QUESTIONABLY SOTERIOLOGICAL
"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though...
"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though...
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There is no limit to the use of CLASS MACHINATIONS, although some of them might have certain prerequisite circumstances for use: If so, the prerequisites will be explained in the machination's description.
Although your INVENTORY is FULL, you are able to free up a space by keeping BOTH PORTRAITS in the SAME INVENTORY SLOT. If you have items that are NEARLY IDENTICAL they can often be kept in the SAME SLOT like this, as long as they are a REASONABLE SIZE. Of course, you aren't AWARE of any of this, because at only 11 TENDER YEARS OF AGE you are ignorant to such MECHANICAL ABSTRACTIONS.
Everything after here is SCRAWLED OUT apart from what the RED MARKER PERSON has written on the LAST PAGE.Hello. If you are reading this, then you're probably confused. Don't worry, though! We've written this journal in order to help you. You've obviously got a sharp mind if you've progressed this far, but we know you have even great potential! Potential you couldn't possibly dream of! And this whole situation, this is just helping you to reach your potential. At no point will you be in any danger. All you need to know is contained within this journal! The first thing to forget is-
Huh. That... has kind of put a damper on your mood. You feel your hands shaking as you stare at that last desperately scrawled message. Maybe this is one mystery that you'd be better off not solving... No! Even if you're scared, you are LUCY CALLOWAY and you are GETTING TO THE BOTTOM of whatever is going on here. You take a deep breath to calm down and turn your attention back to puzzle solving.IT'S LIES IT'S LIES IT'S LIES IT'S LIES THEY'RE LYING TO YOU FUCKING LIARS FUCKING LIARS THEY'RE MONSTERS THEY'LL NEVER LET YOU GO NEVER NEVER NEVER DON'T TRUST THEM DON'T
You SUCCESSFULLY CRAFT a LONG-HANDLED NET. You are VERY PROUD OF YOURSELF.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
You use the LONG-HANDLED NET to pull the other CLOCKWORK FISH from the AQUARIUM, turn it into a PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS, and then PLACE those GEARS in the GRANDFATHER CLOCK. They fit together perfectly! As you carefully place each and every gear into the clock, you start to feel a slight pain in your head - but you're on a puzzle-solving roll, and so you ignore it, slotting them in with as much precision as your eleven-year-old fingers can manage.
The very notion strikes you as completely absurd. Really, what a silly, silly idea. And yet... while you're here, with the reflective glass of the AQUARIUM... you might as well take a good look at yourself, right?
Nope!
You try to get some water out of the AQUARIUM with the only thing you have long enough to reach into it, the LONG-HANDLED NET. Shockingly and disappointingly, this does not work.
You have NO IDEA where on earth you got it into your head that there were still ASSORTED GEARS in your inventory! What a RIDICULOUS NOTION to ENTER YOUR NOGGIN. Absolutely PREPOSTEROUS. If you were aware of MECHANICAL ABSTRACTIONS, you would shoot a disapproving look at whatever MYSTERIOUS FORCES update your INVENTORY and CHARACTER SHEET and those mysterious forces would be feeling QUITE SILLY right about now. However, you have no such awareness. Embarrassment: fortuitously averted.[X] EXAMINE the PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS in your INVENTORY
-[X] See if they retroactively vanish since all of the gears were installend in the GRANDFATHER CLOCK to make it work.
As you've grown accustomed to, the room SHAKES AROUND and you hear that TERRIBLE GRINDING SOUND. However, once it's stopped, you see that there is nothing besides FEATURELESS WHITE WALLS behind both of the DOORS. Dang.
Bracing yourself once again for that TERRIBLE GRINDING SOUND, you move the CLOCK HANDS to 3:00. As soon as you let go, you hear a resounding CLICK, like the sound of some sort of enormous lock or latch. Like the grinding sound, it's a sound that seems to settle in your bones, worming its way into every fibre of your being, resonating in your soul. Unlike the grinding, however, it doesn't seem like a malicious sound. It feels more like... a signal, an encouragement, a message that you're doing okay.[X] If previous actions do not open doors, set the hands of the clock to 3:00
For the sake of CONVENIENCE, you decide to start referring to the two DOORS by what you feel are the CORRESPONDING TIMES on the CLOCK.
