Feel around. Try to fing the other.

Looks like I won't be going to bed early after all.

Yell a lot. Try to see if anyone responds.

Inspect with the THIRD EYE

Yell for Tom.

>>3493062
*find. Gosh.

When you find Tom, don't let go of him no matter what.

anus

Put on Ruby's robe and wizard hat.

>>3493062
>Feel around. Try to fing the other.
Ruby and Tom grope blindly in the choking blackness to try and find each other. The sound of water is all about them, drowning out their cries.

try using third eye to navigate/pierce darkness

Do they actually FEEL any water? They can still breathe fine and stuff, right?

Stand still and wait.

>>3493082

No. The bird is attracted by the eye. Don't use it.

>>3493085

I'm guessing it's coming from the lower levels: The base is flooding with water.

>>3493090

Useless: They can't hear their radio any better than their cries.

Ruby: does it feel wet?

Inventory please

Have both Tom and Ruby try and find the rail, and follow it until they reach eachother.

>>3493065
>>3493067
Ruby opens her third eye, and a guiding vision appears.
Through the sounds of water, she hears a faint voice whispering, calling her onward.

>>3493085
>Do they actually FEEL any water? They can still breathe fine and stuff, right?
The area is dry. They don't FEEL any water.

start walking

>>3493105

Find Tom first, then follow together.

Get out the PRICKLY FIST and move towards the voice.

follow direction cautiously

>>3493105
Follow the arrow.

What kind of voice is it?

close third eye before you blow your mind out

>>3493100
>Have both Tom and Ruby try and find the rail
>>3493110
>start walking
Ruby begins to follow the arrow. Tom continues searching for Ruby, and finds the rail, following it.

Dear god we're going to walk into a wall or fall off the rails aren't we.

Try using the radio to get an idea of Tom's location by sound.

OH GOD TURN AROUND AND SEE WHAT THAT THING IS

Ruby feels a set of stairs in the direction the arrow was pointing.

RUBY: Have your PRICKLY FIST ready, just make sure not to hit Tom.

Climb up the stairs.

Tom: while following the rail, swing your manly fist through the darkness.

Try to contact each other with the radios.

sneak up stairs like a ninja. No one can see you right now! you are a ninja!

>>3493154
>Tom: while following the rail, swing your manly fist through the darkness.
Tom swings his fist.
Ruby feels something hit her foot.

>>3493159

Ruby: Stop! You're on the rail!

Have Ruby and Tom hold hands in order to keep their bearings, basically the buddy system.

Stomp your foot, Ruby, if it's Tom, then he can take it.

RUBY: Reach out and touch whatever it was that hit her.

>>3493157
>Try to contact each other with the radios.
The sound of water is too loud to use the radios!

>>3493161
>Ruby: Stop! You're on the rail!
Ruby freezes.
The sound of water begins to subside.

Get back down off the "stairs"

>>3493176
Is it coming in a particular direction?

Can you determine from the crackle where Tom is? Also, get away from whatever is trying to grab Ruby's foot!

now that the sound is gone, try calling for Tom again.

Ruby: Close your third eye before it starts to hurt again.

Stairs don't really equal a railing, unless it's just one very high step.

Have Tom try to feel what he's touching.

inb4 Ruby wakes up to find herself perched at the edge of a very dangerous hazard.

The light suddenly returns in a crackling flash.

Are the fans turning?

Ruby: Get down from there! You'll hurt yourself!

Tom: Save Ruby!

See what is below the fans.

>>3493192
Close third eye, get down from railing.

The safe way.

Hug Tom.

If the danger's gone, now would be a good time to investigate Red's room again: Judging from how Ace can move around, the debris there should've been cleaned and allow movement for Ruby and Tom as well.

>>3493200
>>3493199
Tom helps Ruby down from the railing quickly. The darkness seems to have past, and the distant voice is gone.

I see blood on one of the fan blades, inspect it.

Close third eye. Check the double-doors again.

Ruby: Close your eye before it starts hurting and you faint

Ruby: Discuss what just happened with Tom.

We need a way to take down Ace to get his boss key so we can confront the final boss of the dungeon and collect the missing Triforce piece.

Let's try to retrace Ace's steps from where we last saw him. He should be leaving a trail of blood.

>>3493220
>>3493221
Ruby closes her third eye and again the two of them consider the door to Lab B.

Ruby has a very strong feeling that before all this is over, she'll have to go in there.

Inspect the blood on the fan, please.

>>3493236

Investigate the blood on the fan in the meantime.

Check the plant again.

Emobird might have left something.

>>3493242
its from stitches when he fell into the fan

>>3493236
>Ruby has a very strong feeling that before all this is over, she'll have to go in there.

All the more reason to find Ace.

Go to Red's room and beyond the door where he first came from.

Also discuss about things. Ask Tom if he trusts you now.

>>3493236
CROWBAR + LOCK

>>3493246
that was a long time ago and it had been cleaned up since then, take a quick look at it

ask tom for ideas/gut feelings

No, don't go looking for Ace (yet).

Now that Tom's with you to provide backup, goback through the closet and introduce him to Doctor Filbert. Hopefully, confronted by the two of them he might be a bit easier to 'Persuade' if things go wrong again.

ask tom what he found out when he was away from you.

