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A young woman sleeps in her dormroom. It just so happens that today, the sixth of April, XXXX, is this young woman's first day of school. Though it was approximately fourteen years ago she was given life, it is only today she will be given a name!
What will the name of this young woman be?
>Kozue: Text a boy.
Nanami texting you actually just gave you a great idea for how to fuck with both her and your brother at once. You tab into someone else's DMs and let your thumbs fly around the screen on autopilot.
godforsakenCreature [GC] poked chummyAdonis [CA] at 08:04
GC: heyy
GC: so im in the SDORM thing and i was wondering if you wanted to pair up since we've been talking a lot lately but haven't had too many chances to hang out
GC: figure im probably more fun company than any of the other losers in this thing
CA: Ah, Kozue-chan.
CA: You'll have to accept my apologies. I've already promised my good friend we could be buddies.
CA: I truly would enjoy your company more than his, but fate averts itself for no man.
GC: ok
That's a wash. What a weird guy.
>Kozue: Text a girl.
If you can't get paired with anyone you know, may as well keep your idiot brother from nobly forcing you to pair with him by refusing any other musical chair. You don't really want to talk to him, though.
godforsakenCreature [GC] poked anguishmentGangster [AG] at 08:10
GC: hey senpai
GC: can you like
GC: be 'buddies' with my brother for the SDORM thing
GC: if he protests tell him i said it was okay or I already have one or something
AG: Why not tell him yourself?
GC: well you know
GC: it's rude
AG: I don't follow.
GC: it's hard to explain
GC: can you just
GC: do it
AG: Fine. It's all the same anyways. You owe me, though.
GC: that's our school mafia boss! thanks
>Kozue: Be your brother.
Your name is MIKI.
Holy SHIT do you love BOOKS.
The instant you have a free moment, you're DROWNING OUT ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERNAL MONOLOGUE by the handy leverage of SOMEONE ELSE'S WORDS. Right now you're reading one about the history of MAGES, OR SOMETHING? How metatextually convenient! When you're not immersed in BIBLIOGRAPHIC SCRAWLS, you like to play PIANOFORTE, AS IT WERE. But there's a certain JE NE SAIS QUOI that's been absent from your playing ever since LONG, LONG AGO.
And, well, you kind of buried the lede with all this jibberjabber. Your MIND is pretty incredible. You're a regular boy genius, in fact!
Your first class of the day ended just a few moments ago, and now you're free for a bit! Early free periods are perks of being STUDENT COUNCIL SECRETARY. Your phone buzzes.
>Miki: Check phone.
Oh, it's your friend slash senpai! Something about practice tomorrow, maybe?
anguishmentGangster [AG] poked glitteranceTentative [GT] at 09:47
AG: Hey Miki-kun.
AG: We're gonna be a pair for SDORM today, kay?
GT: Senpai! My sister has dibs.
AG: She told me she's already got someone, and asked me to pair with you.
GT: Oh. Okay. Nice of her I suppose.
AG: So I've been doing the reading on SDORM and we should probably relocate to your house and just get things started.
GT: What about class? Why at my house?
AG: Being in a home environment appears to be more convenient, and your house is closer than mine. We are almost certainly going to be exempt from classes today. I'll leave it at that.
GT: Alright. Meet you there in 10?
AG: Yep.
Well that's something. Guess you better hustle.
>Miki: Get a move on.
The move on is begotten! Gotten. Eugh, you've gotten near-instant semantic satiation for "gotten".
You arrive at your house. Your orange-haired senpai is already there.
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She surveys your living room. "Alright. I'll explain SDORM, and then we'll get started."
SDORM is pretty simple.
Pairs of players install the app on their phones. After choosing a buddy, a player's buddy becomes known as their bunkmate. Bunkmates can view each other at any time on their phones, and manipulate each other's environments. When initially connected, you'll see the usual machines you've come to know and love - the totem lathe, the alchemiter, the pre-punched card... but look closely! The cruxtruder has been replaced with a new and improved DICRUXTRUDER, with double the cruxite dowels, and two sprites!
In previous versions of SDORM, whether players shared a session was determined through long, closed chains, in which one player acted as server for another player, who in turn acted as server for yet another, and so on, until the final player acted as server for the original player. Rest easy, we're out of the stone ages! With the latest version, the SDORM app may be pre-patched by institutions pre-distribution to ensure all their students arrive to the same session. Mechanics dependent on the "order" of server-client connections will now be automatically assigned by advanced artificial intelligence.
>Miki: Where were we?
"Makes sense! Shall we, then?"
"We shall."
You pair your phone with senpai's and deploy the DICRUXTRUDER. The timer on it reads...
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Senpai picks up the ottoman. You're about to ask what on earth she's doing, but she tosses it onto the dicruxtruder and two dowels, along with two glowing orbs pop out. One is blue, the other orange. Complementary colors!
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She turns to you. "We'll need to find some sort of interesting item to "prototype" these sprites with." She gestures to the orbs. "I hope you don't mind if I have a look around?" She exits the room with the orange orb following her.
>Miki: Decide on something good to prototype.
Hmmm. You're not entirely sure. Maybe one of those cute matching cups you and your sister have? You're about to take yours out of the cabinet when you hear a crash and-
"FUCK! SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK?"
>Miki: Check on Senpai.
You run over to the room where you heard the crash. "Are you okay?"
Senpai is sitting on the ground. "Marginally. I tripped, and..." She gestures above her, gazing fixedly at the floor. "It swooped in. The asshole."
You look above her. The orange orb now appears to have the image of a closed locket within it.
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Your name is JURI.
You've had a long, stressful day. Sleep no longer bears the reprieve it once did, and with the THEFT of that option, you're not sure how to handle yourself. You certainly HOPE that this game gives you some kind of way to turn off the stupid dreaming feature.
You have a variety of INTERESTS. Fencing, and, her, and, beauty, you guess. Look you sandwiched it in the middle but the real problem here is that when you're conscious for more than 14 hours you start thinking about HER. A game that disables your ability to be unconscious is a fucking atrocity. Especially when, upon having a look around the moon your dream self woke upon, you discovered SHE was there. Still asleep. Imagine what a nightmare it'll be when she wakes up.
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That fucking sprite. It talks in some facsimile of her voice. It sounds less like the way she sounds in real life, and more the way she sounds in your head. So fucking embarrassing to have bullshit from your head out where anyone can see it. You don't want to do your planet quests, or whatever. You're a club and community leader, not someone who signed up to do coming-of-age adventure bullshit.
"Miki?"
"Yes, Juri-senpai?"
"Please go on without me. I need some time to myself."
"Got it."
He bounds up to the roof of his house, gives you a little wave, and enters the portal down to your shared Land.
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