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| − | <div></div><div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) When we last left our hapless adventuring party, they had just left the ever so spooky clinic and met up with Booker. They had settled on a clear goal: find the nanite server and, if nothing else, get it under control. However, with no clear idea as to where it could be, they settled on starting with Hydroponics. Based on the basic map Syntax gave Ysadora, it wouldn't take too long to at least give the area a quick sweep. The four now find themselves walking down a long hallway towards the unknown!</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker waved everyone on as he started to his right toward the Hydroponics bay. He glanced behind him. "So what have you guys found so far?" He looked over the walls as he walked, wondering if there was anything hung up on the wall, or painted on it.</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker also tugs on the leash as he headed down the hall, directing Junes to follow</div> <div title="Junes" style="margin-top:2em">(Junes) Junes was looking back at the group but hearing booker call attention they felt the leather lifting and got a move on before they could be dragged along, a bit downtrodden still remembering the clinic screams "i hope there's still some plants alive in hydroponics, maybe since stuff is still active they might have a good chance of still being here, or even find some seeds if anything"</div> <div title="Ysadora" style="margin-top:2em">(Ysadora) Ysadora lurks in Booker's shadow as they move forward. "Oh! Oh! You're not going to believe this, Booker, but this place is capital-H Haunted. We saw some real paranormal activity in the clinic, and Junes saw something similar in the stairwell. Something about radiation." She pauses, excitement tempering slightly. "The thing is, it's all nanomagic based. The sounds, the visions, everything. But! It did still interact with my ouijia board. It spelled out 'DREAMER' there and on a piece of paper Junes slipped under the door. That mean anything to you?" Although allowing Booker and Umeko to proceed a few steps ahead of her, Ysadora does keep an eye on their surroundings as she prattles on.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) After ensuring her Awareness Nanomagic was properly running to detect any mysterious ghostly shenanigans, Umeko continued on as well with the group, scanning the hallways with her enhanced vision that could easily see through the darkness. "Yeah, there's something very strange going on in this place... It could very well be some sort of actual ghost honestly. Nanomagic has been occuring without any sort of apparent source, even when using nanomagic to detect it. It's as if it's coming from the server itself, so it could be anything from paranormal to some sort of advanced hacker, or god forbid, the server itself going rogue... Be real careful of illusions and other strangeness..." she added to Booker. "Also, who knows what's in hydroponics, but if I had to guess, the fungus is probably having a great time in there."</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) As the group walks forward, pretty much everyone but Ysadora starts to notice more mushrooms in this hallway than there were farther back. They're pretty hardy little things and have just outright taken root in the concrete floors and stained walls. It's Junes and Umeko, however, that realize the significance of these mushrooms. They're one of cumrot's most frequent competitor: cockblock! Based on what the termites said earlier, these don't just halt the spread of cumrot but even hamper the spread of its spores.</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker continued down the hallway, looking over the little mushrooms. "Weird... These aren't dangerous are they?" He purposely dragged a foot to dislodge one growing on the floor. "Next thing you know people will be putting them on pizza or something." He smirked, turning his head back toward the group. only to get half-blinded by June's flashlight before turning back around and extending a hand forward to make sure he didnt run into anything.