Understanding comes through immersion. I say use the eye.

>>114950
Sanity is for the Weak, Only the Strong may judge what is truly Sane!

Rowan 2010/01/19(Tue)19:39 No. 114976 ID: c1b520
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You equip the red eye.

Torlay is whispering something...

Torlay: "...hush little baby don't say a word.
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird don't sing.
Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring..."

>>114976
Do you perhaps represent the "creator's" mother?

Rowan 2010/01/19(Tue)20:29 No. 115021 ID: c1b520
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>>115015
Your words are lost within her vacant stare.
Your sanity slowly begins to dwindle.

Remove eye. Hug poor girl.

>>115021
mhkay... this is curious indeed. But please, continue.

Rowan 2010/01/19(Tue)20:40 No. 115034 ID: c1b520
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>>115022
Torlay: "Your comfort is appreciated if ineffectual. We are simply bi-products of the mind of our creator. You will see many like me. You cannot truly help them. They are there because the creator wishes you to see them. This is the creator's mind. He controls everything around you. He decides what does what, he decides who lives and who dies. You walk within the personal halls of one who thinks him self god of his own kingdom, and that is not far from the truth. Continue on honored guests. The creator awaits."

Inventory: Red eye, invitation
Paths: Back
Health: 10/10
San:18/20

>>115034
Thanks. If there's nothing more for her to say, let's continue on to the right door.

Rowan 2010/01/19(Tue)20:55 No. 115050 ID: c1b520
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>>115042
You leave and skip over the hallway and enter the door that was on your right.
Another room similar to the last sits here, but Yalrot stands here.

Yalrot: "It's good to see you again honored guests. Is there anything I can do for you? I heard you met my sister. That was kind of you to check up on her."

Not really. She said it didn't matter.

Rowan 2010/01/19(Tue)21:00 No. 115060 ID: c1b520
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>>115055
Yalrot: "Indeed it doesn't, but it shows that you have kindness in you. That will prove to be your weapon of choice in future events. Remember my words, do not over think the path, simply follow your gut."

Compassion as a weapon? AWESOME!

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)15:22 No. 115308 ID: c1b520
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>>115062
Yalrot: "Well, um, I only say weapon as a metaphor, I cannot say for sure that it would be an actual physical weapon, but..."

Oh. Fine then, anywhere you want us to go specifically?

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)17:21 No. 115384 ID: c1b520
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>>115338
Yalrot: "I'm not one to make that kind of decision. My job is to greet you at the door and get your ass out of trouble. Not to hold your hand like you are some sort of two year old. As I've said twice before, follow your gut, not your head. Don't make me repeat myself again."

Door on the right. Let's go.

Hehe, I inclined somehow to distrust the heart... if others can lie to me, then why not aspects of myself, I am sure there are some things we all prefer not to tell ourselves.

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)17:37 No. 115401 ID: c1b520
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>>115391
Yalrot: "Then you should do better in here then I thought. Good luck."

An unseen force pushes you out of the room. The door seems to seal itself shut behind you.

>>115390
Torlay's room is sealed as well.

Inventory: Red eye, invitation
Paths: Forward
Health: 10/10
Sanity: 18/20

>>115401
Forward

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)18:52 No. 115495 ID: c1b520
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>>115450
As you walk forward through the towering walls on each side you can't start to feel a little claustrophobic. However the dimensions of these walls are not as they appear as even though they seem close together like an alley, it seems like there is plenty of space around you. After some time you get to the end of the alley like hall, and for a split second you see the shadow of a strange figure sprint by.

>>115495
Let's take a peek METAL GEAR STYLE!

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)19:20 No. 115533 ID: c1b520
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>>115503
There is nothing there.

You are at a crossroads. You are facing North.
A melodic tune hits your ears. It is coming from the East.

Inventory: Red eye, invitation
Paths: North, East, South, West
Health: 10/10
Sanity: 18/20

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)19:23 No. 115537 ID: c1b520
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>>115534
You head West.

