[Afterstuck] Cary: Enter

[20:12] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Close, but I'm no Troll. It's a tree house, laddie
[20:13] <emptyMetacog> EM: 0h.  S0rry.
[20:13] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Wait, hand on
[20:14] <phantomAbsolution> I turn around, looking over my shoulder and around the room.
[20:14] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Did you mean you see me?
[20:15] <emptyMetacog> EM: Um.  L'm n0t sure?
[20:16] <phantomAbsolution> I give the thin air, and not Mara, a middle finger
[20:16] <phantomAbsolution> PA: What do you mean by you see a hive?
[20:17] <emptyMetacog> EM: There ls a hlve 0n the screen n0w.
[20:17] <emptyMetacog> L entered y0ur handle llke y0u sald.
[20:18] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Does it have two red heads? Is it in a tree?
[20:19] <emptyMetacog> EM: Um.  L supp0se s0?
[20:20] <phantomAbsolution> I give another look around the room
[20:20] <phantomAbsolution> PA: This must be the work of a Spirit
[20:21] <emptyMetacog> EM: What?
[20:23] <phantomAbsolution> I stand up and walk around the chair three times, hoping Mara's gaze isn't too intense. Then I seat myself again
[20:24] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Did one of them just get up for a walk nowhere?
[20:24] <emptyMetacog> EM: Yes.
[20:24] <Grant> its p intense.
[20:26] <phantomAbsolution> Damn, looks like I'm going to have to explain myself.
[20:26] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Then you're looking at me. But from where?
[20:26] <emptyMetacog> EM: Um.  Fr0m my hlve.
[20:29] <phantomAbsolution> PA: So is that what this program does? It allows for spying but needs consent?
[20:29] <emptyMetacog> EM: Lt w0uld seem s0.
[20:30] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Is there anything else? What's it look like from your end other then the eye candy?
[20:31] <emptyMetacog> EM: The what?
[20:31] <phantomAbsolution> I laugh to myself
[20:31] <phantomAbsolution> PA: It's nothing, just a joke
[20:32] <emptyMetacog> EM: 0h.
[20:32] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Can you see anything that isn't me or my house?
[20:32]  * emptyMetacog looks at the screen.
[20:35] <emptyMetacog> ((Grant))
[20:35] <phantomAbsolution> ((Wait, then what's Tophet been looking at until now? :D))
[20:35] <emptyMetacog> ((Probably Dog))
[20:41] <emptyMetacog> Grant please
[21:01] <Grant> Um.
[21:02] <Grant> Not really. You can zoom out a bit though,
[21:02] <Grant> Nothing else besodes some more grass, some more tree, and some more them
[21:02] <emptyMetacog> EM: L can see 0utslde 0f y0ur h0use.
[21:04] <phantomAbsolution> PA: This is some interesting tech. But how's it saving our arses?
[21:05] <emptyMetacog> EM: L am n0t sure.
[21:06] <Grant> You see an entire screen of options.
[21:06] <Grant> Listed is the ability to Place or Edit. Some other stuff I
[21:06] <Grant> m probably not remembering
[21:06]  * emptyMetacog tries Place.
[21:08] <Grant> It brings up a page that has five items on it. One is labeled distinctly in gray and the others are labeled as this.
[21:08] <Grant> Alchemiter, Totem Lathe, Cruxtruder, Prepunched Card.
[21:08]  * emptyMetacog clicks Alchemiter.
[21:09] <Grant> A pad like construction appears from nowhere where the mouses last position was at.
[21:09]  * emptyMetacog blinks.
[21:09] <emptyMetacog> EM: Apparently that.
[21:10] <phantomAbsolution> I give Mara a shocked look that quickly morphs to excitement
[21:10] <Grant> Mara was right under it, she ran for cover
[21:11] <phantomAbsolution> Well, of course she was, where else would she be?
[21:11] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Huh, wasn't expecting that. You?
[21:11] <emptyMetacog> EM: L was n0t.
[21:12] <phantomAbsolution> "You ok?" I call out to Mara
[21:13] <Grant> "Uh huh." You get. "Think I'll stay over here though."
[21:13] <phantomAbsolution> I laugh. "Suit yourself"
[21:14] <phantomAbsolution> PA: What else do you have, or was that it?
[21:14] <emptyMetacog> EM: F0ur m0re.
