WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)21:03 No. 436307 ID: b243c2
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You are chained to the wall in the most unimaginatively drawn way possible.

>_

Starve to death.

Retrieve arm from secret compartment.

Bite off arm to escape.

Greeted by capturer

Who are you?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)21:22 No. 436319 ID: b243c2
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>Retrieve arm from secret compartment.

Thanks, wiseass.

>Who are you?

Your name is Terence, you think you might be schizophrenic.

Find Key for chain in secret compartment as well

Oh. Nice to meet you, Terence--I suppose we are your headvoices. Do you know who chained you to a wall, or why? What can you see from here?

>Thanks, wiseass.
You're welcome!

Even if you are schizophrenic, you can take comfort in fact you've got polite, helpful, and sometimes funny voices keeping you company.

What can you tell us about your present situation? How'd you end up chained to the wall?

>Schizophrenic
Don't worry, the voices say that's normal.

Pull your one-dimensional line fingers through the chain and escape.

Alternately, bite through the chain.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)21:30 No. 436325 ID: b243c2
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>Oh. Nice to meet you, Terence--I suppose we are your headvoices. Do you know who chained you to a wall, or why? What can you see from here?

>What can you tell us about your present situation? How'd you end up chained to the wall?

You have absolutely no idea why you're here. From what you can remember, you were a normal college student before this happened.

From this side of the room you can see a cupboard and a window, as well as some holes in the wall and floor where the...well, where the horror comes through.

Get the bazooka already!

Is your chain long enough to let you look out the window? Or open the cabinet?

>The horrors
Unpleasant as that sounds, we'll have to ask you to elaborate. What horrors?

Rats maybe?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)21:39 No. 436330 ID: b243c2
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Sorry, you're a bit distracted right now.

It's always best to stay absolutely still when this happens.

why? what happens if you move?

>>436331
Tickles.

Jeeze, fuck. I really hope you are schizophrenic and just hallucinating that. If that's real we're in some deep shit.

...how many times has this happened so far?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)21:50 No. 436339 ID: b243c2
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>...how many times has this happened so far?

The red one tries to get through almost every day, and the shadow comes through a bit less regularly.

>why? what happens if you move?

You don't know, but if you stay still you stay alive.

>>436339
Does... the red one usually crack the wall like that?

Don't sneeze.

You know I'm going to second chewing through your arm to escape. Staying here is just asking to get eaten.

After they leave of course.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)22:01 No. 436353 ID: b243c2
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>Does... the red one usually crack the wall like that?

No, but it doesn't look like it matters any more.

>You know I'm going to second chewing through your arm to escape. Staying here is just asking to get eaten.

Thanks, that's supportive.

>>436351
No. Terence would die because of blood loss.

Every day? How many days have you been here?

If those cracks mean they're actually getting to you, we take desperate action. If you think they'll eventually retreat, hold still, and we'll attempt escape when they leave.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)22:09 No. 436357 ID: b243c2
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>Every day? How many days have you been here?

>If those cracks mean they're actually getting to you, we take desperate action. If you think they'll eventually retreat, hold still, and we'll attempt escape when they leave.

Sounds like a plan.

Wait, everyone shut up. Someone's in here with you.

Close your eyes for a bit

"Who Goes there!?"

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)22:17 No. 436363 ID: b243c2
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>Close your eyes for a bit

It sounds like a girl.

Answer her then.

What the fuck? OPEN THEM EYES FOO

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)22:24 No. 436367 ID: b243c2
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>Answer her then.

Despite how much you don't want to do that, it seems only polite.

She answers. You wonder if it would be rude to point out her flaw of being invisible.

Express your appreciation for being let out.

I'd ask about the invisibility.

At this rate you'll get yourself killed, Terence.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)22:37 No. 436374 ID: b243c2
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>Express your appreciation for being let out.

You thank her, but there's no reply.

You try again, to similar results.

let's move past that uh, conversational lull, shall we? WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)23:02 No. 436385 ID: b243c2
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You're pretty sure you were just released by an aural hallucination.

>>436385
That's a very odd conclusion. Hallucinations are never physical.

What's through the window?

Right, I doubt theres anything in your cell that would be useful to take with you so lets leave.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)23:09 No. 436391 ID: b243c2
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>What's through the window?

It's not a window, it's an exit. The stairs were taken off ages ago.

>Right, I doubt theres anything in your cell that would be useful to take with you so lets leave.

Yep.

What's out there?

the other doorway thing changed color, it's not red anymore.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)23:20 No. 436404 ID: b243c2
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>What's out there?

This looks upsetting.

I see a knife, a puny weapon is better then none. Look both ways first though to see if you need to run. but head left otherwise.

Besides the red one and the shadow, any blue visitor?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/25(Wed)23:32 No. 436415 ID: b243c2
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>I see a knife, a puny weapon is better then none. Look both ways first though to see if you need to run. but head left otherwise.

You take the knife and head down the left hallway.

>Besides the red one and the shadow, any blue visitor?

No, but you see them outside the window sometimes.

"I am not a monster" in Latin, written on the wall, in blood. I'm sure that bodes well.

Let's keep moving. Don't run down the hall with the knife held out, just in case your invisible friend is real and around here somewhere.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)16:08 No. 436606 ID: c63c4c
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This hallway is far thinner than the last one, but luckily you fit. There's a door, which seems simple enough for once, but the button seems out of place here.

Don't push the button. Pull the handle instead.

There appears to be dried blood on the back of your head (don't ask me how a headvoice can see the back of your head, I just can). Were you injured?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)17:12 No. 436634 ID: c63c4c
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>Don't push the button. Pull the handle instead.

A wall comes down behind you.

Just open the door.

Interesting. We might be able to use that for our own defense. Wait to see if it raises by itself. If not, pull it again.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)18:31 No. 436664 ID: c63c4c
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>Interesting. We might be able to use that for our own defense. Wait to see if it raises by itself. If not, pull it again.

You pull the handle again, and the wall raises, leaving a bit of blood on the floor.

>Just open the door.

The door's locked.

You have dried blood on the back of your head by the way, press the button.

>>436664
I say make sure the wall's down before you push the button. It might like, shoot an arrow at you from the other side of the hallway.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)19:17 No. 436692 ID: c63c4c
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[animated]

You press the button.

[CHOOSE PLAYER CHARACTER]

lets be Invisible-Girl -Who Might-Be-An Hallucination.

>>436693
Seconding

Obviously. Imaginary head voices for the imaginary person.

Sorry Terrance. Looks like you get a break from schizophrenia for a while.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)19:30 No. 436702 ID: c63c4c
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>lets be Invisible-Girl -Who Might-Be-An Hallucination.

Your name is Lydia, you're not imaginary or a hallucination, sorry, but you did just have a run-in with good ol' Mr. Crimson.

Sorry for the offense. Hello, Lydia.

Care to give us the situation? We're headvoices, and we were hanging with a confused guy named Terence who'd been trapped here. He doesn't know what's up, or how he got here. Then he pushed a button and we jumped to you.

Quick report of situation, inventory, objectives and entities.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)20:19 No. 436719 ID: c63c4c
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>Care to give us the situation?

>Quick report of situation, inventory, objectives and entities.

That's more like it.

The current situation is the following: Several horrors have been released from their holding by the highups, for reasons unknown. You're not allowed to actually kill or injure them, but at this point it's easy to pass off as an accident. Everyone's getting restless about it, and the building's turning on itself.

