Fandom Judgement XX

[Squad141]

The day is April 13th, and it is 10:34 AM in the morning.
Today, the international sensation, SBURB, is being released in only half an hour.

Today, a handful of teenagers around the world are not getting one of the most popular games of the year.

For whatever reason, be it money problems or disinterest, the game will not end up in the hands of these kids by the end of the day.
At least, it wasn't going to.

You are standing in your room, be it by the sea shore or in the city.
You get a notification on your electronic device.

It's an email from a 'developer' of SBURB.

What do you do?

Eidolon Astronaut SpectrumCrow Venchi1986 low fidelity Orikanyo ​

 

[Venchi1986]

Today might be the day one of the most anticipated video games of the year comes out not everyone interested. Take this kid for example, rather than waiting for SBURB to be released he is working on some wooden model of a lion. How exciting to watch. At least we can name him, that should be more interesting than this.

>>Enter name

Hobbledehoy Mooncalf

Sorry that's is too long

>> Try again.

Peter Griffin.

That works his name is..... Dammit, sorry his first name has to be four letters so let's be lazy and call him Pete.

Ohh lucky us, while we were busy with his name Pete has finished his model. So we should be able to command him.

>> Smash lion model on the floor.

No way, you'd never do that. Ignoring the strange random thought you place your latest creation on your bookshelf where you already have several other wooden animals.​

Eidolon Astronaut
SpectrumCrow
low fidelity
Orikanyo

 

[Orikanyo]

>>Enter the zone

A young man stands before the monument of the swole, gregorian chants fill the room from a music playing app on a phone nearby. He is getting ready for his next greatest challenge. His body ripples in anticipation, the day of judgement has arrived.

Today he shall be facing his greatest challenge once more, he had been training to break this barrier for weeks, to push beyond what he had previously known so well.

A new step up on the ladder towards makin' it.

The dream is real.

Flickering to life like a candle lit, the young man dofts the cloak concealing his form, his muscle shirt, damp with sweat of many irons pumped, his brow creased with purpose, his glutes shapely and powerful... It is time.

Stepping forward the young man grasps the wrought steel bar with intent, feeling his hands grasp the textured metal and holding tight. His pulse slowed, his muscles taught, his legs strong and ready...

For the right...

Moment...

Breath in...

Breath out...

Breath in....

Breath out.....

.....

Like a bolt of lightning the young man rose to the challenge, the weights pushed against his might with all of its own. Two titans grappleing for success, each inch, each step of the lift bringing it close to the promised lands. With a breath of anxious relief... The deed was finally done...

The weight was above him.

He lifted it.

His brain congratualted him.

His body, however, screamed for him to drop the fucking weight.

Which he did.

The weight clanged to the soft cushion covered floor below, bouncing safely upon the ground before settling.

The deed was done.

>>Enter name.

Chad Maximus.​

 

[SpectrumCrow]

=-> Be the third kid

You are now the third kid.


=-> Enter name

Your name is Ruth Erlasdottir, a young TEEN living in ICELAND.

You really like GOTH CULTURE, DRESSING GOTH, and ANYTHING GOTH RELATED. At first, your curiosity was only that. But as time went on, it turned into pure love for the clothing, the music, all of it.

You also like CREATING MUSIC! You've experimented with various INSTRUMENTS that are scattered around your room. But mostly, you've taken to using SOFTWARE for that sort of thing.

=> Ruth: Look out window

You look out the window to the vast, open sea. It's been the view through this window as long as you can remember and you doubt that is going to change soon.

The figure of the LIGHTHOUSE looms so close. Your brother is probably up there doing something.... ​

 

[Eidolon Astronaut]

> Inspect Lighthouse.

The narrative camera zooms out from the ERLASDOTTIR LIGHTHOUSE HOME and into the window of the ERLASON LIGHTHOUSE TOWER. A young man stands by a 4th story window, staring at darkened clouds overhead.

> Enter name: Leif Erlason.

Your name is LEIF, and you are pretty sure it's going to RAIN.

> Leif: Where is your room?

You're in it. All 5 STORIES of the lighthouse belong to you via the international rule of DIBS. However, due to the thin nature of the tower, you kind of have to live VERTICALLY. Your bed is on the 3rd STORY, while your desk and computer are here on the 4th. On the 5th lies your ASTRONOMY EQUIPMENT and other tools of your interests.

Your main interest's heart is here on the 4th floor (truly the most important number) and it is your pride and joy: an antique SMITH CORONA TYPEWRITER that you use to write drafts for your stories. You're gonna make it big one day as a seafaring author.

> Leif: What's with that brooding stare?

It's not brooding, it's exhaustion. You have been up all night working on some projects. Your work is more important than sleep.

> Leif: Be someone else.

Sure, you can part with the narrative spotlight as your sister did for you. But you'll need it back later.​

 

[Squad141]

A gaggle of children stand, sit, or simply exist at many points and places around the soon to be former Earth, unaware of their coming demise as it approaches.

But first...

~beeeEEEP!

Each of them get's a notification from their mobile device/laptop/internet based machine.
It appears to be a message from... sburb.me? That's odd, as you all know that's the website the developers used to give fans monthly updates on the game.​

From

: stripes-n-bells
I hope you all are having a wonderful day. I am one of the devs for the SBURB beta release, and I come to you with every important news. The official version released has a major bug in it, though we cannot get it under control in time for the launch, so the original copy will still be deployed. For those of you who have not bought or ordered the copy, and thus getting this e-mail, I have attached a free copy with the newest patch we just baked up. I hope you enjoy yourselves immensely.

With great apology,
the

SBURB Development Team.

You check, and sure enough, a large file called 'SBURB_omicron_patch.exe'

Eidolon Astronaut SpectrumCrow Venchi1986 Orikanyo ​

 

[Venchi1986]

Despite you not being aware of it the narrative spotlight focuses on you again as you turn on your computer and see an unexpected e-mail. While curious you don't trust it.

What will you do?

>>Open it anyway. There won't be a story otherwise.

Hesitantly you click on the file. Seems like it might take a while to run. What will you in the meantime?

>>Okay despite the fact you just turned your computer on you ignore the device to look out your window.

You see your boring old small backyard, wishing not for the first time, and in no way the last, you lived somewhere more interesting where you could take better pictures, like your friends Leif and Ruth with their lighthouse.

>> Go downstairs and explore more of your house

You can't follow this command cause there isn't a downstairs in your house, or an upstairs for that matter. You are absolutely sure you will never regret this lack of stairs, no matter what anyone tells you about them.​

Eidolon Astronaut
SpectrumCrow
Orikanyo