Go for the little girl.

MAIN OBJECTIVE: GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!
SIDE OBJECTIVE: GET TO KNOW THE LITTLE GIRL!​

⇒ CHECK INVENTORY.
⇒ Ask Ashwin how to get to Jaynabelle.
⇒ Ask Jaynabelle questions.

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Holy shit, time is really grinding down! You hope that the little girl — you should probably start calling her Jaynabelle or whatever, since you are likely to become companions — is right about you being close to her.

You have an idea of the questions you want to ask, but first, it's a good idea to check your inventory.

I N V E N T O R Y :​

✔ POCKET KNIFE
✔ IDENTIFICATION CARD
✔ SAVING DEVICE
✔ SMALL COMPACT DISK
✔ PSUDO-KNIFE TIMER​

Huh, you could have swore you had much more than that. What use is any of this stuff? You haven't even checked what's on the small CD, yet. Whenever you get the chance and your not going to die in less than half and hour.

Alright, first, you're going to Ashwin how to get to Jaynabelle. What he says next . . .

❝Why greetings! Well hmm . . . the lady Jaynabelle is currently incarcerated in what is called the RPA — also known as the Repentance and Punishment Area — for her transgressions against the entity you know as COR. However, in great misfortune for yourself, she is currently under the watch of this temporal, ever-changing structure we find to be the setting of this little adventure. Kukuku. The next two rooms shall contain other puzzles you must solve. Alas, even there, I am sorry to say but you shall be risking your precious life once again — so please, be careful for Jaynabelle's sake and your own, sir! However! If you may complete both in the time allotted, you will come across our lovely little madam in the next room. From there, she shall be your guide. Best of luck to you. You are resourceful, and I trust you have a wonderfully sound judgment to traverse this horrendous eldritch contraptamagon of a building effectively and elegantly.❞

. . . Make sure you press the B Button. This owlish man won't get you with that winded ( but helpful ) explanation a second time. You're not looking forward to having to risk your life again for this loli you don't even know, but she's your only chance of getting out of this place alive. You wonder how she got here in the first place.

Bidding you a long farewell, the hologram of the of Ashwin declares that he's late for anime school, so he must dash. You watch him grab a messenger bag and a piece of toast out of nowhere, and after he sticks the toast in his mouth, he places his hand on his head and dashes away.

. . . You've met two too many weirdos today. Not to mention, that explanation killed two minutes! Now you're only left with 19:00. SIGH.

While walking towards the door that leaves the blue and white room, you ask Jaynabelle two questions that the time allows. How the hell did she know that the switches would kill you, and why the fuck are you here.

She seems disappointed that you didn't ask her about herself, but bucks up at her outloud thoughts that you guys can talk more on the way out of here . . . If you don't die, that is.

❝I just . . . knew, I guess. It was a hunch, y'know? I think someone on the outside is helping me by talking to me!❞ Great, hunches are helping you how? You wished this outsider was a little more informative. ❝I think they put you in here on purpose. You were supposed to be an experiment, y'know? They did some testing on you before you woke up — you might even have powers!❞

Yeah. That's just the thing to cheer you up. What do they want with you? You remember that slideshow . . . Ives, you think to yourself. SIGH.

You go through the next door. The room is in the shape of a trapazoid. This organic building really likes geometric shapes, doesn't it? There is one word in large bold letters on each wall.​

EARTH • WATER • AIR • FIRE​

The four elements, you think to yourself. This must be the next puzzle. Jaynabelle says that she has been told a big hint for this one. Being nice to get what you need, you ask her to give you the hint.

❝There's a person that's an avatar of these four elements, but they go in a cycle, and I think you have to figure out which order they go in.❞ An avatar . . . ? None of this makes sense to you, you think. How does that even remotely help you know what order they go in . . . ? Four buttons appear in front of you, each color-coded to match the large words on the wall. Looks like you press these for the order . . .

❝W h a txwill you do?❞​

♐ FIRE, WATER, AIR, EARTH
♐ EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER
♐ WATER, EARTH, FIRE, AIR
♐ AIR, FIRE, EARTH, WATER​

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♐ WATER, EARTH, FIRE, AIR

 

♐ WATER, EARTH, FIRE, AIR

 

EARTH FIRE WIND WATER HEART! GOOOO PLANET!

♐ WATER, EARTH, FIRE, AIR

 

Water, earth, fire, air.

 

MAIN OBJECTIVE: GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!
SIDE OBJECTIVE: GET TO KNOW THE LITTLE GIRL!​

⇒ WATER, EARTH, FIRE, AIR

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After a little while of contemplation and ignoring the advice of Jaynabelle, you finally decide on an order that you hope is right. What are you even supposed to know about some avatar, anyway?

