{ "dataList": [ { "id": 971085, "name": "Yield My Flesh", "desc": "Long eaves of the tile-roofing cast an impenetrable umbra. Beneath it stands a figure, submerged in the shadow, leaning against the wall.\n\nThey regard us in momentary silence before muttering in a low voice a question.\n\n\"Are you... prepared to yield your flesh, if it meant cleaving into your enemy's bones?\"\n\"Take this blade, if you carry such determination.\"\n\nEven at a glance, there's something about the sword in the figure's outstretched hand that gives off a disturbing air.", "options": [ { "message": "Take the sword.", "messageDesc": "Select to gain a Cursed E.G.O Gift", "result": [ "\"Yield the flesh to claim their bones. Be ready to sacrifice the plum tree to save the peach tree.\" (肉斬骨斷, 李代桃僵)\n\"The resolve to be hewn permits one to cleave an even deeper wound.\"\n\nThe weight of \"resolve to be hewn\" pressed upon us the moment we took the sword." ] }, { "message": "Don't take the sword.", "messageDesc": "", "result": [ "\"Those who refuse to cut have no use for blades and resolve alike.\"\n\nWith that, the figure returned the blade to his waist and left without a word." ] } ] }, { "id": 971086, "name": "T Corp. Time Prepayment Apparatus", "desc": "Behind an old billboard that's seen better days stands a vending machine emblazoned with a half-faded T Corp. logo.\n\nThe machine is tall, with dozens of thin clock hands ticking and turning down its cylindrical body; there's a promotional tagline written beneath it.\n\n\"Stop borrowing time!\"\n\"Pre-pay with your disposable time, and buy time without delay when in a pinch!\"\n\nThere's a small slot next to the machine for users to insert their hands.\nWait, underneath the slot—there are warnings written in nigh-illegibly small font.\n\n\n\"Upon use of this device, with the proviso that the user makes a payment of a sum of temporal resource, the user will be imposed a temporary time shortage open parenthesis for the purposes of this agreement, the \"temporary time shortage\" mentioned will be predicated on the T Corp. Variable Time Scale; however, any sum of a day or greater will be measured based on the A Corp. Standard Time Scale close parenthesis; received time prepayment will automatically be deposited and amassed within the ancillary accumulation device within the machine and will be prepared for provision to the user upon circumstances in which they make a withdrawal request via undertaking a series of procedures or the fulfillment of refund conditions stipulated in the manual thereof, by summation of the user's total per-day hours and the extrapolated acceleration rate subsidies calculated by a distinct formula; the precise period, order, and limitations in reflecting these changes to the user's account balance is determined by the device's terms of service as described—\"\n\n\"V-very well. The full extent of this multiloquous writing needn't be recited in full.\"\n\n\"Hang on, ain't this one of them things the Collectors wear on their arms?\"", "options": [ { "message": "Use the device.", "messageDesc": "Select to gain a Cursed E.G.O Gift", "result": [ "Well, might as well make a deposit while we've got time to burn.\n\n\"It appears that this device functions on a mechanism not dissimilar from those installed in T Corp. Collection Staff's gauntlets, Executive Manager.\"\n\n\"Are you sure the payment went through? I don't feel any different.\"\n\n<…….>\n\nWith the Sinners' slowed speech trailing behind, I hurried onward." ] }, { "message": "Don't use the device.", "messageDesc": "", "result": [ "We're not exactly flush with time right now.\n\nWe decided to leave the device without using it." ] } ] }, { "id": 971087, "name": "Audio Logs of That Day", "desc": "We see an old voice recorder with a faded label.\n\n\n\nThe \"Play\" button is smooth and worn from use—as though someone pressed it hundreds of times.", "options": [ { "message": "Play the recording.", "messageDesc": "Select to gain a Cursed E.G.O Gift", "result": [ "\"Researcher ■■■■■■■■■. Are we ready to begin the interview?\"\n\n\"A thoroughly pointless query to set forth when we both know that you are given every authority to choose when to start.\"\n\n\"Haha... Right then. Let's dive straight in.\"\n\n\"Regarding the ■■■■■ ■■■■■■, ■■■■ ■■■■ incident at ■■■... what was the situation like when it happened?\"\n\n\"The entire facility began to quake and buckle. Then came the broadcast: Initiating site burial in 100 seconds.