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[Orikanyo]

Yea, probably will touch it.

==> Watch for things that may come up from the waves.

Fear of the water is not your fear, catagorically or in actuality, but the fear of something being ready to chomp your hand from underwater is clear.

But you gottas touch the thing.

it's right there, the chance of a lifetime.

Touch.

==Touch it.​

 

[Blemmigan]

==> Celebrate your achievement​

That is... not as useless as you were expecting, actually.

You pick the air-tube up, put your thumb over the end, try to breathe through it, and nearly die.

No, wait: it's working. It just [i[feels[/i] like you're nearly dying, because it tastes like you're breathing the air out of a car tyre. Which is, you grudgingly admit, better than breathing water. Looks like you're going for a magical adventure after all. Walking along, singing a song at the bottom of the beautiful briny sea. You try not to think about it until you absolutely have to.

How much alchemy currency you have left is a mystery, but decide to see what else you can make that might survive underwater.

Glass pipette <-- Torch​

 

[TekSoda]

Well, fuck. Fire.

You deeply apologize to any paintings that may be harmed if the fire ever leaves the safety of a fireplace. However, it's a box of nondescript matches right above an ominous fireplace. It's almost as obvious as the door in the TV room that you completely ignored.

You kiss an unlit match, light it, and "nonchalantly" toss it into the fireplace. Surprisingly, it actually hits the target, even with the shaking of your hands.​

 

[Squad141]

You create the Kicktunes.
Still able to wear on your feet, there's a comfortable inner layer for your toesies, while a clunky metal inner working allows radio waves to reach it when you turn them on.
However, being in some alternate dimension or whatever, the radio doesn't seem to work very well.

Kimona
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You reach your hand down and-

It goes through the portal or mist.
At least, that's what it feels like. Moving your fingers around, your appears to be in what almost feels like a cloud.

Water droplets fall onto your hand, as you move your head around, realizing that the water was never directly below, but a few yards below the circle itself.
Huh.

Orikanyo
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You create the Illumipipette.
Its slightly thicker than the normal pipette was, and is made of a stronger material that's not very see-through.
When you push down on the end, instead of fluid, light comes out. However, you must always be pressing down for it to shine.

At least it doesn't require batteries.

Blemmigan
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The fireplace immediately flares up, surprising you.
Wondering what that was supposed to do, you realize that the fire is slowly growing, as the flames have started to lick the inside of the marble and scorch it.

Turning around, you stop when you suddenly see a chalkboard sitting by the door against the wall.

The Little Girl that Never Was?

___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Above each space, written in the same messy chalk, are pictures of some kind of picture frames, drawn in messy childrens scribbles.

Suddenly, you hear a noise, and look up to see the first picture hang loosely from a new nail jutting out from the wall.
This happens to the other four as well, allowing you to pick them up.
Something shiny resides on yours, but that doesn't matter right now, as the flames have begun to almost get out of control.

You have a time limit, and a goal.
TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

EM: Hey guys, seems i've found a bonus stage thing.

Which is only kind of true, given you have no idea what it is.
​

EM: Seeing it from the outside... I'm looking at a lake... Something light is down below it.
EM: Or this may be a trap.
EM: Been waiting for another one of those.
EM: Maybe a test or puzzle?
EM: With one of those classic time limit things?
EM: Yea, everything has been in my face thus far.
EM: I'm going to come back to the lake thing, don't entirely trust it.

You will, you say, but... the temptation of adventure...

You are a young man, built to explore and conquer, meant to trudge forward into the wide unknown like the brilliant new star you are!

But... caution wins the day.

First, if it's a portal it's probably to a challenge, something from what you see, you are not ready for due to A) not having much swimming ability B) No ability to breath under water C) Fuck man who knows whats there.

Might even be one of those lantern using fish that draw in prey with it's glowing dingledally hanging off it's face that has such a cruel usage for the males of the species.

Or perhaps you are over thinking it...?

If only you had a really long net of....

....

Well time for some work.

==> Fashion a bedsheet rope and tie it to the bed.

Well, why not, fortune favors the bold and you can soon bitch out at Medjed for not coming with to provide proper info....

....

