[listening to them talking about bandages and a little bit more firmly:]
Are you both alright? What about Taair?
[taair who everyone definitely knows and acknowledges is in the room with the other boys ANYWAYS,]
In the top middle of the box, there's what looks like a screw. To each side at the very top edge of that screw, there's a little dot, and towards the bottom of the screw, there's a slanted line moving outwards from the screw. Right below those slanted lines is a circle on each side, and between the circle is a straight line.
I'm alright, but Uruha has been hit. I'm tending to his injuries.
[Just to let them know what's going on as he works. HE'LL HELP WITH THAT and then go to move the tiles again. URUHA IS TRULY GOING THROUGH IT THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY.]
[vaguely wondering why the hell EVERYONE KEEPS SEEING AND HEARING DIFFERENT THINGS THEY'RE ALL LOSING THEIR GRIP ON THEIR REALITY but everything hurts so he can't think too deeply on it.
ANYWAY AS THEY ARE CORRECT NEW THINGS ARE FLASHING BLABLABLA
the important thing here is taair, who is definitely here, except no one can see him because the only taair visible is yves right now. and/or koharu's legs. and zhongli's legs.
you know what she can unpack that later it's time for more shapes]
Three objects in a similar arrangement to what Maomao said were rice balls, but it isn't the same symbol. All three are nearly circular except for an indent towards the top of each, and the indent leads into a line that bisects each of the three. Towards the top left of the box there are two dots, and towards the top right there's a dash above a dot.
If needed, we can help tend to Uruha once this is over.
[FUCKING HELP. THEY'RE ALL JUST LIKE WELP DON'T HAVE TIME TO UNPACK ANY OF THAT. Valid.]
Thank you, Neverah. [And then, to Maomao:] The squeaking? [Just assumes they're both hearing the same thing CAN HE EVEN HEAR THE VENT RATTLING THROUGH A WALKIE TALKIE.
But he will go ahead and move both of these tiles, too.]
[HE'S FINE HE'S JUST IN PAIN AND SEMI-PARALYZED BUT HE'S GOT THIS unfortunately the paranoia is making him more inclined to be irrationally independent... (as lucas does all the work)]
[ YOU GUYS ARE DOING SO WELL IT'S ACTUALLY SAD STOP SUCCEEDING
anyway new flashing. nothing else happens. the squeaking and rattling are both not loud enough to be heard over the walkie-talkie, because walkie-talkies are Shite for that, but they are getting louder and closer. SLOWLY!!! ]
The next shape I see is... There's a small rectangle towards the top of the box, and it's connected to a larger shape that balloons out towards the bottom. Inside the larger shape is a circle, and a line right above that circle. Towards the upper right and left of the box outside of the shape I just described, there are two dashes on each side.
[ it's nothing guys don't worry about the rats you just got another tile correct! wow they are starting to flash faster though. the girls can see two in a row now.
anyway it can't be rats because rats don't sound like this and THAT'S the closest sound to them so???? ignore the way the bunny is perked up ears straight as it looks towards the trees in concern.
as for the girls this echoing in the vents immediately also isn't a rat noise so it's CLEARLY fine. ]
[she is glad for presumably no rats and less glad for literally anything else happening here so that's cool]
Prepare yourselves for a fight just in case, but ideally we'll be able to make it through before they get to you. And before whatever that is gets to us.
[a brief pause of surprise, before:]
I see two different symbols this time. The first is very clearly a person - different rectangles for their head and torso, and lines for their legs, feet, arms and hands. The second one looks like a person as well, but it's not as clear as the first. The head is a solid square, the torso is more round, and there are two straight lines for legs without any lines indicating feet. On all four corners on the inside of the box, there's a small dot. Inside the torso is a horizontal straight line.
