(OOC: Yep, quicksilvers. Just as deadly.)
Glave, come in! Just run for the rock salt! It's only a 1 kilometre walk. Or run, if you're trying to escape those quicksilvers.
Command? (MS paint adventure-type story)
(All right, if he got the auto-replies, he should know there's rock salt. In the meantime, let's define Quicksilver and Quicksilver Colony, to see if we can get some juicy info. And because weapons are good, let's go find some. Come to think of it, I forgot what Glave's weapons are.
LAST MINUTE ADDITION: Let's also see if Recon Cloaks work on Silvers.)
Define "Quicksilver" and "Quicksilver Colony".
Locate the nearest Normal-damage weapon usable by User: Glave.
Locate the nearest Piercing-damage weapon usable by User: Glave.
Locate the nearest Elemental-damage weapon usable by User: Glave.
Locate the nearest Shadow-damage weapon usable by User: Glave.
(In the four commands above this, disregard any weapons currently owned by User: Glave.)
List all weapons currently owned by User: Glave.
Determine if the Recon Cloak is able to conceal a user from a Quicksilver.
OOC: I'm curious as to why Glave is unable to communicate with us - the Quicksilvers that we know of can be outrun, unless of course they have been charged by shock.
Now, to try and think of how to advance this...I'm not coming up with anything substantial, so perhaps that is why I'm stuck. :P
Ha ha....being I forgot to update this weekend, instead I'll update on Halloween! Expect a special treat!
Cannot clean up signal. Interference cannot be stopped by this system.
(Note to Docterspacebar: I don't think I'll have time to type all that! I'll just put it in yes/no form)
Define "Quicksilver" and "Quicksilver Colony". (Not now)
Locate the nearest Normal-damage weapon usable by User: Glave. (No)
Locate the nearest Piercing-damage weapon usable by User: Glave. (No)
Locate the nearest Elemental-damage weapon usable by User: Glave. (No)
Locate the nearest Shadow-damage weapon usable by User: Glave. (No)
(In the four commands above this, disregard any weapons currently owned by User: Glave.)
List all weapons currently owned by User: Glave. (A Levi, a Prisma Driver (or whatever the 5* is called), and a Irontech Destroyer. Note that, according to this, bombs are lost after detonation, so he only has one use of the bomb.)
Determine if the Recon Cloak is able to conceal a user from a Quicksilver. (Yes, it can.)
Connection success!
Reply(Glave): *Gasp* Darn these greavers *gasp* are really...fast...*gasp* you sure *gasp* that rock salt will do it? *gasp* Ack! My gun! Where *gasp* where did it go!? *Panting* Wait...where did they all go...? I think they went the other way. Well...I shouldn't stop anyway....oof! Out of the - you...you're....
Feed received from camera: http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/8093/01103112.png
(Credited to Autofire)
Command/Reply?
(So it is Greavers. All right then. What do you think we should do? We should definitely tell Glave what the issue is; it might still be good for him to have some Rock Salt, but we can't have him thinking Rock Salt works on Greavers. But should we let any Knights on Haven's surface know about Glave's problem? The computer is in "a corner of Haven".
More importantly, what are we going to do about Glave 2?)
/access SkylarkCamera1
(Assuming it has access to the cameras.)
I'll be with you soon! (I hope)
I still don't know if I want to wait for a command or just continue.
@Vinnydime
I think this is a good time to point out that cameras/images aren't going to be accessible. I'll only make images when either have time or it is necessary. This is so I don't get overloaded with trying to make images constantly, although I would do this if I had time!
It's already been 4 days sense the last post?! IMPOSSIBLE!
(It'll be tomorrow.)
Decode any Swarm activity in Duplicate Glave
A promise is made to be broken, no?
Here, take a link while I go to bed. :P
(I'll do it, I'll do it.)
Sees the group of people near the computer and joins in on the fun
help_commands
Error: there is only one user with the name Glave.
(Hint: there might only be one registered!)
Previous message is repeated 1 time(s).
Help: "Commands" is too broad. Please narrow search string.
