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INKBOUND | First 20 Minutes Gameplay · No Commentary Gaming

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  You wake up on the shores of an inky expanse, the sea of ink in
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  the dark. Ahead of you, a speck blinks of
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  light and pulses as you move deeper into the void.
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  As you reach to touch it, it inscribes strange glyphs into
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  the air, some unknown language. The light begins to surge,
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  growing brighter and brighter until all you can see is light,
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  and then gone. A moment later it blinks a light
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  by your side, bound to you so. I threw them into the sea.
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  Maybe this is the one nib? Then the poor soul is a needless
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  You know as well as I that they are unable to speak or to bind.
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  But they've bound a new quill. Arthur knows they don't like
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  those needless very much, so something has to be going on.
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  That makes no sense. These stories have been fading
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  long before more quills started showing up.
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  Best leave the needless to fall right back in the sea where they
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  came. Aw, why don't we at least let
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  them choose their aspect and forms first?
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  You'd be a shame to not even see what they choose to be.
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  You needless looks like you're not dead yet, so that's a good
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  sign. And the form you chose is
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  wonderful. Yes, you've bound to Quill.
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  Quite unusual. It seems the ink has plans for
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  you. Oh yes, it does.
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  You've already performed bindings and everything.
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  Quite the spectacle it was. Yes, a needless and a binder.
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  Well, the guardian ahead will not be as kind should you defeat
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  it. Perhaps you and your quill truly
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  are fated for something grander than the sea, or not.
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  Well, it seems you're a binder of some strength, though you
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  will continue to find these anomalies spread throughout our
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  worlds. They're taking all the ink away
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  from us, making our stories fade away bad, little unravelled bad.
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  For now, though, it's time you leave this place and venture to
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  the Athenium, the center and stronghold for all these worlds.
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  They don't like us much in there, so best if we say our
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  goodbyes for now. But don't you worry, we'll see
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  you soon. The ink is not yet finished with
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  you needless. Your form is young and still
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  without purpose. But trust in your quill and you
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  may just find it. You appear inside a cavernous
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  hall, packed with emptiness but full of stories.
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  A massive clock of books and gears looms above the expanse.
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  Tick, tick. Ticking away from the countless
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  black depths. Damp breezes moan to life and
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  stir the pages strewn about the rubble.
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  Your quill urges you deeper into the cavernous space.
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  Arthur be damned, another one all you needless just traipsing
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  here, still damp from the sea from which you crawled.
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  I thought that Julie the Inkbound had created you with
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  more sense than that, yet you all continue to surprise me.
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  Well, you're in the Athenian now.
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  Needless that no binder worth their words is going to give you
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  unfettered access to our stories without a proper proving.
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  A short dive into the inkwell should give us a good idea of
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  you, and at the very least not a little sense into that empty
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  head. Try not to drown too quickly.
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  The source of the ticking, a giant wheel of books and gears
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  which all paths lead to the heart of the Athenian.
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  Don't you touch that bindery, needless, or your next dive into
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  the inkwell will be your last. If even one book shifts out of
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  place, the world's to which you travel might collapse entirely.
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  Not a heart then, a brain. Maybe it's this way?
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  Another needless, always a welcome sight to see another one
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  of you running around our worlds.
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  You are the ones doing the hard work after all.
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  Oh, the inbound is trying I'm sure, but you are the ones
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  actually fighting those villains.
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  Nasty creatures, but you'll see that soon enough.
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  Oh, and you can call me the Scribe, but honestly, it's best
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  you keep our meeting between us. Not that you can tell anyone
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  even if you wanted to. The sea of ink lapse against the
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  straight edge blocks you walk along.
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  You're back again. But it's not quite the same sea,
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  is it? You can make out the edges of
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  stories just beyond the horizon. No, there's intent and form
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  here. Underneath the brush you can
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  make out the remnants of a once well manicured garden that's
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  been lost to time and neglect. The overgrown forest the towers
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  over you now retains some of that stillness, but none of the
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  peace, only danger and hostility.
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  None. None.
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  Nice job with those unraveled so far, but you ain't lived until
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  you fought a Raven as big as a house.
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  Though you probably have a lot more holes in you.
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  What you do welly? Well, you're a shiny new
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  Needless, aren't you? Got a quill and everything.
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  Bet you got quillins to spare too.
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  Well, be by and be moving. This place ain't kind to idlers.
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  You not dry if you're to be counted amongst our ranks, at
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  least wipe. Your feet are damned.
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  This Sithenian will drown in the filthy track in well before the
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  sea takes us. Be grateful the Inkbound places
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  more faith in you than do I. Since you've decided to return,
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  you'll find a few more of us that remain here.
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  The Unraveled left us thin in numbers.
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  We scattered after, but many have begun to return.
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  You were made to serve needless, so meet the other binders of the
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  Athenian and help them in whatever meagre ways you can.
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  Early then. Oh, well, hello, I'm the
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  counselor. Used to be a lot more of us
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  counselors, that is, and everyone else, I guess, but just
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  me now. We, well just me now, make the
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  rules around here more like laws.
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  I guess it's a bit complicated. Mostly it just means that I
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  record things that people do other people.
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  Which reminds me, I've got a list of specific things I need
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  down on the board behind me. Changes day-to-day, but if
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  you're free and you don't mind, any help you give would be
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  helpful.