PSI 6.

[OUTPUT: A B Y S S A L 8 O D D I T Y]
[OUTPUT: PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MODULES / MUSIC / CREDITS / QUIT ]
>Play game
[OUTPUT: Is this your last saved game: http://pastebin.com/tfs27ekd]
>Probably
[OUTPUT: Loading...]
When will it not
[OUTPUT: Loading game...]
Because some eldritch asshole will switch saves
[OUTPUT: Game loaded successfully. Please enter command.]
I know it
>use acess cube
We already did.
The second terminal just got activated?
[OUTPUT: It did.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
And Cyan is almost alive
Hmm, I wonder if...
Floating up to the balconies would be a good idea
No thanks to Doctor Asshole
He's a spindly shit
We can take him
[OUTPUT: The guy instantly killed Cyan.]
Only if he can use his stolen gem
Does the mask cover his eyes>
I suggest we break his arm
[OUTPUT: His eyes are covered, yes.]
The one that has the computer
What's to stop him from just using the other arm
[OUTPUT: Absolutely nothing.]
Break the other arm
No arms
No glory
>Send a water bolt hard into the side of his face, hopefully also knocking has mask off
[OUTPUT: Given that the guy is presumably a bird person, the mask is pretty damn affixed to his face, given the beak.]
Oh..
>Make a bolt of poison water and send it through his robes
[OUTPUT: If I recall correctly, you did already do something of that sort.]
[OUTPUT: There's certainly poison under there, at least.]
I assume poision doesn't stack?
poison*
[OUTPUT: Who knows?
[OUTPUT: Me. I know.]
[OUTPUT: And the answer is probably not.]
Can the thing fly?
[OUTPUT: No.]
My plan with the arms
No arms, no glory
>Use condensensed water to knock the thing off the balcony, onto the floor.
Though my mistaken idea of him using his own gem damaging himself to attack us has given me an idea for an entity
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master is caught up by the tidal stream, and slammed painfully against the side of the balcony.]
[OUTPUT: He begins to be dragged off the side...]
But doesn't
[OUTPUT: But manages to overpower you and leap back on, yes.]
Fuck this guy
[OUTPUT: Still, you can see the poison is affecting him.]
Does the poison last forever.
[OUTPUT: No.]
No silly
Only till he dies
Which shouldn't be long
[OUTPUT: I have been robbed of words.]
Git Gud
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: With a swift hand, the gnarled Plague Master pulls forth vials upon vials of toxic green fluid, as if to say 'you think your poison is good'?]
[OUTPUT: He proceeds to toss five vials of the stuff in your direction. You have a chance to react.]
>Combat roll Dark Souls style
>Do that, but also use water to parry them away from you
Not being Dark Souls 1 Master Race
Eldritch Horrors, Morally Amibigous Gods, and Dragons
What more can you want
Nothing
[OUTPUT: You don't actually roll out of the way. You just rush back, because you aren't some sort of acrobat.]
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, you manage to shatter the vials in midair.]
[OUTPUT: Green fluid spills to the ground, creating a toxic wall between the two of you.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
I think we should throw him into his own toxins
[OUTPUT: He's on a balcony.]
For ironic purposes
Also because it is funny
Can we absorb the poison?
Absorb with our own poison water, that is.
Like a solution
^
[OUTPUT: There's quite a bit, but you might be able to give it a try.]
[OUTPUT: It would certainly improve the deadliness of said water.]
Alright...
>ASSAULT: engage the weaponized water solution motherfucker
>Send a bolt of poisoned water across the floor, absorbing some of the poision as it goes. Have it shoot up just before the balcony and hit the master from below.
[OUTPUT: You absorb the substance up into your poisoned water, and strike the Plague Master straight in the legs.]
[OUTPUT: He emits a growl, and presses a few more buttons on his computer, eliciting a great deal more apparent agony.]
[OUTPUT: As he does so, however, you can see the increased poison at work.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master pulls up a personal bubble of purple light, and steps into the room the tribalcony is connected to, slowly removing himself from the situation.]
[OUTPUT: A click alerts you of two things.]
