>You wake up

>equip pen
>draw candy

Maybe tasty gifts will improve its mood!

 

>Stare suspiciously at A Small Notebook
This does very little. It does make you feel a little better, though.

>say Who are you calling useless?
You are the voice says. You've just been standing here!

>poke face
To your surprise, it actually scrunches up, as if to defend itself.
Hey! That's some pretty delicate magic you're sticking your stick-finger into, dumbnuts!

> attempt to prod face with pen
You are not holding the pen.

>describe arcane symbol
You have absolutely no idea what this thing is.
It looks like three of those military triangle things all pointing at each other.

>equip pen
You take the pen out of your pocket

>draw candy
You draw a crude generic candy next to the face.
You hear the longest of long suffering sighs.
But, you also see two hands unwrap the candy and pop it into the mouth.

 

> equip knife
> make small cut on self using knife and attempt bleeding on the arcane symbol

 

> look watch

 

> equip knife
> make small cut on self using knife and attempt bleeding on the arcane symbol
What are you doing why would you do that the little voice declares as you bring the knife to the hand holding the book. Seriously there are very delicate magics here that you could very easily disrupt.

What do you think this is, some kind of joke?

>look watch
It's a digital watch. The face appears to be stuck at 22:22:22.

 

> whimper in confusion and distress

 

> ask the voice what it means by delicate magics that could easily be disrupted

 

> whimper in confusion and distress
Again, this doesn't seem to do much. But you do feel a little better.

> ask the voice what it means by delicate magics that could easily be disrupted
I'm a drawn face that's talking to you, remember? Do you have any idea how hard it is to maintain sentience on fucking paper???

 

> ask how, exactly, it is maintaining sentience to begin with

 

>make ridiculous leap of adventure-logic
>decide that all those 2s are a hint as to direction
>go sort of northeastish

 

> ask how, exactly, it is maintaining sentience to begin with
Do I look like a warlock to you?
It sighs.
I think it has something to do with forces of will, and elements of soul, but I have a very specific knowledge base that has nothing to do with my origins. Like you, I'd assume.
A knowledge base which you are, by the way, NOT USING.
You have never seen a drawn face look more exasperated.

 

> ask what will happen if blood gets on the arcane symbol

 

>make ridiculous leap of adventure-logic
You jump. Nothing happens.
>decide that all those 2s are a hint as to direction
Sure
>go sort of north-northeast
As you walk diagonally from your present spot, you notice that the ball of red light emitting energy hovering fifteen feet above your head is following you.
You encounter a stalagmite.
You can no longer see the blocked exit.
>ask what will happen if blood gets on the arcane symbol
I don't know, but I tend to avoid situations that might lead to my nonexistence, no matter how small the chances.

 

> go around stalagmite

 

>look stalagmite

 

>go around stalagmite
You go around the stalagmite

There is a stalagmite to your south-southwest.
There is darkness to your North, South, East and West.

 

>look stalagmite
The stalagmite is very pretty.
It is also, definitely, not glowing the same color as the ball of light emitting energy fifteen feet above your head.
Definitely.

 

> sketch stalagmite, because the A Small Notebook deserves pretty scenery too

 

>Look ball of light above head

 

> continue walking north-northeast