>>355991
[oh god no if it works he is in bright light it could burn his eyes out. if it doesn't it will just hurt]

>>355991
Also voting to cancel command.
And close your eyes in case the command goes through.

>>355992
[...because torches totally give off RADAR, right?]

>>356041
It is likely that using that she used the same effect that caused light to be painful to her.

>>356044

>>--It did me no good. So I took it away.--

Didn't say light hurts her, just that it doesn't do her any good.

>>355982
Well there appears to be a tunnel in fron of you. It might lead to the surface, or to some palce interesting. Lets check it out and find out.

>>355991
[Nope, we're not going to do that. These commands only seem to end up hurting Player]

>>355982
You remember that crap people mentioned earlier about ants having a hivemind? Well, we're about to see if these ants behave the same way.

If that was their queen, they're probably all flipping out; you've essentially cut the head off of a great beast and now you just need to wait for the body to die.

- Player 2011/10/05(Wed)08:27 No. 356142 ID: d46048
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>wood, top
The platform? Doesn't seems to be anything there form here. If its the other one, I think that's the way down from where I came.

>tunnel
I don't know. I can't feel any airflow around, but it feels warmer towards the lower tunnel.

>treasure
Well, a peek won't hurt.

>hivemind
I don't know; how the other ants would even know their queen is dead? They might just go around doing their business until one of them comes to feed her or something.

- Player 2011/10/05(Wed)08:28 No. 356143 ID: d46048
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Well, there's the chance the queen sent some kind of kill signal when it died, Cats might now how they talk to each other.

Hmn, only more corridors and a pile of garbage down this way.

>>356142
Go back and smash the eggs real quick.

Ants don't look so angry currently,
they look rather stunned actually.

yeah head back and peek down to the eggs.

>>356143
Cool, free kills, get out your halebard and start smacking them as you pass by.

>>356304
That might just wake them up.

- Player 2011/10/06(Thu)05:41 No. 356316 ID: d46048
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>stunned
They do? I can't see from here.
I'm more worried about how long it'll last.

>back, smash, eggs
>head back, peek down
Allright, but there's a problem to that.

- Player 2011/10/06(Thu)05:43 No. 356317 ID: d46048
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Namely, getting back there.

>>356317
Hmm, doesn't seem worth it to go down to smash the eggs. A shame you don't have any grenades. Lets start up for the surface instead.

that rock you are standing on looks like it could collapse at any moment. back off of it onto the dirt and pick away at the dirt holding it on. with luck it will break away and smash a million eggs.

>>356142
They don't talk with words. Think of what they do kinda like telepathy. They know she's dead because they can't, "hear," her anymore.

It's more complicated than that, but also kinda confusing.

- Player 2011/10/06(Thu)16:54 No. 356415 ID: d46048
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>rock
Its a bit slippery, but she's pretty solid here. Digging loose would take an awful lot of time. Now, if I could -- Idunno -- apply an overwhelming amount of force or leverage, maybe with a pickaxe?

Nah.

>telpathy
... that would explain how I could talk to her at all, actually.
I agree with the other one, messing with the ants might give them focus again. Focus on me.

go as high as you can and throw the DU-core down at it. if that doesn't loose it nothing will.

I know I'm late here, but... odd. The queen was huge. We could see her rear end, and that was enormous... too large for any of the other exits. According to her it didn't even sound like she could escape her chamber.

So where did the rest of her go? What really just happened here?

It's annoying, because she clearly requested to be killed, and then when you actually did the deed she seemed to... be surprised? Dismayed? Worried? Cats if I know, but either her 'gift' was more painful than she expected or something didn't quite go according to her plan. While the ants look stunned, all you have for your efforts is that antenna and a blackened corpse... seemingly just a part of the queen... unless that, somehow, is the entire thing. Which can't be discounted, of course.

Now, there is a possibility you haven't killed the entirety of the queen, just her 'reasoning' parts, but that doesn't explain how the rest of it got away.

Ah well, we lack the necessary knowledge to just guess ourselves to the correct answer. Maybe someone like Lia or Sun would know more. Could you climb up the path just ahead of you, the final exit from her chamber? Use your climber's kit.

- Player 2011/10/06(Thu)19:51 No. 356461 ID: d46048
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>throw the DU-core
... no, there isn't a place around here high enough, it would just drop into the next. Humn. Maybe make a hammer out of it? They gotta be good for something.

>on the Queen
... I don't know. Hopefully, it was just some kind of elaborate ant-based hallucination, and I got here thanks to my undiscovered powers of flight.

There has to be a simple explanation of how she got down here.

- Player 2011/10/06(Thu)19:53 No. 356462 ID: d46048
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... eh. Air's stale, but... it doesn't smell like ants here.

I wonder how the Queen breathed, this should be her ventilation; instead, I think I've found a basement.

i see a gate above those rocks. if it's locked then just sit there hitting the lock with the core. it should be tougher then any lock.

>>356464
We do have shovel. Speaking of, drop the rock with the shovel.

>>356462
Ohhh, looks like a ventilation grate over there. Lets go check it out, maybe it's another of those neat hidden exits.

- Player 2011/10/07(Fri)04:26 No. 356543 ID: d46048
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... hum
The grate's unlocked, the hinge suggests it opens downwards. And the only think keeping it closed is a length of wood.

This has to be some kind of trap. I can feel it.

then open it from a distance. hook it with the halberd and yank the wood.

>>356543
Open it with the Halbard while making sure you don't stand under it, in fact stand as far from it as you can.

What can you see through the grate?

If you want a lot of distance, tie the rope around the wood and pull it out from the other side of the room.

Can you see anything through the grate?

>>356543
Examine the grate itself. Can you see what's on the other side?

- Player 2011/10/07(Fri)15:44 No. 356597 ID: d46048
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>see trough grate
Nope. Pitch black.

>halberd, yank
>rope
I'll go with the rope here.

- Player 2011/10/07(Fri)15:45 No. 356598 ID: d46048
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Angle tells me its solid on the bottom, so this should work.

One and two and HUP!

>ktak!<

- Player 2011/10/07(Fri)15:45 No. 356599 ID: d46048
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>KTHUMP!<

Holy crap!

- Player 2011/10/07(Fri)15:46 No. 356600 ID: d46048
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W-whoa! Close call.

And this was a pretty obvious one! I'm kinda surprised we've seen no traps until now, really.

Enterrrrr

proceed.

Forward!

>>356600
Well lets get in there and explore it, see what we find on the other end.

- Player 2011/10/08(Sat)05:09 No. 356718 ID: e2e514
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Well, up we go then.

- Player 2011/10/08(Sat)05:10 No. 356719 ID: e2e514
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Uff! It smells like old and... what is this place? It looks like some sort of library.

Let me get up in there fir

- Player 2011/10/08(Sat)05:18 No. 356725 ID: e2e514
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went silent again eh? I wonder why sometimes you

id like to report a bug, several hundred ants actually

>>356726
Wait, how did you end up there? Also, did you level up?

I was guessing it would lead to Ms. K's house.

That's the cellar/back storeroom of the church. And that's Lia. And... what we just went through is an unreported, unguarded entrance to the dungeon.

The queen said she had spoken to others like Player. Who didn't kill her, but left her a dagger.

A physician's dagger would be the tool of a physician, not a warrior.

Acolytes of the host are the closest we can think of as physicians in this village.

I guess things are starting to make a little more sense now.

And I guess someone's been doing something they shouldn't have been.