Lila 2026/04/15(Wed)21:31 No. 1125473 ID: eb7cbf
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Point at where we are on the model. Does the model have an interior too?

>>1125465
I'm not
okay.

>>1125473
I don't wanna!

You can do it Lila. We'll be with you every step of the way.

Ask your boss about the Poem. It's important. Was there ever anything after the four verses? Something about "Devotees to the Queen"? Also, you may as well ask about the various types of bugs. Specifically, where can we find a Beast? The infection is red matter, isn't it?
Secondly, what is the overall leadership structure of the Tower? And has the Queen ever brought in an outside being of some sort? That might be us.
It's not important but I'm interested in the full spelling of your boss's name, and I think we can only get it from them. Her? Are all bugs in the Tower female?

((I've even translated everything under the scribbles.))

Ask about the secret part of the Poem.

>>1125476
oh damn, I could translate (most of) the rest of it but gave up on that part

wait, does she have a serpent like tail for legs or does she just have 3 tails?

I guess also ask why nobody else can move around or at least evacuate to a more secure area or even the building altogether until the situation has been solved. I mean this place seems to be under some kind of attack, surely they have protocols for such events. Oh and speaking of surely, what is your boss's name? Don't think we got that yet.

>>1125480
Lila said their name but it doesn't translate well. It had a capital letter I hadn't seen anywhere else yet, but now I know it's M. That makes the visible letters "Miire".

>>1125482
I realize now that if we need a translation for a specific word, like her own name, Lila could just ask her to say it out loud for us.

Lila 2026/04/16(Thu)14:31 No. 1125499 ID: eb7cbf
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> It's not important but I'm interested in the full spelling of your boss's name, and I think we can only get it from them.
> I guess also ask why nobody else can move around or at least evacuate to a more secure area or even the building altogether until the situation has been solved.

Lila 2026/04/16(Thu)14:32 No. 1125500 ID: eb7cbf
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>Ask your boss about the Poem. It's important. Was there ever anything after the four verses? Something about "Devotees to the Queen"?

Lila 2026/04/16(Thu)14:33 No. 1125501 ID: eb7cbf
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> Surely they have protocols for such events?

Lila 2026/04/16(Thu)14:34 No. 1125502 ID: eb7cbf
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> Point at where we are on the model.

Lila 2026/04/16(Thu)14:35 No. 1125504 ID: eb7cbf
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>>1125504
Damn. Why can't we take the elevators?
Also I wonder if the key opens the door to the aquarium. Can we even swim? Do we have to swim to get up to the beast strata?

>>1125498
The encouragement
voices say they'll help
me so... I guess. Fine.
This is such a pain in the ass.
I was just supposed to
do some dusting...

>>1125499
They want me to ask some
questions. Like... How
do you pronounce your
name and uh... Why can't we
move? Well, that's obvious. We
can only go where our Work
needs us. When that's done, if we're
done early, we can go to
a designated rest area. That's
just how it is, right?

>>1125500
Hm... They wanna
know about the Poem.

>>1125501
Are there just o
protocols for this
kinda thing?

>>1125502
.... Hey, M**li(???)

Can you point out
where we are in
the Tower.

>>1125503
And the Queen's
chambers,
where you
want me to go,
they are...?

>>1125504
... And how do
I get there?

The Beasts are between us and the Queen? ...I hope this infection isn't some kind of rebellion, that would make it very difficult to get through the area.
Ask where the Worms and Leaves are.

>>1125499
Things don't work quite like that for us, but I imagine it's because our Work is less defined. Our orders include "ensure the tower continues to function" and "clean all messes", and it's vague enough that would let us go anywhere where a mess is, I suppose, and even if we couldn't call a leadership collapse "messy" (which we can) it's undeniably something that impedes the tower from functioning.

>>1125509
>Ask where the Worms [...] are.
is Miire not a Worm herself? she certainly seems to know things.

>Leaves
So that's what that word was. Now there's only one word left I'm not sure about.

>>1125498
Hold up you can even hear my voice!? Nod vigorously if so.

