EVENT 023

[sticksandbonesmods]

TAKE ME BACK TO NEO EDEN

CHAOS IN PARADISE

The more problems get solved, the more others start to pop up. Sure, some heroes saved the children in the manor — who are no longer children — but those siblings are now comatose, and the manor is on permanent lockdown, black briars blocking every possible entrance and Corrupting anyone who tries to get in. Sure, some sneaky hopefuls hid a magic circle to help maintain the fog barrier (and keep the Forest out) in a secret location, but now the magic in the Grove feels off. Your spells come out more powerful as intended while the world is out of balance, and it seems like they will for some time.

Maybe in your haste to fix all the Grove’s issues, you forgot about a certain skeleton spirit who shows up every April in some attempt to help you cheer up. Perhaps you remembered, and were hoping he’d arrive. Either way, Mr. Bone-Jangles clatters into the Grove in broad daylight, waves hello to those of you lingering in the centre of the Grove, and snaps his phalanges.

Immediately, a magenta-coloured, swirling portal opens up underneath your feet, and your friend’s feet, and that friend’s feet, until most of the centre of the Grove is consumed by it. Those of you on the outside, free of the portal’s reach, may witness it: everyone caught in it gets pulled into the rift, Heimr and Ydalir and Mr. Bone-Jangles included. In the next blink, the portal is closed and they’re gone, leaving behind flowers where each of them fell.

For those of you who got caught in the portal, you’ll find yourself at the entrance of a city, where a sign reads: WELCOME TO NEO EDEN.

4 C0LD W3LC0M3

Trying to turn around and walk outside the city causes your nose to crinkle as you slam facefirst into an invisible barrier. You can see other buildings outside this barrier, natural as a landscape could come, and yet you can’t progress. The skies are a somewhat odd purplish-blue, though you can’t tell if that’s because your eyes are straining against the bright neon of the city lights or not. Underneath the arcing city sign, a police car labelled “NEO EDEN P.D.” passes by, the robotic simulacra of human law enforcement inside giving everyone a friendly wave before it keeps driving, seemingly having come from beyond the barrier and thus warping into the space, as far as your eyes can tell anyway.

Mr. Bone-Jangles helpfully guides you further into the city, past the holograms of normal humans in neon-glowing techwear going about their business. They don’t respond to anything you do or say, seemingly on a set path, living their daily lives. The city is packed enough to be claustrophobic, cars and holograms rushing past, a stark change from the small-town vibes of the Grove. Those of you who fish in your pockets as you wander will find that your magic notebooks have been replaced with cellphones, and all prior notebook correspondences are there, as well as any new ones. The cellphone does nothing other than connect to group chat, but this one is clearly cooler — you can send emojis, stickers, and GIFs without drawing them.

…those on the other side, however, are getting each GIF drawn out frame-by-frame in the notebooks. Please don’t spam GIFs at your friends.

Additionally in your pockets is a small plastic card — a debit card, for those of you who are familiar with them — containing 1,000 Credits, the currency here. You didn’t think your shells would be useful, did you? Simply tapping the card at any facility that takes payment will subtract the necessary amount… but 1,000 Credits isn’t much. It’s enough to buy a thousand candy bars, but unless you’re frugal, it won’t last you the month. Luckily, it looks like every store on the nearby shopping strip is hiring! From restaurants to clothing stores, to empty buildings that you can make your own business out of… surely this capitalistic nightmare will be tenable!

The lack of animals is noticeable as you head further into the city, toward what signage says is called “Mania Square”. The birds, instead of being your typical Grove plantanimals, are robotic. There’s a severe lack of any pests despite the garbage in the alleyway dumpsters — no bugs, no rodents, no raccoons. Mania Square itself contains a fountain big enough to swim in, the centre focal point of the public plaza, but Bone-Jangles hooks a sharp left and leads you to the apartments instead. Up three stories are small studio rooms for each of you, your names written on the door placards in your own handwriting, and the insides are customized to your exact preference already. A notice pinned above your kitchenette tells you rent is due by April 30th… you hope you aren’t here for that long.

4R3N’T Y0U H4V1NG FUN?

Despite the standard day and night cycle, some of you may notice this place still doesn’t feel quite right, a bit outside of time. That shouldn’t stop you from having fun! And should you need to go back to the Grove — or if you’re someone looking to get into Neo Eden in the first place — you need only to gaze into a mirror placed in each of your bedrooms or apartments and wish to go home… which may lead you to fall catastrophically through it to the other side. Try not to hit your chin on the ground.

