Sombermann 2014/01/10(Fri)23:54 No. 556504 ID: 40e7f1
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>Then search the car. See if your friend is anywhere, or if there's anything in the other rows.

You look through the car for clues on Rob whereabouts... he couldn't just disappear in the thin air... right?...

All you manage to find is Rob's key card jammed between two front seats...

Sarah
- Rob... where are you?

Sombermann 2014/01/10(Fri)23:55 No. 556505 ID: 20aa8e
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Another thing that might be of some use is box mounted to a side of car... its locked thou... figures

Sombermann 2014/01/10(Fri)23:56 No. 556507 ID: 9667d0
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>Head for an exit

Door out the car appears to be unlock... but something jamming it from other side...

isn't it great when everything just goes your way? anyways do you think you could just use the shovel to smash one of the windows on the 'top' side and clime out? If so make sure to cover your eyes when you smash the thing because glass in eye's hurts like a bitch.

try KEY on BOX

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)00:22 No. 556514 ID: 40e7f1
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>anyways do you think you could just use the shovel to smash one of the windows on the 'top' side and clime out?

Sarah
-Well why the hell not?...

After a few hits... one of the windows on the right side of the car breaks with shuttering noise...

>try KEY on BOX

Sarah
-There isn's any kidn of card reader slots on this box...

alright, now poke your head out, be careful not to cut yourself and what do you see?

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)00:39 No. 556516 ID: 40e7f1
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>alright, now poke your head out, be careful not to cut yourself and what do you see?

You poke your head out and make take big breath of fresh air... aahhh... you needed that...

Sarah
-Great, now to find a way to get down from here... what is that sound?

DROP DROP DROP

just make sure when you drop you don't land on that window again, just try and grab on of those restraint things built into the seat, the thing you where hanging on when you broke the window earlier. Also there has to be more then one door on this damn thing, can't you try the other one.

jump OUT and roll away!
dropping will corner us!

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)02:25 No. 556533 ID: 9667d0
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>jump OUT and roll away! dropping will corner us!

Sarah
-... (turns her head)... shit...

Creature
-...

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)02:42 No. 556535 ID: 9667d0
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You jump out of the window... so that if you gonna die it might as well be on your terms...

Sarah
-Come on you freak! Wanna piece of me! Then come and get it!!!

Does that thing even have legs?

wave shovel threateningly! be ready to counter anything. but don't strike first.

>>556538
It looks kinda... tethered to the cable.

In fact, is anything else holding the car up? This thing might be the only thing standing between you and a brief period of acceleration followed by a briefer period of deceleration.

Call for Rob loudly. If he's anywhere close and in his senses he might hear.
It'll also work in case he's right in front of you...

Cool dynamic pose btw

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)03:46 No. 556544 ID: 9667d0
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Creature doesnt seem to be all that interested in you... its just keep staring blankly at you...

>It looks kinda... tethered to the cable.

Yep it does... looks like its the only thing that holds car... two cars... from falling...

>Call for Rob loudly. If he's anywhere close and in his senses he might hear.

Sarah
-ROB!!! DO YOU HEAR ME!!! ANSWER ME!!! ROOOB!!!

silence... only howling of the wind far down below...

Is... that thing Rob?

In any case, it's best not to attack it, if it's the one who stopped you from falling.

Well, it hasn't attacked you, and it might be the only thing keeping you alive at this point, so... talk to it, maybe? Ask if it can understand you?

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)05:00 No. 556547 ID: 78f02e
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>Is... that thing Rob?

Sarah
-I hope not...

>Well, it hasn't attacked you, and it might be the only thing keeping you alive at this point, so... talk to it, maybe? Ask if it can understand you?

Sarah
-Hey you tube...snake...thing... looks like you are not gonna try to eat me... or do something worse...

Creature
-...

Sarah
-Do you understand me? Sprechen englisch...? ... i guess not...

Right, we need to get off this death trap. Back into the cars, lets look for something to help us get onto that line so we can crawl our way to our destination.

it dosent look to dangerous for now, its mannerisms actually look a little confused, like its not sure how it got there.
However its important to rember that the mannerisms of one species do not carry over to others (smile at a gorilla and itll rip your arms off ect ect) so try to avoid touching it and see if the distance to the cliff edge is within jumping range.

