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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    Caine can't seem to give his wonderful players anything they actually enjoy. The fake exit adventure proved it- he'd done what he could. It had been real. They even chose to stay. And yet, they hate him. They just hate HIM.

    At the end of his rope, he comes up with a genius idea: what if he just leaves? If they hate him so much, then he'll give them what they want. He did not mean to abstract- he wanted a dramatic show, first, really, but does it matter so much how he goes out, anyway? He doesn't mind the change of plans as much as he'd have thought he would.

    [TLDR: Caine almost abstracts. Bubble is scrambling to convince any of these idiots to do something, and Kinger's confronting a whole lot more responsibility for this mess than he'd anticipated.]

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    13 Jun 2026

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    No, it could not possibly be cruel, they were bringing him back from the dead, this was a kindness.

    This belief was eventually reinforced when it was time to bring Caine back. The process, surprisingly, was incredibly simple. The circus worked just like any other computer system, with deleted items just ending up in the recycle bin. It had luckily not been long enough for Caine to be properly deleted.
    It was just a matter of dragging his code out of there, making some minor modifications so he couldn't go on a rampage again, and spawning his model into the prepared room.

    There was no fuss, everything seemed to be running perfectly.

    No one considered that maybe that isolated room near the end of the hallway was just out of earshot.

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    Aka, Caine gets brought back, but in a spare room, and ends up getting tortured by complete accident because no one realizes that might be a bad idea

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    04 May 2026

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    There was a problem. An issue, a minor error. Something in the code that clearly wasn't working correctly.

    What if after the events of episode 7, Caine decides that the players unhappiness and general issues with the circus are his fault, and he goes about fixing that in the worst way possible.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Oh im SO SAT

  4. Public Bookmark 70

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    “I-I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE MAD AT ME! AND I GET IT! I KNOW I MESSED UP! I’M SORRY, I’M SO SORRY!”

    Throwing himself against the wall with brute force still wasn’t working. So Caine dug as further into it as he could, scratching and tearing through what felt like electric barbed wire against his fingers.

    “I-I DIDN’T MEAN IT!”
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    What's the purpose of a plane that can't fly? Of a piano that can't play any songs? Of a computer that can't execute commands?
    Why do such things even exist?
    Why does Caine even exist?

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    27 Apr 2026

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    A series of stories where Caine attempts to make friends with everyone at the circus. But he worries that he will forget important things about the circus members like he did with Zooble. So Pomni helps him keep a written list of things to note about each circus member as he learns more about them.

    Turns out his memory and emotional problems run deeper than anyone could have expected.

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    22 Apr 2026