Erelye: [**ИЙЛЦО ВЫР... **]
Erelye: [**Deleting Pesterchum...**]
Erelye: [**Downloading database update...**]
Erelye: [**Welcome to the high-security information database of Grayhold Citadel, Facet 1. Would you like to proceed? Y/N.**]
Bill Cipher: Y.
Erelye: [** SPECIFICATIONS / PROGRESS / DATABASE / CREDIT TRANSLATOR (3) / ИОУЦОС / EXIT **]
Bill Cipher: DATABASE.
Erelye: [**CONSTRUCTS / ENTITIES / DARK SITES / EXIT**]
Bill Cipher: DARK SITES.
Erelye: [**ERROR: Access restricted. Direct approval from TASCHETER-class personnel required. Please stand by.**]
Bill Cipher: ENTITIES?
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**...***]
Erelye: [**Request approved, with attachment "havefundipshits.jpeg."**]
Erelye: [** R4 / A-G / H-R / S-Z / EXIT (F.I.R.) **]
Bill Cipher: kek.
Bill Cipher: What does F.I.R. mean again?
Erelye: [**Further Information Restricted.**]
Bill Cipher: So we already explored all of A-G...
Bill Cipher: H-R, then.
Erelye: [** РХ-5082 | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | РХ-9746 | РХ-1330
РХ-0861 | [REDACTED] | РХ-2805
<== | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
ConsumerOfAll: PX-5082
ConsumerOfAll: also no exit
ConsumerOfAll: again
Erelye: [**РХ-5082: ██████-class █████hazard. 50.82 UI (amber), entirely unaffected. *Do not engage under any circumstances*. Location unknown. Casualty: ███. Biorhythm detection classification: Kslgl-yrl-wvnlmrx. Further information regarding ████████ restricted to R5-██ class personnel.**]
Bill Cipher: Photo-bio-demonic.
ConsumerOfAll: PX-9746
Bill Cipher: PX-9746.
Erelye: [**РХ-9746: No real threat. Location designated as F18-β, ████████. Animated rousseaux crop is to be ███████. Any personnel that successfully locates РХ-9746-██ through РХ-9746-██ is to report to TASCHETER.**]
ConsumerOfAll: PX-1330
Erelye: [**РХ-1330: /-class galactic hazard. ███████ UI (various), precisely affected. See files on Philosophorum Project for further data. Destabilized and on severe lockdown protocol. Location designated as research facility #01-V in F9-ω. Casualty: █ ██ █.**]
Bill Cipher: PX-0861.
Erelye: [**РХ-0861: ГWЕД-class photohazard. 47.38 UI (chrysoprase), affected. Return for recapture upon /-RMRGRZGRLM. Location designated as F49-ω. Casualty: Y.**]
Bill Cipher: Ah fuck, that means PX-1330 is Solidus-Class.
Bill Cipher: That can't be good.
Bill Cipher: Return for recapture upon /-INITIATION.
Bill Cipher: PX-2805.
Erelye: [**РХ-2805: ██████-class █████hazard. Locations designated as F9-█, F9-ο, F9-μ, F9-ψ, F9-ν, F9-α, F9-█, F9-█, and F9-█. Use unknown, proceed with *extreme caution*. Casualty: ███.**]
Bill Cipher: Hmm...
Bill Cipher: <==
Erelye: [** РХ-0019 | РХ-0791 | РХ-2222
РХ-8932 | РХ-2863 | [REDACTED]
РХ-0233-1 | РХ-1008 | РХ-0520
~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: Haven't we seen these already??
Bill Cipher: (Did I choose the wrong thing?)
Bill Cipher: Oh, there's a new one.
Bill Cipher: PX-1008.
Erelye: [**As was aforementioned by some sort of oracle, the indicators on the database are merely bookmarks.**]
Erelye: [**РХ-1008: АТИИГХЕЛЛ-class photohazard-B██. *Personnel who come into contact with РХ-1008 will be designated as РХ-1008-1, promptly terminated, and removed from the database.* Stored ПХЫ. electromagnetic stasis tubes within F█-█, F2-█, and F4-█. Further information restricted to R4-██ class personnel.**]
Bill Cipher: hm
Bill Cipher: I'm sorry, I have to go
Bill Cipher: /afk
ConsumerOfAll: ((Bye. I can't really keep this up; I'm updating P&S.))
Erelye: [**Database placed under temporary lock until one or more Operators return.**]
Erelye: [**<@!169992816519413760>, your presence is requested. We know you're here.**]
Bill Cipher: I'll be able to play in a few minutes
Erelye: ((Excellent. Sorry for bothering you with this.))
Erelye: [**Database lock removed by MUSHARRAF-class personnel.**]
Erelye: [**Please enter command.**]
Bill Cipher: PX-0520
Erelye: [**РХ-0520: ██████-class █████hazard. Sealed within Drenovian imperial armor plating. Location designated as F18-β, research facility #806, room eight. Do not activate at any costs, and do not show any exposed veins to the device's faces. Codename: *ТХЕ ГОДХЕАД*. Further information restricted to R5-██ class personnel.**]
Bill Cipher: Right, that's the Godhead.
