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(This will cover chapter 1 of the game)

Chapter 1 - Moving Pictures

Gula pov

As I step into world I notice a middle aged man in front of me "who are you?" He asked "I'm Gula, you are?" "My name is Henry, why are you?" "I came here to check out this place, a friend of mine believes this place to be a dark world" I said. "Your friend must be talking about the loop, it's an endless cycle here" he said. "I'll just explore the place for now, it's nice meeting you Henry" I said as I walk by ahead of him.

"Wait you're not going alone and what sort of animal are you?" He asked "I'm a snow leopard and ok we'll travel together" I answered as I spot a door to the left and went to open it, it was locked, I summon my keyblade only to have a normal sized key in my paw instead. I try it on the door and was able to unlock and open it. "That's the first time in these 414 loops that door opens" Henry said as we looked inside.

The room was small and inside was a desk on shoved up against the wall. Henry spoke up "I remember now, this is Ethan's room" "Ethan?" I asked "Ethan Walker is a fellow animator who draws Boris the wolf most of the time, if I didn't know better, I'd say he's in love with the character" he told me. Looking at the desk I saw some sort of device, Henry spoke "an audio log, it's hear it" he pressed play.

Voice of Ethan Walker

I knew it was only a matter of time before Henry got fed up with Mr. Drew taking all the credit. Not only that, Mr. Drew was working him to the bone. He hadn't seen his wife in days, so when he stormed out of the studio, I couldn't blame him for his anger.

Maybe I should go to the Stein residence later to talk to him. He is one of the few people here in this studio I consider a friend. I also want to know what kind of a woman Mrs. Stein is, Henry always spoke highly of her. Yeah I'll visit them tonight maybe show Henry what Boris would look like if he was a steampunk.

Click

The recording ended and a drawing is present next to it.

"Ethan never really did show me, guess he won't be able to show me it himself now" Henry said as we walked out, I took the drawing with me

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"Ethan never really did show me, guess he won't be able to show me it himself now" Henry said as we walked out, I took the drawing with me. We walk down a hall and jump over a pipe and into a large area. "This lift could use a few dry cells" Henry said as we both grab a dry cell and insert them. "Now Gula I present to you the ink machine. Henry said as he pulled the lever.

The large chains began to move until a large machine rises up from the depths. "What do we do now?" I asked "now we turn it on and begin the cycle again, I can feel it, this time the cycle breaks" he said. We walked out and around until we came across a recording, Henry hit play.

Voice of Wally Franks

At this point, I don't get what Joey's plan is for this company. The animations sure aren't being finished on time anymore, and I certainly don't see why we need this machine. It's noisy, it's messy, and who needs that much ink anyway?

Also get this. Joey had each one of us donate something from our work station. We put them on these little pedestals in the break room. To help appease the gods Joey says. Keep things going.

I think he's lost his mind, but, hey, he writes the checks.

But I tell you what, if one more of these pipes burst, I'm outta here!

Click!

Wally huh? "Now we go on a scavenger hunt" Henry said stopping my thoughts. We go around collecting different items with one more left. "Kid you may not like the location of the last item" "wha, why?" I asked. He pointed behind me and I look to see something I wish I didn't see. I nearly dropped my items at the sight of a corpse with a open chest. "Omg, what is this?" I asked in fear "as your friend said this is a dark world" Henry said remove the wrench from the chest.

We put the items on the pedestals "I'll take care of the flow once the words say ready through the switch, we meet back at the ink machine" Henry said and I only nodded. I was still shaken up the sight of the corpse, who could do such a thing? Then I saw my cue and threw the switch. I quickly made my way to the ink machine. I then jump as ink flow in of the walls and ceiling, I saw Henry running towards "we got to go!" He said as I ran with him.

We ran to the exit only for the floor to give way from under us. We fell down and impact on the ground, we both got up and then ink like heartless appeared. "Stay back Henry, I'll handle this" as I go to summon my keyblade but ended up with a heavy pipe instead. I didn't have time to think about it and just went to take them down. I found out that it's still effective against them.

The ink drains as Henry turns a valve. "Those weren't searchers, and they never appeared here before" he said "those were heartless" I explain about them "that is troublesome, I hope Boris doesn't run into them" he said. I was confused "I'll explain later but for now" he said turning to another audio log on a shelve.

Voice of Thomas Connor

It's dark and it's cold and it's stuck in behind even single wall now. In some places I swear this godforsaken ink is clear up to my knees! Whoever thought that these crummy pipes could hold under this kind strain either knows something about pressure I don't, or he's some kind of idoit.

But the real worst part about all this.. are them noises the system makes. Like a dying dog on it's last legs. Make no mistake, this place... this... machine... heck this whole darn thing... it just isn't natural.

You can bet, I won't be doing anymore repair jobs for mister Joey Drew.

Click!

After that we went along until Henry grabbed an axe and reached a room with a pentagram on the ground. Henry went unconscious abruptly and the area went grayscale. I was confused. "My boy, can you hear me?" "Merlin?" I asked. "I managed to reach you through telepathy, it seems you can't go any further than this, why don't come back out for now" he said as the door I used to enter the world appeared again, most likely my exit. I open the door and walked through it, going back to Traverse Town.

To be continued...

(That is chapter one of BATIM)

(See you all next time)

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