Life goes on regardless. In this city, there’s a lot to do. You could go shopping at the strip mall near Mania Square, where Heimr and Ydalir have set up a temporary shop to continue to provide for everyone’s needs. They’ll still take shells, but there’s nothing much they can do if you run out of Credits — both will gently suggest you find work in Neo Eden. You guys own businesses back at the Grove, it can’t be that bad, can it?

The good news is, Mr. Bone-Jangles and his entourage of skeletons who you swear weren’t originally here 12 hours ago are happy to help you get a job, where the interview process involves simply “showing up and asking your holographic boss if you can be employed”. Starting your own business is more difficult — you’ll need a loan from the bank! — but not impossible. Any hologram humans that come in to buy things will ignore you, get what they want, and leave. The only time you can interact with your fellow neon-coloured humans is when they’re making a purchase, at which point their items will digitize and they’ll leave. All very odd, but at least the customers aren’t rude to you… or your skeletal coworkers who have joined you for back-breaking labour.

After work, perhaps you want to head to the amusement park — Thrill Point is an utterly massive one to the far northeast of the city past the river that cuts through the digital roadways. With drop towers, roller coasters, rides for little babies who hate heights and fun, and tons of food stalls to stop at, you could feasibly spend all night here and almost forget that you have to be at your next shift in the morning! If you seek a different thrill, Arcadia is a nightclub southwest of Mania Square, where the music plays all night, the liquor flows freely, and anyone under 21 who enters gets marked with an X on the back of their hand by a harmless laser beam. Just outside Arcadia is a small photo booth named “The Swap”, and if you enter with a partner, both of you hitting the “TAKE PHOTO” button will bodyswap you for 12 hours. It will also print out a funny photo of you as a keepsake. Enjoy being someone else for a while!

Head to the Rent-a-Ride, where you can rent any vehicle on wheels — electric scooters, cars, motorcycles, hoverbikes — as long as you can pay the expensive fee. Speeding will get you a ticket from your local robopolice; breaking standard civilian laws will get you arrested and thrown into the unmanned city jail. And try not to tailgate or crash your ride — not only will you be on the hook for vehicle damages, but you’ll be shafted with a ludicrous hospital fee. Seriously, people live like this?

But, if a calm walk through nature is more your style, City Park and its digital trees to the north may suit your needs. The fish in the river here can be fished up by hopeful anglers, though all are wiggly, inedible robots. Hm.

WELCOME BACK

By April 30th when your rent is technically due, a text message goes out to everyone’s phones… and consequently the notebooks, too, from two different senders:

REMINDER: YOUR RENT IS DUE TODAY! PLEASE PAY 3,000 CREDITS OR FACE EVICTION.

DONT WORY. I WIL RESKYEW U

The messages from the second sender will get slightly more ominous as the day goes on.

GRAB SUMTHING U WANT 2 TAKE WITH U
I WIL REETORN U HOM

HAS ANY1 SEEN MY WIFE
FOWND MY WIFE :)

R U REDY 2 GO?

By evening, hopefully you’ve grabbed something to take back home — something you can feasibly carry without a struggle — because a portal is yet again opening under your feet. In a split second, you’re back in Aldric’s Grove, holding whatever you came with, your cellphones reverted back to notebooks. Mr. Bone-Jangles is nowhere to be seen, but he reappears a few hours later to hand out personal apology notes to everyone reading: “SORY, TRIYD 2 SAV U :(“ before he and his merry band mope back into the woods. He hopes you had fun while you were away.

Next time anyone heads out into the woods, all seems normal… minus the amount of fungi that have started to sprout in absolute droves across the forest floor, unwilling to be torn up from their roots or killed in a way that matters.

