>>5994112>Attempt to speak with the strange figureYou focus as best you can on this thought: there’s someone sitting in that chair. You need to see him. You ignore all else in the room and focus on the chair.
Soon enough, the mysterious figure takes a more distinct shape. It is that of a very old gnome, with a flowing white beard and intricate silk robes. He starts talking to you, a tone of urgency in his voice. You manage to pick up most of the words, but it’s as if this gnome is shifting in and out of reality.
<span class="mu-i">… marvelous. I don’t know how you do it, but we don’t … time.</span>
<span class="mu-i">We call ourselves the Forgotten, little gnome: the ones … Plague made you forget all about. It spread from here, a deranged creation of the … potion master, now known as the Mad Alchemist.</span>
<span class="mu-i">We were kings, you see, and powerful … We were forgotten first, but it will soon come to simple gnomes such … yourself.</span>
You feel the connection between you is thinning.
<span class="mu-i">Break … curse. I have no more … over you, and so I simply implore you: seek … Sea. Hunt the Oysters … the Deep, take their oils and … them here.</span>
<span class="mu-i">And for all that is gnomish, … of touching their …!</span>
<span class="mu-i">You are … very special gnome, friend. … trust in you.</span>
And with that, he disappears entirely. You have trouble recalling some of the information, but most of it is there.
What will you do now?
>Keep exploring the Palace (same options as before)>Seek the Mad Alchemist to learn more about the Plague first>Leave the Palace in search of the Sea 
