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You descend the stairway, following Chance's blood trail. When you reach the bottom, from the light of your torch, you can already see some splatters of blood, signs of Chance's struggle you heard from before.

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You can feel heat emanating from both sides of the room when you stand in the center. You turn to your friends and look at them inquisitively, the darkness surrounding you being blacker than anywhere else you've encountered before. You look up to Saffron, but she shakes her head, unable to see anything as well.

>>4075432

Investigate the statues at the bottom of the stairs.

>>4075432

Check out that big hand on the floor.

>>4075478
you sure that's a good idea?

>>4075432

Those statues have their hands.

Either that broken one on the ground came from upstairs or somewhere else.

>>4075690
was the golem upstairs missing a hand?

>>4075714

It was missing most of its upper body. And one of the statues was completely gone.

Presuming of course that there was originally two of them up there like down here.

High five! High five!

>>4075714
I don't think so. One hand was visible, the other was underneath it's body. I'd have to go back and check, though/

>>4075733
well then, we may find the rest of it down here.

>>4075740

What if there's multiple statues with identical statue rooms only the statues all struck different poses?

And the ultimate key to freedom was a coordinated Dance routine in full armour that mimicked those poses?

>>4075733
Unless I'm getting mixed up, wasn't it only missing it's head, which Chance was wearing as a glove?
This hand might belong to the one that was tossed in the lava.

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Here's the map from last session again, in case we need it.

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You see a large, dark mass ahead of you in the room and walk towards it slowly. It looks to be the hand of a stone and metal being similar to the one you saw upstairs. It is hollowed out stone, circled with the occasional bronze bands.

>>4075907

Try to levitate the hand and inspect it.

Look inside the hand to see if there's anything inside.

>>4075957
If we can, give Saffron a high five.

You know the two arm pieces saffron is wearing, I'm sure someone else already got on to this... but it would seem like who ever was wearing them before tore off one of their arms went down stairs wrote that spell on that alter "hold fast" or whatever it was and then ripped off their other arm.
So for whatever reason someone seemed to be ripping themselves apart and I'm guessing we'll find whats left of them with the final piece of the set.

>>4076091
that is horrifying
there also was that picture we got out of a tumblr code that showed a diamond dog with wings and what looked like no arms

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>>4076157

Do we want to light those torches by the entrance to see better? I was going to suggest so earlier, but given we're running into the stone guards now I'm worried Baldwin might be hiding down here on his throne, or that lighting the torches might wake up those two swordy chaps.

Anyone else extremely suspicious of chronicle? He is so distant, mysterious and Everyone/thing seems to be down here for a reason and have their part to play in all this...
I know he has been cool at some points... but i still have this feeling about him.
maybe he is just hear to record everything and thats how we know about this whole story thing... or maybe he is here to make sure these events happen as they were planned to eons ago.

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>>4075957
>>4076034
You look inside the hand, but not for too long, to find it hollow. The light doesn't travel very far, but when you bring you face closer it seems to be colder than the rest of the room. With great effort, both you and Chronicle lift it to turn it over, revealing a mark on the back of the hand. You stare at the mark, and your head begins to hurt.

>>4076525
maybe if we slap this baby on we can control one of those giant golems?

>>4076577
i'm pretty wary of putting any appendage inside of any sort of armor at this point

>>4076525

I'm guessing this is the mate of the gauntlet that fell in the lava.

>>4076631
whats the worst that could happen?
>>4076525
Anyone think we should keep staring at it, been awhile sense we had a crazy vision. It may have some useful clue and information

>>4076692
>Focusing on things that cause Renne to start losing it
No, bad Anon. Nothing of interest in this room beside the statues. I vote we head right.

>>4076757
Why shouldn't renne risk her self a bit more? saffron has been pulling most of the weight lately.

>>4076513
Actually, thinking about it, if they didn't activate when Chance came down wrestling with their brethren from the upper floor, they're not going to wake up from a little light. Let's light those suckers up so we can actually see.

>>4076822
We take risks when they're nescessary. Saffron's done more than her fair share, true, but she'll have to do even more if Renne starts becoming any more unstable than she already is.

>Please post over HTTPS only
4chan, what are you doing.

