Yvelluap_TXCHLXSS= TXCHLXSS
Yvelluap_TXCHLXSS_TXCHLXSS= TXCHLXSS
poem_Yvelluap_TXCHLXSS_TXCHLXSS_A= Techless Tech Lass
	SECRET=
		Hey there.
		I'm Yvelluap.
		You don't need to know how to say that. I could very much teach you in 10 seconds but it's funnier if you don't know.
		Anyways, I'm here to reflect on this map, more specifically, its difficulty.
		You see, when I was making this map, my main goal was to make a hardlist map that anybody could beat.
		As little tech as possible (although easy, neutral kicks are still tech) beyond jumping, grabbing, moving, and dashing.
		I'm going to share the creation process of this map.
		After my initial post on Reddit (in which only the first screen was showed and the second was teased), I found people liked the map, so I started developing it every day.
		Each day I'd get home from class and spend a few hours making a room, exceptions being room 12 and 13, which each took 3 or 4 days.
		However, as these rooms went on I became increasingly unhappy with them.
		I started to lose motivation and the rooms became gauntlets of whatever interesting stuff I could find.
		You can check out the old room 5 in the debug menu, the second half was about as dry as a reheated Burger King meal.
		That's probably why room 5 was so hard. The second half was added last minute. And I mean, February 28th.
		I felt like the difficulty was declining, even if it was relatively static, so I found myself doing increasingly weird stuff to have a chance at the hardlist.
		Then we get to room 10, my first "shocker room" (even if it's not the hardest of the first 10).
		Shocker rooms are rooms that spike in length. I coined that term and only I use it, though I invite others to do so.
		I had planned for there to be 12 rooms + cassette, and I knew what I wanted out of the last 3, so for room 10 I wanted a sort of teaser for room 12.
		That's why everything is so different; the walls are all covered, the bubble structure at the top, it's all so... {0.5} {~}janky{/~}.
		I like the jank by the way. I am a janky person at heart and will wear that with pride.
		It's just that I played the map and, because I had all the knowledge about the most straight-forward routes and had no consideration of others, it all felt so easy.
		I've had this inflated sense of difficulty for a while.
		I still think Drifting Deep is just an expert map with long rooms. Not because it's not hard, but because "expert" to me still means thousands of deaths per room.
		And in this map it was much worse, because I made it.
		I have the insider knowledge and expected the victors to take one look at the map and find what I'd laid out.
		I feared my map was not going to meet the difficulty requirements for the hardlist.
		So I made room 10 out of the weirdest things I could think of.
		Eventually I got to room 12. Then, I had a nagging thought that said "{0.7}fuck this".
		And fuck that I did, in 3 days I'd conjured up this impossible menagerie of challenges not even I could beat.
		What's the point anyway? Do you seriously think anybody is going to play it?
		My map was doomed to look good on the r/celestegame front page for a day and slowly wither away in the sea of Olympus.
		So what if the last room was bad, so what if the map was too easy; I had already failed.
		Agh, I've got to stay humble though. Even if just one person plays the map that's somebody who went out of their way to admire my work.
		That's the fate I was going to accept and I was willing to accept it.
		So I finished the map for that hypothetical person.
		It wasn't the best or most polished, it didn't do its job, but it was out there and ready to be played.
		Okay. Pessimism over.
		Let's talk about the first ever clear of the map.
		That by itself is a bit of a crazy statement, that somebody would clear my bouquet of a million challenges, but it did happen!
		That person is of course RedBeanBun13. Hello!
		I didn't find this video through my homepage or anything, I found it by sheer luck when a friend mentioned googling their name.
		So I googled mine, what did I see?
		What kind of question is that you silly goose, I found their clear video, what else would it be?
		And, look, I only had a few heart attacks throughout the whole thing.
		The routing was insane enough to warrant me making a 14 minute video on the intended route.
		It had it all; it went through the goddamn decorative rifts in the map!
		The creativity required for some of these setups has to be insane.
		What did they have to say about the difficulty?
		The rooms peaked at red GM and sunk to green GM, but room 12 was mid-high GM+1, which is, by definition, hardlist worthy.
		They found it fun, so I took the compliments and got to feel better about the whole thing.
		Hey, the video had 200 views at the time. That's nothing to scoff at.
		At that point I was consistently getting single-digit views by the way. 200 was, and still is, pretty huge.
		So even if I hadn't achieved my hardlist goal, at least I got some recognition, and I was happy with that.
		And I was willing to leave it at that.
		But the universe wasn't.
		Let me take you through last night.
		I was on my computer doing transcription work. You don't need to know what that means.
		It was about 1:30am, about the time I log off my computer. So I did.
		I then fought for my life in the bathroom like I do every night because that's how my body was coded.
