>>460439
Ahh. Place the disc. Rotate the upper-left one clockwise once. Rotate the upper-right one clockwise once as well. Then rotate the disc you placed counterclockwise once.

>>460441

What? How the heck do you know that? Man, puzzles never make sense to me.

>>460446
The symbols on each disc combine to make that big symbol we saw from the projection. It's an imperfect match though, the upper-left one doesn't have all the bars present. I'm assuming that's an art error.

Tell Miles it's just puzzle stuff, go back to relaxing or investigating changes in the church.

Fidchell 2012/10/05(Fri)10:23 No. 460510 ID: 09a2fd
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> Ahh. Place the disc. Rotate the upper-left one clockwise once. Rotate the upper-right one clockwise once as well. Then rotate the disc you placed counterclockwise once.

It seems like it has done something. The entire stand trembles very slightly and stops a second later, as if itself has been detached from something.

Fidchell 2012/10/05(Fri)10:23 No. 460512 ID: 09a2fd
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"Rina! We got trouble!" Miles yells.

grab the stand and pull. hope something inside is useful.

But we SHOT him. He's DEAD. Goddamn it, I thought the demon had to possess people right when they died. Apparently it can just take any old corpse. This SUCKS. We can kneecap him though... Just slowing down the husks seems to be our only option if they're in the way. He's not. Let's just go.

Move the thing, get under it, then move it back.

Fidchell 2012/10/08(Mon)09:32 No. 461135 ID: 09a2fd
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> grab the stand and pull. hope something inside is useful.

Rina tries pulling the stand, but it's extremely heavy! She can only move it an inch before she needs to take a breather. She yells to Miles, "You can't kill it! Just shoot the kneecaps! Disable it or something!"

Miles takes a shot, but doesn't quite hit the mark. The husk lunges forward and grapples with Miles, its long needle-like fingers digging into Miles.

"Rina!" he screams.

>>461135
Shoot it in the head, then start bludgeoning it.

>>461135
Get your muscles onto that thing. Maybe sever its tendons with your knife.

>>461135

They can be killed. Mostly by reducing the head to a fine paste. It probably has something to do with that engraving that appears on their foreheads; probably necessary to sustain the corpse.

Fidchell 2012/10/08(Mon)11:45 No. 461151 ID: 09a2fd
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> Get your muscles onto that thing. Maybe sever its tendons with your knife.

Rina dashes over to Miles and quickly takes out her switchblade. She manages to slash one of its heels with the knife. The husk screeches and stumbles. It whirls at Rina and swipes at her, catching her on the muzzle and knocking her flat on the ground.

Miles angrily snarls at the husk and empties his entire clip into it. The husk staggers, but overall it doesn't appear to have been affected at all.

Fidchell 2012/10/08(Mon)11:45 No. 461152 ID: 09a2fd
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It bellows thunderously and sends out a powerful force all around it, tearing apart wallpaper, wood, carpet, anything that is around it, and sends it flying. Rina and Miles are lifted effortlessly and are tossed around like ragdolls. Rina hits the floor hard, winded.

Fidchell 2012/10/08(Mon)12:25 No. 461158 ID: 09a2fd
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Rina suddenly remembers something. Her conversation with the Moth.

"They are nothing but pawns that were used as part of the ritual, their souls eventually wrested from their physical bodies. They are about as ignorant as you are."

gun gun gun

Ah hah. Pawns can only attack diagonally. EN PASSANT THAT MOFO

But perhaps the clue is that if the husk was created by the ritual, it can be insurrected somehow?

>>461158
These things are possessed corpses, taken over by the souls of those sacrificed in the ritual?

Eh. We could always say that he's been lied to. What did the first one say to us? That we needed to die for them to be free? That's obviously not true, of course. We could tell this husk that the only way he'll be free is if we stop the demon.

Fidchell 2012/10/14(Sun)11:13 No. 462816 ID: 09a2fd
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"Hey! Asshole!" Rina shouts. She successfully grabs the husk's attention, but it just stares at her with its empty eye sockets. Rina is slightly taken aback, not expecting this, but she carries on. "You think I should die for you to be free? You're being lied to! The only way you guys will be free is if we stop the demon!"

Rina is further surprised by the fact that the husk seems to be actually listening to her, but it isn't doing anything. The building is starting to crumble slowly. Rina thinks if there's anything more she needs to say.

Fidchell 2012/10/14(Sun)18:22 No. 463028 ID: 09a2fd
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"Yeah! Do you fucking know anything? You all are so focused on ending me, but do you know who's really keeping this fucked up shit running? Are you even familiar with this PLACE? What about Nysindra? Does that ring any bells?!" Rina knows she is having an effect on the husk.