(Note: you technically shouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two, I'm letting this slide.)
Reply(Glave): Who...who are you?
Reply(Glave?): Oh my gosh...don't scare me like that!
Reply(Glave): Huh? Why are you me? No, you aren't-
Reply(Glave?): I am! But listen: in the future you are going to do something you, er, me, I mean us, will regret. Don't do it!
Reply(Glave): I'm going to regret it? What are you talking about?
Reply(Glave?): It's all a trick! I killed someone who wasn't truly infected! Don't do it, no matter how hard it seems if you don't! It's a trick!
Reply(Glave): It's a trick, hm? This is a trick too, I assume, eh?
Reply(Glave?): It's...no, not a trick! You're telling me, or yourself, you can't trust yourself, or myself, or ourselves!?
Reply(Glave): If it's not a damn trick then my names Hubert the Jelly!
Reply(Glave?): Wha? Hey, where are you? Grr...if only I could see myself...I think he went... (trailing off)
Reply(Glave): If that copy is just like me it can't see me... [chuckles] ...that was...unnerving though...maybe that was me?
Receiving a communications request from user(Etern_Term)...
Patching; setting first com. channel to channel 1. Use Reply1 or Reply2 to reply to a specific channel.
Reply2(???): [sighs] Tie-ta, do you even know what you're doing?
Reply2(Tie-ta): I...think I do...just stop nagging me!
Reply2(???): But it's so boring here! When can we see some change?
Reply2(Tie-ta): Ti-tae! I told you to shut up!
Reply2(Ti-tae): Um...ok...s-sorry...
Command/Reply?
EDIT: I mis-spelled a name.
Reply1:
It's hard to say. What he said seemed a good possibility, but you've also had a fake Stiletto come around as a way to try and deter you from escape...or so we thought at the time. There's so little to know at this point - the position we're in isn't helping much without Durod for assistance.
...Maybe you could go and spy on him with your recon cloak, see what he does after your "confrontation"? If what he does seems like something you would truly do, you know you can trust him; if he makes it clear that he's Swarm-infected and untrustworthy, you can continue your search for Durod.
Reply2:
Hello? Who requested the com channel with this terminal?
(Either this is a Swarm trick, or Glave went back in time to warn himself not to kill someone he thinks is Swarm-infected. Ah, if only we had Sleep vials...
Te-tia and Tie-ta? Whoever they are, they sound suspicious. I'll see if they talk.)
If possible, find any methods of time travel User: Glave might be capable of utilizing.
Locate User: Kalis and determine whether she is Swarm-infected.
Locate User: Kris and determine whether he is Swarm-infected.
Reply1: "By the way, Glave, the Rock Salt won't help against Greavers. I thought you were being chased by Quicksilvers- the static in the connection caused us to only hear "vers" until a certain point. For Greavers, I'd recommend something that can hit an area around you VERY quickly; one hit normally interrupts them. If your Recon Cloak is capable of Shield-Bumping, you can do that to knock the suckers away, but make sure you stay away from the Shock clouds they produce; Shock spasms against fast foes like Greavers could be fatal. Were you wounded at all?"
Reply2: "Forgive my blunt questions. Who are you two and what are you talking about?"
Reply1(Glave): Ah, I think I'll follow him. [Smash] Ack....stupid gate! I can't get back. I guess I can only go one way...this place...it looks like someone was just here...what's this? A book? I think it's in a different language. I can't read it, whatever it is.
Reply2(Ti-tae): It-it talks!
Reply2(Tie-ta): Yay! It can tell us how to get out!
Reply2(Ti-tae): I don't...want to talk to it...
Reply2(Tie-ta): Don't be silly! We can get out of this place now!
No known sources of time travel.
No such user(Kris).
No means to detect the user(Kalis)'s swarm status.
Reply1(Glave): I thought rock salt seemed like a strange thing to help against greavers...I wonder why they all went the other route...maybe they were attracted to it or something. Now that you mention it, the odd thing was that they didn't hurt me too much. I...oh no. I just remembered that my gun is gone! They took it or I dropped it, or something. Um, guys, this book...there's something wrong with it...the pictures...they seem to move when I touch them...
