>>3494380
Greet Penny cautiously, hope she doesn't steal our eyes.

>>3494380
Don't die.

Observe corpse from distance.

Throw the least useful object they have at it.

Greet warmly with third eye.

>>3494389

Bella*

CLOSE THE DOORS AGAIN

Get ready to matador dodge

SUBJECT 6 rises from the pool of light.

[Animated]

wut

Tell Six: Come with us if you want to escape

>>3494403
WHERE ARE HER EYES

HORROR. I missed the previous thread. some anon link me?

>>3494409
Eheheh....we gave the picture to stitches.

I have the strong feeling that we've just triggered a TPK, /tg/. Hope I'm wrong.

>>3494409
The picture is with Stitches in Tom's locker.

>>3494403
Back off, back the hell off

Greet openly. I don't think this is the danger of Lab B.

She's still blind..dont make a sound

>>3494403
Mind the fans behind you.

Expose genitals, receive mutant baby

don't look into those eyes, THOSE DEAD EYES FFFFFFFFFFFFF

SUBJECT 6's legs appear to have been amputated. His arms are long, thin, and end at bony points instead of hands.

He lies in the center of the room, staring with empty eye sockets towards the door. His ears twitch slightly, listening.

ＩＳ ＳＯＭＥＯＮＥ ＴＨＥＲＥ?

>>3494411
Wont anyone help anon in trouble?

>>3494403
Holy fuck, i didn't know that was a GIF and jumped out of my chair

Is 6's voice the same voice we heard over the video screen?

>>3494432
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby

>>3494432
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby

>>3494431
"Hello? This is Ruby. And Tom. You remember us, don't you? You wouldn't hurt us, wouldn't you?

Who are you, and why are you here? What have you done?"

(Be careful, though.)

Tom & Ruby: We're trying to escape. We just want to escape. Are you ssafe?

>>3494431
DON'T MAKE A SOUND

>>3494431
Say your name. Don't introduce Tom right now (maybe #6 won't know there are two persons with him). Ask his name.

>>3494431

Greet Six, but don't move into room.

If Tom can't be seen from where he is keep him hidden.

>>3494440
Ruby begins to speak, but the figure interrupts.

Ｉ ＣＡＮ'Ｔ ＨＥＡＲ ＹＯＵ, ＣＨＩＬＤ.
ＣＯＭＥ ＣＬＯＳＥＲ.

REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAW WITH THAT AWFUL EYE

Whatever you do, whatever you say, don't cross the threshold. No matter what it says to us. Please keep that rule in mind.

>>3494456
Don't.

His body is crippled. Laws of storytelling say, that his mind must be VERY strong.

>>3494456
don't

go closer, brace for impact

Take exactly one step closer.

>>3494456
YELL THAT SHIT NIGGER

>>3494456
Fuck him, speak louder.

>>3494456
HAHA, FUCK NO, MR. WOLF.

>>3494456
>come closer
NO CAN DO, BUB.

>>3494456

Try talking louder?

DON'T FUCKING GO IN.

SPEAK LOUDER.

>>3494431
Is this the sorce of Tom's extra hands and Ruby's eye?!?

>>3494456
Try to sound like the Techpriests in Dawn Of War.

And stay away from the thing.

>>3494456

Hell no, we've read those reports. Keep your distance and speak louder. Ask him why he's here.

>>3494456
WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.

FIND LIGHT SWITCH.

>>3494456
Go running and kick it on it's mouth

>>3494484
It says "I CAN'T HEAR YOU CHILD, COME CLOSER."

Throw something useless near her. Check reaction.

>>3494484

Be friendly, but super cautious. Go ahead try and comfort her to your presence. Remain twice the distance of arms length away!

>>3494489
>>3494484
First picture: IS SOMEONE THERE?
Second picture: I CAN'T HEAR YOU CHILD. COME CLOSER.

EYE FOR GOD'S SAKE

>>3494452
>>3494464
Ruby speaks louder instead of entering the room. Subject 6 appears disappointed, a look of sadness crossing his face. He sits up, facing the door.

>Ask his name.
The look of sadness disappears for a moment. His brow uncreases and he smiles thinly.

ＤＯＮ'Ｔ ＹＯＵ ＲＥＣＯＧＮＩＺＥ ＭＥ?
ＩＴ'Ｓ ＭＥ, ＴＯＭ.
ＴＨＥ ＬＯＶＥ ＯＦ ＹＯＵＲ ＬＩＦＥ.

Find a fucking light switch, damn!

>>3494491
Hey, other anons, delete your posts. This guy already explained it.

>>3494493
>Opera

>>3494505

NO. NEVER EYE. NEVER. EYE IS BAD AND CORRUPTS YOU. DIDN'T YOU GET IT ALREADY.

>>3494506
Say's "DON'T YOU RECOGNIZE ME?
IT'S ME, TOM.
THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE."

I suggest we turn around to look at Tom for a moment.

>>3494506
Check Tom.

>>3494506
>ＤＯＮ'Ｔ ＹＯＵ ＲＥＣＯＧＮＩＺＥ ＭＥ?
>ＩＴ'Ｓ ＭＥ, ＴＯＭ.
>ＴＨＥ ＬＯＶＥ ＯＦ ＹＯＵＲ ＬＩＦＥ.

Fuck.

I'm thinking he might've received Tom's old memories or something. Hopefully.

At least this pretty much proves Ruby and Tom used to be pretty close, which is nice.

