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(put: (prompt: "What's your name?") into $name) Your name is [[$name->Next]]. It's (current-time:) on the (month-day:)th. (set: $weebmeter to 0)

You are a Filipino student, [[recently accepted->Packing]] to go on a 10-month exchange program in Japan. (click: "Japan")[A place you have always loved and idolized.] (click: "Filipino student")[$name, that's you, remember?]

FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY {(live: .5s)[$weebmeter]}

THIS IS A RANDOM EVENT TEST. (set: $evt1 to (random: 1,3)) { (if: $evt1 is 1)[ Random event number one was generated. ](else-if: $evt1 is 2)[ Random event number two was generated. ](else-if: $evt1 is 3)[ Random event number three was generated. ]}.

You're set with a bunch of bags. It's only hours before you are about to depart for the airport. Everyone says that they will miss you dearly. [[You have a backpack]] with enough space for about //three// items.

(set: $backpackitems to 0)Items in backpack: {(live: .5s)[(if: $backpackitems is 3)[Full!] (else:)[$backpackitems]]} Anime figurine. Coffee mug. Small body pillow. Deodorant. Tasteful anime poster. Dictionary. (click: "Anime figurine")[(set: $backpackitems to it + 1)(set: $weebmeter to it + 1)You place the anime figurine in your backpack.](click: "Small body pillow")[(set: $backpackitems to it + 1)(set: $weebmeter to it + 1) You place the body pillow in your backpack.](click: "Tasteful anime poster")[(set: $backpackitems to it + 1)(set: $weebmeter to it + 1) You place the waifu poster in your backpack after carefully rolling it up into a poster tube.](click: "Coffee mug")[(set: $backpackitems to it + 1)(set: $weebmeter to it + 0) You place the trusty gifted coffee mug in your backpack.](click: "Deodorant")[(set: $backpackitems to it + 1)(set: $weebmeter to it + 0) You place the deodorant in your backpack.](click: "Dictionary")[(set: $backpackitems to it + 1)(set: $weebmeter to it + 0) You place the Japanese-English dictionary in your backpack. If only you had a Filipino one as well.] {(live: .5s)[(if: $backpackitems is 3)[(go-to: "airport")]]}

You arrive at the airport and begin the tedious process of checking in, [[going through customs -- and everything.->FACK]] (click: "tedious process")[You have always hated going through airports. It's your first time going through everything alone and honestly, you're a bit lost.]

You arrive. (click: "arrive")[It's so much colder than you expected, you feel like you [[are confused and cold.->day1transit]] [[have always deserved to be here.->day1transit]]]

There's a girl waving hi to you. You look around, and yes -- it's definitely you. (link: "//Konnichiwa!//")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 1)(goto: "day1transittwo")] (link: "//Wave at her//")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "day1transittwo")] (set: $counter to 10) You have |amount>[$counter] seconds to decide. (live: 1s)[ (set: $counter to it - 1) (if: $counter is 0)[(set: $encounter to "fail")(go-to: "day1transittwo")] (replace: ?amount)[$counter] ]

{(if: $encounter is "fail")[You do nothing. That wasn't very nice of you.](else-if: $weebmeter > 2)[She silently moves away.](else:)[She smiles at you.]} [[It's (current-time:), your bus is supposed to arrive in ten minutes.->poopyy]]

<div class="day">(live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Day Two](stop:)]</div> (live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Sunday [[Move on->daytwobegin]]](stop:)] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('day')" /></div>

You place your bags on the bus and greet the bus driver. Leaning back on the window-seat, you close your eyes and begin to take in the new land around you. {(live: 6s)[(go-to: "Day Two")]}

It is a wonderful *Sunday*. The sun is shining. However, you have only [[unpacked your basic necessities.]] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass()" /></div>

You still have lots of time, though. Meanwhile -- Akihabara is nearby. (link: "Do it later and visit Akihabara")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 2)(goto: "akihabara")] (link: "Finish packing things now.")[(set: $encounter to "done")(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "akihabara")] (set: $counter to 10) You have |amount>[$counter] seconds to decide. (live: 1s)[ (set: $counter to it - 1) (if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "preakihabara")(set: $encounter to "fail")] (replace: ?amount)[$counter] ]