==> Talk out loud for Medjed.
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Dick: Hey Medjed you there? Can you hear me?

 

[Kimona]

Admire Work==>

Oh hell yes.
These Kicktunes were amazing.
Now all you had to do was figure out how to make your radio equipment portable to...
You slide on the Kicktunes as you think about it.
So comfy.

Examine stuff.

Lets try this.

Headset(including microphone) -> Radio equipment (The kind used to get on the air and her "Megapod" as she calls her "Ipod", with all her songs downloaded.)
Armband -> Soundboard/radio equipment

You Hoped you had enough point things for this.
You didn't completely understand the points or whatever that the group had mentioned.
But you assumed it was kinda like batteries.
As in, they only last so long,
and you need to buy more when they're dead.
Except in this case you have to earn more and use them to pay for other things.
You guess.​

 

[Blemmigan]

==> Take stock of your inventory​

"Take stock" is a weird phrase, now that you think about it, but you go ahead anyway.

You currently have:
-A felt-bladed knife with a nice, soft felt coating that seems impossible to properly clean of monster blood.
-A copper sulph-blade, a promising but untested weapon.
-The butyric acid that smells so bad, maybe it will ward things off without having to touch anything.
-Sunglasses, which will be even more useful once you're not only in the dark, but underwater.
-A stylish molder hat that will probably smell even more like a forgotten larder once it gets wet.
-An air-tube that seems to provide an infinite supply of air, and you really hope you're never proved wrong.
-A probably-fragile but potentially-waterproof illumipipette to light the gloom of the water and announce your presence to any nearby monsters.
-The Captain, your steadfast rock in these trying times and treacherous waters.

Morlock is also here. Or he was a second ago at least. You wonder if he'll follow you to distant shores, or keep hanging around here in a sulk.

==> You're... ready to go?​

Oh god, oh fuck. You can't think of anything else to make. Maybe you should abandon this train of thought and use the alchemy table, upturned, as a boat. Maybe that idea gets more and more stupid each time you come back to him.

You take some blu-tak off the wall, and use it to block the end of the air-tube. Putting the other end in your mouth makes it look like you're struggling with an enormous piece of spaghetti, but it kind of works. And by now, kind-of will have to do.

Downstairs, into the hallway, out of the door, and onto the beach before you can change your mind. You have the illumipipette in one hand (switched off) and the knives within reach. You put Captain Nemo on top of your hat, and tell him to hold on. Too late, you wish you had something that floated, but if you keep going back inside and trying to make things, then you'll never leave. You can just go out for a bit and come back, right?

BV: good luck.
BV: and i mean that sincerely. i'm about to try something similar.
BV: except it's not much of a puzzle, unless you count solving the problem of not drowning.

You walk into the water, like a Victorian poet overcome with melancholy.

Soon you're swimming, in the awkward way of somebody who hoped they'd never have to use the skill outside of a brightly-lit pool. The wind and rain lashes your face and makes you squint. You can see precisely diddly squat. There's the feeling of dozens of unseen monsters lurking below the surface, at any moment about to reach out and grab hold of your ankle. You say a silent prayer to the Captain, and dive.

==> Dive.​

 

[TekSoda]

"Oh, fuck me."

You try and calm down and think. Organize your little thoughts. You form a little conspiracy theorizing board in your head, trying to figure this out.

You start with the obvious shit. There's five paintings, five spaces. Each of these paintings correlates with a space. It's a fair guess that the puzzle expects you to know the names of the people in the paintings. And while there are a couple you don't recognize super well, it's obviously the members of your group chat. The numbers line up, too. The only issue with this hypothesis is that Matt and Enid share a painting, which may pose an issue.

The less obvious shit.. well, you decide to cross that bridge when you come to it, because you're getting increasingly nervous. Not only because of the fire, but because this building seems to have a thing for trapping you in small rooms. You wonder if the building derives some sort of sadomasochistic pleasure from sticking you in small rooms like this.

You half-consider taking your painting in case shit pops of the second you solve the puzzle like last time, but the paintings won't be safe at all if the whole damn building burns down with both you and the painting trapped inside. The puzzle comes first.