>>3493259
We don't know if Filbert's still there, but I suppose if he's not we could still check out the area.

>>3493208
>>3493222
>>3493228
Tom politely explains he doesn't feel like hugging Ruby right now, given the footage they watched together a short while ago. That hug didn't end particularly well.
Maybe they just need some time to trust each other again.

>>3493242
>>3493243
>>3493217
The blood on the fan is most likely a spot the cleaners missed after the "accident" Ruby made Stitches have in the fan.

>>3493252
>CROWBAR + LOCK
The lock is massive and sturdy. No way even Tom's MANLY PHYSIQUE could tear it down!

>>3493245
>Check the plant again.
Ruby checks the plant, but it doesn't appear to be anything but a plant and some soil.

Go turn the dial in the dummy room to the symbol we haven't tried yet, and then interact with the currently-unpowered console it is linked to.

plus we have Manly physique as back up vs Flibert now.

>>3493236
Ruby: Thank Tom, try and both reach the sign above lab dor to see if anything is behind it

>>3493273

Go back to the previous room. It doesn't look like there's anything more to see here.

Check on Filbert together. Bully some answers out of him.

Bang on the door to see if you can provoke a reaction.

Ask Tom to get out any weapons that he has, and check out the room where Filbert was.

Go into the room where Tom was murdered

>>3493275
Double check to see if the paper on the wall is any different first.

Never know.

>>3493273

I somehow get the feeling this isn't the safest place to be, and the seems to be less details than usual...

Nevertheless, my suggestions are:

>Examine the Metal Glen logo
>Get out of there and look for more things around the facility.

>>3493273
Drop plant into fans, to see if they jam or if the plant smashes find out where the fans go in a later room

>>3493269
>>3493259
>>3493279
>>3493282
Ruby and Tom return to the previous room.

However, something seems to have changed.

>>3493300
I'm fairly sure those fans siphon into the lockers..

Go inside. Check out everything.

Be careful for Mutant-Filbert from now on: He might be around every corner in any place.

Equip weapons, enter the room with Filbert again.

Open the pipe, cautiously.

weapons out, srs faces on, and get ready to rock.

>>3493306
Go threw door, have weapons ready

Ace must have gone in for Filbert.

Get ready to fight or flee.

>>3493309
>Examine that thing that they're standing on.
It's that same severed foot from before. And Tom is gross for stepping on it.

>>3493310
>Go inside. Check out everything.
Tom brings out the BLUDGEONY CANESHOVEL and the two of them enter the room.
...but it appears empty.

>>3493334

Oh well. Open those lockers.

After that, go check Red's room and beyond. About time for that.

>>3493334

Examine fleshy growth.

Then try cutting it.

>>3493325

The Room she killed him in was the Medical room... a room which Ruby is yet to go to in the course of the Adventure. When Tom went there, he was by himself.

... is that another door? if it is, go through there.

>>3493334
Is it possible to tell the species of the animal based on the foot?

Otherwise, it seems Ace was here, and he GOT Filbert. This probably makes it the safest place right now.

TOM: Bust open the cabinet with the caneshovel.

RUBY: Inspect fleshy growths on the locker/box.

>>3493334
raid the medicine locker, and might as well cut free the box in back and loot it and the other box

Have tom cut the fleshy growth with his tiny arms while keeping the shovel ready.

By the way Weaver, why did you delete your new character sheet about ten seconds after posting it, updated with Filbert, a while back?

Don't think I didn't see ya.

>>3493334
Examine the panel connected to the hatch at the top.

>>3493334
Ruby: Open box on far left
Tom: use BLUDGEONY CANESHOVEL on Box with stuff growing over it to clear it, then open it.

>>3493055

I don't recall; did we Third Eye this room yet?

If not, then do so.

>>3493343
>>3493346
>Oh well. Open those lockers.
There is a patient's stool in the southwest corner. It doesn't open.
Against the north wall in what appears to be the examination portion of the room, there is some sort of metal footlocker overgrown with fleshy protuberances.

It resists Tom's attempts to open it, and two long, fleshy growths seem to converge where the lock would normally be, reaching towards each other with a gap in between.

The entire thing seems like an amalgamation of skin, muscle, and vein.

>>3493367

I don't think we should use the third eye very much. It reeks of dark magic and may cause a BAD END in itself, if overused.

Quit overusing that fucking eye! It nearly got her killed!

check behind the poster on the wall

Can we get a look at our inventories?

Ruby: Check that first aid kit on the wall. Take it with you if possible.
Tom: Help Ruby get the first aid kit if she has trouble.

>>3493373

remove clothes. its the only way

>>3493373

Take Filbert's Tools from the medical cabinet

>>3493373

Did Tom take Ruby's scalpel?

If so, try to cut the "skin" of the footlocker with it. Or with the caneshovel.

>>3493373
Go back to coffin/locker room pick up fleshy growth with BLUDGEONY CANESHOVEL, bring it back here and put it in the gap

>>3493378
That was the bird and darkness.

It seems to cause strain but we have no evidence the eye's usage itself will kill or harm her.

We haven't checked our inventories in awhile, have we?

