Icarus

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{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')} {(set: $sun to 0)} {(set: $truth to 0)} {(set: $lie to 0)} {(set: $ocean to 0)} {(set: $highershell to 0)} {(set: $truthshell to 0)} {(set: $lieshell to 0)} {(set: $lowershell to 0)} {(set: $truthlove to 0)} {(set: $truthhate to 0)} {(set: $hate to 0)} {(set: $love to 0)}} <center> [[Begin]]. How to [[play]]. See the [[references]]. </center>

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}<center>References/Inspirations</center> This list will have spoilers for the game, so I suggest going [[back->Title screen]] if you haven't read it yet. <HR> Alzheimer’s Association. (n.d.). //What is dementia?// Alzheimer’s Association. https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia Amholma. (2017, January 15). //Crashing waves into rocks 4//. Freesound.org. https://freesound.org/people/amholma/sounds/376800/ Analogicus. (2018, May 8).//Greece village Karpathos//. Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/greece-village-karpathos-hill-3384386/ Antrainias. (2020, December 29). //Lake shore overcast//. https://pixabay.com/photos/lake-shore-overcast-sky-5863233/ Artbejo. (2015, March 16). //Grave sky cross//. 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Wakes. https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/twine-for-beginners-colouring-text/ <HR> How to [[play]]. [[Title screen]]. [[Begin]]. [[Secret testing area->Testing Area]]

{{(track: 'beach', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'beach', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'bell1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell1', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Quickly, son. We have little time.'] You stretch your arms and suppress a yawn, a trace of bitter coffee still sour on the back of your tongue. Your father, Daedalus, pulls the waxen wings from his rucksack and straightens the feathers. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Are you sure about this? It's awfully cloudy out there.'] The ocean rolls and tumbles below the cliff, grey waves reflecting the darkened sky. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What choice do we have? If we wait any longer, they will find us. Spread your arms.'] <HR> Spread your [[arms]].

{{(track: 'bell3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell3', 'play')} {(track: 'running', 'play')} {(track: 'liftoff', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}Daedalus crouches at the edge of the cliff with his fingers laced together. You run, jump, and spread your arms wide. The world pivots sideways for a moment and you fear you'll dive into the rocks, but Daedalus catches your foot and pushes you higher, safely into a warm updraft. You loop around in small circles as your father catches up. His launch is much smoother, almost as though he were born with wings. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Ha ha ha, we did it! I knew it would work!'] Daedalus grins wildly as you soar side by side. His enthusiasm is catching. <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Of course it did, father. The wings are of your design, after all. Few can match your] [[craftsmanship->worked]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

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{{(track: 'bell2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell2', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You obey, and Daedalus straps the contraption across your shoulders, tightening shackles around your waist, neck, and wrists. It feels ridiculous. You wonder if you look more like a demigod or a harpy. The wind swirls around the cliff, echoing the discomfort in your gut. You wish you'd chosen a place to take flight with fewer jagged rocks at the base. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Now, while the wind is swift! Jump!'] <HR> [[Jump]].

{{(track: 'bell4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell4', 'play')} {(track: 'beach', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liftoff', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'wind', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'wind', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['No need for flattery, although you're not wrong. I'm sure you could craft something like this too if you applied yourself.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['... right, father.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Oh, this is important. Watch your altitude. Fly too high, and the wax will melt. Too low, and the seawater will ruin the feathers.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I know.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['True, true, we've been over this. I cannot believe we are here. Finally! Too long have we been under the yoke of King Minos. We are free.'] You look away. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It really is a dream come true.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Let us enjoy it. What man has flown like this before? Only those blessed by the gods, I imagine. Thanks be to Apollo.'] Daedalus grins again and peels away, soaring gently from side to side. <HR> Enjoy [[yourself]].

{{(track: 'bell7', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell7', 'play')} {(track: 'truthchord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Mother... didn't make it away from King Minos. Remember?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is unfortunate that she did not take to the wings like you and I, but we will send for her. I just thought she was already... she will be rescued, have no fear.'] You watch his eyes dart back and forth, seeing nothing. As always. <HR> [[Breathe]].

{{(track: 'bell8', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell8', 'play')} {(track: 'liechord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['O-of course. I had just thought she would be... out with her friends today.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Ah yes, always nattering away that one. Goodness, we are fortunate she did not give away the labyrinth's secrets! Still, a good and true woman. We are fortunate to have her.'] You feel the muscles of your mouth tense as you spit out falsehood after falsehood. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['We certainly are.'] <HR> [[Breathe]].

{{(track: 'bell6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell6', 'play')} {(track: 'sunchord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'flappingfast', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}Heat sears through your veins, and you bite the inside of your cheek. *This* bullshit. Again. You can't deal with it. You flap your arms hard and ascend. The seagulls below you shrink to tiny dots. Your back feels warm. Daedalus catches up to you a few minutes later, arms nearly a blur. His face is red from the effort. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What is the matter? What are you doing? I told you, you need to be careful!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You left mother behind! How can you not remember? She kept us going all that time, and you left her with *him*.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What do you mean? I... she... we will send for her. It will be okay.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Will it?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Your mother is a smart woman. As you said, she kept us going. Kept us safe. We will figure it out. Now get down from there.'] Your throat feels tight, full of suppressed words. But you can't give up yet. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Fine.'] You drift back down to your father's altitude. He pats your hand reassuringly, the best he can shackled to the stiff wings. You clench your jaw. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is alright, son. We all went a bit stir-crazy in that tower. Just mind your altitude, okay?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Okay.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Good.'] <HR> [[Breathe]].

{{(track: 'bell9', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell9', 'play')} {(track: 'oceanchord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You feel the strength drain from your limbs. Why did you even try this? It never works. Not really. Your arms droop, and you fall downward. The ocean hurtles towards you. Cold. Grey. Beautiful. You unfold your arms just in time to skim across the waves. Daedalus catches up to you a few minutes later, descending in slow, careful loops. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What on earth was that? What are you doing? I told you, you need to be careful!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Sorry, father. I just needed a break.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['A break from what? Spending time with me?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No, it's not like that, I-.'] Daedalus looks at you with damp eyes. Oh gods. You're going to ruin this before you've even started. Your father musters a brave little smile. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is alright, son. We all went a bit stir-crazy in that tower. Just mind your altitude, okay?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why did you leave mother behind?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I did not want to. She never took to the wings. Just like... not like you. But we have a plan. It will be okay.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Will it?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Of course. Do not scare me like that, okay? These waves are treacherous.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Okay. Sorry.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Good.'] <HR> [[Breathe]].

{{(track: 'sunchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'flappingfast', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell5', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}{{(if: $sun is 1)[You breathe deeply, trying to steady your racing heart.]}{(if: $truth is 1)[You suppress a sigh. It's going to be one of those days.]}{(if: $lie is 1)[You breathe steadily through your nose. Your face aches from the effort of keeping a steady expression.]}{(if: $ocean is 1)[You drag air into your lungs as you flap to a higher altitude. Drops of seawater flick from the tips of your wings.]}}You fly in silence for a while, the wind whistling in your ears. A small bug splatters on your forehead. Daedalus finds this immensely funny. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What a vision you are! Perhaps I should have included a mask.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You're one to talk! You have bugs speckled all through your beard.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Nonsense! The distinguished Daedalus, a home for bugs? I think not.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No, truly! It's shaded black with the bodies of a thousand flies. You look like a young man.'] You both laugh, and some of the weight lifts. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['That reminds me, did I ever tell you about the competition with the conch shell?'] <HR> *(lie)* (text-colour:#fff3bf)['][[No->conchshell]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes, but tell me again] [[anyway->conchshell]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'bell4', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['I had just finished building the temple to Apollo in Sicily. A marvellous project, but a little... pedestrian for someone of my talents.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Sounds pretty straightforward after the labyrinth.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Exactly! All straight lines, no secrets. Just as blessed Apollo would like it, of course, but I was searching for a challenge. And it just so happens that King Cocalus told me of this marvellous riddle. A challenge to weave a piece of string through the spirals of a conch shell without damaging it.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That sounds impossible.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It was, for most! Many had attempted this feat and failed before I had heard of it. But it came with a grand prize and prestige for the kingdom that solved it. And King Cocalus had been very kind to me after...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['After?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Never mind. He was good to me, so I had to try. The first few shells shattered under my fingertips, no matter how carefully I inserted the thread. I needed a different approach.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What did you] [[do->conchshell2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell3', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['I thought back to the labyrinth, of course. Poor Theseus was due to become another victim of the Minotaur, but I saved him with the thread.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*You* saved him?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well, I helped. I gave a ball of thread to Ariadne, who, in turn, gave it to Theseus. The foolish girl thought she was in love. He used it to mark his path through the labyrinth so he didn't get lost.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What does that have to do with the conch shell?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I realised my first approach was all wrong. Someone had to *pull* the thread through the shell. Pushing it through wouldn't work.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Pull the thread?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes. I tied a thread around an ant and dabbed a blob of honey at the other end of the shell for motivation. The creature cleared the maze in under a minute, carrying the thread to the other side.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['A clever solution.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Indeed. I do admit, quite a few ants got crushed in earlier attempts. It is rather difficult to tie a thread around an ant! But the result is what matters.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['And what was the] [[result->conchshell3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'whale1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'whale2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'whale3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'whale4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'whale5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'whale6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon8', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well, King Cocalus was quite impressed with my feat and spread word far and wide. I was showered with riches, enough never to need to work another day in my life. However, the competition was a ruse. King Minos had been looking for me, so he devised the contest. An impossible puzzle to trap a prideful architect.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You mean the Minos we just escaped?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes, him. After we... after you... wait, hang on.'] You see your father's thought processes grind to a halt. He was doing so well, too. <HR> You can't stand another second of this. Fly (link: "higher")[(set: $sun to it + 1)(go-to: "highershell")]. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You're so close. What happened] (link: "next")[(set: $truth to it + 1)(go-to: "truthshell")](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?'] *(lie)* (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Maybe there are two men named King] (link: "Minos")[(set: $lie to it + 1)(go-to: "lieshell")](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?'] His mind is gone. This is pointless. Fly (link: "lower")[(set: $ocean to it + 1)(go-to: "lowershell")].

