2018-09-21: Sudden Curry-Making Montage
- Log: Sudden Curry-Making Montage
- Cast: Gwen Whitlock, Hiro, Fei Fong Wong
- Where: Krosse Cave
- Date: 9/21/2018
- Summary: What better way to apologi-ER welcome some old friends back to Filgaia than with some trap-setting and mechanism resetting for the newest generation of Drifters? Also, curry. Spicy curry. VERY spicy curry.
===============================<* Krosse Cave *>================================ Krosse Cave is an old subterranean complex believed to have been used as a supply dump by an unknown military force during the battles that led up to the Day of Collapse. The upper regions of the cave have been thoroguhly explored by Drifters and Adventurers over the years, but a recent earthquake following the arrival of the Sorcery Globe opened up an entire series of chambers that have previously been unexplored. BGM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHEMyH9XbhM
========================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>========================= ===================<* CHALLENGE - An Uninteresting Journey *>=================== |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON GUIDE PROLOGUE: "When setting up a trial dungeon, it's generally a good idea to start with the final challenges in the depths of the dungeon, or else you'll just be having to make your way through traps you've already set up." Naturally, this means making your way to the deepest part of Krosse Kave... which has been totally wiped out of encounters, treasures, monsters, and traps. So you're just walking. Though largely featureless caves. It's mega-boring. But the only thing worse than being bored is bored and /lost/, so you'd better pay attention to those directions... =Dungeon Conditions: Tire, Exhaust============================================
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Feeling guilty that the Fiends are now stuck back on Filgaia, and not only that, they're stuck on a Filgaia now dealing with the advent of Mother's awakening, Gwen set up to find some way to make it up to Hiro, Lucia, and Ruby. ..... well, it started off that way, anyway
BECAUSE NOW THEY'RE HERE. "Nothing like a nice, guilt-free run into some ruins to get some pep back into your step!" Fei has joined up at some point, maybe even recently, for this endeavor. "This ain't so bad, really. Though I 'spose I should've tried to find somethin' else to serve as my apolo-" wait did she say that aloud "My way of welcoming y'all back to Filgaia."
Gwen stops, noticing Featureless Cave #89, and glances down at her notes.
"Now, where were we again...? I guess I got a little distracted..."
Ladies and gentlemen, super courier Gwen.
DG: Gwen Whitlock has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, An Uninteresting Journey.
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
"Let's see... this is our seventh turn since we set down that dire wombat cage for the final trial..." Hiro consults his notebook with the jotted down instructions. "... so I think we're nearly near those honey and feather traps we have to reset?"
"Why are we doing this again!? I mean - if people want to become real seasoned drifters they don't need these kind of challenges. They need to turn up the heat! Spice their life up a notch! Go out there and find their dragon ruins - like we did! Right Hiro?"
"Huh?" Hiro says as he looks up from his Grandpa's notebook, "... Well I mean sure. Inferno ghouls are the spice of life right?" He says with good cheer. "That's right! Challenging yourself practically-"
"And fleeing when it gets to be too much." Hiro notes idly. "Well of course-" "And remembering to point out the traps you see to your partner." "Hiro! I only didn't of course because I thought you'd already known about it. Now what I was saying - all of that builds character in a budding drifter!"
Ruby says as she flies backwards, before noting to Fei and Gwen, "Say are either of you in the mood for curry now? Because I kind of am, it's the strangest thing."
"... ... ... I could go for curry." Lucia says finally, as this is about the adventure she'd be the least invested in of all.
DG: Hiro has used his Tool Grandpa Gwyn's Notebook toward his party's challenge, An Uninteresting Journey.
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei also, frankly, feels a bit guilty about the Fiends not only being interrupted from their task but also ending up stuck on Filgaia! Again! While he is skeptical of Lucia's mission, he no doubt very much sympathizes with how fate seems to be conspiring her from fulfilling it. Or even failing it. Or making any forward progress on it at all!
"That's true." Fei says, drawing out his sketchpad to start making notes on where they are going and where they've been because the last thing they want to do is end up LOST and end up blumbering into their own traps. "You know, I always thought there might be like little teams in some of these ruins just resetting everything back to the way they were, but it's nice to have confirmation that it's indeed the case."
He smiles over to Gwen. "You've a kind heart, Gwen."
When Gwen says they are lost, Fei says, "I've been doing my best to keep a map. It might help."
He looks towards Hiro, nodding to him, and then looking over to Ruby as she asks a very pertinent question.
'Why?'
Fei hesitates and then asks, despite thinking it'd be better if he didn't. "What's an inferno ghoul?" That seems to be his answer? He might noth ave an answer as to 'why?'. You know, aside from the paycheck.
"You've had curry before, Lucia?" Fei looks over to her. "Man I wish I could give you some of Yui's home cooking."
DG: Fei Fong Wong has used his Tool Artist's Toolkit toward his party's challenge, An Uninteresting Journey.