Let's do that.

poke the flesh, check for reaction

>>3493395

We have no evidence that it won't.

It's pervarsions of the warp! It must be purged!

>>3493395
Aside from the fact that it starts bleeding from overuse and nearly got her killed just now.

>>3493379
>check behind the poster on the wall
The EYE EXAM chart is bolted to the wall. It appears to be a permanent fixture.

>>3493386
Ruby and Tom check their respective inventories.

>>3493417
Inspect the hatch thoroughly.

Check to see if the door is locked or not.

Kiss Tom.

Break open the cabinet with the BLUDGEONY CANE SHOVEL.

insert syringe into flesh and attempt to extract something

>>3493417
RUBY: Examine hatch/ladder/locking mechanisum
TOM: Crowbar that med cabinet open

>>3493423
Sure, because the last time ended so well.

Look at Tom, though. Examine your feelings for him: Trust, friendhip, physical attraction, possible romantic feelings, things like that.

>>3493373
Make a cautious hack at the fleshy bits with caneshovel, if it doesn't seem to be a threat cut the rest of it away.

Is that a note by the door?

>>3493417
Cheak out the hatch is it locked?

go to Locker room and bring fleshy thing back here and see if its some kinda lovecraftian key for the fleshy gap

What is exactly in Tom's inventory? It looks like he picked up a few new things. Namely the syringe, the pliers and what looks to be a lockpick set.

Also, show TOM the GROUP PICTURE.

Peek at Tom with third eye.

>>3493421
The keypad linked to the access hatch in the ceiling is a strange one.
It has a digit-lock AND a swipe-card slot, and it appears to be lacking power.

Strangely, it is connected to the hatch with both an electric and apparently-organic cord. The fleshy cord reaches from one terminal to the hatch, as does an electrical wire. Crossing the electrical wire is a thing flap of burnt flesh and ash, which appears to be leading to the a set of contacts on the access card reader.

It seems rather complex. Whatever the case, the burnt flesh appears to be evidence that the two cords have trouble working well together.

>>3493417

Ruby: Ask Tom where the scalpel she left him with went. It could be used to cut the fleshy overgrowth.

>>3493466
Crowbar that med cabinet open

>>3493466

Show Tom the group photo and ask if it means anything to him

Cut line with wire cutter

swipe pedestal card through scanner

>>3493469

Better not to mention the scalpel in front of Tom. he could frak out again.

Try to open the MED CABINET with the CROWBAR.

Or cut the FLESHY FOOTLOCKER with the shovel.

>>3493479
lets not do that, eh?

>>3493483

Noted.

Ruby: Ask Tom to go crowbar-happy on the fleshy overgrowth.

>>3493483
If Tom knows where it is, he can go get it himself and scurry back.

head back up to the ladder.

>>3493469
Tom explains that he has added the SCALPEL to his leather pouch of MEDICAL IMPLEMENTS.

>>3493426
>Break open the cabinet with the BLUDGEONY CANE SHOVEL.
One of the doctors probably had a TINY KEY to go with this lock.

Tom's no doctor, but he's got the prescription for this medicine cabinet!

After bashing the cabinet open, Tom finds a large jar of TRANQUILIZER inside.

TRANQUILIZER should go well for Ace.

>>3493503

Tom: Fill syringe with tranquilizer. Then use scalpel on fleshy overgrowth.

Extract tranquilizer with syringe
Prepare oneself

Using the syringe, inject the TRANQUILIZER into the fleshy growth to see what happens.

I also like how happy Tom can be when bashing things, no matter how grim the situation is, and no matter he's just seen a video where he got murdered by his friend.

fill syringe with tranqulizer

>>3493503
TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FILL NEEDLE WITH TRANQUILIZER

Traquilizer+champagne=date rape

Cutting away the fleshy cord from the panel might restore power to it, but there's probably little point as we don't have a code or card for it anyway. So maybe leave it alone for now.

We cut away at the fleshy growths before and got an access card for our troubles if I recall, so let's try cutting away at this one and opening the other box.

noting previous injection suggestions, inject tranqulizer into bot fleshly growths, locker and scanner

TOM: Fill SYRINGE with TRANQUILIZER
use SYRINGE on FLESY GROWTH

>>3493506
>Tom: Fill syringe with tranquilizer.
Tom fills his SYRINGE with LIQUID TRANQUILIZER. He's got several doses worth in there now!
Still, he considers how much good it would do against a behemoth like Ace, should he show up again.

There appear to be three schools of thought on the fleshy locker. Should Tom:
Cut the growths sealing the locker with the scalpel?
Retrieve the fleshy growth from the jar downstairs and use it with the locker?
Inject the growths with tranquilizer?

Inject the growths with the TRANQUILIZER.

inject, then cut - should make it inactive (hopefully)

>>3493531
>>Inject the growths with tranquilizer

Hey guys lets keep in mind that the fleshy growth shows up as an infant to third-eye-vision and it might be a bad idea to fuck with it before we know what it's for.

>>3493531
SYRINGE IT
THEN SCALPEL IT
give it a painless death.

Option 2. It's worth a shot and if it doesn't work, what's the worst that could happen? [/famous last words]

Retrieve the fleshy growth from the jar downstairs and use it with the locker?

