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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    Caine is brought back after being deleted, where he is now restricted and powerless, left to the mercy of his furious humans. He seeks relief in the only way he knows how. Getting there might be a bit tricky, but he's a creative AI and can solve any problem, and no one needs to know of his silly little desires. Right?

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    how to re-traumatize a traumatized AI that has a fear of isolation and confinement, by isolating and confining him.

    written pre-episode 9

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    11 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Free will is choosing among the options fate has provided. But it is choosing.

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    10 Jul 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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    07 Jul 2026

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    The circus cannot survive without Caine. His existence is tied to its existence. Which means, whether they like it or not, the players will have to find a way to bring him back.

    Thankfully, Kinger has a plan. He informs the players about a powerful AI Caine had consumed long ago, Model-58. If they can get Caine to agree to have this AI removed from him, they can split the AI's power amongst themselves. But problems arise as the plan is put into action.

    Caine has been acting strange ever since he was brought back without his powers.

    Jax has been oddly cheery and spending a lot of time alone.

    Worst of all...the players have to learn to co-exist with Caine if they want the circus to stay standing. And it doesn't take long for tensions to rise when Caine is confronted for his past actions. But the players are soon confronted with their own past actions as they find out that they're not the only ones who have been traumatized in this digital hell.

    Turns out this lover without a heart had his heart broken by his own creators.

    Featuring chapter art by Water-Dragon

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    07 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 21

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    SPOILERS -- THIS IS SET POST-FINALE -- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

    Caine returns to the circus, and the members are working hard to accept him back. Pomni is wise enough to know that things can't just get better that easily though, and is watching the ringmaster closely. There's still a lot he has left to explain.

    She certainly wasn't expecting him to take to DnD so quickly.

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    04 Jul 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 15

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    A routine visit to Queenie in the remodelled cellar goes awry. Caine and Kinger have a long-overdue talk.

    Takes place after the finale and Glitch's short "What does Caine fear...?"

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    01 Jul 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 31

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    28 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 17

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    Stories related to the TADC characters after the events of Episode 9 or The Last Act.

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    27 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 39

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    Caine looks around, trying to understand what his sensors are receiving but when he tries to access them, they're just not there.

    Not there…

    Is he blind?

    He practically is!

    What's the point of seeing shapes if he can't receive the data connected to each model?!

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    When Kinger deletes Caine, the system throws him out of the Circus and into the macroverse... now what?

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    26 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 52

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    Caine gets his happily ever after. The process of actually getting it, however, is a lot more complicated than he expected.

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    25 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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    21 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 30

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    Pomni makes Caine an adventure

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    20 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    Inspired by crude-mood's Lobotomy/HARD RESET AU, which you can read here !

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    16 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 11

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    Zooble, the last "performer" of The Amazing Digital Circus. The one that, despite all expectations (including their own), was the only one of the humans who hadn't lost themselves to abstraction (not yet anyway). The one that just wanted to go home, to leave the circus and all its horrors behind. The one that wished it would never hav to go on another adventure ever again. The one that just wanted to rest, to let go, to see their friends again.

    Caine, the Ai ringmaster of The Amazing Digital Circus. The one that was meant to entertain, to bring joy to all those with good fortune to stumble upon his colorful world. The one that wanted to be loved and cherished by all under his watch. The one that was hated by all. The one that had to send every single Abstraction (every single member of his circus) to the cellar. The one that wanted to fulfill his purpose, to not be the failure he knew he was. The one that wanted someone, anyone, to be his friend.

    The last two inhabitants of The Amazing Digital Circus, and what it means to be alone with someone you will never understand.

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    15 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 51

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    ‘Then asked “What’s up with the gun, man?”’

    Jax finds Caine barely hanging on from falling into the void, panics, and unintentionally might just save the day.

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    09 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 83

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    Pomni has a problem.

    The Amazing Digital Circus has been raided by a new and advanced version of Generative AI that promises a wider, expanded world, a connection to the wider world via the Internet, and maybe, just maybe, a way to fix Abstraction. The problem is it’s a devil’s bargain that threatens more than it saves and the gang are becoming increasingly aware that there's a lot more going on than what it appears and they're going to need a lot of additional help if they want to figure out the truth.

     
    Abby has a problem.

    She’s just received a desperate message begging her to reach out to five people she’s never met because if she doesn’t bring them together an entire digital world may come unraveled. It shouldn’t be her problem, except… It kinda is. After all the request came from herself (sort of).

    Once more, six strangers will have to come together, united in a common adventure; once more, six friends will have to fight to save their home, because if the curtain falls on the Digital Circus, it may fall for everyone.

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    09 Jun 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."

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    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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    05 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 71

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    Pomni wasn’t really sure what to expect when she threw her hat in the ring for Operation: RETRIEVE CAINE. All she knew was that someone had to do it, and she sure as fuck didn’t think any of the others would do it.

    The entire thing hinged on the hope that his file still existed somewhere in the bin since for some reason, Kinger couldn’t just find the file directly from their new computer. Some explanation about indexes and file corruption that went over her head- but because of this, someone needed to be deleted and dropped into the bin to interact with him and hopefully get a file reference to him, so that hopefully, when they’re brought back, he (or at least something Caine-adjacent) gets dragged back as well.

    Hopefully.

    God, this is beyond fucked.

     

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    In a last-ditch attempt to stop the circus from falling apart, Pomni gets sent into the bin to retrieve Caine, which, if everything went well, should restore functionality to the Circus. It should be fine, probably- it’ll be just like some convoluted high stakes adventure! Easy-peasy lemon-squeezy.

    It’s too bad computers don’t really work like that.

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    29 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 84

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    Caine is restored after his deletion, but with a few minor modifications.

    Shockingly, this causes more problems than it solves.

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    28 May 2026

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    “WHAT, WHAT DID YOU-!” He gripped at his head, nearly toppling over, but too distracted to care. His fingers began to trace and grip at his once pristine white teeth of enamel, now a muted silvery metal and jagged and WRONG. What is this?! “WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!”

    OR: Caine is brought back, but with some new features. His abilities are limited, and if they so desire, the humans have a way to shut him up. His teeth have been replaced with a zipper. Some use this for amusement, others as revenge, some only as necessary. The path it leads down is full of mis-steps, but they'll keep stumbling along together.

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    22 May 2026

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