========================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>========================= ===================<* CHALLENGE - An Uninteresting Journey *>=================== |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON GUIDE PROLOGUE: "When setting up a trial dungeon, it's generally a good idea to start with the final challenges in the depths of the dungeon, or else you'll just be having to make your way through traps you've already set up." Naturally, this means making your way to the deepest part of Krosse Kave... which has been totally wiped out of encounters, treasures, monsters, and traps. So you're just walking. Though largely featureless caves. It's mega-boring. But the only thing worse than being bored is bored and /lost/, so you'd better pay attention to those directions... =Dungeon Conditions: Tire, Exhaust============================================
===================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out - Round 1 *>==================== =====================< Results - An Uninteresting Journey >===================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gwen Whitlock 0 --(18)--> 18 Fail Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fei Fong Wong 0 --(3)--> 3 Pass Artist's Toolkit 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiro 0 --(3)--> 3 Pass Grandpa Gwyn's Notebook 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten -----------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------ Leader: Gwen Whitlock 0 --(20)--> 20 Pass Conditions: Exhaust(1)|Tire(2) Effects: Enlighten(1) ===============================< Dream Chasers >================================
DG: The party led by Gwen Whitlock has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
Lucia seems abstracted for a while, "I don't understand Gwen. An apology is something you offer to make amends for doing something wrong." It's like she caught that part that Gwen left out. "It is a nice feeling... being welcomed back to Filgaia though."
Perhaps she's never welcomed home before.
She certainly doesn't look all that happy though. Until Fei mentions Yui's cooking. "... You have a friend with a curry recipe?"
... suddenly Fei is the most interesting person in the room.
Hiro nudges Gwen lightly from the side, "Fei's right you know. But I think she's going to be okay though so long as we keep her busy... she's just got a lot on her mind right now with Mother being awake too, so she's not too down about... the finish line moving."
Ruby thus fields Fei's question, "Imagine fire with a face - and a relentless hunger for human flesh to carbonize. That's an Inferno Ghoul." How does she know the word carbonize? Ruby thinks of fire a lot.
DG: Fei Fong Wong has drawn a new Challenge.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ===============<* CHALLENGE - Assassin's Kreed - Blakk Flag *>================ |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 7: "Okay, uh, this one's supposed to simulate a bandit attack, except we don't have any bandits who we'd trust to hang out in the kave and get punched, so we got a Symbologist to make a couple of golems that say 'ARRRR' a lot." Step one: Put pirate hats on them. One per golem, please. Step 2: The golems are a little too tough for these newbie Diggers, so we'll need you to rough them up a bit. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
"Ahhahaha, weeellll." Gwen rubs the back of her head sheepishly at Lucia's observation. "Maybe I'm saying 'my sympathies'? Except I'm a little low on funds right now so this seemed to hit two birds with one stone." Did she say that aloud? Oh yeah, she did. Thankfully, she meant to, that time. "OH! Right! That trap. That's it." Gwen nods readily in agreement with Hiro. "Kinda wish we could be a little more creative with the placement of these things, but I guess you always gotten make the boss area real predictable. How's anyone supposed t'figure out what pattern's bein' used if it's always random?"
Looking down at her notes as she begins to assemble the necessary traps, Gwen pauses, glancing up at Ruby. She raises a finger. "Well, I mean, y'don't throw a kid on a bucking stallion n' let them figure it out. Nah, you start out with a gentle pony that's more interested in eatin' grass than goin' anywhere, and even if it did, it'd go at a casual walking speed at most." Returning to the arduous task of applying the honey, she adds, "'sides, we don't got any Dragon Ruins 'round here. Not like on Lunar, anyway." ... how many dragon ruins are there on Lunar, anyway...?
Fei's compliment makes Gwen chuckle. "Thanks for comin' 'long with! I know you're busy with stuff, but it's good to just do stuff like this every once in a while. The next generation of Drifters are gonna be decided by these traps, after all!"
As will... curry? Gwen's stomach growls at the mention of curry. "Honestly, I could too..." She almost is as much distracted by the thought of food before Hiro nudges her aside. ".... oh," she says, lowering her voice to a whisper. "Okay, good, good. Though, this gives me an idea of what we're gonna do after this. Filgaian curry'd be perfect 'welcome home' food." Well, Lucia *is* the princess of the Blue Star.
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei is unaccustomed to having Lucia's interest. Her ire, sure, but her interest? In a moment like this, Fei thinks he can understand why Hiro feels the way for Lucia as he does. Some things just feel new, for lack of a better word, through her mannerisms. Even if it's something you may have taken for granted before. Like Yui's curry, for instance.
"Well," Fei says. "Had a friend at least. I haven't seen Yui in over a year and I haven't had the heart to ask Citan where she's gone." He pauses. "Oh, uh, I didn't blow up her home. it's on a hill and the blast didn't extend that far, I guess, but she still had to move and hasn't seen her husband in a while, and Doc hasn't seen her so..it's still rough. I could describe it to you, but honestly I know she does something extra and I haven't been able to figure out what it is."
He looks over to Hiro. "That so? I guess that makes sense. It'll probably be easier to get the mission done without having to watch your back for demons and such."
He smiles faintly. "And don'tcha worry about it Gwen. Honestly, compared to what it's been like lately, I can use a break like this."
And then of course they enter a room with golems and Fei checks the instructions. He looks it over, and then looks back to the golems, then to the bag of pirate hats he's been carrying. "I guess that explains that."
He pauses for a few moments, frowning. "...I don't think Dean would appreciate it if we beat up the golems... what do we do?" He isn't sure he has the heart to either.
<Characters> Pearl says, "So, hey, any theme admin available for some quick questions?"
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
"Yeah. Been a lotta tough events happenin' lately," Gwen relates to Fei, with a nod. "It's good to give yourself reminders of why it's good to just keep your chin up. The world's imperfect, but that's what makes it great, in some ways." It feels like these are words not really meant for Fei, but someone else, by the sober way she seems to look past Fei in that instance of time.
But they're words she feels Fei would appreciate more, right now.
