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  1. [OUTPUT: A B Y S S A L 8 O D D I T Y]
  2. [OUTPUT: PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MODULES / MUSIC / CREDITS / QUIT ]
  3. >Play game
  4. [OUTPUT: Is this your last saved game: http://pastebin.com/tfs27ekd]
  5. >Yes
  6. [OUTPUT: Loading game...]
  7. [OUTPUT: Loading...]
  8. [OUTPUT: Game loaded successfully. Please enter command.]
  9. Hmm
  10. >Set course for third structure
  11. structure*
  12. [OUTPUT: You plot a course immediately.]
  13. [OUTPUT: ETA: fifteen minutes.]
  14. Hmm.
  15. >lazily move laser pointer around, pointing at several objects
  16. [OUTPUT: You point at the broken backup engine, the navicomputer, and the back of your chair before stopping.]
  17. >Examine access cubes
  18. >Open any sides of cube 5082 you haven't already
  19. [OUTPUT: Ah, yes. You grabbed 5082, 1011, 0612, and 8751.]
  20. [OUTPUT: You opened five out of the six faces.]
  21. >Open last face
  22. >open the six face
  23. >dramatically
  24. [OUTPUT: The sixth face yields... yet another holographic projection of Antonio Vazquez and Alexander Hamilton, this time with an overture of 'It Wasn't Quite Me and It Wasn't Quite You'.]
  25. >Consider incinerating the cube
  26. >chuckle
  27. [OUTPUT: That seems absurd. What if you need it. You opt to chuckle instead.]
  28. [OUTPUT: Cyan looks at you oddly for a few seconds.]
  29. "Yes?"
  30. [OUTPUT: "Who's the second guy. The one who isn't Hamilton, or whatever."]
  31. "Uh..."
  32. [OUTPUT: Would you like to recall who Antonio Vazquez is before speaking?]
  33. Is he a mexican warlock
  34. >total recall
  35. [OUTPUT: Antonio Vazquez is the Grand Warlock of Mexico.]
  36. >Tell Cyan that
  37. >wonder about Crowely
  38. [OUTPUT: "..."]
  39. [OUTPUT: "I'm kind of glad I missed the last election."]
  40. >No comment
  41. >Fucking Alister Crowely
  42. [OUTPUT: A notice on your computer says that Delta is once more online.]
  43. >Message him
  44. [OUTPUT: What shall you say? Or rather, what is the gist of what you shall say?]
  45. >Ask about the venator
  46. >After greetings and such
  47. [OUTPUT: Before you say anything, please remember that a) pleasantries are bullshit, and b) you haven't spoke to him since before fighting the Centurion Sorcerer.]
  48. >Well, just tell him everything that happened
  49. >Leave out the illegal thing
  50. [OUTPUT: Very well.]
  51. [OUTPUT: Within three seconds of sending the message, a video chat request pops up on your phone.]
  52. What a massive single message.
  53. >Accept
  54. [OUTPUT: Delta is on the other end, same as ever. You can see him craning his neck to look in the screen for something on your end.]
  55. [OUTPUT: Cyan and Delta stare at each other like deer in headlights. Sort of.]
  56. >Describe Delta
  57. >Actually, describe Cyan too while you're at it
  58. [OUTPUT: This isn't my job. You're only getting the bare minimum, so you get your personal visions, like with Azure.]
  59. Ah.
  60. >Let them stare at each other?
  61. [OUTPUT: Delta's got the whole military officer deal going on, with the standard Grayholdian imperial robes, and the trademark orchid eyes.]
  62. [OUTPUT: Cyan, as was aforementioned, is about your height, obviously has cyan eyes, and that's all you're getting.]
  63. ...do you have azure eyes
  64. [OUTPUT: You have blue eyes. But, the point here is really that you have blue hair. Dyed, of course.]
  65. [OUTPUT: These sorts of things don't happen naturally.]
  66. >Watch them stare at each other
  67. [OUTPUT: "So, you didn't go insane from inhaling the fumes out there and start sending me bullshit. Huh."]
  68. >"Apparently not."
  69. [OUTPUT: "So... hello there."]
  70. Who is he talking to
  71. [OUTPUT: "Uh. Hi."]
  72. [OUTPUT: Cyan.]
  73. >"Cyan, Delta"
  74. >"Delta, Cyan"
  75. [OUTPUT: "I. We have to report this to the military command. Maybe sub-R4."]
  76. [OUTPUT: He points at the screen, in Cyan's direction, whilst speaking.]
  77. >internally regret not being sneakier
  78. [OUTPUT: You're a bit too busy freaking out internally over the word choice to regret that, though you will soon, likely.]
  79. [OUTPUT: Please enter response.]
  80. >can you convince him to not do that, because we know Grayhold is filled with crystal assholes.
  81. [OUTPUT: How would you like to vocalize that?]
  82. >Ask Cyan what she thinks
  83. >hit mute first
  84. [OUTPUT: It's pretty obvious what Cyan thinks. You don't need to speak. Just sort of look at her facial expression.]
  85. [OUTPUT: Namely, some mixture of sheer fear and anger.]
  86. Hmm
  87. Can they eavesdrop on us?
  88. They being grayhold
  89. I suggest we appeal to his morals
  90. He knows how fucked up Grayhold is
  91. [OUTPUT: SEMPER VIGILANTEM. ANNUIT COEPTIS.]
  92. [OUTPUT: Gsv vbv lu gsv Xrgzwvo lu gsv Nztv hvvh zoo.]
  93. wat
  94. >"I'm sure they know about her already. "
  95. [OUTPUT: "I don't think you understand. They know about... this, yeah. But they don't know how serious this might be. People coming out of /superweapons/? I... we need to have her /analyzed/."]
  96. >summon that useless shit Strangelove
  97. [OUTPUT: What, you mean turn him on?]
  98. >Yes, can he explain this shit better
  99. [OUTPUT: The glowing neon lights on Doctor Kaiser Strangelove, MD, ignite in the relative darkness of the ship.]
  100. Where did we get strangelove's schematic
  101. [OUTPUT: Nowhere strictly legal.]
  102. [OUTPUT: You picked it up on the ship when you won it in the, uh, illegal gambling deal.]
  103. Sabaac
  104. [OUTPUT: Hah.]
  105. With Lando
  106. [OUTPUT: You mean Ando Calrissien?]
  107. [OUTPUT: Regardless, Strangelove appraises Delta.]
  108. [OUTPUT: "NINETY-FIVE PERCENT LOGIC, ZERO REGARD FOR EMOTIONS IN THIS SITUATION. MISS LAPIS, YOU HAVE PICKED A WONDERFUL FRIEND."]
  109. Aw fuck
  110. [OUTPUT: "IN MS. AMARANTHINE, THAT IS."]
  111. [OUTPUT: "NOT THIS... THIS."]
  112. [OUTPUT: "... What the fuck."]
  113. Wait what
  114. So is Delta?
  115. Ah.
  116. He was calling Delta a piece of work
  117. Should we have Strangelove explain?
  118. [OUTPUT: "Okay, this is insane. I'm reporting this right now."]
  119. Okay
  120. This is bad
  121. [OUTPUT: You can see Delta pull up another holoscreen on the side.]
  122. >"No!"
