>>3326334
Pre-emptively hold weapon and stand by door.

Just kidding.

Open box, collect useful items.

Open the METAL BOX!

>>3326337
>>3326338

fucking beautifull

Anything on the SCREEN?

Red face is grotesquely deformed, with an impossibly huge grin.
Red is impaled through the back of his neck and through the right side of his skull by large stakes. Red is covered in blood and not moving.
Red's dead, baby.

Ruby doesn't particularly want to disturb Red's body, let alone pull out thick wooden stakes jammed through his gray matter.

TOM examines the METAL BOX Red left. It appears unlocked, so he opens it.

>>3326363
Look at screen/window

Let's make the rest of it quick.

Open box, examine contents, pick up EVERYTHING you little adventure game bunny.

Also, "PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LEAVE THIS ROOM" sounds a lot like Dharma's "QUARANTINE" on the inside of the hatch.

>>3326334

Have Ruby stand by the door as Tom goes to the GIFT for an inspection.

>>3326363
Attempt to operate INTERCOM

Take the Walking stick.

He is reposting. Wait until all images are up again before posting more.

That is all.

>>3326366
>Look at screen/window
The screen is just static.
Ruby examines the items. There is a METAL TOOL HEAD that looks like it broke off one of the two stakes, but it does not appear useful in its current broken state.

Tom opens the BOX. There is a NOTE.
Tom also notices a COIN in the pile of stuff under the note.

I take it you won't be accepting responses using foreknowledge?

Examine CARD READER. That's our ticket to continuation, best to know about it early rather than late.

Ruby takes the CANE and SHOVEL HEAD, but leaves the EMPTY SPRAYCAN and the METAL TOOL HEAD, as both appear unhelpful in their current state.

>>3326384
Sorry to say this, but...


Read NOTE.

Collect items
double check red
I'm not clear on what the wall behind the pneumatic tube says. If its important, can we get ruby to read it?

And Weaver, a humble suggestion...
Perhaps next time you plan one of these, /tg/'s new favorite threads, give moot the almighty a 24-48 hour heads up and a personal invite.
He's already expressed a fondness for us, and perhaps his presence could leave us all a little... better behaved.
Or maybe i just want to see how moot plays ruby. who knows.

The door to the north opens.
A very large figure appears in the doorway.

Ruby gets the very distinct impression that this individual is not friendly.

>>3326393

Moot playing Ruby Quest with us? Fuck yes.

>>3326379
We should take the METAL TOOL HEAD anyway, in case we find a way to make it useful again. If it truly proves useless, we can chuck it then.

Tom is distracted by the NOTE.
He reads it...

Place SHOVEL HEAD in OPEN DOORWAY, just in case it might happen to slide shut.

Ruby does a barrel roll.

>>3326396
Tom should wield the CROWBAR
Ruby should wield the CANE

Wait for it to do something, while attempting to speak to it.

Tom discards the NOTE as he finishes reading.
There is something under the NOTE.

>>3326413
irc.rizon.net
#RubyQuest

Have Ruby try to drag TOM out of the room.

>>3326396
Timidly wave. We've made it a habit for our rabbit to greet her aggressors.

>>3326411
Leave room, shurt door, thank RED.

>>3326411
Throw bomb at birdman and run like hell. Preferably closing the door on the way out.

>>3326419
Thats good and all under normal condititions BUT THERE IS A FUCKING BOMB MAN!

>>3326411

Have Tom take the COINS from the bomb like substance.

Suddenly, a flash of memory returns to Ruby.

The figure does not seem friendly.
She remembers the figure...

The figure is the one who put her in the locker.

>>3326433
PLAGUE DOCTOR.
Leave room, shut door.

>>3326396
Tom picks up/grabs Ruby, and Bolts out the door with her. Since she has not seen the bomb its up to Tom to react.

>>3326433

Locker? what locker?

>>3326428
Ruby doesn't seem to notice that.

>>3326433
Let's regift him something, then.

>>3326433
Wait for the man so that he can answer the many questions Ruby has for him.