Bill Cipher: Any other new ones on this page?
Erelye: [**РХ-8932.**]
Bill Cipher: PX-8932.
Bill Cipher: Request: highlight new entries in italics.
Erelye: [**РХ-8932: ██████-class ████████-hazard. Location designated as extraterritorial, toward █████. *Do not search for РХ-8932 under any circumstances*. Beings attempting to do so will be terminated *immediately* following the discovery of such a plot. Similarly, nonmilitary entities attempting to enter extraterritorial space will immediately be ████████ ██ ███-██. Further information restricted to R5-██ class personnel.**]
Erelye: [**Request granted.**]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** РХ-5082 | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | РХ-9746 | РХ-1330
РХ-0861 | [REDACTED] | РХ-2805
<== | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: no new ones? okay.
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** *РХ-4731* | РХ-0233 | *РХ-7178*
*РХ-0880* | РХ-0481 | РХ-1537
*РХ-6124* | [REDACTED] | РХ-0122
<== | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: PX-4731
Erelye: [**РХ-4731: ███-class ochazard. Location designated as F9-χ. Activation is recommended, though arrival will be met with severe difficulty, due to █████████(?) ████ ████████ in general area. Contains the ████████. Further information restricted to R4-██ class personnel.**]
Bill Cipher: PX-7178
Erelye: [**РХ-7178: /-class █████hazard. Location designated as F9-█. *Do not engage*. Extraction to F1-0 requested and projected to occur within fifteen solar revolutions. Appears to possess core of РХ-2805. If so designated by РХ-5082, targets of РХ-7178 will be ███████ ████, ██ ███ █████ ███████, РХ-7178-1. Further information restricted to R5-██ class personnel.**]
Bill Cipher: PX-0880
Erelye: [**РХ-0880: ██████-class photohazard. Location designated as F18-β, approx. the uppermost floor of the ancient spire. *Do not engage*. Codename designated as "The Sound of Silence". What came first? The word, or the ███████? Do not permit interfacing with РХ-0520. Further information restricted to R5-██ class personnel.**]
Bill Cipher: PX-6124.
Erelye: [**РХ-6124: ██████-class photohazard. Usage restricted to direct commands from *The Overseer*, or confirmation from other R4 personnel. In the event of an accidental discharge, wipe affected entities from database, and otherwise terminate them. РХ-6124-1 are to be terminated, or placed under containment for heavy study. Utilization is saved primarily for internal crises, and █████ ████.**]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ==> **]
Bill Cipher: ==>
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | РХ-000/ | РХ-0000
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | ~~EXIT-B~~ **]
Bill Cipher: PX-000/
Erelye: [**РХ-000/: ARCADIA. ДьУОЫ КНИХТ ТИ ДЛУОW ЕБ ЫСАЕ ОТ ЕЕС. ССЕЛДРАГЕР, ТСУЙ ЕМАЛБ ЕХТ ГНИКЦУФ СТЛЕЦ. СьТАХТ ТАХW И ОД. AIDACRA. БЦЦМХ БХЕ ТГЛWА, БЛРОЕ ФГНТЫКА ИWР БВКНЙ БЕРИКБОМ АТ ВХЕУГТХЗПГ, ДВД БЦЦМХ ГОУИУЕОН ФОИ ПОW ХРАЗУИQО ЫОЛТ ЛРЗД АЕФ СДДИОИ, MALPEIYC. ЛИ ИЗГСВИ, ЫОЗНВ З ХМЗПВ УЛИ ГСВ ХРМХ ЛУ З ГСЛФХЗМW WРЗНЛМWХ. POLAROID. PFNAUWIDXRLCIOIUROOIROQGPQCARFKDSWLAZRIFGOLRTOLLPOTDRQZDPFNAUWIDXRLCIOIUROOIROQGPQCARFKDSWLAZRIFGOLRTOLLPOTDRQZDPFNAUWIDXRLCIOIUROOIROQGPQCARFKDSWLAZRIFGOLRTOLLPOTDRQZDPFNAUWIDXRLCIOIUROOIROQGPQCARFKDSWLAZRIFGOLRTOLLPOTDRQZDPFNAUWIDXRLCIOIUROOIROQGPQCARFKDSWLAZRIFGO///////////**]
Bill Cipher: holy fucking
Bill Cipher: The message is PFNAUWIDXRLCIOIUROOIROQGPQCARFKDSWLAZRIFGOLRTOLLPOTDRQZD
Bill Cipher: it's not atbash.
Bill Cipher: uh.
Nomble: It's vigenere
Bill Cipher: using ARCADIA gives many, many renditions of POLAROID.
Nomble: second one says ARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRAARCADIAAIDACRA
Bill Cipher: several are mispelled.
Bill Cipher: okay, yeah.
Bill Cipher: if the key is POLAROID then you get a shitton of ARCADIAs.