The forest seems to thicken as you move.

You are hit by the same musical notes as before, but they sound different, It seems like a different instrument. It is coming from the south.

Go north.

>>115533
West AKA left

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)19:27 No. 115544 ID: c1b520
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>>115538
You start heading North again.

The forest continues to thicken cutting off the sun.

The music continues to pierce your ears, again with a different tone. The sound is coming from the west this time.

WEST

>>115537
ITS THE LOST WOODS.

FOLLOW THE FUCKING MUSIC.

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)19:32 No. 115549 ID: c1b520
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>>115545
You head West again to find the source of that horrific tone!

The woods seem to encroach upon you as you run, running to catch the source of the awful beat.

Each beat is like an arrow piercing your heart, with each hit getting more and more powerful, the shots are coming from the North!

Go directly south.

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)22:06 No. 115638 ID: c1b520
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>>115597
The entire forest seems to vanish around you. You are standing on a pathway.
There is someone standing in front of you playing a flute.

>>115638
Hi mister flute person.

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)22:19 No. 115651 ID: c1b520
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>>115645
Rowan: "Hi Stranger! My name is Rowan. Did you like my performance? I've been practicing it for years!"

How many years? And yes, it was very nice, albeit a bit grating.

>>115651
It was decent enough... say you wouldn't happen to be the important fellow around here? Or just another Mask?

Rowan 2010/01/20(Wed)22:47 No. 115672 ID: c1b520
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>>115655
Rowan: "I've been practicing it for about three years. You have no idea how hard it is to get all the teleporting down, not to mention the summoning, and the illusions... Some bards would say it's not worth the effort, but I like going that extra mile."

>>115662
Rowan: "Well I would say I'm pretty important, I've been around here long enough. Though the creator doesn't get to use me as much as he'd like to..."

>>115672
Why do you look like Luffy from One Piece.

>>115672
Are you wearing a dress? It looks like you are.

>>115682
Nah, those are pretty clearly pants. Anyhow, being lost in the woods with a flute song to follow seems like one of those lovely Pan-esque staples.

Rowan 2010/01/21(Thu)17:14 No. 116089 ID: c1b520
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>>115675
Rowan: "Chicks dig the hat."

>>115682
>>115784
Rowan: "They're pants, sweat pants to be exact. I have to wear loose clothing outside of operations. And, uh, thanks... I think."

Operations? Extrapolate. Just leave out the flashbacks please.

Rowan 2010/01/21(Thu)17:23 No. 116103 ID: c1b520
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>>116090
Rowan: "Well, kinda. Like I kinda referenced to earlier, I'm a bard, and I'm a doppelganger, like most of the high end beings in this world. My job normally involves espionage and that kind of stuff which means wearing formal clothes and stuff kinda eliminating the use of sweat pants and stuff. I wear this stuff now so I can change freely, get where I'm going at?"

>>116103
so, can you describe to us what is it like to work for, uh, god?

also, what usually does he tells you to kill?

Rowan 2010/01/21(Thu)18:06 No. 116139 ID: c1b520
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>>116133
Rowan: "Eh, heh... well you see, the thing is, I haven't done ANY work for the creator... ever. I'm kinda a reserve. The plan is for me to join a group and go on adventures with them when the time comes... but that time hasn't come yet so... I just hang out."

>>116139
thats sad. we where just wandering around without a clue of what to do.

its not like if we could form a adventuring party to figure out what this is all about.

Rowan 2010/01/21(Thu)19:27 No. 116235 ID: c1b520
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>>116153
Rowan: "That's kinda what happens around here. There's no real flow some of the time. You could be climbing a mountain one second and then in a split second BAM your swimming in a hot spring. I got a bit of my own space made for me to wander around, but once I go beyond the border it's no-man's land. I can take you to the edge, but that's about as far as I can take you. Or you can hang out here for a bit, while I don't get many visitors, I do get the off idea once in a while just passing through. I even saw Donatio pass through here once, he knows this place like the inside of his own chest cavity."