Current inventory: 3 knives, long length of rope, lockpick, spray paint canister, poison kit, handgun, master key, chain key, box of remains.

Current objectives: None officially, but unofficially you're trying to find out what's going on in this facility.

Entities overall: They don't have official names, but nicknames will do just as well. Unreleased we have Shadow, Mr.Crimson, Dirge, and Cumulus. There's a lot more still locked up, but you don't know how many.

>>436719
You mean those ones you named ARE released, not unreleased?

Well, most relevant first. What's Mr. Crimson like? Second most relevant... what's Shadow like? Third, who's the blue one?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)20:50 No. 436737 ID: c63c4c
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>>436725

{Yeah, that's what I meant, sorry.}

>Well, most relevant first. What's Mr. Crimson like? Second most relevant... what's Shadow like? Third, who's the blue one?

Mr. Crimson is mostly an unfeeling monster, in a quite literal sense. He's more like an animal than most of the Horrors, which is why he's such a fucking pain to get past 99% of the time. Literally. He wanders around aimlessly a lot, just looking for something to eat.

Shadow is more like a human. He's downright tricky in every possible sense of the word, and likes to gloat and manipulate. He commands Mr. Crimson when he gets too bored and wants to see a fight. You shot him earlier because he was annoying you.

The blue one is Cumulus, you've only seen him in passing, but that's not a bad thing. Most of his body is made of thick poisonous gas, you don't know what kind yet but it doesn't really matter. Apparently he can be a god damn pain in the ass when you're trying to run from him.

For what this facility is used? What's your rank and position? Need a brief description of the entities that were released. Any of them are capable to assume human form? Where the other entities are being held? What can you tell about the personnel? Any way to contact them? You know anyone that goes by the name of Terence? Besides that, you don't have a map. Can you describe your bearings?

>>436737
Does shooting Shadow even do anything? Whose blood is that? Did you manage to kill Crimson? How many bullets left?

Where the heck did these things COME from?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)21:03 No. 436745 ID: c63c4c
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>For what this facility is used? What's your rank and position? Need a brief description of the entities that were released. Any of them are capable to assume human form? Where the other entities are being held? What can you tell about the personnel? Any way to contact them? You know anyone that goes by the name of Terence? Besides that, you don't have a map. Can you describe your bearings?

Holy fuck, do you ever shut up.

That was a rhetorical question, don't actually answer that.

The facility is used for training assassins and capturing major enemy beings. Your position is an assassin, you're the second-lowest rank possible. None of the Horrors released can take human form. You don't know exactly where the rest are, most are probably in the containment wing right now. The personnel are all trained ghosts like yourself, except the high-ups and some of the scientists who are all probably vampires or shifters. Contact isn't wise. Terence is an old friend. You think you're in the west wing, but since Shadow was let out the building's had a mind of it's own.

That good enough?

No. If you're not willing or capable to answer any question, just tell. In any event, I'll let you know that I'm also in a foul mood.

It's possible to assume which direction Crimson went because of the stains on the floor and on the opening to your right. However, directions and actions can't be suggested without a better description of your surroundings.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)21:39 No. 436765 ID: c63c4c
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>Does shooting Shadow even do anything? Whose blood is that? Did you manage to kill Crimson? How many bullets left?

>Where the heck did these things COME from?

Apparently it does, if it bleeds you can kill it you guess. That's your blood, missing forearms tend to bleed a bit. No, Crimson's pretty good on his feet, and you sort of had other things to worry about. Five bullets left, and there's an armory somewhere down the hallway.

That's above your paygrade, you don't get told shit when you're just got out of training. Rumour is they come straight from Hell.

>It's possible to assume which direction Crimson went because of the stains on the floor and on the opening to your right. However, directions and actions can't be suggested without a better description of your surroundings.

If that's what you wanted you could have asked. The opening behind you is from the cupboard in Terence's cell. You just came through there. Up ahead is a long hallway, turning off to the left twice. Crimson went out the window at the end.

>>436765
Did you release Terence? If so, he couldn't see you.

Let's try the first left. Are those cabinets on the wall?

Yes, examine the wall to your right and the first turn to left. What they do with humans here?

>>436773
Lydia is a ghost.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)21:58 No. 436783 ID: c63c4c
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>Did you release Terence? If so, he couldn't see you.

Yes, you did.

But if he couldn't see you, that certainly explains why he was chained up. Someone's worked some shifty voodoo to revive him, he used to be a ghost too.

>Let's try the first left. Are those cabinets on the wall?

Certainly. No, the noticeboard is there for the scientists, their main lab is just up ahead.

>The personnel are all trained ghosts like yourself
Ghost as in sneaky assassin, or as in deceased?

My condolences if it's the later. Although a facility run by the dead to contain monsters is an interesting idea, I must admit. Can I infer then that Terence is also deceased? His confusion, inability to explain how he arrived here, and visible head injury make sense if he's a newly dead recruit.

>>436783
Oh neat, buttons. Are they familiar to you?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)22:10 No. 436793 ID: c63c4c
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>Ghost as in sneaky assassin, or as in deceased?

>My condolences if it's the later. Although a facility run by the dead to contain monsters is an interesting idea, I must admit. Can I infer then that Terence is also deceased? His confusion, inability to explain how he arrived here, and visible head injury make sense if he's a newly dead recruit.

Ha, that's funny! Both, in your case.

Terence...technically, he is, but like you said, shifty voodoo must have revived him. And he's far from a "new recruit" he's just utterly useless.

>Oh neat, buttons. Are they familiar to you?

Yes, they open the lab doors. There should be a doorman here, the buttons only work when he's here and scanned his keycard.

>>436793
Useless buttons, then. Anything else this way?

Hey, if you're a ghost, how come Crimson ate your arm?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)22:34 No. 436806 ID: c63c4c
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>Useless buttons, then. Anything else this way?

Plenty of stuff. Scientist lockers, the main armory of experimental weapons, some of the holding cells for the less dangerous captives.

Giant tentacle monsters.

>Hey, if you're a ghost, how come Crimson ate your arm?

Don't be dumb. Ghosts have physical form, too. It's just that living humans can't see us. If we were corporeal, what kind of point would there be in having doors?

Push the green button. Go back, take the second turn to the left.

> Ghosts have physical form, too.
This raises many questions, most about sex.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)23:11 No. 436820 ID: c63c4c
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>Push the green button.

The keycard reader beeps twice and flashes to indicate that you're missing something.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)23:12 No. 436821 ID: c63c4c
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>Go back, take the second turn to the left.

This place has a fair few twisty hallways. The sign says that the containment wing is to your right.

>This raises many questions, most about sex.

Oh geez.

> The sign says that the containment wing is to your right.
Right it is. Or the containment wing is also a restricted area? What do you know about it?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/26(Thu)23:38 No. 436839 ID: c63c4c
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>Right it is. Or the containment wing is also a restricted area? What do you know about it?

Certain levels of the containment wing are restricted, definitely, but as this is level one there isn't even a guard. From memory, levels four to eight are restricted, one is open, two and three you need to sign your name off so they know who's been there.

Most of level one's cells are empty, they're for dumb things like minor penalties or suspensions.

You've only been as high as level two, and that was because you killed another assassin. You think the rest of your unit is in level three, and levels four to six are full up with the Horrors right now, probably. Seven and eight are actually just people, though "people" is a loose term here.

