Ruby, re-enter closet, give key to TOM to unlock. Tom is manly enough to beat hair.

>>3328222
Can we use the scalpel to remove the hair on this side, and then pass it in to Tom?

Check inventory?

Attempt to fit key through wall.

Radio Tom to go around the long way.

Look out for the woolly monster.

Ruby: use the scalpel and try and cut through hair.

Use the SCALPEL on the HAIR

>>3328231
>Ruby, re-enter closet, give key to TOM to unlock. Tom is manly enough to beat hair.
Ruby slips the key through the hole in the wall.
It promptly falls down the shaft.

CROWBAR and MANLY PHYSIQUE the door away!

That boy needs therapy.
First readie, then openie the lockie!

>>3328257

Yes.

Is the hair part of something alive? Try pulling it a bit.

Ruby hears footsteps coming from outside the closet.

>>3328258
TOM

YOU MUST RETRIEVE THE KEY

>>3328258
*curses violently*
Tom's out cold. Have Ruby ask if he's ok!

>>3328258

Radio tom concerning key and shaft

>>3328258
oh for the love of ...

send tom after it

Fuck, the key will just fall back through the floor into the air in front of TOM. He has to catch it.

Ruby: Flatten self against the wall that the opening door would cover, scalpel at the ready

>>3328272
Tom's in that state that many people in horror flicks DIE in. Or do something stupid in. Have Ruby talk to him! Have them discuss matters. Have them look out for the KILLERPUPPET or dummy or whatever...

>>3328222
Tom: Go get the damn key!
Ruby: Flatten self against wall, scalpel at ready, and tell Tom someone's outside the closet!

>>3328264
Quietly radio Tom about footsteps, tell him to talk quietly. Hope that it isn't another abomination against nature and all that is holy and sane. Like yourself.

Ruby, ask Tom to come quickly. Run, Tom, run.

>>3328265
>TOM. YOU MUST RETRIEVE THE KEY.
Tom goes down the shaft to fetch the key.

The footsteps are still coming from just outside the closet.

Ask Tom for help quietly and prepare yourself to stab Red through the eyeball!

>>3328279
No, CANE. More powerful.

>>3328283
DON'T tell Tom, if Ruby speaks whoever it is outside will probably hear too!

>>3328288

Have Ruby ready weapons.

>>3328283
>tell Tom someone's outside the closet!

NO! They will know your there! Just get the scalpel ready and see who comes through.

>>3328288
RUBY

YOU MUST WIELD THE O2 TANK AS A WEAPON

IT IS THE ONLY WAY

Also, can ruby spy through keyhole?

Have Ruby pull on the door! Try to keep it closed!

>>3328311
Fear has a tendency to let people access powers they didn't know they had. Especially in the strength-department!

>>3328319

>unlock powers they didn't know they had.

USE PSYCHIC POWAH

It's no use hiding. Have Ruby prepare the scalpel and confront that someone outside. That way she may at least get a surprise round or something.

>>3328332
Ruby should wait for Tom, when he comes back he'll open the door, that will be her chance to open her door as well so they can attack together, Ruby has to time this, and be brave/quiet.

>>3328288
Try lifting the tank. If it's OK steady yourself to bash the base of the tank into into any face that shows up. Ready the cane if the tank is to heavy.

A figure appears in the doorway.

Ruby comes out of the closet (hahahaha)

Ruby you need to wield your JUNKOTRON MISSILE LAUNCHER NAO!!!

>>3328342

Don't attack yet, might not be evil

Oh fuck...its tom nook.

>>3328339
this.

>>3328348

NO, DON'T ATTACK IT

>>3328342
Stab it in the neck! NOW!

>>3328342
Stab his ass. If it was good it would have given a warning before it opened the door.

>>3328342
Wave timidly?

>>3328342
STAB IT

IF YOU WAIT YOU WILL DIE

Carefully ask if it's friend or foe!
Upon incorrect answer stab the frag outta it!

