cascadingfailure | Yuletide 2

[ Once you enter the Escape Room, a series of messages pops up on your phones: ]

TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wellll it looks like Naffy's out of commission? It'll take her awhile to reboot with how hard she just got hit by the autocensor!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Whatever you did, it really made her mad! Haha!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway since I know what's going on now, I'm happy to help! It looks like the nature of the threat is a gang war between an evil thought sealed and another that you all and your fans helped to return to the world of the not-so-living? Wild!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: In case you didn't get the memo, this means you're going to explore the combination WcDonald's and Damned Queen's Cookies!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There you'll find something you're looking for, probably…? But mostly you're looking for a way to contain the outbreaks!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: And fortunately, we've received a message from a friendly entity known only as "The Borger King", who apparently has a stake in the downfall of Lonard's lost empire…
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: It says:
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There is a war going on for your mind. Steal their secrets. Create the Ultimate Prankburger. The king awaits. Salvation will come.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wow! It looks like it's time for corporate espionage, or something?
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway, you get to keep everything you find, unless it's a dolphin! That's mine.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Better get going! Charge!!!!!

[ And then everything goes white... ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Nemesis!: whats fridge idle doing
Nemesis!: you need weapons ? looks like thers drop box here

Izanagi: Fridge idol's just hanging out surrounded by dark magic I think?
Izanagi: A drop box?
Izanagi: We could definitely use weapons but I'm not sure where the drop box leads

Nemesis!: could always find out
Nemesis!: hold on

Izanagi: ??

[Hey you can text and move at the same time. So it's only a minute or so before he gets a new message]

Nemesis!: check your box

[Going to check the box!]

[Inside are Christmas Edition Chicken Nugger(3)]

[????????]

Izanagi: I got... nuggets?

Nemesis!: you said you needed a weapon
Nemesis!: word on the street is thesere prime weapons
Nemesis!: and by street i mean memo board at wcdo

Izanagi: Did the memo board happen to mention how they're supposed to be used?

[A moment, then slightly fuzzy screenshot comes through of text]

between the recent upheavals in Tokyo-D (and Miss Oracle's crop of newly auditioned idols that WE have to manage, when Tokyo-F is already at capacity) and the recent expedition of Tokyo-F idols into unauthorized areas our office is busy with a plethora of priority one issues. So no, we cannot authorize the use of quote unquote weaponized WcNuggets.

Izanagi is typing...

...

Izanagi is typing...

Izanagi: I see
Izanagi: Well, there's been weirder stuff in this place
Izanagi: Do you guys have any money to spare?
Izanagi: There's a shop over here we can buy weapons from but we don't have any money

Nemesis!: wow what kinda boy just asks you formoney
Nemesis!: nah cross can send you some ￥￥￥ it hjink
Nemesis!: they selling anything good and or useful

Edited 2022-02-02 04:18 (UTC)

Izanagi: Bombs, lamp oil, rope, and one set of Damned Queen's Cookies(6) with accompanying a handwritten note.

I can snag a free sample of her cookie too

[A moment then a return]

Nemesis!: oh forreal get us a cookie it dont kill you right
Nemesis!: how much money you need for all that stuff
Nemesis!: also you aing seen any way to keep balls away have you

Izanagi: I have no idea what it does but I can get you at least one
Izanagi: Hang on

Nemesis!: sweet
Nemesis!: literally ig

Izanagi: Okay, sending the cookie.
Izanagi: There's also a message with the cookie set

[He'll text an image of it.]

Izanagi: I'm assuming it reads:

NEITHER THE GODESSES NOR THAT DAMNABLE FAIRY SHALL HINDER ME ANY LONGER. THEIR MUSIC IS BANISHED FROM THIS LAND. I AM FREE.

HATSUNE MACARONI HAS FALLEN INTO MY TRAP AND I HAVE ABSORBED HER ESSENCE AND HIDDEN IT IN A GIFT. LONARD'S REALM HAS BEEN CONQUERED. THE PURE WATER, FROZEN. THE BORGER KING HIDES. I HAVE WON. TOKYO-F'S SUSTANENCE MACHINE IS MINE.

Izanagi: In case that's useful for something?

Nemesis!: huh
Nemesis!: here

[She sends another image of a different note, a little crooked this time]

You're so lucky, you're so lucky, you're so lucky! This program could've left you all to die, but that would be rude! Not that you've been any better!!!

This program has made sure to deliver a copy of this program's ultimate quarantine technique. If you can find the Damned Queen's seat of power in her manor, it will weaken her greatly, though you'll still have to defeat her yourself.

[Also as promised, sending over cookie:

Damned Queen's Cookies(1)

A single free sample of the Damned Queen's Cookies! Gone are the days where one must sit staring at a menu to decide what kind of cookies one wants to order - the Queen has graciously decided for you! And what she has decided is that her cookies shall shift wildly between multiple kinds, only finally becoming one specific kind of cookie when chewed on.

Enjoy!]

Nemesis!: ty

[a pause]

Nemesis!: you seen that gift from whatersfaces note ?

Izanagi: We saw lots of gift boxes in the freezer
Izanagi: The one we opened is the one that blew up in our faces

Nemesis!: blew up
Nemesis!: how

Izanagi: I opened it
Izanagi: And then it blew up

Nemesis!: maybe you opened it wrong

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