So... did anything change? Any doors open? Any machines start?

Do the tubes in the machine match those you found in the box?

And yes, inspect poster.

Can you fit some of the tubes in the box to the machine?

It probably just needs a good cleaning. Wiping it off dry may not be enough though, you'd need a proper cleaner or at least some water. Are there maybe any water sources nearby? Or if not... if the parts in the box are in better shape you could replace any bits in the machine if the box has the same. Risky though, it would be easy to mess it up and have no way know how to get it back.

Either way you'll have to be careful fixing this thing, but it seems important for whatever reason. What you do right now is examine the mechanisms and see what you can do with them without messing it up.

Deep 2011/04/22(Fri)16:29 No. 298333 ID: bf1e7e
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A quick check of the poster in the back looks like it's a plan for up-scaling the device on the pedestal by an enormous amount. Unfortunately, you can't see just HOW enormous because the corner where the measurements are listed is torn away.

The tubes on the machine appear to be the same sort as the ones in the box, though they are all very slightly different sizes.

>>298320

The only machine that you know started was this one. If it did something else, it also did it somewhere else.

>>>298319

You CAN hear it better when you get close! You soon realize that you aren't even hearing it directly from the machine, it seems like the sound is emanating from the rock on which it is sitting!

Pressing your ear against the rock, you are able to make out that it is playing a song. You hum along with it, it is very soothing and familiar.

>>298333
Is it the same song Nev's musicbox plays?

Put your ear to the ground in several places.
Does the sound definitely come from this rock, or could it be coming from somewhere else entirely and just resonate from it?

Try fitting some of the box's pipes on top of the machine's.

Check the base of the machine. Do the tubes continue on down through the rock, or is what you can see the entire machine?

In any event, get Nev and see what he makes of it.

>>298342
Also ask Nev if he knows the song as well, because you don't know where you know it from.

Deep 2011/04/22(Fri)17:17 No. 298353 ID: bf1e7e
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>>298337

It IS the same song!

You can hear it from other parts of the room, but it's fainter. Almost like it's transferring down from the rock to the floor.

>Try fitting some of the box's pipes on top of the machine's.

The device that is striking the tubes is on top of them!

>>298342

It looks like it is just sitting on the rock. You are able to shift it by pushing against it, but it's pretty heavy.

>>298348

Unfortunately, you haven't seen Nev since you opened the door.

The pipes and machines and songs are cool and all, but,

you should probably find out what Nev is up to. Or if he is even still around.

Nev can take care of himself. Actually, no, he likely fell down some ditch, but he's probably fine.

Either way, go back inside and investigate the doorway(?) next to the drawer.

Go back inside and check the other door

Deep 2011/04/22(Fri)18:42 No. 298389 ID: bf1e7e
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You figure that wherever Nev is, he's probably fine.

You head back and push on the remnants of the other door, and it collapses inward. Heading into the next room reveals a big mess. Most of the floor is covered in tatters of paper, and there's a workbench on the far wall. It probably held a bunch of books and files in the cubbies underneath it, but it looks like whatever was in here was removed in a hurry.

Examine the writings in the heap.

Check out that dilapidated wall that seems to have a hole on your right, and the papers near it.

It could not hurt to sift through those papers and see if they tell you anything.

What is that object on the floor to your left?

>>298389
At some point it would be wise to *write down* the mysterious composition.

That reminds me, actually. Is that the same song that you found on that board a while back?

Deep 2011/04/22(Fri)20:24 No. 298450 ID: bf1e7e
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>>298444

It is!

This pile of writings in the corner is a big stack of musical compositions, too. They're all very similar to the song, but they each have some minor variances and a bunch of notes. They were apparently being cross-referenced heavily.

However, one page in the pile is different.

They're coming more often, and they're different now. They appear to be almost frantic, driven more to reach some point in town than simply to attempt to slaughter wantonly as they typically do. Everyone else is confused, but I understand.

I don't think that they're completely mindless. I think that, somehow, they know what I am doing. And they are afraid.

The preparations for the lab at the site are well under way. Hopefully I will be able to move my work there before the attacks become too much for the guard to handle.

-M

>>298397

Most of the papers strewn about the room appear to be schematics for random clockwork Trinkets of no real significance.

>>298399

It looks like it is some kind of metal tube with some mechanisms inside. It doesn't look like it can do anything on its own.

>>298450
Grab dat tube. If we could find any writing materials I'd suggest composing the correct music... Hey, what's that thing on the counter?

Check the thing on the shelf/counter.

Deep 2015/06/05(Fri)09:19 No. 646320 ID: eb5c78
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>>298458
>>299864

The thing on the counter looks to be some sort of old, rusted tool. You aren't really sure what it's for.

You decide to grab the tube from the floor, but it's sort of bouncing around a bit. Everything is, in fact. You notice that some kind of vibration has been gradually building, and you almost feel like you can hear music.

Woooow, seventh-level necromancy! Whooo!

Put your ear to the floor. Also, make sure you're not under anything unstable or damaged.

Time to leave, I think.

HOLY SHIT, I'm I seeing this right? This quest is actually back?!

It could either be an earthquake or something probably just as bad, probably a good time to take what you have and leave.

It's almost certainly that machine.

Go turn it off, see if that helps.

Deep 2015/06/05(Fri)20:25 No. 646503 ID: eb5c78
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You listen at the ground, and it's definitely the same song that the machine was playing. And it's getting louder pretty quickly!