Don't attack immediately.

>>3328342
Don't stab, but try to push away and get out of the confined space.

>>3328342

Don't pre-emptively strike.

Wave, say hi, interact.

Aim for the neck if there is any sign of aggression.

Do what ever is required to stall for time, your waiting for Tom to show up.

Ask in a shaky voice who he is.

is that the fuck bear?

>>3328346
>>3328348
>>3328351
>>3328352
>>3328357
>>3328359
>>3328361
>>3328362
RUBY IS SO CONFUSED.

>>3328376
READY THE SCALPEL. SAY HELLO.

take one step back

>>3328376
It could be tom, dont attack.

>>3328376

RUBY YELLS INTO WALKIE TALKIE FOR TOM.

Big rabbit feet, jumbo-sized nut-kick.

>>3328376
MAKE IT CLEAR HE IS NOT TO COME ONE STEP CLOSER TO YOU

>>3328376

WAIT FOR IT TO DO SOMETHING, ASLDKJHFLIWJEHRLQEW

>>3328376

This is one of those few times when a deluge of posts kinda reflects what's going on in her head.

>>3328376
Stab it, good people knock or give a warning

>>3328376
Clutch head and scream for the voices to stop.

>>3328376
You'll die or worse if you don't strike first.

Ok, just for once...Weaver decides what we do...

>>3328376

>>3328388
>>3328388
>>3328388

Yell for Tom and stab it's neck!

asl;dhqwe[pioy. Take a step back, ready scalpel, and instruct being of TERROR and MASONRY to not take a step forward.

Ruby is patient #7, meaning there is at least 7 people in here other than SPADE.

#1: Stitches
#2-6: Tom, the 2 zombies, the dummy perhaps? and this bear like figure.
#7:Ruby

Perhaps the bear is just another survivor.

>>3328376
/tg/ the voices in rubys head..

KEEP IT UP RUBY! STALL FOR TIME!

Ruby demands to know who the figure is. Her voice is shaking, but she tries to sound confident.

She recognizes that face.
She's seen it twice before.
She just didn't realize it was the same one, until now.

>>3328342
Looks like that tall bear who was gonna sue the sun for assault.

>>3328421
BEAR HAS THE SAME HEAD INJURY AS RUBY

>>3328421

Is that the zombie bear thing from the first thread?

Its head coming open to bite?

>>3328409

Or that could have been done to psyche her out and make her think she's patient #7. Or it could be her model number. She could be the seventh Ruby clone. It means nothing.

>>3328421
This is why we said to stab. Now you're finished.

>>3328421
Stitches!
Give him a hug. Tell him Red is dead.

>>3328421

Stay back, Ruby's not fit enough to fight those claws with a scalpel.

Don' stab it! Cut it's head off!

>>3328421
VERY. CAREFULLY. TRY TO TALK TO HIM. ASK HIM WHAT HIS NAME IS.

>>3328343
That was terrible and you should feel terrible.

Say hello to Stitches, her old friend and acquaintance!

Okay, so it's the bear. STAB STAB STAB STAB

>>3328421
As soon as it shows signs of aggressiveness, go for it's stitches.

>>3328445
Oh god no, no dont go for the stitches. Thats whats keeping the gaping maw closed.

"Stitches?"

>>3328444
>>3328438
>>3328433
Are you guys /retarded/? LOOK AT THOSE MOTHERFUCKING CLAWS. It'll tear Ruby apart before she can even touch it!

Try to talk. Calmly. Get a grip and talk.

>>3328421
Those don't look like huggin' claws

PUSH IT AWAY AND RUN LIKE HELL!

faint!

>>3328450
Bear and Stitches are the same person?

Just wait for his response to asking who he is you bunch of retarded monkeys.

>>3328461
In the window was the hound zombie what got purple drinked and clawed.

And stitches pinned on the wall didn't have ears

>>3328461

She never saw him in the window..

>>3328467

That was behind the mirror.