[ she really doesn't like whatever that sound is. making sure she has the plasma gun out ]
I see two of them as well. The first one is a repeat. It's the one that looks like it has three rice balls. The second one looks phallic- ah. I think Neverah described it before as well. The rectangle at the top of the box that is connected to a larger shape that balloons out.
[HELLO. He's also getting his knife back out even though he has a whole Yves on his back, but he's looking toward Uruha and the rabbit who is looking toward the trees so he's also looking toward the trees like UH OH SISTERS.]
Alright, let's see...
[He goes to move the tiles... No one is distracting Lucas but i'll be the change i want to see in the world and say that as he's going to place the last tile, Yves kind of slips a bit and in his reflexive attempt to stop him from falling off his back and hitting the ground with his severely injured body, he drops the tile in the top row instead of the bottom.]
[i support you aki while uruha watches this in alarm and thinks about how he really shouldn't have left lucas to do this and should've just moved these tiles with his stabbed arm hand instead]
[ WHAT TIMING FOR AKI TO VOTE FOR CHAOS BECAUSE I, ALSO, HAD PUT IN A TIMER FOR CHAOS FOR THIS EXACT ROUND
So, first of all, X WRONG THE GROUND IS SHAKING EVEN MORE NOW imagine i made them start all over again. no only the wrong tiles are moving back in place. The girls' growing abandonment now is starting to feel like betrayal. They can join Uruha in his hell.
This time, it's not spikes coming out of the ground for the boys. It's rocks. Rocks are falling from the top of the mountain like an avalanche, raining down on them. Multiple large boulders the size of small boulders or however that went. roll to dodge but at least you're already carrying the bunny and body so I don't have to
For the girls, well, nature isn't what you have to worry about. Because instead there are now saw blades coming out of the walls and being shot at them because the arrows were simply not cool enough. roll to dodge !!!
ANYWAY ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID I PUT IN A TIMER. A WHILE BACK.
The definitely rats are here, crawling out of the mountain. Maybe they came from the mines. Maybe they came from the trees. I've lost track of what this mountain path looks like. The point is, they are going to be trying to eat you now.
MEANWHILE, the girls might be wishing the saw blades came out on the next turn, because right after they have to dodge those there's a flesh monster falling down from the vents. i'd link a pic but i've since lost mine you guys get it. it's fleshy. it has eyes. it has a tongue it is coming at you with. etc. ]
[normally she would not sound as upset about this but for some reason it distinctly feels like lucas (and also uruha because she cannot actually see that uruha did nothing wrong) messed up as a form of betrayal? much to consider.
either way she's trying to dodge the saw blades and rolls an eight so she's absolutely not dodging the saw blades gooby. it would be nice if she had five seconds to deal with whatever saw wound zia will decree but instead there's a flESH MONSTER SURE]
I dropped the tile, I'm so sorry—!! Are you alright?!
[Not that he can DO MUCH ABOUT IT CURRENTLY CONSIDERING THERE ARE BOULDERS RAINING DOWN. HE ROLLED A 10 AND YVES ROLLED A 14??? Why is Yves so good at surviving against all odds. ANYWAY HE'LL TURN TO SEE THESE RAT CREATURES and then look toward Uruha to see how he's doing before he decides whether he's going to back Uruha up directly and defensively or go on the offense and attack these rats back.
He will also quickly put the tile in the right place I GUESS unless something attacks him first oh no.]
[HE ROLLED A 2 FCKIN KILL HIM i'm not even going to address the rats i simply assume uruha will not be in a state to deal with them but he will do his pitiful best to protect this rabbit as he dies.]
That's like, the only good thing happening in this entire thing, so let's start with hurray, the puzzle is correct. The puzzle that happens after everything else, of course, which we will go over in order:
First off, Neverah is getting a sawblade to the meat... meatal? of her thigh, leaving it embedded deeply in there. It's going to make walking a bitch. But maybe she can share the new flashing signals to finish the puzzles? Perhaps?
