Name dog [variant on] Scruffles
You name your new companion Scruffles and resolve to award him titles as he demonstrates his valour. Wow look how totally cool.
Check if tiles in bag fits in the indentations of the board in the cupboard in living room.
You put two in at random. They fit in quite neatly despite what the art may show.
Use newly made torch to see what's in the room behind the mirror!
In a montage set to 80s rock music, you make a torch using the random resources lying around. It’s a bit of a struggle to get the lit torch up the ladder to the smithy, but you manage it eventually.
As you stick the torch through the mirror’s hole, you detect a bit of movement, though as your eyes adjust you don’t see anything moving.
The room, from what you can tell, is coated in some kind of thick gelatin-like substance. There are a few cocoons of stuff here and there. There is also some kind of mechanism in the center of the floor.
Set fire to everything then run out of the room!
You make the call. Time to torch some alien scum.
This gunky stuff actually seems pretty non-flammable. You huck the torch at the mechanical thing in the middle.
OH HOLY F—
You ain’t checking out there for a while. At least the alien crap in there is definitely burning pretty good now. Time to go exploring.
turn the water pressure switch to off
You crank off the water pressure.
also, we could explore the canyon now
You climb down into the now-dried out canyon spring. There is a thick stream of hot air coming from the cave.
You head in the cave and up a slope to find an underground volcano mouth and a dock in the magma.
enter C.F.'s room through over-pressurized-toilet-room.
You check out C.F.’s room. It’s very similar to Les’. The only things of note are a notepad and a labcoat.
Analyze Dapper Dan Men's Pomade
The pomade comes back just about the same. The printer whirrs.
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Test Number: 01260;
Analysis: Wax-based lubricant;
% Chemical X: 0.00;
----------------READ DEM NOTES!
You flip open the notepad. It appears to be a personal journal. It reads as follows:
Day 142
I have used up another notepad. Before we left, I had thought that three would be more than enough to compile my personal thoughts. I was sorely mistaken.
We have been here nearly half a… year, I will say. Still no progress of any sort. Our quarters are long-since completed and yet even with this pressing matter far behind us we have learned nothing. When we found the dolmen we had been excited to research it, but were unable to dent or scratch any of it to take a sample. Weather patterns have been… unique, but we did not come here to study the weather. I know it is here. We know it is here. In time we will find it. We must. I pray the extended isolation will not take us first. Les believes
(there are a few ripped out pages here)
unfortunate. But they are mere setbacks. We have invested too much time to be turned away now. It will be found.
Day 279
I had at first assumed I had made a mistake, but it has been a week since my last journal entry. I had thought it had been a day, perhaps two. Is it our isolation that causes time to feel as though time is flying past us, or our life underground? We spend time on the surface when we can, but that is so rare with the storms. The hut has fallen into disrepair as well. We no longer care to rebuild it.
As I sit here I try to think of what has happened in the last week and I realize that I have said little in that time. I cannot recall a single conversation with Les. There is little to say, I will suppose. Our work is all that we have left.
Les believes we will make progress within a month, if nothing unexpected happens concerning the mutagen. I am less confident, but unle—
The word trails off in a splotchy ink mark.
A creature was under the bed. I have shooed it out. I will make a note to begin designing new defense installations tomorrow. This cannot go on.
Until tomorrow, diary.
Day 407
At long last: progress.
(there are several blank pages here)
for safekeeping:
The bottom half of this page has been ripped out. The rest of the notepad is blank, until the last page.
We are undone.
Search the bed/mattress
search under the bed as well.
You throw the room apart. There is nothing but a dead oculoid tentacle in the damp water.
Get the labcoat on
Doesn’t really fit you—it’s rather small, actually.
Try to look clever by doing a poor impersonation of a scientist, using the notepad.
WELL WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE??
You don’t know exactly what scientists act like but you are having a lot of fun!
Check the labcoats pockets
You check dem pockits.
There is an ID card. It reads Dr. C. Feringus, P.H.D. There is also a photo.
“user: phdcf” is written on the back.
Check out the dock in the volcano, what the heck is it made out of?
You leave the labcoat behind before you go. It’s really restricting.
It appears to be made out of some kind of wood. Where it meets the magma, it is not melted or singed in the least.
Throw something expendable into the magma.