And speaking of imperfect worlds and how great that makes them, Gwen grabs one of the pirate hats and squints at it as it hangs limply in one hand. "Yeah, was thinkin' the same thing... I mean, it ain't like Dean is gonna know, but at the same time, *I'd* know. Maybe we can, like, weigh their arms down? Though, what if that makes 'em even more powerful once they get used to the weight?"
Suddenly, Gwen's face lights up.
"Oh! Put the pirate hats over their faces! If the drifters wanna really make it tougher, they can just take the pirate hats off!"
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
"We could always mix it up next time. Put the final challenge in the middle - so then it's like... a wind down from a workout after!"
"Her home is intact." Lucia repeats, "So there's a strong chance she still might be making this curry." Lucia seems to make no judgement on Fei's actions otherwise, not even bringing them up. Though perhaps she is thinking upon them, beneath the surface.
However she then answers Gwen, "Sympathies. Those are what you offer to someone for... loss?" Lucia considers for a moment, We have lost time - and right now it is our most valuable commodity. However... being here right now is a worthy trade."
She looks abstracted again. "I wish I could have seen Althena before we returned."
Ruby then says to Gwen, Eh I guess it's true. Not everyone is as amazing as we are..."
Hiro then nods to Gwen with a big smile and a lowered voice, "Hey yeah - curry and burgers. Aha - if she's never had a welcome home party before - might as well throw her the kind she'd love."
However at the next challenge he's putting a pirate hat on a golem... "Yeah I kind of agree Fei... I mean, Dean would be real upset about it." "Not to worry - I've got this."
Ruby removes a pirate hat from a golem, then with her pawsies strips out the band from the inside of the cap. Then she turns towards the golem, hovering in mid-air, and starts doing something real quickly-
"Uh - okay. So... let's go with Gwen's idea and cover up their eyes and..."
"Ta-da!"
She reveals the golem is now no longer a pirate golem but...
It is now wearing a headband which says...
Shadow Dragon Loser
All of the Golems with pirate hats start to turn towards it while spouting off "ARRR!" in synch.
The now ninja golem turns towards them - and since they can only say one thing, also spouts off, "ARRR!"
The pirate golems are not convinced. The offending 'ninja' is being advanced upon. So now it becomes a matter of getting out of their way.
"I... don't think getting Golems to fight each other so we don't have to is really in the spirit of what Dean would want."
... Wait-Wait-Wait-"
Ruby then looks at Fei in horror, "You said Dean? I thought you said Jean-" "Why would Jean care about us beating up golems!?" "Because they're pirate golems Hiro!"
Hiro blurts out after a moment, "THAT STILL DOESN'T CLARIFY THINGS!"
Suddenly it's going to be a matter of putting their hats in their faces to get them to stop pummeling each other.
DG: Fei Fong Wong has used his Tool RPS Badge toward his party's challenge, Assassin's Kreed - Blakk Flag. DG: Hiro has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Assassin's Kreed - Blakk Flag. DG: You must use a Tool that matches the Challenge's Dungeon Ability. If you do not have one, use the matching Basic Action instead by typing +act Brute DG: You must use a Tool that matches the Challenge's Dungeon Ability. If you do not have one, use the matching Basic Action instead by typing +act Brute DG: Gwen Whitlock has used her Tool Full Metal Courier toward her party's challenge, Assassin's Kreed - Blakk Flag.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ===============<* CHALLENGE - Assassin's Kreed - Blakk Flag *>================ |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 7: "Okay, uh, this one's supposed to simulate a bandit attack, except we don't have any bandits who we'd trust to hang out in the kave and get punched, so we got a Symbologist to make a couple of golems that say 'ARRRR' a lot." Step one: Put pirate hats on them. One per golem, please. Step 2: The golems are a little too tough for these newbie Diggers, so we'll need you to rough them up a bit. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
==================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out - Round 2 *>=================== =================< Results - Assassin's Kreed - Blakk Flag >================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwen Whitlock 18 --(3)--> 21 Pass Full Metal Courier 2 Combat Effects: Embolden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fei Fong Wong 3 --(3)--> 6 Pass RPS Badge 3 Combat Effects: Rally ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hiro 3 --(3)--> 6 Pass Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Gwen Whitlock 20 --(20)--> 40 Pass Conditions: Injure(2)|Tire(1) Effects: Embolden(1) ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Gwen Whitlock has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Hiro has drawn a new Challenge.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ======================<* CHALLENGE - Kan-Trip Kantrip *>====================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 14: "Okay, so, the path should lead you into a large chamber overlooking a bunch of stony stalagmites. There's a single stone bridge across the passage, with these Symbols on it. When activated, they'll light up on the bridge, causing it to suddenly shimmer and become slick as glass. It's a pretty dangerous trap! "The problem is, the Symbols ran out of juice. We've given you a pouch of dust to sprinkle on them - it should charge them up good. Unfortunately, the only place to sprinkle it from is on the bridge itself. You should be fine, though." =Dungeon Conditions: Suffer===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei nods to Gwen in agreement. "That's ... true. I don't think what I want, in the end, is all that much or anywhere close to perfection but..." He manages a smile. "I guess if it's imperfect, that makes it a little more likely to happen some day."
He considers Lucia. Her words stir something within Fei. Before, she would talk about meeting Althena as it being part of some mission to save the world and perhaps that's what she means here, too, but it's not how Fei takes it. When he looks at Lucia in this moment, he sees something that reaches his own heart far more readily than merely saving the world.
