Forced Reboot
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I had been squatting behind the bed for about an hour now, I peeked over, nothing... I looked to a newly opened corridor across the room, deployed the targeting/scanning visor and creeped out from behind thd bed, it was protected by a very heavy looking door, much like one on a submarine, it had appeared out of nowhere about 2 minutes after pinkie went nightmare mode and dissapeared, I just didn't dare move for the rest of the hour. It was true that I was somewhat scared of pinkie pie and her disturbing abilities...that was before I got put on the recieving end of a facet of her that I never knew she had, now i could say that I had expirienced true fear, fighting through every version of the underworld would probably be more preferable. I looked in the weird silver panel on the wall, it looked like a food dispenser, at least thats what I thought it looked like, not very useful at the present moment. I also noticed a heavy looking crate near the door, again something that wasn't here before, it was old looking and covered in what looked like blood,on the lid it had written in haphazardly carved letters, the word 'Begin' I carefully opened the lid, and inside was a folded up piece of leather, an old rusty pick axe, a handgun, and most unusually, a set of old glasses, blood red framed and oval in shape, the lenses were a weird shade of pink. I grabbed the leather scrap and unfolded it, it was a note, scrawled out in blood, it read, simply, 'don't die yet' in small print at the bottom, in the center of the roughly hiking trail map sized sheet there was a dot of blood in a square. I moved away from the door once I grabbed the gear and set it on the bed, I continued my little survey and found a pair of worn jeans, a belt and an old leather jacket under the bed, I put it all on and slipped the axe through my belt, picked up the crossbow and put on the glasses after deactivating the visor. "Alright bitch, Ill play youre little game...deal me in" I turned the locking wheel and shoved the door open, simply a hallway, empty of any signs of life, I walked forward into the hall and began what I hoped would not be my last venture.
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Celestia Pov
Nova had finally begun her official punishment and had already been pretty successful with navigation, I was contemplating releasing this as a reality Magivision show, A thought for another time, I had given pinkie explicit directions and patterns to follow through the many rooms and corridors, I had also taken the liberty of adding in some magically created creatures derived from pinkie clones to spice it up some more. This should teach her to behave.
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Nova Pov
The halls and rooms went on for ages, i had picked up a somewhat grotesque looking backpack to carry anything I find in the catacombs. I hadn't found much more thsn some cryptic notes and an ornate dagger, I hadn't seen Pinkie yet... Good, since this was probably a puzzle I decided to pace myself with exploration as to not get lost, the leather sheet had turned out to be a self updating map, showing the current location of me and the places i'd explored although it was extremely crude it worked. This seemed like a really overly complicated way to make me comply, I would have expected solitary confinement but this was too much, Celestia was gonna get a serious case of footupassitis when I got out if here. I tried to use my magic, what little I could figure out without much luck, i could only hold things or make light, shooting the walls had no effect, damn.
After some more exploration I went back to my room, which was probably pretty safe, this seemed to be relatively commonplace horror game logic, first stage was about deciet and anxiety either it would lul me into a false sense of security, or just scare me out of my skin, second stage would add in some danger in some way or other, third would be terrifying and risky, constant appearances, and extreme risk of death, at least that would make sense in most situations. I pulled out the notes and the dagger, when wearing the glasses, certain words of letters were highlighted in pink, and on others it would allow me to see an image fragment, the dagger looked importat so I put it on the bed for later, as soon as I set it down a grotesque and monstrous pinkie pie appeared in front of me, "AHH, FUUUUUCK!" I jumped back on instinct and grabbed the crossbow, I fired, the beast seemed to ignore it, the crossbow reloaded and the monster spoke. As it did my glasses blurred and showed pictures of runic magic symbols and a face.
"DOnT wOrrrY, Itll Be oVer sOoN" I saw the creatures mouth go wide and it pounced on me.
"FUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" I felt its slimy mouth all around my head...then I woke up, in the bed, apparently I would come back here after "died"....maybe, did it even hurt me? I closed the hatch and made sure to seal it better and then I decided that I'd had enough bullshit for today and went to bed.
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I woke to the sound of a soft "clunk" and looked around, the metal plate thing opened, and it confirmed my suspicions that it was a food dispenser, by extruding a block of something that smelled vaguely like vegetables. "Great, camping rations" I grabbed the block and took a bite, yep tasted like salad, as I ate the chute produced a water bottle, the water contained within was distilled and tasteless.
I decided that my best bet of survival, at least mentally, would be to either kill the fucker(s) or just avoid them all together. After eating a third of the brick sized food bar, I stashed it in my bag and and decided to go for another excursion, this time giving zero shits about the stupid supposed puzzle. I realized pretty quickly that this puzzle wasn't going to let me win, this was a prison, I was the prisoner, prisoners don't win against the prison, at least not usually...
Author's Note
Fuse is burning, better hit the deck
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