==> 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~

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[bizango]

You have been putting this off a long... long time. In fact you may have forgotten about it for awhile (you didn't). But the guilt of getting a potential teammate killed nags at you and she is... so highblooded. You try your very best to be loyal to highbloods when you can. Sitting in a dark corner of your hive you finally resolve to be someone's server... for the second time. Ugh.

restlessMedium [RM] began pestering venerianDesigner [VD]

vd~
are yOu dead yet~

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
to be fair
i think of us aren't rea||y sure
what we're supposed to be doing
to begin with

[bizango]

Oh~
ah~
really~~
i thOught i was sure~
but nOw maybe nOt~

[flowerwhisperer]

what happened?

[bizango]

i fOund a new plaCe~
that maybe dOesn't really lOOk~
like the Other plaCes i've seen~

[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?

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, hello K4lfour, hello!
G4mes usu4lly involve puzzles... I think, prob4bly, right?
So um, I c4n... m4ybe help, I think?
I don't think I'm... very good with deserts... though, 4ctu4lly, m4ybe not.
But g4mes or puzzles... definitely, 4bsolutely, yes, y4y!

[soundtricks]

tell me you at least put water in your sylladex before heading out into a desert

[bizango]

did yOu find a building tOO ps~

[bizango]

ah~yes~
then~
i guess my questiOn is mOstly~
whether strange new buildings usually shOw up~
in the middle Of puzzles~~

[bizango]

ah~
yes~Of COurse~
i wOuld maybe be dead~
if i hadn't~

[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?

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh um, well, I... don't think th4t's usu4lly... norm4l 4t 4ll, no.
But um, w4it, is... it 4 puzzle m4de... of buildings, or, um?
Bec4use if it's m4de... of buildings, then th4t... m4kes sense, it does!
But if it's the... first building to 4ppe4r?
Th4t seems 4 little... str4nge, I think, yes.
How did the puzzle... st4rt off, m4ybe, K4lfour?
4nd um, c4n you... tell me more 4bout... the str4nge new building?

[defensivealchemist]

fir5t 5tep
>- 6ring water
i already reminded you of that 5o you 5hould already have it done
5econd 5tep
>- 6ring a compa55
i a55ume you didnt do that
5o how far from your hive did you go

[soundtricks]

more than likely
so what are you ~supposed~ to be doing♫

[bizango]

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

[bizango]

i thOught i had tO find their bOOk~
but nOw there's this~
it's big and part Of it is gOne~
the windOws are niCe~

[bizango]

getting tO the next tOwn~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