Tom, keep quiet and get that weapon readied. Find a light switch while Ruby (probably whatever other people are saying) talks.

Third eye. I want to know if 6 is the grinning menace we saw earlier.

Getting your arms crushed does not sharpen them into goddamn ice picks.

>>3494506
Get ready to move away from the entrance quickly in case Six pounces.

>>3494506
YOU ARE NOT A CAT

>>3494517
HEY, DON'T POST THIS SHIT.
JUST LOOK OUT FOR A WORDFORWORD (WHICH BY THE WAY IS TWO POSTS UNDER THE WEAVER POST).
YOU'LL GET 20 ANONS SAYING THE SAME THING.

>>3494515
This

>>3494518
>>3494515
Tom appears as confused as Ruby.

>>3494514
Thanks for translations btw

>>3494536

Have Tom address #6?

have tom greet six and wait for reply

Have ruby look at tom with her regular eyes, and at six with her third eye. Close the door after that.

He's trying to trick us. Lure us into him. Don't trust him.

The alternative, that he really is Tom, is just too painful to consider.

Throw the oxygen tank at it.

Take a five-feet step aside to take covered behind the door frame in case it leaps on us; then check on Tom.

>>3494536

Ask #6 if he can prove he's Tom

I don't trust Tom Nook when I play the actual game, I don't trust his ass here, either. I say we ask him if he wants anything, or maybe just watch him and see if he tries to act up. Stay near the doors so we can close them and at least buy time to flee.

Have Tom take off shoes and use CAT SNEAKING SKILL to use the SYRINGE on the.... whatever.

>>3494542
>>3494542
>>3494542
>>3494542
>>3494542
>>3494542
>>3494542
>>3494542

third eye

Subject 6 turns a bit, suddenly perking up his ears.

ＬＵＣＹ? ＬＵＣＹ ＩＳ ＴＨＡＴ ＹＯＵ?
Ｉ ＫＮＥＷ ＹＯＵ'Ｄ ＣＯＭＥ ＢＡＣＫ ＴＯ ＭＥ.

Dear lord he's channeling ricky ricardo

>>3494558
THE WRITING SAYS, AND I QUOTE,
"LUCY? LUCY IS
THAT YOU?
I KNEW YOU'D COME
BACK TO ME."

>>3494558
Seriously using the third eye sounds good right about now.

And get that oxygen tank ready.

TOM NOOK
FROM ANIMAL CROSSING
Looks like him too, sans limbs

There are two Toms in AC, the shop owner and the random village, the Cat tom is the villager.

He's insane.

Have Tom feign that he's Lucy: "Yes, it's me. Lucy." Try to get information out of him by this.

Look at the whole room with the third eye. Let's see what's going on here.

>>3494558
wat

I've been dreading Nook's arrival through this whole damn game. Ready a weapon and keep three of our four peepers peeled for some sort of Hell-Lucy to appear from the shadows.

...Fumble for a light switch.

>>3494561
It would seem that Ruby has got some splanin to do! Seriously though, third eye, use it.

Tom: club Ruby upside the head with the shovelcane and shove her in there, then run.

I WAS SPY ALL ALONG

Interrogate using deception.

>>3494558
tell him you are not lucy

>>3494551

ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!!!

Christ Almighty. Tom Nook is #6. I should have seen that from a mile away. Regardless, play up his confusion long enough to...well, what the Hell do we want here exactly? To kill him? Get information? This is probably our one chance to not fuck this part up.

*SNORT*

Let him... it... speak.

>>3494566
>Seriously using the third eye sounds good right about now.
Ruby's third eye is in too much pain to open right now!

>>3494568
>Have Tom feign that he's Lucy: "Yes, it's me. Lucy."

ＬＵＣＹ, Ｉ'Ｍ ＳＯ ＧＬＡＤ ＹＯＵ'ＲＥ ＨＥＲＥ.
Ｉ ＨＡＶＥ ＳＯＭＥＴＨＩＮＧ ＦＯＲ ＹＯＵ.

Tom: What?

>>3494588
This is bad, I think we'd better get out of the doorway ASAP.

>>3494588
"LUCY I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE
I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU"

>>3494588
Have Tom approach very carefully, touch him with his caneshovel, tell him it's his hand, and ask him to give that thing to him.

TELL HIM WE DON'T WANT IT

>>3494588
Oh holy shit

We be proper fucked now.

Say "That's very nice. What is it?"

Weapons at the ready. stand guard.

>>3494588
Step slowly out of the doorway out of the room and stand beside the door. Continue shenanigans.

Sneak for Straight Jacket on Bed, Incapacitate, search, apply jacket to Tom (Mouse)

Get to side of doorway, lean in, tell him to come give it to you.

Tell him you're the new number 2.

I'm only posting this 'cuz I have no way of getting in the chat. The second Tom is a tanooki, or a raccoon if that's too weeaboo for you.

Just... to clear up confusion.

>>3494601
Tell a quadruple amputee cripple to come give you something. You being 5 to 6 feet away.

>>3494414


This is RubyQuest, Weaver has everything pre-planned and the only deviations can be very minor.

Slam the door closed and barricade it with something, fast!

Roll the oxygen tank towards it.

>>3494600
ITS TOM NOOK
TOM NOOK IS A RACCOON
Well Technically Tanuki, but if the "fan artists" look up legends about Tanuki, they'll have a field day

>>3494613
Damnit, we managed a whole thread without railroadfags.

