I finished cleaning and packing up my dorm room sooner than I thought, so this update is abit earlier than I said on my profile page.
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Memo from Lead Experimentor:
You generators only sent 18 words. I cut up one of the losing messages and used that to get to the 20 words. You have yet to fully solve your second goal, this update will likely be your last chance to do so.
Following this are the submitted words and who submitted how many. As well as the message sent and who sent it.
Submitted words: Divo, Solenophage, Paradise, Neverland, Soul, Essence, Divine, Reconstruct, Consciousness, Reality, Dream, Hamburger, Beyond, Chupacabra, Viral, Temple, Lure, Deceiver, Eat, Never.
Words submitted by:
@Anemic_Vampire 4,
@JayMark 2,
@Azhurie_Mythephan 4,
@Arkus86 4,
@Racosharko 6.
Message sent: Complete the ritual.
Message sent by:
@Racosharko with 2 votes.
Now then, let the experiment resume.
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As I spoke those words, new words appeared on the page I was looking at.
“By the look on your face, it responded to you, did it not?” John said.
“It says, ‘Complete the ritual.’ The text showed up almost immediately. Is it listening to us?” I asked.
“I cannot say, sometimes that book can tell you something important and sometimes it says random nonsense.”
“What do you think that this message means?”
“Well I have my guesses, but I don’t think it is talking to you. You have just awakened, and have gained initial control of your gift. Now that leaves the final ritual.” John said in his usual roundabout manner, I bet he wants me to ask him something like ‘What ritual?’ I just stared at him.
“Well…” John began speaking and scratching the back of his head after 10 seconds of silence. “The way you are currently, your ‘exoskeleton’ hasn’t hardened yet so your reality is quite fragile at the moment.” A mosquito was buzzing around my face. I tried to shoo it away but it was persistent. I heard a goat bleat, and smelt hamburgers cooking and calling to me. If I just walked out of this circle, I would be in a paradise on Earth. I felt like I was forgetting something.
“Marren, focus. Look into my eyes.” John’s words broke my thoughts up, I glanced towards his face. The smell disappeared, and so did the mosquito. “The ‘shell’ that protects your mind from external realities has been consumed in your awakening. I need you to follow me.” John said. I nodded my head and stood up. My legs shakingly followed him through the dense field of corn. We reached the edge of the field away from the highway, and saw two buildings one was a pristine small looking temple or shrine and the other a rundown two story house.
The grass under my shoes was tough and dead, I felt something beyond the house calling for me. It was a divine deer, who would reconstruct my body and soul into its form. The deer stared into my eyes through the building, it was calling out for me to follow it to a world with plenty of grass and no predators. A world with no aging or injury, I felt my consciousness fading into dream. A hand fell on my shoulder. I was vomiting and hyperventilating. I haven’t felt like this since the last time I caught the flu. John was saying something but I couldn’t hear him over that sound.
I heard it. A persistent steady tapping noise. It was tapping its beak on my apartment’s window. My face stung and I fell to the ground, luckily away from the bile. As I braced for impact, John caught my arm and pulled me up to my feet.
“Marren you have to focus, don’t you realize what is happening yet! Those things want to §§§§§ §§§ §§ §§§§§ reality! You have §§§ §§§§§§§ to stop it by §§§§§§§§ §§ §§§§ §§ §§§ §§§§§§ realm!”
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That is the end of this update. It seems like your time to solve the 2nd goal is coming to an end. I will say that you are close however. You have solved what your submitted words do in an update by update level, but not what your words do as a whole.
Nevertheless, you have until the usual time on Monday to submit your 20 words and 36 character long message. My apprentice wants the weekend off, so you have some time to solve and plan things.
