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<<if ($specialty is "none of these") and ($principle is "none of these")>><<set $god to "THE DREAD PILGRIM, UZUTX">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "willpower") and ($principle is "serenity")>><<set $god to "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "willpower") and ($principle is "might")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "willpower") and ($principle is "mercy")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "willpower") and ($principle is "none of these")>><<set $god to "UZUTX">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "patience") and ($principle is "serenity")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "patience") and ($principle is "might")>><<set $god to "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "patience") and ($principle is "mercy")>><<set $god to "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "patience") and ($principle is "none of these")>><<set $god to "THE DREAD PILGRIM, UZUTX">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "luck") and ($principle is "serenity")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "luck") and ($principle is "might")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "luck") and ($principle is "mercy")>><<set $god to "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "luck") and ($principle is "none of these")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
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<<if ($specialty is "none of these") and ($principle is "might")>><<set $god to "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">><</if>>
<<if ($specialty is "none of these") and ($principle is "mercy")>><<set $god to "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">><</if>>
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<table><th><div class="header"><< CREDITS >><div class="psg"><center>Writing & Programming by G.C. Baccaris
Original Music by G.C. Baccaris
Loading Animation by <a href="https://codepen.io/Manoz/pen/pydxK">Manoz</a>
Art by CraftPix.net 2D Game Assets</center></div></div></th><th><div class="header"><< SPECIAL THANKS >><div class="psg"><center>Special thanks to <b><span style="color:#f96854;">Patrons</span></b>: Jemma, Hyacinth Nil, Cat Manning, Stephen Granade, Eduardo Sánchez, aMadReason, Bez, Eli Berg-Maas, August, Octavia C. Saenz, Dee, J Tuason
And to Ruune for teaching me to make music!</center></div></div><tr><div class="header"><< MORE INFO >><div class="psg"><center>Created for the Twine Survival Guide Jam</center></div></div></tr></th></table>
<center><div class="button1"><<link "REPLAY?">><<run Engine.restart()>><</link>></div></center><<masteraudio stop>><<audio "song2" play loop>><table><tr><th><center><<if $god is "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">>[img[images/49.png]]<</if>><<if $god is "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">>[img[images/9.png]]<</if>><<if $god is "THE DREAD PILGRIM, URUTHX">>[img[images/7.png]]<</if>></center></th>
<th><div class="info">According to the data you have volunteered, you are most likely to be <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">i.e. found to be inoffensive, not unforgivably repulsive, non-threatening, etc.</span>compatible</a> with <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span>.</div></th></tr></table>
<div class="header"><< WHAT IS "COMPATIBILITY" <i>?</i> >><div class="psg">"Compatibility" is defined as "a state in which two things are able to exist or occur together without problems or conflict." By our estimation, you are <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Please understand: this is an estimation, not a guarantee.</span>less likely</a> to encounter significant <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Including but not limited to: blurred vision, edentulism, eye bulging exceeding 2mm, disappearance of fingerprints, hallucinations, urine discoloration, parasitic rash, infection, blood loss, anaphylaxis, maiming, and/or death</span>setbacks</a> when paired with a being which will be inclined to accept your presence at its side.
Possessing traits favored by certain entities indicates that they will most likely react <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Nevertheless, we must urge you not to exhibit excessive fear in the presence of such beings.</span>favorably</a> to you. Though no human, living or dead, can hope to understand the minds of such beings, we can yet <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>not kindred in mind or form, but brought together in time and place and desperation</i></span>recognize</a> one another.
