[BLACK] Chapter 2: Lave, Lave (poison/toxicity *trigger warning*)
30 Aug 2021BioGlitchCC
BLACKChapter 2: Lave, Lave
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Platform: Xbox One
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My website is finally available to the public! Although note that I'm nowhere NEAR finished with it - so when I'm working on it you'll probably notice frequent changes. The domain is simply bioglit.ch...
Lori: Well, I thought we might visit my home actually... Lave.
Me: I think I've heard of that system.
Lori: Actually I'm talking about the planet.
I suddenly realize how long it's been since I've actually lived on a planet... For quite a while now in my life I've just been living out of a duffel bag.
Me: So wait we're gonna just like go to your house?
Lori: Oh heavens no... That'd be incredibly boring! I'm swinging you by one of my favorite places to go - The Darwin-Walker Knowledge Base Of Human History. Technically speaking it's a library, but over the years it's also turned into kind of a mall.
We pass through the atmosphere and I can start making out cities and forests, and then towns as we get lower, and then a large beach we pass over, heading towards the main city part where I can see this obvious building; that must be it. I've got to admit, mad props to the architect - it's a mainly black building with white and silver highlights, with a very sleek but obviously unique shape to it.
We land at the shipyard nearby and oh my it's a wonderful temperature here, just cool enough to make it hoodie weather.
Me: Hmm. Okay so wait, it doesn't look big enough to be a whole mall...
Lori and I are walking across the spacious parking lot.
Lori: Oh that, the building you see is actually the upper part of the library, and the rest is built underground!
Me: Oh that's creative.
As we open the doors I'm hit with the sudden aroma of pizza. Lori immediately went over by this machine that appeared to serve "soft" drinks. She fixed us both one and told me to try it out - I take a drink and it's very sharp tasting at first but then I taste the sweetness and...wait, tiny bubbles?
Lori: It's the bubbles, right? That's carbonation, carbonated drinks were a huge hit with humans thousands of years ago until the sugar ban - its only here now because they've mastered a recipe that has a legal sweetener.
We walked through the food court and went down to the base of the library part. Your first instinct is to look upwards, and you notice that the central building twirls around this big green-tinted statue of some woman holding I think a book and a torch. Books, dead drop drives and monitors everywhere! I actually forgot how long I had spent in there.
After the library part we decided to do other things. We bought clothes, we played at a mini casino, ate some pizza and even saw a movie among other things. After a while, she got a call - it sounded like some emergency with a friend and we had to go.
On our way out, I suddenly realized it was night - didn't know I was in there that long... When we got to the ship, something happened. She was standing still for a few seconds, it looked like she was trying to figure something out; she grabbed at her neck and then looked at me wide-eyed...
Lori: GO!...N--uhhhnn...
She started to fall down, bracing herself on the ship and then quickly her body just gave up. Then I felt this small but strong nick at the side of my neck and suddenly realized the same thing had just happened to me. I grabbed whatever nicked me and looked at it - it was this little black and yellow striped dart. I could feel the inside of my muscles heat up and then it started feeling like I worked out for days and I couldn't stand anymore. I tried to look around but everything had a shaky blurry trail right behind it in the opposite direction of wherever I was looking - then I couldn't hear anything except my heart which was racing. And then everything was just... black.