A grand device and histories home - RPLOG

Participants

• Angus
• Bite_PC
• Cedric
• Ictus
• Mirana
• Rainer

Date

6/5/476

Log

Looming in the distance are the spires of the newly unearthed temple, and fresh tracks in the sand leading up to it. The doors are open, something the scouts said wasn't true before. All about the structure the inscriptions glow, another detail the scouts either left out or wasn't true when they came here. The sun is hot this mid day, threatening to bake anyone alive for just being here.

If Mirana thought she could get away with running here by herself she was dead wrong, there was no way Angus would let her do that. So he followed her.. Kneeling in the sand he checked the tracks once more to make sure he was following them right, before he looked up at the glowing structure. Something was amiss as he stared at it, not hearing anything in the reports about the glow, and it only made him more worried as he stood up with his Musket in hand. "Dammit Mira, why?" He asked no one in particular as he pulled his hood up to protect himself from the harsh sun, and he started walking towards the structure.

"I think we should call it... The Triangle Prism of Doom! No, no, wait: The Tetrahedron of Doom!" Why would Angus think it was a good idea to bring Rainer along? He probably didn't. But the wolf heard newly-discovered ruin and... there was just no keeping him away. He wanders right past the kneeling todd, framing the facing side of the structure with his extended thumbs and index fingers, "Wait, wait, I've got it... Temple of Ramen Xerxes!"

Cedric And there's also a badger along for the trip, for some reason. He's currently shaking his head as he hangs off to the rear, keeping a lookout for anything hostle, spear at the ready. Cedric is pretty interested in what might be lurking in the temple. The last time there were fun plants and such! Anyway, he'd heard there were some fairly interesting carvings depicted on the newly uncovered temple of what may or may not be doom. Hopefully there's not too much doom in it.

Bite works her way out to the temple she's heard about, quite interested in making off with loot. She's late, and this upsets her, she should be on top of things! She moves past the group and descending into the temple. She can't wait for all these folks to get inside and collect it all before her. She doesn't exactly know what to expect, or much in the way of details besides a discovered temple, but she knows to be on the look out for traps as she proceeds.

Ictus grumbles along with Angus and shakes his head, "Very good question..." he peers at the temple curiously and shakes his head with a sigh, "Should have had guards with her..." he looks to the others and hmmms, "Well, we should get in before we fry..." he blinks as Bite enters the temple and shakes his head as he dashes after her, "Damnit."

Outside all that there is to see is the glowing runes cared into carefully made sandstone. Smooth, even in the etchings are smooth, as if made from something besides the rough work of a chissel. Inside, an unusual light glows everywhere. More etchings and graphs all over the place. Some of them almost form words. Slight hums can be heard as well and the whole places almost seems to beat as if alive. The heat continues, even inside the temple.

Angus doesn't give Rainer an answer as notices Bite walk right into the temple. "Dammit..." He mutters as he grabs Rainer by the collar and heads inside, eyes peeled for any possible traps or surprises. He was not in a good mood already, and this just made it worse as he trudged inside. Letting go of Rainers collar he brings his musket back up at the ready. "If it's shiny, don't touch it." He said to the wolf.

"Hey, there goes that snake ... what's her name? Chew? No, that's stupid. Chomp! That's it." Rainer's tracks Bite on her wordless dash past, "Wonder what ol' Chomp is up to." He stands there blinking at the open door as the snake disappears inside, smacking his lips until Ictus bursts past as well. "Should we be following the-urk!" The wolf begins to turn his gaze askance on badger and fox when he's suddenly snagged, flailing and stumbling as he falls into pace behind Angus, stopping a moment to fix the fluff around the base of his neck once he's released. "Hm, I'm not really used to bringing up the rear on these things... is this what it always feels like? ... ... ...I don't think I like it."

