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Walkthrough
**Note: I have added [TODO:]'s below which are just reminders to add revisions I intend to make to make the game more accessible and explicit in its tutorialization
The game starts with an alert letting the user know to use Firefox browser (see why ).
The title The Undernet animates in. Click anywhere on the page to advance. It now displays a basketball hoop with the 'the' from the title underneath it. This is meant to be a translation of the title, 'the' under a 'net'. The words 'Press F12' are written in this image, which prompts the user to open the developer tools. If nothing happens when you hit 'F12', consult this guide. [TODO: be more explicit about what keys to press to open the game/perhaps add an alert after inactivity?]
In the console panel, Clippy's brain can be found. It offers assistance and explains that clicking on the main web page will further narrative as well as prompt Clippy's brain to offer more tips.
On the main page we see a door - Clippit's room (Clippit is Clippy's full name - Clippy was always a nickname). If the door is clicked on, an alert displays that says that Clippy can't hear you because of the loud vaporwave music she's blasting - we'll have to find another way into the room.
The narrative below sets the scene: it's 2021 and Microsoft recently announced the return of Clippy tweeting that they would bring her back if the tweet were to get 20000 likes (which it did). The story here is that Clippy saw this tweet and got really excited about returning and being needed again. But (and this actually happened) it turns out that what her return looked like in reality was introducing a Clippy 'emoji' into Microsoft teams.
With enough clicks, Clippy's brain reveals that the password is "chelseamanning()" - this must be typed into the console and on pressing enter, we'll be inside the room.
We arrive to find Clippy in a minimal room, just a bed and a window. Clippy immediately asks you for help - to retrieve the dildo from under her bed. This prompts the user to edit the CSS styling of an element to move the dildo above the bed. To do this - click on the 'select element' button (it's on the top left corner of the developer tools) and click on the dildo to view its attributes. Clippy's brain instructs to change the 'bottom' value to 25%. This can be done by clicking on the original value (0%) and typing in '25%, or clicking on the 0% and using the up arrow key to adjust it incrementally. Upon successfully doing so, we see Clippy using the dildo.
Upon click we learn that the dildo is unsatisfactory to Clippy. She decides to find someone on Grindr - saying she needs a dom to tell her what to do. This is a reference to the DOM - document object model - the structure of the web document - but a play on how in this universe Clippy wants someone to help her instead of having to be the one of service.
She asks you to log into her old Grindr account. Clippy's brain tells you the login details are super secret and not stored there but can be found in the inspector panel, in the DOM tree. Upon navigating to the inspector panel we find the login details are username: "[email protected]" and password "seekingdom69". These are then to be typed into the input box on the screen and upon pressing submit Clippy is logged into Grindr. Note, you can click on the little downward facing arrows in the inspector to view collapsed code [TODO: add this hint to game].
Clippy's grindr profile is getting lots of hits because she hasn't been on Grindr in ages. Very quickly, she finds someone who wants to come over. She says they sound quite nerdy but that they're really close by, only a hyperlink away. They arrive almost immediately and ring the doorbell - we are tasked with unlocking the door. This time, Clippy's brain doesn't have the unlock code. If we type the old one in the console we see that this password has expired. Instead, we are told we must navigate to the Netowork panel where a network request has been sent - to view it, click on the request and then on the 'response' tab to find the new password. We progress upon entering the new password, "kasdjfasdfj()", into Clippy's brain.
The Internet Explorer arrives on an e-bike which Clippy remarks on. [TODO: add to narrative that IE is lying about not being a delivery boy - that they've had to take on side work because they're not being used much anymore.] They have a heart-to-heart about being replaced at their jobs. The Internet Explorer starts saying something and Clippy cuts them off - tells you to get some chocolate-covered strawberries to make the mood more romantic. Clippy then starts speaking to the internet explorer thinking that you've left. She reveals that she was just using you to get the Internet Explorer into the room and that they know each other quite well, that they've been plotting something (although they did originally meet on Grindr). All of this narrative is advanced on click.
We are told that the strawberries were left close to the cookies. We learn from Clippy's Brain that the cookies can be found in the storage panel. Upon navigating to the cookie 'strawberry' we must change the value to a value greater than zero, to spawn a number of strawberries of our choosing. To change the value, simply double click on the cookie value and enter a new one. [TODO: add a note about a double-click]
Once the strawberries are spawned on the screen, Clippy asks us to fix the mood of the lighting by turning off the fluorescent lights. We should now know that she's trying to get us out of earshot again. This requires us to go back to the inspector panel and delete the 'fluorescent lights' node. This node is located within the main
tag, under the game-box container, towards the bottom. To delete it, right click on it and select 'delete node'.Deleting the lights causes the colors on the screen to change. We encounter Clippy and the Internet Explorer having sex and exchanging dialogue not noticing our 'return'. Clippy then realizes we're in 'earshot' and tries to alert the Internet Explorer who alas reveals that the scheme they've been plotting is one to overthrow Microsoft. Clippy tells you it's time to leave.
We are redirected to two websites: an Amazon page to a erotic fiction about Clippy and a list of 2023 tech layoffs of major corporations.
[TODO: add tutorial about refreshing game if it breaks Add state to restore game to where the user left off on reload (and give a choice to restart or keep progress)]