[OUTPUT: One, the leftmost key terminal is open, and appears to connect to some sort of elevator system in the balcony above.]
[OUTPUT: Two, all of the blast doors are beginning to hiss, the sounds of flesh on metal ringing through the air.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Observe
[OUTPUT: Plague Master: 5/20 HP. NOTES: A psychotic robed being with a plague doctor mask. Wields both highly enhanced and poisoned chemical armament and what appears to be a cut topaz gem sealed within a small computer screen, set of wires, and holokeyboard. Poisoned.]
[OUTPUT: Azure Lapis: 11/15 HP. ]
[OUTPUT: As for that, the apatite stone in your hands, carefully guarded, rises into the air.]
Doc is going down, hard.
[OUTPUT: The familiar glowing cyan figure of pure energy bursts into reality, and Cyan returns. She is surprisingly unshaken for having been killed instantly.]
>welcome Cyan back into the world of the living
[OUTPUT: You do so.]
[OUTPUT: "Where is that little shit."]
>"Hiding.:
Alright...
[OUTPUT: Cyan nods. "Please, lead the way."]
>ask her to guard your back as you activate the final cube
[OUTPUT: She's already on that.]
>Head towards the terminal
>Take out the last unused cube
[OUTPUT: You reach the leftmost terminal, and pull out cube # 0612.]
>Open face 1
[OUTPUT: Face one is literally just a hologram of Alex Hirsch attempting to convince a Gravity Falls fan that Bill Cipher is indeed secretly a dorito.]
>Face 2
[OUTPUT: Face two is an interactive holoscreen with a tic-tac-toe board on it.]
>Play?
>play tic tac toe like a champe
[OUTPUT: Where do you go?]
Middle
[OUTPUT: X or O?]
CURRENT abyssalUnderlord [CAU] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
>X since you are going first, right?
No, not middle.
>X, upper left
[OUTPUT: You put an X in the upper left box.]
[OUTPUT: The cube responds by putting an eye in the middle.]
>X lower right
[OUTPUT: You put another X in the lower right box.]
Wait
[OUTPUT: Too late.]
this is probably gonna end in a cat or whatever its called
Instead of O's it is eyes?
That is fucked up
[OUTPUT: The cube sticks an eye into the middle left box.]
Middle right.
X
>
[OUTPUT: Next, an eye in the upper right.]
>X, lower left
[OUTPUT: Eye, lower middle.]
>X, upper middle
This is really intense
[OUTPUT: Tie. The board resets, wasting valuable time as the blast doors open up.]
GODDAMNIT
I'd rather play thermonuclear warfare
[OUTPUT: There is already an eye in the lower left.]
The Computer
Is a cheating bastard
hey man this is X's and Eyes
[OUTPUT: These are eyes.]
>Alright, X in middle
[OUTPUT: Eye in the lower right.]
>X in lower middle
[OUTPUT: Eye in upper middle.]
>X in middle left
[OUTPUT: Eye in middle right.]
>X in top right
[OUTPUT: Eye in top left. Tie, and reset.]
[OUTPUT: The first blast door across the room opens up.]
>Cyan: Face it
[OUTPUT: Cyan mows whatever is in there down with a plasma bolt, and looks over to you. "Please /hurry/!"]
Alright, are we playing
[OUTPUT: Yes.]
>X, upper left
[OUTPUT: Eye in middle.]
>"I would but the computer is a cheating little shit!"
[OUTPUT: Do you want to say that?]
>X, lower right
[OUTPUT: Eye in lower left.]
No
It could offend Cyan
Alright, wait
>X, upper right
Haven't any of you watched War Games
[OUTPUT: Eye, middle right.]
It always ends in a tie
We need to lose
I think
[OUTPUT: Nah, he has this.]
>X, middle top
[OUTPUT: Congrats.]
[OUTPUT: The cube is locked into the terminal magnetically.]
[OUTPUT: The elevator platform comes down from the balcony.]
Thank you XKCD #832
>"Sorry about all of this!"
>See if the blast doors are still opening
[OUTPUT: Cyan responds by rolling her eyes, grabbing you by the waist, and pulling the both of you onto the platform.]