Well it has an arm so might as well try offering it a handshake.
Then start pointing up the cliff trying to get across that you want up there.

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)07:18 No. 556563 ID: 40e7f1
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>Well it has an arm so might as well try offering it a handshake.

Sarah
-Well i guess it would be polite thing to do...

You offer a handshake to a creature as gesture of good will...
At first it looks hesitant at first... but then curiosity takes over and it slowly offers its only appendage...
Suddenly to your shock creature retracts it...

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)07:19 No. 556564 ID: 78f02e
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Sarah
-Whats up with you now?!

>>556564
You got a bandage for some injury there?
maybe you also got all tentacly underneath that bandage...

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)07:26 No. 556569 ID: 20aa8e
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The creature... weaved around the line, like it... afraid of something...

>You got a bandage for some injury there?

Sarah
-I'm not talking about this...

Ok so no handshakes and no high shovels either since on you have a shovel.
If the creature is content on staying away and holding the train car you might as well get inside the other car and see if there is something useful inside.

Strange. Poke at your hand to see if anything's weird about it.

I guess all we can do now is try to go around the creature and enter the other car to see if Rob's in there.

oh, interesting. remove bandage.

It's... scared of you. Is there something under that bandage to be scared of, or do you merely remind the creature of someone or something else?

Back away a little bit, and hold your hands in front of you in a non-threatening manner, so it can see you aren't coming after it.

Then we need to think. You're stuck up here, alone with some kind of snake monster who's afraid of you, and you can't communicate with. How the heck do you get down safely?

well... ok

maybe something/someone is on the next cart, we should check that out.

...I hope the scared creature doesn't let go of the train. We'd be proper fucked then. Also I hope there's nothing behind you that it's scared of.

If trying to move around it results in it retreating further then we won't be able to get to the other car that way without it letting go. In which case... hop down to the side of the car and climb around?

Sarah, were there no communication devices with you at all? I know it's a classified facility and all that jazz, but maybe you and Rob carried at least some short-distance walkie-talkies?

Oh, and are you strong enough to grab the cable and just climb to the land?

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)22:38 No. 556783 ID: 40e7f1
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>I guess all we can do now is try to go around the creature and enter the other car to see if Rob's in there.

You use moment while creature moved most of its body up... to jump onto other car... avoiding contact with it...

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)22:41 No. 556784 ID: 40e7f1
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>maybe something/someone is on the next cart, we should check that out.

You are now on top (or on side) of the second car.
You can already see that it was sustained more damage then first one... one of the windows is broken...

look threw the window, what can you see inside?

See if you can land somewhere in there that won't result in you touching the creature.

Take a look inside. Don't just jump in.

>Sarah, were there no communication devices with you at all? I know it's a classified facility and all that jazz, but maybe you and Rob carried at least some short-distance walkie-talkies?

Sarah
-We actually did have thouse... for some time.
-Then when almost drowned in drenage pipe damn things shorted out...

>Oh, and are you strong enough to grab the cable and just climb to the land?

Sarah
-Well i guess i can do that line goes down form here and its about 100 meters away from the station... so i could just slide down, the problem is my hands would turn into a bloody mess about half way in... and would just fall to my certain demise... and im not talking about finding way around this gooey friend of mine... cuz right now its the only way to reach the line

>>556792
uh, pic?

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)23:03 No. 556798 ID: 40e7f1
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>look threw the window, what can you see inside?

You take a look inside car through the broken window.
Most of the inner space filled with tentacle-like mass, it cover the floor completly.
No signs of Rob...

>>556795
[Im sorry i could not provide the pic.]

>>556798
just checking, sometime people forget, not yelling or anything

Looking more and more like the tentacle guy might be Rob after all.

>See if you can land somewhere in there that won't result in you touching the creature.

Sarah
-I dont see safe way in wich i can enter cat without touching it...

>Looking more and more like the tentacle guy might be Rob after all.

Sarah
-Ughhh... i dont wanna think about that possibility...

try talking to the big guy again. don't try to touch just pantomime. maybe you can figure out what on you made it run away.

the thing freaked out when it saw our bandaged arm, why haven't we check that yet?

