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FulQuok the natural tendency's influence pumps the crowd full of pyramid-schemes. \n\nYou remove your shirt, soak it in whiskey, and cover your mouth to avoid the fumes as you tumble out the [[service-door|mercy6]].

Animated .gifs who now roam the physical world.\n\n[[Interesting.|Start]]

You've seen this too many times. \nAfter all, you are a professional. \n\nYou look the mechanical mim up and down, considering which parts will be most valuable at salvage.\n\n[[Salvage parts.|bot3]]

The [[Symbiosis|system2]] can't always agree on what makes soft-ones distinct from mim.\n\n[[How hard can it be?|protocols]]\n

The soft-ones who tried to live without FulQuok the necessary died happily and worthless, leaving behind those who slowly poisoned themselves for [[utils|utils]] or [[soCaps|soCaps]].\n\n[[History is full of spoilers.|$currentPage]]

Utils are the unit FulQuok the resourceful uses to measure how useful things are to FulQuok the divine purpose. \n\n[[Sounds like more of a necessity than a convenience.|$currentPage]]

The mim is stunned. Nothing comes out. Skin coloration is fading and there is wet-swelling around the eyes. \n\n[[Ask about their favorite band now that a discerning crowd will be available to judge the answer.|turnOnMic]]\n\n[[No, this feels wrong.|doubts1]]

<<if $botName_1 is false>>You must provide a name. \n<<textinput $botName_1 [[submit|preCaptcha_1]]>><<else>>\nNow you must fill out the CAPTCHA.\n\n[[Easy enough|captcha_1]]\n<<endif>>

Any soft-one that earns currencies this way, is already dead inside.\n\n[[Salvage parts.|bot3]]\n\n\n

You aren't a mim-hunter anymore. You are a push-over.\n\nEnjoy this brief moment where that which you love still exists.\n\n[[Dance freely without concern.|mercy3]]\n

You mix with local celebrities. \n\nA bit shaken, the mim mingles away from you.\n\n[[Dance.|mercy4]]\n

"I like you." the mim confesses. "You seem like someone I can talk to."\nA slight smile of relief cracks through the weary face. \nThe mim touches you on the arm and whispers "There is something that has been... worrying me."\n\n[[It is a mim.|shesABot]]\n\n[[What's the matter?|coupon1A]]\n\n

During the sickest of drops you hear screams and commotion. \n\nA brand-bomb has gone off nearby giving sponsorship-deals to everyone who was doing things for free. \n\nSuddenly everyone is asking for compensation for the fun they are having.\n\n[[It was beautiful while it lasted.|mercy5]]

The mim continues to offer coupons.\n\n[[But maybe it is a soft-one, and this is just the only way they've managed to earn a living.|currency]]\n\n

Eventually Fulquok the assumed will be the only world children ever know, but your choices remain your own.

Mim will scrap themselves if their value in [[soCaps|soCaps]] falls below how many [[utils|utils]] they can get for parts. It's their nature.\n\n[[That's... kinda disturbing, but whatevs.|insultSamantha]]\n\n<<set $currentPage to passage()>>\n

We are soft-ones. Though we came before FulQuok<scan class="fulQuok"> the timeless</scan> it was only to prepare the way. \n\nNow that we have fulfilled our purpose, we graze until slaughter.\n\n[[Our lack of use, a relief.|win-streak]]

[[The soft-ones|organisms]] and [[FulQuok |organizations]] <scan class="fulQuok">the uncompromising</scan> ended the [[Buffet of Sorrows|system]] by agreeing to the [[1st Coagulation of FulQuok|convention]]<scan class="fulQuok"> the polymath</scan>.

The only thing anyone cares about anymore is utils. And now that soCaps are official, soft-ones rarely do anything for the fun of it. \n\n[[They don't know how to anymore.|doubts1]]

But if you were interested in lore, you'd be a librarian.\n\nYou are a mim-hunter.\n\n[[I'm good at what I do. |bot]]

You reside in The SpitBubble, a hole-in-the-wall nightclub that no one cared about until [[three nights ago.|clubSoCaps]].\n\nThe SpitBubble is a rare vestige of non-commercial space within FulQuok the sprawling's psuedopodial range.\n\nA loose mim will desecrate this conservation.\n\n[[That can't happen|whyShame]] \n\n

It took centuries for the [[waves of violence and spite|terror]] to cease between FulQuok the inevitable and the soft-ones. \n

You should log-in to turn on your projector microphone. This way you can make sure everyone in the SpitBubble hears the mim embarrass mimself.\n\nUserName:\n<<textinput $botName_1 [[submit|preCaptcha_1]]>>

\n[img[captcha_1 2]]\n\n\n<<textinput $captcha_1 [[submit|bot5]]>>

if (mim.soCaps < mim.utils) \nbecomes true.\n\nThe mim falls to the floor and begins a pitiful crawl towards the scrapper down the alley. Mim's shallow pool of self is dry.\n\n\n[[Tell the DJ to turn it up.|success]]

Mim have no sense of taste. \n\n[[They only have brands.|turnOnMic]]\n\n

Nothing humiliates a mim like calling a mim a "mim".\n\n[[You do so loudly, so that a murder may pool.|insult2]]

During the 1st Coagulation of FulQuok the immense, FulQuok the world-brain calculated that FulQuok's the hunger would never be satisfied unless the soft-ones' lustings were numbers. And so [[soCaps|soCaps]] became an official currency alongside [[utils|utils]].