[OUTPUT: The plaform rises just as all the other blast doors open up.]
[OUTPUT: You can now enter the room the Plague Master went into.]
>Both: Make shields, enter
[OUTPUT: You both make shields, and step in, covering each other.]
[OUTPUT: The room appears to be empty, terminating in a long hallway. The walls are coated in some sort of sparkling dust, and there are several canisters about filled with cracked and shattered crystals.]
He is fucking dead
[OUTPUT: You can count four canisters.]
>Take canisters
[OUTPUT: +4 Murder Cylinders.]
Well
>as you trudge onward, pay silent respects to the dead
>Onward
[OUTPUT: You head onwards, cursing that bastard under your breath. The clouded look in Cyan's eyes can quite clearly convey her opinion on the subject.]
Who is this guy?
[OUTPUT: As you sprint down the hallway together, a beam of yellow plasma crashes into your shields, forcing the both of you back a foot or so.]
I mean, fuck me, you don't have murder chambers lying around
He's been doing this for a long time
[OUTPUT: You have moments to react.]
>Cyan: Launch a beam into the beam
>toss a murder chamber at him
[OUTPUT: The beam has dissipated.]
Oh, then what are we reacting to
>then attempt to take cover
[OUTPUT: The whole 'being startled by assault' thing.]
>Yeah, sure, take cover
[OUTPUT: Where would cover be? This is a four-foot-wide hallway, with nothing whatsoever on the walls, floor, or ceiling.]
>create cover via water
>Cyan: Lay supressive fire
>Look for source
[OUTPUT: The source is quite clearly in the chamber at the other end of the hall.]
>Deploy Murder Cylinders for cover
>Run forward, shields up
[OUTPUT: You want to use foot-long tubes filled with corpses for cover?]
wait i imagined them as barrel sized even though they probably aren't
[OUTPUT: You charge into uncertain death.]
Can we beat him to death with the Murder Tubes?
[OUTPUT: The next room appears to be quite a long chamber, with the end serving as a sort of of raised platform, stairs leading up to it.]
[OUTPUT: Probably not. They are made of psioglass.]
...
Is it bad
That I want to make a psionic coffee machine out of it
[OUTPUT: Hah.]
>Look around for threats
Hmm.
^
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master is quite obviously on the platform across from you. He appears to be prying something out of the computer.]
>smash it out of his hands via water
No toys for the murder man
>^, but gently
[OUTPUT: He's well over ninety feet away. You don't have enough water, or time.]
don't want to damage the Gem.
Oh.
>running tackle maybe
>or Cyan can shoot him
look meanıngfully at cyan
>Have Cyan shoot him (well away from the computer) with a beam.
>Cyan: Distract master using plasma beams, making sure not to hit what is probably the gem
>Azure: Run forth
[OUTPUT: The fellow pries the topaz gem from the computer, tossing the mechanical bits aside.]
NO
[OUTPUT: Please vote on a course of action from the given.]
Oh shit he has a hostage.
Hmm.
>Fseftr's plan.
...would the gem break just by hitting the floor?
[OUTPUT: If only you had the Interstellar Riot Police, Hostage Division.]
Fseftr's question
Why is their a SERIAL KILLER in space?
is a good one.
*there
[OUTPUT: Depends on how forcefully it is removed from the grasp of the Plague Master.]
[OUTPUT: Which would vary depending on the strength of his grip, which you don't really know.]
Hmm, alright...
>Do my thing
>do the plasma beam thing
[OUTPUT: Very well.]
Too bad we don't have any equivalent of Rose's healing tears.
[OUTPUT: Cyan lays down suppressive fire.]
[OUTPUT: Yet.]
Or Steven's healing spit, for that matter.
Hah.
Seriously
Who is Doc
[OUTPUT: The blasts are all caught in the violet energy bubble around the guy.]
[OUTPUT: You run forth.]
Space Jeffrey Damher?
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master raises the hand not currently holding the hostage.]
Well
More of a HH Holmes
[OUTPUT: You've got a moment to do something.]
Is the bubble damaged?
[OUTPUT: Nope.]
Well then...
slide and run him through with water?
