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,,,<span style="font-size:60px;">THE GREATER BROOD</span>
When you hatched, you joined a triumvirate, transforming their centuries-old dynamic into something new. You rely upon them now for guidance.
<center><table><<if ($n is "true") and ($e is "true") and ($b is "true") and ($s is "true")>><tr><td>[img[images/end.png]]</td><td>REFLECT <span class="egg1">[[WITHIN YOURSELF|ENDING]]</span></td></tr><</if>>
<tr><td>[img[images/naz.png]]</td><td>SEEK OUT THE <span class="naz">[[HARUSPEX]]</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>[img[images/bes.png]]</td><td>INVOKE THE <span class="bes">[[MIND'S EYE]]</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>[img[images/ser.png]]</td><td>SUMMON THE <span class="ser">[[RED SHROUD]]</span></td></tr>
<<if ($n is "true") and ($b is "true") and ($s is "true")>><tr><td>[img[images/egg2.png]]</td><td>CONSULT THE <span class="egg1">[[OVUM MUNDI]]</span></td></tr><</if>></table></center><<set $e to "true">><center><div class="bitsyembed"><iframe id="bitsy2" src="bitsy/bitsy2.html" style="border:none" height=512px width=512px></iframe></div>
[[FINISHED|Brood]] <div class="q">?</div></center><<set $n to "true">><center><div class="bitsyembed"><iframe id="bitsy1" src="bitsy/bitsy1.html" style="border:none" height=512px width=512px></iframe></div>
[[FINISHED|Brood]] <div class="q">?</div></center><<set $b to "true">><center><div class="bitsyembed"><iframe id="bitsy3" src="bitsy/bitsy3.html" style="border:none" height=512px width=512px></iframe></div>
[[FINISHED|Brood]] <div class="q">?</div></center><<set $s to "true">><center><div class="bitsyembed"><iframe id="bitsy4" src="bitsy/bitsy4.html" style="border:none" height=512px width=512px></iframe></div>
[[FINISHED|Brood]] <div class="q">?</div></center><center><span style="font-size: 80px;">CREDITS</span>
<<link "Restart">><<script>>UI.restart()<</script>><</link>><div class="q">?</div><table><tr><td><span style="text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #fff;">Writing, Art, & Design</span>
➣ G.C. Baccaris
<span style="text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #fff;">Tools & Features</span>
➣ Bitsy by Adam Le Doux
➣ Borksy by AYolland
➣ Bitsy Hacks by Sean S. LeBlanc
<span style="text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #fff;">Music</span>
➣ "Deep Inside the Flesh"
by Monplaisir</td>
<td><span style="text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #fff;">Special Thanks: Patrons</span>
➣ Cat Manning
➣ Hyacinth Nil
➣ Jesse Bradley
➣ Miranda Cornelius-Fisse
➣ Shae Rossi
➣ Stephen Granade
➣ aMadReason
➣ Greg Buchanan
➣ J Tuason
➣ Nessa</td></tr></table></center><<set $n to "false">>
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<<cacheaudio "bgm" "music/Deep.mp3">><center><span style="font-size:60px;">HATCHLING</span>
[img[images/egg2.png]][img[images/naz.png]][img[images/bes.png]][img[images/ser.png]]
✦ [[START|Intro]] ✦</center><<audio "bgm" fadein play volume 0.5 loop>>You were murdered recently.
<span id="conv1"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv1">>It didn't take.
<span id="conv2"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv2">>When you first breached the boundary between life and death, it seemed a last illusion conjured by a dying mind. There were voices, distant and garbled, much of their language unintelligible — but three among them became clear.
<span id="conv3"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv3">>They presented you with a choice. You could have refused.
<span id="conv4"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv4">>[[But you did not.]]
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<</replace>><</click>></span>The trial of rebirth was excruciating, but you overcame it.
<span id="conv1"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv1">>You are a Duke now.
<span id="conv2"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv2">>The lowly, unhappy man you were before does not matter anymore. His blood is cold in your veins. You no longer need it.
<span id="conv3"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv3">>But you must keep up appearances, of course. The living would fear you if your nature were revealed. They would reject you. They do not understand what you've become.
<span id="conv4"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv4">>In truth, [[neither do you|Brood]].
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<</replace>><</click>></span>You have unfinished business. You are not through with the world as you knew it.
<span id="conv1"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv1">>You could commit yourself to monastic dormancy in the fathomless depths of the glaire, that abstract dimension from which you were reborn — but you do not want to. You still long for the way you lived before, as a creature of flesh and blood and instinct.
<span id="conv2"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv2">>Perhaps the others are humoring you. But perhaps they, too, long for distant memories and new experiences.
<span id="conv3"><<click "✦">><<replace "#conv3">>Only time will tell.
✦ [[CREDITS|Credits]] ✦
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