Read ALL of the topics.

>>3328458
nah, first bear didn't have a stitch across his face. he just went zombie. this is stitches, though less bloody than we saw him last.

>>3328439
>VERY. CAREFULLY. TRY TO TALK TO HIM. ASK HIM WHAT HIS NAME IS.
"S--STITCHES"
Stitches recoils slightly. His sewn-up headwound head begins to bleed.

He staggers uneasily backwards, glancing at Ruby, confused.

"H-h-h-how do I kn-kn-know you?!" he shrieks in a hoarse, rattling pitch.

Possibly uninteresting question: can Ruby control her third eye or is it opening a random occurence? :p

>>3328477
OH MY JESUS CHRIST

>>3328477

Tell him Red is dead.

>>3328477
Calmly point out that his head is coming apart and that he should get it fixed.

>>3328477

"We're failed experiments in arms bro, so yeah, wanna hang out? Tom's one of them 'normal' guys so it's pretty lonely in here"

Ruby: Hug Stitches and try to fix him up.

>>3328477

TOM, having arrived into the hallway and seeing this sight, immediately uses CROWBAR on STITCHES.

>>3328477
Tell him your name. He should know it.

>>3328477

'I was a subject here'

>>3328477

Ruby: Open third eye. "It's what they did to us, it's this place...we're the same Stitches."

>>3328477
tell him that we were both patients in the same medical facility, long before all of 'this' started to happen

Click the "broadcast"-button on the walkie behind your back twice quickly. It'll give two sharp static cracks on Tom's. And hope he gets the idea.

>>3328477
>>3328477
Try to calm him down; very carefully explain to him that you don't know where you are, and you don't know how you know him, only that we're all in this together.

Take another step back.

Try and get Tom on the line while you're talking, too. Make sure you say that you've FOUND someone else, not that you're in TROUBLE.

SCREAM out for TOM

People, Stitches was mentioned in the paper Tom read, not the one Ruby read.

Ruby, this is what you get for not stabbing. Back up in the corner and start crying.

Tom, you are so late!

>>3328498
>Ruby: "That's your name! It says so in the papers!"
Ruby's papers don't mention Stitches at all. She's never heard the name "Stitches" before this creature shrieked it at her.

>>3328500
>Click the "broadcast"-button on the walkie behind your back twice quickly. It'll give two sharp static cracks on Tom's. And hope he gets the idea.
Tom receives two bursts of static as he picks up the key.

...something very strange is happening in this room.

"You are who you choose to be! You are not a gun!"

OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE see through the overground
I'm bout to hit you with a scream from Underground

ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWAH

>>3328512

Hurry Back! Ruby is in trouble!

>>3328512

TOM: QUICKLY TIE CABLE AROUND YOURSELF.

>>3328512
take KEY and look at where the piece of string is flying off to, see if we can see the other part of the building floating in space somewhere

>>3328512

He probably thinks the room made the static bursts, also, dimension rip and tear.

Tom's gonna go back no matter what we say so let's have Ruby continue calm, civilised discussion with this Stitches fellow.

>>3328512
Have Tom FLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. FLEE LIKE THE WIIIIND

Then raise Ruby on your awesome, handy-dandy walkie-talkie, and have RUBY, again, tell him she's found someone.

>>3328512
CLIMB ROPE.

>>3328512
Ask stitches nervously if his head hurts.

>>3328512
take key on the floow, hurry on back up, unlock door and so on

Also, TAKE KEY if possible.

TOM: BACK TO RED CROSS ROOM
RUBY: Just keeeeeep talkin

Hold Stitches' head together.

Tell Stitches ♠ is dead.

Tom should dive into the hole he opened.
Ruby should say something fittingly greeting and comforting.

Stitches pauses momentarily. His expression changes and his eyes widen as he stares at his own hand.

Ruby should tell her name. She heard Stitches speak it before. Tom should grab the key and run back to Ruby. Trying to see where the cable goes will result only in sanity loss.

