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[dropoffs]

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[riverbeans]

Thanks.

[he flexes his arm a bit, adjusting to the semi-healed state. unlike shoma, he elects to remain standing, although he wasn't as injured as shoma to begin with. probably the best of the group, tbh.]

Long story short, we found the owner's son. The bad news is that he and everyone turned into some kind of flesh monster integrated with the plant that chased us. Io too, from another direction.

Also saw some familiar faces used against us, so that's fun and something to watch out for.

[inquired]

[ a brief nod to the thank you! yw yw ]

[ familiar faces, though... ugh. ] Of course. [ that does seem to be a theme, doesn't it... we're all just veterans out here :ben:-ing while poor keith is like what the fuck ] I heard a familiar voice, earlier, so I'm sure that won't be the last.

[ he glances over at the Hole. ]

Our assailants were human, though they were certainly moving oddly. Like puppets on a string. We were able to dispatch them down there. [ gesturing to said hole. ] Though... when something is pushed into a hole, you might expect, say, a 'splat', and we heard none.

[bladeward]

Thanks, Tem.

[ just listens to all of this. help. nods along to what temenos says. ]

There were cattle in here at one point, but then it's like the scenery changed suddenly? That's when the two butchers went insane and attacked. We'd been having a perfectly normal conversation up till then, or well... Temenos was. The guy I was talking to sounded deranged from the start.

[ shrugs. also wtf yall and your weird faces things. but to the voices... ]

I heard something of the same. So whatever is here and doing that, I'd love for it to stop.

[dropoffs]

[ the tribe has spoken. slams his own helmet on his head. bitch. ok i'm back to sitting now bye. he's fine he doesn't mind terrible smells............. :/ ]

[bladeward]

[ WTF. just gives him a look. take it back!!! ]

[solesuccess]

[ he's just nodding to all of this and letting his eyes close. goodnight. ]

Ours started out normal, too. The lady was...washing hide, I guess. And we thought the man was holding a baby? Neither of those were true and then they hulked out and everything escalated really quickly. She had a word on her arm though. "Music." Second time someone's had words on them. And she started itching, too, before things went wrong. She got pulled into one of the creatures and...that was it. Everything was...oppressive and bad and weird.

[ he does crack an eye back open though and stares at keith. ]

Dude, where the hell is your helmet.

[ oh then io is giving keith a helmet. okay. neat. ]

[riverbeans]

[there goes io's helmet... onto keith...]

... Yeah. Our helmet and—respirator? [he is not super familiar with this stuff] was seriously working hard to keep us alive in the air up there, it seemed like.

[he frowns.]

Ventilation was horrible. [a pause] ... Although given that none of those people are... um, people anymore, I suppose their working conditions no longer matter...

[inquired]

The same happened to us. All of this -

[ a gesture outwards and around to the. blood. i forgot to mention he's like back covered in blood and viscera. it's fine. ]

- Appeared. Moments after I brought up the missing son to the butcher. I wonder if the... flesh monster you saw was what I thought I saw in the surface of the butcher's knife.

[bladeward]

[ i guess he's helmeted now. ]

The guy I was talking to made some kind of message or something in the bull's fur, before pushing it in the hole. [ he really did just watch some dude butcher a cow, then yeet it to the depths of hell. shakes his head.

to that last bit from temenos...]

You saw it too? [ blinks ] I saw the same thing back in that field, in the bull's bell. I didn't know what to think of it, just a trick on the eyes, but considering what you guys just went through...

[solesuccess]

...what was the point of doing something to a bull if you were just gonna throw it in a hole? [ pause. ] Wait we don't need to go in the hole, do we?

[ no!!!! but...um. ]

Now that you mentioned it, I thought I saw something in Sticks' water bottle, too. This weird tendril reflected in the glass. A warning...?

[riverbeans]

[oh yeah shoma and charles are also unfortunately covered in a mess. we're all doing great.]

... Well, we already ignored the first potential warning from the bull Keith talked to. Get the feeling we're going to keep ignoring the others, too.

[inquired]

Some warnings are meant to be ignored.

[ are they ]

Besides, I imagine that may be the center of our anomaly, all things considered. Io did say the reading was deep down into the planet, so I imagine... downwards is going to be our direction.

[bladeward]

Something about the mother earth guiding them on what meat is suitable? And once they have that selection they sort and choose what to give to the mother, the earth.

[ he still doesn't get it. to piggyback off what temenos says, also... ]

If I had to guess, it has something to do with this pit. Which I probably related to our overall issue.

[solesuccess]

So...it's like a weird offering thing. An actual blood sacrifice to...whatever "mother earth" is in this case. And it means our source we have to rip up from its roots is likely being powered by those sacrifices. Or am I starting to go way off-base here?

[riverbeans]

Yikes. [a sigh, as he shrugs.] Well, I agree we're likely meant to go... down.

[inquired]

[ sacrifices, tentacles, carnage..... i feel tatloch in this chilis tonight

anyway ]

I think you're onto something, Shoma. [ bad. ] I don't suppose anyone has any idea of how to land in a bottomless pit.

[bladeward]

Yeah, that's probably not far off from what's really going on. [ they all hate that. ]

If our suits had boosters on the back, it'd be easy. Guess we'll just have to take a leap of faith, then.

[ he is half joking. ]

[inquired]

We are doomed.


[ says the cleric



this is probably a joke ]

[solesuccess]

We are going to die.

[ this is not really a joke. ]

[riverbeans]

Haha. [dryly,] We'll manage... maybe.

[dropoffs]

Considering how they made it... definitly was only ever supposed to be a one way trip... [ gazes at hole with uncertainty. ]

[inquired]

I suppose, for all we know, we could be jumping into a fleshy monster.

[riverbeans]

Hey, at least that'd make for a good cushion, right?

[this really does remind him of tatloch though NOT THE JUMPING INTO A MONSTER PART]

[solesuccess]

Noooooooooooooooooooo....

[bladeward]

I've been trapped inside a Weblum before and managed to find a way out. [ shrugs ] There has to be some sort of way out. [ io said it's probably a one way. but keith doesn't agree. skill issue.

help. ]