{{(track: 'bell6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell8', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'wind', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'flappingfast', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}It's always like this. Fragments of truth, so close to what you want to hear, and then... nothing. How can he be so smart and so empty? Which god did you piss off to earn this fate? You can't even look at him. You flap your arms hard in large, steady swings and press your legs together, imagining them a tail. You break through the layer of clouds to the impossibly bright sky above. <HR> Behold the [[sun->above]].

{{(track: 'bell6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell8', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['But... I...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Don't worry about the timeline for now. What happened after Minos found you?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well... King Cocalus felt terrible that he had accidentally gotten me into trouble, so he got me to hide when Minos came looking for me. He offered Minos a bath and a room, as is etiquette. While Minos was bathing, Cocalus's daughters slew him.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['His *daughters*? Really?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes. They had become quite fond of me.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['And no other person might have done the deed instead? Someone close to you?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I mean, I was not in the bathing chamber, but I do not believe so. Why? What are you getting at?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You're forgetting something really] [[important->truthshellforgetting]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'bell6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell8', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes, two Minoses. That must be it. This other Minos was also cruel. He came to kill me. Thankfully, King Cocalus's daughters had taken a liking to me. While Minos was bathing, enjoying Cocalus's hospitality, the daughters crept in and slit his throat. And that is how I became King.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You became King?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I guess royal consort would be more accurate, but yes. Those girls had done me such a favour, I could not help but fall in love.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Which one did you marry?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Why, all of them! You know this. Your stepmothers love you.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Of course. Maybe that's who you were thinking of earlier? Not my birth mother, Naucrate?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Naucrate, now that was a fine woman. A pity, what happened to her.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What happened to her?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['She married Minos. Mrs Minos. She never escaped Knossos, so I guess options were limited.'] This has gotten even more absurd than usual. At least he seems to be in good spirits. <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Since you are King now, perhaps you could save] [[mother->lieshell2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell8', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'wind', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You wait for Daedalus to finish his thought, but you know he never will. Not in any way that will satisfy you. His brain is broken, and so is yours. You keep trying to lead him through the labyrinth of his mind, but all you end up with is broken conch shells. You feel the weight of gravity tugging on you. This constant fight to stay aloft is unbearable. Your arms are so tired. Your heart is so tired. You can't keep it up. You sink slowly, losing altitude as each flap of the arms becomes more difficult to perform. The ocean beckons, your toes trailing across its dark abyss. Salt water stings your eyes, but you cannot gather enough energy to blink it away. Besides, you think you see something just below the waves. A flicker of movement, unlike any fish you've ever seen. <HR> You hear a great fluttering from [[above->lowershell2]].

{{(track: 'bell1', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))} {(set: $truthshell to 1)}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['I do not think I am?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['There was someone else there. Someone important to you. It wasn't Cocalus's daughters who saved you. Try to *think*, father. Try to remember.'] Daedalus scrunches up his face in thought. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Sorry, son, I've got nothing. Why will you not just tell me?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It doesn't work that way. Believe me, I've tried.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I *want* to believe you. That is why I am asking! Why all this skirting around the details?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Because you don't solve a labyrinth by ploughing straight forward! *You* taught me that! This vexing condition is too cruel to let me tell you the truth outright.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Try me.'] You take a deep breath. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Fine. It was *me*. I saved you.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['*You*? Surely I would remember that.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You'd think so, wouldn't you.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['But wait, you are not... that is not possible.'] Your last strand of patience runs out. <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Who am I,] [[father->truthshell3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'whale6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'whale6', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'whale4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'whale4', 'play', 'fadein', 12)} {(track: 'whale1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'whale1', 'play', 'fadein', 29)} {(track: 'whale5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'whale5', 'play', 'fadein', 45)} {(track: 'whale3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'whale3', 'play', 'fadein', 55)} {(track: 'whale2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'whale2', 'play', 'fadein', 70)} {(track: 'wind', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'wind', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(set: $highershell to 1)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You drift back down through the clouds. You notice them more on your descent, a staticky wetness pressing against every centimetre of bare skin. You wish you could wipe your face. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Are you trying to give me a heart attack?'] Daedalus looks furious. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Could I not ask you the same question? I'm trying *so* hard, father! Every time we get close to something real, your mind breaks. Why do you even think we're... you know what, forget it. That's what you're good at.'] The fire disappears from Daedalus's eyes. He mouths several silent sentences as he searches for the right words. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I-I do not understand...'] You look away. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I said forget it. It's okay. I flew too close to the sun or whatever. I'm a fool who doesn't know shit about flying.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I just want you to be safe...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I am, it's fine. My wings still work, see? We're fine. We're nearly there anyway.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Nearly there? What do you mean? We are still a long way from Sicily.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You'll] [[see->calmdown]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(if: $highershell is 1)[You stare ahead in stony silence. Staying aloft is difficult with your partially melted wings. You must flap harder with your left arm than your right to keep an even path. The ache of your muscles would be too much if you weren't so angry.]}{(if: $truthshell is 1)[You fly in silence, listening to the wind whistle past your ears. Why can't he remember you? He remembers some things in such detail, but the disease that rots his brain has deleted an entire child from his memory. Or maybe he chooses not to remember? You were never the favourite, after all.]}{(if: $lieshell is 1)[Your tongue feels thick in your mouth as you fly silently. As quietly as you can, anyway, with the loud flap of your wings and increasingly ragged breaths. You wonder if Daedalus really will try to throw you in a dungeon when you get home. That might be difficult to explain. You're going to be in enough trouble as it is.]}{(if: $lowershell is 1)[You take Daedalus's advice and glide as much as you can, flapping only when you descend too close to the ocean. Your arms should be screaming with pain, especially with the added weight of soggy feathers, but you feel nothing. You *are* nothing. Just a ghost skimming across the sky with a creature that used to be your father.]}} Daedalus looks over and notices your expression. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Have heart, son. We have made good progress. We can figure all of... this... out when we land.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['If you say so.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is just like the problem of the Minotaur. A difficult situation, but some good can come from it.'] Hmm. This is new. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What do you mean? What good came from the Minotaur?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['On second thought, this might not be a great story for young ears.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I know plenty about the Minotaur father. Servants gossip, and King Minos was... certainly *vocal* about the situation. But I never heard your side of the story. I can handle it. Tell me.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well... I am not sure where to start.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How did the Minotaur even come] [[about->minotaurborn]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell1', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))} {(set: $lieshell to 1)}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['You mean Naucrate?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*Of course* I mean Naucrate. My "stepmothers" are all safely at home, as you said. You're a King now, equal to Minos. You don't have to wait anymore. Why won't you save her?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well... I... you cannot rush these things, son.'] Your patience runs out. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I fucking knew it.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Mind your tongue.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Even in your most deluded power fantasy, you won't go back for her. *Why?* What did she ever do wrong? Why didn't you take us with you?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is not that simple. I have all these other wives to consider now, too...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Those are your *nurses*, father. They take my coin and keep you alive. That's all they care about.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['But... no, that is not right...'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why don't mother's feelings ever matter? You didn't seem so cold when I was a child. What happened to you? What] [[changed->lieshell3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'flappingfast', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}It's so warm up here, so still. Wax trickles between your fingers, stinging, sludgy rivers rolling off the tips of your wings and burning the backs of your hands. You stare into the sun. Daedalus warned you not to do so when you were a little kid. When he still cared about your welfare. But there seems to be no point in preserving your sight. You're a creature of the sky now, and you need not vision to chase the next updraft. Besides, you think you can see something up there. A black spot? A shadow? But there are no shadows up this high. Darkness belongs to the world of men. You hear muffled shouting below. Daedalus must be getting worried. *Ugh*. You hate being responsible. <HR> Fly back [[down->highershell2]].

