Serotonin Exposure Phobia
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Serotonin Exposure Phobia is a sub-mission of Trailblaze Mission Metaphors We Live By in the chapter So Laughed the Masses.
Steps
- Investigate Pearluxe Tower and track down the source of infection
- Investigate the staff in the room
- Chat with Pearl about the current investigation
- Keep investigating
- Looks like the teleport went haywire
- Try again
- Find the exit, and then the next exit
- Another accident?
- Confront the mysterious stranger
- Confront "Mr. Meanie"
Dialogue
Investigate Pearluxe Tower and track down the source of infection
Mission DescriptionLooks like the Pearluxe Tower employees here have been converted into something like followers of the Abundance.
"Happiness Surgery" — is that what caused this?
We'll need to find the source of the infection to be sure. Cyberspace (Pearluxe Tower)
- Sequence 05Silver Wolf hacked into Pearluxe Tower and found employees converted by the Abundance. Pearl monitored Silver Wolf's actions, stating she would promptly put a stop to any inappropriate behavior.
- Silver Wolf: This is still Pearluxe Tower.
- Silver Wolf: This Joy-whatever dude... is her employee?
- Pearl: Exactly. Clearing up the truth is also a way to save these innocent people. I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do.
- Silver Wolf: You said you'd turn a blind eye. I didn't think you'd actually be monitoring me.
- Pearl: The road ahead is fraught with peril. I'm just watching your back on behalf of the IPC.
- Pearl: If the worst happens and you end up an enemy of the whole world... I'll be there to switch to the world's side in the nick of time.
- Silver Wolf: Oh.
- Silver Wolf: I didn't take you for the humorous type.
- (Unlock Achievement Amusing Ourselves to Death)
Investigate the staff in the room
- Sequence 06Silver Wolf investigated the "Simpering Person," who was unable to bear the pressure at work and turned to Happiness Surgery for relief.
- (Talk to Joy Ascendant to the left)
- Man with an Insincere Smile: "You're asking if I've got something on my mind, just because I clock out on the dot every day?"
- Man with an Insincere Smile: "Hahaha! What, be like you guys? Slaving away and sweating bullets? I'm built different!"
- Man with an Insincere Smile: "After the surgery, I look down at my boss with my head held high every day. She's so sleek and shiny... cute as my puppy back home!"
- Data Flow Model Analysis
- Man with an Insincere Smile: "..."
- Man with an Insincere Smile: "What are you doing? Are you finally firing me!?"
- █ Who █ Laughing: ██ █ ██████ ██ ██████
- Silver Wolf: This guy's the same. Couldn't handle the pressure, so he chose the worst possible path.
- Silver Wolf: Working for the IPC never ends well.
- (Floating text)
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- Un
- Smile
- Sequence 07Silver Wolf investigated the "Wryly Smiling Person," who was coaxed and coerced by those around him and forced to undergo Happiness Surgery.
- (Talk to Pearluxe Corp Staff)
- Silver Wolf: Huh... This one's a normal human. No surgery performed.
- Data Flow Model Analysis
- Woman Laughing Joyfully: "Smile! To live to see tomorrow!"
- Man with an Insincere Smile: "Smile! To conquer the false and the vile!"
- Man Laughing Bitterly: "I... I don't understand. What's so funny about all this?"
- ???: "Those around you all wish for your happiness. Is that not cause for rejoicing?"
- ???: "So, smile. Don't become a sinner of unhappiness."
- █ Who █ Laughing: "Smile! Smile! Smile!"
- █ Who █ Laughing: "Smile! Smile! Smile! Smile! Smile! Smile! Smile!"
- Man Laughing Bitterly: "..."
- █ Who █ Laughing: "I... I'll smile, okay...?"
- █ Who █ Laughing: ██ █ ██████ ██ ██████
- Silver Wolf: ... That is terrifying.
