Editing Quest:Ruby Quest/Summary (section)

== Part 4 ==

[[Image:Ruby_Map_part_2.PNG|thumb|The known map as of the end of part 4.]]

Consists of threads 14-17.

Tom and Ruby catch up with each other, and both express gratitude that the other is okay. Tom explains that Red let him out of the room where he was being held. Tom's stomach is feeling better, but now his eye hurts. Ruby, worried, offers to examine him. His eye opens freakishly wide, and Ruby has a vision of Tom sprouting additional arms and flailing wildly.

The hallucination ends when Tom asks Ruby if she is okay. Ruby suddenly sees that the Brig is now completely free of blood and has an deep rift torn through the middle. She asks Tom to go to the other side of the room (suspecting that the gap is also imaginary), but he sees it too and declines to do so. He notes that it's been three days since he took the antidote, and that there were some intermittent odd noises coming from the walls.

The two begin re-exploring the cleaned and altered rooms, finding that gravity appears to be reversed on the other side of the chasm in the Brig. During the course of the exploration, Ruby realizes that Tom's eye is actually gone. He tells Ruby that he lost it while he was being dragged into the room by something which, because of his sickness, he couldn't see clearly. It's mostly stopped hurting, though. They hug.

After more exploration, the Z-hatch door slams shut, separating Ruby and Tom. Someone with a wide, Cheshire Cat-like smile tosses Ruby a puzzle component from a darkened doorway, allowing her to complete a puzzle revealing a CROWBAR. She enters the dummy room to find a panel inscribed with archaic, unintelligible writing and a button diagram with a different layout. After more puzzle solving, Ruby recovers a VERY SHARP SCALPEL and passes Tom the CROWBAR through the drop slot. Tom, in a sudden burst of MANLY PHYSIQUE, returns to the Bear room and smashes the hell out of the shelves and light in the closet. He then stands around awkwardly as /tg/ enters a thirteen-minute brain fart. Ruby goes back to the lever room and tries pushing a few buttons. Button 1 causes distant water noises, and button 4 makes something far-off rumble. She decides to return to check on Tom.

While Ruby was gone, Tom says that the pipe in the ceiling had been clanking about every thirty seconds. Tom bashes open the pipe, and a glass orb falls out onto the sofa. He unlocks the safe with it to retrieve the WOODEN DISC. He returns it to Ruby, who recognizes it and affixes it to the eye dial in the Dummy Room. She points the dial to the top symbol, which opens the Z-hatch for Tom. They reunite, and Tom unexpectedly kisses Ruby.

A short but thoroughly awkward moment passes, after which Ruby turns the dial towards the lower symbol and walks over to the pneumatic tube room. On the way there, however, Ruby is interrupted by pain as a giant eye rips open the top of her head. She wipes the blood away and closes the eye, hiding the event from Tom. She then takes another PAPER SCRAP from a new wall hatch, has Tom re-open the Z-hatch, and returns to him. He apologizes for being hasty with his earlier kiss, but Ruby dismisses it.

They plug in the extendable power cord, return to the keypad, and punch in the number from the completed PAPER. The hatch opens to reveal an aquarium, but Weaver uses a narrative shortcut to abridge the changing of the power cord and dial again, leaving Ruby and Tom in front of an open doorway. They enter together to find that the monitors have all been broken. Ruby uses the CROSS PEG as she'd intended quite a while ago, and a ladder comes out of the wall. They climb.

This room is short (more of an attic, really), and it's covered in insane scribblings with "RED" written in large lettering on the ceiling. There's also a circular diagram with a large bloodstain in the center, as though someone had recently slammed their head into it, and a box of cereal and teeth. They go back down and knock on the door, only to discover Red doing a Peach Wilkins impression: he won't let them through without the answer to his riddle.

Tom and Ruby decide to go open the DO NOT OPEN box. Tom crowbars it open to reveal a BOWL OF CLAWED FINGERS and Ruby's mummified body, which Tom doesn't perceive. While Ruby freaks the fuck out, Tom pockets the fingers, uses the nearby sink (which spouts blood, as they are almost unsurprised to find), and fills up the BOWL with blood. Both of them go mix the TEETH, EYE, BLOOD, and FINGERS they have collected into a GODAWFUL SMOOTHIE and return to the monitor room - only to discover the door already open. The room has "NEVER CATCH ME NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER" scrawled all over the back wall, and in the center of the floor is Red, propped up by the broken halves of a shovel shoved through his skull.

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Image:Redroll'd.gif|And thus, the Redroll was born.
Image:Keikaku_dori_Tom.png|Just as planned...
Image:Red_Just_kidding.jpg|Red is just kidding again. Oh Red.
Image:Rubycorpse awesomeface.gif|A helpful diagram to see that the corpse is indeed Ruby.
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