Despite the badger knight's heavy plates of armor, he doesn't seem to be too bothered by the ambient heat as he enters the temple with the others, glancing around quickly. He's not really looking for traps or anything, and probably wouldn't be able to spot them anyway... so... he's letting the others take point. Obviously because they seem to have it under control, and almost certainly -not- to act as living trapfinders for him. Yes. We'll go with that.

Bite turns to see Ictus, Angus, and Rainer following her, thinking for a second she stops him and hisses "Hold on sssweeties." She focuses a bit, working out a familiar mathmagical effect of water, pulling out some salt from her pocket and tossinig it up into the air as a fine mist takes hold of the group, before she rushes off, still seeking traps as she makes her way into the temple.

Ictus glances back at Angus and the others, he nods with a sigh, "At least the doors didn't close..." he looks back to Bite as she casts her spell and nods, "Thanks but-" then she's off again, "Damnit!" he walks quickly after her while searching for traps as well, "This is a rescue!" at least, that's how he's treating it

The inside of the temple is much cooler then the outside, but still quite hot. The magic however helps them all greatly. A very small and very fine wire catches Bite as she runs by, making the doors behind slam shut. However, further in, a source for the light can be seen, as well as someone muttering, "Yes... yes! This will do it! This will let me bring them into the world!" It seems that the adventurers aren't the only ones in the temple. "And to think, that fool of a vixen braught just what I'd need to get the place working again!"

Angus growls. "Dammit Bite that's enough!" Taking a step forward he trys to catch the serpent if he can, holding his musket in one hand as he does. "We are trying to save my sister, not get her killed all because you want treasure!" He was angry, very angry considering she had just walts right in, didn't care about anyone else near her, and of course she sets off a trap. "I promise you that if we save my sister, no WHEN we save my sister you can have all of the treasure. All of it." He frowns, meaning every word if it meant that his sister would be safe.

"-All- of it?!" Rainer is nonplussed. Rainer is so nonplussed, he's minused! And probably too distracted to notice that voice echoing down from up ahead. "Now wait just a minute--" But the fox and snake are already plowing ahead, and he turns a frustrated look over his shoulder to Cedric, hoping to find support, and instead finding the doors closing behind them. "...I'm not even getting to set off the -traps-! This is the lamest exploration -ever-!" Given there's only one direction to go, now, he heads in it, trailing well behind, arms folded across his chest and a big ol' pout on his face.

Cedric just shrugs at the wolf before he throws a glance over his shoulder in time to watch the temple doors shut behind them. Well, that's a lot of fun. Looks like they'll need to find another way out of here after they're done. He hurries along further down the corridor, not intending to let his own share of loot go!

Bite looks to Angus with a scowl, and a look of confusion. "Sssweetie who's life am I risking, because I wasn't aware of anything of the sort. I came in looking for treasure." She looks rather peeved at having been addressed as such on an assumption, and doesn't at all look impressed with Angus right now. Still, she hisses "Well sssweetie why don't you come with me? We'll see if we can find your sister>

Bite looks to Angus with a scowl, and a look of confusion. "Sssweetie who's life am I risking, because I wasn't aware of anything of the sort. I came in looking for treasure." She looks rather peeved at having been addressed as such on an assumption, and doesn't at all look impressed with Angus right now. Still, she hisses "Well sssweetie why don't you come with me? We'll see if we can find your sister."

Ictus nods to Angus and hmms, "Agreed." then he looks at Rainer and sighs, "We'll triple your pay." he looks to Cedric and ponders a bit, "And we'll reimburse you for any crown you lose by any treasure you miss out." he looks at Bite and shakes his head, "Mirana is... Handicapped... Right now, she shouldn't be in here to begin with." he frowns a bit as he realizes there was chatter, "Damn, everyone be quiet..." he starts to sneak along the passageway

The glow of the passageway continues as does the chatter, "Now.. how would I.. no no no.. oh why did she do that though! I wouldn't be able to come in here and look around so freely if she hadn't walked into that chamber, but without SOMEONE with some knowledge of these machine spirits, is there anyway I can make this do what I need it to do?" shouts someone who obviously thinks they are alone still, not even the sounds of the doors moving making him or her aware that they are not. Down the hallway, for those far enough to see, is a bend, followed by a lot of strange glowing.

