Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"What kind of intruder?"

"That will have to do."
All of a sudden, I appear right beaide Enqo.

"Ah, it seems like I got it correct." I say, before looking at the beast.
"Oh, so THAT'S where it ended up. Excuse my blunder." I say, summoning a fireball and throwing it at the beast. The beast roars in pain.

 

"A dead one, clearly. They were a draconian, then they weren't." The last creature says, finishing filling in the gap in the floor.

 

Will this story ever, y'know… end?

 

We don't know

 

"I'm flying out of the cave now."
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@Rogue
Daras and the others land.
"Sorry if we kept you waiting. Hythania and Idala were exploring the forest and they found Matthew."
He indicates the Hover Rail.
Turning to Ihra, he says, "Apparently he was looking for you and came here. Do you know him?"

"What is it?"

 

"Just a failed experiment." I say, as a group of skeletons erupt from the ground and charge the beast.

"Please, tell me about your adventure.

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Helianthus looks to see is the portal is still open.

 

"You mean how I found this place? Well, I went through the entrance to the mines. I went through the toxic gas and found some slimes. I decided to take one with me."
He holds up the slime he brought with him.
"Then there was an elevator, which I used to get further into the mines. There were some crossroads, but the slime told me which path to take. I found some corpses pinned to the ground by some rocks. I don't know if they're still alive, but I couldn't free them. I found a crack in the cave wall and found the beginnings of this strange place. There was a blood river, which I crossed. It's the same river that you can see here. Then I found some crossroads again, but both led to the same place. I found this cave, and soon after I entered, the entrance collapsed. This creature started to absorb the blood and corpses and became this thing."

 

I look at the slime curiously.

"Ah, it seems that these slimes have gotten loose again."

The skeletons seem to be putting up quite the fight against the beast. All of a sudden, a gigantic blood beam erupts from the beast, cutting apart most of the skeletons.

 

"Can't that thing just absorb the skeletons and become more powerful?"

 

It has an end. It's just not there yet. (duh)

"It's alright. Rineth got a nap." Ihra chuckles.
"Wait... Matthew? I... I'm not entirely sure. That's an odd machine, though. Where does he say he's from?"

The portal's in the process of closing. If you book it now, you could make it through, but you have no idea where it leads...

 

Helianthus shrugs, and then goes bacl to the training room.

"Not quite. These are special skeletons." I say.

"Are you able to fight?"

 

@Rogue
Hythania says, "He said that he was one of the last two Emeraldonians. His mother is the other one."

"No, I can't fight. I never could when I was alive anyway. Some of the others could, so they did the fighting for us. Or Eras helped sometimes."

 

"Just sit tight and make sure the slime doesn't get away." I say, summoning my scythe.

 

"I will do. If only I could find some of the others and cure their madness..."

 

I nod, and then charge the beast. After a flashy show of magic and scythe swings, the beast is no more.

"Quite the fight." I say, "Say, do you want to keep that friend of yours?"

 

"Impressive. And yes, I will. It helped me along the way. Why do you ask?"

 

There's still, awkwardly, no authority figure present.

"Emeraldonia... I don't remember, but Rineth probably does. I'll start waking him up."
Ihra starts tapping her staff on Rineth's back, but he hardly stirs.

Ihra growls after a futile minute of stomping.

 

"Ah, I was intending to recapture them and release them back to where they belong. There's a type of ore here that attracts these toxic slimes." I explain, "I'm planning to have them captured and sent to their natural habitat, again."

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"What is going on here?" Helianthus mutters, before going back to the library.

 

"You're late." The healer grumbles, woken up by you coming and going.

 

"ah." Helianthus says.
"So where's the mission to?"