Conversation 191: CHURCH ORB / cone of silence

EVERYTHING IS SILENT HERE VERY SPOOKY SCENE YES INDEED WHOLE SCENE ABOUT LOOKING UP AND THEN TIAGO APPEARS, BOOM!

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Perception (Hearing) The silence in this part of the church -- it's almost palpable. All the shifting matter and shuffling of living things is gone. Nothing seems to exist beyond the church anymore.
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3 You Wait, I think I still hear something...
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4 Perception (Hearing) And then it's gone. Almost all of it -- but for the faintest of hums.
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5 None
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6 You Yell as loud as you can.
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7 You (Turn to Kim.) "What's happening?" IsKimHere() and Variable["church.orb_silence_clapped"] and Variable["church.orb_silence_shouted"]
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8 You Look up into the bell tower. Variable["church.orb_silence_asked_kim_about_silence"]
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9 Perception (Sight) The orderly rows of ceiling panels become barely visible, then disappear completely in the darkness of the tower overhead.
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10 Perception (Sight) It's like there's something moving up there -- a shadow has emerged from the tower and is making its way *toward* you through all the other shadows.
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11 You Try to see beyond the shadows.
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12 Perception (Sight) Just darkness without end -- it makes your head spin.
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13 None
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14 None Variable["church.orb_silence_redcheck_sight_up"]
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15 None (Variable["church.orb_silence_redcheck_sight_up"]) == false
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16 You (Blink.)
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17 Tiago You see something hanging from the rafters, looking straight at you with dark eyes.
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18 Perception (Sight) It's not a shadow anymore -- becoming more substantial as it gets closer. The shape of an *animal* descends.
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19 Perception (Sight) Oh no! You've lost sight of it. Where did it go?
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20 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant points to his ears and shakes his head. Then he leans closer.
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21 Perception (Hearing) Your voice is barely audible -- not a howl, but the softest of whimpers.
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22 None
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23 You Stomp your feet and clap your hands.
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24 Perception (Hearing) You produce a few muffled thumps, after which the silence feels even more... *total* somehow.
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25 Kim Kitsuragi "Can you hear anything?"
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26 You "Almost nothing, and it's beginning to worry me."
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27 Kim Kitsuragi "The church just has... strange acoustics -- some engineering trick."
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28 None
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29 None
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30 You On the ceiling?
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31 You Follow the shadow's movements.
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32 Perception (Sight) Yes. The darkness makes the ceiling feel infinitely far away...
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33 You Try to make out something -- anything.
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34 Perception (Sight) There's nothing. You're dizzy and disoriented as you see dark and more dark -- rising...
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35 None
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36 You What's the darkness like?
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37 Perception (Sight) Filled with vague shapes of woodwork. The sense of a great height.
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38 Tiago You see something hanging from the rafters, looking straight at you with dark eyes.
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39 You (Blink.)
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40 You What if I don't *want* to know what's up there?
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41 Perception (Hearing) The silence, the darkness -- they've enveloped you, as in a cocoon. You cannot move anymore.
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42 None
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43 None
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44 None
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45 None
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46 You "Not really, but it's extraordinary. I've never experienced anything like this."
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47 Kim Kitsuragi "I wonder why the... church was built with such strange acoustics..."
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48 Empathy His detached tone conceals how uncomfortable he is.
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49 Conceptualization Maybe the church was designed in this way to prevent boisterous activity -- singing and dancing -- on its premises?
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50 You "Maybe they wanted to discourage singing and dancing." Variable["church.silence_clap_concept"]
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51 None
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52 You "Hey, what if it's something *paranatural*?" Variable["doomed.plais_whitecheck_drama_convince"] or IsTHCPresent("remote_viewer") or Variable["tc.rvd"]
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53 You "Whatever it is, it's definitely real. Something odd is happening around us."
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54 Kim Kitsuragi "Hmm, could be..."
