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Day 13: I wake up after another traumatic death in the bowels of space with thoughts of roasted mallows and Slate's mighty thrusts racing through my mind. However, my eye is caught by something overhead and questions move in where Slate's humps should be. Did something blue just launch out of the thing that's been circling Giant's Deep? Has this been happening every day but taken me this long to notice? Am I the dumbest man alive? When I was on the Giant's Deep construction site, Nomai writing implied something had launched very recently. Did they mean like, the beginning of the day recent? But that would mean the Nomai are still alive? The questions fade away and one thought penetrates my mind as Slate would penetrate - you know what? I'm kinda over Slate pounding back walls. The thought is this - "We're going back to Giant's Deep."

I miraculously avoid the water tornadoes and actually find solid ground to land on. It seems too good to be true. I park on dry land on Giant's Deep and it only cost me 15% of my landing gear and 100% of my landing camera? Jackpot! I didn't even know I had a landing camera. That can stay broken for all I care. I stumble upon a barricaded Nomai "Statue Workshop" along with a beheaded Nomai statue on the ground. Don't worry, his whole body is gone. He can't hurt us like the Nomai statue on Timber Hearth.

Looking out at the water, I see what looks like a rocky submarine with trees cruising by. I'm tempted to chase it, but the planet's stronger gravity would just yoink me straight into the sea. Instead I'll ascend the gravity modified cliffs before me. I discover another set of Nomai ruins and read that Lami wants to watch Phlox test the "memory statues". Taget is all "no" like a dweeb. Laevi is also all "no" but in a much less dweebish way. I can see the workshop (I presume) below, but now I need to find this "more dangerous" way into it. A tornado lifts me off the ground and pummels me into the ruins overlooking the workshop, almost killing me. Okay that didn't work. We'll keep looking.

I trek on to some additional Nomai readings. Phlox is very excited for me to meet his "memory statues". I already did, mate. Shit's fucked. I die so much. He also says that if he's not in his dwelling, he's probably in his workshop. I'll probably have to go underground to get to the workshop. Gabbro is probably somewhere down there too. Too cowardly to come up to the surface and get abused by nature like the rest of us.

I head back to my ship, make some repairs and decide to head for that moving island I saw earlier. I miss. Fortunately, I once again hit dry land, much to the chagrin of 15% of my landing gear and 100% of my landing camera. Why'd I even fix those? Luckily, the island I landed on is Gabbro's camp. He's not inside the island at all. It turns out the key to finding the travelers is to bitch about how inaccessible they are. Excuse me one second, guys.

IF ONLY FUCKING FELDSPAR WOULD COME OUT OF HIS BRAMBLE SEED AND LIVE IN AGONY ON THE SURFACE LIKE THE REST OF US.

Okay, nice. That's settled. I speak to Gabbro and he reveals he's in the same time loop I am. Remember when I freaked out because I thought Chert was also stuck in the time loop, but he wasn't? I was overwhelmed by the story implications, 'member? Well it's happening again. It's happening so bad that I don't even pause the game to make these scribbles in my notebook. "That's okay," you might be thinking. "I'm sure he has time frozen when he's in conversations." No actually. You're wrong. A tornado rips through Gabbro's camp. He floats above his hammock and continues to play his horn. What a chill guy. If only I had a hammock underneath me for when the planet's aggressive gravity kicked back in and slammed me back into the ground, finishing off those nasty vitals once again.


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