The Shimmer Code

by sunsetshimmer_13


The DJ Sunset*

"Yo. Dude it's Saturday, why are you clocking out so early?" 

Another day, another stream. Sunset pulls up her window on her computer to get to the Steam platform. 

"Alright then, so we're gonna play once again another rhythm music game. This time it is a game called Fuser," she searches the name in the search bar and the desired game she needs pops up. "Ah, there you go. So yeah I don't really know too much about this game but all I know is that apparently it's from the same creators of the Rock Band series," she explains.

"I guess we'll give this a shot then."

She clicks play and the window launches her into the game. The gamer girl looks at her chat just to see someone poke fun and say she'll fail every level. "NO... nonononono do not start with that bullshit," she says as she laughs a little but then multiple people utter 'lol'. The screen goes through a series of logos and extra studio credits until it finally gets to the main menu after its intro montage. 

"Catchy I like it," she compliments the pop/EDM song playing in the background on the menu. "Ok then. Y'all ready for some cursed mashups... or blessed or whatever you wanna deem it," the chat repeatedly signals Sunset to play the game. 

The gamer girl clicks on the career mode and launches the campaign. It heads to a character designing section. "Oop, we already know what this badass will look like," she says in a cocky-esque manner. She accesses her in-game avatar with a rainbow-burst hoodie and some bagged pants for her female character with some headphones around the neck and a snapback cap. After she finishes her avatar she presses continue as her chat spams 'lit' to compliment her outfits.

The screen goes to a first person perspective showing a guy in festive clothing. The non playable character speaks his monologue:

Ahhh you hear that? That's the sound of a thousand of my most diehard superfans. In other words: THEY'RE THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!! So you've got nothing to worry about and I'll be back here talking through your headset. I'll let you know what the crowd wants and how to keep the party going. Alright, let's do this.

Here we go. Now they are on to the main event, the venue shown to be a huge monument of what looks like to be egyptian descended structures. Random color coded turntables appear at the bottom as the top shows a list of songs with the little instrument icons.

"Ok. uh... what am I supposed to do," she laughs a little bit nervously. The instructions flash up on the screen telling her the progress step by step. "Ok so just click... this?" 

Sunset just clicks on the beat and bass tracks of bad guy. to start off the set. Her mouse drags over to the vocal track of All Star and clicks it to mix the songs. "...oh no," says a tickled Sunset. "This actually sounds like a good mashup." The whole chat spams on the mashup by praising it saying #BLESSED. 

"Oh fuck we're already getting it let's try another fusion... how about we keep Smash Mouth and we'll put it on top of Take On Me," the chat gives her the 'Just Do It' treatment and the gamer girl drops the tracks on the turntables. The game congratulates her on the mixes she just made and instructs her further to progress. She drags more colored discs and put them in the second slots of the pairs as instructed. As soon as it finishes its current tutorial, Sunset triggers the mix to an instant transition. The chat praises their streamer for the game. 

"Ha. You better praise me for this mix. Spam sunsetPOG in that chat this is a fucking great game."

The viewers started to suggest her some song tracks to use next and spammed "rickroll hype." Sunset drops some instrument tracks from different artists like Rick Astley and Carly Rae Jepsen and drags them to the colored turntables. As of now, to everyone viewing including Sunset, this was some next level mashups in the making. The streamer herself just puts her hand on her forehead to rub it while for some reason also moving to the beat as if this was a disappointment and accomplishment. "This shouldn't sound good... I want someone to get a disc of this game and destroy it but I can't destroy an actual good game dammit," someone in the chat types in, confused vibing. "Ha! Confused vibing yo, you're right." 

As with that the level of the game was done as it flashes up the stars on the computer screen. The screen fills up each circle to complete each star only to fully give her four stars with the fifth one only filled at three quarters. 

"Oh fuck no WHAT?!," Sunset couldn't believe her eyes that it didn't get to a complete set of five stars, especially since she did good enough in this level. "Screw you, that was easily five stars you dumbo," she scowls a little at the game. "Ok, ok. It's just one level of this game, maybe they don't instantly have five stars for rookie DJs."

The viewers sooner or later type in their messages: Justice for DJ Sunset. 

"Alright let's just move on to the next level. That shit was gold too."


Three Levels Later

"Alright my peeps give me some ideas, we gotta keep the crowd going in here," her viewers start suggesting different songs with different tracks to fuse with. "Ok, we'll do Take On Me vocals on top of Happy beats," says Sunset as she selects the tracks to play them separately. The streamer clicks on her mouse for her secondary computer to trigger a special effect of the stream. 

"We have our Shimmer Meter ready and oh my god," she says in amazement. 

The meter of the chat's screens fill all the way up in an instant and explodes into Sunset's joyful face emote. The gamer girl shouts a long 'wooo' as the stream of hers goes from 0 to 100 during the gameplay. The messages currently being spam the hell out of itself as everyone kept typing in and dubbing their gamer DJ Sunset. One of the people in the chat messages her: 

Vinyl28: Yo, DJ Sunset just dropped in to see you play Fuser here. How about next time you stream it I can come on over to make some bangers. Maybe we can form a mixtape uwu.

100 bit donation

"Vinyl28, Thank you so freaking much for the donation and yes we'll have to do some multiplayer stuff on Fuser sometime," she agrees on the user's offer. "This shit is absolutely fire. I might go for some of the DLC maybe," she notes for herself and the viewers. 

The level has now come to a close and it gives Sunset another four stars as the fifth is barely even complete by only a few pixels.

"Damn, unlucky," she says a bit reluctantly "I think that'll do it for the stream though. I definitely wanna go for the five star set in at least one level. Anyways, Thank all of you guys and girls for tuning into the stream. Also, Vinyl we're gonna be jamming next time I get to play Fuser, you have my word. See y'all next time."

She flashes up her exit card screen as she gets ready to disconnect the stream as the chat say their goodbyes and leave.