[It doesn't take Arven long at all to figure out what sort of structure the group had found themselves in this time. After all, he grew up in his father's laboratory that was attached to one.
He murmurs his conclusion aloud.]
...a lighthouse.
[He glances down at Mabosstiff, who made the trip with him this time.]
Stay close, okay? I've got your Poke ball if things get too hairy.
[The massive dog Pokemon nods in understanding as Arven shrugs off his equally massive backpack.]
Anyone else have a light source? I've got a flashlight in my pack.
[ She will fish her phone out from a pocket! And once she sees the algae on the wall a little more clearly, she approaches to examine it despite how you'd expect the smell would be a clear "this is a bad idea" sign, and by that I mean she just outright touches it with her gloved hands. ]
[ And all of a sudden she recoils and hurried steps back from the algae on the wall, with a very rare expression on her face (on the account that really, it's normally not very expressive at all). ]
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He murmurs his conclusion aloud.]
...a lighthouse.
[He glances down at Mabosstiff, who made the trip with him this time.]
Stay close, okay? I've got your Poke ball if things get too hairy.
[The massive dog Pokemon nods in understanding as Arven shrugs off his equally massive backpack.]
Anyone else have a light source? I've got a flashlight in my pack.
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[ Thanks Joshua. ]
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[ She will fish her phone out from a pocket! And once she sees the algae on the wall a little more clearly, she approaches to examine it despite how you'd expect the smell would be a clear "this is a bad idea" sign, and by that I mean she just outright touches it with her gloved hands. ]
2/3 I lied
This is...]
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...
The wall is bad.
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[And there she goes... Needless to say, her reaction startles Arven just as much as the algae startled her.]
Wh-What happened?? What did it do?
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[ obviously. but then joshua pauses. ]
How bad is bad?
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[ Which doesn't sound too bad, except: ]
Even though I cannot feel hungry at all.
[ It's something that's held true even here, so suddenly feeling it after touching the algae is alarming to her, to say the least. ]
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[ he looks around, frowning slightly when he realizes how much algae is around the walls. ]
It’ll be for the best to go up without touching the walls then. How do you feel now?
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The feeling is gone now, but I do not know what would happen if any of us ended up touching it for longer than a brief moment.
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I agree. We’ll have to be careful with our hands and legs as we go up.
[ he pauses, looking around at the empty tents. ]
I wonder if that’s why everything is empty. Could it be something made from this person’s memory?
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[Steps... away from the walls... "dangerous when hungry" squad +1 member.]
So no taking shortcuts, then.
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[ The long way. The stairclimbing way. ]
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It's almost like these "mindscapes" are a game.
[A very, very fucked up game, but...]
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[ She knows Celeste said "almost", but Sunrise is stating her thought nonetheless. ]
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[That's weird. Almost as weird as the hunger-inducing algae.]
Well, at least it stopped when you took your hand off, right?
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It did, but...
[ ...There's a thought forming, give her a moment. ]
...If it can grow on the walls, can it grow on the floor?
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Probably... [Arven instinctively looks down.] Whoever's leading the group should keep their light aimed at the floor, just in case.
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Alright. It seems there is only one way up regardless.
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[ don't jinx us ]
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