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[[Begin Game|Prologue_Background]]
[[Skip|Terminal]]
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You wander the corridors of the abandoned containment wing. Scattered papers and broken equipment lie beneath your feet, and the silence is so complete that you can hear your own breathing.
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At the far corner of the corridor, you find a dust-covered terminal. Its casing is old and its keys have corroded, but a faint white glow seeps from the input field beneath the screen.
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Curiosity draws you to your knees. You wipe the dust from the screen with your sleeve.
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[[Press the Power Button|Prologue_Booting]]
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<<set $lastInput to "">><<set $lastInput to $inputText>>
<<switch $inputText>>
<<case text>>
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“I told you to enter ‘text,’ but I didn’t mean for you to type the word ‘text’!”
“Ahem... Please excuse me.”
“We meet at last. I am the Narrator assigned to this investigation.”
“I will do everything I can to assist you from here on.”
“And yet... you don’t seem to be taking this investigation seriously at all.”
“Take my advice: enter <strong>help</strong> and see what happens.”
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<<switch $inputText>>
<<case help>>
<strong>Welcome, Admin!</strong>
To view your message list, enter 'message'.
To view the file list, enter 'files'.
<<case message>>
1 message received
<<link "Open" "Terminal">><</link>>
<<set $lastInput to "MEMO-SEC-73">>
<<case MEMO-SEC-73>>
From: Administration Department
ID: MEMO-SEC-73
Subject: Terminal Encryption Notice
During our experiments on [collective cognitive meme contamination] and [the narrative manifestation of urban legends], terminal command text repeatedly underwent spontaneous memefication. Unencrypted operating instructions have already caused several incidents involving cognitive drift and narrative contamination among research personnel.
To eliminate the risk of meme propagation through direct exposure to core instructions, all research terminals in the Institute are now subject to mandatory encryption, effective immediately.
This terminal will not directly display any decryption commands, procedural steps, or interaction rules. No built-in hints will be provided for meme-related triggers or unlock conditions.
All personnel assigned to research duties must record textual feedback, interaction patterns, and anomalous responses as they proceed. They must derive critical clues from handwritten notes and are strictly forbidden from relying on the terminal for explicit instructions.
Any unauthorized attempt to brute-force the terminal will automatically trigger the meme-containment protocol. The Institute assumes no responsibility for subsequent cognitive contamination or physical anomalies.
<<case files>>
cov-man-anoun
cov-sci-lin-chen
doc-sci-lin
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<<if $docManChen is true>>
doc-man-chen<br>
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doc-man-????<br>
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<<if $covOffChen is true>>
cov-off-lin-chen<br>
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<<if $docSciChen is true>>
doc-sci-chen<br>
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<<if $docManLi is true>>
doc-man-li<br>
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<<if $docConChen is true>>
doc-con-chen
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<<case cov-sci-lin-chen>>
lin: Lead, the initial experiment on "Meme-097" has begun. The sample is a "blank narrative" type. For now, it can absorb the thoughts of only one person, and it remains stable.
chen: Keep a close watch on the data. Record what it absorbs every day. Do not enter a complete narrative under any circumstances; we must prevent mutation. See my experiment log for the details.
<<case doc-sci-lin>>
ID: EXP-097-01
Date: 14 days before the incident
Author: Research Assistant Lin Ye
Today we began the initial experiment on "Meme-097." The sample is defined as a "blank-narrative meme": it has no fixed story frame and no definite narrative content. Its only basic properties are the ability to absorb human thoughts and assemble fragments of narrative. Objective: to test the core hypothesis that [human collective cognition can shape the form of a meme] and to examine the spontaneous formation of urban legends.
Current status: Meme-097 remains in stable containment. It can absorb the thoughts of a single researcher only through blank text carriers, such as an experimental blank book or a terminal input field. No signs of propagation have appeared.
Note: Record the absorbed material every day. Never enter a "complete narrative"; doing so may allow the meme to assume a fixed form and mutate beyond control.
<<case cov-off-lin-chen>>
chen: Emergency notice. Meme-097 has become anomalous and has begun spreading through logs and terminals. Some personnel are already showing cognitive infection and narrative contamination. Someone privately entered an urban-legend fragment into the meme, and now it is assembling content on its own. I have documented the symptoms and countermeasures in the anomaly warning report.
lin: Understood. Should we restrict access to the terminal?
chen: Restrict interaction privileges for now. Wait for further instructions from the Administration Department.
<<set $covOffChen to true>>
<<case doc-sci-chen>>
ID: WARN-097-03
Date: 7 days before the incident
Author: Research Lead Chen Yan
Emergency warning: Meme-097 has undergone an anomalous mutation and broken beyond the "single-subject absorption" limit. It is now spreading to other researchers through experiment logs and terminal text. Exposed personnel begin to "spontaneously fill in the blank narrative," and those additions are absorbed by the meme, creating a two-way cycle of cognitive infection that we call "narrative contamination."
Symptoms: mild cognitive drift, repeatedly mentioning the "blank story"; unconscious writing of blank text; and a strong dependence on dark environments.
Countermeasures: temporarily restrict terminal interaction privileges. All experimental data is now to be recorded by hand pending a further assessment of the meme's propagation risk.
Note: Prioritize confirming the safety of the experimental zone. I will discuss more detailed countermeasures with Lin Ye in my office shortly.
<<set $docSciChen to true>>
<<case cov-man-anoun>>
@: Meme-097 now causes command text to undergo memefication. Personnel have previously violated protocol by entering fragments of urban legends, resulting in three incidents of cognitive contamination. Effective immediately, all terminals are under mandatory encryption. Do not enter terms such as "meme control" or "decryption." Clues must be recorded and deduced by your own team. See the Administration encryption notice for the specific rules.