- (Floating text)
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- a sin
- is
- Sequence 08Silver Wolf investigated the "Beaming Person," who voluntarily underwent Happiness Surgery and appeared to be affected by some sort of memetic contamination.
- (Talk to Joy Ascendant to the right)
- Woman Laughing Joyfully: "Keep smiling! Flash a standard, beautiful, happiness-inducing smile..."
- Woman Laughing Joyfully: "Thanks to the surgery, I'll be employee of the month forever — it can only be me!"
- Silver Wolf: Hey, isn't that cheating?
- Pearl: Whether Happiness Surgery counts as unfair competition has always been a subject of debate. Since there is no explicit ban, there are plenty of similar cases.
- Data Flow Model Analysis
- Woman Laughing Joyfully: "Who are you? Am I under detention? Is this because of the surgery?"
- Woman Laughing Joyfully: "Ah, fantastic. What a precious opportunity for interdepartmental exchange!"
- Woman Laughing Joyfully: "Let's see... Who am I up against this time? Hahahaha!"
- Silver Wolf: Yikes! What the heck?
- █ Who █ Laughing: ██ █ ██████ ██ ██████
- Silver Wolf: There's something... unclean...
- Pearl: I saw it too. It flashed by... Seemed like memetic contamination.
- Silver Wolf: But it's buried deeper... and it's far deadlier.
- █ Who █ Laughing: ██ █ ██████ ██ ██████
- Silver Wolf: Creepy. No clues left on this one.
- (Floating text)
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- happiness
- !
- (After talking to all three, dialogue of the next step starts)
Chat with Pearl about the current investigation
- Step DescriptionIs there any other way to clear this game in pursuit of happiness besides honestly running to the finish line?
Or maybe the real question is... is there even a finish line?
Heh, who knows? Cyberspace (Pearluxe Tower)
- Pearl: Find anything?
- Silver Wolf: Aren't you going to start the interrogation by asking for my thoughts?
- Pearl: If not, then let's keep going.
- Silver Wolf: No need. The answer is already clear—
- Silver Wolf: At the moment of mutation, the synesthesia beacons of the three victims received the same signal...
- Smile. Happiness is not a sin.
- Pearl: On the surface, it seems like nothing more than ordinary encouragement.
- Smile is a sin. Not happiness.
- Pearl: No, that runs completely counter to the Smiles Society's philosophy.
- Unhappiness is a sin.
- Pearl: "Unhappiness is a sin (Smile)"...
- Silver Wolf: Guess what this is.
- Pearl: Fulwish's Happiness Syntax?
- Silver Wolf: ...Quick on the uptake. The Joy Ascendants can be counted among the Denizens of Abundance, but they are also imagenae born of Wishpower.
- Silver Wolf: Shuhu's cells are the catalyst. That immortal being lying in slumber has endured countless agonies, so he is exceptionally sensitive to perceptions of joy.
- Pearl: So, Fulwish encoded Happiness Syntax and broadcast it via synesthesia beacon. Once the recipients were influenced by it, the flesh and blood of the Abundance within them reactivated.
- Silver Wolf: And that's not all: As people transformed, they generated new Wishpower. It kept snowballing, until eventually even those who hadn't had the surgery got assimilated.
- Silver Wolf: Bingo. That's the full picture, the whole double whammy of the disaster. Fulwish's plan succeeded.
- Pearl: Sorry to interrupt, but you've got a message.
- (Open message with ???)
- Messages
???Silver WolfWho?Who is it?ListenKafka?Kafka?You're a jokeWhat's that?IdiotStop itUnsubscribeUnsubSpam. Don't even botherThat's hilariousLOL, that's hilariousSatisfied now? Idiot Message failed to send. The user you're trying to reach is currently out of the service area. Please try again later.
- Silver Wolf: ... Baffling.
- Pearl: Who's there?
- Silver Wolf: Probably some rival hacker with a death wish. I'll deal with him later.