</div> <div title="Junes" style="margin-top:2em">(Junes) Junes nodded with ysadora before pulling two things out, a paper with ( DREAMER? ) on it along with a flashlight, shining forth and adding as they showed the paper to whoever wanted to see "yeah i was the only one in the stairwell and wrote something completely different in my own handwriting, spooky but cool but for the source im not sure, whichever it may be i have the feeling their not an enemy considering the illusions have been less than harmful even if definitely unnerving but hopefully we're even capable of asking if this is a ghost or one in the machine" walking with the leash in mind and glancing down answering booker "they'll make you.... something....but it wasn't good for other fungi but i think it'll be okay for us" thinking a bit, unsure about the information looked back to double check with umeko</div> <div title="Ysadora" style="margin-top:2em">(Ysadora) Ysadora shuffles a bit inside her sleeves as she tries to send just one hand down to pick up a mushroom. Eventually she accepts the limitations of the suit and bends down to uproot one of the things. Bringing it up to her visor, she studies its odd shape. "This is a pretty big deal, right? I mean, this stuff's our best bet against Cumrot that we know of. I wonder how Pteryx is getting on with researching how to make it even more effective." Pulling a jar from her bag, she drops the shroom in and screws the lid back on. Ysadora looks up, then, and realizes Booker's been pushing ahead blindly. She scurries over hurriedly to catch up.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) Umeko looked down at the mushrooms, "It's a good sign that these are growing, eventually the spores should be taken care of hopefully with the holes sealed up and no more cumrot infested water coming in... I wouldn't recommend eating either of these, nor taking off your hazmat suits though. Eventually we'll have to clear out this fungus too and you can eat the anti-horny mushrooms then if you -really- want to." She looked around at the rest of the damage to the halls as well, "It'll be a lot of work fixing this place up, but I'm looking forward to seeing it for sure."</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) As the party approaches hydroponics, readings indicate a massive drop in the amount of cumrot contaminants. Those cockblock mushrooms are really working their magic, it seems. As the four enter the the room proper, though, they discover that calling it a room is inaccurate. Before you is a massive amount of overgrowth of plant life with the roots of a tree snaking along the walls. The tree itself stands at the center of the circular area which seems to be growing from a lower floor which can be accessed via a stairway which must exist somewhere in this mess. It continues upwards up to the sky and--wait, that doesn't make sense. Looking up, it almost feels as if you are looking through a fish eye lens as the tree extends up into a lovely blue sky. Oddly, there appears to be a condensation trail from what can only be a jet which is streaking far beyond what you can perceive.</div> | + | <div></div><div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) When we last left our hapless adventuring party, they had just left the ever so spooky clinic and met up with Booker. They had settled on a clear goal: find the nanite server and, if nothing else, get it under control. However, with no clear idea as to where it could be, they settled on starting with Hydroponics. Based on the basic map Syntax gave Ysadora, it wouldn't take too long to at least give the area a quick sweep. The four now find themselves walking down a long hallway towards the unknown!</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker waved everyone on as he started to his right toward the Hydroponics bay. He glanced behind him. "So what have you guys found so far?" He looked over the walls as he walked, wondering if there was anything hung up on the wall, or painted on it.</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker also tugs on the leash as he headed down the hall, directing Junes to follow</div> <div title="Junes" style="margin-top:2em">(Junes) Junes was looking back at the group but hearing booker call attention they felt the leather lifting and got a move on before they could be dragged along, a bit downtrodden still remembering the clinic screams "i hope there's still some plants alive in hydroponics, maybe since stuff is still active they might have a good chance of still being here, or even find some seeds if anything"</div> <div title="Ysadora" style="margin-top:2em">(Ysadora) Ysadora lurks in Booker's shadow as they move forward. "Oh! Oh! You're not going to believe this, Booker, but this place is capital-H Haunted. We saw some real paranormal activity in the clinic, and Junes saw something similar in the stairwell. Something about radiation." She pauses, excitement tempering slightly. "The thing is, it's all nanomagic based. The sounds, the visions, everything. But! It did still interact with my ouijia board. It spelled out 'DREAMER' there and on a piece of paper Junes slipped under the door. That mean anything to you?" Although allowing Booker and Umeko to proceed a few steps ahead of her, Ysadora does keep an eye on their surroundings as she prattles on.