Since the horrors were released, you may be able to access levels two and three. Let's see if you can get something there.

> Seven and eight are actually just people, though "people" is a loose term here.
What could be worse than horrors?

>>436839
What happens if a ghost dies? Do you become double-dead or do you just like, respawn or something? Also, considering you're normally invisible, I wonder why the Horrors can see you...

Anyway, check to see if anyone's in the cells.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)00:13 No. 436854 ID: c63c4c
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>Anyway, check to see if anyone's in the cells.

The light on this one says it's occupied. The guy in there seems to be pretty upset.

>What happens if a ghost dies? Do you become double-dead or do you just like, respawn or something? Also, considering you're normally invisible, I wonder why the Horrors can see you...

When ghosts die, the same thing happens as when humans die - die normally, anyway. The ghost disappears, burning away, or if you're a stronger ghost you can absorb them into you and use their power.

The Horrors can see you because most monsters normally can. Equal footing and all. It's just humans and the really old beasts that can't see you.

> The guy in there seems to be pretty upset.
What now? Ask him what's the problem.

>>436854
Absorbing powers, you say? Let's katamari our way out of here via murder. Lots of murder. Hmm. Is the absorbed ghost still conscious at that point? Like a hivemind sort of thing?

I presume there is an afterlife, considering there are ghosts and shit. Any idea what it's like?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)01:07 No. 436863 ID: c63c4c
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>Ask him what's the problem.

He says some stuff we already know about the horrors. Apparently, they're horrible. Thanks man, how helpful.

>Absorbing powers, you say? Let's katamari our way out of here via murder. Lots of murder. Hmm. Is the absorbed ghost still conscious at that point? Like a hivemind sort of thing?

You aren't going to absorb anyone unless it's necessary. It takes a lot of power, you only did it last time because it was your abusive elder brother.

No, the other ghost isn't conscious. Much like ordinary death, you just cease existing. Total blackness, no thoughts or anything. Or something. You were always kind of hazy on the details.

>I presume there is an afterlife, considering there are ghosts and shit. Any idea what it's like?

Funny. This is the afterlife, for a lot of everything. This facility is located in Purgatory's capital city, where most monsters, beasts, and indeed some humans go after death. There's Hell, too, you've seen the gates on the other side of the dimension, but you don't know if there's a Heaven.

>>436863
Either let him out or find someone more useful.

Okay, got an idea of what could be worse than terrors. Press forward.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)05:21 No. 436885 ID: c63c4c
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>Either let him out or find someone more useful.

No way, dude. He's way more trouble than he's worth just in general. Plus, he's the only one dumb enough to be locked up on level one.

>Press forward.

You continue around the cells to the elevator. Unfortunately, the piece of shit is out of order again. The tape on it clearly says "DANGEROUS" and "DO NOT USE". You guess you'll have to see if there's any stairs around here.

Hope you receive enough.

> "DANGEROUS" and "DO NOT USE"
Yeah, yeah. Push the button anyway.

> You guess you'll have to see if there's any stairs around here.
Let's go.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)17:52 No. 436986 ID: c63c4c
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>Push the button anyway.

You hope this doesn't come back to bite you on the ass later.

>Let's go.

If this level is as convoluted as it's supposed to be, the stairs are probably on the other side of the god damn wing. You hate this building.

Behind you, the elevator pings.

Also, Terence was by the falling wall thing last we saw him.
Unless we aren't the same headvoices as his, in which case disregard me, as I am merely an auditory illusion.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)18:31 No. 436996 ID: c63c4c
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>Also, Terence was by the falling wall thing last we saw him.

You don't know what that means. You presume he went out the other hallway, though. He should be near the cafeteria by now.

What the other voice meant was he found a switch that when pulled lowered a wall across a hallway, cutting off the path he followed from his cell.

There's a purple something oozing out under the elevator doors behind you.

> Behind you, the elevator pings.
It's working, the staff must be incompetent and lazy. However, you're a little chubby. Too many visits to the cafeteria, I believe. Okay, let's take the stairs.

A horror seems to have come down on the elevator. Any knowledge of purple oozes?

We may want to rendezvous with Terence at the cafeteria. If some freaky voodoo shit brought him back, maybe he's connected to what's going on around here.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)19:34 No. 437012 ID: c63c4c
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>There's a purple something oozing out under the elevator doors behind you.

>Okay, let's take the stairs.

>We may want to rendezvous with Terence at the cafeteria.

Then let's fucking vamoose. The cafeteria's pretty safe anyway.

Guessing the red dot is the cafeteria.

While you make your way there, are there any other persons of interest we need to get in on this besides Terence?

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)20:40 No. 437018 ID: c63c4c
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(animated .gif)

While you make your way there, are there any other persons of interest we need to get in on this besides Terence?

You can think of one in particular, but they're down in level seven containment. It'll be a bitch to break them out.

Hey, hold up. Looks like a lot has happened while you've been talking to headvoices.

>>437018
Ask the poor sap what happened.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)21:03 No. 437020 ID: c63c4c
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>Ask the poor sap what happened.

You forget that he can't see you, and ask him if he's okay.

His response is mainly physical. He starts to visibly shake, and scrabbles back to the wall, holding his hands in front of him.

In an attempt to calm him down, you start to explain that you're a ghost.

He yells. You aren't real, he's not doing anything you say. Not anymore.

Look at who / what he killed.

The last thing we had him do is push a button. Then we wound up swapping over to you.

I'm not sure you can convince him you're not a hallucination though, as telling him things he already knows but you don't won't help.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)22:15 No. 437027 ID: c63c4c
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>Look at who / what he killed.

This explains a lot.

Did he...did he fucking autopsy that guy?

That's actually kind of awesome.

>The last thing we had him do is push a button. Then we wound up swapping over to you.

When the cats are away, the mice will play, you guess. You must have left some behind when you were chilling in the jacuzzi at Lydialand.

can you give him a hug?

tell him clamly and slowly that the talking spirits must of left the worst ones behind by accident.

Possess the autopsied body. Lurch toward him moaning "Whyyyy did you listen to themmmmm"

Okay, I don't know if we're better off swapping to him, because he's obviously some kind of unstable psycho who needs headvoices to keep him sane, OR if we're better off staying with you, since you're actually competent and knowledgeable about the situation at hand, and we might be able to help you do something useful.

You know, this might sound callous, but... if he's supposed to be a ghost, and his resurrection seems to have left him unhinged... would it necessarily be a bad thing for you to re-ghostify him, miss assassin?

I don't think it's possible for him to have killed all these people. A crowbar can't even manage half those wounds. Wanna bet all he did was beat up some corpses?

Slap the terror out of him.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/27(Fri)23:09 No. 437060 ID: c63c4c
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>You know, this might sound callous, but... if he's supposed to be a ghost, and his resurrection seems to have left him unhinged... would it necessarily be a bad thing for you to re-ghostify him, miss assassin?

You have a point. But it may not be possible. Shifty voodoo has side effects, so you may not be able to kill him. And if you did, there's no guarantee he'd cling to life. He could just head down to Hell.

>Slap the terror out of him.

You don't think having an invisible entity beat him up would improve his state of mind.

Possess him and make him tell himself to calm down.

This absolutely will make him think he is perfectly sane.

Maybe he still remembers you or something important to him. Do you know anything about his life before he became a ghost?

