==> 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

[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.

[bizango]

ahaha~
are a lOt Of them dead~

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
a|most a|| the ones i heard about
are barren
|itt|e to no vegetation

[bizango]

ah~hOw strange~
i wOnder why~~

[flowerwhisperer]

i don't know
but it sounds
comp|ete|y
awfu|

[bizango]

it's~
nOt tOO bad~i dOn't think~

[flowerwhisperer]

maybe i'm questioning game |ogic too much but
if there's no vegetation
and i haven't heard much about other sources of food
how the he|| do consorts survive
they have to eat something right?
un|ess they don't have to eat
or don't eat anything at a||
which might actua||y be possib|e
actua||y now i have to wonder
where are
we
going to get food
when apparent|y a |ot of the p|anets are basica||y dead

Really though, you're just kind of freaked out at the idea that WHOLE PLANETS can be devoid of plants. It just makes no sense to you.

[bizango]

my COnsOrts eat bugs~i think~

Not that... you think this really addresses his main concern here, but the thought that everyone might just starve to death anyway is disconcerting and you are trying to stay positive.

[flowerwhisperer]

and what do the bugs eat
actua||y you kow
that isn't
rea||y the main concern here
urgh

[bizango]

it'll be Okay ps~

[flowerwhisperer]

we||
no one's starved to death yet
so yes
probab|y

[bizango]

yes~we maybe~
have Other things tO wOrry abOut~

[flowerwhisperer]

i'm sti||
not sure what i'm supposed to do with my p|anet
or rather i know what to do i just
have no idea how i'm going to accomp|ish it

[bizango]

what dO yOu have tO dO~

[flowerwhisperer]

they want me to try and rec|aim their home|and
and maybe
try to get the jung|e to stop trying to ki|| them a|| the time
except
it's been so |ong none of them are sure where it was
some of them seem to think the |andscape changes
to keep peop|e from finding it
and the jung|e a|so wants to ki|| me
it's a |itt|e
overwhe|ming

[bizango]

ahaha~
that dOes sOund like a lOt~
yOu'll figure it Out~~

[flowerwhisperer]

i hope at |east
you'|| have an easier time with your quest
somehow

[bizango]

ah~
maybe~
i guess if that's true then~
i will try tO help yOu~
when i'm dOne~

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
i can't say i rea||y know
what to do
in a desert
you've been doing okay fighting the imps though
at |east?

[bizango]

yes~they're nOt hard at all~~
i hOpe yOu've been fighting alright~
as well~