There was another shove at Walton's back as he careened Northwards onto the metal platform. He took two steps forward and collapsed. The remnants of the group gathered around him. His skin was very pale and he was coughing heavily. He raised his head slightly and proceeded to vommit over the side of the platform into the inky blackness below. Then he fell hard against the floor with a loud clank.

Urk walked over and poked him with a long finger.

"Earthling, respond." He insisted but Walton just lay still.

Nothing had changed about the room much. The bridge from South to North was still intact, extending for twice the length of a standard room. The exit at the far North was locked and there was another just East of it. Beneath the platform, the flimsy metal pipe curved in from the Eastern exit, extended South past their positions and moved out across the West over the void.

And on the far West, twice the width of a standard room along, they saw the small platform with an exit South and another West. In the middle, the large metal rotating platform was raised high above and unreachable. Boone scuttled about looking for anything different and that was when he noticed the chalk message on the wall. It read:

"Forever yours my shapeshifter <3"

He took a second or two to glance at it before the howling disrupted him. It was coming from the North-West and it was close. Not right outside, but close enough to hear clearly. It sent a shiver through the six of them standing. Boone's fur stood up on end as he got ready to run. It was the kind of sound that reacted with their primal instincts.

It was followed by another strange sound, close by. Walton had picked himself up off the ground and was looking worse for wear, but no longer coughing. He sat himself down silently near the edge of the platform.

It is now Phase 72. Phase 72 will end in roughly 24 hours from now.

Players (7):
Boone
Dern
Eleanor
Maria
Rita
Urk
Walton (I)

Exits:
North (Locked)
East
South

*scampers into corner*
i dont like those sounds. two of them toOo....

mmm.

Well we won't be hearing them for long. Who's going first?

And I think Walton's down to his last life based on the flavor. =/

Poor Walton. :(

i dont have a response on the walkie yet
but when we move. we will lose whoever it is :sad:

should wE wait as long as we can? to give the other maximum time to respond

I don't think so.

While the timing sucks, we can't afford to waste any more phases sitting around in one place. If we have any hope of finishing in the next 38 phases, we have to keep moving forward.

i mEAAn wait some hours into this phase. but still teleport and exit in the past before this phase ends. i dont meaan wait another phase in this room

The portal won't take us until the end of the phase (since we don't have the staff -_-), so we're good.

:sad:
i miss the staff

Me too.

*startles Rita and starts kissing her*

Rita my love, I knew you couldn't rehseest me. When we are done with zis feeasco, we'll go to Parees and 'ave a romanteec vacation, deennehr under ze stars yehs?

Rita, why are you crying? You are suppose to be 'appy!

Pew?

Why are you 'olding your nose?

##Exit: Portal

It's my fucking idea, so I will take the risk.

Now, if anybody can help me retrieve the descriptions of rooms near guardians, that would be handy.

We need to look for patterns.

As for the walkie, don't hold your fucking breath Boone. They didn't respond last time we had contact, right?

Maybe you could try get them talking by saying we freed Cassandra or some shit.

#Push: Walton Portal

Is that actually possible? I can't remember.

Anyway, I have changed my mind.

##Unexit

I think there is a puzzle to be fucking solved here. Unfortunately, I am basing the theory I am about to share with you guys on this room alone, since I foolishly forget to note down any information that the other group shared with us about there encounters with rooms near guardians.

I am making a few assumptions here, so keep these in mind when reading this theory:

1: That there are pipes near each guardian room.
2: Each guardian is impossible to reach at the moment.

Ok, on to the theory!

Look at this:



It is my interpretation of the layout of this room. I don't know how accurate it is, so if somebody wants to check I got everything in the right place, please go ahead.

Fucking anyway, so far all our goals have been stated. But usually there is a puzzle to be solved in Lab. Something we have to figure out on our own.

My theory is that we have to get water running through these pipes, and that somehow that will give us access to the guardians. For instance, water running through the pipe extending westwards might lower the platform above us so we can walk across it. Shit...I don't know.

Maybe this has to do with the sluice gate/winch, and diverting the current to the waterways. Waterways kind of suggests a fucking sewer system, right?

The sluice shit is a big fucking feature of the map, as is the dried canal. And so far, we have not gone as far as interacting with it. But what if that is our key to unlocking access to the guardians?

THEORY TIME FUCKING OVER.

Please go out of your way to tell me why this is fucking wrong. Because I cannot think of a better course of action right now then to head North to the sluice controls.