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>>4076830
>>4076345
You walk back towards the stairwell and carefully light the torches. What comes into your view shocks the entire party, and you all remain dead-still for just a moment. The golems within the carved sections of the wall, however, do not stir. With the room more well lit, you can see that there are doorways leading to the east and west.

Follow chances blood, not much going on in here.

>>4076513
>or maybe he is here to make sure these events happen as they were planned to eons ago.
but he hasn't DONE anything aside from pulling Chance's chain nyuk nyuk

>>4077028
Go to the room opposite the blood trail.

>>4077028

The statue's gauntlets have the same marking as the one on the floor.

Go west.

>>4077028

Check out that indentation near the left door.

>>4077665
Can't hurt to check, I suppose, but I assume it's just a torch bracket like we've seen before. There's one by the right door as well.

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>>4077097
>>4077176
>>4077665
You head west cautiously. You pass an empty torch holder on your way in. The temperature rises significantly as you enter. You can see ahead of you a little more than in the previous room, but not by much. The walls look rough, but you cannot tell if it is the texture or carvings. There is a slight rectangle shape across the room that is lit up.

>>4077788
Ah, FINALLY we're finding more out about that giant beastie. Look closer at each inscription and take a gander at as much of that squiggly text as possible.

>Octagon with four white and four black(red?) dots
>eight

>>4077788
Inspect the large wall.

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>>4077875
Even though you hold your torch up close and have Saffron hoist you up, some of the hieroglyphs on the upper portion of the wall are unrecognizable.

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Drat it, no sign of Soup yet. Guess that means I'll have to actually do some work.
I'm a lazy sod so I claim the right text, someone else get to work on the left side.

>>4078482
It probably says "ur a faget"

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>>4078575
Shadows removed for easier reading.

tumblr update
not sure when it happened, says 12 hours ago or so

>>4078761
Oh, thanks.

>>4078575
Righto, right side, guessing a couple of things I couldn't work out with the guide, is
WITH EYES YOU
CAN SEE
AND MOUTH
YOU CAN
SPEAK

Of note: both those "CAN"s the letter I've guessed is C doesn't match the letter on the guide, and the letter N is a bit different to the guide.
The double E in SEE was done as the doubledots for E with a line under it.

Can whoever's working on the other half give me a shout so I know that someone actually is working on it?

>>4078951
Guess I'll get to work on that side myself, then.

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The other side of the wall is the same, you can see some of the carvings on the top portion of the wall, but just barely.

>>4078951
>>4079202
AND WITH SPILLED
BLOOD CAN RISE
GREAT PILLARS
OF STONE
CLEAVING IN
TWO BOTH THE
FLEETS AND
THE SEA

>>4079335
i don't like this...

>>4079321
Now look at the mouth.

>>4078951
>>4079335
And the letters on the top of the first image
>>4078715
Left side
TURN------
---SPOKES----
-------------------
Right side
_________
RELEASE------
---------------BONDS
-----------------------
--------------------
AND METAL--------

Not sure about that "METAL" at the end there actually, there's something funny going on with L's that I'm not quite sure about.

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>>4079321
Starting on this.

>>4079440
Let's turn some spokes

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>>4079406
You focus on the center of the wall. There is nothing on it to speak of, save for the open-mouthed skull with a circle in the center. You can feel something welling in the back of your throat.

>>4079486
Left side:
WITH MIND YOU
CAN DRIVE
AND SOUL I
CAN KEEP

>>4079529
Look away.

>>4079567
Right side:
FOUR OF
STONE BOTH
RED AND
B----
EIGHT OF
METAL TO--
-------

Wait, red and blue?

>>4079618
And either side of our winged friend in the corner
STONE----
---------------- and RISE-----
-------------- --------------------

>>4079618
Not to mentioned EIGHT of metal. Whaaaat.

>>4079618
>>4079671
>there are two sets of armor and stones
>>4078951
>two eye gems
>some kinda mouth piece

>>4077788
Damn, wish we could find out what those upper parts said. Top left might be more gear instructions, and I want to know what the top left tells about tumblr guy.
Pity the only pegasus down here had his wings torn off.
...Also that he's dead.

>>4079728
maybe renne will have to start putting pieces on
;_;

>>4079736
we have a set of wings...

>>4079755
...No we don't? Not that I know of, anyway. What're you talking about?

>>4079784
Maybe i dreamed it up last week when i went to bed but i could of sworn we found the wings for saffrons armor.

