Eldritch (Guess who's back?? Hint: It's this adventure)

[captal]

take the "M" from atm and look around for a "I" and a "S" so you can make that guys booth named "MISinformation"

[hr.morgaes]

>Devour the ATM.

It is much too large to be devoured!



The Boothkeeper gives you a somewhat disappointed glance. You hear him mutter something about "Goddamned tourists".

>Ascend.

Nah, we gotta wait a bit for CHAINSAWFACE to arrive. Not much use in a rendezvous point if you're just gonna up and leave before you two meet up.



Actually, on further inspection, there doesn't even appear to be any form of staircase/ladder thing around here. You wonder how this tower is meant to be scaled.

take the "M" from atm and look around for a "I" and a "S" so you can make that guys booth named "MISinformation"

You remove the M from the sign, as well as a portion of the T. Now you just need an 'S'.
What to do about this predicament?

[Armok]

> idle the time away by absent-mindedly transcending through a few incomprehensible stages of conciousness while you wait. This adventure is sorely lacking in elritchness so far.

[Dragon Fogel]

>Check the bulletin board, maybe there's an S there.

Or you could ask that guy how exactly you're supposed to scale this tower.

[Xander]

steal an O from the out of order sign, break it in half and make an S out of it. Ta-dah!

[hr.morgaes]

>Check the bulletin board, maybe there's an S there.

Capital! There has to be at least one S somewhere on those letters!



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Notice to all working in the tower!
Due to mandatory maintenance on the upper city
the Tower will be re-enforced to hold the weight.
In the coming month you may be in danger of a cave in.

Note that the upper city may yet crumble down every now
and then. If you notice any civilian falling through a
crack in the floating platform above, tell them to hurry
to tower for immediate extraction.

With love, Commander C'Toole

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Certificate

Official proof that the Tower may carry out any deal involving
the material known by the name "Riftrock", provided Parliament
will recieve half of any profit made.

Certified by the Department for Lucrative Government Gain

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Where am I? - A poem by our our beloved
Ultimate Executive Chairman, Drek

How did I get here?
Who are you? Why won't you hear my plea?
I really don't know where I am.
Oh dear I took a wrong left,
and they think I'm one of them.
Why will nobody believe me.


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To the Abomination who kept taking my lunch (You know who you are):
I have taken your daughter and wife. Meet me at the dock if you
don't want them time travelled back to the Millionth War.

You have taken my food for the final time.

OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

steal an O from the out of order sign, break it in half and make an S out of it. Ta-dah!

Sure, this works. Sort of. Let's just-



There we go. The guy in the booth seems unamused. Or amused. Disgusted, maybe? Hard to say.

Or you could ask that guy how exactly you're supposed to scale this tower.

"Alright so you know like, how, you can't because there's no, uh. You need stairs? Well I have to kind of, like, you have to talk to me, just, you know? And I'll uh, you'll need my help, okay? Just. like, whenever?"

Well that sure was an answer. Seems you got to tell him when you're ready to ascend? You think that's what he was trying to communicate to you. In any case, you still need to wait for CHAINSAWFACE to arrive, assuming he has indeed seen the tower and realized it would make a fantastic meeting place.

> idle the time away by absent-mindedly transcending through a few incomprehensible stages of conciousness while you wait. This adventure is sorely lacking in elritchness so far.

You decide that you haven't experienced the lower levels of your elder knowledge in an amount of time and that you should totally go there right now while you wait.



You have become one with the abyss again. It is you, as you are it. Yet you are not it, and never will be. You could never hope to match it. It is vast, unyielding, painful even. But in a brief window of time, a window stretching for all eternity, you are one. You understand everything, you see everything, you are everything. You exist in every state of matter at once, and it is then you know you are nothing. You rid yourself of emotional burden, you are a cold, calculating machine. You see the universe for the horror it is, an ever expanding cluster of malice and agony.



The mortals had attempted to understand, but to realize even the tiniest of the information you now breathe is impossible for them. You only avoid the insanity for it is you. The irrationality of the void can only be comprehended when you already have. It is no matter to you, as you always have been. To see that you aren't, and yet you are. This is what the true secret is. You feel the ancient powers of both creation and chaos lurking within your mind, and see that you have ascended. The ability to become perfect, and the understanding of how pathetic it is.

You then wake up. You have no idea what just happened. You tend to forget the details of your trips into paradox space. Whatever, probably wasn't important anyway.



Anyway seems while you were off frolicking in Insanityville CHAINSAWFACE arrived!
With some guy who you've never seen before.
Uh.

[Dragon Fogel]

>Don't even acknowledge the other guy and just talk to the information booth dude so you can continue on.

[Armok]

> tantaculate.

[captal]

> violence.

[hr.morgaes]

> tantaculate.

Woop woop woop?
You don't know what this means.

>Don't even acknowledge the other guy and just talk to the information booth dude so you can continue on.

