[the closer sheila gets to the pillar, the more she can see that it is... a chair. a very large chair. the pillar is a leg that is twice her height. it's just vibing in the middle of this room.
the floor is metal, so there are definitely rusty spots here and there where the water seems to have been sitting for a while. the water seems to be dripping down from the ceiling, based on what they can see. unfortunately it's not bright enough for takeru to see what's on the ceiling, but all four of them can kind of make out other objects now.
there's a pile of books, all completely waterlogged, but like the chair, they're just a bit too big. they're about half the size of sheila. a bunch of metal shelving sits on the floor across the room, as well as a few cardboard boxes, all similarly sized as the chair and books. just a little bit too big.]
[WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING BIG. NOW SHE IS DEFINITELY BITING HER FINGER.]
Guys, I have a question. Did we shrink... or is this furniture for a giant?
[Speaking of that giant chair, though. Is the seat itself within view with their baby light? Or will they have to stack on each other like clown jenga to see?]
it takes sasazuka a few seconds to accept that, yes, this is what he is seeing right now. he is going to walk slowly to the pile of books and try to?? read what the titles are, if it's visible. ]
I'm not really sure which option is worse. What is this place? Are we on a different floor?
[ She shoots Harrow a sympathetic look over the loss of her swordkun before staring at all this strange, gigantic furniture. ]
I haven't the faintest. Whatever the case, we should probably avoid drawing the attention of whoever lives here.
[ Did someone knock them out again and bring them somewhere new? This doesn't feel like an indulgence, though. She goes ahead a bit to check out the shelving, to see if anything's on it. ]
[they can see the seat itself, there's no need for four man clown jenga. maybe two man clown jenga. as she's checking out this chair, sheila can see there is a door that is twice the size of the chair pretty close by. the door has a handle.
the pile of books are really wrecked by water, but if sasazuka squints he can likely make out some words from one of them:
hands ient food po my butt ns me gay
as he's reading this fascinating piece of literature, vira is checking out the shelves, and there's definitely something there. a black sort of goo drips off the top shelf down to the floor, bit by bit. in multiple places, too, it's really all over the shelving unit.
[SHOUTY BUT WHISPERING. Because she is not rude enough to ignore suggestions. She will take a look around the leg chairs and under the seat as well, but...]
I think I can give someone a boost and reach the top of this chair, too. Might be something up there. You never know what could fall out of someone's giant butt pocket.
[ sasazuka reads what he can make out. blinks. rereads. wonders if today he lost his ability to read? then just walks away from the books to where sheila is. ]
There was nothing useful about the books, they're too damaged.
[ but uh he will walk over to sheila to help out since he's the tallest one here, even though apparently it's not by fucking much since THEY'RE ALL SO SHORT THIS IS A HORRIBLE CYOA FOR THIS GROUP ]
[ reading 'since he's the tallest one here' gave me psychic damage. anyway unfortunately vira will not eat the goo, but she'll try to identify it. is it like... oil? is there anything identifiable underneath the goop?
since harrow is the lightest she'll leave those three to jenga. ]
[Well, wait. First, since Sasazuka said there wasn't anything useful to be gleaned from the books, Harrow will saunter over to look at them and see if she can figure it out. After a moment - ]
It is nonsense, but easily decipherable if you put any effort into it. It says 'Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt and Turns Me Gay.' Clearly a pornographic novel of some sort.
[She announces this so smugly. And then will return to be jenga'd up the chair. But first, the hats.]
I found these. They're likely useless, but please inspect them and keep them with you in case there's relevance to a puzzle.
[She will hand Sasazuka the newsboy cap, Vira the police cap, Sheila the furry cap, and herself the water cap.]
[there's nothing interesting about the chair other than it's big and water damaged. i will assume they are going to try and do jenga but i'll let you confirm that.
as they're doing that, vira is checking out the goo. it's also checking her out? because the second she gets too close, a long, thick, caterpillar like string of oil-like goo shoots out at her and latches onto her arm. she can't see it, but she does feel a sharp pain as the thing bites her arm with its lamprey teeth mouth.
a few other strands of goo shudder and make a sound like the grinding of metal as they gloop off the shelf to the floor towards vira.
so that's fun. glad y'all are having a grand time with the hats.]