>>116235
Uh, I kinda delivered a Shut Up Hannibal on him. Do you think he's still angry about it?

Rowan 2010/01/21(Thu)19:36 No. 116245 ID: c1b520
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>>116240
Rowan: "Couldn't tell you friend, I've only met him once. He seemed like an okay guy, but I can't say for sure."

What's beyond that path you're blocking?

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)19:10 No. 117443 ID: c1b520
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>>116545
???: "There isss nothing..."

>>117443
Come again? Everything went all ominously red and skeletal for a moment.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)19:30 No. 117469 ID: c1b520
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The creatures empty sockets begin to glow. They pierce you with a glow that seems un-natural. The creature begins to fall apart.

Sanity: 16/20

>>117469
Punch it in the nose to assert dominance.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)19:34 No. 117473 ID: c1b520
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Within moments all that remains of the creature is a pile of corpse dust. You begin to feel a strange sensation in your gut, something is pulling you towards the hole the creature was protruding from. It's power is ominous and foreboding.

>>117473
Don't go into the deadly hole of doom. Instead, let's go left.

Follow your gut. Look at the hole.

Pee down the hole

Indeed, left is the superior direction.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)19:50 No. 117501 ID: c1b520
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>>117487
>>117482
Despite the wrenching twist in your gut, you decide to go left, after a while the wrenching feeling subsides. You look around, all you can see is barren wasteland. While the barren landscape is unnerving you feel a sense of calm. You simply want to get out of here. Rowan mentioned a limit to his realm, if you can find it, hopefully you can escape.

Inventory: Red eye, Invitation
Paths: Forward, Left, Right, Back
Health: 10/10
Sanity: 16/20

>>117501
How about we close our eyes and imagine a field of pretty flowers to raise SAN? Then Left.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)20:14 No. 117525 ID: c1b520
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>>117502
You close your eyes and try to think happy thoughts, but something is preventing you from thinking clearly. You take another left in hope that you can further distance yourself from these strange feelings. The clouds seem to thicken, but all in all nothing is changed.

Inventory: Red eye, Invitation
Paths: Forward, Left, Right, Back
Health: 10/10
Sanity: 16/20

>>117525
Let's try back.

meh. put red eye, run like a pedo in jail to the outside of the maze.

Read the invitation, that should give something for our mind to do.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)20:28 No. 117545 ID: c1b520
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>>117531
You start heading back, your beginning to lose your sense of direction. The clouds continue to thicken.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)20:28 No. 117547 ID: c1b520
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>>117534
You equip the Red Eye.

A creature appears before you, he takes no notice of you.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)20:31 No. 117551 ID: c1b520
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>>117543
And seeing as you haven't already...

You read the invitation... this is not what it said when you first read it.

>>117547
talk to creature. speak of a invitation.

wow i didnt killed us ._.

>>117551
FFFFFFFFFFFFF

Go back to the hole!

>>117551
splat-tacular. our gut told us to get in the little hole, are we ment to literally throw uselves into weird dirty foreight holes?

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)20:41 No. 117567 ID: c1b520
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>>117555
>>117557
It's a little too late for that now, You don't know where you are. You know for a fact that you didn't go in a straight line when you were walking, plus you would have felt that strange feeling in your gut had you gotten any closer to it, but so far you haven't felt a thing.

>>117554
You call out to the creature. You catch his attention and calls out to you, "Child, why do you wander so late into the evening. The shadow will soon fall upon us. My home is not far, come with me and I shall provide shelter for the night. It is not safe otherwise."

>>117567
im assuming we stopped losing sanity.

follow the creature.

>>117567
Make a quicksave here. Then go with the creature. And ask it it's name.

Rowan 2010/01/23(Sat)22:20 No. 117648 ID: c1b520
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>>117568
>>117569
You follow the creature, then ask it it's name.