"You miss her, huh?" Fei says, sounding perhaps truly sympathetic to her mission for the first time in his life. "I guess you've been apart for a long time. That sensation..." Fei closes his eyes for a moment. "I know what that can be like. It's funny, there isn't anybody I have missed for as long as you must have missed her...but I guess I must have felt it subjectively at some point. Someone you want to see at any cost..." Fei sighs. "But fate conspires against you to keep you apart. There's nothing you can do but live for those times you get to see them, however brief those moments may be. But at least when you see them, it is as if you are with them forever no matter how brief the reality is."
He nods once to Ruby as she says she's got it. He has absolute trust in Ruby and does not interfere.
"Maybe she's changed, but Elly and I were on opposite sides of a conflict once too. I guess I was worried about you all getting hurt, but maybe that was just selfish of me, not wanting you to get hurt for my own sake. Maybe you're willing to be hurt to see her again and that's all you need to reach her. Maybe there's a misunderstanding or she needs your hand to help her see rightly again. Maybe that's all she needs."
He closes his eyes for a moment, perhaps seeing something in his mind's eye, but when he opens it again his focus is on Ruby's mysterious tampering of the golems.
He blinks a few times. ARRR. NIN NIN. Fei cups his chin in deep thought before considering his RPS Badge. Pirates and Ninjas do oppose each other. Perhaps they won't be able to work together like this. "I approve of this method."
O...onward?
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
"..."
Lucia doesn't answer Fei at first - on whether she misses Althena. For so long all of her memories have been brief awakenings within a shining crystal. A strange chrysalis. At the time she couldn't comprehend the idea of loneliness.
"... Did I miss her?" It sounds distant, like she's asking herself. "I'm not sure. All I know is..."
It was all of them who taught her that feeling, in Mount Zulan. Distance causing her pain. "... that now I do."
Does that mean that something's wrong with her now? That something's broken?
Why does she feel this way - when she never did before?
She does not answer on what it will be like to see Althena again though - she cannot. There is only one way it can go. There is only one way it must go.
"Fei... if you truly know what it's like... then I hope the warmth you feel in those moments helps you through the pain when you are distant."
Hiro tries to pretend like he's not paying really close attention right now - but that's impossible, he's looking a little thoughtful himself.
"And here we come to the... bridge." Hiro says as he passes out three small baggies of dust. "So all we have to do is sprinkle this dust on the symbols to reenergize them but... then we'll... probably activate them."
"And then it will become slippery?" "Right." "Oh no - whatever would I do if the ground became like ice. Oh woe is me... the terrestrial being at the complete mercy of cruel gravity..." Ruby grasps her pouch within her mouth, then starts to fly over the bridge, using her pawsies to tip it up on occasion and sprinkle some dust out.
"... She can fly though." Lucia says as if not understanding the inherent sarcasm.
DG: Hiro has used his Tool Ruby Being Helpful toward his party's challenge, Kan-Trip Kantrip.
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
"..." Watching Fei and Lucia speak, something bittersweet rises up in Gwen's chest. Lucia isn't the girl she once was, even a year ago, and a part of Gwen finds naked, unbridled joy in seeing her growth. It's like the time when she rediscovered herself and the world, all over again, only brighter, more raw. Shy romances! A daring adventure! A giant quest!
.... But that sour part of her points out how much this is probably complicating so much of Lucia's actual quest. How can she hold herself to it, if she's learning what so many take for granted?
And Fei's words themselves are a reminder of how much the young man himself has changed, even when he's fallen into his own bouts of depression, understandably. To miss someone that deeply... It feels too scary to even think about, even when Gwen can feel that pain herself. That must have been why she was so scared that day in the arena, seeing Hiro bleeding like he was.
She doesn't want to think about this anymore.
Gwen looks down as they move into the next area, then back at Ruby. She grins, and gives her a salute. "I leave this to you, Ruby!"
Always know your weaknesses.
DG: Gwen Whitlock has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Kan-Trip Kantrip.
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei Fong Wong is probably unaware that Lucia lived in crystal for a billion years otherwise he might have adjusted his words accordingly. It's not that he doesn't understand what it's like being an outsider or being in isolation, but his vision of Lucia's life is rather incomplete due to his vague suspicion of him holding him back for so long. As it stands, though...
FEI PSYCHO DOWN
Fei smiles at Lucia. "It does." Maybe not as much as he'd like, of course, but he imagines if it weren't for his ability to think of Elly while she's gone, well, he'd probably have gone crazy--
...
crazier ages ago. As it stands, Fei has enough rationality to know that if he is going to cross this ice bridge (it's funny, Fei thinks, that Ruby is in essence freezing something) he should wait for Ruby rather than try to rush it. He is in no way going to be sure of his footing in this near-platforming segment. There may even be a mid-bridge random encounter.
"Technically still affected by gravity, though." Fei says. "Even if she's not bound as firmly to the gorund." Pause. "I guess I missed the point there."
He reddens sheepishly, glancing over to Hiro, but he does cheer Ruby along as Gwen does, "You can do it, Ruby!"