If you succeed in honoring <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span>, it will be imbued with the power to <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>and twist and bend and </i></span>sway</a> the world itself: to renew it according to your shared inclinations.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1"><<if $god is "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">>[[CONTINUE|ELDER1]]<</if>><<if $god is "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">>[[CONTINUE|ELDER2]]<</if>><<if $god is "THE DREAD PILGRIM, UZUTX">>[[CONTINUE|ELDER3]]<</if>></div></center><div class="header"><< CONGRATULATIONS $name <i>!</i> >><div class="psg">This is a notification of completion for the Herald Training Module offerred by Entity Corporation.</div></div>
<div class="info">IMPORTANT: You will not be receiving a paper form or certificate. This digital Completion Notice is intended for personal records only.</div>
<center><div class="button1">[[REVIEW POLICIES|Ending]]</div></center>
<<masteraudio stop>><<audio "song3" play loop>><div class="header"><< WHAT IS A RITUAL <i>?</i> >><div class="psg">Many things can be classified as "<a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">noun: "a series of actions or type of behavior regularly and invariably followed by someone"</span>ritual</a>" behaviors. Consider things that you did every day, when the world was whole. Your grooming, your meals, your daily habits — all of these were rituals.
You must feel their <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">memories, recollections of when things were not this bad — not perfect, but not <i>this bad</i>—</span>weight</a> even now.
You can offer that same nostalgia to <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span>, and it will grant kindness to you in turn.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1"><<if $god is "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">>[[PROCEED|ELDER1B]]<</if>><<if $god is "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">>[[PROCEED|ELDER2B]]<</if>><<if $god is "THE DREAD PILGRIM, UZUTX">>[[PROCEED|ELDER3B]]<</if>></div></center>
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<th><div class="info">Tell us about yourself.
We require only a small amount of <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Rest assured that no third party remains with whom we may share this information.</span>personal information</a> in order to proceed.</div></th></tr></table>
<table><th><div class="header">INPUT YOUR NAME<div class="help"><a data-passage="" class="tooltip" title="Help!"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>What do you call yourself?</i></span>?</a></div><div class="psg"><<textbox "$name" "???">></div></div></th>
<th><div class="header">SELECT YOUR SPECIALTY<div class="help"><a data-passage="" class="tooltip" title="Help!"><span style="text-align: center;">Of these traits, what are you known for?</span>?</a></div><div class="psg"><div class="cycle"><<cycle "$specialty" autoselect>><<option "patience">><<option "willpower">><<option "luck">><<option "none of these">><</cycle>></div></div></div></th>
<th><div class="header">SELECT A PRINCIPLE<div class="help"><a data-passage="" class="tooltip" title="Help!"><span style="text-align: center;">Of these qualities, what what would you choose to strive for?</span>?</a></div><div class="psg"><div class="cycle"><<cycle "$principle" autoselect>><<option "mercy">><<option "might">><<option "serenity">><<option "none of these">><</cycle>></div></div></div></th></table>
<center><div class="button1">[[SUBMIT|Continue]]</div></center>
<div class="header"><< $god <i>?</i> >><div class="psg">Though reviled as septic garbage, <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> is not dissimilar from the helpful bacteria and pests that have existed for centuries: it appears ugly and strange, but it is necessary for life.
A large wormlike creature always slick with effluvial grime, $god does not move great distances of its own accord, but wherever it <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">or is brought...</span>settles</a>, life blossoms in the wake of its unique bacterial cultures.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< THE AVATAR OF FILTH >><div class="psg"><span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> possesses the ability to restore biodiversity to this foetid plane, but it will require a herald who can devote a great deal of <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">carry it, wash it, soothe its convulsions as you would a beloved infant</span>care</a> to it, accompanying it on its long journey.</div></div>
<div class="info">TIP: Beings <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">filled with potential but requiring collaboration, a symbiotic contract</span>such as this</a> require a ritual to be summoned.</div>
<center><div class="button1">[[PROCEED TO RITUAL|RITUAL]]</div></center><div class="header"><< $god <i>?</i> >><div class="psg"><span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> struggles within the earth, suffocating in the mantle where it was sealed long before <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Trace your family tree as far back as you can recall. This tree is taller, its roots more vast, its canopy a never-ending eclipse.</span>your ancestors</a> walked above it. It has been growing ever since, its roots extending into deep and unseen places.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< A SEED BENEATH TOO MUCH SOIL >><div class="psg">If <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> were freed, its re-emergence would surely restore our ruined plant life, improving the air quality. This being yearns for a tranquil place to stretch out its weary body and, for the first time in ages, bask in the light of the sun.</div></div>
<div class="info">TIP: Beings <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">vast beyond comprehension, a growing breathing thing</span>such as this</a> require a specific ritual to be summoned.</div>
<center><div class="button1">[[PROCEED TO RITUAL|RITUAL]]</div></center><div class="header"><< $god <i>?</i> >><div class="psg">Far off in the cosmos, <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> watches and waits. Earth has caught its twinkling gaze. Whether you recognize it or not, you have seen it in the night sky, a bright star that shifts from night to night — there sometimes, and not others.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< THE VOYAGING COLLECTIVE >><div class="psg">Doomed to wander forever, <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> cannot settle on a planet without being invited. If invited, it will make this place a true <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">a welcoming hive</span>home</a>.</div></div>
<div class="info">TIP: Beings <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">far-seeing and immense, an all-usurping mind, a companion of the very stars</span>such as this</a> require a ritual to be summoned.</div>
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<<cacheaudio "song4" "audio/song3.wav">><<audio "song1" play loop>><div class="header"><< WELCOME <i>!</i> >><div class="psg">If you are accessing <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="Help!"><span style="text-align: center;">A helpful guide from Entity Corp. to you!</span>this file</a>, the world as you once knew it has ended.