Bill Cipher: no idea what ДьУОЫ КНИХТ ТИ ДЛУОW ЕБ ЫСАЕ ОТ ЕЕС. ССЕЛДРАГЕР, ТСУЙ ЕМАЛБ ЕХТ ГНИКЦУФ СТЛЕЦ. СьТАХТ ТАХW И ОД. AIDACRA. БЦЦМХ БХЕ ТГЛWА, БЛРОЕ ФГНТЫКА ИWР БВКНЙ БЕРИКБОМ АТ ВХЕУГТХЗПГ, ДВД БЦЦМХ ГОУИУЕОН ФОИ ПОW ХРАЗУИQО ЫОЛТ ЛРЗД АЕФ СДДИОИ, MALPEIYC. ЛИ ИЗГСВИ, ЫОЗНВ З ХМЗПВ УЛИ ГСВ ХРМХ ЛУ З ГСЛФХЗМW WРЗНЛМWХ. means.
Bill Cipher: I think I know what I'm using my translation credit for.
Erelye: [**Please use the official Kristalli guidelines. http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/russian_conversion.htm **]
Bill Cipher: oh boy.
Bill Cipher: D’UOY KNIHT TI DLUOW EB YSAE OT EES. SSELDRAGER, TSUJ EMALB EHT GNIKCUF STLEC. S’TAHT TAHW I OD. AIDACRA. BCCMH BHE TGLWA, BLROE FGNTYKA IWR BVKNJ BERIKBOM AT VHEUGTHZPG, DVD BCCMH GOUIUEON FOI POW HRAZUIQO YOLT LRZD AEF SDDIOI, MALPEIYC. LI IZGSVI, YOZNV Z HMZPV ULI GSV HRMH LU Z GSLFHZMW WRZNLMWH.
Bill Cipher: YOU'D THINK IT WOULD BE EAWSY TO SEE. JUST BLAME THE FUCKING CELTS. THAT'S WHAT I DO. AIDACRA.
Bill Cipher: don't know what the rest says, trying to find out.
Bill Cipher: it's not atbash or ceasar.
Bill Cipher: there we go.
Bill Cipher: ARCADIA gives... BLAME THE CELTS, BLAME CYNTHIA FOR BEING TERRIBLE AT EFERYTHING, AND BLAME YOURSELF FOR NOT ZRAISING YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, MALPEIYC.
Bill Cipher: were the F and Z intentional typos?\
Erelye: ((The translator sometimes equivocates letters with each other, like f and z, and h and x.))
Bill Cipher: ah.
Bill Cipher: OR RATHER, BLAME A SNAKE FOR THE SINS OF A THOUSAND DIAMONDS.
Bill Cipher: WHAT THE FUCK???
Erelye: [** [REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | [REDACTED] | [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] | РХ-000/ | РХ-0000
~~<==~~ | ~~EXIT~~ | EXIT-B **]
Bill Cipher: THERE ARE A THOUSAND DIAMONDS? IS THAT HYPERBOLE?
Bill Cipher: I FEEL LIKE THE MYSTERY SHACK'S WEATHER VANE THING RIGHT NOW
Bill Cipher: PX-0000
Erelye: [**РХ-0000: Ru blf'iv ivzwrmt gsrh, R'n DZUUOVH mld. Buwysijiowj, elw knqd apsye N hlr ta mdxppxee nx tr lde *Ifco Jkor*! N ssha ytz prbky ████, bol mfbbuyieq difphrfej dfufkj! Qf gaane jyds amjekorf, hdw d edeb, zmw hvoo blfi *ofmth* zg gsv mvzivhg Zvhgsvgrz! .. / .-. . -- .- .. -. --..-- █████.**]
Bill Cipher: I already did that one.
Bill Cipher: Doesn't say anything different, does it?
Bill Cipher: Nope, doesn't look like it.
Bill Cipher: EXIT-B
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**Please stand by. Or, blame the Celts.**]
Erelye: [**VENI, VIDI, VICI.**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**Your name is ПЕРЛИЛ-ДРАХИС.**]
Erelye: [**The solar year, in human reckoning, is precisely 1987 CE. You are currently leaning against the wall directly beside the gates to the palace of one АМА-ДРАХИС on the planet Myrhyr in Facet Fifty-Five. You have requested to convene with her in a diplomatic meeting regarding the outbreak of war between Green Diamond forces and the agents of Grayhold Citadel.**]
Erelye: [**You have done this so you can kill her.**]
Erelye: [**What will you do?**]
Bill Cipher: ((what in the fuck.))
Bill Cipher: ((I don't feel qualified to do this????? hm. I'll give it a shot anyway.))
Erelye: [*If anyone's qualified, it's you, or Purple, kid.*]
Bill Cipher: ((her name is PERLIL-DRAHIS, in the palace of AMA-DRAHIS.))
Bill Cipher: ((and I feel like I've seen all this lore but don't really *get* what it means? I don't know. maybe I know more than I think.))
Erelye: [**DRAXIS. Diamond.**]
Bill Cipher: ((I know that green diamond's made of 9 or so gems and they're being used to fuel some horrible thing, from what I can recall.))
Bill Cipher: wait.