Maomao lifts an arm to try to protect herself from the saw blade coming at her, but it's too late; it cuts off her right pinky finger before embedding itself in her side, right in her ribs. Wow it's a good thing robots can't bleed out! Luckily, again, while robots do feel pain apparently, it's not so bad and she manages to lift the plasma gun and completely explode the flesh monster before it can so much as touch them. it opened its mouth to scream and the brief scream they heard is going to raise all their bad feelings about 40%, but it rolled a two on dodging sooo. it's fucking dead fam. there's just monster goop EVERYWHERE. the girls are rolling up covered in flesh
The body Lucas insists on carrying gets nailed on the shoulder but it's nothing why is Yves fine. i mean i guess any damage would finish him off so fair enough nice job dodging
Lucas himself is going to be nailed by a small boulder the size of a large boulder (meme) in the ribs as he attempts to protect Yves, because I KNOW HE WOULD THE FUCKER, and there's a loud crack as two of his ribs break. The others are definitely bruised. Getting pelted by rockvalanches? bad.
FUCKIN URUHA THOUGH
Uruha is half paralyzed but his first thought goes to the bunny in his arms who is simply petrified by all these things happening. it's the bunny equivalent of a four year old and it is so overwhelmed it cannot possibly protect itself. So he uses his body as a meat shield and Lucas gets to see him get absolutely pelted by multiple large rocks. He's getting bruised and battered all over his body. His non-sword arm (i dont know what fucking side that is jan) snaps, the bone nearly jutting out of the skin from the angle it's forced at. There's the sound of one of his ribs cracking because anything Lucas can do he can also suffer. He's laid out on the ground protecting the bunny with his whole body. AND HE'S STILL CURSED WITH 10X PAIN I KEEP FORGETTING I DID THAT TO URUHA
The bunny definitely was hit by a rock as well. Its little leg is broken and bloody, and it seems unconscious but........
.......
the bunny lives for now
anyway roll to dodge rats. lucas. lucas can roll to dodge rats i dont think uruha can dodge anything for right now. or the bunny. ]
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Are you both alright? What about Taair?
[taair who everyone definitely knows and acknowledges is in the room with the other boys ANYWAYS,]
In the top middle of the box, there's what looks like a screw. To each side at the very top edge of that screw, there's a little dot, and towards the bottom of the screw, there's a slanted line moving outwards from the screw. Right below those slanted lines is a circle on each side, and between the circle is a straight line.
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Was Taair with them?
[ anyways... ]
This one is a repeat. Neverah described it as one with a checkerboard on top of the shape.
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[ALSO BAFFLED.]
I'm alright, but Uruha has been hit. I'm tending to his injuries.
[Just to let them know what's going on as he works. HE'LL HELP WITH THAT and then go to move the tiles again. URUHA IS TRULY GOING THROUGH IT THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY.]
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[vaguely wondering why the hell EVERYONE KEEPS SEEING AND HEARING DIFFERENT THINGS THEY'RE ALL LOSING THEIR GRIP ON THEIR REALITY but everything hurts so he can't think too deeply on it.
anyway lucas can move both tiles it's fine.]
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ANYWAY AS THEY ARE CORRECT NEW THINGS ARE FLASHING BLABLABLA
the important thing here is taair, who is definitely here, except no one can see him because the only taair visible is yves right now. and/or koharu's legs. and zhongli's legs.
it's been a day ]
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you know what she can unpack that later it's time for more shapes]
Three objects in a similar arrangement to what Maomao said were rice balls, but it isn't the same symbol. All three are nearly circular except for an indent towards the top of each, and the indent leads into a line that bisects each of the three. Towards the top left of the box there are two dots, and towards the top right there's a dash above a dot.
If needed, we can help tend to Uruha once this is over.
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My symbol looks like an opened box or a cushion with a back attached to it.
[ ... ]
What is that noise anyways?