>>3326432
>Call TOM, RUN out of ROOM at HIGH SPEED.
Ruby doesn't see the BOMB.
Tom reacts quickly and runs from the room. He grabs Ruby and quickly carries her along.

Send the BOMB up the mail tube, it's somebody else's problem now.

Tom runs as fast as his tired legs will carry him.
[CUTSCENE!]

When out of the room, wait for an explosion, or other reaction, then re enter.

>>3326457 what a stud.

>>3326465
Fuck you furry.

[cutscene! don't submit any actions for the time being.]

Tom leaps from the room just as a huge, poorly-rendered explosion erupts from behind them.

>>3326489
Ruby Just looks like a pole
"Oh hay I'm bean carried, oh hay wat was dat noise"

Updated delete tutorial.

Sorry for the off topic post.

The explosion blasts through the air above them, filling the room with heat.

That room is going to look just fantastic after this. Gird loins check.

SAGE FOR FURFAGGOTRY. THIS WAY LIES HERESY. I AM ASHAMED OF YOU, /TG/.

>>3326538

That depends on what sort of explosive was used. High explosives and their massive impulse power tend to make people burst squishily. Low explosives tend to have less bursting, and becuase of the more sustained heat, more neat cauterisation.

[cutscene over]
Ruby and Tom appear unharmed. The building around them still shudders from the explosion, but it appears the imminent danger is gone.
The room to the north appears to have been filled with debris. It is now inaccessible.

>>3326561
Move the DO NOT OPEN box to see if there is an entrance behind it

>>3326561
thank tom. i say kiss but i know ruby wont

Check the room, and check each others status.

CLOSE THE MOTHERFUCKING Z HATCH.

RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

HURRY.

Let's consider the strength of the bomb. Has this perhaps altered our other surroundings? We may want to check some other rooms to see if they've been affected, mainly the bottom half of the tube.

>>3326570
...unless the roof collapsed.

>>3326593
>Let's consider the strength of the bomb. Has this perhaps altered our other surroundings?
The explosions seems quite localized -- the door to the north is inaccessible, and most likely, the room the explosion took place in is all but obliterated, but it seems most of the other rooms are unaffected. The area as a whole does not seem to have had a particularly strong reaction.

Check to see if the body in the crate is still there.

>>3326621
Go to the room with the non-Euclidean gap. Have Tom use the CROWBAR on the boarded-up hole.

>>3326605
>thank the guy, too! SAY something!
Ruby thanks Tom for saving her life again.
Tom blushes slightly. He says it's what anyone would have done in that situation.

>>3326639
>Would have been nice to have the coin back, since we've lost our spare one. I wonder why Red needed it, anyway...
It would appear Red used the TWO COINS as some kind of makeshift contacts for his homemade bomb.

>>3326621
>The area as a whole does not seem to have had a particularly strong reaction.
Scratch that.
The lights in the room suddenly go out.

>>3326667

Weapons out, and listen.

>>3326667

Look at the tiny light outline.

>>3326642
Because we have a great track record with fish.

We should ask Tom if he recognized the Birdman. See if he has any experience with him. And see if Ruby can remember anything more herself.

Wuh oh!
Find the door, brandish Crowbar!

>>3326654
Slow down. First the "do not open" and vicinity.

Figure out where the light is coming from.

Ask Tom if he remembers the writings on the walls from when he was captive in the pneumatic tube room.

>>3326694
agreed, grab his hand.
afterall 10 feet monster pigeons are running around here.

>>3326714
We don't want to break the cane. It's useful for reaching things, as Red has shown us.

Should be okay, bunnies and cats have good dark vision in an environment with any light sourc... oh.

>>3326676
>Look at the tiny light outline.
There seems to be a doorway hidden in the wall. A light comes through a crack from the other side. Perhaps the door was jarred loose in the explosion.

>>3326673
>Weapons out, and listen.
The air is deathly silent after the near-deafening explosion.
Ruby and Tom draw their SCALPEL and CROWBAR, respectively.

Crowbar is the only dependable weapon we have. Luckily bunnies have powerful legs, so we might get some kicks out of our protagonist...

With the explosion in Tom/Red's room, its safe to say the floor is gone. This gives whatever was behind the door the bird came out of access to the Z hatch back room.