Scraps of technology remain, allowing you to search for information wherever you come across its <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="Help!"><span style="text-align: center;">abandoned USB drives, the carnage of gutted computers, old CDs, evidence of the past</span>vessels</a>.
What follows is a simulation which will help you learn how to do what is <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="Help!"><span style="text-align: center;">Make no mistake: it is necessary.</span>necessary</a> to revise this world.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1">[[BEGIN MODULE]]</div></center><div class="header"><< LEGAL POLICIES <i>!</i> >><div class="psg"><i><small>By inputting your name, [ $name ], during the course of the Herald Training Module, you have released Entity Corp. from liability in the event of adverse results.
As we have made abundantly clear, this simulation is neither designed for nor capable of clairvoyance. Miscalculations are possible; additionally, we will not be held responsible for the human errors brought about by our clients. Thank you for understanding.
As a formality, please agree to the terms below:</small></i></div></div>
<div class="info">"I, $name, acknowledge that I have completed the Entity Corp. Herald Training Module. I understand that there are <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">These risks include, but are not limited to, injury, disease, threat of personal harm to myself and others, and theft of personal property.</span>certain risks</a> inherent in the summoning of outer deities. I understand that there may be a variety of <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">physical, psychological, and emotional</span>other risks</a> which are unknown or not reasonably foreseeable. I acknowledge that Entity Corp is not responsible for any harm that may occur."</div>
<center><div class="button1">[[I AGREE|CONTINUE3]]</div></center><div class="header"><< DREAD AND DECAY >><div class="psg">From the great unearthly <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Older than the gods you remember, unheeded until now.</span>pantheon</a> which thrives in secret beyond the purview of the weak human eye, we have determined that <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">No more and no less.</span>three</a> beings may be able and willing to restore our world to a habitable state.
However, only <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">These beings will not deign to share a summoner.</span>one</a> of the three can be chosen, and each of these three will require a human <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">noun: "a person or thing viewed as as sign that something is about to happen"</span>herald</a> to assist them in reclaiming this world.
The state of our planet, ancient and much-abused as it is, has imbued it with a great deal of <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>You feel it even now, don't you?</i></span>dread</a> — enough to enable even a hapless human like yourself to reach out for the Hand of God.</div></div>
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<center><div class="title2">PRESS ANY KEY</div></center><div class="header"><< SUCCESS <i>!</i> >><div class="psg">Your answers have been submitted and analyzed. Affinities have been calculated. Values have been assigned and compared.
Thank you kindly for your cooperation.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1">[[PROCEED|ELDER ASSIGNMENT]]</div></center><center><div class="title2">$god</div></center>
<div class="header"><< STEP ONE >><div class="psg">Craft for yourself a <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">an extension of your embrace</span>sling or wrap</a> of sorts, fashioned as if to carry up to <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">13.6 kg</span>30 lbs</a> on your back or chest. The materials used are of little consequence; whatever is available <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">animal byproducts are favored</span>will do</a>, but try to ensure that it is durable and comfortable for long-term wear.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< STEP TWO >><div class="psg">Locate an auspicious place, one which is in some way polluted. The more extreme the pollution, the higher your odds of <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Lure filth with filth.</span>success</a>.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< STEP THREE >><div class="psg">Prepare yourself to receive that which is born from pestilence. <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">AVOID CONTACT WITH EYES</span>Anoint yourself</a> in the surrounding pollution; submerge your hands, cover the top of your head, and wait.