  123. >"Bad fucking idea."
  124. [OUTPUT: Delta spins around in his chair, looking back at you. "... Why not? It's the right thing to do?"]
  125. Hmm, does Delta know we're a gem.
  126. Don't say that
  127. [OUTPUT: He does not.]
  128. >redact previous command
  129. But he knows Cyan is.
  130. ?
  131. [OUTPUT: Yes.]
  132. [OUTPUT: Thanks to YOUR account.]
  133. Goddamnit
  134. We are sooooooooo fuuuuuucccked
  135. [OUTPUT: You can see Cyan slowly backing away from the screen, eyes wide.]
  136. >"It's the thing Grayhold would want... But that doesn't make it the right thing to do."
  137. "Cyan evidently doesn't want to..."
  138. [OUTPUT: "Yep, you clearly don't understand the situation. Grayhold wants what it wants, and the will of our Diamond is law. End statement."]
  139. Hmm, if Delta's using 95% logic...
  140. [OUTPUT: Strangelove mutes the chat before speaking.]
  141. [OUTPUT: "THIS ISN'T HOW PERSUASION WORKS. HIS LOGIC IS EVIDENTLY BASED AROUND THE LAW. NOT MORALS."]
  142. [OUTPUT: He unmutes the chat.]
  143. >Remember the pertinent law
  144. [OUTPUT: Well, Her current word appears to state that Cyan should be reported.]
  145. [OUTPUT: So there's that.]
  146. >does it say anything about doing it immediately
  147. [OUTPUT: Delta continues to type into the side screen.]
  148. [OUTPUT: You don't really think you have much time. All he seems to need is photographic evidence now. Which he sort of has.]
  149. [OUTPUT: This is bad.]
  150. Well, the law seems to be soild so...
  151. Eh
  152. Blah
  153. Hmm, sure
  154. I have a desperate idea, but, probably won't work
  155. NotLikeThis
  156. Okay, here's my idea.
  157. Actually...
  158. Hmm
  159. Does it even matter? Is Grayhold not listening already?
  160. [OUTPUT: If you are in this Void, then you are in their realm.]
  161. Hmm, who owned the ship before us?
  162. [OUTPUT: Presumably Ando Calrissien.]
  163. Who's that
  164. the person you got the shıp from
  165. obvıously
  166. [OUTPUT: You won it in quasi-Sabaac, as you recall.]
  167. Is he part of Grayhold
  168. Ando whatever
  169. [OUTPUT: Legally, yes. As he was in the Void at the time.]
  170. I don't suppose trying to think a legal argument will work?
  171. [OUTPUT: Who knows?]
  172. [OUTPUT: These are the fucking longest fifteen minutes of your life, hah.]
  173. stab hım
  174. >What happens if they analyze Cyan?
  175. >Like... Does she die
  176. [OUTPUT: He's behind a computer screen.]
  177. [OUTPUT: Well, let's think about this.]
  178. [OUTPUT: Cyan will be taken away forcefully by Grayhold military forces, and sent to an undisclosed location for hidden purposes.]
  179. Can we hack Delta's computers
  180. [OUTPUT: With your skill in IT? Probably. Within the small time limit? No.]
  181. ... Is this a world where the breadth of IT is much larger
  182. [OUTPUT: Very much so. ]
  183. [OUTPUT: I mean, you got some of your knowledge from the very Grayhold facility that Delta got his logic from.]
  184. How did they teach Delta logic?
  185. [OUTPUT: Are you trying to ask me about the standard brainwashing techniques that they don't bother using on mere technicians that don't strictly work for Grayhold?]
  186. Could we leave the void?
  187. [OUTPUT: We have been over this before. You leave Facet 9, the military kills you. End of story.]
  188. [OUTPUT: You must get the shards delivered to His Imminence to leave.]
  189. Are the shards important?
  190. [OUTPUT: These questions are getting into base knowledge that you already know, and have known for weeks.]
  191. [OUTPUT: Delta continues to type up a report.]
  192. Okay, let me rephrase that. How important are they?
  193. Like...
  194. >shıv delta wıth a shard
  195. In the grand scale
  196. >contemplate whether delta ıs ımportant
  197. [OUTPUT: Your only information on them states they will be used to repair rifts in spacetime, so probably quite important.]
  198. [OUTPUT: Delta? Hmm. ]
  199. Why did they entrust getting then with you then..
  200. [OUTPUT: You could feasibly kill a lower military officer such as him without anybody noticing.]
  201. [OUTPUT: They didn't. This was your death sentence for the whole gambling deal, remember? Masked by an important task.]
  202. >stab hım wıth shard
  203. [OUTPUT: Delta is behind the safety of a computer screen, and sadly cannot be stabbed.]
  204. Gambling warrants death?
  205. [OUTPUT: Yes.]
  206. Does Delta know we're on a death sentence.
  207. [OUTPUT: Probably not.]
  208. I have an idea
  209. [OUTPUT: Considering he can't see the whole subtext with the Grayholdian military empire, you doubt he understands the subtext of your punishment.]
  210. We say that our mission is far too important to pause so Cyan can be analyzed.
  211. ınconspıcuously cause ınternal bleedıng wıthın delta
  212. [OUTPUT: You know, that MIGHT actually work, cuboid being.]
  213. ...
  214. Okay, but a backup first.
  215. Can the shards be destroyed?
  216. [OUTPUT: They are eternal.]
  217. [OUTPUT: They survive death, destruction, and fire without a Scratch.]
  218. If we threw them into the void, could they be found.
  219. [OUTPUT: And effectively lock yourself away in this facet under threat of death?]
  220. [OUTPUT: Never to see your family or Earth again?]
  221. Would anything happen to us if they took Cyan away?
  222. [OUTPUT: Or, for that matter, for Cyan not to see her family after two years.]
  223. [OUTPUT: What do you think.]
  224. Alright, so nothing to lose.
  225. [OUTPUT: That was not the correct response.]
  226. What
  227. Is it a no?
  228. [OUTPUT: This entire narrative has been going 'you have EVERYTHING to lose.']
  229. [OUTPUT: You aren't some sort of madwoman! You have a life you want to get back to, after this hellhole of a task.]
  230. [OUTPUT: You want to leave this eternal void behind, and return to the Earth you once knew.]
  231. Yeah, okay, but are we dead if Cyan gets reported?
  232. [OUTPUT: Yes!]
  233. ok then
  234. [OUTPUT: Harboring criminals is illegal!]
  235. ınconspıcuously cause ınternal bleedıng wıthın delta
  236. No
  237. Okay, I have three plans, on order of how they should be tried, IMo
  238. plans are?
  239. 1. Say our mission is too important to pause
  240. 2. Confess to also being a gem in a final play for Delta's emotions
  241. 3. Threaten to toss the shards into the void or something
  242. Obviously only the first is optimal
  243. Alright... Switch two and three.
  244. WHO THE FUCK WANTED TO KILL DELTA.
  245. He is an asshole
  246. But he is our asshole
  247. No, that's dumb.
  248. he ıs not our asshole
  249. we have no relatıon to hım
  250. If we get out of this, we're deleting him off our friend list.
  251. Oh...
  252. And went a bit further down
  253. Could we like... Throw the shards in a black hole? A sun? Some sort of lethal cosmic death trap?
  254. Yeah
  255. [OUTPUT: There are no stars and black holes in this realm. The night of the void is long and unchanging.]
