She is... incredibly calm, given the circumstances...
Ok, the seems to understand? Say yes with you head or something.

I don't know what that first sign is, but the second one is "heavy"

First sign probably means 'widening the gap'. I think she's saying it would be too heavy to dig through all the fish.

Check the walls and ceiling for an alternate exit.

>>943624
She's saying "Very heavy," and I guess she means herself?? Maybe you should try swimming down, if it's liquid.

>>943787
If someone's gonna swim down there it's gonna not gonna be Đ, she's already had her wounds infected enough, we don't need total gangrene setting in.

Fuck that, swim girl

1/2 Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)10:21 No. 948251 ID: 080b2a
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>>944542
You reluctantly begin digging deeper.

2/2 Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)10:23 No. 948252 ID: 080b2a
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You're fully submerged in the most disgusting substance you can imagine. Your nose has shut down. Uneven slime washes over you. The temperature varies- most of it is lukewarm, but icy cold or uncomfortably warm bubbles wash around you. You do your best to keep your eyes closed.

Something glows far beneath.

You've gone this far. Continue to the glow.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)12:01 No. 948260 ID: 080b2a
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>>948257
It gets brighter. You feel a little less heavy, somehow.

Continue?

We need to go deeper.

Down down down!

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)12:25 No. 948264 ID: 080b2a
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>>948262
You dive deeper. There are voices somewhere in the mass, you can hear them grow louder as the pressure mounts.

Continue?

>>948264
I don't think we have much choice.

1/2 Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)12:53 No. 948271 ID: 080b2a
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>>948268
There is always a choice. You continue on.

2/2 Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)12:56 No. 948272 ID: 080b2a
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The smell of roses fills your head.

Some of them speak to you.

"Hello, Eth."

Pleas tell me that you communicate telepathically, because you really don't want to open yout mouth right now.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)14:06 No. 948277 ID: 080b2a
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>>948275
"Yes, Eth, we can hear all your thoughts. You're Inside Us."

Wow, so you're a big pile of dead fish?

That's real fucking gross, I'm so sorry

Ok, that is a relief. So... who are we speaking too?

Hey uh can you please get Eth and Thorne up to where Reno is? Or at least tell us how to get there?

Hello ground flesh tower, how are you?
We are tripping so fucking hard right now you wouldn't believe.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)14:32 No. 948286 ID: 080b2a
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>>948280
"It's sweeter than one'd think, dear. Smell of roses, smell of bitter snow."

>>948281
"Us!"

>>948282
"Where is it you wish to go? It becomes difficult to tell. We have been here for a long while, and there are no mornings in a grave."

>"Us!"
Yeap, that helps!

>Where to?
Well, if you can't tell us where Reno is, at least tell us how to get out of this... fishy situation.
You could tell us what is going on as well. Nothing that we have experienced here is natural. There are ghosts, undead things, magic liquids... And this guy that likes to eat rotten fish and is afraid of "SHE", whoever that is.

>>948286
There was a secret escape route through the royal crypt. A sarcophagus led to a ladder, which led to a ledge above some tainted water that Eth and Thorne fell into. There was a passage further along the ledge, where Reno went. We wish to go to that passage, or to the end of the route where it hits the surface.

>>948286
We would like to get to the exit of this place, this to the outside, to the surface, where we can see the sky and rest on grass, or at least please get us to the place from where we fell from, not to far from here, on the cliff above a pond where a royal door lies. If you need to get real technical about it, solid ground on that cliff so that we won't fall back down to the pond below.

If you're granting wishes, honestly, if you could change the past, that would be really great. Depending on how far back, from before the lizard attack, like... yesterday morning maybe? That would be really great. If you can't go even that far back, I will gladly go back in time a few hours, or however much time approximately it was from when we were with Reno last.

You know what, just give me a ring that can displace me in time and space, to where and when I was at specific times I would like, but I'll still have the ring on me when I go back in time so I can still use it to find the perfect time to step off.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)14:50 No. 948290 ID: 080b2a
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>>948287
"We don't know who this cat is, though your esteem of her is noble. Unless she rests here with us, you shan't see her again. We Are All There Is Left."

