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Post by Swix » Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:00 pm

"Hadrian!" The Split called Felicia exclaimed as he lost consciousness, before running over to him where he'd collapsed once the freezing mist evaporated. Damn that icy witch! Given the nature of the Curses Skathi had used before, however, Felicia did not touch him. No, she used the shadow vines to pick him up now. She turned to the others, no matter what their decision was-"I'm not leaving him here"

Meanwhile, Bill furled his wings back onto his back once the mist went, resuming his quadrupedal stance again as they looked around and noticed the walls were cracking. The young girl went touch the cracks in curiousity and the iridescent Dragon quite literally started trying to dig a hole in the middle of the ground. It was clear where he wanted to go.
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Post by Coolpikaaa » Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:20 pm

Senka walked with her sword out, peering down each hallway. She wanted to see if each option had some sort of stand out feature, that might give them a clue of what lay ahead.

"We should find which one of these tunnels leads downward then, right? Which one appears to travel the deepest?'

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Post by Jent » Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:01 am

To the archway of Visita the wary Knight had came from, bearing a lone black skull covered in what appeared to be vines burning in a hearth of flame, the rest of the doorways displayed similar strange symbols. Interiora contrasts the dark colored of its sibling path with whitish blue paint along the walls. Its icon bore a complex image of a bird melting away, fanned by the flames of some sort of lion... Bear-like animal hovering above it?

The third in the set by the name of Terrae filled its hallways in a reddish glow. Heat gave off with higher intensity in this path, though perhaps not the way with Skathi residing given her affinity to ice. Still, the odd painting of the avian figure breaking off in two forms above an orange rock gave some promise.

By her fourth check, it would appear to Senka that all these forks might be as confusing for the woman as the next. Rectificando and its vivid green walls and shining crown. Invenies far from modest with radiance of Charm Magic in the azure passageway. Occultum and Lapidem themselves appeared both quite regal, yet falling to signs of age by the most cracks and dust on their walls. The sixth quite mystic in the silvery coatings on its bricked sides, even displaying a kneeling unicorn for its symbol. Whilst the final choice held an ambiance of faded lavender. A lone humanoid figure, devoid of any particular traits to gender given the simplified styling, stood quiet as much of the other choices in sound.

... For the out-of-the box dragon, Bill might have caught on to the real prize in his tunneling pursuit. The ground rock below held less rigid compared to the rest of the room, having lost much of the mental energy holding it together properly. To the point if done too reckless, it felt the entire floor might cave in down towards an unseen chamber. Though provided he kept his attention to how the floor crumbled, the dragon would notice a lone figure in the dead center of a massive chasm. Vines, chains, and others means of binding with solid rock seemed to be settled to keep someone in check...

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Post by Coolpikaaa » Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:26 am

"Oh hell..." Senka said under her breath. Each new pathway she peered down seemed entirely different from the next. Radically different, almost like a whole new world lay down the path. It didn't make her choice any easier.

"'Ey, Felicia?" The knight asked her friend, wondering if she had any preference to their future route. In the meantime, she stood by the silver walls of the regal chamber. It seemed like a nicer option, if they had to choose one. Why not pick something with a bit more of a luxurious feel?

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Post by Swix » Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:36 pm

"Yeah, what is it Senka?" The Knight asked the other Knight as she walked over to her, still carrying Hadrian.

Jinx looked over at them from where she was stood by the crumbling walls. "Hey, guys? Bill says there's a person below us. Tied up. In chains"

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Post by Coolpikaaa » Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:54 pm

"Any of these choices standing out to you, Felicia?" Senka asked her friend, indicating the seven hallways.

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Post by BoltAscendent » Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:50 pm

Eltra slowly pulled the gun close and looked over, tapping the walls and trying to use sonar to map everything out. The floran wanted to figure out what was up first, quite nervous.

Tox, meanwhile, landed back down and poked her head into the hole, trying to make out some details as ice settled on her.

Lastly, Phoebe appeared directly for the first time. Though, instead of just appearing, a swarm of her manifested, one by each door, and went to walk inside to scout it out. The copies would dissipate should anything latch onto them, but they made excellent scouts for this. Another appeared in the middle of the room and started phasing down to look was what was around there. Ghost powers, man.
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Post by TheDarkPsycho » Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:09 pm

Tom: "Look guys. I don't think we should go digging. This isn't a video game, and there might be a short cut, but considering we are in the enemies territory, any "Hint" is probably put there to lead us to a trap. Whoever is trapped is probably just more bait. It may sound cold, but we are no good to anyone dead. I say we ignore that and neutralize the threat first, then go back and help anyone who may be trapped"

Tom then looked around the pathways.

"We came in that way, so my recommendation would be to keep going forward to the pathway across from that"
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Post by Jent » Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:13 pm

"Hey, guys? Bill says there's a person below us. Tied up. In chains."

Solveig lowered her defensive guard once the group managed to secure the Homunculus. Though, the thought someone else she might know could be trapped below worried her. "This can't be good," the Knight muttered to herself. Carefully walking forward, being wary incase the floor decided to collapse entirely from the burrowing by Bill.

Of course this was no video game, the huldra knew full and well as she listened to Tom Johnson. Both of her eyes glowed faintly as she stood just close enough to the edge for her to glimpse below. "... Whatever that is... They are surging with Eldritch energy," Solveig explained to those around the floor opening.