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Thank you, Neverah. [And then, to Maomao:] The squeaking? [Just assumes they're both hearing the same thing CAN HE EVEN HEAR THE VENT RATTLING THROUGH A WALKIE TALKIE.
But he will go ahead and move both of these tiles, too.]
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[HE'S FINE HE'S JUST IN PAIN AND SEMI-PARALYZED BUT HE'S GOT THIS unfortunately the paranoia is making him more inclined to be irrationally independent... (as lucas does all the work)]
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anyway new flashing. nothing else happens. the squeaking and rattling are both not loud enough to be heard over the walkie-talkie, because walkie-talkies are Shite for that, but they are getting louder and closer. SLOWLY!!! ]
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either way:]
The next shape I see is... There's a small rectangle towards the top of the box, and it's connected to a larger shape that balloons out towards the bottom. Inside the larger shape is a circle, and a line right above that circle. Towards the upper right and left of the box outside of the shape I just described, there are two dashes on each side.
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[ just a big A on her face screen ]
I'm seeing one what looks like a person.
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[HUH?? Glancing in the direction of the squeaking... Also looking at Uruha worriedly because he's being STUBBORN since he's MENTALLY UNWELL.
But he will move these tiles!]
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[HELLO]
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anyway it can't be rats because rats don't sound like this and THAT'S the closest sound to them so???? ignore the way the bunny is perked up ears straight as it looks towards the trees in concern.
as for the girls this echoing in the vents immediately also isn't a rat noise so it's CLEARLY fine. ]
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Prepare yourselves for a fight just in case, but ideally we'll be able to make it through before they get to you. And before whatever that is gets to us.
[a brief pause of surprise, before:]
I see two different symbols this time. The first is very clearly a person - different rectangles for their head and torso, and lines for their legs, feet, arms and hands. The second one looks like a person as well, but it's not as clear as the first. The head is a solid square, the torso is more round, and there are two straight lines for legs without any lines indicating feet. On all four corners on the inside of the box, there's a small dot. Inside the torso is a horizontal straight line.
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I see two of them as well. The first one is a repeat. It's the one that looks like it has three rice balls. The second one looks phallic- ah. I think Neverah described it before as well. The rectangle at the top of the box that is connected to a larger shape that balloons out.
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[HELLO. He's also getting his knife back out even though he has a whole Yves on his back, but he's looking toward Uruha and the rabbit who is looking toward the trees so he's also looking toward the trees like UH OH SISTERS.]
Alright, let's see...
[He goes to move the tiles... No one is distracting Lucas but i'll be the change i want to see in the world and say that as he's going to place the last tile, Yves kind of slips a bit and in his reflexive attempt to stop him from falling off his back and hitting the ground with his severely injured body, he drops the tile in the top row instead of the bottom.]
Ah—?! [NOT THE PHALLIC ONE.] That's wrong—!
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Gah—!
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So, first of all, X WRONG THE GROUND IS SHAKING EVEN MORE NOW imagine i made them start all over again. no only the wrong tiles are moving back in place. The girls' growing abandonment now is starting to feel like betrayal. They can join Uruha in his hell.
This time, it's not spikes coming out of the ground for the boys. It's rocks. Rocks are falling from the top of the mountain like an avalanche, raining down on them. Multiple large boulders the size of small boulders or however that went. roll to dodge but at least you're already carrying the bunny and body so I don't have to
For the girls, well, nature isn't what you have to worry about. Because instead there are now saw blades coming out of the walls and being shot at them because the arrows were simply not cool enough. roll to dodge !!!
ANYWAY ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID I PUT IN A TIMER. A WHILE BACK.
The definitely rats are here, crawling out of the mountain. Maybe they came from the mines. Maybe they came from the trees. I've lost track of what this mountain path looks like. The point is, they are going to be trying to eat you now.