{(if: $encounter is "fail")[You were unable to decide and end up going to Akihabara anyway since it is nearby.](else-if: $encounter is "done")[You unpack most of your clothes and supplies with a ton of time to explore Akihabara. ](else:)[You make your way to the busy streets of Akihabara.]} It's all the things you ever imagined, really. Big, busy, crowded, with treasures at every corner. You wonder how much more often would you be [[stepping foot here.]]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('intro')" /></div> You just remember. There is also so much //culture// and //history// in these streets. (text-style: "blur")[Maybe there is so [[much more]] to these places than what I see in the movies]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass()" /></div>But it's always what you make it out to be. Akihabara is filled with people, blurs, and places. (link: "You call yourself one of them, part of it all. Bask in all the things that you have made it out to be. The lights, shops, camera flashes.")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 1)(goto: "akihabaratwo")] (link: "Climb down and see it for what it truly is -- just another street, filled with people like you. The faces, murmurs and sunlight.")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "akihabaratwo")]

You still have the whole afternoon to explore, before you call it a day. What do you do? (link: "Buy a bunch of merchandise, you may not get to later -- right?")[(set: encounter to "done")(set: $weebmeter to it + 1)(goto: "akihabaraend")] (link: "Look at small and big corner stores, taking in the place.")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "akihabaraend")] (set: $counter to 10) You have |amount>[$counter] seconds to decide. (live: 1s)[ (set: $counter to it - 1) (if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "akihabaraend")(set: $encounter to "fail")] (replace: ?amount)[$counter] ]

{(if: $encounter is "fail")[You begin to take the commute home, you can't think of anything else to do, anyway.](else-if: $encounter is "done")[You walk around a lot, visiting various shops and stalls -- picking up merchandise from shows and movies that you have always, //always// admired -- maybe a little too much, sometimes.](else:)[You make your way to the busy streets again and again, watching people, flowing through them -- visiting stores around the corners.]} At the end of the day, [[you find yourself walking]] back towards your dorm room. Walking after a few train stops, though -- of course.

At the end of a long day, you decide to post something on your //blog// to update people back at home. Your new entry reads: {(if: $weebmeter > 5)[Day 2 of my stay in Japan. My tomodachi just asked hows my stay, and today was the best. I went to Akihabara! So much anime merchandise, like Kaneki’s mask from Tokyo Ghoul, Calendars from Sword Art Online, and unlimited edition mug of Zankyou no Terror. Definitely my paradise. ](else:)[Day 2 of my stay in Japan. I visited Akihabara and tried to delve into the flow of things. I bought a few things here and there, some merchandise too. I'm mostly trying to get into the flow of things again. Adjusting here will be challenging but fun, and possibly a paradise.]} [[And soon, you find yourself sleepy.]]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('intro')" /></div> (text-style: "blur")[You're going to be staying here for months, do you really want to keep seeing it this way?] (text-style: "blurrier")[[[What do you mean?]]]

(transition: "shudder")[Not everything is [[the paradise]] you dream of.]

{(if: $weebmeter > 5)[Wake up, and do not deceive yourself.](else:)[Wake up and see the beauty as well as the dark.]} {(live: 6s)[(go-to: "Day Three")]}

<div class="day">(live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Day Three](stop:)]</div> (live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Monday [[Move on->daythreebegin]]](stop:)] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('day')" /></div>

Hurry, it's your first day of school! (link: "Run to school with a piece of toast in your mouth!")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 2)(set: $encounter to "done")(goto: "daythreeschool")] (link: "Run to school with all your supplies!")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "daythreeschool")] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass()" /></div> (set: $counter to 3) You have |amount>[$counter] seconds to rush! (live: 1s)[ (set: $counter to it - 1) (if: $counter is 0)[(set: $encounter to "wtf")(go-to: "schoolseat")] (replace: ?amount)[$counter] ]

You rush -- it's your first day of school, you wouldn't want to be late! {(live: 0.5s)[ (either: "Excuse me!", "Pardon me.", "Gomen!", "Gomenasai.", "Watch out!", "Sorry!", "Sorry, sorry.", "Going through!", "GOMEN!", "Gomen!!", "[[Run to school!]]") ]} (live: 6s)[(set: $encounter to "fail")(go-to: "Run to school!")]

