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[Lord Moldoma]

'This one is... particularly annoying...' The entity darted out of the way, of several of the different blasts, using minimal movements to navigate around them, internally counting down '0.090... 0.086... 0.082...'

'0.050' It took one of the blasts head on, it's arm expanding around the blast and consuming it, replicating the mouth design of Mawbite from Flunkyquest. '2.00' it stated internally. it's arm retracting to the normal, small size.

"Spearlike protrusion.." It had enough energy to comfortably use one of it's own signature attacks, albeit at a much lower level than usual, it's right horn extended out with fervor to a great length, closing the distance remotely, and attempting to pierce Elex through the shoulderblade. '1.00 Percent...'

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

'This one is... particularly annoying...' The entity darted out of the way, of several of the different blasts, using minimal movements to navigate around them, internally counting down '0.090... 0.086... 0.082...'

'0.050' It took one of the blasts head on, it's arm expanding around the blast and consuming it, replicating the mouth design of Mawbite from Flunkyquest. '2.00' it stated internally. it's arm retracting to the normal, small size.

"Spearlike protrusion.." It had enough energy to comfortably use one of it's own signature attacks, albeit at a much lower level than usual, it's right horn extended out with fervor to a great length, closing the distance remotely, and attempting to pierce Elex through the shoulderblade. '1.00 Percent...'

Ele darted to the side to dodge just as her sugar crash kicked in. She was slow to move around now but she grabbed the frying pan from earlier and starting flailing it about in an attempt to harm the glitch.

 

[Lord Moldoma]

The Spearlike Protrusion attack redirected, the horn making a sharp turn, as the entity recognized a distinct pattern in Ele's efforts. Instead of aiming directly for Ele, it aimed for the pocket she kept her candy in with the extended horn, attempting to slash and and tear it open and away from her person.

The entity weighed its options, at 1% power it likely couldn't put up much of a head-on fight, but FETT would likely be driven to finish off Ele now that she had entered a weakened state.

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

The Spearlike Protrusion attack redirected, the horn making a sharp turn, as the entity recognized a distinct pattern in Ele's efforts. Instead of aiming directly for Ele, it aimed for the pocket she kept her candy in with the extended horn, attempting to slash and and tear it open and away from her person.

The entity weighed its options, at 1% power it likely couldn't put up much of a head-on fight, but FETT would likely be driven to finish off Ele now that she had entered a weakened state.

Ele, also known as Elextrixtr, was just quick enough to notice this, yet she couldn't dodge in time. After her sweets scattered onto the floor from the protrusion suddenly breaking the pocket she stored them in, she got really mad and slowly but surely began copying some of the attacks of the main antagonist from Merely Geometry and Music- a game that shaped part of her life- before she took a step backward, continuing to fire the shockwave blaster. Her confidence never got the better of her. As she looked towards Fett, she rolled her eyes and just continued attacking the other glitch.

 

[Lord Moldoma]

Ele, also known as Elextrixtr, was quick to notice this and speedily began copying some of the attacks of the main antagonist from Merely Geometry and Music- a game that shaped part of her life- before she darted backward, continuing to fire the shockwave blaster. Her confidence never got the better of her. As she looked towards Fett, she rolled her eyes and just continued attacking the other glitch.

(How did she recover from the sugar crash in a single post?)

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

(How did she recover from the sugar crash in a single post?)

(Her observant trait is a hidden passive effect. And she's still under its effect, its just that when she is in a sugar crash she can regain speed first and slowly regains strength and attack speed afterward.)

 

[Lord Moldoma]

She was slow to move around now

(So she was somehow able to dodge the immediate response of the horn, which had already nearly reached her location and she had narrowly darted out of the way from, even though the horn then proceeded to make a sharp turn and immediately redirect itself to attack her a second time, despite "being slow to move around" ?)

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

(So she was somehow able to dodge the immediate response of the horn, which had already nearly reached her location and she had narrowly darted out of the way from, even though the horn then proceeded to make a sharp turn and immediately redirect itself to attack her a second time, despite "being slow to move around" ?)

