{
(set: $bg to (rgb:255,255,$r))
(text-style: "fidget")[What happened?]
(set: $r to 1)
(live: 1s)[
(set: $r to (cond: $z is true, $r-.1, $r))
(if: $r<0.1)[(stop:)(go-to: "try again?")]
(set: $bg to (rgb: 255,255,100,$r))
]
(set: $p to -$r)
(live: 1ms)[
<!--(opacity:$r)+(text-color:green)[$poem]-->
(set: $z to (cond: $poem contains any of $irradiated, true, false))
<!--(if: $poem contains any of $irradiated)[TETSTTTTTTTSTSTTSTSTS]-->
(if: $poem contains "don't know" or "don't know" or "do not know")+(text-color: blue)[tell me a myth.]
]
<!--(bg:$bg)(opacity:0)-->(if: visits is 1)+(text-color:(rgb:0,255,0,$r))[(input-box: bind $poem, "x", 7)]
(if: visits is not 1)+(text-color:(rgb:0,255,0,$r))+(text-style: "fade-in-out")[(input-box: bind $poem, "x", 7)]
<!--(after: 120s)[
[[try again?]]
]-->
(text-color:green)(meter: bind $r, 1, "X", ".", (gradient: 100,.25, green, 1, blue))
<p></p>
(live: 1ms)[
(if: visits is 1)+(if: $r<0.7)+(text-color:white)[What remains of ancient Greece?]
(if: visits is 1)+(if: $r<0.4)+(text-color:green)[<i>The myths of ancient Greece.</i>]
]
(live: 1s)[
<i>(if: visits is not 1)+(if: $r<0.7)+(text-color:green)+(t8n:"dissolve")[(either:"Even the ground was ticking" , "The sky is boiling only with crows",
"Everything as on a blade of a knife, ready for cutting",
"Your lips find traces of someone else's tentative sips", "Scheherazade’s tales run dry", "A ship is wrecked", "Stars thrust down onto the pavement, to stand guard until morning", "The stoplight winks with greed", )]</i>
]
}
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{(text-style:"shudder")+(t8n: "dissolve")[Try again?]
(t8n: "dissolve")(force-input: bind $m, "X==","Try a poem this time.")
<p></p>
(t8n-arrive: "dissolve")[[I'll try.|write a poem]]
}
(text-color: green)+(text-size:1.5)+(text-style:"fidget")[''How to play:'']
All you need to do is start typing. What happened at Chornobyl?
<p></p>
(text-color: green)+(text-size:1.5)+(text-style:"fidget")[''What is this?'']
[//Chornobyl Poem with Radiation Sickness// is an interactive text game that challenges its players to work expansively and poetically to retell the fact and myth of Chornobyl. It is a project built from a collection of retellings, beginning from a simple survey which asked respondents to describe “what happened” at Chornobyl. From those responses was generated a list of the most-used words, the words most quickly reached for, the vocabulary most often tasked with the burden of representing the end of the world. These are the words considered “irradiated” in //Chornobyl Poem//, words that will begin to eat themselves, destroying the poem as it is written; if irradiated words are left in the poem for too long, the page will be reset. The goal of this game is to make visible the sense that “Chornobyl” does not mean Chornobyl—it is not big enough. Rather, collections of images, indirect invocations, ruptures and fragments can evoke and recreate the truth of a tragedy.]
<p></p>
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//(text-color: green)+(text-size:1.5)+(text-style:"fidget")[[write a poem]]//
<p></p>
[[Credits]](text-color:green)+(text-size:1.5)[''Credits'']
[<p></p>//Chornobyl Poem with Radiation Sickness// samples lines from the following works:
Alexievich, Svetlana. //Voices from Chernobyl.//
Bilotserkivets, Natalka. “May.”
Drach, Ivan. “Mother’s Eternal Elegy.”
Dubrow, Jehanne. “Chernobyl Year.”
Kostenko, Lina. “Untitled.”
Sirota, Liubov. “At the Crossing"
Full credits can be found on the Reactor Room website.]
=><=
(text-size: 2)+(text-color: green)+(t8n:"blur")[CHORNOBYL POEM]
(text-size:1)+(t8n:"blur")[WITH]
(text-size: 2)+(text-color: green)+(t8n:"blur") [RADIATION SICKNESS]
<i>(text-color: blue)+(text-style:"fidget")[[write a poem]]
(text-color: blue)+(text-style:"fidget")[[about the game]]</i>
(text-size: .5)[<i>created by Grace Reed Richardson</i>]