[ shortly after harrow goes to dispense hats and play jenga, the goo rears up, forming some kind of... creature. she lets out a soft, surprised yelp of pain as it bites into her, sending a lancing pain through her arm before she can even react.
she doesn't have anything to fight back with, so she just brings the lighter's flame up to it and tries to get away before the rest of the goo can lash out at her. ]
[Can't believe Vira is about to get vored because they were playing jenga.
Unfortunately for everyone else in this stack, nobody told me no when I asked if Sheila was on the bottom. So the moment she hears that yelp, she whips around—]
Vira?!
[—and totally forgets she has two other people on top of her shoulders. Goodbye, bitches. Her job is done here. "She did nothing to help." Her job is done.]
[ oh, no, he is no longer jengaing on sheila and is instead hitting the ground. he is a computer nerd, there is no way he is catching himself in a cool fashion with this. harrow probably steps on him because she was on the top but i will allow siz to confirm this fact.
either way, once he is able to, he scrambles onto his feet and runs over to where the commotion is. ]
[She was probably stepping on him before Vira yelled. Harrow is like. Very not athletic or aerodynamic in any way. She's wearing a corset made of bones and it's really not very moveable. But she will try to grab on to the edge of the chair when she feels herself falling, if she can.
Of course, then she notices the fight!]
Vira! [She - is staying put for now depending on whether she grabbed the chair or fell ten feet on top of a nerd but either way she's concerned?]
[the goo monster proceeds to open its mouth wider and swallows her entire arm. the arm is not gone, but vira will get the impression that this thing is trying to swallow her like a snake. it does not give a single shit about the fire.
the rest of the goo strings are coming after her as well, but they get distracted by the shouting. one other one goes towards vira - three more move toward sheila and sasazuka in a motion reminiscent of a stop motion slinky. one launches itself towards sheila's feet, and the other two ram right into sasazuka's stomach with the intent of knocking him down.
harrow is clinging to the chair, and she can see the handle of the door from here a little better. she can also see goo caterpillars eating her fellow compatriots and maybe one friend. above her, the rattling gets worse again as the wind picks up.]
[At first she planned to run over to help Vira, but now a goo caterpillar is coming for her life, too? Nah, man. Nah. A bitch is just going to immediately jump and turn in the opposite direction, trying to yakety sax it away from Vira and Takeru.
[ sheila just abandoned them so fucking fast i'm in tears
meanwhile, this bitch is just getting tackled by two of them, i guess!! he stumbles, falling down to his knees, and he will try to scramble back up so he can finish running over to vira before she gets vored. ]
Stupid fucking shitty ass worm bullshit fucker!!
[ anyway how well he manages to do this is up for debate but he will try ]
[ running away is probably the right reaction to vore, honestly
at the very least, the other two help divide the worms' attention. she grits her teeth as the goopillar expands up her arm, snatching it with her free hand and trying to wrench its horrible little mouth open like a snake. either way, she's going to try and pull her arm free, even if it means a little mauling. beats being consumed whole.
if she's successful, she's going to grab sasazuka and book it. ]
[Okay, first things first, once she manages to pull her weakling self up onto the chair. She is going to grab one of her ribs on her corset, snap it, and toss the bone down towards Vira. Have a weapon - not much of one, and maybe not helpful with goo, but it's something.
Once that's done, she takes a look at the handle - she can do more good staying here than helping the others, right? Her dear friends Vira, Sheila and [looks at smudged handwriting] Sassafras. So she will climb towards the handle and do her best to catch the handle with her hands, hopefully pulling it down. If it's not enough to pull it standing on the chair, she'll let go and put her weight on it.]
[yakkity sax plays in the background as the worm misses sheila and hits a wall. it lays there, defeated, for the moment.
the other two worms have attached themselves to sasazuka. one is gnawing on his shoulder and trying to expand to his arm. the other slid down and is trying to eat his leg. someone help this twink.
thankfully the worm is not like, super strong, so vira manages to wrench it off of her. it does leave a huge ring of teeth around her upper arm, though. it means a little mauling and her arm's kind of fucked up, but it's fine. at least she can walk!
harrow manages to climb up, and grab the handle. she might have to jump a little, but it's fine - the handle comes down, and the door squeaks open slowly, just enough for the four of them to be able to get through it. probably. if they don't get eaten by goo worms first.
it's really dark, by the way, and if your lighter is out, you're freezing.]