>>3494593
>>3494600
>>3494601
Approaching the door, Tom realizes the room smells INCREDIBLY FOUL. Ruby agrees -- it's SO noxious, he can't even breathe it.

>tell him to come give it to you
Ｉ ＣＡＮ'Ｔ ＭＯＶＥ, ＬＵＣＹ.
ＰＬＥＡＳＥ, ＣＯＭＥ ＴＯ ＭＥ.
Ｉ'Ｍ ＳＯ ＬＯＮＥＬＹ ＨＥＲＥ.

>>3494610
Quadruple amputee with goddamn spike arms.

>>3494623
Lucy is a pig. Catch up and learn to Google.
http://www.animalxing.com/characters.php

Also, self-moderation, guys. We haven't been doing a lot of it in this second thread. Let's get back to it before Weaver gets upset.

Pick up the key by reaching with a crowbar or some other long item.

Let's toss the ball of string near it to see if it reacts?

Also use the oxygen tank to breathe.

We need to use the oxygen mask to get the key.

Looks legit, reach out for the key with a gloved hand.

Use oxygen to approach, stay on CONSTANT guard. Prepare to go Gordon Freeman on his ass, if nessecary

>>3494625
Quickly swipe the key and ask him what it opens.

>>3494625
TOM: Equip oxygen tank, move in, take the key.

>>3494625
"I CAN'T MOVE, LUCY.
PLEASE, COME TO ME.
I'M SO LONELY HERE."

>>3494625

use caneshovel to retrieve key from a safe (hopefully) distance

Oxygen tank sounds good. I haven't showered recently, so don't mind the smell.

Ask him what the key's for

Have Tom get the key with the caneshovel, and then close the door and barricade it.

>>3494641
Tom starts to move in. Subject 6 does not react well.

ＮＯ!
Ｉ ＳＡＩＤ ＬＵＣＹ!

Ruby: Take the caneshovel from Tom, approach carefully, pick up the key with the caneshovel.

oh shit, how much have i missed. brb catching up.

>>3494667
Ruby approach and get the key, with the oxygen mask and gloved hands equipped. Warn him that she might sound a little different since she has to have safety gear on.

>>3494667
How the hell can he see us?

And OPEN THE DAMN EYE ALREADY

have ruby move instead

probably better to do what it says. Ruby, approach, Tom, prepare defensive maneuvers.

>>3494667
"NO!
I SAID LUCY!"

>>3494676

Weaver's already said that Ruby's eye is hurting too much to use, there's no need to keep asking for it.

>>3494675
Ruby slowly approaches, holding the oxygen mask to her mouth to breathe safely.
Subject 6 smiles again.

ＴＨＡＮＫ ＹＯＵ.

>>3494682
cheers
Ruby: go and just get the key using your remaining glove
Tom: be ready to go in swinging if things go wrong

Back away and say "no, thank you, thank you, tom"

TOM: Feel around the entrance for a light switch

Back off. Quickly.

Only then ask what the key is for.

Hold oxygen tank to protect your vital organs...hope to god he cant punch through it because that'll be catastrophic.

>>3494691
"THANK YOU."

>>3494698
after getting the key!

IN B4 BAD END
IN B4 BAD END
IN B4 BAD END
IN B4 BAD END

>>3494691

Examine table.

Have Tom prepare to hold his breath to charge in and quickly drag Ruby out, if the situation deteriorates.

Ruby approaches Subject 6, who stares up at her with empty eyes.

Ruby asks for the key.

>>3494713
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUCK

FUck...

Run! Look at the eyes!

It's a bait! Like velociraptors, he hunts in pairs! ("Clever girl.")

GTFO

>>3494713
tom: Tell Ruby to get back NOW!!!

>>3494713
OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE

>>3494713
BUNNY HOP OUT OF THERE!

Tom: yell warning!
Ruby: RUNNN

Uh-oh, what are those eyes in the bottom-right...

Tom, brain it with your crowbar or caneshovel immediately. Ruby, snatch the key in teh moment of distraction and run out now.

I told you guys 6 wasn't the problem.

Tom grab Ruby and pull her back

WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU, RUBY!! Tom, save her!

Just kidding.

TOM: HOLD YOUR BREATH & SAVE THE FUCKING DAY AND PULL RUBY THE HELL OUT!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>3494729
>I told you guys 6 wasn't the problem.

But he is. That's the real 6, there in the corner. What Ruby and Tom are seeing is a decoy, a distraction.

Vain attempts at opening the third eye to cause "bad end" aside, I'm pretty sure Weaver's just trying to draw the panels and unravel the story with some amount of suspense, so cool it a little with the retarded suggestions and give him a chance. Besides, why would Ruby run? Her eyes are all on Nook and she wouldn't see the yellow eyes.

Self-deleting upon the next pic...

Actually, wait. Please modify my request for Tom to call out "Who's there?" Maybe - just maybe - this new creature isn't hostile, and if it is the second's distraction will still give Ruby a chance to escape.

>>3494736
Tom Nook =/= #6
How we got in there is a mystery.

>>3494700
>TOM: Feel around the entrance for a light switch
Tom begins blindly groping just inside the door for a light switch, holding his breath.

Subject 6 holds up the GOLD KEY.

