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| − | <div></div><br> <br>The airship ride from Firmament to Firebough is, as usual, packed - not with people heading to the peak itself, but it was a stop on the way to further destinations. The crowd was unusually jittery and nervous, but that wasn't the reason the members of the Freeswords were taking the trip. No, the reason was the small outfit of miners that had established themselves in the aescetic's camp on the mountain's peak. It seems as though the rest of the crew had been sent home for the night, but a coyote girl is waiting at the mine entrance, sipping from a cup of tea as her hired help arrives.<br> <br>Cassidy was already in the area, by virtue of living nearby. Though it'd be a stretch for the usual people to recognize her, as Cassidy wasn't the fennec she usually was! Nor dressed like she usually was. Today, she was a phoenix, dressed up in an elegant robe with the back left open enough for her wings. This was bound to be fun!<br> <br>Two enormous grizzly bears trudge from the airship landing toward the mine. One of them is a surly, burly bear with golden fur and a smoking cigar clenched between his teeth and the other is a silvery, metallic monstrosity that manages an excellent likeness to its organic twin. "Evening," Elijah rumbles, "Here to help." Despite the heat of the evening, the big, shaggy bear seems to be quite comfortable in his red shirt and tan coveralls.<br> <br>A female tigress steps out of the airship, wearing her usual garb. As expected from a native of Shralesta, her clothing is meant to handle the heat rather well. She yawns loudly, "Well, that was a nice nap." and stretches her arms out and nods to the familiar phoenix. Afterwards, she begins heading over to the mine's entrance.<br> <br>Jera seems to be kitted out extraordinarily today. The kit fox having brought along an array of large battle standards, making onlookers wonder just how she was hplding them all. "Long ride." She commented as she stretched.<br> <br>As the freeswords approach the coyote, she raises her hand and waves. "Howdy!" It takes her a moment to find a good box to set her cup on, and then she rises up to her feet and shakes hands with any who offer. "Thank you all very much. Should I cut straight to the business?"<br> <br>Cassidy folds her hands in front of her as she looks over the group, nodding along. "Fantastic. Yes, business, I think. It's been a bit since I've had a good adventure to a place I rarely go! This will be one of those, I hope. Don't go in mines terribly often."<br> <br>Cara looks at the phoenix upon closer inspection and realizes that this isn't the same phoenix from earlier. She understandably blushes and moves on, "I would certainly like to get to business though." The blush fades away and the feline looks around slightly past the coyote girl and stares into the dark void of the mine. She shifts her gaze back to the coyote and asks, "Just how deep are we going into the mines though?"<br> <br>Elijah pulls the cigar from his mouth and blows a smoke ring into the air. "Sure, kid," the big bear says, "I'm all about business." He takes the proffered hand in his own huge paw. "You think we're gonna need old Grizz here?" he asks, hiking a thumb at his golem.<br> <br>"I think this might be the first time in a long while I have not seen you with Natska at your side." Jera offered to Cassidy before she shook her head, going quiet to listen to the yote.<br> <br>The coyote takes a moment to consider old Grizz, then nods her head. "Ehyup. If he won't melt, anyway." She pauses, and looks over the four freeswords. "We've got a few promising veins that we just opened up down in the mountain, but they're awfully close to the volcano's heart. Probably magma chambers that got sealed off when some rock cooled, but believe me, it is hotter down there than two squikkerks in a Shraalestran pepper patch. And what's worse, some of the boys saw magma elementals, and now nobody wants to go near the new dig." She grins. "So. Head down below - not the lowest the elevator will take you, but the third stop down - and follow the path. It's marked with blue string. Clear out any elementals you find, don't die from the heat, and I'll pay you when you get back up." She motions towards the supply shed near the mine elevator. "Take all the water you need, by the way. I'm serious about not dieing in the heat."<br> <br>Cassidy folds her arms behind her back as she listens, the phoenix shooting Jera a look out of the corner of her eye, but doesn't reply, as if she didn't know she was being spoken to. "Sounds like a simple enough job. I am ready to go when the others are. As long as the elementals don't touch, it should be fine."