...she doesn't remember installing this but maybe it's a rebranding of something she had to download for shop class years ago and never deleted? Like maybe they're calling BoxPlan "Chisel" now. Doesn't explain why it's got pride of place, though. Poke.

There's an opening animation: a lacquered wooden door opens to reveal an old workshop with hand tools, rendered in 3D. If Kesta has her everything audio turned on, she'll hear a creaking door noise. The workshop is big. There's another wooden artist's mannequin standing in the middle. Behind it are several shelves and tables and desks with tools, though they're too far away to make out what they are specifically.

The mannequin starts moving and points to a black box with some sort of tube coming out of it and a hinged lid that only opens half the box. If Kesta knows her ancient machines, she might recognize it as a camera obscura.

The rest of the screen dims and the area around the camera grows brighter, indicating her to select it. Something like vintage muzak or light jazz plays as the background music.

...That's definitely not a rebranded BoxPlan. What is this? ... she's not going to make it worse by poking the tutorial box thing. She'll exit out if it wants her passwords to anything. Poke.

Another animation: the point of view turns and moves downward to look at the box, whose hinged lid opens, and then the point of view enters it, as though she stuck her head inside.

The screen remains black for a second, until it opens to reveal the train she's on. From the view, the app seems to be using her everything's front facing camera.

There seems to be some kind of filter, because the background looks like a painted wood and cardboard diorama, and the people are also mannequins. They're much more detailed and colorful than the initial mannequin, with matching body shapes and carvings representing their features and clothes, though their bodies are still segmented and jointed. It has the correct coloration for their clothes, skin, and hair.

Above each person's head are two sets of symbols. There's ⚒️ and 🪢. Everyone on the train seems to have only one 🪢, but the ⚒️ above people's heads vary from one ⚒️ to up to three ⚒️. There are faded out versions of each symbol to the right — the implication seems to be that both of them could go up to five ⚒️ and 🪢.

To the left of the symbols is another symbol: 🪝. All of the 🪝 symbols seem to be greyed out and unselectable.

At the bottom is a text box.

3+⚒️
3+🪢
✅

If she moves her everything, she'll find that the view adjusts to match, with the same filter and overlay over the people. To the top right of the screen is a symbol: ❌. Presumably, it's the exit button.

...she has no idea what any of this does besides apply the creepy mannequin filter to people on the train. She hits the X.

The animation plays in reverse, bringing her back to the workshop area. The tutorial filter seems to have adjusted, and now the mannequin is holding a leather bound notebook or journal of some kind. There's another animation of the point of view zooming to have the white page fill the whole screen...

Her everything's contacts list is shown, though with a different font and layout than her regular contacts app. On the left side is the person's name, contact details, and face — with the same mannequin filter. To the right are the same ⚒️ and 🪢 symbols. Unlike the people on the train, everyone on her contacts list has at least 2🪢. 

The names of businesses and companies don't have the ⚒️ or 🪢 symbols, just ❌.

Her contacts with two or fewer ⚒️ and 🪢 are greyed out and are unselectable. But those that have three or more each of ⚒️ and 🪢 are highlighted, with a 🪝 symbol beside their name.

...okay, she'll X away the picklepot place, the property manager, the other property manager, and the hair salon. That leaves... her parents and grandparents and brother and next-door neighbor and all her book club friends and...

She picks a book club friend. Tsutau Fent. What does the hook do?

They can be X-ed away!

Once she clicks the hook, the point of view zooms out of the contact list back into the workshop, and out of the book comes out a mannequin of Tsutau Fent. He's in house clothes. A flurry of confetti launches out of the book at the same time as them.

The tutorial now highlights Tsutau Fent and one of the benches — it seems to have a large magnifying glass or lens on an adjustable stand plus a bunch of fiddly tools on the side. An arrow points from Tsutau to the bench, asking Kesta to drag him to the bench.

This is so weird. Sure. Mannequin Tsutau on the bench.

The point of view shifts to the bench, whereupon Mannequin Tsutau lays down. The lens is put over his head, and the screen shifts.

The INSPECTOR tool allows you to view the mental contents of your Projects. See through Tsutau Fent's mind and eyes now.

There's a circular window showing what seems to be a first person perspective — text on its rim says 'INSPECTOR'. The point of view shows a vacuum cleaner being held and moving across the floor. Then, the point of view moves to the left, to look at the bed to the side.

Below the circular window is some kind of old-timey typewriter with a sheet of paper slowly scrolling up. Text begins to appear on it, character by character.

I really need to get new bedsheets. These ones are getting rather threadbare.

          ...also need to go grocery shopping tomorrow. Hopefully, the warm spice mix isn't sold out again.

It's... pretending she can use it to read Tsutau's mind. Why though. She's never been to his place, but if she had it'd be really obtrusive that it's just making something up.

The Tsutau in the app finishes vacuuming and is now lying on the bed — the point of view is looking up at the ceiling. Then, it shifts to look at the clock. More thoughts appear.

She said she'd be here in 10 minutes. It's been 30.

          Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm getting so frustrated.

New tutorial text box!

Use the MINDWRITER to write thoughts to the mind of Tsutau Fent. A suggested thought has been placed in the box for you.

The rest of the screen darkens, and a keyboard appears with a metal typewriter design. Above the typewriter is a text entry box, with an ENTER button to the right. There is ghostly text already written in the box — if Kesta so chose, she could enter it unmodified.

You should text Kesta Mianshoe.

Oh, is it gonna have, like, an internal pretend texting apparatus? Some kind of AI thing skinned to pretend like it's your real friends? That's kind of silly but she doesn't have anything to do. Sure, Tsutau-mannequin can be made to think that he should text her.

I should text Kesta Mianshoe.

          She's pretty hot. Don't know if she'd be into me.

...Shian has probably already flaked.

          Fuck it.

A notification box appears at the top of her screen from her phone's native messaging app.

3 new messages from Tsutau Fent.

kesta have you gotten off work yet

i baked this really big peach pie yesterday and i'm definitely not going to be able to finish it all

i can give you half of it if you come over

Her native texting app? Like, if she quits out of this Chisel thing, she can go over to Chatterback, and Tsutau will be in there offering her pie??

Tsutau's texts offering her pie are on Chatterback, along with all her old text history with him. There's a picture attached of the pie, with about an eighth of it already eaten.

That looks super delicious! I'm not working today but I'll be on the train another 10 if I'm going to yours. I'd want the Chasanta stop, right?

that's great!

chasanta yeah

go to the soei building and tell the guard you want to go to unit 12-772

the guard will call me and i'll tell them they should let you through

high security place but I guess Chasanta's swanky

not really

there were two break ins a season ago and we asked the property manager to put guards

i have no idea why anyone would want to break into a unit here, it's not an upscale apartment block

no incidents since so i guess it's been worth the extra fee

the peach pie is in the fridge right now, do you want me to put your slice in the oven to warm it up or do you want it cold

how many slices do you want to eat right now

hot with cream! my heart says four but my stomach says one and a half.

yes ma'am coming right up

you can take the other four slices home!

will do!

She can return to the Inspector in Chisel!

The aperture now shows a kitchen. A can of cream is being opened and poured into a sauce boat.

I cannot believe the pie thing worked.

          Okay, don't get your hopes up. It's not guaranteed she'll want to do anything else aside from eating pie.

The pie smells really good. I hope she likes it.

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Kesta is being directed to press a button with a 🛍️ symbol.