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>>4079571
You turn from the wall before the feeling can get any stronger. As you turn and face the door ahead of you, the feeling stays in your throat, heavy, making it hard to swallow.

>>4079812
Cough a few times to try and get it loose.

>>4079812

Induce vomiting

>>4079853
>>4079876
You guys.

>>4079812
Well, not much left here. Let's have a look at that door.

>>4079806
>>4079784
Alright looks Like i wasn't recalling right.

>>4079812
move on through he next door

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>>4079916
We found what is maybe the collar piece to the suit of armor, perhaps that's what had you confused?

Im still suprised we are not dead yet, how many times has LK forgiven us.

>>4079982
Yeah, I went back and took a look at the logs to double check and saw i was wrong... well the wings are still out there.

>>4080012
LK does most of the heavy lifting, we just kinda wonder around like idiots.

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>>4079853
>>4079895
You cough a few times, trying to dislodge whatever it is in your throat. Saffron walks over to you.

"R-renne? Are you okay?"

You nod and tell her that you just felt something in your throat. You approach the door on the west side of the room. It feels very hot, compared to the entrance of this room, and you can see a bit of light coming from the edges of the doorframe.

>>4080012
>>4080032
We're probably be railroaded pretty hard in the grand scheme of things
Not that I mind much. The ride's been amazing so far.

>>4080066
What is the door made of?

Who is the map keeper? Are we down low or up high?

>>4080066
The mechanism for opening this door looks a bit more advanced than usual. Unless Saffron can suddenly grow 2 extra arms, I'm not sure we can open this one right now.

>>4080160
We are on the lowest floor
>>4080170
>>4079728
Kinda plays into the into the idea that there is another set of armor... that second set there could even be considered somewhat hoof shaped.

>>4080066
I'm guessing we need Saffron and both stone hands to open this

>>4080204
Didn't one of them end up in the lava?
we should be heading over that way anyways.

>>4080203
In that case there is probably lave on the other side of the door. Let's not open it.

>>4080170
>>4080204
let's try it first though, start with what we're used to, the discs

>>4080066

I don't think we can open this door right now.

I say we go back into the center room and check the wall indent next to the door to this room.

>>4080066
>Dat door
I will that that the "Blushing door", because it actually lookes like a face blushing.

>>4080243
I will call*

Whoops, posted when LK first posted the door, but looks like it didn't go through.
We've seen both circular and those semicircle discs before; if they work the same as their earlier counterparts I'm assumine we're going to have to turn the top ones to unlock the door, then use the lower ones to lift the door up.

>>4080301
But lava.

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>>4080170
>>4080229
>>4080234
You return to the previous room, thankful for the reprieve from the heat. As you walk away from the room and the locked door, your throat clears and you can breathe well again.

>>4080493
Well if we're not going to tamper with the lava floodgate, then let's continue EAST.

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>>4079321

Oh hey, this is interesting. If you look at the white dots they match up to the positioning of the red dots on this.

So the blue dots must be 4 more pieces of armor. I think we already figured that but it's interesting to see that all the dots form the rough shape of a whole person.

>>4079567

So saffron's mind drives the armor, meaning she has control, but something else might have control of her soul...

>>4079335

Looks like this explains the blood sacrifices.

>>4080493
Blood room.

>>4080632
Hey Soup, while translating that a bunch of times I came across a straight line below a letter that meant it was a double. Is that the first time that's come up?

>>4080715

Nope, that's come up before, it's just not on the guide since I made it before that ever appeared. (I think, it's been a long time.)

>>4080632
Nice catch. I guess that means that the other set of armour covers the lower body?

Wait, if that's right though, that means the new armour's got a piece that goes in between the chesplate and the piece we're carrying around now. Wonder what that'll be.
...unless that piece we're carrying around now is one of the bluestone pieces, and there's a redstone helmet to be gotten?

>>4080783

Probably the wings? Attaches to the back?

>>4080632
>>4079321
if thats true the remain dots look like they would fit the form of an equine... or maybe the other set are just a cod, helmet and two legs bits
>something else might have control of her soul...
don't say such horrible things

>>4080783
>>4080809
The "bridge" could be the part of the armor that connects her to whatever it is the conduit connects to... if does have anything to do with being the conduit.