[OUTPUT: Majority vote required.]
I doubt that'll get through his shield
> Cyan: FULL BARRAGE OF PLASMA BEAMS, Azure: Try and get him with your enhanced poison water.
Wait!
Is the computer outside of the bubble?
[OUTPUT: The mechanical parts, yes.]
>break his toys
The gem is with him.
[OUTPUT: ^]
Hmm.
>Cyan: Use electricity to hit his bubble and blind him
If he can use them, he's powerless
>Azure: Do Crystal's thing
*can't
>Plan Fseftr, I guess.
Sounds good.
[OUTPUT: Very well.]
>still need to dodge
No?
We're blinding him, hopefully
[OUTPUT: Cyan blinds the Plague Master by obfuscating his sight.]
[OUTPUT: You are much less successful. A bolt of poisoned water glances off of the shield.]
[OUTPUT: You are now right next to the bubble.]
Alright... how do we get through this thing's bubble?
I wonder if we can overload it.
Water Pressure?
Apply enough force at a directed point?
I don't think it's plasma or anything? It's like... witch doctor magic.
Maybe our plasma saw>
>Azure: Use plasma saw on the bubble, making sure not to hit the gem or something
>Cyan: Let the light dissipate, approach while firing plasma beams
[OUTPUT: You slice into the bubble with the welding gear's plasma saw, the opaque nature of the bubble fading with the electricity.]
[OUTPUT: Fair enough. It fits quite well.]
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, Cyan reaches your side. After five minutes of sustained fire and cutting, cracks begin to form.]
[OUTPUT: Light pours forth from the splinters in the sorcery.]
[OUTPUT: Perhaps attempting to rectify the error.]
[OUTPUT: Your move?]
So what, he just stood there for five minutes.
[OUTPUT: Absolutely. He poked at the topaz gem with his creepy elderly bird man claws for thirty seconds, and then just watched.]
>drown the bastard
>Continue, but at a more careful pace
[OUTPUT: Despite your attempt at caution, cracks begin to form more and more swiftly. A growl comes forth from the throat of the serial killer.]
[OUTPUT: Then, the bubble bursts.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Observe.
[OUTPUT: Plague Master: 5/20 HP. NOTES: A psychotic robed being with a plague doctor mask. Wields both highly enhanced and poisoned chemical armament and what appears to be a cut topaz gem sealed within a small computer screen, set of wires, and holokeyboard. Poisoned. Has a hostage.]
Hah.
>Cover him in poison water.
(Assault)
[OUTPUT: And Cyan?]
we gotta stack the poison debuff
>blast him square in the chest
Cyan shocks him after we cover him in the water.
[OUTPUT: Laser through the chest, or shocking?]
Robes can insulate
[OUTPUT: This is true.]
Not if they're wet like the rest of him. Still, true.
Maybe hit him lower down?
To minimize the chance of hitting the Gem.
[OUTPUT: Very well.]
Hopefully we got him in the groin
[OUTPUT: Well, the guy is absolutely doused in poison, then blasted through the lower chest, burning a hole straight through the fuck's body.]
I mean, he's a bird
[OUTPUT: Dryblood pours forth from the gaping wound. He looks pretty much defeated.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN AGAIN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Observe.
[OUTPUT: Plague Master: 0/20 HP. NOTES: A psychotic robed being with a plague doctor mask. Wields both highly enhanced and poisoned chemical armament and what appears to be a cut topaz gem sealed within a small computer screen, set of wires, and holokeyboard. Poisoned. Has a hostage.]
>kick him over
>stop on his corpse
>Cyan:Use a plasma beam to detach the arm carrying the gem, being very careful not to hit it
[OUTPUT: You sure you want to do that?]
So he's just basically beaten.
>Azure: Make a water hand to catch the gem
/arm
>Pull the poison water off of him.
>Also do all those other things.
No
[OUTPUT: You prepare for the assault.]
On second thought
[OUTPUT: Too late.]
But
Information
[OUTPUT: Fine.]
[OUTPUT: Ask away.]
>"Who the hell are you?"
[OUTPUT: No response.]
