batian 2026/01/05(Mon)01:47 No. 1119689 ID: 6119f7
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After somehow managing to do nothing for most of your life, as if the entire world had stood still until now. Lately, however, you have been dreaming of becoming the strongest artist to ever set foot on this world. Today, that journey finally starts as you approach the “That too building” to hopefully get advice and training from C.A.F; The best artist you know.

Now that you have agency provided by the manifestation of narrative flow into your world:

How will you proceed?

batian 2026/01/05(Mon)01:48 No. 1119690 ID: 6119f7
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>enter the door backwards while doing a little dance and hope its a push door

You attempt to dance only to immediately realize even a simple task such a silly jig is far above your skillset. It makes sense given you came here to learn art and dancing is despite your flawed intuition, also an art.

Regardless, you try your best but your limbs are stiff and your movements mechanical. You compensate by crouching to the beat but even that is surprisingly hard and you soon find your feet slipping on the floor…

batian 2026/01/05(Mon)01:48 No. 1119691 ID: 6119f7
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Before you know it, you’re on the ground and you’ve successfully landed against the door and hit your head rather badly. To add insult to the injury you don’t take long to realize the door is very obviously not pushable as it has a knob and all. You should have already known this given you’ve been here a couple of times before, right? To be fair most of those times you were in auto pilot and all your memories of that are foggy. Still, this was overall a discouraging failure as your first artistic endeavor, you even doubt you learned anything about dancing at all.

batian 2026/01/05(Mon)01:49 No. 1119692 ID: 6119f7
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To make matters worse, you feel a sudden presence weight upon you as if multitudinous gaze has been directed towards you. For a second you consider you might have drawn attention due to the embarrassment you just experienced and yet, there’s no one to be seen nearby other than the eye on the door just besides you. And despite what reason may suggest, you don’t think this sudden sensation of being observed can be attributed to that, rather it seems impossible to pinpoint where it comes from, maybe even from outside the plane of existence you reside in. Such a feeling has you freeze on the spot for a few seconds that feel like days. Maybe that’s it you’re just imagining things to further procrastinate going into the building that taunts you presently.

Nevertheless, you freeze for what now is making you wonder if a week has passed due to an even weirder observation. In between the crowded looks of dubious territoriality you’re getting you can just make out an emptiness that reminds you of the safe spot in the eye of a hurricane. The worrying part is that, with no logic to explain it the void that is left somehow perfectly conjures the image of an even more piercing and defiant “thing?” looking at you. You can’t really tell what it is but it feels like it could either very well be yourself or something eldritch and greater than you, like a God of sorts.

But then again maybe that’s just part of your life finally entering into motion as your journey as an artist begins. Whatever it is you’ll just accept it and move on…

How will you proceed?

be not afraid of how easily your life is shaped by circumstances outside your control. you are, in fact, perfectly in charge. knock on door with head. poke its eye. wait for answer.

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)01:48 No. 1119726 ID: 6119f7
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>>1119702
>be not afraid of how easily your life is shaped by circumstances outside your control. you are, in fact, perfectly in charge. knock on door with head. poke its eye. wait for answer.

You don’t see why would you further inflict harm upon yourself when you’re pretty sure you could just… open the door. That being said you’ve learned to not question these kind of weird ideas that sometimes invade your brain and indeed engaging in such irrational actions help you feel like maybe you have free will.

All that to say: you bash your head violently against the door multiple times…

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)01:49 No. 1119727 ID: 6119f7
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….and you also poke the eye that has been nothing but friendly towards you.

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)01:49 No. 1119728 ID: 6119f7
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C.A.F: “YOU COULDN’T EVICT ME IF YOU TRIED YOU PIECES O-”
C.A.F “oh, it’s just you Lienzo”
C.A.F: “Why are you like this?”
C.A.F: “Like I dig your game of enacting some weird bullshit rituals every once in a while but it’d be nice if I actually felt like you trust me enough to act like an actual person after all this years”
C.A.F: *sigh* “Sorry, you’re cool, come in, don’t just stand there! Tell good ol’ C.A.F what is it you want”

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)01:50 No. 1119729 ID: 6119f7
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C.A.F: “So did you come to my TATTOO shop to get a TATTOO? Or did you come for art advice like everyone else for some reason”
C.A.F: “I mean people have to remember I have a job”
C.A.F: “Not that it matters though all my tattoo clients are friends who get ludicrous discounts so it’s not like earn much anyways”
C.A.F: “And like I said, those damn pigs couldn’t evict me if they tried”
C.A.F: “Sorry for rambling on about that. I know you probably just came to hang out or something...”
C.A.F: “...right?”