  256. >What about that psionic storm or whatever.
  257. [OUTPUT: What, that Grayhold military experiment that's still technically hooked up to the citadel?]
  258. ... Why doesn't Grayhold just get the shards themselves
  259. [OUTPUT: They don't really care, you think.]
  260. [OUTPUT: Repairing supposed rifts in spacetime is just a side thing, really.]
  261. Does Delta know they don't really care?
  262. can you create or locate a black hole
  263. Alright, I say we throw all our eggs in the first basket.
  264. I suggest we immediately give Delta the name O'Brien
  265. ... Do we have remote ways of killing Delta
  266. And I agree with that plan
  267. [OUTPUT: You MIGHT be able to cause internal bleeding with hydrokinesis, oui.]
  268. Through the computer?
  269. [OUTPUT: Maybe.]
  270. Alright, that's Plan B.
  271. [OUTPUT: 2/5 votes.]
  272. The followup question is: "Is tonight a full moon?" 
  273. [OUTPUT: Bloodbending isn't a thing.]
  274. [OUTPUT: Sort of.]
  275. The bluff with the shards can be plan c, but we're fucked if it gets there
  276. [OUTPUT: Not the Avatar kind, at least. And besides, Amon did it on non-full moons.]
  277. An aneurysm maybe?
  278. [OUTPUT: Make your votes today! The fate of yourself and your friend hangs in the balance.]
  279. We use his blood to break a few walls
  280. I'm going to be typing up my point, ignore it if I press enter early.
  281. WAR IS PEACE
  282. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  283. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
  284. TRUTH IS HATRED
  285. [OUTPUT: 'Just A Comet' suddenly pops on your audio terminal. No time has passed, though.]
  286. Ingsoc, I mean Grayhold's mottos
  287. [OUTPUT: Fair enough.]
  288. Alright, I have a thing, this isn't a command:
  289. "The mission's too important! Grayhold really wants those spacetime rifts fixed. I don't know why they sent me, but I trust they had a good reason. Maybe this is part of their plan, maybe it isn't, but either way, the shards are too urgent to pause for analysis! We can do that after spacetime is saved."
  290. Feedback
  291. Pls
  292. I already agreed
  293. same
  294. Yeah, look at the thing tho
  295. I read it
  296. I like it a lot
  297. Alright... Here goes nothing, I guess.
  298. > "The mission's too important! Grayhold really wants those spacetime rifts fixed. I don't know why they sent me, but I trust they had a good reason. Maybe this is part of their plan, maybe it isn't, but either way, the shards are too urgent to pause for analysis! We can do that after spacetime is saved."
  299. [OUTPUT: Delta abruptly stops typing upon your little speech.]
  300. [OUTPUT: "I just don't see why we can't just have a small military dispatch over there, just to be safe. If you're fine, there's no harm done to you or... her, and the problem is resolved."]
  301. Alright...
  302. Could the small dispatch tell something's wrong?
  303. We kill them all and blame it on a kitchen fire.
  304. [OUTPUT: The second they get word of how you met Cyan from Delta's report, you both die. Cyan and yourself, that is. Basically.]
  305. Fuck.
  306. It isn't the eldritch horrors or the deadly traps that can kill us
  307. [OUTPUT: Well, there is a waiting period between them hearing of it, and arriving on your ship, of course.]
  308. Hmm, why does Delta think we're not fine?
  309. Or is he lying
  310. It is a corrupt government/PMC group
  311. Huh
  312. [OUTPUT: He knows you aren't fine, or, that Cyan isn't, from the summarization of your adventures YOU gave him.]
  313. Why did we do that
  314. >just murder hım already
  315. Honesty is never the best policy
  316. [OUTPUT: Well, it is, when you have all the cards on your side.]
  317. I mean, she's technically more than fine.
  318. [OUTPUT: Well, yes.]
  319. [OUTPUT: But not in Grayholdian eyes.]
  320. Delta seemed trustworthy..
  321. He saved our non reviving lives
  322. In the psionic storm thing
  323. [OUTPUT: The most curious things happen when you realize that people you trusted are massive racists, or, in this case, brainwashed military fucks.]
  324. Has Grayhold given any reason for the perimeter or whatever around Fact 9
  325. If that's how they're making sure we don't leave
  326. [OUTPUT: Nah, they just have detection waves being fired near the borders of the facet, with a few hundred ships ready to deploy just in case. Nothing major in any sense of the word.]
  327. Is Delta like... Completely brainwashed where any small criticism of Grayhold will get him mad.
  328. [OUTPUT: Do you want to try and find out?]
  329. [OUTPUT: With your precious time?]
  330. bad is the bureaucracy at Grayhold?
  331. How*
  332. [OUTPUT: Given that everything is numbered, down to the last very person associated with anything near regarding the Citadel, I'd say quite.]
  333. Alright, here's my plan.
  334. We say that the bureaucracy will make that take forever, since we're so low on the totem pole, even if we were sent on the mission.
  335. Of course, if Delta is completely brainwashed, he might be offended we insulted Grayhold's bureaucracy.
  336. I mean, he can't be that brainwashed if our previous thing got though to him..
  337. Have minor complaints about Grayhold never come up in previous conversation???
  338. [OUTPUT: Not really?]
  339. [OUTPUT: Nothing major like this, at least.]
  340. Major like how bad the bureaucracy is?
  341. [OUTPUT: Hah.]
  342. Alright, it's still worth a shot, I think.
  343. Thoughts?
  344. sure
  345. [OUTPUT: Well, that sort of thing HAS come up. Delta seemed to agree with the fact, really. It seems more like the brainwashing is to your Diamond, not the competency of low-level bureaucrats.]
  346. Fun
  347. How the hell did we not get... orientation?
  348. Alright, going to write a draft.
  349. [OUTPUT: You don't technically work for Grayhold directly, as a sort-of-freelance IT technician. ]
  350. [OUTPUT: Also, you knew it was wrong from the beginning.]
  351. [OUTPUT: Unlike this Grayhold-born friend of yours.]
  352. Yay
  353. [OUTPUT: Yay indeed.]
  354. [OUTPUT: I love how this conversation has come to two revelations. One, trust nobody involved with Grayhold, even those who saved your life. Two, the deadly thing isn't conniving eldritch gods or deadly traps and monsters in the sectors, but the military.]
  355. Fuck the Power!
  356. The Military man
  357. It's trying to keep us down man
  358. "Eugh, you know how bad the bureaucracy is. We send a report and it'll go through twenty three layers of middle management before it reaches anyone who can do anything. On top of that, I'm just an IT Worker. Even though I'm on an important mission, the pencil pushers won't know that, and I'll be at the bottom of their pile. I'll be sitting here for at least a 'seven to nine business days' , if not longer, and there's no time for that. Spacetime's coming apart as we speak.
  359. Not a command.
  360. What do you think?
  361. God, this is longer than the previous one.
  362. sure
  363. I'll take it
  364. Forgot to copy it, so no paste.
  365. [OUTPUT: Delta blinks a bit, momentarily ceasing the typing.]
  366. [OUTPUT: "I suppose you're right."]