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span> will not be offended if you vomit.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1">[[UNDERSTOOD?|RITUAL ASSESSMENT]]</div></center><center><div class="title2">$god</div></center>
<div class="header"><< STEP ONE >><div class="psg">Prepare a selection of <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">This is not a task for fingernails alone.</span>tools</a> and implements to assist you in digging through soil and rock. Shovels or trowels are highly recommended if you have access to them.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< STEP TWO >><div class="psg">Locate a patch of land below sea-level and in direct sunlight. Dig as deeply as you are able. Ensure that you do not break the earth before daybreak.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< STEP THREE >><div class="psg">When you can dig no deeper, offer a small amount of precious water. Tears or spit will suffice, <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">$god will know if you attempt to deceive it.</span>if</a> they are genuine.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1">[[UNDERSTOOD?|RITUAL ASSESSMENT]]</div></center><center><div class="title2">$god</div></center>
<div class="header"><< STEP ONE >><div class="psg">Identify a <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">a space which could abide a shrine, a place of worship and togetherness</span>suitable location</a> upon which to build: envison a compound <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">30.4 m</span>100 ft</a> wide and 100 ft long.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< STEP TWO >><div class="psg"> Establish a perimeter, carving its limits <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">use a stick, a tool, your fingertips</span>into the ground</a>, moving rocks or felling trees if necessary to flatten the terrain. If you are able to erect <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Even a low wall or the indication of one is enough to inspire a sense of security.</span>walls</a> of any kind, this is highly recommended.</div></div>
<div class="header"><< STEP THREE >><div class="psg">Arrange <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Songs, poems, pleas, whether written in precious ink or scrawled into the earth.</span>offerings</a> to attract <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$god</span>'s notice. Create a home, however humble, in which it may dwell. Invite it, and it will come calling.
You will hear its answering song. <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>all who yet survive will speak and listen as one</i></span>Everyone</a> will.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1">[[UNDERSTOOD?|RITUAL ASSESSMENT]]</div></center><div class="header"><< OUR TIME COMES TO AN END >><div class="psg">There is still a chance to restore something precious that our world has lost: <<if $god is "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">>the once-sublime verdure<</if>><<if $god is "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">>the essential dregs of life<</if>><<if $god is "THE DREAD PILGRIM, UZUTX">>a unity of purpose<</if>>.
To do so, you must compromise everything, but we hope you and your chosen patron will enjoy some semblance of accord.
We wish you luck in your new world, <span style="text-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #DA5529, 1px 3px 4px #9D2700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: 5px;">$name, Herald of <<if $god is "DISCARDED RELIC, YHA-IRVATH">>YHA-IRVATH<</if>><<if $god is "OZGILOTH, THE UNCLEAN">>OZGILOTH<</if>><<if $god is "THE DREAD PILGRIM, UZUTX">>UZUTX<</if>></span>.</div></div>
<center><div class="button1"><<link "REPLAY?">><<run Engine.restart()>><</link>></div> <div class="button1">[[CREDITS]]</div></center>
<div class="header"><< MODULE COMPLETE <i>!</i> >><div class="psg">In just a few simple<a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>not guaranteed</i></span>*</a> steps, you can now rearrange the world, provided you execute your ritual <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;">Or better, if you can manage. Use anything and everything at your disposal.</span>to the best of your ability</a>.
We strongly recommend that you review the information provided before attempting to initiate a summoning ritual in the real world.
However, do not wait too long. This <a data-passage="" class="tooltip2" title="?"><span style="text-align: center;"><i>and you, you whose body is dying all around you, rotting from birth</i></span>world</a> is falling apart.</div></div>
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