How will you proceed?

cry

yes cry
why is art so hard?

Lift up C.A.F. in order to increase artist strength.

confess your deepest artistic insecurity.

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)21:32 No. 1119781 ID: 6119f7
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>>1119754
>cry

Lienzo: *Sniff*
C.A.F: “What…
Lienzo: *SNIFFFF*
C.A.F: “You ok? d-”

>>1119755
>yes cry
why is art so hard?

Lienzo: “BW-”
Lienzo: “Bwhy is awt so hawd?!?!?”
C.A.F: ”Oh my god”
Lienzo: “Awt is hawd and scawwyyy!!”
Lienzo: “It’s like: how do you even stawt??”

>>1119765
>confess your deepest artistic insecurity.

Your deepest artistic insecurity? Do you even have one? You haven’t even started your artistic journey proper, how could you? But that’s just it, isn’t it? Your deepest insecurity is starting. Or specifically, the insurmountable horror that comes with creating, with manifesting something out of nothing but thin air and your limited imagination. You’ve tried to start before but you’ve never gotten much done, one could even argue you’ve gotten absolutely nothing done. Sure, there’s been spread out days where you’ve created miserable homunculi that try to be art, but it has never really amounted to anything, has it? You can’t really improve without consistency, the universe’s cruel prank to lazy people. Come to think of it, what even is different between those times and now? You suppose the only diffrence is you don’t have any kind of plan you’re just sort of throwing yourself into your friends to see what happens and try to push forward as much as possible.

And then you look at fulfilled artists like C.A.F and you realize the sheer infinity of the breach between you. Add all of this up and you’re left with one fundamental truth: Your art power level is just too low.

Lienzo: “Creating!”
Lienzo: “It’s impossible!”
Lienzo: “I can only make bad art and I can’t improve”
C.A.F: “Dude, calm down”
C.A.F: “Anyone can do art. Just grab a pencil and draw a stickman and don’t worry about how it comes out”
Lienzo: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
Lienzo: “Aren’t you listening!?”
Lienzo: “I literally can’t!!!”
Lienzo: “My art power level is too low!!!”

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)21:34 No. 1119782 ID: 6119f7
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>>1119759
>Lift up C.A.F. in order to increase artist strength.

Lienzo: “I know!!”
Lienzo: “I gotta carry you, that way my art power level will immediate increase by yours”
C.A.F: “First of all, stop that”
C.A.F: “Second, art power level? Is that what this is all about?”

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)21:35 No. 1119783 ID: 6119f7
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Lienzo: “Yeah! I need to increase it and become the most powerful artist in the world”
C.A.F: “Alright… alright”
Lienzo: “Are you gonna help or what?”
C.A.F “Yeah, sure, whatever”
C.A.F “But lienzo, I know I complained about people asking me for advice but I think I’d rather you risked upsetting me than whatever this whole performance was”

batian 2026/01/06(Tue)21:35 No. 1119784 ID: 6119f7
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C.A.F: “Listen, Lienzo, the first thing you have to know about art power level”
Lienzo: “mhm?”
C.A.F: “Is that it’s bullshit”
C.A.F: “There’s no real logic to it and it’s a losing game to focus on it that much”
C.A.F: “There’s some correlation to your skill as an artist, like it definitely increases naturally as you improve but there isn’t any real predictability or science to it otherwise”
C.A.F: “As an example, your dancing power level is sitting at exactly 1 for some reason”
C.A.F: “Can you imagine that? I don’t really see you as the kind to dance but if you don’t dance at all it should be 0 and even if you only dance occasionally, you’d think it would be more than 1”

Yeah, you’re just going to suppress all the inevitable ideas telling you to confess your recent dancing escapade.