>>4080783

>...unless that piece we're carrying around now is one of the bluestone pieces, and there's a redstone helmet to be gotten?

...That is also plausible. If you look at the red armor diagram drawing as someone bowing, the helmet would be the centermost dot and the wingpiece would be the one just above that. The collar/chest thing we picked up would go in between those.

>>4080864

>if thats true the remain dots look like they would fit the form of an equine...

Could be. We'll have to wait and see, I think.

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>>4080644
>>4080560
You poke your heads into the room, the wave of heat and smell of blood hits you hard.

I REALLY hope there isn't someone hiding down here who's already equipped the full bluearmour set, given we've yet to find a scrap of it.

>>4081026
What a mess!
Check out that "Sword?" and arm first, then lets head over to the wall.

>>4081026

Inspect the etchings on the wall.

>>4081026
Looks like chance turned it counter clockwise

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<Also, to clarify, I derped on the octagon. This is the correct placement of the dots. Whoops!>

>>4081026
>Sword
Huh, so those guys upstairs had swords too? Where's the headless one's blade, then?

Also, oh boy, more gear shenanigans.
1 left
3 right
2 left
4 right
...Huh, doesn't add up to 8 this time.
Also, I wonder what's up with the triangle. Closer look wouldn't hurt.

>>4081080

Okay, that does make a lot more sense.

>>4081080
Ah, that makes sense. The set we've been seeing pictures of is the redstone set then, and there's another set to be found. Thanks!

>>4081094
>Where's the headless one's blade, then
In the lava in the next room over i think

>>4081034
...What if there is, and he's the one who had Chance gathering the remaining four pieces for him?
>Paranoia

We MUST take the sword, a good weapon can raise our survivality by a lot.

>>4081216
The sword is at least twice as long as we are.

>>4081245
...SPEARSWORD

>>4081216
Did you look at that thing? It's 1.5x the size of Saffron for crying out loud! We're not JRPG protagonists!

...Then again, I suppoe we do have SUPER STRENGTH Saffron, who might be able to use it to clobber those statues if they come after us... Alright, fine, let's see if we can drag it around.

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>>4081051
>>4081060
The wall is a mess. It's covered in Chance's blood as well as scratch marks and abrasions from stone and metal scraping and being slammed into it. From what you can tell, there looks to be a ship's wheel of some sort on the left, followed by some odd shapes on the right. If there were any hierogylphics on the wall, most of them have been made unrecognizable.

>>4081261
I can't stop thinking about a belts and zippers Saffron carrying the sword now

>>4081325
SCARVES AND ZIPPERS

>>4081315
>Octagon made of two squares
>Four on four

>>4081315

Is it too hot to continue to the right?

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>>4081407
You walk up to the door and glance in briefly. It is hot, but bearable. Not like the previous room.

>>4081526

Enter

>>4081526
Look through the doorway before entering.

>>4081557
>>4081679
You take a quick peek before walking in.

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>>4081812
<Hah.>

>>4081821
Oh boy. Guess we're going to make our winged friend dizzy spinning his chamber later.

Nothing interesting hiding behind the spire?
Also check where the statue fell into the lava, just in case there's anything interesting about that.

>>4081821
What is through the other door?

>>4081821

Oh boy, looks like it's time to decide whether or not to unleash whatever's in this spire.

I'm interested in what's on the other side of this room. Let's check that out.

>>4081821

Check out the other door.

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>>4081885
>>4081908
It's not a door, but an empty alcove similar to the others that house the golems.

>>4081990
...Huh.

>>4081990
I bet the golems are meant to turn the whee.

We have to make a decision about whether or not to turn the wheel.

did everyone die again?

>>4082145
Turn it.

What's the worst that could happen.

>>4082163

We do have the two eye gems, and we've seen most of what's down here for the sake of curiosity.

There's no guarantee the skull door will let us out of here but it might get us closer than releasing unknown things from spires.

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You walk back around to the side of the room with the door to inspect where you saw the hand going in, earlier. You feel significantly hotter the closer you walk towards the edge, your mouth going dry. You can see the scrape marks of the golem's hand digging into the stone of the floor. There are some scrapes and marks around it, with a few specks of blood, but that's it.

>>4082235
Doesn't look like there's all that much in the room then.

Take one last look and head back.