MEANWHILE, the girls might be wishing the saw blades came out on the next turn, because right after they have to dodge those there's a flesh monster falling down from the vents. i'd link a pic but i've since lost mine you guys get it. it's fleshy. it has eyes. it has a tongue it is coming at you with. etc. ]
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[normally she would not sound as upset about this but for some reason it distinctly feels like lucas (and also uruha because she cannot actually see that uruha did nothing wrong) messed up as a form of betrayal? much to consider.
either way she's trying to dodge the saw blades and rolls an eight so she's absolutely not dodging the saw blades gooby. it would be nice if she had five seconds to deal with whatever saw wound zia will decree but instead there's a flESH MONSTER SURE]
Maomao, the gun—!
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maomao is used to feeling abandoned and all but this is so intense. lucas and uruha has abandoned them to this fate?
she is also going to fail to dodge the sawblades. 1
and following that is flesh monsters. ]
Can we have the rats back? I miss the rats!
[ she is going to aim the gun at them and pull the trigger! ]
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I dropped the tile, I'm so sorry—!! Are you alright?!
[Not that he can DO MUCH ABOUT IT CURRENTLY CONSIDERING THERE ARE BOULDERS RAINING DOWN. HE ROLLED A 10 AND YVES ROLLED A 14??? Why is Yves so good at surviving against all odds. ANYWAY HE'LL TURN TO SEE THESE RAT CREATURES and then look toward Uruha to see how he's doing before he decides whether he's going to back Uruha up directly and defensively or go on the offense and attack these rats back.
He will also quickly put the tile in the right place I GUESS unless something attacks him first oh no.]
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That's like, the only good thing happening in this entire thing, so let's start with hurray, the puzzle is correct. The puzzle that happens after everything else, of course, which we will go over in order:
First off, Neverah is getting a sawblade to the meat... meatal? of her thigh, leaving it embedded deeply in there. It's going to make walking a bitch. But maybe she can share the new flashing signals to finish the puzzles? Perhaps?
Maomao lifts an arm to try to protect herself from the saw blade coming at her, but it's too late; it cuts off her right pinky finger before embedding itself in her side, right in her ribs. Wow it's a good thing robots can't bleed out! Luckily, again, while robots do feel pain apparently, it's not so bad and she manages to lift the plasma gun and completely explode the flesh monster before it can so much as touch them. it opened its mouth to scream and the brief scream they heard is going to raise all their bad feelings about 40%, but it rolled a two on dodging sooo. it's fucking dead fam. there's just monster goop EVERYWHERE. the girls are rolling up covered in flesh
The body Lucas insists on carrying gets nailed on the shoulder but it's nothing why is Yves fine. i mean i guess any damage would finish him off so fair enough nice job dodging
Lucas himself is going to be nailed by a small boulder the size of a large boulder (meme) in the ribs as he attempts to protect Yves, because I KNOW HE WOULD THE FUCKER, and there's a loud crack as two of his ribs break. The others are definitely bruised. Getting pelted by rockvalanches? bad.
FUCKIN URUHA THOUGH
Uruha is half paralyzed but his first thought goes to the bunny in his arms who is simply petrified by all these things happening. it's the bunny equivalent of a four year old and it is so overwhelmed it cannot possibly protect itself. So he uses his body as a meat shield and Lucas gets to see him get absolutely pelted by multiple large rocks. He's getting bruised and battered all over his body. His non-sword arm (i dont know what fucking side that is jan) snaps, the bone nearly jutting out of the skin from the angle it's forced at. There's the sound of one of his ribs cracking because anything Lucas can do he can also suffer. He's laid out on the ground protecting the bunny with his whole body. AND HE'S STILL CURSED WITH 10X PAIN I KEEP FORGETTING I DID THAT TO URUHA
The bunny definitely was hit by a rock as well. Its little leg is broken and bloody, and it seems unconscious but........
.......
the bunny lives for now
anyway roll to dodge rats. lucas. lucas can roll to dodge rats i dont think uruha can dodge anything for right now. or the bunny. ]
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