<br> <br>Cara's smile grows a little larger. "Well, I'm glad I'm using a certain soul gem already, or this might be impossible for me to do." After concentrating for a second, a small bit of blue math equations, the gift of water is sent into her. Afterwards, she turns to everyone else around her, and notices a fox along with them as well. Seeing as he is the only one other than her that needs the water magic, she calls out in a polite tone, "Would you some water now?"<br> <br>Elijah snorts and nods, heading for the shaft with his cigar still clenched between his teeth. "Can do," he says, "Come on Grizz." His golem twin stumps and clanks after him. He does not seem concerned about any heat.<br> <br>"I suppose I could provide us some stamina." Jera mumbled something under her breath and waved one of her banners about to help.<br> <br>The with the subtle workings of water magic woven about the party, to help shield them from the worst of the heat in the volcano's heart, our heroes venture forth! Or down. Either way, the adventure is afoot. The mine elevator accomodates the combined weight of the five figures easily, although it does sway and clank as it descends into the mountain; the light of the sky up above quickly fades, replaced by glow-crystals set in the wall at regular intervals. Surprisingly, there seems to be a persistant draft as the elevator sinks lower, most noticable when the group reaches their designated stop. Tunnels lead off in many different directions, marked by different colors of string.<br> <br>Cassidy doesn't seem to particularly mind the heat, but... Then, she also had the phoenix form to help with that. Though she doubted her ability to remain anonymous once she started slinging her spells in her rather peculiar way. For now, though, she smooths down her elbow-length gloves and exhales softly. "Caves are always so... Oppressive."<br> <br>Cara's tail moves slowly as the heat begins to warm her more than usual, "This is easy so far, but now we better follow the draft. It's probably coming from the magma somewhere, but that's just a guess on my part." The feline turns to everyone else and takes a look at the phoenix with a small grin, "Thankfully, we won't have any problems seeing in here." | + | <div></div><br> <br>The airship ride from Firmament to Firebough is, as usual, packed - not with people heading to the peak itself, but it was a stop on the way to further destinations. The crowd was unusually jittery and nervous, but that wasn't the reason the members of the Freeswords were taking the trip. No, the reason was the small outfit of miners that had established themselves in the aescetic's camp on the mountain's peak. It seems as though the rest of the crew had been sent home for the night, but a coyote girl is waiting at the mine entrance, sipping from a cup of tea as her hired help arrives.<br> <br>Cassidy was already in the area, by virtue of living nearby. Though it'd be a stretch for the usual people to recognize her, as Cassidy wasn't the fennec she usually was! Nor dressed like she usually was. Today, she was a phoenix, dressed up in an elegant robe with the back left open enough for her wings. This was bound to be fun!<br> <br>Two enormous grizzly bears trudge from the airship landing toward the mine. One of them is a surly, burly bear with golden fur and a smoking cigar clenched between his teeth and the other is a silvery, metallic monstrosity that manages an excellent likeness to its organic twin. "Evening," Elijah rumbles, "Here to help." Despite the heat of the evening, the big, shaggy bear seems to be quite comfortable in his red shirt and tan coveralls.<br> <br>A female tigress steps out of the airship, wearing her usual garb. As expected from a native of Shralesta, her clothing is meant to handle the heat rather well. She yawns loudly, "Well, that was a nice nap." and stretches her arms out and nods to the familiar phoenix. Afterwards, she begins heading over to the mine's entrance.<br> <br>Jera seems to be kitted out extraordinarily today. The kit fox having brought along an array of large battle standards, making onlookers wonder just how she was hplding them all. "Long ride." She commented as she stretched.<br> <br>As the freeswords approach the coyote, she raises her hand and waves. "Howdy!" It takes her a moment to find a good box to set her cup on, and then she rises up to her feet and shakes hands with any who offer. "Thank you all very much. Should I cut straight to the business?"<br> <br>Cassidy folds her hands in front of her as she looks over the group, nodding along. "Fantastic. Yes, business, I think. It's been a bit since I've had a good adventure to a place I rarely go! This will be one of those, I hope. Don't go in mines terribly often."<br> <br>Cara looks at the phoenix upon closer inspection and realizes that this isn't the same phoenix from earlier. She understandably blushes and moves on, "I would certainly like to get to business though." The blush fades away and the feline looks around slightly past the coyote girl and stares into the dark void of the mine. She shifts her gaze back to the coyote and asks, "Just how deep are we going into the mines though?"