Spark Notes

summary

Chaos in Paradise: Mr. Bone-Jangles is back and here to kidnap you to a new location. This is a cyberpunk-esque city known as Neo Eden. No, he does not ask if he can do this first.
4 C0LD W3LC0M3: Further in Neo Eden are your apartments at Mania Square, where rent is due by the 30th. Your notebooks have been turned into cellphones, and you have a debit card with 1,000 credits on it for your shopping expenses. Seems like you'll be here a while.
4R3N’T Y0U H4V1NG FUN?: If you need to move to and from the Grove, there's a portal accessible in everyone's bedrooms via a mirror. Here, you have the freedom to do whatever you want: Rent a car, ride a roller coaster, get a job, start a business - the city is your oyster!
WELCOME BACK: And then all of a sudden, the neon paradise is ripped away from you as you're transported home. You can take back an item with you to remember your time here, if you want. The forest itself has started to grow mushrooms in droves, ones that can't be pulled up or killed. Hm!

out of character

It's already April! What the heck! We hope everyone enjoys this event; please feel free to make up businesses/buildings/things to do, you aren't constrained to what's been written in the post.

updates

- A small shrine close to the inn has appeared in the Grove. Affogato's spirit is tied there, to a black raven figure carved from smooth stone.
- The spell strengthening the Grove's fog wall is buffed.
- Sinann has been powered up, and therefore can enter its human form and go on land. It will largely still be by the river.
- Suri's creations are now and forever weak to poison.
- Pearl has made a terrible rainstorm back in the Grove.
- In Neo Eden, Add has enhanced the jail and made Jail2, which has far more security measures and functions as an escape room of sorts. Please see Add's toplevel below for further details.
- Jail2 has partly collapsed due to White Lily Cookie.

submissions

❖ Questions
❖ April Plotting
❖ Past Life Plotting (Closed to Game Members)
❖ Investigations

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Ryan Akagi | Infinity Train | OTA

[chickenchoicejudy]

A. Bright City Lights (Shopping District, first week)
[This place is constant stimulation in a way Ryan never could have dreamed of. Every five seconds something new has caught his eye.

It's not even that he's never been to a city before - he has! He likes them a lot, they're so big with so much cool shit, but this feels different. Everything's metallic and neon, even things that really shouldn't be, and there's some new digital thing happening everywhere he looks. Even his new netbook has new shiny things, and he's caught himself getting totally absorbed in looking at it all.

Unfortunately, Ryan is also money blind. They were given a 1000 credits! That's like, a TON of money if it's dollar to credit, right? So he isn't really thinking about how much anything costs and just trying every single thing he can. Right now, that something is figuring out what counts as interesting clothing here. The stores have had so much neon and metallic, and even items that fully light up, but Ryan has specific taste. He's also a social creature, which means he has somehow roped you, friend or stranger, into coming along with him.

When he comes out of the changing room of this little boutique, he's wearing red pants that might as well be painted onto him, but he's frowning.]

Ugh, I didn't think these would be plastic on the inside too...

[He picks up one leg and bends it at the knee, showing off how much they SQUEAK. Sensory bad!! Sensory TERRIBLE!!!]

Did denim like, go extinct or something?

B. Party Time (Arcadia, early/mid month, cw: alcohol, irresponsible drinking)

[There's so much to try in this weird new world during the day, but at night? Ryan has to check out all of the night life. There are drinks that glitter and glow in the dark! He's pretty sure he saw someone get a drink that was literally smoking! When is he going to have a chance to try them again?! Plus there's so much future music he hasn't heard!

If he's with Min-Gi he's a little more restrained about it - especially since they're both "under-age" by this city's standards. They still have fun! Having fun is easy together. But sometimes Min-Gi is working and Ryan is left to his own devices. And it is unfortunately so, so easy to overdo it with a credit card in his pocket and a total inability to say no to something new and shiny.

Which means sometimes Ryan turns up at Arcadia with arm warmers and red glow bracelets to try and hide the fact that his hand was marked with an X. He hates looking at it anyway - it reminds him too much of something else that used to be branded on his hand. But now he can't see it and he's basically just sneaking into a club again, like old times.

You might catch him on the dance floor, enjoying the buzz he has going and these new beats he's never heard. If you dance with him, he might even give you one of his glow bracelets! Or, you might catch him at the bar, wobbling a little bit but waving big as soon as he spots you.]

Oh my god. Dude. You haaaaaaaave to try these, lemme get you one!

[And with all the confidence of someone who totally doesn't have an X on their hand, Ryan flags whoever is manning the bar and asked for two more shots - one for his "good good good friend here" and another one for himself.]

Look! It jiggles and it's-- it's got lil stars!

[He wiggles it in his hand and laughs! Like it's the funniest thing he's ever seen!

