPS:3]
nka`
[WAITSTEPS:3]
bou,
[WAITSTEPS:3]
tfo`
[WAITSTEPS:3]
odf,
[WAITSTEPS:3]
ora`
[WAITSTEPS:3]
few,
[WAITSTEPS:3]
min`
[WAITSTEPS:3]
ute`swh`at`wo`~ul
[WAITSTEPS:3]
dyo`
[WAITSTEPS:3]
uli
[WAITSTEPS:3]
ket
[WAITSTEPS:3]
oea
[WAITSTEPS:3]
t?

[qwertyuiopas]

Agh, I just can't find the motivation to continue this. Every time I start to think about it, it all comes down to a simple problem: That flood fill will fill the large clump of 'x', and then hit a very significant part of the grid, including the player, with a searing wave of destruction.

The problem is that the character is not protected this time, so would actually be destroyed.

However, I can't decide if it is the end of the game, or if the character's natural magical abilities count as one last shield, absorbing the damage, but permanently locking out the original ending I had in mind, but allowing the game to continue, and perhaps finish with a poor ending, though still a win, rather than a lose.

Either way, I'll probably start a new instance of this, someday, with a different backstory and a new set of character effects, and either put it here again, or see how well it runs on the MSPA forums, and explain the ending that could have been.