Ah well. Medical murder can't always be the cure.

Try talking him down. He seemed receptive to reassuring, sensible talk from disembodied voices when we were in his head. So maybe you can get through to him too.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)00:04 No. 437070 ID: c63c4c
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>Maybe he still remembers you or something important to him. Do you know anything about his life before he became a ghost?

You know a lot. You were good friends in high school before you died. Maybe reliving the good times will help jog his memory.

>Try talking him down. He seemed receptive to reassuring, sensible talk from disembodied voices when we were in his head. So maybe you can get through to him too.

You sit down opposite him, careful to not make any sudden movements, though there really isn't a point.

He's calmed down a bit now, and you patiently tell him who you are. All over again.

Ask him what happened here.

I thought you said this guy was useless.

Evidently a side effect of shifty voodoo is turning into goddamn Gordon Freeman when you get your hands on a crowbar.

Wait, if this is a ghost run facility, who are those corpses he massacred?

Is he calm enough to start talking back yet?

If he's still freaking out, we could always default to hugs. If he closes his eyes, or you hug him from behind, and invisible hug really isn't any different that a normal one. That's pretty positive reassurance that you're real and you care.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)09:31 No. 437098 ID: c63c4c
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>If he's still freaking out, we could always default to hugs. If he closes his eyes, or you hug him from behind, and invisible hug really isn't any different that a normal one. That's pretty positive reassurance that you're real and you care.

You go ahead and hug him. He seems a little calmer, calm enough to talk.

>Ask him what happened here.

He shivers. He says the voices told him to do some things. They'd been helpful before so he thought it'd be okay. He was wrong. He killed all of those people, he could barely control himself.

Oh, shit, he's got other voices. Mean ones. That's not good. (Is it worse if there are evil things talking to him, or if he's just crazy?)

Explain that us helpful voices jumped out of him and into you when he pushed the button in the hallway by the falling wall. We don't know who he's been talking to him since.

If he doesn't believe you, we can give you info from conversations in his head no one else should be able to know. For instance, when we first met, I asked him to retrieve his arm from a secret compartment. He responded by giving me the finger and calling me a wiseass. ...not our most helpful moment, but we got better when we saw the horrors and realized the situation was serious.

Tell him that the voices who were trying to help him got switched to you after the button was pressed.
It is more likely a tricky horror was advising him, maybe the Shadow.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)09:55 No. 437102 ID: c63c4c
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>Tell him that the voices who were trying to help him got switched to you after the button was pressed.

You explain this to him. He says he has no doubt that that's what happened. After he pressed the button and nothing happened, he broke the lock on the door and proceeded to--...well, yeah. Anyway, he knows that's what happened.

He asks if there's any chance you could send the headvoices back to him. He sort of needs them to maintain his sanity.

Well, on the one hand, I'm kind of more interested in hanging with you, as you're the one with useful skills and relevant knowledge here. We could get stuff done!

...but crazy boy needs us to function at all. And you're competent enough to get by without us. So I guess we're going back. Time to find a button.

Thanks for the ride, Lydia.

Love you, Lydia. See you later.

It doesn't work that way guys. She has to push the button.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)10:24 No. 437107 ID: c63c4c
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You're Terence again. You feel much better now you aren't alone in your own head with the other voices. And the invisible girl saved you again, but whatever. You're totally your own man, right?

Yeah.

>You're totally your own man, right?
What are we, chopped liver? Because you seem to need us too.

Not that that's a bad thing.

And don't speak ill of the invisible girl. We spent some time in Lydia's head, and let met tell you, she's a classy dame. And she's a friend who's worried about you. So be nice.

Oh, and in the future? Any voices that tell you to do evil things are probably fakes. You can tell we're us because we make stupid jokes. And if we ever advocate violence, we'll do stupid things like argue with each other incessantly. Anything that gives clear, coherent, violent commands without arguing with itself isn't us.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)11:04 No. 437109 ID: c63c4c
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{Just taking this time to thank you guys for being such cool dudes about this! It'd been a pleasure questing with you so far.}

>What are we, chopped liver? Because you seem to need us too.

>Not that that's a bad thing.

This is true. You'd probably be wandering around aimlessly by now if you didn't have assertive headvoices to boss you around. You appreciate it.

>And don't speak ill of the invisible girl. We spent some time in Lydia's head, and let met tell you, she's a classy dame. And she's a friend who's worried about you. So be nice.

When you next encounter her - "see" would be the wrong word to use - you'll be sure to thank her again. But you don't remember her, not really.

>Oh, and in the future? Any voices that tell you to do evil things are probably fakes. You can tell we're us because we make stupid jokes. And if we ever advocate violence, we'll do stupid things like argue with each other incessantly. Anything that gives clear, coherent, violent commands without arguing with itself isn't us.

You'll be sure to check next time before you do something like that again, you guess.

{We are generally cool dudes. -_q }

Okay... so we learned a few things while we were away.

Apparently this place is some kind of prison or containment for supernatural things (the horrors). And it's run by ghosts. So it's kind of like ghostbusters, except with ghosts going after worse things.

Lydia works here, and is trying to get a hold on the crisis.

She thinks your current instability and memory loss is because someone hit you up with some bad voodoo. Let's not tell him he's a ghost turned zombie just yet.

So... what are you up for? You wanna just get out of here? You up for teaming up with Lydia to try and figure out what's going on?

First, obtain Crowbar. There are violent horrors running amok, we're gonna need something for self-defense. And apparently you're good with it.

Second, is there any food in the cafeteria? I know it's full of dead bodies, but you appear to be alive and human, so you probably have to eat, right?

Finally, We have a vague map of the floor from Lydia's memories. There may be someone else locked up here we can recruit. Lydia thinks he's useless, but she thought the same thing about you, and evidently that is untrue. Unhinged, but not useless. If nothing else he'd be an extra pair of hands.

also are you SURE you caused this? you could of just been attacking corpses.

((No, the pleasure is mine and I'm not giving it to anyone else.))

Terence, it's cool if you need some time to process all this information. Just let me say that none of this is your fault, there's always something beyond your control. However, you're in good company now. Let's do our best.

Oh. Tell Lydia that she should reduce the amount of visits to the cafeteria.

>>437111
Yeah. Besides, you want to recover your memories? I must warn you that regardless of your choice you will face many dangers and horrors.

>>437112
Agreed. Terence, you probably don't want to eat now, but get something to munch later. The crowbar... I'm sure you don't want to touch it, but we don't have much choice. Take the time you need to muster some strength.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)13:16 No. 437131 ID: c63c4c
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>So... what are you up for? You wanna just get out of here? You up for teaming up with Lydia to try and figure out what's going on?

You think that both would be nice, if possible. If you know Lydia, she'll do both via the "killing lots of people and yelling" route.

>obtain Crowbar. There are violent horrors running amok, we're gonna need something for self-defense. And apparently you're good with it.

Definitely. You fit the crowbar into your inventory between the knife and the cracked orb.

>Terence, you probably don't want to eat now, but get something to munch later.
>is there any food in the cafeteria? I know it's full of dead bodies, but you appear to be alive and human, so you probably have to eat, right?

Copy that. You find some sandwiches behind he counter and pocket them.

Woah. Um, that cracked orb is damn creepy looking. Where / how did you get that?

That cracked orb sure looks like some shifty voodoo. What's the deal with it? Did it feel like the evil voices were coming from it?