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) After ensuring her Awareness Nanomagic was properly running to detect any mysterious ghostly shenanigans, Umeko continued on as well with the group, scanning the hallways with her enhanced vision that could easily see through the darkness. "Yeah, there's something very strange going on in this place... It could very well be some sort of actual ghost honestly. Nanomagic has been occuring without any sort of apparent source, even when using nanomagic to detect it. It's as if it's coming from the server itself, so it could be anything from paranormal to some sort of advanced hacker, or god forbid, the server itself going rogue... Be real careful of illusions and other strangeness..." she added to Booker. "Also, who knows what's in hydroponics, but if I had to guess, the fungus is probably having a great time in there."</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) As the group walks forward, pretty much everyone but Ysadora starts to notice more mushrooms in this hallway than there were farther back. They're pretty hardy little things and have just outright taken root in the concrete floors and stained walls. It's Junes and Umeko, however, that realize the significance of these mushrooms. They're one of cumrot's most frequent competitor: cockblock! Based on what the termites said earlier, these don't just halt the spread of cumrot but even hamper the spread of its spores.</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker continued down the hallway, looking over the little mushrooms. "Weird... These aren't dangerous are they?" He purposely dragged a foot to dislodge one growing on the floor. "Next thing you know people will be putting them on pizza or something." He smirked, turning his head back toward the group. only to get half-blinded by June's flashlight before turning back around and extending a hand forward to make sure he didnt run into anything.</div> <div title="Junes" style="margin-top:2em">(Junes) Junes nodded with ysadora before pulling two things out, a paper with ( DREAMER? ) on it along with a flashlight, shining forth and adding as they showed the paper to whoever wanted to see "yeah i was the only one in the stairwell and wrote something completely different in my own handwriting, spooky but cool but for the source im not sure, whichever it may be i have the feeling their not an enemy considering the illusions have been less than harmful even if definitely unnerving but hopefully we're even capable of asking if this is a ghost or one in the machine" walking with the leash in mind and glancing down answering booker "they'll make you.... something....but it wasn't good for other fungi but i think it'll be okay for us" thinking a bit, unsure about the information looked back to double check with umeko</div> <div title="Ysadora" style="margin-top:2em">(Ysadora) Ysadora shuffles a bit inside her sleeves as she tries to send just one hand down to pick up a mushroom. Eventually she accepts the limitations of the suit and bends down to uproot one of the things. Bringing it up to her visor, she studies its odd shape. "This is a pretty big deal, right? I mean, this stuff's our best bet against Cumrot that we know of. I wonder how Pteryx is getting on with researching how to make it even more effective." Pulling a jar from her bag, she drops the shroom in and screws the lid back on. Ysadora looks up, then, and realizes Booker's been pushing ahead blindly. She scurries over hurriedly to catch up.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) Umeko looked down at the mushrooms, "It's a good sign that these are growing, eventually the spores should be taken care of hopefully with the holes sealed up and no more cumrot infested water coming in... I wouldn't recommend eating either of these, nor taking off your hazmat suits though. Eventually we'll have to clear out this fungus too and you can eat the anti-horny mushrooms then if you -really- want to." She looked around at the rest of the damage to the halls as well, "It'll be a lot of work fixing this place up, but I'm looking forward to seeing it for sure."</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) As the party approaches hydroponics, readings indicate a massive drop in the amount of cumrot contaminants. Those cockblock mushrooms are really working their magic, it seems. As the four enter the the room proper, though, they discover that calling it a room is inaccurate. Before you is a massive amount of overgrowth of plant life with the roots of a tree snaking along the walls. The tree itself stands at the center of the circular area which seems to be growing from a lower floor which can be accessed via a stairway which must exist somewhere in this mess. It continues upwards up to the sky and--wait, that doesn't make sense. Looking up, it almost feels as if you are looking through a fish eye lens as the tree extends up into a lovely blue sky. Oddly, there appears to be a condensation trail from what can only be a jet which is streaking far beyond what you can perceive.