  367. [OUTPUT: "Still, we're not in much of a rush, are we?"]
  368. [OUTPUT: His finger nears the 'send' button on the holokeyboard.]
  369. Goddamn
  370. [OUTPUT: You have but moments to react before he presses it.]
  371. >Kill the fucker
  372. [OUTPUT: Majority vote required.]
  373. >or at least immobilize him
  374. Alright, I'm thinking we say it's above his clearance or something.
  375. [OUTPUT: Would you like to attempt to murder Delta?]
  376. He'll bullshit around it again
  377. We're below him, yes, but we're on an important mission.
  378. [OUTPUT: Action speaks louder than words, my friend.]
  379. Exactly
  380. >Kill him and make it look like an accident by destroying the evidence
  381. All of it done
  382. In a neat and tidy bundle
  383. Words have worked reasonably well so far...
  384. I'm actually going to join you
  385. Save him if you can
  386. But I doubt it
  387. Grayhold has
  388. a...
  389. Hold on him
  390. Pardon the pun
  391. Ciao for a bit
  392. Inform me of what happens
  393. CTC ceased responding to memo.
  394. Say like "I can't say much, but they gave me some need to know information that suggests... Otherwise. Really, I'm skirting the edge as it is. Any further and we'll probably be breaking Grayhold Law."
  395. This is a more risky plan...
  396. Though less so than the chance we can't kill him, IMO
  397. GG, thoughts?
  398. hm
  399. sure
  400. Hmm, also try to get control of the blood is his keyboard arm.
  401. Just to keep it from moving.
  402. Just the hand maybe
  403. [OUTPUT: /UNAFK. Are you ready?]
  404. Ye
  405. >Do the above the things
  406. Two*
  407. Actually, a question first.
  408. The first will let me participate faster, the second would be more usefull in the long term.
  409. Is there some of classification proof system or something.
  410. Like... Can you just claim to be any clearance level? Assuming you don't actually access anything.
  411. Alright, what's the cheese.
  412. How would other people tell otherwise?
  413. [OUTPUT: I mean, Delta probably knows your clearance level, considering you've known each other for a while.]
  414. What about special need-to-know clearance or whatever.
  415. [OUTPUT: Same thing.]
  416. Claim it's new?
  417. [OUTPUT: Might work.]
  418. We did just get sent on "a very important mission" , according to Delta.
  419. Certainly plausible to have high clearance?
  420. Maybe
  421. [OUTPUT: This is true.]
  422. [OUTPUT: Okay, you guys are getting an achievement for debating this fifteen-minute conversation for nearly three hours.]
  423. Also control the blood in his keyboard hand, just to stop him from pressing.
  424. nope, too busy drowning in multiple things i feel i am obligated to :V
  425. Or, Bomber at least
  426. but yeah let me try
  427. [OUTPUT: Please enter response.]
  428. My attention is split about four ways right now, but I can ake basic suggestions of action.
  429. >Do my things
  430. yeah I agreed
  431. already
  432. jesus my mind is split about 3 ways right now, sorry
  433. i'm trying hold on
  434. [OUTPUT: No prob.]
  435. okay caught up on the situation of uh, letting Delta report this or not.
  436. at the first time i popped in and said "NotLikeThis"
  437. [OUTPUT: Your opinion, then, good sir?]
  438. > Claim we've obtained a higher clearance recently.
  439. wat
  440. [OUTPUT: Alright, that's a majority enough for me.]
  441. yeah i'll roll with this
  442. fsefsetrsdgs suggestion, i mean
  443. wat
  444. [OUTPUT: "Hmm. I mean, I, once again, don't see how we could be hurt by this. If you're fine, then they'll just inform me of that, and not do a checkup, right?"]
  445. [OUTPUT: Delta stops heading toward the send button in the process of speaking.]
  446. [OUTPUT: You have mere moments to react. Quickly, you decisions.]
  447. "... How would they tell if I'm fine without taking days to do a checkup?"
  448. Also, keep light control on his arm.
  449. [OUTPUT: "Uh, they'll have information on your situation?"]
  450. [OUTPUT: You attempt to hold light control on his arm. The distance is quite far, and you cannot tell if it is working or not.]
  451. >Try spilling his glass of water or something
  452. >On his keyboard if possible
  453. [OUTPUT: ... He doesn't have a glass of water?]
  454. [OUTPUT: Also, the keyboard is holographic.]
  455. >"Hmm, alright, but... I should send the report. I don't think I've told you anything I shouldn't have... But I don't want to risk you getting in trouble, you know? I'll tell them to CC their response to you if you want. Just read out what you want me to say? "
  456. [OUTPUT: "Okay, that's really suspicious now. I'm sending this thing. I can edit it later if there's a problem."]
  457. Fuck.
  458. >Murder him
  459. [OUTPUT: His finger nears the button, and your heart is uncertain.]
  460. [OUTPUT: You think to kill him. ]
  461. [OUTPUT: B u t n o t h i n g h a p p e n e d .]
  462. > Intiate panic tech, hostile frenzy
  463. <Ninja'd, do not initiate.
  464. [OUTPUT: You've got approximately .9 seconds to act.]
  465. Fuck
  466. >Harden yourself, try again
  467. >If you can't kill him, at least stop him from pressing the button
  468. [OUTPUT: You try again, to no avail. You haven't had any skill in long-range hydrokinesis, fuck.]
  469. [OUTPUT: Delta's finger nears the send button.]
  470. [OUTPUT: However, moments before it strikes it, waves of electricity leap off of the keyboard's holographic projector, entering Delta's body. He jerks about slightly, before being slammed into the wall behind him with the sheer force of the blast.]
  471. ... Wat
  472. [OUTPUT: He does not rise, that you can see.]
  473. > "Are you alright?"
  474. Hmm.
  475. [OUTPUT: You hear audible sniffling of some form of mucus from nearby you.]
  476. >Did Cyan do something?
  477. [OUTPUT: Presumably due to crying.]
  478. [OUTPUT: Go look and see. She's right behind you.]
  479. >Look
  480. [OUTPUT: You turn to see Cyan in tears, absolutely freaking out. There is a glow coming from her forehead area, ovalloid in shape. It is rather similar to the glow of your gem upon use of some major form of hydrokinesis.]
  481. >oh
  482. >oh jeez
  483. > "Did you do that?"
  484. ... Don't say that
  485. >Try to calm her down
  486. [OUTPUT: Cyan sinks to her knees, covering her face with her hands.]
  487. [OUTPUT: How would you like to attempt to calm Cyan?]
  488. ... Honestly, I'd say just let her cry if it weren't for the risk of being shocked to death.
  489. [OUTPUT: Even if you die, you've got a backup in your whole gem deal, of course.]
  490. [OUTPUT: Remember that charged electrokinetic attack you stopped with the Centurion Sorcerer?]
  491. Not really...
  492. [OUTPUT: Regardless, shall you do anything, or just stand there?]
  493. >Sit down beside her and say... Generic comforting phrases
  494. [OUTPUT: Like?]
  495. "It's okay", "just calm down", "don't panic", and the like.
  496. [OUTPUT: You do so, and your only response is more crying, and a dimming into nonexistence of the light within Cyan's forehead, and the gem upon it.]
