[OPEN] ===> Kalfour: Return

[bizango]

Return from where? Well you have been watching the sky for some time now, though why you would do such a thing for so long has somehow managed to slip your mind. That’s alright though. You have been enjoying yourself at least! The fires starting up at the very edge of the horizon are quite pretty against the evening sky.

However, they’ve started creeping closer now, as have the meteors and it’s finally starting to make you nervous. You have to make sure your moirail survives, and from what everyone’s been saying, that won’t happen until she’s playing the game. Which means you have to start soon too. You take another long look at the sky, and then slip down from the roof and in through your respiteblock window. It takes you a minute to find your husktop in the dark and as it turns on, you descend the stairs and settle on the step just outside your door. Hopefully everyone has started the game alright so far! You haven't been doing a very good job keeping track. Whoops!

restlessMediumhas signed on.

restlessMedium [RM] has started pestering meticulousPedicure [MP].

mp~
are yOu ready tO play the game yet~~

Comments

[footkind]

I KnoW
I KnoW
BUt oUtsIde Is dAnGeRoUs Its A BAd BAd plACe

[bizango]

yes - bu+ y*u can hand|e i+
i kn*w y*u can

[footkind]

HoW do YoU KnoW tHAt

[bizango]

y*u w*u|dn+ have been picked if y*u c*u|dn+

[footkind]

do YoU ReAllY tHInK so

[bizango]

yes - i rea||y +hink s*
y*u sh*u|d be m*re c*nfiden+ merze+

[footkind]

eVeRYone sAYs tHAt BUt I dont KnoW IF I CAn

[bizango]

y*u|| |earn - jus+ give i+ +ime

[footkind]

UM
UM
oK I WIll tRY I GUess

This not-Kalfour is strangely comforting. You will have to thank him when you remember how to properly etiquette.

[bizango]

+ha+ s*unds |ike a g**d p|an +* me
d* y*u +hink y*ure ready +* p|ay n*w

[footkind]

UHH
UHH
I GUess so oK
Ill tRY to Go UpstAIRs noW

[bizango]

*kay - +ha+ s*unds g**d
d* y*u kn*w why s*me *f +hese +hings i can bui|d are free and s*me aren+

[footkind]

UHH
I tHInK Its to Help YoU stARt BUt not so tHAt YoU CAn CHeAt I GUess

[bizango]

hm

You decide to click on the first in the series of FREE MACHINES, bringing it up on the screen. Damn, this thing is huge. You try the other two and they are both equally as unwieldy. You really wish you KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING HERE.

You get the feeling Kalfour must have left instructions for himself somewhere on his husktop, but the thought of trying to find anything on this violently colorful monstrosity makes you balk. Hopefully he returns soon. You are not sure how much longer you can stumble blindly through this!

a|| +he free +hings are rea||y big merze+
are y*u im g*ing +* be ab|e +* fi+ +hem in y*ur hive - assuming i can see in+* i+ a+ a|| i mean

[footkind]

UM
I HAVe lots oF RooMs IF YoU WAnt

Which are, unfortunately, almost entirely separate from one another and connected only by a single spiralling staircase.

[bizango]

a|righ+ - +ha+ wi|| w*rk

...well that would work, but all of a sudden your hand twitches very much against your will, and you click, dropping the CRUXTRUDER just outside Merzet's rock.

*h

Well then. That was not ACCORDING TO PLAN. You suppose it has been long enough, and you are, after all, no longer the most qualified person for this job. It was fun while it lasted anyway.

s*rry merze+ - i +hink i pu+ *ne *f +hese machines *u+side
als* - im g*ing +* have +* |eave qui+e s**n

[footkind]

WHeRe ARe YoU GoInG????

Oh no no no, the one person who actually seemed sane!

[bizango]

d*n+ w*rry merze+ - im n*+ g*ing far
ka|f*ur is c*ming back - and he|| kn*w be++er wha+ +* d* n*w +hen i d*

[footkind]

UHH
UHH
oK tHAnKs WHoeVeR YoU ARe
UM BUt
IM GoInG to tRY And Go UpstAIRs so GIMMe A seC

[bizango]

*kay - g**d |uck merze+
make sure y*u +ake y*ur husk+*p s* we can s+i|| +a|k

You will attempt to stay until he's gotten onto the surface at least!

[footkind]

Unfortunately you do not reply. This is because you are currently packing your husktop into a blanket and adding a few other essentials: pillows, rocks, a jar of sand... The important stuff.

With that accomplished comes the next difficult goal though: GETTING OUTSIDE.

You are not looking forward to this.

[bizango]

You have faith that Merzet can make it, though you do hope he hurries since things are getting blurry along the edges of your vision. You know it is not your place, at this point in time, to stay when Kalfour has settled himself enough to reenter the world, and in fact, just talking to Merzet and Kaprao for so long, you've probably overstepped some of your usual bounds...

But! You want to be able to congratulate this boy for facing his fears, even a little bit, so you try to pull things back into focus once again, anxiously watching the screen for him.

cuttiiieeeeee

[footkind]

This unfortunately takes some time, as while the trip up the stairs was easy enough there is still the actual issue of going outside. This is a thing you are NOT THAT GREAT AT. Life as a paranoid recluse has left you...well, paranoid and reclusive.

Furthermore it's dark out now which means other Trolls are awake. Your absolute least favourite time to venture outside despite the fact that there is no one living around you for miles. Dozens of them.

This still poses a great hurdle for you though, and at the first sight of the outdoors you immediately find yourself flattening against the rock surface. Good rock. Safe.

1/2

[bizango]

Ah well... You tried! But eventually even Savane musters up the care to tell you it's time to back off. So you leave the message for him to find once he gets to the surface instead.

see merze+ - y*u g*+ up jus+ fine
g**d |uck n*w

And then you slip away.

non!!! tis Merzet who is the cutie!!!

[bizango]

...you wake up even more confused then usual. Everything in your pan feels like cotton and the image on your husktop does not help.

It takes you a long moment before you recognize the SCRIB UI that Nuvola had talked about in her instructions... Speaking of which, you click away to open those immediately, realizing that one of your worser daymares has come true and you started the game in one of your black outs. Now the CRUXTRUDER is in absolutely the wrong place and Merzet...

...you have no idea what Merzet is doing actually.

You try to ignore the extra words in the wrong quirk in your pester window as you type.

mp~
mp~~
ahaha~
mp~what are yOu dOing~
mp~
yOu have tO maybe Open yOur husktOp~
Or i wOn't be able tO talk tO yOu~~
mp~

Okay... that's not really working then is it. So you abandon the futile pinging, and instead drag your cursor over and... click on the little cowering jade. This will go well. You can already tell.