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Sneak peek 👀
🕑 Added 2025-03-05 20:54:26 +0000 UTCHere is a snippet from Narmer's first scene right after the route choice, after MC and your chosen RO fall down a chute. The first scenes here are going to be similar, but then you will take a quite different path through the pyramid than what the MCs with Qenna or Zaia took 👀
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"I think I fell on you a few times…" Narmer groans under you. "Did I hurt you?"
"I'm in one piece…" you mumble as you roll off him and push yourself up on your elbows. "Are you?"
"I'm fine. I'm wearing armor."
He shuffles and probably sits up, but you can't see anything of him in the darkness.
"Where are we?" you ask as you strain your eyes… pretty much to no avail. The whole place is pitch dark. You can't even see where you stumbled down from.
Narmer fiddles around with something. You hear a scratching sound, and then you have to squint because a small flame sparks up in his palm. He holds it out to look around, and the two of you blink at each other with bleary eyes.
There is a small amulet in his hand. It's the one that he usually wears on his necklace. A tiny figure of Bes, protector of children. Usually kids wear them to ward off evil magic.
"Where is the torch?" he asks.
You both look around, and eventually find it at the edge of the chamber. Narmer lights it up, and then you can finally see where you are.
The place is a small, rectangular room. Completely empty, like the rest of the underground complex so far, but the smoothed down walls and straight corners are an indication that this place was worked on and deliberately built, not just a natural chute in a cavern — and thus, it may have an exit.
At the same time, you make a quick inspection of him and yourself. Narmer's cheeks are dirty, his tunic dusty and out of place. He has a few bruises on his arms and a cut on his forehead, but otherwise, he doesn't seem injured. Your elbows and knees sting where you scuffed them, and you have some mild pain flaring up in your ribs as you move. You imagine it might be because Narmer indeed fell on you a few times as you tumbled down that chute and he is heavy. Especially in armor.