[21:15]  * emptyMetacog deploys the others in sequence.
[21:15] <Grant> Not really space *in* the house.
[21:15] <emptyMetacog> Outside is fine too.
[21:15] <Grant> Yes.
[21:16] <Grant> You drop the Cruxtruder and Totem Lathe outside.
[21:16] <Grant> The Punched Card is not too big for inside!
[21:16] <emptyMetacog> Oh cool, that one can go inside then.  And the last one, the grey one?
[21:17] <phantomAbsolution> PA: That everything you can do to help? Is it now on me?
[21:17] <emptyMetacog> EM: L... thlnk s0?  Let me try s0methlng else.
[21:17] <Grant> It does not like to be clicked!
[21:17]  * emptyMetacog abandons the last thing and tries to Edit instead.
[21:17] <Grant> Ah yes that option I remember now.
[21:18] <Grant> Your mouse turns into an edit cursor.
[21:20]  * emptyMetacog clicks something with it.
[21:21] <Grant> Like what?
[21:21] <emptyMetacog> An open patch of floor.
[21:21] <Grant> Okay. The floor starts glowing.
[21:22] <phantomAbsolution> I simply watch, seeing where this goes
[21:22]  * emptyMetacog tries again somewhere else.
[21:23] <Grant> Depending on where elsewhere is, that patch of floor and the original patch now have a huge stretch of the first material.
[21:24] <emptyMetacog> Just some more ground.
[21:25] <Grant> Now the floors outside too.
[21:26] <emptyMetacog> EM: ... 00ps.
[21:27] <phantomAbsolution> PA: So it does interior decorating as well?
[21:27] <emptyMetacog> EM: Apparently.
[21:27] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Anyway, give me a min to look at these machines
[21:27] <emptyMetacog> EM: 0f c0urse.  Take y0ur tlme.
[21:30] <phantomAbsolution> I leave the computer to inspect the machines. The large one in the main room doesn't look like there's anything I can do with it right now, it's just big and... platformy. I leave the house to inspect the other two. One is long, think, with what looks like a drill or carver. I have nothing to carve.
[21:31] <Grant> Doggo borks.
[21:31]  * emptyMetacog pets doggo!
[21:31] <Grant> Doggo is PET~
[21:32] <emptyMetacog> "G00d b0y."
[21:32] <phantomAbsolution> So I move onto the third and last machine. It has a large, blocked chimney structure, a hand crank, and a few... screens? Hmm, this looks like the only one I can actually do something with.
[21:32] <phantomAbsolution> Before I move on though, I inspect the card, see if it has any clues
[22:01] <Grant> The card doesnt have many. Simply the visage of an american president.
[22:02] <phantomAbsolution> ...Who's this douchebag?
[22:03] <phantomAbsolution> With that being useless, I move onto the chimney machine. With the only real option on that being the handcrank, I give it a few spins
[22:03] <Grant> Roll To STRENGTH
[22:03] <phantomAbsolution> =10
[22:04] <Grant> You wrest the thing around.
[22:04] <Grant> ...or try to.
[22:04] <Grant> Mara snickers.
[22:05] <phantomAbsolution> I giggle at that before pulling out a rudimentary phone. It's a pile of shite, but it gets the job done
[22:05] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Any help here?
[22:06] <emptyMetacog> EM: L d0 n0t belleve s0.
[22:06] <Grant> A heavy voice appears behind the abomination.
[22:06] <Grant> "Oh... you started..."
[22:06] <Grant> BORK
[22:07]  * emptyMetacog jumps.  "L'm s0rry, were we n0t supp0sed t0?"
[22:07] <Grant> Mara walks up behind you and offers her own assistance.
[22:07] <Grant> "Let me try?"
[22:08] <phantomAbsolution> "Of course" I say with a enthusiastic tone, moving out of her way
[22:08] <Grant> The bonely dude shakes his head. "No... that is... fine... i am sorry... for falling... asleep..."
[22:09] <Grant> Mara steps up and points at one of her arms. You see it get a tad more muscular. Roll a die 20 + 2 ty
[22:09] <emptyMetacog> "Lt's alrlght.  Y0u must have been exhausted."
[22:10] <phantomAbsolution> = 7+2 = 9
[22:11] <Grant> Mara strains against the wheel, starting to blush from more than just the excersice. Bone dude who really should introduce himself at some point offers the advice of dropping something heavy atop it.