		And then at about 2:30am (when I say I fought for my life I mean it) I was ready to go to bed and wake up the next day.
		At the exact moment I go to turn off my phone, I get a Discord notification.
		I thought, "the hell are my friends doing this late at night?".
		But I checked it, and it was a friend request from somebody I don't know.
		At this point something clicked for the wrong reason. I thought the following was happening:
		I'd recently cleared a really hard map in another game you probably know, Geometry Dash.
		Since I really enjoyed it I decided to go to the Geometry Dash Demon Ladder website (which rates levels 1-35 based on difficulty) to give it a positive review and state my opinion.
		Since the level I beat was of "Extreme Demon" difficulty, I needed to attach a video of me clearing it, which needed to be approved by a moderator.
		You also needed to be linked to your Discord account, which I did. Reluctantly.
		You see, I can't share my Discord account because parental controls go hard. Fr fr. On god. I'm hip with the kids.
		But that's the reason I'm not on the Celeste server. Or any other public server.
		And I also can't share my handle because then I'd get in shoulder-deep trouble.
		But this was a GDDL moderator, I could make an exception.
		And I think you may have already guessed, this was no GDDL mod.
		They asked me, "are you the creator of txchlxss?", and I thought, huh.
		Firstly, I've never shared my handle. It's not exactly hard to crack, which is how they found me, but I was still a bit surprised they didn't do it through Gamebanana PMs or something.
		I don't even know if those are a thing. I might have made that up.
		But now somebody has my Discord account. I don't mind it. My parents probably do though.
		It was a business decision!
		Secondly, I thought they were going to ask me something about the map, like "can I use this and this" or "did you copy x part from y map".
		And then they dropped a bomb on me. I quote:
		"i was wondering if you were ok with the map being placed on the hard list".
		I did a double take. Nay, a triple take.
		Like. My map? My dinky little cracked GM map? Neighboring The White Hole and SWAPSLUT? Both maps I haven't been able to clear?
		But no, they said that the two clearers and what I'm guessing is the hardlist council agreed to put it there.
		What I got from that was something more akin to "a second clear has hit the towers". And also. Are we playing the same map?
		But they said they were putting it at low 1*.
		And honestly. A single look at the old cutscene that was here (now archived in the English.txt file) could've spoken for me.
		I quote, "I made this map so that anybody, with enough perserverance [sic], could say they have a hard list map under their belt.", what answer could I give but fuck yeah?
		I had to be cordial though. I instead said "go for it", which probably aligned better with my 2am mush brain.
		So we called it there and the map is now on the hardlist.
		My map is on the hardlist.
		Oh my god.
		That's. Like. Really cool. I did that.
		At this point I was shaking. Let me remind you, 2:30am.
		Let me tell you, my asthma did not like that. Not even a little bit.
		I was out of breath the whole night and I slept for like 4 hours.
		Remind me not to get too excited after 2am.
		But I had to check the other clear!
		It was from SereKabii. Hello to you too!
		I recognized this name! I'd seen them mentioned under RedBeanBun's videos. I just went to one where I knew I could find them and got to their video.
		I actually haven't watched it in full yet. Let me give that a shot.
		...
		Alright. I just watched 26 minutes of wizardry. My eyeballs have lost their respective virginities. I think I'm traumatized.
		You know... for a map called "techless"...
		...there's quite a bit of tech in that. Frankly I'm intimidated.
		Some of these routes feel like they're harder than just doing it normally.
		It takes a different level of thinking to come up with these.
		Anyway what did they have to say about the difficulty of the map?
		I think the times speak for themselves. Here they are, in minutes, room for room:
		222, 139, 167, 142, {0.5}{~}391{/~}{0.5}, 135, 127, 175, 146, 140, 3, {0.7}{!}{*}3310{/*}{/!}{0.7}, 152.
		It's a bit top heavy you could say.
		A day is 1440 minutes by the way.
		Just a good 55 hours and 10 minutes on room 12. Look, it makes the Nokia number!
		From what I can tell the grind for the last room was agonizing, mainly due to the dingus "don't choke" passage at the end.
		And look. I knew it was hard.
		I didn't expect there to be a need to analyze and manipulate subpixels to do it consistently.
		But apparently there is? Sorry?
		Look, I can't help but feel bad because, well, I've made a torture chamber.
		But I guess it's self-imposed.
		Also, I should mention, RedBeanBun's grind for room 12 was 22 hours long.
		I couldn't have made it through 22hrs. I admit it. I probably would've quit Celeste by then.
		Dingus 55?! I would collapse.
		Highly commend these two players. Check out both their clears, they're really different!
		But I guess with that I can say I have... succeeded?
		I did what I wanted to do. My map is on the hardlist, and it's been proven that you can beat it if you persevere.
		That's a word I just learned how to spell properly by the way. My typo has been immortalized in a YouTube video now.