DG: Fei Fong Wong has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Kan-Trip Kantrip.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ======================<* CHALLENGE - Kan-Trip Kantrip *>====================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 14: "Okay, so, the path should lead you into a large chamber overlooking a bunch of stony stalagmites. There's a single stone bridge across the passage, with these Symbols on it. When activated, they'll light up on the bridge, causing it to suddenly shimmer and become slick as glass. It's a pretty dangerous trap! "The problem is, the Symbols ran out of juice. We've given you a pouch of dust to sprinkle on them - it should charge them up good. Unfortunately, the only place to sprinkle it from is on the bridge itself. You should be fine, though." =Dungeon Conditions: Suffer===================================================
==================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out - Round 3 *>=================== ========================< Results - Kan-Trip Kantrip >======================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwen Whitlock 21 --(35)--> 56 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fei Fong Wong 6 --(35)--> 41 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hiro 6 --(35)--> 41 Fail Ruby Being Helpful 2 Agility Effects: Resilient ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Gwen Whitlock 40 --(10)--> 50 Fail Conditions: Injure(1)|Suffer(1) Effects: Resilient(1) ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Gwen Whitlock has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Gwen Whitlock has drawn a new Challenge.
========================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>========================= ======================<* CHALLENGE - Krushing Korridor *>======================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 2: "Okay, this is the trap with the walls that slowly grind inward after you accidentally step on a stone in the floor. Except it's already been triggered, so it just looks like a wall witha big line in the middle. You're going to have to pry the walls open, reset the trap, and put a treasure chest at the end to entice the Diggers to go after it." The Guild didn't give you a crowbar or anything, so this one's on you. =Dungeon Conditions: Bad Luck=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
"... Then may those times continue to bring you succor - Fei." Lucia says, finally. Perhaps understanding some after Jean's own life - what people like Fei must go through.
Hiro nudges Gwen when she's quiet. Maybe he doesn't understand exactly what she's thinking about - but he's beginning to understand that Gwen gets real quiet whenever she's thinking of something upsetting. Twisting herself up in knots. "So assuming we can't go back to Lahan anytime soon - super courier like you has to know where we can find the best curry nearby, right?"
He can distract her though. He's real good at that.
He's not really paying attention to Ruby because he does have confidence that she's got this.
Lucia's eyes are now glued to Gwen after what Hiro said.
Ruby suddenly...
Gets the urge to sneeze. Aaa- aaa-
'You can do it Ruby!'
She tries to hold it in. She truly does.
Her nose settles down then - AHCHOO!
It's an adorable kitty sneeze, however it also blows the dust from the bag in a giant cloud, and she drops the bag.
The dust activates every single symbology room simultaneously as Ruby tries to recover from the fumble, the bag like a hackey sack against her paws as she quickly descends - but she cannot manage to.
The bag hits the bridge - and the now complete lack of friction on the bridge - causes it to take off like a bullet. Launching off to explode into the opposite wall like a bag of flour...!
Hiro is finally looking again.
Ruby gives this sheepish look and says - "Aha... ahahaha... um... well I mean technically its done right? Just... noone step... on the bridge."
A combination of rope - Lucia's mysterious blue levitation bubble - wind magic - and a few other things are required for them to safely get by now.
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
Hiro, while he may not be completely upfront with himself on his own feelings at times (at least in Gwen's view), is very keen when it comes to others, it seems. Gwen is definitely no exception. Gwen, like magic, seems to rouse herself from whatever malaise she was slowly disappearing into. "-oh! Yeah! Sure do!"
All it took was that amount of time for _Ruby to fail them all_. Ruby, you had -one job-. But you also have such an adorable sneeze.
"It's okay, Ruby!" Gwen assures the pink dragon cat, reaching over to scritch her by that little bow of hers on her head. "Let's get goin', then! The sooner we get this done, the sooner we eat! I think I know a place or two within an hour or so of 'round these parts!"
Walking into the next area, Gwen gives a glance to the guide, then up. "Where's this place again? It should be- aw... aw, man..." Gwen groans aloud as she notices the wall where the 'entrance' should be. "Auntie's gonna have a fit, man. Just got my ARM fixed n' everything!"
With some effort, Gwen manages to wedge the fingers of her right hand into the crack between the two walls. ".... I hope these things have some sorta detector in them to keep them from just squishin' whatever's there. But, I think I can-..." She doesn't finish, focusing instead on the act of widening that gap between the two walls. "H'okay, I think I got it... someone go in and hit that switch. I think I saw once, anyway..." She grunts, widening it a few more inches. "The chest too!"
DG: Gwen Whitlock has used her Tool ARM-ored Fist toward her party's challenge, Krushing Korridor.
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
"... within an hour." Lucia was really quick to offer levitation after that.
Hiro on the other hand waits for the crack to wedge his sword in. It's pretty durable, so he's not worried about warping it. "Well I'd better do my part then - or else your Auntie Frea will probably be all over me about why I let you do all the heavy lifting with your ARM..."
Sticking his toes into the crack, he puts a foot in there, and squeezes his shoulder to the other side, as he tries to force the mechanism apart.
"Power!"
Lucia helpfully casts a strength spell...
... on herself.
She then stands completely still, watching.
"Lucia... aren't you going to cast that on them - or join in?"
Lucia... does not answer. She just watches, with her fingers laced together.
"... h'okay. Well I'd help myself but I think... this one it's best to just offer moral support - you can do it! Wooo!"
DG: Hiro has contributed a Brute Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Krushing Korridor.
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei Fong Wong's mouth hangs open as Ruby suddenly feels the urge to sneeze. Oh no. Oh no, he didn't think this through. Of course with that dust she'd get some tickly nostrils, if only they helped somehow! Gahh! But it hasn't happened yet, Fei thinks, it hasn't happened yet so it's probably okay and--
AHCHOO!
It's so cute. Fei can't help but not even mind as well their situation gets a little more complicated. He has to rely on Lucia and Hiro's aid to get across now--he hasn't mastered the art of WIND MAGIC or anything--but he does assure Ruby, "A dragon's sneeze is indeed powerful, huh Ruby?"