((I changed it up a bit now, although if you want the horn to dig into her side go for it. You'll get to see her curse in Spanish. Yes, she speaks Spanish. Just like her creator.))

 

[Lord Moldoma]

The horn would slash through the side of her pant-leg, sending the candy out of her pocket and scattering it on the ground, before retracting.

Utilizing part of it's remaining energy reserve, the entity would wavedash, retreating to behind the electromagnetically shielded door it had propped up earlier, playing for hit and run tactics, and also aiming to rely on Fett to do the hard work for it since he now had the advantage. It was a gamble and the entity only now had about 0.25% power left. But it had to hope.

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

The horn would slash through the side of her pant-leg, sending the candy out of her pocket and scattering it on the ground, before retracting.

Utilizing part of it's remaining energy reserve, the entity would wavedash, retreating to behind the electromagnetically shielded door it had propped up earlier, playing for hit and run tactics, and also aiming to rely on Fett to do the hard work for it since he now had the advantage. It was a gamble and the entity only now had about 0.25% power left. But it had to hope.

*Ele narrowed her eyes in slight agitation before she began slowly crouching to pick all the sweets up. She glared towards the glitch again.*"Not cool. Just... not cool."*She then quietly growled, aiming the shockwave launcher at the shielded door.*

 

[Sir loin of beef]

Fett stomped over towards Ele and grabbed her in his Rider armor fist, crushing some of the sweets under its feet "...You are Tired, Your power is spent and I have no intention of letting you recover it." He said "Consider yourself lucky that I intend to finish you off quickly, if you were atom girl or that wretched frost I would've dragged this out for fun." As he spoke fetts arm cannon was glowing, charging with energy for a Mortar Mortality.

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

Fett stomped over towards Ele and grabbed her in his Rider armor fist, crushing some of the sweets under its feet "...You are Tired, Your power is spent and I have no intention of letting you recover it." He said "Consider yourself lucky that I intend to finish you off quickly, if you were atom girl or that wretched frost I would've dragged this out for fun." As he spoke fetts arm cannon was glowing, charging with energy for a Mortar Mortality.

"...I saved you from that damn explosion, surely thats worth sparing me!" Ele complained in a childish tone.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

"...Nahhh..." Fett said nonchalantly. "wait, where did that bag of flour come from?"

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

"...Nahhh..." Fett said nonchalantly. "wait, where did that bag of flour come from?"

"Nearby factory." Ele shrugged. "I nick stuff from them all the time. Speaking of which, have you ever had a sweet before? Or... cos sweets actually supply a bit of energy to ya!" Elextrixtr offered Fett a chocolate bar.

 

[Gadg8eer]

"Nearby factory." Ele shrugged. "I nick stuff from them all the time. Speaking of which, have you ever had a sweet before? Or... cos sweets actually supply a bit of energy to ya!" Elextrixtr offered Fett a chocolate bar.

Of course, F.E.T.T. didn't know that this was a bald-faced lie. The mills in the area were lumber mills, not grain mills, but the explanation that she'd had it in her inventory since 2019 was not so convincing to Glitches, which were programmed against being capable of recognizing their own true nature when possessing a form in the physical world. The last time that hadn't been the case, something far worse than even Bolypius had nearly come about.

It doesn't take a world-ending threat to understand why the Glitch Techs were originally named after King Zalgore from Pan-Am Flight 0 whose glitchy font and presence aboard the in-flight entertainment of the doomed flights of 9:11 (an event which occurred at 9:11 AM on January 1 of 2000, the involvement of Pan-Am Flight 0 being reported as the reason one plane plummetted into the ground in a field by a highway in Kentucky).

What you have to realize is that, PLixel tech was already made to de-lethalize war in the 1930s, when a financial boom occurred as a result of a machine correctly predicting and thus preventing "the Great Depression" via a mathematically-generated visualization of the next day's newspaper. That in 2023, Robotic Space Industries' founder Elan Mush introduced the bSpawn, a piece of hospital equipment which used the new nobiGlas Gauntlets (such as the one on Zoe's wrist) to act as a PLixel avatar for an individual in a medical coma (such as Dave's wife, who was otherwise doomed to die of cancer if she remained awake but could now live a full life via coma and an EEG helmet while suspended in a full-dive VR system) who would respawn at a nearby hospital if they "died". That before 2023 but after 1945, there was steady progress from "man discovers the power of godhood" to "man becomes demigod-like" of which Gadg8eer was only just the latest generation of such technology.

