Scorched Earth

The Glen’s on fire.

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help…

the glen’s on fire.

//this ask blog has a storyline (and when i mean storyline, i mean i’m going to wing it till the end) and your decisions will matter. choose wisely, somebody’s already dead.

to clarify: alula in this au for the sake of simplicity, can read a little bit (like probably a level of a 5-6 year old) of text. alula in the ask blog can’t read at all

arc 1: #blue feathers (arc 1)

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//hi, yes, sorry for the hiatus, motivation has been really hard to find to run this blog

i’m trying to draw the next scene but i’ve been basically pounding my brain at this point so it could still be a while

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I know this sound weird, but stand on top of the clover and open the book to the page you saw, if you still have the book

i’m not sure what this is supposed to do-

!!

is

is that a path?

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this wasn’t here before

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ah... i'm sorry, but you have to go there, there's something important at the courtyard

oh…alright then, i trust you

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can you show us the book's content? if so, then we can read it out for you, all you have to do is to make the text-to-speech read it out instead of just using speech-to-text

there’s that door in the courtyard…

but it’s just a door to a square room, and it wasn’t flooded with water…

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That…this isnt the World Machine then. This would be the Entity. The Entity is like the World Machine, but….well, its..they’re kinda the same. There are differences, but it’s a lot easier to see them as the same thing at first. So, the Entity, or En, is gods link to this world, represented by a program on your gods machine. This ”program” allows them to communicate with Niko. If they end the program, the world goes into a stasis, since…you know…god isn't there to watch over it. Any questions?

*confused birb noises*

so the person who trapped me in the ruins was “entity”? or…

sorry, this is a lot to take in

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The World Machine…hm. Do you know someone named Cedric? If you do, I think I can explain better.

cedric? i don’t know anyone named cedric…

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Judging by what you said about a purple-ish niko, I think you met the world machine, and i don't think it's happy that the glen is on fire, and are the ruins made of stone, because i don't think fire can spread to stone

the ruins aren’t on fire

i hope

also…world machine?

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Alula-look, nothing is your fault. Do you know where you are? It…might be possible that the world went into a stasis, or that you were transported to the Tower..

you’re back! it’s um..been a few hours (?) since i heard from you

it was pitch black for a minute…but now i’m back in the ruins

…

there was this person who looked like niko, but more purple…? it was hard to breathe around them because of the gas

they locked me in the ruins for a while until i was able to escape and…

i think they are very, very mad right now

maybe i should’ve stayed put

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anon? where did you go?

the world just went dark…

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it took a lot of walking to get where there’s no smoke in the ruins

i’m taking a break, my head hurts and it’s a bit hard to breathe

…it’s my fault.

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➡️🚶, ☝️🫂.

(Keep moving forward, we need to get you safe.)

i can’t get past the gate

i’m going home to see if i can get something…

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something else just went off

it’s getting louder

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(silverpoint in factory)

🥈👆➡️🏭

If the library is blocked off… Kip Silverpoint-the head scientist-should be in that factory area on the other side of the refuge. You’ll have to go through the back alley and maybe solve a puzzle, but hopefully she turned the darned security off. She’s really nice, and I think you’ll be safe with her.

i’ll keep this in mind. thank you

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the door.

there’s some big rocks in the way and it’s on fire