<br> <br>Elijah pulls the cigar from his mouth and blows a smoke ring into the air. "Sure, kid," the big bear says, "I'm all about business." He takes the proffered hand in his own huge paw. "You think we're gonna need old Grizz here?" he asks, hiking a thumb at his golem.<br> <br>"I think this might be the first time in a long while I have not seen you with Natska at your side." Jera offered to Cassidy before she shook her head, going quiet to listen to the yote.<br> <br>The coyote takes a moment to consider old Grizz, then nods her head. "Ehyup. If he won't melt, anyway." She pauses, and looks over the four freeswords. "We've got a few promising veins that we just opened up down in the mountain, but they're awfully close to the volcano's heart. Probably magma chambers that got sealed off when some rock cooled, but believe me, it is hotter down there than two squikkerks in a Shraalestran pepper patch. And what's worse, some of the boys saw magma elementals, and now nobody wants to go near the new dig." She grins. "So. Head down below - not the lowest the elevator will take you, but the third stop down - and follow the path. It's marked with blue string. Clear out any elementals you find, don't die from the heat, and I'll pay you when you get back up." She motions towards the supply shed near the mine elevator. "Take all the water you need, by the way. I'm serious about not dieing in the heat."<br> <br>Cassidy folds her arms behind her back as she listens, the phoenix shooting Jera a look out of the corner of her eye, but doesn't reply, as if she didn't know she was being spoken to. "Sounds like a simple enough job. I am ready to go when the others are. As long as the elementals don't touch, it should be fine."<br> <br>Cara's smile grows a little larger. "Well, I'm glad I'm using a certain soul gem already, or this might be impossible for me to do." After concentrating for a second, a small bit of blue math equations, the gift of water is sent into her. Afterwards, she turns to everyone else around her, and notices a fox along with them as well. Seeing as he is the only one other than her that needs the water magic, she calls out in a polite tone, "Would you some water now?"<br> <br>Elijah snorts and nods, heading for the shaft with his cigar still clenched between his teeth. "Can do," he says, "Come on Grizz." His golem twin stumps and clanks after him. He does not seem concerned about any heat.<br> <br>"I suppose I could provide us some stamina." Jera mumbled something under her breath and waved one of her banners about to help.<br> <br>The with the subtle workings of water magic woven about the party, to help shield them from the worst of the heat in the volcano's heart, our heroes venture forth! Or down. Either way, the adventure is afoot. The mine elevator accomodates the combined weight of the five figures easily, although it does sway and clank as it descends into the mountain; the light of the sky up above quickly fades, replaced by glow-crystals set in the wall at regular intervals. Surprisingly, there seems to be a persistant draft as the elevator sinks lower, most noticable when the group reaches their designated stop. Tunnels lead off in many different directions, marked by different colors of string.<br> <br>Cassidy doesn't seem to particularly mind the heat, but... Then, she also had the phoenix form to help with that. Though she doubted her ability to remain anonymous once she started slinging her spells in her rather peculiar way. For now, though, she smooths down her elbow-length gloves and exhales softly. "Caves are always so... Oppressive."<br> <br>Cara's tail moves slowly as the heat begins to warm her more than usual, "This is easy so far, but now we better follow the draft. It's probably coming from the magma somewhere, but that's just a guess on my part." The feline turns to everyone else and takes a look at the phoenix with a small grin, "Thankfully, we won't have any problems seeing in here."<br> <br>"You think so, Miss?" Elijah rumbles, exhaling a cloud of blue smoke into the shaft, "Always thought these volcano caves were sort of nice. Sorta like the womb of the earth, you know?" Despite the growing heat, the grizzly does not seem uncomfortable, not even sweating as they go deep into the volcano. The burly bear clenches his cigar in his teeth once more and looks down at the strings. "Blue one, right?" he asks, "Grizz! Little light, if you don't mind."<br> <br>Jera frowns at the confined space, figuring it good for an ambush. She swapped out the flag on her banner, inscribed with what looked like a castle from a chess game. She followed along in the middle of the party.