[OPEN] ===> Nikkal: Check on meteors.

[starstorm]

Hurriedly, you ditch your conversation with Bharal to go and see if the meteors you'd seen before have drawn any closer. You scurry out onto the balcony of your HIVE, fully prepared to retrieve your ASTRONOMOSCOPE - but you realize almost immediately that it's not needed.

The forest surrounding your hive's plateau is on fire. The blue trees are completely going up in flames, and the scent of burnt wood is stinging your sniffnode. The meteors are now visible to the naked eye from your viewpoint; still, you think that there may be quite some time left...

...until a meteor crashes down right in the middle of the plateau, much too close for comfort. Your LUSUS, who has been peacefully resting on the bottom level of your HIVE, is shaken from her slumber and promptly gets up to go inspect it. As you watch the giant hopbeast emerge from her shelter, the full realization of the danger you're in comes down on you.

You're scared. You know what you have to do, but you're still scared. In any case, you'll be reporting back to Bharal now. You quickly make your way back inside and return to your HUSKTOP.

um
wewp
a meteow just cwashed down neaw nikniks hive
and de neawby fowest is on fiwe
so maybe we shouwd twy and get dis wunning now huh

Your hands shaking with anticipation, you double-click the scrib.exe program again.



Surprisingly, the game doesn't crash this time.

oh
oh OwO
niknik finks its wowking now
can bhabha twy and wun it yet

Comments

[notyouraigis]

hey. n|kk^l.
wh^t's your st^tus?

[starstorm]

You pause in your actions to return to your husktop. It seems that another one of your CHUMS has been PESTERING you.

oh hey ghighi
uummmm niknik and bhabha awe wowking on stuff
weve made some pwogwess ^w^

[notyouraigis]

| ^sk only be<^use komesh w^s |nqu|r|ng ^s to how f^r ^long th|ngs ^re gett|ng |n th|s g^me.

[starstorm]

oooohhhhh
weww niknik can teww ghighi some fings about de game if datww hewp


bhabha can see niknik on his scween and move fings in nikniks hive awound
and dewes fwee big machines
we dunno exactwy what aww dey do yet
dewes a big big big pwatfowm
and a wong skinny fing dat wooks wike it can make somefing maybe
and anoda fing dat bhabha had to bweak open wif nikniks abwution twap
dat made a wittwe shiny fing come out and den niknik couwd get a weiwd cwystaw fwom it
niknik doesnt know what to do wif it yet dough
awso de cwystaw machine shawted counting down fwom 4:13
dunno what its counting down to
but yep yep niknik finks wewe weawwy faw wite now ^w^

[notyouraigis]

oh, yes, th^t |sn't v^gue ^t ^ll.
| th|nk |'ll just w^|t ^nd h^ve bh^r^l expl^|n |t to me.
| th|nk he'd be better ^t be|ng <le^r ^nd <on<|se.

[starstorm]

weww wooooooooowwy niknik doesnt know what any of dis stuff is cawwed
ow even what it does yet
awso shes kind of pwessed fow time wite now
so ~w~

just teww komkom not to wowwy ok
cus evewyfings fine <3

[notyouraigis]

um.
wh^t the hell?
|s th^t less-th^n-three |ntended for me or for h|m?
oh, w^|t, pressed for t|me
don't ^nswer th^t.

[starstorm]

Well, this is embarrassing.

You answer him anyway.

oh
dat
was
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
yeah dats
not fow ghighi
oops