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Encounter Conditions
Etheric
Access via Row After Row Of Cubicles: Hide under a desk or Abandoned Call Station: Dive under a desk
Initial Text
The gap beneath the desk continues, winding further and further downward until you enter into a wider cavern. Ghostly lights cling to the ceiling, giving you just enough to see by.
Glancing around, the oddest feature is probably a set of railroad tracks. They seem wide for a mine cart, but it's possible this used to be some sort of industrial mine.
Summary of Choices
- Go exploring - Nothing?
- Wait by the tracks - Gain 20 Spectral Curse
- Rest in the darkness - Gain 20-24? hit points, lose 20 Call Center Alarm
- Plant a spouting seed (with a sprouting seed) - Lose a sprouting seed
- Find a way out - Gain 2 XP Perception
Choice Text and Results
Go exploring
Deep in the cavern, you find a shape outlined in the darkness. A monolith with chiseled, crystalline edges looms over you like Midgard Headquarters itself.
Whatever power it might hold, you feel its fear more strongly. It disappears a moment after you set eyes on it, but in that moment you can see a similarly carved stone slab among the refined decorations of an executive office.
Wait by the tracks
You wait until a bank of mists rolls over the tracks, pierced by a single brilliant light.
Dull rumbles and sharper shrieks echo through the cavern as a massive locomotive tears along the track without even slowing. Humanoid shapes dance through the mist, passing through you as they follow the train.
You're left with a terrible chill.
You've gained 20 duration of Spectral Curse.
Rest in the darkness
You rest under the ghostly lights, far from the noise of office life.
You regain 20-24? hit points!
Lose 20 Call Center Alarm
Plant a spouting seed
You bury a sprouting seed beneath the ghostly lights. It takes root easily, spreading vines across the cave.
Find a way out
The lights are lovely, but you find your way out as quickly as possible. There's something not right down there.
You search and search, but as the panic threatens to set in, you emerge back into the office… from under a different desk, you note.
You've earned 2 XP in Perception