Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

Ihra and Sgavrinn follow.
"I'll come later." Ruby shouts.

 

Abigail pokes her head out of Ruby's lava pool.

"I have you covered." Abigail says, holding her hand out.


After a bit of walking, a very large, steaming pool of water can be seen. It doesn't seem to be too deep, and it looks awfully inviting.

"Here we are!" Katie announces happily, "Myria, I was hoping you could make some changing rooms for everyone."

"Oh, certainly!" Myria says.

A short distance from the pool, multiple small wooden changing rooms appear. There seems to be just enough for everyone.

"Artemis, do you think you could grow some trees around the pool to make it look better?" Katie asks.

"Sure thing!" Artemis says, raising her hands. Multiple palm trees sprout around the pool, a few of them holding coconuts.

A few large flowers appear, two dark green, one orange, one blue, one light green, one white and one red.

"You can put your things in these flowers for safe keeping." Artemis says happily.

Katie, Artemis, Myria, Stephanie and I head into the changing rooms to change clothing.

 

I try and fall asleep, but load my crossbow and place it near the bed in an easily accessible position.

 

"That must have taken lots of planning..."

"I guess there are some things you shouldn't question..."
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"Makes sense. Dissolving should hurt a lot more than reforming."
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Arnold goes back to the archives to Emily.
"Thank you for letting me see these."
He hands them back to her.

"Uhh... what's happening?", says Idala.

Aura says, "We're going somewhere?"

 

Q wanders over, lagging behind, curious. He seems unsure whether he's been allowed to come, so he's just hanging around 10 meters away, trying ineffectively to seem nonchalant.

 

"You can come too!" Katie shouts to Q, before disappearing into her changing room.

 

He looks surprised to be noticed, then indecisive when he sees everyone walk into the changing rooms. He makes a spur of the moment decision and decides to just walk straight into the hot spring in his lab coat.

 

Despite completely soaking his lab coat, the water is incredibly warm and relaxing. Due to Q's short size, the water becomes too deep as he goes futher into the spring.

 

Q's coat is hydrophobic. He is not without foresight.

He settles down, smiling, as he waits for everyone else to arrive.

 

Ihra helps Ragnyon in.
"Ah... This... This'll take getting used to."

You fail to drift off.
Nothing.
You can hear footsteps, but it's just a patrol.

"A lot of planning, a lot of power."

"Yeah. Many."
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"Yeahhhhrgh. It does..."
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"No problem. Anything else?"
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"I... uh..."
Sgavrinn stops near a hot spring.

 

After a while, the party emerges from the changing rooms; putting their belongings in the large flowers, which close and sink into the ground.

Stephanie, Artemis and Katie wear bikinis in their respective colours; Stephanie's patterned with runes, Artemis with leaves and Katie with water droplets. Myria wears a green swimsuit, and I just wear a pair of black swimming shorts.

The party gets into the hot spring, spreading out and relaxing.

"Aaah, this is lovely." Artemis says, relaxing.

"So lovely and warm." I comment.

"Great idea, Katie!" Stephanie says happily.

Katie lies back, sinking below the surface of the water and resting on the bottom of the spring.


Abigail takes Ruby through an underground tunnel of magma, before emerging from a lava pool quite close to the spring.

Abigail gets out of the pool, "I'm going to go get changed. Think you can muster the energy to get to the spring?" Abigail asks. The spring is only a few feet away.

 

"Yeah... Nice break from dying."


"I don't know... How deep is it?"

 

"Sometimes you gotta relax and not die." I say, relaxed.


"Deep enough for you to be able to sink below the surface in some parts, but the edges are like seats. Don't worry, Katie won't let you drown." Abigail says, before heading into a changing room.

 

"The ground is my fear."

 

Abigail remains in the changing room.

A short while later, Abigail comes out in her flame-pattern bikini from before. After putting her armour and clothing in her large flower, she notices Ruby still isn't out of the lava pool.

"Oh...do you want me to help you out?" Abigail asks, walking over to the lava pool.

 

"No, I'm worried the spring isn't deep enough. I guess the boots will protect me, but it's a force of habit I worry about it."

 

"Just head into the centre of the spring then, it's deeper there." Abigail says, entering the spring. A pair of ice-blue bracelets on Abigail's arms start glowing as she gets into the water, heading towards the centre.

"It's deeper here!" Abigail shouts to Ruby, before sinking below the surface of the water. She surfaces after a moment, and goes to relax near to Stephanie.

 

"If nobody minds, I'll take the white flower."
I say, before going to the flower, putting my boots, sword, crossbow, and bolts in, but hanging onto the apples.
I then find a free spot in the spring, and slowly sink in, but not too much.
"Anyone want an apple?"
I ask the group.

 

I angrily get up and look out the window, the irritated that I can't sleep. It was never this noisy in my village, I think to myself.

 

"I know that. And yet I must wait." HH says.