Press on 2

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From: Tunnels Beneath


Follow the scent of blood.

Unlocked with Digging Through Hollow Veins 52 - 101


Success

Half-remembered

The smell of ammonia rises. Something milky pools around your feet. Your head swims. You stagger.

[…]

You fall to your knees, seized by retching. The liquid tide has ebbed, receding down a distant tunnel. You press on.

Description summary:
The second paragraph varies based on Digging Through Hollow Veins.

DiggingSecond Paragraph
106 - 115—the Ceiba trees are dying. The maize is black. The water here is wrong. Our priests have brought us to the underworld and robbed from us the sun—
122 - 135—once the tree flowed with mare's milk and honey-mead, and all drank at the Khan's pleasure. Where now the honey? Where now the milk? This darkness turns the mind inexorably towards shadow—
136 - 151—tremble with fear on the borders of the cedar forest. I do not want to lose my nerve first. We each compete to be fiercer. I would swear—
158 - 166—our dreams are a haze of half-remembered heat. The Pharaoh speaks of sunlight, but the boundary stelae have not known the Aten's touch for months. The daughters promise—
172 - 185—an aeon in amber, your breath viscous and languorous. Your masters will never accept. The price is too high. Your fronds shiver with the memories of love—
188 - 197—eat in the dreams of the Burrower Below—

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