==> Examine shitty chalk drawings​

 

[Squad141]

Medjed doesn't seem to be around...
You sigh exasperated.

Then you nearly fall into the hole when you find him behind you, hovering with his same bored-looking eyes.
​

MEDJED: Yes, Richard. I am here.

Orikanyo
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You create the MegaPhones.
They are, making exception from the name, not a tool to make your voice louder.
You can now listen to the air, change channels, listen to music, and get to voice-to-chat on Chatterbox.
It's also voice activated, meaning you have a sort of Alexa/Siri personal assistant helping you.
You might need to name it.

You also create the Forelimb of Vibration.
It's slightly longer than the original arm band.
When you hold it up, you can use the features to increase, decrease, and remix the sound that is produced.
Than, it produces said sound.
It's also connected wirelessly to your MegaPhones somehow.

Cool!
Kimona
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With the Captain on your head, and the mold securely holding the hat to said body part, you close your eyes.
You brace for impact.

You start by feeling the sense of your sopping wet clothes.

Then you decide you have to face your fears.
You slightly open one eye...

And almost drown by breaking contact with the tube.

The underwater segment of this ocean is pristine and blue, like the underbelly of a well-kept pool.
Above, the waves still crash, but somehow, the underneath isn't nearly as bad.
You see some bright green seaweed growing on the sandbar of your little island, gently waving.

Since you went underwater here, your still technically on the hill that your home resides on.
You could start the trek (or swim) down the side of it, or you could simply go straight forward, into the unknown sea.

Blemmigan
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The first frame shows what appears to be a child's portrayal of a fanged demon, an angel, and some kind of rough curtain-thing.

The second shows what can only be described as a scribbled version of the sand-mans throne, but soft looking.

The third one in the middle looks just like yours, and is surprisingly well drawn.
You stop for a second, noticing that the image is a perfect copy of your portrait, down to the shine of the mug your holding.

The fourth is an image of a water drop with a flower inside it.

And finally, the fifth is a picture of a childish sun with an exaggerated question mark inside it.

The fire is beginning to spread, as it starts to char the left, un-decorated side of the fireplace.
TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: HOLY SWEET JUMPING JESUS!

he was neither jumping nor jesus, but here he was.

You decide also to continue with him because thats what the GM went with.
​

Dick: Well, at least your here. I found a puzzle in the shape of a human statute, any idea what thats about?
Dick: Also.. this whole... Whats the deal with this thing?
Dick: We should also be relatively quick unless the guardian comes around.

 

[Kimona]

Oh.
Hell.
Yes.
First thing first.
You name your 'siri' David.
After David Bowie of course.
(now all you had to do it's voice to become like that hot musical God's.)
"Fuckin' sweet am I right?"
You ask, immediately showing off your new tech to.. R..G? Ghost?
Maybe you should name this side of her differently. Since you never named it before.
How about Gho.
It's kinda Ghost, and its fun to say.

You then immediately test you gear out trying to get some sick beats on the air waves.
You flick the Megaphones on, listening to the nice air-wave noise before inhaling
"David, play David Bowie's Modern Love, the live version."


Ooooooh yes.
You love this. You not only have the song playing in your ears, but it was blasting out your Kicktunes.
You modify the sound a little with the Forearm of Vibration, or FoV.
Perfect.
You actually find yourself dancing a little in response to the beat.

What should you make next?
If you have enough points left.
Well you'll find out in a moment if you do.
Maybe you should reinforce your Kicktunes.
So you can fight with them too. Or maybe make something else..
You found some nice metal chunks in the mess.
...
This was really a safety hazard.
You should maybe clean.

Kicktunes -> Metal chunks/bits​

 

[Blemmigan]

==> Wonder at the marvels of the deep​

You make a noise that sounds a lot like "ahhubbub", and windmill your arms a bit to stop yourself from drifting off. It's not as dark or as murky as you were expecting, and as a bonus you don't even seem to be dead or dying yet.

Despite this, you're not quite confident enough to swim off into open water, and manage to awkwardly almost-stand on the sloping ground underneath you. It's picturesque, for people who might like that sort of thing, but you don't really want to touch any of it. Best stick to where you can make a quick getaway back home, and with the hill at your back meaning that nothing can sneak up behind you.

