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[Caellath]

Last minute check around the lighthouse, leaving the head near the exit for later pick-up, then take the heavy thing back and go to the shack.

[TCM]

Flaunt comically sized mammeries.

[piecewise]

Last minute check around the lighthouse, leaving the head near the exit for later pick-up, then take the heavy thing back and go to the shack.

Run that by me again? What are you checking for? What light house? Is heavy thing the head?

Flaunt comically sized mammeries.

You jiggle distractingly in front of everyone, until you get a bit overzealous and crack Chin right in the face, knocking him flat like a sack full of birdshot.

[Caellath]

((Ooops, I meant Tower. Well.))

Just go to the shack after a quick search through the previously-explored places in the Tower that do not require jumping or provoke a risk of fall due to hauling of the "head".

[piecewise]

((Ooops, I meant Tower. Well.))

Just go to the shack after a quick search through the previously-explored places in the Tower that do not require jumping or provoke a risk of fall due to hauling of the "head".

You search around but it seems like everything has already been searched fairly well. You don't find anything you haven't seen before. You head back and grab the stone head.





The team moves on, walking through the pitted lands and into the woods until they reach the shack.

[PyroDesu]

Unless anyone is majorly tired, I suggest we keep going. Get out of this freaky place, radio the shipboard AI that we're done, and we can rest in stasis on the way back.

Then again, my suggestion likely means a good bit less than the rest of ya'lls, since I'm having to be carried.

Be an easy passenger if we go, rest and dream of the corporate lab I was working at just before being shipped here if we stay.

[Knight Otu]

"For what's it worth, I agree with Simus. The longer we dally, the greater the chance someone goes crazy... crazier."

[Caellath]

Just return if we aren't too tired, unless someone has an idea.

[IronyOwl]

Check how many different trees I have branch samples from. If less than three, try to snap another one off and take it.

((It's okay guys, I'm only risking my only good hand.))

[piecewise]

Just return if we aren't too tired, unless someone has an idea.

Unless anyone says differently in the next hour or so, this is what we're doing.

So if you want to stop anywhere in here or talk to conrad on the way out, speak up now.

Check how many different trees I have branch samples from. If less than three, try to snap another one off and take it.

((It's okay guys, I'm only risking my only good hand.))

[dex:1+1]
You reach up, grab one of the branches and promptly lop off a finger. The MK II stops the bleeding and pain but you're still slightly annoyed.

[IronyOwl]

Collect finger, abandon hellhole.

...after trying once more.


EDIT:

((Oh, I guess we should just deal with after-exit stuff here as well, like talking to Conrad/Steve?))

[Caellath]

Milno watches as Faith dexterously lops off one off her fingers and decides to take one extra just in case.

Use the (correct) way Conrad taught to get another tree branch, then back to Conrad and show him his older brother's ramblings.

[Orb]

Travis grabs a sand sample if there isn't one among the group. He also warns Conrad about the uh...lighteaters they revived.

[piecewise]

Collect finger, abandon hellhole.

...after trying once more.


EDIT:

((Oh, I guess we should just deal with after-exit stuff here as well, like talking to Conrad/Steve?))

You pick up your finger and try again.
[dex:4+1]
You snap off a branch and stick it in a jar.

(I'll just have you stop as you exit the place.)

Milno watches as Faith dexterously lops off one off her fingers and decides to take one extra just in case.

Use the (correct) way Conrad taught to get another tree branch, then back to Conrad and show him his older brother's ramblings.

You use the butt of one of your guns to snap off a branch and scoop it off the sand with jar.

Travis grabs a sand sample if there isn't one among the group. He also warns Conrad about the uh...lighteaters they revived.

You grab a jar of sand and stick it in your bag.






The group continues on till they reach the starting area, that familiar cluster of dozens of lights. It takes some doing, especially with all the cripples, but they manage to climb/be thrown through the hole in reality back out into the normal world. They find Conrad sitting at his kitchen table, reading something. He eyes them languidly as the few remaining members of the party, hobble out.

"Ran into a bit of trouble eh?"

[IronyOwl]

"Steve! We're all pretty beat up and done with this place, but with a sturdy container the size of a cooler and three fairly large directional lights I think we could capture you some live shades. Interested?"

Faith then flipped up her faceplate to talk to Conrad.

"Yeah, you could say that. Uh, there's actually a lot of stuff that happened, that I think you should know about. This wasn't just falling on trees or whatever. Some of it was," she said, holding up her hand with the missing finger.

"First of all, we found your brother's corpse. Sorry. He apparently fell off a place in the Citadel, not sure how. We also found his journal though, and we've copied all the information in it so you can have it. It's... interesting. No sign of your other brother, though."

Handing him the journal, Faith continued.

"Secondly, turns out we woke up more Lighteaters. One infested one of our member- you probably saw us bringing his corpse back here- but abandoned him and made a new body out of stone when damaged. They look like puddles of ink when, er, dormant, so if you see anything like that don't touch it. Anyway there's a lot of noise in the Citadel now, which we think might be related, and part of it's guarded by a Wyrm, and the Lighteater we saw had a tuning fork staff thing that manipulated stone. So, it might be a lot more dangerous in there now, sorry. We also cut up the path a bit, well, kind of a lot, so there's some dark stretches there now. Sorry again.

Oh and the part beneath the Fall is now bereft of sand for some reason so the elevator no longer touches ground. No idea if it's going somewhere or coming back or what, but again, presumably due to the noise and Lighteaters. If that noise was always there then what killed your other brother might have essentially been the tide.

In more cheerful news, we found out that the things in those pits aren't actually hostile, just dangerous, they seemed to not know what we were but of course they're sharp insectthings, so they cut us up just from coming out to see what was up, and the Wyrm is apparently a stone and... whatever everything else is centipede-like house-thing that the Lighteaters can apparently ride and control. So, I dunno why one was following you, but I'd assume it'd less likely now that it's got its masters back. Unless that was something completely different but similar, like a cow to a riding horse.

So, that's the situation in the dimension now. Sorry for making such a mess of things, and I hope either the Lighteaters aren't hostile and/or you were done going in there anyway."