Or, tl;dr, man had cheated death, but only very recently. Sadly, the events of 9:11 were not recent enough to back the otherwise cheerful attitude that living in a post-scarcity globalized closer-to-utopia-than-dystopia world like this one, as 2027 was the first year that Hinobi released Project Relix, the first 9 PLixelf NFTs that were minted just a year prior to the present. With 10 through 99 being assigned to the winners of the Hi-Texpo of 2028, and 100-999 expected to release exclusively at the Downtown Manhattan Hinobi Store by Christmas of 2028, the rollout was painfully slow.

Rival startup Horizen Prime ("I pass the Matrix of Free Shipping onto you, Horizen from Upload" - Hooli from Silicon Valley, probably) was offering a subscription-based alternative via some sort of "Upload" program but after the boondoggle that was the Netplix bankruptcy, nobody had any faith in anything subscription-based and Hinobi was one of the few companies that chose exclusively to outconvenience rather than persecute software piracy. Relix and PLixelfs had a clear advantage that, as bad as the Beeconomy of cryptoscams, BeeCoin offshoots and NFTny-Babies that proliferated in it were, you can't repo an NFT attached to a software license so if you own it then you own it. And so, though without much of the deserved fanfare, the days of death itself began to wane.

Why so much lore? Simple.

'0.090 percent...' Bolypius had, while the two were fighting, made its way towards just outside the bounds of the cloud they were fighting each-other in "Flame only shield." It held one arm out and replicated the Flame-Only Shield from Zoom Kazoom 3 & Bristles. '0.084 Percent...' It flicked its fingers at the edge of the cloud, creating a spark using the code for a realistic fire simulator. Reacting in the way that finely ground flour generally would, it immediately spiralled into a large, very real explosion by quickly igniting the fine powder, causing a thermobaric reaction.

One would assume it had forgotten that Fett was in the cloud, but then again, it never intended for him to survive the ordeal. It mostly just wanted to deal with Elextrixtr, who also would've been in the cloud assuming she had swung herself towards Fett.

Flour is explosive when mixed with air. The resultant fire set the ground and several parked vehicles in the area to the north of the City Works ablaze, and caused F.E.T.T., Hinobi-Tobi, ReadyPlayerJuan, Elextrixtr to brace as Bolypius was consumed by an explosion that rushed outwards to set the air in flames. Fortunately, Technicians' gauntlets can be equipped with special "skin-mesh armor" energy shields if their level is high enough to afford one, and the only Tech present (aside from Zoe and Gadg8eer, who were preoccupied with Snare) who wasn't equipped with one was Electrixtr, who had previously played the Sidney Media/Soonami Studios title Free City: Reloaded and snatched up a Free City 2 pre-order bonus... You know the one, a certain Novel Studios character's indestructible star-studded shield that was also broken OP for two days before they nerfed it and released a new "meta of the week" item.

Thus, she probably rezzed it to defend herself from the explosion. Bolypius and F.E.T.T. however, were not so lucky.

See, here's the thing. F.E.T.T. is a "Hopeless Boss Fight" in gamer and troper parlance. That boss fight where the goal is not to win, but to advance the story by losing. However, Bolypius never encountered the Atom Girl Z games, only their predecessor series Zoom Kazoom the Ra-bot-ic Hare.

The result was that, by sheer bad luck, Bolypius had simulaneously gained the attention of, and made equal in power to himself, a quasi-Bolypius. Before you go saying "but that's not how that's supposed to work" about game balance, which otherwise matters in-universe when its something like Glitch Techs, it should be noted that...


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...and at that moment a bolt of lightning from the night's thunderstorm struck, adding high voltage power surges and "over-ventilation" to the mix.

F.E.T.T. realizing the Glitch he was sent to capture had just nearly killed them all, turned to Bolypius with anger but also pre-programming...