Reply2(Tie-ta): Oh, my name is Tie-ta. My sister here...I think you already know her name. Ti?
Reply2(Ti-tae): ...
Reply2(Tie-ta): Daw, come on! Don't act like that! We're going to go home! Stop being so gloomy!
Reply2(Ti-tae): It.....just doesn't feel right...I'm scared...
Reply2(Tie-ta): Whatever. Do you know how we can get out of here? There's nothing to eat...ever sense that weird purple thing brought us here we've been stuck.
Reply2(Ti-tae): Run! It's going to hurt you!
Reply2(Tie-ta): [sighs]
Command/Reply?
(Glave lost his gun, he also found a weird book that might be of Owlite origin (and hopefully isn't, say, a dark tome of forbidden Swarm magic), Ti-tae (or Te-Tia, whichever one her name is) is scared of us, Tie-Ta is asking us for information, we don't know what the T sisters are (and, by extension, can't be sure of what it is they eat), and Glave 2 is still on the loose. OMIGOSH SUBPLOTS. Let's see if the Sisters are in the core, and investigate this book Glave found.)
Detect the nearest Owlite artifact to User: Glave.
If possible, detect the location of User: Tie-Ta relative to User: Glave.
Reply1: "That might be an Owlite spellbook, it might be Swarm related, it might be Fiendish, it might be anything. Whatever it is, if you've got a metal detector, use it on the book, to make sure it isn't a mechanical device. Do the markings bear any resemblance to anything you've seen in a Candlestick Keep or Dark City area?"
Reply2: "Weird purple thing? Can you describe it? And what exactly do you eat? We might be able to help you find food."
OOC: My first thought about the book is that Glave is in a library of sorts. I might ask him if that's true or not, or he simply found a book. If he found a library, there might be some valuable things that he could use.
Reply1:
Hey, Glave! Is that just a single book, or are you nearby a library of sorts? Perhaps that could lead us to some tools we could use against the Swarm...there's never enough of those types of things.
OOC: And now onto the mysterious twosome...
Reply2:
Pleasure to meet you both! We're members of the Spiral Order. Where did you find the terminal you're currently using? It may help us find out where you are.
Owlite tomes have been destroyed, and are no longer existent in this area.
Cannot detect location difference.
Reply1(Glave): Spell book, eh? It's rather odd...some of these sets of symbols
wrinkle up when I touch them. Then this one ripples like water. That one is cold to the
touch...I wonder what they mean.
Reply2(Tie-ta): Purple? Oh, it was round and pudgy. It also made loud honking
noises. Oh yeah, and it had these beady yellow eyes.
Reply2(Ti-tae): It...tried to grab me...
Reply2(Tie-ta): I made it fall off the edge, though. [laughs]
Reply2(Ti-tae): That wasn't...it wasn't a nice thing to do though.
Reply2(Tie-ta): Um...what do we eat? Oh, Zee Cores! They're delicious! They
are a little chewy but really juicy and they make good pie! We also eat some herbs, but
we also use those for healing.
Reply2(Tie-ta): Spiral Order? What's that? I've never heard of it before? Are you guys dizzy all the time? Oh, so that's what this thing is called. I don't know what you mean by which terminal, though. I don't know how to figure it out.
Reply1(Glave): Hey, wait. I can read this one. "Spell of Understanding: allows oneself to any understand text, language, voices, signs, symbols, hints, reasons, lies, and coded messages without knowing any of them before hand in any way, size, amount, or reason. (For convenience, the spell has been perma-cast on this page to show an example of how it works.)" Hmm, down here are some recipes and tricks on how to do it...wow...these look painful. "Take a spear of Dark Silver, and pierce the head of the one whom you are casting it on. After ten years of not disturbing the one you are casting the spell on, pull the spear out and in ten seconds cast a revival spell. (See last page)" Well, I won't be able to do that. I don't think I want to look at the last page either. If the other pages had the spells they teach of cast on them, what does the last one look like? I wonder if I should try casting this on myself though...no no, not the ones that mame me, but one of the less painful ones.