  497. [OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
  498. >Just let her cry it out, IMO, at least for twenty minutes or so
  499. How long was the original wait?
  500. yeah, just let her cru
  501. *crı every tım
  502. > Give her a moment, see if anything changes.
  503. [OUTPUT: Very well. You just sort of sit there next to her. She continues to cry for several minutes, with the occasional muffled utterance.]
  504. [OUTPUT: "Okay... I... I'm fine. Now. Ugh, sorry. I just got a little freaked out by how he was... was talking about me."]
  505. Oh, huh
  506. [OUTPUT: Cyan pulls her knees closer to her body, and sighs.]
  507. >VERY discreetly check on Delta
  508. Am I wrong in assuming Cyan didn't notice?
  509. [OUTPUT: Cyan stares at the floor, and doesn't notice anything of your actions. Delta lies where he fell, unmoving yet still.]
  510. >At the same time, start wiping evidence from Delta's computer
  511. [OUTPUT: "W... what? Oh, yeah. I... I think I just magically... unlocked my gem powers. Not... not the way I wanted to. Ugh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt your friend."]
  512. [OUTPUT: You take out all incriminating evidence on Delta's computers.]
  513. >"I'm sure he'll be fine..."
  514. [OUTPUT: That might not be the right thing to say...]
  515. [OUTPUT: Just saying.]
  516. [OUTPUT: Like, he did just try to kill her.]
  517. Hmm
  518. [OUTPUT: What response shall you go with?]
  519. >"No, it's... He's not my friend anymore, at the very least. He forced your hand. To be honest... I tried to stop him before you did."
  520. [OUTPUT: Another sigh. Cyan runs a shaky hand through her hair, before looking up into your eyes. "No, it's... it's fine. Let's just get out into that voidstructure." She wipes her eyes with the back of a hand.]
  521. >"Are you sure? Alright, let's go then."
  522. >Land, presumably we're there
  523. [OUTPUT: You're there, yes. You offer Cyan a hand, and pull her up, the both of you heading for the deck. You discreetly turn the video chat off on the way there.]
  524. [OUTPUT: Achievement COMPLETED: SIXTY.]
  525. Hah.
  526. Did it even matter in the end.
  527. [OUTPUT: What, what you said?]
  528. Yea
  529. dıstracted hım
  530. [OUTPUT: You could have gotten... better outcomes, to say the least.]
  531. [OUTPUT: As in, not possibly killing Delta.]
  532. What
  533. Spoilers
  534. [OUTPUT: Hah.]
  535. [OUTPUT: Want us to wait for you to catch up before continuing?]
  536. Go ahead
  537. I'm trying to load it
  538. And loaded
  539. If Delta lives... Hmm.
  540. [OUTPUT: Well, you took out any evidence.]
  541. Is his word not enough? I mean, he's rather high ranking.
  542. Though I guess the story may be out there.
  543. High ranking compared to us anyways.
  544. [OUTPUT: Nah, he was a medium-level officer. High-ranking compared to you, though, yeah.]
  545. Well I do hope he lives then.
  546. [OUTPUT: You'll just have to keep on going and see.]
  547. Cyan killed Delta
  548. Damn
  549. Anyways, are we continuing?
  550. That's brutal
  551. We don't know if he's dead.
  552. She's currently in shock
  553. May I suggest giving Cyan a hug?
  554. Murder is always hardest your first time
  555. [OUTPUT: You can do that.]
  556. Sure.
  557. [OUTPUT: You stood there awkwardly for quite a bit.]
  558. Hmm... Were there worse outcomes from thus?
  559. Like, could Delta have gotten us killed?
  560. [OUTPUT: Alright. You give Cyan a hug. You just relax next to each other, nearing toward the final voidstructure of the Psi Sector.]
  561. [OUTPUT: Nothing like two friends comforting each other before heading toward possible death.]
  562. [OUTPUT: So, how shall you land on the void-dodecahedron?]
  563. [OUTPUT: And would you like Cyan to help?]
  564. >Top, yes
  565. [OUTPUT: Very well. Here come the checks.]
  566. [OUTPUT: Perfect check. ]
  567. [OUTPUT: The two of you, probably strengthened by the power of friendship, or something, land effortlessly above the entry hatch, and lock everything into place.]
  568. Fire Emblem Relationship Level: B
  569. I mean, it's the middle one?
  570. Ignoring marriage.
  571. >Enter
  572. [OUTPUT: Ship hatch un opened, access hatch deux unsealed. You both drop in.]
  573. [OUTPUT: The access hatch seals above you.]
  574. >Look around.
  575. [OUTPUT: You feel a heat in your card and storage cube.]
  576. >Consider propping doors open next time
  577. [OUTPUT: Looking around, the room is dark. There are some red neon lights near what appears to be the only hallway, but that's it.]
  578. >Open storage cube
  579. [OUTPUT: You finally unseal the cube. You acquire an Amalgam Interface. Whatever that is.]
  580. How do you know what it's called
  581. >Ask Cyan if she knows
  582. [OUTPUT: Your gem projected it into your mind, oddly enough, and she replies with a shrug.]
  583. [OUTPUT: According to Cyan, it entered her thoughts as well upon unsealing.]
  584. >Look it up
  585. What it is, not how you know the name
  586. [OUTPUT: ERROR: no results found.]
  587. [OUTPUT: You can examine it, you suppose.]
  588. >Examine
  589. >Examine away.
  590. [OUTPUT: Amalgam Interface: A rectangular stone tablet approximately six inches in length, and four in width. On either half is an amethyst holographic projector, met in the middle with the visage of three fuchsia dots, the central one of which is filled with two navy hashes.]
  591. [OUTPUT: Would you like to have it, or give it to Cyan instead?]
  592. Hmm
  593. You, I guess.
  594. Do inventories have size limits?
  595. [OUTPUT: No.]
  596. [OUTPUT: Shall you proceed?]
  597. >Alright, forward
  598. Ye
  599. [OUTPUT: The two of you head onwards.]
  600. [OUTPUT: Traveling some distance down the hallway, you note several red dots lining the floor between the two of you and the next room.]
  601. >Are they lasers or just like... Dots
  602. Are the dots in any unusual pattern?
  603. [OUTPUT: Lasers.]
  604. Or behaving oddly?
  605. [OUTPUT: Nothing really unusual.]
  606. [OUTPUT: Each is exactly an inch away from the last.]
  607. ... Can we just walk around them
  608. [OUTPUT: There's essentially a line of dots blocking your path.]
  609. [OUTPUT: That's about it.]
  610. Oh, so a lot
  611. [OUTPUT: Yes.]
  612. >Send some water into the lasers
  613. Can we tell if these are 'set off alarm' type lasers?
  614. Or the 'razor sharp streams of light' kind?
  615. [OUTPUT: These are similar to the Centurion death lasers back in the Mu Sector, yes.]
  616. >Set off alarm lasers are dumb
  617. [OUTPUT: A bit of water results in a wave of plasma searing the metallic floor black.]
  618. [OUTPUT: There's about a delay of a second and a half.]
  619. >Cyan: Send... Electricity into the lasers
  620. Wait does she like
  621. [OUTPUT: Where would you get this electricity from?]