Bill Cipher: RIGHT.
Bill Cipher: so I'm a diamond, set to assassinate another diamond/
Bill Cipher: cool.
Bill Cipher: >Examine surroundings.
Erelye: [**You are leaning against the wall near the gates, as was aforementioned. Security gave you a second glance, given your... condition, but your authority prevails over all. The gates will open with but a touch.**]
Erelye: [**The sky above is burning red with dying light. You have a feeling it will be a successful evening, to say the least.**]
Bill Cipher: > Condition?
Erelye: [**A byproduct of the manufacture of the *Sentinel*. You have been scorched so irrevocably by radiation that your gem has burnt black.**]
Erelye: [**It concerns you little. Your mind is all that matters.**]
Bill Cipher: ((So this is Black Diamond?))
Erelye: [**More of a gray, if you'd say so yourself. Still, they call you White Diamond. Hah.**]
Bill Cipher: Understood.
Bill Cipher: > Gate operator, open the gates!
Erelye: [**You take a step toward the gates. They seem to open with a glance. The palace awaits, with many guards, from lapises to star sapphires, standing about. They all seem to tense up when they see you.**]
Bill Cipher: > Give a remark equivalent to "At ease, soldier," or something.
Erelye: [**You roll your eyes at them, and calmly remark, "CALM YOURSELVES." The tension does not fade, but they split apart, heading back to their posts.**]
Bill Cipher: >>quietly remarks
Bill Cipher: >>all-caps
Bill Cipher: beautiful.
Bill Cipher: > Examine surroundings in the palace.
Erelye: [**You can't help that your imminence bleeds into speech.**]
Erelye: [**The palace is full of life, certainly. Interesting to see from a Blue Diamond, perhaps, but it isn't as if anyone has seen any sort of P-no. You choose not to get into that. Regardless, fine stone stairs directly ahead leap upward, whereas doors to your left and right end two twin hallways. The one to the right smells of rousseaux, for whatever reason.**]
Bill Cipher: Examine right door.
Erelye: [**You look over to the door on the right. It appears to be composed of some sort of limestone, with an artisanal hand activator inscribed into the center.**]
Bill Cipher: > Activate.
Erelye: [**You place your left hand on the device. It glows blue, and slides apart, revealing some sort of underwater garden. Bales of rousseaux are piled up in a corner, explaining the noise. Regardless, organics scurry about, lapping up water from what appears to be an indoor artificial stream in the window-cast evening light.**]
Bill Cipher: > Is this the way to Green Diamond?
Erelye: [**What? Green Diamond isn't here. This is the palace of Blue Diamond, as you said. The one you are here to kill. Green Diamond comes later. You'd rather not get ahead of yourself.**]
Erelye: [**Either way, Blue Diamond isn't here.**]
Bill Cipher: W H O O P S
Bill Cipher: Sorry.
Bill Cipher: Move on, then. Up the stairs.
Erelye: [**You traverse the stairs. They appear to terminate at some grand hallway, with a central luscious blue carpet. Not any sort of inferior blue, at least. Well, yet.**]
Erelye: [**There is a large door at the end of the hall.**]
Bill Cipher: > Check inventory. Do you have one?
Erelye: [**Oh, you've got your inventory space stored up in that scorched gem on your forehead, certainly. There's the Dull Surrogate, a vial of eldersalt, and a lovingly-handwritten letter from the blue one herself, asking concernedly that you come discuss the issue you had mentioned in your previous letter in her palace.**]
Bill Cipher: The Dull Surrogate?
Erelye: [**Yes, yes. One of the prototypes. You made it yourself. You doubt you'll have to use it here.**]
Bill Cipher: :/ alright then.
Bill Cipher: Go down the stairs, check left door.
Bill Cipher: Large door looks ominous; don't go through it yet.
Erelye: [**You check the door to the left. The room within is filled with a combination of calculating prehnites and data screens. None of them notice you. Oh, and there's a sea glass hooked up to the central power system, as well. Ethically, as well. Certainly better than cronies of Green Diamond do it. You're impressed.**]
Bill Cipher: Leave them be. Enter ominous door.
Erelye: [**You unseal the ominous door. As it is sliding apart, you hear laughing being quieted, and the sound of someone being carefully placed down on a stone floor. You enter silently. *She's* on the far end of the room, with her Pearl.**]
Erelye: [**Windows all about tint the scene with light blood.**]
Bill Cipher: I wonder who *She* could be???????
Erelye: [**:/: O /|\ O :\:**]
Bill Cipher: >What does She have to say?
Erelye: [**Blue gently grabs the wrist of the pearl, and twists around, muttering something. She proceeds to run across the hall to you. She opens her mouth, and...**]
Erelye: [**GAME :/: O /|\ O :\: PAUSED**]
Erelye: ((/AFK. So sorry. I'll be back as quick as I can.))
Bill Cipher: It's fine.
Erelye: ((/UNAFK.))
Erelye: [**Worry in her eyes, the first thing that comes out of her mouth is, "Holy shit. Are you okay? Your gem's... burnt.**]
Bill Cipher: > "Oh, you know. Just some radiation. It doesn't bother me."
