Don't break this machine. Look in the green window and look at the scroll. Maybe if Oubliss wished for everyone to be able to read you could tell what it says...

what if.. what if you wished for your team to have the knowledge to understand the objects you find in this place?

That machine looks important. shame you can't read anything on it or what's printed on the paper. Cautiously approach it anyway to get a better look at it and peek behind it, but don't touch it or the paper. Oh, but Oubliss should creep up next to the side hallway first and check it. Take something reflective out of the gear of the least value and use it peek around the corner, checking the hallway ceiling too. A spoon from the mess kit might work for this take. If the hall is clear, then proceed across, leaving someone to watch the entrance and another to watch the side hall for potential incoming trouble.

Before performing any more wishes, Oubliss should confer with the group about wording and what wishes they think would be good. She should also confer with the Crown, running any wishes by it in a "if I wished for this what would the effect be" way first. Hopefully that'll catch any compound wishes or wishes that don't do what you'd like them to.

Next time Oubliss dons the Crown, she should ask the Crown if it could grant seven wishes in total, per person or per group. 'Cause if it can grant seven wishes per person, then jackpot! She should also ask if a single wish could effect or alter everyone in this group of four to the same degree as if it was targeted on one person. Like, if she had wished for everyone in the group to become the strongest kobolds instead of just herself would they have all turned into swolebolds like her? If so, then she'll be kicking herself for not thinking of that first.

A tentative idea for a wish would be for the whole group to be granted universal linguistic understanding; The ability to fluently and accurately read, write, speak and understand any language written, spoken, or conveyed by other means. Another tentative wish idea would be for the group to be granted the ability to know what any object they can detect by any of their senses (sight, touch, etc.) is, what it is commonly used for and its basic operation and any magic effects it may hold, if they focus on it for a moment. Basically a universal identification ability. But don't use a wish for either of these ideas yet and confer with the group on them first.

How many weight points are each of the kobolds just by themselves with their base clothing or naked? That'd be good to know if one of them has to be carried later on.

Also, cutting a short length of the thinner green rope, looping it through the Crown and tying the ends together so it can be secured down would be prudent. That will prevent it from being lost if a the pack it's in pops opens while upside down or thrashed about. Just make sure to check if the Crown will still work if worn while the rope is looped through it.

Tronklis 2018/01/30(Tue)12:00 No. 863329 ID: 12b116
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"Somebody check out that hallway, I'm going to have a look at this crown thing."



--in the interest of brevity, here's how the crown works.--
Each king can only be summoned once per 100 years, there are seven wishes total, no matter who uses them. Anyone can use the item.
They can retrieve magical items that they can physically go get
They cannot impart universal knowledge, and to read/write a single language uses a wish every time.
Changing stats or appearance can only be done to one subject at a time
Nothing can go outside of what the maximum possible for the race would normally be.
There's no intentional malice in regards to wish-granting, so things will be taken as the best outcome possible instead of taking everything literally.
Oubliss is already the best at nose-rubbing


"The hallway looks like it goes in a circle or something, it takes a sharp turn, should I go down it more?"
"Let's have a look at this machine first. It kind of sounds like we can wish for one person to have the ability to kind of 'read' objects by holding them, but it will use another wish"

>>863329
Tronklis, wish for the ability to roughly understand the purpose and function of a device by holding them and concentrating!

Tronklis 2018/01/30(Tue)12:22 No. 863334 ID: 12b116
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"As I look into the bubble, there's definitely a face in it!
The machine itself is making all kinds of beeping, buzzing, clicking, and whirring noises, what's weird is that it almost sounds like it's saying something over and over again

DISCIPLE DESTABILIZE ANOMALY MUST TOSS ITEM INTO ANOMALY ESCAPE


I'm going to use a wish, I want to be able to read objects!
It is done.

gains psychometry, the ability to see into an object's past and determine its use

>>863334
Touch the bubble, Tronklis

>>863334
So there's some problematic item. The weird fleshy arm-gun seems like a likely suspect since it's so out of place. Let's fully explore the area first though.

Also Tronklis you should analyze the purpose of basically anything we're carrying that you don't know what it is. Like the stuff you got from the latest dead guy.

Oubliss, I hope you never stop posing. Check the far corner real quick.

Tronklis, you could use with wishing for understanding opjects you touch.

>>863339
NINJA UPDATE.
Disregard that last line.

Tronklis 2018/01/30(Tue)16:17 No. 863385 ID: 12b116
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The bubble is made of glass, nothing happens when I touch it.
"There's another hallway, it looks like it goes in circles! That doesn't make sense!"
"Just don't think about it!"
"Do you have to keep doing that?"
"Yes."

Go around touching EVERYTHING everywhere in this entire place and saying what it is and what it is for and it's history! GO! You must!

