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Hm.

[ well. yeah. it's very whelming.

she's going to inspect the bowl. ]

This song is a little...

[ a little a lot. ]

Mm. I don't think I like it much. [ it's so cursed. ]

[ —anyway. going to keep close to Eirene, and check out the fridge. ]

You open the fridge, only to find that the interior is an absolute mess. Which is to say it's a jumble of image compression artifacts that are so horrendous you literally cannot tell any object in this fridge apart from any other.

You could stick your hand into it and grab something out of it if you really want to.

[ absolutely recoils and slams the door of the fridge shut. No Thank You. ]

Whatever's in there... it's gone Wyld-tainted, I think.

Like, ah—moldy?

No—ah, how to describe it—

There aren't things in there, but rather warped and tangled fragments of them. It reminds me of the legends I have heard of what happens to creatures who stray too close to the borders of reality.

...I see. Er—well. In that case I think you're right.

I don't know much about the borders of reality, but—this place does seem to fit that... kind of description.

I still don't quite know how this Hell is connected to so many worlds, but it really wouldn't be surprising if the Wyld had something to do with it.

[ pause ]

Gods, but I hope we're not in the Wyld right now.

Re: KITCHEN

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[ "There aren't things in there, but rather warped and tangled fragments of them. It reminds me of the legends I have heard of what happens to creatures who stray too close to the borders of reality."

very sexy of it

she's reopening the fridge to grab something before they go. ]

CONGRATULATIONS! GET EQUIPPED WITH:

A Bottle of FUN.JPEG

This is a bottle of glitter? Drinkable glitter?

Oh...wait, no...it...it bestows upon everything it touches the visual quality of a painfully shitty jpeg which is also a cellphone picture of a screen. We've passed the realm of deep fried and gone straight into ̷͚̃͋͂̊ ̷̗͆̎̕ ̶̳̐̂̂̇ ̸͇͗͗̿̄ ̸̡̧̹͔͑̚ ̴̡̖̝̠̅͑͗͝ ̴̋̒ ̶̨̛̜͂̾ ̶̳̙͇̣͂̒̊ 🅱ȩ̵̳̻̲͐̓͘͝e̴̞̱͑͛🅱 ̷̃͋͂ ̷̗͆̎̕ ̶̳̐̂̂̇ ̸͇͗͗̿̄ ̸̡̧̹͔͑̚ ̴̡̖̝̠̅͑͗͝ ̴͈̋̒͠ ̶̨̛̜͂̾ ̶̳̙͇̣͂̒̊ ̶͔͘͝ ̵̙̌🅱ṙ̵̢̙̏͝i̸̡͖̯̎̀͘e̴̠͛͠🅱 ̷̃͋͂̊ ̷̗͆̎̕ ̶̳̐̂̂̇ ̸͇͗͗̿̄ ̸̡̧̹͔͑̚ ̴̡̖̝̠̅͑͗͝ ̴͈̋̒͠ ̶̨̛̜͂̾ ̶̳̙͇̣͂̒̊ ̶͔͘͝ ̵̙̌.. If you do decide to drink mystery ?fluid? you found in a dolphin mansion, it at least only lasts for an hour on living things! Your life will not be permanently reduced to a disgustingly compressed, washed-out image. Unless, of course, that's already what your life is.

In addition, Aradia has been afflicted with TWO of the following effects:

- An intense bitterness toward people who have some trait that you admire.
- BLOODLUST! BLOODLUST! BLOODLUST!
- All faces or face-like objects are now covered in mosiacs

Edited 2021-08-21 17:09 (UTC)

[ ahaha

gently setting it in the bag. ]

[ momvoice I turn around for ONE SECOND— ]

Aradia!

...well, it's no harm done, right?

[ her expression tightens a bit, like this distinct flash of shut up you're not my real mom ]

Mm, isn't it fine? After all, I didn't bring a weapon like you did, did I, Mother-in-Law?

It'll be helpful for when we're back, won't it?

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Re: KITCHEN

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It's a bowl of pears, with a note sitting next to it.

Edited 2021-08-21 16:48 (UTC)

Ah—listen to this—

[ she reads the note aloud. ]

I'm. Concerned?

Maybe we should take the pears with us?

... Maybe ...

Um - I brought my bag, so I could carry a few of them, if we wanted them to be analyzed when we came back...

[ in the interim, she's writing the contents of the note down using her phone and snapping a few photos. ]

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Oh, that's true! That's a good idea.

...I could probably at least stick one in my pocket, too. Does that mean that this is the "final ingredient"?

I don't think that I remember very much about potion making ...

[ but she is reaching to put two of the pears in her bag. gotta have backup samples ]

I'll try and do research on it when we're back too, okay?

CONGRATULATIONS! GET EQUIPPED WITH:

This Pear

It's literally just a pear. It tastes good? If you like pears, anyway.

This Pear

It's literally just a pear. It tastes good? If you like pears, anyway.

It sounds like we've finally got a hint about what is going on here, if only a bare and confusing one.

Taking at least one of the pears may be wise, if we wish to proceed—they clearly are some sort of totem.

Mm... or, at least, we might need them for something? Or need to keep them away from something else.

It's that second part which worries me.

Is this going to be the sort of tale that requires us to set free some god or demon before we can slay it, I wonder.

Or rather, from the messages we received earlier—something has already been freed, I think, but... perhaps it's not at full power yet.

There's another door—should we try it?

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I'm in favor—not least because this music is so jarring I can barely think straight.

But please, let me lead the way this time, in case of ambush.