Spectral Friend

Note that the wormface was summoning Sparks just like Tep did in his day, and their lifeforce healed his wounds. Where did he learn this? More importantly, where did he get the stone?

The Wandering Island is just a bit of earth and remnants of the Dead City. We might never have found this island, and it might have been lost in the astral depths, crumbling to dust. How did an artifact this strong end up here? What if Tep had experimented with immortality somewhere in these very ruins?

Hmmm... Let's try that as a hypothesis. We should go over the catacombs with a fine-toothed comb. You won't be able to pull it off yourself... I have an idea!

Meathead was created using the bits of Tep's knowledge that I was able to understand... That means there's a chance he might be able to sense the black stones. Do you see where I'm going? With his help we can find more fragments. I'll bet my own arm that there are more fragments here! By the way, this is a secret, but I once ordered a new arm for myself from the institute. I got the most advanced model, the very latest.

With some training, Meathead is already moving better and can follow orders. He's not much of a conversationalist, but that's not the most important thing, is it?

Here's the thing. I'll give you the Call of Flesh Totem and send you into the ghostly world. Your job is to go to the Palace Square and activate the totem. Meathead is a sentient creature. Well, he's getting there. This means he can also enter the ghostly world when summoned there by the totem. From then on out everything will be easy - follow him and protect him as necessary. He's still so weak...

You won't believe me, but I'm thinking again. And a clear thinker is always a clear speaker.

Sometimes reality turns out to be more complicated than one might think...