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[Twinwolf]

Twinwolf follows people into the room. "Chess."

[WillowLuman]

(I know I'm probably being too uptight but there's gotta be justification to following IcyTea, who stormed off. The whole group didn't just up and move, though OOC I get the feeling we should. But, IC.)

"Excuse me, er, Tech. I'm gonna go check on the guy that stormed off." HugoLuman steps out of the water and back into the puzzle room, barefoot, then takes a look at the tiles before deliberately stepping on one of the marked bad ones. After sliding out the chute on the other side (and making a rather undignified scream as he fell into the pit), HugoLuman takes a moment to calm his heartbeat before going back into the hangman room. The first thing he sees is IcyTea staring into a newly opened room, with no way to the floor other than a 10ft drop. "Uh..."

The second thing he sees, looking around more, is FallacyOfUrist. "Oh jeez."

[Twinwolf]

((I probably would have followed him, thinking that being alone in a place like this is suicide.))

[FallacyofUrist]

"It's fine. Well, I'm missing my color vision. But it's mostly fine."

Fallacy stands and takes a look out the door to the new room.

"In my opinion, it looks like some kind of strategy game. Not necessarily chess, but most likely a strategy game."

"Er... how bad do I look?"

[Twinwolf]

"Fallacy? You look like a humanoid raccoon."

[WillowLuman]

"Um. Pretty bad. Though your face looks like it might still be a professional movie-makeup job rather than an actual raccoon at least. Maybe. I should have warned you about the computer more..."

[FallacyofUrist]

"Raccoon. Huh. Figures. Eh, it's not your fault. I figured I could have used the computer to acquire some dragon parts to make combat a viable strategy. It turns out that requires "clearance". I reasoned that playing the game could boost my clearance. If it did boost my clearance, I don't think it was worth it. By the way, the computer lies about the difficulty. The only reason I'm not a full raccoon right now is Arc, who figured out that the answer was "rhapsody". Is that even a word?"

Fallacy doesn't quite look happy right now. Grim, more like.

"There's something else interesting about the computer- two things, actually, that I think you might want to know. One, when I inputted "show clearance", it output my real name. And two, when I input "Time Lord", it said something about a "possible unstable meta-crisis". I don't think those bits of knowledge are worth much, though."

[Twinwolf]

"You sure that it means difficulty of the word? Seems kind of stupid for it to lie about difficulty."

[Tiruin]

"Looks like everyone's moving on. Second point back there--everyone must pretty much move on with the designated authority of party leader to waste little time in places we know less about. That said, I still wonder how I'm a scalding ray of sunshine here. Honest question."

...Isn't scalding used for hot water or liquid instead of a prismatic light?

"Also if nobody's moving given the...strange time lapse I feel we're having somehow, I'll bring you all where the nordic gentleman went."

Tiruin checks the room and ushers the rest of the people to move--following IcyTea's direction, unless they're busy doing otherwise.

[FallacyofUrist]

"I chose the Play Again option, then selected Low. It very well could have meant something else, but difficulty made the most sense."

[technicallyAdventurer]

"I honestly didn't mean anything by it, except for how you're so nice all the time. At least, from what I'd seen on the forums." Tech commented, following Tiruin's lead.

[WillowLuman]

"If I remember correctly, meta-crisis was a thing in Doctor Who that meant you can't have human-timelords?" The others enter. "Oh hey, um. Looks like chess. Or something. And, um, you can see here what happens when you mess with that computer. Sorry, Fallacy..."

[Tiruin]

"Oh! Ok, I was...uhh, wondering instead about its terminology. Sorry. I take things literally and then apply a dubious amount of physics onto the ideas."

She nodded at the rest of the commentary--the forums was a place where anyone could be who they are; she decided to be herself there.

"So, what's your first impression about this place? Ever tried getting off the station to continue up the rails? I saw its an open path from when I disembarked. But then I decided to check out this place instead. Ever had the thought cross your mind?"

Now at the room, Tiruin surveyed the 'chess'.
"I love chess. Dad taught me everything (even after I began winning against him). M' very thankful for that kind of teacher."

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IcyTea flings open the door and finds a ledge over a three-meter drop. Once entered by dropping down, it might be difficult to leave. The engraved wooden walls of the hangman room seem to continue into here, though now they seem to depict battles, and figures staring at tables, rather than animals. The room's floor seems to be divided into an eight-by-eight grid of black and white square tiles with each side about 3 meters. On some white (black on Darkling) tiles, there are wooden statues, as follows:

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O■O■O■O■
■O■O■O■O
□■□■□■□■Half of the statues (marked X) are made from ebony and depict different evil-looking things. Here's a giant serpent, ready to strike, there's a warrior in spiked armour armed with a huge axe. The other half (marked O) are made from balsa wood, and depict heroic-looking knights in full plate mail and with different weapons.

"...8 by 8 configuration. I don't think this is chess--an analogy of it or its mechanics, maybe."

((Which side does the door enter? Or is the whole scene 3 meters below our ledge that we're all overlooking it?))

[WillowLuman]

"Um... no, we hadn't tried walking up the rails. Sounds like a good way to get hit by a train though. Um... doesn't look like chess, now that you mention it."

[FallacyofUrist]

"No offense taken. Now then..."

Fallacy examines the "chess" pieces thoroughly.

"It's most likely a strategy game, one that activates when someone jumps off that ledge. However, there's another, more disturbing possibility. What if anyone who jumps down becomes one of the pieces in the game?"