[AFFIRMATION]
[Confrontation can be scary, but it is necessary.]

MEMY14.4 - pitch-

i saw something today, though not for long.

it was more of a quick glance than anything,
some creature ran by.

i had never considered the idea of something
else tunneling through with me... i wonder
how it was able to do that?

my key is the only one, unless the creature
was able to get another purplekey, which
i find highly unlikely.

i thought to myself, i'm probably just
seeing things.

after all, burrowing through the jouse
would probably do something like that
to you, right?

following the quick encounter and
barrage of thoughts, i had put the idea
of a creature lurking here on the backlog
list of ideas to sift through.

after all, my goal was to make a safe
route to the heart while detailing my
journey in five memos.

i had no time to concern myself over
some weird thing i saw, the jouse was
full of those.


...is what i had originally written
for this memo.

then, after creating the room from
flooded, i was face to face with the
creature previously thought to be
illusory.

MEMY14.4A - pitch-(imperfect)

hello?
  hello?

...what are you?
  i could ask you the same thing

i asked first.
  oh, i'm sorry,

i wasn't aware we were going through some
unspoken ruleset of dialogue here, My Bad ig!

no need to be so sarcastic about it.

i just want information.

...fine, go ahead then

> who are you?
...or, rather, what are you?

i'm an explorer

that doesn't help very much.

do you have a name?

i don't owe you a name

...fair, but what kind of creature are you?

i wasn't aware of any other dwellers inside
the jouse, and especially not ones residing
in the rooms i have created... which,
saying that aloud now is doubly strange, as
i have just made this room.

what i am is unimportant.

however, i've been roaming through these
rooms for a while at this point trying to
find something

what could you possibly be searching for?

that's none of your business

whatever, this is getting nowhere.

your turn.
> what's that key you're holding
this is my redkey.

i use it to make the rooms, my way to dig
into the jouse and reach its heart.

i had a dream about that once

about my key?

yeah, it was a recurring dream i've been
having for months on end

it was always the exact same sequence of
events

that dream is why i'm here now

you were some regular person before this?

i wouldn't call my life regular, nor would i
call myself a person.

it was a lot to deal with, and the dream
didn't really help with that, although it
did push me to my breaking point leading me
here

that's concerning.

mind telling me what it was about?

i will not

okay.

...you're being extremely uncooperative
right now, man.

i know

can i tag along with you though?

i feel as if i might find what i'm looking
for if i'm with the one making these rooms

i think this is something i should be doing
alone.

you're no fun

...

...but, it may spice things up to have someone
with me, i suppose.

i can come with?

sure.

just don't break anything.

i still don't know what you are or what
you're capable of, and i'd rather not
risk any damage to the jouse or alert
it of my whereabouts.

i'll try

what's your name?

...you don't deserve an answer.