==> Nikkal: Go through first gate.
You have no idea where you are.
As you survey the unfamiliar landscape around you, you run through previous events in your head: after your LUSUSPRITE had told you about Skaia and The Seven Gates, you and your SERVER PLAYER had been handed a new objective: build your HIVE high enough for you to reach the strange spirograph pattern hovering over your HIVE. The two of you had done just that; Bharal had built your HIVE up using the strange gems you'd collected from the IMPS, which your LUSUSPRITE had referred to as GRIST.
As Bharal built, you and your LUSUSPRITE had fought off waves of IMPS, and the taller your HIVE got, the more IMPS you had to clean up after. As your HIVE became more and more invaded, you'd CAPTCHALOGUED some of your more important items - your HUSKTOP, your ASTRONOMOSCOPE, your DANCE DANCE RETRIBUTION PAD, among other things - before they could be vandalized. But in a moment of peace, you had also used them, along with the TOTEM LATHE, the ALCHEMITER, and a new device referred to as the PUNCH DESIGNIX, to craft some new items for yourself.

You had combined your GLASSES with your ASTRONOMOSCOPE in order to craft a pair of lenses that allowed you to peek into the cosmos at will. And you'd combined those with your HUSKTOP in order to provide a useful HANDS-FREE COMPUTING DEVICE. You're pretty pleased with your new SCOPETOP LENSES.
You had combined your SLEEVES with the few TROLL LISA FRANK POSTERS in your possession and created a new pair of fun, colorful sleeves. And then you'd taken it a step further by combining those with the RUBBER BAND BALL on your desk, making them incredibly elastic in the process. You then found that they are fairly effective as a fighting weapon, allowing you to sling IMPS around and slam them into things with brute force. But mostly you just like them because it's like wearing a pair of NEVERENDING DOUBLE RAINBOWS.
All the way. Across your arms.
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??
You had also combined the RUBBER BAND BALL with a pair of STRANGE SLIPPERS you had found in your THERMAL HULL. Rediscovering them had only served to remind you that your friend Arinna was no longer around to see the pair of shoes you had obtained. But once you'd shoved that memory to the back of your think pan, you'd put the foot restrainers to use. The resulting objects, unlike regular shoes, do not cause you to fall flat on your face. Instead, they enable you to jump to almost ridiculous heights! You imagine that wearing them must be what walking on the MOON is like.
But the most important thing you'd crafted was the FUZZY DREAMCHASERS, made from your LEGWARMERS, a bundle of LUSUS FUR, and your ROBOT UNIBEAST ATTACK POSTER. They serve no purpose other than to look cute.
After fiddling with the ALCHEMITER, you had continued to fight off imps, and Bharal had continued to build. Your LUSUSPRITE assisted you with MAGICAL EYE BEAMS or something, but fighting the large OGRES had been a bit of a challenge. And once your HIVE was sufficiently tall enough, you had used your MOON SHOES to launch yourself up through your very first GATE.
And that was how you'd ended up here.

Whatever this place is, it sure is pretty. You wander around, feeling quite nervous because your LUSUSPRITE is nowhere to be found, taking in this new area to the best of your ability. Eventually, you stumble upon some odd pink creatures - they look rather sad to you, and upon talking with a few of them, you discover that they are aquatic, but they are unable to stay in their waters for very long, because of the LIGHTNING that is plaguing their planet. You don't quite understand at first, but when a bolt of lightning strikes one of the LARGE PINK CRYSTALS sitting in a nearby pond, it hits you like a ton of bricks.
This sure is a lot to take in. Accompanied by a few of the AXOLOTLS, you find a place to take shelter so that you can touch base with your FRIENDS again.
-- barefootGibbous has signed on. --
As you survey the unfamiliar landscape around you, you run through previous events in your head: after your LUSUSPRITE had told you about Skaia and The Seven Gates, you and your SERVER PLAYER had been handed a new objective: build your HIVE high enough for you to reach the strange spirograph pattern hovering over your HIVE. The two of you had done just that; Bharal had built your HIVE up using the strange gems you'd collected from the IMPS, which your LUSUSPRITE had referred to as GRIST.
As Bharal built, you and your LUSUSPRITE had fought off waves of IMPS, and the taller your HIVE got, the more IMPS you had to clean up after. As your HIVE became more and more invaded, you'd CAPTCHALOGUED some of your more important items - your HUSKTOP, your ASTRONOMOSCOPE, your DANCE DANCE RETRIBUTION PAD, among other things - before they could be vandalized. But in a moment of peace, you had also used them, along with the TOTEM LATHE, the ALCHEMITER, and a new device referred to as the PUNCH DESIGNIX, to craft some new items for yourself.