</div><div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker takes a few steps into the room, taking a glance around and looking up. "Thats... odd?" He then glanced down as he tugged the leash leading to junes. "Shine the flashlight down there... How far does it go?" He turned back to the group. "Well its seems like things are.. infact growing..." He continued to survey the area. "This is wild... literally..."</div> <div title="Junes" style="margin-top:2em">(Junes) Junes looked inside and immediately the large tree caught their notice, looking up and up...then...up and "wow, that doesn't make sense but can't deny it's beauty" staring and watching before feeling that tug and looking at booker, a little glad about it for a second before following "right! but you have to admit this is one snazzy illusion!" holding their flashlight towards the bottom</div> <div title="Ysadora" style="margin-top:2em">(Ysadora) Ysadora clasps her hands together as she enters the room. "Ooh, pretty! You're right about the roof, though. Maybe that's an illusion too? I don't know if we can get high enough to check, unless..." Ysadora looks between Junes and Booker for a moment, then shakes her head. "Nah." Bending down, she rifles through some of the plant life, checking for any signs of Cockblock or Cumrot lurking amid the undergrowth.</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) Umeko peers up to the distant jet. While she can just barely make out the jet, its logo is pretty much nonsense. Like you told an AI to generate an airline logo including an eagle. It seems to change ever so slightly every few seconds. After looking around, it's clear that the only visible way of looking down would be by looking through the gap between the platform and the tree. However, when checking for a gap, all he finds is a lip around the tree where the wood has grown over the hole in the platform it was once intended to easily sneak through. Thankfully, he does manage to catch sight of a stairway heavily concealed amongst the overgrowth. Ysadora finds no cumrot or cockblock. Instead, she finds a pitch black and highly reflective flower.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) Umeko glanced around the immediate area for a bit, before looking up and enjoyed the sight. "It is most definitely illusion nanomagic, but it sure is pretty. I suppose we can entertain it for now, but Junes can activate the field if things get a little too crazy. I feel like there's probably some purpose to this mysterious force showing us all of this after all... Still, that jet up there, this has to be a vision of the past..."</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) As the party looks over everything, Ysadora notices that something doesn't quite feel right about the plants up here. Looking at the flower, it would be best suited to a place with a ton of access to sunlight. Considering how black it is, she can only imagine it would also like to exist at high temperatures as well. As she shines her light over it, the reflective surface seems perfect for only taking in however much light it needs. Frankly it doesn't make too much sense here. However, this upper area seems almost temperate. After pointing this out to the others, Umeko and Junes take a closer look at the plants on this floor. Sure enough, all would be far better suited to a more barren environment. All of the overgrowth and more temperate plants are growing up from cracks and holes in the platform from a lower level. It's then that there's a massively bright flash from above and Umeko realizes what's going on. These plants would be perfectly well suited for a barren post-nuclear disaster environment. Considering she's detecting no illusion nanomagic from these plants, the environment in here is about to very rapidly change and either fleeing hydroponics or moving to a lower level is the safest option.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) After a moment, Umeko's admiration of the sky quickly turned into a concerned frown as she continued to use awareness nanomagic to monitor the situation as it quickly became apocalyptic. "We need to get out of here now, keep going down or risk turning back! Thermal nanomagic might roast us and even the field won't stop it if it turns our surroundings into an oven!" She quickly made her way over to way out, waving the others over to what is hopefully safety.</div> <div title="Junes" style="margin-top:2em">(Junes) Junes was looking intently at the flower but with the lights they jumped, tails inside the suit puffing up and looking around, following the leash with eyes and seeing booker near the stairs rushing over "this is so cool but so horrifying!" arms pumping back and forth running to the way down and yelling a little </div> <div title="Ysadora" style="margin-top:2em">(Ysadora) Ysadora looks up in alarm at Umeko's proclamation. She takes only enough time to snatch up the reflective black flower before scrambling to her feet and running for the stairs down. Wordlessly, Ysadora glances at Junes and Booker. They're both experienced, her body language seems to say, they'll be fine, right?