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Rectificando and Invenies best match Tom's choice pick of path from left to right in his perspective. But unless the tech-savy Floran missed a secret entrance, possible as the mental energy held higher concentrations further out. All the other six hallways eventually connected together apart from Visita. Each would take a curve in path, dipping down into a smaller room filled with similar chains and vines that Bill and Jinx could compared with the figure in the secret chamber... Which for the Elder witch's blind intrusion with her scouts, she notice that nothing appeared to attack them. However, the prisoners of those six rooms vanished once her presence gotten close to them.

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Post by Coolpikaaa » Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:25 pm

"Wait... Phoebe! You want to set six traps off instead of one?!" Senka yelled, watching her split into clones and walk into each hallway. One even casually strolled past her, forcing the Knight to swear under her breath and follow the witch.

The tunnel was... nice, she supposed. She couldn't help but run her gauntlet over the cracked wall to see if it was real silver, or just painted that way. She followed Phoebe as far as they could go, looking for anything interesting in this sparkly branch.

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Post by BoltAscendent » Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:57 pm

Phoebe looked back at Senka. "I can take care of myself. These are disposable. I lose nothing if something happens, so I can scout and set off things if needed."

Eltra looked up, thinking for a second and tapping his foot before snapping and steadily moving to a few locations and doing in depth scans for secret entrances. He had found something, but he wasn't saying anything about it just yet as he started checking places.
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Post by Swix » Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:07 pm

Felicia stared at all the Phoebes and then shrugged as she watched them all walk into a bunch of different areas with symbols that looked like they could help or hinder equally. However, as soon as she saw Senka rush off down the silver path the Split went after her. No way was she going to let her go down that way by herself. Well, sort of. Besides, she didn't wanna see her get cursed again. However, as she walked the Split opened a portal to a safe but isolated pocket dimension and had the vine gently put the homunculus inside before it got dispelled.

"Where are you going? Why down this way?" She asked, then made chattering noises not native in her tongue at her own shadow. It did nothing where they were, but did let two of the Shadow Imps loose back in the same chamber with Tom, Jinx, Bill, Solveig, Tox and Eltra.

Meanwhile, Jinx seemed to be carefully considering the options before she looked over to the iridescent Dragon. "Bill, leave it" She called over, causing him to pull his head back up and stare at her quizzically before walking over "The old man's right, we can come back later" she consoled her companion, stroking his snout. Then they looked to the door that would have been directly opposite the entrance. "We'll go that way"
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Post by Jent » Sat Jan 13, 2018 3:31 pm

Sure enough, some of the party members began to direct themselves through forks in the path. The duo Knight pair stepped down the slooping staircase of their choice. Indeed those walls were constructed with true silver, as well other unfamiliar materials in its fascinating mixture... Which only the witch clone would find herself immune to the strange charm in the hall. Their mortal eyes grew with obsession at the rich atmosphere... The prospect of treasure after this journey...

Whereas a trio marched carefully past Rectificando's archway. The sides widened outward, allowing for the dragon Bill to more comfortable walk and circle around without bumping into a wall. Still, being at such size was an inconvenience for him, compared to his Jix owner capable of ambling about with those smaller beings... And Jinx, a product of two famous individuals of Dea. Her magical skill hadn't gone up to par with her mother... Nor could she manipulate light or reality to the degree as her father...

NOW IT WILL BE MY TURN TO ATTACK.

A sudden shift rattled the underground complex. Fearsome quakes swiftly sealed off the passage ways in stone as the floor beneath group began to crumble underfoot. Someone else became aware of their intrusion, deciding to make their move down below. "Damn it!" Solveig shouted, throwing out glowing arms of energy to cling to a side of the now tall wallside. She would attempt to catch anyone else falling in the main chamber with other materialized aura limbs.

"I owe you a debt of gratitude. Not only you decided to split up, but you even weakened Tartarus for me!"

The deranged huldra's voice broke into the air. Its source, however; came from one of the hidden chambers Eltra attempted to investigate. Bursting through the previously sealed room, this glazed eye satyr hurled a series of vines the Floran's way. Either to catch him in mid fall or wherever he managed to stop his descent.

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Post by Coolpikaaa » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:28 pm

"Oh! Felicia! Isn't it wonderful?!" Senka turned to her friend, basking in the luxurious aura of the hall they had chosen. She didn't particularly care for the Phoebe clone, but was glad her masked friend was here to share this with her. "It's real silver... and there's so much of it..."

The shining Knight collected a large rock, a broken slab off one of the aged walls of Tartarus. Pure silver, shaped into decorative bricks. Even though it was broken, it was valuable and they were just laying about! Everything here was.

"Mmm... I get enough of these, I can replace my armor. Make myself all silver..." Senka smiled happily, running down her new favorite hall to find more pieces of Tartarus.

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Post by Swix » Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:28 pm

Less impressed with the silver, Felicias eyes were more set on the more exotic stones of the mixture. Things she hadn't seen before were becoming rather rare, so this stuff was priceless to the Split. Even more so with the halls charms worked in. "You make a suit out of silver and I'll make jewellery out of the rest" she replied to Senka, grinning under the mask before wandering down the hall as quickly as Senka.

When the corridor crumbled and cut them off, Bill roared as Jinx too spun around to see the earthquake cutting them off. The Dragon turned around with difficulty and charged at the rocks, hoping to headbutt his way through them

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