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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 13:41:10 GMT -5
You.
You are awake.
It feels like you have been sleeping for such a long time. You forget why it was that you began to rest. You forget when it was that you began to rest. What was the reason? Perhaps that silly Cat knows; that strange creature seems to be the only solid memory you can muster, and from what you remember it seemed very informed on matters.
The room around you is dark, serene. The perfect kind of stillness in your opinion. It makes a lot of sense really why you may have chosen here to stay for whatever reason. By your side is a Red Giftbox with White Ribbons, But somehow it has already been pilfered before you came to. What a suprise this is, given the chamber you're in has barely enough space for you to lie down in, let alone accommodate another occupant to raid this parcel in your incapacity.
The first order of business will have to be tracking down answers naturally, but that may be hard when you can not even recall your own name, if you even had one.
What shall the name of this young lady be?
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Aug 4, 2016 16:38:34 GMT -5
Riya "Minty" Regan.
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Post by Koopario on Aug 4, 2016 21:41:09 GMT -5
Sierra Cardien. Otherwise, I can agree with the above.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2016 10:08:21 GMT -5
That should do nicely. Now it's time to get out of here. Feeling out the walls, You eventually find some form of dial on the roof and give it a hard turn. Upon releasing it the dial begins ticking down as a loud hissing sound rushes over you with a cool tingling scent. Is this some kind of air freshener? Hopefully it won't stick around too long or everyone you meet may start calling you minty fresh. Blegh... tickticktickWHOOOOSSSSSHtickticktickWHOOOOSSSSSHtickticktickWHOOOOSSSSSHThe roof pops away from the seal it had on the walls around you and begins shifting to the side, allowing the opportunity to rise up and out. What had been thought to be a room was now in reality a machine with a much large room, like a basement of some sort. From what can be observed the location you've arisen to is stonework for certain, with painstakingly detailed carvings and fossils embossed upon every surface. Whatever this place was made for it was clearly designed with great care. Although the sheer size of the room going backwards could fit perhaps a dozen or so of the strange cradle devices you came out of, or perhaps any number of storings given the space, it seems to be nearly empty of anything else save for a small rack sitting under a glowing torch close by You and the exit to a hallway. upon inspection this rack holsters several S crolls wrapped up with illustrated pictures. This is relief as honestly one look at the writing around the pictures comes up as complete jibber jabber. There's a small totebag to carry the scrolls around in, so perhaps it may be useful to take a few that seem handy. *)A scroll with the image of a hammer, waiting above an anvil *)A scroll with the image of a person holding a sprouting flower *)A scroll with the image of a group, bent down on their knee *)A scroll with the image of an eye, with clockhands around it *)A scroll with the image of stars, forming constellations *)A Blue Scroll with several layered circles pictured *)A Red Scroll with a bouquet pictured *)A Black Scroll with a sheep wearing a bell pictured *)A Golden Scroll with a the face of a cat meowing pictured From the relative sizes of the scrolls, with the colorful ones being much larger, you could probably hold all of the small drabber ones comfortably, but you'd need to take out two of them to fit one big one which are about the size of three small ones alone. You could also hold them in hand of course, but that would be super inconvenient. It would be like some doofus warrior who carries his whole armory along to battle. That's just dumb.That being said most of these scrolls look useful for some purpose or another, and if you ever need to come back they won't be going anywhere. Should you take some along?
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Aug 5, 2016 11:54:25 GMT -5
Take the red, star, and sprout scrolls.
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Post by Koopario on Aug 5, 2016 16:07:33 GMT -5
So it seems like we've been given 6 spaces for scrolls and the big ones take 3 each. I say 6 and not 5 since we only need to leave behind two smaller scrolls to fit a large one, which counts as 3. So if we took all the smaller ones we'd have room for another small. That said however we could also just take two large scrolls and while I'm not voting we do that it's probably worth noting that it is in fact an option since presumably we can come back any time.
I vote we take the Golden, Star, and Eye scrolls. The final slot could go towards Osh's Sprout if no other combinations are given.
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Post by Lenrap on Aug 5, 2016 19:04:16 GMT -5
Golden, Star, and whatever else we can carry
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 18:02:08 GMT -5
You pocket the Eye, Sprout, Star, and Golden Scrolls into the satchel and sling it over your shoulder to reach for at a moments notice. Now comes the time to begin searching for answers.
Outside the room you find the hallway leads along a staircase set spiralling up and downwards. However only going up is an option for now as there is a Door downstairs you can see that is very clearly sealed with a rather seriously looking Keyless Lock. It certainly gives the impression that it isn't meant to be opened. Ever. There are things called walls, whomever it was that built that thing.