WE NEED TO SHUT THE Z HATCH SO THEY DON'T CREEP UP ON US.

>>3326682
>We should ask Tom if he recognized the Birdman. See if he has any experience with him. And see if Ruby can remember anything more herself.
Ruby is drawing a blank, beyond the image of being put into the metal cell by the figure.
Tom says he recognizes them. It is the same figure that dragged him away to that room when he was suffering from arsenic poisoning.

>>3326759
Can't do it, no power.

>>3326763
Besides, it seemed way too big to fit through the Z-hatch.

Does any light come from the shafts?
Wait a moment to adjust eyes to darkness.

Is the darkness moonlight night dark or Malaysian jungle at night dark?

If it isn't bright enough to see all the way across the room, use the string to tie Ruby and Tom together somehow. At leats that way whatever happens they won't be split up without considerable effort.

can we peek through said light crack?

>>3326773
>it would be good to see how the othe rooms changed from the blast too
A preliminary examination of the room below suggests there has been no extraneous damage, but the lights seem to be off in most of the rooms.

>>3326807
Go to the boarded up hatch and ask Tom to break it open with his crowbar

>>3326807
Go to dummy room.

>>3326807
Ask Tom if he can see the lever on the other side.

Ask if there's anything wrong with it....like the fact that it is going DOWN and coming from ABOVE.

>>3326806
he only has one eye

you're going to ask the one eyed guy to see for you

you dick

You know, this would be a really BAD TIME for something HORRIBLE to happen. You know, in the rooms where all the BAD THINGS HAPPEN. Like where we're going RIGHT NOW.

March those guys backl up to the coffin room and open that damn door now.

Climbing without light is dangerous. Better check the room with the lightsource for a backup power-system.

>>3326814
>Go to dummy room.
There doesn't appear to be any damage here either.

Door indeed!

>>3326827
FFFFFFUCKMOTHEROFGODDESTROY THEDUMMY

See if you can see anything through the tiny light hole.

>>3326827
Cut dummy open with the SCALPEL. Have Tom stand at the ready with his CROWBAR in case something happens.

>>3326827
Let us open the hidden room already.

>>3326827
The two red lights are...?

Also, move the crate, check for things hidden behind it.

If we remember the last time we saw red eye's like that.....

OH SHI-

inb4 "cut open dummy"

Have ruby get brave and look inside the do not open box.

>>3326830
>>3326831
>>3326832
>>3326833
>>3326836
>>3326837
>>3326838
>>3326840
[okay, okay, I heard you the first time, you don't all need to say it]

Tom examines the glowing eyes on the dummy. He can't tell what's causing the light.

Ruby gets scared and backs away from the dummy.

Look out for what's in the box.

>>3326865
Have tom Inspect further, asking ruby to borrow her Scalpel to assist in revealing whats causing the glow.

Watch out for the box Ruby. Don't want you falling in there.

Try poking the red eyes with the scalpel.

Don't do anything to the dummy unless it starts mutating. It hasn't done anything yet, but there could be something inside it.

Anyone remember the thing, where the doctor went to do an autopsy...and then when the scalpel touched the body....

>>3326882
>RUBY get a GRIP and stay the fuck away from that BOX.
Ruby can't resist... she looks in the box.

The box is empty.

>>3326887
>Try poking the red eyes with the scalpel.
Tom uses the sharp end of the crowbar instead, and jabs one of the eyes.
It makes a squishy sound.

>>3326827
Tell Tom to stop faking about his eye, he's clearly switched which one it is

Ruby Screams for no reason and Tom jams the crowbar in hard due to being startled.

Not Game related but: Are people extra stupid? They keep submitting this thread to /suptg/ before its even finished.

>>3326915
Weavers doing his best to get these scenes out fast, after deciding what to do. cut him some slack.

>>3326908
Smash until it stops making squishy noises.

>>3326926
delete your post after you read this: suptg automatically updates archived threads for up to a week

>>3326919
>GET OUT NOW
Tom and Ruby decide to quickly vacate the room.
They head back upstairs.