\"\n\n\"100 seconds... yes, that does sound rather brief, but given the technology implemented at ■ Corp. and the availability of transport units, that should've been enough time to evacuate.\"\n\n\"As you may know, the ■■■ Branch was one of the larger facilities, housing numerous Abnormalities of higher Risk Levels. Take ■■■ ■■■ or ■■, for instance.\"\n\n\"And naturally, some of those entities had the ability to seize control of the facility.\"\n\n\"Most exits were dead, including the elevators. We only had a single escape pod arriving.\"\n\n\"I was deemed the individual of the highest human resource value among those present—the only personnel for whom any available means of escape should be reserved.\"\n\n\"The others agreed, quite rationally, that I should be the one to evacuate.\"\n\n\"That is all.\"\n\n\"... You sound remarkably calm. As if you're relating an event that didn't even happen to you.\"\n\n\"Unnecessary addenda won't change the core issue of the subject under discussion, wouldn't you agree?\"\n\n\"Nothing could be more inefficient than adding pointless sentiment to words.\"\n\n\"Don't you feel sorry for them? Not even a trace of remorse?\"\n\n\"None.\"\n\n\"The prerequisite of apologetic sentiment is the existence of those who should receive it.\"\n\n\"That condition does not apply to me. Ergo, I have no need to indulge in such sentimentalities.\"\n\nIn the audio log, the researcher continued to answer the questions with a flat detachment.\n\nThe recording cut out into harsh, jarring static, leaving a hollow silence in its wake." ] }, { "message": "Leave.", "messageDesc": "", "result": [ "Sometimes, the best option is to back off.\n\nWe decided to move on without playing the recording." ] } ] }, { "id": 971088, "name": "Recurring Faith and Promise", "desc": "We come across two bizarre lifeforms standing on either side of a table set with an old roulette wheel.\n\n\"Care you test your luck? A prize awaits those who have fortune's favor.\"\n\"Lose. No prize. Leave if don't want.\"\n\nThe old roulette wheel they point at is inscribed with strange symbols.\n\nWe cannot make sense of the symbols, but something about them keeps drawing our gaze.\n\nWhat should we do?", "options": [ { "message": "Spin the roulette.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain or lose Cost", "result": [ "We cannot take our eyes off the spinning roulette wheel.\n\nThe roulette comes to a stop, just short of slipping past the yellow slot.\n\n\"Oh, that's a win!\"\n\"You. Lucky.\"", "We cannot take our eyes off the spinning roulette wheel.\n\nThe roulette comes to a stop, just short of slipping past the blue slot.\n\n\"You. Bust. Scram.\"\n\"Too bad, that's a bust. And that means no prize money for you.\"\n\nWe were thrown out of the chamber, empty-handed." ] }, { "message": "Stop.", "messageDesc": "", "result": [ "\"Wise. Choice.\"\n\"So you prove yourself a coward.\"\n\nWe escape the chamber." ] } ] }, { "id": 97108801, "name": "Recurring Faith and Promise 2", "desc": "\"Another spin, perhaps? Double the prize this time.\"\n\"Leave. If. Don't. Want.\"", "options": [ { "message": "Keep spinning the roulette.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain or lose Cost", "result": [ "We cannot take our eyes off the spinning roulette wheel.\n\nThe roulette comes to a stop, just short of slipping past the yellow slot.\n\n\"Oh, that's a win!\"\n\"You. Lucky.\"", "We cannot take our eyes off the spinning roulette wheel.\n\nThe roulette comes to a stop, just short of slipping past the blue slot.\n\n\"You. Bust. Scram.\"\n\"Too bad, that's a bust. And that means no prize money for you.\"\n\nWe were thrown out of the chamber, empty-handed." ] }, { "message": "Stop.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain Cost", "result": [ "\"The wise knows when to call it quits.\"\n\"The wise. Don't. Gamble.\"\n\nI no longer feel the magnetic pull the roulette wheel once had on my gaze.\n\nWe leave the room with a sack of cash in hand." ] }, { "message": "Say \"I want the roulette wheel.\"", "messageDesc": "Select to gain an E.G.O Gift", "result": [ "\"No. Such. Rules.\"\n\"That would indeed make for a rather interesting choice.\"\n\nThe bizarre creatures trilled their puzzle pieces for a moment, then disappeared into the roulette wheel.\n\nWe picked up the roulette and continued on our way." ] } ] }, { "id": 97108802, "name": "Recurring Faith and Promise 3", "desc": "\"How about one last game?\"\n\"Remember. Always. In moderation.\"", "options": [ { "message": "Keep spinning the roulette.