Soooooo, worse case scenario, queen is missing, dead, or worse... what's plan B?

Also is there a way for us to contact Miire outside of walking back to this room?

Oh and if we find anymore survivors should we send them back this way since this area seems safe? Since no one seems to have a plan for this emergency I kind of want to tell all the survivors to group up, fortify a safe area, and watch each other's backs until the situation is resolved. Cause after seeing what the infected can do I really don't like the idea of just leaving Miire or other of your sisters alone in an environment like this. Strength in numbers and all that.

Lila 2026/04/18(Sat)18:05 No. 1125584 ID: eb7cbf
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> Hold up you can even hear my voice!? Nod vigorously if so.

Lila 2026/04/18(Sat)18:06 No. 1125585 ID: eb7cbf
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>Damn. Why can't we take the elevators?
>Ask where the Worms and Leaves are.

Lila 2026/04/18(Sat)18:07 No. 1125586 ID: eb7cbf
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> And... What if the queen is dead or.. Worse? What then?

>>1125585
Why not? And if I can't
take the
elevator how
do I get there?

So if the Beasts
are
between us
and the Queen...
Sorry, where
is everyone?

>>1125586
And... What if the
Queen is dead
or... Worse?
What then?

>>1125590
Welp!

Nothing can be done
for all that. Guess
I gotta go.

>>1125591
Oh and if we find
anymore survivors
should we send them
back this way since this
area seems safe?

Alright. Any
hints where I
should go next?
(oh great, "hints" looks like "this")

>>1125592
Time to see what's in the door in the room to the right.

well, now that you have gotten a minute to get your head on straight, you should probably head back to the room where you just fought and try the door that was in there and see where that leads.

So like. Not that you necessarily know, but what happens if you open that aquarium door? It seems like poor design for water to just flood the place? I notice the door protrudes substantially; maybe that's an airlock? Er, waterlock? Can you breathe water (yet)?

>>1125235
It's been... a while, so here's a translation.
To those whom will
eventually arise.

Allow me to instruct you
in the location you will
soon inhabit.

These will be your allies.

There are five bug types
that help run the Tower.


The Standard can be summoned
to any area to do odd jobs.

The Aquatic is designed to work
in water environments.

The Worm is designed
to store vast amounts of knowledge.

The Beast is designed
to work with red matter.

The Leaf is designed
to work with green matter.

Depicted is a Standard with
no additional poems sung of them.

>>1125315
Of them, they are further
divided into their respective jobs
and given a part of the Poem.

Strong silk to bind, in case of ruin.
Strong arms to guide, for when we falter.
Strong minds to remember, when all else is lost.
Strong hearts to love, a kindness passed down.

And a secret part of the poem

Devotees to the Queen, keeper of the Tower.
(Initially I thought the secret part was not stated at all, and the last bit there was just a general statement about the workers, but... now I think the last line *is* the secret part of the Poem, given to every worker without their knowledge to make sure they stay loyal. So, what happened? Did someone forgot to add the secret part and a worker went rogue without it? Or did the Queen do something so nasty that the loyalty part broke? Or is this actually just something from outside the Tower infecting workers and the Queen is blameless?
I also found it neat how it's just barely possible to translate that first scratched-out line. There's just enough bits of symbols sticking out that you can identify everything needed to figure out what's being said. Even when that one symbol can be any of SEVEN LETTERS lol)

>>1125836
>Depicted
oh gdi, I thought that was a different name, no wonder I wasn't sure about that. I was getting "Besotted", but that didn't really fit too well.

>>1125838
>that one symbol
don't get me started

>>1125838
>>1125839
The code breakers are getting restless.

>>1125848
I'm not much of a code-breaker, really. The fully visible part of the intermission was about the limit of my ability, I think. But the sheer amount of possible corresponding letters a symbol can have means there's a bit of guesswork and trying to find words in context and that ended up being most of the work, and subject to uncertainty.

>>1125849
I thought it was kinda fun! A way of designing a cipher that is impossible to trivially solve via automated tools afaik, though it's not practical to use for most things you'd use encryption for. This is the first time I've seen something like it.