[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[The party wasn't that good.]
[](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[It never is.]](t8n-depart:"blur")+(t8n-arrive:"blur")+(t8n-time:0.9s)(click-goto:?page,"Untitled Passage 1")(align:"<==")+(box:"=XXXXX====")[It wasn't worth it.] (align:"==>")+(box:"===XX")[Not for them.] (align:"=><=")+(box:"=XXX=")[Not for anything.]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"===XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==")[Especially when they didn't love you. It was five years of gruelling, torturous, hollow gestures.]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[And now what?]
(t8n-depart:"dissolve")(click-goto:?page,"Untitled Passage 2")(box:"=XX=")[You've been asleep for hours. Days?]
(align:"<==>")+(box:"=XX=")[Weeks? Months? Years?]
(text-colour:#f03e3e)[(align:"=><=")+(box:"==X==")[(t8n-depart:"rumble")+(t8n-arrive:"shudder")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[Fuck.->Untitled Passage 3]]]]
(align:"<==>")+(box:"=XX=")[Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.]
(t8n-depart:"shudder")+(t8n-arrive:"shudder")[[I need to wake up.->Untitled Passage 4]](text-colour:#f76707)[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")["Get up off the God damn floor. I'm tired of looking at your face; it isn't appealing anymore."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//When you open your eyes into the world after party-drug-induced slumber, it looks as though someone took all facets of the life you had and made them bigger, or altered them slightly. The windows in the living room where you're lying are floor to ceiling, and outside the orange sky of midday seems strangley sterile. Like it won't move until someone presses a button.//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[You look at the person talking.]
(align:"<==")+(box:"X====")[(text-colour:#f03e3e)[ (t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-arrive:"instant")[[Who are you?->Untitled Passage 5.]]]](align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[(text-colour:#f03e3e)[(t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-arrive:"instant")[[What year is it?->Untitled Passage 6.]]]]
(text-colour:#e8590c)[(align:"=><=")["Koschek. Pansy. Koschek Pansy."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//[You snicker, expecting the person above you to laugh also, but it doesn't seem as funny to them as it does to you.]//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#e8590c)[["You can laugh all you want but I have full authority to throw you out that window if I want to. And I'm starting to really want to."]]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//You start to cough as if sputtering up water. Sitting up, you look up and around. All the anemities in the house branded boldly and there seems to be a constant stream of information coming in from two televisions turn to different news channels and a screen of several articles floating in the air. Even the microwave is talking about current events as it warms up last night's takeout.//]
(align:"<==")+(box:"=XXXXXXXXXX=========")[(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(t8n-depart:"instant")+(t8n-arrive:"instant")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[Why don't you just kick me out?->Untitled Passage 7]]]](align:"==>")+(box:"=======XXX")[ (t8n-depart:"instant")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[Where is this, exactly?->Untitled Passage 8.]]
](text-colour:#d9480f)[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")["2024. Parrell, to be exact. 2024P-2."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//You try to stand up but your head is still reeling. Whatever you took that night did as much damage to your psyche as possible. Koscheck is pulling on a leather red snake skin coat and fixing his scarf in the mirror. Wait, what?//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#087f5b)["You said it's 2024?"]]
(text-colour:#d9480f)[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")["Yeah, you didn't think the world would stop just because you fell, did you? If so, the sociology books were right about your generation's ego."]]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(align:"<==")+(box:"XXX==")[(t8n-depart:"instant")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[But it was just 1989 a few minutes ago ... ->Untitled Passage 9]]](align:"==>")]+(box:"==XXX")[(t8n-depart:"instant")+(text-colour:#1864ab)[(t8n-time:0.9s)[[How do you know what time I'm from?->Untitled Passage 10]]]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#d9480f)["Well that would hardly be polite, would it? Besides, I need someone to talk to and your unconcious body wasn't working well enough, plus I can't take it with me outside. C'mon, get up, don't be a piss baby."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//When he walks towards the kitchen, you follow, overwhelmed by the excessive amount of modern news and nonsense sylables being spoken. Koscheck hands you the warmed up Chinese take out and shrugs, then begins to leave, expecting you to follow.//]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(t8n-time:0.9s)[[You hurry to keep up.->Untitled Passage 12]]](text-colour:#d9480f)[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")["This is my apartment, previously your apartment about twenty-five years ago. Largely, this is The New New York City. Abstractly, this is both of our worst nightmare. Get up, let's go."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//'The "New" New York?' sounds like a bad sci-fi novel setting. You rush to get your bearings and follow him. He hands you warmed up Chinese takeout from the microwave before you leave. He shrugs, //]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#c92a2a)[[[you follow.->Untitled Passage 12]]]](text-colour:#d9480f)[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")["A few minutes ago for you was twenty-five decades in real time. Or whatever you believe, time is a subjective concept that I'm not exactly commited to. Get your shit together, let's go."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//You get up and stumble, reaching out to grab his red snake skin leather coat but missing by hair. He hands you the warmed up Chinese take out from last night and the two of you //](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#c92a2a)[[[leave.->Untitled Passage 12]]]](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//Koscheck is not phased any of the commotion on the broken streets, nor the multiple eyed creature or semen covered faces or transcendental chakras that float along the sidewalk. The orange colour of the sky has not changed even a bit and more noticable it has absolutely no texture or gradient to it. Koscheck walks faster than you, but only because he's much taller. He looks back at you.//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[