- Pearl: The only question remaining is... how did Fulwish transmit the signal?
- Silver Wolf: The answer is obvious, I just need to confirm one thing. Hold on, I'll be right back.
- Hack into Planarcadia's data network
Keep investigating
- Step DescriptionNeed to head over there and check it out... Cyberspace (Duomension City)
- Sequence 09Silver Wolf arrived in Duomension City and discovered the signal lines converged at the Seafeld TV Tower. Requesting higher permissions, she planned to bring Seafeld City's network down to destroy the signal source and teleport closer to the target.
- Silver Wolf: ...
- Silver Wolf: Duomension City, the prime metropolis of Planarcadia... Too bad the Denizens of Abundance run the show now.
- Pearl: Even the Department of Aberration Defense is helpless against the innocent citizens who have mutated.
- Silver Wolf: You're right on my tail. And here I thought I'd managed to shake you.
- Pearl: So, what's your answer?
- Silver Wolf: Take a guess. If you extend the signal lines from Pearluxe Tower and Duomension City outward, where do they intersect?
- Pearl: Seafeld City.
- Silver Wolf: To be more precise, the Seafeld TV Tower.
- Pearl: Almost all the Supplicants are there... isn't Fulwish afraid it'll all be for nothing?
- Silver Wolf: The more heated the battle, the more the Wishpower spirals into mania. Maybe in her eyes, this is just catching them all in one fell swoop.
- Silver Wolf: Of course, there's no need for us to join the fun. We'll leave Fulwish to the Astral Express.
- Silver Wolf: Now that we've locked onto the signal source, the rest is easy. Open a backdoor for me, and I'll crash the whole of Seafeld City for 300 seconds.
- Pearl: 120 seconds. That's enough.
- Silver Wolf: Knew you'd say that. Deal.
- Silver Wolf: ...What happened?
- Pearl: Adding to whitelist. What's wrong?
- Silver Wolf: ...
- Silver Wolf: It's fine. Probably just lagging.
- Silver Wolf: You keep handling things here, I'll teleport somewhere closer to the target.
Looks like the teleport went haywire
- Step DescriptionWhat the heck? Aren't I supposed to be allowlisted?
If only those network engineers at the IPC had even a fraction, no, a ten-thousandth of my skill. Cyberspace (???)
- Sequence 10A rare teleport error left Silver Wolf stuck in the entrance of "Interplanar Jump!" She needed a little time to unstuck herself.
- Five seconds later...
- Silver Wolf: ...
- Silver Wolf: Drat.
- Pearl: Why's everything pitch black?
- Silver Wolf: Just zoom your POV out a bit and you'll see.
- Silver Wolf: There was a little... accident. I clipped into the map.
- Pearl: Unbelievable. Never thought I'd see you bug out some place like that.
- Silver Wolf: Don't add insult to injury. The teleport failure rate is lower than 0.02%. It's just bad luck.
Try again
- Step DescriptionWhat's going on? Is that a bug? Cyberspace (???)
- Silver Wolf: Gimme a sec, I need to get unstuck.
Find the exit, and then the next exit
- Step DescriptionWhen God closes a door, THEY open a window.
Or, you could just smash your own way through. Cyberspace (Seafeld City)
- (Enter Interplanar Jump! automatically)
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- Silver Wolf: I can tell. A hacker definitely had a hand in salvaging the World in Canvas...
- Silver Wolf: Hehe, just gonna tweak the parameters~ I'll spawn a helper, and change my outfit while I'm at it.
- Silver Wolf: Wait, what is this outfit? Ugh, never mind. I'll debug it later.
- (Exit Interplanar Jump!)
Another accident?
- Step DescriptionAccording to calculations, the probability of this recurring is... 0.00%
So there's no doubt about it, someone's pulling strings behind the scenes. Cyberspace (Seafeld City)
- Sequence 11Silver Wolf arrived in Seafeld City, but her intended teleport destination was Pearluxe Tower. From this, she determined that the "Pearl" on the comms after the hacking operation began was an impostor and issued a face-to-face challenge to them.