Or maybe it's closer to the end of his night and the whole room is starting to tilt. His feet feel kind of heavy and uneven, and his head is swimming and drifting further and further out to sea, both tell-tale signs that he probably should have stopped a drink or two ago and that it's time for him to head back. Maybe dunk his face in the fountain on the way, see if that helps a little. He pitches to the left a little when he hops off the barstool, but laughs it off and insists he's good.

He's not really. But maybe someone will come with him, and help him not get arrested on his way back to Min's apartment?]

C. Let's all go to the lobby (Lumina Theatre)

[And then it happens. He runs out of credits.

It happened at the actual worst moment it could have (hungover, while attempting to buy coffee). Panic set in immediately, because Min-Gi's been working all month but Ryan somehow blew through all of his own money in like two weeks? Two and a half? The important thing is that Min-Gi has taken this seriously from day one, and Ryan got distracted like he always does.

He's...never had a job-job. He thought maybe he could busk to make up the difference and then some, but he has no idea what the Credits equivalent of tossing bills and change into a guitar case is. He saw something about...Benmo? Somewhere? Maybe an ad somewhere? But trying to figure it out under pressure just made his head itch.

Fortunately, it turns out he doesn't actually have to be that good at anything to get a job somewhere. All he had to do was turn up and ask for a job at one of the movie theaters and boom, job. Better yet, when he asked if there was a job up in the projection booth, the neon workers just gave him the okay to go on up.

There's no job in the projection booth. He didn't know it when he asked, but since everything is digital the entire system is automated. So...his job is babysitting machines, watching movies through the little projection hole without getting in the way, and napping on the floor to the white noise of machines whirring. He feels kind of bad about it - Min-Gi would definitely not consider this actually working - but he gets a lot of free popcorn, and it's actually...kind of nice to not have new stuff in his face every two seconds.

If you find yourself at the movies, you might catch him in the lobby refilling on popcorn or getting himself the least nasty drink they have (which he's decided is good old ginger ale cut with Goblin Energy). When he spots you, another real person, he waves! He certainly looks like he works there, with his vest and uniform.]

Hey! Seeing anything good?

A.

[outofsynth]

[Min-Gi has tried to explain the clear disparity between credits and either dollar they have familiarity with, but it doesn't seem to be sinking in. It's sort of a relief that Ryan's found something he doesn't like, and even more of a relief when Min-Gi looks up from where he's sat outside the changing room and actually sees how little those pants leave to the imagination.

He averts his gaze quickly, praying his face hasn't heated up in any visible way. Or that his eyes hadn't initially lingered for too long.]

You'd think this far in the future they'd have figured out how to make all fashion comfortable.

[chickenchoicejudy]

Right? Some scientist should have figured out ultimate clothes comfiness by now!

[He wiggles the his hips side to side, making the plastic squeak even more - even though the sound is terrible and he hates it. There isn't anything he can do about it though, so he sighs and crosses his arms]

I can't believe they want 200 credits for these things.

[He...might not have mentioned that before trying them on.]

[outofsynth]

[The sound is terrible, and at least distracts him from thinking too hard on the image of Ryan in those pants that's been burned into his brain even after a matter of seconds. Min winces at the noise, but the mention of the price soon has him whipping around to look at him again.]

Dude, what?

[Min-Gi look utterly incredulous at the price tag, and even more so that Ryan was actually considering them up until he decided he didn't like the noise they make.]

You couldn't afford to spend that much on pants in Canadian dollars, let alone credits.

[chickenchoicejudy]

[Ryan is not nearly concerned enough about the cost of these tight pants. He even laughs, and waves a hand.]

Min, relaaax. There's no harm in trying them on! And it's not like I'm buying them now, so it's totally fine.

[Except that he was definitely thinking about it and it would not have been fine at all. It still might not be fine if he breaks the plastic from bending around! But he pivots away from that line of thinking with ease.]

Soooo, did you wind up finding any fun future clothes here?

[outofsynth]

[Min does not see the funny side of it at all and shows no sign of relaxing. He actually glances around like they might be in trouble already even though the pants are still very much in tact.]

It's not fine! What if you break them?

[He is so stressed right now, and definitely not in the mood for Ryan to try and brush him off so casually.]

My clothes are fine. I don't need to buy new ones just because I can.