>>948288
"Passages and Crypts... We do not know these things. We are cold, down here, and your warmth is all that gives us thought at this time. Let us feed a while longer, aye?"

>>948289
"More strange thoughts. Time will rob you of them, and your shape will be as ours is now, take comfort. But please tell your friend to stop gorging on our flesh. It is not a dignified end. Some of us were knights, once, as you are now. Some were kings we think, maybe. Fish all know. Piscean Roses. Sweet and ever Dripping."

If you were a knight, you know we have a duty to fulfill. We can't stay here any longer, we have to protect the princess of the kingdom. Only death can stop us, and we are NOT dead.
Please, there must be a way to go back to the surface.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)14:58 No. 948292 ID: 080b2a
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>>948291
"Surface?"

>>948292
Ahhh, yeah? You know? What is un TOP of all this fish and flesh walls and unnatural mumoshumbo. Don't you remember what was before all this nothing?

You know, for an amorphous blob, you're not doing your job well.

We should be out there, eating all the invader lizards. All you have to do is go up, and stop being a lot less metaphorical or allegorical. One of the two.

Go up with me and feast on the world, bring it to its dignified end! So much warm meat up there!

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)15:07 No. 948295 ID: 080b2a
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>>948293
"You aren't making sense. Feel the world dripping around you, Sweet Eth."

You feel pressure all over your body, like something's stroking your fur.

"Drip drip drip. Isn't it nice? There's nothing outside us anymore. We're all that's left of The Living. She chased us here and now here's where we stay. Near the Light. It drips up at us, to us, drip drip drip."

"Death must not rape death. Return us to the plane of war, so we may find a knight's end. Not here. Not as Its prey, or as Spot's indulgent meal. Speaking of which, we'll slap Spot around a few times.

Should we bury you or something?"

>>948296
She?

Oh no, she's coming for her buddy, you know, the one eating you right now? We heard her just now.

She's making it to this place.

Quick! We must abscond! Farther, to the light!

>>948295
what is the light?

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>>948298
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>>948300
We get it's not ours...
But what the hell is the light?! And how can light emanate from a sea of rotten corpses?!

"OKAY OKAY calm the fish down! The light might be DYING. I want to STUDY it so I can FIX it. Presumably it will give you enough power to help us escape."

Then we shall live in the darkness.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)16:12 No. 948307 ID: 080b2a
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>>948303
"Lantern little drops of fire we like it warm mmm"

>>948305
"Keep your hands to yourself we will Eat You and then you may sidle close drip inside us drip drip drip"

>>948306
"Would you like it dark, dear?"

Yes...? If we cannot claim the light then maybe we can claim the darkness. I dunno, you peoples are confusing.

Cervine 2019/10/29(Tue)16:37 No. 948311 ID: 080b2a
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>>948309
And so we march across the surface of ourselves with ourselves and with happy! And it was again and also and the time of across. We go go up and around and into the space that it is and with again. And dripful becomes becomes and we!

Okay this has been nice but it is time to go.

This has been nice, but there is always something deeper, PUSH FURTHER DOWNWARDS

Ok, that's it. We know what is up there, we must go deeper and find a way to get the hell out of here.

Who is She? What the everloving fuck happened down here?

Eth, reclaim your sense of self, find that lantern!

Cervine 2019/10/30(Wed)02:04 No. 948366 ID: 080b2a
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>>948315
You swim deeper. The light appears again, and nausea creeps back in. At the same time, the voices in your mind start to become overwhelming. More and more join in.

"But drip is to go go into the place? And over again with and underside. And more more more it goes but over and drip drip? Againly! Giggle laugh and spacesome over. Drip! When drip is slip under flesh tongue! Lullabye and wishful swim drip swim with small fish eye, drip waterstink overcross drip!
And drip unto drip with dripping? Oversome drip drip but drip? Fish drip water as red drip drip drip. See and drip come."

IGNORE. THE. 'DRIP'. WORDS.