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"You worthless piece of [INSERT ADJECTIVE] [INSERT CONDESCENDING OR INSULTING COMPARATIVE NOUN], did you think you could defeat me?" he shouted at Bolypius.

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(( I'm pausing the RP for less than 24 hours because me and Moldoma need a shot at our side of things and I need to go do something re-write this entire post. Hopefully I'll have posted again for that by tonight! ))

 

[Sir loin of beef]

"No, Now back to business!! Prepare to die!!!" Fett declared aiming his arm cannon, firing a Mortal mortality directly to Elex's face.

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

"No, Now back to business!! Prepare to die!!!" Fett declared aiming his arm cannon, firing a Mortal mortality directly to Elex's face.

Elextrixtr was hit directly in the head and flung backward, landing in a tree. She just dropped the chocolate bar she had been kind enough to offer.

 

[Gadg8eer]

With Snare
...Unaware that, that was exactly what Snare had said in reaction to the barrel of explodium which he immediately Capped with Buster fire. Causing a big ass Explosion

On the first shot, the barrel exploded, but the frigid air of their location made this barely an issue for long, merely causing the room to be filled with a fine mist of opaque vapor.

Gadg8eer coughed and waved his arms to clear away the fog, as far as Snare could tell, but in reality the boy-like Tech was hurriedly activating the Vol-Tec (later known as Hive-Tec) "H.A.T.S." (Hinobi Autovisual Targeting System) HUD (Head-Up Display, or "Hinobi UI Display"), which he had noticed there was a menu option for while enabling the ctOS Visualizer (integrated into Hinobi's own toolkits after the famous buyout of Abstergo-Blume's "Citygrids" and "Haum" subsidiaries in 2026) module in his duoGlas Gauntlet's HUD settings just a few moments earlier. Like the Profiler, HATS was a basic tool for all new Technicians, and aside from the Crimestat system (measuring public awareness of Technicians in a 0-to-5-star rating) pioneered by Popstar Games and mainstreamed by the Robotic Space Industries Company (known as RSI in the UK and EU and RobCo. in the US and Canada), was the only module of the Hinobi UI Display available free of charge from the commissary.

As can be guessed, good guys or not, Hinobi "had never engaged in anti-competitive practices, just frequently been a de facto monopsony" (They have a lot of black suits; Wiping memories in court is great! Like getting shitfaced every time you're at a funeral.) and the lack of companies which they had no hand in the existence of showed in the world's many, many defunct corporations and re-brandings of purchased startups.

In the public AugReal, Gadg8eer's AR menus would be no more visible than in regular reality, so - even if Snare could see an AugReal window - the likelihood of it mattering was zero. That said, the AugReal was fairly new (introduced in late 2025) and he wasn't sure how Glitches would perceive/not perceive it, so instead of using private AugReal windows (which hovered like a perfectly-adjusted screen in front of you and, ideally, were not transmitted over a network) he kept using the HUD, the display of which was only accessible to the user and no one else even when data was being transmitted or received from a set of clients and their server or through a wireless mesh network.

With the radar of the H.A.T.S. active, Gadg8eer was prepared for Snare and knew exactly where it was, but pretended to not be to catch Snare off-guard. Instead, he purposefully glanced around and shouted "Uh... Zoe? Did I get him?!"

At that moment, Snare's comms went off with a BIDIDIDIDI sound. "Yeah?"

"Ze plan has failed. More of those mysterious interlopers showed up outside. And vhere vere you?!" Dr. X complained.

((Note: The rest of this conversation will be a "free action" because a lot of stuff went on outside the City Works Yard and I've decided to use it as a way to play catch-up.))

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Elextrixtr was hit directly in the head and flung backward, landing in a tree. She just dropped the chocolate bar she had been kind enough to offer.

At that moment, the chocolate hovered about a foot off the ground, its' bright-red-cross-on-a-white-background clearly designating the "Dalokoh's" bar as a healing item.


Analyzing...
Target ID: Full Restore Item, Swarm Fortress 2. Task Priority: Omega. Solution: Get ye tasked target.

