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Who: Everyone
When: Day 5, bright and early in the morning
Where: Labyrinth!
What: A daring labyrinth

[you somehow land into this labyrinth with a hard thud, sending clouds of dust flying everywhere. what you're in now is a stone room that has a flickering torch placed on each wall. it smells a bit dingy in here, like what one might picture an actual labyrinth or dungeon to smell like.

there doesn't actually seem to be much worth investigating in this room, aside from a sign and three old, wooden doors before you. the sign reads:

"If you risk it all, you gain it all. If you risk nothing, you gain nothing."

somehow, very inexplicably so, you get the strange sense that the riskier you play, the better the prize.]

(( RULES — PRE-MINGLE — WHICH DOOR DO YOU CHOOSE? — POST-MINGLE — TREASURE ))

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[the skeletons all shake their heads. the one you saved first—who will from here on out be the only one to speak—gives a verbal response.

"Breathing doesn't concern us. Nothing like that does anymore. Not since we've been out all of our organs."]

Then we probably don't need the translucent seeds. Still, let's see...

[Well, time to plant the other two types in different planters to see what grows.]

[they are now planted in the soil! do you water them?]

[But of course! There's no way this can go wrong, right?]

[not at all!

maybe.

perhaps.

what grows out from the spherical seed you planted is a net, like what would be used to catch fish at sea. it's ingrained into the soil as it grows, but that is definitely a net.

whereas the pink-lined seed provides you with strips of bubblegum that smell... very off. very, very off.]

[Hmm... I suppose a net wouldn't hurt... Let's try to get that net out. In the mean time, talking to the skeletons.]

...I don't suppose any of you can tell what that bubblegum-like thing is?

[pulling the net out is certainly doable.

the skeletons, on the other hand, seem confused.

"It's not bubblegum? Hm. Hmmm. I have long forgotten the enjoyment of bubblegum."]

Well, I suppose it might be, but the smell's far enough off that I doubt it, so... I guess if you want to try it, you can?

[...Hm. Let me just. Plant one of the fire-resistant plant seeds I've been carrying in one of the planters, then water it, too.]

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["I guess I wouldn't mind. I'll take a piece if you're offering, leader."

those fire-resistant seeds grow into... gloves that would reach up to your elbows! they are presumably fire-resistant gloves.]

[...Sure, whatever. Let's gather it and grow a gas mask, just in case, and then...]

All right then, we should head forward. We should maybe bring some water just in case, but otherwise, we need to see if we can find anything out there. a greenhouse isn't exactly a good place to permanently live, after all.

[there's an awkward pause among the skeletons before the one comments, "But flowers permanently live in greenhouses. I think."

a different skeleton goes ahead and grabs one of the watering cans since you mentioned bringing water.]

Greenhouses are specifically made for flowers to live in them! It's fine for flowers since it's a place where what they need can be casually given to them, I assume you need something different from flowers, if only because you can walk and talk.

Well, if you're all fine living here, you can, I suppose. I won't force you to come along if you're okay with that.

[the skeletons jolt upright in surprise.

"Don't abandon us! We're looking for something! We don't know what it is yet, but we want to find it. Leader, we think you can help us with this."]

Hm... You're looking for something, but don't know what...? That's going to make it harder to find, but I don't really mind helping out...

[Hm, let's see...I might as well keep exploring here, then. Let's check out the sack, then. Let's open this thing up and see what's inside.]

["Well... we're after something warm. And delicious. We know that much, right, guys?"

the skeletons all nod in agreement.

meanwhile, inside that sack is definitely a fresh human skull with fish where the eyes used to be. there's also fish in the skull itself, and in the mouth. tiny sardines are stuffed into the nasal cavities, too.]

[The horror. What a waste of perfectly good sardines!

...Well, they're not perfectly good anymore, so that's not really fair, but still, this is the worst. Why would anyone waste sardines like that? They're perfect.

I guess there's a skull there too, and it being kind of fresh is a little creepy, but... Let's just close the bag again.]

I doubt we'll find anything "warm and delicious" in here, so I don't think we'll have muc of a choice but to move on.

[And with that, it's time to head straight into the wasteland!]

[the skeletons follow you into the wasteland... but not two steps outside and your throat begins to feel tight. you might begin to feel lightheaded if you stay out here any longer.]

[...Well, I do have a gas mask for this, but...]

Are you all okay? We can go back to grab some gas masks if you need it.

[Yeah, she's not putting hers on yet, either.]

[the skeletons eagerly nod.

"Everything is fine. Why, is something wrong?"]

The air seems to be a bit toxic. I suppose it's not a problem for all of you since you don't need to breathe, though.

[Well then, for the time being, let's explore. She's not putting the gas mask on until it's actually starting to make her lightheaded, though.]

[it won't be long until she feels lightheaded. scattered across the ground are feather-tipped arrows, bullet casings, and many fish bones.

in the distance there are a few large holes in the ground. there's nothing distinctive about them; one is left, one is middle, and one is right. they're all large enough for a person to jump through. however, behind each one is a grave marker with something engraved on it, though it's too hard to make out from this distance.]

[...Hm. Checking out the grave markers seems like a good idea. At the very least, it should at least give us an idea of what happened.]

[the left grave marker reads "ashes to ashes"

the middle grave marker reads "bud to bud"

the right grave marker reads "wall to wall"]

[...Hmmm... Wall to wall seems like the most likely one to contain what they're looking for, so let's see about climbing down that hole.]

[when you go to climb down, you'll find that there isn't much to "climb", per se—it's a long-winding tunnel, like a slide, and all the skeletons will be jumping in after you.

"Oh, this does seem familiar!" one of them says]

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