#:Climbing QBL

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First issue of Champions Magazine featuring the Orochi Black Sox

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Esteem cover from a few months ago, I think

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Upcoming Children’s Book Titles

...Do these count as ghost writers?

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Cover of the March 2 issue of The Ripple featuring Chandra 

Or. Samael, I guess.

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The Host’s been cancelled. Permanently. Or something.

That’s awful. Sorry.

He was watching my progress through the floor on the central room’s monitors.

I suppose that explains the traps and laugh tracks.

And I got a card for Sycoil, another few floors up. 

Floor 38 and four branches down - if I keep going at the rate I have been, I’m about halfway there. Then just Lilith, Samael, and whatever else they might have waiting at the top.

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Found everyone.

Except, I’m assuming, our would-be star.

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A couple of the sets I’ve come across so far - Somebody’s left marbles(?) all over the floor of the second one

Something’s still here. I keep hearing weird thumps and one of the doors closed and locked when I approached. I had to go through the second set to get around. There’s also

Recorded laughter keeps playing, but I’m not sure if it’s being triggered or malfunctioning like the PA system.

All the offices look like they’ve been rummaged through.

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Oh.

Oh, the video they found in their archive...

Ah. I found a keycard to 

sssssssssssssssssssssssSssSsSS - I am your Cymothoa exigua tongue - let me in.

to, uh, the 37th floor. 

Hiya, Chuck.

John?

I want you to understand why Lilith is scary. I don't want you thinking less of me, Chuck. It's not sorcery or tech or underlings or a womb full of teeth. You got to understand, Chuck. Humour me. Look in a mirror. Stare at your reflection. We've all done this. In the wee hours. Stare so long your face becomes a stranger. You lose your identity. You could be anyone.

Now, picture all the people you've been. Every different Chuck. Maybe you think your life was short. Or uneventful. But if you look, there were many you's. We get stuck in the now and the rut. Don't we, Chuck? Tunnel vision. You think you're just this two-dimensional you. But look at all those different Chucks. Layer them on top of each other. Suddenly, you have substance. You have the power of context. You are a multi-dimensional being. You've seen shit. That is when we are at our most powerful. When we remember all the us's. Then we are legion.

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Notes on using ‘the assertive voice’

Ghosts keep sliding the plant back and forth. I used an assertive voice to ask them to stop.

They started moving the plant faster. This picture was actually kind of hard to take.

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Titles for comic books, I guess? I feel like I’ve seen them somewhere before.

((A fun fact: The above missions were DLC in the original version of The Secret World, sold as ‘issues’ like comic books - viewable here. As you can probably guess, most of the mission content’s been made available for free in Legends if not worked in to the main plot.

Funnily enough, Issue 12 is one that hasn’t been re-added yet. Hopefully someday.))

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im okay

i’mokay I’m okay

They didnt stay they’re gone. I’m okay.

Just

Need a minute.

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Working out taglines for HiveMODE

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Fact Checking 101

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Welcome to the QBL Media branch of Orochi. QBL Media: we are the world.

When they say media, they mean all forms - television, movies, news, books, music... QBL dabbles in all of them.

It’s dead quiet up here. The offices are empty, but there’s no sign of where everyone went. 

This floor seems to have been focused on magazines. I’ve come across a few covers and layouts lying around.

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Project Gatekeeper has been destroyed.

And as has been the case so far, one of the staff killed in its rampage had an access card for a few levels higher.

I’m going to keep trying to see if I can get into the locked artifact room overnight. If that doesn’t work out, I’ll move on in the morning; someone else can try to work on it..

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Subject: Climbing QBL From: The Labyrinth

Look at that, you’re a star! Way to become a guest on the QBL Media game show channel. But in all seriousness, I won’t be watching it anytime soon. Maybe after you get to the top of that tower and impress me. Keep climbing!

Ciao-ciao