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kuyatecallate · 1 year ago

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...taking this as an excuse to throw up in the tags because I'm a coward.

I went down a Youtube rabbit hole today of watching horror games framed as computer viruses, to videos on the history of actual computer viruses and trojan horses, to then just thinking about video game creepypastas, so I've just been kinda in that clashing thoughts stage of "there is an incomprehensible DCA AU just outside of my grasp rn." Yeah, it sure is a vibe. Don't know what it is though

#at the risk of burning the food;#the technician is mostly just playtesting the games since they're new #when they get around to Balloon World the glitch initially spooks the shit out of them #but it doesn't reappear when they try and show the other techs #they stay back late one night to recreate the glitch and manage to 'beat the game'- noting the oddities as an easter egg #however- the next few days the machine making odd noises and glitching in their peripheral #they ignore it and play the neighbouring cabinets- but some(one) is interfering with their inputs and freezing the screen.#it takes some unscripted events and mocking dialogue for them to realise something is messing with them and they pull the plugs out #they make a note to tell the others about the virus but their phone starts glitching out too #know why? because genius over here had their phone charging on the same extention chord as the arcade cabinets #a phonecall startles them and the voice on the other end is laced in thick static #-oh look the kitchens on fire. neat.#the other scene I envisioned was Eclipse taking Sun and Moon hostage in their own body- lashing out at staff- barring one #it's the AI hijacking that pushes the other technicians to draft up a another Daycare Animatronic- hopefully to trap the virus #seriously imagine bargaining with a fussy infant about the morality of bodysnatching #he's a bratty little shit but he's also got separation anxiety because spending years in an arcade alone will do that to ya #thanks for listening- had that one saved up for months. I'd write it #but it wouldn't come out this century 💀#oh shit- he reminds me of lovemachine... awesome

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