[The goo monster hits the wall, and the first words out of Sheila's mouth are:]
Suck my dick, bitch!
[This is not the time for this.
But with the door open and her monster temporarily out, she circles back to Vira and Takeru. Hope they enjoyed getting shoved, because she is absolutely crowding them through the door while simultaneously trying to yank the goo away from Takeru's shoulder. What about the one on his leg? Sounds like a problem for someone else's free hand!]
[ thanks, mom and also bone friend. vira catches harrow's gift before it can clatter against the ground, ignoring the sting in her injured arm as she jabs the bone into the worm biting at takeru's leg to help wrench it off as they're shuffled away.
and so they stumble through the door. ]
I've never seen them before— [ she quickly ignites her lighter again with a shiver. at least they didn't vore both her arms... ] But my apologies, I shouldn't have allowed that to happen.
[ hopefully the light will not reveal a hundred more goo worms or anything. ]
[Well, Harrow doesn't have her lighter out because she's holding on with both hands, and also on a door handle/chair that's like ten feet off the ground? She will try to lower herself off the ledge of the chair and then let go, falling near the door in a loud clatter of bones. She'll pick herself up gingerly and scramble after them into the next room, and reach to get her lighter back out when she notices the chill.]
It isn't your fault. You did well, fighting them off.
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the floor is metal, so there are definitely rusty spots here and there where the water seems to have been sitting for a while. the water seems to be dripping down from the ceiling, based on what they can see. unfortunately it's not bright enough for takeru to see what's on the ceiling, but all four of them can kind of make out other objects now.
there's a pile of books, all completely waterlogged, but like the chair, they're just a bit too big. they're about half the size of sheila. a bunch of metal shelving sits on the floor across the room, as well as a few cardboard boxes, all similarly sized as the chair and books. just a little bit too big.]
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Uh.
[WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING BIG. NOW SHE IS DEFINITELY BITING HER FINGER.]
Guys, I have a question. Did we shrink... or is this furniture for a giant?
[Speaking of that giant chair, though. Is the seat itself within view with their baby light? Or will they have to stack on each other like clown jenga to see?]
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his canon is too normie for this
it takes sasazuka a few seconds to accept that, yes, this is what he is seeing right now. he is going to walk slowly to the pile of books and try to?? read what the titles are, if it's visible. ]
I'm not really sure which option is worse. What is this place? Are we on a different floor?
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I haven't the faintest. Whatever the case, we should probably avoid drawing the attention of whoever lives here.
[ Did someone knock them out again and bring them somewhere new? This doesn't feel like an indulgence, though. She goes ahead a bit to check out the shelving, to see if anything's on it. ]
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Be careful. Don't stray far.
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the pile of books are really wrecked by water, but if sasazuka squints he can likely make out some words from one of them:
hands ient food po my butt ns me gay
as he's reading this fascinating piece of literature, vira is checking out the shelves, and there's definitely something there. a black sort of goo drips off the top shelf down to the floor, bit by bit. in multiple places, too, it's really all over the shelving unit.
in the cardboard boxes, there are four hats. ]
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[SHOUTY BUT WHISPERING. Because she is not rude enough to ignore suggestions. She will take a look around the leg chairs and under the seat as well, but...]
I think I can give someone a boost and reach the top of this chair, too. Might be something up there. You never know what could fall out of someone's giant butt pocket.
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There was nothing useful about the books, they're too damaged.
[ but uh he will walk over to sheila to help out since he's the tallest one here, even though apparently it's not by fucking much since THEY'RE ALL SO SHORT THIS IS A HORRIBLE CYOA FOR THIS GROUP ]
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since harrow is the lightest she'll leave those three to jenga. ]
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It is nonsense, but easily decipherable if you put any effort into it. It says 'Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt and Turns Me Gay.' Clearly a pornographic novel of some sort.
[She announces this so smugly. And then will return to be jenga'd up the chair. But first, the hats.]
I found these. They're likely useless, but please inspect them and keep them with you in case there's relevance to a puzzle.
[She will hand Sasazuka the newsboy cap, Vira the police cap, Sheila the furry cap, and herself the water cap.]
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as they're doing that, vira is checking out the goo. it's also checking her out? because the second she gets too close, a long, thick, caterpillar like string of oil-like goo shoots out at her and latches onto her arm. she can't see it, but she does feel a sharp pain as the thing bites her arm with its lamprey teeth mouth.
a few other strands of goo shudder and make a sound like the grinding of metal as they gloop off the shelf to the floor towards vira.
so that's fun. glad y'all are having a grand time with the hats.]