<br> <br>The group sets off down the tunnel, following the path marked by the blue string. The air gets warmer and warmer as they move closer to the open lava chamber at the heart of Firebough, although the paired water spells and the moving air keep it from becoming overwhelming. Still, for those unaccustomed to the heat, it is quite noticable. A low red glow from up ahead is briefly visible, before being washed out by the light from Elijah's golem, and the sound of stone scraping on stone can be heard from just around the bend.<br> <br>"Hmmm... I suppose caves do have a sort of charm, but for someone that is so used to the open skies and air, they're stifling, you know?" Cassidy says, nodding along as her wing feathers ruffle. "Can't fly, or do anything of the sort. It's pretty awful! But I get used to it after a bit."<br> <br>Cara begins to sweat for a second, "It really is getting hot in here. It almost makes me glad that I used to walk through the desert or this would be a nightmare." Then, the tigress stares in wonder at the large bear in front of her and promptly comments with a hint of curiosity, "I know the water spells worked earlier, but how are you managing to have no trouble with the heat?"<br> <br>"Fair enough, pretty bird," Elijah says, pulling his enormous pistol and checking the barrel, "Heat doesn't bother me, kitty cat." The burly grizzly steps around the corner with Dire Grizzly on his heels, gun leveled toward the sound.<br> <br>Jera swings her banner around to lightly tap Cara on the shoulder. "Have heart. We will endure worse the further we go."<br> <br>As Elijah rounds the corner, the bear is greeted by a spray of sharp chips of obsidian rock; it seems a pair of animae are wandering this tunnel, and are not inclined to treat organic beings with hospitality. Fortunately, between the fortifying magic Jera provides and a quick reaction from Elijah, the bulk of the spray misses the bear and the rest of the chips do little damage.<br> <br>Cassidy quickly brings her hands back around in front of her at the sigh of the opposition, working a bit of air magic into play. Fire magic was hardly the way to go here, but perhaps she could violently disrupt their composition with enough air magic.<br> <br>Cara's normal smile fades into a frown of annoyance. The feline's eyebrows furrow and her teeth are instantly shown. "Well, I don't appreciate rude elementals interrupting a conversation." She leaps toward the elementals and begins spinning through the air in attempt to destroy both of the elementals from the side with her feet so as to aid the phoenix's air magic in destroying them, rather than hinder it.<br> <br>"Well that is downright inhospitable!" Elijah growls as he ducks away from the shrapnel, "Show em some manners, Grizz!" The grizzly levels his pistol at one of the elementals and fires! As soon as the shot goes off, the golem crashes in, shields swinging!<br> <br>Jera frowns deeply to herself as the elementals appear. "Wait wait wait let me first!" She hated people without a plan. The kit fox drawing a symbol in the air to try to engrave a mark on the closest elemental in the shape of a sword. "If this worked we can hit them all at once!"<br> <br>Jera's quick action blazes a mark onto the first elemental, and it quickly goes down under the combined assault of the Freesword's; Cass' lance of air magic, the golem's battering assault, Elijah's pistol shot, and Cara's sweeping kicks battering it into pieces before it can do much else. The other animae, caught by several sweeping blows and staggered by reverberations from the strikes on the other golem, tries to catch Cara with a sweep of one of it's rocky 'hand'; the feline monk is far too quick for it to connect, however.<br> <br>With one elemental down and the second likely to follow under the attacks of the others, Cassidy lets it be, herself. She didn't want to expend unneeded energy just yet, should she need it later on down the counter. "Good work."<br> <br>Cara lands directly onto her feet. As the rock elemental attempts to sweep her with it's fist, the feline backflips over the sweeping hand and proceeds to send a surprisingly powerful short ranged punch directly into the chest of the poor rock elemental.<br> <br>Elijah clicks his tongue as he reloads his pistol. "Just like the shales," he says, puffing on his cigar cooly, "Finish it Grizz!"<br> <br>The second elemental crumbles, quite literally, as it collapses. The tunnel goes silent for a long moment, and then the clatter of stone echoes from further down the passage way once again. Quite a bit of it, it sounds like.<br> <br>Cassidy rolls her shoulders and starts off down the passage again, still not entirely used to having talons rather than paws. It's an interesting change for the new phoenix, but she doesn't show it much, beyond an occasional wobble. "Wonder how many more of those we'll bump into."