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[Sir Knight]

Posting to say your creation is awesome and I hope things go well with you.

[Solifuge]

text gets all fucked up in dreams. No, that looks like it has information.  Not just funky dreamtext. it's possible that you don't actually know the regular written language here.

You've heard that you can't read when you're dreaming. Still, some of these symbols repeat themselves. Could there be information in here? Is this really dream-text, or is it a language or code? Is this maybe some effect of that injury your Mom mentioned? Is this just written in another egregiously bad font? Yeah, the last one is comforting, but pretty unlikely. Still, you feel like you should be able to read this letter. So why can't you make sense of it?

I think you all are being extremely rude about this. Obviously Maria does not want to weigh herself in front of an audience this big.

Haha, what the butts? An audience? You're alone right now! What a weird thought. Anyway, finding out your weight isn't a high priority for you. Especially when you may or may not be in some kind of quasi-dream.

Give it another five minutes, and if no nurse appears go find our friend. Who is definitely probably not an alien bodysnatcher, which we are also definitely probably not ourselves.

Ye_h. Th_t so_nds like a g__d pl_n. Just wa-t h-re for a b-t. L-ke a g-od Ali-n B-dysn-tch-r. Wa-t, of c--rse! B-d-sn-tch-r! L-ke in th-t m-v-e! Th-t m-k-s p-rf-ct s-nse! It m-st be th-m d-ng Al--ns f--lt. Ok-y, s-r---sly th--gh th-t's j-st s-lly. Y--'d r-m-mb-r s-m-th-ng l-ke th-t.

This is a Dream

HANA RECOVERS 1 BASHED HEALTH FROM REST!

Your self-awareness starts to flow back. Whether slowly or quickly, it's hard to tell. Your head throbs and aches in time with your heartbeat. A deep, dull soreness floods all the muscles in your body. Your dominant arm burns, both inside and out. Through the pain, you try to get your bearings.

You feel your full Duffel Bag behind you, and smooth stone or pavement below. Your nose catches a distinctive burnt smell, and the metallic tingle of ozone. Your eyes, however, see only darkness.

Nevertheless, it would seem that you remain Hana Greenthorn. And, unsurprisingly, you still Feel Like Garbage.

Spoiler: GM NOTES: (click to show/hide)

Turns out getting that crap cleared up went significantly quicker than expected. Should be good now.

The adventure continues!

*hugs Solifuge*
Hope things get better.

* Haspen hugs.

Just you know, we will be waiting for continuation.
_forever.

* OceanSoul joins the group hug.

Take as much time as you need. We can wait.

Hey Soli! Solve your bad time expeditiously and cleanly please! Bad times cannot be allowed to delay my entertainment products please and thank you.
And besides that, enjoy crushing your bad times, driving them before you, something something women. There is nothing better than destroying an annoying problem without mercy.

Thanks for the Internet Hugs and/or Vaguely Threatening Encouragement, peeps. I shall do my best!

-snip-

*Waves* It's good to have you! Sorry to preempt the Carrie knife scene you may have been building toward, but the scene was just about over.

wait a minute this could only mean one thing ..... you are being abducted by aliens gaaaaaahhhhhhh!

Hullo! Fortunately no abductions for me, for which I am grateful. I could do without being vivisected for Xenoscience. That said, thanks for joining us, ya weirdo!

Posting to say your creation is awesome and I hope things go well with you.

I basically always sometimes feel like a total hack who has no idea what they're doing RE: art, storytelling, etc. I blame some mix of anxiety/depression, bits of legit incompetence, and Imposter Syndrome. Still, I try to keep comments like this in mind when I'm getting perspective, so thanks for posting to say that. Hope to see you around!

Spoiler: CHARACTER STATUS: HANA (click to show/hide) SATED: ≫ HANA HAS EATEN RECENTLY. ≫ SHE WILL BECOME HUNGRY AFTER A DAY WITHOUT FOOD. AWAKE: ≫ HANA HAS SLEPT RECENTLY. ≫ SHE WILL BECOME TIRED AFTER A DAY WITHOUT SLEEP. ENERVATED: ≫ SOME OF HANA'S WILLPOWER IS BURNED. ≫ IT WILL NOT RECOVER BY NATURAL HEALING. ITEM SUMMARY: (Capacity: 22kg / 30kg) Boots (1 kg): Rugged leather. Travel-Worn. Clothes (N/A): Warm-Weather. Beet Pun. Duffel (1 kg): Brown Canvas. Zip-Top. 12 Slots. DUFFEL CONTENTS:  ≫ Cat Plush (N/A): Handcrafted. Cute and useless.  ≫ Duffel (1 kg): Red Canvas. Zip-Top. 12 Slots.  ≫ Rope (8 kg): Natural Fiber, 20 meters.  ≫ Toolkit (10 kg): Assorted Crafting and Repair.  ≫ Ukulele (1 kg): "Memento Mori". Sturdy and Travel-Worn.