"What do you know about all this?" A hoarse, female voice comes from the husk. "You have been absorbing my brethren. You are a part of all this and you must pay."

"not me, i was simply a host to the being that was absorbing them, it lied to me, said it would help me end all this"

Tell him you were lied to as well. She said she was going to help you and explain what was going on but all she ended up doing was absorb these guys and possess your friend after she was cast out by the seal. You can't absorb at all, and hell, you had no idea that's what she was doing anyway.

You aren't responsible for this. The person who's body he's possessing was responsible for causing this mess, and he's already paid for it with his life. Tell this guy about what the late doctor did, and why.

Fidchell 2012/10/16(Tue)11:34 No. 463543 ID: 09a2fd
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"I was lied to as well. Nysindra, that demon, said she would help me and explain what was going on. She was the one was absorbed your friends because she used me to act as her host. She now has my friend after she was cast out of me. At the time I had no idea what she was doing anyway."

The husk listens patiently. Time seems to slow somehow.

"I'm not responsible for this," Rina continues, "but the guy whose dead body you're possessing was responsible for this shit. All of it." Rina explains to the husk how Rina wound up finding the box in a geocaching trip and Mr. Farrow's real intentions on holding the trip. Rina explains his avarice in the matter and his ignoring of the consequences of the whole ordeal.

Fidchell 2012/10/16(Tue)11:34 No. 463544 ID: 09a2fd
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ANIMATED

Fidchell 2012/10/16(Tue)11:34 No. 463546 ID: 09a2fd
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"I remember this Mr. Farrow you speak of," the female anthro says. "He helped all of this take place. He offered unto us the orb. It became the very key to proceeding with the dark ritual, the ritual a lot of us never wanted to take part in. Oh, those were cold, dark days. You explain this to me instead of fighting me, but I don't understand - I don't feel the need to trust you. Not one bit. Not after you helped hurt my brothers. But to me you've always appeared like a scared, young girl who was doing what she could to survive and figure things out. This is why I listened to you."

Rina is baffled. She feels she could maybe ask the female some questions.

"i just want to get this over with, what do i need to do to stop this? all of it."

Hmm, so like, the only reason they didn't possess your friends was because they knew for sure they were just people trying to survive? Or what? I was never clear on why our friends were never possessed and turned into husks.

Ask if she knows much about the moth in their myths, not that they have an accurate perception of their goddess at all so it may be bunk, but whatever.
And about Harry. At least what she thinks of him and concerns. If we can make him stutter or stop due to shouting out about someone he cares about, maybe he'll resist his cult brainwashing?

>>463546
Ask her if Black Cloak can be trusted to end this ordeal in a favorable manner.

Fidchell 2012/10/19(Fri)11:05 No. 464483 ID: 09a2fd
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"Look, I just want this over with. What do I need to do to stop all this?" Rina asks.

"You've just brought light of this 'demon' you speak of. It's probably the one those cultist freaks worshipped, and either way we wanted to stay clear and far away from it. We even considered leaving the village altogether, but this was our home...where we were born and raised. They began to build a church, and that didn't go well with us."

> Hmm, so like, the only reason they didn't possess your friends was because they knew for sure they were just people trying to survive? Or what? I was never clear on why our friends were never possessed and turned into husks.

One is more than able to fend off the spirits. Rina has been doing it for a while now.

"Can I trust Black Cloak to end this in a good way?" Rina asks.

"Black Cloak has always been known as a wanderer of the earth, suppressing purgatorial spirits and demons. We started looking into him, studying him. He became our own little 'god' in a sense. We knew if the cultists were allowed to proceed with their practices, they could conjure up something awful. And verily...something terrible awakened. We seeked him out for help and we learned to make the Slab. Unfortunately, that's when the cultists became too powerful and took over the entire village. They stole our Slab and then..." she stops there, looking really uncomfortable.

"What do you know and think about Harry?" Rina questions.

"Harry was neutral at first. He was a broken man with mental issues. We were concerned about it. We thought the cultists would use him and brainwash him to carry out their 'errands', and he has done so. We didn't pay much attention to him at first, but it's apparent we should have. He is more capable than we thought. He is hell-bent on finishing the cultists' work it looks like. I learned of this just recently. Other than that I don't know anything about him or his past," the female explains.

>>464483
Does she know who would more about him?
Harry's a bit too smart to take on with mere numbers and guns, and we need to get the slab from him in tact first to save Glade. We need a mental edge.
Does she at least know where he was kept and brainwashed? There may be more clues there.

