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Vibrant, glowing cavesky flurring ahead. Humming, endless quartz minefields. This is your hunting ground, your weak hands are shaking with anticipation. Dead cogwheels paint the ground grey, you [[stare into the crystal lake]] for a while, just an ordinary routine before [[hunting machines]].\n\n[[Nothing to do here.|Start2]]

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Your home, but the name is misleading. It's an abstract cube floating in the center of your Fortress, about 1,3m^3 or so, this is the space you call home. Slightly red like just your tired eyes. \n\n[[Back|Start2]]

The corners of your laboratory is strangely bent, they are like triangles coming closer and closer to you, their paths are spheres. <<if $medicine is true>>There is your medicine on the [[shelf]].<<else>><<if $bottle is false>>If you had any bottles then you could make some medicine here.<<else>> Vibrant colors break down as they fall into your bottle, you could finally [[make some medicine]].<<endif>><<endif>>\n\nWith a glance you observe the crafting table in the fifth corner, where you [[assemble machines]].\n\n[[Back|Start2]]

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As the water sticks to your skin in gooey layers, you can't help it but start applying more and more until your original skin tone is completely gone. Both of your heads are reborn now.\n\n[[I feel so great!|Crystal Lake]]

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Deep and blue, sometimes you [[wash your faces]] in the cold, rubbery water. Like some kind of <<$d1[random(0,$d1.length-1)]>> energy field generator, constant humming sits into your ears, making your thoughts numb.\n\n[[I don't feel so well.|Crystal Lake]]

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Slippery walls of your own Fortress. It was too long ago, you don't quite remember what is it made of. Maybe the planeworms. Who knows? \n\nThey are very important to keep your heart safe.\n\n[[Back|Start2]]

<<if $intox is true>>\nSitting down at this table always feels so strange. With the <<print $var1>> circulating in your veins, and <<print $var3>> scent filling your nose through tunnels of your mouth, you take a knife to cut cables. You take a hammer to form metal. You take soldering iron and a laptop to program this jungle of microcontrollers... time to assemble machines.\n\n"Hey, you remember what was it like to cry?"\nAsks one of your heads.\n"It slows down time, doesn't it?" \n\n<<if $score>5>>\n<<replace "You ask, patiently.">>\nYou ask, patiently.\n"That's not how time works, and you know that well."\nThe head says so, finally.\n"What do you know about time?"\nYour voice is shaking.\n"That will be too many questions for tonight. You are done."\n\nAnd really, it is done. With a few clicks, you are able to open up the neck, touching the metallic surface.\n\nIt's cold.\nIt's you.\n\nSlowly attaching the head, replacing one of yours with it, you feel so tired and weak. Months of work, but it looks kind of a decent job. Electronics are buzzing inside, as the head boots up, and you ask your first [[question]].\n\n<<endreplace>>\n<<else>>\n<<replace "You ask, patiently.">>\nYou ask, patiently.\nBut there's no answer. \n\nAfter hours of work, you get way too tired for any progression, so it seems you have no luck tonight. It's still not done. Maybe after a [[nice nap|dream]], who knows.\n<<endreplace>>\n<<endif>>\n<<else>>\nYou organize the materials a bit, tidying up the whole room. It seems you are just way too tired to work on your project now. Although it's almost complete, you still miss some materials for a successful first boot. Maybe one day...\n\n[[Until then.|Laboratory]]\n<<endif>>

<<if $medicine is false>>Though desperately checking every drawer, room and graves around you, it surely seems you have no medicines at all. Only the empty space yawns back at you from all the holes and orifices of your melting Fortress.\n<<else>> \n<<stopsound $heartbeat>>\n<<fadeinsound $dream>>\nYou take your medicine, and read the <<print $var4>> label saying "<<print $var5>>". The first few sips already relieves the stress on your Fortress. Somehow, today's liquid tastes <<print $var3>> from the <<print $var1>> and <<print $var2>> in the bottle. Your heart shrunks to quantum size as all the pain flows through your heads. Bloodfog and bonehaze dims your vision as you remember how bitter everything is that heals your body and mind.\n\nSo atleast you know they work.\n<<set $medicine to false>>\n<<set $intox to true>>\n<<set $forthp to 100>>\n<<endif>>[[Let's just forget it.|Start2]]

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Golems, bastions, gynoids, they are too pure to suffer, therefore know absolutely nothing about you. Sometimes you asked some of them how can they be so pretty and <<$d1[random(0,$d1.length-1)]>>, though it was all the same, every time.\n\n"Just get rid of one of your heads."\nThey said.\n"No. I love both."\nYou answered.\n"Grow up, you can't love both."\nSighed their pneumatic, open throat.\n\nThen you started crying until they'd leave you alone at the [[lake|Crystal Lake]].

Thousands of years passed since the planeworms left this spacetime for you. Everything contained within these chambers are yours. The blue crystal lake, the observatory, the quartz caves, the empty bottles. Within reach, your own property. \n\nStones are not made of any earth material, that would have been too easy. You had to bring all the spacedust and low vibrations you found around your favorite constellation. Almost burned every single pair of wings you had, good thing the planeworms had spare ones. This building is indeed a monument, a real miracle. The pinnacle of your pathetic trying through all these years. Finally the walls guard you like friends. Ah yes, the [[walls]].\n\nWet [[walls]] like a <<$d1[random(0,$d1.length-1)]>> mouth gulping down your air, you sit in the [[Circle]] and look around. \n\nThe Fortress is <<$forthp>>% fine with you around.