- Silver Wolf: Finally made it out. Where am I?
- Pearl: A residential zone, quite a distance from the TV Station. Whitelist registered. Ready to get things started?
- Silver Wolf: ...Something's off. Way off. Hold up, someone's messing around behind the scenes here.
- Silver Wolf: I was clearly headed for Pearluxe Tower.
- Pearl: Why? Time is precious. There's no need to backtrack.
- Silver Wolf: No, it's absolutely necessary—
- Silver Wolf: Because the genuine Pearl is still waiting for me at the office.
- Pearl: ...
- Pearl (?): When did you figure it out?
- Silver Wolf: It was the practiced, confident tone you used when you said "Happiness Syntax." You sounded like you knew everything all along.
- Silver Wolf: So, what exactly does "Pearl" want me to investigate?
- Pearl (?): Disaster stems from the tongue... a bad habit I just can't seem to break.
- Silver Wolf: Stop getting sentimental with that face, you shadow hiding behind Fulwish. Why don't you take off the mask and let me see which clown is underneath?
- Pearl (?): Just what I had in mind. But kicking things off like this... Well, it lacks a sense of ceremony...
- ???: Why don't we switch things up and reintroduce ourselves?
Confront the mysterious stranger
- Step DescriptionIPC folks are surely annoying, but they're ten thousand times better than this thing.
Whose masterpiece is this supposed to be, anyway? What a... unique look.
Let's just call it "Mr. Meanie" for now. Cyberspace (???)
- Sequence 12Silver Wolf encountered "Mr. Meanie" and found herself at a disadvantage in their gaming showdown. "Mr. Meanie" admitted to being the one backing Fulwish and declared he would imprison Silver Wolf in a Dark Zone with no exit.
- Silver Wolf: Hey there, little guy... You've got a rather unique look.
- Silver Wolf: Since you look like a mean ball of chaos, I'll just call you "Mr. Meanie." No objections, right?
- "Mr. Meanie": Why so serious? Do I look like I'm no fun?
- "Mr. Meanie": I just want to play a "game" with you, hacker.
- Silver Wolf: Don't even think about it. I don't care if you're a fan or a lunatic, get lost.
- "Mr. Meanie": I'm not a fan, nor am I a lunatic.
- "Mr. Meanie": Or perhaps, it was because I was a fan that I became a lunatic. Without even realizing it, you've pointed out the very essence of the Paths. How philosophical of you.
- Silver Wolf: There is something seriously wrong with you.
- "Mr. Meanie": I'll take that as a compliment. I've heard your story... and heard about those seventy-six accounts.
- Silver Wolf: Why does everyone in the cosmos, no matter how important they are, just love bringing that up?
- "Mr. Meanie": No offense. I just thought that, much like yourself, it's a not-too-shabby...
- "Mr. Meanie": Joke.
- Silver Wolf: I get it. You're the one who sent me the message.
- Silver Wolf: I always keep my word. You're dead meat.
- "Meanie Kiddie": No need to rush! We've got loads of time!
- "Meanie Kiddie": As long as you're willing! Game time is... "infinite"!
- "Meanie Kiddie": And it doesn't matter if you're not willing! Nobody gets into my game, and nobody gets out!
- "Meanie Kiddie": Uh-oh, spoiler alert: The reward for clearing the game is... I'll tell you my entire plan!
- "Meanie Kiddie": But by the time you've finished playing, you'll be "finished" too! Hahaha!
- Implant Aether Trojan
- Silver Wolf: You done? Get lost.
- Silver Wolf: You're not even on your main account, and you wanna play with me? Who do you think you're dealing with?
- "Mr. Meanie": I made a mistake. You're even more impatient than I'd imagined.