ＴＨＩＳ ＷＩＬＬ ＧＥＴ ＹＯＵ ＩＮＴＯ ＨＩＳ ＯＦＦＩＣＥ.
ＨＥ ＨＡＳ ＴＯＯＬＳ ＩＮ ＨＩＳ ＤＥＳＫ.

>>3494737
>Besides, why would Ruby run? Her eyes are all on Nook and she wouldn't see the yellow eyes.

But Tom sees it and warns/picks up Ruby.

>>3494737
Personally, I'm of the opinion that the eye is NOT going to suddenly cause BAD END just because we used it.

We should bring 6 with us.

>>3494744
Key obtained.

RUN

GRAB KEY AND GTFO TO FILBERT'S OFFICE

Take key, thank him kindly, get the HELL out of there. Tom, prepare to support.

>>3494739

Reiterating my last (although make sure that Tom is standing outside the threshold when he speaks, so that he doesn't inhale).

Even better: 6 IS THE DARKNESS. HE STRIKES FROM THE DARKNESS.

He means Filbert, I suspect. Take the key, run, close door, go to Filbert's office.

>>3494744

SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND LEAVE

>>3494744
"THIS WILL GET YOU INTO HIS OFFICE.
HE HAS TOOLS IN HIS DESK."

>>3494744
Ruby: take key and say thanks
Tom: grab Ruby and pull her back

Tom: Lucy, it's really time to go now!

Take key
void bowels
leave room

Tom is already dead guys. 6 isn't likely what it seems to be.

>>3494746

It won't suddenly cause a bad end. It will slowly, insidiously, murderously draw us down the path to the bad end, because we used it so many times to the point poor Ruby might become addicted to how it feels.

PLUS MAYBE THE IMAGE ABOVE US SHOWS THAT EYES ARE A SYMBOL AND A LIVING SIGN FOR REALLY BAD SHIT HERE

PREPARE YOUR BLADDER FOR IMMINENT RELEASE!

I'm not sure that the creature in the darkness necessarily means violence - it could have killed Ruby already if it had wanted to.

Unless it's limited to moving in the darkness, if which case we should be prepared for the door closing suddenly on us...

>>3494764
Or maybe they're just weird-looking lamps and Weaver's fucking with us. Either way the eye is out of commission for the time being. It isn't a freaking flashlight for crap's sake...

Tom frantically searches for the light switch. Ruby is not responding to his calls -- it's like she can't hear him.

Tom places the GOLD KEY in Ruby's palm.

ＤＯ ＭＥ Ａ ＦＡＶＯＲ ＷＨＩＬＥ ＹＯＵ'ＲＥ ＴＨＥＲＥ.
ＣＡＮ ＹＯＵ ＢＲＩＮＧ ＭＥ ＢＡＣＫ
ＳＣＩＳＳＯＲＳ?

ＴＨＡＮＫ ＹＯＵ.

>>3494772

Maybe if we kept it on all the time we wouldn't need to recharge it.

>>3494764

6 used the power. He became addicted. Eventually, the power took over him and took his sight.

6 is what Ruby will become unless we stop using the eye NOW and PERMANENTLY.

Tom, get out of the room again entirely

Ruby, thank him and slowly back away out of the room, agree to bring scissors.

Tom: Forget about the switch. GRAB RUBY AND RUN.

>>3494774
"DO ME A FAVOR WHILE YOU'RE THERE.
CAN YOU BRING ME BACK SOME SCISSORS?
THANK YOU."

TOM, Keep a look out on your side of the door as well. Keep caneshovel locked and loaded.

Can we have a translation of 6's speech, please?

>>3494776
Wild, baseless speculation.

>>3494774
Ruby: take the key and run out of that fucking room.
Tom: Once ruby is out of the room, barricade that goddamn door.

>>3494776

Cracking your fingers also hurts but feels good. I don't think anyone ever corrupted into oblivion from doing that.

Tom finds the light switch.

>>3494785
It's a considerable risk. You don't start to use evil suspicious things before you've made sure there's no risk, do you?

>>3494788
I did get arthritis from doing it though.

Just calmy take the key and walk out. Whatever is there it wouldn't be escaped by simply running.

Just chill a bit.

>>3494790

Oh hey there, Shoggoth.

>>3494783

SEE

>>3494781

I'M NOT DOING THIS FOR MY OWN SHITS AND GIGGLES, YOU KNOW.

>>3494790
See? I was right. Just silly lamps.

Thank Nook for his time, go get the scissors, do nothing hasty like bar the doors and run screaming in terror as that will get us nowhere. Calmly go to Filbert's office and use the key on the door.

I believe now would be a wonderful time to leave and relock the place up.

>>3494790

Oh, shit! The growth can see us!

>>3494790
O_O Ruby, run out of that room right the fuck now.
Tom, if she won't or can't get out on her own go in and grab her and get the fuck out of there.

inject tranquilizer into eye growth

Stab one of the eyes and see what happens

I hope he doesnt want those scissors to cut the thing loose.....wait how would he use scissors..

I think that we should explore the room. Whatever is here is presumably inert, so I think that we can manoeuvre around it without threat.

Is it the same material as the fleshy membrane that we saw in the corner of the start room, possibly?

>>3494790
Ruby: Remember your bad ass and walk out the room as if nothing had happened

>>3494810
You are silly and this plan is silly.

If theres going to be a way to fight the Infection, it's gonna be damn well labeled.

>>3494790
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

>>3494811

Just give him the scissors. It could cut whatever with it's arms anyway and that thing behind that stuff needs accessing.