Morlath: "I am Father Morlath, but you may refer to me as simply Morlath tonight child."

The clouds begin to take form.

Morlath: "We must hurry child, the shadow's approach. My home is not far, we should reach there in a matter of moments."

>>117648
Why are you calling us "child"?

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)00:26 No. 117736 ID: c1b520
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>>117657
Morlath: "We are all children of the creator. Now please, we will discuss it further if you wish after we have eluded the shadows. Get in."

Get in. We must elude the shadows.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)14:27 No. 117924 ID: c1b520
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>>117737
Moralth walks in behind you and locks the door.

Morlath: "There... now that that is done, please take a seat, are you hungry? Thirsty?"

Before you can answer Morlath takes a seat across from you.

Morlath: "What brings you here child? Not many people wander this far out on the planes."

>>117924
We're actually kinda lost. We need to find this hole which makes our gut feel strange.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)14:47 No. 117930 ID: c1b520
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>>117925
Morlath: "Well I can't say I've ever heard of such a thing... I guess I can help you in the morning, but now we should simply wait for the shadow to pass. Is there anything I can get you child?"

>>117930
Do you have anything sanity restoring? If not, a soda would be fine.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)15:17 No. 117944 ID: c1b520
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>>117934
Morlath: "You truly are putting me into a tough position. I have neither of those things. You must be tired. May I offer you a bed with which to regain your strength?"

>>117944
Um, do you have water? And yes a bed would be nice.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)15:25 No. 117949 ID: c1b520
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>>117946
Morlath: "Ah yes, I can get you some water. The bedroom is through the door behind me."

You pick yourself up and head through the door. The room is small and windowless, it feels more like a closet then a room, but it has a bed, of sorts. It is more like a cushion with sheets and a pillow on the floor. It's not much, but it should at least give a good nights sleep. There is a strange glow emanating from an unknown source. It's giving you enough light to examine the room, but not so much that it would deter your sleep.

>>117949
Test out the fluffiness of the pillow.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)15:37 No. 117960 ID: c1b520
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>>117950
You test the fluffiness of the pillow with your head. As far as fluffiness goes it is rather on par with most very fluffy pillows. It is very comfortable...

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)15:38 No. 117961 ID: c1b520
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...zzz...

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)15:40 No. 117966 ID: c1b520
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Donatio: "Hey, kid, you still alive in there?"

>>117966
Oh! Um, Hi. Uh... you're still mad at me, are you?

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)16:03 No. 117980 ID: c1b520
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>>117973
Donatio: "Yeah, sure, now if you don't mind... GUS! I FOUND EM! THEY'RE AT MORLATH'S!"

Gus: "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-"

Donatio: "Look kid, you need to get out of there asap. Morlath may look friendly, but he's one of the biggest trouble makers in this place. He's not as powerful as me, but he's at least ten times more evil. Can you say religious zealot? Yeah, he's a lawful good son of a bitch with a mad temper. Get out of there, asap!"

>>117980
Huh. Even evil has standards, I guess. Okay, Donatio, I'll leave his house as soon as possible.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)16:36 No. 117994 ID: c1b520
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>>117988
Donatio: "Look, just listen, this guy is serious. He will fuck you up in the most horrible way imaginable if you give him reason, and a note, just about everything is a reason to him. Hopefully when you get up he won't notice that I've contacted you, if you can run for the door asap you should be able to get out of there without too much problem, and Gus will pick you up from there. Now, GET UP!

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)16:37 No. 117995 ID: c1b520
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You wake up.

>>117995
We have to leave the house.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)17:15 No. 118013 ID: c1b520
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>>117997
You leave the house.

Rowan 2010/01/24(Sun)17:15 No. 118015 ID: c1b520
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Oh... wait... no. No you don't.

>>118015
Um, sorry. We have to go. We just remembered where the hole is.

>>118015
I appreciate the hospitality but I have plans with the creator ;)