Yeah, lets not walk on the tentacle stuff if we can avoid it. Check the other window.

>>556807
Yeah let's do this for now. Just look through the other window. If we can't proceed, then I think we should go back to the first car and try to open that box by prying it open with the shovel.

Just be careful when dropping down, don't break the bottom windows.

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)23:30 No. 556814 ID: 9667d0
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>the thing freaked out when it saw our bandaged arm, why haven't we check that yet?

Sarah
-I'm not taking bandage off... end of discussion!

ok ok, damn it's like you got an embarrassing tattoo while drunk under there or something.

Sombermann 2014/01/11(Sat)23:44 No. 556819 ID: 9667d0
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>Yeah, lets not walk on the tentacle stuff if we can avoid it. Check the other window.

Sarah
-Same thing as other widnow... hmm what is it...

You notice something shiny hanging on the broken part of the car...

carefully climb down the piping. then use shovel as a hook. put it through the loop then twist it and pull up.

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)00:01 No. 556826 ID: 20aa8e
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>I think we should go back to the first car and try to open that box by prying it open with the shovel.

You go back to the first car and attempt to pry open box with a small shovel...
-Success
You obtain: Pair of protective gloves, roll of wire x2

Before doing any climbing we should get a closer look to see what it is.

well if we could clime down we could easily grab it but since we agreed not to go down there I guess you could see if what's left of the railing could support your weight and clime down and grab it. Just knee down and push on the railing a bit to see just how sturdy it is.

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)00:14 No. 556835 ID: 20aa8e
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>well if we could clime down we could easily grab it but since we agreed not to go down there I guess you could see if what's left of the railing could support your weight and clime down and grab it. Just knee down and push on the railing a bit to see just how sturdy it is.

Yes we could do that... but being the daring lass you are... you just climb down by the railing and yank the shiny with your trusty shovel...

Sarah
-Huh... its Rob's locket... he never took it off...

Sarah looks down into the black waters beneath... and crashed car far down below...

I'm sure he's fine, I mean the rail car down there could have been the one behind your car. It probably fell off when the monorail split in half. So what's inside?

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)00:31 No. 556838 ID: 40e7f1
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>So what's inside?

Its picture of his wife Rose... I really shouldn't be doing this...

just shows how importune it is, which means we're going to have to give it back. Anyways is there anything else of interest on these cars or should we try talking to that one guy again?

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)00:53 No. 556840 ID: 78f02e
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>just shows how importune it is, which means we're going to have to give it back.

Sarah
-Right!... He is alive... And im gonna find him and give it back...!

put on gloves, they go far enough to cover bandage? if so then try to commune with creature again. try to convince t to ... shamble? the cars accross the wire.

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)01:04 No. 556843 ID: 75dd30
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>put on gloves, they go far enough to cover bandage? if so then try to commune with creature again. try to convince t to ... shamble? the cars accross the wire.

Creature doesnt seem to change its disposition about you any time soon...

alright so lets take stock of our situation here.

We are currently hovering over a canyon on a derailed monorail with one car picked clean by us and the other full of the weird fleshy vine crap making it to dangerous for us to get into. Our lives seem to also be held in the hands of whatever this one creature is that is holding the two cars to the rail that, if for whatever reason decides to let go, will send us plummeting to our deaths and It seems deathly afraid of us as well for some odd reason involving our bandaged left wrist.

...Short of getting this guy to start moving along the rail or us climbing up to the rail ourselves and shimmying all the way to one end I'm not seeing a way for us to get the hell out of here... other then drop, but I'm sure that is an option we wish to avoid.

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)01:48 No. 556846 ID: 9667d0
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>...Short of getting this guy to start moving along the rail or us climbing up to the rail ourselves and shimmying all the way to one end I'm not seeing a way for us to get the hell out of here... other then drop, but I'm sure that is an option we wish to avoid.

Sarah
-Well climbing on the line ourself while wearing the gloves to avoid direct contact with this thing... sound like plan... the problem is how will it react?

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)04:08 No. 556850 ID: 78f02e
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Sarah
-Well its not like i have better ideas... so might as well go with it...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)04:21 No. 556851 ID: 40e7f1
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Sarah
-Here goes nothing...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)04:31 No. 556854 ID: 78f02e
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As you keep approaching other side of a line... mist kept getting clearer... so you can see primary facility's main wing...