>>3328543
Oh this is going to be messy..

Are you okay, stitches?

Think for a moment. Stitches is freaking out because he knew who Ruby was. Wanna bet the same thing will happen if we mention Red or ♠?

>>3328543

Distract him, if he realizes that he's a monster, he may well lose it, make him understand that he is 'normal'.

>>3328543
Calmly wait a few seconds before asking him what's wrong, after all the other stuff you're invariably drawing is finished with.

>>3328553

Look at him freaking out about his hand. that is exactly what NOT to do.

Ruby: Tell stitches she is not an enemy, but that he needs to be calm and listen to her.

Tom: What's that on the floor in front of him? Where does the cable go? Apart from the increasing size of the rupture, what has changed?

>>3328547
>Ruby should tell her name.
Ruby tells Stitches her name.

Stitches freezes. Again, he stutters.
"H-HOW DO I KNOW Y--Y-Y-YOU?"

He appears to prepare an attack, then suddenly turns and flees from the closet, wailing a rattling moan.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME," he shrieks. "I--I-I'LL ONLY HURT YOU!"

With that, Stitches is gone.

>>3328563
"STITCHES WAIT! I CAN HELP YOU!"

>>3328563

BACKSTAB ATTACK

>>3328563
OKay, now that that's over with, RADIO TOM AND SEE WTF IS GOING ON. They need to communicate if Tom survives his EUCLIDEAN NIGHTMARE.

>>3328563

Threat over, have Ruby catch her breath and wait for Tom or leave the room and wait for Tom.

Stitches is like ruby. Hes just further along with his 'mutation/transformation'

Ruby, it's okay to cry now.

Tell Stitches she too has shown a mutation and that she wants more information from Stitches before he runs away.

Tom: See if there is anything new apart from the widening oblivion (caused by the 'splosion?)

Tom hears the screaming and rushes back, key in hand.

>>3328563
holy shit. i just thought of something. is stitches asking ruby how does he know who she is but how ruby recognizes stitches?

cause maybe stitches knows more about what's going on here. maybe he wants her to remember something.

>>3328584
You're reading too much into things.

>>3328583
Tell Tom what happened, then ask him if he's okay.

Tom: open the door quickly.
Ruby: tell Tom they must follow the person she met, without details. Then they both go after Stitches.

>>3328583
Ruby: Tell Tom to find a use for the key, tell him she has to follow a fellow prisoner and that she will keep in contact so he shouldn't worry, follow stitches and tell him she wants info before he flees.

Tom: Do what Ruby says, tell her to be careful and run back and use the walkie-talkie the instant she feels things take a bad turn.

>>3328602
I think if you dont tell Tom, stitches will be getting a crowbar upside the head..

Tell Tom you met a person named Stitches, leaving out the HORRIBLE MONSTROSITY THAT YOU KILLED EARLIER part

I think that from hereon most answers will be found within the heads of Tom and Ruby, and less importantly Stitches. Ruby and Tom need to have a good conversation, and go over the uneasy possibility that Ruby or both are actually deceased, and possibly mutated. Perhaps it could be done through the hole too, if Tom's more comfortable with staying away from her.

But that's just me. Conversation has been attempted without success before.

>>3328602
>>3328603
>go after Stitches
Ruby nearly had a heart attack. She's not sure she could go after Stitches right now even if she wanted to. And she's not sure she wants to.

Tom unlocks the door.

>>3328611

Attack Monster outside.

>>3328611
Wait! Read the diagram on the wall, first.

Tom should ask Ruby if shes alright, then enter the room when she has been calmed down.

>>3328608
>>3328611
They most definately need to have a chit chat about the state of this place, sometime soon. Have TOM, after unlocking the door, ask Ruby if she's all right.

>>3328623

Hmm, your right...and that thing on the table too. We should check it out.

>>3328611
Ruby: Remain in place, tell Tom that if he sees a bear with a big stitch he should try to see if Stitches is willing to communicate. Stitches could be dangerous but should not be killed without attempts to communicate.

