#PROGRAMFILES|MOST_POWERFUL_TUNA_SPELLS

[rry2k]

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING : 00:00:00 ]

[ BEGINNING OPERATION NOW. ]

...NOT. A program destroyer. Maybe. Uh.

"Helps with many operations." ...Why would we... NEED that?

W-

AHHHHH!!!!

[Darnold LUNGES her hand forward, pressing it against the program's surface, and...]

[rry2k]

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 00:00:00:00 ]

[BEGINNING OPERATION NOW.]

[WHAT ARE Y-]

...

What was that?

[ THE ASKBOX HAS BEEN OPENED. ]

[rry2k]

…so, what happens when you miss your mark?

>Input (5,1). -🚥

[ > Input (5,1) ]

[INVALID INPUT.]

[ WAIT I DIDN'T - ]

[rry2k]

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[rry2k]

...

[He's silently taking large inhales and exhales.]

...okay.

[ > REBOOT ]

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 00:00:00 ]

[ 00:00:07 00:07:00 07:00:00 ]

[ REBOOTING MIXED REALITY WIZARD... ]

[ . . . ]

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 07:00:00:00 ]

Okay well that's a thing I was not aware of. Okay. Okay. I can figure out a little solution to this.

Maybe if I... hm... well, if it will feed my appetite, I'll take the time.

A little disguise never hurt nobody.

[ OPERATION RESCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 6TH. ]

[rry2k]

So there's a new program? How come I've never heard about this? Countless of years, countless, but I've never seen it run... or even be installed, for that matter! Does that mean... are they back, programming more AI, or...

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 00:06:00 ]

No, no, that's not a sound theory... I mean, when would they ever come here, unseen, and put something here? No, I need to start over. So. Unknown file, unknown program, unknown everything. So how did...

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...what? Hey, hey, no, what's the countdown for? HEY!

[Darnold grabs either side of the program and begins to shake it. To no avail.]

What's your motive?! Huh? What's the big old countdown for? Surely... surely it can't be that day already...

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Well, if you think you can scare me with a little message, you're mistaken! I- I'll have you know I'm very exceptional at messages, much more than YOU! So this little... pitiful display? Doesn't bother me at all! Hah!

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DID YOU NOT HEAR ME. I'M NOT SCARED OF A COUNTDOWN. SO YOU CAN STOP WITH WHATEVER THIS IS. TELL ME WHO PUT YOU UP TO THIS OR I'LL... DO SOMETHING.

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 00:02:00 ]

FUCK. Uh, shit, no, can you just... stop? We can talk this out, strange little... Mixed Reality Wizard. You don't have to put up this whole facade! Let's settle this like noble AI! ...please?

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 00:01:00 ]

Please don't do anything detrimental... please, PLEASE-

[rry2k]

Come on, come on... something here's got to be a clue, a tell, a look into anything...

No… no… this is so dumb! Just give me what I want-!

…

…this isn’t- I- …what is this?!

[ LOADING... ]

[ ESTIMATED TIME REMAINING: 00:07:00 ]

Wha...

File says… "Mixed Reality Wizard". What the hell is that.

[rry2k]

"I swear, we don't need this many files. Half of these could be deleted, and nobody would forget an important thing." "...but they can remember him, so somewhere here..."

[rry2k]

[ > PROVIDE NOTICE OF FUTURE OPERATIONS ]

[ . . . ]

[ OPERATION SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 30TH ]

[rry2k]

oh last oneee!

> Input (2,3)

Last one...

...

[ INPUT DENIED BY THE MIXED REALITY WIZARD. ]

[rry2k]

Stoplight hey, take a deep breath...

Wizard probably had no idea that was even there; I'm willing to bet he might have done some programming to ensure it is there. Clearly, he wants us to do something with these. He wants us to put the fragments together from each series of puzzles we complete.

But... why? Is he trapped or something? What will this even do?

- flowers anon 🌸

[INCOMING CONNECTION.]

> Input message.

> Decode message from binary to text.

> Decoding…

> Message decoded.

> "…fine. But your guess is as good as mine to this silly little game he’s playing. He’s always liked being shifty and playing games. Guess it was a good way back then to pass the time."

> "Oh GODDAMN IT. No, I didn’t mean to make a p-"

> Message indecipherable from here. The following zeros and ones appear to be… “keyboard smashed”, and not actually typed.

[rry2k]

Hey Wizard, whats that thing at the top of this all about? The numbers and letters?

That's an identifier for the operation! They don't have names typically, but they still have to be saved somehow.

MRW stands for Mixed Reality Wizard. I'm sure you can figure out why that part is.

In this instance 0034 would be the operation number. The previous operation was 33, and the next is 35.

The letter at the end signifies which stage of the operation we're on! C, which would be the third one. If we had any other variable at play, those would be another number at the end of the identifier.

It's a great system, isn't it? It makes everything much easier to log!

[rry2k]

[TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED.]

[TRANSMISSION REROUTE-]

[ERROR.]

[ERROR.]

[ERROR.]

01011001 01001111 01010101 00100000 01001100 01001001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01000111 01000001 01001101 01000101 01010011 00101100 00100000 01001000 01010101 01001000 00111111 00001010 01010011 01001111 00100000 01000100 01001111 00100000 01001001 00101110 00001010 01001001 00100000 01001000 01000001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000110 01000001 01010110 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01000111 01000001 01001101 01000101 00101110 00001010 01000100 01001111 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 00100000 01001011 01001110 01001111 01010111 00100000 01010111 01001000 01000001 01010100 00100000 01001001 01010100 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100 00111111

[rry2k]

OH OH In that case! B3 to 7 and B8 to 11?

That's over half way done now. Just a few more good inputs and we'll be done!

[rry2k]

Hello there, wizard! Are you okay?

Am I okay?

...

...Yes, I think so. That was most likely just a bug.

...Albeit, a very odd bug.

[rry2k]

WIZARD! how was death? - ⭐🧃

How was death?

[ IS THAT WHAT THAT WAS? ]

No. That couldn't be a game over, could it? We finished the hangman just fine! We still had guesses left, I know we did.