Pie Writes

Pie Writes is a Twitter-based Slenderverse-adjacent ARG.

Setting
The cult is from an alternate universe version of our Earth. All humans were turned into Non-ferals (walking civilized animals with modern technology) while ferals remained wild animals in the same way they are on our Earth. It has all of the modern features and technology of our Earth, but it’s run by animal people who wear clothes and speak English (and other languages). They are currently in 2015 while we are in 2022.

Plot
Players are called the risen.

Julian lives in a family cult and invented a system called Datrrs. D.A.T.R.R.S. stands for Divulgaric Anomaly Transmission Receiver Radar System. A transmitor collects data from in the house and formats the data into text or images through a pylon. This data is relayed to Twitter over at @pie_writes. The data displays one person's thoughts at a time with the № prefix. Only people who have come in contact with divulgar blood before can communicate to the risen using Datrrs. The risen's interactions are relayed back telepathically. Risen can also interact with the bot's command system by using the / prefix.

How to pause the game
Characters may try to initiate interactions once a day if DATRRS is online but if no one responds, the game remains paused until someone responds.

How to become a new player
All you need to know to start playing is on this page. From here, you can learn about the characters by meeting them as you play rather than reading over a hundred pages worth of history. But all of the history is still available in the links section of the InfoBox.

YouTube webcode
Very often, a string of 11 alphanumeric characters plus sometimes underscores and hyphens will be posted on DATRRS. This is called Youtube webcode and to use it, copy and paste it after the watch?v= in the full URL or after https://youtu.be/. If the webcode is linked to a character through DATRRS, they will hear the sound or the video in their mind.

Music
Music is a big part of the game. Sometimes a certain lyric or two is important, sometimes the general theme of the song is important, and sometimes there are puzzles that come from the songs chosen.

Altering
This is the divulgars’ special ability. It’s basically a way to alter, or change, reality however they see fit. It requires intense focus and can cause some divulgars to go insane. Some human divulgars, like Lock for example, can attempt it as well, but it doesn’t work so well. For example, she tried to alter a cupcake into a cookie but unfortunately it just turned the frosting from white to pink and it tasted like chemicals.

Altering can also affect your appearance. Someone who has divulgar blood can become a full divulgar if they’re able to Alter well enough. Torva Messor achieved this on her first attempt, but Pie couldn’t do it after 38 tries. It made him really sick. Even so, he gained a really cool tail and a bunch of height.

The Language of Torva
Torva Messor and sometimes others in 2014 speak in a special language that is basically just alphabet substitution using a special cipherkey alphabet. To translate, simply visit Cryptii, look for “Alphabetical Substitution”, set it to decode and where it says “ciphertext alphabet”, replace it with +ᴕzwɂrⱶeniƕsuoϵxmcᵾκøvöflh

Divulgaric Language
Most divulgars and sometimes Oliver in 2013 speak in a special language that is basically just alphabet substitution using a special cipherkey alphanet. To translate, simply visit Cryptii, look for “Alphabetical Substitution”, set it to decode, and where it says “ciphertext alphabet, replace it with uøzκeamitænvwœxl‹s›roch⌅℩⌆

Hadalese/Xolotlic Language
Hadal divulgars speak in a special language that is basically just alphabet substitution using a special cipherkey alphabet. To translate, simply visit Cryptii, look for “Alphabetical Substitution”, set it to decode, and where it says “ciphertext alphabet, replace it with eчnzκaιεsαıvωmғυнлoxcσwrτв

Characters
Because character bios and statuses are constantly changing, the players found it easier to just make a spreadsheet with every character, both living and dead, and categorize their genders, family roles, favorite colors, and much more. The character sheet can be found in the Infobox.

Hectic
Lock’s graphic novel Hectic is confirmed to be connected to PieWrites. Lock says that because of her divulgar blood, she wouldn’t be surprised if it were influencing the comic itself, and it shows with a lot of the characters being shared between both comic and PieWrites, alongside many shared names, locations, and game mechanics as well!

