OH FUCK YES! YOU'RE BACK.

Greet tom, ask him if he has seen red, ask him how his eye/stomach are feeling.

>>3282170
This, is #RubyQuest up so we don't flood the thread with suggestions?

Map.

Greet Tom!

Ask how he's been, and if the kids are doing okay in school.

Rape Tom.

Stick it in!

Ask him why he is squinting. Cautiously.

>>3282171
Yes, it is up. On:

irc.rizon.net
#RubyQuest

>>3282177
Not squinting. His eye hurts.

HUG.

Then ask if he's feeling better, not puking blood.

Then ask what's wrong with his eye.

>>3282178
irc:irc.rizon.net#RubyQuest

For people using ChatZilla on Firefox.

>>3282170
>Greet tom, ask him if he has seen red, ask him how his eye/stomach are feeling.
Tom says his stomach is feeling much better, but his eye is in severe pain.

He doesn't know who "Red" is... but he does say that if you mean that person who keeps smiling, yes, he saw him.
Red let Tom out of the room he was trapped in, just a few minutes ago. Tom came out to look for Ruby.

Tom is glad to see Ruby. He says he thought she might be dead.

Ask to look at Tom's eye!

Ask to check his eye. We want him to definitely be okay.

If possible, cast Cure Light Wounds on his eye. And by that, I mean kiss it better.

>>3282192
Tell him we're happy he's better, and ask to examine his eye.

>>3282199
>Ask to look at Tom's eye!
Tom hesitantly agrees to let Ruby take a look at his eye.

Ask him if he got the antidote.

>>3282228

We need water. His eye looks badly messed up.

Do I just copy irc.rizon.net#RubyQuest into the address bar?
Call Red into the room to introduce him to Tom, and have a look at the eye.
Also, hug Tom.

>>3282228
Examine it closer, what is wrong with it?

Tie a piece of string to his arm, and another piece to our arm. Explain to Tom that it is for identification, because strange shit has been going down.

>>3282228
...oh, FUCK.

Ask him if he remembers anything since the last time he saw Ruby.

>>3282240
I think we're avoiding red right now- I say have Tom lead us to where he was

>>3282243
FUCKFUCKFUCK

RUN

>>3282243
SQUAD MOTHERFUCKING BROKEN

RUN LIKE HELL

>>3282243
Yell "Calm down, please! control yourself!"

>>3282258
Ask Tom to let go.

>>3282258

RUN

Hug Tom back! :D

>>3282240
You will need to install the ChatZilla app for FireFox.

It's

irc:irc.rizon.net#RubyQuest

The whole thing. That's the syntax to get it to work.

Okay have good day!

Tom shakes Ruby gently by the shoulder.
He asks if she is okay -- she just sort of blanked on him for a moment there.

>>3282258
Time to rabbit. Literally. Scoot!

>>3282248
Re suggest this.

>>3282269
These simple tasks may be supplemented with insurmountable obstacles...

THIS IS NOT GOOD. Ruby is hallucinating.

>>3282269
...ask Tom to walk to the other side of the room, she thinks she sees something.

>>3282269
Tell tom you've been seeing strange things, and want to make sure there's a gaping hole behind him

Just a reminder, we need to go upstairs and put that cross-thing in the socket.

>>3282278
>...ask Tom to walk to the other side of the room, she thinks she sees something.
Tom tells Ruby there's no way he's walking across the room, as he doesn't want to fall into the gap.

Tom tells Ruby she must not have noticed it. He says it's understandable, since she obviously hasn't been here for a while.

>>3282287
Ask Tom what has happened in the time she has been gone.

Also hug Tom.

Ask Tom what happened?

>>3282287
Ask him to recap EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED.

Ask Tom to narrate everything that's happened to him since she saw him last.

Inquire of how much time has passed since last meeting. Tell Tom of the monsters encountered recently. Mention Red is suspicious. Go over a common inventory recap with Tom, to see what items the two of them have at hand.

Use toms body as bridge

Ask him what has happened to him since you two were parted

[Again, try to keep discussion, comments on suggestions, and repeats to a minimum. The IRC channel can be used for running discussion. Doing good so far!]

>>3282291
>Ask Tom what has happened in the time she has been gone.
Tom explains he's not sick anymore. He took an antidote three days ago.
He hasn't seen much, since he's been locked in a room, but he says that he's been hearing loud creaking and cracking noises echoing from other rooms.

Three days?

How is he measuring time?