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she doesn't have anything to fight back with, so she just brings the lighter's flame up to it and tries to get away before the rest of the goo can lash out at her. ]
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Unfortunately for everyone else in this stack, nobody told me no when I asked if Sheila was on the bottom. So the moment she hears that yelp, she whips around—]
Vira?!
[—and totally forgets she has two other people on top of her shoulders. Goodbye, bitches. Her job is done here. "She did nothing to help." Her job is done.]
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[ oh, no, he is no longer jengaing on sheila and is instead hitting the ground. he is a computer nerd, there is no way he is catching himself in a cool fashion with this. harrow probably steps on him because she was on the top but i will allow siz to confirm this fact.
either way, once he is able to, he scrambles onto his feet and runs over to where the commotion is. ]
What's going on?!
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Of course, then she notices the fight!]
Vira! [She - is staying put for now depending on whether she grabbed the chair or fell ten feet on top of a nerd but either way she's concerned?]
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the rest of the goo strings are coming after her as well, but they get distracted by the shouting. one other one goes towards vira - three more move toward sheila and sasazuka in a motion reminiscent of a stop motion slinky. one launches itself towards sheila's feet, and the other two ram right into sasazuka's stomach with the intent of knocking him down.
harrow is clinging to the chair, and she can see the handle of the door from here a little better. she can also see goo caterpillars eating her fellow compatriots and maybe one friend. above her, the rattling gets worse again as the wind picks up.]
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[At first she planned to run over to help Vira, but now a goo caterpillar is coming for her life, too? Nah, man. Nah. A bitch is just going to immediately jump and turn in the opposite direction, trying to yakety sax it away from Vira and Takeru.
Help us, Harrow-wan Boneobi. You're our only ho.]
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meanwhile, this bitch is just getting tackled by two of them, i guess!! he stumbles, falling down to his knees, and he will try to scramble back up so he can finish running over to vira before she gets vored. ]
Stupid fucking shitty ass worm bullshit fucker!!
[ anyway how well he manages to do this is up for debate but he will try ]
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at the very least, the other two help divide the worms' attention. she grits her teeth as the goopillar expands up her arm, snatching it with her free hand and trying to wrench its horrible little mouth open like a snake. either way, she's going to try and pull her arm free, even if it means a little mauling. beats being consumed whole.
if she's successful, she's going to grab sasazuka and book it. ]
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Once that's done, she takes a look at the handle - she can do more good staying here than helping the others, right? Her dear friends Vira, Sheila and [looks at smudged handwriting] Sassafras. So she will climb towards the handle and do her best to catch the handle with her hands, hopefully pulling it down. If it's not enough to pull it standing on the chair, she'll let go and put her weight on it.]
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the other two worms have attached themselves to sasazuka. one is gnawing on his shoulder and trying to expand to his arm. the other slid down and is trying to eat his leg. someone help this twink.
thankfully the worm is not like, super strong, so vira manages to wrench it off of her. it does leave a huge ring of teeth around her upper arm, though. it means a little mauling and her arm's kind of fucked up, but it's fine. at least she can walk!
harrow manages to climb up, and grab the handle. she might have to jump a little, but it's fine - the handle comes down, and the door squeaks open slowly, just enough for the four of them to be able to get through it. probably. if they don't get eaten by goo worms first.
it's really dark, by the way, and if your lighter is out, you're freezing.]
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Suck my dick, bitch!
[This is not the time for this.
But with the door open and her monster temporarily out, she circles back to Vira and Takeru. Hope they enjoyed getting shoved, because she is absolutely crowding them through the door while simultaneously trying to yank the goo away from Takeru's shoulder. What about the one on his leg? Sounds like a problem for someone else's free hand!]
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admittedly it is hard to walk like this when they are clearly rushing, but sometimes you need to ignore inconvenience. ]
What the hell are these things...?
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and so they stumble through the door. ]
I've never seen them before— [ she quickly ignites her lighter again with a shiver. at least they didn't vore both her arms... ] But my apologies, I shouldn't have allowed that to happen.
[ hopefully the light will not reveal a hundred more goo worms or anything. ]
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It isn't your fault. You did well, fighting them off.
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