{(if: $encounter is "fail")[You are late to your first day, but it's understandable since you are a new exchange student.](else:)[(set: $weebmeter to it - 1)[You miraculously get to school early, impressing everyone.]]} The teacher motions you to stand in front, write your name on the board and introduce yourself. (click: "stand in front")[You are slightly nervous and shakey. ](click: "name on the board")[Picking up a piece of chalk, you etch $name in your mediocre handwriting.] (click: "introduce yourself")[Greeting everyone, you [[briefly talk about your exchange program.]]]

"So $name, why did you choose to study in Japan?" (link: "//I have always been a fan of anime and manga - I have even tried to learn Japanese. I feel like this place fills in the missing pieces of me and I would love to learn more, especially in person.//")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 2)(goto: "schoolseat")] (link: "//I have learned a lot about Japan and would like to go through better experiences as a person, seeing its culture with my own eyes and viewing it the way you guys do. Seeing it in animation is fun, but I would like to view it as how it is.//")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "schoolseat")] (set: $counter to 10) You have |amount>[$counter] seconds to decide. (live: 1s)[ (set: $counter to it - 1) (if: $counter is 0)[(set: $encounter to "fail")(go-to: "schoolseat")] (replace: ?amount)[$counter] ]

{(if: $encounter is "wtf")[You are so late that you enter the classroom in-between teachers.](else-if: $weebmeter > 7)[Other students look at you strangely -- like they are judging you.](else:)[All gazes are on the new foreign exchange student. Some of them smile at you.]} You are directed to a seat next to the window at the back-side of [[the classroom.]]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('intro')" /></div> (text-style: "blurrier")[{(live: 0.5s)[ (either: "You are a prodigy of a pianist who has just lost everyone they loved and a violinist suddenly walks into your life and brings it color", "You have lost your parents and not your dreams, your new wish and goal in life is to be the next hokage to power through everything and all there is", "You do not recall your childhood aside from the asylum, you stand with your stern-faced partner and begin spreading terror all across Japan", "You are a bartender at a bar of death where guests come to you and spin the wheel to decide what games they should play so you may judge them but this ice skater girl comes around and", "For some reason you have a co-worker whose name is pretty much Satan and is a part-timer at the WcDonalds store that you work in", "You have this strange power that lets you rewind time whenever an accident or serious event is about to happen and you work in order to correct it but you were brought all the way back to when you were in a kid", "You are transported to this strange video game world where you meet this girl and develop a close bond with her, when you die in the game you die in real life", "Your bus breaks down and along with about thirty other passengers lotsof mysteries and deaths begin to occur and you honestly do not know what to do", "After multiple apocalypses the only defense against the strange angels are these huge mechas piloted by the emotions and willpower of teenagers who are filled with fire and flight", "You are part of an idol group and it has always been your dream to compete in these competitions so you sing your hearts out, through the rain and all the pain" ) ]}] (text-style: "blurrier")[Is that [[all you see]].]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('dark')" /></div> Do not worry, the land you are thinking of is [[<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">a</span><span style="color:#ff2a00;">b</span><span style="color:#ff5500;">s</span><span style="color:#ff7f00;">o</span><span style="color:#ff9f00;">l</span><span style="color:#ffbf00;">u</span><span style="color:#ffdf00;">t</span><span style="color:#ffff00;">e</span><span style="color:#aaff00;">l</span><span style="color:#55ff00;">y</span><span style="color:#00ff00;"> </span><span style="color:#00ff40;">p</span><span style="color:#00ff80;">e</span><span style="color:#00ffbf;">r</span><span style="color:#00ffff;">f</span><span style="color:#00aaff;">e</span><span style="color:#0055ff;">c</span><span style="color:#0000ff;">t</span></div>->perfectperfect]]

It is everything you have (text-style: "rumble")[ever imagined and dreamed] of -- the anime, the movies, the art, the film, the girls, the stories, the laughter (text-style: "rumble")[life here is so [[PERFECT.]]]

