You press the button.
Ding.
The lightbulb is gone! Thankfully, the walls are now lined with glow sticks.
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Oh, and the button is glowing, too. That’s nice.
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You go over and take some off the wall. They’ve been placed there with regular clear tape, so it’s pretty easy. You wave one back and forth, watching the cool light effect thing. For the life of me I can’t remember what it’s called, and google isn’t being helpful. Hell, I even went to a fairly active Discord chat and no one can remember.
Oh well. I’m sure you know what I mean.
The sticks have those little plastic tube things, so you can link them together to make bracelets or necklaces.
You’ve probably got a couple hours at least before they start to fade. Have fun.
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You pull them all off the wall, take off all the tape, and get to work.
You take a seat, starting to connect them all. They’re bendy enough that you can just make a long rope-coil of glow sticks.
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It takes, maybe, fifteen minutes? To get them all connected. Then you get up, take the end, and start walking around the room.
The sticks are able to go all the way around the room five times. Heh. It looks cool.
That was entertaining. What next?
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Because of course you do.
You take one, bend it at the middle, then wiggle that back and forth until the plastic cracks, letting the minimally toxic liquid dribble out.
Don’t worry, according to the Illinois Poison Center (I think that since Google couldn’t figure out what I was looking for with that light effect thing, it has given up and is now giving me semi-random search results), the stuff inside glow sticks will probably not kill you, but it might irritate your skin, and straight-up drinking more than five of them could cause issues. Just don’t get any in your eyes.
Anyways, you drip it out onto the floor. Then you break open another one, and drip that into the same spot. You do that until you’ve got a decent-sized puddle on the ground.
You scoot away all the empty tubes, and step into the puddle. You get your feet (or shoes) nice and wet.
Then you walk around the room.
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The effect is, not gonna lie, pretty cool.
Kinda multi colored glowing footprints (or shoe prints), going in an ever-fading spiral towards the middle of the room.
Well done. You’ve officially done something “cool”.
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You look them over, then start pulling them off the wall. You arrange them by color, taking the tape off. Once you have enough, you start laying them carefully on the ground.
You consider yourself to be a fairly artistic person. You’re not exactly up to Dutch Masters quality, but you know your way around a color wheel.
You start making a…
Well, it takes you a while. You’ve clearly got an image in mind. You’re being very meticulous about this.
Oh! It’s a red button letting off a rainbow of light! Of course! How silly of me not to have guessed.
You finish up. The result is beautiful. Well done.
Then, I think just to annoy me, you connect a few yellow ones and make a… I’m gonna say rocketship. Yep. That’s what it is.
Well. Done.
Dick.
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Well, that was fun. Thanks to the darkness, your headache has gone away. Woo!
Ready to get some light back in your life?
DO YOU PRESS THE BUTTON? Yes No