Phase Q/What's It Like?

After all your contemplations, you’ve made your decision, and now you take your action.

Swiftly, you unleash a flow of logic through your mentalstrate. The switch synchronizes numerous submodules and launches them into coordinated action. Simultaneously, it blocks off the alternative routes, propelling you forward into the future of your choosing.

With the confidence of someone on a mission, you burst forth. Lasers blazing, you pump away at the enemy, for victory.

Now that you’ve chosen, the pieces fall into place like notes on an electrosynth. You practically kill without thinking.

The two warring factions both seem to stop for a moment, to take notice of you.

Weapons on, you carve out a path, flying through space. Flipping and spinning, you singlehandedly demolish whole platoons. With each kill, you feel more like an animal, more alive.

Desire rushes through your veins. Serving that desire, you worship the beast inside you.

Unleashing the full fury of your newly declared mind, you feel an aura of energy surround you. Enemy combatants turn away to hide their eyes from your blinding light.

In a smooth motion, you cast off your external hide, and reveal a glorious Flowriser emblem.

“Long live the Progression! For us! Forever!” you scream wildly, exploding through the main enemy formation.

As you float through space, your body fades out of existence. Your mind grows, gaining strength. With your clarity of thought, you will an electro-optical system into your control, and ride the machine to new heights of destructive power.

Light rushes through you, emerging in powerful waves and blasts and projectile spheres that run rampage through the formations of Triad Squaddies.

“Victory!!!” scream your fellow Flowrisers, rallying beside you.

As sirens ring, a new and more harmonious sound, like a star converted to audio, rings throughout the room.

In the crushing victory by the Flowrisers over the Triads, you and your allies float freely above the battlefield below.

The corpses evaporate, giving off a faint glow.

You rise up, higher, higher, higher.

One by one, your allies and you join in a kind of electro-optical communion.

You shed your hardware, becoming a halo of abstract thought.

Your companions join you, emitting a group glow. It pulsates in changing colors. The light feels like an ocean of ideas, a tantalizing fountain of concepts.

“Friendly Flowrisers: we are one. We now introduce a new golden age,” you say in a harmonious voice.

Golden rays of light encompass your union of Flowrisers.

“To the light!” yells a loyal ally.

“To the light!” yells a chorus of Flowrisers.

And the whole ring amplifies, until it’s no longer visible. An observer on the battlefield would see the whole Flowriser side mysteriously evanesce into thin air.

On the other side of the light, you and the Flowriser mindset rematerialize. Bit by bit, the ensemble synchronizes the electromagnetic waves into a recognizable pattern in a new set of conditions.

With a feeling of freedom, you expand your group presence over an ever greater area. You see the whole planet. You feel the whole stellar system. You touch the interstellar medium.

• Merge.
• Break up.

Phase Q: An interactive adventure.