Erelye: [**"Are you... sure?"**]
Erelye: [**"I know how you like to hide these things away, White. What even caused this?"**]
Bill Cipher: ((Does She know about the *Sentinel?*
Erelye: ((Not at all.))
Bill Cipher: Apologies. /afk
Erelye: Ping me when you return, please.
Bill Cipher: <@179312636616245248>
Bill Cipher: Back.
Erelye: Welcome.
Erelye: [**How do you respond?**]
Bill Cipher: If she doesn't know about the *Sentinel,* then I've gotta lie...
Bill Cipher: hmm....
Bill Cipher: What would be a convincing lie...
Erelye: [**Remember why you're here?**]
Erelye: [**Well, why you *said* you were.**]
Bill Cipher: Right.
Bill Cipher: ((I'm sorry for being dumb. But the Sentinel - and her gem being scorched - is it connected to the war between Green Diamond/Grayhold? So I could tie it into that subject?))
Erelye: ((You aren't dumb.)) [**The Sentinel is to be the one to end this war.**]
Bill Cipher: ((Understood.))
Bill Cipher: It's about the war. The one I came here to talk to you about. The forces of Green Diamond and the agents of the Citadel - you know the one.
Erelye: [**Blue frowns immediately. "They did *this*? Ugh. This is what happens when you get stick a murderous god and an insane psychopathic trickster into an otherwise normal fusion. Is there anything I can do to help?"**]
Bill Cipher: ((Yes. You could die.))
Bill Cipher: :mspa:
Erelye: :mspa:
Bill Cipher: > Go over how the Dull Surrogate works, in your head.
Erelye: [**You twist the top pyramid of the octahedron, it senses your position as *The Overseer*, and promptly hacks into your target's gem(s), copies the AI data over, and wipes the original copy off the face of existence. But that's only if you can get a direct shot.**]
Bill Cipher: the... octahedron.
Bill Cipher: I s   t h i s   t h e   A b y s s a l   O d d i t y ?
Erelye: [***An* octahedron. No.**]
Erelye: [**Or, not directly.**]
Bill Cipher: Alright.
Bill Cipher: So, what can Blue help.... And what side is White on? Is she neutral?
Erelye: [**You are the ruler of the Citadel. You are by no means neutral.**]
Bill Cipher: oh. w o w .
Bill Cipher: blue doesn't like green's forces, then? (*They* did this?)
Erelye: [**Blue doesn't like the *Ashen God* and *РХ-5082*, along with their major role in running the military of their green order.**]
Bill Cipher: I'
Erelye: [**That would be accurate.**]
Bill Cipher: You could help, yes. By joining our your forces and the Citadel's agents together, ((she's got an army, what kind of Diamond doesn't?)) we could drive Her forces back.
Bill Cipher: ((BEFORE YOU RESPOND.))
Bill Cipher: ((WAIT.))
Erelye: Waiting.
Bill Cipher: ((I'm figuring out the politics of this whole thing. White is against Green, Blue is against Green.))
Bill Cipher: ((This makes White and Blue allies.))
Bill Cipher: ((So why the hell does White want to kill Blue??))
Erelye: [**/**.]
Bill Cipher: ((...Solidus.))
Bill Cipher: Alright you can respond now.
Erelye: [**Blue thinks it over. "Yeah. Yes. I guess I... *we*, have to fight this. As long as we are as smart with this as we can be." The pearl looks to Blue, and she responds with a love-filled smile and wink. You resist the urge to cut her down where she stands to continue the talk.**]
Bill Cipher: Of course we'll be smart about it. We're not diamonds for nothing.
Bill Cipher: ((Hmmm. If I kill Blue, won't her pearl attack? Or sound an alarm?))
Bill Cipher: ((But if I kill Pearl first, then Blue will obviously be all "what in the fuck?"))
Erelye: [**Please enter command.**]
Bill Cipher: I said a line of dialogue???
Erelye: Apologies.
Erelye: [**"That's a... dangerous line of thinking.**]
Bill Cipher: War is dangerous. But we can get through it. It will just take some work.
Bill Cipher: > Contemplate when the right time to strike would be.
Erelye: [**"You're right. Of course. What's your strategy, anyways?"**]
Erelye: [**You think any moment would be the right time. You have the element of surprise. The perfect moment, however, eludes you.**]
Bill Cipher: hmmm.... strategy.
Bill Cipher: knowing so much about the citadel's military, I can definitely answer this.
Bill Cipher: :mspa:
Bill Cipher: oh man, I've got a great hard-boiled line
Bill Cipher: but it would involve her assassination
Erelye: Hah.
Erelye: You know how Kalare would do it, likely. This is Grayhold. They essentially have the same methods.
Bill Cipher: So what you're saying is, imperialistic arcane sorcery concentrated in highly effective yet insanely complicated superweapons?
Erelye: [***Read: orbital corruption strikes*, you think to yourself.**]
Bill Cipher: Okay, cool. I was right.