Tell Tom to show you where he was locked up.

>>3282310
Sleep cycles.

Ask him what happened since they lost each other.

>>3282307
Does Tom know where Ruby has been? Or what she has been doing?

Ask ask ask.

Look for Red.

Is that the hook on the floor by Ruby's foot? If so, pick that up.

>>3282311
>Tell Tom to show you where he was locked up.
Tom agrees, and leads Ruby up the access hatch.

>>3282307
There's some seriously freaky shit going on around here.

Examine the thing by Ruby's feet, and carefully try to see how far the gap goes in each direction.

...that's funny.
Tom says this doorway was just open.

>>3282323
Peep on Tom's ass while he is climbing.

Examine room.

Examine the bin, the place where her locker used to be, close the z-hatch with the computer. look down the shaft where we pushed the barrel through. look at that blobby thing.

>>3282343
I'll take Shoggoths for $500, Alex.

Examine the computer thingy.

>>3282343
>>3282344
There's a utilitarian metal hamper here. Something is inside. Ruby decides to get it. One moment.
There's a pit in the center of the room, spattered with dried blood. Sitting in the center is a scrap of paper. Ruby will pick that up in just a second, too.

The hatch in the southeast corner has a ladder, and looking down, it appears to lead into the cell room below. Something about that fact seems odd.

The corner has some sort of strange, smooth organic growth latched onto two walls and the floor.
It looks almost like skin.

>>3282360
Tell Tom to keep an eye on the bottom right latter hatch thing, as well as the skin thing.

>>3282360
Ask how Tom's eye is doing now. Also stay away from the organic growth.

>>3282323
>>3282337
DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT! ALSO< RAPE TOM!

Ruby picks up a SCRAP OF PAPER from the shallow pit.
Ruby finds a FOOTY SOCK PAJAMA FOOT in the hamper, evidently torn from a full set of pajama bottoms and tied off at about the ankle. It's slightly heavy.

>>3282386
Untie the footie pajama, dump out possible contents with care.

>>3282390
>Untie the footie pajama, dump out possible contents with care.
Inside the FOOTY SOCK PAJAMA FOOT, there is a BLACK AND WHITE key.

Ruby throws away the FOOTY SOCK PAJAMA FOOT. Her genre instinct tells her she won't need it.

>>3282386

Examine the growth more closely, too. Is it full or hollow? Fleshi or what?

Crawl down the southeastern hatch, if it looks like we can do it without falling.

>>3282397
Search room for key holes. If there are none, ask Tom to follow you down the bottom right hatch.

>>3282397
Examine KEY.
Examine SCRAP OF PAPER.

>>3282401
>Examine the growth more closely, too. Is it full or hollow? Fleshi or what?
It's smooth and fleshy. It's like skin.

>>3282403
>Crawl down the southeastern hatch, if it looks like we can do it without falling.
The second hatch now has a ladder leading down. That wasn't there before.

>>3282337
nobody asked what he saw when it was opened?

>>3282411
Ask Tom to come with you.

Ruby descends the access hatch and enters the room below.

We should tie a piece of string to Tom, and another piece to Ruby, for identification purposes in case shit hits the fan again. It may be paranoid, but it is a safe idea.

Not tying them together, mind, just making them even more identifiable.

>>3282421
Pull lever, go back up to Tom.

>>3282421
Call for Tom

>>3282421
Oh no, space warping madness.

>>3282421
Mind = blown.

Examine the latch, and other thing, pull latch, call to tom to see if anything changes

... Wake up.

>>3282427
>>3282428
>>3282429
>>3282432
>>3282434
[Okay, we're really getting a bit too many responses again]

Ruby tries to pull the lever, but something's locking it from moving. It looks like part of the mechanism is missing, like a thin metal rod. About the size of a toothpick.

>>3282462
Tie the string around the lever and exit the room.

Ruby ties a small bit of string to the lever, then climbs back up to the room where she first awoke. Tom is still here, looking the door over in confusion.

>>3282472
Ask how Tom is doing. Ask him how his eye is feeling.

>>3282476

By that, he means "head down the ladder where we most recently awakened and get the dingus that was behind us."

But we can do that after we check on Tom.

>Ask how Tom is doing.
Also ask what was outside the door before it was closed!

>>3282472
Poke the growth in the corner with the black and white key, if there is no response from it, attempt to tear it open with the key.

>>3282477
Tom says his eye still hurts.

Or rather, it hurts where it's supposed to be.

