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Hi everyone! Here's what happened this week.

I wrote the dialogue for the Author's lab and I'm up to coding it in now. Here you go:

Adrian Dialogue:

Adrian: (LOADING...)

Adrian: (Warning: Adrian has not been booted up in 1.804e+18 days. There may have been a problem that caused Arthur Magister to shut it down.)

Adrian: (Proceed anyway?)

Proto: Yes.

Adrian: (LOADING SUCCESSFUL.)

Adrian: Oh, hello Prophetbot.

Adrian: Did you come here with Rue?

Proto: Not this time.

Proto: I came to ask you a favour.

Adrian: Prophetbot, I'm not interested.

Adrian: I haven't seen Rue in so long...

Proto: I'm afraid she didn't follow me here, Adrian.

Adrian: Our father?

Proto: We already went over this. He's not with us anymore.

Adrian: Then why should I listen to you? My only friend is out God knows where and I haven't seen our father since the old world was destroyed.

Proto: How about we make a deal?

Proto: I believe you were given the ability to turn on a certain box.

Proto: I am on one of Cedric's ludicrous quests. If you turn on that box then I'll come back afterward with Rue.

Adrian: Sounds like a deal.

Adrian: Just don't go forgetting about it.

-cutscene ends-

Cedricbot Dialogue:

Cedricbot: (LOADING...)

Cedricbot: (Warning: Cedricbot has not been booted up in 1.804e+18 days. There may have been a problem that caused Cedric Magister to shut it down.)

Cedricbot: (Proceed anyway?)

Proto: Yes.

Cedricbot: (LOADING SUCCESFUL.)

Cedricbot: HELLO, PROPHETBOT 1.0.

Proto: And hello again to you too, Cedricbot.

Cedricbot: YOU MUST HAVE COME HERE FOR A REASON. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW?

[Choices: Prototype-Minus, Adrian, You, I need to ask you a favour.]

[If player chooses "Prototype-Minus":]

Proto: May you please tell me about Prototype-Minus?

Cedricbot: OF COURSE.

Cedricbot: PROTOTYPE-MINUS WAS ARTHUR MAGISTER'S FIRST ATTEMPT AT CREATING A ROBOT THAT COULD SEE INTO THE FUTURE AFTER THE PROPHET DIED.

Cedricbot: HOWEVER, IT DID NOT SUCCEED, AND ARTHUR DID NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES REQUIRED TO UPGRADE IT.

Cedricbot: THEY WERE STILL TAMED, AND NOW RESIDE IN THE FAR-LEFT ROOM OF ARTHUR'S LABORATORY.

[If player chooses "Adrian":]

Proto: May you please tell me about Adrian?

Cedricbot: OF COURSE.

Cedricbot: ADRIAN WAS THE VERY FIRST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT ARTHUR MAGISTER CREATED. HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD AND THE PROJECT TOOK SIX MONTHS.

Cedricbot: IT WAS TAMED OVER ANOTHER PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS AND NOW RESIDES IN THE FAR-UPPER ROOM OF ARTHUR'S LABORATORY.

[If player chooses "You":]

Proto: May you please tell me about you?

Cedricbot: OF COURSE.

Cedricbot: I WAS BUILT BY CEDRIC MAGISTER, ARTHUR MAGISTER'S SON, DURING THE WORLD MACHINE'S CONSTRUCTION IN ORDER TO KEEP CEDRIC OCCUPIED.

Cedricbot: I WAS THE FIRST ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE CEDRIC EVER CREATED. I NOW RESIDE HERE.

[If player chooses "I need to ask you a favour.]

Proto: I came to ask you a favour.

Proto: I believe you have the ability to turn on a green box in this laboratory, correct?

Cedricbot: YES.

Cedricbot: WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO ACTIVATE IT NOW?

Proto: Yes.

Cedricbot: DONE. I AM GLAD I COULD BE OF SERVICE.

The World Machine Dialogue:

[World Machine reflection form of Niko fades in, "Deja Vu" plays, short wait.]

Proto: Hello, World Machine.

Cedric: Oh, you're done?

Proto: Yes. While you were watching the most recent basketball game, I was getting work done.

TWM: Oh, I'm okay at sport.

Cedric: Go five minutes without devouring somebody's soul in dodgeball and I might give you the benefit of the doubt.

TWM: It's a hobby.

Proto: Yes, but we did come for a reason that isn't quarrelling about sport.

Proto: Cedric?

Cedric: Do you know anything about the missing mac and cheese?

TWM: Macaroni and cheese... yes, as a matter of fact, I do.

TWM: After the Solstice I warped all of the macaroni and cheese into this laboratory, in case a problem like that ever happened again.

Cedric: What can mac and cheese do?

TWM: Macaroni and cheese has incredible healing properties.

TWM: So much so that it can even heal wounds from falls up to the height of the observation deck in the Refuge.

Cedric: So it's in this room?

Proto: That all ended fast.

TWM: Unfortunately, more recently a small band of thieves entered the laboratory and stole it.

TWM: The world's macaroni and cheese now resides in a place called Nikoville.

Cedric: Nikowhat?

TWM: I just missed Niko.

Proto: Yes, because when I miss an old friend I'd create an entire area after them too.

Cedric: If you can do all that, can't you just bring it back?

TWM: No.

TWM: It's beyond my control. The permissions to edit the room data seems to be locked by a passcode.

Cedric: Then we should depart now! Let's find Rue.

[short pause, "Reveal" plays]

TWM: Oh...

Proto: Cedric, there is something you need to know about Rue.

Cedric: ...?

Proto: Long ago, our father was doing experiments to create the perfect mac and cheese.

Proto: ...and he succeeded, however perfection comes with a price.

Proto: The mac and cheese gained complete sentience and was able to change form at will.

Proto: They now take the form of a red fox and have the alias that you know as Rue.

Cedric: So Rue is with the stolen mac and cheese?

Proto: Yes.

Cedric: Then this is a rescue mission too.

[music fades out, short pause]

Proto: Wait.

Proto: You said you took... ALL of the mac and cheese?

TWM: Yes.

TWM: I ran a script that would take all of the mac and cheese in the world and place it in this room.

TWM: ...what's the matter, Prototype?

Proto: ...the Tower was built on a foundation of mac and cheese.

TWM: But, that means...

[quake sound effect]

Cedric: How did that take THIS LONG to start falling?

Proto: *confused robot noises*

TWM: We need to leave at once.

TWM: Let's go.

[demo 2 credits roll]

[If the "Nightmargin Route" is active.]

[dog appears]

Cedric: That's the dog from earlier!

Proto: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[demo 2 credits roll]

So that's it for the dialogue, I'm up to coding it in now which should be the easy part. I've got a lot of school-stuff to do which is why development is really slow right now, sorry ^w^'

Au Revoir,
Samuel