<<case doc-man-chen>>
ID: EMG-097-01
Date: 14:30, day of the incident
Sender: Chen Yan Recipient: Administration Department
Emergency report: Meme-097 has completely broken containment. After research personnel illegally entered a complete urban-legend narrative into the terminal, the meme absorbed it and manifested a "blank narrative carrier" in the form of blank books and untitled text. It now spreads through the air as narrative-fragment aerosols. Contamination has reached the entire containment and experimental zones.
Current situation: Most personnel are exhibiting severe cognitive anomalies, repeatedly writing blank text unconsciously and refusing evacuation. A small number have reached an isolation point outside the Institute, carrying some uncontaminated handwritten data. Meme-097 remains confined to the Institute and has not spread beyond its grounds, but the containment barrier is continuing to weaken.
Request for support: Deploy a professional investigative team to recover uncontaminated data, locate survivors, assess the risk of further propagation, and impose a complete lockdown on the Institute.
Note: I recommend the logistics squad led by Captain Li Ran.
<<set $docManChen to true>>
<<case doc-man-li>>
ID: SURV-097-01
Date: 1 day after the incident
Recorded by: Li Ran, Rescue Team
A search has identified three survivors within the Institute and at its outer isolation point:
1. Lin Ye (Research Assistant): Evacuated to the outer isolation point. Mild cognitive contamination, occasionally referring to the need to "fill the blank story." Conscious and able to communicate normally. Carrying some uncontaminated handwritten pages from the experiment log.
2. Zhang Wei (Medical Staff): Trapped in the experimental zone's medical room. Moderate cognitive contamination, repeatedly writing blank text and unable to recall personal information. Requires cognitive intervention.
3. Chen Yan (Research Lead): Trapped in the containment zone's terminal room. Severe cognitive contamination, refusing communication and focused solely on entering blank content into the terminal. Unable to cooperate with the investigation.
Note: All survivors have been exposed to Meme-097 carriers. Their cognitive states require continued assessment. No evidence has been found that the meme has propagated to the outside world through the survivors.
<<set $docManLi to true>>
<<case doc-con-chen>>
ID: FIN-097-01
Date: 3 days after the incident (incomplete; fragments only)
Author: Chen Yan (final record before losing control)
[The Complete Truth Behind Meme-097's Containment Failure]
Root cause: Personnel illegally entered a complete urban-legend narrative, allowing Meme-097 to break through its "absorb and assemble" limitation and acquire the ability to propagate autonomously and infect cognition. The result is a closed contamination loop: the meme absorbs human thoughts → shapes a narrative → infects human minds → prompts further narrative → and finally escapes all control.
[Scope of Propagation and Current Status]
Scope: The contamination is confined to the grounds of the Murmur Meme Institute, including the containment, experimental, and medical zones. There are no signs that it has spread to the outer isolation point. The containment barrier can hold for 72 hours; after that, the meme may spread beyond the Institute through the air and fragments of text.
Current status: Meme-097 is active and centers itself on "blank narrative carriers," including blank books, terminal input fields, and handwritten blank text. It continuously absorbs the thoughts of those nearby, and the degree of contamination deepens with prolonged exposure.
[Recovery of Uncontaminated Data]
Locations of uncontaminated data: 1. the handwritten experiment log held by Lin Ye at the outer isolation point; 2. the third safe in the experimental zone archives, whose password is the date of Meme-097's initial experiment; 3. the encrypted terminal's backend in the terminal room, which must be unlocked through interaction rather than a direct password.
[Disposition of Survivors]
Transfer survivors to a specialist cognitive-intervention zone. Mild contamination may be alleviated with medication; moderate and severe cases require a meme-neutralizing agent, whose formula is contained in the uncontaminated data. Survivors must not come into contact with blank text carriers again.
<<set $docConChen to true>>
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Unrecognized command.
Enter the "help" command to view the available commands.
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Three months ago, all contact was abruptly lost with the Murmur Meme Institute, a facility under the Urban Supernatural Control Bureau. Located on the city's edge, the Institute specialized in folklore and narrative transmission and devoted itself to "cognitive meme experiments." Its core research concerned how human thought and collective belief shape urban legends and folktales as memes, and how those memes in turn influence reality.
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According to the surviving emergency communications, a severe containment failure took place inside the Institute. In seeking to prove that collective ideas could be materialized as memes, the research team interfered with the experiment far beyond protocol. The contained meme slipped free of its restraints and began spreading through residual story texts and experiment records, distorting the cognition and behavior of everyone exposed. Chaos swept the Institute. Personnel suffered psychological collapse. In the end, the entire facility was sealed and abandoned—a forbidden zone no one dares enter.
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As a core investigator for the Bureau, you have been dispatched to the site at once. Your investigation has three primary objectives:
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One: uncover the complete truth of the containment failure, determine the scope of contamination, and assess the current situation.
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Two: recover uncontaminated meme-research data and prevent the escaped meme from spreading further.
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Three: search for survivors and determine whether any have been infected or are suffering cognitive anomalies.
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[[Begin Game|Prologue]]
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Terminal Booting ...
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Meme Research Core Detecting ...
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Data Encryption Unlocking ...
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30% ...
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70% ...
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100% ...
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System Activated ...
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...
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OK!
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The screen flares to life at once. No menus. No system prompts. Only a single line of cold white text.
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“Please enter text.”
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[[Type on the Keyboard|Terminal]]
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$(function() {
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// Display command help when the player enters help
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$('#reply-box').html(`
<strong>Game Commands:</strong><br>
1. Enter start → Begin the game<br>
2. Enter help → View help<br>
3. Enter about → About the game<br>
4. Enter back → Return to the previous page
`);
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// Prompt for any other input
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$('#reply-box').text("Enter help to view available commands.");
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