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain or lose Cost", "result": [ "We cannot take our eyes off the spinning roulette wheel.\n\nThe roulette comes to a stop, just short of slipping past the yellow slot.\n\n\"That's a clean win right there!\"\n\"Your last. Crumb of. Luck. Don't. Ever. Come back.\"\n\nThe moment we take the hefty sack of cash, the roulette wheel and the bizarre creatures disappear.", "We cannot take our eyes off the spinning roulette wheel.\n\nThe roulette comes to a stop, just short of slipping past the blue slot.\n\n\"Too bad, that's a bust. And that means no prize money for you.\"\n\"Had a. Feeling. Don't. Ever. Come back.\"\n\nWe were booted out of there, empty-handed." ] }, { "message": "Stop.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain Cost", "result": [ "\"The wise knows when to call it quits.\"\n\"The wise. Don't. Gamble.\"\n\nI no longer feel the magnetic pull the roulette wheel once had on my gaze.\n\nWe leave the room with a sack of cash in hand." ] } ] }, { "id": 971089, "name": "Poultry Memory", "desc": "'Eunbong's Bar & Fryers!'\n'Dial 555-0102-0386-2664! That's 555-0102-Zero-EUN-BONG!'\n\nWe followed the weird, catchy jingle and found ourselves standing before an oddly familiar machine.\n\n\"Hey, that's a claw machine. It's got... Huh, these are...\"\n<... Why are there Bongy plushies here?>\n\"Didn't that guy say something about how the one he gave us was an invaluable, one-of-a-kind treasure? That there's nothing else like it?\"\n\"... Such promise carries very little weight in the Mirror Dungeon.\"\n\"Mm. It may be an idiosyncrasy of the experience that is yet to be identified.\"\n\"Guys, hold on. Look at that plush there—I just saw a golden twinkle through its seams! There's gotta be money in these things!\n\nThere are Bongy plushies of various design inside the claw machine.\nWhich one should we go for?", "options": [ { "message": "Get the small Bongy plushie.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain Cost", "result": [ "A small Bongy plushie should be an easy win for us.\n\nI carefully maneuver the claw over the plushies and grab the small plushie with utmost care... and somehow, it managed to travel to the chute without dropping midway through the journey. A heavy, metallic clunk echoes from the port.\n\n\"That sounds heavy. I wonder if there's something expensive in there?\"\n\"Duh! Didn't ya see that golden gleam earlier? Gimme that, Dante!\"\n\"What the hell are you—\"\n\"Gonna cut its belly right open!\"\n\"Little Sir Bongy!!!!!!\"\n\nOne of the Sinners cuts open the belly of the Bongy plushie, and coins start spilling out of it.\nWhile we were occupied with counting the coins, the jingle slowly quieted down, and soon, disappeared with the claw machine." ] }, { "message": "Get the medium-sized Bongy plushie.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain Cost (chance to gain additional Cost)", "result": [ "We identified the medium-sized Bongy Plushie in a decent spot to be plucked, and decided to try our luck.\n\nI carefully maneuver the claw over the plushies and grab the medium-sized plushie with utmost care... and somehow, it managed to travel to the chute without dropping midway through the journey. A heavy, metallic clunk echoes from the port. Twice.\n\n\"Ooh... Abreast the selected Bongy is a Bongy of smaller dimensions; indeed, the idiom \"two birds with one stone\" would be most apt here. Not only did the two avians grant us subsistence, it also gave us riches.\"\n\n\"Ya think? Gimme that, Dante!\"\n\"What the hell are you—\"\n\"Gonna cut their bellies right open!\"\n\"Little Sir Bongy! And Littlest Sir Bongy!!!!!\"\n\nOne of the Sinners cuts open both Bongy plushies' bellies, and coins start spilling out of them.\nWhile we were occupied with counting the coins, the jingle slowly quieted down, and soon, disappeared with the claw machine.", "I carefully maneuver the claw over the plushies and grab the medium-sized plushie with utmost care... but it somehow got stuck in the chute.\nFortunately, a small plushie right next to it fell out of the chute with a thud.\n\n\"It's torn... It must have gotten stuck before it popped out from the chute.\"\n\"Hmm? Hey, gimme that, Dante!\n\"What the hell are you—\"\n\"The plushie's stuffed with coins. Lucky!\"\n\nOne of the Sinners cuts open the belly of the Bongy plushie, and coins start spilling out of it.\nWhile we were occupied with counting the coins, the jingle slowly quieted down, and soon, disappeared with the claw machine." ] }, { "message": "Get the huge Bongy plushie.", "messageDesc": "Choose to gain Cost (chance to gain additional Cost)", "result": [ "Could those flimsy little pincers even lift that massive Bongy plushie?