Levitation helps!?
Anyway after that there seems to be a wall. To pull open? Fei looks at his hands, then back to the wall. "This one does seem a little rough."
He approaches the walls, crouching low to help pull it open evne if the pure power here seems to be in Gwen's hand here. When there's enough of an opening, he decides to take the risk of darting in in order to press the switch that Gwen thought she saw.
H...hopefully Fei can see it too.
DG: Fei Fong Wong has contributed a Brute Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Krushing Korridor.
========================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>========================= ======================<* CHALLENGE - Krushing Korridor *>======================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 2: "Okay, this is the trap with the walls that slowly grind inward after you accidentally step on a stone in the floor. Except it's already been triggered, so it just looks like a wall witha big line in the middle. You're going to have to pry the walls open, reset the trap, and put a treasure chest at the end to entice the Diggers to go after it." The Guild didn't give you a crowbar or anything, so this one's on you. =Dungeon Conditions: Bad Luck=================================================
===================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out - Round 4 *>==================== ========================< Results - Krushing Korridor >========================= Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gwen Whitlock 56 --(0)--> 56 Pass ARM-ored Fist 2 Brute Effects: Strengthen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fei Fong Wong 41 --(0)--> 41 Fail Force 0 Brute Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiro 41 --(0)--> 41 Pass Force 0 Brute Effects: BASIC -----------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------ Leader: Gwen Whitlock 50 --(15)--> 65 Pass Conditions: Bad Luck(2) Effects: Strengthen(1) ===============================< Dream Chasers >================================
DG: The party led by Gwen Whitlock has passed this challenge! The party gained 15 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
As Hiro helps Gwen slowly pry the two walls further apart, Ruby contributes by cheering them on, while Lucia... does.... the same, let's just say. By this point, Gwen's far too engrossed in the act of keeping the walls open.
Especially now that Fei's slipped past and darting for the switch, which...
Wait, was there a switch?
Gwen, seeing Fei move in, raises her head. "It's over by theGH-" The wall slips, just slightly, potentially pinching Fei for just a second as he moves to press that switch. "Got it, got it, got it, hold on!"
With the switch pressed, the walls come apart on their own, allowing Hiro and Gwen to relax. "Good timing, Fei! Let's get that chest resolved before we get smashed."
Opening the chest, Gwen drops in some token prize or another into it from the supplies given to them. Some sort of cucco stuffed toy, it seems.
"... Kinda wish we get to get one ourselves..."
DG: Hiro has drawn a new Challenge.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ===================<* CHALLENGE - KooKoo for KoKo Puffs *>==================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 4: "Okay, so this is like a big kitchen that we've built in there in case the Diggers need a break - these guys are total newbies, so they may even have forgotten to carry some steak or other lunch with them on their way into the kave. "We've given you a whole bunch of non-perishable ingredients to stock the pantry with, but we'll need you to test the kitchen out by making something, just to be sure it all works." =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
"I mean - yeah! When I'm full grown I bet my sneeze will be like a hurricane rolled in or something!" Ruby had said then.
And now - "... Let's ask for one with our pay Gwen. If we don't - then Riese will never forgive us." "Yeah and Lemina will never forgive us if they decrease our pay by even a single double dollar as a result..."
And then - the kitchen. "Oh! Oh right - we were supposed to..." Hiro considers for a moment, then looks at Lucia - then takes stock of their ingredients - then over at Fei and Gwen.
"You know this is a perfect time to test this kitchen by making the traditional... Filgaian - welcome back curry."
"That's not a tradition!"
"... we'll make it a tradition right now."
"... What a splendid idea."
Hiro opens up his Grandfather's notebook to the part where he's inserted the recipes he's learned on Filgaia. "Let's see... I picked up a recipe in Lacour... I've never tried making it..."
Opening it up to the page - "Unfortunately it calls for Billion-fold Diabolos Curry Spice..."
Ruby is suddenly holding up a packet of billion-fold curry spice in her teeth from the giant sack.
-=-=-
And now it's time for a curry making montage... minus any body switching hijinks. That'd be silly.
DG: Hiro has used his Tool Grandpa Gwyn's Notebook toward his party's challenge, KooKoo for KoKo Puffs.
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei Fong Wong grimaces as as the walls...start...pinching...him! He strains, he reaches, and when he finally manages to poke it he breathes a sigh of relief as the walls pull away from him. "That was a close one. Last thing I want to do is be an industrial accident."
To be honest, he was not expecting this situation out of Krosse Kave even if it is Kleaned Out.
"I'll be sure to let Riesenlied know to drop by." Fei does, however, manage with a wry grin Gwen's way.
When they reach the kitchen, Fei blinks a few times. "Huh." He says. "This is ...weird timing." He cups his chin thoughtfully, tilting his head to examine the kitchen as if he half expects it to jump out at him. Yes. The entire kitchen.
Fei laughs at Hiro's idea. "Well, whether it's a tradition or not, it sounds like a fine one to me!" He draws out, weirdly, his sketchpad and flips back to one of the oldest pages in there. "Let's see, I think I put down what I know of Yui's recipe in here..."
He taps the side of the sketchpad with a nod. "Found it!" He turns it over towards Hiro so he can see. "Perhaps between the two of them, we can come up with something unique!"
-=-=-
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Fei starts humming as he gets the pots and pans ready on the stove. "Hold on, let me take another look at that."