[Tiruin]

Fumble around for the flashlight, counter feeling like garbage with confidence and optimism of the 'do not do this again and I learned!' kind.
PROBABLY realize we're still in the same place, and try to find if there's any other exit than were we were before.

[Egan_BW]

Now just hold on a moment. If you were unconscious from electrical shock, how were you dreaming?

Shine flashlight about in order to locate flashlight.

[Sir Knight]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Posting to say your creation is awesome and I hope things go well with you.

I basically always sometimes feel like a total hack who has no idea what they're doing RE: art, storytelling, etc. I blame some mix of anxiety/depression, bits of legit incompetence, and Imposter Syndrome. Still, I try to keep comments like this in mind when I'm getting perspective, so thanks for posting to say that. Hope to see you around!

Well, self-doubt happens all the time.  I'm hoping to start my own game someday, and I have a sneaking suspicion I shall be blabbering to myself.

But you?  You've got art on your side and you're giving it away for free.  This makes people happy.  You could have no actual content and still be better than the rest of us who've got no clue.

Also, yay for problems getting resolved!

Now just hold on a moment. If you were unconscious from electrical shock, how were you dreaming?

Cross-dimensional shenanigans.

Check for soft weirdo cat in duffle bag, then hug to reassert confidence.

Check darkness: is the glowing-red-touchscreen-thing-that's-obviously-an-eye still there?

[NUKE9.13]

>Slap self upside the head for sticking arm into hole without looking inside first.

Fumble around for the flashlight

Mm-hmm.

[DolosusDoleus]

Shine our flashlight into the hole.

[Parsely]

Strum the uke. Use the sound to echolocate the flashlight.

[Kadzar]

Fumble around for the flashlight, counter feeling like garbage with confidence and optimism of the 'do not do this again and I learned!' kind.
PROBABLY realize we're still in the same place, and try to find if there's any other exit than were we were before.

+1. This is the smart thing to do. Although I kinda also wanna do this:

Strum the uke. Use the sound to echolocate the flashlight.

[Puppyguard]

Once you find the flashlight place it on the floor vertically and stand next to it.
Then pretend you're a country star and play a horrible beautiful song.

[Sir Knight]

I've gotta try drumming up more support for this:

Check darkness: is the glowing-red-touchscreen-thing-that's-obviously-an-eye still there?

We're in the dark.  Last time in the dark, we could see the red glow.  This is probably important information.

I mean, it could actually have been a glowy-red egg that has now hatched a ukulele-music-seeking homing weapon.

[Solifuge]

Check darkness: is the glowing-red-touchscreen-thing-that's-obviously-an-eye still there?

Oh, that's right! You should be able to see that glowing red... thing. The touchpad.
You take a quick look around. It was a circle, right? Or was it more like an eye?



Well, crap. Whatever the case, you don't see any sign of it right now.
Wonder what happened. Maybe it just ran out of power after you got zapped?
That is, assuming you're still in the same place. And that you haven't gone blind.

Fumble around for the flashlight

If you want to get out of here, it'd help if you could see where you were going.
Unfortunately it's quite dark, and your Flashlight seems to be missing.

From a seated position, you feel the stony ground in a circle around you.
There's nothing but pebbles and gritty dust on the ground.

To one side, you find a new stone surface, rising slightly from the ground.
Grooves divide it into flat squares. It might be the edge of the pavement?
Moving carefully on your knees now, you follow the grooves away from you.
Your knuckles brush against a pitted, flaky surface suggesting rusty metal.
Next to that, a vertical stone face made of interlocking rectangles... brickwork?

Seems like you're still where you were, when you got knocked out.

Slowly and carefully, you climb to your feet, shuffling toward the nearest wall.
With closed eyes, you feel the nearby surfaces, building a mental image of the area.



