open your eyes, see music source.

Get up ven! no time to be lying around.

DEEP 2010/11/16(Tue)09:31 No. 256971 ID: bf1e7e
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>>256969

You open your eyes. It looks like the music is coming from a small box in front of you.

You feel extremely groggy.

roll onto shore.

>>256971
Get ye MUSIC BOX.

Stand up and make sure you are fully functional.

Stand up, check out music box.

investigate the music box

>>256971
Examine music box. Is the tune familiar?

hum along

DEEP 2010/11/16(Tue)10:37 No. 256986 ID: bf1e7e
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>>256980
>>256984

You hum along with the music from the box. It IS familiar!

>>256973
>>256975

You reach out to take the box.

==>

DEEP 2010/11/16(Tue)10:38 No. 256987 ID: bf1e7e
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>>256986

>==>

>*clack*

==>

DEEP 2010/11/16(Tue)10:39 No. 256988 ID: bf1e7e
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>>256987

>==>

The music has stopped. Someone is here.

be ready for them to turn into a robot.

Stare at them awkwardly

Prepare to defend the music box. I mean yourself.

Ask the other Indahl who they are

Ven hug Nev.

>>256988
Say hi to Nev.

>>256988
say hi to him/her

>>256988
Say hello. Ask who s/he is. Introduce yourself.

DEEP 2010/11/16(Tue)18:36 No. 257142 ID: bf1e7e
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>>256998
>>257000
>>257017

You crawl up out of the water and say hello to Nev. He stands up and puts the music box into his bag.

You introduce yourself as Ven, and he politely returns your greeting.

>>257142
So he IS Nev, interesting...

Ask about where you are...

>>257142
Quickly.

You must repopulate the Indahl race.


Well? Get to it.

Tell him you thought he was just a fairy tale. Ask him if he brought you here, or where you are if he did not.

>>257142
What are his markings?

Ask how you got here.

you should brofist him.

Ask him man what.

DEEP 2010/11/24(Wed)11:02 No. 259479 ID: bf1e7e
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>>257149

It looks like his clan symbol is a little squiggly line and a dot.

>>257143

He says that you're in the depths.

>>257176
>>257148

Nev Shrugs.

>>257157

He says that you crawled halfway up out of the water on your own and then stopped there. He doesn't know how you got there, but he saw you as he was passing by.

>>259479
You were under a drooling dreamworm. Politely poke Nev to check he's not a hallucination.

>>259479
Ask him about the music box.

Ask if you're a robot.

Well, we're kindof barraging him with questions. Let him talk a little on his own.

is this the same place where you were at the very beginning of deep? or is this a new cave?

How do you know who he is if you have lost your memory?

Ask him if he knows where civilization is.

>>269407
>>269424
Don't Necro, please. It makes us sad.

hug Nev

>>284444

Stop getting my hopes up, please.

DEEP 2011/02/26(Sat)15:43 No. 284511 ID: bf1e7e
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>>259484

You aren't sure of a way to politely poke someone!

>>259487

He says that the music box is the most important thing that he has. It is a gift for the muse.

>>259497

He asks what a robot is.

>>260408

This place seems oddly familiar somehow, but you can't remember having actually been here.

>>269407

...that is confusing. You don't remember having ever met another Indahl, you aren't sure how you knew who he was!

>>269424

He says that, seeing as how you are in the depths, civilization must clearly be up.

>>284511
Might as well take him with you. Or have him take you with him.

>>284511
So, uh, is he returning to civilisation himself, and does he mind if you tag along, what with being lost and everything?

I'm happy to have been wrong!

Ask about his search for the muse and if you can maybe tag along.

>>284511
>know his name
I was about to say twin brother/clone but you two have different clan markings I think, but then I realized the more competent answer is that you're racist against your own people and think you look all the same. Even between genders. Thus, you see your reflection and then think he is just flipped you.
of course, lets just ask if he could have a twin sister
Ask him if he wants to go on a magical adventure with you. It's pretty lonely out here as you try to get out of these depths. Who knows, we might find a few totally hot muses along the way.