\n\nI wasn't really sure, but I carefully maneuvered the claw and went for the grab anyway.\n\nA heavy metallic thunk rang out from the prize chute as the doll dropped in.\n\n\"F-fie! Little Sir Bongy's seams have completely burst!\n\"It couldn't withstand the impact of the fall.\"\n\"Hang on, look at that! Something pouring out from the seams~ Hey, that's money!\"\n\nWe scooped up the coins stuffed inside the doll.\nWhile we were occupied with the coins, the jingle slowly quieted down, and soon, disappeared with the claw machine.", "Could those flimsy little pincers even lift that massive Bongy plushie?\n\nI wasn't really sure, but I carefully maneuvered the claw and went for the grab anyway.\n\nWe could hear a rattle from the prize chute as the doll dropped in.\n\n\"It won't come down... I think it's stuck.\"\n\"The seams must've come loose—there are coins falling out.\"\n\n\nWhile we were occupied with counting the coins, the jingle slowly quieted down, and soon, disappeared with the claw machine." ] } ] }, { "id": 971110, "name": "Bamboo-hatted Kim's Past 1", "desc": "\"Um, excuse me...\"\n\nAs we were slowly looking around the streets of S Corp., a youth, after fidgeting and hesitating for a moment, walked up to us and asked for help.\n\nThe youth explained that, wishing to better his own status, he took the Royal Examination—akin to a public employment policy in S Corp.—and was able to attain a high grade for himself.\n\nAnd that was where his problems began; as far as he knew, people who passed the exam with flying colors like himself had their travel expenses paid for the homeward trip and were to be granted a guide. But there must've been a misunderstanding or something, because when he left the exam grounds, no one was there to escort him.\n\nConfused by the unexpected turn of events, he wandered away from the exam grounds in search of his escort, lost his bearings, and found himself in these alleys.\n\nHe's asking if we could help him with directions... What should we do?", "options": [ { "message": "\"Sorry, we've never been here before, either.\"", "messageDesc": "No particular effect", "result": [ "\"Ah, you too are unfamiliar with these streets?\"\n\nThe youth wandered off, clicking his tongue in disappointment.\n\n\"... Hmmh.\"\n\nAs soon as the youth disappeared from our sight, Bamboo-hatted Kim, who had slinked away to the back of the group, suddenly let out a deep sigh.\n\n\"Have you aught to say, Mentor?\"\n\"Uh, that's... me. I am that youth.\"\n\n... The sudden reveal threw the Sinners for a brief loop.\n\n\"Back then, I was a conceited fool who proudly smelled his own farts, not knowing how ridiculous he appeared.\"\n\"The exam was to compose an essay on a certain someone who has committed treason against S Corp. Full of foolish confidence as always, I wrote them a long paper humiliating the treasonous wretch so that no such embarrassment could ever stain our history again...\"\n\"... and only upon arriving home did I realize who he was. Who would've known that the 'treasonous wretch' I had excoriated savagely in the exam was none other than my own ancestor?\"\n\n\"T-then the reason you did not seek out a seat of an official, even after passing the test, was...\"\n\n\"How could I dare, Aeng-du? Why do you think no escort volunteered to guide my foolish past self?\"\n\"Because every soul in S Corp. but myself already knew what I had done, who I was—a bastard who betrayed his own ancestor's name to pass an exam.\"\n\nKim muttered placidly as though he was sharing a mildly funny joke, then walked ahead of us...\n\n\"But they needn't have shamed me into breaking my brush, for I had already done that myself.\"\n\n... while quickly hiding his shaking hand beneath the other." ] }, { "message": "\"Let me ask my group if they can help.\"", "messageDesc": "Run a Gluttony & Pride Advantage check to gain a Keywordless E.G.O Gift.", "result": [ "" ] } ] }, { "id": 971111, "name": "Bamboo-hatted Kim's Past 2", "desc": "Navigating our way through the streets of S Corp., we come across a young man hugging a blade, his gaze wandering blankly toward the sky.\n\n\"... Ah.\"\n\nHe seemed to have caught us staring—he turned his head toward us, gave us a once-over, then slumped back where he sat.\n\n\"Pass on by, folks. I have no intent of bringing you harm.\"\n\nHis voice was familiar... but I couldn't quite place my finger on it.