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Day 11: After a frivolous day off of reading crater poetry and feeling a lift crunch my rib cage, I think it's time to get back into space. I roast the obligatory two morning marshmallows with Slate and head for the ship. I haven't been to the Hourglass Twins yet, so I'm thinking I'll try to go there. Also I'm not high today, so if I have time after the Twins, I'll go back to Dark Bramble. I'm a big boy who can handle the Spooktown Spectacular.

The Ash Twin looks a little boring from a distance, so I set my autopilot for the Ember Twin. "What a great time to check my discord notifications," I think to myself.

After crash landing on the Ash Twin and repairing my ship, I decide to make the best of things. I wandered around the Ash Twin for awhile, not finding anything but sand. When in doubt, head to a pole. There I found a strange glowing structure raising out of the ground with some kind of platform next to it. Further inspection yields that there are actually four glowing structures, and the platform is at the center of them. Eventually, the platform is too high up for me to get on top of it, and no entrance to these structures has been revealed yet. The Ember Twin continues to orbit around and flaunt it's more interesting surface at me.

I head back to my ship to refill my oxygen tank, then head for the north pole. Maybe things are wild up there. Not so much. It looks almost exactly the same, but the structures look more unburied and there's a teleporter leading to the top of the central platform. I ride it up expecting a grand reveal, but it's just The Ember Twin orbiting by again. I point my Signalscope at the Ember Twin and head Chert banging away on his drums. I hate it here.

"To hell with this, we're going to the other Twin," I think to myself before realizing my ship is way ahead of me. Looks like I figured out what's moving all the sand. I wanted to be mad, but the reveal of that giant sand tornado filling in the chasms of The Ember Twin with the sand from the Ash Twin (and my ship) was just such an awesome moment. That's such a cool concept for a planet duo.

Being true to form of choosing to do the dumbest thing I can, I leap into the sand tornado and much to my surprise, survive the trip to the Ember Twin. Upon landing, I spot some sort of opening in the cliff face with a bridge leading into it. Inside is a fluctuating cave shard and some Nomai writing. Turns out the Nomai named Coleus is missing. I recall reading some of his writings on other planets, but don't remember much of his personality. He disappeared at the lakebed of the Ember Twin's north pole.

Now I'm not one to start controversy, but sometimes I gotta say what I gotta say, y'know? If I feel the heat, I gotta bring it and I can't worry about who I'll offend. So this next part's gonna get pretty blue, just fair warning. (especially if you're Norwegian)

Some Nomai arrived from "The Sunless City" to help look for Coleus. What's with these guys? Did they grow up in Rjukan, Norway or something? Yeah, that's right. Eat that shit, Rjukan.

Okay, sorry about that. But sometimes people need to be reminded that I'm not afraid to dunk on Norway. Anyways, the explicit content is now over. Hopefully you guys are still with me.

After reading the rest of the Nomai translations, I find out that there's a rock that wanders around different areas on the planet. No doubt that's probably where Chert is, because every traveler besides Esker seems challenging to access. Chert just can't chill on the surface like Slate does, can he? Gotta show everyone he can fly around in a rock. I'm running out of oxygen again, so I guess I'll die in this cave.

About thirty seconds after writing that passive aggressive note about Chert flying a rock around instead of chilling on the surface, I find Chert chilling on the surface. I fucking found him dudes. I never doubted for a second.

I tell Chert I'm a big fan of his mixtapes. He mentions that he's seen about ten supernovae since he's been out here, and I start to lose my shit because I've died exactly ten times. My mind starts to wander about the story implications of Chert also experiencing the time loop, but it turns out he's talking about other stars. I mean, he's pretty chuffed about our sun as well. Your concerns are spot on, Chert.

So the place Dark Bramble occupies was previously held by a planet with a frozen solid surface. Dark Bramble appeared at the center of that planet, expanded, and caused the planet to explode outwards, explaining why there's Dark Bramble rocks on every planet. Quit blowing planets up, Dark Bramble. There's no need for it, mate.

Chert tells me about the ruins of a Nomai ship in the southern hemisphere and naturally points out that if I waited for all the sand to drain out of the Ash Twin I would have discovered something. Since my ship's in the sand now, I jump over to Chert's to see if I can steal his, but it's locked. Seems a little paranoid to lock your ship when you're the only one on the entire planet, but I suppose in this instance Chert was proven right.

I head to the south pole of the Ember Twin and find a rotating artifact circle on the ground. The Nomai have some graffiti here where Melorae talks about a moon that disappears if no one if looking at it. It's a good thing I'm not high right now, because that would have triggered the spook senses. The moon has had sightings over Brittle Hollow, Timber Hearth,and the Dark Bramble. Y'know what? This is probably that Quantum Moon I threatened to crash into during the previous day. I insert the scroll and wouldn't you know it, it's the freaking Quantum Moon, dude. He's a genius. So apparently the QM is visiting all five planets, but there's a sixth place the QM travels that's not being picked up. My initial thought was that it goes inside one of those Dark Bramble seeds, but the beacon from "the Vessel" was at least able to follow a signal until it got to the seed. The writings are saying they can't find it at all. Maybe it's the Interloper? I haven't been there yet but maybe the Interloper hasn't always been interloping. It might not have been around when the Nomai were?

I discover a blue light shooting into the sky, signaling the remains of the Nomai ship, but it's completely buried in sand. I pick up a distress call from an escape pod in the ruins about 15m down. Aiming the signalscope around the solar system, I locate another distress call, but forget to write down which planet. I hope it's not urgent. If it is, not much I can do, dude The sun's about to explode. I've never watched the supernova from up close before. It's really beautiful and I may do it again soon.

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