Player Plot: Let's Explore Mad'ni Shrine!

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Who: Everyone who signed up!
When: Around November 3-6ish
Where: The Mad'ni Shrine
What: Searching for the lost ruins beneath the Shrine!
Warnings/Notes: It's another dreaded water level.

Although the flight provided by Curti Center takes them as close as they possibly can, the Heroes still have to take a brief walk through the woods to reach their destination. It remains to be seen whether the trip will be worth it. After all, their hope of finding a Legendary Eidolon, or even just clues pointing to one, is based on little more than guesswork.

But, with the time ticking down towards the end of the world, they don't have the luxury of ignoring a lead, no matter how vague. A shot in the dark might be what saves them all in the long run.

OOC info and sign-ups are here!

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[poisonwish]

Snow White took a few steps forward, almost itching for a fight out of paranoid anxiety. "Well?" he asked Frisk. "Notice anything?"

The suspense was perhaps the worst part. At least if there was a trap, maybe he could do something about it -- fight a monster or something. And if there wasn't a trap, then they needed to be moving on. Snow's fingertips played over the hilt of his chef's knife nervously.

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"Ah, good thinking." Uendo moves out of the way so Frisk can have a closer look at the lever.

The mechanism seems to be connected to the floors in the side rooms, but that's about it. There's nothing else to be found on this floor, no matter how hard the Heroes search.

[sassafrisk]

Frisk takes one last look at the mechanism, then gets up and dusts off their hands. "Alright," they raise their voice to a yell, "ANYBODY IN THE SIDE ROOMS NEEDS TO GET OUT BEFORE WE PULL THIS THING!" then they shrug. "What this is, it's just connected to the floors in the side rooms. If something happens anywhere else, blame my infil/exfil teach for not catching it, not me."

[poisonwish]

Snow White waited. He didn't hear anything. He didn't exactly know what Frisk meant by "infill"-whatever, but as far as the consequences went, it made sense to him. They'd given as much of a warning as they could. Now it was time to just do the deed.

He shrugged and gestured to the lever. Now or never.

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"Here we go, then!" Looking rather more confident than he feels, Uendo reaches over and pulls the lever.

The ruins are filled with the sound of stone moving against stone. The floors in the side rooms are opening up, draining the water away and revealing the long drop underneath. A soft blue light shines from below, illuminating several floors of stairs descending ever downward. The top of the stairway soon shows itself as a panel slides off the floor the Heroes are standing on.

"Oh my..." Uendo peeks down below, face flushing with excitement. "I daresay we've hit a jackpot!"