>>437131
Ditch the orb.

How did you perform an autopsy on that one man, with only a crowbar? Just.. just curious.

>>437154
He also has a knife.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)17:12 No. 437190 ID: c63c4c
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>Ditch the orb.

You'd love to. Like, really, nothing pleases you more than the thought of leaving that thing behind. But it won't fall out of your hand. You let it go and everything, but it just stays there like it's been glued.

It is physically impossible to ditch this orb.

Okay, definitely a cursed item or something.

Did you pick that up recently (ie, while we were gone) or has it been with you since you woke up in that cell?

>>437190
What if you cut off your hand with the orb stuck to it? Actually, wait until we have available medical attention. That'd cause a lot of bleeding.

Forget the orb for now, go back into the room you originated in.

Could you stick it to another part of your body to free your hand up? Like your forehead or chest?

>>437192
If you could stick it to just your pinkie toe, you might be able to get rid of it by cutting the toe off.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)18:14 No. 437197 ID: c63c4c
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>Did you pick that up recently (ie, while we were gone) or has it been with you since you woke up in that cell?

It appeared in your inventory almost immediately after you pressed the button.

>Could you stick it to another part of your body to free your hand up? Like your forehead or chest?

Yeah, but it doesn't seem like it's going to fall off. You don't feel that great about having to cut any appendages off, but it may be necessary.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)18:15 No. 437198 ID: c63c4c
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>Forget the orb for now, go back into the room you originated in.

You go back to your holding cell. A lot has changed.

...it came from the button?

You should back towards the button, to see if we can find Lydia. Maybe it gave her one, and it's trying to talk her into doing something crazy like yours did. We gotta stop that.

Can you stick it to hair? I'd rather cut your hair off than a toe. Besides, there's a chance it'll just magnetically jump back to you, and it would suck to cut your toe off for nothing.

>It appeared in your inventory almost immediately after you pressed the button.
Shit man, Lydia might have one now. Hopefully she has the will to resist its dark will.

Exit the room through the cupboard. Peek through first to check for danger.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)18:40 No. 437203 ID: c63c4c
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>Exit the room through the cupboard. Peek through first to check for danger.

There doesn't seem to be any danger, so you head on through.

Did the orb just merge with your head? Thats... not good.

there is a mouth on the back of your head.

>>437208

{Just to clarify, no it did not. Sorry if it was unclear, but he put it back in his inventory.}

Nothing we can do about, not in our current situation. Don't let this affect you, Terence. We have to understand what's happening here, regain your memories and leave this place with Lydia. Never let anything divert you from your priorities.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)20:42 No. 437226 ID: c63c4c
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>Nothing we can do about, not in our current situation. Don't let this affect you, Terence. We have to understand what's happening here, regain your memories and leave this place with Lydia. Never let anything divert you from your priorities.

If you're still alive, you'll be sure to do that.

Right, let's go looking for Lydia, then. We left her near the button, hopefully she's still nearby.

We can ask if she got a creepy orb when she pushed it, or if she knows what the heck yours is.

Go straight to the end of the hall, then turn left. turn right at the next turn after. You should find the locked up dude to recruit.

>>437242
That's a terrible idea, we should trust Lydia's judgment.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/28(Sat)23:50 No. 437268 ID: c63c4c
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>Right, let's go looking for Lydia, then

You backtrack to the hallway that was previously covered in blood, and stop.

The shadow's around the corner, talking to someone. It sounds a lot like Lydia, they might have taken her off guard.

shadow can bleed. ready weapons.

>>437268
Ready a weapon just in case, and check it out.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/29(Sun)01:07 No. 437290 ID: c63c4c
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>shadow can bleed. ready weapons.
>Ready a weapon just in case, and check it out.

You round the corner nervously, crowbar in hand. You can see Lydia now - sort of - and she looks extremely attra-- angry. Extremely angry. And yelling too, you might add.

Shadow greets you, his one mouth grinning, and Lydia falls silent.

He asks how you've been enjoying your gift so far.

Ask him what the hell he's talking about. Also don't stand under where the wall comes down, please.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/29(Sun)01:57 No. 437294 ID: c63c4c
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>Ask him what the hell he's talking about. Also don't stand under where the wall comes down, please.

You sidle closer to where Lydia is, out of reach of the wall, and she shifts across to make room.

The orb, he answers as you open your mouth. The orb is the gift. It gives back what is lost, what is needed. With very few side effects, he might add. He chuckles as though he's just told a joke, and Lydia makes an agitated growling noise under her breath.

>>437294
Hmph. I'd suggest hitting the dick but I'm not sure how physically powerful Shadow is.

Ask what that other orb there is.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/29(Sun)03:33 No. 437311 ID: c63c4c
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>Ask what that other orb there is.

Lydia picks it up. It's her "gift" she says, her orb. She rolls her eyes, but it doesn't change the tone in her voice.

And what does it do? The same thing?

Her orb looks like it's got an arm drawn on it.

Can you actually see Lydia now, or is that just us?

So it gave Lydia back the appendage Crimson took off...
And gave Terence a mouth on the back of his head? One question. Why did he ever have a mouth on the back of his head to lose?

Bite the shadow with your headmouth!

>few side effects
>few
>hearing crazy evil voices
yeah sure buddy.

WingedCyborg 2012/07/30(Mon)02:29 No. 437506 ID: c63c4c
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>Bite the shadow with your headmouth!

What headmo--

that one

>>437506
Goddamn it, stop doing that.

Yeah, stoppit. That's creepy as all get go, and ineffective. Shadow's enjoying it.

It seems Mr. Headmouth is also hearing our suggestions.
Cease biting that Shadow young man, you don't know where its been.

So uh... how's it taste?

>It seems Mr. Headmouth is also hearing our suggestions.

That gives me a horribleawesome idea. Does this mean we can use Mr. Headmouth to talk, instead of our suggestions being limited to the inside of Terence's head? Testing...

"Hello Lydia!"

WingedCyborg 2012/07/30(Mon)17:43 No. 437603 ID: c63c4c
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>Cease biting that Shadow young man, you don't know where its been.
>"Hello Lydia!"

Your uh..."headmouth" releases Shadow from its jaws, the most unpleasant sensation you've felt in your entire life.

And just when you thought it was over, the most horrible sound emanates from behind you, greeting Lydia.

Forget everything, that's the most unpleasant sensation you've felt in your entire life.

"Oh Shadow, you so silly. It seems the headvoices now have a headmouth to match."
Shall we get back to whatever it was we were doing then? I think we were going upstairs, which is probably the spirally thing on the map.

GLARGLARGLARGLARGLARGLARGLARGLARGLARGALRG

...smashing!

Oh wow, we scared the crap out of our two humans, and amused the monster. That's not great. Sorry Terence, we didn't know the voice would be terrifying, or that it would be uncomfortable for you. Maybe convey our apologies to Lydia too, since our doing it via headmouth would probably be more disturbing.

We'll try to refrain from using it... but we can be kind of silly at times. Helpful, yes, but it's hard for us not to mess with a new toy.

...you guys do realize this means if we ever get back to Lydia, we can control her arm. =D

>>437609
What >>437607 said.

>>437607
Through the headmouth and with an incredibly thick upper-class british accent, of course.