Unfortunately, that means going deeper underwater.

==> Dive 2: Electric Boogaloo​

 

[Squad141]

Medjed stares at you for a hot minute before responding.
His eyes traveled downwards, blinking.
​

MEDJED: While I presume the human statue is simply an obstacle presented by the Branch...
MEDJED: I should ask.
MEDJED: What hole are you talking about?
MEDJED: All I see is a ring of stones.

Orikanyo
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BEEP!
An error message writes itself in your book.
It informs you that you are out of EMP.

Kimona
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As you dive deeper, the water does get darker, but not to a point where you can't see.
Checking every now and again, Captain seems to be fine, traveling with you.

Eventually, you reach a small landing of sorts, where the hill flattens out before continuing downwards.
You wonder how far down it really goes...

Nonetheless, you find a few things here.

The first being a nautical helmet, like old deep-sea divers used to wear. It's cracked though, and empty.
Various pieces of debris and metal that seem to be from a ship of some sort, including knuts and bolts.

Part of a banner lies to your left, stuck to the ground with a piece of sharp glass.
And finally, a small ornate box that's half buried in the wet soil sits on your right.

Blemmigan ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: you litterally don't see a hole opening to a watery pool below?
Dick: With something presumably dangerous in it?
Dick: Which would be par for the course to be comepletely honest.

You pause for a minute before considering.
​

Dick: What do you mean branch?
Dick: A good question also is what happens when I comeplete good old humpty dumpty?

 

[Kimona]

.....
Darn.

Time to go get more of this EMP stuff then.
You pick up your skateboard before exiting your room.
Time to go fight monsters.
As you carefully amble though the mess to the front door you pause, eyeballing a long metal stick or pole buried under the gadgets.
Maybe your should grab it.
It could come in handy.
You decide fuck it, and grab it.

Ryuu: exit and face cool wacky world or whatever. ==>​

 

[Squad141]

MEDJED: Richard, are you sure your okay?
MEDJED: Some previous players have been known to go delusional after their challenges.
MEDJED: Yes, I am certain that there is no 'magic water hole' in between the stones.
MEDJED: Oh, yes. I should probably mention that.
MEDJED: This world that you are currently in is called a Branch.
MEDJED: That is the term programmed into the thoughts of all people in the Darkness, due to these places branching off of the Hallway.

Orikanyo
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Surpassingly, its blander than you would have thought.
Its slightly warmer than it was back on Earth, but not much.
The dirt and grass are gray, and you seem to be on a hill of sorts.

The place around you is a seemingly infinite grassland of monotone colors, with a rare tree planting itself every now and again.
Squinting, you can see what seems to be a castle on another hill parallel to yours.
Kimona ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: And I guess the hallway is the trunk of this tree?
Dick: With all due respect while I am certain I am going crazy i'm also certain I wouldn't be developing such vivid schitzophrenia so soon.
Dick: So, I am going to wrap this bed cloth rope around this bed's leg and go into this spelunking expedition.
Dick: Tally ho and what not!

He did tie off the bedsheet rope, and tie it again for comfort's sake, then check his line for tightness, before leaping into the hole with bedsheet rope in hand.

He would either land on the floor and Medjed would be right, or he would be pulling a mario 64 moment.

Bwa bwa buwawa!

Letsa goo!!!

==> jump​

 

[Kimona]

Bland.
But you could fix that would your trust partner-
Wait where was your spray paint?
You must have left it inside.
You quickly hop back inside your apartment, and grab your trusty backpack filled with the necessities, aka, spray paint, and a few other things. Of course there was still room for more.

Now you are ready to head to the awesome castle!!!
You pull out your green can and give it a quick test on the grass, turning it a bright neon green.
Perfect.

You mount your skateboard, and start rolling off to the castle, leaving a radical trail of neon green behind you, pole in hand.​

 

[Squad141]

You jump.

It's a free fall for a few moments, as you feel your ears pop and you pass through.
Your clothes become immediately damp, as the portal seemed to have been inside a raincloud.

Before you hit the water, the rope tenses up, and you stop, striking the pose as that guy from Mission Impossible.