>>464483
Alright. This seems straightforward enough, then. Tell her that Black Cloak transported you here in order to get the Slab back from Harry and destroy it so that Black Cloak could swoop in and finish things. Ask for help moving the altar you just unlocked, but warn her that she might want to stay up here to avoid being absorbed.

Fidchell 2012/10/21(Sun)21:19 No. 465099 ID: 09a2fd
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"Do you know who would know more about him?" Rina asks. The female sighs impatiently.

"No," she simply says. "My standing here before you indicates either two things: Harry has left the village, or he has destroyed the Slab. I'll let you go. But you must hurry."

Time seems to be restored to normal when Moth suddenly breaks into the scene and pins the female down. She hisses and screeches, writhing violently.

"Rina!" Miles shouts. He's standing at the plaque. Rina remembers that the church is gradually breaking down. She doesn't exactly want to be crushed to death.

Moth easy that's one of your followers! Supporters.
Something. Anti-Spider god at least.

Might not be Moth, remember our demon likes to shapeshift. Save the Husk!

>>465099
Eh? I thought the slab was used to draw out spirits, not ward them away, aside from Moth.

Tell Moth that this one isn't an enemy anymore, then quickly ask if the slab's destroyed or Harry is just gone. Then get that slab off with the cop's help and go down.

Fidchell 2012/10/22(Mon)09:55 No. 465217 ID: 09a2fd
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"Moth, wait!" Rina shouts. Moth turns its view towards Rina. "She's not an enemy! At least not anymore! Is Harry gone?! Did he destroy the Slab??" Rina asks in a haste. The Moth doesn't say anything and just stares. The female wriggles underneath him.

Fidchell 2012/10/22(Mon)09:55 No. 465218 ID: 09a2fd
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"GO!" she gurgles. Rina steps backward a few paces and then dashes off to Miles. Together they push away the plaque and discover a decent-sized hole in which they can see the ground sloping off to staircase plunging downward. They both jump in and descend the staircase, the muffled sounds of the collapsing church growing seemingly louder. The entire place trembled and Rina struggles to keep her balance.

Finally when they reach the bottom, the noise is drowned out and the quaking is weakened more and more until there is nothing.

Fidchell 2012/10/22(Mon)09:55 No. 465219 ID: 09a2fd
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They stare down a long corridor, a lit torch at the other end. At the end it appears the hall branches to the right.

"Um, ladies first?" Miles whispers.

Proceed quietly. Make a lip-zipping gesture.

Okay. Gun up, peek around the corner as quickly as possible. Or if we have anything reflective, use that.

Take torch.

>>465322
I don't think we should. There could be traps in here, and we have a flashlight anyway.

Fidchell 2012/10/23(Tue)10:38 No. 465552 ID: 09a2fd
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Rina makes a lip-zipping gesture and pulls out her pistol. Together, the two walk down the hallway, completely aware.

Rina peeks around the corner. Further down the dirt walls become overlapped by metal plates. A lying figure is sprawled on the ground.

>>465552
Is that Glade?
Approach with caution!

That would be glade, but what's on the ceiling above her?

Fidchell 2012/10/24(Wed)00:01 No. 465755 ID: 09a2fd
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Rina slowly approaches the figure. It's Glade! Rina feels her heart beat and she quickens her pace.

"Hey, be careful," Miles says. But just as Rina is within a few paces from Glade, a vapor suddenly spews from the ceiling, filling the hall alarmingly fast. Rina feels the effects of the gas immediately, coughing and feeling her entire chest tense up. Within seconds, she is out cold.

Fidchell 2012/10/24(Wed)00:01 No. 465756 ID: 09a2fd
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"You dumb bitch. I fucking told you to stay away didn't I? Well, if you think about it, your disobedience has set the path for Her ritual to be complete. I win either way. I didn't want this for you, but you've chosen your path. Now there is nothing I can do. The Slab's gone...but it's okay. The Demonness has decided not to just kill you outright...and what a shame that is. For you I mean.

But God, to just toss away this gorgeous body like it was nothing? I'm going to die very soon. I don't know if you figured that out yet. I mean...why not live my final moments in the best way I can think of, with the little I have at this time?

You're not something 'little' though... oh no. I can't...mpff...offer you up just yet. It's okay though. Unf...you've...agh...you still have a ways to go. I can't give you a very comfortable experience before your peril...but...ungh...GOD...

I am one lucky guy...Do you think so?"

>railroaded into rape
Are you fucking serious.

CHOO CHOO