Tom: Tell Ruby he is unlocking the door, and will tell her what happens...

SERIOUS SHIT GUYS:

I don't think anyone in the last thread noticed on the letter that Tom has: it mentions Ruby being BLIND. This could be the condition she's had from birth, or something she got at the facility before dying. Possibly something she was cured of while here. With all the symbolism of eyes, it's got to be important.

Maybe Ruby should take a few hits from that delicious oxygen canister.

>>3328646

We noticed. Discussion is in the IRC so as not to clutter the topic.

Have a long, serious talk. Pause with running around smashing things, unlocking doors and fighting monsters. Exchange information. Think.

>>3328647
How do we know that canister isn't (intentionally?) MISLABELLED?!

When Ruby's collected herself she should go and meet tom and help him inspect the room.

>>3328657
Since we're not in the horrifying puzzle rooms anymore.

>>3328623
>Wait! Read the diagram on the wall, first.
Tom examines the diagram on the wall.

Righto!
TALK, dammit!

>>3328665

Clean up that blood.

>>3328646
The staff calls the first subject "Stitches" which may suggest he had some accident or condition before becoming a sucject in this place. I wonder if there was something wrong with Tom too before he came here.

>>3328665
Who's this "W. Murdoch" fellow?

Why color all of a sudden?

Also, now we know that you posted that poem, Weaver.

>>3328673
An obscure poet who apparently wrote "The Metal Glen". However, there's no mention of this on the internet so we theorise that Weaver wrote it.

Use water or find cleaning liquid to get rid of that damn blood.

>>3328665
"The Metal Glen"

Aww

they're underwater. they're gonna need some oxygen.

>>3328670
>Clean up that blood.
Unfortunately, it's soaked into the old print, rather than simply hanging around on the outside of it.

Tom unlocks the door. Tom and Ruby meet up again in the hall.
Tom makes sure Ruby is okay. He reassures her things will be all right.

Ruby and Tom speak briefly. Tom explains the growing rift in the lower level. Ruby tells Tom about Stitches.

Tom reacts strangely to the name.
When pressed, he explains he read it in a medical document.
"Stitches" was officially recorded as dead.

Now that you're at it TALK without BS, already!

Ask if we can see the document as well.

Tom: get rid of the hair on that doorknob.

Inb4 something like this

>>3328704
Hug Ruby, break down in tears. This way, we'll find out if he still has tear ducts in his left eye socket.

>>3328704
Both go inside the door that they are next to.

>>3328704
Ok, Ironic statement time!

RUBY: Show your shock at this news. "But...it can't have said that! The dead don't just walk around like they were still alive do they?"

Go sit down at a table. Talk. Comfort each other. Explain all you know. Confess to Tom about the eye. Tell him you're scared.

>>3328726
>left
I meant right. Inb4 hundreds of posts correcting me

>>3328704
Talking. About. The Things. That. Have. Happened to you. Jesus Christ, Toms should at least show Ruby the document he found.

Ruby: Tell Tom about the eye.
Show Tom the note.
Tom: show Ruby the note.

Whew, inventory please.
Also, read the plaque next to ladder and study the hatch.

>>3328728
>Both go inside the door that they are next to.
The reinforced door is locked with a magnetic keycard strip.

...something is beeping inside the FIRST AID KIT.
The closer Ruby gets to the keycard slot, the louder it gets.

>>3328704
They tell everything that happened to them. No lying.

>>3328745
Climb ladder.

Ruby's pronounced death was probably an administration error.

>>3328745

Have we tried reading that picture/diploma on the wall?

check FIRST AID KIT, use what's inside.

>>3328736
Ruby will simply pass out from shock.

>>3328745
Some kind of anti-abomination device which is detecting Ruby, perhaps?

>>3328745

Can the indecipherable plaque be removed from the wall?

Examine the buttons up on the hatch.