		But I've done it!
		Now what?
		Well.
		I've been planning a sequel.
		It's very ambitious I admit, and it would probably require a few coders, but know that it exists as a twinkle in my brain head.
		And um, if you thought this map was janky,
		you ain't seen a thing yet.
		I have been Yvelluap, and I will now leave you to enjoy your jellyfriend.
		Peace.

	SECRETold=
		Hello. You found the secret.
		As a prize, you unlocked an alternate pronunciation for the map name:
		"TXXXLXXX". The x's are a garbled mess. A uvular fricative, if you will.
		I'm going to use the fact that this map is going to get at least some traction to tell you about stuff.
		I'm going to whine and complain about cassette block rhythms I would've put in this map but I didn't because I can't code.
		But before then, a brief shoutout to Red Bean Bun for clearing the map. Congration! You done it!!
		Feel free to use these ideas in your map I guess. I can't copyright a rhythm, can I.
		Yes, I am a music theory nerd. How could you tell.
		And yes I am still salty that I didn't come up with Shattersong before everyone else.
		It was right under my nose this whole time...
		Starting with 11/8 as 3+3+2+3/8. Classic.
		That is, BLUE-2-3, ROSE-2-3, SUN-2, GREEN-2-3, ad nauseam.
		I've made a song for that one.
		It's my map, I can do whatever I want. Get ready for an advertisement for my song without words. A piece, if you will.
		Call it whatever you want, I don't know how those terms work. I swear I'm not a philistine.
		It's a bit short to loop but you can find it under my abandoned channel @V7b9 on YouTube as "Metric Madness".
		I was going to make another song in the series but I gave up, ok?
		Don't give the channel attention. I want it to be forgotten as the failure it was.
		Then we have another very cool time signature:
		7/4 as 6+5+6+6+2+3/16 or 6+5+6+6+5/16.
		You don't need to understand. Listen to "With The Love In My Heart" by Jacob Collier, at 1:23.
		That's the only place this rhythm has ever been used.
		He's an extravagant guy to say the least. Very much an acquired taste.
		Don't listen to Djesse Vol. 4.
		Alternatively, for less subtle changes, you can do 9/4 as 4+3+4+4+1+2/8 or 4+3+4+4+3/8.
		Another rhythm is the 3+2+2+3 quintuplet samba.
		Samba is more free flowing than this obviously, but 3+2+2+3 is as close as possible as we can get to notating it. I think.
		Though this one is a bit too fast for cassette blocks.
		Ok, actually, I think that's it.
		Three rhythms. That's more than you can count in toki pona.
		Not going to expand on that. Last time I did, I put a 40 minute cutscene in a map about pi.
		I can share the ramble if you want. Not here though!
		One last thing: my goal was to get this map on the hard list.
		I made this map so that anybody, with enough perserverance, could say they have a hard list map under their belt.
		Sadly, this map isn't hard enough.
		And no update could fix that; the core gameplay can't be buffed without being insufferably cheesy.
		So, if I find motivation, I'll make a longer and harder sequel.
		Not confirming anything yet just in case.
		If I do, it's probably going to be called "O NASA" or something else in toki pona.
		Again with the toki pona. I'm not going there.
		It's going to be much bigger, I'll try to make my own music and stuff.
		I still can't code though!
		Maybe I could find a coder to work with me, but I don't have a Discord I can share.
		Perhaps some talented coder would be willing to communicate purely on gamebanana comments.
		...
		I have zero hope for my ideas.
		So, um, just pray I have all the dependencies already in Lönn.
		And also that Maddie480 will just fix her dingus helper already!
		I'll share a secret. I've been calling her Maddié to differentiate her from Maddy. As in Madeline Thorseline.
		That's her name right?
		If the movers stay broken, I guess I have to ditch some things. Dammit.
		Though, if somebody could tell me how to add a postcard to this chapter, that'd be cool.
		I'm going to leave you alone.
		Enjoy your jellyfriend.

	COMF=
		You found the comfy spot in the map! Congratulations.
		Here you can chill, take a break, chill out, and go back whenever you feel like it.
		How does it feel?
		[MADELINE left normal] Comfy!
		[] Good to know.

	FAKE=
		[MADELINE left normal] ...
		[] So?
		[MADELINE left normal] ...
		I am going to kill you.
		[] Oh. Sorry.
		I apologize, I just had to put in a cassette room, haha.
		[MADELINE left normal] You misunderstand.
		[] ...
		Um, sure?
		Elaborate?
		[MADELINE left normal] ...
		:3
		[] ...
		That is {~}horrifying.{/~}
		[MADELINE left normal] Glad we're on the same page.
		Enjoy the next 23 hours.
		[] Thanks. Wait, enjoy the {~}what{/~} now?