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Penny glanced at the screen. Wow. He really sucked at this.

“Uh,
Fourth Wall Repairman?

That’s kind of a mouthful, is there anything shorter I can call you?”
she asked. “Anyway, you’re supposed to hold down the button in that last
one.”

That was one of her microgames so she should know what
to do. In fact, there were quite a lot of her microgames in that
selection.

“That makes sense,” he nodded. “And call me what you want; not like I have a name anyhow.”

He looked at the top three. He was not even remotely close. At this rate, he would be here all night.

“Oh, wow,” he said, impressed by the scores. He turned back to Penny, somewhat meekly.

“…Can you tell I haven’t really played games that much…?”

He tried again, managing a score of ten this time. Most of those were repeat microgames, too.

He groaned in frustration. He needed to see all these challenges.

“…Is there some way I can look at all these games?” he asked, after getting a mere 9 on his next attempt.

Lousy Play

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Penny had been working late. 18-Volt’s
work computer had broken and he needed to finish his games, so she had
agreed to fix it. But this was hard work. How the heck does someone
manage to get bubblegum inside a computer?!

She noticed how late it was, so she decided to finish for the day and get some sleep.

Then she heard some music playing.

Someone was here. She immediately ran towards the testing room and noticed the strange ink-looking guy at the end of the room.

“Hey! Who are you and what are you doing here?” she asked.

The Repairman jumped about three feet off the ground as someone called out to him. He nearly dropped the controller as he did so.

He turned around to find a girl looking at him in alarm. He started to sweat, unable to think of a lie that could get him out of this without making his job harder. Finally, he cleared his throat.

“I’m the Fourth Wall Repairman,” he explained. “I…wasn’t sure if I should count your games here, and was trying to figure it out…”

He glanced back to see the GAME OVER.

“…Keyword being try. And, uh, who are you?”

Penny examined the room. It didn’t look like he was doing anything too bad, so she decided to let it slide, but remained slightly suspicious.

“I’m Penny. Penny Crygor.” she introduced herself. “In case it wasn’t obvious, I work here.”

She looked around, checking to see if there was anything missing. It looked perfectly fine.

“You’re lucky my boss isn’t here or he’d be pretty mad at you.”

“Oh, yeah,” the Repairman nodded, embarrassed. “Pretty lucky that you didn’t kick me out right away, aren’t I?”

Was he really becoming so careless that any middle-schooler could catch him?

“…Yeah, sorry ‘bout all this,” he said, “but I gotta figure out if any of these games break the Fourth Wall.”

…And then decide whether a Fourth Wall break in a piece of fiction within the fictional world actually counted. Gah. He got a headache just THINKING about thinking about that.

Penny wanted desperately to say ‘Literally or figuratively’ considering what some of their games were like, but she saw how confused the Fourth Wall Repairman looked so she decided not to.

“Wow, that sounds… uh… complicated.” she said. “Well, you don’t seem to be doing anything bad, so let’s keep this between us, okay?”

“Yeah, it is,” he admitted. It was especially hard when you were kinda bad at the games you’re supposed to be inspecting.

“Well, thanks. And sorry for all this.”

He turned back to the game, knowing that there were probably more than the four microgames he blundered through. Maybe he’d be able to get to more.

Well, this time he managed to retain two lives before…

“SPEED UP?! What? No! Augh!”

…and Game Over.

Well, at least he saw a FEW more microgames that time…

Lousy Play

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askthefwrp:

Penny had been working late. 18-Volt’s
work computer had broken and he needed to finish his games, so she had
agreed to fix it. But this was hard work. How the heck does someone
manage to get bubblegum inside a computer?!

She noticed how late it was, so she decided to finish for the day and get some sleep.

Then she heard some music playing.

Someone was here. She immediately ran towards the testing room and noticed the strange ink-looking guy at the end of the room.

“Hey! Who are you and what are you doing here?” she asked.

The Repairman jumped about three feet off the ground as someone called out to him. He nearly dropped the controller as he did so.

He turned around to find a girl looking at him in alarm. He started to sweat, unable to think of a lie that could get him out of this without making his job harder. Finally, he cleared his throat.

“I’m the Fourth Wall Repairman,” he explained. “I…wasn’t sure if I should count your games here, and was trying to figure it out…”

He glanced back to see the GAME OVER.

“…Keyword being try. And, uh, who are you?”

Penny examined the room. It didn’t look like he was doing anything too bad, so she decided to let it slide, but remained slightly suspicious.

“I’m Penny. Penny Crygor.” she introduced herself. “In case it wasn’t obvious, I work here.”

She looked around, checking to see if there was anything missing. It looked perfectly fine.

“You’re lucky my boss isn’t here or he’d be pretty mad at you.”

“Oh, yeah,” the Repairman nodded, embarrassed. “Pretty lucky that you didn’t kick me out right away, aren’t I?”

Was he really becoming so careless that any middle-schooler could catch him?

“…Yeah, sorry ‘bout all this,” he said, “but I gotta figure out if any of these games break the Fourth Wall.”

…And then decide whether a Fourth Wall break in a piece of fiction within the fictional world actually counted. Gah. He got a headache just THINKING about thinking about that.

Lousy Play

Penny had been working late. 18-Volt’s
work computer had broken and he needed to finish his games, so she had
agreed to fix it. But this was hard work. How the heck does someone
manage to get bubblegum inside a computer?!

She noticed how late it was, so she decided to finish for the day and get some sleep.

Then she heard some music playing.

Someone was here. She immediately ran towards the testing room and noticed the strange ink-looking guy at the end of the room.

“Hey! Who are you and what are you doing here?” she asked.

The Repairman jumped about three feet off the ground as someone called out to him. He nearly dropped the controller as he did so.

He turned around to find a girl looking at him in alarm. He started to sweat, unable to think of a lie that could get him out of this without making his job harder. Finally, he cleared his throat.

“I’m the Fourth Wall Repairman,” he explained. “I…wasn’t sure if I should count your games here, and was trying to figure it out…”

He glanced back to see the GAME OVER.

“…Keyword being try. And, uh, who are you?”

Lousy Play

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The lights flickered on as a small inkblot shuffled into the room. It was night, and he did hope that everyone was either asleep or out of the building. He would have a hard time explaining this otherwise.

As he crept up to the machine on the other side, he looked around to make sure he was in the clear.

He plugged the machine in, and immediately it started blaring chiptune music as Wario’s face appeared on screen, with the words “PRESS START” blinking below.

The Repairman looked at the controller with some uncertainty. He hadn’t really played a game before. He had been in video game worlds, sure (he was in one right now), but he hadn’t actually played one.

Still, he had to see if this was breaking the Wall, so after a minute of searching he pressed the start button.