Angus rubs at his eyes, not caring if he impressed anyone at this point. "Mirana...My sister. She's the one that we are all risking our lives for thank you." He responds as he walks past her, musket at the ready as he keeps his eyes focused. That voice doesn't please him at all as he hears it. He had a bad feeling about this place even before he entered, and that feeling just kept getting worse as he continues to walk forward. "I...I don't know much about this place but something is just.....offf. It's very old, no surprise there really. But those symbols outside we saw....They refer to a lot of different creator artifacts and studies, but whats odd is. I've never seen them actually together. Always seperate....all I can tell about them is that they hold a lot of information..." That's all he could explain to them, as he didn't know a lot himself. Why were those symbols together, what information did they contain....but the biggest question is.. If the temple was so old, where did the new symbols come from.....

Angus rubs at his eyes, not caring if he impressed anyone at this point. "Mirana...My sister. She's the one that we are all risking our lives for thank you." He responds as he walks past her, musket at the ready as he keeps his eyes focused. That voice doesn't please him at all as he hears it. He had a bad feeling about this place even before he entered, and that feeling just kept getting worse as he continues to walk forward. "I...I don't know much about this place but something is just.....offf. It's very old, no surprise there really. But those symbols outside we saw....They refer to a lot of different creator artifacts and Texts from the Old Ones, but whats odd is. I've never seen them actually together. Always seperate....all I can tell about them is that they hold a lot of information..." That's all he could explain to them, as he didn't know a lot himself. Why were those symbols together, what information did they contain....but the biggest question is.. If the temple was so old, where did the new symbols come from.....

Rainer throws up his hands with a beleaguered sigh, "It's not about the money..." He leaves it at that, though, and follows in silence, hastening his step once the babbling voice has been brought to his attention. As the bend draws ever nearer he draws his sword and gives it a little spin with a flick of the wrist, getting himself into something approaching a combat-ready stance and lingering just before the corner, out of sight of whatever lies beyond. The wolf looks to the others for direction, an eyebrow quirked.

"No problem." Cedric says. He wasn't going to bring up the subject of money, himself. It'd be a little bit inappropriate at the moment. He nods to Ictus and Angus, listening to the explanation about the wall's symbols. "Interesting." he says quietly, looking at the wall's symbols himself. He certainly can't make any sense of them, but that won't stop him from remembering them precisely and transcribing them later in his own time. After taking the time to memorize the symbols, he follows along towards the sound of voices.

Bite hisses lowly "I was unaware." She leaves it at that, not wishing to spark rivalry with yet another noble fox. She prepares a spell while still keeping an eye out for traps, listening to the curious voice in the distance. SOunds like they already had Mirana.

Ictus blinks at Angus and nods in agreement before he looks to Rainer, "As I said... A rescue, this isn't going to be a fun little adventure..." he says it quietly as not to alert the babbling being. He sighs a bit and shakes his head before looking at Bite with a nod, he creeps past Rainer to peek at the rambling being

A banging can be heard from the room past the corridor, "Why won't you work!" She says, evidently a mouse to Ictus. She doesn't notice the fox peaking, but she can be seen banging on an old panel with her fists. "I shouldn't have come along, I should braught at least Brother Jacob." she says quite loudly. She then goes about looking at the control panel. All around are tubes, made of glass and pipes of various forms running to and from them. Each of the pipes are glowing brightly, same blue colors as the symbols. Inside the north most tube can be seen a silohette of someone laying upon the floor. The old panel glows brightly as well some sort of box atop it, that glows brighter then anything else.