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Current things:
TURN THE SPIRE
Go and try to open the lava floodgate in the other room with >>4080301
Go up and use the eye gems
Go up and stare blankly at the fire door some more.

I guess I vote for turning the spire.
Before we do that though, go back and bring the sword into this room in case we need it. Moving the spire seems like the sort of thing that'd wake those sentinels in the other room.

I vote for going up to the skull door, it's a puzzle we seemingly have collected all the pieces to, and there's no pressing reason or need to mess with this spire. Our goal is to get out and unless we think this will help us do that there's no reason to.

We went to all the trouble of getting the two eye gems, we shouldn't neglect to use them while we can.

>>4082335
Actually, you've convinced me. We've got the gems, turning the spire runs the risk of unleashing unnescessary mayhem.
I rescind my vote >>4082330 and change it to going and filling those eyesockets.

>>4082335
i think that might be for the best, but i'm kind of wondering about this wall
>>4077788
it talks about eyes, but then a mouth, mind, and soul
we have the eyes, and i guess the mind and soul? but we can also talk so i don't know

I can't figure out what we're supposed to do with spire, so I'm going to vote for returning to the skull door as well.

Do not turn the spire.

>>4081315
we've seen this before!
fuck, hang on

>>4082384

The room previous to this contains instructions for turning it similar to ones we've seen before.

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>>4082421
here!
yes?
>tfw the final instructions are the first thing we see

Drat it, with all these revelations I feel there ought to be something we can ask the tumblrguy, but I can't think of anything.

>>4082448
Oh wow. Thankyou Anon, that had been bugging me for ages, and now that we finally found it I'd forgotten about it completely. Now if only we could translate that top bit.

>>4082432

The way we're supposed to turn it is what I can't understand.

>>4082494
What's not to understand? You've been around for or read up on the other two times we've done this, right? Number on the left side means turn it that many times counterclockwise, number on the right side means turn it that many clockwise.
Or maybe I've got those back-to-front, I'd want to doublecheck before doing it.

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>>4082305
>>4082335
The three of you give the room a once-over. The room here looks... fairly uneventful. The only difference from the other floors of the spire being that this metal band has rods sticking out of it, and there was an alcove for a golem on the eastern side. After looking it over, you decide to head up to the skull door.

>>4082555
I need to sleep.

>>4082548
That door is so fucking happy.

>>4082548
<That is just the happiest door!>

>>4082568
so do i, but we need to go poke a door in the eye!

>>4082516

Right is clockwise, left is counterclockwise.

>>4082448

Interesting. Initially I had thought that note had something to do with the burning door that we couldn't get close to, because the door looks almost exactly like that but without the numbers. Seems too close to be a coincidence.

>>4082548

Oh man. Door for best character.

>>4082330
Did no-one notice the picture, or they just not think it was noteworthy?

>>4082696
<I love it, thank you! I'm still laughing.>

>>4082696

It's very cute. I was going to comment but I guess I forgot.

>>4082718
>>4082729
Ah, was just worried it might have gotten overlooked alongside the SERIOUS BUSINESS post. Carry on!

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You all walk into the next room, thankful for the temperature change. You can hear Saffron pick up the sword behind you, but before you can walk forward Chronicle stops you.

"Shhh... Do you hear that?"

You stop moving, stop breathing. You can hear it faintly, a deep thudding noise above your head, getting louder and louder. It continues to grow in volume until you can hear it directly over your head, then move on into the spire room you just came from, the echoing noise of thudding footsteps coming through the hole in the ceiling of that room.

>>4082843
>one-handing that fuckhuge sword
holy shit, Saffron

>>4082843
Chance pls go

>>4082843
Hahaha, It looks just as ridiculous as I envisaged it. Perfect!

Ask Chronicle if he's got it in him for a full-party cloak if the person comes through.

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>>4082843

>>4082857
And she's only got 1/2 or possibly even only 1/4 of a full set of the power armour on.
Yikes.

Would it be best to hold the fight here, or to go meet whoever it is in the lava room for potentially easier disposal?

Not to mention the very minor possibility that they might be friendly.

>>4082843
>that tail wag
D'awww, she's so happy to be monstrously strong

>>4082843
Peak through the doorway in the stair case room and see if anything is different

I'm 12 and what is this?

>>4082843

Let's remain cautious if it ever sounds like the footsteps come down a level.

