[U4G] Eightfold

You test the capabilities of the island's rocks.

They fall in a way that their kind typically does, which you don't know if you expected or didn't at this point.



You plant the remaining pristine flowers, which seem to grip into the hard earth unnaturally well.

Otherwise, nothing notable occurs.











You follow a path up the mesa and approach the Light House's front entrance.

It appears to be unlocked.



You enter the lighthouse, the lower level of which seems to lack the lighting seen on the higher floors.

Two spiderlike beings sit in the room. They seem unaware of your entrance.

On the left wall is a long counter with many cabinets and some sort of apparatus sitting on top.

> Present the Core to the Arachnid Apparatus.
> Prepare an excuse, they might think you murdered it.

Shout Hello. See if it echoes, this is a large space. Are the red symbols on the wall logos, or lights? Try to illuminate this room, so you don't miss things while searching.

You mutter some excuse about an accident outside to set aside the obviously incorrect assumptions of murder the two beings might hold about you while you throw the triangle core at the beings.

It lightly skips across the stone floor before bumping into one of them, and landing in front of the closest one.





The assailed being awakens and knowingly stares you down.

It seems either angered or saddened by the condition of its comrade.



It hops over and encapsulates the triangle core, continuing to watch you attentively, though not clearly poised to attack at the moment.







With the active being still watching, you move over to examine the apparatus.

A tower with a large clear container sits in the middle, with a glass box with two hatched doors on the side on top. In the middle of this box is a metal platform.

On the left of this tower is a ornately detailed dish with wires connecting to something underneath.

On the right is a very large box obscuring an emblem, and a small box with a button on it that connects to both the tower and the larger rightmost box.

All of these sit on cabinets of various sizes.

> Open cabinets. Non-threateningly. As a main character, it is your privilege... nay, your duty, to loot every building you enter, see, discover, own, are adjacent to, come across, or otherwise become aware of without any regard to other occupants.

> Put a teal sphere and a green pyramid in the glass box, close the hatches, then press the button.

> Gently roll over a teal sphere to the robo to see what happens.

You push the button.

A wave of ethereally charged air flows through the machinery, emerging from filaments on the dish and then moving though the chambers of the main tower.

Though it doesn't seem to do anything.





You put the green pyramid and one of the teal spheres into the glass box, and latch the doors.





You once again push the button, and watch as the charge preforms its previous race around the machinery.

When it reaches the two objects though, they dissolve into wispy masses that reform as a new composite object.









You pilfer the first set of cabinets for the sparse loot they contain. It's not like the present inhabitants of this place are paying any mind to your shenanigans.

In your troubles, you collect 4 Teal Spheres, 2 Blue Rods, 2 Red Cubes, 1 Green Pyramid, as well as the composite object.







You would think about the immorality of your actions, but karma takes the opportunity to booby trap the next cabinet with a somewhat onerous denizen.

> It doesn't know what you did, so don't show aggression unless it attacks you.

Alternatively:

> Put the flower into the device, knock the denizen into there with it, and push the button.

>Try using the machine to combine a Teal Sphere, a Blue Rod, a Green Triangle, and a Red Cube.

>Prepare to defend yourself from the cabinet's denizen.

> Just shove the denizen, a flower, and whatever junk you have into the composite machine.

Yikes, I'm sorry! Good luck getting caught back up.