</div> <div title="Booker" style="margin-top:2em">(Booker) Booker heard Umeko's callout, already taking steps toward the stairs. Only a step or two behind junes atleast. He glanced backwards as he started down the steps, making sure everyone else was down and into safety.</div> <div title="Umeko" style="margin-top:2em">(Umeko) Umeko was fairly familiar with dealing with tense situations, and was ready to pick up and drag any stragglers as she held off and waved them to go further down, before moving further down into the bunker complex herself. "We'll ride it out down here, the nanomagic's up there. If this thing wants to roast us, I feel like it can do it no matter where we are... Hell, if this thing pulls a Las Vegas and the server tells everything to become grey goo, there wouldn't be a single safe spot in all of Eureka. We might as well do what it seems to want at this point and continue on, away from the simulated apocalypse above..." she said as she kept on moving.</div> <div title="Syntax" style="margin-top:2em">(Syntax) Once everyone is down below, there is a violent shaking...above you. While you barely feel it, there is definitely something happening above. Some of the plants around you wilt slightly, but only the ones that were advancing to the upper floor. This lower level is almost like a temperate forest, just with a single tree's roots growing up to make up the trees. Hydroponics of many kinds surround you. For the moment, it seems you have time for a breather.</div> |
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(Syntax) When we last left our hapless adventuring party, they had just left the ever so spooky clinic and met up with Booker. They had settled on a clear goal: find the nanite server and, if nothing else, get it under control. However, with no clear idea as to where it could be, they settled on starting with Hydroponics. Based on the basic map Syntax gave Ysadora, it wouldn't take too long to at least give the area a quick sweep. The four now find themselves walking down a long hallway towards the unknown!
(Booker) Booker waved everyone on as he started to his right toward the Hydroponics bay. He glanced behind him. "So what have you guys found so far?" He looked over the walls as he walked, wondering if there was anything hung up on the wall, or painted on it.
(Booker) Booker also tugs on the leash as he headed down the hall, directing Junes to follow
(Junes) Junes was looking back at the group but hearing booker call attention they felt the leather lifting and got a move on before they could be dragged along, a bit downtrodden still remembering the clinic screams "i hope there's still some plants alive in hydroponics, maybe since stuff is still active they might have a good chance of still being here, or even find some seeds if anything"
(Ysadora) Ysadora lurks in Booker's shadow as they move forward. "Oh! Oh! You're not going to believe this, Booker, but this place is capital-H Haunted. We saw some real paranormal activity in the clinic, and Junes saw something similar in the stairwell. Something about radiation." She pauses, excitement tempering slightly. "The thing is, it's all nanomagic based. The sounds, the visions, everything. But! It did still interact with my ouijia board. It spelled out 'DREAMER' there and on a piece of paper Junes slipped under the door. That mean anything to you?" Although allowing Booker and Umeko to proceed a few steps ahead of her, Ysadora does keep an eye on their surroundings as she prattles on.
(Umeko) After ensuring her Awareness Nanomagic was properly running to detect any mysterious ghostly shenanigans, Umeko continued on as well with the group, scanning the hallways with her enhanced vision that could easily see through the darkness. "Yeah, there's something very strange going on in this place... It could very well be some sort of actual ghost honestly. Nanomagic has been occuring without any sort of apparent source, even when using nanomagic to detect it. It's as if it's coming from the server itself, so it could be anything from paranormal to some sort of advanced hacker, or god forbid, the server itself going rogue... Be real careful of illusions and other strangeness..." she added to Booker. "Also, who knows what's in hydroponics, but if I had to guess, the fungus is probably having a great time in there."
(Syntax) As the group walks forward, pretty much everyone but Ysadora starts to notice more mushrooms in this hallway than there were farther back. They're pretty hardy little things and have just outright taken root in the concrete floors and stained walls. It's Junes and Umeko, however, that realize the significance of these mushrooms. They're one of cumrot's most frequent competitor: cockblock! Based on what the termites said earlier, these don't just halt the spread of cumrot but even hamper the spread of its spores.