Treatments
Treatments are small controlled injections of divulgar blood in an attempt to cure a birth defect, from henceforth referred to as an affliction. Over-treatments are overdoses of divulgar blood to the point the body begins reproducing the divulgar blood on its own, and in some cases, the body becomes physically distorted. Obey and you get rewarded with a cure for your afflictions. Disobey and you get punished with an overdose and potentially more defects.

Corrections
When a family member is becoming disobedient, they are sent to corrections. Corrections begin in a blue room where another cult member uses violence with their bare hands or sometimes knives to make them associate pain with the color blue. When the punished is unable to respond, or when the Corrections officer decides they have had enough, they are moved to solitary confinement in an orange room so they associate orange with comfort. While in the orange room, an intercom will constantly talk about how good the color orange is until the correction is over and are returned to their designated floor. Orange is the color of the Pure’s eyes while blue is orange’s complementary color, representing the opposite of what the cult wants.

Titles

 * Pure / Impure - If one’s parents were both silver foxes, then they are considered Pure. All pures have grey fur and orange eyes. If not, then they’re considered Impure.
 * Broken / Unbroken - If one has any noticeable afflictions, then they are considered Broken. If not, then they’re considered Unbroken.
 * Saints - The Saints are the rulers of the cult and must be Unbroken Pure.
 * Betrayers / Clean betrayers / Coated betrayers - Betrayers are those that betray the family and are given an over-treatment of divulgar blood as punishment. Clean betrayers are betrayers that no longer have divulgar blood in their body whether their body rejected it or by a blood transfusion with regular blood. Coated betrayers are betrayers that have received a tattoo of the coat of arms of the divulgaric for being helpful to the cult and are seen as just below the Saints.

Cult House Floors
The cult house has 3 floors, a basement, and an attic. The house is on a massive man-made floating island of trash in the bermuda triangle, and is a continent called the New Atlantic. The house in the state of Berwick and the town of Greywood.


 * The BSMT - The basement is home to the pure broken who will receive small treatments if obedient. When successfully treated, they can move to F3.
 * F1 - Floor 1 is home to the impure. They are allowed to leave the building as they wish but must return at night.
 * F2 - Floor 2 is home to the Saints who are selected from F3 by other Saints. The Saints administers treatments to the BSMT, and corrects F3.
 * F3 - Floor 3 is home to the pure unbroken who assist the Saints and administer corrections to those on BSMT and F1.
 * Attic - The attic is home to betrayers. Subdued and coated betrayers are allowed to free roam all floors.

Cult's Inception
The first family to live in the house was 500 years ago and is represented with a weasel, dog, raven, and rabbit for symbolism. A weasel for enemies, a dog for loyalty, a raven for death, and a rabbit for a cure. They died of an unpredictable fatal inherited disease represented by the weasel. The Family was friends of the Moore family represented by the loyal dog. The Moore Family agrees to hold an annual funeral for the first family represented by the raven. The Moore Family becomes a pure bloodline and a cult in an attempt to make a world where all diseases can be predicted and cured represented by the rabbit. The cult moves into the first family’s house, the current cult house.

Hybridization
Non-ferals can either be of one species, like the pure silver foxes found in the family, or more commonly as hybrids. Hybrids are the offspring of two non-feral species. When looking at someone you can often tell which species was the mother and which was the father. The mother generally gives the majority of their offsprings’ genetics. The father, on the other hand, gives their offspring a smaller trait. For example, if a malamute mother and an eagle father give birth to a child, that child will most likely be mostly malamute with maybe some feathers on it.

Crossovers

 * Relived Eternally
 * Rhee's Rapture
 * DiesIraeHotel
 * REM Sleep
 * Cole Genesone
 * HycinthBunny
 * Emotional Council
 * Diary of the Damned
 * Cavalcade of the Black Feather (Recollect)
 * 2FreeEnigma
 * The Twelve Labors
 * I Could Make You Care
 * LostHelpNeed
 * Be Mike's Mind