Angus rolls his eyes and ignores Bite, not wanting to fight either. He follows Icuts over, giving Rainer a pat on the shoulder as he walks by, hoping the wolf doesn't do anything foolish just yet. "What do you see?" He whispers to his cousin before he pokes his head around the corner. The banging made his ears twitch, his frown growing even more. This...was rather odd as he looked around the room, something nagging at his mind that he's heard of a place like this before. Either way it wasn't good, and he pulled his head back around the corner with a sigh. "One possible threat, someone in a tube so that's either Mira or another hostage." He mutters to Rainer and others, debating on using his musket or drawing his daggers at this point.

The serpent follows along, listening before she whispers just loud enough for the party to hear, "Sssweeties, pressure platle just in front of the corridor." She also makes an effort to grab the frontmost being, just preparing herself for combat in case someone does something stupid.

Did someone say do something stupid?!?!?!?! Rainer reclines against the wall, offering, "Someone could go ahead and try to talk some info out of the crazy person. The rest of us'll be right here to step in if it goes south, after all." Wait what. Planning? Rational behaviour? Well, obviously he's been possessed by a Shadow. It's the only explanation.

Cedric heads on over towards the others, passing by Rainer without a word and being cautious of the pressure plate, as warned. He keeps his spear ready, firmly grasped at the haft with his left hand, ready to put it to use at a moment's notice. "Whatever you two want to do. It's your relative and your decision." the badger says quietly in reply to the Solacious foxes, trying to keep his voice down.

Ictus blinks at the mouse and shakes his head, "Can't sneak by either." he blinks as he's pulled back by Bite and nods, "Thanks." he looks at Rainer and ponders that with a nod, "Yeah... Sounds like an idea." he looks at Cedric and nods, "You up for seeing if they are friendly? We'll back you up." all this is a low whisper, so the mouse hopefully doesn't hear

A sudden banging and some more whirling can be heard, "Yes! Success! Oh she will make her perfect vessel, already afflicted with the taint, and so in touch with these 'creators' too. Now... how to make it do what I need it to do...." as the whirling continues the form that was slumped on the floor of the chamber rises up inside it as if floating in the air. If there was any questions as to who was in there before, they would be gone now. That outline is definately Mira. Her eyes open, and glow a bright white and from somewhere in the room a booming voice can be heard, the language is archaec at best, though the device soon adjusts as some of the symbols start to glow brighter, "SUBJECT, VULPINE BEING, CURRENT DESIGNATIONS, KITSUNE... PHOENIX. WARNING, ABNORMAL REACTION DETECTED." the mouse giggles with glee! "It is working!"

Angus blinks as he hears the mouses words and the machine start to warm up. "Son of a..." Those words did not sound good. "I agree, Cedric now please!" He whispers harshly as he turns back to the corridor. This was one of the times he was happy that he was left handed, as he leveled his musket on the mouse while barely putting himself within the line of sight. He would let Cedric try and see what this mouse was up to, but he was prepared to shoot. He was not going to take any chances, the shot would be lethal.

Rainer lifts an eyebrow as Cedric is nominated for the job. "When I said 'someone' I kind-of-sort-of meant -me-." That's all the protest he offers, though, moving to the other side of the hall while remaining far enough from the corner that he'll be out of sight of the occupants of the room beyond. There he stands poised with sword, ready to spring into action.

Cedric nods, stepping carefully over the pressure plate and heading into the strange room with the tube and the mouse. His sabatons making a little noise as he sets one foot in front of the other. He's not making any attempt to sneak up on them, and instead approaches them with his spear resting on his left shoulder (lefty power!!). The badger clears his throat once he's in range, and in the most authoritative voice he can muster, asks loudly. "Excuse me, but what exactly are you trying to accomplish here?".

Bite moves briefely to glimpse the local in the room, before she sighs at the knowledge she is presented with. She opts to prepare math for when this plan goes out the window.

