The Elevator crashes all the way down to the bottom of the secret lab
The crash is so powerful that it basically dislodges the elevator doors and can be heard from the top floor. Almost instinctively, the broken elevator reverts back into a working one
Oceane: At least we have a way back up
Helia: Thanks Vendil!
The Beating of The Heart is booming, thundering and deafening
Necra: AAAAH..I-
Myrtle: Al! I wonder why this heart is collectively maddening everyone but you and me?
Oceane: TURN IT OFF AAH
Al: Well, you have those, harmonization things and I have the heart with me
Myrtle: Oh yeah, hold on
Myrtle uses her tongs to harmonize the party to Al’s Heart, shutting out the larger heart of Project Tell tale
Helia: THANK YOU
Iehn: I believe we would have all gone mad had that incessant thing kept on beating as loudly as it did
Al: Many did, why do you think there’s all that stuff on the floor
Al motioned to the trail of corpses and piles of Department X clothes and Century Corps armor
Iehn: Hey, armor, you should put it on?
Al: Huh…oh right I-
Al is cut off as he puts on the armor
Al: I look dashing now
Blood continues leaking out of the armor
Iehn: Want me to fix that?
Al: Nah not really
Necra: Alright guys…let’s perform a surgical ass whooping
Lark2n: I won’t let you, this HEART IS MINE
Blood Creatures and Failed Larkin Clones appear to block the path ahead of them…
Iehn runs first towards them
Begin Floor 11
When you are 25% of the way done
Lark2n: I just want to become one with the majesty….
Al: Big mistake if you ask me…
Lark2n: How is it a mistake when it’s a thing of beauty
Necra: Listen Lark2n, I know the original gave you an ass whooping but maybe calm down
Lark2n: The original…that INSISTENT NUISANCE, I’M GONNA KILL HIM
Blood Creatures continue attacking
Resume Floor 11
When you are 50% of the way there
Necra: I can sense all of the souls that have perished in the pursuit Department X’s selfish goal
Al: A lot of my friends were thrown to this thing by them, having them communion with the heart in an effort to get it’s powers for itself
Helia: Don’t worry, we’ll win the day and avenge your fallen friends
Resume Floor 11
When you are 75% of the way there
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Necra: I have a plan…don’t know if it’s a good one
Myrtle: Mind telling us?
Necra: You’ll know what do when we get there
Myrtle: Alright…
Iehn: Is this plan just gonna be “chuck Iehn at it and hope it dies”?
Al: That wouldn’t work
Necra: And also that’s not the plan but you are a part of it
Iehn: Gotcha
Resume Floor 11
You arrive at Project Tell Tale’s massive beating heart but Lark2n is there too with a bulging heart similar to Al’s now inside of him
Al: What the hell…
Lark2n: The heart accepted me…now I CAN BLEED
Iehn: Well…you gotta either scram now or get out of our way
Lark2n: Never…The Heart wants you…all dead
Fight Lark2n
When he is at 75% health
Lark2n: The heart empowers me…it provides me with blood…provides me with strength…
Iehn: Get those delusions out of your head you overgrown pile of slime…
Lark2n: NO…STOP…YOU ARE ACTING JUST LIKE THAT INSUFFERABLE CLONE
Necra: I got a plan
Resume
When he is at 50% health
Necra: Hey..wanna hear a joke?
Lark2n: Huh?
Necra: What does this lab have in common with a broken printer?
Iehn: I have no clue
Necra: They both made cheap copies
The entire party begins hysterically laughing except for Al
Al: Where’s the joke?
Lark2n: Stop it….
The laughing only gets louder, drowning out Project Tell Tale’s own beating heart
Lark2n: STOP IT
Myrtle begins using her magic to make the laughter deafening
Lark2n: STOP LAUGHING AT ME…I AM TO BE FEARED…I HAVE THE POWER OF THE HEART AND-
Al begins joining in on the laughing
Lark2n: NO STOP!! I AM NOT A CLOWN!! I AM THE O-
Necra: Cut it ya regenerative spaghetti
Lark2n: STOP CALLING ME NAMES!!