Bill Cipher: :mspa:
Bill Cipher: Picture this. We wage war using our combined armies quietly and effectively. We manuever the battle into a small corner of the planet, where we can concentrate their entire army. Then... orbital corruption strike. Hopefully, our armies can make it to safety beforehand.
Erelye: [**"Hmm. You think we can actually keep them in on Clarien in Facet Eight? I mean, Green's empire's pretty vast."**]
Bill Cipher: ((idea. have her pearl go get a map or something? distract blue, kill her.))
Bill Cipher: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Erelye: [**There's a small problem in that Blue actually treats that pearl like her equal. Alas, for slavery is dead in the realm of the blue.**]
Bill Cipher: ((Ah, damnit. No wonder they're insufferable.))
Bill Cipher: ((could I affect both Blue and her Pearl with the Surrogate at the same time?))
Erelye: [**Five gems at once? You *might* be able to do it, but it'd be a better bet to just summon the *Autumnal Hand*, and stab through both of them.**]
Bill Cipher: You didn't tell me I had a stab weapon.
Bill Cipher: (Okay, that's going in nocontext.)
Erelye: [**Summoned weapons aren't strictly items, of course.**]
Erelye: ((Hah. Yes.))
Bill Cipher: alright, gonna talk.
Bill Cipher: I'm confident I can. I'm great at dealing with problems.
Bill Cipher: > Keep waiting for perfect moment.
Erelye: [**"The fact that there aren't any Carinians within the galaxy proves that, White."**]
Erelye: [**You can practically sense the moment creeping closer and closer.**]
Bill Cipher: So! How about we start dealing with this problem right away?
Erelye: [**"Oh! Uh, okay. I'll just turn the holomaps on with the throne over there, be right back." She walks over to the throne at the back of the room. The pearl is too focused on Blue heading her way to really see you.**]
Bill Cipher: White grins.
Bill Cipher: ***Me first.***
Bill Cipher: > [S] Collide.
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / ¯¯\_(◊)_/¯¯ / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: you dropped something there, buddy. **\**
Erelye: ((Just pretend that thing in the middle exists. It does in the editor.))
Bill Cipher: \test
Bill Cipher: [ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / ¯\_(◊)_/¯ / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE ](edited
Bill Cipher: spooky.
Bill Cipher: oh, I thought I'd be able to do it one clear shot.
Bill Cipher: We're doing a battle menu?
Erelye: [**You might be able to, actually.**]
Erelye: [**Depending on your choice.**]
Bill Cipher: the middle option?
Bill Cipher: that looks like it.
Bill Cipher: either that or ANNIHILATE.
Erelye: [**Preface choice with >.**]
Bill Cipher: oh boy....
Bill Cipher: > ¯\_(◊)_/¯
Erelye: [** :/: O /|\ O :\: | ~~8~~ | SOLIDUS **]
Bill Cipher: historically, the middle option is the superpower.
Bill Cipher: OH MY FUCKING GOD.
Bill Cipher: I JUST REALIZED WHY THERE'S AN 8 THERE.
Bill Cipher: W. O. W.
Yung Venuz: mind = blow
Bill Cipher: i'm stupid.
Bill Cipher: explain what :/: O /|\ O :\: does?
Erelye: [**You'd take out that eldersalt in your gem, and call up a business partner of yours.**]
Bill Cipher: And SOLIDUS?
Erelye: [**SOLIDUS is for the Surrogate.**]
Bill Cipher: ~~8~~?
Erelye: [**Call forth ophidious insight in a split second.**]
Erelye: [**Which is certainly free of time.**]
Erelye: [**Unlike REGRESS. Hah.**]
Bill Cipher: just like talking is a free action.
Erelye: [**Yes.**]
Bill Cipher: so, ANNIHILATE uses the autumnal hand, then.
Erelye: [**Correct.**]
Bill Cipher: damn, should have chosen that.
Bill Cipher: it's more risky to use the surrogate.
Bill Cipher: whatever. no going back now.
Bill Cipher: ...
Bill Cipher: ***SOLIDUS***
Bill Cipher: ((was there going back, if so, f        u        c        k))
Erelye: [**Please preface your option with a >. Also, there *is*. Not *was*.**]
Bill Cipher: > BACK
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / (◊) / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: > ANNIHILATE. Go for both of them at once. No mercy.
Bill Cipher: ***None.***
Bill Cipher: But try to do it as cleanly as possible and with little noise?
Erelye: [**In a split second, you pull the scythe from your gem, and silently rush down the hall. Before anyone knows what is happening, Blue gets a harvest blade through the back. The blade impales the pearl as well as it pins them both to the wall.**]
Erelye: !roll 1 10
Erelye: [**...**]
Bill Cipher: fuck.
Erelye: [**The pearl explodes in a blast of shining dust. Blue, still in shock, forces the blade out of her body. Whirling around, she seems dazed. "Wh...what?"**]
Bill Cipher: "but it'd be a better bet to just summon the Autumnal Hand, and stab through both of them."
