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It was yet another regular day for Lucas Splattington here in Inkopolis Square. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, it was a perfect day like absolutely nothing could go wrong! He was happy to be with his wonderful girlfriend, Marina of Off the Hook. Today was the day after Lucas saved her life after the uh... incident that happened down in Octo Canyon. Today was OTH’s day off, and Lucas had a bit of a date planned for today. It was still a little early, Pearl and Marina were up at their house on Mount Nantai just chillin', and Lucas was hanging by that same corner, in between the studio and the cafe.
He was texting on his phone until something caught his eye. He saw some sort of small card, sitting on the ground by the window of the cafe. He walked over to it and picked it up to carefully observe it. It seemed like a scanning type of card since it had a long black strip on the bottom of one side. He looked at the front of it and there wasn’t much, just a white background and in the corner, was some weird looking blob with spikes. “Must be someone’s weird club card!” Lucas thought.
Then he found another one, closer to the corner where he was originally standing. It looked exactly the same. Near that second card, was some weird looking device. It was blue, slightly filthy, and it had a symbol that looked like two wavy lines. In the center was some sort of joystick. Lucas tried to move it around and pressed a few buttons, but nothing happened. It appeared to have been busted or broken or out of battery, Lucas didn't know which.
But then, something caught his ear. It was coming from the ramp deeper back in the alley, that led down to a subway. Lucas never went down there, it was blocked off by a short barred gate. He could slip through it in squid form, but he never decided to. He listened a little closer. He could hear talking or something. Little did he know, he was about to hear a story that echos from the deep, and will change the lives of many...