[22:11] <phantomAbsolution> I giggle again. Goddamn it Mara
[22:13] <emptyMetacog> "But they're t00 cl0se."
[22:13] <Grant> By sheer coincidence Mara moves away at that moment
[22:14] <emptyMetacog> "0h.  Never mlnd."
[22:14]  * emptyMetacog grabs one of the other machines and drags it on top of the cruxtruder.
[22:15] <Grant> W-which
[22:15] <emptyMetacog> Let's say the lathe.
[22:15] <phantomAbsolution> ((>The Cruxtruder))
[22:15] <Grant> Roll to hit.
[22:15] <emptyMetacog> ((The tall round thing))
[22:15] <phantomAbsolution> ((>Strat drops a machine upon itself, breaking reality further))
[22:16] <emptyMetacog> ((What mod?))
[22:16] <Grant> Int
[22:16] <emptyMetacog> !Roll 1d20+4
[22:16] <emptyMetacog> Oh yeah no dicebot
[22:16] <emptyMetacog> 3+4=7
[22:16] <Grant> Wow
[22:17] <Grant> Somehow everyone completely fails
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[22:18] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Give a warning before you try that again. Please
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[22:18] <phantomAbsolution> PA: Give a warning before you try that again. Please
[22:18] <emptyMetacog> EM: 0h.  Rlght.  S0rry.
[22:18] <Grant> The skeleteon boi hums in genuine concern.
[22:18]  * emptyMetacog looks at him.
[22:18] <Grant> "If we cannot open it... we all die. This... Is troubling...
[22:19] <emptyMetacog> "Walt, what?"
[22:20] <Grant> "The cruxtruder... It is necessary..."
[22:20] <emptyMetacog> "The... ?"
[22:20] <Grant> Mara huffs.
[22:20] <Grant> "Try again?"
[22:21] <phantomAbsolution> "You first. You're a tad stronger then I am"
[22:21] <Grant> "It is called... A Cruxtruder..."
[22:22] <Grant> Mara shrugs and heads back up, going for the one two knock out.
[22:22] <emptyMetacog> "0h.  L see.  Thank y0u."
[22:24] <Grant> She gets an 11!!! Which is just big enough to actually do it! She strains and strains and actually gets it. A gray spinning sphere pops out, as well as multiple Dowels of the same hue.
[22:25] <phantomAbsolution> "What the-!!!"
[22:26] <Grant> She's just as surprised, but mostly because she got beaned by a dowel.
[22:26]  * emptyMetacog laughs at the troll getting hit on the head.
[22:26] <phantomAbsolution> ((We're both Human))
[22:27]  * emptyMetacog laughs at the human getting hit on the head.
[22:27] <Grant> The bone guy does not react, as he is a bone man. He has no lungs.
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[22:27] <phantomAbsolution> Goddamn it Mara. I grab a dowel and inspect it. It's just a... crystal cylinder. Huh, alright
[22:28] <Grant> "That.. Ow-" She rubs her head. "Dumb thing. Gravity." She mumbles under her breath.
[22:29] <phantomAbsolution> "I mean, what were the chances" I say with a half laugh. "Still though, props for getting it popped"
[22:30] <Grant> "Let's just get this over with. We have a time limit." She points at the screens on the cruxtruder which are counting down from just over thirty units.
[22:30] <phantomAbsolution> "Noted"
[22:30] <phantomAbsolution> This must go in the drill machine then. I move over and put it in the only place it can go. And, if logic serves, then the card should be instructions for the machine.
[22:30] <Grant> It has a bunch of holes in it. No instructions here.
[22:31] <phantomAbsolution> Finding a slot just the right size for the card on said machine it slightly too convenient though. It's almost as if...
[22:31] <phantomAbsolution> I put the card into the dill machine
[22:31] <Grant> It fits.
[22:31] <Grant> "So... Who will... Put you.. And I... Into the... Game?"
[22:32]  * emptyMetacog falters.  "Um."
[22:32] <phantomAbsolution> "Scientists. Baffled." I try to find some way to turn the machine on
[22:33] <Grant> There's a little switch right next to the card slots. That was easy,
[22:34] <Grant> Mara wanders over to watch you work.