As Subject 6 begins to rise off the ground, Ruby beats a hasty retreat.

>>3494825

and then 6 was a zombie

DON'T FORGET THE DOOR.

lock fucking door.

>>3494825
MOTHER OF GOD.

THAT WHOLE FUCKING THING IS SUBJECT 6.

>>3494825
Close door, lock door, and barricade door. If you find scissors do not return, do not return for any reason.

>>3494823
YEAH HOW ABOUT NO SCISSORS

>>3494825
close and LOCK the doors behind you
Then check Filbert's room

Wait - maybe that's why 6 wants the scissors - he wants to cut himself free from the... protuberances that he's attached to.

>>3494839
NO SHIT SHERLOCK

>>3494842

If we get scissors we can free him. We must all work together to leave this place. He was kind to us, we should be kind to him. Fuck his extra eyes.

>>3494845
But if he cut himself loose he wouldn't be able to see again

>>3494847

>>3494850
don't think he would bind, now lets GTFO and get up to Filberts room

>>3494847

The whole "I have multiple personalities and they are all you thing" is not exactly healthy or something you want scuttling after you

Ruby exits the room, closes it, bars it, and locks it.

Tom tries to comfort Ruby.

>>3494845
That assumes that said protuberances can be cut by said scissors.

>>3494857
SCREW the stupid recording where she killed you. HUG HER. You're a gentleman and she's clearly distressed!

>>3494857

HUGS

>>3494847
Absolutely. As long as he's not a clear threat but only vaguely terrifying, we should help him where we can.

Hug Tom, read note, get up to Filbert's room. Blah, blah, blah.

>>3494857
Tom: Hug ruby.
Ruby: Try and stay calm
Both: Never, ever, open that door again.

>>3494857
Tom: Hug Ruby
Ruby: calm down, remember your badass

>>3494862
>>3494863
Tom tries to hug Ruby, but she bolts in the opposite direction of the lab. She clearly wants to put some distance between herself and Subject 6.

>>3494859
Someone call for me?

>>3494875
Follow her. Calm her down any way you can. When she stops, hug her.

Follow her.

Retrieve scissors, obtain tools, give tom keycard.
Deliver scissors
???
Profit

>>3494875
poor Tom it's never your day D:

WHAT IS THIS HUGFAGGOTRY.

>>3494885
WHEN YOU'RE PRESENTED WITH TERRIBLE HORRORS FROM OUTSIDE YOUR WORLD YOU'LL WANT TO HUG TOO

Weaver isn't railroading this game. The collective, knee-jerk fanbase is. 6 helped us. 6 asked for a tool so he could help himself. Because he LOOKED intimidating, you have now run away screaming, locking him once more in his solitary prison.

Oh look. He has too many eyes. That must mean he is EVIL. We all have extra body parts, get over it.

>>3494879
>>3494884

Tom chases after Ruby, where he finds her unlocking the door to Filbert's office.

>>3494888
It's excessive. Also creepy.

>>3494889
He also has multiple personality disorder and was locked in lab 6 for a reason.

>>3494889

Extra body parts: bad

Several times your original mass in extra parts: worse

>>3494889
You didn't notice his honest, friendly smile, and the way he floated us, and how everyone told him he was dangerous and shut him into a special lab where only an über-powerful giant can go, did you?

>>3494898

Racism.

Tom: "What's in there?"

Hopefully having Ruby explain it will make her analyse it, and clam down.

Yeah, let's just get 6 his scissors. :(

>>3494889
That's right! I have 7 dicks.

We could use the scissors as a bargaining chip to get info out of Subject 6. What do you think?

Ruby opens the door and peers into Filbert's office.

So liek guyz are we going back after all this or not?
I mean he wanted "Lucy" to go to him when he coulda just levitated the fuck over to her?

Let's steer clear of 6

Ohh he's a Princess Leia fanboy!

Check the lockers. Tear the poster down to see what's behind it.

READ NOTE.

Take screwdriver. Inspect desk for drawers.

Do not use eye.

Attempt to remove painting.

get the screwdriver!!! look for scissors after.

Move behind the desk - it can provide some cover if there's anything hostile in the darkness.

Take the screwdriver, check the desk, try to open the cabinet, read the sign.

If the third eye is feeling better, try it here. Otherwise leave it closed.

>>3494842

No, still give him the scissors. As far as Lovecraftian horrors go this one isn't too threatening.

>>3494921

He was not levitating, he was tentacle-attached to the monstrosity.

>>3494916
Grab screwdriver from desk, read the framed picture, search desk.

Examine the office, check the desk and desk drawers for any useful items.

>>3494924
Ruby picks up the FLATHEAD SCREWDRIVER.

On the wall, Filbert has mounted a framed copy of the Hippocratic Oath.

>>3494953
WELL YA FAILED THAT ONE DIDN'T YOU.

rummage through the drawers in the desk and filing cabinet.

Check the room with the third eye.

>>3494953
Check the drawers and the poster too.

Also examine the screwdriver closer: It may be SONIC.

>>3494944
Right. At this point, we don't even know which one is in control of the other. Still, I say give 6 the scisors if you find them.

Yeah, if we find the scissors, go back and have Tom give them to 6 if we need to. He never actually made threatening movements against us, he was just really creepy.

HUG TOM

>>3494958
>rummage through the drawers in the desk and filing cabinet.
Ruby finds a few small scraps of paper in the drawer and decides to read them.

