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VEL 12.0

H HELP · M MUTE

TUTORIAL

STRAFE

FLAP

MAGPIE-9

AN OPEN RUN · EVERY GATE COUNTS

FLAP TO ARM

SPACE / CLICK · A D STRAFE

CREDITS

DESIGN: TheSameCat
CODING ASSISTANCE: Cursor
TESTING: TitanVern; Rinzler

ESC TO RETURN

SETTINGS

AUDIO

MASTER 100

MUSIC 100

EFFECTS 100

GRAPHICS

QUALITY

DROPS A RUNG IF FRAMES RUN LONG

↑ ↓ ROW · ← → ADJUST · ESC RETURN

TOP 10

← → BOARD · ESC RETURN

FLIGHT

Gravity pulls. Idle and the drone drops. Flap climbs — each flap is a pulse, not a hover. Strafe sideways to thread the hatch. Walls, plates, and beams end the run.

DAMPER

The gold orb trims your scroll speed and the trim sticks for the rest of the run. Every gate you clear pushes the conduit faster, so a damper buys you back some reaction time. Steer through as many as you can.

SPARE LIFE

The green orb adds a spare, shown as a + at the top right. Crash with a spare and the run rewinds to just inside the last gate you cleared, then waits for your tap. In a real run one spare appears somewhere in every ten-gate sector.

SHUNT

The blue orb engages the shunt overdrive: the next 5 gates count double while the conduit runs faster. A hit burns the whole charge, so spend it cleanly.

SPACE TO CONTINUE

PAUSED

JUMP TO RESUME

SPARE ENGAGED

JUMP TO RESUME

ROTATE TO LANDSCAPE

MAGPIE-9 PLAYS SIDEWAYS

ADD TO HOME SCREEN
FOR A FULL DISPLAY

FIELD MANUAL

MAGPIE-9 · SERVICE CONDUIT

FLIGHT

GRAVITY PULLS. Idle and the drone drops.
FLAP CLIMBS. Each flap is a pulse, not a hover.
THREAD THE HATCH. +1 gate per bulkhead. Walls, plates and beams kill.
SLED HATCHES DRIFT. Magenta frame past gate 8. Strafe with the hatch.

CONTROLS

SPACEW↑

FLAP

AD/←→

STRAFE

CLICK · FLAP

P PAUSE R RESET M MUTE H HELP B COLLIDER

LEFT HALF. Touch and drag sideways. A floating stick strafes the drone.
RIGHT HALF. Tap to flap. Jump to begin a run or resume after a pause.
LANDSCAPE ONLY. Portrait pauses. FULL goes fullscreen.

PAUSE. P, Esc, or the top-left button. CONTINUE counts down from 3 and the run goes live without a jump. QUIT returns to the menu. A stray flap will not resume it.
INITIALS. ENTER files a score. SKIP or Esc leaves it off the board.

ORBS

DAMPERS

Slows the conduit for the rest of the run. Every pickup stacks.

COMMON · MIDWAY TO THE NEXT GATE

SPARE

+1 life, shown as + top right. A hit rewinds you to the last gate. Jump to resume.

ONE PER 10-GATE SECTOR

SHUNT

Double gates for the next 5 gates. The conduit runs faster while it lasts. A hit burns the charge.

VOLATILE · BONUS GATES, FASTER CONDUIT

CHALLENGE

TODAY'S CONDUIT. Forty gates, same layout for everyone until UTC midnight.
EXTRACT. Clear all forty and the run ends. Ranked by time, not gates.
SHUNT TO RACE. Overdrive is the gamble. A spare rewind still costs the clock.
PAUSE FREELY. The clock stops while the run is held. Only flying counts.
BOARD. TODAY on the scores screen. Deaths do not place.