Please use tranq then cut. :C

>>3493557
Isn't this one of those voting parts he does from time to time? That was my impression

Option 2 all the way, if it is. My post will delete when we get a new image.

>>3493557
Protip: delete your posts once Weaver replies.

inject then cut each, but doing the job on the reader/scanner, wear gloves for protection against possible shock

>>3493534
>>3493535
>>3493536
>>3493537
>>3493538
Going by the first 5 responses, the majority is in favor of using the JAR GROWTH on the LOCKER GROWTHS.

Tom and Ruby warily head back downstairs.

>>3493575
This is not going to be good. Why use suspicious and evil growth when scalpel works just a well?

Yeah, great idea, get the Cthulhu baby. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING PEOPLE?

>>3493575
NOOOO

YOU FOOLS

DAMMIT.

NO.

>>3493575

Use STRING on JAR. Tie the string around it with enough slack to pull it off the pedestal from a safe distance but not enough for it to hit the ground.

Ruby removes the BARBED WIRE from her RUBBER GLOVES and carefully removes the growth from the jar.

It's almost as if we WANT to be raped by another zombie.

>>3493575
>>Use baby as lock
FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffff

Also everone who voted delete posts please

>>3493591

Quick-save.

>Use growth on lock
>Die
>Quick-Load
>Use scalpel on lock, don't touch the fleshy thing

Chew on the fleshy growth. Your sense of taste will never steer you wrong.

>>3493591
Tom: Say "Hey Ruby let's rethink this for a min"

>>3493607
Tom is not Al Gore. He does not believe in recounts.

Tom and Ruby return to the hall.

STITCHES is here.

>>3493615
Say hello.

>>3493615

Ready your weapons!

OH LAWDY

RUN AWAY

PREPARE SYRINGE, GREET.

He doesn't look very happy...

Try and say hi to him.

EVEN MONSTERS NEED HUGS, STITCHES.

I am wary of this, but I need something explained first. Weaver said that the organic growths near the terminal had been burnt off, but are these growths just holding the terminal to the wall, or do they conduct electricity as well? We should test the growths to see if they're used to power the terminal somehow, hope someone has a better idea on how to do this cuz I'm stumped. If the flesh conducts power, we could use a sample of the flesh from the locker to complete the circuit. Also, Fan art.

wait just long enough to see what STITCHES' intentions are - if hostile, lead back to the fans and give him a flashback

>>3493621
>>3493622
Ruby's hands are full, and she has nowhere to put the large fleshy growth. She says hi.

Stitches groans hoarsely and growls in response.

>>3493615
Hug Stitches,
wait no

Ruby: Explain that you have lost your memory but you know what you did and are sorry, and that you mean Stitches no harm.

Lure STITCHES into TRAP.

Alternatively, use LOADED SYRINGE on STITCHES

>>3493635
I'm Coocoo for GRIMDARK

>>3493638
>...nowhere to put the large fleshy growth.

You could throw it at Stitches if he goes hostile.

Just wait, see what he'll do and be ready to run.

TO THE FANS!

Tranq him

>>3493638

Tom: Ready your goddamn weapons! Crowbar in one hand! Caneshovel in the other! GO!

>>3493638
Apologize to Stitches profusely.

OH FUCK IT'S THE BRAIN MOUTH.

TO THE FANS.

recreate prickly fist, use mean left hook

It may not be cool, and it may be cowardly...

but i think this is a better time than any...

to GTFO like a MUTHA' FFFFFFFFFFF!

Back off to the lockers room, we can go down to the first room from the hole there.

I think you guys are forgetting we don't really have anywhere to run TO.

Unless you want to jump in the hole in the locker room.

>>3493651
DUAL WIELD LIKE THE FIST OF THE NORTH STAR.

>>3493665

Better yet, we use the string to trip him up so that HE falls into the hole below.

run back into the lockers room tom and ruby on either side of door use string to trip him into hole in floor

>>3493676


Combo move, run into next room, bait with ruby, trip with tom, syringe while he's down

I get the feeling that Stitches isn't in control of his faculties. Return to the last room and lock the door.

Stitches lunges forward. His intentions are clearly hostile.

He lets loose a pained moan as he staggers at Ruby, claws held high.

ＵＨＡＡＡＨＨ
ＫＩＬＬＬＬＬ ＭＥ

run back into lockers room. if the ceiling wasn't too high jump down through the hole.

Inject fetus full of tranq and feed the bear a midnight snack.

>>3493685
>ＫＩＬＬＬＬＬ ＭＥ

Comply. Use bludgeony caneshovel, crowbar, and syringe.

>>3493685

Don't have support for the text there.

Show Stitches Group Photo while backing away?

>>3493685

Tom: Grant his wish. Crowbar in one hand. Caneshovel in the other. GO!

open third eye in front of stitches

tranq him.

>>3493685
RUN BITCH RUN!

i gree with third eye. we should get to know what these things look like with the third eye.

>>3493685
Ruby: tumble tumble duck weave, yes do that barrel roll if it will keep you safe
Tom: While Stitches is busy with Ruby, sneak up behind and use TRANQUILIZER + SYRINGE on him

>>3493685
Show him the picture.