[cutscene]

>>3494953
READ THE NOTE. Poster. Oath.

READ CUTSCENE

>>3494982
Read the note. Hug Tom.

>>3494991
Read Tom, hug note.

[cutscene]

>>3494998
>>3494991
Note tom, Read hug.

Hay guiz, cutscene mean don't post suggestions, hurr.

Give the note to 6, hug self.

Check the back of the note

>>3495012
Oh no. There is always time for HUGS in Metal Glen.

>>3495003
Tote nom, Head rug.

[cutscene.]

>>3495023
BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT, Red knew!
He ate the secret cereal!

>>3495023
Ohh, so we WILL see Red later! Yes, we will! (Hopefully he won't have gone mad or anything.)

Well now we know they're both dicks.

>>3495032
No, he ate his own food, remeber? In his little hideout, he had cereal?

>>3495037
>>3495031

Why'd they give such irrelevant information at this point? It's a foreshadowing, I'm sure.

>>3495023
Um, are those SIX FUCKING FINGERS?

>>3495023

>>3495042
Perhaps for storytelling. Maybe it'll be related to something else as well.

This is the last scrap of paper in the desk.

There don't appear to be any other tools here either.

>>3495045
I think it's more of a ring binder notepad. Hand is the bottom right, the things at the top are rings.

>>3495057
Is Maddie the Hound?
*Google*
SHE IS!

>>3495057
Filbert is an evil dick.

Cabinet next.

God damn filbert god damn, keep the notes and the Hippocratic oath poster

Okay, we read the note, NOW hug tom.

search cabinet drawers

Break open oath's frame and see if anything other than the oath is inside.

Inspect the file cabinet

Read Oath

Turn cabinet around with manly prowess, unscrew the backing.

>>3495071
>search cabinet drawers
There are many bits of severed flesh in this drawer. It appears they have all been cut from something very cleanly, with great precision.

>>3495023
Oh Filbert you fucker

>>3495094
HE'S CUT THE BAD OUT OF HOUND

Or someone anyway. Ick.

Check under them.

OH MY GOD IS THAT A SEVERED SHARK DICK

Filed under G for gibs. Filbert you wacky man

Oh that's pleasant. Do they look like Filbert's tentacle arm to Ruby?

>>3495099
more like cut the bad out his own hand, pity the thing keeps growing back.

Check the painting for clues

>>3495099

He probably cut the bad of himself. Sitting there in the dark, cutting the tentacles of his arm, while saying "I'm clean, I'm clean" over and over...

We haven't been to the tube room for a long time, have we? I propose we check there at some point.

>>3495101
NOOOOOOO

Still need to check under the desk.. right?

And behind everything. Even the oath on the wall.

Since you have a moment, take some deep breaths. Make sure you've calmed down and are thinking straight.

You won't deny everything. You're not Filbert. You're not Red.

Speaking of which. . .

Mention to Tom that he doesn't seem scared of you any more.

Tell him you think he still should be. You know you are.

You don't know why you did those things. So that Ruby could still be a part of you.

. . .You could still be a part of her.

He should stay careful of you.

>>3495077
Tom totally wrecks the shit out of Filbert's stuff.

The bad news is it doesn't reveal any clues Tom can find.
The good news is he felt pretty good doing it.

>>3495130

... Shut the FUCK up. Now.

I really think Ruby and Tom should talk about everything that comes to their mind, now that they have time. They need to resolve everything.

pick up scraps of w/e. may come in handy....

...The desk. Are there any carvings or writings on the desk, or anywhere else but that back wall?

I'm out of ideas, let's go outside the room.

>>3495139
Scratch "No you're not" into the wall with the scalpel.

...Am I the only one who feels concerned not only for Ruby, but for Tom as well? He seems to enjoy wrecking things a bit too much.

He might be corrupted. Or it might be unresolved sexual tension. Beats me.

>>3495140
Meant as a suggestion, not an extremely precise action. Call it venting.

Give 6 the screwdriver. Maybe in the same way that Ruby is Lucy, a screwdriver is scissors.

>>3495144
The scraps of paper and tiny splinters of wood are hardly worth carrying.

The room appears pretty thoroughly searched.

Tom and Ruby consider their next move.

[I'm thinking about wrapping up the thread but I know people have been complaining the threads lately haven't been long or exciting enough. How do you all feel about the length (and quality?) of this session?]

>>3495157

I love to smash things up. It's fun and relieves stress. I don't thing anything wrong with that.

>>3495141
This. Talk.

>>3495140
someone's got anger issues

>>3495164
Call it a night and let us mull things over.

If you want to end it now Weaver, feel free. I enjoyed my first session. :)

>>3495164
>[I'm thinking about wrapping up the thread but I know people have been complaining the threads lately haven't been long or exciting enough. How do you all feel about the length (and quality?) of this session?]

Is good. Hi-quality, very exciting.

The more you can do without breaks, the better.

The next move? I'm stumped. I just think Ruby and Tom need to talk about stuff, try to reinforce their trust.

>>3495164

Best session yet. Give yourself a break if you're that tired. You deserve it.

Call it a night. Need time to think about what has to be done next. I think one encounter with Shoggoth Man is enough for one session; you did a great job with this one.

>>3495164
You can't stop now. This is bat country!

>>3495164

Probably better to end it just as we gain access to something new.

