Player Plot: Darkness

[bladeofconquest]

Who: Everyone who signed up
When: February 18th
Where: Great Cloud Observatory, Cloud City.
Warnings: Violence, gratuitous faux-Shakespearan dialogue that's probably not very accurate

When you arrive at the entrance to the Great Cloud Observatory on the appointed day, Corrin is already there; this expedition was her idea after all. She smiles as you approach. The square where the Observatory sits is otherwise empty save for her, and an old bearded gentleman seated on a nearby bench some ways away. He glances up at the growing crowd with disinterest, then back to his book.

Corrin, for her part, is in good spirits, a sharp contrast from the wreck she was only a few days before. "Good, you're here. Excellent, I'm glad you could make it. Once everyone else arrives, we'll enter the Observatory and begin our search. With luck, we should be able to find the entrance to Zodiark's temple quickly. Then the real work begins."

Comments

[einspine]

Papyrus banishes his BARREL just long enough to give a thumbs up and whisper, "EXCELLENT IDEA. ...THOUGH IN HINDSIGHT, I REALLY SHOULD HAVE EQUIPPED US WITH NIGHT GOGGLES."

And back into the barrel he goes! For now.

[bladeofconquest]

Serge's solution proves to be invaluable; with Ena's light no longer shining it slowly begins to settle back into its slumber, and the light from Serge's iMog provides enough light for the group to safely navigate the dimly-lit room and its detritus-covered floor without risking the wakening of the other demons. It seems all is going well.

The group is about ten feet from the heavy iron doors when suddenly there's a rustling sound behind them. At the far end of the room from them, a demon has roused itself. It sits up in its nest blearily, batting its ugly face with a claw for a moment...and then suddenly, it turns and sees the party at the far end of the room.

It begins to growl in anger, slowly pulling itself up. The other demons begin to come to, the growling of the wakened one pulling them quickly out of their dark, dreamless sleep. A fight seems inevitable...but there's now nothing between the group and the door.

If you move fast enough, can get the heavy iron doors open fast enough, you might be able to get inside before the demons can charge you. Of them, only the one furthest away is awake and it seems to be waiting for more of its fellows to awaken before it charges.

Decide quickly; you don't have much time.

[timecrash]

Well, nothing for it. Serge tries the one thing in his arsenal that might work in this situation. It's only a fifty-fifty shot, but as he hears the growling on the other end of the room, turns, grabs hold of the local timestream... and twists.

Of course, this is gonna be a whole lot of nothing if these demons are immune to [Banish]

[rivieran]

With Serge taking the reins for battle, Ena quickly takes the opportunity to cast Invisibility on herself. She slips away from the group and rushes towards the door. She starts fiddling with the mechanism in a desperate attempt to get it open. Hopefully, regardless if Serge's attempt works or not, she can get it open fast enough for them to slip in. C'mon, c'mon!