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Pear, Board 3
“Oh great. The octopus built a fog machine,” the Manager says.
Perhaps teaching it how to tinker with machinery wasn’t the best idea. You stay incredibly quiet.
“I guess it’ll have to be part of the ambience,” the Manager sighs and walks off.
You take this opportunity to sneak out back to the grounds. The fog is incredibly thick here as well, and you can barely even see where the plot is, let alone what’s in it, but all those bones and machinery pieces have you invested. There’s something in the ground here, and you have a burning urge to discover what it is.
“Ooh,” Professor Fuzang says over your previously excavated pile of bones and machinery. When you walk closer, you can see that he, too, now has a wiggling pear mashed onto his head. He somehow makes it look dignified. “You know, I think I recognize this culture. The Dirt Empire reigned here long ago, and left behind several kinds of artifact, usually attested only as fragments. I believe that these objects usually accompany a much larger object, in roughly this shape.” He sketches a shape on the ground with a talon. “We haven’t ever found the full object, and extant samples are so weathered it’s hard to do more than speculate on the function, but all the other objects you’ve excavated are incredibly well-preserved, so we might be able to discover something new! My colleagues have speculated it is an object for ‘ritual purposes,’ so I would be thrilled to be able to discover the actual function.”
You look at the sketch. Of course, there’s no telling how many pieces it will be in, nor the size, but you’re in too deep now. You must discover what this relic of the Dirt Empire is, and what it is for; and for that, you shall dig down. Long live dirt! Long live the Dirt Empire!
Pear Board 3 Grid and List of Goals
Pear Collection | Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)
The first team to uncover every machine component will win the 2025 round of Battleship Exchange! The remaining teams will continue competing until one claims second place.