Me: I know I said that PokePark 3 would be my next update on fanfiction, but this was already almost done so I decided I'd do PP3 next.
Pikachu: Basically, he lied.
Me: So, now we have this whole new project that I've never talked about before. If you're reading this and don't know homestuck, go and read it! Or rather, don't, since it's extremely inappropriate and offensive. If you don't know MLP, go watch that instead! Egghead disclaimer!
Egghead: PSM doesn't own MLP or Homestuck.
Act 1: Part 1
A young mare stands in her bedroom. She is a purple unicorn who is very gifted at magic. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young mare's birthday. Though it was 13 years ago she was given life, it is only today she will be given a name!
What will the name of this young mare be?
Enter name.
Egghead Shitface. TRY AGAIN, SMARTASS!
Try again.
Twilight Sparkle. Yes, that sounds right, let's go with it.
Your name is Twilight. As was previously mentioned, it is your birthday. A number of cakes are scattered about your room. You have a variety of interests. You have a passion for all things magic, being the student of Princess Celestia. Your love of books, though gaining you a reputation as a bookworm, has supplied you with a large supply of knowledge, making you likely the smartest of your friends. Luckily, when you came to this town you were given a library to live in, so it's nigh impossible to run out of books to read. You like to program computers, but you aren't very good at it. You find technology frustrating sometimes, preferring to use magic. Although, you do like to play games with your friends sometimes.
Your room is a ledge that fills about a third of the space where a third floor would be, although it can hardly be considered a floor as much as a room with three walls. There is a staircase that leads to the second floor. Next to your bed, there is a small bookshelf that contains your favorite books. Next to that is your desk, with your laptop computer sitting on top of it. You don't have any posters on your walls, since you like to keep the library tidy, although there is a calendar on the wall. There is a blue package on your bed, waiting to be opened.
What will you do?
Twilight: Retrieve arms from drawer.
You open the drawer next to your bed. No arms in here. The contents include one of your favorite spellbooks, and a supply of scrolls, ink, and quills. You captchalogue the spellbook in your sylladex. A while ago you would probably have no idea what that meant, but luckily some of your more technologically adept friends taught you about the sylladex.
When an item is captchalogued, it becomes a card in your sylladex, where it can be accessed later. Sort of like an inventory in a video game. Your sylladex currently contains four cards, one of which currently holds your spellbook, leaving three blank cards.
Twilight: Captchalogue the quills, ink, and scrolls.
You captchalogue the items in that order. All of your cards now contain an item, and are placed in the opposite order that they were captchalogued in (scrolls in front, spellbook in back).
Twilight: Read from the spellbook.
You attempt to read from your book, but it cannot be accessed! The card containing your spellbook is trapped underneath the other three cards. For some reason, you can only use the card in the front of your deck, and to be honest, you have no idea what to do with these scrolls.
Alright, that's it. You're done fooling around here. It's time for you to do something extremely important.
Twilight: Fold a paper hat with a scroll and jump to the second floor.
What? No, really. What? It's at times like this one when you begin to question your sanity. What a stupid idea!
Twilight: Examine the calendar.
You've marked your birthday, the 13th of April. April 10th is marked, as it was supposed to be the day arrival date for for the highly touted SBURB beta launch.
It's been three days already. You're starting to believe that it's not coming.
Hmm? It seems that your computer is trying to get your attention. One of your friends appears to be messaging you.
Twilight: Examine incoming message.
You check your computer. The Pesterchum application is flashing. Someone is trying to get in touch with you. One of your chums is logged in. She's sent you a message.
Pesterlog:
- rainboomRacer [RR] began pestering enchantedLibrarian [EL] at 16:13 -
RR: Hey
EL: Hello.
RR: Did you get a red package in the mail?
EL: Possibly. I haven't checked the mail yet. I got a blue package yesterday.
RR: Yeah thats from pp
RR: Did you open it?
EL: I was just about to. Unfortunately, I've been struggling to use this stupid sylladex!
RR: Haha I forgot that youre such a noob
RR: What modus do you use?
EL: What's a modus?
RR: Wait let me rephrase that
RR: How do you retrieve items?
EL: Oh. Well, the newest items are in the front, and I can't access items that are underneath other ones.
RR: STACK!?
RR: Wow you need to get yourself a new modus
RR: But anyways
RR: I can teach you a trick if you want
EL: I'm all ears.
RR: You can set your strife specibus to a type of item in your sylladex
RR: Adding items to a separate strife deck will let you free up a card
RR: And you can use it if things become too hot to handle
RR: Which is never
EL: Alright.
EL: I'm looking at the list of strife specibi now. The only thing that's really useable is bookkind.
RR: Wow LAME!
RR: What are you gonna do slap people in the face with a book?
EL: I could probably use it to look up spells that I don't know off the top of my head.
EL: Right. My strife specibus is set.
RR: Okay now add some items
EL: I have a spellbook, but it's trapped at the bottom of my deck.
RR: Wow you really are bad at this
RR: Captchalogue another item and the spellbook will be removed from your sylladex
Twilight: Captchalogue blue package.
You grab the package off of your bed, adding it to your sylladex. This pushes all of your items down one card, causing the spellbook to be removed from the deck of captchalogue cards. You captchalogue the spellbook again, causing five quills to shoot out of the sylladex.
Twilight: Add spellbook to the strife deck.
You grab the spellbook once more, expelling three containers of ink, which, unsurprisingly, break and splatter ink across your room. You move the spellbook from your deck of captchalogue cards to your strife deck. This allows you to hold certain items (in this case, books) in a separate deck for weapons. There is now one free card, and the blue package is in the front of your deck.
Twilight: Open the package.
You place the blue package back on the bed. You wonder what could be inside of the package. You've been curious about it, and now you can finally receive the contents of this gift from your friend. You open it to reveal...a stack of five blank captchalogue cards! It is almost as if your friend KNEW that you would be having trouble with your sylladex today. You captchalogue the blank cards. Unfortunately, instead of adding the blank cards, your sylladex puts them inside of another blank card. ARG! It looks like there's something else inside of the package.
You take out what looks to be a new modus. It looks sort of like a captchalogue card, but it's green and has the word tree written on it.
Twilight: Change fetch modus.
While fiddling with the device, you manage to switch your fetch modus from stack to tree. In doing this, your items are all dumped out onto the floor, except for the blank cards, which become part of the deck as soon as they are ejected. Now your room is a total mess!
Twilight: Grab the quills, scrolls, and ink.
Unfortunately, the ink is spilt all over the floor, and you'd rather not take the risk of filling your sylladex with loose ink. You captchalogue the other two items. As the first item you captchalogued, the quills become the root card, meaning that other items will branch out from it. Because scroll starts with s, and s comes after q, the scroll card starts a branch on the right side of the quill card. It seems that this modus is based on the binary tree data structure. This is perfect for you! Your friend knows you so well.
Oh? It seems your chum is messaging you again.
Me: If you'd like to enter a command, go do that by reviewing! I will try and use as many commands as I can in a chapter. PP3 is coming soon! Review!