Thread:EcuramFerata/@comment-4264287-20150117003334

 “Have you heard of the 10,000 Sleeping Merimrs?” Mercai asked.

 I thought for a second and then I remembered that I had read something about that.

 “Yes,” I responded. “Yes I have.”

 The 10,000 Sleeping Merimrs were Merimrs that lived on Orachi. They would only wake up when Orachi was under attack.

 And it was. We were the attackers.

 “A few of them may already be awake. Not many, though. Just a couple hundred.” Mercai said, trying to reassure me.

 If you were a Merimr, a couple hundred may not be a lot. But me being a human, a couple hundred is a lot of vicious killing machines. I just decided to say nothing and follow.

 Some lesser creatures scampered around in the cavern. I looked around. I felt the need to explore my surroundings, but I decided against it. Mercai knew these surroundings.

 Or at least I hoped so.















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<p class="MsoNormal"> =Chapter 7= <p class="MsoNormal"> Eventually, we found a building.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “What’s in here?” I asked.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Mercai looked up.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Apparently it’s one of the computer management buildings.” He told me.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I looked inside the building. There was complicated software in the back. I began to step into it, but Mercai halted me.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Look.” Mercai said in a hushed voice.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Mercai took out a canister and threw it on the ground. It spun around like a laser beam detector. Except instead of laser beams, Savage Tduls appeared.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Savage Tduls were like regular Tduls, but more savage (hence the name) and their tail had a spiral of spikes at the end. They were all sleeping, however.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “If we turn off that computer system, all of these guys will try to kill us.” Mercai explained.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I nodded.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “So, what do we do?” I asked.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Mercai looked in the room, then at his hands.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “I’m a merimr. I can distract them because they’ll listen to me. You do all the technical work.” He told me.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I nodded. Mercai motioned me to move to the control panel in the center. I looked at the screen and it said “Password required”.

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Tduls instantly woke up. I didn’t panic, though. They only looked Mercai.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Why, hello there. I’m sure you’re all feeling quite baffled.” Mercai told them.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I looked at the keyboard. It was all in strange symbols. Luckily, I memorized the QWERTY layout.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Mercai glanced at me. I figured something he said was a keyword. I thought back and remembered: Baffled.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I typed “Baffled” in with the QWERTY layout. It worked and I was brought to a desktop. More strange symbols made up the names for the folders and such. Then, a panel appeared. The initial text was in rejin, luckily my native language. It said:

<p class="MsoNormal"> “So, you’ve used the secret code. To prove that you are a merimr, select one of the following answers.”

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, of course you aren’t. What am I saying? You should really ignore the first statement I said.” Mercai said.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Deciding he meant for me to click on the first statement, I realized how obvious it had been. The initial popup DID say “Select one”.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Another popup appeared, this time in Paroconivian. I didn’t know much in it, but I translated it roughly to say:

<p class="MsoNormal"> “You might be a merimr, but you still might not be. You could be a rotten tomato. The potatoes are trained to carrot you if you get this question avocado.” I’m pretty sure I mistranslated most of that.

<p class="MsoNormal"> There wasn’t a question. I looked at Mercai desperately.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Do you guys know where I can find an Open Door? I was thinking to the right of this building.” Mercai said.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I looked at the desktop. Conveniently, it was a picture of a building. I looked to the right. Nothing was there. Then I realized: To the right of. The desktop was a mirror image, which meant left was right and right was left.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I looked left and saw three files. They each matched characters on the keyboard.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Wheresss our meal?” one of the tduls hissed.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Mercai was running out of time. The tduls were hungry, and they wanted meat.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “Your once-a-century snack will soon be here! Very, very soon it will be!” Mercai spoke.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I was looking for T so I could create the words “The Door”. The top one was a Q, and the bottom was a D, so I must have needed to click the center icon.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I clicked it and a word popped up. More characters from the keyboard. <ac_metadata title="Some words"> </ac_metadata>