Cervine 2019/10/30(Wed)02:15 No. 948368 ID: 080b2a
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>>948367
You manage to block the chatter out, just barely.

"Drip driP with but DRIPDRIP have DRIP OURSELVES DRIPDRIPDRIP undEROVER DRIP DRIP DRIPDRIPREDDRIP
DRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIPDRIP"

Drip the lantern!

>>948369
Gah! GRIP the lantern!

The lantern, THE LANTERN!

>>948395
>>948371
>>948369
Isn't the lantern with reno?

>>948397
DRIP said it hadn't met with Reno, meaning this is probably a different lantern.

1/2 Cervine 2019/10/30(Wed)09:56 No. 948406 ID: 95369e
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You reach for the lantern, desperately.

CURSE THE HOWLING FACE OF THE SUN AND DOWN AND DOWN INTO THE EARTH IT GOES AND KNOW AND KNOW AND CURSE

>>948408
Man, nobody ever tells you what to do after you're done going into the light.

Can you sense anything? Feel anything? Can you try to swim back up?

Ouch, that must have hurt tour eyes... Are you ok Eth?

Is this the bottom of the pile, or does it go yet further downwards?

>>948409
Because that's usually the end of the journey, but not here apparently, so i guess let go of the if you're touching the lantern to see if the light won't blind you to death

>>948408

Maybe it's just me, but I think we should take it with us. Or something.

I dunno, we're trapped in some freaky mind-fuck hellscape and our girlfriend is still missing.

as they say, stay away from the light

Why would we stay away from the light when it's literally the only reason we dove down into the corpse pile? Also I expect Eth would die if she didn't try to change her current situation. We must forge forwards, not backwards.

1/2 Cervine 2019/11/10(Sun)10:10 No. 949184 ID: cdbe58
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>>948412

You're... alive?

2/2 Cervine 2019/11/10(Sun)10:11 No. 949185 ID: cdbe58
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And mostly unhurt. Your fur is wet and slimy and disgusting, but you're on solid ground. The lamp is illuminating the room.

You're next to the door you came in from. THORNE is here, and waking up. You can hear SPOTS eating. The LANTERN is on the floor.

Ask Thorne if she had a dream about falling into a room much larger than this one, with far more fish.

first things first, throw up, if we swallowed any of that we want to get it out so that we don't get grievously ill.

What the fuck just happened? Why is the lantern so bright? It shouldn't be like this, the only ones that can make this much light were Reno and Dana.
Did Thorne saw something?

Obtain thy lantern and skedaddle the frick out of there.

Carefully pick the lantern up by the handle. Make sure to not let it touch any of the fish, lest you risk having to go through that whole disgusting delve again.

Check that Thorne is okay and ask what happened from her perspective. Then check on Spots. Just how bloated with fish is he by now? Gonna have to get him to stop gorging before his guts burst. Try telling him that if he keeps eating like this his stomach is gonna rupture and he'll die. Even if it wouldn't, staying here means bad things'll catch up with him soon. We all gotta keep moving. He can grab some fish to bring with.

>>949185
Look around to see if you can see Spots. If you can't convince him to come with you, then say goodbye, and leave him.

Check your arm, maybe the infection might get bad enough to warrant an amputation.

1/2 Cervine 2019/11/23(Sat)16:59 No. 950188 ID: 05d7ae
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>>949187
You ask Thorne if she's experienced anything like you just did. She says no, you just vanished into the ground and then there was a bright flash of light.

>>949188
You retch, but nothing happens.

>>949213
Your arm hurts pretty bad, but whatever was in the bowl didn't do more than flesh wounds. You know that lionesses dig scars, so you don't mind, and in any case- amputation would be an awful idea in an area as unsanitary as this.

2/2 Cervine 2019/11/23(Sat)17:41 No. 950205 ID: 774653
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>>949196
Lantern acquired. It's thrumming slightly. The thumping on the other side of the door has died down completely.

Gang's all here.

Hmm, are any of these fish edible? Could get a snack if any smell fresh.

