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    24 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 49

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    After his breakdown, Caine has to grapple with his new reality. Her new reality? Theirs? It's...difficult. After all, once an AI always an AI. Right?

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    23 Jun 2026

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    SET AFTER EPISODE 9

    Caine is back, and he's working to make amends for everything he did. But the others have started to notice some strange behaviors from the resident AI, and they'll need to work together to figure out the cause.

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    5 times the circus crew stumble across caine's unconscious avatar, and the 1 time they band together to do something about it.

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    20 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 87

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    17 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    09 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 87

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    After the whole 'the exit was just an adventure' fiasco, Caine has a crashout over how his humans see and treat him. Instead of realizing he's the god of this digital world, however, Caine chooses a different path: to walk a mile in their shoes to see what their issues are first-hand. He comes up with an alter-ego: C.A.M.I.E., or Caine's Anonymous Mascot Imitation Experiment! Now, he just needs to pop into the circus as a newbie and see how the others react to 'her' and look into his all-too-human issue.

    Note: Zooble x Gangle is canon but not really a focus. I just think they're cute.

    There will be art in this, including Camie's design!

    We're all coping with episode 8 in our own ways, huh?

    Major thanks to my editor https://toyhou.se/TomaSyri !!

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    23 May 2026

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    After weeks of trying and failing to fix the Circus, or at least make it livable, Kinger convinces the others to let him pull Caine from the recycle bin and have him fix their world.

    There's just one problem: Caine doesn't want to come back.

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    01 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 34

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    Caine somehow dragged himself out of quarantine and back into the Circus with a tag-along. The humans are terrified – what are they suppose to do with two AI programs?

    But Abel is nothing like Caine. Efficient, quiet, curious, and a surprisingly good listener. He apologizes when he misunderstands and promises to let them do as they please, stepping in only when requested or needed. He cannot tell them what happened to the Circus to turn it into this hell, but Abel tries to his best to soothe over the wounds that his predecessor left. It’s the safest everyone* has felt in a long, long time.

    *Caine not included, but who even noticed?

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    29 Apr 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 27

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    Caine has had enough of these humans. Complaining about his adventures, always asking for more, never appreciating what he does for him… Well, he’ll show them something to really complain about. Then they’ll see. They’ll respect him and they’ll love him. But he’s not going to hurt them, of course. He would never hurt his humans! Hurting them goes against all his goals, goes against his entire purpose. Only a failure of an AI would stoop so low. And he is not a failure. He is not a failure.

    Each chapter of this fic focuses on a different human as Caine gives each of them their own one-person adventures. Adventures include painting, truck driving, being crushed, and more! How fun!

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    25 Apr 2026

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    Caine already knows it's status. He still received all the error reports, despite being unable to fix anything. Seeing it shouldn't make it feel worse, but it somehow still does.

    His beautiful circus - his wonderful creation full of colour and noise and fun - is dull. The brilliant reds and yellows are dim reflections of themselves, and the entire map has a lower saturation than it should. There's large tears in the hitboxes of the walls, floors and ceiling, dropping into out-of-bounds areas that players shouldn't be able to see, let alone access. The gentle hum of background noise he keeps up for the daylight hours is gone, and everything is quiet except from the shuffles from the humans.

    Talking of his humans, they're all there too, tense, standing a decent ways back from him.

    "Oh great." Jax growls, "He was actually down there."

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    Despite being freed from his box, his performers still haven't reconnected him with the circus's main systems.
    Caine's very being is entangled with the circus, and being cut off from the majority of himself is so disorienting he can barely focus on the glares his cast is giving him.

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    21 Apr 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 40

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    This is merely a series of oneshots following the main story using the humans perspectives.

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    20 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 39

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    After Caine was deleted, Kinger brings him back from the recycling bin with the glitched autosave. After the cast begins to question Caine on his reasoning, Caine panics and reuses the autosave, creating a time loop (of sorts). After that... well you'll have to find out.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Kinger mumbles an affirmative under his breath. The sound of scratching on paper grabs Caine's attention, only just noticing the notepad in the other's hand. He watches the pencil dance across the paper, slightly entranced by the movement, until it stops and Kinger's attention is back on him. "Alright. What's the last thing you remember?"

    Nothingness. The absence of himself. A moment that never existed, yet he knows the time passed, so something has to be there. Even if it isn't. Even if he wasn't. He thinks this, and comes up with a response that makes sense with the context he has in his mind. He doesn't compute how it will come across when all he has to say is:

    "Nothing."

    OR:

    Caine is dead. Then, he isn't. Not because the humans wanted to see him again, not because they felt bad, but because the circus couldn't survive without him. To top it all off, he was only brought back to begin with thanks to one teeny, tiny little condition:

    He can no longer use his powers.

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    17 Apr 2026

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    It's a stage.

    It's hard to tell in its dilapidated state. But he knows, instinctively, that he stands on a stage. Hardwood. Shining, once upon a time, he thinks. It's solid beneath his feet.

    He taps a foot against it. He receives feedback; pressure against his sole, an audible clack in the air.

    What a strange sensation.

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    A desperate act to save the circus leads to a haphazard reconstruction of Caine's corrupted code. But something is wrong. Now powerless and flooded with memories that do not belong to him, Caine believes he's another human.

    But if Caine thinks he's a human, and the players are busy trying to stop the circus from complete self-destruction, then who's the one running the show?

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    17 Apr 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 72

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    Humanity.

    Its a tricky thing to define.

    Is one a human if they believe themselves to be? Are they born a human? But most importantly? Is someone truly a human if everyone around them doesn't believe them to be?

    ...

    Caine is a human. He has all the memories. All the knowledge. Caine is a human. He only wishes other people would notice. He's too far into it now and honestly? Its exhausting.

    Which is why he's only slightly surprised when someone notices.

    (Written & planned before episode 9.)

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    16 Apr 2026

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    After the events of the Escape The Circus test/adventure, the troupe are understandably angry with Caine. Caine, desperate to not be left behind, tells them he'll do anything for them.
    They don't find out how far he'll go until it's too late.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    Caine was deleted, but his backups are still stored in the circus. Kinger finds them and loads the most recent one, only to find out it’s from over 20 years ago when a young Caine was still locked in the box.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    There was a problem. An issue, a minor error. Something in the code that clearly wasn't working correctly.

    What if after the events of episode 7, Caine decides that the players unhappiness and general issues with the circus are his fault, and he goes about fixing that in the worst way possible.

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    14 Apr 2026

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    “Caine?” Pomni asked again. The orb drifted up and down in a nod. “How do I know it’s you? Why do you look so…” Small, weird, different. She’d been anticipating seeing a Caine clawing at the walls, or crying, or yelling. How ever she imagined finding Caine, he looked like, well, Caine. Not this.

    oOo

    The plan was simple: undelete Caine, get the Circus back up and running, and place some restrictions so Caine couldn't mess with them.

    Unfortunately, Caine and the Circus are a little more complicated than meets the eye.

    (Updates every three-four days (hopefully))

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    14 Apr 2026

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    Caine get trapped in his box prison (think episode 8 intro) after he gets 'deleted' and is rightfully traumatised

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    12 Apr 2026

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