Alone in Cyberspace By Michael Klamerus

Instruments: Deck of Cards, 1d6





Game Description 


In this hack of Alone Among the Stars, you create web pages in the vein of old defunct sites like Geocities and Xanga.



Game Content Warnings 

These are content warnings that are from the game prompts and are present in all playthroughs.





Playthrough Content Warnings 

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Game Playthrough

Word Count: 721      Played: Nov 29, 2024





Page 1

Roll: 6 

Community: Grunge

A page dedicated to grunge bands, aesthetics, and life. 

Element 1

Spade: The Meat-Space

2: HTML Table

A small table documenting the breakdown of the religious beliefs of all the members of three different grunge bands: Rusty Chains, Dirty Souls, and Faded Echoes. Some of these are incorrect as they label them as "Satanist" and "Pagans". 

Element 2

Diamond: Personal Information

5: A paragraph of text

"My chief concern about the movement is that posers have started to infiltrate our space. These so-called "grunge" bands don't know two things about our culture and our music!They think that they can waltz in, and just bang around with their cheap drums and any old two-bit guitars and can come in and just take our space away from us! we need to fight back against these posers!!!1!!" 

Element 3

Diamond: Personal

3: Scrolling Text 

A small box of text that scrolls up and reads: "Welcum to my page! lol ; No posers! ; Grung 4 life ; "

Element 4

Clubs: Objects Valued by creator

J: Auto Playing Music 

The song "Sleeping in the Summer (Twice more than once again)" by Faded Echoes is attempting to play in the background. The song is missing from the page, but after a quick glance at the lyrics the song is about a failed romance. 

Element 5

Spades: The Meat-Space 6: List

A list of grunge bands the author considers to be "Posers" 

POZERS: 

  1. Ex-Scarlet
  2. Die Right Twice
  3. Braced Plaid
  4. Two Button Showdown
  5. Fish Bone Machina
  6. Rusted Princess Coronet 

Element 6

Diamond: Personal Life

Queen: Link to another page

A large flashing button that is pink with a lace border that reads "Cozy Corner" and underneath is labeled "MY GF's PAGE" 

Page 2

Roll: 6

Roll: 2, Listed in a search 

Community: King, Queer

Element 1

Spade: The Meat-Space

King: Compressed Video

A video showing Anita Bryant, an anti-gay bigot, being pied in the face with a blurb about the incident. 

Element 2

Hearts: Other Users

6: List 

A list-style web-ring of other queer users. There are pages for men, women, mixed etc. 

Element 3

Diamonds: Personal Life

Ace: WebRing Button

A large button with flaming text and a marching-ants border that pulses larger and smaller that reads "Bad Butches Only" 

Element 4

Clubs: Objects of Value

Seven: File Download

"Here is a collection of my most recent poetry and a few older versions of the poems. This file will continue to be updated, so check back in the future! :) " The link is broken

Element 5 

Diamonds: Personal Life

9: Jpeg

A very compressed and pixelated photo of two women wearing sunglasses and trying to look tough. Underneath it is the caption "A couple of bad bitches"

Element 6

Diamonds: Personal Life

6: List 

A list of best queer B-movies ranging from 1960's to 1999. Should be noted that some of the movies aren't overtly queer, but have been interpreted, and claimed as such by viewers. 

Site 3

Roll: 5

Roll: 3, A web-ring

King: Queer

Element 1

Diamonds: Personal

King: Compressed Video

A short video of people in what looks like a nightclub partying. The audio is missing from the video. Underneath is the caption "Club Life" 

Element 2

Clubs: Objects Valued

3: Scrolling Text 

A large ticker-style text scroll across the top of the screen. On it is the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickenson. 

Element 3

Hearts: Connections with other Users

Queen: Link to another page

A web-ring button of a field of yellow flowers and one red flower in the middle. In cursive script on either side of the flower is the phrase: "Jess's Poetry for the Soul." Underneath is the caption "My good friend Jess's lovely site"

Element 4

Diamonds: Personal Life

Seven: File Download

A link to a file with the song "Yes, and We Will Together" by a Christian Rock Band "His Name Forever" . The link is broken and it seems this was the only single the band ever released. There are no copies online. 

Element 5

Spades: The Meat-Space

Three: Scrolling Text 

A second text box with bible quotes. Above it is the text "Jesus Loves Gays". The quotes seem to all be about how Jesus loves everyone including gay people. 



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