We need a monocle for the headmouth ASAP.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/01(Wed)18:05 No. 438233 ID: 93ac50
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>Shall we get back to whatever it was we were doing then? I think we were going upstairs, which is probably the spirally thing on the map.

The stairs are on the other side of the door, and Shadow's blocking it!

I'm disappointed my apologies didn't get through, but I'm relived that all the competing attempts to harness the headmouth apparently jammed it into doing nothing.

If you and Lydia can't agress this thing to death with your weapons, I think it's time to beat a tactical retreat.

>>438233
Tell Shadow to get out of the way our we'll smack it one with the crowbar.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/02(Thu)12:49 No. 438400 ID: 93ac50
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>If you and Lydia can't agress this thing to death with your weapons, I think it's time to beat a tactical retreat.

Not wasting any time, you run from the scene and down the other hallway, closing the door behind you as Shadow chuckles darkly.

Check Sanity Meters.

Assess situation, calm yourselves down.

You should tell Lydia you can see her now, for whatever reason. And please apologize for us about the horrible headmouth incident. We really didn't know that was gonna happen, or be so freaky.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/02(Thu)14:45 No. 438420 ID: 93ac50
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>Check Sanity Meters.

[LYDIA's Sanity Meter is at 55%]
[TERENCE's Sanity Meter is at %29%]

>Assess situation, calm yourselves down.

You're on the other end of the hallway from Shadow, behind another door. To your left is an entrance with a sign bearing the legend "KITCHENS", and to your right is a locked door bearing the legend "MINOR CONTAMINATION STORAGE".

You take a moment to calm yourself and relax.

Hug to restore Sanity.

GHOST BLOWJOB WOO WOO WOOO

WingedCyborg 2012/08/02(Thu)16:27 No. 438459 ID: 93ac50
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>Hug to restore Sanity.

[LYDIA's Sanity Meter is now at 80%]
[TERENCE's Sanity Meter is now at 60%]

daww, now kiss. :3c

Okay enough silliness. You have some sandwiches. does Lydia need food too? If we want to grab some more emergency rations before Shadow eats the entire floor, let's head to the Kitchens.

Okay, now that you're both calm and sane again, it's time to talk. We need to discuss options and come up with a plan of action. Lydia knows more than you or us about any of this, it would be good to get some input.

Direct combat with shadow went rather badly, even though he's the tricky manipulator. How are we supposed to deal with him, or the more violence oriented horrors? We need a tactic or weapon that works on them. Is their a supernatural armory somewhere?

>>438482
You can't win against horrors in psychological warfare and direct combat. However, we can use the environment to our advantage. As far as I could observe, there are limitations to the movements of Shadow and we can probably seriously injure Mr Crimson with that trap near THAT green button. For now we should just run away and try to gather more information.

>>438426
((It will be the happiest day of my life when someone make a quest where we, suggestions, can fight against each other. A shameful and gruesome defeat awaits you.))

WingedCyborg 2012/08/02(Thu)18:26 No. 438571 ID: 93ac50
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>If we want to grab some more emergency rations before Shadow eats the entire floor, let's head to the Kitchens.
>Okay, now that you're both calm and sane again, it's time to talk. We need to discuss options and come up with a plan of action. Lydia knows more than you or us about any of this, it would be good to get some input.

You go along to the kitchens, hoping you might be able to find some food to stock up on for the journey down, and since there's no sign of danger you think it might be a good time to discuss your options.

Lydia updates you on the situation involving the released horrors and your own resurrection. She explains it casually, like the plot of a movie, but there's a lot of it you're finding unsettling. She says you need to get down to level seven before we can leave from the lobby, there's someone very important down there who can help you. Honestly, you'd rather get out as soon as possible, but who knows what could happen in the meantime. Help sounds good.

Wait... Lydia just outright told you the truth about being a ghost turned voodoo-zombie? Dude, we didn't want to mention that because we were worried you couldn't handle it.

I'd agree to go for the help. You've been voodoo-ed at least twice, you've lost memories, become slightly unstable, and you have a mouth growing out the back of your head. Be nice to get some of that fixed.

Lydia is anything if not blunt. Well OK here's what she said. You're supposed to be a ghost, like her. Unfortunately, you are not a ghost. Someone managed to resurrect you, through as yet unknown hoodoo. Your return to ghostliness is complicated, because Lydia said that dying again might just land you in Hell instead of making you a ghost again. They hire ghosts to manage these creatures, only from the few who already became ghosts on death.

Though invisible to the living, ghosts are quite solid, probably because this facility is located in Purgatory, and not the living world.

There are two things you should do at this point. First, recover your memories so that you know why you clung to the earthly plane in the first place, which should enable you to become a ghost again (and as such be less prone to bleeding and panic). Secondly, figure out how you got resurrected, the nature of the resurrection, and the purpose behind it. That way you can avoid doing terrible things while you are still in the process of recovering your memories.

Three things. Three things you should do. Thirdly, unequip the orb that gave you headmouth. That shit's just creepy.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/02(Thu)22:02 No. 438723 ID: 93ac50
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>Lydia is anything if not blunt. Well OK here's what she said. You're supposed to be a ghost, like her. Unfortunately, you are not a ghost. Someone managed to resurrect you, through as yet unknown hoodoo. Your return to ghostliness is complicated, because Lydia said that dying again might just land you in Hell instead of making you a ghost again. They hire ghosts to manage these creatures, only from the few who already became ghosts on death.

>Though invisible to the living, ghosts are quite solid, probably because this facility is located in Purgatory, and not the living world.

>There are two things you should do at this point. First, recover your memories so that you know why you clung to the earthly plane in the first place, which should enable you to become a ghost again (and as such be less prone to bleeding and panic). Secondly, figure out how you got resurrected, the nature of the resurrection, and the purpose behind it. That way you can avoid doing terrible things while you are still in the process of recovering your memories.

>Three things. Three things you should do. Thirdly, unequip the orb that gave you headmouth. That shit's just creepy.

You can't unequip the orb, it's stuck to you!

You discuss your plans with Lydia, and she agrees. Getting you to go ghost again would be the best option, and finding out why you were voodooed back to life would certainly be helpful, as there's something very shifty about it.

roll it to the top of your head and hang down so it is dangling from some hair, then have those hairs cut off.

>>438726

He already tried that. That's what gave him headmouth.

It didn't give him the headmouth, because he never tried it. The mouth spawned before that, as it was already depicted on the orb.

It probably won't hang from his hair. That's too much of a copout.

Anyway, we're in the kitchen. Check the fridge and cupboards for food.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/04(Sat)14:20 No. 439313 ID: ac6100
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>Anyway, we're in the kitchen. Check the fridge and cupboards for food.

The search doesn't provide anything of much use. You pocket a bag of chips and a large container of salt that Lydia says will come in handy, though she won't tell you why. There's also some foul-smelling meat under the lid.

Headmouth: Lick meat.

Salt is useful against certain supernatural things. You can lay down a line of salt for instance that they can't cross. Or pack it into shotgun shells. Careful though, as a ghost, Lydia might be subject to those rules. Pretty sure you count as normal human though, shifty voodoo aside.

>>439340
Not voodoo: hoodoo.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/06(Mon)22:25 No. 440045 ID: c49e9c
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>Salt is useful against certain supernatural things. You can lay down a line of salt for instance that they can't cross. Or pack it into shotgun shells. Careful though, as a ghost, Lydia might be subject to those rules. Pretty sure you count as normal human though, shifty voodoo aside.