Ictus blinks as the mouse apperantly gets the thing working, "Crap." he shakes his head and growls a little, "She has one minute to explain, or else..." He leaves it at that as he waits for something to happen, daggers at the ready as he prepares for an attack

As the mouse is approched she spins around, "Who are you! Don't come any closer!" As she speaks she reaches out into her coat and pulls out an odd vial of something, about to throw it at the badger, when Angus' musket shot wizzes past her head. "Oh no, I won't let you stop me! She is perfect! She will be Chrgula's perfect vessel!" She says and slams the vial upon the ground. The murky blackness that oozes from it forms into two things! Misshapened odd, unbelivable horriors of something! The mouse cackles a bit, and prepares to fight as well! Meanwhile whatever is talking continues "PLEASE INPUT INFORMATION, SUBJECT RECOGNIZED, AWAITING INPUT FOR MODIFICATIONS."

As the fighting starts the voice annouces 'WARNING HOSTILE ACTIONS DETECTED, ENAGING DEFFENCE SYSTEMS LEVEL 1.' Small shots come out from small tubes above each of the glass chambers! The shots seem to be mostly harmless however. Near the panel however, a crumpled up piece of paper can be seen....

Angus growls as his shot goes wide and he charges forward, his musket held in his right hand as a makeshift club as he draws his dagger with his left. He struck at the Mouse and the being he created, managing to get a few good hits in but ultimately their deaths were not by his hands. Then he notices the crumpled piece of paper just as the alarm system sets off. "Dammit all." he mutters as he rushes forward, managing to dodge the shots from the tubes over the chambers, and snatches the paper up into his hand. He was in the room with the tubes, and the chambers, so he turned around to try and get back to the corridor and the cover that was there.

Bottom of the nineth, two baddies down, bases loaded, two strikes, three balls, Who's on first, and Rainer's up to bat! Brandishing a grin that can only be described as wolfish, he taps the floor twice with the end of his blade, then uses the weapon to point at the beast. He winds up, his eyes narrow, and in a blur of grey and silver he's suddenly ... standing behind the monster, which keels over moments after, prompting him to turn around and... "Oh ho HO MAN DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT?! That was AWESOME I can't believe that worked!" ...Rainer, ladies and gentlemen.

The serpent does her best to avoid hitting Mirana with her fiery goodness, liberally applying it to the tubes and foes alike, succeeding except for a errant blast of wind that takes a tiny toll on the tube. They burn up nicely, and she lets the others get in there while she patches them up and takes chance strikes with her dagger and whatever she finds lying around, possibly keeping things. This all said and done, she giggles and hisses "Good job sssweeties." as she thinks to herself, and looks at the tubes. She then once more calls forward her ocean spray, intending to get the heated glass wet to see what would happen, a decent distance away of course.

The badger knight raises his shield to help defend the group from the attacks of the twisted mouse and his evil summons, covering Angus, Ictus, Bite and Rainer as best he can while weaving dark math through his spear and leaving the mark of the forsaken on one of the summons as well as the mouse. As Cedric takes more hits for the others, absorbing them with help from his shield and armor, he gets angrier and angrier, tossing his spear aside and taking his reward from the Hammer Brasher showdown from his belt. A nice sharp axe with the weight of a hammer, which he straight up lobs at one of the dark summons. Retrieving the axe, he leaves it to bleed out, going back to defending the others so they can clean up the rest of the bad guys!

Ictus blinks at the summoned beings and shakes his head with a growl, "Ok, not friendly." he shakes his head as he beats on the summoned things and winces at Bite as she casts that spell, "Damnit, be careful!" as he pats himself down and backs away as the defenses activate, having seen Angus go for the paper he waits for his cousin to return

As the fighting draws mostly to an end, the machines continue to fire, still seeing at least one of the hostile parties still moving, "PREPARING DEFENCE LEVEL 2" comes the booming voice. Any of the glass tubes that were destoryed replace themselves, another tube sliding down from above. Mira is still floating inside one of them, eyes still glowing, and one might wonder if she has even blinked the whole time she has been in there.