You follow a wall until it joins with an unfamiliar, waist-high stone ledge.
Cautious about getting turned around, you search by feel, along it's perimeter.
If you're lucky, your Flashlight should be within arms reach of the ledge.
Of course, if you're not, it probably rolled away into some unreachable crevice.

Spoiler: 2 Wit + 1 Composure - 1 Can't See ★★ <VS> Difficulty ★ (click to show/hide) Failure...

As you go, you sweep your hands across the top surface, and shuffle your feet at the base.
Neither encounter your Flashlight. Or anything but more gritty dust, for that matter.

You're not sure what's past your arm's reach, but leaving the ledge feels pretty risky.
For the sake of not getting hopelessly lost, you hold off on further searching for now.

Now just hold on a moment. If you were unconscious from electrical shock, how were you dreaming?

Hmm. You can't recall any other times you've fallen unconscious.
Maybe dreaming when you're KO'd is... normal? It's like sleeping, right?
Or, you suppose, maybe that really wasn't a dream after all.
Might've been some kind of hallucination?

The next time you pass out, maybe you can ask a doctor about it.

Strum the uke. Use the sound to echolocate the flashlight. Then pretend you're a country star and play a horrible beautiful song.

You're not quite sure how this is going to work, but what the heck!
You sling Memento Mori the Ukulele out of your Duffel Bag.



In the darkness, you'll have to position your hands by feeling the strings and frets.
Once you wipe the dirt off your fingers and get comfortable, you start to play.

Spoiler: 2 Grace + 2 Wit + 2 Music + 1 Ukulele - 1 Can't See ★★★★★★ <VS> Difficulty ★ (click to show/hide) Success!

[♫] ≫ You improvise a short but heartfelt tune.

The last chord rings out, and echoes off into the surrounding darkness.
For a cave, it's got pretty good acoustics! You must be in a huge chamber.
If you listen really closely, you can still hear the reverb in the distance!
That, and the soft, rhythmic scraping and clicking of...

Wait. What's making that scraping, clicking noise?

And why does it sound like it's right behind you?

Spoiler: GM NOTES: (click to show/hide)

Been tweaking that Ukulele synthesizer for a while. Hope the inauthenticity doesn't offend any Uke enthusiasts out there. I tried to get as close to the real thing as I could! >_<;

-snip-

Welcome aboard! Also, thanks for providing the necessary fuel to make that awful soulful ballad happen!

Spoiler: CHARACTER STATUS: HANA (click to show/hide) SATED: ≫ HANA HAS EATEN RECENTLY. ≫ SHE WILL BECOME HUNGRY AFTER A DAY WITHOUT FOOD. AWAKE: ≫ HANA HAS SLEPT RECENTLY. ≫ SHE WILL BECOME TIRED AFTER A DAY WITHOUT SLEEP. ENERVATED: ≫ SOME OF HANA'S WILLPOWER IS BURNED. ≫ IT WILL NOT RECOVER BY NATURAL HEALING. ITEM SUMMARY: (Capacity: 22kg / 30kg) Boots (1 kg): Rugged leather. Travel-Worn. Clothes (N/A): Warm-Weather. Beet Pun. Duffel (1 kg): Brown Canvas. Zip-Top. 12 Slots. Ukulele (1 kg): "Memento Mori". Sturdy and Travel-Worn. DUFFEL CONTENTS:  ≫ Cat Plush (N/A): Handcrafted. Cute and useless.  ≫ Duffel (1 kg): Red Canvas. Zip-Top. 12 Slots.  ≫ Rope (8 kg): Natural Fiber, 20 meters.  ≫ Toolkit (10 kg): Assorted Crafting and Repair.

[Tiruin]

I feel anxious and I bet Maria does too!

Mention a polite greeting that we usually did when we felt like some other entity was in the current vicinity with us.

((...That's what I do even if it looks weird .-.)

Probably 'duck' (or do something like that and turn around to "see" what's behind you). Can our protagonist see anything? [despite the graphical overlay for us to denote something]

[Egan_BW]

Borrow the thing's eye to use as a replacement torch.

[Sir Knight]

I believe this occasion calls for a "Gwaaaaah?"

But also try to circle around back to the entrance we know should be somewhere 90 degrees from here.

Yeah, that flashlight is lost in the stalagmites somewhere on the ledge.

I did not fully expect this experience to come with repeated music.  Music is inherently awesome.