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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:+Qd7zAX2 Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:31:07 No.5944526 View View Report

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>Are you uhhhhh okay buddy

Gil raises no protest about you carefully walking him down the hall— he can stand upright by himself, but it's wobbly, and unaided locomotion seems beyond him. Even with your help, he moves like he's sleepwalking, though his firm grasp on your sleeve indicates some awareness. You mean, you think it does. He hasn't really spoken much more.

He doesn't protest the curing either— if anything you're the one anxious about it, sending your best retainer into a metal box to be heated to extreme temperatures, but you tell yourself it did work last time. And surely Pat wouldn't sabotage the process now, no matter how annoyed she is about you saving her entire life. She wouldn't burn your retainer to a crisp. You'd kill her for that. She has to know you'd kill her for that.

Pat doesn't evince any outward signs of knowing this, though she does remind you curtly that goo is very resistant to high temperatures, just like it was last time and has also always been, and that this is a necessary step in the process, unless you want Bug... unless you want Gil the approximate consistency of swamp ooze the second he touches water. And it's true that you don't want that, so you do let him lie down clumsily on a body-size tray with rollers underneath and you do let Pat roll the tray inside the oven (that's essentially what it is) with the rollers going click-click-click-click-thunk. And Pat shuts the hatch on your retainer, though there's a little window built into the hatch, so you can watch.

Pat tells you that watching isn't going to do any good. You tell Pat that you can do what you damn well please, considering that you saved her entire life. Horse Face chuckles. (He's been doing a lot of that.) Inside the curing machine, coils glow orange-hot, and Gil doesn't move. Nothing appears to be happening. But if you start smelling smoke...

You never smell smoke. (You do smell something sharp and tangy, like blood, but Pat tells you that that's just what goo smells like heated. Horse Face backs her up, to your disgust.) In the end, a timer dings, and Pat rolls Gil back out. His eyes are shut, his mouth has fallen open, and you're about halfway through drawing The Sword when Pat shakes his shoulder and he twitches. "Mnhh."

"You fell asleep," she tells him, but she means it for you. You drop The Sword back into its sheath and fold your arms.

"A success, I take it?" Horse Face says.

Pat presses a gloved finger into Gil's cheek. It springs back. "Yes. Not that that was ever actually in doubt. Here, Gil, get up."

He does, and she circles around him, lifting his arms, poking his chest, telling him to swivel his neck and show his teeth. "I don't see any issues," she says after withdrawing. "Try not to get this one eaten again, champ, got it?"

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Anonymous ID:Wt6ShItw Thu 02 Feb 2023 09:46:29 No.5554063 View View Report

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>Sidequest Complete!

You guess you've heard Gil laugh before, briefly or bitterly, but you'd never really paid attention. It's high and raspy, and his shoulders are up, and his head is ducked in such a way that you can't quite see his expression. It's probably nothing. He's probably fine. But he just exploded, and you just— you just put red stuff in him (why did you do that?!), and... "Gil?" you say.

He looks up at you, still grinning. You raise a questioning thumbs up. His brows furrow a smidgen, but he raises a thumb back, fixes his gaze on it, and begins again to laugh.

So he is okay? You waver, feeling out of the loop, then settle on joining in— but in a dignified fashion, so you have an escape in case something goes wrong. You attempt to picture a noble laugh. (This is one thing your Aunt Ruby never instructed you on.) Then you cover your mouth with your hand, to maximize plausible deniability, and take your best stab at it. "Ohohohohoho—!"

Did that sound good? You thought it sounded good, but as soon as you started Gil began to wheeze, and by now he's practically hyperventilating. Great, you think, you've botched it— except that you've unexpectedly begun to giggle, and he's going red, and now you're laughing, loud, hard, from the stomach. For what feels like forever and ever.

>[+3 ID: 13/13]

Pat's voice is a douse of cold water. "What is wrong with you people?"

Gil gasps for breath. You hiccup. "W— what? Shut up. You didn't even—"

"What's wrong with us?" Gil manages. "You shot—"

"Yes! We've been over this! I shot you because of her—" She points straight at you. "—and for entirely comprehensible reasons, and in an entirely reasonable fashion. I didn't pull some hacky nonsense out of my ass like you and every single one of your associates—"

"Ellery isn't my associate," you say, and hiccup.

"He dragged you in to ruin our club? But fine. I guess Ellery's infected every single one of his associates with his gullshit— is that what you want to hear? Or do you have a reason for—" She gestures at Gil. "—that? That's not how it works, Charlotte. It doesn't work that way."

"Well, it did?" You clamber to your feet, and Gil follows. "So what do you care? It's not like you helped."

"Only gave him the whole damn body? But sure, go ahead and get one of these without me. I'll wait."

You glare at Pat. She glares at you. "And he still needs to be cured, by the way, so get off the soapbox. You're lucky I'm doing that."

"Cured? I already—"

"I-I feel fine," Gil says defensively. "I'm good."

"Not that kind of cured, champ. It's high heat, toughens you up. Means you're not dripping everywhere." She crosses her arms. "Not that I care whether you drip, but I have professional standards."

"How high of a heat?" you say.

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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:40Q0Ehom Mon 26 Sep 2022 18:59:34 No.5416518 View View Report

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>>5416429
>INSPECT curing machine
The CURING MACHINE is the intimidating contraption taking up the bulk of the CURING ROOM. While your MECHANICAL KNOWLEDGE is basic, the functionality appears relatively simple: it injects MOLDS with UNCURED GOO, clamps down on them, and heats them to extreme temperatures until the consistency changes. The only MOLDS available to you right now are the male and female molds, but you see no reason why it wouldn't work for other types.

While you could re-enter the CURING MACHINE, it is DARK and CRAMPED inside, and you have MODERATE CLAUSTROPHOBIA. You would have to SPEND GRIT to do so. (You are at 8/15 Grit.) You also don't know what getting FURTHER CURED (if such a thing exists) would do to you.

You see no way for the CURING MACHINE to reverse the curing process. You guess it only works in one direction.

>>5416472
>SPEAK "xyzzy"
You don't know what this word is. Sounds like some gullshit. Like Ellery trying to spell 'scissors.'

You say it out loud, just in case, since you are in a dream mansion. Nothing happens.

>>5416484
>GENUFLECT
You've already done your stretches. You think you're good.

>INSPECT big red button
On the CURING MACHINE's flank is a panel of switches, dials, lights, and buttons. The largest switch is labeled 'on/off,' and is set to 'off.' The dial is set to the far left. None of the buttons are labeled, including the BIG RED BUTTON, but it is big and it is red.

>[1] USE the BIG RED BUTTON.
>[2] ENTER the CURING MACHINE. (Spend Grit.)
>[3] WAIT for Pat's return.
>[4] Do some other thing, or combination of things? (Write-in.)

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