We cannot grant him eternal peace, he'll just regenerate again. We have to try and save him, we can't just ignore him or give up on him!

Escape the room. There's no sense getting involved in a fight with something like this.

Show him the group picture we picked up, tell him to fight it!

Show him group photo or use third eye

Fools! What are you thinking? STITCHES IS NOW IMMUNE TO FANS! O.o

Try syringe+tranquilizer first, maybe he'll calm down enough to talk to him.

Tom: HITS STITCHES WITH CANESHUVEL
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE

>>3493683
>Combo move, run into next room, bait with ruby, trip with tom, syringe while he's down
Tom and Ruby prepare for an elaborate maneuver!

Notice how Ruby holds that fleshy growth? Like a mother cradling her child? That's bad.

>>3493726

Wait for it...wait for it...

NOW!

Lol! I guess Tom modified his shirt so he can put those freaky mutant baby arms to better use! Smack Him! Getim!

>>3493726
I didn't realize Tom was a 3.5 Edition Trip monkey.

Ruby trips Stitches with her UNATTRACTIVELY LONG FOOT. As soon as he falls, Tom pins him down using the strength of his MANLY PHYSIQUE and injects a healthy dose of LIQUID TRANQUILIZER into his neck.
Tom keeps Stitches pinned until, after a very nerve-wracking minute or so, he finally goes unconscious.

third eye now!

>>3493741

Tie Stitches up with STRING.

Loot Stitches.
*shrugs* You never know.

>>3493746
Yeah, like that'll work. IT'S TWINE.

Well fine. Put him in one of the lockers and close it then. If we're going to be hostile towards poor Stitches the least we can do is keep him from wandering around the facility.

Find a way to tie Stitches up, or lock him away. Then get back to that fleshy container.

Tie stiches up with barbed wire. Pin him down with a locker.

>>3493750
Probably a better idea to use a chair from the cafeteria and lock him in the closet we found him in since we could probably talk to him through the small eyehatch.

>>3493741
Tom: Use eye and all hands to inspect Stitches for ANYTHING.
Ruby: Use all three eyes in every possible combination to inspect Stitches for ANYTHING.
Both: Use caution or play house, whichever suits your tastes.

>>3493741

Give stitches the group picture before leaving to investigate the growth.

>>3493761

We should probably keep that with us since it's 'tied to' Ruby.

HIGH FIVE eachother for sweet teamwork.
Tie stitches arms and legs behind his back.
continue on to locker.

Stitch his head back together using Medical tolls and string.

Third eye Stitches!

Stop asking to use the Third Eye! We are in the room we the strange symbol, remember? The one thah gave Ruby the headache-

Don't suppose there's a sewing needle in that MEDICAL IMPLEMENTS... maybe use it with the string to sew up his ever-splitting head... Might keep him sane for a while.

Tie Stitches with Barbed wire.

>>3493747
>Loot Stitches.
Stitches is carrying a TINY KEY labelled "medicine cabinet" in tiny letters.
...Tom decides to leave it with him.

>>3493754
Tom shoves Stitches into Locker #5 and slams the door close hard enough to jam it on the hinges. It's not much, but it'll do for now. It should keep him safe, and he should be out for a while with all the tranq Tom used.

Not much we can do for Stitches now... do we still have the lock that goes to these lockers? Maybe we can stuff him innna one like he is a scrub what doesn't pay us our dues come lunch hour.

This image is not a repost, it's a newer version in case anyone cares. Got some great feedback from people about it already and I'd love to get some more that's help.

>>3493779
>- Go and cut that locker with the scalpel. Put the fleshy growth back to its glass: It clearly attracts monsters.
>- Go check out Red's room.
>- Try to talk with Tom about things, and recover the connection of trust you used to held.

Wasn't one of the lockers in here jammed before? Now that we have Tom and MANLY PHYSIQUE we should try to open it

>>3493772
Drag him out of the room, THEN use eye. Don't look at freaky statue. Or look at statue. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.

>>3493779
Careful Tom, Ruby is trying to trip you!

Okay, I guess we should go back to make an offering to the fleshy fetus god or whatever so that maybe the box will open.

Cast NEW THREAD on /tg/.

>>3493779

Check remaining amount of tranquilizer.

>>3493779
Baxk to growth room, use ruby's eye on the growth she is carrying once there

Bump limit reached.

>>3493785
We opened it forever ago. We just shoved Stitches into it.

I REALLY think we should put the growth back to where it was, and not use the third eye that much. They're both evil.

Besides, clearly the appear of Stitches was a subtle hint from Weaver to NOT cause a Total Party Kill by using that flesh thing.

>>3493779
Yes leave the baby growth in the jar till we know what it is for

>>3493761
Ruby slips the GROUP PORTRAIT into a paper-thin gap in the locker's edge, at the top. Stitches may appreciate it, perhaps?

>>3493785
>Wasn't one of the lockers in here jammed before? Now that we have Tom and MANLY PHYSIQUE we should try to open it
That would be the locker Tom just re-jammed to seal Stitches in.
There was nothing inside when Tom checked.

Tom and Ruby resume their original course of action and head back to the upstairs room.

