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After a slew of only moderately interesting things, one super interesting thing happens, which is that something really big and long appears out of nowhere. That in itself isn't too interesting, things appear out of nowhere sometimes and that's just the way the world works. This is a weird thing though! It's really big and it kind of moves like the way that's appropriate when goodsounds are happening but there aren't any goodsounds happening, and even if there were they would have to be pretty irregular to match with the movement of the big thing.

Secondly, the face of the big thing is kind of a weird cleartapdoor. The space on the other side of the weird cleartapdoor shifts in a strange way as the big thing attached to it thrashes about. It kind of seems like there's a connection to be made here, because it thinks other, normaler cleartapdoors have had kind of similar space-shapes, and it's just that this one is - more clear? Less clear? A different amount of clear, to be sure.

It floats over to get a better look and - there's another it in the ambiguouslycleartapdoorspace???? What??

The other it cannot be sensed by anything but sight, which isn't a trait that any other its have had, that it knows of. Also it's moving in just the same way that it is moving, which is so strange. What if -

The biglongthing is moving around but since it's so very fast and nimble it should be able to avoid getting hit without any problems; it moves in closer to investigate the probably-not-really-another-it. And that's when the really super interesting thing happens, which is that it turns out to be a little less nimble than it thought, and the cleartap version of itself also reaches towards the ambiguouslycleartapdoor - which turns out to be tapless! Instead of a tap, there's no touching whatsoever, and it keeps floating right on through. And it doesn't end up either where it was or in the ambiguouslyclearnottapdoorspace.

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Oh . . . well that's kind of nice of the glowy, even though it was just being so ouchful a second ago. It runs its fingers slippily over the remaining splatter.

It continues being slippery but also becomes less so with more rubbing.

All the glowing on the floor is dark again. The cave has no more glowing-hangingness left.

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Hmmmmm. This requires some pondering. It reaches into its sleeve and extracts - ITS SPONGE has a HOLE in it. And part of it is BLACK and LESS SQUISHY. That's so mysterious and also terrible, although there's still a fair area of squishibility. Maybe something is eating the sponge. Squish squoosh.

It (CAREFULLY) deposits the sponge back in its sleeve and decides to float further into the cave.

The straight, stone-lined passage slopes down diagonally a distance about as long as the cave so far, then opens out into another sort of cave with many branching passages with walls of several different colors and all lumpy, except for some flat brown bits. At the bottom of the cave the floor has a circular pit with red stuff in the bottom, and there is a glob of something-or-other on one part of the part of the floor that is lumpy instead of circular.

Distant squishings and skitterings are audible.

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Ooh, so many choices! Pit or skitterings, pit or glob or skitterings . . .

Skitterings!

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Is THAT a skitterings? It kind of looks like one, maybe. It isn't a food but sometimes things that aren't foods still move around, that's normal.

It's — not a skitterings! Its preferred method of locomotion is crawling and long leaps, making thumping noises, not skittering ones. The skittering must be elsewhere in the caves.

It doesn't seem to notice the visitor. Instead, it leaps all the way to the lumpy bits on the not-circular floor and starts shoving its face into them. The vicinity is splattered with red stuff.

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Is there anything interesting about the lumpy bits, that would be enticing the leapthumper to enshoven its face so??

They are squishy and wet and red?

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Hmmmmmm what if it tries to touch them? With its hand, not its face.

Not-red squishy stuff is squishy like the surface of food. Red stuff is gooey and sticky.

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Interesting! It wipes its gooey-sticky hand off on its robe. Is it clear what direction the skitterings are coming from, and can it go in such a direction if one exists?

It's not very clear or straight but there is definitely a direction. While heading that way it finds some wall that is on fire.

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WOAHHHHHH. Glowy!! It's definitely going to go check that out.

It's glowing and warm like the clinking things in the earlier cave but it doesn't look or sound any clinking and it is glowing for a lot longer, and there seems to be glowing stuff that is disappearing but also with little bits falling off to the ground below.

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Oh! That's an eating thing, then!! It's so smart.

Hmmmmm. It cannot be eaten, but touching the other glowy was still unpleasant at first. And the sponge . . . .

It puts its RIGHT hand nearer to (but not touching) the newglowy while keeping its sponge in its LEFT sleeve and far away.

Very warm! No other effects.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

poke (so fast, so quick, very dexterity, totally going to tap the glowy even though the glowy is all wiggly)

The actual glowing part is VERY warm and insubstantial and wiggly. It is attached to black dry crunchy stuff. Crunch.

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That isn't what it had expected!! Poke poke?? Yeah, it definitely can't touch this glowy, which is super weird. (Also it gets very hot very fast but as long as its poking is even faster then that's all good.)

It floats down to inspect the little falling bits.

They are more of the black crunchy stuff which falls off. Some of the bigger bits are less black and more brown, and some of them are glowy. Sometimes the glowy parts go dark before the bits fall on the ground, but sometimes they don't, and there's a heap of not-darkened-glowy-brown-bits on the ground below.

The skittering noises are in this direction too!

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Hopefully the skitterings will still be there when it's done investigating. How hot are the not-darkened bits, if it pokes them?

They are less hot than some of the parts that have not fallen down but are still much hotter than any not-glowing thing.

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