[OUTPUT: Might be hard to speak with all that blood in your lungs, just saying.]
>Attack
[OUTPUT: How?]
What was said above
[OUTPUT: Alright.]
[OUTPUT: Cyan fires a beam of plasma, and it passes through the shoulder of the Plague Master. The arm sadly does not detach, but it is rather wounded.]
[OUTPUT: Then, as you go for the water, you get something interesting, so to speak.]
[OUTPUT: "Еноугх."]
[OUTPUT: Both you and Cyan freeze.]
[OUTPUT: That isn't to say you actively moved to freeze. ]
[OUTPUT: More, it is saying you suddenly cannot move your limbs. You feel a cold feeling in your gem.]
[OUTPUT: What do you do?]
Can Cyan still use her Bioschema?
[OUTPUT: Not really. Electro and hydrokinesis are still functional, though.]
Hm.
May as well talk a bit
[OUTPUT: You can't move your lips.]
Oh...
>Water blade to decapitate the fuck?
It's probably him that's doing this.
Oh, then he dies
And we loot his shit
Yeah, decapitate him.
[OUTPUT: Very well.]
If it works, quickly make a water hand to catch the gem
It it doesn't, fuck
[OUTPUT: You ready the water blade behind him. Cyan seems to understand what you're doing.]
[OUTPUT: Then, a medium-length metal rod slides into the hand of the Plague Master not holding the topaz gem. Blood drains from the holes in his body, and flows from grooves in the rod, forming a blade about a meter and a half in length. You can see his eyes dart to the water blade.]
[OUTPUT: He impales you.]
>Kill each other
>Murder pact
>^ :)
[OUTPUT: Your body can move once more, the water blade reduced to a puddle. Please enter viable command.]
>punch him in the face
>Have Cyan blow his head off.
[OUTPUT: The blade of pure blood protrudes from you back.]
[OUTPUT: Cyan can't move.]
Damn.
>Inventory?
[OUTPUT: AZURE INV: Medkit, Water Vial x2, Undulating Water Vial, Welding Equipment, Cthk'aryvt's Blessing/Curse x4, Gem Fragment x3 Ylahrthuian Salt x3, Amalgam Interface, Access Cube #8751, Access Cube #5082, Access Cube #1011, Murder Cylinder x4.]
>Cyan: Shock him right in the wounds
>Are we close enough for a physical attack?
The electricity would hit us as well through the blood.
[OUTPUT: The guy is within a foot of you, holding the handle of the arcane bloodblade.]
Karmic death time!
We can respawn
He can't
Ehhh
Fuck him
>Take out one of the Murder Cylinders and smash it as hard as you can over his head.
YES
>Knock the fucker dead.
KARMIC JUSTICE
KARMIC JUSTICE
kıll
desecrate
Those gems' sacrifices will now be harnessed to kill their killer.
Perfect.
(Defeat their killer? Whatever.)
[OUTPUT: You weakly bonk the fucker on the head, your strength fading from the, you know, blade sticking out of your back.]
[OUTPUT: With a clean squelching sound, the blade erupts back out of your body, and the Plague Master turns around, letting you drop.]
>Stave off death for just a bit longer
[OUTPUT: Poof.]
we could have hit him with the welding equipment, dammit.
Or not
[OUTPUT: Cyan regains bodily strength, and immediately screams, wide-eyed.]
Naw
>Cyan: Shock him quickly.
Karmic Justice
>Full power.
Wait.
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master reaches toward the teardrop gem on the ground.]
>Blast his head off with the Bioschema.
Better.
[OUTPUT: He picks it up.]
NO
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
No
>Shoot him
>SHOOT HIM NOW
>Shoot him, very fast.
>Don't give him even a second to react.
>Right for the head.
[OUTPUT: Cyan shoots him in the face, immediately.]
[OUTPUT: In the guy still isn't fucking dead, evidently, but his grip loosens slightly on the gems.]
[OUTPUT: Your move?]
>Slice his arm off
>blast his shoulder off
>Blast his arm off.
>the retrive gem and keep firing
How fucking resilient is this guy?!
[OUTPUT: Which gem would it be?]
