So, the food here is good, but mostly in that it's stable and available and that very very occasionally someone gets a full meal. It's not, like, actually very particularly yummy. There's the food-food, which are basically always boring in nearly the same ways, and then there's the food that you're only supposed to nibble the teeeeeniest bit on, which are more interesting in general but still get pretty old after a while.
It's time to see what else is out there.
Poke poke stroke stroke.
. . . . before it was a ball. Now it's kind of a flat thing. Is there a way to make it a ball again? Perhaps using advanced strategies such as trying to pinch opposite sides of the deflated skin and pull them apart? Over several tries, because dexterity is very very difficult?
This does not really work, though it can cause the ball to deform in an extremely wide variety of ways!
Good to know that an object which was previously Much Too Interesting can be a fun amount of interesting under the right circumstances. It rrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs agreeably at the ball.
. . . . If it hits the ball does that produce a bonk though.
In fact no! It produces a thwuck noise.
That's stran - oh! Maybe something that eats balls made a full meal out of this ball and now it's extra super boring forever. To the type of entity that eats balls, not to it. It thinks the deflated ball is pretty cool, and will experiment with pulling at and poking and whacking it for a while longer.
And then it'll go check out the church! That being the most interesting building it saw on the way here.
The church is reasonably nicely decorated. The door isn't locked and it can go right in, though there's no food obviously around at the moment.
There are crosses and flyers and cushions and books and windows and blue carpet and wooden pews!
Those things in the back of the pews are like the things that the food at the beach were staring at when it got bonked! It will investigate them.
They are each a stack of flat things, thin ones between thicker ones, all attached at one side.
That is still pretty mysterious but at least they feel kind of nice to touch.
(It is not very capable of being careful about the way it touches things.)
The thin bits rip when pulled in some ways.
It tries to unrip the thin bit. Surely this is just like the ball which could be moved relative to itself in so many interesting ways?
It stubbornly declines to unrip. Trying too aggressively may cause more rip!
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But also there is no goo like the green thing? What if it pokes it harder?
No goo! Only rip!
Well, ripping is a nice noise. And if it goes more slowly the noise is nicer. Maybe these are all here for food to make noise with? But no, the food from before weren't tearing them . . .
It closes and opens and closes and opens the flat thing, inspecting it from different angles, and then flies down each row of pews looking for any flat things that seem like they might have torn insides.
It looks like none of the flat things have been torn as extensively as the one it was just playing with.
But it barely tore that one at all! There are so many thin bits left intact! . . . Hm, so probably the flat things are not for ripping.
What are the windows like?
They are clear and display the outdoors through their panes.
Nope, quite cool!
Even if it leaves its palm against them for a very long time? Wow. It ggggggggggggnnnnnnnnns at this mystery and then rhhhhhhhh?s at the mystery of the acoustics and then spends several minutes making as many different noises as it knows from different floating spots.
The acoustics are pretty resonant; there are high ceilings.
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