Shiori Novella Tracks Mystery Opera Music to Her Browser, Then Plays Poppy Playtime Chapter 4

HOLOLIVE — Shiori Novella opened her Poppy Playtime Chapter 4 stream with a puzzle of her own: music she could not place. Sitting at the game’s safe-haven screen, she heard a second track playing and wondered aloud whether it was part of the game or a leftover starting-soon song. She traced it to her Opera web browser, switched to Chrome and carried on, joking that the track had been a bop and that losing it was sad.

Before starting the chapter she read a run of fan letters, some written to a future version of her. She then began the chapter by saying she remembered little of it, since she had last played the game in May. She worked through the early tutorials and lore notes and was startled by the first chase. She grew more cautious once the voice of the doctor came over the speakers and the prison levels began.

“I was like, “Wow, this music from Poppy Playtime is pretty good.” I want you guys to hear it. I did not expect it to be from a freaking browser source.” — Shiori Novella, after finding where the music came from

Midway through she met Doey, a friendly dough-bodied guide who told her he would not eat her. She predicted a betrayal, asked chat whether she could get attached to him, and was told she would get no spoilers. Later she hid from a pursuer that homed in on noise, and she grumbled about the game’s saving, which she said sent her back after a missed step.

She ended near what she took to be the halfway point of the chapter and said she would play more the next day. The broadcast carried 39 paid messages, and chat answered the music mix-up and the Doey scenes with laughing and heart emotes.