[Tartarus]

((You should demand further information from the speaker above you. It clearly knows something))

[Narrative Prompt]

((Seeing as how your shadow is completely circular, there must be a light source above you. Examine the light source.))

[Loaka of the Wind]

You beep at the speaker. It turns out that you do not have a VOICE CHIP installed.
The speaker responds. It is distorted by static and definitely in a language you don’t understand.

NEW KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED – Voice Chip Missing
NEW KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED – Foreign Language?

You look down at the dark circle at your feet. You look up and see nothing but a roof of the same colour as everything else. You make the summation that this is ENTIRELY NORMAL for shadows and that your shadow will LIKELY REMAIN A CIRCLE for absolutely no reason in most circumstances.

NEW THEORY ACQUIRED – That Shadow is Totally Normal

You idly wish there was some sort of PILE OF DOCUMENTS around here that would explain things to you.
You momentarily ponder SEARCHING THE ROOM but think better of it.
You wonder if you have an INVENTORY but fail to follow through.

[Ickle Wickle Dickle-chan]

((Examine the room while square dancing.))

[Loaka of the Wind]

You decide to square dance around the room as a means of inspection. However, you have no idea how to square dance. Instead, you walk in a square pattern. You begin to rotate, giving you a better idea of the contents of the room.

There is a SPEAKER here. It DOES NOT SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE, whatever your language is.
There is a PILE OF RECTANGLES WITH WRITING here. You think you can READ them.

You turn more, facing away from yourself for once.

There is a CURIOUS DOOR here. It is probably LOCKED. The colour is, you decide, a HORRIBLE choice.
There is a CURIOUS DOOR DEVICE here. It is probably the LOCK. It is staring at you.

INSERT ACTION HERE.

[Narrative Prompt]

((Ask the door “Why so curious?” while smiling at it))

[Loaka of the Wind]

Ignoring all of the obvious plot hooks, you interrogate the door’s face with a hearty ‘beep’. It stares at you blankly.

NEW(?) KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED: Voicebox Still Missing

Attempting to smile, you find yourself with an odd predicament. You don’t actually have a mouth.

NEW THEORY ACQUIRED: Mouth Drawn On With Marker

For now, you are stuck with the ‘=3’ expression. Perhaps if you acquired a MARKER you may be able to alter this.

The door says something to you that you don’t understand. It then says something that you do understand.
“PASSCODE? PASSCODE?”

[Narrative Prompt]

(( Read the notes on the floor already ))

[Loaka of the Wind]

You read the notes. Finally. They’re quite informative, unlike almost everything else in this room. You sure are glad you checked those first, however!

That looks like your status screen! They also tell you what the things mean.

“1 – HP
Health points, an estimate of your
current health state and proximity
to destruction

2 – EP
Energy points, an estimate of your
current auxiliary power for secondary
systems usage

3 – INV
storage slots to hold secondary
items and tools – storage can be upgraded.”

Someone has also scribbled a number here for some reason. What could that be for? You turn the sheet over and — hey, look! More scribbles!

You’re not sure what any of this means. Unless you are, in which case, good job!

[Narrative Prompt]

(( Connect to a WiFi connection))

[Loaka of the Wind]

Try as you might, you can’t connect to a WiFi connection! The reasons you think this might be are:
1) You don’t know the WiFi password
2) There are no WiFi signals nearby
3) You do not have a WiFi-capable component anyway
4) What is a WiFis anyway, am I right?

You await another course of action. There’s surely something in this room you haven’t looked at, right? Something, anything … what could it be … ?

[Ickle Wickle Dickle-chan]

((Inspect your head for loose screws.))

[Narrative Prompt]

(( Wait for the answer to be revealed to you through divine intervention ))

[Loaka of the Wind]

You fiddle around on the back of your head.
Clink … clank … rustle … clink …
Wait, rustle?

There’s something on the back of your head! Frankly, you feel a little silly for not noticing it earlier. You tear it off.

Well, this is some cryptic bullshit. It says:
Do not
trust Vex
my friend
– Ral

The red marker person has drawn a line through ‘do not trust’ and ‘my friend’, crossed out ‘Ral’ and drawn a little symbol that reminds you of a chain. You’re pretty certain this is either an important puzzle or dumb nonsense.

You await divine intervention on these cryptic plot-based shenanigans. They never come, which you are certain is a sign from above.

[Narrative Prompt]

(( Make a mental note to trust Vex later ))