[Strike Witch]

-Part 3-

You have been walking down this ancient stone walkway for what your HUD tells you to be an hour. It's 15:45 Local Time, whatever that means. Through the high branches and endless sprawl of plants above you, you can see the faint light of the sun. The walkway has twisted and turn through the depths of this forest, and about partway a trickling stream started to converge with it. By this point only the stone walkway itself and the trees around it were above water.


Finally, you walk down some stone steps as the water rushes off to some deeper river within the forest. You find yourself standing on a stone platform that is partially subsumed by a pile of earth, with stone tiles leading up the pile to an area beyond the trees. Taking a break, you sit down carefully on a rock and decide to run the Memory Log.

You insert the device into a port on your arm. A screen opens on your Helet's HUD:

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Priority notice to all personnel.
Seabook Exploration Corps authorizes access to firearms in storage lockers on-board the SEC Starship Caligula. The following individuals are to be detained:

Dr. Sasa Delanqua
Dr. Richard Neara
Dr. Hyang Soo-Lee

Lethal force is authorized. All personnel are encouraged to not inform members of the Military Delegation on-site.

-The Management

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You ponder the words. Obviously, you're a member of either the SEC or the Military, your rank suggesting the latter. Amnesia is a mysterious thing.

You save the Log and continue up the path. There, you find the way branches in three directions.

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A. You can follow the mound's curvature towards a path that leads to large stone arch in the distance.
B. Another stone arch lies across a small stone bridge directly ahead of you.
C. The third route consists of a set of stone stepping-stones across another tributary, then around a large rock where you can see the side of a third stone arch.

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