You feel a little worried for the mental health of whoever wrote this. If that blood on the floor is theirs, you probably ought to worry about their physical health too. Unnerved, you decide not to read any more. Eventually, the corridor reaches an end, and you find yourself in a new place: a larger room than the last one you were in. You're standing in what seems to be the entrance to a GLOOMY CATHEDRAL. On the opposite side of the room, dim light filters in through a HUGE STAINED GLASS WINDOW with a DOOR IN THE CENTER. A PIPE ORGAN sits dejectedly in the corner of the room. In the middle of the LEFT and RIGHT walls are ORNATE DOORS that seem UNLOCKED and lead to SIDE ROOMS. The WALLS are covered with MORE WRITING.they think they see angels but there's only darkness there where eyes should be only darkness only darkness THEY CHANGE YOU and make you better more holy more pure they take and take and take until they can fill you up with light with sun with ichor THIS IS A PRODUCTION LINE FOR MONSTERS always watching they're watching always watching check behind the portraits metal eyes metal eyes KEEP WALKING AND YOU WILL FIND ME or i will find you does it matter we're doomed anyway. i'm sorry
This is definitely the SAME RED-HAIRED GIRL as you saw on the PORTRAIT in the CLOCK ROOM. She looks so... stuck-up and snobbish, wearing a condescending expression as if she views the painter with utter contempt. God, you want to punch this girl, even if you haven't met her.
Writing on the wall said:who is she? i don't know. looks like the particles man, red girl, red man. his daughter? she looks unfriendly. stop watching me. stop, lady. rude.
If you were aware of MECHANICAL ABSTRACTIONS, you would protest that your INVENTORY was FULL. As is, you just decide to put down some of this STUFF you've been carrying. You CAREFULLY PILE the JOURNAL, CLOCK ROOM DRAWER KEY, SCREWDRIVER, and LONG-HANDLED NET in a corner of the room. You can always come and get them if you need them again, after all.
You take the PORTRAIT OF A RED-HAIRED GIRL off the wall, resisting the urge to PUNCH it. Behind it is an ALCOVE containing a CAMERA. Hello there.
The books are all RATHER TEDIOUS-LOOKING ACADEMIC TOMES on matters of THEOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY. Most of them are filled with RED MARKER SCRIBBLES - my, the person who holds that writing utensil has really been industrious. The only books that stand out from the rest are a HOLY BIBLE and a book that looks NEWER than the others - a book on ASTRONOMY by a Dr. Charles Brighton
There's a small space between the GLASS LID and the BASE of the DISPLAY CASE - it looks like if you had a CROWBAR or something similar you would be able to FORCE IT OPEN. Inside the GLASS DISPLAY CASE is a ROUND PLATE bearing a JUPITER SYMBOL.[X] EXAMINE the GLASS DISPLAY CASE it was hanging above before we took it.
Thanks.Writing on the wall said:what do they make the glass out of why make glass so strong when they could use steel. trick question, trick question, want you to see it, a reward for good lab rats. i'm a rat, you're a rat, now run down the maze or get shocked little rat
The MACHINE seems to a VINYL PRESS, for RECORDING MUSIC on RECORDS. Isn't that cool! You can't remember ever having seen one of these, but given your LOVE OF MUSIC, just seeing one cheers you up a little. [+5 ÉLAN]
Writing on the wall said:
It's small - at least, as small as a PIPE ORGAN can get. There's a stool to sit at, and the usual rows of keys. Nothing really OUT OF THE ORDINARY-LOOKING about it. There is a space for SHEET MUSIC - two spaces, in fact, with the left one being marked MOVEMENT 2 and the second being marked MOVEMENT 1.
Writing on the wall said:play a tune play a tune play a tune i can see you you know play a tune play a tune play a tune
The LARGE SILVER PADLOCK is LARGE and SILVER. You feel like you might need a KEY of some sort to open it, but that might just be you jumping to conclusions.