We Otter Leaf - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
23/4/478
Log
Fenris hurries into the Church, relatively certain that he was not followed. He walks purposfully across the nave of the big building and to a small door at the back, producing an iron key. One that he probably should not have, but he always put things back after he borrowed them. No harm, no foul, right? Besides, no one but him ever ventured down into the deep vaults anyway.
Kalt is helmeted once more, the vixen missing her axe however as she tries to follow after good old Fenris, dodging pasts the priest as she ends up behind a pillar for some reason... now, he wasn't supposed to be going here to sulk, he was supposed to be going to the manor! The Vixen's eyes narrow behind the helmet as she waits for him to unlock the door to follow him... well, might as well see what he's up to after all.
Fenris slips inside the door and starts down the stairs, activating his little sacred doctor which gives off a cool, white light. The stairs wind around a few times before opening into a vaulted storage room. Fenris does not stop to look at the shelves and tables, knowing that what he is after won't be in these first vaults.
Kalt peeks through the door first as Fenris leaves it open, her eyes narrowing even further as she steps down into the stairs, careful in her armor to not make -too- much noise, but given his pace and head start, she's probably out of earshot as she makes her way down after him, blinking at the shelves... But he's still further in, so she follows along after!
Fenris does not notice Kalt, despite her heavily armored tread as he hurries past wonders that most beings never even dream of. He has a specific goal in mind. After traversing the whole floor, the tiger stops at another small door and produces a key of some sort of shining metal that he is DEFINITELY not supposed to have. Instead of inserting it into a lock, which does not seem to be evident, he simply holds it against the door and chants something unintelligible before the door opens with a click and he vanishes through, leaving it just a little ajar. No sense in accidentally getting locked in, right?
Clump, clump, clump... Kalt continues to trod along, watching from farther back around a corner as he opens the door... Now that certainly shouldn't be. The vixen lets out a gentle sigh and shakes her head, before walking forward... May as well talk him out of whatever crazy plan he had now... and apologize, that too. So, with tentative and careful steps she follows forward, reaching the door as she goes to push it open slightly and peek her helmeted head inside.
Behind the door is another flight of stairs, this one longer, much longer, and lined with strange lights and creator steel. Could it lead all the way down into the undertunnels? At the distant bottom, Fenris is carefully looking around among ghostly shapes of covered crates and boxes, obscure artifacts of a bygone time.
Kalt sighs gently, more damned stairs. All the same, the vixen opens the door enough to fit inside, not bothering to turn and try to close it some, lest she tumble down the stairs. Instead she goes to carefully make her way down, each step taking a bit of time as she's carefully working to not make more sound than normal, eyeing Fenris at the bottom through the slot in her visor as she does so.
"There has to be one," Fenris mutters to himself as he moves from crate to crate, item to item, looking at labels and marks, though he does not seem to see what he is looking for. He heads a little deeper into the dark space, only the gentle glow of his Sacred Doctor to light his way.
Kalt follows right behind, not going to stop in this... Honestly she should make herself known, and yell at him now but... It'd be better to catch him in the act wouldn't it? So she continued on, tail still and her form rigid as she chases after that gentle glow.
"Ha!" comes a gentle sound of victory amidst the dark silence, "I knew there would be one!" Fenris stands in front of a large, covered, box shaped object. The tiger drops the carefully inscribed tag he was looking at and ducks underneath the dusty cloth, vanishing from sight.
Kalt huffs some as Fenris ducks under a dust Cloth, this little chase had gone on long enough. Sure thing, she breaks into a full loud stride, before reaching down to grab the cloth and yank it up as she bends as far as she can. "Really Fenris?"
"Hello, Kalt," Fenris says cheerfully, working at the controlls of a large, boxy machine. The console glows with a bluish light as he carefully taps things out. "I confess, I wasn't sure when you were going to say something," he says, "You ever see a fleshcrafter before?"
"No, I ain't a fan of them things! Ya know that... Now ya gotta be jokin' me, ya ain't honestly gonna go an' try changin' yerself just cause ya got a lil'more mid to ya? Ya ain't unhealthy an' can work fine, I were only teasin' ya!" The vixen huffing from behind her helmet as she stares down at him as he works.
"Just a little," Fenris confirms, "Just so I can get rid of it. I think they guy at the controls when I got back to being me just had a thing for chubby guys and I got a little more than I bargained for. It is perfectly safe!" At least, he hopes it is safe. The thing has been shut away down here for a long time. And then there was the way the one in the Solacious vaults had reacted. "Nothing to worry about at all!" he says, tapping at a few more buttons on the console, "There, that ought to do it. Do me a favor and press the red button for me?" The tiger disappears inside of the machine, leaving Kalt alone under the tent like covering with only the tiger's little device giving off light.
"Press it Yer damned self ya crazy bastard!" The vixen grumbling to herself before she closes her left gauntlet fist, and goes to smack it into the button... Not the most... -gentle- way to press a button. "Ya were fine the way ya were ya know!"
There is a pop of lightning as the screen cracks under Kalt's less than gentle care and the machine hums to life! But instead of the divine math being restricted to the inside of the machine, it bursts forth in streams of light and power, wrapping both the machine where Fenris is hidden and Kalt in her armor up in the transforming magic! The vixen is aware of a sudden warmth in her extremities, like the beginning of a sauna massage that slowly moves to her core. Uh oh.
Oh no... oh no bonobo onto!
Oh no... oh no nonononono! The vixen flails as she feels that warmth, trying to fight it off as she smacks around inside, punching at the walls and the consul without realizing it as she lets out a scream. "FUCKIN' HELL FENRIS YA SHAPRE SHIFTING SONNNUVABITCH M'GONNA BEAT YER DAMNED ASS!" Still flailing in panic as she can feel that change...
Fenris does not answer. Presumably he is in the midst of his own change. Soon, Kalt can no longer shout and flail as her muscles and bones melt and morph to something new. There is a brief moment when everything goes black, then the world is back in the dim light of Fenris's sacred doctor and the occasional fizzle from the console. There is a sigh from within the box and a voice rather higher than Fenris's comes from behind the curtain. "Kalt?" he asks, "What did you do out there?"