[22:35] <phantomAbsolution> I flip the switch and let the machine do what the machine does
[22:36] <Grant> You get a CARVED DOWEL.
[22:36] <Grant> It's completely arbitrary.
[22:38] <phantomAbsolution> Well, I'm sure it'd make a nice ornament, but I don't think that's what the President card means. I re-enter the house to the final machine and take a good long look
[22:39] <phantomAbsolution> Oh, look, the only place for this to go is that pillar. I place it atop. Wow, this is pretty logical for something that's making no sense
[22:39] <Grant> You see a button. It's clearly not intended to be rocket science.
[22:39] <phantomAbsolution> I press the button
[22:40] <Grant> The Spirograph is suddenly present in your everything, shaking and shimmering all over the place and generally being a nuisance.
[22:41] <Grant> "We... Need to put... Something in that..."
[22:41] <Grant> Bone Lee points out.
[22:41] <Grant> "Anything... Will do..."
[22:41] <phantomAbsolution> Tad fucking rude on its part, but it didn't do so until I went to press the button. Maybe I'm missing something
[22:42] <Grant> On the pad when you press the button a white object appears.
[22:43] <Grant> It's a hand held slots machine.
[22:43] <emptyMetacog> "0kay."
[22:44]  * emptyMetacog grabs, completely at random and through no external influence, a cut of rabbit meat near the stove.  Then she puts it into the Sphere Of Seizures.
[22:45] <Grant> Rabbit MEAT IS GOOD FOR GROWING SPHERES.
[22:45] <Grant> You shove it in there, and a flash of light reveals the sphere but now it has a picture of a bunny on it.
[22:45] <Grant> ...Why was this necessary.
[22:45]  * emptyMetacog looks to Dr. Bones for approval.
[22:46] <Grant> He nods in approval.
[22:46]  * emptyMetacog smiles and looks back to the screen to watch her client continue.
[22:47] <phantomAbsolution> A... slot machine? What does that have to do with anything?
[22:47] <phantomAbsolution> I turn to Mara. "Should I just... pull it?"
[22:48] <Grant> She shrugs. "What could possibly go wrong?"
[22:49] <phantomAbsolution> "Hah, you're right. Not a gamble when it's the only choice"
[22:49] <phantomAbsolution> I pull the handle
[22:57] <Grant> You pull the mini lever.
[22:57] <Grant> A number, a face and another number come up.
[22:57] <Grant> You got diddly.
[22:57] <phantomAbsolution> Well, at least it's costing me naught
[22:58] <phantomAbsolution> I pull the handle again
[22:58] <Grant> You pull it again. Roll again.
[22:58] <Grant> Mara comments. "What's the point of this?"
[22:58] <phantomAbsolution> "No clue, but it's clearly the way forward"
[22:59] <phantomAbsolution> "I mean, what else is there to do with the four items supplied?"
[22:59] <Grant> Two faces and a joker pop up. Just above the joker is another face. You get a feeling of just barely missing the jackpot.
[22:59] <Grant> Those faces are that president dude.
[22:59] <Grant> "You're right... Not a whole hell of a lot."
[22:59] <phantomAbsolution> Goddamn jackpot
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[23:00] <phantomAbsolution> I try again, and pray to Morrigan things go my way
[23:01] <Grant> You pull it again. It seems as though it's going to land on the very same result.
[23:01] <Grant> Except at the very last instant, it switches over to three faces.
[23:01] <emptyMetacog> "Um..."
[23:01] <phantomAbsolution> Let's see what my prize is...
[23:01] <Grant> It burns hotly. So hot that it nearly burns your hands.
[23:02] <phantomAbsolution> I put it down on the machine. No way this is touching the wood though
[23:03] <Grant> You let it go and it explodes into a white wave of destruction. The machine is consumed almost immediately. Mara falls over, panicking. "What the-" You see her get consumed by the light.
[23:03] <Grant> Bone Lee turns to Tophet. "...What?"
[23:04] <emptyMetacog> "What's happenlng?"
[23:04] <Grant> "They have... Successfully... Summoned the... Wormhole." He nods at himself.
[23:05] <phantomAbsolution> "You Feckin-" I cry out
[23:05] <emptyMetacog> "The what?"
[23:05] <Grant> The floor. The walls. Everything. You and everything you know are gone in the blink of an eye. Tophets feed goes blank.