You decide to hurry over to try to shut off the machine, Feeling the vibrations through the ground and hearing the music fill the air. As you exit the room you were in, however, the vibration increases rapidly, throwing you off-balance!

There is a sudden, sharp vibration, and a sudden shock rolls through the ground. You hear a low rumble, and the ground goes still.

>>646503
...I think something broke. Or something simply opened. Go look outside.

Yeah, continue looking for something changed.

Search for Nev. See if he's okay.

...or find out if he was ever there at all.

DEEP 2018/06/28(Thu)00:16 No. 890354 ID: eef56a
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You lose your footing attempting to rush back to the other room, while the crashing sound and echoes of the song ring through your head. Your senses swim as time seems to slow to a crawl. You find yourself thinking back over everything that happened since you woke up ( https://tgchan.org/wiki/Deep )

You feel as though you have been falling for years, though even as you push yourself back to your hands and knees the dust is still settling. You look up through the doorway toward the room where you left the music device running.

But there isn’t anything there. Just a massive hole, and crumbling walls.

>>890354
IT'S BEEN OVER THREE YEARS

Are you hurt? Did you break anything?

Can you see anything down the hole?

anyone else around you or are you by yourself right now?

YOU BROUGHT IT BACK I'M SO HAPPY!!!!

Look down hole. Don't get pushed.

Is the song still playing or is it stopping?

I was going to ask about Nev and if he was okay, but... looking back he seems to have up and vanished as soon as you got the door open. And the building changed too. Since the walls are crumbling, can you look outside at where that gear statue was? Is it changed?

Look UP before you check the hole, make sure there isn't any rubble about to fall on your head.

Get away from the edge. You don't know what structures are compromise, the least we can assume is that the further you are from the parts that already fall the safer you will be.

DEEP 2018/06/28(Thu)22:23 No. 890466 ID: eef56a
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>>890370
>>890398
>>890434
>>890438

There isn’t really a ceiling left, it looks like whatever happened here collapsed basically everything above you. There doesn’t seem to be anything in the hole, just a massive void of darkness that seems to go down forever.

>>890395
>>890401

There’s nobody else around, and the only sound you hear is a low, echoey rumble and crashing sounds echoing up from the hole. You think you may hear the song echoing up extremely faintly, but it’s probably just in your head.

>>890356

You may arguably have broken a lot of things, but none are parts of you. You are a bit sore and very disoriented, but don’t seem to have been hurt by your fall in any way.

>>890406

You decide to leave the building, which is easy as this whole side of the building isn’t really any more than rubble. The town certainly looks considerably more abandoned now, the buildings are all in a much greater state of disrepair than you remember them being when you lived here, but you aren’t sure how much of that is from the collapse that just happened or how much is just a factor of time and abandonment.

You go to look at the statue, which seems to have not fared particularly well. There is an inscription on it that you didn’t notice earlier, like most indahl art it seems to be dedicated to the Muse, the goddess that they say sacrificed parts of herself to save them when they were a fledgeling race. It stirs feelings of something important, like it should be drawing out memories that aren’t there to be drawn out.

The eerie silence of the town is suddenly broken by an echoing, rhythmic scratching sound. Listening more closely, it seems to be coming from the direction of the hole that opened up beneath the music box.

>when you lived here
...so, your amnesia seems to be getting better. Do you conveniently happen to recall an escape path out of here? That monster you fought earlier was supposed to be one of many down here, wasn't it...

>>890466
You should probably find somewhere close to the exit where you can watch the hole without being seen. Just in case whatever's making that noise is hostile.

>sacrificed parts of herself
>memories that aren't there
Are you connected to this muse?

>rhythmic scratching sound
Something is climbing perhaps? You probable want to take a look at that, but from far away ready to run.

>>890466
Do you have any vague memory of what the rest of the buildings were? Perhaps that could assist in scavenging for some supplies.

>Rhythmic scratching
I'd find a hiding spot, fast. The notes seem to imply that the dark things are attracted to the music box, and turning it on probably drew their attention.

DEEP 2018/12/31(Mon)21:58 No. 915825 ID: e2dc7c
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>>890467

You ... aren’t sure how you knew that you lived here. Did you live here? You can’t really remember properly, you suppose you were wrong and it’s not like there aren’t memories to find, It’s like they’re locked away in your head, and sometimes you can see them, but you don’t know how to get to them.

>>890472

You find another wrecked building and tuck yourself into it to collect your thoughts about everything going on. You could stick your head out to peek at the caved-in building you were in before at a moment’s notice.

>>890482

You’re connected to the muse the same ways all indahl are, your hand and eyes are gifts from the muse’s sacrifices, and you never would have had the drive to complete your great works had the muse not sacrificed her wakefulness and gone into an endless slumber to grant the indahl the cleverness and inspiration to create!

The scratching sound gets steadily louder for a while, but then it suddenly stops

==>

DEEP 2018/12/31(Mon)22:00 No. 915826 ID: e2dc7c
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>>915825

>==>

But then there is a sudden, echoing crash sound as if more of the building had collapsed into the hole!

is... is that a foot?

Spiky tentacle monster! Run!

>>915826
Time to peek then run away.

That's sharp looking. And it seems like it has a long reach. Try to keep walls between you and it while you run away.