{{(track: 'piano7', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano7', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'piano4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano4', 'play', 'fadein', 70)} {(track: 'piano1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano1', 'play', 'fadein', 19)} {(track: 'piano5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano5', 'play', 'fadein', 45)} {(track: 'piano3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano3', 'play', 'fadein', 33)} {(track: 'piano2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano2', 'play', 'fadein', 65)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['What kind of question is that? You are my son.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes, but *who* am I? *Which* son?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well... I...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It's not a difficult question. You have two sons. Which one am I?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I thought I had three?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*Argh*. This is fucking pointless. Let's just fly. We're nearly there anyway.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Nearly there? Sicily is a long way away.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I know. That's not our destination.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Then where are we going?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You'll] [[see->calmdown]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'bassoon8', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon8', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon4', 'play', 'fadein', 30)} {(track: 'bassoon1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon1', 'play', 'fadein', 45)} {(track: 'bassoon5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon5', 'play', 'fadein', 25)} {(track: 'bassoon3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon3', 'play', 'fadein', 52)} {(track: 'bassoon2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon2', 'play', 'fadein', 16)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['You cannot talk to your King like this. I will have you thrown in the dungeon.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['This is a waste of time. This has *all* been a huge waste of time.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Straight to the dungeon. As soon as we get back to Sicily. You need some time with your thoughts.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*Hah*. You're grounding me?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I am still your father.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Could have fooled me. Look, we're not going to Sicily. Not yet.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['But that was the plan! What if Minos finds us?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['He won't, *your Majesty*. We need to make a stop first.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Where?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You'll] [[see->calmdown]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'vib9', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib9', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'vib4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib4', 'play', 'fadein', 50)} {(track: 'vib1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib1', 'play', 'fadein', 33)} {(track: 'vib5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib5', 'play', 'fadein', 70)} {(track: 'vib3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib3', 'play', 'fadein', 29)} {(track: 'vib2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib2', 'play', 'fadein', 17)} {(track: 'wind', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'wind', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You sigh, and your sense of familial duty returns. You flap your aching arms and slowly ascend, shaking the saltwater off your sandals. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Thank Apollo, you are alright! Is there something wrong with your wings?'] Why can't he always be this kind? (text-colour:#fff3bf)['They're fine, father. I... my arm just cramped up too much. That's all.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Try and stick to soaring, then. It is still a long way to Sicily.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Actually, I know a place we can rest.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Really? Where?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You'll] [[see->calmdown]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'whale6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon8', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Ah, that was all Minos's fault. King Asterius, his stepfather, had died, and Minos wanted to prove that he deserved the throne despite his lack of blood relation.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I thought Asterius *was* Minos's father.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No, he was formed from a union between Europa, Asterius's wife, and Zeus. They were blessed with no other children.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I'm surprised you knew about that. People tend to keep god-spawn fairly quiet.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['As you said, servants gossip. And when it came time for Minos to claim the throne, suddenly *everyone* knew about it. Others wanted to challenge his claim, and not being blood-related to the King was a serious issue. So, Minos set out to prove that he was blessed by the gods and thus worthy of ruling Knossos.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How did he do that?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['He prayed to Poseidon to show him favour.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why not Zeus?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Zeus is too unpredictable. You know that. He would impregnate half the castle before getting to a favour.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No offence blessed Zeus. We all have our strong points and weak points.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['If we are struck from the sky, I am blaming you.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Anyway, Poseidon heard the prayer and sent Minos a bull with a pure-white pelt. I had never seen anything like it.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why a bull? I would have expected something to do with] [[water->minotaurborn2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'whale4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon2', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Beats me. Poseidon does more than just preside over the sea, however. And like all gods, he loves offerings. It was… understood that the bull was supposed to be slaughtered in Poseidon's honour, and when Minos was named King, he promised he would.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So what was the problem?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Well, you know Minos. He decided to keep the bull for himself.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Uh oh.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Indeed.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What did Poseidon curse him with?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['That is the worst bit. He didn't curse Minos. Queen Pasiphae was the one who suffered Poseidon's wrath. He made her fall in love with the bull.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What, why? She didn't even do anything!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Such are the whims of the gods. Her longing was too much for her to bear. Eventually, they came to me and asked me to build... a structure. For her to... consummate with the bull.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Hang on, why did you go along with] [[this->minotaurborn3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'whale1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon3', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['I had no choice.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Of course you did! I've seen that monstrosity you built. I saw the claw marks on the wooden frame. Why on earth did you agree to it?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It was a direct order from my King. What was I supposed to do?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*Leave*! Go back to Athens or wherever. You were always saying how much you missed living there.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Athens was not an option.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['That is not a story for right now. Besides, do you think Minos would have just let me leave? Think how difficult this escape has been. We were collecting feathers in secret for months! And you were so small then. It could not be done.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So strapping a woman to a wooden frame and letting her get violated by a bull was the right choice?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['She desired it.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Because she was *cursed*!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['*This* is why I did not want to tell you this story. You and your moral high ground. I am not proud of my actions, okay? But I had to keep my family safe. It is so easy to pass judgement when you were not *there*. The result matters.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No matter how many ants get squished.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Never mind. Look, I want to know the rest. I'll keep my judgements to myself.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Good.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['For] [[now->minotaurborn4]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'whale5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon1', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['So, Pasiphae became pregnant after her... encounter. I imagine Minos was hoping that the child was his, but while he is a cruel man, he is no fool. This was part of his punishment, too. He met with me, in secret, to begin construction of the labyrinth.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why build the labyrinth? I would have expected him to just kill the child.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I cannot know what was in that man's heart, but I can hazard a guess. His fortunes fell the moment he denied Poseidon his sacrifice. If he killed the child, a part of his curse, then even greater misfortune would befall him. Keeping whatever was birthed in the labyrinth would be a safe compromise.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Certainly a possibility.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Indeed. So the child was born, and as suspected, it was a product of Pasiphae's union with the bull. A deformed creature. Half human, half bull. Pasiphae named him Asterius after his step-grandfather, but it quickly became known as the Minotaur. A sign of Minos's folly.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I bet he didn't like that.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['He certainly did not. As soon as he could, Minos tore the child away from Pasiphae's breast and hid the creature deep in the labyrinth.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You mean *you* did. Minos wouldn't have been able to traverse those] [[depths->minotaurborn5]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['The good is always tangled with the bad. If the Minotaur had never existed, I never would have designed the labyrinth.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*That*'s what you got from all of this?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is my life's work! No one will ever be able to make its like again! It is a shame only sacrifices got to explore its depths, but when else does an artist realise their dreams like that?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's sick. You are *sick*.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I made the most of what I was handed! What was I supposed to do?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You could have left! Whatever was in Athens had to be better than that! Or helped! Would you have even done anything if Ariadne didn't approach you? You're as bad as Minos.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You do not mean that.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I've been trying so hard to make sense of you, of what remains of you, and it's *this*? I wish I never asked.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I said you would not like it.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I don't. It's time to end] [[this->endingchoices]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'whale2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchordfinal', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchordfinal', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechordfinal', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchordfinal', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sun', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'beach', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'underwater', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}Your destination is in sight now. Only minutes away. But you don't know if you can bear Daedalus for a moment longer. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Why are you getting so upset with me? We have been through worse.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I don't think we have. I truly don't. Every corner in your labyrinth reveals new horrors. Horrors you are *proud* of. All of this is pointless.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What do you mean?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What what what what what. You remember nothing. You *are* nothing. I'm done.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What are you doing? I-'] <HR> {{(if: $sun is 0)[(text-colour:grey)[The sun does not call to you. ]]} {(if: $sun is 1)[Fly into the [[sun->sunending]]. ]} {(if: $sun is 2)[''Fly into the [[sun->sunending]].'' ]} {(if: $truth is 0)[(text-colour:grey)[Telling the truth is pointless. ]]} {(if: $truth is 1)[Tell Daedalus [[everything->truthending]]. ]} {(if: $truth is 2)[''Tell Daedalus [[everything->truthending]].'' ]} {(if: $lie is 0)[(text-colour:grey)[Lies get you nowhere. ]]} {(if: $lie is 1)[Embrace the [[lies->lieending]]. ]} {(if: $lie is 2)[''Embrace the [[lies->lieending]].'' ]} {(if: $ocean is 0)[(text-colour:grey)[You are beyond the pull of the tides. ]]} {(if: $ocean is 1)[Fall into the [[ocean->oceanending]]. ]} {(if: $ocean is 2)[''Fall into the [[ocean->oceanending]].'']}}

{{(track: 'liechord6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord6', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Minos sent me.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What? That is ridiculous.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Truly. While you were busy working on your precious labyrinth, he whispered in my ear. You've done a lot of bad things, Daedalus.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['What are you... that makes no sense. Why would you-'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['He has Naucrate and the child in his grasp. If you agree to come back, you might yet save them.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['B-but... no. She married him. She chose him. It is over.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's not what... and what of the child? Do you not care for him?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['How dare you. How *dare* you say that while you wear his face!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Whose face? *Say his name*!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I will not go back with you. Never.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['The name, father! Tell me! Please!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)[Daedalus descends on you before you can react. His fist connects squarely with your jaw, sending you spiralling across the sky.] <HR> Try to calm him [[down->lieendingcalmdown]]. Fight [[back->lieendingfight]].

