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Ch.5 "Lost Souls" / Kell and Sigrlinn

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Dark Lord
Kell looks at Sigrlinn and says, "She's bringing someone or something with better chances of being able to either aid us or kill us. If you want to stay, we could always just stay up here on the ceiling out of her reach. If she brings anything that looks like a tool for fly-killing, we can always try to dart out of here. So much depends on the nature of the beings in this place, and we have no sense of that."

"Why don't we stay here, but take a position as close to the door as we can manage?"




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Ireth

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Mythic Scribe
"Well, that's not foreboding at all." Sigrlinn hastily presses the button and hopes for the best.

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Dark Lord
Kell punches the green button herself, unsure what she needs to do. "Here goes nothing," she mutters.




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Legendary Sidekick

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The maid returns with a Loud Stick. It says,

ZHWRVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

And as the maid passes by all of the dust rings, she sucks them inside her Loud Stick.

The loud stick goes silent, and the maid looks around. "Oh, why, fly? I need you to die." She doesn't notice you by the door, even though she looks there. But she instead aims the Loud Stick at the book shelf and other good places to hide.

ZHWRVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

She gives up after a minute and stifles her Loud Stick. She then aims a rectangle at a HearthVision box. There are Iron Maidens on the screen wearing drama masks. The masks are smiley, suggesting their act is intended to be comedic.

MAIDEN A: "Greetings, Maiden B."

MAIDEN B: "Salutations, Maiden A. Do I sense an emission of methane?"

MAIDEN A: "I wish you did not call attention to such a fact. I am of a level of intelligence that renders me capable of embarrassment."

MAIDEN B: "Though I am incapable of remorse, please accept my apology. I will match my words with an action that suggests sincerity, such as opening a window to release the methane emission."

MAIDEN A: "I appreciate this gesture."

LAUGH TRACK: "Beep."

The maid complains, "This act is ridiculous, but the advice is sound." She opens a window and says, "Just go away, fly." She doesn't bother looking for you, but sits on the sofa and continues to watch HV.
 
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Mythic Scribe
Sigrlinn whispers to Kell, "I don't think she's going to be of any help. Let's keep looking in other rooms."
 
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Dark Lord
Kell nods. "Works for me." She then works the stick and pedals to move them through the door.


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In the hallway, there is a strip of paper hanging from the ceiling. There are two metal flies stuck to it. Both are facing the ceiling, with one a quarter-inch directly below the other. Each fly is being driven by a metal man your size. The man in the back beeps his horn at the man in front of him. The man in front gives the man in back the middle finger.

Words flash on your windows:
WARNING: Adhesive surface detected! Avoid adhesive surface!

You can retreat and fly out the window, or continue through the hallway. Avoiding the fly paper should be easy. ((No die roll.))
 
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Mythic Scribe
Sigrlinn steers the metal fly within calling distance of the ones stuck to the paper, and tries her luck again. "Excuse me! My friend and I are looking for someone. Name of Heph. Have you seen him?"
 
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Dark Lord
"The locals don't seem to be very friendly, do they?" Kell asks with a wry chuckle.


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Ireth

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Mythic Scribe
"Not so far. I hope someone will be able to help us, though. Or at least willing." She looks left and right for other open doors they might peek through.
 
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The hallway leads to a kitchen. If there are other rooms, those are beyond closed doors. (Two doors; both shut.)

There is a device with bright red spirals on it and a pot of boiling something. Steam escapes through the open window.

Outside, there is a large glass globe floating in the sky behind the gears. The globe resembles those under the lampshades in the home, but it's much bigger and brighter.
 
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Kell asks, "Sigrlinn, do you still need to be careful about avoiding the sun?"


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Sigrlinn blinks. "I don't know... Apollo was the main reason behind that, and his mortal form is destroyed. But I don't know how hard it'd be for him to make a new one, either. And I still don't know where we are, so how can we be sure of how things like that would work? That sun out there doesn't look quite like the one we'd know."
 
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Indeed, the sun you see is simply a light source. As far as you can tell, there isn't an archer god driving it. That, and Apollo would have shot you by not if he saw you through the window.

Of course, you are also smaller than a fly's eye. The normal-sized people on this world just see a fly, and the you-sized people so far are simpletons. Even the mechanical women as smart as Heph's, and they are emotionless and single-purposed. Both of you have experiences that show Heph's maidens to be more like women than machines.

As a cloud of gears covers the sun, you notice more of the city below. There is a large sign that shows a picture of Heph handsomely armored. The sign says:

Every night is Ladies' Night at the Knight Club

Admission: $0.00

A speech bubble to Heph's lower right says, "And I'm free too, ladies! Wa-hoo."
 
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Kell points excitedly at the sign. "The Knight Club, look! Heph's at the Knight Club! Oh, let's get moving."


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