Lienzo: “Yeah, haha… that’s weird”
C.A.F: “Just complete non-sense”
C.A.F: “If anything to measure people’s art affinities I prefer the sensory pentatogram”
C.A.F: “But I’ve heard that even that one is kinda more superstition than science”
C.A.F: “Except for the fact that you should never, ever date a primary Smeller, that’s just a fact”
C.A.F: “Hope that helped… somewhat”
C.A.F: “At any rate, I think what you really need is to focus on something that you feel comfortable enough doing to get into a rhythm, you know?
C.A.F: “But before I explain that, any question you have or emotional breakdown you want to go into?

How will you proceed?

What is a primary smeller.
Then ask if you can do a sensual pentawhatsit anyway.
You know.
For funsies.

>>1119784
ask where you can find fat chicks to fuck

what's this potatogram? maybe it'll give you a direction to try out for art

ask for a hit of that and where you can find the best art supplies around. that'll be the real key to unlocking your potential.

batian 2026/01/09(Fri)20:46 No. 1119880 ID: bdfee2
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>>1119797
>ask where you can find fat chicks to fuck
W.what? Why would you do that? Does C.A.F even know anyone that’d be classifiable as a “fat chick”. I mean fat chicks aren’t uncommon but… or are they? Come to think of it fat is one of those weird things you intuitively understand but don’t exactly know how or why. It kinda just is. You know what a fat person is supposed to look like but you’re not sure if anyone you know is undeniably fat. Everyone kinda just looks diametrically different there’s no real reason you’d need a word to differentiate fat from skinny but you do which is odd.

For example, is C.A.F, the person in front of you, fat? She’s certainly bigger than you, and way heavier than what you can as was demonstrated by your recent attempt. But that’s not all there is to “fatness” is it? C.A.F is squishy upon touch, sometimes. She’s also solid other times though. Her flesh is kind of similar to a Non-Newtonian fluid (Add that to the list of terms you know about but have no idea how or why). Whether C.A.F is fat or not, the mystery of it all has left you equally intrigued and embarrassed for some reason.

Lienzo: Are you fat?
C.A.F: WHAT?!
C.A.F: I don’t know
C.A.F: I could be, if I wanted, probably.
C.A.F: Why would you ask that?
Lienzo: I’m looking for fat chicks. Do you know where I can find any?
C.A.F: right….
C.A.F: Is this like an art thing or is this your way of revealing a part of you I didn’t know about to me?
Lienzo: I actually don’t know why I’m asking

Well, your intrusive thought told you it was “to fuck”. But you aren’t really interested in fucking right now, and even if you were, you probably wouldn’t tell C.A.F. On second thought, you probably shouldn’t have asked in the first place.

C.A.F: coool…
C.A.F: OH!
C.A.F: I know!
C.A.F: Ball is pretty round. It can be your fat chick!

Ball do be round but its a bit round that she brought it up. You don’t even know how it would feel to the touch, you always assumed it was incorporeal or something. Not to mention that your mutual friend Ball is neither a chick nor a chuck. Not that it would mind being called a chick though.

batian 2026/01/09(Fri)20:47 No. 1119881 ID: bdfee2
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>>1119795
>What is a primary smeller.

Lienzo: Anyways….
Lienzo: You said something about never dating a primary smeller or something
Lienzo: What even is a primary smeller
C.A.F: Oh damn, that would require me explaining you about the sensory pentatogram

>Then ask if you can do a sensual pentawhatsit anyway.
>You know.
>For funsies.
>>1119810
>what's this potatogram? maybe it'll give you a direction to try out for art