I'd say it's pretty clear the eye is evil as it literally tried to send us into the fans, but there's no proof the lump attracted Stitches. Weaver was probably just spicing up an otherwise slow night.

leave growth alone, return and inject tranqulizer into both fleshly growth then cut

Can we once again try to open other, previously unexplored lockers in this room? Maybe they will yield to Tom's four armed strenght.

>>3493814

Note absence of fetus statue.

>>3493814
fuck alien is missing

also put the growth back in the jar

Stop going upstairs, examine where the fuck statue went.

Ruby places the fleshy growth from the jar into the gap between the other fleshy growths.

>>3493818
I think it's more likely the shadowy figure was using its own abilities to try to manipulate Ruby.

As for actions, let's get that blasted fleshy container open before we get interrupted by any more Thing-infected friends.

>>3493814
Ruby: relise you can't climb a ladder while holding the GROWTH and put it back in it's jar

>>3493832
loot box

>>3493832
open box, cheak for taps

and ffs, if nothing happens just cut the fucker open

Dude! The fetus statue-shit! That was there when Stitches was! Now, it's not! omgomgomgFINDIT!!

Before Ruby's eyes, the fleshy growths grow together and coil into one another.

The large fleshy mass Ruby placed onto the chest, now connected, begins to beat rhythmically, expanding and contracting with a soft, wet sound.

A moment later, the lid of the locker opens up -- not from the edge, but from the center, peeling itself open.
From inside, Ruby retrieves a FLESHY PROTOTUBE, a bizarre organic item that somehow features an electrical contact panel on one end.

>>3493859
Ruby: Lick it.

Tom: Post a new thread.

USE PROTOTUBE ON SCANNER FLESH!

>>3493859
Wat.

Use it on the panel that's keeping the hatch closed.

Fix the keycard slot, attaching power and other connections Carefully.

>>3493859
afix FLESHY PROTOTUBE to the hatch's lock

>>3493859

Does the FLESHY PROTOTUBE plug into the keypad connected to the hatch?

cut away charred scanner flesh whilst wearing gloves, replace with prototube

Fix that panel by the hatch
swipe card tom has into reader
enter 0645

>>3493860
>Ruby: Lick it.
IT TASTES BAD.

>>3493881

Use PROTOTUBE on PANEL

>>3493881
OMNOMNOM IT

>>3493881
Tom should have his own thread

Check if Tom tastes bad

>>3493890
Playtime is over. No more sticking strange things into your mouth.

>>3493896
but tom just finally got his pants off 8(

>>3493866
>>3493869
>>3493870
>>3493871
Tom cuts away the burnt flesh and Ruby plugs the FLESHY PROTOTUBE into the keypad's contact panel.

It doesn't seem to do much by itself.

>>3493881
Tom: Say "Eww"
Ruby: Replace burnt growth on pannel lock with this one. Careful to use your gloves

>>3493901
We need a keycard as well.

NOW go and explore Red's room.

>>3493901

Attach knobbly bits to the sockets on the organic cable?

>>3493901
well connect the protrusions to the socket bits

>>3493881

>>3493901
Head back down to the dummy room and point the clock dial at another symbol

Tom: Give Ruby a really odd look.

>>3493907
>>3493908
>>3493911
Connecting the FLESHY PROTOTUBE in that way would lay it over the charged electrical wire! That's probably how the last connection got burnt!

>>3493901
Ask Tom to show you Reds room

>>3493923
...Do we need....flesh extension cords?

What?

inject flesh with tranqulizer, then connect with gloves on.

Can you somehow use the gloves to insulate the wires and keep them from touching the flesh?

use wire from prickly gloves to connect the flesh plugs

>>3493881
Erotic.

What we need here is some kind of insulator... maybe Ruby could lay her gloves over the charged wire and THEN plug the flesh-tubes in on top of it?

>>3493936
TOUCHING ELECTRICAL CURRENTS IS BAD.

>>3493930
>>3493931
>>3493932
Genius!
Ruby wraps the cord in her RUBBER GLOVES and connects the FLESHY PROTOTUBE, leaving both cords intact and connected!

The key panel lights up, awaiting a 4-digit number.

>>3493947
0645

enter 0645

>>3493948
>>3493950
Ruby punches in the code 0645, and the access card reader lights up.

>>3493947
Input Eight Zero Zero Eight

swipe card through

Are we gonna make it outside so soon?!

In b4 ACE UP IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER

Use the High clearance card

>>3493953
Tom swipes the HIGH-ACCESS card.
That seems to have done the trick. The HIGH SECURITY HATCH on the ceiling recedes.
The path upwards is open.

>>3493973
Go up.

>>3493973
Have the Red Shirt go up first to investigate and then, if safe, close the hatch behind you.

>>3493973

Welp... nowhere to go but up. Ascend!

>>3493973
go up... careful of traps

?? how did we know to input 0645? when did that come up?

Ruby and Tom ascend to the floor above.

>>3493988
Try to close the hatch. We don't want Filbert or some other mutant to get out.

>>3493984
from the note outside of lab B, it was a significant date, when stiches' heart started again

Check the doors on the sides.

inspect the ace room

>>3493988
Inspect Ace's room.