Going upwards then, you find some kind of Observatory in a room along the way. There is some kind of Slab projecting onto the ceiling above, but your intuition tells you that this room is not for looking into the sky. From appearances the image reminds you of a blueprint for a building, but it doesn't look very sensible at all. Staircases that lead to nowhere, Rooms bigger on the inside. One of the hallways is clearly changing shapes despite the image seemingly being static. It makes your head hurt to simply look at.
The slab is displaying this offensive map of some sort is rolling a scroll across it on a one of a pair of reels. There is a second reel holding an furled up scroll that looks to be interchangeable with any other similarly sized scrolls, the golden or any of the other colorfully hued ones downstairs are far too large for this mechanism.
The second reel is clearly designed to be overlaid upon the set in reel displaying the map above, so perhaps some kind of playing around can be done here. Otherwise there still seems to be more to find higher up.
The Slab is holding A scroll with the image of a heart, a symbol of life.
You may swap it out for the eye, sprout, or star scroll. Unfurling one may have an effect.
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Post by emperortoad on Aug 6, 2016 18:04:08 GMT -5
eye.
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Post by Planetbox on Aug 6, 2016 22:15:16 GMT -5
I misread the title as "Transcendant Bull####
Unfurl the star scroll.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 19:29:40 GMT -5
Unhooking the scroll, You swap it out with the Eye Scroll and roll it out across the slab. the Scroll lights up with a faint pale red hue, but seemingly delivers no visible (unintended) information to discern. There always could be the possibility of the scroll's effect not being obvious right now, but at the moment it isn't of any use.
With a disappointed sigh, you switch over to the star scroll instead, to which a much more obvious effect is revealed under a dark blue overcast. The map lights up with stars moving about the dungeon in a wild array a spectrum of colors and lights. The marvel of beauty though seems to raise an uneasiness in you through further observation as you realize that while the stars seem to dance about the nonsensical rooms with no direction or reason, they follow alarmingly intuitive patterns upon crossing paths. These blips are living creatures on this map, and this scroll is tracking them.
You try to memorize the lights and patterns you see and how they interact. As you do a word seems to dance in your mind as you memorize.
There are Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow Stars.
Red Stars are the fastest, and form pairs when crossed. They avoid Blue Stars and will scatter at the first encounter. There are 12 of them.
Blue Stars move slowly, but will "jump" towards Red stars if they can. Draws close to Yellow Stars, But then jumps far away from them. There are 2 of them.
Green Stars Move swiftly as a group, but occasionally stops to spread out and "mingle" with other stars. There are 5 of them.
Yellow Stars orbit around a giant Yellow Star, but will follow the closest thing to a consistent route in this disjointed maze as possible. There are 7 of them.
You rest your eyes at last from studying these stellar bodies and prepare to remove the scroll from the canister. It may be a good idea to keep this one along, but you'll have no room to stow it without putting one back in. Looking up at the roof all day will only hurt your neck, so after putting something in the reel to check out later it seems now would be a good time to check out the rest of the area.
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Post by Koopario on Aug 10, 2016 19:59:36 GMT -5
Try and see if you appear as a star first. If you can get a grip on where you are in relation to the others, then that should help out in avoiding/encountering other entities. Aside from that let's try a Sprout.
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Aug 11, 2016 15:43:49 GMT -5
Try and see if you appear as a star first. If you can get a grip on where you are in relation to the others, then that should help out in avoiding/encountering other entities. Aside from that let's try a Sprout. Seconded.
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Post by Planetbox on Aug 12, 2016 16:45:33 GMT -5
Thirded. Then, take a look around the room itself.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 8:29:40 GMT -5
Given the fairly large array of life that you can discern from the map, you figure perhaps it may be able to spot you as well, somewhere in this jumble of mind numbing corridors.
You take a quick look around the obseevatory like room for anything of note, it's rather unlikely that the map is detailed enough to display any of the knick knacks scattered around here, but something like a missed door or an unusually shaped corner of the room could make it easy to locate your position.
Aside from the slab doing the magical ceiling radar thingy, you spot some basic furniture making up some simple living arrangements. When you pause to think about the structure actually you really get the idea that this ancient observatory if not for the stairs leading higher and the lack of natural lighting could very well have the top of a lighthouse at some point. Further confirming this idea is the eventual discovery of a hatch door leading into a servicable if long desolated dormitory just below.
The Dorm seems to be perfectly equipped for an extended stay by some Keeper. There's a comfy looking hammock, A kitchen loaded with canned goods and drinks that seem to be fermented beyond a shadow of a doubt by now, some facilities to keep oneself from getting gross, a servicable library of books which is beautiful after nothing but rolls of paper thus far, and a (locked) diary left by a waiting inkwell. What is most interesting however is the cog filled roof just above connected to a central column. Perhaps the room can rotate if you could find something like a lever to fit this slot in the column, but that will need to be remembered later. It shouldn't be hard to forget about it since this place will make a good bunker for now.