<br> <br>Cara brings in her fist and takes a deep breath. Afterwards, she resumes her normal posture and stares in the direction of the noise before walking after the phoenix. The feline proceeds to whisper to everyone involved. "As much as I enjoy these odds, it won't do to get everyone else hurt. We need a plan to lure the rest of them here." She turns to the large bear shaped golem and smiles before glancing to Elijah, "Do you think your golem can get their attention?"<br> <br>Elijah blows a curling plume of bluish smoke from his nostrils. "Shales used to wander through camps out in the mountains," the bear growls, "Nothin' for it but to smash them up til they stopped coming." The burly army engineer produces a set of metal rings and clamps them on his wrists and biceps, flexing a little to test the magic that connects them. He raises an eyebrow at Cara. "I think we git their attention Kitty Cat," he says, "And Grizz here can handle just about anything. Let's move, big guy!" The burly bear and his automaton doppelganger trudge forward down the tunnel.<br> <br>The group rounds the next bend... and there is nothing ahead of them, except for more tunnel, the brighter, reddish glow of... something, hot, hot air, and the rattling sound of more stones. It is closer now, though, whatever it is they are hearing. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, it is what they came down here to find.<br> <br>Cassidy tilts her head to the side as she wanders forward with the group, a soft hum escaping her. "Well! Let's see what we've got up here, huh? It's certainly making some noise. Shame most of my magic is fire." |
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The airship ride from Firmament to Firebough is, as usual, packed - not with people heading to the peak itself, but it was a stop on the way to further destinations. The crowd was unusually jittery and nervous, but that wasn't the reason the members of the Freeswords were taking the trip. No, the reason was the small outfit of miners that had established themselves in the aescetic's camp on the mountain's peak. It seems as though the rest of the crew had been sent home for the night, but a coyote girl is waiting at the mine entrance, sipping from a cup of tea as her hired help arrives.
Cassidy was already in the area, by virtue of living nearby. Though it'd be a stretch for the usual people to recognize her, as Cassidy wasn't the fennec she usually was! Nor dressed like she usually was. Today, she was a phoenix, dressed up in an elegant robe with the back left open enough for her wings. This was bound to be fun!
Two enormous grizzly bears trudge from the airship landing toward the mine. One of them is a surly, burly bear with golden fur and a smoking cigar clenched between his teeth and the other is a silvery, metallic monstrosity that manages an excellent likeness to its organic twin. "Evening," Elijah rumbles, "Here to help." Despite the heat of the evening, the big, shaggy bear seems to be quite comfortable in his red shirt and tan coveralls.
A female tigress steps out of the airship, wearing her usual garb. As expected from a native of Shralesta, her clothing is meant to handle the heat rather well. She yawns loudly, "Well, that was a nice nap." and stretches her arms out and nods to the familiar phoenix. Afterwards, she begins heading over to the mine's entrance.
Jera seems to be kitted out extraordinarily today. The kit fox having brought along an array of large battle standards, making onlookers wonder just how she was hplding them all. "Long ride." She commented as she stretched.
As the freeswords approach the coyote, she raises her hand and waves. "Howdy!" It takes her a moment to find a good box to set her cup on, and then she rises up to her feet and shakes hands with any who offer. "Thank you all very much. Should I cut straight to the business?"
Cassidy folds her hands in front of her as she looks over the group, nodding along. "Fantastic. Yes, business, I think. It's been a bit since I've had a good adventure to a place I rarely go! This will be one of those, I hope. Don't go in mines terribly often."
Cara looks at the phoenix upon closer inspection and realizes that this isn't the same phoenix from earlier. She understandably blushes and moves on, "I would certainly like to get to business though." The blush fades away and the feline looks around slightly past the coyote girl and stares into the dark void of the mine. She shifts her gaze back to the coyote and asks, "Just how deep are we going into the mines though?"
Elijah pulls the cigar from his mouth and blows a smoke ring into the air. "Sure, kid," the big bear says, "I'm all about business." He takes the proffered hand in his own huge paw. "You think we're gonna need old Grizz here?" he asks, hiking a thumb at his golem.
"I think this might be the first time in a long while I have not seen you with Natska at your side." Jera offered to Cassidy before she shook her head, going quiet to listen to the yote.