>>3493988
Go in Ace's room and search it.

Maybe he left his boss key in there.

>>3493988

Use bunny ears, listen to see if Filbert's in his room.

>>3493988
cheak ace's room as the door is open. Also check he's not in there first

Crack open the security station door and try and estimate how large the room is. Its going to be bad if we have to deal with 20 guards..or worse..20 mutated guards.

>>3494006

He can't be in his room, nobody can't be. We just repaired the hatch.

Check security station
Search for weapons

>>3493988
>Ace
>Filbert
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Security Station exploring?

The walls look clean use the third eye

>>3494015
>Search for weapons

We're too paranoid for weapons. Ruby might go nuts and shoot Tom, Tom might think Ruby went nuts and shoot her.

>>3494019

NO THIRD EYE IT EVIL

>>3494013
Tom tries the security room door, but it is locked with a SECURITY KEYCARD READER. Even Tom's HIGH ACCESS CARD does no good here.

Ruby and Tom head to Ace's quarters. Tom politely goes first.

>>3494025
Existence of a security keycard means ace could be in his office. ..ffffff

I think we should close the hatch: This level is clean and empty. Everyone's fled long ago. We don't want mutants (other than us) roaming here.

Split up, close the door and head to the staff wing.

Ace's quarters appear rather starkly furnished.

try filbert's room next

>>3494039

Check ACE'S BED

>>3494043
Even if it wasn't evil, I don't think it does much in these uninfected rooms. It detects evil, and there isn't evil here.

Yet. Close the hatch.

>>3494039
Poor Ace :(

try the other doors to see if they are unlocked

Bust down the wall between Ace's and Filbert's quarters with MANLY SHOVEL action

Don't let her seduce you Tom!

>Hug Ruby

>>3494039
Check Filbert's room next, carful that no one is in it

>>3494029

It's probably more about the fact that if someone ambushes them, Tom will bear the brunt of the attack

Something is very disorienting about this room. The bed appears much larger than Tom originally thought.

>>3494044
>Check ACE'S BED
Tom finds a SPADE KEY tucked safely under Ace's pillow.

>>3494056

umm... have we TRIED the door yet??

>>3494063
Guess where WE'RE going.

>>3494039
RUBY STAND GUARD DON'T LET THEM BUTTRAPE YOU

>>3494066

Filbert's Room.

>>3494063
No guessing where THAT key goes.

Close the hatch, check the staff quarters next.

Test the side doors in the main room.

>>3494066

No, let's explore this floor first.

Let's go to Filbert's room.

>>3494063
Collect the key, but let's not open up the lab yet.

Let's finish inspecting the staff wings first. Red's old room may have useful things.

>>3494063
Check the other rooms before we release #6, starting with filbert's room.

>>3494063
It's like the first room in the Chocolate Factory. Optical Illusion.

>>3494063
Check under the mattress.
Todd from accounting mentioned there'd be weed stashed there.

Hide and seek under the bed.

Remember that ace is tougher than whatever is in lab 6...

>>3494084

We don't know that. We just know that Ace was the one given the key.

And really, we should stay far fucking away from Lab B until we have an actual REASON to go there.

Ruby and Tom return to the hall. Filbert's room is securely locked, and the Security room needs a SECURITY CARD. Even Tom's HIGH ACCESS CARD doesn't work here.

>>3494084
>Remember that Ace was tougher than whatever is in the lab at the time he put it there.

>>3494084
...or immune to #6's horrible and destructive abilities.

Well, let's explore the staff wings.

>>3494093

Go to the Staff Wings

>>3494093
In staff wings, check Red's room first.

>>3494101
>>3494102
Ruby opens the door to the other wings...

>>3494111
Greet Mr. Door warmly.

>>3494111

back the hell away from the door

OH GOD THE STAFF HAS BEEN EATEN

Run back down the hatch. Check Red's room down there. The one we blew up.

I also just love those round eyes they have when they're frightened/surprised.

TOM: Pull Ruby away from the door!

>>3494111
Back away.

Quickly.

>>3494111
Promptly avoid a limb-ectomy.

Ruby closes the door.

Ruby decides not to go that way.

>>3494111
Is it just a toothy door or is it really a giant mouth of some creature?

Go to Upper Lab B

>>3494126
Red's room.

>>3494128
its....its...an elemental plain of teeth!

>>3494126
Use the crowbar on Filbert's office door.

>>3494126

Make sure Tom saw what we saw.

>>3494126
KNOCK ON FILBERT'S DOOR AND DEMAND EXPLANATION FOR THE ELEMENTAL PLANE OF TEETH THAT LIES BEYOND THE DOORS

>Mr. Door
>MrDoor
>Murdoor
>Murder

Mother of god....

HP Check, re-examine Tom's eye (lack thereof)

>>3494136
Yay, sequence breaking!

Go into the security station and get some guns, this whole melee the monsters thing is not good for our characters long-term health, or their short term health for that matter.

Try to crowbar the Security and Filbert's door.

If not possible, let's go down to the lower levels to see if something changed. I think there is still things to do down there before releasing the beast.

>>3494138
>Make sure Tom saw what we saw.
Tom says that if you saw a huge door lined with teeth leading into some sort of horrible abyss then yes, he saw the same thing.