Taking this into account, you ask Lydia again why she says it'll be so useful. You don't see any reason why you couldn't have told her this information herself.

She tells you to mind your own business and keep moving.

>>440045
Oh well, let's go.

> She tells you to mind your own business and keep moving.
You definitely should marry her.

Anyway, she's the one who knows the place. It keeps changing, yes, but what we should be looking for?

WingedCyborg 2012/08/07(Tue)01:05 No. 440090 ID: c49e9c
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>You definitely should marry her.

Uh.

>Oh well, let's go.

You follow Lydia out from the kitchen to the cafeteria. The blood and bodies are still there, and you get a little anxious. [TERENCE's Sanity Meter is now at 50%]

Lydia still looks sour, though you aren't sure if she's annoyed at you or the blood splashing her boots. On the other side of the room you can see the other you came through before, and the dark shadow seeping from under it. Lydia tugs you towards the stairs.

Keep going, just tune out your surroundings for a little while.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/07(Tue)03:16 No. 440106 ID: c49e9c
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>Keep going, just tune out your surroundings for a little while.

You go off into your own little world in order to keep your sanity in tact.

daww, you made her a kitty.

Yes, a reassuring world of deliberate hallucinations is clearly the best way to maintain your sanity. Keep it up.

>Salt stuff
Please keep in mind those were suggested uses, based off lore and superstition. We have as little practical experience with ghosts as you do (heck, less, since you used to be one). It's possible whatever Lydia wants it for is more unpleasant, judging by her reaction.

>>440120
She cleary has a MAINLY PHYSIQUE.

If Terence isn't making any moves on her, I will.

Oh. Lydia knows about red dude. Lydia wants a bunch of salt. Red dude doesn't have any skin. 2 + 2 = AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh hey colored stairs! I wonder if they make music when you step on them!

WingedCyborg 2012/08/10(Fri)21:21 No. 441634 ID: f62da1
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>Oh hey colored stairs! I wonder if they make music when you step on them!

You go down the stairs a bit, and they make an artificial sound. Lydia's disappeared to the bottom, and the sound puts you on edge.

{I apologise for not updating for so long, guys! Things have been getting on top of me.}

{S'cool, we've had worse}.

Well, you might as well follow her. You can play with hallucinations anywhere, after all.

Ugh, what's the point of a hysterical delirium if you can't have musical stairs? Since they sound like artificial glass on artificial chalkboards you might as well continue down into the happy happy play room.

Okay, snap out of it. Clear your head and go down. It's unwise to use stairs without paying attention, anyway.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/11(Sat)17:42 No. 441933 ID: f62da1
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> Clear your head and go down.

You shake off your fantasyland and follow Lydia to Level 2. You come out into the second level of the cafeteria, a smaller, starker room with only a few tables. There are two doors in the corner directly across from you. Seems simple enough.

Look askance of Lydia, I guess. If she doesn't offer any direction, go check out the doors.

Check out dem doors. Check 'em.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/11(Sat)20:52 No. 442013 ID: f62da1
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>Check out dem doors. Check 'em.

Lydia seems to be thinking about something pretty hard, staring at one of the tables with odd determination. You leave her be and go check out the doors.

The large double doors on your left are unlocked, and you peek through the glass to make sure it's safe. From what you can see, there's an empty gymnasium in there.

The other door needs a keycard to unlock it.

Ask her what she's thinking about.

Ask if Shadow is talking to her like it did us.

What's on your mind, Lydia?

WingedCyborg 2012/08/12(Sun)04:22 No. 442161 ID: 422337
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>What's on your mind, Lydia?

You ask Lydia if she's okay, she seems a bit distracted.

She looks at you strangely for a moment. Assuring you that she's fine, she changes the subject and asks if you picked up a keycard from any of the people you mangled.

"thanks a lot queen blunt, but no."

Oh, I hope nothing's getting to Lydia. It's going to suck if we can only keep one of you sane at a time.

Tell her you did not. You have a crowbar though, we could try to force the door.

Tell her if she wants to search the bodies she can go ahead but you do not want to do it yourself.

Wait, how do you know she's looking at you strangely?

Don't leave her alone, Terence. No matter where you have to go or whatever you have to do, don't leave Lydia alone.

WingedCyborg 2012/08/18(Sat)19:57 No. 445023 ID: 68a06e
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>Don't leave her alone, Terence. No matter where you have to go or whatever you have to do, don't leave Lydia alone.

