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Okay so can everyone see this? Being kidnapped twice is super cool (sarcasm). What are you seeing where you are? I'm not sure if we're all looking at the same stuff or what it means. There are definitely some puzzles and the whole 'if you do this on this wall then some other wall opens up' going on. Is that everywhere?

Sorry if I'm being vague, I'm not sure what details are helpful. Also watch out for the animals if there are any around you. Feel free to respond here with info on your areas and read it for that info because people have been here longer and know things that I don't.

Edit: I am in New Rio BTW. So there's where you guys went at Everest and Oslo, and people kidnapped to New Cairo and Rio. Which is just great.

Edit: Okay I am going to put photos of what I'm seeing on here. I am going to add Angela's. If you want me to add yours send it over.

[ooc: See in comments several people posting photos from their locations with details about where everyone is. Quentin will put all the photos on here for people to look at. Feel free to have your character add!]

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Reporting in from New Cairo. Definitely seeing things like that too. Obstacles to scale over too. And lots of beautiful artwork.

Are you seeing hippodiles too?

Hi Angela! The artwork really is so gorgeous. I was moving some things in place and a wall started to move. So it's like one of those escape rooms or something, to a bigger scale.

I don't think so, no, we're mostly indoors. There were some really creepy giant bugs and snakes outside though. No proof they're poisonous but it feels like a gimme that in this situation everything's potentially trying to kill us.

I haven't seen any like those myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were ones like that around. Can you get pictures of some of the artwork for me? I'll swap with you.

It's mostly indoors here too, which really makes the animals all the weirder. Are they eating each other to survive? Recently placed in the ruins by someone?

Giant bugs and snakes sound a little more tropical than cold. Rio?

Hey, thanks for this.

For those of you who haven't pieced it together, I'm going to use this as an opportunity to say that we were given four locations in November. We being me, Markus Manfred (gone), Ojiro Juniper (gone), and Loki (here still). We intended to hit two of those locations, but now we're at all four "somehow."

Rey posits (and I agree) that there's no way that the guy who gave us these locations would make a point of getting us at all four at once. He doesn't strike me as the type.

[This could be proof that he is that type, but it doesn't check out. Why wouldn't he mention new information when Rey got Markus' location?]

Do the creatures all have golden eyes where you're at?

they need a new schtick

do you got like glowing pictures too?

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No problem, I think we're still trying to even figure out where to start.

Yeeeeah it doesn't seem like "somehow" really enters in when you guys were told four locations and we mysteriously all ended up at them. Someone probably want us here. Any guesses as to why?

They do! Wait are they across the board yellow too? In Everest? New Oslo? Those are different types of places/flora/fauna, that seems weird.

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himalayas, first pit stop on the climb to everest. there's a monastery here i've been to before, like 500 years ago.

there are puzzles, artifacts, artwork, and some kind of mechanism, a lot of stuff that's similar to what i found on a job searching for shambhala. turns out there's more than one mysterious beyul in tibet.

I can confirm animals with gold eyes in New Cairo. Some are a little more animal-hybrid?

There was also something in the food and/or water the mercenaries gave us. Caused side-effects. Vertigo, nausea, hallucinations, canine growth, mindless rage. And yes, gold eyes. Injuries healed up fast too under the effects.

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Yeah! We started out in one place and opened the wall, but now there's the changing images. I can't figure it out yet.

Yeah! We're in I think Rio de Janeiro, I saw the Christ the Redeemer statue although it's broken up. There is a monastery underground that has like stained glass pictures that you can move the wall for? It's definitely heavy Christian leaning in imagery but the images are moving in the next part. I'm not sure I've seen any mechanism yet but looking for it.

Yeah hold on give me a second!

[He sents along some of the 'stained glass' paintings that were Christian appearing, and then the change once the door was opened. Then a series of photos of the bright lights on the walls that are "painted from top down in beautiful, ornate shades, along with a metallic sheen that's unnatural in nature. None of the paint seems as if it could be of this world, especially given the imagery itself."]

Yeah Rio. I think they look really hungry, not sure if they're new. Just trying to keep out of their way.

i think were all kinda in the same boat re: figuring it out

i wonder if the answers are contained to one location or spread out

Clarke said that they got info on four different places, and only planned on going to two. But now we're at all four, so that's totally not a coincidence. Maybe whatever we do has to be done together.

does that mean we gotta do the thing at the same time or can it be within a few minutes or hours of each location?

No idea! I don't see anything currently that would be that way, so maybe it's when we complete all the puzzles in our separate areas, something will happen? Because I don't even know how we're going to get out of here.

it would suck if it has to be simultaneously

yeah im wondering about that
the idea of going back through the pyramid and finding way across the desert to new cairo sounds like hell

[And pictures deserve an exchange in return. A few pictures come in of the immediate area inside the ruins: "The walls are covered in beautiful art, the oldest of which is a dedication to the relationship between Khufu and the earth deity Khnum. Much of the imagery around their relationship is looped in dark (even black) and golden lighting, with the other Egyptian gods drawn into the imagery itself. Ra, Osiris and Horus act as patrons of the relationship between Khufu and Khnum in this art, with all of them appearing in several forms to act as guardians."

There are also a few pictures of the interior layout. One has a snake with a falcon's head lurking in the background like some sort of cryptid, eyes glowing gold.]

If you know anything about the iconography, I'd love to hear. Rapid googling only goes so far.

For real and who is going to come and get us? Everyone's in different places!

Okay I put our images in this post so people can maybe chime in.

[He's finally getting the hand of this network. Quentin looks at the image closely, frowning.]

I am going to ask Nathan, he sounds like he knows this stuff. I can see Ra, Osiris, Horus, and Khnum, but I'm blanking on the other figure. Try touching some of the paintings, very carefully, last time I did that for a bit things started to open.

Hi you sound like you know a lot about this, do you know anything about Egyptian iconography? Angela gave me some pictures from New Cairo and it's definitely of some gods I recognize but not all of them. The pictures are above.

That's a good idea, thank you for doing that!

There are also other symbols around. Let me send another picture.

[Another picture is sent of an ouroboros etched into the wall.]

Someone pointed out rooms with those symbols always have dangerous traps inside.

guess well cross that bridge when were done here?

Sounds like the effects from the monster parts some of us inhaled months back. Hallucinations and healing are new, though.

Did you figure out the cure, or is whoever who's out there still impacted? I might be able to help with that.

[Assuming it still works.]

Hybrids check out, though. A few of us looked into the monster parts back in the day and got a cocktail of DNA readings back.

The hallucinations were animalistic. Violent. The healing began as soon as the fatigue and nausea stage.

Five minutes direct contact from another Displaced. Hurts like hell, but it worked.

I have serious concerns about who is making these, getting them down here, and how they're surviving in sealed tombs.

How do you know that they're being made?

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