Staring at the ceiling of the World's Largest Laundromat, you notice a [[pipe]], interjecting from above, confident yet humble.
Out the window behind you, cars trudge along Cermak, their tires rotating at about the speed of a delicate cycle.
(display: "Timer")
{(live: 1s)[
(if: $timer is 0)[
(stop:)
(goto:"Laundry Done")
]
(set: $timer to it - 1)
Your laundry should be done in around $timer seconds.
]
}
A piercing buzz interrupts you.
[[Your clothes are clean.->Start]]
basic code for timer
(set: $timer to 30)
{(live: 1s)[
(if: $timer is 0)[
(stop:)
(goto:"Laundry Done")
]
(set: $timer to it - 1)
Your laundry should be done in around $timer seconds.
]
}
(set: $timer to 1800)
"You change something that’s pure drudgery — doing laundry — into something that’s enjoyable."
- Interact with laundromat patrons
- really boring people
- nice people
- evil people
- laundromat shaman
- Invade laundromat staff
- cenote beneath the laundromat where ruined laundry is sacrificed to appease the detergent gods
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THE FIRE OF 2004
{(live: 1s)[
(if: $timer2 is 0)[
(stop:)
(goto:"Dryer Done")
]
(set: $timer2 to it - 1)
Your clothes should be dry in around $timer2 seconds.
]
}
The pipe is useless, its spout leading nowhere but towards the floor, yet is seemingly integral to the laundromat, disappearing into the drywall to fulfill a structural servitude.
Divorced from its original purpose, the vestigial pipe stares back at you from its [[perch]].
(display: "Timer")
The longer you stare at this pipe on the ceiling of the World's Largest Laundromat, the crazier you feel.
The laundromat's three-hundred and one machines shake and pound against the floor, you can barely [[hear yourself]] think.
Without your phone, you're left to your own thoughts.
The pipe, however, [[beckons to hear them->pipe secrets]].
(put: (prompt: "Tell me a secret.") into $pipesecret)
You stand on your tiptoes, as close to the pipe as you can, and whisper to it something you'd only tell your closest friends.
You return to the [[floor->pipesecret2]], regretting looking like an idiot talking to a pipe.
(display: "Timer")
After this long, you're not sure if you're capable of opening up anymore.
Not even the pipe knows [[how you feel]].
(put: (prompt: "How do you feel?") into $pipesecret2)
It's not easy, it never is.
But you wrench yourself open a little more, and tell the ceiling pipe how you're feeling.
This time, the pipe seems [[a little more satisfied]].
(put: (prompt: "How do you really feel? There's no one listening but me.") into $pipesecret3)
Your truths melt into the air, caught and dispersed into the effervescent hum of the laundromat.
[[Keep going.->Keepgoing1]]
[[This is pointless. You're not even listening.]]
(put: (prompt: "It's alright. No one can hear you.") into $pipesecret4)
Elderly patrons pass you by, paying you no notice.
[[Keep going.]]
*Maybe it is pointless,
maybe that's ok.
You said, "$pipesecret3", and it's [[worth saying->Keepgoing1]] that.*
(put: (prompt: "I'm here to listen.") into $pipesecret5)
Dryers whir and drone.
[[Keep going.->Keepgoing2]]
(put: (prompt: "Be honest with yourself.") into $pipesecret6)
[[Keep going->Keepgoing3]]
[[This is stupid.]]
[[(prompt: "")->Keepgoing5]]
(display: "Timer")
*It doesn't matter. When you set them free, they're not gone, but they're out. And that's better.
When you tell me: "$pipesecret5", you don't have to carry that anymore, not all of it at least.
I can carry it for you.*
[[Ok.->Keepgoing3]]
(put: (prompt: "I'm just going to listen.") into $pipesecret7)
The sloshing water of the washers around you goes in and out, gentle waves.
[[Keep going->Keepgoing4]]
[[(prompt: "Just talk, and hear yourself.")->Keepgoing5]]
(display:"Timer")