{{(track: 'whale3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'piano2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'vib1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon4', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Technically, yes, on Minos's orders. Bitey little bugger. I still have a scar from that excursion. The creature only ate human flesh, so Minos started the tradition of sending fourteen youths into the labyrinth every year. To feed the Minotaur. And so on it went until Ariadne asked for my help.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why didn't you help sooner?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['My movements were restricted for a long time. After the labyrinth was complete, we were locked in the tower. Minos feared the secrets of the labyrinth getting out. Princess Ariadne could go where she pleased, so a plan was formed for escape. Ours and hers. Without her, we would probably still be stuck up there.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['And that's how we ended up here.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Exactly.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Wait, but how does that apply to making the most of a bad] [[situation->minotaurend]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'oceanchord4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord4', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}Your voice gets lost in the water, but Icarus understands. He brushes a hand across your shoulders, and the pain is gone. Your wings fall away, disappearing into the inky void below. (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['You've gotten old, Iapyx.'] Icarus smiles wide. He has too many teeth. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Wh-how is this happening?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Oh, that's an easy one. You're dying, little brother.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Dying? But... no, I was-'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Plunging head-first into the ocean? I saw.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Oh.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Yeah.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['But what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the underworld? Shouldn't *I* be in the underworld?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Why are you in such a rush to leave? Elysium is beautiful, sure, but it gets a bit samey after a thousand years, you know? Not that you'd end up in that realm. Filial piety is pretty important to the folk there, and you haven't exactly been *kind* to dear old Dad, have you?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What are you talking about? You've only been dead for... you're not Icarus, are you.'] His smile grows wider. (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Whatever do you mean?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You look like him. You sound like him. You even have that little scar on his eyebrow. But the face doesn't fit right. It's a mask.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Aww. Do you have to spoil the fun so soon?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Who are you] [[really->oceanending3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'oceanchord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}"Icarus" spreads his arms and does a little bow. (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Poseidon, at your service.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Could you stop wearing my brother's face?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Trust me, it's better this way. People get... weird... when they see a god's true face.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What do you want?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['You're the one who plunged into *my* domain. I'm the reason you're not dead. A little gratitude would be nice.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That doesn't answer my question.'] Poseidon sighs. (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['I wasn't expecting you to be such a stick-in-the-mud. I've been watching you, you know. I wasn't lying about Elysium. It's boring as shit. Finding an entertaining mortal is priceless, and oh, *my boy*, you are a rare treasure indeed. Tell me, how many times have you re-enacted your brother's death for your entertainment?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It's not like that! Something broke in father when Icarus died. His memory is full of holes. But when he's flying, when he thinks he's escaping the tower, he remembers more than usual.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Is that so?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes. It’s the only way I will get] [[answers->oceanending4]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'oceanchord5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord5', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d3f9d8)['And how's that going for you? Throwing yourself into the sea is certainly an... interesting strategic move.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You don't understand how hard it is. He says awful things. He's *done* awful things. At your behest, I might add! Did you really curse Pasiphae to fall in love with a bull?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Hey, what happens between a consenting bull and a woman is their business.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['This is serious! You ruined lives! Ruined *my* life! If the Minotaur were never born, father would have never built that damn labyrinth, and we would never have been kept prisoner. We could have been a normal family. But no, it's all fucked. All because you were *bored*.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Hey, Minos knew the rules. That's just how it goes.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Ugh. What do you want, anyway? You're a strange choice for a ferryman.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['I was curious. What is your end game?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['My end game?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['With precious Dad-elus. You say you want him to remember. And yet, when he did recall something from the past, you were furious with him. What is your goal?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['He doesn't remember me. He left mother and me behind when he escaped the tower. I want to know why. It took so long to find him after I got out. I have so many questions, but he just leads me in circles. It's infuriating.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Yet you keep trying.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I must. It's my life's work.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['And what was the plan if he *did* remember everything? He is a flawed man, you know that much. Would those answers solve anything? Why put him through this year after year?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['To hold him accountable for his] [[misdeeds->oceanendinghate]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Because I still love him, despite] [[everything->oceanendinglove]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'oceanchord3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord3', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(set: $hate to 1)}}(text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Accountable?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes. He broke a promise. He said he would come back for us, and I've never gotten him to say why he didn't. He is the reason mother is dead. Gods, probably Icarus too. No one knows what happened that day. My brother was smart. Why would he throw himself into the sun?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Why did *you* throw yourself in the ocean?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Good point. But still, I spent my life tracking Daedalus down. I never took a wife or learned a profession, aside from a poor imitation of my father's craft. I *killed* for him. And still, my name never passes his lips. If I had a reason, an apology, a *shred* of remorse from him, I could move on with my life. But I don't, so I can't. Or couldn't, I guess. It's too late now.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['What if I could give you what you want?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Which part?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['I could restore Daedalus's memory.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['You know of my talents. I'm more inclined towards breaking minds than fixing them, but it would be no trouble for me.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What's the] [[catch->oceanending5]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'oceanchord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d3f9d8)['You wound me.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I'm not a fool, Poseidon. No god gives out favours for free.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['True enough. I don't want much in return. Just permission to use your likeness in the future.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You'll steal my identity?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['No, no, you'll *give* it to me. No theft there. And I have no interest in meddling with mortal affairs.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You *constantly* meddle with mortal affairs.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Okay *fine*, how about this? I won't use your visage until after you're dead. You won't have to worry about me ruining your reunion with your father or anything like that.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Wait, did Icarus make this deal with you too?'] Poseidon just smiles. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What did he ask for?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Nuh-uh, that's not for you to know.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Hold on, how does fixing Daedalus's mind help me if I'm dead?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Not dead. Dying.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I'm still alive?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Just barely. I'm willing to wash you to shore. *If* you take the deal. After that, you're on your own.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why are you doing this? I'm a nobody.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Maybe to the larger world. But you've given me more entertainment than any other mortal in a long time. I want to know how your story ends. So, how about it?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes, fix Daedalus's] [[memory->oceanreviveend]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No, I don't trust] [[you->oceandieend]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'oceanchord6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'oceanchord6', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(set: $love to 1)}}(text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Do you?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes. I wouldn't be trying so hard if I didn't care. I want him to see me again. *Really* see me. I did terrible things to find him, and when I finally did, his face was blank. He was *nothing*. I have no one else. Mother's dead, you- I mean, Icarus is gone, and I never married. Daedalus is a monster, but he's all I have. If I could get the tiniest hint, the tiniest clue that the father I loved is still in there, I would die happy. Although it's a bit late for that now.'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['What if I could give you what you want?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Which part?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['I could restore Daedalus's memory.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How?'] (text-colour:#d3f9d8)['You know of my talents. I'm more inclined towards breaking minds than fixing them, but it would be no trouble for me.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What's the] [[catch->oceanending5]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'oceanchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell9', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell9', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'underwater', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'beach', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'beach', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d3f9d8)['Done.'] Poseidon waves a hand, and suddenly, you feel sand on your back and water in your lungs. You lean over and cough half the ocean onto the beach. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Iapyx!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['F-f?'] You try to respond to Daedalus, but your throat is wrecked. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is all right, son. Here.'] He fishes out a waterskin from his pack and hands it to you. Your body balks at the thought of more water, but you force a little down. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Y-you know who I am?'] The words barely escape from your throat. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I do, yes. I am *so* sorry Iapyx. I have been a fool. Everything is all mixed up. Why did we go flying so much?'] You shakily pull yourself to your feet. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['We've got a lot to talk about, father. But let's do what we came here to do first. This is the island, right?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes, same one as usual. Let me help you.'] You sling an arm around Daedalus's shoulder and limp across Icaria. It's an unremarkable island, just a blip along the archipelago. The final resting place of your brother. You both stare at Icarus's headstone. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Twenty years already. It feels like it was yesterday.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It really] [[does->oceanreviveend2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d3f9d8)['As you wish.'] Poseidon waves a hand and vanishes. The pain of drowning returns with full force. You struggle as best you can, but Poseidon must have captured you at the last possible second. Your mind becomes numb and grey. <HR> And then, [[darkness->oceandieend2]].