- "Mr. Meanie": You're a prisoner here. What gives you the courage?
- Silver Wolf: Because I love playing Aetherium Wars.
- "Mr. Meanie": What a shame. I prefer Cosmicon Collective. Just a small card table, yet it serves as a microcosm of the entire cosmos.
- "Mr. Meanie": Just as the "script" foretold: "In the end, Fulwish gets her wish, and the arcadia becomes an Abundance hellscape. Shuhu resurrects and transforms this rotten planet."
- (Floating text)
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- Elation
- Revenge
- Destruction
- Reignbow
- Shuhu
- Silver Wolf: ...What?
- "Mr. Meanie": Sounds familiar, doesn't it? There's another line: "Judgment follows close behind, as The Hunt draws its bow to deliver a gift—"
- "Mr. Meanie": "...a Lux Arrow piercing through Ahatopia."
- Silver Wolf: Who exactly... are you? Do you think you can write the "script"?
- "Mr. Meanie": I imagine Elio's futile efforts look just like yours, don't they?
- "Mr. Meanie": I not only know it, I can hold the pen. The future you abandoned will, by my hand, make a return as a spicy comedy.
- "Mr. Meanie": Ooh! I've got it! How about we use this for the opening line—
- "Mr. Meanie": "Tonight, a Stellaron Hunter dies in the arcadia."
- Release the Data Avalanche
- ▄█▄ERROR▄██
- Break the program's shackles
- █ERROR█████ERROR▄██ERR▄█OR▄▄▄▄ERROR▄▄▄▄▄▄
- ERROR
- Silver Wolf: My body... isn't listening to me!?
- ERROR
- ERROR
- ERROR
- ERROR
- ERROR
- "Meanie Kiddie": Legendary hacker? Ha, is that all you got?
- Silver Wolf: It's... the Supplicant mask...
- "Meanie Kiddie": Thing about masks is... Once you put one on! It ain't up to you anymore!
- "Mr. Meanie": Finality versus Elation... The moment when Paths collide is always fascinating.
- "Mr. Meanie": You will either die in a blaze of glory, or die comically. I don't care. Both are equally amusing.
- Silver Wolf: I really have to ask, where does this confidence of yours come from?
- Silver Wolf: Planarcadia is crawling with Emanators... How are you going to take us on? With a single Masked Fool and a bunch of Abundance minions?
- "Mr. Meanie": Do you know the secret to longevity? It's "don't die." ...To be honest, my answer is pretty much the same.
- "Mr. Meanie": The Emanators you speak of are nothing more than a tenth of a pebble, a piece of wood, and... hmm...
- "Mr. Meanie": Oh, and a warlord!
- "Mr. Meanie": Hehe, who can you count on? You've even ruled yourself out.
- Silver Wolf: Fulwish is just a front. The real culprit behind all these strange incidents... is you.
- "Mr. Meanie": Fulwish is a good student. Unlike me, she doesn't procrastinate. She's decisive, daring to take action, by directly carving a smile onto everyone's face.
- "Mr. Meanie": I'm willing to give her project my full support. For instance... by trapping a certain buzzkill hacker in a Dark Zone with no exit.
- "Mr. Meanie": Or perhaps, for you, that would actually be a treat?
- Silver Wolf: I'm only hearing one thing: There aren't many people who can ruin your plans... but I'm one of them.
- Silver Wolf: Your scheme is like a tower of blocks. All it takes is one little nudge from someone like me, and the whole thing comes crashing down.
- "Mr. Meanie": Pulling out the blocks and watching it all come crashing down... That's my kind of game aesthetic too. If you hadn't joined the Stellaron Hunters, perhaps we could have been partners.
- Silver Wolf: You? Based on what?
- "Mr. Meanie": On the grounds that you've already lost.
Confront "Mr. Meanie"
- Step Description"Delete" me? You've gotta be kidding. Cyberspace (???)
