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EXE3-12: 11
EXE3-13: Plectum, 12
EXE3-14: 13, 4, 10, 14

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EXE3-12

> 11. Rin.tmp

• we are greeted by a slowly crumbling tree, which previously held Rin, now restored and free from it. She levitates down but stumbles, unused to walking
• she bows to us, stating her intent to be of use to us '.. and to Tump'
• she apologizes for essentially tricking us, but repeats that fixing her up was necessary to 'our' continued survival (hers included, and maybe some others too)
• apparently Silicia reported back to her about our progress during the irl arc
• Rin aknowledges that she can't really prove her motive's moral purity to us, and promptly suggests we go free Pristum/Cris
• she says he's kept her imprisoned here a long time, only able to watch, implying it was because she resisted losing herself the way Alec and Cris did. Thus she was to wait here until the completion of C I E C E
• ultimately, she wants to 'release' Plectum and Lia too (not just 'her Cris'), meaning getting them out of the system somehow
• allegedly, Tump agrees with this plan. She claims to have met him before 'losing sight of him'
• at Caen's scepticism she reveals that they do all still have their bodies, kept alive by machinery, though inhabiting them again would drive them crazy with pain and confine them to said machines
• according to her, this is why Pristum & Plectum were looking for new vessels. Then, Tump's presence in the system distracted the company enough that Plectum & Lia could find a way control the chips & take over
• she doesn't know if this means they now actually could use a vessel, but is certain they won't do it without taking Tump with, and that ultimately, it will neither make them happy nor be very good for the rest of the world
• 'so, that is why Tump and I decided to give them what they really want. Their true freedom': This is what she wants our help with
• Rin suggests we let Pristum think himself free again, while she protects us if he comes after us. 'After all his.. "angels" have been defeated, we can finally put him to rest'
• we ask for a demonstration of the power she will defend us with, and she gives us a little light show, making us float and 'feel energised'. Caen checks the amulet, which is glowing blue
• Red suggests she punch them for demonstration, or block their knife attack. She is quite resigned to our recalcitrance at this point
• she catches Red's knife with two fingers, shatters it, and reforms it for them. This wins over Caen, but Red insist on being punched
• they are flung through the file's interior wall, through the in-between corridors, and into the wall of the menu. They survive relatively unscathed due to a layer of white and blue code around their body she conjured, and seem to have enjoyed the experience greatly
• she says she only wields about a quarter of the power Plectum does, but her plan to get Pristum relies mostly on the element of surprise anyway
• her plan for defeating Plectum seems much less set in stone. He will able to sense her in the system when she leaves the file, while she can hide her presence from Pristum especially while he's still imprisoned. This means we will have to fight on our own before she can join for the final blows
• Rin asks us to go tell Plectum not to talk to Pristum about her, and offers to send one of the clones of her from before with us, though they cannot talk
• what she did to protect Red earlier is not as repeatable as it seemed; apparently she can conjure us a shield exactly once without harming the system?
• she advises we act like we fell for Pristum's plan when we let him out to lure him into a sense of security
• she gives us one free pruification and sends us on our way

✎﹏ she never refers to Lia by name, assuming we don't know her name (which logically we probably shouldn't)

◐ 6 purifications, 3 corruptions

❖ Tump.exe informs us that while we were outside the system, 'a new admin personnel' has entered it using old code

❖ the follower has escaped its temporary containment

> Menu

• Tump.exe complains that us travelling between files using the amulet is unpleasant, and charges us another 300€ for reentry and damages
• as they weren't of age when we originally entered, no fees are put on Red's account. Removing the parental lock would cost an additional 200€
• as we banter a blue crack grows in one of the walls, leading, conveniently, to Plectum
• Tump.exe explains that our amulet somehow reacts with entryways to files like this one, and that repairing these tears in the system is time consuming (thus, they remain & can be reopened)
• Caen paces the room, discovering multiple other cracks, and that the amulet now remotely displays both the corresponding file number and its danger level
• file 1 and 7 ooze 'dark broken code' and makes the amulet cycle through its colours endlessly
• 2 and 6 produce a regular blue
• file 8 makes the amulet glow a bright red
• in the corridor to file 8 we see the follower from a distance, watching, being creepy

❖ the amulet can nearly generate a shield and has gained some functionality

> 8. Plectum

• we find ourselves back at Plectum's beach, he is waiting on his lone hill listening to the melody from his medallion
• we announce our presence and intention, and he invites us to sit down for tea. Its flavour is up to us, and there are snacks
• Caen explains our situation, emphasising us being mad about the BaT situation, and Plectum concedes that he would benefit from having us take care of the guy who wants to kill him dead for shutting him away alone in a file for 4 years
• nonetheless he is conflicted about letting us potentially kill his former friend, but in the end decides that it will be a win win situation for him, no matter who loses
• he offhandedly mentions Pristum might make us into his 'flesh puppets'
• just before we leave, Caen simply can't help herself and drops Plectum's real name into the conversation. To her perverse delight, this makes him incredibly angry
• he nothing-personal-kid-teleports to stand behind her with his hands on her shoulders, low key threatens us, and then throws Caen down the stairs to his little picknick spot
• she stops Red retaliating and after wishing us a painful death, Plectum flings us out the file
• the scrapes Caen sustained falling down the stairs are healing more slowly than usual

