[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]

second base Not far at all really, judging by how you flatten yourself further against the wall when you husktop is held out to you. Why must things always be so SHOCKING????

[bizango]

kadlsfkjlaksjdflj cries. You are... getting that idea, yes... Well... you will put this by his feet then and start poking around. At least you know what you're doing so with a little bit of fussing you manage to force the camera underground so you can look around Merzet's hive while he's... doing... whatever it is he's doing right now.

SIGHS.

[footkind]

Your hive really isn't all that impressive. It's more like an ant colony than an actual building because...it's made of dirt and has little chambers in it. Which took a surprising amount of convincing when you received your drones since they were so determined to build up and you were just nooot into that.

Underground is good. Underground is safe.

Speaking of safe the outside is so not that--you would like very much to go back inside now, and hastily pull your husktop over with one foot.

UHH
UHH
KAlFoUR I WAnt to Go BACK InsIde

[bizango]

Oh good, he's talking to you again. That's nice.

yOu Can't yet mp~
yOu have tO Open the Cruxtruder~
while yOu're Out there~~
and then get the~
ahaha~
the things that pOp Out~

You shift your view back to him so you can poke him again if he tries to retreat. You are taking this very seriously, and you can't have Merzet's nerves screwing you up!

[footkind]

CAnt YoU do All tHAt so I dont HAVe to?

[bizango]

ahaha~
nO~
yOu have tO turn the wheel~
alsO~
is there anything heavy arOund~~

[footkind]

UM
MY RoCK I GUess WHY

[bizango]

nO~that's tOO big~~
i Can't lift it with the cursOr~
i need tO Open the tOp Of the thing~~

[footkind]

UM
WHAt ABoUt tHe RoCKs ARoUnd MY HoUse tHeYRe sMAlleR

[bizango]

hm~
maybe~~

You start looking around for a large enough rock... though you have to stop for a moment to add:

yOu have tO turn the wheel mp~

[footkind]

oH UH
RIGHt oK HAnG on

You were almost hoping you'd both forgotten as silly as that sounds...but then again it beats being crushed by meteors doesn't it? Or mostly does. You really hate that counter that appears...

[bizango]

...oh right the counter.

wait mp~
let me put the Other things Out first~
sO we dOn't have tO maybe wOrry abOut the COunter as much~~
ahaha~
dO yOu knOw the best rOOms tO put them in~

Something near the surface would probably be good... Fewer flights of stairs to traverse and all that.

[footkind]

oH UHH
I GUess tHe ones JUst BeloW Us ARe Good pRoBABlY

Anywhere that's not up here sound perfect as far as you're concerned. There is far too much open space here!!

[bizango]

Okay~
just a mOment~~

And so yes, you put out the other two machines. The TOTEM LATHE goes in the floor just below the surface and the ALCHEMITER just below that. You are QUITE CAREFUL to move his stuff around as delicately as possibly because, honestly, the last thing you want to be is indebted to Merzet for breaking some of his shit. NO THANK YOU.

Before you return to the surface, you set out the PRE-PUNCHED CARD on the ground next to the TOTEM LATHE since that's where it's got to go anyway. Yes good. Everything looks perfect now, as far as you're concerned.

alright mp~
everything is ready~~

[footkind]

oH UHH oK
I WIll tRY to Get to tHe CRUXtRUdeR NoW

By which you mean you will awkwardly shuffle your way across the rock wall, reluctant to leave it at...all, really. The outside world is a DANGEROUS PLACE. You wish he could have deployed it inside your Hive.

[bizango]

...this is quite sad. To watch. You also wish you had deployed it inside his hive now that you see how hard this apparently is. You've located a rock you think is heavy enough and he's still just... shuffling around. Wow...

Wow wow wow.

hurry mp~

[footkind]

IM tRYInG IM tRYInG BUt Its Bad Bad Bad oUt HeRe

That, and you're scared witless. The Cruxtruder is all the way off one corner, separate from the wall. You'll have to make a break for it!!!

...And by break for it you mean sink down the wall until you're on your stomach and crawl to it. Yep.

[bizango]

...

You have nothing to say about this.

You wonder if Preta knows her crush thinks he's a lizard sometimes.

[footkind]

SUCCESS! You have made it to the cruxtruder. Now there's only one inevitable thing left to do.

UHH
UHH
oK IM tHeRe KAlFoUR ARe YoU ReAdY pleAse Be ReAdY I dont WAnt to Get CRUsHed BY A MeteoR

[bizango]

Oh~yes i'm ready mp~
just turn the thing~
and i'll have it Open in a seCOnd~

Sure is an intimidatingly large rock floating pretty close by all of a sudden.

[footkind]

UHH
UHH
oK HeRe I Go

You are not at all confident about this. You know what happens once the kernelsprite is released and the timer begins--oh GOG you havem't even thought about what you ought to PROTOTYPE YET. This is a bad idea this is a bad idea this is bad bad bad!!! In a panic you cling to the wheel rather than turn it, wheezing.

[bizango]

...

mp~what are yOu dOing~

[footkind]

I CAnt do It I CAnt do It I CAnt do It I CAnt do It KALFoUR I CAnt

[bizango]

...you're gonna kill him.

...

Wait. No you're not, come on it's just Merzet, calm down.

what is~
maybe the prOblem nOw~~

[footkind]

I dont HAVe AnYtHInG to pRototYpe I CAnt do It KALFoUR Ill Get CRUsHed