Lienzo: Oh, I was gonna ask about that next anyways.
Lienzo: What is this sexy penitisgraph? And can I do it?
C.A.F: PFFFFFT
C.A.F: Sexy Penitisgraph!?
C.A.F: First the fat thing, then you ask me about smellers after I implied I dated one and now this?
C.A.F: Is this your strange way of flirting with me?
Lienzo: No
C.A.F: Oh, okay, cool.
C.A.F: Really fun way to respond to an obvious joke.
C.A.F: But for the record I wouldn’t mind if you had been.
C.A.F: I would have rejected you immediately because I don’t know you well enough.
C.A.F: But I would have found it to be endearing and remain a friend of yours.
C.A.F: Right…..
C.A.F: So: The Sensory Pentatogram.
C.A.F: Its an alternative measurement to art power level that aims to still focuses to separate a given person’s talents into the different fundamental aspects of art. It is rather arbitrary as it’s 5 pillars are the 5 senses rather than anything particularly artistic.
C.A.F: What a primary smeller is depends on the school of thought that you’re using to measure the sensory Pentatogram but basically it’s someone who’s highest attribute is the smelling one by a significant margin. This way, most people can be classified as a primary type of artist.
C.A.F: Primary smellers are said to be well versed at instinctively understanding art from a distant. They typically don’t care much about engaging further with art or people though, they’re the kind of person to use their instincts to pretend to know what they’re talking about without ever sharing your interests.
Lienzo: Can I get my pentatogram value thingies measured? That will probably help me have a direction in my art journey, right?
C.A.F: Not really but since I’m such a good artist I can just intuit any given person’s art measurements at a glance.
C.A.F: And even if I couldn’t I think you’re one of the most obvious primary lookers I’ve seen. That means your main quality is seeing. Other than that I’ll just tell you your smelling attribute is higher than what I’d like.
C.A.F: Lookers are analytical to a fault and the kind to want to rationalize art. They excel at breaking down techniques into their components. They also tend to be quicker to understand art theory.
Lienzo: Can I do that thing you’re doing of projecting a diagram into air with your bare hands as a looker?
C.A.F: With sufficient training, anyone can do it, but probably not you right now.
C.A.F: No, like I said you’re pentatogram barely matters.
C.A.F: The thing that will give you real direction is finding a medium you feel comfortable creating artwork with. It will also help you do stuff similar to what I did without needing to learn how to project your artsoul directly.

batian 2026/01/09(Fri)20:48 No. 1119882 ID: bdfee2
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Lienzo: One more thing, speaking of lookers, is it normal to feel as if you’re being looked at by an otherwordly presence in a paralyzing way?
C.A.F: ummm..
C.A.F: Not really but that kinda sounds like The Gaze you get from having an audience.
C.A.F: Did you experience this while doing something artsy while someone saw you?
Lienzo: There wasn’t a soul nearby.
C.A.F: Huh?
C.A.F: Otherworldly presence…
C.A.F: I did always tell you you’d be a good artist.
Lienzo: What?
C.A.F: Don’t mind it.
Lienzo: But I do mind it!!
Lienzo: I really don’t like having the sensation that everyone knows something about me and won’t tell me.
C.A.F: But if I told you it would spoil how your story ends and ruin the funnnnn
Lienzo: Fuck that honestly, it’s kinda awful that I feel so lost and everyone gets to snicker behind my back about the secret conclusion to my story.
C.A.F: Chilllll im joking
C.A.F: It’s naive to believe I could know you that well and shape your life like that.
C.A.F: It would be really problematic if I did. But luckily, people can’t simply know the deepest things about others most of the time.
C.A.F: That’s for you to build up and find out over time, it would be impossible for me to know how your story ends.

batian 2026/01/09(Fri)20:49 No. 1119883 ID: bdfee2
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C.A.F: PHEWWWW
C.A.F: You really have a way of making everything awkward.
C.A.F: A part of me wanted to hang out for longer you know.
C.A.F: But if you want to find a medium you should get going.
Lienzo: Oh neat, are those like magic tools that help me do art?
C.A.F: Pretty much.
Lienzo: Is there some kind of medium store where mediums are neatly organized into wooden boxes and I can find the perfect one for me?
C.A.F: Maybe but that’s a really stupid and soulless way to find a medium. Art is supposed to be personal and flexible, not something you can catalog so easily.
C.A.F: I think you should just go to Ball’s swamp, no clue if there’s mediums there but there’s a lot to discover there so probably, right?
C.A.F: There’s this cool thing we can do with The Gaze to travel to your audience and Ball is one of my most loyal followers so there’s a strong connection.

It appears she brought up Ball earlier because she planned to take you to it anyways.

C.A.F: Just get into this zine I’m making and you’ll meet the fat chick you wanted so badd!!!!
C.A.F: BYE LIENZO, LOVE YOUUUU!!!!

batian 2026/01/09(Fri)20:49 No. 1119884 ID: bdfee2
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You are now in a part of the swamp where Ball lives. Problem is you have no idea where to go from here.

How will you proceed?

>>1119884
Go left.

>>1119884
Aw.
I wanted to know if "smell" was a valid medium for art.
Dammit.
Ok.
Go left.
Left is right.

Pick up something to explore its sensual properties.

then go left