{{(track: 'oceanchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'oceanchordfinal', 'play')} {(track: 'underwater', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You awaken in a small boat, being ferried across the river Styx. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So this is it, huh?'] 'The hooded ferryman nods at you. Oh no. He's going to need a coin. You pat at your damp robes, but there's nothing there. Burial at sea doesn't count. You're going to be stuck in purgatory. Shit, shit, shit. The figure sees your panic and hands you a piece of paper. *Iapyx's fare has been paid in advance. -Icarus.* (text-colour:#fff3bf)['He didn't... he couldn't...'] The ferryman shrugs. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Wait, is Icarus *here*? How do I find him?'] 'The ferryman shrugs more sharply, seemingly annoyed at your open-ended questions. The boat docks at the other shore, and you begin your new existence in the afterlife. You weren't heroic enough in your lifetime to enter Elysium, but Asphodel Meadows has its charms. And the water from the river Lethe tastes so good. At first, you are consumed with worry about what happened to Daedalus, and you check the shores of the Styx frequently to see if your father has arrived. He never does. You don't know if he went to another aspect of the realms or even cheated death itself, and in time, you no longer care. In time, you forget you had a father at all. You feel like you're forgetting something important, but with each sip of Lethe's waters, that worry slips further and further away. Besides, you've made a new friend now. A youth with curly reddish-brown hair and a brilliant smile. He gets frustrated with you sometimes. Keeps asking questions that you can't answer. But it's better than being alone. You are a fraction of the person you once were, but you are content. It's the result that matters. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the ocean [[branch->oceanending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'bell8', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell8', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'beach', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'island', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Listen, about earlier...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['We don't have to talk about it just yet.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I think we do. I nearly lost another son today. I do not want to risk that again. You were so... angry.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I don't think we'll be flying anymore. The wings are at the bottom of the ocean.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['That is not what I mean.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I know. Look, you've been... sick for a while now, and talking to you has been difficult.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes, I remember you asking me things, and I could not find the answers. Like a void where the thought should be. But they seem to be... filling in? I think I can answer the questions now. If that would help.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why did you leave mother and I] [[behind->oceanreviveend3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell7', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell7', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['I did not want to, Iapyx, truly. I would have liked more time to plan, but the only window to escape was when Theseus killed the Minotaur. The palace was in such an uproar that it covered up the escape.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So you had no *time* to find us?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No, the timing was bad for you and your mother. She was pregnant-'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What?!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes. It was too early to tell you boys, but she was with child. She did not feel safe to fly with the little one on board.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What about me?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You were too young. You would not have been strong enough to flap the wings.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I could have tried.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No, it would not work. That is why we never returned to Athens.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What do you mean?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Poor little Perdix. He was your cousin. He was testing an early version of the wings and fell out a window. It was ruled a murder, and I was exiled from Athens.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Dear gods.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes, it was awful. I was much more careful with keeping the inventions away from you and Icarus. Not for little hands.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So what was the plan then?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Ideally, we were going to wait another year or so. Your sibling would be born, and you would be bigger and stronger. But then the Minotaur was slain. I was expecting Minos to come after us at any second.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So what was the new plan? After you] [[escaped->oceanreviveend4]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'bell6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell6', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['I was planning on hiring someone to smuggle the two of you out. Three of you, if it took a while.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So you *didn't* have a plan.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No! That is what I intended to do! But it is not exactly easy to find work as an architect in hiding. Your mother knew it would take some time.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So why did it never happen?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Icarus died. As you know, I have been struck with a sort of madness since he passed. I could not think of anything else.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's *it*? You just *forgot* about me?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I did not mean to, son.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You aren't the only one who lost someone, you know? We were told about Icarus's death. Heard how it was all due to his arrogance or whatever. Mother threw herself from the tower afterwards. I was all alone. That's all you got?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I have nothing else to say. Grief is a terrible thing. It broke me.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I don't *care* how sad you were. You had a responsibility. To me. To mother. To all the youth that were fed to the Minotaur. Even Perdix. You shut your eyes to the evil you had done, and more evil festered.’] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I am evil! I am a monster! Is that what you want? Why did you keep dragging me to the sky all these years? Keep reliving the past over and over?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['To fix] [[you->oceanreviveendlove]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['For] [[closure->oceanreviveendangry]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'bell1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['You can't solve a labyrinth by ploughing straight ahead. You need to wind the thread through. I wanted you to get better, father. I *needed* you to. You're all I have left. It hurt that you didn't remember me. I couldn't bear it. I don't think you would have recovered without recounting the past, as painful as it is.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['An old man's memory is not a labyrinth, Iapyx. You should not have wasted your time on me.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How could I not? You're all that I know.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Who's fault is that? What have you been doing these past twenty years aside from tormenting me? You should have a family of your own.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How could I, father? I thought you abandoned me. It rotted my heart. I thought knowing why would fix things, but it doesn't. I'm just... so tired.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Look, son, it has been a long day. But we are both here. Both alive. Both sane, mostly. Let us take some time to figure this out, okay?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['][[Okay->oceanreviveendlove2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'bell2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bell2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['I needed to know why you left us behind. Why you didn't recognise me. It was eating me alive.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['And now that you know?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I feel... nothing. I thought it would be different. I've wasted my life chasing after you.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Iapyx...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I'm done. Goodbye, father.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You cannot be serious!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I'll pay for your room until the end of the month. You can figure something out by then, I'm sure.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Where are you going?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Iapyx!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Stop. Let us talk about this.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['We've talked enough for two lifetimes, father.] [[Farewell->oceanreviveendangry2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'bell9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell8', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bellchord', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You spend the next few years reconnecting with your father. It's hard sometimes, and you still argue, but you can tell he truly regrets leaving you behind. Every year, on the anniversary of Icarus's death, you take to the sky, now a celebration of your fallen brother rather than an interrogation of your father's past. You always leave flowers on Icarus's grave. You wish you knew which ones were his favourites. You never marry, but you find comfort in friends and work. You build houses- fine, useful structures with no twisted passages to be seen, and buy rounds at the local pub. You are content. Sometimes, when you look in the mirror, the reflection smiles back a little too widely. But that's fine. You have your father back. For that, you'd pay any price. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the ocean [[branch->oceanending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'bell9', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell8', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell7', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bell1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'bellchord', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You leave your father on the beach next to the grave of his favourite son. True to your word, you pay off Daedalus's tab at the inn and then find work on a ship. You never want to chance running into your father again. Life as a sailor suits you. You are free to be whoever you want when you join a new crew. Oddly, the seas are often a bit calmer whenever you are aboard. Sometimes, you see an impossible shadow within the swirling depths, but you never venture too close. Poseidon can have his due when you're ready. It's an honest life, and after the chaos of Minos's court, you're happy for something simpler. Sometimes, you mourn the time you wasted trying to fix your father, but you are glad that you can finally put him behind you. You are your own man now, and it's everything you ever wanted. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the ocean [[branch->oceanending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'sunchord6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord6', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'flappingfast', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}The word barely passes through your dry, battered lips, but Icarus understands. He loops around you, and all the pain is gone. Gravity cannot touch you. All is still. (text-colour:#e5dbff)['You've gotten old, Iapyx.'] Icarus smiles. He looks just how you remember him. A handsome, gangly teenager who hadn't yet grown into his own body. Who never got the opportunity to do so. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Wh-how is this happening?'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Oh, that's an easy one. You're dying, little brother.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Dying? But... no, I was-'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Flying too close to the sun?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Oh.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Yeah.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['But what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the underworld? Shouldn't *I* be in the underworld?'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['You were always the know-it-all, Iapyx. What do you think?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['This isn't real. Something my dying brain has conjured up.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Could be. Does it matter?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes. Seeking the truth is kinda my whole] [[deal->sunendingyes]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] '(text-colour:#fff3bf)[No. I'm just happy to see] [[you->sunendingnno]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'sunchord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#e5dbff)['That's fair. Hmm. What is something that only I would know?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That won't work. If you're conjured from my brain, you'll know everything I know. And I wouldn't be able to verify anything you say that I *didn't* already know as truth.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Oh, lighten up! You were always so serious. Try me.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['All right, fine. How did you get the scar on your eyebrow?'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['I fell out of a tree. Mother wanted us to help wash up, so we hid in the courtyard.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Hah, I don't think I've ever seen her so mad!'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['You could have let her look for a bit longer! Always the tattletale.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I was seven! She was scary! And I never was as proficient at falsehoods as you and father.'] You think of Daedalus, and your face falls. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I really fucked up, didn't I? I don't know if he can land without me.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['He managed fine when *I* died. Didn't even stop to bury me.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yeah, I heard Heracles was the one who buried you.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['What a way to have my fifteen minutes of fame, huh? I would have rather helped him with one of his great feats or something. What is it you've been trying to do with Dad, anyway? I would have thought he'd never touch the wings again.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It's... ][[complicated->sunending3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'sunchord3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord3', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You hug your brother, wings and all. He smells like home. (text-colour:#e5dbff)['I missed you too. Life is bloody weird, huh? And death, too, I suppose. What have you been up to since I died? You're like forty now, right?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Twenty-nine!'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Oh dear. You must take after Dad.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Shut up!'] You give Icarus a playful shove, and he twists in an elegant spiral. (text-colour:#e5dbff)['No, really. Do you have a wife? Children? What do you do?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No. None of that really worked out for me.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['*None* of it? What have you been doing then? What's all this stuff with flying Dad around? I would have thought he'd never touch the wings again.'] <HR> '(text-colour:#fff3bf)[It's... ][[complicated->sunending3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'sunchord4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord4', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['So, and it's not your fault, but everything kinda went to shit after you died. Did father ever tell you why he left me and mother behind?'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['No. He said he planned to get you out, but I didn't know the details.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Figures. Well, whatever he was planning, it didn’t happen. Mother... she threw herself off the tower when we heard about you. I should have followed.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Iapyx. I'm *so* sorry. I didn't mean for all of that to happen.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I know you didn't. As I said, it’s not your fault. Anyway, I was stuck alone at Minos's court. And he was *furious*. I was certain he was going to kill me, but he had a drive stronger than his hate for me.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['His hate for Dad?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Exactly. He had me train in father's study. His own pet architect. I was only nine when you died, so it took a long, long time, but eventually, my skill as a designer flourished. Not as good as father, I don't have the same love for the subject. But with nothing else to do but study his old creations, I eventually developed a talent for it.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['How did that help with Minos’s revenge?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Minos wanted to create a trap for father. He'd scoured the countryside for *years* and found nothing. So, he would lure him instead. A puzzling competition that only a master architect could solve.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['And you designed the puzzle.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes. The challenge of weaving a thread through a conch shell without breaking it. Father took the] [[bait->sunending4]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'sunchord5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord5', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#e5dbff)['No surprise there. Dad was always looking for a new challenge.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yeah. He was in Sicily. He had been hiding in King Cocalus's court for a decade. Minos went to find father, and I went with him.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['You did?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes. I wanted to find father just as badly as he did, so I worked to earn Minos's trust over the years. It was... unpleasant... but it worked. I earned a place in his entourage, and we descended upon Cocalus's castle.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['What happened?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I went in expecting a fight, but Minos had become very observant of customs after the Minotaur fiasco. Didn't want to get cursed again. Cocalus offered hospitality, and Minos was forced to accept. A bath and a room, and talks would happen the next morning. During his bath, I slipped into Minos's chamber and slit his throat.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Iapyx!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I *had* to, okay? It was the only way. The things Minos did... he deserved a far worse death than the one I granted him.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['How on earth did you get away with killing a King?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Cocalus's daughters got the blame. It was not my intention, but I believe they were not punished harshly. Royalty can get away with more than the rest of us. Anyway, in the confusion I grabbed father and we ran away, ready to start a new life.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['And you lived happily ever after?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Not] [[exactly->sunending5]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'sunchord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'sunchord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'sunchordfinal', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['After ten years I was so excited to see father again, but he did not remember me.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Well, I bet you looked pretty different between, what was it, nine and nineteen?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Of course, but he didn't remember me at *all*. His mind was stuck. We tried all manner of treatments, but nothing worked. I kept him alive and safe, earned money doing odd jobs around town, but not once did I see a flicker of recognition in those eyes.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['If he's in such a state, why were you flying with him?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Well, that's just it. He's always fussing about getting ready to escape the tower. Has been for years. After one particularly frustrating day, I thought, you know what? Let him escape. So I stole the wings from Apollo's temple and strapped them to his back, and he was *so* happy. He was speaking complete sentences. He remembers more on the air. Not everything, not enough. But it's something. Every year, on the anniversary of your death, we make the flight to your grave. Each time, I hope it will be the time he remembers me. I guess it won't be this year. Or any year, now.'] Your throat feels dry. You've been talking for a long time. Icarus looks thoughtful. (text-colour:#e5dbff)['That's quite the tale, brother. I want to offer you advice but... I got nothing. A drawback of being stuck at sixteen forever, I suppose. No life experience to draw from.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's okay, Icarus.'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['I guess... what do you want now? It sounds like you've been sad for a really long time. What would make you happy? What do you want to do?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Make sure father is] [[okay->sunendingdad]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Spend more time with] [[you->sunendingicarus]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'beach', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchordfinal', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Flying into the sun was an impulsive decision.' ] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['I can relate.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Hah! I suppose you're the only person in the world who could understand. But I don't want to die. Not yet. Father has many problems, but he's still my father. He's my responsibility. If I survive this... but that's not likely, is it?'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['Probably not likely, no. But... I could put in a good word for you.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No, Icarus. You should not be dealing with the gods. It's dangerous. You're not even real!'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['What are they going to do? Double-kill me? And if I'm not real, you have nothing to worry about.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No, it's-'] (text-colour:#e5dbff)['It's okay, Iapyx. Time for me to be the big brother I should have been. I love you, dumbass.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Icarus! I-'] The world swirls to black. <HR> [[Awaken->sunendingdad2]]?