You had combined your GLASSES with your ASTRONOMOSCOPE in order to craft a pair of lenses that allowed you to peek into the cosmos at will. And you'd combined those with your HUSKTOP in order to provide a useful HANDS-FREE COMPUTING DEVICE. You're pretty pleased with your new SCOPETOP LENSES.
You had combined your SLEEVES with the few TROLL LISA FRANK POSTERS in your possession and created a new pair of fun, colorful sleeves. And then you'd taken it a step further by combining those with the RUBBER BAND BALL on your desk, making them incredibly elastic in the process. You then found that they are fairly effective as a fighting weapon, allowing you to sling IMPS around and slam them into things with brute force. But mostly you just like them because it's like wearing a pair of NEVERENDING DOUBLE RAINBOWS.
All the way. Across your arms.
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??
You had also combined the RUBBER BAND BALL with a pair of STRANGE SLIPPERS you had found in your THERMAL HULL. Rediscovering them had only served to remind you that your friend Arinna was no longer around to see the pair of shoes you had obtained. But once you'd shoved that memory to the back of your think pan, you'd put the foot restrainers to use. The resulting objects, unlike regular shoes, do not cause you to fall flat on your face. Instead, they enable you to jump to almost ridiculous heights! You imagine that wearing them must be what walking on the MOON is like.
But the most important thing you'd crafted was the FUZZY DREAMCHASERS, made from your LEGWARMERS, a bundle of LUSUS FUR, and your ROBOT UNIBEAST ATTACK POSTER. They serve no purpose other than to look cute.
After fiddling with the ALCHEMITER, you had continued to fight off imps, and Bharal had continued to build. Your LUSUSPRITE assisted you with MAGICAL EYE BEAMS or something, but fighting the large OGRES had been a bit of a challenge. And once your HIVE was sufficiently tall enough, you had used your MOON SHOES to launch yourself up through your very first GATE.
And that was how you'd ended up here.

Whatever this place is, it sure is pretty. You wander around, feeling quite nervous because your LUSUSPRITE is nowhere to be found, taking in this new area to the best of your ability. Eventually, you stumble upon some odd pink creatures - they look rather sad to you, and upon talking with a few of them, you discover that they are aquatic, but they are unable to stay in their waters for very long, because of the LIGHTNING that is plaguing their planet. You don't quite understand at first, but when a bolt of lightning strikes one of the LARGE PINK CRYSTALS sitting in a nearby pond, it hits you like a ton of bricks.
This sure is a lot to take in. Accompanied by a few of the AXOLOTLS, you find a place to take shelter so that you can touch base with your FRIENDS again.
-- barefootGibbous has signed on. --
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So a little flapbeast told me that you're up to something interesting right now.
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uuummmmm
yep yep its pwetty intewesting
kinda scawy but
intewesting ^w^
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Can you elucidate at all on what in particular is "scary" as well as what you find interesting?
I have heard a little about this and am curious.
Also, like hell are you going into this without some idea of what you're in for.
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when niknik went fwough hew gate she was in dis new pwace
its weawwy pwetty cus she can see wots of staws and meteow showas
not wike the one dat was gonna hit niknik dough
wittwe ones
smaww enough to buwn up in de atmosphewe so it just wooks wike gwitta fawwing fwom de sky
but dewes awso witening evewywhewe
dats de scawy pawt
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I can only hope mine will be half as lovely.
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yep yep its weawwy pwetty *w*
niknik feews bad fow de wittwe fewwas dat wive hewe dough
deywe scawed of de witening too
so nikniks gonna try and hewp pwotect dem
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and niknik doesnt know what ewse shes supposed to do hewe yet
so she doesnt fink itww huwt anyfing if she twies to cheew dem up a wittwe whiwe shes expwowing
heehee
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Whatever it turns out that you are supposed to do in that place, I think you'll do well, although I haven't the slightest what it might be.
Phaest, I think, mentioned that it's some kind of challenge, or adventure, but she didn't tell me anything else.
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ooohhhh a chawwenge huh
weww niknik wiww find out what it is
maybe itww even be fun heehee
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A puzzle to solve or something along those lines would be quite enjoyable, I think.
I haven't had much real intellectual stimulation in a while.
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niknik wikes puzzwes when dey awent too hawd
heehee
so maybe dewes some weawwy neat ones