The coyote takes a moment to consider old Grizz, then nods her head. "Ehyup. If he won't melt, anyway." She pauses, and looks over the four freeswords. "We've got a few promising veins that we just opened up down in the mountain, but they're awfully close to the volcano's heart. Probably magma chambers that got sealed off when some rock cooled, but believe me, it is hotter down there than two squikkerks in a Shraalestran pepper patch. And what's worse, some of the boys saw magma elementals, and now nobody wants to go near the new dig." She grins. "So. Head down below - not the lowest the elevator will take you, but the third stop down - and follow the path. It's marked with blue string. Clear out any elementals you find, don't die from the heat, and I'll pay you when you get back up." She motions towards the supply shed near the mine elevator. "Take all the water you need, by the way. I'm serious about not dieing in the heat."
Cassidy folds her arms behind her back as she listens, the phoenix shooting Jera a look out of the corner of her eye, but doesn't reply, as if she didn't know she was being spoken to. "Sounds like a simple enough job. I am ready to go when the others are. As long as the elementals don't touch, it should be fine."
Cara's smile grows a little larger. "Well, I'm glad I'm using a certain soul gem already, or this might be impossible for me to do." After concentrating for a second, a small bit of blue math equations, the gift of water is sent into her. Afterwards, she turns to everyone else around her, and notices a fox along with them as well. Seeing as he is the only one other than her that needs the water magic, she calls out in a polite tone, "Would you some water now?"
Elijah snorts and nods, heading for the shaft with his cigar still clenched between his teeth. "Can do," he says, "Come on Grizz." His golem twin stumps and clanks after him. He does not seem concerned about any heat.
"I suppose I could provide us some stamina." Jera mumbled something under her breath and waved one of her banners about to help.
The with the subtle workings of water magic woven about the party, to help shield them from the worst of the heat in the volcano's heart, our heroes venture forth! Or down. Either way, the adventure is afoot. The mine elevator accomodates the combined weight of the five figures easily, although it does sway and clank as it descends into the mountain; the light of the sky up above quickly fades, replaced by glow-crystals set in the wall at regular intervals. Surprisingly, there seems to be a persistant draft as the elevator sinks lower, most noticable when the group reaches their designated stop. Tunnels lead off in many different directions, marked by different colors of string.
Cassidy doesn't seem to particularly mind the heat, but... Then, she also had the phoenix form to help with that. Though she doubted her ability to remain anonymous once she started slinging her spells in her rather peculiar way. For now, though, she smooths down her elbow-length gloves and exhales softly. "Caves are always so... Oppressive."
Cara's tail moves slowly as the heat begins to warm her more than usual, "This is easy so far, but now we better follow the draft. It's probably coming from the magma somewhere, but that's just a guess on my part." The feline turns to everyone else and takes a look at the phoenix with a small grin, "Thankfully, we won't have any problems seeing in here."
"You think so, Miss?" Elijah rumbles, exhaling a cloud of blue smoke into the shaft, "Always thought these volcano caves were sort of nice. Sorta like the womb of the earth, you know?" Despite the growing heat, the grizzly does not seem uncomfortable, not even sweating as they go deep into the volcano. The burly bear clenches his cigar in his teeth once more and looks down at the strings. "Blue one, right?" he asks, "Grizz! Little light, if you don't mind."
Jera frowns at the confined space, figuring it good for an ambush. She swapped out the flag on her banner, inscribed with what looked like a castle from a chess game. She followed along in the middle of the party.
The group sets off down the tunnel, following the path marked by the blue string. The air gets warmer and warmer as they move closer to the open lava chamber at the heart of Firebough, although the paired water spells and the moving air keep it from becoming overwhelming. Still, for those unaccustomed to the heat, it is quite noticable. A low red glow from up ahead is briefly visible, before being washed out by the light from Elijah's golem, and the sound of stone scraping on stone can be heard from just around the bend.
"Hmmm... I suppose caves do have a sort of charm, but for someone that is so used to the open skies and air, they're stifling, you know?" Cassidy says, nodding along as her wing feathers ruffle. "Can't fly, or do anything of the sort. It's pretty awful! But I get used to it after a bit."
Cara begins to sweat for a second, "It really is getting hot in here. It almost makes me glad that I used to walk through the desert or this would be a nightmare." Then, the tigress stares in wonder at the large bear in front of her and promptly comments with a hint of curiosity, "I know the water spells worked earlier, but how are you managing to have no trouble with the heat?"
"Fair enough, pretty bird," Elijah says, pulling his enormous pistol and checking the barrel, "Heat doesn't bother me, kitty cat." The burly grizzly steps around the corner with Dire Grizzly on his heels, gun leveled toward the sound.