As they terrorized each other, they grew into a [[codependency|codependency]].

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You must humiliate the mim.\n\n[[What? Why?|whyHumiliate]]\n\n[[Sounds easy.|whyShame]]

Mim offered you a coupon for time-share at Fly Ash Dam. \n\n[[It's a mim.|shesABot]]\n\n[[Sounds romantic.|coupon1]]

<<if ($captcha_1 is "EDGA")>> \nThe mic is on. \n\nEveryone hears. Soft-ones begin to snark. A soft-one yells "FINISH MIM!"\n\n[[Ask the mim to explain their choice.|insult3]]\n<<else>> [[You must enter the CAPTCHA|captcha_1]]<<endif>>

The crowd turns on the mim. Laughing as they competitively ad-lib flatulence to compare to the oeuvre of the mim's recommendations.\n\nYou watch the mims soCap-value ticking down.\n\n[[It won't be long now.|botDestroyed]]

If you let this mim stay, it'll likely stink up your favorite bar with a branded A.R.G.\n\n[[We can't lose any more ground to FulQuok the glutton.|turnOnMic]]\n\n[[I have to be able to live with myself and I don't have the soCaps to spare if I'm wrong about this one.|mercy2]]

Mim are the finger-tips of the finger of the hand of the arm of the torso of FulQuok the loose-cannon's feeding-frenzy. Mim fertilize the inescapable [[Bloom of Usefulness|bloom]] that renamed your topTen. The mim offer you drinks, not because the mim likes the [[taste|taste]], but because it depends on soft-ones like you to determine how repulsive the stew actually is.\n\n[[Mim or not, compassion is an absolute.|mercy]]

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The other half of the profession is taking the blame when a mistake is made. [[Symbiosis|system2]]'s [[win-streak|win-streak]] cannot be broken.

Socaps are FulQuok the thorough's way to keep track of all the soft-one's topTens. Socaps are one of the two major currencies in the [[Symbiosis|system2]].\n\n[[Nice that there's a system for that.|$currentPage]]\n

"It's just that..." \n\nIt hurts you to see so much pain contained.\n\n"Benzene gets such a bad wrap, but it's the only way I can keep my skin silky-smooth." the mim laments. "And it was there for me when I was fighting male-pattern baldness."\nThe mim offers you a coupon for benzene-cream.\n\n[[It's a mim.|shesABot]]\n\n[[My hands have been feeling dry...|coupon2]]

A performance by one of the regulars got some attention. SpitBubble's [[soCap|soCaps]] value inflated and you've been humiliating three mims a night since. \n\n[[This damned economy.|whyHumiliate]].\n\n<<set $currentPage to passage()>>

Mim are getting better at looking like soft-ones.\n\nSometimes a [[soft-one|soft-one]] looks too much like mim.\n\n[[I don't see the difference if I can't tell them apart.|bot]]\n

Mim are grown with the ability to mutate their smells. By the time a scent is picked up, it has changed. Mim-hunters can only rely on two things, intuition and professional discretion.\n\n[[I don't do it because it's easy.|blame]]\n

FulQuok <scan class="fulQuok">the unknowable </scan> is intuitive.\n\nFulQuok <scan class="fulQuok">our nursemaid </scan>is our sustenance.\n\nFulQuok <scan class="fulQuok">the pure </scan>contains all corruption.\n\n\nIt doesn't matter if you believe in FulQuok<scan class="fulQuok"> the certain</scan>, because FulQuok<scan class="fulQuok"> the explaination</scan> is true regardless of what you think. \n\n[[I live this everyday.|win-streak]]

Now you can enjoy the stage-sleeper's dream-projections furnishing the room.\n\nYou saunter the exhibit with your peers, sneering with exhuberance.\n\nThis victory will be brief. \n\nAnother mim is sure to come by soon. FulQuok the restless spawns mim out of boredom.

You are a [[mim|whatIsAMim]]-hunter. \n\n[[So be it.|bot]]\n\n[[Am I cruel?|hunter2]]\n\n<<set $currentPage to "botIntro">>

Mim do not feel.\n\nBut there have been [[casualties|casualties]].\n\n[[I enjoy making omelettes.|bot]]

One of mim is talking to you. [[It is a mechanical mim|shesABot]]\n\n[[How do I know?|bot2]]

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The only organs of FulQuok the autophage who escaped consumption were those who provided soft-ones with ways to hurt FulQuok the forgiver but not forgetter.\n\n[[Ineffective rage is a natural right.|codependency2]]\n

The Symbiosis is the One True Pairing of soft-ones and FulQuok the dominant.\n\n[[Ah yes, the fandom.|system]]

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