It makes for a slow and uninteresting start if we have to sit down and figure things out, whereas right now we remember things.

>>3495164
Five hours is plenty long. It would be disappointing to be left without a cliffhanger of some kind, though.

Leave filbert a note.

>>3495130
>>3495141
Fourthing the talk. It'd be a good note to end on.

>>3495164
2 threads? :(

I think it's a cliffhanger enough if Ruby and Tom trust into each other compeletely when this is over. Consider that.

Tom x Ruby, no clothes, no inhibitions, Ace's bed = Final Destination.

If you're going to do -short- threads like this, you probably shouldn't wait so long in between threads.

It took nearly a week to get to this session from the last one, and, honestly, if you end it here this will be the shortest session of Ruby we've ever done.

[okay then, we'll continue to the next good stopping point]

Where to now?

Just keep going until you can end on a natural cliffhanger. Where we are at, it seems like a bad place to just stop the thread.

This was the first active thread I've been in, and I'm pretty tired from waiting for it to update and stuff. Promise to get the next one started soon and I'll let you go ^^

Thanks for clearing one thing up. I thought as Red wasn't taking the medication, it was something else making everyone mutated and bonkers. It turns out he was taking batshitcrazymol all along and didn't know it.

Go back to 6 and tell him you couldn't find any scissors.

I'd agree that after what they saw, and dealing with Stiches, it may be a good idea to sit down and just try to keep each other on base. Yes, Ruby murdered Tom once before, but now it's plainly fuckin' obvious there's something weird about this entire Helldream, and they may as well work on trusting one another as they met, not as what they were before.

>>3495199
Try Filbert's key on security station. I'm sure he had an access there.

Unscrew the painting in MEDLAB.

could we try popping open some of the people-cabinets with the screwdriver?

Well, we've been pretty much everywhere... We haven't been trying to get into any places, but we have some keys and new information for later. I guess head back and check up on Stitches.

Try going back to the Z-hatch room?

go downstairs (ladder) and search the closet with the safe in it for a secret passage. Ace couldn't have gotten in through the two tiny entrance ways. He had to rip one while chasing us.

Let's go check on Stitchy-poo

>>3495214

Because a screwdriver generates more leverage than a crowbar?

>>3495209
Gasp...

I like that.

I'd rather have a prematurely ended session than a burnt out host who stops having sessions altogether.

>>3495224
BE A VANDAL

UNSCREW EVERYTHING

>>3495196
>if you end it here this will be the shortest session of Ruby we've ever done.
Not even close.

>>3495208
>Try Filbert's key on security station. I'm sure he had an access there.
One is an actual key, one is a magnetic card reader.

Maybe a little peek into the MOUTH HALLWAY?

>>3495232
BE A GOTH

SACK ROME!

MEDLAB eye chart

Either unscrew medlab poster

or

Unscrew vent

or

Check on Stitches.

>>3495235
Go look for the evil fetus.

>>3495235
>One is an actual key, one is a magnetic card reader.

Oh. Well, then I don't know. Talk about things, I say, as it's been said a while already.

Speculate. Make theories. Try to figure out a way to continue. Move on to the trust between you two. Try to imagine what would've made Ruby kill Tom. Finally, Tom should ask about the awkward situation in the dummy room, and what Ruby thinks of him.

>>3495248

Also KISS WOULD BE A COOL CLIFFHANGER

(I used to hate all-caps, but this is actually pretty fun.)

>>3495199

Unscrew the vent in the room with the monitor and the pipe ending.

>>3495235

Maybe.. Go back to the Lockers Room and try to open the closed Lockers with the SCREWDRIVER?

>>3495258

Because a screwdriver pries better than a crowbar.

Check to see if it's possible that the bg door mouth of doom is part of #6

>>3495235
Would totally unscrew the security card reader and rewire the rj cable and jack bypassing the entire device. Screw driver would be enough to do it.

>>3495243
>>3495245
>MEDLAB eye chart
Ruby heads downstairs with Tom.
Ruby begins to unscrew the eye chart.

>>3495235
Check the rooms behind the Z-hatch. Also, check the hatch itstelf. It appeared quite not ripped by Ace last time we saw it, while it shouldn't be.

Also, this >>3495209

Careful about unscrewing the vent. Real careful. Maybe Ruby didn't see it, but looking at the upper right hand of the Hell Room, there was what might have been a vent that was overgrown with the flesh.

It might be living in the air ducts.

...boy, this facility is just FULL of secret cubbyholes.

Inside the hiding place, there is a SHARD OF GREEN WOOD.

>>3495285

No. Stuttering faggot.

Allow me to say, Weaves, that this has been the first session of Ruby I've had the chance to actively participate in and it's been cracking fun. Thanks for leading us through the hard edges of Metal Glen. 8)

>>3495286
To the locker room!

>>3495290
*Batman theme*

Try on locker, what was it, 4? Where there's that shard thingy?

>>3495286

Examine the SHARD OF GREEN WOOD.

>>3495286
Go to the locker room, unscrew the vent. Remember to keep the oxygen tank to ensure you won't receive SURPRISE GAS DEATH

>>3495290
Ruby thinks back to the recess on Locker #3.
...There's no way she has the complete key yet!

>>3495303
time to start tearing the place apart

>>3495303
Go find other places to screw.

Talk on the way. You can't just remain silent and stoic while you're doing things. At least do some small-talk: Have them tell each other about their childhoods and things (assuming they remember).

