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The sword slices almost faster than you can see, and the chain is cleaved in half. You can hear the screeching of Gusty as they fall. Saffron looks over the edge and stares for a while."Into the lava."
Saffron walks over to you and crouches down, putting her arm around you and squeezing you into her side."I'm sorry Renne, I was watching the doorway to make sure everything was safe from that way. I came as soon as Chronicle said you were in trouble."She looks at the bloodstains around the room as you continue to stare at your spot on the floor."I'm really proud of you, Renne. You stood up against that... that thing. You were very brave. And that noise, was that you?"You nod and look up to her. She squeezes you tighter, smiling."So proud of you."
Map, vanilla flavour
Map with annotation sprinkles.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21938484/_RQ/84252518.mp3For those who missed itWe need saffron to climb up the chain>>4725970Wonder how long till we start getting some kinda side effects from that 'rash'
>>4725970Sniffle and recollect ourselves. How are our leg scratches looking?
>>4726075You stand with a wince and hold your leg out for Saffron to see. The scratches are deep, and they sting like nothing you've felt before. Though it was bleeding steadily before, that seems to have slowed.
>>4726212If we have some way to clean the wound we should do that, If chronicle hasn't already wondered back we should go fetch him before we do anything else.Like seeing whats in the room above us.
>>4726212Check our packs, see if we have something we can use to staunch the bleeding.Also; see how chronicle is holding up.
>>4726212See if we have anything we can use to clean and dress the wound.
>>4726212>>4726254Find Baldwin, thank him for getting Saffron. Then head back to the ocean entrance and give those cuts a wash. We have anything left to bandage with?>Washing with untreated ocean water
>>4726335
>.exe works>computer starts screaming with the voice of the damned>monitor goes black>a tiny Renne appears in the center of the screen>Press [Enter] to startAn Anon said the above after I mentioned trying a .exe extension with the dropbox url, so had to make it a thing.
>>4726254>>4726320>>4726335You grit your teeth and ask Saffron if you have any supplies to stop the bleeding and clean the wound. She lifts up a single digit and smiles.After a short time your wound is fully cleaned, and Saffron takes the remainder of her shawl and ties it around your leg as a bandage.
>>4726523give her ear-scratchiesshe's such a good girl
>>4726523Haha, that works!Tell Baldwin it's safe to come out, if he's not just offscreen like he usually is.
>>4726523>cuts licked clean by SaffronHnnngghhhHelp, I'm died
>>4726558>Baldwinchronicle?
>>4726581Er.Yes. Whoops.
>>4726523Give Saffron a hug as thanks.
>>4726558>>4726581>Go find a goelmn stare into its eyes>let Baldwin know its safe to come out>He comes out>everyone escapes and we skip off into the sunset
>>4726607Best endEnd of the year, all years
>>4726607>credits roll>It was all a dream.
>>4726624>Renne is still sleeping on the boat>session 2 and onward was a dream>We're not really friends with saffronWorst ending ever
You give her the tightest hug that you can muster.
>>4726719yay~okay, let's go get Chronicle and get back to work
>>4726719Lets check up on chronicle and have saffron climb up that chain once again...Maybe we could hand onto her back and come along this time now that she has super strength.
You head back down the hallway with Saffron to find Chronicle sitting near the broken doorway. You stop, and wait for a response, but he does not move for a moment. He stays silent for a few seconds before taking a deep breath."I... trust that you put them out of their misery, yes?"You nod and inform him about his friends."It seems as if it could not have been avoided. Yet, it is for the best, I suppose."
>>4726822oh shit... i just realized that last week he walked in on the shambling corpses of his friends...i feel sorry for the guy
>>4726822Comfort him, Maybe a hug?.after that head back to the other room and go up a floor.
>>4726822Hopefully they've found peace
>>4726822we can't let this keep happeningwe need to put an end to this once and for all
>>4726876>head back to the other room and go up a floor.you mean the chain room?we cut the chain so we cant go down anymore
>>4727027The chain leads UP to another room.
>>4726876>>4726881>>4726920You wrap a hoof around him and apologize, but tell him that they have found peace. You tell him that you want to put an end to this once and for all so it doesn't happen to anyone else."That would be nice."He's tense, and you don't feel him winding down at all. You decide it's best to pull away from him for now.
