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#@@*††~^.. they built the final nightclub on top ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. of an undocumented research site. each .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. floor closer to the collapsed warp ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. prototype. did they know at the start? .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. classified maps had gone missing some ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. years before. .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. the deeper you descend, the stranger .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. the environment - first more ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. enthralling and intrusive, then seedy .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. and predatory, but pierce deeper and ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. there will be more peculiar effects. .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. your sense of space will seem to ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. distort (it's actually the spacetime .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. itself that is becoming fluid), then ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. your body, and finally your sense of .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. self. ..^~††*@@#
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#@@*††~^.. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ### ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ##### ### .^~††*@@##
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##@@*††~^. ######## ######## ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ...... ...... ...... .^~††*@@##
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#@@*††~^.. ...... ...... ...... ^. ^. ^. ^. ^. ^. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. ^. ^. ^. ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ^^ ^^ ^~ ^~ ^~ ^~ ^~ ^~ ^~ ^~ ^† ^† ^† ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. ^† ^† ^† ^* ^¤ ^@ ^@ ^# ~. ~^ ~~ ~† ~† .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ~* ~¤ ~@ ~@ ~# †. †^ †~ †† †† †* †¤ †@ ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. †@ †# †. †^ †~ †† †† †* †¤ †@ †@ †# *. .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. *^ *~ *† *† ** *¤ *@ *@ *# ¤. ¤^ ¤~ ¤† ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. ¤† ¤* ¤¤ ¤@ ¤@ ¤# @. @^ @~ @† @† @* @¤ .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. @@ @@ @# @. @^ @~ @† @† @* @¤ @@ @@ @# ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. #. #^ #~ #† #† #* #¤ #@ .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. the ceiling is covered in actual stars. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. eyes above .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. fading into silver flakes as they fall ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. bubbles in drinks .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. drinks with a secret ingredient, that .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. makes you see the stars even when you ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. close your eyes. .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. at these deeper levels it can be hard .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. to remember who and where you are ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. (were). normal staff is as transformed .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. as guests. instead, care and protection ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. are offered by (overly flirty) .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. pool toys and other such automatons. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. if you stay above absolute madness, ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. there is some sort of control to be .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. had. you could slip into your ideal dog ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. body there, explore that. you could .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. drink poisonous ambrosia and not be ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. burned away. you could explore .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. territories just as mapless as those ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. closer to the core, but with a chance .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. of finding your way back. ..^~††*@@#
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#@@*††~^.. .# .# .# .# .# .# .# .# .# .# .# ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. ^^ the honey is a trap and there's a ^^ .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ~~ sting, a sting, a sting. ~~ ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. †. it's in your eyes and it's in your .† .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. †^ mouth and your hands, their hands ^† ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. *~ it's in your heart and in your ~* .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ¤† mind and the minds of those around †¤ ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. @† you, their hearts, their bodies. †@ .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. @* @* @* @* @* @* @* @* @* @* @* ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. and if you're lucky, you'll never get .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. out. don't bite the other guests. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. (or do) .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. the deeper the floor goes, the more .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. expensive the drinks. this is not ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. coincidental. the more expensive the .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. drinks, the more likely it is that ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. someone will buy them for you. .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. this is also not coincidental. if ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. someone buys you a drink, they are very .^~††*@@##
#@@*††~^.. likely to take care of your needs in ..^~††*@@#
##@@*††~^. other ways as well. .^~††*@@##
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