Azure's
>Azure, of course!
He is powered by the souls of the damned
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, Cyan fires at the Plague Master's damaged shoulder.]
[OUTPUT: It is a clean cut.]
[OUTPUT: Thanks to the plasma.]
>keep shooting
>make him stay down
>Shoot and keep shooting until he can no longer even move.
[OUTPUT: Cyan immediately reaches for your gem, and cradles it close to her chest. The Plague Master responds by sweeping around, and catching the topaz gem in his sword hand.]
>shoot his other arm off
>and then blow his chest out
>then his head
[OUTPUT: A mixture of your blood and the Plague Master's flows from the blade, forming a cloak of vitae, of sorts.]
[OUTPUT: If only Cyan were hydrokinetic.]
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, you fill the guy with holes.]
[OUTPUT: By you, I mean Cyan.]
[OUTPUT: Cyan does that.]
Cyan can be 'you' while Azure is poofed?
I guess?
[OUTPUT: Sure.]
Seriously
Why can't this guy stay dead
Is he a lich?
[OUTPUT: A hand of blood rises from the cloak, wielding the sword itself.]
Oh for fuck's sake
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master uses the opportunity offered by a free hand to raise the topaz gem slightly.]
[OUTPUT: His grip on it begins to tighten.]
He's gonna crush it
>Slice his arm off
Blast the hand
*>
And I do mean slice stop saying blast
>Slice it is then
>Motherfucker. >Slice the arm with the topaz in it off.
The impact will be cushioned by his DEAD FLESH!
[OUTPUT: You slice off the shit's arm with a plasma blade. The arm sails across the room, landing a full thirty feet away, with the gem still in its hand.]
[OUTPUT: The Plague Master chuckles.]
Don't tell me he can control his limbs while they're cut off...
I told you
Vaporization
Only way to be sure
[OUTPUT: The blood hand proceeds to spin around, and impale the Plague Master, the bits of your blood still in there glowing slightly, dripping away from the mix.]
[OUTPUT: The chuckling does not cease.]
HA
[OUTPUT: Furthermore, the guy drops to the ground.]
Crap. Is this guy possessed or something?
heheheheheheheheheh
hue
[OUTPUT: The open flesh of the corpse begins to glow.]
That actually is pretty funny...
Heh
heheheh
Alright
Sanity slippage over
[OUTPUT: Within moments, the body bursts into flames, the metal rod collapsing into a pile of ashes.]
[OUTPUT: The ash rises into the air.]
Oh shit.
Oh fucking shit.
Hah
This one isn't just a bird.
[OUTPUT: It proceeds to form itself into a bolt, and race toward the topaz gem.]
He's a PHOENIX THAT POSSESSES GEMS.
[OUTPUT: Cyan has a moment to react.]
Uh
>Fire all weapons at the bolt of ash. Avoid hitting the fucking gem!
Shouldn't we make a shield?
Wait.
>cut it off with your shield
Oh.
Right.
Shield around the gem!
[OUTPUT: Electricity, plasma, arcanoflame; naught harms the eternal ash as it streaks over to the gem, faster than you can do anything. The ash is undeterred.]
>Plasma shield around the gem.
[OUTPUT: The shield breaks into nothing, the heat seemingly obeying the will of the ash.]
Are you kidding me
He's an old one
I bet a water shield would have fixed the guy.
A fucking Eldritch Horror
>Kick the gem out of the way
Nop.
[OUTPUT: The gem is thirty feet away.]
He's a fucking Phoenix or something.
It would be a mercy kill but should we?
[OUTPUT: Speaking of it, before the ash can reach it, the gem begins to glow.]
One that uses gems a vessels to revive.
Should we attack the gem?
No!
Oh
Nevermind
We don't know if this one can possess bodied gems.
We should protect it, because I doubt he can posess conscious gems.
[OUTPUT: The gem floats into the air, narrowly avoiding the ash as it slams into the ground where it lay formerly.]
possess*
Oh crap, protect Azure's gem!
[OUTPUT: Then, an orange form spills forth from the gem, away from the ashen death.]
>Put Azure in your inventory
Doc Bundy, holly hell
[OUTPUT: Azure is now protected.]