 

[Gadg8eer]

(( Oh, in case it wasn't obvious, I unpaused the RP by saying beforehand the RP would be unpaused as soon as I posted a response. Just FYI, thanks! ))

 

[Lord Moldoma]

[OST - Now I Have Your Power]

The Mortar Mortality seemed to halt, freezing Fett in place, as a jumble of different sprites appeared at the end of where the blast would've emerged, a harmless visual error for an attack that couldn't occur.

"Hinobi learned after they created me that there was no point in creating a game that would never end. No code is without a killscreen past the discoveries made with mine. Your code is explicitly meant to be disabled by the interference of an NPC. I know not of the meaning of why your code is that way, nor do I know what weapon they used, so this is an approximation, that code is not a part of you, but the vulnerability is. I have bound the weapon to emerge from my head's hitbox, in some senses my head therein acts a tertiary arm. Regardless, I noticed all of the variables in your code had been checked positive. Your target should not possess this weapon, your code interprets me as a player." Bolypius began to walk over to the detached arm and picked it up, absorbing it.

"But that's your limitation. For as little as I can know as a computer, I have some semblance of common sense, just enough, even in this form, to recognize lucidity of my existence."

"Who the [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] do you think I am?!" At that moment it reconstituted it's own code, it's other arm launching out, expanding rapidly from the absorbed code of its opponent, into a mass of destructive black matter, like massive volatile, rapidly-glitching soot tags.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

[OST - Now I Have Your Power]

The Mortar Mortality seemed to halt, freezing Fett in place, as a jumble of different sprites appeared at the end of where the blast would've emerged, a harmless visual error for an attack that couldn't occur.

"Hinobi learned after they created me that there was no point in creating a game that would never end. No code is without a killscreen past the discoveries made with mine. Your code is explicitly meant to be disabled by the interference of an NPC. I know not of the meaning of why your code is that way, nor do I know what weapon they used, so this is an approximation, that code is not a part of you, but the vulnerability is. I have bound the weapon to emerge from my head's hitbox, in some senses my head therein acts a tertiary arm. Regardless, I noticed all of the variables in your code had been checked positive. Your target should not possess this weapon, your code interprets me as a player." Bolypius began to walk over to the detached arm and picked it up, absorbing it.

"But that's your limitation. For as little as I can know as a computer, I have some semblance of common sense, just enough, even in this form, to recognize lucidity of my existence."

"Who the [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] do you think I am?!" At that moment it reconstituted it's own code, it's other arm launching out, expanding rapidly from the absorbed code of its opponent, into a mass of destructive black matter, like massive volatile, rapidly-glitching soot tags.

"NOOOOOO!!!!" Fett yelled in (for the first time) genuine terror as the soot tags grabbed him

"[EXPLETIVE REMOVED] You Glitch king! And [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] You Female insect! I'LL GET YOU GLITCH TECHS!!!" Fett yelled in impotent rage at his fate.

 

[Gadg8eer]

"NOOOOOO!!!!" Fett yelled in (for the first time) genuine terror as the soot tags grabbed him

"[EXPLETIVE REMOVED] You Glitch king! And [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] You Female insect! I'LL GET YOU GLITCH TECHS!!!" Fett yelled in impotent rage at his fate.

The robotic Glitch suddenly seized up and gasped a last "Win... Error... 013..." and crashed.


Analyzing...
Target ID: F.E.T.T., Zoom Kazoom/Atom Girl Z (Franchise).
Task Priority: High
Solution: Evaluating...

Option 1: Trigger potential bug to cause target software crash.
Status: CONGRADURATIONS A WINNER IS YOU

Bolypius was extremely concerned by this, for reasons one would not understand without breaking the fourth wall, but it was not an immediate problem or something it understood so it instead gauged its target...


Analyzing...
Option 1: Trigger potential bug to cause target software crash.
Status: CONGRADURATIONS A WINNER IS YOU
Outcome: Target has crashed; WinErr13: Not Even Doom Mods can stop the Urbazoid Uprising].

>_

"Error not understood." Bolypius stated to the odd shape of F.E.T.T. glitching up.


Outcome: Target has crashed; WinErr13: Not Even Doom Mods can stop the Urbazoid Uprising].