(text-colour:#d9480f)["You know, mostly people can't stand to live their lives as they are because they've seen such fantastic jewels and sights that the thought of living normally becomes unbearable. You have to either fight against that wave of envy and thereby, denounce the ruling classes and all their opulence, or easier still; never bother to pay attention to their riches in the first place. I've comfortably chosen the latter, as you can see, I have nothing to envy here."] He opens his arms wide to either side like Jesus, inviting the streets the two of you walk through into an all encompasing hug. (text-colour:#d9480f)["I am just another cum sucking, ass fucking, fetish loving, night crawling, stupified mummy walking the streets like everyone else."]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[// If you can't beat them, join them. Right? Still, you can see some alarming signs coming up ahead. You try to retain your cool. //(text-colour:#2b8a3e)["So you're the people's poet?"](text-colour:#d9480f)[ "Worse; I'm a parasitic son of a bitch sucking off the tit of history. If I'm forgotten, and no one remembers my name, all the better for it. I am nothing and I control nothing."]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(t8n-depart:"shudder")+(t8n-arrive:"pulse")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[If only you could be so pessimistically optimistic.->Untitled Passage 13]]]](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//Koschek looks you up and down, or rather, side to side on the ground and smirks some.//]
(text-colour:#d9480f)[//''''(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")["In that garb, you're instantly dated. C'mon, let's go. You are absolutely useless to me unconcious and at home."]''''//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#087f5b)["Well that's not very fucking nice,"]// you reply but he doesn't seem to care.//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//He hands you warmed up Chinese take out from the microwave as he moves through the mental clutter of his surroundings. You give a sigh of defeat, //](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(t8n-time:0.9s)[[and follow.->Untitled Passage 12]]]](align:"<==")+(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(checkbox: bind $one, " DO YOU KNOW WHERE WERE YOU ON 7/11?")]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(checkbox: bind $two, " FIVE LEGGED DWARF KITTEN SPAYED OF SIXTEEN TESTICLES")]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//You can't tell which way is up and which way is left when the two of you pass through the bubble of adverts and bizzare questionnaires.//
(align:"==>")+(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(checkbox: bind $three, " DOCTORS HATE HER TWO PRONGED ULTRA MAXI HAIR WITH EXTRA STRENGTH FOR FAR DISTANCES!")]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)+(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(checkbox: bind $four, " YOU LOOK LIKE SHIT!")]]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)+(align:"<==")[(checkbox: bind $five, " GOD SAID HE DOESN'T LIKE UGLY! OCTO MOM TOWERING AT 11 FEET TALL TELLS HIM TO FUCK RIGHT OFF! TONIGHT ON SPONGES!")]
//Koscheck is checking off all the boxes, literally. //(text-colour:#d9480f)["Don't worry about these, now that you're the future, it'll be happening a lot!"]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)+(align:"==>")[(checkbox: bind $six, " CAN YOU FIT IN THE BACK SEAT OF A LITTLE GIRL'S BIKE CARRYING BOTH A SMALL POMERANIAN AND GRANDMAS STOLEN RECIPETS? EXPERTS SAY 'THERE'S A WAY!'")]
(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(checkbox: bind $seven, " I SAW YOU SCREWING YOUR MOTHER'S BOYFRIEND'S GIRLFRIEND TWO NIGHTS AGO AT THE SANTIKOS THEATRE PREMIERE OF BIG FISH! YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT!")]
(text-colour:#027f5b)["There's no way of swiping them away?"] (text-colour:#d9480f)[ "What, like an iPad?"]
(text-colour:#087f5b)["What the hell is that?"] (text-colour:#d9480f)["Nevermind!"]
(text-colour:#e03131)[(checkbox: bind $seven, "YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!")]
(text-colour:#087f5b)[//"That's just unoriginal!"//]
(text-colour:#d9480f)["Hey! The Chinese place!"] Koscheck grabs your hand and tugs.
(align:"==>")[(text-colour:#66d9e8)[(t8n-depart:"flicker")+(t8n-arrive:"flicker")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[GENERAL CHO'S KITCHEN->Untitled Passage 14]]]](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//Koscheck keeps laughing, this future is the best option for him. General Cho's Kitchen is more of a small tiled area resembling the Saw movies, and you do not want to be in the future anymore.//]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=")[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")+(text-colour:#087f5b)["Am I going to have to stay here forever now?"] You ask, basically pleading. Koscheck spins around and places a soft drink in front of you. (text-colour:#d9480f)["Afraid so, you little cermuchin. But you'll get used to it, I promise."] He takes of a large swig from the cup you assume was meant for you.(text-colour:#d9480f)[ "Look, I gotta go check out the Redder District to see if I can get a lead on this one killer hooker whose been hanging around these parts killing the kiddies. But just stay put and I'll come get you in, what? Maybe five hours?"] He slams down $10 on the table in front of you.]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[(text-colour:#c92a2a)[(t8n-depart:"fade-up")+(t8n-arrive:"fade-down")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[["Don't spend it all on one bowl of chicken fried rice!"->The End]]]](enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:red))[(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:black)+(bg:red)[//''FUCK YOU, KOSCHECK!''//]]]
//(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[thank you for humouring my silly llittle game <3 ~ harley md]//
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[play again?->Home.]](enchant:?page,(text-colour:#0ca678)+(bg:#d9480f))''(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[NOW THAT I'M THE FUTURE.]''
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:0.9s)[[CONTINUE->Untitled Passage]]]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[by harley md / iloveyouphillipmorris]