You make like an oblivious tree and get the fuck over to the booth guy. You ask him to OH GOD HE'S COMING RIGHT AT YOU

> violence.

You decide the best defense is a good violence or something like that and raise your tentacles for a counterattack-



He pulls some Judoflip bullshit and kicks your ass to the ground.



"Good afternoon sir. I don't believe we've met. What a shame, considering how much I can help you on your quest. Now, can we be civil about this for one second and talk?"

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NAME THIS FUCKER

[Xander]

HELL NO! YOU ATTACKED ME!

[captal]

"for all reasons and purposes you shall call me bill, there is no possible way i will tell you my real name for now."

[Armok]

> Rekcuf Siht

[Dragon Fogel]

>Albert T. Southerland.

[hr.morgaes]

You nod in agreement to the stranger's request for civility. You figure attacking the guy who brought you down in a single move while he still has you pinned down may not be the smartest of ideas.

"Excellent", he says as he helps you up. "Now, let us try this again. My name is-



Albert T. Southerland. The 'T' stands for sihT" he adds. "And I have a proposition for you."



He tells you that he is the sole survivor of the Parliament massacres you learned about on page 5, and he has been undercover for a very long time trying to track down whoever is responsible. Recently, he found out that the culprit was indeed a former member of Parliament, a being by the name of Steven Lrr'Thak. However, Steven had already been imprisoned for some other reason, and was set to rot for a few dozen eternities in the best guarded penitentiary in the multiverse. Until the escape, that is.

An extremely dangerous inmate, Adam Fontaine, had organized a breakout. During his escape from prison he came across Steven, and for whatever reason decided to take him along on the ride out. Albert says this makes things much more difficult for him. That is why he needs you. He knows you are also searching for Steven, and he believes a collaboration between you two (and this chainsawbear guy?) may prove fruitful for both of you.

"Oh, and if you aren't quite sure if my abilities may help you yet-



might I add that I'm a shapeshifter?"
Accept offer and ascend?

[Dragon Fogel]

>Yeah, sure. Oh, and ask if he knows anything about that weird machine and blob-thing you ran into earlier.

[hr.morgaes]

Figuring this guy possesses both an excellent combat advantage, as CHAINSAWFACE appears to support him, and an excellent point about teamwork, you accept his help.



"Marvelous", he exclaims. "Now, I believe I can trust you with a little bit more info. As I've told you before, Steven is now under custody by a crime lord named Adam. Usually getting to him is quite impossible, but I have devised a plan. Though I fear you will not like it. When we get back to the surface, we must go to his section of the city, and raise as much havoc as we possibly can. I'm talking about wrecking his corrupt businesses, taking down high ranking mooks in his order, that kind of stuff. This is of course, extremely dangerous."

You tell him you haven't come this far to chicken out now. You also ask him if he knows anything about any purple blobs of exposition living in this undercity place. He tells you no.



You then tell the guy behind the counter you wish to ascend. He directs you to the floor pad, and activates it once you've gotten on it.



You are now in the Alpha Sphere Residential Areas.
What do you do?

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These infodumps are so much easier to make! I can get away with using just two new images in every post! Sure sucks that you will be getting proper updates from now on, huh?

[Dragon Fogel]

The letters are a bit hard to read in that last image.

Our choices are:
-Pawn Shop
-Innocent Laundering (Not for Money!)
-Legit Business Inc.
-No Drugs Here

I say we check out Innocent Laundering first.

[hr.morgaes]

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Dreadfully sorry for a lack of updates, but my household keeps running out of Internet each month so there has been a period of time the last few months where visiting websites, uploading images to websites, and generally websiting at all has been close to impossible. This may or may not happen in the future, but I'll be damned if I won't at least try to make up for it with semi-regular updates.

You enter Innocent Laundering, figuring you've got to start somewhere, right?



The place is empty aside from a remarkably disturbing looking shopkeeper person. In the air two Laundry-devices hang, as is usual with these places. They appear to be empty. You take note of an 'Employee of the Month' sign bearing the shopkeeper's face. You also note that there seems to be no indication anyone else works here. Suddenly the grinning worker speaks.

"How can I help you fine gentlemen/terrifying bear monster today?"

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In hindsight I probably could have uploaded this SINGLE IMAGE UPDATE earlier, but yeah. Losing interwebs also causes loss of drive, I'm afraid.

[Dragon Fogel]

>Ask if they launder money, you're a bit unclear on that subject.

[captal]

> ask what the red button does.

[Dragon Fogel]

> ask what the red button does.

Make sure you're standing on the carpet when you ask.

[Xander]

Ask if they'll make an exception to the no laundering money. You dropped a bill in some mud and it needs a good cleaning.

[Doorhandle]

Ask them who's in charge around here.

Also, do you have any techniques that will let you locate trapdoors or otherwise?

[Andorxor]

>Let him clean your hat