Jera swings her banner around to lightly tap Cara on the shoulder. "Have heart. We will endure worse the further we go."
As Elijah rounds the corner, the bear is greeted by a spray of sharp chips of obsidian rock; it seems a pair of animae are wandering this tunnel, and are not inclined to treat organic beings with hospitality. Fortunately, between the fortifying magic Jera provides and a quick reaction from Elijah, the bulk of the spray misses the bear and the rest of the chips do little damage.
Cassidy quickly brings her hands back around in front of her at the sigh of the opposition, working a bit of air magic into play. Fire magic was hardly the way to go here, but perhaps she could violently disrupt their composition with enough air magic.
Cara's normal smile fades into a frown of annoyance. The feline's eyebrows furrow and her teeth are instantly shown. "Well, I don't appreciate rude elementals interrupting a conversation." She leaps toward the elementals and begins spinning through the air in attempt to destroy both of the elementals from the side with her feet so as to aid the phoenix's air magic in destroying them, rather than hinder it.
"Well that is downright inhospitable!" Elijah growls as he ducks away from the shrapnel, "Show em some manners, Grizz!" The grizzly levels his pistol at one of the elementals and fires! As soon as the shot goes off, the golem crashes in, shields swinging!
Jera frowns deeply to herself as the elementals appear. "Wait wait wait let me first!" She hated people without a plan. The kit fox drawing a symbol in the air to try to engrave a mark on the closest elemental in the shape of a sword. "If this worked we can hit them all at once!"
Jera's quick action blazes a mark onto the first elemental, and it quickly goes down under the combined assault of the Freesword's; Cass' lance of air magic, the golem's battering assault, Elijah's pistol shot, and Cara's sweeping kicks battering it into pieces before it can do much else. The other animae, caught by several sweeping blows and staggered by reverberations from the strikes on the other golem, tries to catch Cara with a sweep of one of it's rocky 'hand'; the feline monk is far too quick for it to connect, however.
With one elemental down and the second likely to follow under the attacks of the others, Cassidy lets it be, herself. She didn't want to expend unneeded energy just yet, should she need it later on down the counter. "Good work."
Cara lands directly onto her feet. As the rock elemental attempts to sweep her with it's fist, the feline backflips over the sweeping hand and proceeds to send a surprisingly powerful short ranged punch directly into the chest of the poor rock elemental.
Elijah clicks his tongue as he reloads his pistol. "Just like the shales," he says, puffing on his cigar cooly, "Finish it Grizz!"
The second elemental crumbles, quite literally, as it collapses. The tunnel goes silent for a long moment, and then the clatter of stone echoes from further down the passage way once again. Quite a bit of it, it sounds like.
Cassidy rolls her shoulders and starts off down the passage again, still not entirely used to having talons rather than paws. It's an interesting change for the new phoenix, but she doesn't show it much, beyond an occasional wobble. "Wonder how many more of those we'll bump into."
Cara brings in her fist and takes a deep breath. Afterwards, she resumes her normal posture and stares in the direction of the noise before walking after the phoenix. The feline proceeds to whisper to everyone involved. "As much as I enjoy these odds, it won't do to get everyone else hurt. We need a plan to lure the rest of them here." She turns to the large bear shaped golem and smiles before glancing to Elijah, "Do you think your golem can get their attention?"
Elijah blows a curling plume of bluish smoke from his nostrils. "Shales used to wander through camps out in the mountains," the bear growls, "Nothin' for it but to smash them up til they stopped coming." The burly army engineer produces a set of metal rings and clamps them on his wrists and biceps, flexing a little to test the magic that connects them. He raises an eyebrow at Cara. "I think we git their attention Kitty Cat," he says, "And Grizz here can handle just about anything. Let's move, big guy!" The burly bear and his automaton doppelganger trudge forward down the tunnel.
The group rounds the next bend... and there is nothing ahead of them, except for more tunnel, the brighter, reddish glow of... something, hot, hot air, and the rattling sound of more stones. It is closer now, though, whatever it is they are hearing. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, it is what they came down here to find.
Cassidy tilts her head to the side as she wanders forward with the group, a soft hum escaping her. "Well! Let's see what we've got up here, huh? It's certainly making some noise. Shame most of my magic is fire."
