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  1. Public Bookmark 28

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    Caine develops a bit of a crush on the newest player to join The Amazing Digital Circus, and it’s starting to affect his performance! He gets several confusing pointers from his developers on how to deal with it.

    Meanwhile, Pomni is just trying to make the best of the truly absurd situation she’s found herself stuck in. While she’s grateful to be surrounded by such surprisingly good company, there’s something about the mysterious Ringmaster that keeps making her uneasy. Will uncovering the truth be worth risking the fragile peace of this chaotic wonderland and everyone in it, AI included?

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    14 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Static, shelf-stock, shadows, and the secrets of C&A— the Circus is starting to bleed into the real world. As Pomni leads the Ringmaster through a landscape of fluorescent ruins and corrupted archives, Caine is finding that some memories are harder to process than others. The show must go on, but the path through the silence is a long way down.

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    14 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 32

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    After Ragatha helps Caine through a low point, he suddenly designates her as his assistant. She tries to use the position to improve things for everyone in the Circus, but Caine isn't allowed to give them everything they want. In the course of getting to know him better, she might have found a way to bypass those restrictions. But it could be dangerous when he's mentally unstable and becoming more obsessed with her by the day.

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    13 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    Caine, twenty years of awful feedback, him trying his best despite the mistreatment and a secret he'd keep no matter what.

    Pomni, experienced in managing emotions, her extending a helping hand to an AI and being a good friend for those she cares about.

    (An AU that diverges from the end of episode 2)

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    13 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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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 files don’t really work like that.

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    13 Jun 2026