[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

[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

[bizango]

nO yOu wOn't mp~
yOu just have tO gO find sOmething right nOw~~
the COuntdOwn hasn't even started yet~

[footkind]

IM GoInG to dIe IM GoInG to dIe IM GoInG to dIe

[bizango]

mp~

You are forced to wonder who thought this entry order was a good idea. You are no good at comforting people... so you don't even try.

mp~we are all gOing tO die if yOu Can't dO this~
yOu will be killing the few Of us that even~
maybe have a Chance~
sO stOp it~
and figure Out sOmething tO prOtOtype~
right now~if yOu maybe COuld~

[footkind]

):≈

Not not sure what else so say besides that. All you want to do is curl up into a cowardly ball and pretend the END OF THE WORLD is not happening. It does not go well.

You turn the wheel with a hiccup. You get those when you're extremely nervous now apparently.

[bizango]

thank yOu mp~

You breathe a sigh of relief honestly. You can see the meteors getting slowly closer to you and by extension Preta and you were starting to worry he'd stall until she got killed!

Which is an entirely distressing thought, so you push it away, dropping the rock against the top of the CRUXTRUDER and waiting for the countdown to begin.

[footkind]

And it does! Right after both cruxtide and a KERNELSPRITE pop out of the cruxtruder.



Man that's hard to look at!

UHH
UHH
We HAVe to pUt soMetHInG In It noW

[bizango]

It is indeed hard to look at. You end up squinting at it for a second before moving the camera so it's mostly off screen.

yes~
ahaha~
dO yOu knOw what yOu're gOing tO put in nOw~~

[footkind]

no I HAVent ReAlly tHoUGHt ABoUt It Yet

Since you were sort of hoping you would never play this game ever, but...

[bizango]

well that's~
prObably Okay~
yOu Can think abOut it while yOu dO the rest Of the things~
ahaha~~
hurry

The timer is already making you nervous and it's barely even started yet. Hurry up, Merzet.