//STOMA ant view//\n\n"We were in the presence of an enduring endlessness, day after day. It would have been easier on us if they had died and arranged their bodies into the familiar, comforting forms of terror and despair."
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Here is rudimentary draft of Twine. Let me know when things aren't possible, when we should pursue easier options, what would make the format work better for you, etc.\n\n
//Ants on the tree.//\n\n“We didn’t notice the ants at first -- their stillness. The deer was distressing, but the ants were not like the deer. "They did not [[terminate]]. "
use < p > to create multiple screens?
<p align="left">//POV: Her looking down at her guts, with her hand nearby - like the shot you made.//\n\n"The intestines are very emotionally sensitive, like a second brain. 90 percent of your serotonin in those aching, writhing ropes. Unlike the first brain, they are not “in league”. This brain can’t stop feeling. Millions of neurons won’t let it stop feeling. Telling the truth.\n\n//Camera is moving through a spaghetti of pink guts, deep inside view, unrealistically depthy. Player inputs affects gut physics - rippling, nudging, whipping guts as if they controlled tentacles. Text is embedded throughout guts.//\n\nSo it was natural, necessary, and inevitable that they would be converted into a rubberized, pharmaceuticalized, intermediate sensory tool. We all make little sacrifices for our job."\n\n[[Cut to STOMA screen|STOMA]]</p>
<p align="left">"There were indentations in the earth full of deer. They wouldn't come out. Not for food. Not for anything. We found a live one huddled starving in a portable toilet and we tried to lift it out. It screamed. It broke its legs struggling.”\n\n//Deer.//\n\n[[>>|2]]</p>
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<p align="left">“Three hours ago I masturbated in the supply cabin at the border."\n\n//Props begin drifting through the wilderness - can of tinned meat, a cot, a door, whatever.//\n\nAs I came I imagined my features swirling in an excruciating, inflating soup. Then my face burst like an egg full of smoke. I was able to enjoy the rest of my orgasm this way, faceless, not having to worry about my affect display, which itches like a rash the rest of the time."\n\n//Her face is smoking and ruptured. Camera focused on her face and moving ahead of her, or rotating around her.//\n\n//Player input tied to saturation and other cosmetic variables - saturation burn bleed flood.//\n\n[[>>|faded]]</p>
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<p align="left">STOMA\nSeratonin Tracking Orifice Management Application\nfauna calibrating\nprobiotics magenta 60%\nseratonin levels: perfect\n\n[[>>|1]]</p>
<p align="left">//Opening similar to the cube - the cyan sky and the tumbling forest.//\n\n"This is a [[beautiful and evil place]].\n\nAnd so it has one advantage on the rest of the world."\n\n//Player has WASD/mouse control over Aria. Walking Aria through forest. Wherever the player walks, if they move a certain distance from the center, there is a fade to black then fade in to the next scene, walking through another part of the forest. This way there is no canonic route. Decentered...//</p>
<p align="left">//The camera pans out to reveal you looking through the apartment window. The apartment is in the wilderness. You walk away automatically.//\n\n"How could I explain to them that the beautiful and sweeping wilderness they had seen in pictures was in fact a devastatingly barren place where everything you saw meant nothing and no answers could be found. That each question they asked broke down the delicate barrier between my job and my life, a barrier which I had been previously unaware of, but which, like skin, becomes most real when you puncture it, a barrier which I had been obsessively compulsively preserving in every breath I took, every thought wrapped in plastic."\n\n//Screen becomes plastic. Clicking tears the plastic. Wilderness drips through.// \n\n"The me that cleaned up the Mess was not the real me. It was a body I used to fulfill certain objectives. The puppet picking up a paycheck. A place where people don’t look at my face."\n\n[[>>|3]]</p>
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<p align="left">//Pure cyan sky. Cloudless over crimson forest.//\n\n"The first people they sent into the Mess, they were like astronauts, sealed up in god’s clean air. Nobody even wears flu masks now. They don’t make air filters for the kind of thing the Mess is."\n\n//STOMA gurgles/ripples.//\n\n"I used to have some pretty bad superstitions of my own, but [[STOMA|guts]] evened me out."</p>\n
<p align="left">"The warm glow faded into the rough fabric of my uniform and the rugged smell of the cabin, something like how sitting in an airplane for too long feels, the cramped, itching understanding that this is not a place where humans live, they are just passing through. Other thoughts intruded. My friends back in that place called civilization."\n\n//The props floating through the air fall down immediately.//\n\n“Those friends of mine who, despite my deepest, unspoken loathing, which I hoped would become as obvious to them as the unhealthy shine of a rotten fish, learned some of the details of my job and turned to me with their tabloid [[curiosity]]."\n\n//Cut to her apartment. Her apartment-self looks proper and clean. Shadow silhouettes of friends are staring at her apartment-self.//</p>
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