✎﹏ Plectum has pretty far reaching access to the system's core mechanics if he can make injuries intentionally heal slow

> 12. Le... The... M.. [Le Tymp The Musical]

• the file drops us into a dark theater. A voice loudly announces that we are sitting in the audience for 'the one time only show'
• the lights turn on and the curtains part, revealing Le Tymp the Coffee Mug himself, dressed in a fancy tux and a top hat & carrying a cane. We can now also see that the rest of the audience is made up entirely of coffee mugs. We applaud enthusiastically
• 'Worry not little mugs in the audience, for even in the middle of heroics, I always prevail!'
• 4 mugs enter the stage, clearly dressed up to portray Red, Caen, Mess and Lily. Chapter one: The Awakening of the Villain begins
• the mugs clumsily fumble their way through a reenactment of Tump.exe 1, but just before their boss fight against Le Tymp can begin, the Red and the Caen mug stumble into each other and crack
• a spotlight turns on above us as he asks us to replace the injured actors, which we are of course all too happy to do
• the musical resumes with us in a circular arena on stage, evading Le Tymp's fists with not too great difficulty
• Red kindly takes the time to advise him on his choreography, and gets punched in the stomach with a very large amount of force for their troubles. We decide to get a bit more serious, then
• we spot a few candles installed in the scaffolding above the stage, and make the connection that the curtains would be quite flammable
• while he monologuea and Red runs a distraction, Caen climbs up the curtains
• they manage to detatch the curtain at the top, and Red gets it fully over him below by passing it off as a cool villain cape for him to wear
• using one of Red's knives, Caen can reach a lit candle and drops it down to set Le Tymp's new cape alight
• he stumbles around, crushing the Mess mug and setting the other curtains on fire as well, one of which falls and crushes the Lily mug
• Red turns to the audience, shortly before they all flee in the chaos of the now cracking theater stage: 'I hope the little mugs in the audience are alright with violence!'
• he finally manages to free himself, and we bring him outside, where a large amount of mugs are still gathered. Red adresses the impromptu audience and has them applaud Le Tymp's great performance, which seems to cheer him up a little
• he bows and grabs us to present us to the mugs, calling us worthy arch-enemies
• he announces a show in Tump.exe 4 where we will take down Tex together
• Le Tymp takes us to the Hall of Mugs, where all the furniture is coffee coloured, and touchingly admits to wanting to work on his choreography as Red advised
• he announces that he would usually crush us now, but doesn't feel like it - and besides, he isn't allowed. He hands us a recording to explain. We may only watch it once we've left however, for the content is embarrassing to him
• we intend to purify him, but can't as he already has been
• Le Tymp was made by Tump himself, and thus already comes pre-purified

1. Tumps talk v2 ttps://youtu.be/812s8HWU0l8 the recording is of a meeting between Tump, what is left of 04, BaT, Exe and Le Tymp, taking place around the time of Tump.exe 2. Tump anticipates that soon we will finish the game and he will have to give himself over, so he asks the gathered to assist us when the time comes. Specifically, he asks Le Tymp to lose to us the next time we meet.

◐ 6 purifications, 3 corruptions

> 13. Bunny Tump Senpai

• file 13 contains a classic anime student council office, Bunny Tump Senpai sitting with his back to us in the head chair so we can see the bunny ears over the top of it
• he is waiting for us to fill out the documents to join the student council
• he does that decisive anime thing where a character steps onto a table, declaring his intention to lead the school well and eventually take it over (as well as eventually the rest of the world)
• he jumps down, pacing, and offers Red the official assistant position - which temptingly comes with a golden pin and a special uniform
• the uniform options for council members are incredibly varied
• this is the Frinet school for gifted youth!
• Red requests a pastel yellow sweater over a button shirt with a pink skirt and a darker pink ribbon for their collar (plus white tights and black mary janes)
• it is at this point we notice the documents require swearing absolure loyalty to the president, which is problematic for us considering we went into the file already planning to corrupt him

⊕ Red decides to not sign, while Caen signs as Lily and requests the exact outfit Red described, which curiously does not make Bunny Tump Senpai suspicious

• having gotten what we wanted, we elect to corrupt him
• the school grounds erupt into flames, and Bunny Tump Senpai runs to the window, which burns him. He sinks to the ground, his ears flopping, crying blood and dropping a final anime reference before crumbling to dust