You huck the spherical stone into the magma. It slowly bobs on the surface for a moment, hissing, then crackles and melts away.
Test the integrity of the wooden bridge. If it seems sound, Walk down it and examine the fluid in a scientific manner.
Seems pretty safe, so long as you don’t stand near the edges. You walk down to the end. Not a chance you’re touching the magma though.
Find a stick and put it into the lava. We might not be able to see if whatever we threw in melted.
You don’t have a stick. Feel like using anything else? Here’s your inventory.
Break off some of the wood, and test it in the analyzer.
You snap off a bit of the wood.
The wood is turned into a reformed ball of wood. The printer whirrs.
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Test Number: 01261;
Analysis: Wood, caern;
% Chemical X: 0.00;
----------------Place the white circle tile at D4, the white lined tile at F1, the black circle tile at C3, and the black lined tile at G5. If nothing happens, ponder that pieces are being represented by tiles of the opposite color.
You place the tiles in the appropriate squares. Nothing happens. You ponder that the pieces are being represented by tiles of the opposite colour, but nothing seems to indicate that so far. You hardly have enough tiles to test, anyways. You wonder how to get some more.
We need to use that login ID on the terminal.
You attempt to log in as phdcf, but are unable to bring up another ‘forgotten password’ screen. Your attempts to guess it also fail.
Analyze egg and bird.
What? Are you crazy?! The analyzing machine has reshaped everything complex that’s been put in so far! You already killed the bird, you’re certainly not going to mutilate its corpse and kill its future child!
Try [password guess]
Nope, no luck trying to guess it. Fortunately there seems to be no limit to number of wrong entries you can input.
Go find scruffles and take him for a walk by the invulnerable stone circle.
You bring Scruffles up. He is extremely reluctant to go near the circle, to the point of aggression. You let him go back.
And if that doesn't work, dig down with the wooden spoon.
You try to dig a bit. You’re able to scrape away the top crust of earth, but not much deeper. However, you do notice an odd line in the deeper ground.
You keep scraping and reveal it all.
Check out the mirror room we burned.
Fire’s still raging. A bit less intensely than before, though. You are surprised at the ferocity of the flames.
Check out incinerator
The door’s still sealed.
Also we should close the oven, please. It's rude to leave it open.
You close the oven, hearing some whirr-clunking. “Whirr-clunk” seems to be the hallmark of mechanical noises around here.
Go back to the room where the hot wires and hot switch were, and push switch on the right back down.(The one that wasn't hot)
Heading back to the room with metal wiring, you notice that the top half of the wiring has retracted up into the ceiling.
The switch on the right is already down. You recall this switch opening the door to the living room a while back.
Is there a way to un-jam it?
You just take it out.
Hey! It’s the sun medallion! Just one more to go, then, before you accomplish… well, whatever it is you’re gathering medallions for.
It has started raining.
I say we take the thing in the freezer and try it on the door the lightning medalion went in.
You grab the… frozen eye and tap it against the eye symbol on the runic wall. It doesn’t do anything. There’s no real slot to put it in.
Then, if that fails, Analyze it
You pop the eye into the analyzer, happy to get it off your hands. You put the bucket nearby for easy goo-scraping.
Yup. A ball o’ mush again. The printer whirrs.
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Test Number: 01262;
Analysis: Oculoid eye-matter;
% Chemical X: 0.00;
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Your right arm begins to feel a bit numb.
Turn water pressure on again, now that pipe in canyon is unblocked.
Arm is first priority. You make your way down to the smithy, having a bit of trouble managing the ladder down from the glass wall room. The water pressure finally goes up to full when cranked to high. Phew. Okay. Time to wash your arm.
See if washing your affected arm in the sink helps.
You use the light room’s sink and try to wash off your arm. Nothing seems to happen. Crap. And you can feel it getting number, too.
Numbarm. Numarm. Nmarm. Narm.No! Must stay focused...
Put sun medalion in door
dip it into the fire of the mirror room
You decide not to take another ladder down to the runic wall and just hold it up to the fire. No, nothing doing here. You singe yourself a little bit, though.
Your right arm is now completely immobile. You can’t feel or move it at all. Starting to get a bit tired out, too.
Kinda groggy.
..yeah..
Turn on oven again, then check the metal-wiring room.
You head back up the ladder to…
gnhhhhhh
tired
need to…
rest
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