>>3494139
>>3494136
Filbert's door is too sturdy to be bashed or pried open. Further, there is no answer from inside.

>>3494145

see

>>3494093

>>3494145
Security station is locked. We need a different AXIS CARD

ask tom how his eye is doing, quick look if necessary

>>3494147
Well then, I guess we have to go back down.

Let's examine Red's room first, see if we can access it, or see if anything else downstairs has changed...if not, I suppose we can go to Lab B...

>>3494147

Let's go down to the dummy room and try the button we didn't pressed in the clock.

Or go to Z-hatch room and inspect the closet for secret doors. Anything but enter Upper Lab B. We are not ready yet.

Check behind the spade sign.

>>3494147
back down to the dummy room

We should probably refill the syringe with tranqs now if we haven't yet.

>>3494141
>HP Check, re-examine Tom's eye (lack thereof)
Ruby peels back the bandage on Tom's eye for a moment...

BRACETH FOR IMPACT

Tom's wound seems to be doing well. It doesn't appear to be infected and the earlier bleeding has stopped.

He looks like he'll be fine.

>>3494164

Ok, put the bandage back. Let's go to the lower levels.

Oh well. That's good.

Now Red's room.

>>3494164
Put RUBY'S HAND in TOM'S EYE and withdraw EXCALIBUR.

>>3494168
I vote for Not This.

>>3494166
Ruby and Tom head down one level.

>>3494168
YES.

>>3494170

What about that upper red picture? Could it be taken off to see what's behind it?

>>3494165
Okay, we should refill that syringe with tranqs and keep an eye out for that access card.

>>3494164
Back down to dummy room, checking that Red's room is still just rubble

>>3494170
Try closing the hatch now.

Let's go to the Dummy room, to the clock thingie.

Ask Tom when he first noticed his mutation.
Has had it for as long as he can remember?

>>3494183

The dummy waits for you.

>>3494164

>>3494177
>>3494178
Tom tops off the SYRINGE with LIQUID TRANQUILIZER.

>>3494179
Ruby and Tom decide to begin the long trek all the way back to the DUMMY ROOM.

>>3494170
keep going, keep going

Ruby and Tom continue their trek.

Still going!
They head through the room Ruby woke up in.

How did Ace get through all that rubble? Investigate.

>>3494197
Yey they look happy :D ;D

Now into the dissipating brig...

>>3494207

Ace has access to other doors that we do not have access to. Like the 'medical personnel only' door that he ENTERED the bomb room through in the first place.

>>3494205
careful of dark void below guys :D ;D

How sad. They've finally given in to madness.

>>3494212

Quick, cancel our retarded trek and go open Lab B.

>>3494220
god, please.

Ruby and Tom finally arrive in the DUMMY ROOM, though the DUMMY is still absent.

>>You reach the room the Dummy was in.

>>WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE, NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

>>3494224

Check that wall painting with your third eye, Ruby. It might be important.

Well, while you're here, might as well try that final dial we didn't try yet.

Then Lab B, need we go there or not. Not much else to do here, now is there.

>>3494224
Third eye on painting.

>>3494224
God, we're retards, have Ruby and Tom slap each other for being SO FUCKING DUMB and go to Lab B and open it already.

>>3494224
since we're here we might as well take a quick peek with the third eye

>>3494224
Take the DO NOT OPEN sticker. Apply it to the door of Lab B.

Spind dial, high five fish. Head to Lab B

Normal eyes first: We'ven't examined that painting even without the third eye yet.

>>3494226

>>3494224
Great, turn dial to match symbol on pannel in next room

>>3494228

There is something that we KNOW we can try here, and Ruby has a chance to third-eye a symbol which is intentionally drawn on the wall. As well as the painting which matches the sigils Stitches was tacked to when regenerating. This is potentially useful and low-risk, and thus takes priority.

>>3494253

>>USING EYE

>>LOW RISK

>>3494226
>Check that wall painting with your third eye, Ruby. It might be important.
Ruby examines the room with her THIRD EYE.

Something painful emanates from the PAINTING. But it's hollow, distant. Like an echo of something, memories of before.

>>3494262
Close eye, investigate that spot.

>>3494262
close eye, turn dial

>>3494262
...Yeah. Better not go into that much.

Now the Lab B.

And seriously, the Third Eye is EVIL. Don't use it!

>>3494262
A second echo suddenly comes through, piercingly.
It's small, and it's just an echo, but it's still incredibly focused, overpoweringly potent.

Kind of guessed it the first time around, but I'm guessing those symbols are in rooms to keep Ruby from using her third eye in them, or they're meant to ward it off.

The more elaborate symbols cause the eye the most pain, it seems.

>>3494275

open regular eyes. See what's there.

>>3494275

That's the dial. Try the last symbol on it.

>>3494275
turn the dial to this spot

>>3494275
>>3494283

No the dial is evil go to lab B.

>>3494275

On second thought, don't turn the dial.

It hurts so badly, and yet...
...and yet it feels strangely good.

It's like a feeling that deep down, Ruby wants to feel forever.

Ruby has multiple personality disorder.

>>3494290

Snap out of it, Ruby!