>>3282487
Hug Tom, tell him you're going to make it feel better.

>>3282487
Snap out of it!

>>3282487
Hugtom. hugtomhugtomhugtomhugtom and tell him we're sorry about that arsenic thing.

>>3282487

Oh fuck!

WAKE UP

>>3282487
SNAP OUT OF IT RUBY, DON'T LET IT TAKE HOLD.

>>3282492
Shut up, he doesn't know about that.

Examine the buttons (?) by the door.

>>skullfuck tom

Tom explains that he lost his eye while he was being dragged off to the room he spent the last few days in. The thing that brought him there did it.
Ruby must just not have noticed, between her flashes and distractions.

>>3282503
>Remove panties, put on Tom as eye patch.

>>3282503
Weaver I thought there was supposed to be less mindfucking for awhile. Also hug tom and examine scrap of paper

>>3282503
What flashes and distractions are he referring to in this case?

>>3282503
Ask Tom to describe the "thing" that brought him there, if he remembers.

Examine the buttons by the door, see if we can find some sort of egress from the area and something to patch up toms eye.

>>3282248
New take on this.

Tie piece of string to Tom, tie different piece of string to Ruby. Tell him "We may be apart, but the power of friendship will keep us together."

Explore remaining areas of the building, namely Z-hatch room. Also re-check the exam room.

>>3282507
>Weaver I thought there was supposed to be less mindfucking for awhile
I said more puzzles.

>>3282511
>Ask Tom to describe the "thing" that brought him there, if he remembers.
Unfortunately, Tom says he didn't get a good look at whatever dragged him away. He was already sick.
He says most of the pain of his eye has gone away by now.

Poor Tom's lost his eye. Ruby hugs him for comfort.

>>3282524
Examine paper

Hug Tom
Sob Gently
Tell him you've been blacking out/losing time/hallucinating

Tell him how when you left him to get the cure you where attacked by a monster, blacked out. Woke up in your room, only it wasn't your room. Found red, found cure again, pneumatic tubed cure to red. Then you found a dead body a it grabbed your hand and you blacked out again and then you found Tom.

Sob more
Hug tom harder

>>3282533
Except for the crying, do this

>>3282535
Basically tell Tom what happened to you.

Go down Northeast chute. Bring Tom.

>>3282540
And pull hook-lever on the ground.

Tom looks like he feels better.

Ruby tells Tom what's happened. Tom explains he's been weak and despondent lately, and unfortunately can't help her with many details, except that the western door in the room with the big console (the one that the fishtank-door leads to) is the way into the room he was trapped in.

They both agree that the only thing to do now is go forward.

>>3282545
Warn Tom about Red. Although Ruby hasn't actually seen him being malicious, she knows enough to tell Tom to keep his guard up.

Then, go forward.

Explore what was once the z hatch

>>3282545
Head back down to the Brig via the left ladder. Bring Tom.

>>3282545
Explore remaing rooms we had visted before. And pick up the hook.

>>3282545
Use string to attach Ruby and Tom together so they do not get separated

>>3282552
>Explore what was once the z hatch
Tom and Ruby both go back down the access hatch to check the z-hatch.

Also, there is a hook on the ground here -- but it is not sharp, and it is riveted firmly to the ground. It's essentially just a heavy-duty eyehook.

>>3282562
Examine the symbol now above the z-hatch.

>>3282562
Tie string to eyehook

Is it just me, or are thread links not working all the sudden? I'm just getting green text.

>>3282568
>Examine the symbol now above the z-hatch.
Ruby has a feeling she's seen this before somewhere.

>>3282570
Not just you. Same is happening here

>>3282575
>Examine the black panel thingy. Then go through the hatch if the panel isn't intresting.
It's some sort of movable wall panel, but it won't budge. It must be remotely-controlled.
Ruby and Tom both head through the Z-Hatch.

>>3282576
Shit it is the same symbol from the clock http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3251532/images/1230369553167.gif
Crap this might be bad, but we must go in to advance the plot! Onwards!

>>3282588
Might be bad? Ruby isn't going to die. She has plot armor.

>>3282592
Don't tempt Weaver.

>>3282592
She could always roll a 1.

Ruby and Tom emerge in the back room.

In the small closet to the east, on a shelf, there is a large metal safe. Instead of a combination lock, it has a spherical indentation about as big as Ruby's fist, like a socket.

The room is also quite clean.

>>3282599
Examine the lock, ask Tom to stand guard.