Analyzing...

Do you just hate the pain? [Y/n]?

Bolypius wasn't sure where the stray thought had come from. It ignored the command line's output and instead chose to flee aboard the only vehicle nearby not protected by BusyBee Anti-Glitch (the anti-repair, anti-cheat, anti-malware antivirus software - that was itself being replaced by the even newer BeeCoin blockchain and NFT-based IDs to improve security that was still currently too much for the most powerful glitch ever, weakened as it was - featured in the tutorial arc seen in the previous "episode")... The nearby General Atomics Edison Motors Division SW8 owned by the Grand Forks Shortline.

The glitch slowly pulled itself towards the exterior guide rail on the locomotive and used its' adaptive abilities to connect to the practically-ancient H1-N0-13 Serial Bus of the locomotive's near-unsalvagable Babbage Engine (the origins of the Hinobi corporation, which originally produced videophones back in the 19th Century after a mysterious incident left an ordinary but savant-ish Japanese beekeeper in possession of the newly privatized Hinobi Telegraph Corporation, included their forays into producing sea-worthy Babbage Engines for the Imperial Japanese Navy in WWII) with it's odd and nightmarish tongue-spike thingy.

The engine started up and roared to life, pulling Bolypius and the train car with the Hinobi shipping container along with it as it slowly picked up speed...

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"Oh I was just crushing these miserable Insects under my heel. They won't last too much longer!" Snare responded "As soon as I find them they're History!"

"No, Let zem go for now. AND HELP ME DEAL VITH ZESE OZER INTERLOPERS!!!" Doctor X practically shouted.

"Ugh fine. Just let me fire off this last attack and I'll be there." And with that Snare fired his Lethal charged up attack at where he saw Zoe and Gadg8 last

"We shall meet again!" Snare yelled shaking his fist before he teleported out of the city works

"Aw, come on! He can just do that?!" Gadg8eer complained, and rushed to the door to use System Restore to repair the damage to the security door and wall. A few seconds later and with some help from Zoe, the area and the ctOS Server was as safe as it could get. They then met with DPortEd and iQ in the main warehouse.

"What the heck is this?" Dave asked, looking at the huge object which shouldn't have been there.

"It's a portal, can't you tell?" Gadg8eer said sarcastically.

"No, that's not possible. This... thing... is made entirely of PLixels." DPortEd explained.

"That glitch that looked like Dr. X seemed a little TOO real, Dave! Are you sure Glitches can't be sapient?"

"Theoretically? Can't be sure, there's no upper limit on software and no hard limit to PLixel technology, especially since Glitches can have personalities if they're intelligent enough to be sentient, but if a Glitch can be sapient then we have a serious problem because even today that level of AI does not exist. Deepfakes are just algorithms, actual intelligence to create new things is something even Bolypius couldn't- Wait. Oh, FILE SYSTEM CHECK!" he suddenly shouted, running out of the City Works garage and to the north end of the Yard.

"...we are probably going to want to... um... follow him?" iQ responded, and followed his own advice. Gadg8eer and Zoe followed close behind, as a beeping noise occurred to notify ZoeIRL and Gadg8eer that the mission was over and successful. "The current time is @250 or 10:00 PM local, Gadg8eer. According to dispatch, you have successfully completed the mission. This concludes your first shift at Hinobi Affiliate Store #10810. You may bring your equipment home with you as long as you make it clear they are not to be touched by others and put reasonable security measures in place. Thank you, and good night!"

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(( I need to pause this RP for less than 48 hours so I can finish threadmarking the RP. Feel free to post but only once until I've responded to everyone. ))

 

[Gadg8eer]

(( I'm behind schedule so I'm extending the pause by another 24 hours. Again, you can post one post while you're waiting. ))

 

[Gadg8eer]

(( Still need to update the map and character sheets, but we can consider this RP "upaused" but also "in a planning stage"; we'd better convene on what to progress with from here. I'm going to get some sleep and do the map and character sheets tomorrow. ))

 

[hauntedbythewendigo]

Ele got up slowly, trying to make sure all of her limbs were still intact. She quietly stood up.