> Menu

• Caen uses the amulet on their file options: file 14 and 4 are both green, Pristum is able to partially hide himself
• Red dons the uniform

> 4. 'Build a Tump - 2000s Tump', Pristum

• we input the code we got from corrupting Loli Tump and load up the file, which seems to slow the system down
• the inside of file 4 is completely dark, and conspicuously empty of Tumps
• Caen panics almost immediately and insists we leave, but just as we're about to, we hear a sound from farther inside the file
• by the glow of the amulet, we can see one of the walls shimmer in a way the others don't, 'as if this file should have had something else in it from the beginning'
• behind said wall, the real BaT sits curled in fetal position, exhausted and his wings scuffed up. A few of his tea cups are around, attempting to cheer him up
• he barely recognizes us at first, but recounts in bits and pieces that he came here after the Tex fight and was imprisoned along with, or rather by, Pristum even while he impersonated him to us
• he says Pristum kept hurting him [or maybe was hurt himself] and called himself 'a chained god'. He mentions specifically Pristum's purple suit
• as if for demonstration, BaT shows us his tattered wings
• he asks to leave and so we take him out with us

1. the figure https://youtu.be/BOsMogeL7sU Pristum apologizes half heartedly for tricking us, explaining Alec deceived him so he will now have to destroy him. He says even 'she', who tried to warn us about him, cannot stop him. He hints that he created illusions of her to make us distrust Rin. Lastly, he waxes poetic about intending to use our bodies, saying that he will be merciful and give us a place with no suffering. He wants us to come willingly; he won't hurt us... unless he has to.
[Mans is a bit misogynistic.]

• > ?Menu?
• a man in a purple suit approaches us with a smile. 'Come now.. my children. Your long journey is at its end.'
• when we protest he quickly changes his mind, saying that we shall rest after completing his test
• he opens a portal to let the follower into wherever we are and fucks off to do something else
• Caen takes BaT and Red's hands and walks them back through the wall into the corridors. We watch as the follower walks up to the wall. At first appearing unable to get through, he scratches at it, babbling
• finally, his hand tears through the wall, and we leg it, Red and Caen unanimously deciding to head to file 10
• Caen decides they will try to enter the file from the otherside of the street to the actual lounge, hoping to lose their pursuer to the street below. Since BaT can't fly, they will have to jump for it

> 10. Tump.exe

• we proceed with the plan, but in mid air see that the once broken window front has been fixed
• at the last second BaT turns the glass into cotton candy - we tumble through
• Red opens their mouth as we're falling through (it's canonically good)
• unfortunately for us, the Follower also jumps. Fortunately for us, BaT once again reacts quickly enough and this time turns the cotton candy window into a 20 inch steel door that he slams open into the Follower's face
• Red hugs him
• exe charges Caen 200€ for damages as she's busy frantically leaning out the window to look
• BaT intends to stay and hold him up, saying 'I reckon I can keep them stuck here for a while' while below the Follower is being harrassed by tea cups and comically slipping on banana peels
• BaT suspects we are not powerful enough to kill him without help
• he boots us out of the file, saying we need to beat Pristum in file 14
• in our heads, Rin tells we'll have to 'defeat his goons' before she'll step in

> 14. ???

• we find ourselves in the same garden from the end of game 2 where we first met 'Pristum'
• he is pruning his roses, seemingly paying no attention. Red creeps up to attempt to stab him, but we are frozen before they can
• he calls himself our lord, and actually seems legitimately proud to see we survived
• thus he decides we shall indeed be his vessels to enable him to spread his gospel
• still smiling beatifically he seizes Red by the throat, declaring they will be first
• 'do not be afraid, for your life will be put to a greater use. And even if you break.. Remember to have faith. For with faith, comes sacrifice.'
• suddenly the garden floods with blood, the tide carrying bits of code and dead bodies. He sets Red down, the smile never faltering
• Pristum tells us to talk to his 'guardians and angels' to prepare ourselves before returning to him, like a fucked up little ritual
• 'Meet me at my altar.. And you shall be reborn'
• he raises his hands up to either side of his head before rising up himself, silver and white wings with golden pumping veins spreading behind him. He says he will await our arrival at his Grand Church and vanishes
• Tump.exe 3 crashes and reboots

❖ instead of Tump.exe, we are greeted with the menu of Pristum.exe

The Grand Heaven of Pristum

Welcome to Pristum.exe, your Lord and saviour. May you praise him eternally above.

The guardians of AGLISIA

1. Invida
2. Gula
3. Luxuria
4. Avarita
5. Acedia
6. Ira
7. Suberbia

Angels
X - Tex
X - The Follower

The Arch-Angels
I. Oscar
II. Mike
III. Sarah
IV. Eli

God: Pristum

◐ 6 purifications, 4 corruptions