The water is murky, and there seem to be shapes moving around in it.

Looking to your right, you see a small shape. Its looks like a lighthouse of some kind...
To your left you see something closer... maybe a house? You can't make it out all the way...
Orikanyo
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As you reach the bottom of your hill, you realize that you feel strange.

Stopping for a second, you turn down the music.
Theres no noise.

That's why you felt so strange, your the only one creating noise.
There no wildlife, no wind. Nothing.
It's like time has stopped.

That is, until something bulky flies over you, and lands in front of you, teeth bared.
Its a gargoyle. A living, breathing, stone gargoyle!

Combat, Start!
Kimona
(btw TekSoda Blemmigan )​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: Know that Adia would be proud.

Indeed she would given he just did some wicked cool stunt.

But this place was definitly not kansas anymore, and had far to many things going on down below.

After thought is always 20/20.

Hanging from the rope, you feel like while you would love to explore this area... You have very little ability to do so... given your cape and such...

Best head up, you can always come back.

Right? Right.

==> Climb​

 

[Kimona]

Ryuu: STRIFE!!!==>

OOOOOOOH yes.
Fighting.
You had no idea how the hell you would beat this thing, but dammit it would be awesome.
You turn your music back up as you hold your pole.
You roll at the monster, circling it as you swing your pol at it.
since you don't know what it can do, you keep your distance.​

 

[TekSoda]

You wonder if it's a tarot thing, then realize that water-drop-in-flower probably isn't a major arcana and get extremely confused.

wait.

Whatever Jigsaw wannabe made this room probably wouldn't let all the paintings come off the walls for nothing. Sure, yours has a shiny... thing, but they would probably just let yours and yours alone come off in that case.

You're banking a lot on a hunch, but writing in random letters would probably take more time.

Besides, if you're wrong, you won't regret it for long.

==> Inspect backs of picture frames​

 

[Squad141]

You begin to hoist yourself back up the rope, weary of the creatures below.

However, it seems Medjed actually wants to help for once, as the rope is slowly but steadily being pulled up.
As you enter the clouds once more, your ears pop and you enter the musty scene of the motel room.

Medjed still hovers there, waiting.
Orikanyo
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The pole is increasingly becoming ineffective.

Maybe its because the creature is made of stone, and every time you hit it the pole become dented.
Or maybe tis because your not very handy with a pole, and its sliding around in your hands.

Nonetheless, the gargoyle eventually gets annoyed, and grabs the pole with its teeth, eating the thing whole.

It then jumps, grabbing your skateboard, as well as you by the claws of its feet, and flying into the air.

Crap.
Kimona
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The fire is growing even more, though the right side of the decorated fireplace is suspiciously unaffected.

On the first painting, it looks like something bled through. The stone bricks and the dead faces of the kids are as clear on the back of canvas as they are on the front.
On the second, The boys chair seems to have bleed through, though without him sitting on it.

On the fourth, the ocean behind the boy in the picture. The someone doodled the picture of some kind of flowery...jar?
And finally, The sun symbol on the last picture, with the same question mark in it.

But your picture...
It was situated directly above the fireplace. The flames have spread pretty dangerously, and the shining red whatever-it-is and your face are pretty close to their licking distance.
You'd have to pull some crazy maneuver to get to that from this angle.

You start getting frustrated.
This is like some crazy escape room thing, but you don't have any clues.
The only things at your disposal are the other objects and furniture in the room...
TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: So...

You pause looking at medjed.
​

Dick: Seems its connected to a big ass water world...
Dick: two islands, a lighthouse, but I got no way of traversing the water so, yea know.
Dick:....
Dick:...........
Dick: How did you pull me up with no arms?

 

[Kimona]

Crap.

Well it seems you are just about screwed.
Either you could
A) Hope it doesn't plan of dropping you.
B) Hang here and see where it takes you.
Or C) You Favorite and least favorite option: Spray it's eyes with neon green paint.

You decide to hope that you won't die and attempt to spray it in the eyes.
You also hope that maybe if you fall to your death that there might be some way ghost might be able to help you, but she seems kinda useless here, so you don't put to much faith in that one.​