DEEP 2011/02/26(Sat)18:21 No. 284573 ID: bf1e7e
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>>284517

He says that he doesn't mind if you tag along, but he isn't heading toward civilization. The muse's temple was long ago lost to the depths, and he'll need to go down to find it.

>>284573
That still beats being completely lost unless this is some crazy one-way suicide journey.

Let's go find the muse's temple with our bestest big bagel booty buddy Nev. Ask him who the muse is, and what the temple looks like.

Yeah following seems the smartest thing here. Mind you this might just be another Acid trip messed up nightmare time but who knows?

Explain your situation a bit:You're not quite sure how you got down here, or a safe route back out. If he knows of one it'd be lovely if he shares...and yes I know 'up leads out' but it's more complex then that in a maze of caves pitfalls and hungry abominations you know?

Though on that thought lets ask what he's planning after the Muse visit.

Wait so the depths are getting deeper? Color me intrigued.

It may be important to inform him that you are suffering from memory loss. We don't want to not be told something important because we would already be expected to know.

DEEP 2011/02/27(Sun)17:18 No. 284847 ID: bf1e7e
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>>284578

You don't need to ask Nev about the Muse. Everyone knows that the wounded matron is the goddess that found the Indahl when they were a weak, fledgeling race unfit for survival in the world; and then sacrificed her own eyes, one of her hands, and even her ability to grant inspiration in order to give the poor people the gifts they would need to survive.

The Indahl constructed a Temple to house her weakened form out of gratitude, but it was lost to the depths long ago. She is believed to sleep there still.

>>284778

Of course! As time goes by, the 'depths' creep ever upward, forcing the civilized people of Khamon to uproot themselves and move their settlements to avoid the things which dwell in the depths.

DEEP 2011/02/27(Sun)17:19 No. 284848 ID: bf1e7e
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>>284777
>>284816

You turn to ask Nev a question, but it looks like he has already continued on without you!

>>284848
well hurry up!

Stop dawdling and go catch up!

>>284848
Stop being so daydreamy, Ven. Expose your slimy belly and slide on it to catch up to Nev. Or just run.

DEEP 2011/02/27(Sun)17:55 No. 284861 ID: bf1e7e
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You hurry after Nev, running out of breath shortly and alternating between walking and jogging for several hours. Suddenly, the tunnel opens up into a large cavern!

>>284861
you think that you can help him up?

Don't just stand there, save him! After that, though, examine the statue of the hand holding a gear, and compare the gear to your own.

>>284861
How did he even fall off there? Walk carefully and check the ground for ice or anything slippery while you go to grab Nev and haul him up.

He's not going up. He's going down. That's the temple below you. Either that or an awesome building that you absolutely must check out.

>>284861
For whatever reason he's fallen off that ledge, let's just assume it wasn't intentional. Better get him up while we still can!

hey is that an enormous indahl hand holding a gear down there?

>>284861
Better help him up, dont want him to fall.

judging by his face, I don't think that was intended, so help him up

Yes, help him up as quickly as you can.

DEEP 2011/02/28(Mon)19:09 No. 285197 ID: bf1e7e
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You hurry forward and help Nev back up onto the path.

He thanks you, and says that he is glad you decided to tag along instead of standing around spacing out.

The giant statue of an Indahl Hand holding a gear is below you. It looks like it was carved directly from the ground.

Pull out your gear, and hold it up like the statue.

Ask him how in the crap he managed to nearly fall into the VERY OBVIOUS PIT.

DEEP 2011/02/28(Mon)19:52 No. 285206 ID: bf1e7e
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You decide to check out your gear in comparison to the one on the statue.

It looks ... different now. Enticing. It seems to pull at something within you, somehow...

Ask nev what the fuck.

Ask Nev to look at it before it drives you crazy. Then poke the center of it.

yes, ask nev if it's freaking out to him too. if it is then the sacred gear is reacting to the sacred statue.


in before you turn into a robot again.

