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Noise

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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[Hey

Hey guess who thinks it's perfectly normal to dig into her crafting menu in the middle of a fight.

Tire Iron + compressor + metal shards? She thinks this would be a good recipe for a shard spewer.]

Need something with piercing.

[Honestly, valid]

[HAVE A SHARD SPEWER.]

[Its probably disheartening how the tentacles are not getting torn to shreds like most things would be. Whatever these things are, they're hardy as fuck.]

[The shard spewer is, however, keeping them at bay.]

[Grimacing - but okay. It at least fends them off.

She's going to try, one more time, to get to the tech. If she can just get her hand on something - a spy drone to help with her vision, a laser, something...!]

[The shredder is doing great at keeping the tentacle back.]

[As she goes for the drone, there are swipes of tentacles, but they can't get a clear shot with the shredder and]

[DRONE GET]

Got it - better back off, find some space to use it.

[TIME TO RUN]

[The shredder keeps the tentacles occupied and she is able to retreat!]

[RUN RUN RUN.

If she can, she'll back all the way off to the start, and head for the train. Figures that'll be a good place to hunker down and start fiddling with the drone.]

If I can get this active, maybe I can get these lenses to work for me...

[She can indeed. The tentacles are dangerous, but they were concentrated there.]

[Mostly.]

[She may notice now that some of the overgrown vines have eyes, but the vines are far less in the train station.]

[Quiet, now.]

Hope they aren't all connected.

[Turning the drone over. Is there a power button?]

[It does indeed have a power button!]

[She's gotta push it. Just keep mucking around with things!]

[The drone powers up]

H-h-hey dudette!

[The drone has a surfer bro voice.]

[She does jerk back, but only a little. Talking tech - not her first.]

What's a...doesn't matter right now.

Do you have a status display?

L-l-let me check. I took a b-beating when those rancid d-dudes showed up.

[There's whirring and finally, a holographic display pops up. System Operation: 56%]

Rancid? Sounds about right.

[Squints.]

'System Operation:' ...large. I think Gaia could get a fair amount done at half her heuristic capability.

Listen. I need something to make up for my eyes. I'm - having trouble seeing.

Oh really? Yeah, I can help!

[There's a few moments and then POP]

[Recipe: Glass + Metal + Computer = Goggles
Recipe: Glass + Metal + Computer = Goggles/Headphones]

[...Grin.]

Perfect. Raph said the communication devices here are phones - would you be able to communicate with me through the headphones, if I use that recipe?

[Aloy's prone to impatience, so she's getting her tools and going after a train wall to start trying to get some metal again.]

Sure can! I'm bluetooth capable!

[She can easily pry metal off the train. It comes as easy as the junk in the yard. Clearly the tentacles are Special Resistant.]

Heh. I don't suppose blue teeth work any better against the...dudes?

[Hmm. Well, for the time being: metal get, and then she'll move on to collect glass from train windows.]

Sorry brah, but nah. Bluetooth is wireless connection, not a weapon.

[Glass get!]

Oh...a signal.

[MENU: metal, glass, the computer she pulled from the fridge...goggles/headphones recipe compatible, maybe?]

How about - were you able to save any data on them?

[Aloy gets goggles/headphones! They are bluetooth enabled and come with many visual settings, including auditory signals in the headphones.]

On the Kraang tentacles?]

Yes, the - Kraang.

[No hesitation in putting those goggles on, and checking the visual settings by cycling through them while she looks at the drone.]

I'm Aloy, by the way. Do you have a name?

[Got your infrared, got your scanners to help you focus on things, got your night vision, got scanning environmental data, zoom, all sorts of things.]

I'm SHELLDON. Nice to meet you, dudette.

As for the Kraang...most of that data is deeper. Dee spent a long time keeping that stuff away from the surface.

Shelldon? Donatello told me about you.

[Okay. Okay, she can work with these. Train's partly on tracks, right? She'd like to go start prying a track segment up.]

Is it encrypted? Maybe we could find an override.

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