RE: TAKE X (5-24-17: The chase)
05-24-2017, 10:55 PM
> Palmer: Ask Krytikas if anyone's hiding from you.
"Travler took the book," you say. "Krytikas, is there anyone keeping their location a secret from us right now?"
Krytikas closes her eyes a moment to think. "Hmm... Oh, she's a sly one. I think I get it."
"What's she done?" Ione asks, her eyes narrowed.
"She's not keeping her location a secret."
A moment passes, punctuated by you sipping your coffee. "Come again?" you ask.
Krytikas looks sidelong at you. "Sienna isn't hiding her location. She must have known that I could see secrets."
"Ah." Ione clears her throat sheepishly. "That would be my fault. I gave her a crash course on the different members of the pantheon while we were in Vandrio."
You frown. "She's not hiding her location? What does that mean?"
"There's a loophole in my domain," Krytikas says. Her expression is as unreadable as always, but she seems... frustrated. "I call it the 'I would have told you if you asked' exception. If you're not intentionally keeping it a secret, it's even odds as to whether or not it shows up in my library."
"And what about Travler's plan?" Ione asks. "Is she keeping that a secret?"
"Worse," Krytikas says. "She's... improvising."
> Palmer: Begin the search.
"There's no time to lose," Ione says. "We need to find her."
Meion raises a hand. "I have some information that might help you. One of the records here is of doors in the Centrality opening and closing. No doors have opened or closed since you all entered the library."
You look at the library door. It's still open.
"That means that wherever Travler is," Krytikas says, "it's a room with an open door."
An open door...?
Hm. You wonder.
You make your way out of the library.
The door's still open. You peek inside.
...There's nobody in here. But, this room...
...What is this room? It looks like you just stepped into a forest. You've never been here before, but you recognize every nook and cranny...
> Sienna: Remove the biggest threat.
Now that you think about it, you know exactly where to begin.
You flip the book open to the last page with writing on it, and you add a single sentence with a flourish:
"And then the One Goddess was no longer a goddess."
There's no flash of light or anything, but you can still tell, somehow, that it worked.
Bonus scene unlocked!
Your name is Sienna Travler, and you finally have rendered all these idiots irrelevent. Now you just need to find that rat Krytikas, and--
--what? Something feels... wrong. Like... a large chunk of you just got hollowed out. You haven't felt this way since...
It hits you.
You haven't felt this way since before you hijacked that god. You try to warp back to the Centrality, but it doesn't work.
You get out of here. You're pretty sure you know where Krytikas was headed.
"Update," you snap.
The Miracle Man hops to attention. "They put the orbs on the pedestal and went in. It leads to the Centrality. Nobody's come out since."
"Who went in?"
"The masked guy, the woman in the suit, the short one in the robe, and... Travler."
That settles that. Looks like you've got a trip to the Centrality in the very near future.
"Travler took the book," you say. "Krytikas, is there anyone keeping their location a secret from us right now?"
Krytikas closes her eyes a moment to think. "Hmm... Oh, she's a sly one. I think I get it."
"What's she done?" Ione asks, her eyes narrowed.
"She's not keeping her location a secret."
A moment passes, punctuated by you sipping your coffee. "Come again?" you ask.
Krytikas looks sidelong at you. "Sienna isn't hiding her location. She must have known that I could see secrets."
"Ah." Ione clears her throat sheepishly. "That would be my fault. I gave her a crash course on the different members of the pantheon while we were in Vandrio."
You frown. "She's not hiding her location? What does that mean?"
"There's a loophole in my domain," Krytikas says. Her expression is as unreadable as always, but she seems... frustrated. "I call it the 'I would have told you if you asked' exception. If you're not intentionally keeping it a secret, it's even odds as to whether or not it shows up in my library."
"And what about Travler's plan?" Ione asks. "Is she keeping that a secret?"
"Worse," Krytikas says. "She's... improvising."
> Palmer: Begin the search.
"There's no time to lose," Ione says. "We need to find her."
Meion raises a hand. "I have some information that might help you. One of the records here is of doors in the Centrality opening and closing. No doors have opened or closed since you all entered the library."
You look at the library door. It's still open.
"That means that wherever Travler is," Krytikas says, "it's a room with an open door."
An open door...?
Hm. You wonder.
You make your way out of the library.
The door's still open. You peek inside.
...There's nobody in here. But, this room...
...What is this room? It looks like you just stepped into a forest. You've never been here before, but you recognize every nook and cranny...
> Sienna: Remove the biggest threat.
Now that you think about it, you know exactly where to begin.
You flip the book open to the last page with writing on it, and you add a single sentence with a flourish:
"And then the One Goddess was no longer a goddess."
There's no flash of light or anything, but you can still tell, somehow, that it worked.
Bonus scene unlocked!
Your name is Sienna Travler, and you finally have rendered all these idiots irrelevent. Now you just need to find that rat Krytikas, and--
--what? Something feels... wrong. Like... a large chunk of you just got hollowed out. You haven't felt this way since...
It hits you.
You haven't felt this way since before you hijacked that god. You try to warp back to the Centrality, but it doesn't work.
You get out of here. You're pretty sure you know where Krytikas was headed.
"Update," you snap.
The Miracle Man hops to attention. "They put the orbs on the pedestal and went in. It leads to the Centrality. Nobody's come out since."
"Who went in?"
"The masked guy, the woman in the suit, the short one in the robe, and... Travler."
That settles that. Looks like you've got a trip to the Centrality in the very near future.