  622. [OUTPUT: You don't have some sort of electrostatic generator on you, do you?]
  623. >Sense if any electricity is powering the leaders
  624. Lasers
  625. [OUTPUT: Just light.]
  626. >Alternatively, rub your feet on the carpet 
  627. Inquire; can electrokinesis be applied to deflecting lasers/plasma?
  628. [OUTPUT: There is no carpet, and probably not.]
  629. [OUTPUT: You DO still have that welding stuff, you suppose?]
  630. [OUTPUT: That might have something in it.]
  631. Hmm.
  632. >Both: Make plasma/water shield below enough lasers to walk under
  633. See how long they last
  634. [OUTPUT: The plasma shield from the Delta-Psi-Phi Bioschema tanks all of the blasts without fading.]
  635. Huh
  636. >Step through, I suppose. Quickly anyways
  637. [OUTPUT: You both leap underneath the shield. It fades away as a door seals down behind you. You are locked within a massive dark room, with several balconies, and terminals.]
  638. [FINAL ROOM: PSI.]
  639. >Observe balconies.
  640. >Wonder why there is an apparent lack of Ted Cruz.
  641. >prepare for antıclımax
  642. IS THIS THE END???
  643. [OUTPUT: The balconies are dark.]
  644. "no"
  645. Knees weak?
  646. ARMS ARE HEAVY
  647. [OUTPUT: No, this is the end of one sector out of twenty-four.]
  648. "thıs ıs the antıclımax archer boss"
  649. okay set the mood and then I'll ask questions
  650. >Examine terminals
  651. >Also shine light around room
  652. [OUTPUT: Yep, those things are definitely key terminals.]
  653. [OUTPUT: As for the light, you can notice that there are several sealed blast doors lining the left and right walls.]
  654. what
  655. Hmm
  656. >Count terminals and blast doors
  657. [OUTPUT: Three terminals, one before and below each balcony, and four blast doors on each wall.]
  658. >Shine light on balconies
  659. [OUTPUT: The light of your phone glints on something metallic in nature. ]
  660. [OUTPUT: On the central balcony, you see them.]
  661. [OUTPUT: Hulking in height, covered in robes. An unsightly beast. A great terror looms... the accursed.]
  662. [OUTPUT: A gnarled hand emerges from the robes, to clasp the side of the balcony, peering down on you silently.]
  663. >Engage in combat
  664. [OUTPUT: Majority vote required.]
  665. > ENGAGE THE CURSED MOTHERFUCKER
  666. >attempt to communitate
  667. We can communicate in combat
  668. [OUTPUT: 2/7 votes for engaging in combat.]
  669. >and then enage if it proves hostile
  670. >beat the shit out of the creepy hand man
  671. yes
  672. [OUTPUT: 4/7. You have engaged in combat.]
  673. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  674. >Observe
  675. >Observe
  676. >Observe
  677. [OUTPUT: Plague Master: 20/20 HP. NOTES: An unsightly horror, a hidden robed being with a plague doctor mask. Wields both highly enhanced and poisoned chemical armament and what appears to be a cut topaz gem sealed within a small computer screen, set of wires, and holokeyboard.]
  678. shit just got real
  679. Another Gem.
  680. Welp, let us save that poor Topaz!
  681. [OUTPUT: Oh, that reminds me.]
  682. Don't explode the computer.
  683. [FINAL BOSS: PSI.]
  684. How much HP is that.
  685. I want to save him
  686. [OUTPUT: Should be around twenty.]
  687. Her
  688. [OUTPUT: Them.]
  689. Okay
  690. Nonbinary it is
  691. [OUTPUT: Remember, observation is a free action.]
  692. [OUTPUT: You may still act.]
  693. [OUTPUT: Also recall that electricity and water combos are things that exist.]
  694. [OUTPUT: Just saying.]
  695. > EXECUTE: ELECTRICITY + WATER COMBO
  696. (somehow)
  697. [OUTPUT: Error: incorrect combat command.]
  698. Can't we talk
  699. fuuuu
  700. >no
  701. I mean
  702. [OUTPUT: If you wish to speak, though there's no guarantee it won't be like that childish fuck of a Witch-Doctor.]
  703. Creepy Plauge Man could be a nice guy at heart
  704. That guy was hilarous
  705. [OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
  706. >UTILIZE
  707. >Both: Azure, Splash poison water over the master. Cyan, take electricity from the computer and use it to shock the master.
  708. [OUTPUT: Which shall it be?]
  709. [OUTPUT: Utilize, or assault?]
  710. I'm going with Fseftr's idea.
  711. May I inquire what talking would be?
  712. >ASSAULT: Plan Fseftr.
  713. So... Why does he carry a computer.
  714. Guess we'll find out
  715. [OUTPUT: You fire your bolt of poisoned water at the Plague Master. They wave a hand. A purple bubble closes up around the balcony.]
  716. [OUTPUT: It blocks Cyan's electrokinetic influence.]
  717. [OUTPUT: The computer is handheld.]
  718. They want to be a DJ
  719. [OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
  720. [OUTPUT: There is a banging coming from one of the blast doors on the left. Keratin on arcanium steel.]
  721. Oh, I think I get it
  722. [OUTPUT: The thing slides down with a hiss, and a strikingly familiar type of cerulean-covered beast with pus-filled boils on its back leaps forth on all fours, snarling.]
  723. A Cerulean Horror?
  724. [OUTPUT: The door quickly slides back up behind it, and the key terminal below the central balcony emits a click.]
  725. I assume this is what the computer does?
  726. [OUTPUT: Presumably.]
  727. [OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
  728. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  729. Alright... This thing explodes
  730. [OUTPUT: When killed, yes.]
  731. >Observe
  732. >Defend
  733. [OUTPUT: Cerulean Horror: 10/10 HP. NOTES: A hunched being with vaguely fishlike and lupine features. The thing's back is covered in pustules filled with some sort of oily substance with a dirty ochre sheen. Its claws drip with oil.]
  734. >Azure: Form a shield of poison water, making sure it doesn't touch either of you
  735. >Cyan: Hide behind Azure's shield, fire a plasma beam at the horror
  736. Well
  737. okay I'm caught up
  738. [OUTPUT: You do so.]
  739. we almost killed someone important, time for final boss
  740. They got a sense of humor at least
  741. well, final boss of this sector
  742. [OUTPUT: The thing is struck through the chest, blood spilling forth. Dryblood, naturally.]
  743. [OUTPUT: The burn is indeed that deep.]
  744. Why can't we fight normal humans
  745. too weak
  746. We'd curbstomp them
  747. Gods amongst men
  748. [OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
  749. It would be delightful
  750. so what, can it spawn basically infinite mooks
  751. [OUTPUT: The horror lunges forth, straight through the poisoned water.]
  752. or a set amount of mooks
  753. ... no
  754. [OUTPUT: You don't yet know.]
  755. There's eight doors?
  756. Eh
  757. [OUTPUT: The thing screeches as the poisoned water enters its body through the gaping hole in its chest. It still manages to slash at you ineffectively.]
  758. [OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
  759. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  760. >Observe Health
  761. >Azure: Send a bolt of poison water into the horror
  762. [OUTPUT: Both your health and that of Cyan is full thus far.]