Command/Reply?
Reply one: How MUCH is the book moving, small amounts, occasional movements, or moving a lot all the time? If the the last one, put it on the floor or a nearby table or something and examine it until you know your safe. In fact, do that for it anyway, but have extra caution if it's that last one.
Reply two: We will be able to help you out, but first, do you happen to be in a dark area with dark monsters chasing you?
Command: Check currently online users.
OOC: congratulations! you have a new poster.
/Reply2 : Have you tried using a Greaver Hive emitter, it could help by deterring 70% of Greaver activity in a small radius
Reply1(Glave): Oh, it's just the symbols that are shifting. Depends on the page. Some move all the time, others only move when I touch 'em, and others don't move at all. If the last one? Um, well, I guess I should do something like that anyway. I'll just put it on this...table, and leave it open. I'm trying to find a spell that I can actually use. Let's see....potions...alloys....brainwashing....wait, why would you brain wash? Oh, I see...you brainwash someone and then pump his brain full with knowledge on every known method of communication.
Reply2(Tie-ta): Uh...yeah. How'd you guess? Oh wait, you live down here! Ha ha...silly me. Why are you asking?
Online Users: Etern-Term(Currently logged in as this user), Etern-Term, $ŵ∆ям, Glave
Reply2(Tie-ta): Greaver?! No! Don't say that!
Reply2(Ti-tae): It'll eat us! Get away!
Reply2(Tie-ta): Just because it said greavers doesn't mean that it'll eat us...I guess you don't know yet. Our kind doesn't like greavers. They like to treat us as food. Heh...sorry for freaking out there.
Command/Reply?
o-kay, so from that we found out ti-tae and tie-ta are NOT spirallians.
command: do a voice match to see what species ti-tae and tie-ta could be
Reply1:
Glave, I'm not sure if using magic on yourself is necessarily a good thing - for one, we have no idea what type of magic you'd be performing, as well as the fact that you aren't a trained spellcaster. I've never even heard of a Spiralian being able to cast a spell, per se. *grimaces*
I do have this idea, though...there's obviously a reason that spellbook is down there, whether someone dropped it down there or it's being used by the Swarm. Is there anything on that book to indicate it being the property of anyone? ...or, are there any time-traveling spells in that book that could indicate a "future Glave's" handywork?
Reply2:
It's alright - I'm sure us Spiral Knights would freak out too if we had none of our weapons, armor or shields. Maybe, if you're willing, you could tell us a bit about yourselves and explain how you found the terminal you're using right now.
Reply1: "We ran a search and it says the Owlite tomes in the area have been destroyed. I don't know what the source of this book is, but be careful about using anything inside it. But feel free to look through what spells there are... does the "understand anything" spell apply to the whole book once you read it, or just its own page? Heh heh... Hahn is going to freak out if he hears about this."
Reply2: "I understand. I certainly don't like Greavers... I've been nearly killed by them too many times to count. The trick to fighting against them is to hit each one fast; their attacks are interrupted by any source of damage. They're very weak to sharp things, but they're resistant to dark energy, so don't try using that unless you don't have anything else to hit them with. Anyway, what is your kind? I have a feeling we'll get along."
Command: Locate the nearest Fiendish tome to User: Glave.
Command: Locate the nearest Fiend to Tie-ta and give the distance between them.
/Reply1: What language is the book?
/Reply2: Okay, what type of color are the Greaver's eyes?
reply one: if you're going to use some magic, read the description carfully so you don't get something you didn't want. also, look around yourself every now and then so your not ambushed.
Dmatter
...
.......Could not detect voice type.
Kanoka
Reply1(Glave): True...Durod would be helpful right now. Maybe I'll hold onto it until I can find him.
Reply1(Glave): Now, that's a possibility. The problem is I can't read any of the other pages until I use this spell, so I won't know what these other spells are.