>>863385
Nothing left in this room.

Everyone catch up with Oubliss before she gets separated from everyone else. Stick together everyone!

>>863385
Flex on em, Oubliss.
Tronklis, what about the paper coming out?

>>863389
Oh, hell naw! Y'all seen how much crazy, reality warping shit is here? You do NOT want to mentally delve into whatever mad history that stuff has. So keep the psychometry to shit that looks at least reasonably mundane and not bizarre and insane.

Tronklis 2018/01/30(Tue)19:02 No. 863435 ID: 12b116
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"Hmm, so I should use my power on this machine first, or maybe just the paper. I can't read the paper, I can't, I can read the -!

EXPERIMENT SUCCEEDED BEYON- REALITY BROKEN INT- MYSTERIOUS DEVICE-

THE EQUATION

HOLES

INTERTWINED

NO ESCAPE

LIES WOR--BR----R

"WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE! I HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE! DON'T READ THE EQUATION! GET AWAY FROM THE ANOMALY! THE LABYRINTH! TRAPPED!"

Tronklis has panicked

Tronklis 2018/01/30(Tue)19:02 No. 863436 ID: 12b116
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" OW! OW! Stop it! I'm fine! I'm fine!"
"You're NOT fine! You almost ran out of the door before we caught you! You were ranting and raving about a word, world, word... I can't remember it now."
"It's, I saw, I can't describe it, I saw things. We shouldn't be in here, we need to get out."
"Well we can't go back!"
"something went wrong here. We need to leave as soon as we can."
"can I let him go now?"
"No, wait for him to calm down."
"You didn't have to pour water all over me either!"


Tronklis is now exhausted

>>863436
....This power sucks and is useless. All it does is give us EMOTIONAL knowledge about an object. We wanted FACTUAL knowledge. What a gyp!

All we know now is that this place is terrible, and we already knew that.

You would even abandon your beloved dream-babe?

Stop. Assess the situation. Create and prioritize objectives based on the situation. Make a plan that achieves the highest objective, and start fitting the rest in. Put that plan into action.

Based on what the situation is, I’d say some pretty good objectives include:
Escape the Labyrinth.
Ensure the other cobalds escape safely.

There’s no reason to assume that achieving objective 1 would necessitate excluding objective 2 as of yet, so we don’t need to take that into consideration yet. We can’t just go back the way we came, so trudging on seems reasonable. This can’t be all there is to this place, after all. Wouldn’t be much of a Labyrinth if it was.

Head back to the room with the big beeping machine and rest for a few minutes so Tronklis can wring out his clothes, pop a BEPIS to share and recover a bit. While resting he can ID the items in your group's inventory that y'all don't know the function of or may have additional functionality you don't know. Oubliss and Slorsnis can also run back to the impaled corpse's room to bring the square thing with the buttons back for ID too.

>DON'T READ THE EQUATION!
So, this may mean that your group's illiteracy is actually a plus if you ever run across this "equation" in full or part. Well, unless it does that funky thing the big entrance sign did where y'all could read it without actually knowing how to read.

>>863436
Well we know there's a way out, we have to throw something into the anomaly. Does Tronklis know what the "anomaly" is at this point?

Is it the circular hallway that isn't supposed to be there in the first place? Hmm... try throwing the gun-arm into the hallway. If that doesn't work, retrieve it, and throw Outissa's gear necklace in.

Tronklis 2018/01/30(Tue)21:49 No. 863469 ID: 12b116
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I'm not using that on anything that's part of this place. That was a terrible idea! We settle down for a bit and I use it on some of the stuff.
Tossing a few things into the hallway doesn't do anything.
The thing with the buttons is some sort of game it turns out, though I'm not sure how it works exactly. Two of the things we have are weapons, looks like you just have to point them at something

"Ok, ok, let's finish checking out that passage to the left of the m-machine room.

We stay together, and make about five or six right turns before coming to a door. I have a very bad feeling about it.


"Th- That's it! That's the Anomaly! We need to leave it alone! Let's get out of here." I have a terrible feeling looking at it, and briefly catch a glimpse of someone sitting in the chair, reading each paper, and placing it on the stack to the side.

>>863469
have obliss throw a rock or clay ball or whatever it is you use into the anomaly

The stack of papers must be the equation. Don't go into that room, ever.
Is this the last room in the place?

Before you do anything like throwing a slingstone at it (the voice just said "item" which means it may not matter what we throw into it), check out any unexplored rooms.

>>862450
In this room there's some gray thing on the floor that looks like a box maybe? What is it?

That looks like a whirligig anomaly! you'd better find some bolts to throw in it.

>>863473
Maybe it's time for rest. Examine Oubliss's necklace while resting.