>>3326942
OPEN DOOR

Although the dummy is probably stitches,

Tell tom to jab it's other eye, if it does anything then it will be blind.

>>3326944
((Takes up valuable screen space.

A pair of red LEDs would've been so handy.

The next course of action is clear.

Peak through the light, maybe you might see somthing.

>>3326962

The console has a symbol above it that was on the disc-dial. We'll need to go back to the dummy room and turn it to the right, in the event that the ever-absent wooden disc has stayed where we left it for once.

Thinking about it, I should have given all my sprites a 1 pixil bredth of white so they can stand out better against the black.. bugger.

>>3326946
>OPEN DOOR
Tom grabs his CROWBAR and sets to work opening the door. It's stuck fast, but nothing a little MANLY PHYSIQUE can't handle...

>>3326981
MANLY TOM

Show Tom the eye you found while he is prying open the door.

>>3326988
Someone needs to do a dangermouse picture of tom

Keep that scalpel handy. Always!

>>3326989
The eye is gone, moron! It did blend.

>>3326999
What is it with the string and you people?

>>3326993

The door unceremoniously falls off its hinges and reveals a bright room beyond.

>>3327010
Enter cautiously.

>>3327012
Weaver already comfirmed Red was dead and that explosion probably cemented it.

>>3327010

Look through doorway before entering.

I was thinking... maybe should use that scalpel to cut and rip her dress shorter incase someone needs to be RUNNIN FAST. Plus having the extra cloth could always be useful

>>3327016
This is just like the uneventful enter the darkness moments, but with light.

hey idiots, he said the door fell off it's hinges. It's not there anymore.

>>3327022
we tried this already waaaaay back in thread one. Ruby knows what your planning!

>>3327027

#RubyQuest on the Rizon server. Welcome!

Preppin' mah delete button for case of other IRCers.

Ruby and Tom check the room for obvious dangers, take a moment to let their eyes adjust, and then enter...

There is a door to the west. The door to the north seems to lead to the room where Red's body was just found. It is inaccessible due to debris.

Drink from the bottle.

examine the room.

Tom grab the booze on the table to regain strength.

>>3327058
TOM: Surprise Ruby by setting up impromptu romantic dinner.

Maybe check if the broken door can be used to build a makeshift barricade against the killer puppet.
Then carefully approach the door to the west.

>>3327069
>>3327070
>>3327071
>>3327072
>>3327073
[C-C-C-C-C-COMBO
Okay, calm down, post a little slower, you know I'm getting to it.]

Tom and Ruby inspect the room.
There is a bottle of CHAMPAGNE on the table. Tom takes it.
There is a NOTE on the other table. Ruby will inspect that in just a moment.
On the north wall is the doorway to the room the bomb went off in. The heavy door has been blown to pieces but seemed to protect this room rather well from the blast. The doorway is marked "Holding" by a sign above it.

There is a WATER COOLER here.
Beside the cooler, there is a set of METAL SHUTTERS, which are wrapped shut at the base with barbed wire.

Examine the hole below the vents for treasure! Arr!

>>3327106
Use CROWBAR top get ride of the barbed wire. Or pull them off with CANE.

Hell, have the two work together.

>>3327115
for a bunt of cash, you know it

Also TOM takes a CHAIR and makes it into a IMPROMPTU WEAPON

Chair>Crowbar

Assuming the shutters are how they served food to the captives in the next room, there might be some non deadly food nearby.

...or super deadly food.

Determine whether or not we feel hungry or thirsty.

this is a room that doesn't look like it should be accessed by the people being held, its assumable the food and drink here is safe

Remember, after a period of starvation you need to limit your intake of food, eating too much will kill you.

Interesting. Might we be able to conjecture when the place was last in use?

Use the cane on the hole under the vent to see if you can drag anything out with the handle, best not to risk your hands!

>>3327143

Maybe not a good idea, considering what happened last time Tom ate something from this facility.

So, i propose not eating, nor drinking, unless weaver tell us about Ruby and Tom having hungry/thirst.

>>3327114
>Drink the water.
Strangely, neither Tom nor Ruby is very thirsty.