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55 Kim Kitsuragi "Please, detective, not this again."
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56 Suggestion He's trying to act dismissive, but at this particular moment, he's more open than usual to the idea of paranatural phenomena.
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57 Perception (Hearing) Maybe if you were to stand in just the right spot, even your footsteps would be completely silent...
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58 Logic It seems that sound here is detached from its source somehow, if not blotted out outright. Truly unusual.
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59 None
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60 None Variable["tc.pale"] and Variable["church.silence_greet_concept"]
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61 None (Variable["tc.pale"] and Variable["church.silence_greet_concept"]) == false
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62 Encyclopedia Sounds like the pale.
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63 None
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64 None Variable["church.silence_greet_reaction"]
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65 None (Variable["church.silence_greet_reaction"]) == false
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66 Half Light It's unnerving.
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67 None
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68 You How do I know what the pale sounds like?
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69 You No. Let me just listen.
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70 Encyclopedia From recordings. Of the far pale. You've heard them. We all have.
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71 Perception (Hearing) You can hardly hear your own breathing.
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72 Encyclopedia You know, in the middle of the last century, there was a group of Revacholian painters who famously disdained the use of black.
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73 None
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74 None Variable["church.silence_red_check_fail_encyc"]
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75 None (Variable["church.silence_red_check_fail_encyc"]) == false
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76 None
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77 You What did they have against black?
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78 You Why only Revacholian?
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79 You Can I use this to see through the darkness up there, somehow? (Proceed.) Variable["church.silence_red_check_fail_encyc_rev"] and Variable["church.silence_red_check_fail_encyc_black"]
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80 Encyclopedia No, this is just an intellectual musing. In fact, it's probably dangerous to waste time like this. You should stop.
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81 Encyclopedia Revachol was an overwhelmingly colourful place back then. They made most of the world's dyes here.
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82 Encyclopedia They wanted to capture what it really felt like to look at the world -- to be *inside* colour, to be blinded by early afternoon light glittering on the crests of sea waves.
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83 None
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84 None
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85 Encyclopedia Such an effect is best achieved by using the juxtaposition of complementary colours -- rather than the addition of black -- to create contrast.
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86 You Hmm, maybe I should take up painting.
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87 You Seems unfair to black. I like black, look at it!
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88 Encyclopedia It's unclear if you have enough years left in you to make up for your lack of technique...
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89 Encyclopedia Sometimes an encounter with an opposing aesthetic is required for one to truly grow into one's tastes and preferences.
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90 Encyclopedia It would likely be easier to explain with a hands-on demonstration. Alas!
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91 You Sounds complicated.
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92 None
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93 Half Light Prepare for an attack!
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94 Kim Kitsuragi "Officer, is there something up there?" The lieutenant follows your gaze, attempting to see whatever it is that you are seeing.
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95 None
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96 None IsKimHere()
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97 None (IsKimHere()) == false
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98 You Look up into the bell tower. IsKimHere() == false
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99 Kim Kitsuragi "Hmm, maybe. Darkness often has that effect on people."
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100 Tiago Maybe it's possible to... talk to it?
101 Kim Kitsuragi "Officer, what are you looking at?" He follows your gaze, attempting to see whatever it is that you are seeing.
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102 None
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103 None IsKimHere()
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104 None (IsKimHere()) == false
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105 Inland Empire It's like you see your own face reflected back at you in the vanishing geometry -- a strange, alien image that's supposed to be you.
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106 Tiago Maybe it's possible to... talk to it?
107 You "It's probably nothing, just our imagination."
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108 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant doesn't reply, but you can sense him tense up next to you.
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109 Rhetoric He doesn't seem entirely convinced, though.
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110 Encyclopedia But to what? There is almost nothing.
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111 You "Can't hear shit."
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112 Volition Relax. It'll be okay.
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113 Physical Instrument It's *climbing*. Climbing down, holding on the beams.
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