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GEK MONOLITHS
PuzzleType: TRA_MON_
Alien: Underling! The Gek First Spawn demand you destroy the weak!
I see a strange vision. A small winged creature lands on the very top of the monolith. Suddenly, its eyes glow red and its head revolves in a full circle. It screams for mercy in an ancient voice that wants itself dead.
The poor animal has clearly broken its neck, but the monolith's power of possession still animates it. I wonder if the right thing would be to shoot it, and put it out of its misery.
{Shoot the creature}
The poor winged creature is no more.
The monolith rewards my actions.
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---HEALTHLARGE---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Leave the creature alone.}
The possession ends, and the poor winged creature drops down dead.
All else is silent.
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: Beware! Murderous abomination! Do not awake! Terror! Despair!
A strange new reality grips me. The ancient structure swings open to reveal a body encased in ice. It is a patchwork of different body parts. Its ragged beak appears to have been stitched on with animal gut.
A hand-written sign in the language of the ancient traders can be seen above the body's head. A flammable isotope would most likely melt the ice...
{Melt ice}
The creature's eyes flick open. Its hands leap around my throat.
I force it back into the depths of the disapproving Monolith.
---DAMAGESMALL---
---STD_DEC_TRA---
{Leave}
The panel on the Monolith swings shut.
The abomination remains trapped. I am thanked.
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: Underling! The Gek First Spawn demand help! Give silicate!
I'm inspecting the monolith's surface when, suddenly, a ragged silicon claw grabs me. Despite being broken and fragmented, it holds me tight while an ancient metallic beak emerges from the living rock.
It shouts in an ancient tongue, unaware of who or what I am.
{Give silicate}
The metallic hand releases its grip and grabs at my offering.
I have perhaps appeased an ancient evil...
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---HEALTHLARGE---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Smash claw}
I smash the metallic claw into pieces.
---PROD_FUEL---
---STD_DEC_TRA---
{Wait}
The claw grips me tightly. Just when I feel like my forearm will crack into pieces...
...I am released. The pain is agonizing.
---DAMAGESMALL---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: Feed First Spawn beak common oxides! Rare oxide brings painful noise! Furious noise!
A beak emerges from the ancient stone. It's shouting, but can't be heard. In the stone above someone, long ago, has scrawled advice for those who would approach it.
The beak screams wordlessly at me, furiously intoning the words of the ancient beings that once worshipped here. My scanner detects traces of oxides around it, but can't specify which ones.
{Feed beak common oxide}
The beak whispers the words of those who once worshipped here.
---TEACHWORD_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Feed beak uncommon oxide}
The beak shouts the words of those who once worshipped here.
---TEACHWORD_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_TRA---
---C_GEKRELIC---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Feed beak rare oxide}
The beak screams the words of those who once worshipped here.
The noise is extreme. I feel great pain.
---DAMAGESMALL---
---TEACHWORD_TRA---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: ToilGek dare approach First Spawn holy site? Leave! Leave! Depart or die!
I hear a low rumble, which gradually builds into an ancient scream. It's like no other noise I've ever experienced. To this strange alien landscape it's a calm silence, inside my helmet it's a nightmarish cacophony of pain and death.
Through the noise, however, I can make out some words within the screams.
{Touch Monolith}
The vengeful spirits that inhabit this place are grateful for my obedience.
---DAMAGE_TECH---
---DAMAGESMALL---
---STD_DEC_TRA---
{Move away}
The vengeful sprits that inhabit this place punish my disobedience.
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Wait}
The vengeful spirits that inhabit this place are grateful for my obedience.
---DAMAGESMALL---
---STD_DEC_TRA---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: The Gek First Spawn destroy the pirate!
A portion of the monolith melts in front of my eyes. The face of a trader emerges, its beak cut off for reasons unknown. It screams and writhes in the bubbling vertical lava, desperately reaching out to me - with a multi-tool in its hand.
Supercooled liquid frenium from my suit systems could relieve its pain, but I can also take a risk and pull it from the molten rock.
{Cool lava}
The relieved ancient trader pushes a gift out towards me.
The lifeform is absorbed back into the rock.
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Reach into lava}
I pull the overjoyed trader from the burning lava.
It dematerialises suddenly, leaving only what it carried.
---WEAPON---
---DAMAGELARGE---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: Retain foul First Spawn stench! Remove sweet eggs from the spawning syrup!
Reality changes. I'm standing in a crater beneath a jet black sky. I'm up to my knees in a strange syrup that glows pink in the darkness. Spherical eggs float around me. Some of these mucus-covered orbs smell terrible, others are sweet and delicate.
The taint of the foul eggs is infecting the entirety of the spawning pool. I am filled by an urge to separate them.
{Remove noxious eggs from pool}
I have angered the ancients Gek spirits that dwell here.
Reality is restored.
---STD_DEC_TRA---
{Remove sweet-smelling eggs from pool}
I am smiled upon by vengeful ancient spirits.
Reality is restored.
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: First Spawn... power... low ... give... element... isotope... carbon... plutonium...
The monolith's glyphs take on a faint yellow tinge, then flicker and disappear. It has no power: the mysterious forces that fuel these stones are weak. I hear a faint crackling whisper on the planetary breeze, and I notice a hole in the monument's base.
I could potentially fit some of my mined resources through the gap...
{Insert Isotope element}
I awake this place's vengeful spirits.
They reward me.
---C_GEKRELIC---
---STD_INC_TRA---
---HEALTHLARGE---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Insert Oxide element}
There is silence.
My elements are not returned.
{Insert Silicate element}
There is silence.
My elements are not returned.
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
Alien: The First Spawn gives help to the worker. The First Spawn destroy the workshy.
The monolith has the smell of burnt metal and heavy industry. Strange runes swirl and transform, forcing an image deep into my mind.
I look into the past. I see a small beaked figure, silhouetted by the light of a forge, industriously hammering armour. Next to it, a cloaked companion idly watches – seemingly content to avoid the work. Both look at me. I must choose.
{Choose the worker}
I have pleased this place's spirits.
My equipment is filled with a strange power.
---SHIELDLARGE---
---REPAIR_TECH---
---C_GEKRELIC---
---TEACHWORD_ATLAS---
{Choose the onlooker}
I have angered this place's spirits.
My equipment is damaged by a strange force.
---DAMAGE_TECH---
---HAZARDSMALL---
---STD_DEC_TRA---
{Locate a Portal}
---REVEAL_PORTAL---
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