{{(track: 'sunchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'sunchordfinal', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'sun', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}With great difficulty, you open your eyes. You're lying on the beach, the water's edge lapping at your feet. Your arms and back are searing with pain, covered with melted wax and tufts of feathers. You let out a groan. Daedalus rushes to your side. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Thank the gods! You're alive!'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So are you. I'm glad.'] The words crackle dryly past your lips. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Of course I am. Let us get you fixed up.'] Your father looms over you, scooping water over your worst injuries. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Oww.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Quiet now. It needs to be cleaned. You are as bad as my son. He was always squirming around when it came to things like this.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I didn't think Icarus was squeamish.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Not him, the other one.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['The other one?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes, he... his name escapes me right now. Bit of a sullen boy but so clever. Takes after his mother.'] You try to laugh, but your throat is too burnt. Of course it would happen now. You should burn yourself to a crisp more often. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father? Let's go home.'] Your recovery is slow and painful, but in time, you regain full use of your limbs. The burns aren't pretty, but you don't mind them. The swirls in your skin remind you of Icarus flying. Daedalus never remembers who you are in full, but now and then, a memory pops up from your childhood. He tells you all about the 'other' son, the one who was inquisitive and cautious and kind. For all his flaws, there is no doubt in your heart that your father loves you. It's all you ever wanted. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the sun [[branch->sunending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'truthchord6', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord6', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'beach', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'island', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}At the top of the hill lies a small headstone. You pull a handful of wildflowers from the brushes and lay them on the grave. Icarus's grave. Twenty years ago, your brother flew too close to the sun and melted his wings, causing him to crash into the ocean. Your father has never been the same since. Daedalus sits at the side of the grave, shuddering with silent sobs. <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I am sorry,] [[father->truthending3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'truthchord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Wh.. who are you?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Iapyx. Your other son. You left me in the tower with mother when you escaped. I want to know why.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Ia... no, that cannot be right. Why were we flying just now? How can you be here and in the grave at the same time, Icarus?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['On the anniversary of his death, we fly. It helps you remember. Sometimes.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['But I hung up the wings! I gifted them to Apollo! I promised to never intrude on the god's domain again. Men should not fly. Not after... the wings should be in Apollo's temple. Not here.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I borrowed them. It's fine.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You are playing a dangerous game, boy. You do not wish to anger the gods. Why, when we were in Minos's court, Queen Pasiph-'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You told that story five minutes ago! We are forever going in circles! I want you to *listen* to me! I want you to *see* me! Why is that so hard?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['So talk.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Argh! I *have* been talking! Do you have any idea of the things I've done for] [[you->truthending4]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'truthchord5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord5', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Stop shouting.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You left me *alone*. You and Icarus disappeared out that window. Mother threw herself off the tower when she heard of Icarus's death. You know what happened to me then, father?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You are not... I was going to...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['*Minos* happened. That look in his eye. I thought he was going to kill me. I should have followed mother into the ocean.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Stop...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['But no, he had a bigger plan. He was furious at you, and you were nowhere to be found. On that, we were on the same page. He needed to create a trap, and for that, he needed an architect. One equal to your skill.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Icarus, I don't u-'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['So he locked me in your chambers. Ten years, father. *Ten* years I studied your awful contraptions. I was allowed to talk to no one. See no one. It was just me and your designs.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['That is n-'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['And eventually, I figured out the perfect puzzle. One you would never be able to resist. Care to take a guess, father?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's right, the conch shell. A boastful bastard like you could never resist the challenge. And that is how we found you.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Your pretty patron, King Cocalus, sprung the trap shut. He was *so* proud of you. All the land knew of your genius. And so we went to bring you back.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['C-Cocalus?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Exactly. We arrived in Sicily, and Cocalus insisted on the right of hospitality. Minos's only weakness. He got paranoid about crossing gods, you see. He had to accept. You know what happened next, father? In the bathing chamber?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You...'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's right, *me*. I snuck into Minos's chamber and slit his fucking] [[throat->truthending5]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'truthchord4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord4', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Why?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['To save you, of course.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['But... you are so angry...?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Of course I'm angry. I went through all that, *for you*. Killed Minos, *for you*. And you don't remember me. Not even my name. Often, you remember nothing at all! I searched the lands for a cure to what ails you, but nothing worked. Until...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Until...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You are always preparing for the escape. Part of your mind is stuck there, I think. So after the thousandth time you urged me to jump out a window, I decided sure, let's do it. Let's escape. So I stole the wings and strapped them to your back, and you know what?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I almost had my father back. *Almost*. You are better in the air. Even coherent, sometimes. But you never remember me.'] You pause to breathe. You see the cloudiness in his eyes. Almost gone now. '(text-colour:#d0ebff)[I...I am sorry.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Are you? Or do you just want me to stop talking?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['How... long?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['How long] [[what->truthending6]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'truthchord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Flying. How many times?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Around ten or so. It only really seems to work on the anniversary of Icarus's death. Maybe some part of you remembers. *Hah*. He always was the favourite.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Why?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I *just* told you-'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No. Why... why still?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Why keep flying when you don't remember me?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Yes.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I still have hope that you will] [[remember->truthendinglove]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I want to hold you accountable for your] [[sins->truthendinghate]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'truthchord3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord3', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))} {(set: $truthlove to 1)}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Despite everything, you're still my father. You're *all* I have. And it may yet work. The Minotaur story was new. Even if you wanted to tell it twice. Maybe I'm still rattling around in there. We'll try again next time.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What do you mean, no?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No flying. No more. Apollo.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Apollo doesn't care, father. He would have struck me down years ago if he had a problem with this.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Promise me. No flying.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No more flying, I] [[promise->truthendinglovegood]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] *(lie)* (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No more flying, I] [[promise->truthendinglovebad]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'truthchord3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'truthchord3', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))} {(set: $truthhate to 1)}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['I suffered so much over the years, father. So much could have been prevented if you returned for us, as you promised. I lost everything when Icarus died.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I… I cannot...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Change the past? I know. But if you could understand what you did wrong, understand what you did to *me*, maybe I could move on. It's okay. We will try again next time.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['What do you mean, no?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['No more flying. Apollo.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father, if Apollo had an issue with this, he would have struck me down years ago.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Promise me. No flying.'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No more flying, I] [[promise->truthendinglovegood]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.'] *(lie)* (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No more flying, I] [[promise->truthendinglovebad]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[.']