Do we dare to smash the glass for the finger? Inventory, mayby the hole has the keycard.

They two are in this boat together for good. Not a good time to start having secrets from each other.

>>3328745
Both of you need to relax. You're in no emotional state to proceed right now. The room with the tables and chairs seems less creepy, since it doesn't have blood, bodyparts or anything creepy and staring in it. It also has water with which to wash off any bloodstains.

>>3328759

Alarm? Good heavens. I'd rather not.

Well, can the blood be cleaned off of the statue?

The FIRST AID KIT needs a fingerprint.

There is a SEVERED FINGER in the glass-box thing

The two beep with increased frequency the closer they are to one another.

It can't be that hard to put two and two together...

Thread is auto-saging.

>>3328745
Examine the glass case with the thumb inside of it, and see if there's any way you can move it SLIGHTLY. Like, by MILIMETERS

>>3328760

I'm not sure it quite works like that, we, the viewers have both sides of the story so we can make better judgements.

For all Tom knows, telling Ruby the truth would break her and she would be useless to him, maybe even attack him.

Use the MEDICAL TOOLS from inside the office to retrieve the small stuck thing from the hole in the CAFETERIA.

>>3328743
>>3328736
>>3328732
>>3328714
>>3328748
>Now that you're at it TALK without BS, already!

This is it. After that encounter with Stitches, Ruby knows she and Tom have to be 100% on the level. She can't keep it a secret anymore.

She and Tom sit down by the door and she tells him everything.
The documents about her own involvement in the study, labeling her "deceased", the visions of her own corpse, the injury she sustained from the abomination in the maintenance room, her encounters with Red...
Even her third eye.

She spills it all.
She tells him everything.

Start new thread!

How's this /tg/ related?
I'm not saying it's not, I just want to know.

Saging because I don't contribute anything to this thread.

>>3328776

Good God man, what have you done!?

>>3328782
Nice try sagefag. This thread it autosaging.
It's /tg/ related because it's a PROBLEM SOLVING GAME THAT IS NOT VIDYA.

>>3328776
While being level and all, SHOW HIM YOUR EYE, and make sure to mention you're at least as creeped out as he is by it.

DO IT

DOO EEEEEEET.

>>3328776

Err... Everything? Did she told him that little thing about the fish and the poison? :3

>>3328782
this a kind of roleplaying session, epic in the way all true neckbeards strive for

>>3328782

It's a freeform groop RP hosted right here on /tg/

>>3328782
Don't let this guy turn this into a shitfest. Ignore him.

>>3328782
>>3328782
Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure. Plus, it was started here.

>>3328782
It's a choose-your-own-adenture game, which is more suited to non-vidya media. Weaver is the GM, we are the PCs, it just so happens that it's being played over the internet rather than with pen and paper.
Happy?

NO!

TOM MUST NEVER KNOW!

WHAT HAVE YOU IDIOTS DONE?

>>3328799

Goddamnit, I thought we'd gotten rid of you

>>3328787
>>3328790
>>3328791
>>3328794
>>3328796
OK, I understand. Not very /tg/ related, but since we accept not very /tg/ related but good things there (Dorf Motherfucking Fortress) it's OK.
>>3328792
I knew someone is going to rage...

>>3328785
Better now that they're halfway calm than later when emotions are up.

>>3328788
this

New thread:
>>3328813

>>3328807

Well I doubt Tom's going to go haywire, or Ruby now so I guess you're right. Still, it was a leap of faith.

New thread up somewhere since this one is on auto-sage?

>>3328800
Since a new thread has started.. I can post again freely.

Please, be an adult. Do not pick fights in these threads. Do you really think that is mature an appropriate? It just gets in the way of the game.

Bet the eye isn't even there, and it's a hallucination, too..

Just as planned.
-♠

>>3328785
Uh-huh. And when it gets worse should it ever let him be completely unprepared and stab us in the back.
WAY TO FUCKING GO.

New thread:

>>3328813