- Sequence 13Silver Wolf was well-prepared for this, using her "Aether Copy" ability to break free. The 23-second discrepancy Kafka showed in their earlier call indicated that Silver Wolf would face an opponent capable of interfering with the "script," and her mission for this trip was precisely to root this guy out.
- "Mr. Meanie": One last joke: On a scorching summer day, a popsicle was walking down the streets of the arcadia... and melted. Take a guess: What were its last words?
- "Mr. Meanie": It said, "Ah, I've lost my cool."
- "Mr. Meanie": What a pity. Compared to that popsicle, you don't even qualify as a joke.
- ...
- Release self-backup
- Silver Wolf: I'll ask one more time...
- Silver Wolf: You? Based on what?
- "Mr. Meanie": ...
- Create a new avatar
- Silver Wolf: Allow me to explain. Aether Copying, out of this batch of Supplicants, this is easily the most run-of-the-mill Mask ability.
- Refresh existing coordinates
- Silver Wolf: It wins on being easy and effective, perfect for veteran players. I gotta say, the Aeon of Elation knows a thing or two about gaming.
- Silver Wolf: You're way out of your league. You want to play with me? Getting played by me is more like it.
- "Mr. Meanie": You're too prepared for this to be a spur-of-the-moment decision. Did you not trust Pearl from the very beginning?
- Silver Wolf: What are you talking about? I don't trust anyone.
- Silver Wolf: There was a moment when I started to view "everything" that was happening with suspicion.
- Picture missing
- "Mr. Meanie": Was it that "23-second" discrepancy?
- Silver Wolf: Aren't you clever. Elio is nothing if not cautious when it comes to variables that can affect the "script."
- Silver Wolf: Just because he can't see this place clearly doesn't mean he can't see elsewhere.
- Picture missing
- Silver Wolf: The script he gave Kafka has nothing to do with Planarcadia, but it was incredibly detailed... every minute, every event, clearly laid out.
- Silver Wolf: If there's even the slightest discrepancy, it means I've got someone on my tail, some mysterious figure capable of interfering with the "script."
- Silver Wolf: Counting today's little stunt, you can add another item to the list: mental instability.
- "Mr. Meanie": A brilliant callback. It proves precisely why you are helpless against my abilities.
- "Mr. Meanie": Why not take a look at the present? Killing you once is no different than killing you a billion times.
- "Mr. Meanie": Unfortunately for you, I have all the patience in the world, while you are out of time. This arcadia is on the brink of destruction, and you are powerless to stop it.
- Silver Wolf: Unfortunately for you, Planarcadia is none of my business.
- Silver Wolf: I have no patience, and I don't care about time. I'm here for a mission, and Elio's objective, from the very beginning, was to smoke you out.
- Silver Wolf: Take a guess. Who's the hunter, and who's the prey? When I rip your head off and kick it into the Dark Zone, will your powers still work then?
- "Mr. Meanie": Come to think of it, I have seen a "script"...
- "Mr. Meanie": I have a friend who is a master at inspiring others. We work together flawlessly. And in one particular possibility...
- "Mr. Meanie": You, too, will kneel before us, and offer up Aha's head with your own hands.
- Silver Wolf: Then just you wait...
- Silver Wolf: You're dead meat. I'll say it again: I always keep my word.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Serotonin Exposure Phobia |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 血清素恐惧症 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 血清素恐懼症 |
| Japanese | セロトニン恐怖症 |
| Korean | 세로토닌 공포증 |
| Spanish | Fobia a la serotonina |
| French | Phobie d'exposition à la sérotonine |
| Russian | Серотонинофобия |
| Thai | โรคกลัวเซโรโทนิน |
| Vietnamese | Hội Chứng Ám Ảnh Serotonin |
| German | Serotonin-Expositionsphobie |
| Indonesian | Fobia Serotonin |
| Portuguese | Fobia de Exposição à Serotonina |
Change History
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