WEEK 2 MINGLE - ARTEMISIA

[foundationmods]

Things had changed so rapidly in the past few days.

The loss of two of them hung over like a shroud, made even worse by the fact that an innocent person had been executed.

Was this....how the rest of the game was going to go...?🗈

....Even if it was, there wasn't much they could do now. Yuuko herself hasn't shown up in public since the trial, and while some have talked to her, she's been...subdued.

Did the trial hurt her just as much as them?

Regardless, the island is still beautiful, if deadly. Summer continues, beaming down on all of them, the waves of the sea warm and inviting.

But even if things look bleak...

They have something in their hands that will soon lead to the Truth, and the heart of this matter.

And in the air...lies a heavy sense that everything is about to change.

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Comments

[literalidiotball]

Well, technichally we solved it. Ruler and I helped.

[Credit where it's due. Gotta have that.]

Turns out the "nights" were more like vague instructions for how to complete the maze. "Go through the single door, go to the door that has a number corresponding to the number of petals on the door," that sort of thing.

So, the last bit of the te- Puzzle, we had to hang up this fancy Chinese bell, grab some stuff to light a fire from a burnt out room, and start ringing the bell while there was a small fire under the bell, heating it up. We did that, the bell changed sounds when it was heated, and all of a sudden the whole room goes up in flames!

[excavated]

There was a Chinese bell? You don't happen to remember the exact details of what it looked like, do you? [ He's Chinese, so he's admittedly curious. ]

[literalidiotball]

[Wheatley has not noticed!]

Well, it was brown and lumpy and sounded like you were banging a hammer into a pot until you warmed it up!

[IT WAS A RITUAL BELL, MORON!]

[excavated]

Sounds like a bianzhong. . . or maybe one of the bronze bells that were found in the tomb of Marquis Yi? Or one of the other emperors. I wouldn't be able to tell you the specifics unless I actually saw a picture of it.

[literalidiotball]

You can ask Ruler about it, he did the fire bell thing!

[excavated]

I guess I will.

[keydomhearts]

Sounds like you all had an adventure. And then it lead you guys to a book?

[ IS he getting that part right? ]

[literalidiotball]

Yeah, it should have! But the book was actually in the library and our resident Akira Kusuru got to it first!

[Look, the Foundation has way too many of this kid, they ought to rename them sometimes.]