[chickenchoicejudy]

Dude, I'm not going to break them! They're so plastic I don't know if they even can break!

[He huffs a little bit, but the irritation doesn't last long.]

And it's not just because we can - we're staying here for now, so shouldn't we be checking out everything while we still have the chance? There's all kinds of future fashion, future food, probably sick future music at the future club--

[He could go on and on and on--]

[outofsynth]

That doesn't mean you should chance it!

[If they were cheaper, fine. 200 credits though? That goes beyond being a little indulgent. He gets that everything here is new and exciting, and maybe Min is a bit of a downer sometimes, but one of them has to be if they want to be able to eat for the month.]

We can check things out. We just have to be smart about it. And... we'll probably need jobs if you want more than the basics. I don't think we're going to score any gigs with a mini-synth.

[chickenchoicejudy]

[Ryan rolls his eyes, but he at least listens enough to take off the plastic pants before they rip. They're in the middle of a conversation though, so he doesn't bother going back in the changing room - it's not like any of the holograms care if he strips to his underwear anyway.]

We could always get you a regular synth? Then we'd make the money back performing, right?

[Oof, hang on, he's a little stuck in the plastic-- there we go, his leg is free now, and the other leg is a lot easier after that.]

I wonder what they cost around here...?

C!

[eidxiety]

[Surprise it's Local Movie Buff, here to see another movie! He was going to continue to go to the fancy theatre but he reaaaaaaally wanted to see one they're only showing exclusively at this location. He's not expecting to see Ryan, but!! Friend!!!!]

Oh, do you work here, Mr. Energetic? I'm seeing a zombie horror movie called Train to Requiem. It looks really good, haha.

[chickenchoicejudy]

Yeah, man! I just started a few days ago.

[He feels like he's overheard something about that somewhere, that this theater has occasional exclusives to compete with the others, but knowing more about that would require him to be better at his job.]

Oh, that one. That's the theater I'm assigned to, but I haven't watched it all the way through yet.

[And honestly, he wasn't planning to! A horror movie on a train sounds a little too much like his life! But, maybe with a friend--]

Are you here with anybody? If not, I can sneak you into the coolest seat in the whole theater, if you want~

[eidxiety]

Ooh~. Haha, no, it's just me. [It usually is, this is all he does all day anymore.] Show me where the best seats are~.

[chickenchoicejudy]

You got it, man. C'mon, the holobosses won't care--

[And they don't! Ryan waves his hand and brings Ain through a door that's clearly marked "EMPLOYEES ONLY" and none of the other workers bat an eye. It leads up to a staircase!]

Back home movies were all on actual film so they had to have a guy up in the booth threading the machine and babysitting it. I thought that might be neat, so I asked if I could work up here but everything's all automatic and digital now so like...I don't actually do anything?

[He opens another door at the top of the stairs that brings them to a dark room with a softly whirring machine above them - slimmer than any projector Ryan's ever seen. There's a large cut-out in the wall to see through, and Ryan's pulled over a table and a couple of chairs - usually one is for his feet, but he's willing to give that up to have some company. Out in the theater, previews are already showing for some movie apparently called Daddy Tría: There They Go Again!]

Ta da~! Best view in the house!

[eidxiety]

Oh, that's interesting... haha, we don't have that at home, we just do plays and musicals on a stage. It's not recorded like movies are, and there's a live orchestra. [Ain babe surely he knows what plays are?] You don't do anything, but you still get paid for it? Wow...

[He's jealous, why did he try that stupid tailor shop here when he should've been looking for the world's laziest job?

Anyway, the table makes him laugh, he can tell Ryan does this a lot. He swings into the leftmost seat and looks out the window, dragon tail wagging.]

Wowww~. And you can hear everything so clearly too! If we talk up here, do our voices get carried into the theatre?

[chickenchoicejudy]

[Ryan listens anyway, nodding along. He does know what plays are, but he hasn't seen any big ones - just school plays. They probably go wild on plays where Ain's from if they don't have movies though. Maybe like in Shakespeare times. ...He's getting distracted, whoops.]

Hm? Oh, nope! I mean, maybe if we were yelling at the top of our lungs they would? But they have their own speakers in there for the surround sound so they can't hear us at all.

[In other words, they can chat as much as they want! Ryan gladly drops into the righthand seat.]

Not to brag, but it's kind of the best gig in town. Regular retail is so not my speed.