>>4727050He is always so distant...
>>4727121All five of his friends diedFour having died twiceI think he's taking it like a champ, all things considered
>>4727148I kinda feel bad for it, But I still don't trust him and probably wont till the end.
so where are we off to?the chain room again?
You ask Chronicle to come with you, to help stop whatever is going on here. He takes another deep breath and gets up to follow you. You mention to Saffron that you would like to check out the room with the chain one more time.
>>4727406Float the torch up
>>4727426You float the torch upwards, following the chain, a bit more confident after sending the last thing that you found up there down the hole in the center of the room.
>>4727546Float it up over the edge.Looks like there's something else up there.
>>4727546>>4727568Float it up, If it looks safe enough have saffron climb up, maybe jump on her back and go up with her...
You float it further up the chain until you start to see something. The gleam of bronze shines back amongst the stone walls. A large metal plate is embedded in the stone ceiling, with the chain going into the center. Beyond the plate, you can see a few gears. Beyond that, complete blackness. You shudder to think if it's somehow the same blackness, connected to the abyss that consumed Chance.
>>4727686Try and get a better look at the plate.
>>4727686Lets go up.
>>4727705>>4727711>>4727593You ask if Saffron would be able to carry you up, that you want to have a look for yourself."Of course. Just hop on and hang on tight."She says with a smirk as you climb on to her back. You wrap your hooves around her neck and drape them over her chest, locking them over each other. You yelp as she leaps for the chain and grabs ahold, effortlessly climbing up the chain towards the levitating torch.
Oh my god cutest thing ever>>4726523>this panelhnngnggghhhh
>>4728122>>4726523>LK is trying to kill us.
>>4728165>kills characters in the most gruesome ways possible>kills us with the cutest pictures possibleThis quest hurts my heart for so many reasons
You reach the top and get a close up look at the gears. They are a dull bronze, with only the slightest glimmer to them. The abyss above you is entirely clogged with gears, and there is no way of anyone or anything getting up there.
>>4728474Hm. Another dead end...
>>4728535>>4728474Time to go check that room where we first found that stack of bodies.
Saffron carefully climbs her way down and swings to flat ground, letting you down gently. You suggest to the both of them to investigate the room where the corpse group had come from and they agree, Chronicle more reluctantly than Saffron. You head out of the room and up the stairs.
Making your way up, the new blood trail sticks under your hooves, the odor much more pungent than you remember. You stand outside the room, waiting for a headache to flare up, but none come.
You once again find yourselves in front of the first doorway you encountered upon entering this place. Your throat catches for a moment, although you can tell it is not from an outside cause, merely because so much has happened since first seeing this doorway.
>>4728991 Lets float the torch in first.
>>4729006this turned out to be the best thing that we ever tried doingwe would have walked into so much shit had we not done this all the time
>>4729045>Renne's body is falling apart by now.>Saffron and Chronicle have to transport her on a stretcher everywhere.I'm glad as well. I still think it's going to bite us in the ass one day and we might accidentally light something on fire while floating the torch.
>>4729006You levitate the torch into the room. Though you know it is not possible, you somewhat expect the bodies, or at least a body to be impaled upon the stone, but from what you can see, there is nothing.
So... there chance, Baldwin... the golems I guess? Still looks like we're missing a spot...>>4729145Well, Now you've given him then idea...>>4729174Guess we should go in and check on things, or maybe have saffron do it if renne is too nervous.Kinda feel like we are wondering around right now.
>>4729174Carefully go in
>>4729233>Kinda feel like we are wondering around right now.we know what we need to dowe just don't want to fight golems
>>4729233We're wandering around gathering as many details as we can before we take on a golem; who knows, perhaps we'll find a way around it.I'd like to know if there's anything new in here myself, and if there's anything else that's nescessary for the ressurection ritual other than the octagon on the forehead. Make sure we levitate a torch up and get a look at the ceiling while we're in there.
>>4727406After last week's pixel hunt, I feel it'd be remiss to not mention the teensy squiggle below and to the left of Saffron here, but unless 6 has started combining its two pieces together it's not a valid number and is probably just a few stray pixels.
