Logout of Cthulhu: A Lovecraftian LitRPG novel (Cthulhu World Book 1) by Kato T.K

Author:Kato, T.K. [Kato, T.K.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Incandescent Phoenix Books
Published: 2018-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

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After a bit more fiddling, my lock picks offered a satisfying click.

+1 Dex

Yeah, can’t say I knew what I’d have even done if that failed. Maybe tried to blow the door down like Bobby the big bad wolf.

As it was, I opened it, revealing an even larger chamber than the one I stood in. This one, like the last, was a maddening maze. Only now, the entire room was spherical, like I was on the inside of a globe, and the stairs had been replaced with walkways that crossed the sphere at improbable angles.

A frustrated growl escaped me. No, I wasn’t about to let this shit stop me, but still, I was sick of it. The designers had taken a good idea and stretched it too far, crossing the threshold from challenging to annoying.

Or maybe I was just tired and grumpy.

Before stepping off this landing, I looked down, checking to see if they had repeated the secret shortcut trick. No such luck. Instead, I had three paths to choose from, two skirting the outer edges of the sphere, and one straight through. All led to doorways, similar to arches I’d seen before, but now completely circular.

Not really knowing where I needed to go, I chose the middle path and started walking. The shift in orientation was slow and subtle, enough that I hadn’t even realized it had happened until I looked behind me and saw the door I’d come in was well above me and upside down. My eyes traced the path I’d followed and I saw no reason it should have left me on the underside of the walkway, yet here I was.

But as I stared longer at it, it seemed almost to warp and shift.

-1 Sanity

I shook myself. Maybe it had actually changed, or maybe I’d just seen multiple angles of the optical illusion. Either way, I decided to retrace my steps. I followed the path back, and yet, when I passed through another circular doorway, I found myself on a landing far above where I’d started.

It was like, depending on how you looked it, the path could be above itself or below itself. And if I wasn’t careful, I’d follow it to an unintentional end. Of course none of that made any actual sense.

Grumbling, I went through another doorway on this landing. It opened out to a new landing, one with differing paths. I couldn’t be certain, but it looked a lot like I’d crossed to the other side of the sphere entirely. Which wasn’t what I wanted.

I doubled back and retreated through the doorway, only to find myself exiting from a third location, this one on the wall above the door I’d just gone through.

All right. Enough was enough. I slumped down onto the surface and shut my eyes, blocking out the insane room. The multifaceted path was bad enough, but if going back through a doorway deposited me at a random location, I could never hope to plan a route—especially not with my orientation continuously changing, making it hard to know when I’d shifted locations.

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