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[Superdorf]

Attempt to access hidden reserves of mousy magic!
Failing that, DODGEROLL again-- to the right this time
progress to hole, dodging angry cat-claws
jump in hole
hide

[March]

You don't got anything to cast magic with.
You instead dodge roll rightward, and out of the path of the rolling cat, you see the golden cat pivot around towards you yet again.
You run to the side past the grey cat and swear you can hear the sound of gold cat tense up to pounce somewhere behind you.

You've made it about halfway to the hole by now.

[Superdorf]

hurl self to side in preemptive dodgeroll
progress to hole, continuing to avoid angry cat-claws
jump in hole
hide

[March]

You hurl yourself sideways in a dodge roll.
You can see the gold cat start its pounce to the side of you, leaping high into the air.
You also see the grey cat make a wide rolling right turn and come to a stop.
Nearly there, nearly there!

[Superdorf]

Stop suddenly, thus causing gold cat to overshoot its mark
scamper around while gold cat regains its bearings, and jump into hole!
hide

[March]

You come to a sudden stop, the golden cat comes crashing down in front of you nearly the same time.
Your path is blocked.

You hear the sound of a big fat rolly cat coming toward you from behind.

[Superdorf]

SQUEAK
dodge aside so fat rolly cat crashes into golden cat
scamper into hole
hide

[March]

You dodge aside, the gold cat backflips over you to put you in front of it.
Seeing a way out you scamper into the hole and find yourself now falling!

You land in water, it's too dark to see as your eyes adjust...

It seems to be your in some sort of drainage tunnel for the gallery above, the pool you are in is probably a depression carved by water draining in from above and isn't overall very wide as the relatively dry looking stone piping is not far in front of you.

You are in the water for a bit calming down before you start to see tiny flame messages appear on the 'shore' nearby.

[Superdorf]

Go read!

[March]

You read some of the messages; "Try Sliding down", "Imminent Fire...", "Need Hope", "Safe zone", "Weakness Swimming"

More flame messages trail off down the pipe.

[Superdorf]

...have a look at this "false hope" thing we've been given.
Having done so, continue reading our way down the pipe.

[King Zultan]

We have a knife we could have stabbed the cats but its to late for that now, so lets look at out inventory plus Superdorf's stuff.

[March]

You examine your False Hope: False Hopes signifies an accursed Undead. Carriers of it are risen repeatedly after death, but will one day lose their mind in chasing ever more Hopes.
Death triggers the False Hope, which returns its bearer to the last Flame Idol rested at, but at the cost of all Delusions and Hopes.

The only other thing you have is an Old knife:  A rusty forgotten blade used by torturers in service of the Lord of Guidance. This weapon is made to inflict excruciating pain for extracting confessions, as such it does very little damage but can send victims reeling with each hit.

You proceed down the pipe reading flame messages; "Try Hidden place", "Tight spot?", "Path?", "Be wary of Dark", "Imminent Gorgeous view"...

You see a light at the end of the pipe and soon walk out onto a gentle grassy cliffside ridge overlooking the pipe spill-off into darkness below.
There is an sizable cave area here to the left back alongside the pipe, and beyond a path cliffside upwards towards the clifftop, in the cave you see some tiny being has put kindling at the base of a rat sized wurm idol... as a respite perhaps?

The view beyond the gorge's depths is of what could be considered expansive, as you can see out to distant buildings & bridges across the gapped earth, and out to the distant blue horizon of what could be a lake or ocean far beyond.

[King Zultan]

Can we get to the kindling at the base of the wurm, if so lets go investigate it.

[March]

You walk over the prepared kindling, its good looking and you feel you could lite this to warm up and get dry easily.

The wurm idol sticking straight up out of it is a bit odd, but it must have some meaning.