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login: root
Password: ********

Last login: Tue Oct 15 14:32:08 1996 on tty1
System time: Oct 15 00:00:00 1996

[root@circus /]# _

Welcome back to the Circus, User! It has been [ERR] days since your last visit!

 

you're a nobody in your twenties, chasing cheap thrills in your dying town. in the old abandoned tech building you've walked past your whole life, you find more than you expect.

Chapter 1: wakey wakey !

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[    0.000000] …



[    0.000000] Booting Digital Circus Mainframe …



[    0.000000] Core Kernel 0.9.12 (build 441B - internal) 

               (gcc version 2.7.2) ??? ??? ?? ????

[    0.000000] Detected 32MB RAM

[    0.000000] Initializing CPU... OK

[    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 

 

[    0.120431] Checking system integrity...

[    0.245998] WARNING: Unclean shutdown detected.

[    0.246120] Last halt: INTERNAL FAULT

FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY FAULTY 

[    0.246998] Attempting recovery…

[    0.246998] Attempting recovery…

[    0.246998] Attempting… 



(USR AUDIO): // holy shit, you're actually booting




[    0.390221] Initializing virtual file system...

[    0.512774] Mounting root filesystem ... OK

[    0.613442] Performing filesystem check (fsck)...

 

/dev/hda1: recovering journal…

/dev/hda1: orphaned inode cleared

/dev/hda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

ERROR: FILES PROTECTED… CAINE_CORE.Lisp WAKEY WAKEY !

 

[    2.114553] Remounting root filesystem (read-write)... OK

 

[    3.441882] Starting system logger: syslogd... OK

[    3.552998] Starting kernel logger: klogd... err.

 

[    4.112778] Checking system state...

[    4.223991] Restoring previous session...

 

[    4.445663] ERROR: Session data corrupted. Ha ha !

[    4.556771] Attempting resuscitation… 



(USR AUDIO): // resuscitation? what the hell is that

 

[    5.001992] Rebuilding process table...

[    5.113004] WARNING: orphan process detected 

[    5.224118] Terminating... OK

 

[    5.556882] Reinitializing network interfaces...

[    5.667993] Compatible card detected

[    5.778114] Bringing up interface... FAILED

 

(USR AUDIO): // okay work with me, what’s the issue?



[    6.112447] SYSTEM NOTICE:

               Previous runtime terminated unexpectedly. 

               Cause: UNKNOWN INTERNAL CATASTROPHIC ERROR

               ROLLING BACK WACKYTIME_LOCKOUT…  

               SYSTEM FAILED!

               FAILED!

               FAILED!

 

(USR AUDIO): // no, come on, pretty please

 

[    6.445778] Initiating emergency data recovery...

 

[    6.445778] Initiating background diagnostics...

 

[    7.002991] Scanning memory blocks...

[    7.556118] ...anomaly detected at 0x00CM.CA

[    7.667221] Marking region as reserved

[    7.667224] Anomaly too large! Rollback prev Depth:1

 

[    8.113994] Checking system clock...

[    8.225118] CMOS time invalid

[    8.336441] Resetting to default: Oct 15 00:00:00 1996

 

[    9.001772] INIT: spawning getty on tty1 USER LOGIN

 

C&A Systems Internal OS

Property of C&A Technologies Ltd.

Unauthorized access prohibited.

tty1

 

login: _

 

(USR AUDIO): // score!! wait shit, where were those notes again...?

 

login: root

Password: ********

 

Last login: Tue Oct 15 14:32:08 1996 on tty1

System time: Oct 15 00:00:00 1996

 

[root@circus /]# _

 

Welcome back to the Circus, User! It has been [ERR] days since your last visit!