Let's go outside, to find more things to unscrew.

>>3495303

TO THE VENTBOX!

nananananananana Rooobeeee!

>>3495299
What gas?

>>3495313
While screwing?

>>3495327

While walking.

>>3495299
>unscrew the vent.
Ruby and Tom exit and walk to the adjacent room.
Ruby begins unscrewing the vent.

Knowing the shape of the key, would it be possible to take a portion of the smashed desk and cut it down to fit?

>>3495331
DON'T DO THAT! Wasn't there poison in there?

POISON!

>>3495331
Wasn't that pipe thing open last time we left this room?
Make Tom investigate.

>>3495333
>DON'T DO THAT! Wasn't there poison in there?
UH OH

>>3495339

Incidentally, we've only followed the pipe in one direction - if we go back to the break room where we smashed open the pipe, maybe we can explore what's at the other end.

>>3495345
OHSHI TOO LATE

Wait till something happens. If it's poison: Use the oxygen tank. If it's the Hound: RUN

Get into pipe. A waterpipe ought to be fully sealed.

>>3495345
OXYGEN TANK
LEAVE THE FUCKING ROOM

GAS MASK NOW

Panic

>>3495345
ffs I come back after 10 mins to this?

Share O2 tank, or cliff hangger if Weaver wants to go to bed etc

STOP BREATHING!

GET OUT!

A now-familiar face shows up on the monitor.

QUICK, ACTION MOVIE AIR TANK AIR SHARING KISS THING!

Wave at it and ask to not be killed by poisonous gasses.

Also ask where we can find Scissors for 6.

>>3495376
He looks mad.

Talk nonetheless. Try to make him reveal crucial information.

... ASK FOR HELP, HE HAS DOOR CONTROLS

>>3495376
Wave and smile faces :D ;D

...and a moment later, the alarm suddenly clears.

>>3495376
SUP, SHRUNK

get in vent crawlspace.

..give thumbs up to blank screen, he's probably still watching.

>>3495388
investergate vent

Tom: "Ah, I get it. You're going to say 'You're trapped!' or some trite little villain's commonplace, aren't you? No such luck. YOU'RE the one that's trapped. Trapped in your obsession, bound to your two little playthings, feeding and washing and slavishly cleaning up after what are 'supposed' to be pets. You don't run this game. There's no referee. It's the game of life, and in your conceited, pathetic, smallminded way, YOU. JUST. LOST."

INCOMING ACE TO CHECK THE ROOM

>>3495388
whelp, now that we're done not dying, check out the grate we just unscrewed if we can do so safely, otherwise lets go unscrew other random objects because there's no possible way that could be bad for us!

>>3495402

...or so he would have said if I hadn't missed the moment 8(

Tom, get your John McCain grove on and get in that vent.

There's something inside the vent... Ruby grabs it.

>>3495413
Oh that Ruby, so inpulsive

Use the scalpel to engrave a moustache and novelty glasses into the monitor screen so next time the blankface shows up he looks silly.

>>3495422
This times ten thousand.

>>3495402
Tom says this anyway, to the blank monitor.

Ruby retrieves the SECURITY ACCESS CARD from the vent!

LET US GO BACK TO SECURITY WITH OUR AXIS CARD

Check on Stitches, then go to cardreader

>>3495429
sweet, upstairs and use it on the lock

TO SECURITY ROOM! PLOT ADVANCE!

>>3495429
...I think I know what we'll be doing.

I also know that if there'll be guns, THEN these two really have to talk and see if they trust each other enough to have guns, that could shoot the other from behind at any time.

Remember that the security room is ACE's domain. Equip the PRICKLY FIST and the CANESHOVEL before opening that door.

FILBERT arrives.

Filbert announces, in a rough and gravelly voice, that he is going to cut the bad out of both of you.
Until you are as clean as he is.

>>3495474
OH LAWD

RUN

>>3495471

Pay attention. The gloved were used to insulate the bare wire.

>>3495474
Try to lead him to the fans. Then either somehow drop him down there, or open the door to #6 and have the two über-mutants slug it out while you flee.

SECURITY ROOM NOW NOW NOW NOW

LOCK HIM OUT

oh god filbert on one side nook on another side stitches on another side ace on ANOTHER side

SECURITY ROOM

Is that a saw? Holy fuck thats a saw. I THINK HE CAN TAKE US

>>3495474

Ruby: "...but wouldn't you just love a nice, warm cup of fresh coacoa?"

That's it for tonight folks.

Thanks, as always, for sticking with me.

Not much further now. I can feel we're getting pretty close to our ultimate destination.

Good luck for next time!

>>3495474
Headbutt Filbert. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

He looks suspiciously similar to this fanart. Has Weaver been taking notes?

LOOKS LIKE THIS RAILROAD WENT STRAIGHT OFF A CLIFF.

>>3495492
LIKE HELL WE ARE!

>>3495498
The same thing happened with Ace fan art and the weapon he got.

Lead Flibert to #6

>>3495492
Nice one. Thanks and see ya later.

aw crap, too slow.

>>3495492

Thanks, Weaver. Can't wait for next session.

FUCK YES FILBERT YOU ARE THE MOST REASONABLE ABOMINATION EVER!

>>3495492
...NEXT SESSION CONFIRMED FOR FINALE?

>>3495503

Yes, I think it's a nice little nod to the fans, a show of appreciation.

>>3495515
#Doubt it. There's too much to wrap up.