"Well, I- Woah, what's that behind you guys?"
Stargazer takes off running towards the Hermitage.
For freedom, I will go... TO THE HERMITAGE!!!
Run towards the hermitage
The two of you take off for the Forbidden Hermitage, though nobody else seems to want to follow. Suckers! How could they ever prefer the Paradise of Fleshy Pleasures to the immediately relatable charm of the Forbidden Hermitage? Downright silly is what it is. You run along rapidly, reaching the sphere within minutes, and finding a sphincter-like opening that leads inside - almost diving through, the two of you make it inside, and the archway immediately seized up, leaving only a microscopic opening behind it.
Within, you become aware that the inside of the place is a cube rather than a sphere, and immediately feel cheated. It's very blocky, sort of like the room where you awakened, but with much more of an orderly aesthetic. There's a 4-step ziggurat at the center, with a little steel shack forming the top step. The outer walls and ceiling of the cube seem to be painted like an artificial 3-D landscape, albeit one that's disturbingly bleeding colorful little streams of unknown liquids in places, complete with a blinding 2-dimensional rendering of a sun idly crawling along the wall, and transitioning to the ceiling while bending perfectly nicely. There's a staircase leading straight up the thing. No voice of Radix the Omniscient, oddly.
paradise of fleshy pleasures, eh? Sounds like my type of thing!
To paradise!
Go to paradise.
To Paradise. Keep the snail shell pointed in front of me.
You lot, unimpressed by the conduct of the two rushing people that went ahead, proceed (along with three others that follow retroactively, presumably) toward the Paradise of Fleshy Pleasures, going down the path into deep darkness, until eventually the path runs out - the first of you stops, while the others keep going, and the result is a comical pratfall into the abyss, interrupted at what feels like a midway point when you suddenly are all someplace else.
It
looks like a gyroscope, but floppier and softer. A wheel of flesh spins, and you seem to be standing on it presently, and so it seems more like the world around you is spinning incredibly quickly. There's some form of transparent sphere at the center atop what looks like an alien hand, and there's also a near-perfect flesh replica of an armchair. Plus a strange spherical flesh thing that appears to have its layers peeling off, and some sort of small mount with indentations on the floor all around it, seemingly shaped for human knees.
"HEAR THE WORDS OF RADIX THE OMNISCIENT! YOU FIND YOURSELVES IN THE PARADISE OF FLESHY PLEASURES! TAKE A MOMENT TO ENJOY YOURSELVES WHILE A GUARDIAN ARRIVES THROUGH THE FOREVER PORTAL!"A star-shaped part of the floor suddenly glows silver.
"A GUARDIAN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE, BUT IT SEEMS TO BE GONE! WAIT PATIENTLY WHILE ANOTHER ONE IS BROUGHT TO YOU OR FIND THE PREVIOUS ONE! EITHER WAY, YOUR QUEST WILL CONTINUE!"
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