>>4083007
Where it is at the moment it'd have to use the spire as a fireman's pole, or just straight jump down a floor and avoid the lava.
That said, we've got no way of avoiding him if he finds out we're down here and takes the stairs.

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>>4082867
He concentrates and his horn glows for a moment, his figure wavering.

"No... I do not think so. The amount of energy it takes to nullify the trace of anyone other than myself exponentially increases. I have to silence every breath, every hooffall, the slightest scent... I am sorry."

>>4083042
well shit
check in the next room, then?

So, to reiterate we've got someone on the floor above us, in the spire room
>>4075898
There's no way for us to get to the eye room without running into them, since the stairs to the floor after that are in that room. We don't have invisibility, so the only way we can avoid him is to hope he goes into the east wing of the floor above us, the east wing of the floor above that or the east wing of our floor, then creep past him.

Shall we just head into the lava room and call out to him, establish communication hoping for an attitude less than murderous, and toss them in the lava if they're not cooperative?

>>4083123
>East wing
Change all those "east"'s into "west"s. I cannot into compass directions.

>tfw we ded ;_;

>>4083142

It sounds like it came from somewhere on the floor above us, went through the room above us, and is now in the spire room. The only two places it could have come from are the giant lava-filled chamber and the gear expanse.

I really thought Chance was dead, and he usually makes some howling noises or whatnot. Did that golem get up and start walking around?

>>4083213
...Good point. I honestly have no clue.

>>4083192
Maybe it's a good time to call it for tonight then, we're approaching the 8 hour mark.

>>4083213

Maybe it's throwing itself into the lava to die fully.

or be remade.

>>4083042

peek into the lava room.

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>>4083255
You all slowly creep back to the lava room and look in, but the sound is already receding away, and you can just faintly hear the heavy thudding making its way further upstairs.

>>4083279
Go into the room with the stairs.

>>4083279
Release our breath, and head upstairs. Let's see if that Durahan's moved from where we left it.

>>4083319

This.

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>>4083291
>>4083319
>>4083328
Never too cautious, you peek your head into the room with the stairwell.

>>4083334
OH BOY

>>4083334

uh oh

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>>4083279

With luck maybe the golem is on some kind of automated routine. Maybe it'll open up some things.

Perhaps a route to the surface?

>>4083319

>Durahan

Goddamnit why is everything in this thread reminding me about Vagrant Story?

>>4083334

Perhaps we should brave the mouth room again and try and open the happy door. Just try and avoid staring too much at the mural.

>>4083334
Question is, what prompted it to make a sudden dash for upstairs?

>>4083334

We don't know if it'll be hostile, though we should err on the side of caution.

Honestly I don't know what we should do now, since going up just got more dangerous.

>>4083347
>Happy door
Was I mistaken in thinking we'd seen the half-discs before? Only ones I've managed to find looking at the logs are the ones on the door to the gear expanse, and they were two half discs touching one another that were pulled apart to open it.

>>4083358

Maybe all our mess of Chance upstairs has caused it to go and try and clean up.

i vote going to the happy door
give that thing some time to go further upstairs maybe
i don't know ;_;

>>4083405
Yep, had a more thorough look and seems I just imagined them.
So what do you think we need to do with the ones on the happy door? Top handles are presumeably for turning to unlock as they've been in the past, but I don't know about the lower ones now.

>"We have offered you a throne."

>"We have offered you servants."

>"We have offered you life eternal."

>"Only for your cooperation."

Assuming the golems are Baldwin's servants, since they're emblazoned with his cutie mark, and Chance was fighting them, I guess it's safe to assume Baldwin isn't the one orchestrating all this.

If his masters are the ones causing all this scary stuff, maybe he's trying to rebel agains them? If he is truly still alive, that is.

>>4083492

Maybe it's Chronicle

He was the only one who could hear them at first!

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>>4083347
>>4083420
You cautiously make your way across the room towards the door with the discs and hemispheres on it. Before entering the room, you tell Chronicle and Saffron to remain as quiet as they possibly can

>>4083552

Fuck something is going to happen.

Wait...

CHECK THE OTHER GOLEM MAKE SURE IT'S NOT ALIVE.

