maladied | CYOA

[ the door doesn't appear to be locked, however, he'll get the feeling that the door will be looking for some sort of requirement to be met before it'll be opened. ]

...Interesting.

It feels like there must be a requirement before this door will open.

[ Anaxagoras will say this aloud, in case anyone is listening to him...despite his ~~insanity~~ adventurous nature. ]

[ Childermass is always listening. It's part of the job, mate. ]

A requirement... hm. What requirement would infinity need?

When I think of infinite, I think of possibility - limitless ones.

[ Among other things... ]

It may be we need to exhaust the other ones first in order to cause this one to be available to open.

There is nothing stating that we only will need to go through one door, after all.

[ ...but, those are just his thoughts. Whether they are true or not, well... ]

So we... have to do something first?

[ ... ]

Do all the doors have that requirement?

[ he will check the other two without opening them! ]

[ ludger will notice the same as well. the other two doors don't appear to be locked but will be looking for some sort of requirement before they are opened. ]

Perhaps. It may be entering into one door, or something else entirely.

[ He doesn't know, but he will watch! ]

Yeah, some sort of requirement for these too.

[ ... he hopes it's not blood sacrifice. ]

Hmm...I wonder if we can try collectively deciding on which door to open?

That may make it possible.

[ Trying to think outside of the box! ...Is it really going to work, though...? ]

This place and its damned voting...

Perhaps. I would say we consider the 999 door first.

Always with its cyclical nature in the way it does things, hm?

Regardless, with the 999 door...I have no objections to that.

Very well. Let us try opening that door together?

Yes, let us get it over with.

[ What is the verdict of them giving it a go? ]

[ the verdict is that the door will open, however, they won't be able to see what is on the other side of the door as there will be something blocking them from seeing it. will they enter the door completely or will they close it? ]

...ah.

[ It does open, then, but before it can go any further, Childermass closes it again immediately and takes his hand off the door. ]

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Well, I suppose we could first check in the emptiness around us to see if there's anything, just to get it out of the way...

[ He has his doubts, but.

Hey. Hey Naru if we just go away from the doors do we end up looping around like in the regular map. ]

[ yep! if julius decides to take a walk around into the emptiness, he'll get to go on a trip for a while before ultimately popping back up on the other side of the group. this will be the same in every direction he tries. ]

[ Thank you, these findings will be published in the next issue of Void Science Quarterly ]

[ let me know if there are more trials that julius would like to test for the next issue. ]

[ Yeah actually, if he examines the 999 door and thinks about wanting to see it open, or at least what's behind it, do we get any more specific vibe than just a vague requirement? ]

[ julius will get the feeling that he can't open the door alone that he'll need one other person to open the door alongside him. (naru voice, groups.) ]

[ sighs okay let's get the meta spoken out loud. ]

... I don't think we'll have the choice of avoiding any specific doors. Just which to send certain people through.

I get the sense that this door will only accept two people opening it together. Given that there are six of us here...

[ The other two are probably like that too? ]

Pairs, then.

[A second to check the back of his belt:]

And me without my weapon, it seems. Mmm.

Mm. I figured that would be the result.