  763. >Cyan: Slice at it with a plasma blade
  764. [OUTPUT: You immediately poison it to death, and decapitate the thing. It is... much weaker than the first one.]
  765. Are we capable of altering water temperture?
  766. [OUTPUT: No.]
  767. [OUTPUT: A dark heat begins to flow forth from the body of the thing as it collapses to the floor.]
  768. >Move its corpse using water onto one of the balconies
  769. [OUTPUT: You throw the corpse onto the rightmost balcony.]
  770. Higher level Hydro abilites
  771. we dont want to annoy it
  772. Trying to provoke a reaction
  773. [OUTPUT: Fair enough.]
  774. do you want us to die
  775. Figure out how it thinks
  776. *they
  777. ??? It's already attacking us?.?
  778. *think
  779. *do you want us to die faster
  780. [OUTPUT: Anyhow, it is still your turn. The Horror is dead. You can do whatever.]
  781. Talking to it is dumb, but I don't see why annoying it matters.
  782. [OUTPUT: The middle key terminal emitted a click, remember.]
  783. cyan won't do shit, apparently
  784. he can block electrokinesis
  785. >Azure: Form water shield just in case, run over to terminal
  786. >Cyan: Shoot a plasma beam at the master's shield
  787. [OUTPUT: The rightmost balcony erupts into flames, leaving you unharmed.]
  788. [OUTPUT: Anyhow, Cyan fires a plasma beam from the Delta-Psi-Phi Bioschema at the shield.]
  789. [OUTPUT: The sound of slightly cracking glass emanates throughout the room, though nothing visibly occurs.]
  790. Also the Doc can speak
  791. They just appear to be having a vow of silence
  792. [OUTPUT: The terminal's central indentation with the lock symbol glows green, unlike the red glow of the other two.]
  793. Anyway, I suggest we get up close and personal
  794. Perhaps we can bypass the shield
  795. >Azure: Examine?
  796. [OUTPUT: The Access Cubes still in your inventory grow hotter.]
  797. Are we supposed to use then mid batfle
  798. >insert the Cube into the lock
  799. No
  800. [OUTPUT: You aren't strictly in-combat. This is a sort of intermissionary period between phases of the boss fight.]
  801. Ah...
  802. >Open first side of unused cube
  803. Random cube
  804. [OUTPUT: Please select cube. AZURE INV: Medkit, Water Vial x2, Undulating Water Vial, Welding Equipment, Cthk'aryvt's Blessing/Curse x4, Gem Fragment x3 Ylahrthuian Salt x3, Amalgam Interface, Access Cube #8751, Access Cube #5082, Access Cube #0612, Access Cube #1011.]
  805. 8751
  806. [OUTPUT: You open FACE 4 of Cube # 8751.]
  807. I said face 1, but whatever
  808. [OUTPUT: Sorry.]
  809. [OUTPUT: FACE 1 of Cube # 8751.]
  810. [OUTPUT: The access mark slides back, and the projector emits what appears to be a game of Tetris in hologram-form.]
  811. >Can you play it?
  812. [OUTPUT: You can.]
  813. [OUTPUT: Do you want to, in these conditions?]
  814. >Play it
  815. ... No
  816. What an asshole
  817. Hmm
  818. Do it
  819. We are in the Void
  820. Yea, do it
  821. PLAY TETRIS
  822. [OUTPUT: Alright. You play Tetris.]
  823. Ask Cyan to watch your back
  824. *>
  825. [OUTPUT: Cyan nods.]
  826. [OUTPUT: She also rolls her eyes.]
  827. [OUTPUT: Congratulations. Check succeeded. You narrowly complete a level.]
  828. THIS IS INCREDIBLY SERIOUS BUSINESS
  829. 10/10
  830. so what did that actually do
  831. we fınıshed a level of tetrıs
  832. [OUTPUT: A magnetic pull removes the cube from your hands, and locks it into the key terminal.]
  833. >play more tetrıs
  834. Relieve Stress
  835. ...oh
  836. And puzzle completion
  837. Ya Nerds
  838. huh.
  839. [OUTPUT: The thing slides into place, and the bubble on the balcony vanishes. You take the cube back.]
  840. get out another access cube
  841. oh wait nvm
  842. we did it, reddit!
  843. enemy turn?
  844. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  845. oh sweet
  846. >Observe
  847. more poison water?
  848. [OUTPUT: Plague Master: 20/20 HP. NOTES: A psychotic robed being with a plague doctor mask. Wields both highly enhanced and poisoned chemical armament and what appears to be a cut topaz gem sealed within a small computer screen, set of wires, and holokeyboard.]
  849. >Azure: Splash the master with poison water
  850. >Cyan: Use electricity from the master's computer to shock it
  851. Wait
  852. Is this guy Plauge Knigt
  853. [OUTPUT: No.]
  854. [OUTPUT: Support votes for Fseftr's plan?]
  855. Sure
  856. How can a key terminal make the things bubble vanish
  857. I like it
  858. I'd also recommend something else
  859. [OUTPUT: Perhaps these bubbles are more mechanical, as they are activated via computer?]
  860. [OUTPUT: Anyhow, 2/7 votes for Fseftr's plan.]
  861. Use Cyan's abilites to also disrupt the computer itself
  862. [OUTPUT: Cyan'll do that as well, if the plan succeeds.]
  863. sure
  864. [OUTPUT: 3/7.]
  865. ?
  866. zzsnrk what
  867. I really want to figure out who this guy was inspired by
  868. >Follow the plan.
  869. Oc donute steel
  870. [OUTPUT: 4/7. Motion carried.]
  871. >plan seems good.
  872. yes
  873. The Alchemist from Salt and Sancutary
  874. Um...
  875. Why is GG kill?
  876. [OUTPUT: You strike the Plague Master with poisoned water. They hiss darkly, and once more when electricity twitches down their twisted hand.]
  877. because reasons
  878. [OUTPUT: Plague Master: 17/20 HP. ]
  879. [OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
  880. Did the computer
  881. Get damaged
  882. Yes
  883. [OUTPUT: The Plague Master roars under their breath with anger, angrily attempting to repair the computer.]
  884. Hand held
  885. [OUTPUT: With a few sweeping motions on the glitching holokeyboard, the topaz gem begins to glow with golden light.]
  886. Should I attempt to use quip fu?
  887. no
  888. [OUTPUT: The sound of telepathic screams reverberates horrifyingly around the room.]
  889. [OUTPUT: All projected from the gem itself.]
  890. AC, you are no fun.
  891. Welp. That fucker's going down.
  892. Um
  893. Can we telepathy back?
  894. Since we have a gem too.
  895. [OUTPUT: You sadly cannot.]
  896. What the fuck Plauge Dude
  897. *Plague
  898. Should we break that weapon of his? Or does that risk damaging the gem?
  899. Did they kill others?
  900. [OUTPUT: A beam of golden plasma erupts from the gem, and strikes Cyan through the chest.]
  901. SHIT
  902. [OUTPUT: Cyan looks over to you, eyes widening, and pupils dilating.]
  903. NO!
  904. SHIT
  905. Well
  906. [OUTPUT: There's a poof of white dust, and you catch an apatite gem.]