You press the buttons in order of blue, brown, red, and then green. The room seems to convulse for a moment and your just about prepared to plead to whatever god is in charge of keeping you alive. The words seems to disappear from the walls in their respective ways, which you find kind of weird, but what part of this situation isn't fucked up?

The door slides open and your relief almost makes you collapse. Just one more room until you can get to the loli.

This room is in the shape of a sphere, and in the center of it is a elevated, circular platform that holds two large, wooden chests. Literally, they're wooden, human torsos.

❝One of them has a key inside it that opens the last door.❞ Jaynabelle mentions, trying to be helpful. You can't help but wonder what the other chest contains. Ashwin said that both rooms would have you risking your life, so it was better that . . . you didn't dwell on it too much.

Alright, so you have to pick one of them, but the question is, which do you pick? You circle around the both of them and find that they have shapes engraved into the wood; the one to your left has, in this order, a circle, a trapezoid, and a triangle, and then the second has, in this order, a triangle, a trapezoid, and a circle. Both of them have the words MOVING FORWARD carved underneath the shapes.

❝W h a txwill you do?❞​

♐ Open the circle > trapezoid > triangle chest.​

♐ Open the triangle > trapezoid > circle chest.​

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My therapist told me that's what got me in trouble...

 

♐ Open the triangle > trapezoid > circle chest.

 

Triangle > Trapezoid > Circle.

 

♐ Open the circle > trapezoid > triangle chest

 

♐ Open the triangle > trapezoid > circle chest.

 

I could have swore I posted the need for a TIE-BREAKER.

CAN WE GET A TIE-BREAKER?

Y'ALL DON'T BE IDIOTS NOW.

 

I drew some fan art.

Spoiler: Saxima's Ives I

Spoiler: Episode II Title Card

 

MAIN OBJECTIVE: GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!
SIDE OBJECTIVE: GET TO KNOW THE LITTLE GIRL!​

⇒ Open the triangle > trapezoid > circle chest.

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You don't have anything to go on here, not really. Fuck, that's annoying because your life is on the line. It'd be nice if someone could at least toss you a bone or something. You rack your brain for something — anything that might help you, staring long and hard at the shapes. Kind of seems weird for a trapezoid to be a part of the trio.

Wasn't that last room you were in a trapezoid? Geometric shapes . . . The first room was a triangle. This one was spherical. It dons on you, and then you decide to open the chest on your left; triangle, trapezoid, circle; Moving forward.

The word "FAILURE" comically crushes you when you see nothing in there, but then your eye spots a golden key. ❝That's the key!❞ Jaynabelle exclaims excitedly, and feeling a wave of relief you grab it.

The room starts to shake and the inside of the chest opens up to a blackness that quickly shoots out and drags you down into it. Your grip is still closed tight on the key but you're flailing like a rag doll. Goddammit, this life. you think to yourself.

. . . Well at least you'll die with clothes on.

Now you're free falling for what seems like a hella long time, and it gets so ridiculous that you relax and it doesn't even matter. You're just kind of laying down on the rushing air and contemplating man's existence. Well, your existence. Not that it really matters, since you're going to die.

There's a giggle and it startles you.

❝W h a txwill you do?❞​

♐ Scream like a little girl.
♐ Roll over.
♐ Have a heart attack.​

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♐ Roll over.

 

Scream like a little girl.

 

♐ Roll over.

 

[x] Scream like a little girl.

 

♐ Roll over.

 

MAIN OBJECTIVE: GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!​

SIDE OBJECTIVE: GET TO KNOW THE LITTLE GIRL!​

⇒ Roll over.​

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Your sudden reaction to the giggle is to roll over, and suddenly, your face flat on the floor. Ouch, what the hell. Another giggle sounds and you quickly scramble to your feet.​

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❝My hero!❞​

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. . . It's the loli; you'd recognize that obnoxiously cute voice anywhere.​

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How long was I flying down, you ask her. ❝I was watching you for at least five minutes!❞ And you didn't say anything, you bark at her, but she just giggles again.​

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You don't get it; the key was supposed to be to that door, but the chest leads to her room instead? Why didn't she tell you? Should have just left this brat here . . . If you could have. You pull out the timer. Shit; ten minutes. You turn to Jaynabelle.​

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❝SAVE?❞​

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♐ ​

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❝W h a txwill you do?❞​

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♐ "Can you get us out of here?"​

♐ Go through the only door in the room.​

♐ Observe room.​