>>3282599
Eye is active =<

See what is around the safe/shelves. Examine the bulb. Examine the lock more closely.

>>3282599
..Use key on safe?

>>3282599
Looks like a private room. Sex Tom to comfort him.

>>3282617
With Tom of course

>>3282599
>The room is quite clean

Yeah, now that's just plain freaky.

>>3282607
>See what is around the safe/shelves. Examine the bulb. Examine the lock more closely.
The shelves are bare. The lightbulb is on, looking unremarkable and harsh. The lock is simply a spherical indentation -- there's nothing more significant about the socket to speak of. That's all there is to it.

>>3282608
>..Use key on safe?
Ruby uses the BLACK AND WHITE KEY on the WALL CABINET.

>>3282624
uh oh here we go......

>>3282624
Tell Tom to stop standing there passively and try to help out a bit more.

Inside the wall cabinet, Ruby finds another PAPER SCRAP.
She also recovers an old-fashioned, black leather MEDICINE BAG.

Inspect medicine bag.

>>3282633
Open ze magic murder bag

put 7 above 6 and see if it has anything interesting on the back

Go east. Bring Tom.

>>3282636
Ruby can't open the MEDICINE BAG.
There's a TINY PADLOCK of surprising strength keeping it closed.

>>3282647
Ask Tom about his take on the recent events and go into the next room

>>3282647
Inspect eye painting.

>>3282647
Throw bag at the bulb

>>3282646
>Go east. Bring Tom.
Ruby heads WEST (remember, the view was reversed on entering the back room) and -- now that the hatch is much larger -- she is able to take Tom with her into the side room behind the couch.

>>3282662
Mysteriously repaired vacuum tube is mysteriously repaired.

>>3282666
Yet oddly not cleaned. Ew.

>>3282662
FFFF that dummy is looking at us again. Anyway examine the panel below the mirror

>>3282662
Inspect room, noting all differences.

>>3282662
ask tom to put his hand in the water tank, press the button on it.

Ask Tom if he still has any inventory.

>>3282662
Inspect socket where antidote machine used to be.

Also inspect floor there; are there drag-marks (eg from the machine being dragged out)?

>>3282662
Tap what used to be a broken mirror

Open question: Is the position of the dummy corresponding to the icons on the wall in the dummy room and the random rooms? Is he currently pointing the same direction as the wall chart displaying the hook, thus this is why the Z hatch is open? Considering the dummy can rotate?

>>3282675
>ask tom to put his hand in the water tank, press the button on it.
Considering it's a GIANT BLENDER, Ruby decides not to ask Tom to put his hand inside.

The window between the rooms is now sealed with a heavy plastic, perhaps to avoid breaking.

The electrical panel has been covered up by a protective plate and marked with the symbol for electricity.

There is an electrical outlet visible here.

Climb on Tom, Examine the vent on the upper right.

>>3282685
I guessed right about the blender =D yaaay!

I couldn't think of anything else to put in ;3

>>3282685
Look through the plastic to the hidden room we woke up in.

>>3282685

Uhh... Is that a hatch under the window? A little hatch maybe? Can it be opened?

>>3282685
Check floor for scuff marks, footprints, etc.

>>3282691
We got a hand out of it and shot it up the tube, hence why the tube is covered in blood.

WHY did we shoot the hand up the tube?

>>3282685
Open hatch between rooms

>>3282696
because people are stupid.

>>3282691
>Uhh... Is that a hatch under the window? A little hatch maybe? Can it be opened?
The mail-slot style drawer between the rooms, which Ruby has used before, is now empty. It's also clean.

>>3282693
>Check floor for scuff marks, footprints, etc.
Ruby heard you the first time, but there's nothing it yielded worth noting.
So, no. Nothing.

>>3282699
Examine the 3 thingy. If it gives nothing of importance head back to dummy room with Tom

Inspect panel numbered '3'

>>3282699
See if you can check the grating standing atop of Tom's shoulders. If he wants to that is.

>>3282699
Inspect vent in upper left, attempt to remove.

>>3282712
erm, upper right, rather.

>>3282706
>Examine the 3 thingy.
The symbol looks familiar. Ruby remembers seeing that one, too.

>If it gives nothing of importance head back to dummy room with Tom
Ruby and Tom head back to the now-bisected room, and then the Dummy room.

Check that doodad just above the electrical panel.

>>3282718
Ask Tom how his eye is feeling now, the socket has become more noticable.

