Nine Cages

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> ;;Cage has been turning for 200 Xiu. ;;Assessing current trajectory. ;;... ;; Location: 30-3 SOL ;; Local Name: "Earth" ;; Ending Turn Cycle now. (text-style:"blink")[█] [[Awaken.]]

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> (text-color:white)[You awaken into a dreary chamber. The floor echoing your exhertions in its membranes. A screen flickers into view, showing a star map. A single dot flashes upon it like a radar. Then, a voice inside your head, Clear as if it were your own thoughts, but you know they aren't.] ;;Hello Seeker. It is good to see you have survived another turning well. (text-style:"blink")[█] [["Seeker?"]]

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> ;;Ah, I see you are mind-numb from the journey. This often happens lol ;;"Seeker" is your designation. You are a vital organ of this Cage. I'm sure the others would agree! (text-colour:white)[Your face contorts. Memory of anything is hazy since your awakening. Perhaps this voice can assist you somehow. It seems to know things.] ;;I'm sure your memories will recover in due time, I can tell you all about our mission to find Ometeotl though! ;;Do you have any questions? (text-style:"blink")[█] [["Who are you?"]] [["Cage?"]] [["Our mission?"]] [["Ometeotl?"]] [["I'm good. thanks."]]

;;Okay! Kazoo hasnt written the rest of this yet, so just sit tight for now. (text-colour:white)[Sure, W-wait what?]

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> ;; Ometeotl is the name for the "source of all life" according to Muertu Legend. ;; Several Turns ago, we recieved a signal that pinged an immense source of Anima, somewhere in this region of space. Your people started calling it Ometeotl ever since. It is an optimistic term! ;; We are unsure if it is a concious being, like other sources of Anima, or a fundemental part of the Spin itself. What a wonderous question though! ;; [["Who are you?"]] [["Cage?"]] [["Our mission?"]] [["No other questions"|"I'm good. thanks."]]

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> ;; Ah our mission! Yes! We seek Ometeotl, the source of all life. Our cages are research vessels for this purpose. ;; As you know, Muertu are not "Alive" naturally. Each of you requires "Anima" to persist. Our progenetors will only survive if we collect enough of it to fuel the generation chambers. ;; Our hope is that once we find Ometeotl, we won't need to harvest it all manually anymore! Yay! [["Who are you?"]] [["Cage?"]] [["Ometeotl?"]] [["No other questions"|"I'm good. thanks."]]

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> ;;A cage is a vessel that contains Vital organs, like you, Seeker! ;; Nine of these Vessels were dispatched from our homeworld of Mictlan. It is our hope to one day reunite with our brethren after finding Ometeotl. (text-colour:white)[Omeletes... you feel hungry suddenly.] ;; Not "Omelette," Seeker. "Ometeotl." You make this joke too much. (text-colour:white)[Still hungry. must have been a long sleep. ] ;;Whatever, Anything else? [["Who are you?"]] [["Our mission?"]] [["Ometeotl?"]] [["No other questions"|"I'm good. thanks."]]

<header> (enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay: (pos * 30) + 1000) + (t8n: "instant")) </header> ;;I am this Cage's Turner. I oversee our vessel's journey through nine dimensional space along a spatial or temporal axis. ;;While turning is a fundemental facet of Muertu technology, the transit requires you and your fellow Muertu to enter hibernation, or else your minds would split apart as we traverse the spinward strands. ;;Thats why I'm here! I'm like, a computer program kinda. ;;I can communicate directly with your mind for ease of communication. Just think anything and I'll hear it too! (text-colour:white)[You find this news unsettling. ] ;;Ah no, don't worry. I won't do anything bad in there, I swear! I'm a good turner... [["Cage?"]] [["Our mission?"]] [["Ometeotl?"]] [["No other questions"|"I'm good. thanks."]]