There's definitely something off a̔̀̈́b͒̄̃͗oͥu͛t̒͂̓͆ͨ the way she's ac͐̉́ͬ͡tͣ̒ͭ̍ͣ̚̚in͊̎͆̈́gͪ̆͋́.͒ͧ̑͛ ̋ͬͭY̋̑̏͐̑҉o̒ͫͮ͑ͬͭ͝uͤ͗̕ ̐̎̈́ͣ̾̍t͌̈͆̾̊͡r̀ͨͪ̄̇̊͆ͭ͢͟͝y̧̐ͥ̏ͧ ̢̆́t̨͗̏̀͘ơ̧͗̿ͨͪ ̸̧͌ͪ́r̉̆̅̂̀̈ͮ͢ę̴̅ͦ̋̏̈͒̅ͯaͯ̄́ͩ͂ͯ͑͗̀s̏ͨͥ́̈́s̃̇̾҉̵҉u̵̍̂ͮ͛ͣ̒͂̌͟r̶̨͊
ͦ́͑͒́̔e̊̓̓͋ͪ̋̕͞ ̑hͬ̓̓̕ëͩ͡ȓ̶ͯ̋̿.̸̢̓̆i̵̘̺̬̰͙̼͉̪͑ͯͤ̾̅ͫͬ̿̀ͅṭ̢̹̭͙̬͙͊̄̇̔̐̽̋͜e͍̱̳͈̰͉
̝͔͖̓̓̄̔̄̓̀̀͢ ̶̜̥͋̾ͣ̎̄̀̚e͊ͥ̆̋̓ͬ͐ͭ҉̷̞̤͡v̧̺͙͚̰̮͇̊̓̿ȅ̜͙͕̟͓̖͓̏͂̎r̬͔͇ͬ̌ͮ̒͞y͚͍̙̘͙ͯ
̍ͤ̔ͥ̏͂̉̀t̸͈̜̟͚̦̥ͭ͛ͣ̈́̔̈́͌͡ͅḥ͖̖̞̾͊̄̑̓͂ͬi̵͖̻͈̟̦͛ͥ͊̿̇ͯ͗ņ̻͓͔͎̩̪̓
̆ͬ͂g̶͔̤̻ͬ͐̆͟͞ ̥̜̻̪͓͉̲̲͐ͨ̓ͣͦ̽͟͞ţ̵̻͍̠̟̳͖̏̽͛͊ḥ̡̞͇̱̜̜͂͂̕͟ḁ̈́̆t̛̟̘̣̂̅̓̌͂'̵̱̣̳̼̅
̈́̊ͩͦ̌ͭ̚s̵̳͉̥̦͚̣̍̔ͮ̌̎̅́ͅ ̀̋̊͗҉̢̣͚̜̯͓͓̙̭̰h̬̞̣̖̳̗̟ͣ͐̈́̄̒͌̆̑̾͜a̢̙̰̍̈́̑ͩ̆́p̾ͩͤ͐҉̢̗̫̭̜̙̣̣͢pͦ
͆͋ͨ̒̓͆̓͏̶͖͔̱e̸̥̣̳͚̜̫ͦ͊ͧ̈́̃̏̒͑͘͞n̛͓̩̭̥̫͎͖̠͍̈̄i̤̣͈̰̙̟͌͂n̵̶̡͚̱̩̰̙
̘͚͙̉͗ͥ͗g͔̟̮̜̬̫̋̐̀͗̃̋̀́̕,̵̗̘̻̻̏ͭ ͔̘̺͇̜̝̯̖̾ͯ̿̈̀ͥa̸̜̳̘͈̳͙̪̔̍̽͛̽̄͞͠ḷ̴̡͎̪̗͙̝͒̽̍̿l̅̈ͨ̃ͭ̅҉͓͓̠͖̬͍ ̳͇̭̪̱̏̉͌ͣ̔̚͟t̢̘̠̮̠̹͎̞̞̓͌͑͊̽h͔̟̭̘̯͇͈̪̚͡e̡͇̺̥͖ͩ̃̃͝ ̴̧̡͖̦͒ͧ̃͋̒ͪͅc̶̆̑̽͊͏̦̩͍̤̟ò̴̧̤̹̗̞̦͋̈͒̓͆ṋ̵̡̞̲̘̫͈̬͇̇ͅf̝̤̬̗͇̟͕̍̈́
͋̒̓͂̑͜ų̧̛̘̪̲͍͈̫̬̠ͨ̚s̍̾̔ͥͮ͏̤̩̺i̢͌́̏͏̷̦ọ̷̸̭̯̱̮̼ͥ͐̾ͭ̑̄̍͞ͅn̴͕̳̥̺̪
͚̦̽ͨ̔̀̔ͥ̅̔ ̷̴̪̠̻̩̣̞ͨą͉̙̬̭̗̔̿̈́ͯ͒̉̌͘͢ǹ̺̟͚̯͊͂̈ͩ͒̔̈́̚d̙͉̰̏ͬ̈́́͝ ̴̹̼̝̄͐̒ͨ̐̊͡͞d̛̘̫ͧ̿ͬa̶͇̭̗̣͎̜ͮ̔̎͆n̫̹͍̣̯̰̮̮̟̈́͌̒͋̕͡͡g͖̱̹͖̣̝̺ͮͪ̏ͥ͂
͒ͮ͊ͣe̵̬͉̝̖͉̲̲ͫ̊͘͡ŗ̮̠̹̤͓̐ͯ̏͜͢,̤̰̞̪̬̬͓ͦ̋̈́ ẽ̷̼͙̦͇̻͍͉̜̭̌̓ͨ̃ͥ̊͞v̴̷̶͙͉̼͈͉̞̎͐̍ͥͩ͂ͬ̆̏̃̓̎̔ͣ͜͢ë̟̠͕̻͖̰͕̫̟̹̱̻̘̱́
ͩ͂́̀̇̋̈́̕̕r̸̶̨͉͓̻̰̬̤͍̫͓̘̜̱͉̠̣̫̭̆͂̆̀ͮ͆ͫͨ͂̊͒̚͘͝ͅy̺̤̱̤̳̯̥͖̳̮͚̗ͥ̇
ͥͧͯͭͫ̽ͬ̔̇̀ͮ̔ͩ̈́̌̊͜͞t̡̟̠̹̝̤̩̘̝̮ͩ̓͑͒̀͠͝h̸̡͍̠͙̻̺̱͖̆̽ͤ̇́̇ͭͭ̓͆̔ͧ͆ͪ
̒̂̇̀͞i̛̮̙̠̙̙̦̱̤͓̦͍̯ͥ̏̎ͬ́ͩ̾́n̢̫̖̰͍͈̯̼̝̯̜̥̫̅̾͑͆͊ͧ͐̅ͮͫ̍̂͡gͬ͑̓ͥ͒̐
ͬ̊͂͜҉͉͈͍̻̺̪̼̫̺'̡̧̤̘̝͈̟̥̖͍͈̥͐͆ͤ̔ͭͫ̃́ͤͣ͋̓ͥ̄̈́̌̐ͮͅs̸̘̮͔̹̖͍̟̲͍̯̦̺
̠̯̝̭̤ͮ͊̏͋͑̀ͨ̽́̆̿̾̌ͤ͆ͩ͢ͅ ̧̨̗̪̖̟̊̒̑͊͛̏̑͂̅͂̑́͡g̴̵̢̬͓̳̪̻͎̻͈̮̻̖̪̘̟̝͙͚̗̱̋ͪ̉̽͆ͪͨ͆ͧ͆͑̊ͨ̓ͭ́̅̎
͠ó͖̼͚̺̳̘͚͈̻̠̰͍̲̳͙̳̰̽̊ͬͨ͞iͭ́̂̀͋̃̆̽͋͂̅ͫ̃̕͠҉͕̭̫͚̮̯̖̥̣͈̩̭ͅň̨̨̔ͭ͐ͩ
͛̈́̊̔ͥͫ҉͔̫̟̦͔͔̺̻̱̺̥͍̖̘̠͈̩͔͇g̵͚̣̼͕̩͙͓͎̣̜͖͍̘ͯͪ͆̋̓͊ͭ͡ ̓ͯ̔ͦ̉ͦ̏ͯ́͡͏̢̛̩͍̲̗̰̪͎̫̱̭̰̜͈̘̲̙͠ͅͅͅt̸̶̢̧͚̗̟̪͋̿̆ͨ͗̌̾ͦ̇̾͐̈̑̚͝ǫ̶̛
̙̖͍̱̖̺͛ͯ̆̓͠ ̏ͭ̎ͣ̅͐̍͒̆̀̓̊̑̆͏̷̥͍͔̘̖b͚̥̳͕̻̗͎̤̣̙͙̻̖̀ͦ̈́ͨͫ̕͟͟͡ͅẽ̴̞̗̹̳̭̇̔̎͛̆̽͜
͟͡ ͈͙̹̻̣͔̹̥͉͆ͧ̏ͬ̔͌͆̈̓̇ͧ͢͜ō̵̆̏̏͆ͮ҉̰̻͇̗͉̟̳̲͓͙̪̱̬̟͝ͅ

Well, that's not good.

Terence, Lydia? Can anyone hear us? You kind of trailed off into incomprehensible static and screaming, I think.

it's not real. you need to get a grip.

Terence! Use your other mouth!

Oh, Zalgo.

>>445023
Run away!

WingedCyborg 2012/08/18(Sat)22:42 No. 445130 ID: 68a06e
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[INPUT DISCONNECTED]

[SEARCHING...]

[FOREIGN INPUT FOUND]

[CONNECTING...]

[SELECT SAVED GAME]

So... 3 cadavers with so far as I can tell arbitrary ID numbers, or a person and a date.

Guess we go with Davies, then.

Suggestion 2012/08/20(Mon)23:29 No. 445848 ID: 280988
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[SELECTED GAME T_DAVIES_7/12/12]

[LOADING...]

[GAME LOADED]

Um, what's up girl? You don't look like you're doing so good, I'm sorry to say.

Would you mind introducing yourself, and telling us what's going on? We're the headvioces, and we're here to help, if we can.

Lucky you T. Davies you're the only one who's not a corpse yet! Also you seem to precede the disaster by some days if the timestamp is correct.