the silence said:
Roll your charisma and try to calm the man.
You wrestle with abstract concepts like "rolling charisma" in your head before you give up and yell, "it's okay! I want to help you! Give me your knife!" The man simply recoils in disgust.
the silence said:
Or seduce him, if that does not work.
You bat your eyes seductively. "Not that knife, I mean." You wink at him suggestively. The man simply recoils in disgust.
bluerocker said:
Dodge past the old man and the tentacles! Go East!
Morsomk said:
Run like the roadrunner to the eastern exit AND DRAG THE OLD MAN WITH YE!
You're about to run out of the room, but you look back at the old man and figure you should drag him with you. You dodge underneath the tentacle, grab the man by the hand, and start to run out of the room with him in tow. He screeches and you see him slice the knife towards you. You recoil just in time for the blade to miss your chest and instead scrap against your arm. Flesh is pierced from the top of your wrist down to your forearm, but it's only a flesh wound. You release the man and run off without him.
You enter a new room. In this room, there is a robed figure sitting in the center of a symbol drawn in the ground with blood. The symbol resembles a circle with a triangle inside of it. The man's eyes are closed, and his legs are crossed in a meditative position. His ears have been cut off, and where ear holes might be there is instead nothing. There is a black book open right in front of him. The book has strange, alien symbols that sear into your eyes when you look at them.
There is a path leading
north past the man, and a path leading
west back to the tentacle room.
Health: 8/10
Sanity: 10/10
Inventory: Flashlight (On, Half Battery)