Snippet #1565038

Who can resist free stuff? Even moreso if it's treasure!

After watching her BFF and dearest aardvark enter the suspicious spooky spiral spire (yay alliteration!) Lorelei was naturally inclined to follow. Stopping just short of the entrance however a strange feeling came over her while looking at the sign once more, a strange feeling of familiarity that she couldn't shake.

It was as if she had been here before. Almost as if she had intimate knowledge of the spire. She felt as though that during the period at the end of day 4 right before the beginning of day 5 when she had wandered off from the Castle Oress Lounge right before Nago came, she had come here and built this spire. And that the sign written over there was in her exact handwriting and even her preferred font color. Lorelei also felt as though she had laden the spire with booby traps to capture unsuspecting potential friends which she could come back and greet later, and the whole tower was built through a variety of strange materials collected through the power of Crona. And that she had forgotten about all of this due to the events of Day 5 and her traumatic failed sandwich party.

But then Lorelei realized that these ideas were stupid and headed in through the entrance of the spire. Right below the door with a Nette-shaped archway.

...

Lorelei emerged at the top of an unnecessarily long stairwell to find Nette and Ardin at the foot of a room. The circular room's walls were completely lined with bookshelves which stretched as high as the ceiling save for a door with a large lock on it which seemed certainly in placed and locked. In the center of the room was a pedestal with three cone lamps equally distanced from one another. The cone lamps pointing inwards, on the pedestal was an open popup book propped against one of the lamps so that its shadow cast the contents of the book onto the middle of the pedestal. It was a picture of a man surrounded by machines.

...Some treasure. Books are for neeeeeerds.

The door closed behind Lorelei.

Not that it would prevent them from leaving as Nette and Ardin and just go back over There at any point and Lorelei could just time-travel her way out. But hey, it's ominous.



Mr. X scanned the thing from a distance, whatever the hell it was it decided to stop growing.

"I-I don't know! M-Maybe we should g-go check it out...?!"

So the kids didn't know anything about it either. Though Meliss didn't seem too concerned.

At any rate, it was worth checking out.

AND SO THEY DID



Moving through the amusement park, the party eventually made their way to the spire although arriving at a different entrance.

Fun for the whole family! Treasure, weapons, secrets! Come on in!

Suffice to say, nothing could make the spire seem more like a trap than a welcoming sign.

Who had put this here? Opine of course would be his first guess, but for someone capable of moving persons across reality and creating her own, this seemed awfully roundabout. Another tested perhaps? There were easier ways to go about killing than constructing a giant tower.

No matter how much he thought and thought, coming to the tower did nothing to help identify its purpose nor its creator.

Though, whoever did create the spire was powerful, no doubt, it install it single-handedly. So should he wait here to find out who it was? Would they even pass by here? Even if they did meet would that change anything? What if the creator was hostile? Too many questions, and only a giant spooky spire for answers.

...It seemed lunging head-first into the trap seemed like the best option to get any answers, if he wanted any. But he couldn't bring Meil or Meliss into somewhere so dangerous. Should he just walk away without even knowing the face of its creator...?

Then suddenly without warning the sign adorning the entrance way gave out, revealing another beneath it.

Initially shocked Mr. X snapped out of his endless self-questioning and peered over to the newly exposed sign.

Are you just going to stand there forever? Don't be shy!

How did it know...?

Just then the ground under the party opened up into a trap door and they fell to their deaths onto a really super-fun tube slide! Too bad stone isn't the smoothest material so they only slid like 5 feet after falling quite a ways.

"Are you guys okay?" Mr. X got up, brushing the dust off himself.

The trap door closing behind them with a heavy thud, they sunk into pitch darkness. Oh and there were eerie sounds coming from the other end of the "slide".

Fun for the whole family my ass. Poor Meil. :(