Resume against Lark2n, the party gets a temporary new command called Laugh
When Lark2n is at 25% health
Lark2n: GRAAAAH, STOP IT!!
Necra: I got another joke
Lark2n: NO NO NO NO NO NO N-
Necra: What’s the difference between Twins and Lab Clones?
Iehn: I don’t know??
Necra: Twins are kept after being made
The party begins laughing and the noise is even louder then it was before, even Vendil who is upstairs begins laughing and has no idea what he is laughing at
Lark2n: GRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I AM NOT A J-
Necra: Jail!
Iehn: Jamboree?
Al: From Jamaica?
Lark2n: JOKE! I AM-
Myrtle: You are a joke, correct! Lark2n isn’t just no fun after all
Lark2n: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT!!!!!
Resume against Lark2n
When you finally win
Lark2n: I can’t…I can’t…I C-
Lark2n’s bulging heart explodes, shooting blood onto the ceiling. His slimy form begins to also turn into blood…
Lark2n: NO..NO!...I DON’T WANT TO GO!!
Lark2n’s cries for mercy are ignored as he is sucked into the giant heart of Project Tell Tale which is convulsing excessively trying to beat even faster.
Myrtle ends the laughter harmonization
Myrtle: I can’t believe that actually worked?
Iehn: We…heckled someone to death??
Necra: Yup..I’m a certified genius.
Al: Now what about the heart, there’s a massive pile of corpses under there..
Necra: New plan!!
Necra begins resurrecting The Corpses en mass
Necra: Iehn!! I need you to heal their hearts back to full functioning, Myrtle, I need you to make all their hearts beat in unison. Helia, Al and Oceane! I need you to assemble the corpses into a vaguely heart-like shape!
Iehn: On it boss!!
Myrtle: Got it chief!
Oceane: You can count on us
The party begins their elaborate plan as The Heart continues to convulse and beat incredibly fast.
Then, as sudden as it began, their plan is finished and their creation…begins beating
Al: You wanted us to build a…reanimated corpse heart?
Necra: Watch this…
The Two Hearts begin beating at each other, each beating faster and faster
Necra: And that’s our cue to RUN
Iehn: Why?
Necra: Because both hearts will EXPLODE because my plan is working
Oceane: Oh yeah let’s run
The Party makes a mad dash for the elevator and runs inside, pressing the button for the top floor. As they enter, they hear the sound of thousands of blood vessels bursting
Helia: Holy…shit…
Iehn: Necra…you’re incredibly scary mind is well…scaring me half to death
Oceane: It’s safe to assume both hearts were destroyed from beating each other to death?
Helia: Well…Necra is an incredibly scary person…
Suddenly Al collapses onto the Elevator floor
Al: The heart is destroyed…and so is the thing keeping me alive…my torment is over…
Al finally dies at last
Iehn: He’s gone now
Necra: No he’s not
Necra then immediately brings Al back to life
Necra: I think quite enough Guild Members have died recently
Al: Ok, that was kind of rude and…
Al’s bulging heart continues on beating
Al: Huh it’s still here
Everyone looks at Iehn
Iehn: Ah sorry!!
Necra: Ah whatever, your crazy blood powers won’t make you stand out at The Guild?
Al: So what else has changed in the last…I wanna say last 15 years?
Necra: Quite a lot…
The Elevator reaches the top of Vendil is a quivering mess on the floor
Helia: Uh Vendil..what happened to you man!!
Oceane: Stay with us
Oceane shakes Vendil into talking to them
Vendil: AAH!! Sorry guys…I just heard your insane laughing and a massive object bursting so I got…incredibly scared and-
Vendil looks at Al
Vendil: Who’s that? And why is he wearing Century Corps armor?
Al: Hey my name’s Al and..oh are you the baby Loren and Largo stole from that one cult?
Vendil: What the–how did y-how did y-what the-
Necra: Long story
The confused and slightly traumatized party slinks out of the Catacombs, ready to go home