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)13:14 No. 863572 ID: 12b116
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The Anomaly room is the only one we hadn't been in, and I'm not inclined to go in it again. I think we should leave it alone.

Oh hey, there's a box we overlooked earlier in the fish room. It's got some more of those cylinder things that I found in the other building! And there's a little paper inside that says how to use it! It looks like you pull the ends off, and then stab a needle into your thigh or shoulder!? I don't think anybody is going to want to try that! There's a lot of tiny words all over it too that even if I could read would probably take hours!

"The top picture looks like a fying pan and a brain, kind of. Do these have something to do with food?"
"I do like fried brains in milk gravy! Maybe they make things taste like it if you have some nasty food you don't like?"
"I'll take your word for it, I did not like eating that when I was little. I've only seen brains in a gross blob that somebody tricked me into thinking was scrambled eggs!"

"I still think we should throw something into the anomaly and see what happens"

>>863572
I think the needles are full of a fluid that keeps you sane when seeing things that should not exist

Test it out on Oubliss, as usual.

>>863574
So like Sedatives from Bloodborne. Fuck frenzy btw

Maybe.. we should keep them. Seems like it's meant to protect your brain/mind.

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)14:55 No. 863612 ID: 12b116
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"Maybe we should test one of these out on somebody"
"Why are you even looking at me? I'm not going to let you poke me with that. If you poke anybody with that it's going to be yourself!"
"We probably shouldn't waste them now. The picture isn't a frying pan, it's a shield! It looks like it might stop things from harming your brains. If we had this earlier we could have poked YOU with it to stop that freak-out you had!"

"OK fine! Nobody is geting poked with it! I'll give one to anybody that can hold one, and put the rest in a pack."

That guy stuck in the machine is the Lord of Marvelous Devices, and I think he wants us to do something to the Animaly! It's the same guy from my dream!"

>>863612
Ask why he's in the machine first.

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)15:33 No. 863622 ID: 12b116
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"Well why is he stuck in that machine anyway? That's what made me lose my mind when I tried to see its past!"
"I don't know! I didn't ask that last time! Maybe he's not stuck inside, it. Maybe he just talks through it?"

>>863622
Throw a chair at the anomaly.

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)16:59 No. 863639 ID: 12b116
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We take a bit of a rest, I close my eyes to concentrate because Oubliss won't quit posing. Using the power on the necklace isn't as helpful as using it on the black and orange shooters. The only thing I can get from it is the guy falling off the pier and breaking his neck, though. He got dizzy when he tried looking under it and lost his grip, turns out.
Now, the question is, do we fool with the anomaly or do we try to leave?

"If you don't make up your mind soon I'm going to throw a chair into the thing."


Is no longer fatigued
has gone from exhausted to fatigued, but is still shaken

Sure, she can hurl a chair in.

>>863639
Let's explore before messing with reality.

>>863646
There’s nothing to explore, we’ve already been everywhere here.

Messing with reality kinda seems to be the only thing left to do.

The only proper thing to throw in anomalies is bolts. If all you've got's a chair, I'm sure you can make something work, though.

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)18:51 No. 863668 ID: 12b116
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"So it's settled then!"
"I really don't think we should be messing with-"

Oubliss tosses the chair at it! There's a horrible scream of metal being compresed and stretched in unnatural ways as it's sucked into the Anomaly...

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)18:52 No. 863670 ID: 12b116
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To my horror, one of the legs catches the giant stack of paper, which starts falling in as well. The anomaly begins pulsating, pulling the table in as well.

"I THINK IT'S GETTING BIGGER! "

I think we should run! But to where!?

Run into the infinite bathroom! It's probably like the matrix, where eventually there will be a door at the other end.

>>863671
Of course, the infinite bathroom! If we're lucky, the infinities will cancel out, BUT WE HAD BETTER RUN!

>>863670
I WARNED YOU BRO.
Bail to the other building!

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)20:34 No. 863704 ID: 12b116
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"GO GO GO! GET TO THE BLUE ROOM!" Everyone starts running! The place is getting pulled in behind us, but I think we can outrun it! The building is being ripped to pieces! I can see daylight through the holes!

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)20:34 No. 863705 ID: 12b116
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A horrifying scream starts coming from the pipe room! Or is it a laugh? There's so much noise and screeching metal I can't tell which! We're almost to the blue room!

Tronklis 2018/01/31(Wed)20:35 No. 863706 ID: 12b116
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"We made it. Is, -huff- ,everybody OK?!"
"yeah."
"Fine."
"blegh-, -mmmph- -llgf-, not, -murph-, dead,-huff-"

"Now looks like a good time to set up camp..."


END CHAPTER ONE- INTRO AND SPACE-TIME RESEARCH CAMPUS

>>863706
....Clearly we should find more of those chairs.

Any further questions need to go in the Questdis thread: https://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/119222.html