  907. She will respawn
  908. can she rev ive
  909. But
  910. okay phew
  911. [OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
  912. Fucking kills me
  913. Every time
  914. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  915. We can do it!
  916. >UTILIZE GRENADE
  917. [OUTPUT: You have none.]
  918. Aw
  919. [OUTPUT: Want to look at your utilizable items?]
  920. >Make a shield of condensed water
  921. >look at utilizable items
  922. >Remind self of potentially useful inventory items.
  923. [OUTPUT: Currently, just your one medkit, and the Amalgam Interface, though something tells you you cannot quite YET use that. Just a few more minutes, it seems to indicate.]
  924. Hrm
  925. >Make a shield of condensed water
  926. [OUTPUT: Defend it is.]
  927. >Water sheild.
  928. [OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
  929. [OUTPUT: The Plague Master seems to raise a hidden eyebrow, and does not move, though he clenches the computer more tightly, eliciting a few more screams psionically.]
  930. [OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
  931. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  932. >Aim for the legs
  933. >Send poisoned water into the computer
  934. [OUTPUT: That be a bit harmful to the screaming gem attached to it, now that you think of it.]
  935. Poison hurts rocks? Or
  936. [OUTPUT: No, exciting the electrical materials attached to the rock might electrocute it horribly.]
  937. Hmm.
  938. >Send a bolt of poisoned water into the master's mouth
  939. >create enough of a lash of water to pierce their robe with posioned water
  940. [OUTPUT: The mouth is covered with the plague doctor mask.]
  941. Does poison actually do damage over time, or no
  942. [OUTPUT: Yes.]
  943. Do what he said
  944. I'm liking Doc so far
  945. [OUTPUT: Mate, this guy is torturing a gem.]
  946. Oh
  947. Wait
  948. I thought
  949. [OUTPUT: For his own personal weapon.]
  950. Fuck
  951. [OUTPUT: He just used it to kill somebody.]
  952. Nevermind
  953. Kick his ass
  954. [OUTPUT: Haven't you been listening to the screams in the air?]
  955. I thought that was his gem
  956. [OUTPUT: Shall you seep the poison through their robes?]
  957. [OUTPUT: It is not.]
  958. And he was mutilating himself to attack
  959. [OUTPUT: Hell no.]
  960. >Yes
  961. [OUTPUT: You seep the poison in through the robes.]
  962. [OUTPUT: The Plague Master twitches madly, stepping backwards, through the doorway in the balcony. They emerge on the charred ground of the rightmost balcony.]
  963. [OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
  964. [OUTPUT: The Plague Master removes a glass vial from their robes, devoid of contents.]
  965. [OUTPUT: With a glance at you, they chuck the thing in your direction. The thing shatters on impact, and you stumble as shards of glass are imbedded forcefully into your right arm.]
  966. Hmm, didn't we have a water shield up?
  967. [OUTPUT: Then, without as much as a second glance at the glass or blood, he raises another shield.]
  968. [OUTPUT: Probably.]
  969. [OUTPUT: This fellow is a boss, however.]
  970. [OUTPUT: The balcony is blocked. The rightmost key terminal emits a click, and two blast doors on the right wall open up.]
  971. >use blood coverıng shards to shard hım to death
  972. Ow
  973. Nope wouldn't work
  974. Has a shield up
  975. [OUTPUT: Three Witch-Doctors step forth, and the doors seal behind them.]
  976. oh
  977. [OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
  978. [OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
  979. >take shards out regardless
  980. >Observe
  981. [OUTPUT: You remove the shards, cursing under your breath.]
  982. [OUTPUT: Witch-Doctor: 5/5 HP x3. NOTES: A robed and plague-doctor-masked figure bearing an assortment of deadly chemicals and what appears to be a faux-leather-bound tome emblazoned with the symbol of the eight navy hashes sealed within a hand.]
  983. >use the shards upon the Witch Doctors flinging them within water
  984. Hmm, are Witch Doctors human?
  985. [OUTPUT: No.]
  986. he said he wouldnt make us kill humans
  987. [OUTPUT: Your removal of their clothes back with the Venator showed they were bird-people.]
  988. [OUTPUT: The beaks fit into the masks.]
  989. Caw
  990. oh wait
  991. Caw
  992. this is exactly like HLD
  993. [OUTPUT: The North.]
  994. clever
  995. The North.
  996. [OUTPUT: Anyhow, your turn.]
  997. Hmm, they don't have water based blood, right?
  998. observe, see how much hP the boss has
  999. [OUTPUT: The apatite stone in your hand is beginning to grow warmer.]
  1000. >Observe your HP too
  1001. [OUTPUT: Plague Master: 13/20 HP. NOTES: A psychotic robed being with a plague doctor mask. Wields both highly enhanced and poisoned chemical armament and what appears to be a cut topaz gem sealed within a small computer screen, set of wires, and holokeyboard.]
  1002. hm
  1003. >put apatıte... behınd you?
  1004. [OUTPUT: Azure Lapis: 11/15 HP. ]
  1005. [OUTPUT: That would put Cyan in danger of being crushed.]
  1006. [OUTPUT: Not something you want to go through.]
  1007. Is your water shield still up
  1008. [OUTPUT: Yes, though it has a vial-shaped hole in it.]
  1009. >fıll hole
  1010. >Fix shield, then send poisoned water bolt through a doctor's body and out the other side
  1011. [OUTPUT: You repair the shield.]
  1012. [OUTPUT: NOTE: you can attack multiple Doctors at once.]
  1013. Oh
  1014. >Line them up and pierce through all of then
  1015. Them
  1016. [OUTPUT: You stab through all three of the shits.]
  1017. [OUTPUT: The right terminal awaits you.]
  1018. >Go
  1019. [OUTPUT: Which cube shall you use, and what face?]
  1020. Uh
  1021. What are the two unused ones
  1022. [OUTPUT: 1011, and 0612.]
  1023. 1011 face 1
  1024. [OUTPUT: You get a hologram of the Mona Lisa.]
  1025. Face 2
  1026. [OUTPUT: The Rodarbi symbols for m, y, n, a, m, e, i, s, _, _, _, and _ ignite on the face.]
  1027. Hmm.
  1028. Face 3
  1029. [OUTPUT: You get what appears to be another series of keyboards and screens indicating the Ioucos sequence.]
  1030. Alright, puzzle.
  1031. uh...
  1032. [OUTPUT: You've done this before.]
  1033. Eh?
  1034. [OUTPUT: The date, remember?]
  1035. Does that make this puzzle any different than last time?
  1036. ...not really tbh
  1037. [OUTPUT: 08/09/15.]
  1038. ...I'm pretty sure I never did that
  1039. [OUTPUT: You did do this, and it was less than two days ago.]
  1040. Oh, found it.
  1041. Enter the same number??
  1042. [OUTPUT: A click emanates from the terminal. The shield dissipates. The apatite stone grows to the warmth of a human body in your hand.]
  1043. [OUTPUT: Would you like to save your game?]
  1044. Yes
  1045. [OUTPUT: Saving...]
  1046. Yes, save the game.
  1047. [OUTPUT: Saving...]
  1048. [OUTPUT: Game saved successfully. Would you like to quit?]
  1049. Y
  1050. [OUTPUT: Quitting game...]
  1051. [OUTPUT: Game quit.]
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