You should probably slow down before crashing into a wall
Also, what is Creature doing ?

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)04:40 No. 556856 ID: 20aa8e
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You are now approaching -main wing- monorail station...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)05:01 No. 556858 ID: 40e7f1
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>You should probably slow down before crashing into a wall

Sarah
-Good advice... cant wait for the next one concerning "welcome party"...

>Also, what is Creature doing ?

Sarah
-yeahhh... not my biggest concern right now...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)05:21 No. 556861 ID: 78f02e
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Sarah
-And by "welcome party" i mean shit load of trouble...

A wise individual knows when to hide, when to fight, and when to run like your ass is on fire.

This is that third one, get on the ground and RUN!

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)06:40 No. 556868 ID: 40e7f1
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>A wise individual knows when to hide, when to fight, and when to run like your ass is on fire.

>This is that third one, get on the ground and RUN!

You jump off the line right into the "fire"...

Sarah
-Uh... hello...

"Welcoming party"
-(Incoherent sounds)

Commencing operation "Ass on fire!!!"...

>>556868
This would be the time that you tell us that your really supperman

I don't suppose these things are afraid of your bandaged arm too? That would be convenient.

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)07:21 No. 556875 ID: 78f02e
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>This would be the time that you tell us that your really supperman

Sarah
-You are gotta be f**king kidding me... all the hell i went through for the last three days... all the shit the that hit the fan and then me... when im soo close to way out of this... nightmare... i'm...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)07:23 No. 556876 ID: 78f02e
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F@*KING SICK OF THIS PLACE!!! F@*K YOU ALL!!!

What I actually had in mind was dangling down from the cable, then clenching it between your hips and ankles, and then pulling yourself forward with your arms, but oh well...

Look on the bright side: we have the element of surprise! Let's use the hell out of it by developing horizontal velocity as high as goatly possible. You know the layout of the facility, I presume?

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)07:30 No. 556878 ID: 78f02e
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F@*K YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU!!! AAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!

you just punched that things head 180 degrees

THAT IS AWESOME

NOW TRY AND BEAT A MOTHERFUCKER WITH ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKER

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)07:50 No. 556881 ID: 20aa8e
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ORAAAAAAHHH!!!

where they even attacking you>? the thing on the car seemed content to let you be, and while these things made some freaky noises they dont seem to be able to really hurt you if a single punch can break their necks..

..are you massacring a crowd of people who were just waiting for the car to get back?

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)08:10 No. 556887 ID: 20aa8e
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>NOW TRY AND BEAT A MOTHERFUCKER WITH ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKER

ORAAAHHH!!!

RIP AND TEAR!

As awesome as this is you should probably start directing your rampage towards some door before you run out of steam.

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)08:23 No. 556890 ID: 9667d0
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>As awesome as this is you should probably start directing your rampage towards some door before you run out of steam.

Sarah
-Oh... right! need to move tow...

>>556892
Please don't tell me that's yours...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)08:41 No. 556894 ID: 9667d0
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Unknown
-Play time is over...

Sombermann 2014/01/12(Sun)08:46 No. 556895 ID: 9667d0
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Sarah
-Who... are you?

>>556894
Take off your gloves. See if there was some reason the Creature didn't want to be touched by you.

[Damn i just realized that that this was one looong cutscene... my apologies...] [Also i think im gonna need to archive this thread now... how do i go about it?] [And if you can please write commentary on the quest so far... i really want to know how i was doing]

>>556898
It's pretty cool. It seems to flow a little awkwardly at times though. First quest?

>>556898
To move a thread to the archive, just report the last(ish) post with "thread complete" or something similar and a mod will get to it.

>commentary
Hmm. One minor criticism- if you're going to do a long cutsceen, it can help to indicate it's happening. (Say, by stating cutsceen, or numbering posts 1/n, 2/n... n/n, etc). Otherwise it can start to get weird if our input isn't being acknowledged. (Although that only half happened here).

Overall, I'd say you're doing pretty well, though!

Oh, and if you're posting an imageless update, try putting something in the subject field to make it stand out (and indicate it's supposed to be imageless)