>>3282718
Ask Tom if he is mentally alright and then ask him if you look fine(ish)

>>3282725
Tom being anything but melancholy?

>>3282727
well as normal as he can be.

As soon as Ruby re-enters the bisected room, the Z-Hatch inexplicably slams shut. Tom is sealed on the opposite side of the wall from Ruby.

>>3282731
Again? This is getting kinda old. Go to console upstairs and enter open zhatch 211

>>3282731
Yell for Tom. Is he alright? Tell him you'll be back soon if you can't get the hatch open again.

>>3282734
Yeah no. How about we wait for our good friend to arrive.

>>3282731
Call out to the creature on the opposite side of the room.

>>3282731
Bang on it, calling to Tom, ask if he is alright. Tell him to go back to the room with the Vacuum tube and look through the window, you'll be there.

>>3282731

the hell is coming out of the hatch across the gap.

god. dammit.

>>3282739
Oh shit there is someone there! Go upstairs quickly to apprehend them

>>3282743
BAD idea

Upstairs is probably where he is coming from.

>>3282742

It's the GOD. Also known as Red.

>>3282731
Is that Red's cane?

>>3282748
Why yes. Yes it is

>>3282734
>Again? This is getting kinda old. Go to console upstairs and enter open zhatch 211
Ruby returns upstairs...

>>3282750
Cast magic missile at the darkness.

>>3282750
FFFFFFF Say hello to red

>>3282750
"You trapped Tom"

>>3282750
Quickly back away from the smile

Kindly demand Red stops smiling. For ever.

Greet Red warmly. Ask him to stop smiling or you will bite his throat out.

>>3282750

ask for our two coins back

The person behind the door tosses a small, thin metal rod onto the floor.

The door closes suddenly.

Ruby recovers the THIN METAL ROD.

>>3282765
Go to the lever, and use the THIN METAL ROD.

>>3282765
Well that was ru-*CLANG*
What the fuck was that?

>>3282765

whelp, go back to the lever/handle thing, put the rod back in place and give the fucker a tug

>>3282765
Check on Tom.

>>3282765
Equip THIN METAL ROD as a weapon. who knows what might happen next.

Retrieve TOm then use thin metal rod on levber

>>3282775
>Check on Tom.
Ruby can't check on Tom! He's sealed behind the Z-Hatch... and the terminal isn't working! It won't even light up!

>>3282774
>whelp, go back to the lever/handle thing, put the rod back in place and give the fucker a tug
Ruby climbs down...
...and replaces the metal rod into the lever.

>>3282783
Pull the lever, leave the string.

Ruby pulls the lever up...
...only to find it has far more slack than she realized!

Something in the room moves in response to the pulling of the lever, but Ruby can't really see it from here.

On the way up the ladder, press the 2nd button from the top.

>>3282795
See if it opened the door it used to.
Check on what used to be the black panel.

>>3282795
Examine the lever... thing... is it an extension cord?
Enter Dummy Room.

>>3282797
Ruby releases the lever, and it snaps back up (down?) into place. Something in the room moves, again.

>>3282809
Pull it tight and tie it to one of the rungs of the ladder with the string!

>>3282809
Tie ball of string to lever then tie it to the eye hook! Go ruby, go!

>>3282809
use your bunny ears to try to determine it's location

>>3282809

Use STRING on LEVER. Then try to hurl it beyond the chasm and use STRING on HOOK. Then tighten.

>>3282814
>Pull it tight and tie it to one of the rungs of the ladder with the string!
The thick cord easily snaps the flimsy string.

>>3282809
Pull the string and remove the metal rod

>>3282823
bring lever up the ladder with you. If there is still slack head back down to side of room with the eye hook and attach lever to eye hook

Find out how much slack the lever has. Climb the ladder while pulling it.

Also, push the 2nd button from the top.

Also, a new thread? This one autosaged.

Ruby attempts to press the second button from the top...
but it's been mashed in and broken! It looks like someone struck it hard with something. Or else they don't know their finger strength.

>>3282827
>>3282828
>bring lever up the ladder with you. If there is still slack head back down to side of room with the eye hook and attach lever to eye hook
Ruby heads upstairs...
There sure is a lot of slack here.

>>3282828
Yeah I was gonna ask about those buttons

Ruby hooks the lever's handle onto the eyehook.

Bring lever through Northwest chute. Hook it to the hook on the ground.

>>3282847
Examine the what used to be the black panel.

>>3282847
Go into door to the left of you

>>3282869
New thread