{{(track: 'truthchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchordfinal', 'play')} {(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Okay, okay, if that's what you want. It's your broken brain, after all.'] Daedalus is silent on the trip back to the mainland. He often is, when his feet return to the earth, but he seems especially withdrawn this time. Maybe you pushed him too far. Returning the wings to Apollo's temple is simple enough. As the son of the architect who built the place, the priests pay little attention to your comings and goings. Making yourself place them on the wall is hard, however. {(if: $truthlove is 1)[It feels like that last chance to feel your father's love has slipped through your fingers.]}{(if: $truthhate is 1)[You feel like Daedalus will never understand what he did to you, now.]} You turn around and march out the doors before you can change your mind. Life with Daedalus settles into an easy pattern. His memory never returns, but he gets far less agitated than he used to. Maybe Apollo was annoyed with you, after all. You do odd jobs around town to earn your keep, and on Daedalus's better days, you reminisce about the mother and brother you lost. None of this is what you wanted, but letting go of the anger is probably the best thing that ever happened to you. You are at peace. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the truth [[branch->truthending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'truthchord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'truthchordfinal', 'play')} {(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Okay, okay, if that's what you want. It's your broken brain, after all.'] Daedalus is silent on the trip back to the mainland. He often is, when his feet return to the earth, but he seems especially withdrawn this time. Maybe you pushed him too far. The nurse is irritated when you return to town. (text-colour:#ffdeeb)['You've been at it again, haven't you? You know he cries for days after this? Every time.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It's okay. He will forget soon enough.'] You ignore her dirty look and head to the tavern. It's been a long day. As you sink your seventh pint, you start planning the next flight. {(if: $truthlove is 1)[This time, surely, he will remember you.]}{(if: $truthhate is 1)[This time, surely, he will remember what he did to you.]} And if not, well... There's always next time. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the truth [[branch->truthending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'liechord4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord4', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You flap upright, stomach churning from the spin. Your left wing has nearly torn away from your arm. Pain vibrates through your teeth. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father, stop! I am sorry. I lied about the Minos stuff.'] Daedalus eyes you suspiciously. His knuckles are already turning red from the impact on your jaw. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Why would you do such a thing?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Because nothing works. *Nothing*. After a certain point, I started trying stranger and stranger things. To try to get you to remember me. To understand why you left mother and me behind. But it never works. I just want my father back.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['That's not behaviour becoming of a prince.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You're right, it's not. Feel free to throw me in the dungeon when we get back.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Do not play with me, boy. I grow tired of these games.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Me too, father. Let's land. There's something I should show you.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You first. I will not walk straight into another one of Minos's tricks.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['It will be just us, I promise. Come on.'] <HR> [[Land->lieendingcalmdown2]].

{{(track: 'liechord2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You flap your arms and right yourself, your head spinning from the blow. You scream and charge across the sky. Daedalus is better with the wings, but you are bigger and stronger. He crumples like paper beneath your fists. You slam into him, and you both tumble out of the sky. The shore of a small island rushes towards you. It's going to be a rough landing. <HR> Protect [[yourself->lieendingfightiapyx]]. Protect [[Daedalus->lieendingfightdaedalus]].

{{(track: 'liechord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'wind', 'fadeout', 10)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You overshot your usual landing spot after Daedalus's attack. With slow, careful loops, you correct your flight path and descend upon a small island. It's little more than a speck upon the raging sea. The final resting place of your brother. <HR> [[Icarus->lieendingicarusgrave]].

{{(track: 'liechord3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord3', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#d0ebff)['Maybe what?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I don't know! Things would be fixed! Better, somehow. We could escape the trap of the past. Both of us.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['And how is that going for you, "Iapyx"?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father, *please*. I want-'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)[‘Give up this ruse. I am tired, whoever you are. Take me home.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['But-'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Take me home, or I will have you hung for treason.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You're not a King, father!'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['And you are not half as clever as you think you are. I will not fall for your charade again. Take me home.'] <HR> Take him [[home->lieendingcalmdown4]].

{{(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechordfinal', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}Daedalus mutters to himself as you row back to the mainland. He's usually silent after one of these trips. You're unsure if this change is a good omen or not. True to his word, Daedalus tries to throw you in the dungeon when you return home to the inn. You dutifully go into a separate room and tip the nurses extra. He's going to be a handful tonight. Better than the typical tears, you suppose. Once Daedalus finally falls asleep, you slip out of your "jail cell" and head to the local tavern. After a few drinks, your heart hurts less. Or perhaps you gain some distance from the afflicted organ. A self-induced fog. You were *so* close, you think. You had a new story. He remembered you existed, albeit in child form. You wonder what Icarus would have done had your roles been reversed. He was always so much better at this social stuff. You drink until the fog consumes you entirely. Next time, you decide. Next time, it will work. Damn the nurse's dirty looks. This is worth it. Next time, you will get your father to remember you. To love you. You will get everything you ever wanted. You always were good at lying to yourself. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the lie [[branch->lieending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'liechord1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'island', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'crash', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'wind', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You pivot so that Daedalus hits the ground before you, and he does so with a sickening crunch. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['No, no, no, no, no...'] You crawl off of him and check his pulse, but there's not much point. Your father is clearly dead. You scream, and birds scatter from nearby trees. How did it come to this? You didn't mean to... it all happened so quickly. Why couldn't he answer your questions? Just give a straight answer for fucking once. Why couldn't he see you? Why couldn't he love you? You drag his body up the beach, heading toward your original destination. A headstone, just up the hill. A place with a nice view of the sea. Your brother's grave. Icarus. <HR> Tend to the [[grave->lieendingfightiapyx2]].

{{(track: 'liechord4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord4', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'island', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'island', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'crash', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'wind', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}At the last moment, you pivot your body to cushion Daedalus's fall. Your body slams into the beach, and your mind goes dark. Sometime later, you awaken. Everything hurts. Daedalus has dragged you further up the beach, up a small hill with a nice ocean view. To your side, you see the headstone. Your destination, before everything went to shit. Your brother's grave. Icarus. You hear Daedalus sobbing. <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['][[F-father->lieendingfightdaedalus2]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[?']

{{(track: 'liechord3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord3', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'digging', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'digging', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}He doesn't respond. You try to move and find that you cannot. You look down and see a waxen wing protruding from where your lung should be. Ah. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father? I'm sorry...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is all my fault. Both of you. I was so hard on him. And you... you really are Iapyx, aren't you?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Yes, father. We need to get help...'] Daedalus focuses on the task at hand. Where did he get that shovel? (text-colour:#d0ebff)['It is just... you are so old. I meant to go back. I did. I just... Icarus. It was too much.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father, please. I... I'm dying...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['He was angry too, you know. He did not understand why we could not take you with us. He tried to go back. That is why we fought. That is why he...'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['There's a boat on... on the other side. We can still...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['And I told everyone he flew into the sun. I was too cowardly to even see where his body landed.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Help...'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I do not deserve to be a father. It is best this way.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Father...?'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['I am sorry, Iapyx. Truly.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Stop! Wait...'] He is gone. A few moments later, so are you. <HR> All is [[dark->lieendingfightdaedalus3]].

{{(track: 'liechord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechordfinal', 'play')} {(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'digging', 'fadeout', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You awaken in the river Styx. You have no coin to give the ferryman, so you are condemned to purgatory. It is not so bad. The place gives you a lot of time to think. You are happy that Daedalus finally saw you for who you were, although you didn't get a chance to enjoy it. You check the Styx every day to see if he has arrived. The two of you have a lot to talk about. In the meantime, you do your best to map out the underworld. It's a strange place, full of impossible twists and turns, but you grew up in a labyrinth. Such a place is second nature to you. And somewhere within is your brother. You gave everything in life to find your family, and your afterlife is no different. You will find Icarus, no matter the cost. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the lie [[branch->lieending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'liechord5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'digging', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'digging', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}(text-colour:#fff3bf)['Hey, big brother. I've brought some company for you.'] A strained giggle bubbles from your lips. You pull the weeds around the headstone and lay fresh flowers on the grave. Twenty years. Twenty fucking years. And now you'll never know. Once Icarus's grave is tidied up, you start scratching a hole alongside it for Daedalus. It's tough work with your bare hands. After a while you snap a wing in half and use that instead. It works a little better. Daedalus stares at you blankly the whole time. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I-ah-pyx. Iapyx. That's all you had to say, father. Three syllables.'] Blood streams from under your fingernails. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['But no. Your mind was *elsewhere*.'] The sandy soil gives way to harder gravel. You scoop with both hands. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['That's why we were flying, see? Needed to go where your mind was. Not that it helped. Not really.'] The hole is nearly ready. You check Daedalus's rucksack for useful items. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I always wondered why you never buried Icarus. Heracles did it instead, apparently. I get it now. This is hard work.'] You bend your knees and roll your father into the hole. He lands face down. (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Goodbye, father. I hope you get along better with Icarus than you did with me.'] <HR> Leave the [[island->lieendingfightiapyx3]].

{{(track: 'island', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord1', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord2', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord3', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord4', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechord6', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'digging', 'fadeout', 2)} {(track: 'liechordfinal', 'play')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You try to board the little rowboat you had prepared earlier but cannot bring yourself to step in. What's the point of returning to the mainland? Your family is here. You live the rest of your days on the island, surviving on fish and small trade from passing boats. In the evenings, you sit with Daedalus and Icarus's graves and watch the sunset. It's so quiet. You speak to your fallen family, and they say exactly what you want them to say. You do have to contend with the occasional hero trying to best the "Beast of Icaria", as you came to be known, but they are usually of no trouble to dispatch. No one knows the island like you do, after all. The row of graves is getting awfully long, but one can never have too many friends. For once in your life, finally, your mind is at peace. It's all you've ever wanted. <center>The End.</center> <HR> Back to the start of the lie [[branch->lieending]]. Back to the [[start->Title screen]].