Okay, something's clearly not right with that gear. Probably. Anyway, the question still remains how one manages to accidentally fall into a very obvious pit.

I'm sure Nev already feels very silly about almost falling into an obvious pit, I don't think we should bring it up.

I meant ask him what the fuck with regards to the gear.

>>285206
Press it against your chest.
Nothing bad could possibly happen.

GOTTA MOVE THAT GEAR UP
I mean STOP LOOKING AT IT OR YOU'LL DIE OR SOMETHING

>>285206
you should lick it. LICK IT.

poke it with a stick
come on, you know you want to

Deep 2011/03/27(Sun)11:12 No. 291264 ID: bf1e7e
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>>285207
>>285208
>>285209

Nev looks at it and shrugs. He says that it just looks like a really weird gear.

>>285342
>>287172

The odd pulling feeling continues, but there are no additional effects from fiddling with the gear.

Examine the giant statue. Compare your gear to it.

Continue on down, making sure Nev doesn't fall to his death.

is that flat structure a building of some sort? is the light good enough to see what is down there from where you are?

Deep 2011/03/27(Sun)12:33 No. 291278 ID: bf1e7e
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You continue down the path. The statue of a gear appears to have the same general shape as yours, but lacks the strange swirling pattern of an unknown material.

The path circles around the edge, coming down into a small village in the base of the dark area. The village continues behind you, and off to the right is a small cavern near the gear statue.

Nev seems interested in the large building in the back, he says that it looks like a Temple. He is sure that the way to find the muse will be there.

>>291278
Well since Nev is the one with the plan and we're otherwise just wandering aimlessly, follow on. ==>

>>291278
Enter the building, see what's inside.

Oh man there might be a bucket of water over that door you better tell Nev to be careful when opening it.

Maybe we should check the houses to see if anyone lives here first.

Follow along, and keep your eyes open for anything that your gear might be compatible with. It looks like it may be something related to this temple, like an artifact.

Deep 2011/03/27(Sun)13:37 No. 291291 ID: bf1e7e
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You approach the temple, and Nev rushes ahead and attempts to push open the door.

He doesn't appear to be making much progress.

Examine the other buildings. Perhaps they house a mechanism for opening the temple door?

Hold the gear up against the door, in case that does something.

Poke at the gear design. Is it inset into the door, or just painted on?

You could also try helping Nev push, or try to move the door in other directions.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)12:34 No. 292578 ID: bf1e7e
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Attempting to hold the gear up to the door has no effect, so you attempt to help Nev push the door open.

The door puts up some resistance, but ultimately yields.

>>292578
I think that sign means it's the men's room, Ven. Go pick up the small rock by that bigger rock and follow Nev in anyway.

well you put all that effort into opening the door, all that is left is to go in

>>292578
Go in and look around.

Looks like Nev disappeared. Look around for him and notice that your surroundings changed.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)15:12 No. 292661 ID: bf1e7e
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>>292581
>>292582
>>292583
>>292584


You pick up a rock and head into the building. This doesn't really look very much like you would expect a temple to. It looks like this place has been unattended for quite a while.

>>292661
Call out for Nev in your most plaintive eelperson cries.

>>292661
Oh hey, a drawer. Open it and see what's in it.

Open that drawer.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)15:37 No. 292678 ID: bf1e7e
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You check the drawer. It appears to have had a false bottom at one point, though it has rotted and broken away; revealing a strange key. You decide to take it with you.

>>292678
Good deal. Now go investigate that grid thingy on the other wall.

Onto the puzzle.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)16:42 No. 292726 ID: bf1e7e
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You pocket the key and head over to investigate the grid thingie on the other wall. It looks like some sort of clockwork device embedded into the door. The door won't budge when you push on it.

Oh, it's one of THESE puzzles. Press the buttons to see what they do.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)16:51 No. 292734 ID: bf1e7e
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>>292730

You look over the panels and determine that the items marked '1,' '2,' '3,' and '4' are buttons.