He looks over towards the Billion fold Diabolos spice curry. "Oof..., if we eat this we'll end up as inferno ghouls if we start off with something that powerful."
DG: Fei Fong Wong has used his Tool Artist's Toolkit toward his party's challenge, KooKoo for KoKo Puffs.
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
Dragon, huh? Sure, Gwen accepted her own idea of Ruby being some sort of cat dragon, but that was more like accepting the concept of a dragonfly, which isn't a dragon, but something like a dragon. Of sorts.
But maybe, she is a dragon...?
That'd be _so awesome_.
Coming across the kitchen, Gwen's face slowly lights up, thinking of the possibilities. Then, slowly, she rolls up her sleeves, giving a hearty, haughty laugh as she does so. "I'll show you all a curry so super good no one's gonna ever believe any of you! For I," she begins, grabbing an available wooden spoon (and a page from Zed) and posing with it, "have had t'work with the worst conditions known to man!" Another pose. "I had to cook for my auntie!!"
..... this would seem much more dramatic if anyone had met Frea, or knew what even Gwen didn't know: that her auntie was actually a super secret space alien spy, with tastebuds that made a lot of Filgaia staples taste like mush.
When Gwen cooked, the food still tasted like mush, but at least now Frea didn't have to cook it.
"... so I'll follow those recipes you got there." Looking at the spices, Gwen makes a dismissive sound. "How're they gonna know what's good for 'em if they don't start with the classics? Hot spices make you sweat out all the bad stuff! We'll showing them how it's done on Filgaia. It's _all spicey_. Thoughdon'tholditinyourmouthrubyyou'llburnyourgums."
DG: Gwen Whitlock has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, KooKoo for KoKo Puffs.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ===================<* CHALLENGE - KooKoo for KoKo Puffs *>==================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- ADVENTURER'S GUILD E-Z DUNGEON ROOM 4: "Okay, so this is like a big kitchen that we've built in there in case the Diggers need a break - these guys are total newbies, so they may even have forgotten to carry some steak or other lunch with them on their way into the kave. "We've given you a whole bunch of non-perishable ingredients to stock the pantry with, but we'll need you to test the kitchen out by making something, just to be sure it all works." =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
==================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out - Round 5 *>=================== =====================< Results - KooKoo for KoKo Puffs >====================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwen Whitlock 56 --(5)--> 61 Fail Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fei Fong Wong 41 --(0)--> 41 Pass Artist's Toolkit 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hiro 41 --(0)--> 41 Pass Grandpa Gwyn's Notebook 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Gwen Whitlock 65 --(20)--> 85 Pass Conditions: Bad Luck(1)|Treasure(1) Effects: Enlighten(1) ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Gwen Whitlock has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Fei Fong Wong has drawn a new Challenge.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ====================<* CHALLENGE - Kantankerous Kobolds *>==================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- As you arrive near the entrance of the Krosse Kave, your work komplete, you are suddenly ambushed by a group of escaped (and decidedly angry) kobolds! Armed with swords and also ARMs scavenged from Diggers who, uh, didn't quite make the grade, they seek to claim this kavern for their own devices! They'll need you dead first. =Dungeon Conditions: Suffer===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
By the way Lucia looks hungrily upon the prep, it's apparent Fei... that becoming an Inferno Ghoul is a risk she's willing to take. An Inferno Ghoul can still complete her mission.
Meanwhile... Ruby just pats Gwen on the shoulder after she hands the spice over. "Oh Gwen - it's so adorable that you're concerned but..." "She likes it hot." Hiro chirps up as he's mixing up the sauce. "She's got the highest tolerance for spicy food I've ever seen. I bet she'd win the gold in those Filgaian chili-eating competition."
"How enviable..."
-=-=-
Lucia is chowing down on the curry at top speed. Munch munch munch munch.
She is however quite flushed. Hiro's taking it more slowly but even he's red in the face. Ruby's bowl is already licked clean, and she's already moved on to another course as she laps up something over by the bags, working her pawsies to hold up the bottles.
"... what a won... der... ful... way... to... wel... come... some one back..."
Lucia says as she starts to become drenched in sweat.
"Too... hot... for me..." Hiro admits after a moment, panting...
"... someone... pass... the milk..."
"... Uhm..." Ruby sits atop a couple of empty bottles of milk... "Oops."
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei Fong Wong looks towards Lucia. He blinks a few times. He listens to Hiro explain Lucia's tolerance for SPICE. "Guess you learn something new every day."
Fei naturally tries to have some of this curry too but even though he has, okay, tolerance for spice he hasn't quite managed THIS level. He is but a journeyman in a world of masters. He is sweating and panting for breath and looks so dried out he might be blown away by a gust of wind.
Perhaps.
Regardless, it becomes apparent rapidly that there is nothing to douse their tongues, faces, bodies, or throats with to cool them off because ALL THE MILK IS GONE.
Fei blinks a few times as the pain starts to rise, the burning sensation increases...
"Mission...Complete...Time to go!"
Fei starts running towards the exit!
SHORTLY
A small crew of kobolds appear in the distance, carrying ARMS and other assorted gear. They see the party rushing towards them with, lets face it, terrifying sweaty expressions.
The kobolds stare for a moment before they wildly open fire. Fei draws his RPS Badge to bounce away several shots as he closes in on them. Some kobolds start to flee in their own terror.
There is no escape.
DG: Fei Fong Wong has used his Tool RPS Badge toward his party's challenge, Kantankerous Kobolds.
<Pose Tracker> Gwen Whitlock has posed.