(text-style: "blur")[But it is also real. No, it's just like it should be in the movies and the stories and the] (link: "Japan is everything I want it to be")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 2)(goto: "daythreeschoolend")] (link: "Japan is everything it should be")[(set: $weebmeter to it + 0)(goto: "daythreeschoolend")] (set: $counter to 3) You have |amount>[$counter] seconds to (text-style: "rumble")[answer...?] (live: 1s)[ (set: $counter to it - 1) (if: $counter is 0)[(set: $encounter to "fail")(go-to: "daythreeschoolend")] (replace: ?amount)[$counter] ]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass()" /></div> {(if: $encounter is "fail")[Hm.](else:)[Your classmate wakes you up.]} "[[Hey, $name.->cleany]] It's time to clean the classrooms." (click: "clean the classrooms")[It is customary for students to clean their own classrooms in Japan.]

You actually struggle in catching up with everyone else. It is something so simple yet you had never done it in your own country. [[But it's time to go home.]]

You actually feel weird calling the dorm room 'home'. While gathering your thoughts on what happened during the day, you decide to write [[another blog post.]]

The $name blog reads: {(if: $weebmeter > 9)[Day 4. First day of school, I woke up late and met new classmates. It’s amazing that the train systems in Japan are very convenient and really quiet. It’s so much better than the MRT’s and LRT’s at home; altho I kind of miss it. I miss having unli rice at Mang Inasal. ](else:)[Day 4. First day of school, and I was late. I literally stuffed my face with a loaf of bread and ran towards the station. My teacher, Sensei Hayama, gave me a lecture. It’s true that in Japan, they really value time; and I realized Filipino time is not acceptable to them at all. I have to adjust a lot, but the best part is learning.]} [[1 New Comment]]

{(if: $weebmeter > 9)[(text-style: "blur")["Don't forget who you are and where you have come from."]](else:)[(text-style: "blur")["Don't forget what you came here for."]]} {(live: 6s)[(go-to: "Day Four")]}

<div class="day">(live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Day Four](stop:)]</div> (live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Tuesday [[Move on->dayfourbegin]]](stop:)] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('day')" /></div>

(live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[You commute to school, run, then take your seat.](stop:)] (live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Permanent jet lag taking you back.](stop:)] (live: 7s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Then you say hi to a new person.](stop:)] (live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")["Hello!"](stop:)] (live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")["Konnichiwa!"](stop:)] (live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")["Friends?"](stop:)] (live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")["Tomodachis?"](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[This will happen until your novelty as the new student is over.](stop:)] (live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Then you clean the classroom, your hands stiff.](stop:)] (live: 18s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[You ask the girl next to you where she's going tonight.](stop:)] (live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")["Cram school, of course! I stay there until about 8:30."](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[The other boy across you tells you that he has archery practice.](stop:)] (live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[That girl has student council and a second job.](stop:)] (live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[He has to commute all the way back at 9](stop:)] (live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Here distance doesn't matter but education quality does](stop:)] (live: 28s)[(t8n:"dissolve")["It's customary to work hard, very hard!"](stop:)] (live: 29s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Don't you believe that there is more to it than this](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(go-to:"dayfourcont")]

On your walk back towards your dorm room you see a sign pointing towards a [[shrine in the distance.]] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('green')" /></div> <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('tw-link').removeClass().addClass('green')" /></div>

There are //fortunes// written on //paper strips// around [[this shrine.]] The water is running down serenely. (click: "serenely")[It's a bit of greenish aqua that is quiet and heavenly at the same time.] (click: "paper strips")[It's common for Shinto shrines to have these kinds of paper fortunes.]

You take one and it reads: {(if: $weebmeter > 9)["Sometimes, things are not as they seem to be. You flourish and thrive in the lands when you let them be, not when you try to freeze the hells over and spring the deserts to life. Accept and love them for what they are, the nation for the broken, the deserts for the deserted."](else:)["Never forget that your soul moves in motion for the future. Take risks and be open but never forget your roots. The floodwaters only rain down when you let them break, stand your ground and forever thrive."]} [[Thrive.]]