{{(track: 'island', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'island', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'liechord5', 'play', 'fadein', 2)}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}You lead Daedalus to his grave, plucking wildflowers on the way for the headstone. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['N-no...'] Daedalus collapses at the sight. (text-colour:#d0ebff)['He... you...how? *Who are you*?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['I am Iapyx, father.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Impossible. Iapyx is a child.'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You remember me?]' (text-colour:#d0ebff)['Not *you*. I remember him. This is cruel. His name is not yours to take. Is this grave even real?'] (text-colour:#fff3bf)['Listen, father, something happened to you when Icarus died. You said you would return for mother and me, but you never did. I spent a decade trying to escape Minos's court, but when I did and finally found you, you were... like this.'] (text-colour:#d0ebff)['You expect me to believe that? Why were we flying, then?'] <HR> (text-colour:#fff3bf)['You remember things better. Up in the air. I thought if I could get some answers... if you remembered me, then] [[maybe->lieendingcalmdown3]](text-colour:#fff3bf)[...']

bell1: ./Audio/bell1.mp3 bell2: ./Audio/bell2.mp3 bell3: ./Audio/bell3.mp3 bell4: ./Audio/bell4.mp3 bell5: ./Audio/bell5.mp3 bell6: ./Audio/bell6.mp3 bell7: ./Audio/bell7.mp3 bell8: ./Audio/bell8.mp3 bell9: ./Audio/bell9.mp3 bellchord: ./Audio/bellchord.mp3 piano1: ./Audio/piano1.mp3 piano2: ./Audio/piano2.mp3 piano3: ./Audio/piano3.mp3 piano4: ./Audio/piano4.mp3 piano5: ./Audio/piano5.mp3 piano6: ./Audio/piano6.mp3 piano7: ./Audio/piano7.mp3 piano8: ./Audio/piano8.mp3 piano9: ./Audio/piano9.mp3 whale1: ./Audio/whale1.mp3 whale2: ./Audio/whale2.mp3 whale3: ./Audio/whale3.mp3 whale4: ./Audio/whale4.mp3 whale5: ./Audio/whale5.mp3 whale6: ./Audio/whale6.mp3 whale7: ./Audio/whale7.mp3 whale8: ./Audio/whale8.mp3 whale9: ./Audio/whale9.mp3 vib1: ./Audio/vibraphone1.mp3 vib2: ./Audio/vibraphone2.mp3 vib3: ./Audio/vibraphone3.mp3 vib4: ./Audio/vibraphone4.mp3 vib5: ./Audio/vibraphone5.mp3 vib6: ./Audio/vibraphone6.mp3 vib7: ./Audio/vibraphone7.mp3 vib8: ./Audio/vibraphone8.mp3 vib9: ./Audio/vibraphone9.mp3 bassoon1: ./Audio/bassoon1.mp3 bassoon2: ./Audio/bassoon2.mp3 bassoon3: ./Audio/bassoon3.mp3 bassoon4: ./Audio/bassoon4.mp3 bassoon5: ./Audio/bassoon5.mp3 bassoon6: ./Audio/bassoon6.mp3 bassoon7: ./Audio/bassoon7.mp3 bassoon8: ./Audio/bassoon8.mp3 bassoon9: ./Audio/bassoon9.mp3 sunchord1: ./Audio/sunchord1.mp3 sunchord2: ./Audio/sunchord2.mp3 sunchord3: ./Audio/sunchord3.mp3 sunchord4: ./Audio/sunchord4.mp3 sunchord5: ./Audio/sunchord5.mp3 sunchord6: ./Audio/sunchord6.mp3 sunchordfinal: ./Audio/sunchordfinal.mp3 truthchord1: ./Audio/truthchord1.mp3 truthchord2: ./Audio/truthchord2.mp3 truthchord3: ./Audio/truthchord3.mp3 truthchord4: ./Audio/truthchord4.mp3 truthchord5: ./Audio/truthchord5.mp3 truthchord6: ./Audio/truthchord6.mp3 truthchordfinal: ./Audio/truthchordfinal.mp3 liechord1: ./Audio/liechord1.mp3 liechord2: ./Audio/liechord2.mp3 liechord3: ./Audio/liechord3.mp3 liechord4: ./Audio/liechord4.mp3 liechord5: ./Audio/liechord5.mp3 liechord6: ./Audio/liechord6.mp3 liechordfinal: ./Audio/liechordfinal.mp3 oceanchord1: ./Audio/oceanchord1.mp3 oceanchord2: ./Audio/oceanchord2.mp3 oceanchord3: ./Audio/oceanchord3.mp3 oceanchord4: ./Audio/oceanchord4.mp3 oceanchord5: ./Audio/oceanchord5.mp3 oceanchord6: ./Audio/oceanchord6.mp3 oceanchordfinal: ./Audio/oceanchordfinal.mp3 wind: ./Audio/wind.mp3 beach: ./Audio/beach.mp3 underwater: ./Audio/underwater.mp3 island: ./Audio/island.mp3 sun: ./Audio/sun.mp3 crash: ./Audio/crash.mp3 digging:./Audio/digging.mp3 liftoff: ./Audio/liftoff.mp3 flappingfast: ./Audio/flappingfast.mp3 splash: ./Audio/splash.mp3 running: ./Audio/running.mp3

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{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')}}Chords: (link-repeat: 'Sun chord 1')[(track: 'sunchord1', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Sun chord 2')[(track: 'sunchord2', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Sun chord 3')[(track: 'sunchord3', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Sun chord 4')[(track: 'sunchord4', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Sun chord 5')[(track: 'sunchord5', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Sun chord 6')[(track: 'sunchord6', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Sun chord final')[(track: 'sunchordfinal', 'play')] Ambience: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Sun Notes->suntest1]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')}} {{(track: 'piano7', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano7', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'piano4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano4', 'play', 'fadein', 12)} {(track: 'piano1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano1', 'play', 'fadein', 19)} {(track: 'piano5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano5', 'play', 'fadein', 29)} {(track: 'piano3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano3', 'play', 'fadein', 37)} {(track: 'piano2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'piano2', 'play', 'fadein', 45)}}Ambient tracks: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Truth Chords->truthtest2]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')}}Chords: (link-repeat: 'Truth chord 1')[(track: 'truthchord1', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Truth chord 2')[(track: 'truthchord2', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Truth chord 3')[(track: 'truthchord3', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Truth chord 4')[(track: 'truthchord4', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Truth chord 5')[(track: 'truthchord5', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Truth chord 6')[(track: 'truthchord6', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Truth chord final')[(track: 'truthchordfinal', 'play')] Ambience: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Truth notes ->truthtest1]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')} {(track: 'bassoon8', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon8', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'bassoon4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon4', 'play', 'fadein', 12)} {(track: 'bassoon1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon1', 'play', 'fadein', 19)} {(track: 'bassoon5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon5', 'play', 'fadein', 25)} {(track: 'bassoon3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon3', 'play', 'fadein', 37)} {(track: 'bassoon2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'bassoon2', 'play', 'fadein', 45)}}Ambience: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Lie Chords->lietest2]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]

{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')}}{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}Chords: (link-repeat: 'Lie chord 1')[(track: 'liechord1', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Lie chord 2')[(track: 'liechord2', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Lie chord 3')[(track: 'liechord3', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Lie chord 4')[(track: 'liechord4', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Lie chord 5')[(track: 'liechord5', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Lie chord 6')[(track: 'liechord6', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Lie chord final')[(track: 'liechordfinal', 'play')] Ambience: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Lie Notes ->lietest1]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}} {{(masteraudio: 'stopall')} {(track: 'vib9', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib9', 'play', 'fadein', 2)} {(track: 'vib4', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib4', 'play', 'fadein', 12)} {(track: 'vib1', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib1', 'play', 'fadein', 19)} {(track: 'vib5', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib5', 'play', 'fadein', 25)} {(track: 'vib3', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib3', 'play', 'fadein', 33)} {(track: 'vib2', 'loop', true)} {(track: 'vib2', 'play', 'fadein', 45)}}Ambience: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Ocean Chords->oceantest2]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]

{{(enchant:?passage,(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:20)+(b4r-colour:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45),(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}{(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:210,0.1081,0.1451,0.45)))}}{{(masteraudio: 'stopall')}}Chords: (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord 1')[(track: 'oceanchord1', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord 2')[(track: 'oceanchord2', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord 3')[(track: 'oceanchord3', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord 4')[(track: 'oceanchord4', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord 5')[(track: 'oceanchord5', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord 6')[(track: 'oceanchord6', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Ocean chord Final')[(track: 'oceanchordfinal', 'play')] Ambience: (link-repeat: 'Play wind')[(track: 'wind', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play beach')[(track: 'beach', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play underwater')[(track: 'underwater', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play sun')[(track: 'sun', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'Play island')[(track: 'island', 'play')] Sound effects: (link-repeat: 'liftoff')[(track: 'liftoff', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'flapping')[(track: 'flappingfast', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'digging')[(track: 'digging', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'splash')[(track: 'splash', 'play')] (link-repeat: 'crash')[(track: 'crash', 'play')] [[Ocean notes ->oceantest1]] [[Testing Area]] [[Title screen]]