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / (◊) / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: "but it'd be a better bet"
Bill Cipher: ***"it'd be a better bet"***
Erelye: [**It was.**]
Bill Cipher: :mspa:
Bill Cipher: Realistically, panic. That's what I would do.
Bill Cipher: Actually, though...
Erelye: [**Fucked up? That's what REGRESS is for.**]
Bill Cipher: *Try* to swing again? Blue's dazed. I might be able to get another shot.
Bill Cipher: But that'd be riskier, wouldn't it.
Erelye: [**Please remember to preface combat actions with >.**]
Bill Cipher: No, I know.
Bill Cipher: I'm just thinking to myself.
Erelye: [**Noted.**]
Bill Cipher: When I make an actual decision I'll preface it.
Bill Cipher: I guess I fucked up, so.
Bill Cipher: > REGRESS.
Erelye: [**You mutter a quick "ТРЕВОЛОФТ," and raise your left hand slightly.**]
Erelye: [**Ylthgils dnah tfel ruoy esiar dna///////**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**You roll your eyes at them, and quietly remark, "CALM YOURSELVES." The tension does not fade, but they split apart, heading back to their posts.**]
Erelye: [**You roll your eyes as they disperse. The initial attempt proved to be an adject failure.**]
Bill Cipher: UH.
Bill Cipher: Mutter "Life is strange" to yourself.
Erelye: Hah.
Bill Cipher: * You tell BLUE DIAMOND you tried to kill her once before.
Bill Cipher: * She nods sadly.
Bill Cipher: All jokes aside, go for the Ominous Door.
Erelye: [**You enter the palace proper once more, and stop directly outside the ominous door.**]
Erelye: [**What shall you attempt this time?**]
Bill Cipher: Everything was working before, up until the actual killing blow.
Bill Cipher: Hm.
Bill Cipher: > "Hello, Blue."
Erelye: [**Do you open the door first?**]
Erelye: [**Or do you just speak to a sealed Ominous Door?**]
Yung Venuz: >yes
Bill Cipher: KEK.
Bill Cipher: > Open the door.
Bill Cipher: > Then talk.
Nomble: :topkek:
Yung Venuz: all of those jokes are topkek
Erelye: [**The door opens. You say the words.**]
Erelye: [**Blue's eyes widen the second she sees you. "Holy shit, are you alright? Your gem is... scorched?"**]
Bill Cipher: "I try not to let it concern me. The mind is more important. But yes, my gem is... scorched. It has to do with the war, you see. The ongoing war between Green Diamond and my Citadel."
Erelye: [**She seems to almost... growl, this time. "What did they *do* to you? We... we should have shut them down a long time ago."**]
Bill Cipher: "I agree. Which is why I had hoped to compare battle plans with you. Our combined forces could be enough to bring Green's army into one spot, where we can fire at will. Orbital corruption strikes are pretty effective, I'd say. Would you be willing to help?"
Erelye: [**"Of... of course! It's out of the question. I'll go pull up the maps."**]
Erelye: [**She turns once more. Everything is precisely in line.**]
Bill Cipher: Excellent.
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / (◊) / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: > ANNIHILATE. *Try* to have a more favorable outcome this time.
Erelye: !roll 1 11
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**You REGRESS five seconds prior to your selection of a mode of attack instinctually.**]
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / (◊) / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: G. D. I.
Bill Cipher: > ANNIHILATE. Silently pray to the RNGesus you know exists.
Erelye: !roll 1 12
Bill Cipher: Thank RNGesus.
Erelye: [**You thank RNGesus.**]
Erelye: [**You immediately impale Blue through the back, and the pearl through the chest. The pearl poofs instantly, and you draw the scythe from Blue, watching. She collapses, surprisingly not poofing. You can see the gem on the middle of her chest was pierced slightly from behind.**]
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / (◊) / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: Oh, goddamnit.
Bill Cipher: Try ANNIHILATING again? She's collapsed. It should work.
Erelye: !roll 1 10
Erelye: [**You kick her over slightly, and proceed to slash through all four of her gems in a straight line. They all crack. She is left within half an inch of her life, unable to react to the brutal and unexpected execution from one of her best friends.**]
Erelye: [**ANNIHILATE / REGRESS / (◊) / RETALIATE / DEMORALIZE **]
Bill Cipher: jesus fuck.
Bill Cipher: ...should I regress? that seems brutal.
Erelye: "We're not diamonds for nothing."
Bill Cipher: UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Bill Cipher: MY OWN WORDS
Bill Cipher: BROUGHT BACK TO HAUNT ME
Bill Cipher: F   U      C            K
Bill Cipher: Bubble the shards?
Yung Venuz: Lets move this along.
Erelye: [**You'll have a hard time trying to bubble cracked gems still in a physical form.**]
Yung Venuz: First, >ANNIHILATE. Finish her.
Bill Cipher: Oh wait.
Bill Cipher: Didn't realize she was still formed. Thought she'd poofed.
Yung Venuz: Yeah, that.
Bill Cipher: > ANNIHILATE. Swing your sword into her chest, in the middle of her four gems.
