==> Kalfour: Ask these strangers for help

[bizango]

This is it. You're definitely hopelessly lost and the heat has, once again, become unbearable. You worry for awhile that this might really be it and you'll die out here in the sand, but right as you feel ready to faint, a grand building resolves itself out of the hazy air.

Or. Part of a building. By the time you reach its odd black foundation, you realize half of it is gone, sliced clean away. Still, what's left provides more then enough shade and you head inside to rest for a time. It's only after you've awoken from a fitful nap that you notice the empty spiderwebs strung across the ceiling and into the corners and you manage to become... mildly disturbed. This is unlike anything else you've seen so far and you wonder if perhaps you've been pursuing the wrong quest all along. Perhaps there's another puzzle? The outside of this building certainly looks like a larger, far more intricate version of the temples in your consorts' cities. And these webs look new enough that something must have strung them recently...

Confused and, if you're honest with yourself, desperate, you take out your husktop and start up trollian.

CURRENT restlessMedium [CRM] RIGHT NOW opened memo on board help please~.

ah~
hellO~
i think maybe there are a lOt~
mOre Of yOu then i thOught~
whO i haven't met~
sO yes~definitely hellO~
tO yOu~
but aCtually what i mean fOr this~
this memO~
is that~
ah~
i'm very lOst~
and alsO unsure abOut what i'm dOing~
suddenly~
ahaha~
sO i think if sOme Of yOu are gOOd at games~
Or knOw hOw tO navigate a desert~
i wOuld maybe like tO talk tO yOu~
if that's Okay~

Comments

[flowerwhisperer]

oh?
what's it look like?

[bizango]

it's a big building~
kind Of like the Ones in the Cities~
half Of it is missing thOugh~

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
does your husktop have a camera or anything?
i'd |ike to take a |ook at the bui|ding
if you don't mind?

[bizango]

did yOu find a building tOO ps~

[flowerwhisperer]

we||
other than the consort vi||age
no
but i'm curious
if you don't mind?

[bizango]

Oh~
ahaha~
i dOn't have a Camera thOugh~
sOrry~

You have never needed one given your usual distaste for showing your face to people when you don't have to.

[flowerwhisperer]

oh
mysterious bui|dings popping
sure are
we||
puzz|ing
do you pay attention to your p|anet's |ore?

[bizango]

a little bit~
i knOw there's a bOOk and~~
they haven't seen their denizen in awhile~
i guess that's all thOugh~

[flowerwhisperer]

i was hoping
for maybe something in it
that might he|p exp|ain this
guess not
can you describe the bui|ding?

[bizango]

it's big and~
the flOOr is blaCk~
the windOws are made Of COlOred glass~
it's kind Of niCe~i think~

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
actua||y
that sounds |ike what Zirreh has on his p|a net?
from what he's to|d me about it

[bizango]

Oh~
ah~really~

[flowerwhisperer]

maybe you shou|d ask him?

[bizango]

i'm nOt sure

He is awfully highblooded... which has been your go to excuse for not actually talking to your poor Server player ever since you came back to yourself. Welp

[flowerwhisperer]

he's okay
if he's an ass to you just |et me know

[bizango]

Okay~
i guess i Can dO that~

...you will not actually do that if you can possibly help it.

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
but you have been doing okay
apart from the mysterious bui|ding?
...and getting |ost

[bizango]

i'm fine~

This is a lie. It will likely remain a lie far into the future, but you don't like to bother other people with things like that... particularly when it's not even really anyone's business anymore.

[flowerwhisperer]

you're in a desert though
i
don't think it's easy to rea||y be fine there

[bizango]

it's hOt~i guess~
and dry~
but it's Okay~
i'm getting used tO it~

[flowerwhisperer]

oh
...are there even cacti there
just asking

[bizango]

sOmetimes~
mOstly arOund the tOwns~

[flowerwhisperer]

oh
it probab|y won't be of much he|p
whi|e you're
|ost in the desert
then...

[bizango]

ah~yes i think~
i haven't seen anything~
alive Out here in awhile~

[flowerwhisperer]

what is with a|| these dead p|anets

You stare long and hard at the screen as you realize you actually typed that thought out and hit Enter.

Fuck.