>>3327115
>Examine the hole below the vents for treasure! Arr!
There appears to be something in the back of the hole, but it's wedged in there good! Ruby can't get it out with her bare hands, she'd need some kind of precise implement to grab it.

>>3327106
Time for some R&R! have Tom lay down his slick man moves on Ruby with Chamagne for two <3

>There appears to be something in the back of the hole, but it's wedged in there good! Ruby can't get it out with her bare hands, she'd need some kind of precise implement to grab it.

Does the CANE fit the description?

>>3327165
Use Red's cane.

>>3327165
Use the bent part of the crowbar to pull out the item.

Ruby examines the NOTE. It appears to be some kind of official document. Much of the text has been blotted out with a marker.
[cutscene!]

The examination didn't mention the bulletin board(?) on the back wall. Is it unimportant or was it just skipped?

Ruby: Ask Tom to make a makeshift hook from the barbed wire to pull that thing. (extract some barbed wire using the crowbar)

This note...

...it's about Ruby!

>>3327231
I like how you blotted out her age.

>>3327231
Ruby's PSYCHOSIS makes her an ideal subject?

OTHER injuries?

>>3327231
Woah, woah.

Willingly signed onto program?!

Boy, the speculation threads after this one are gonna be FUN.

>>3327247
Indeed, especially the "Affected condition since: Birth" part.

>>3327231

Does this ring any bells for RUBY?

>>3327251

The third eye may not even be real.

Ruby is already hiding the eye from Tom, I think she should hide this as well. Until she knows more to avoid having Tom get suspicious, we can't afford to have him lose trust in Ruby. And Ruby doesn't know enough to explain anything...

does she?

Huh. So Ruby isn't her real name.
Interesting.

Also, I know the cutscene isn't over, but I've got to leave.
Don't show the note to Tom.
Affected condition could be a number of things, but with paranoia abounding, he'd probably assume it was something like being a xenomorph.

Chances are, he is one, too.

The note is mostly illegible.
Something has been attached to the main note, however.

Ruby woke up in a COFFIN. She is currently a zombie.

>>3327283
OH SHI-

Hide note from Tom, carefully test water cooler

>>3327283
But Ruby is still alive...

Void bowels, sanity check.

>>3327283
There is no image macro for what I am feeling.

Ok Adding to the list!

The stuff with the third eye?
Schizophrenia?
Some kind of Superpower?
Being a rabbit?
Undeath? (unlikely since undeath since birth makes little sense)

>>3327293
STILL ALIVE

Maybe it would be BETTER for Tom to doubt her. He has a RIGHT to know!

>>3327283

Wasn't reds bomb targeted to club?

>>3327278
>No, Tom mustn't know.
Tom can't see this.
Ruby hides the note in her pocket.

>>3327282
>Ruby isn't her real name

If she's 'affected since birth' and has 'no family', then it might as well be.

TOM MUST KNOW.
It's dangerous. It could kill Tom. Or it could get Tom to kill Ruby. Or leave Ruby.
Only truth. All truth, whole truth. Otherwise they are both doomed.

Tell Tom.

>>3327283
>Avoid Injury during treatment
Presumably to avoid manifestation of Zombie-like monsterism symptoms, such as unusual growth of eyes in injured areas.

Signed -F ...

...Fox?

>>3327306
Ask Tom how he's doing; he looks terrible.

>No, Tom mustn't know.
Oh come ON now!
Stop endangering poor Tom!

And now get that object using either the CROWBAR or the CANE!

>>3327306

You could probably trust Tom enough to show him this, after all he did save Ruby's life.

Tom is still '3 I wonder what is up with him.

Talk to tom.

>>3327306
Alright, so I wasn't leaving as soon as I thought.

Go sit with Tom. He looks... lonely. rawr.

Also, after that, have him MANLY away the stuff up in the top of the room and go through there.

BUT FIRST TALK TO HIM. LOOK AT HIM. HE NEEEEEDS HER.

also, how nicely to be listed as deceased.

>>3327321
>get that object using either the CROWBAR or the CANE!
It won't work, the hole narrows at the end, and whatever's in there is wedged. It would need to be pulled out, and neither the cane nor the crowbar can GRAB.