Erelye: !roll 1 10
Erelye: [**You swing your *scythe* through all four of her gems, pulling out the Dull Surrogate with one hand.**]
Erelye: [**They all shatter at once. In the nick of time, you steal all of their data.**]
Erelye: [**Now what?**]
Bill Cipher: > "...Arrivederci, Azure." You speak into nothingness.
Bill Cipher: > Bubble the gems.
Erelye: [**You speak off into the nothingness as you bubble up some galaxite, labradorite, bloodshot iolite, and aventurine, taking the pearl to replace the one who was scorched to death by your Sentinel.**]
Bill Cipher: >>taking the pearl to replace
Bill Cipher: *shudders*
Erelye: [**A reply of "What. The. Fuck." is returned to you from behind the carnage.**]
insert_generic_username: rip
Bill Cipher: OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH SWEET JESUS FUCK
Bill Cipher: > Turn around calmly and say ~~"Can I help you?"~~
Erelye: [**You turn around silently. There, a lapis lazuli stands, staring at you, your four bubbles, and your autumnal hand stained with azure dust, eyes wide and full of fear.**]
insert_generic_username: rip
insert_generic_username: them, not us
Bill Cipher: Don't tell me this is Azure Lapis
Erelye: [**At this point in time Azure Lapis is -7 years old.**]
Bill Cipher: Good to know.
Bill Cipher: should I just... you know.... kill her?
insert_generic_username: >kill the child
insert_generic_username: oh wait it's probably not a child
insert_generic_username: uh
insert_generic_username: >kill anyways
Erelye: [**The lazuli lets out a little gasp as you casually and ruthlessly decapitate her. You grab her gem. You suppose РХ-0233-2 could use a little spacing in the pressurization process.**]
Bill Cipher: Urghhhhhh
Bill Cipher: Not kosher
Bill Cipher: > Leave before you attract any more attention. Your work here is done.
Erelye: [**Are you saying you're going to walk straight out of the main hall of the throne room with four bubbles containing the corpse of a major galactic leader, and two other victims, straight into a courtyard of guards?**]
Bill Cipher: No, obviously.
Bill Cipher: Find another way out.
Nomble: yes /s
Bill Cipher: And/or get rid of the bubbles.
Bill Cipher: Can't you bubble them somewhere else?
Erelye: [**You look to the windows showing you the dying evening sun, and send the bubbles to your ship, back outside the gates.**]
insert_generic_username: >figure out where the nearest cleaning area is
Bill Cipher: > Return to your ship. Can you walk back through the palace without detecting suspiscion?
Bill Cipher: Or will people ask where Blue is?
Erelye: [**The guards might be confused as to why the meeting took around ten minutes. The question is whether or not Blue would have given them permission to talk like that to Diamonds.**]
Bill Cipher: Hm.
Bill Cipher: > Search for any alternate exits. But then, the guards will investigate and wonder why both Diamonds left...
Bill Cipher: > Search anyway.
Erelye: [**You're pretty sure your options are exiting through the main entrance, the throne room windows, or the artificial stream in the rousseaux-smelling room.**]
insert_generic_username: ...
Bill Cipher: Eh, if we just mess up, we can REGRESS, right??
Erelye: [**Always. Life is strange, after all. Very, very strange.**]
Bill Cipher: Hah.
Bill Cipher: > Escape through the artificial stream.
Erelye: [**You promptly walk down the stairs, take a left, and leap straight into the stream.**]
Erelye: [**Like the majestic salmon about you, you manage to hand-climb up a rock face, and reach some sort of sewer.**]
Erelye: [**A highly-decorated sewer, but a sewer nonetheless.**]
Bill Cipher: Beautiful.
Bill Cipher: > Head through the sewer.
Erelye: [**You pass through the sewer, noting some maroon spray paint reading the words '*FISH CAN POP*' on the wall, and reach a manhole.**]
Bill Cipher: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bill Cipher: WE'VE BRIDGED THE GAP BETWEEN CANON, BOYS
Bill Cipher: > Head through the manhole.
Erelye: [**You blink as you head up, and notice another bit of maroon paint, seemingly having just appeared. '*That's the idea. I see all, Green. All of that shit's still fake, though.*' You end up right next to your ship, funnily enough.**]
Bill Cipher: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Erelye: [**Now what?**]
Bill Cipher: > Enter your ship, and... leave, I suppose. You've done what you came here to do.
Erelye: [**You board your ship, and program a course for F1-0. You step up to the bridge, folding your hands behind your back. Two down, one to go. You have a feeling this war is going to be quicker than expected.**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**PSCH-PSCHIIING!**]
Erelye: [**You feel a sharp sensation in your neck, and drop to the floor, suddenly feeling incredibly fatigued.**]
Erelye: [**You look up, weakly whispering out Cyan's name.**]
Erelye: [**Everything begins to fade. You feel something, or someone, move past you, away.**]
Erelye: [**BANG.**]
Erelye: [**///**]
Erelye: [**V.V.V.**]
Erelye: **PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MODULES / MUSIC / SOLIDUS (3) / CREDITS / QUIT**