<div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('dark')" /></div> Turn back and return? Turn back and return? Turn back and [[<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">l</span><span style="color:#ff7f00;">e</span><span style="color:#ffff00;">a</span><span style="color:#00ff00;">r</span><span style="color:#00ffff;">n</span></div>->learn]] Turn back and return? Turn back and return? Turn back and return? Turn back and return? Turn back and [[<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">l</span><span style="color:#ff7f00;">i</span><span style="color:#ffff00;">v</span><span style="color:#00ff00;">e</span></div>->live]] Turn back and return? Turn back and return? Turn back and return? Turn back and return?

[[<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">A</span><span style="color:#ff1900;">c</span><span style="color:#ff3300;">c</span><span style="color:#ff4c00;">e</span><span style="color:#ff6600;">p</span><span style="color:#ff7f00;">t</span><span style="color:#ff9400;"> </span><span style="color:#ffaa00;">y</span><span style="color:#ffbf00;">o</span><span style="color:#ffd400;">u</span><span style="color:#ffea00;">r</span><span style="color:#ffff00;"> </span><span style="color:#ccff00;">n</span><span style="color:#99ff00;">e</span><span style="color:#66ff00;">x</span><span style="color:#33ff00;">t</span><span style="color:#00ff00;"> </span><span style="color:#00ff2b;">t</span><span style="color:#00ff55;">e</span><span style="color:#00ff80;">n</span><span style="color:#00ffaa;"> </span><span style="color:#00ffd5;">m</span><span style="color:#00ffff;">o</span><span style="color:#00ccff;">n</span><span style="color:#0099ff;">t</span><span style="color:#0066ff;">h</span><span style="color:#0033ff;">s</span><span style="color:#0000ff;">.</span></div>->itsokay]]

"We all know that you came into this country [[because of how you saw]] it, not for any other reason." <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('intro')" /></div>

The worst part is, $name, you fail to see your //own nation's// beauty. You praise and glorify the lands of others to compensate for the one that you call home. (The truth is, [[it's the only one you could ever call home.->call]])

{(if: $weebmeter > 10)[[[This is what it will be like for you.->badend]]](else:)[[[They say this happens on your good days->goodend]]]}

(live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Everyone knows why.](stop:)] (live: 4s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Another one of the unashamed, the closet hiders, the afriad.](stop:)] (live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Sprouting from your own eyes and desires, you mold.](stop:)] (live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Because of course -- fantasy is so much better than science.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Stockpile on all things -- justify them further than how //they// left.](stop:)] (live: 16.5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Japan is the haven - anime, toys, shows, collectibles, skies and words.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[You spend months absent-minded on the computer, validation and love towards the not there.](stop:)] (live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Praising every single thing about Japanese food to games to their daily passerby thoughts.](stop:)] (live: 29s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Stay ecstatic, elated, and excited for every little thing that comes out.](stop:)] (live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Swear to make the world as picture-perfect as the ones glowing on your computer screen do.](stop:)] (live: 45s)[(go-to: "endend")] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('day')" /></div

(live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Everyone knows why.](stop:)] (live: 4s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[But you are different, because you learn.](stop:)] (live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Sprouting from ignorance, you adapt.](stop:)] (live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Blend in with your class, your friends, the society around you.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[You expected vinyl figurines and costumes on full show, girls and food and unexpected encounters.](stop:)] (live: 16.5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[But with your open-heart and open-mind, you saw that the idea of Japan in you is so much different from what it may actually be.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Extreme stress and anxiety, pressure on students, strictness and seriousness.](stop:)] (live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[But there is also love, nature, streets, memories and history.](stop:)] (live: 29s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[You'll fall in love with this all, I swear.](stop:)] (live: 45s)[(go-to: "endend")] <div style="display:none;"><img src="!@#$" onerror="$('html').removeClass().addClass('day')" /></div

<div class="day"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Day Five (css: "font-size:22px;")[and beyond.]](stop:)] (live: 7s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[ (css: "font-size:14px;")[Amisola, Bejar, De Veyra, Ellett, Saulog]](stop:)] </div>