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With a slow creaking and grinding of stone and metal, coming from the alcove, you see an enormous stone hand reach around and grasp the wall, lifting its body out of the series of jerky movements. Your hooves stop immediately, and your heart almost does as well. Your eyes remain transfixed upon its own, glowing bright red in the darkness.

>>4083606
Well that's just goddamn terrifying.

>>4083606
Panic.

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>>4083606

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep mini bong!

>>4083606

BACK AWAY

If it follows us, let's lead it back to the crankroom. Maybe it'll start pushing it or something

or perhaps we can run around one side and when it comes to get us we can run round the other side Loony Toons style

>>4083606

Our best bet is to probably retreat back to the spire room and somehow push the guardian into the lava.

The door we came from should be too small for it to fit through.

>>4083691

But is it too small for it to smash through?

>>4083693

Just realized it's not true anyway since Chance got a golem from upstairs into the spire room from here (I think? Maybe? Fuck, I'm tired.)

>>4083715

Not necessarily.

Maybe he just smashed some of it up and threw half of it in the lava.

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>>4083661
>>4083682
You try to back up, but your hooves aren't carrying you fast enough. Your eyes stay fixed on its glowing red orbs. It nearly dislocates its jaw, opening it to speak. The words are not spoken so much as they echo out of its hollow form.

"SJEDJ"

The eyes pulse.

"SJEDJ"

The words hit you like a million tons, your eyes aching, but unable to close.

>>4083739

blink or something, break eye contact.

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OH GOD LOOK AWAY

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>>4083780
You try to break eye contact, but you cannot, hearing something else behind its hollow voice.

"SJEDJ"

You blink, but it doesn't help.

"SJEDJ UVW"

>>4083817

Keep trying to look away

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>>4083817
Cease the staring contest and get down to brass tacks! This monster does not belong in this world; Hurry up and eject him from it!

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>>4083848
The glowing red eye sharpens to a pinpoint. You can hear it lumbering forwards slowly, its sword scraping along the ground. Its voice booms again.

"SJEDJ!"

Maybe Saffron will shake us out of it.

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>>4083817
SAFFRON HELP

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>>4083918

RUN AWAY

Or just wait for Saffron and Chronicle to bail us out. Which they will... it doesn't look like we can do anything so it's more of a cutscene.

>>4083930
72737267

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Its voice fills your ears, a slow rumbling. Clanging, filling your head.

You can hear voices now. They're growing in number.

[audio01]

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The voices calm. But one returns. You have heard it twice before.

"Renne."

Your vision returns as well, though you wish it hadn't.

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>>4083948

>I reach the part with that fucking laugh

Okay this entire part has completely succeeded in actually making me feel frightened.

>>4083977

Oh god.

>>4083977

Are we.. are we inside the golem?

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>>4083977
Baldwin.

>>4083977
>You have heard it twice before.
Baldwin?

Did anyone manage to make out the words in that sound file?
I didn't even realise it was sensible for a while, all I managed to catch was something about "Why are you doing this to me"

>>4084008

Just that and some creepy laughing. I'll have to give it a second listen.

The fantastic part was that the posts were actually timed so that the second post appeared right as the voices and noise stopped in the sound file.

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"RENNE."

You can feel yourself shaking, his voice almost the same as the golems. It's different since the first time you heard it, hollow.

>>4084041
jesus fucking christ
are we supposed to talk to him?

>>4084041
What do you want?

>>4084041

Tell him we're not virgins so we won't make a good sacrifice.

>>4084041
JESUS CHRIST A SKELETON

>>4084041

How does he know Renne's name?

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So while I was relistening to it I ran it through a spectrogram because, why not?
Came across this. Not sure if horrible monster at wrong frequency settings or just a coincidental derpy whale that likes to swim around in sound files.

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>>4084071
>>4084115
You shiver, from both fear and the cold. You ask him what he wants.

"I want to know why you're here."

You shake your head, confused. You ask how he knows your name.

"You are like a beacon in the darkness. Hard to avoid, yet... hard to reach."

>>4084169

We're here because someone sunk the ship we were on.

>>4084169

Tell him the truth, that we got forced in here by accident due to a crash and we've been running away from a murderous lunatic.

We're scared and want to leave.

>>4084169
Originally to research history and find out more about the Diamond Dogs that lived here. Then some smart alec decided to break our boat. We're trying to find a way out.