You press button one, and the panels around it sink into the housing as a rhythmic, stuttered clicking sounds, and then rotate clockwise and settle back into place.

Θ][Σ 2011/04/01(Fri)16:55 No. 292736 ID: dad664
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Press buttans until end result is this

Push button 4 once then button 3 once, then 4 then 3 again. I think that gets the left corner and side pieces where they belong at least.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)17:01 No. 292738 ID: bf1e7e
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>>292736

You aren't sure that mashing buttons at random is a good idea, you don't know what this does!

>>292737

You press the buttons in sequence.

agghhhh it's really probably not a good idea to put small sections of a sequence in until a whole solution is done! I think it should have started out 2231 instead, that would have gotten all the top tiles done and then the bottom rows probably could have been sorted with only 3 and 4's.

also that was not a suggestion for current solution

2 4 3 3 1 3 3 3 1 2

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)18:25 No. 292810 ID: bf1e7e
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>>292755

After looking over the keypad, you key in a sequence. A solid 'clunk' sounds.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)18:25 No. 292811 ID: bf1e7e
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>>292810

The door swings open.

Enter yonder door.

PROCEED.

Alright let's go through the main door first then come back and check the side door later.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)20:12 No. 292904 ID: bf1e7e
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You proceed through the freshly-opened door and into a new room.

There are several things here!

Sure are a lot of things.

Examine the multi... thinged thingy in front of you.

>>292904
Read note hug contraption

Look at the paper and the poster, open the box, and mess with the thing in the middle!

you should check out the paper on the table in the back of the room first, see if you can make anything out

open the chest and see whats inside.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)20:32 No. 292921 ID: bf1e7e
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The note in the back corner is written in some sort of bizarre, scratchy shorthand.

'It works!

After all this time, and all this effort, the basic functions of the box work. All that remains is to finalize the designs and the mechanical aspect will be complete. Unfortunately, my alchemical skills are still not sufficient. Successful use of the ore's properties will be absolutely critical if my plan is to function. But there is still time.

I have also located a nearby cavern, in which I will establish my secondary facility. My research leads me to believe that it is in the perfect orientation, very little excavation will need to be done. I hope for the Bzzer to begin construction within the next few weeks.

For the sake of the world -- M'

>>292921
Turn around, Greet Telwis.

>>292921
Check inside the box.

>>292921
Kick open that box with your massive lower body strength.
After that check to see if it's locked and if the key fits.

drop kick that chest and pop it open

check the chest, look for loot
or anything i guess

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)20:53 No. 292940 ID: bf1e7e
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You decide not to kick the chest, it looks pretty solid and you would probably hurt yourself.

You open it, though. There are some weird metal tubes, some small bundles of wire, and what looks like a box of assorted gears and other small clockwork parts. None of them resemble your gear in any significant way, however.

well if none of it looks useful for the moment, might as well inspect the contraption in the middle of the room

Check out the contraption in the middle, maybe you can make a sweet-ass potion.

Deep 2011/04/01(Fri)21:15 No. 292961 ID: bf1e7e
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You look over the contraption in the middle.

It looks like some sort of weird music box. There a lot of extra bits in there that you aren't sure what they're for.

There is a small hole on the side.

Take a piece of wire and poke it into the hole.

Look into the hole.

will our new key fit

Stick the key into the whole, twist it.

Deep 2011/04/22(Fri)16:04 No. 298314 ID: bf1e7e
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You insert your key into the whole and twist it. It fits securely, though the turn is a bit awkward. It seems like the mechanism is fairly old.

Deep 2011/04/22(Fri)16:06 No. 298315 ID: bf1e7e
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>>298314

The machine begins to operate, the tiny hammers on the top moving up and down and rhythmically striking the metal tubes. Each produces a very faint sound when it is struck. The sound is too faint to make out clearly.

Put your ear up to it and see if you can hear anything better. If not, look at the poster in the back. It looks like it describes the device.

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.

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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.

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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

==>

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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.