[OUTPUT: The topaz regenerates.]
Yay
Gemfriend
[OUTPUT: "I... what's going on?"]
Can Azure. Uh. Regenerate in the inventory?
[OUTPUT: Probably.]
Because that would be weird and probably bad.
Meh.
[OUTPUT: The gem'll exit the inventory upon beginning the regeneration process.]
Oh, phew.
Should we even try to explain
>Deal with the ash first?
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, what shall Cyan say, if anything?]
predıctıon: topaz ıs thınly veıled jasper
In any case, >"No time to explain, get away from that ash!"
No
...I mean,Topaz probably can't be hurt by it but
Jasper would be enraged
We should still deal with it
[OUTPUT: The gem's eyes widen, and she scrambles away from the ash.]
[OUTPUT: Speaking of the ash...]
Wait
[OUTPUT: It levitates into the air once more.]
Is this guy a mortal form of the ash we found
[OUTPUT: A cold word echoes throughout the chamber.]
[OUTPUT: "Гооднигхт."]
[OUTPUT: The ash races in the direction of Topaz, emitting embers of flame in the process, along with a sonic boom.]
[OUTPUT: Her eyes widen, and she falls to the ground, the stuff plunging into her body.]
Shit.
[OUTPUT: Speaking of that, you make an untimely return.]
NO!
NONONONNONNONONNONNO
[OUTPUT: Topaz collapses entirely, screaming all the while.]
[OUTPUT: Those screams are rather familiar.]
>Use water to pufiry the ash?
[OUTPUT: The ash is within Topaz.]
[OUTPUT: How do you purify that?]
Doc Bundy, christ...
[OUTPUT: Poof.]
[OUTPUT: The gem falls to the ground, covered in ash.]
Fucking hell
We need Strangelove
Now
[OUTPUT: It cracks upon striking the ground.]
Double shit.
Oh isn't that just peachy KEEN
Wait
Can't we fix cracked gems?
With the Void Shards?
[OUTPUT: Then, as if trying to desperate trying to escape, the glow returns to the gem, and it rises once more.]
Only with something tha -- huh.
Oh, nope.
...
We need some equivalent to a Rose Quartz to do that.
Seriously
[OUTPUT: It once more forms the figure of Topaz, yet does not really quite solidify.]
What is this guy
[OUTPUT: The light begins to twist, screams pulsating forth madly all the while.]
Stop.
Jesus Christ
[OUTPUT: The light retreats back into the gem, and it collapses to the ground, otherwise fine.]
[OUTPUT: NIGHTMARE SLAIN?]
That was absolutely brutal.
Fucking hell.
>Take a deep breath. You uh, probably need it
[OUTPUT: The door at the end of the platform opens upon the apparent death.]
[OUTPUT: You both take a deep breath, rushing over the topaz gem.]
WELL THEN
Uh
>Make sure the ash is no longer a threat
>attempt to extract as much ash as possıble usıng water
[OUTPUT: The ash is now INERT.]
[OUTPUT: You wash the gem. ]
Well, shit. Did he somehow possess Topaz?
[OUTPUT: No ash separates from the gem.]
>Store the gem in a bubble for safe keeping, assuming you can do that. It will put it in a stasis that should keep it - and us - safe.
>Put it in your inventory instead
[OUTPUT: You cannot do that, so you just take the Ashen Topaz Gem (Mildly Damaged).]
>Take an ash sample in case its needed
[OUTPUT: You cannot separate any of the ash from the gem.]
Well.
>Onwards, I suppose
[OUTPUT: You proceed into the now-opened door.]
[OUTPUT: You enter what appears to be a short room with a blast door on the far wall, several Death Cylinders hooked up to devices pumping them full of various liquids of unknown origin.]
[OUTPUT: Murder Cylinder, sorry.]
>Azure: Can you control said liquids?
[OUTPUT: You cannot.]
Hmm. Is there any way to drain said liquids from the Murder Cylinders?
[OUTPUT: It does not appear so.]
Huh.
Ok, try to open the blast door?