\n\n\"Search not for a revelation in the clouds drifting by, for they hold no answers.\"\n\nKim blurted out of the blue as we were about to walk past the sword-hugging man.\nOh, then that man must be...\n\n\"... Do you know me?\"\n\"Must I know you to impart some unsolicited advice? A meddler in me simply cannot help himself when walking past a disadvantageous game of baduk.\"\n\nThe man widened his eyes in brief surprise, then began in a contemplative voice.\n\n\"You are a player of greater dan than I—that I can tell; so if you will, permit me to solicit some advice.\"\n\"Shamed I am of my past plays, for they were dishonorable and deserving of ridicule; thus I had begun to wonder if I would be of better use should I become a blade for hire...\"\n\"Then, a man of incorruptible integrity, a just soul, sought me out and asked me that I serve as his blade. Yet, I worry that my filth may befoul his hands, too.\"\n\"What say you? Would you say that I take this opportunity and make this play? Or...\"", "options": [ { "message": "Let Bamboo-hatted Kim answer.", "messageDesc": "Select to gain a Slash E.G.O Gift", "result": [ "\"Shamed you may be of your past plays, yet what of it?\"\n\n\"What choice have you got but to continue placing the stones, when the game shall avail you no mercy of reverting a move?\"\n\n\"What if continuing this play leads me to lose all of my territories?\"\n\n\"Then resign the game.\"\n\"You've given it all to the end, and if it is indeed a bitter one, then what can you do? The least you can do is play it until the game is called.\"\n\"You're playing by following the flow anyhow, aren't you?\"\n\n\".......\"\n\"Though we have but just met, it seems as though your gaze penetrates deep into my bones, stranger.\"\n\"Take this as a token of my thanks for your 'meddling.'\"\n\nA lightbulb seemed to have gone off in his head; light flashed in the eyes of the man, or Bamboo-hatted Kim of the past, and he jumped to his feet and sped off, but not before handing us something.\n\n\"... Not that you'll be able to do anything to change the course of this losing game.\"\nI think I heard Kim whisper." ] }, { "message": "Let a Sinner answer instead.", "messageDesc": "Run a Sloth & Pride Advantage check to heal the selected Identity.", "result": [ "" ] } ] }, { "id": 971112, "name": "Bamboo-hatted Kim's Past 3", "desc": "I catch a glimpse of a figure, staring off into the darkness of the unlit prison.\n\n\"Hah...\"\n\nBamboo-hatted Kim lets out a sigh, but before he even fully exhales...\n\n\"Who goes there?!\"\n\nA sharp cry cuts through the stagnant air. Someone here must've noticed us.\n\nWhat should we do?", "options": [ { "message": "Claim that we are fellow guards keeping their eyes on the prisoner.", "messageDesc": "No particular effect", "result": [ "\"At least put a little effort into your lies, huh?!\"\n\nClearly, pretending to be prison guards the way we are was a lie too easily disproven...\n\nWe took to our heels as the woman, red with anger, came after us with her sword unsheathed." ] }, { "message": "Unsheathe our weapons and stand ready for battle.", "messageDesc": "Gain a Slash E.G.O Gift depending on the result of the following choice", "result": [ "\"... You're not the prison guards.\"\n\nThe woman who called us stood there for a moment, nonchalantly trying to gauge us even as we stood with our weapons drawn. Then, she walked toward us in a gait that could not be called aggressive.\n\nBut instead of chatting with us, she called upon the figure sitting inside the prison.\n\n\"Would you care to explain? Who are they? And... what happened?\"\n\nThe one-sided exchange continued for a while as she tried various lines of questioning to chat up the figure inside the cell, but it was to no avail.\n\n\"... Hah. Might as well be talking to a corpse long dead.\"\n\nShe let out an exasperated sigh before turning to us." ] } ] }, { "id": 97111201, "name": "Bamboo-hatted Kim's Past 3", "desc": "\"Are you not here to visit him as well? Might you be those who share his purpose?\"", "options": [ { "message": "Say that you're not.", "messageDesc": "No particular effect", "result": [ "\"... You're not?\"\n\"Then might I... consider you naught but spies who have infiltrated the prison of the Royal Court?\"\n\nWe took to our heels as the woman, without giving us even a second to explain ourselves, charged at us with her weapon drawn." ] }, { "message": "Say that you are, and explain the situation.", "messageDesc": "Run a Lust & Pride Advantage check to gain a Slash E.G.O Gift.", "result": [ "" ] } ] } ] }