[eidxiety]

Haha, mine either~. I tried, but did you know the holograms are programmed to yell at you? They just do that. For no reason! I didn't like working at the clothing store at the strip mall, so I quit.

[Retail sucks, he can see why this would be far more appealing.]

[chickenchoicejudy]

Ugh, really? Why would anyone ever program them like that?!

[It's more of a rhetorical question, but a sympathetic one.]

Good on you for quitting though. I totally wouldn't have been able to put up with it either. ...Honestly I wouldn't even be in this job if I didn't kinda...blow through all my money. $1000 goes a lot farther back home!

[Or at least that's what he's telling himself so he doesn't feel like a totally irredeemable garbage fuck up person about it!]

c : )

[beathollow]

I'm not sure...

( mafuyu, despite being comfortable enough in the neon city, is not... used to independence like this. it's different in aldric's grove, but this is like home- something pinpricks one her skin like she must resume the life she lead back home.

but she's standing in front of a black poster with a single red carnation. it's striking. ... "hadestown proshot", it says? the name is telling enough. )

This caught my eye, though.

[chickenchoicejudy]

[Ryan peeks around her at the poster.]

Oh, that one! I think we just got it? It's a filmed version of a musical.

[Ryan isn't sure he gets the idea. Isn't like concerts where it's probably better in person?]

We should totally check it out! I've got access to the best seats in the house, free of charge.

[Mostly because he keeps bringing people up with him on his shifts and not telling anyone. It's fine; they're all holograms and no one's noticed yet.]

[beathollow]

Oh- a proshot... a lot of musicals back home are recorded and sold on DVD, so that more people can see it since they only air briefly.

( ... does he know what a dvd is? whoops. oh well.

mafuyu thinks for a moment. this sounds like- something bad. something mom wouldn't approve of- good girls don't go with barely-strangers to backrooms.

she nods. )

Okay.

[chickenchoicejudy]

A proshot...I guess that makes sense.

[Not a clue what a DVD is, but maybe it's something like VHS?

He grins when she agrees though. Honestly, he thought he was going to have to really sell her on this, so it's a nice surprise.]

Cool! Come with me--

[He'll give her a chance to grab any drinks she wants, and then ushers her over to an EMPLOYEES ONLY door. It leads to a ladder, and another door, and finally the projector room. There's a projector whirring nearby, but it's not anything Ryan has to pay attention to. Instead there's a table and a couple of chairs pulled up to an opening in the wall.]

I thought I was going to have to do more? Where I'm from they still have to put film through the machines, but everything's digital in Neo Eden so I just wind up hanging out up here. The view is really good though, and no one can hear us!

[beathollow]

( she just chooses a random carbonated drink for the bubbles, but otherwise follows. ... maybe they should see about snacks, but ehh. they can grab something to eat after, probably?

mafuyu listens as he speaks, and it makes sense... but he still gets paid? interesting. )

Honestly, I like my bed in the Grove more, so I mostly just pop in now and then to see what this place is like. I've been curious to see if I can download music onto my phone, though.

[chickenchoicejudy]

Totally fair! Me and Min-Gi have been here all month checking everything out, because who knows when we might get to again, y'know? Though I, uh. Kind of overdid it at first...

[Whoops. He's just going to breeze by that. But he'll also be a gentleman and pull out a seat for her! Honestly, he probably has snacks stashed here and there if they get hungry, but getting something to eat after would be fun too.]

I haven't really figured out the downloading thing, but if you do you should show me sometime! Do you think we'd get to keep it back in the Grove?

[Oh! The lights in the main theater dim considerably and the projector whirrs above them. Something's starting, whether it's the show itself or previews, so Ryan settles into his seat too.]

[beathollow]

Oh, downloads have been... around for most of my life. I can help you with it, yes.

( she will politely not comment about what she can only assume is crippling debt. she's so good and nice like that. but yes, sitting...

... she absolutely zones out during the previews. sorry ryan. she has no time. for capitalism... )

[chickenchoicejudy]

[There's absolutely no need to be sorry, because Ryan is flat out talking through them like they aren't even happening. Since no one can hear them over the speakers in the theater, they can break the rules and talk as much as they please.]

Cool! Awesome. Wild that it's been a thing your whole life though! It makes me feel totally ancient in comparison, like I've been living in dinosaur times or something.