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[FIREBIRD EXPLORE - 9 AM]

You find yourself in a small triangular room with high, high walls. All three walls are made of glass. Through one, all you see is white light moving in strange angular patterns. Through the second, the same white light forms great starbursts. Through the third, the light coils and wheels.

It's quite bright. The floor is made of ruddy beaten copper. The ceiling is a vast mirror. In the middle of the floor is a great copper bowl filled with something white and wavering, like smoke.

You find three copper tokens in your hand. They are flat, shaped like apples. Engraved on each is the word OPEN.

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It steps out of reach.

[ What if I try to convince it to be helpful WITH MY MIND?????

STAAAAAAAAAAAAARE ]

IT DOESN'T EVEN BLINK. You may have met your match.

[ First Slayer, now this dick ]

Come on. . . help me out, here.

It whines and paces.

Do you know where to find pieces of the statues?

It vanishes behind one of the pedestals.

[ follows! ]

It keeps on keeping its distance from you.

You see a glint of copper in the grass behind this pedestal, though.

[ picks up the copper. What is it? ]

It's a long copper fang.

[ looks behind other pedestals for fangs? ]

You find all four copper fangs!

[ Let's put them on the snake and do that token thing. . . ]

You fit them in! There's a faint click beneath your feet.

When you touch the token to the statue--colour flushes up the statue's coils: bands of red and gold. It's clearly coming to life...! It starts to hiss and writhe, the huge head turning in your direction.

[ backing up calmly ]

IT'S GOING FOR A HEADBUTT.

[ Attempting to sidestep?? ]

YOU SIDESTEP SUCCESSFULLY.

You find yourself back in the central room. There is a copper key in your hand.

[ Let's do the leafy tree door! ]

You’re in a small, low-ceilinged one-room house, somewhat like a team cabin but built of a dark shiny stone. There are plants growing all over the walls and floor and ceiling—ivy twined with some sort of black vine. Try not to trip. It’s also scorching hot; there are no windows, and the only door is the one you came through.

There is a bed, a cabinet big enough to hold a man, a wooden desk with a single drawer, and a table in the middle of the room with thirteen copper figurines arranged in a circle upon it. There's something else in the middle of the circle.

[ What's in the middle? ]

The skeleton of a songbird, the bones hung together with copper wire. Wired in the middle of its ribcage is a single perfect copper feather.

[ puts the token to the songbird ]

It shatters into pieces, every bone coming apart. The wire has melted. Drops of molten copper fall--some on your hands, burning hot.

You find yourself back in the central room with a brass key.

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