Gwen, meanwhile, eats with gusto, nodding at Ruby. "I should get you some of my spice mix! It ain't gonna be good for here, but it's *perfect* for stuff on the trail. Beans, meat, y'name it!"
As they settle in, Gwen eats her with gusto, savoring each spoonful, a bottle of water at her side. Sure, there's milk, but she doesn't want to waste it all by drinking that first!
But soon enough, the spicies begin to add up, building and building until that pleasant bite turns into something more malicious, like a fire-spitting dragon taking residence in her stomach.
And that dragon is _mad_.
But it's okay, because... there's.... milk...?
Her face falls at the sight of Ruby, perched atop a pile of empty bottles. "... huh..."
-=-=-
"There's-a-stream-not-too-far-from-the-entrance," Gwen says, the heat beginning to blur all else except the the overpowering _thirst_.
But there's something in the way. Monsters? Drifters? Weight-supporting pillars? It doesn't matter.
"AIN'T GOT NO TIME FOR THIS," Gwen yells, running at the kobolds with all the patience, grace, and subtlety of a battering ram. "_MOVE_."
DG: You must use a Tool that matches the Challenge's Dungeon Ability. If you do not have one, use the matching Basic Action instead by typing +act Brute DG: Gwen Whitlock has used her Tool Full Metal Courier toward her party's challenge, Kantankerous Kobolds.
<Pose Tracker> Hiro has posed.
It's not just the burning spiciness, but also the numbing spiciness...
Mostly the burning though.
"PAIN!"
... That's not a spell incantation. Lucia may think the pain is worth it - but it's still pain.
Hiro on the other hand is... just springint out, and trampling everything on the way. He may swing his sword a few times but it's a pretty wild - undirected motion.
Ruby who is actually a Red Dragon and really is immune to spiciness flies behind them at a languid pace before stopping to mention to a twitching kobold. "... I knew Hiro was a baby about spicy food but - gosh - I kinda expected more from the others."
The twitching kobold raises an ARM. Ruby releases a gout of fire in its face- which is exactly enough damage to finish it off and flies onward.
"I mean how am I ever going to get a rival in the ghost pepper challenge at this rate..."
Ruby stops suddenly, "Oh right! Right! Riese is a huge baby too but... Odjn I bet can take the heat."
DG: Hiro has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Kantankerous Kobolds.
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== ====================<* CHALLENGE - Kantankerous Kobolds *>==================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- As you arrive near the entrance of the Krosse Kave, your work komplete, you are suddenly ambushed by a group of escaped (and decidedly angry) kobolds! Armed with swords and also ARMs scavenged from Diggers who, uh, didn't quite make the grade, they seek to claim this kavern for their own devices! They'll need you dead first. =Dungeon Conditions: Suffer===================================================
==================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out - Round 6 *>=================== ======================< Results - Kantankerous Kobolds >====================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwen Whitlock 61 --(10)--> 71 Pass Full Metal Courier 2 Combat Effects: Embolden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fei Fong Wong 41 --(10)--> 51 Pass RPS Badge 3 Combat Effects: Rally ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hiro 41 --(10)--> 51 Pass Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Gwen Whitlock 85 --(35)--> 120 Pass Conditions: Suffer(1) Effects: Embolden(1) ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: You have overcome the dungeon's trials! This run is a success! DG: The party led by Gwen Whitlock has successfully explored Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out!
=======================<* Krosse Kave - Kleaned Out *>======================== =====================<* CHALLENGE - Koncealed Korridor *>===================== |Type: Discovery |Dungeon Ability: Conclusion|Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- The dungeon is ready for a new challenger! But as you're on your way out of the kave to collect your reward, you spot a portion of the wall that... doesn't quite look right. After a bit of searching, you find a switch that causes the wall to slide away, revealing a hidden chamber! It is musty and reeking of centuries - if not millennia - of disuse, but it appears to have been a hideaway for a single person. A crude bed, desk, and clothes chest have collapsed into piles along the wall, the soft linens and papers long since powdered into dust. The books in the bookcase begin to crumble with the first breath of fresh air in the chamber, sending whatever knowledge they contained into oblivion. There is one item in astonishingly good condition, however - a tapestry hung above the bed, woven from something oddly like silk, but not quite. It depicts a figure that denizens of Krosse or the religiously minded will recognize as the emblem of the Warrior of Light - a towering figure clothed in brilliant white alien raiments, bearing a sword of light that raises into the heavens. Only this depiction, bizarrely, shows the Warrior with dark hair rather than the traditional blonde. You should send in a +request about this discovery! =Dungeon Conditions: Vault====================================================
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
There's some wilhelm screams and cries of terror as the party obliterates the kobolds largely by trampling them in their hurry to get water. Slightly past the kobolds is a large number of canteens that used to belong to the very same drifters that were robbed by kobolds, allowing everybody to cool off their mouths a bit.
It isn't until this moment that Fei leans against a wall to take a breath and...
*CLICK*
A section of wall starts to slide away. Fei blinks a bit and he says, "Huh? Is that part of the job?" Pause. "I guess we should go check it out."
Eventually the party moves on through and find a musty room that reeks of disuse and suffering. Fei blinks a few times, glancing aabout. He reaches for a book and it disintergrates before he even touches it. "...Damn! Nobody's been in here in ages." He turns and sees an emblem. Fei blinks a few times. "Is that...the Warrior of Light...?"
There is a towering figure there but the warrior here has dark hair not light hair. Fei stares at it for am moment.
"Huh." Fei says. Blink. Blink. "This probably means...something."