Reply2(Tie-ta): Oh...so, Mr. computer, do you really not have eyes then? That's too bad...I wish we could give you some. We have wings, so we fly. I'm red, and Ti-tae is blue....let's see...how else do I describe us? I'm not used to doing that...
Doctorspacebar
Reply1(Glave): No, the spell only applies to the page until I use it. Yes, Hahn will freak out. [laughs]
Reply2(Tie-ta): Hit them?! You crazy? All I can do is curse them, but they've grown resistant to cursing. I can't do anything to them!
Error: cannot detect. Too much interference.
Nearest fiend type to Tie-ta is 0.5 feet away.
Grittle
Reply1(Glave): Language? I can't tell...I've never seen it before, so I don't know.
Reply2(Tie-ta): Color? They come in all colors! Purple, blue, greenish, yellow, tan, etc. etc.
Dmatter
Reply1(Glave): Of course! If I mess up, I'll be dead.
Command/Reply?
STUPID NANJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........................................................................
(No I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about ninjaing. :P)
EDIT: Um, did you remove the spaces?
/Reply2 Well, what are you? Silkwing, Snipe, Owlites?, Do you know how to take a picture with this terminal?(Starts reading instructions)
/Reply1 Well, I strongly recommend to NOT use that book unless you know the language, also, could you send me a picture of what the language looks like?
Durod is a sprite who fell down to the level that Glave is on. Durod ran off saying he couldn't believe someone was here.
OOC: Tie-ta and Ti-tae could both be spirits, maybe...seems a bit farfetched, but it's a possibility. Their descriptions match up, and their type of damage does too. I just don't want to be the one to insult them by asking if they aren't spirits. :)
Reply1:
I suggest we see if you can find Durod first - he may know more about that spellbook than we do at this point, and it's safer not to risk a potential risk on your health considering what we've already dealt with thus far. If nothing else, you've obtained some sort of artifact that may assist you later on down there.
Reply2:
Your descriptions are clearing a few things up, but more information would be great. Do you have a specific name for your species, one that we'd might already be familiar with? I'm not thinking that either of you are what we call "monsters", like the Greavers, and I'm also assuming that you both live in the Clockworks.
If you don't mind my asking, could you maybe describe where you live, even possibly give me a name of the type of location you're in? - just trying to identify more information on where you are and what we can do to help you out.
OOC: I am guessing tie-ta and Ti-tae are silkwings or devilites as the nearest fiend is .5 feet away from tie-ta could be Ti-tae. (Also sorry if I mess anything up. I'm on a tablet.)
reply 2: what does the area around you look like?
(To clarify, what gets "typed" by you guys gets turned into a voice and then goes on a speaker. Then it is coming back through a microphone on the speakers' side. What they say is turned into text.)
Grittle
Reply2(Tie-ta): Slikwing? Snipe? Owlite? I'm not sure what those are...a picture....I'm not sure. There are all these funny looking symbols on these buttons here. [Clacking noises]
Reply1(Glave): Okay okay...I won't read it anymore. Meh, ok maybe I'll read it.....I'm not sure how I'd get you a picture. I don't see any cameras about.
Kanoka
Reply1(Glave): But....okay I'll stop reading...Durod! Where are you!? Where is he....
Reply2(Tie-ta): Oh, we're from the Arkon tribe! I think we have a name for our species...I can't remember...I don't know why I can't. Is this place the clockworks? It's so gloomy....I like the Sky Dome better...anyway, we don't live here. That purple pudgy thing made us go here somehow. I think it was with this weird purple thing on the ground.
Reply2(Tie-ta): We live in a place called the Sky Dome. It's all blue and there's all this stuff floating around. Every thing is so shiny but we're used to it. I don't know where we are right now. If it's the clockworks, then I guess it's the clockworks...
Dmatter
Reply2(Tie-ta): It's sort of a dead end area with a computer thing...or whatever that stocky, furry guy called it.
Command/Reply?