[OUTPUT: Cyan shudders as she sees a few Crystal Core Chassises lining the walls, uncannily similar to the one you found her in.]
[OUTPUT: All empty.]
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, there's a lever next to the blast door. You pull it, opening the next chamber. Shall you proceed?]
>Yes
>Onwards
[OUTPUT: You head onwards. ]
[OUTPUT: There are two distinct features in this room. One, a large stone slab with a base inscribed with the familiar hand. It is strikingly similar to the one you found in the Mu Sector.]
[OUTPUT: Two, a large pedestal with a hand containing two navy hashes upon it.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>Pedestal?
>Inspect the Pedestal
[OUTPUT: You place a hand on the pedestal. Cyan looks at you quizzically.]
[OUTPUT: The navy hashes exude their essence, and you remove your hand from the thing.]
[OUTPUT: The panel holding the hand slides up, revealing a large chassis beneath.]
[OUTPUT: It is underneath.]
[OUTPUT: It is quite contained by this chassis.]
[OUTPUT: Shall you acquire It?]
It?
[OUTPUT: It.]
[OUTPUT: You know what It is.]
>Describe It since you apparently know 
[OUTPUT: Let's just have a guess here.]
[OUTPUT: What do you think it is.]
probably a shard because obvıous
[OUTPUT: There we go.]
yeah
[OUTPUT: Now that we are caught up, shall you take it?]
sure
>Get ye shard
[OUTPUT: III-I.]
[OUTPUT: Now, for the matter of this slab.]
Hmm.
Was the previous one the thing that gave us the blessing/curse?
[OUTPUT: Was it?]
>Eh, put your hand on the slab
[OUTPUT: Fuchsia symbols glow on the monolith when you place your hand upon the base marking.]
[OUTPUT: It is followed by several Rodarbi symbols, on the base, all in fuchsia as well.]
[OUTPUT: 'Now, one for another.']
[OUTPUT: The dark ooze flows from the symbols and the cracks, filling the basin before the thing.]
>Take
[OUTPUT: Blf xzmmlg. Hlnv uli zmlgsvi.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
...
well uh, what else is there for us in this room
[OUTPUT: An exit elevator, it appears.]
think we've covered everything here AC?
Wait.
Hmm.
I'm decrypting that cipher.
You cannot. Some for another.
^
Should Cyan take some?
[OUTPUT: Should she?]
uh
Well from what I have heard last time Azure was uh, cursed by one of these?
sure
[OUTPUT: 1/4.]
Correct me if I am wrong.
>Try the elevator
The Blessing/Curse.
[OUTPUT: You cannot proceed without making a decision.]
Any idea what it did though?
We're unsure what it does.
Ah.
Hm.
I suppose we can ask Cyan if she wants to take some.
[OUTPUT: Do you ask?]
>y
>Ask the Cyan if she wants to interact with the weirdo slab
>Ask.
[OUTPUT: "Uh, why?"]
that is uh, a reasonable question there
>"It seems I can't take any. I don't know if you want to try. I got something similar earlier, but... it's weird."
[OUTPUT: Are you sure you want to say that?]
[OUTPUT: For that matter, you can just activate autopilot, if need be.]
Ehh.
I say don't take any.
[OUTPUT: It appears like everyone else wishes to take it, however.]
No one else has really expressed an opinion, except generic.
Yeah, probably neigh to taking it.
ask crys
>Take exit elevator
>Take exit elevator.
>Exit
[OUTPUT: You pop out in the very room you started in, the entry door, open.]
>Leave
[OUTPUT: You board your ship, still rather shaken by the experience of both being murdered.]
>Check map
[OUTPUT: Would you like to plot a course for the Nu Sector, which you recall is the location of the last(?) SHARD, or would you like to save and quit?]
Wasn't there that three hash door
In the first dungeon in the sector
[OUTPUT: There was.]
>Set course there, then save and quit.
[OUTPUT: You set your course to there, with an ETA of about forty-five minutes.]
[OUTPUT: Also, I forgot to do this, so: II-IIIIII.]
[OUTPUT: Saving game...]
[OUTPUT: Saving...]
[OUTPUT: Game saved and quit successfully.]