Is there another door, or is this a dead end? Well, if that vision had any relation to reality we just dispersed some weird fish ghost thing attached to this lantern.

If this is a dead end then knock on the door first to try to confirm the basin monster is gone. It would be provoked by the noise, wouldn't it? Then we can proceed and explore another direction.

Tell Thorne what you experienced and mention that you deeply envy her ability to not be constantly befuddled, enthralled and lacerated by fucking magic.

Tell Spots to lead the way.

>>950188

The princess is gonna bang us SO HARD once we find her. We definitely just got a +10 to "Ruggedly Sexy."

>>950205

Well, if there isn't any other way out, let's leave this stinking fish-pit and uh ... finish finding the princess.

>>950205
I forget, didn't the princess have the lantern last? How did it end up here? Is it possible that the princess has been here and dropped it?

Can you see anything else besides the door? If not, go through, we already wasted too much time in here.

Does Thorne have a suggestion on what to do now?

>>950188
Consider the possibility of your queen being dead, considering that we technically left both of them alone to fend for themselves against those "things"

>>950460
That doesn't help at all!

>>950188
>You know that lionesses dig scars
Dawg, you should hype yourself up with the thought of her
Get hype, think of dat swooty booty scooty
Start doing hype squats as if you're trying to show off to her
HUP HO HUP HUP HO!
Feel the burn, get more of the adrenaline!
Gotta imagine it, we're almost there!
Almost there, even if we're not we're almost there

>>950205
There might be more than one lantern, but yes, this is a good sign. Continue quickly.

>>950471
Actually isn't that a pretty bad idea, increased heart rate leads to increased bloodflow and that will make your wounds bleed more (those aren't lethal wounds but they ain't no papercuts either) so it's probably advisable you just calm down

Cervine 2019/12/09(Mon)05:12 No. 951281 ID: 6fb3de
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>>950471
You'd honestly rather just conserve your strength. +1 sex appeal for the effort, though.

>>950460
She isn't, you'd know.

>>950501
You push the door open carefully, keeping the lantern lowered. It's very quiet. Thorne pushes up behind you, and you feel her glancing over your shoulder.

Check out that glowing light, see if you can find out where is it coming from.

Peek into the next room to see what's glowing.

Seems safe enough to enter.

Cervine 2019/12/10(Tue)05:35 No. 951377 ID: 6fb3de
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>>951285
There's a trail leading to the door.

A prison cell? Check out the thing in the middle in more detail

Oh. Great. The ink monster went through that door. Is that bright red in the cracks your blood?
The basin might make for a decent bludgeoning weapon, assuming it's no longer connected to the ink monster.

>>951390
This.

>>951377

We sure hecked the place up, didn't we.

Well, provided that all of this was just one big hallucination or something, I guess ... we should see what's up with that door.

Get some light in the room.

Cervine 2019/12/14(Sat)02:15 No. 951568 ID: bac078
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>>951390
It's just the stone pedestal the bowl was on before. It's unremarkable.

>>951414
Lantern equipped.

>>951401
The door seems in order, except for the strange liquid trailing up to the square symbol. Though you could've sworn that symbol used to be different...

Þ: "Eth, you didn't see it, but there was this... thing living inside the bowl. I think it tried to eat you. It stepped out and looked like a menagerie of twisted up dead bodies. I'm not sure we stand a chance against it without our blades."

>>951568

>liquid trailing up

Does that look at all like what we'd mixed in the bowl?

If so, let's be very cautious about opening that door, even if it's the only other way out -- this might all be a feverdream of sorts from whatever is going on down in this pit, but still.

SOMETHING happened, and we've got the really cool scratches to prove it to the princess once we rescue her.

Oh, also, ask Thorn if she's seen anything of either of our charges.

Okay, from the "heart map" we saw earlier... square was attached to a vein that was cut off from the heart. Might be a way out?

Is there anything else we could even do?

>>951568
I think we can do anything WITH our blades. We are not prepared to deal with this. But we don't have much of a choice. We have to push onward.