Reply1: DO NOT READ THAT BOOK, Try to find Durod and try to tell him what is the language
Reply2: Was the Furry guy Orange and walks on 2 legs?
command: search data-banks for anything related to the Arkon tribe. Name possible species of the nearest fiend to tie-ta. See if possible to connect reply 1 and reply 2 (called for lack of better name) in direct chat.
reply 2: about the symbols, on the very lower left is one of the symbols a horizontal line connected to a diagonal line, which in turn is connected to another horizontal line? If so than it seem that is a normal spirallian keyboard, which we type on to communicate. If not, then can you try describing a few symbols? Oh and you should know we are also helping another user called glave, who is in a place called a shadow lair, if he findes anything relevant to your situation, than we will tell you. Also if you want to communicate with him tell us and we will pass on the message until an easier way is found.
reply 1: close the tomb and carry it with you to where ever you are going when you are ready. Also you should know that we have somehow connected to another pair of users somewhere called tie-ra and ti-tae. If they find anything of use to you we will tell you. Also if you wish to communicate with them we will pass on the message until an easier way is found.
OOC: sorry for huge post. Escuse any spelling errors as typing on a tablet because of computer trouble. Also new image.
(OOC: I'm not sure what to do here, but I'll try.)
Reply1: Be careful. If you do something wrong, someone is going to get hurt.
Reply2: That "purple thing" must be a ritual symbol. I hear devilites like to draw them.
I think I've fallen in love...
It's a robot, too!
(Sorry, didn't have the time yesterday. I'll do it today.)
Grittle
Reply1(Glave): Eh? Okay.
Reply2(Tie-ta): No...no he was brown and he had big teeth. He did have two legs though.
Dmatter (Note: you can call them CC1 and CC2 (Communication Channel 1/2)
No information on Arkon Tribe.
Species is Silkwing.
Connection of CC1 and CC2 is not possible. (To merge, both channels must be the same type.)
Reply2(Tie-ta): Um...I'm not sure...how do you mean that? The diagonal....connected to the...umm.....Glave? He's....in a what?!
Reply2(Ti-tae): A shadow lair! Why would he be in there?
Reply2(Tie-ta): Shadow lairs are something that we rarely discuss. It...it goes a long way back. Anyway, I've never heard of this Glave person.
Reply2(Ti-tae): Um...I don't know...
Reply1(Glave): I am, I am! Ugh, I'm not sure why but I can't take my eyes off that book, though. Wait, Tie-ta? I know that name...I'm not sure how...I know it, though.
Phantomhamachi
Reply1(Glave): Yeah...okay. Do you have any more info on this 'Tie-ta' person? Ug, this book is so weird! I can't get away from it...
Reply2(Tie-ta): Hmm, I know about those symbols. There are teleportation ones, healing ones, cursing ones, and then...the other ones. Ugh, my memory is so foggy after the purple pudgy thing hit me with that...that hard thing.
Command/Reply?
/Reply1 So when did you last heard the name Tie-ta? was it a silkwing?
/Reply2 Ah! a gremlin! those little buggers like to destroy levels and use them for their war machines (Starts telling about the Roarmoleous Twins)
command: search data for the following :shadow lairs and sky dome.
OOC: also the thing I was describing in my last post was a 'z' just so you know. I have no idea what to do now until an event happens, so yeah.
OOC: Just finished up first semester finals last Friday...woohoo! :D Now waiting for Christmas to arrive tomorrow...and to add my contribution!
Reply 1: Glave, this book seems like it's having an effect on you. I'd recommend that you find Durod as quickly as possible, just so he can help out - where did you last see him? Do you still have the Sun Shard on you, or does Durod have it?
Reply 2: Pardon the interruption, but you mentioned a bit back that you pushed the purple thing down and off the edge of something. I'm thinking based on your description of it that it's what we call a Devilite...they aren't the most friendly, and they absolutely love work to death. Do you guys remember anything before meeting the purple thing, or did it possibly say anything that could help us find you two?
It's me who is late! :P
I need get my nose out of all the pre-Christmas goodies. I lack the time to answer in earnest, but I do have one thing...
@Tedme
No text to yell.
Can't you clean up this signal any better?