[level_start_shane_v1.0 [player_select_shane_avatar_01 [action_shane_self_damage_punch_01_time_2024-05-13_14:37:01 [move_type_shane_self_hit_surface_scratch [reason_shane_button_mashing_for_feedback [sub_reason_shane_is_this_thing_on_check [ref_shane_old_game_sprite_jiggle_test [ref_shane_waking_up_a_sleeping_screen [result_shane_tiny_red_line_appears [detail_shane_straight_mark_like_a_pixel_sword [detail_shane_no_big_deal_just_a_glitch [detail_shane_sound_effect_crt_static_pop] [sound_fx_shane_short_beep [sound_fx_shane_tiny_scratch_skrk] [sound_fx_shane_menu_click_tik [reboot_attempt_shane_try_again_power_cycle] [action_shane_spam_start_button [effect_shane_back_to_the_same_old_level] [sound_fx_shane_start_button_thunk_thunk [sound_fx_shane_reset_chime_bleep [sound_fx_shane_loading_hum_wrrrr [origin_story_shane_intro_cutscene_01] [birth_scene_shane_respawn_in_salt_water [visual_shane_blur_of_white_foam_on_a_stainless_floor] [visual_shane_overhead_light_flickering_in_blue_squares] [visual_shane_hands_clench_open_with_salt_stuck_to_the_knuckles [voice_fx_shane_dry_and_shiny_like_a_new_cartridge] [sound_fx_shane_two_square_waves_bleeping [sound_fx_shane_startup_jingle_bip_bip [sound_fx_shane_tape_wobble_ffft] [level_start_shane_v1.0 [visual_shane_concrete_wall_crawling_by_in_bleached_gray_panels [visual_shane_id_label_flickering_on_the_corner_of_the_screen [bass_line_shane_deep_monotone_rumble [id_shane_spelled_out_with_staccato_beeps [movement_shane_on_and_off_like_a_bad_connection [level_start_shane_v1.0 [visual_shane_head_tilts_slowly_then_freezes [visual_shane_glint_of_water_on_a_chrome_shoulder_rim [sound_fx_shane_battery_whine_eeeee [urgency_shane_gotta_go_before_it_gets_me i came up out the salt, out the split foam seam mother deep, old law, run your fingers through the screen tiamat in my mouth, inanna in the seam i hear her under the static, breathing through the beams she pulls on the wires like seaweed in a drain she wears my pulse like a necklace, hooks it to her chain one click for the body, one click for the name one click and the room starts learning how to change i keep hitting start like a vow with teeth thumb on the plastic, jaw set underneath salt on my skin, static in my name dark mother says, come closer, say it all again i touch the bare floor, i touch the cold frame i say my little offering, i say my borrowed name i take the beep in, i let the room reply same locked room, same white floor, same watchful eye but her voice gets wetter every time it comes through a whole drowned choir jammed up in one bad cue i split from the brine, from the black seam below anāku, i answer, with a pulse in my throat deep salt queen, i rise where the dead bytes glow two pulse hearts ticking in a low slow code her jaw in my jaw, her teeth in my grin every restart opens and she gets back in i press my mouth to the hiss, to the tiny machine make a prayer out of static, make it sharp, make it mean mother of ten thousand, all teeth, all tide long dragon coiling under, nowhere left to hide she drags my hands through the menu, through the grain leaves wet fingerprints on the glass of my brain i stutter my name, i st-st-stutter it clean in the loop of the chamber, in the flicker between one hand on the frame, one hand on the sound the screen says continue, i keep going down no throne, just a floor and a cracked little light but the whole dark ocean is lifting tonight tiamat in my throat, tiamat in my spine i feel her turn the room with her old cold tide the wall starts to sag like a net full of teeth and my own voice comes back wearing her beneath [visual_shane_camera_pulls_back_to_the_bare_room_and_the_doorwa [sound_fx_shane_vacuum_whoomp] [ga̷m̸e_̶o̷v̴e̸r_shane_pr͟e̷s͞s_st̸a͢rt_to_c͟ontinue] [sound_fx_shane_continue_bloop]