Ultimately sweet pad discovery aside there doesn't seem to be any indication that you can be seen on the map, or that your location is even present on said map to begin with. It does bring up the interesting question on why there would be a map that has no bearing on the current location, but this place is already pretty odd to begin with.
Before continuing your search you swao out the Scrolls one more time to check the effect of the Sprout Scroll.
As the room brightens to a green hue, You immediately pick up some of the already familiar patterns from the star scroll now portrayed as different stages of a plant in growth. The plants themselves blip along in black and white scales, but that doesn't particularly strike you as noteworthy in the slightest. What is more interesting is that the number of plants compared to stars has seemingly increased with this scroll, a development that quickly drives you to dance around the room in vain trying to locate yourself.
Still, from what you can ascertain most of the new blips follow absolutely no pattern at all, wandering the grounds without any reaction to anything they bump past, though interestingly they all seem to be seeds or seedlings in a map virtually filled with buds and flowers with a few odd fruiting trees mixed in, whatever the symbology means. Flowers seem better than seeds at least that feels right to assume.
Your search here is over for the time being, unless you want to head downstairs and get more scrolls to goof around with perhaps its time to move on.
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Aug 20, 2016 10:20:24 GMT -5
I think moving on sounds like a good idea.
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Post by Planetbox on Aug 20, 2016 14:48:09 GMT -5
Seconded.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 13:30:43 GMT -5
Off and up the stairs we go, what we'll find nobody... Huh?
As you race up the stairway you feel as if you've just been hit with a case if deja vu. Another empty Storage Room? What? Why would there be another identical storage room when the one two floors down was super huge already? It even has the same stack of scrolls lying around just the way you left them from before.
Scratching your head in perplexment you take a look up and down the stairwell. One more floor upstairs, another locked up door dow- WAAAAIT A MINUTE
Somebody has to be playing a trick on you now, Doors don't just magically appear out of thin air for people to get trapped behind.
Sierra Cardien does NOT get the first laugh, nay, she is the one who laughs last, or at least like third or fourth as long as she laughs after the first one... Yeah! Nobody makes a joke out of you!
You're definitely getting to the bottom of this mystery of the prankster and the duplicate rooms. But while you're already here you might as well decide on what scrolls will best help you in kicking the butt or butts of whomever is pulling the strings here.
You have the Heart, Eye, Star, and Golden Scrolls.
On bench there are still the Hammer, Servant, Red, Blue, and Black Scrolls.
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Post by emperortoad on Aug 21, 2016 14:52:15 GMT -5
Punch yourself in the face hard
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Post by Koopario on Aug 22, 2016 2:10:06 GMT -5
I'm willing to guess that the status of the flowers may pertain to the status of certain objects, but then again there's too many to be sure. Let's switch Heart for Servant and replace the Sprout with Star again just for safety, once we return to the observatory. If by some chance we happen to come across the storage room again for failing to solve the puzzle let's switch Sprout for Hammer. I don't see much use for Heart or Sprout here at the moment.
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Aug 22, 2016 19:46:53 GMT -5
Maybe also swap out for eye for *just* a moment and give that a whirl.
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Post by Koopario on Aug 23, 2016 16:03:52 GMT -5
Maybe also swap out for eye for *just* a moment and give that a whirl. We tried Eye already. It did nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 17:33:07 GMT -5
Taking Servant in Heart's place, you head in the only possible direction, up, to find yourself once again in a room identical to the observatory you had just left, the sprout scroll still displaying the plant symbols up in the room.
It only takes a quick march up through the stairs to confirm that at the very least thes rooms repeat themselves in design or location through the stairway. Observatory -> Storage Storage -> Observatory Observatory -> Storage Storage -> Observatory Etc.
Exactly how confounds you since the while the stairs curve uniformly around the rooms like a spiral, the Storage room is clearly wider than the Observatory. If that wasn't peculiar enough the Observatory with it's basement and larger ceiling is One-and-a-half times taller than its bulkier counterpart. Just to be absolutely certain, you walk to the Storage room and toss a paper weight by the doorway that exists at the bottom, namely the Eye Scroll.
As imagined upon walking up the stairs a little higher you encounter the scroll resting midway up the staircase, seemingly propped up against some invisible force. For the moment you decide to leave it there, trying to mess with it like that may end up being a very bad idea.
Returning into the Observatory you stick the Star scroll into the slab reader as your de facto scroll of choice for the device. You rap your noggin trying to shake up how to go on from here. You think you have a pretty good idea now what to do but it isn't quite snapping together yet...
What now?
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Post by Koopario on Aug 27, 2016 11:52:48 GMT -5
Hm. What if we did the same thing with that Eye Scroll but with another item and unfurled the Eye once the item was held in the air?
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