>>4084169
>"You are like a beacon in the darkness. Hard to avoid, yet... hard to reach."
what does that mean?

I like how our three respones all cover
>submissive and scared
>>4084221
>completely neutral
>>4084186
and >snarking back at him
>>4084236

>>4083941
Did the usual with this for
"png", "gif", "jpg", "bmp", "zip", "rar", "mp3", "ogg", "wav", "mpa", "htm", "html", "exe", "txt", "swf", "avi", "mpg", "mpeg", "pdf"
and didn't get a thing.

>>4084169

We're here to kick ass and scream in terror.

And we're all out of ass.

>>4084274
i think they're supposed to be 4s instead of 2s

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>>4084293
...
You're right.
74757467
>https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21938484/_RQ/74757467.png

>>4084169

Tell him our profession.

Ask him if he knows what it means. He may not be stupid.

If he is maybe we can impress him.

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>>4084186
>>4084221
>>4084236
You tell him that something happened, a boat that you were on was sunk, and you found this place underneath the water and came for refuge. You tell him that you want to leave, that you're scared. You just want to go home.

"Many have come here before, for thousands of years. None by accident, until you and your... group."

His hollow voice is accompanied by a sickly clicking noise as he talks. More than anything, you want to be anywhere but here.

"Regardless, I cannot help you leave."

>>4084339

Why ?

>>4084308
>tfw you can't read diamond dog
i'll never understand how you figured it out, soup

>>4084339

Tell him that we're also archeologists who came to this island to learn about the culture that once lived here (he may not know that the tribe is long gone).

Tell him nobody knew of this place until we stumbled into it randomly.

Ask him who or what he is and if he means us harm.

>>4084339

Ask him if he's got a bone to pick with us.

Look away.

>>4084308
MY BLOODBOUND OATH
GIVE ME A CAPAA?
THAT ALL WITHIN
MIGHT NEER? ESCAPE
AND NOW WITH
IMMORTALITY
I SEEk TO BIND
WHAT WOULD BE FREE

Soup, can you work out those ?'d ones?

>>4084377
Oh fuck oh fuck
We ARE gonna die here

>>4084377
"NEER" might be "ne'er", perhaps. Absolutely no idea what that "CAPAA" might be, though.

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>>4084352
>>4084356
You tell him that you're an archaeologist. That you were on a job to study the diamond dog culture that used to live here.

"I know. I am one of few that stopped them. I am the one that sent them to their grave."

You ask him why, you ask him what he is, why he's here, why he's doing this.

"It does not matter who I am, only what I am meant to do."

>>4084449

What is he meant to do ?

>>4084377

Not sure about the last word of line 2. It's weird. Notice how the repeating "E" in "free" is noted by the underline, but in line two the "a" dot seems to be repeated?

And the "C" character from my chart is re-confirmed in line 4 so I think the first letter of the last word in line 2 is something different. I think it's "SH." It's a combination of the shapes for those two letters.

That also means the translation in >>4078951
>>4079335
>>4079567
is wrong. Those inscriptions say "SHALL," not "CAN."

>>4084474

So, I think it's

"GIVE ME A SHAPE"

>>4084449

I vote we don't mention to him that we stuck the armor on Saffron.

In case it pisses him off.

>>4084474
>>4084429
>>4084377
<Diamond Dog typo. Fixed it. Sorry guys!>

>>4084497

Everyone makes mistakes.

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>>4084469
You ask him what it is that he was meant to do. He clicks his jaw and turns his head, ignoring your question.

"Not as bright a beacon as I had imagined. Leave if you will, but know this. None before you ever have."

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Whew.

>>4084564

Tell him his hood looks cute~

>>4084567
slow start, but a great end, thank you LK
scared the shit out of me once again
that fucking laugh...

>>4084564

>Not as bright a beacon as I had imagined.

Oh come on

>>4084567
Hah, things were a bit tiring toward the middle there, but damnit now I'm ready for more after all those reveals. And that audio file work was damn well done.
Thanks as always!

So any ideas what his task might be?
Also, any ideas on what his golem might have been shouting at us? I'm about to lose power, so I can't join in the conversation for a bit sadly, but will catch up when I can get back.

>>4084630
well whatever his task is, we know it involves killing a diamond dog tribe

>>4084676
I don't know if I like Baldwin very much...