The smell is absolutely revolting, the worst you have experienced thus far. As much as you have experienced it, you feel it is something you could never get used to, nor would ever wish to. The stone spire is completely soaked in blood from bottom to top, with a massive sticky puddle around it.
>>4729622Thats just plain unpleasantMaybe Saffron should clean her sword, too, if we can find a way.Wave the torch around, lets get a look at the rest of the room
>>4729622Well if its that bad for Renne, I can only imagine how bad it is for saffron.Unless we want to check the walls for this unusually dark room lets move on.
>>4729651From session 4>You float the torch around the room, and determine that it is a circular domed room, with places along the wall to hold torches, but with no torches in the room save for the ones you brought in.Can't hurt to look again though, and we definitely want to get another look at the ceiling.
>>4729622Inspect the room
You decide to give the room one more look before moving on. You walk around the edge of the room with the torch, noticing a bronze band across the base of the wall. Whenever you happen upon a torch holder, there is a thin line of bronze inlaid in the wall. You count the torch holders in the room this time, eight in total.
>>4729935My Zelda sense is telling me there needs to be a lit torch in every one of those.
>>4729968Something for us to occupy our time so we can continue tip toeing around the golems, Excellent.Less go check the boss door floor before we go gather up torches, its thats what we are going to do.
>>4730049Sounds good to me.Head to the eastern room on the 7th floor. Check the ceiling.
You give the ceiling a quick check as well, and you find that the bronze strips lead up to connect to an octagon on the ceiling, its lines made of strips of bronze.
>>4730049>>4730143More than happy to get out of the foul smelling room, you all travel upstairs.
>>4730442Go east I guess.
>>4730660You enter the room to the east.
we ded.
>>4731033Inspect the circle on the ground
>>4731235that was one of the first things we did>The circle on the floor is the same as the one you've seen before. It looks to be a circular stone set into the floor, flush, almost perfect.
>>4731235>>4731366So what do we do now? The chain got cut so we better hope that we didn't need to use the mechanism in that room. Do we bring eight torches to the spike room, do we have Saffron try to open the boss room door, or do we do something else?
>>4731033I'm a little lost, can we bring up the map again?
>>4731488It's been posted.
>>4731487>The chain got cut so we better hope that we didn't need to use the mechanism in that roomthe mechanism was what lowered the chain i think>do we have Saffron try to open the boss room door, or do we do something else?she already tried it and it won't gowhat we need to do is turn that spirebut golems...
>>4731487I think our only options are to try and find more torches, try and see if the cylinder mechanism still works, or go back to the lava room on the second floor.
Alright guys, sorry, but I'm throwing in the towel a bit early this week. Sorry for the slow pace, I feel a lot of it was me. I've been exhausted this week. Here's hoping next week is nicer.
>>4731797No problem, see you next week.
>>4731797Aw man. We didn't do SHIT today.
>>4731797Goodnight.
>>4731797Its for the best... everything was just... horrible today.Alright Everyone else, We should get a fucking plan for next week so this shit doesn't happen again.
jesus fuck we were unorganizedit happened againmore conversation than actual direction
>>4731875I plan on re-reading through the whole thing by next wednesday and trying to work out some of the puzzles we might have missed so we can actually get somewhere.
>>4731875>>4731918I still say Spire is priority #1.>secret pic of the diamond dog trapped in the spire with the wings>we have the instructions on how to open it>last piece of armor will complete the "4 of metal" poem>wings might let us fly to the platform in the big lava room>jaw hurts in that room>need a "mouth" for the doorWe just need to man up and beat the piss out of some golems.
>>4731561When did she try to open the door?
>>4732032I agree, but the golems are a huge problem.
>>4732075sorry, i meant to say that she tried the jasper stone in the hole and it didn't fit
>>4732081They are able to be killed.There's one headless one, and one that fell in the lava. Those were both done by Chance alone.
Just wondering, do we have anyone here able to bump if necessary? I'm about to pass out.
>>4732397The thread will be fine LK, Go to sleep.
>>4732419Buh, alright. Sorry about this week. I'll let everyone know as soon as I can what the next week will be like.
>>4732455hey, no biggieat least we solved last week's puzzle, right?