Tom offers to open the bottle of CHAMPAGNE with Ruby.

>>3327351

Tell him that he can open it after they escape.

No! You need a clear head now, Tom!
Have the two talk. No BS this time!

BRACE FOR DATE RAPE.

>>3327351

Good sir, I believe it's time to shut the door, sit down, and have a bit of fine drink, yes? Calm the nerves a bit, what with the whole "I'm dead," thing.

>>3327351
Please accept. :C

Offer him some fine spring water from the cooler instead.

Ruby needs to clean up Tom's eye, that hole is oozing again D=

>>3327376
Why? They think she's dead!

Having a drink will make them boulder and even so more up for a fight, but doesnt do good for their motor skills and awareness.

Really! I mean it! Barricade that opening with debris, lest KILLERPUPPET will slaughter you guys!

I'd like to see some character development, even some dialogue between the two more than "This is what we need" or "I don't remember."

Accept to share the champagne.

>>3327351
Drinking fountain is not amused by toms shenanigans. this place is srs business.

>>3327359
>Tell him that he can open it after they escape.
Tom agrees. He was just trying to be upbeat.
The champagne will taste all the better when they're out of here.

Ruby inspects the objects on the wall. She finds, on the shelf, two WALKIE-TALKIES. Both Tom and Ruby take one.

YOU CAN NOW DIRECTLY CONTROL TOM.
FROM NOW ON, SPECIFY WHICH CHARACTER YOU ARE DIRECTING YOUR ACTION TO. YOU CAN STILL HAVE ONE CHARACTER TELL THE OTHER TO DO SOMETHING, OR YOU CAN SIMPLY COMMAND THAT CHARACTER DIRECTLY.

Drink with him.
Don't get drunk, don't drink the whole bottle at once. Just a nice drink and some serious talk.

Damnit Weaver, I have to go to work.

Keep up the awesome but ARGH

>>3327396
I think you mean Soda Fountain.

lrn2bravefencermusashi

>>3327398
RUBY checks the bulletin board on the wall.

Thread is auto-sagin'. Time for a new one

Go around, weapons drawn and inspect RED's carcass.

Examine water cooler

>>3327398
EXAMINE the HOLDING door. EXAMINE uh... barbed wire?

>TOM

Rip off one sleeve and clean your gaping eye-socket.

Ok, so Truth-time is off the hook?
Pity...
Then go and open the boarded hole in euclid's nightmare!
Keep an eye out for KILLERPUPPET and better stay together for now!

>>3327409
Link?

Lets split up and look for clues!

Now: TRUTH.
Also, expect Tom to have secrets. Promise to stay calm.

Thread autosaging, but going to say this anyways. Seriously, you idiots, DO NOT FUCKING POST THE SAME THING FIFTEEN TIMES.

The metal shutters are bound tight with the coiled barbed wire. No amount of force from the crowbar will rip them free, and they can't be untied or unwound -- not with bare hands, at least.

The door to the north, leading to the bombed-out room, is completely blocked with debris. Even Tom's manly physique wouldn't be able to clear a path.

The stained wooden door to the west is locked. It appears to have a lock which is linked to the adjacent card reader.

>>3327449
While we now have the WALKIE-TALKIES, say to Tom that we shouldn't split up until we have to. Head to the boarded up hatch in the brig, together.

>>3327449

Check the west entrance to the bombed out room.

>>3327449
Go to non-Euclidean room. Smash open hole.

>>3327449
Have Tom move the Water cooler.

>>3327449
>WOODEN DOOR

>CROWBAR

>MANLY PHYSIQUE

use THIRD EYE PSYCHIC POWER: ELECTRONIC AVATAR on CARD READER

Exit to the right, then go north.

New thread: >>3327479

I say, have we attempted to manipulate the barbed wire at all? And what of that control panel in the last room, it appeared to be electrically powered, mayhap we can restore electricity there, as I believe a kind anon has suggested.

Ah, but I've been redundant. Last post here fellows, and an excellent day to you all. Good luck.

Remove barbed wire with crowbar?

Wipe off the blood as good as you can, Tom!