(Booker) Booker continued down the hallway, looking over the little mushrooms. "Weird... These aren't dangerous are they?" He purposely dragged a foot to dislodge one growing on the floor. "Next thing you know people will be putting them on pizza or something." He smirked, turning his head back toward the group. only to get half-blinded by June's flashlight before turning back around and extending a hand forward to make sure he didnt run into anything.
(Junes) Junes nodded with ysadora before pulling two things out, a paper with ( DREAMER? ) on it along with a flashlight, shining forth and adding as they showed the paper to whoever wanted to see "yeah i was the only one in the stairwell and wrote something completely different in my own handwriting, spooky but cool but for the source im not sure, whichever it may be i have the feeling their not an enemy considering the illusions have been less than harmful even if definitely unnerving but hopefully we're even capable of asking if this is a ghost or one in the machine" walking with the leash in mind and glancing down answering booker "they'll make you.... something....but it wasn't good for other fungi but i think it'll be okay for us" thinking a bit, unsure about the information looked back to double check with umeko
(Ysadora) Ysadora shuffles a bit inside her sleeves as she tries to send just one hand down to pick up a mushroom. Eventually she accepts the limitations of the suit and bends down to uproot one of the things. Bringing it up to her visor, she studies its odd shape. "This is a pretty big deal, right? I mean, this stuff's our best bet against Cumrot that we know of. I wonder how Pteryx is getting on with researching how to make it even more effective." Pulling a jar from her bag, she drops the shroom in and screws the lid back on. Ysadora looks up, then, and realizes Booker's been pushing ahead blindly. She scurries over hurriedly to catch up.
(Umeko) Umeko looked down at the mushrooms, "It's a good sign that these are growing, eventually the spores should be taken care of hopefully with the holes sealed up and no more cumrot infested water coming in... I wouldn't recommend eating either of these, nor taking off your hazmat suits though. Eventually we'll have to clear out this fungus too and you can eat the anti-horny mushrooms then if you -really- want to." She looked around at the rest of the damage to the halls as well, "It'll be a lot of work fixing this place up, but I'm looking forward to seeing it for sure."
(Syntax) As the party approaches hydroponics, readings indicate a massive drop in the amount of cumrot contaminants. Those cockblock mushrooms are really working their magic, it seems. As the four enter the the room proper, though, they discover that calling it a room is inaccurate. Before you is a massive amount of overgrowth of plant life with the roots of a tree snaking along the walls. The tree itself stands at the center of the circular area which seems to be growing from a lower floor which can be accessed via a stairway which must exist somewhere in this mess. It continues upwards up to the sky and--wait, that doesn't make sense. Looking up, it almost feels as if you are looking through a fish eye lens as the tree extends up into a lovely blue sky. Oddly, there appears to be a condensation trail from what can only be a jet which is streaking far beyond what you can perceive.
(Booker) Booker takes a few steps into the room, taking a glance around and looking up. "Thats... odd?" He then glanced down as he tugged the leash leading to junes. "Shine the flashlight down there... How far does it go?" He turned back to the group. "Well its seems like things are.. infact growing..." He continued to survey the area. "This is wild... literally..."
(Junes) Junes looked inside and immediately the large tree caught their notice, looking up and up...then...up and "wow, that doesn't make sense but can't deny it's beauty" staring and watching before feeling that tug and looking at booker, a little glad about it for a second before following "right! but you have to admit this is one snazzy illusion!" holding their flashlight towards the bottom
(Ysadora) Ysadora clasps her hands together as she enters the room. "Ooh, pretty! You're right about the roof, though. Maybe that's an illusion too? I don't know if we can get high enough to check, unless..." Ysadora looks between Junes and Booker for a moment, then shakes her head. "Nah." Bending down, she rifles through some of the plant life, checking for any signs of Cockblock or Cumrot lurking amid the undergrowth.
(Syntax) Umeko peers up to the distant jet. While she can just barely make out the jet, its logo is pretty much nonsense. Like you told an AI to generate an airline logo including an eagle. It seems to change ever so slightly every few seconds. After looking around, it's clear that the only visible way of looking down would be by looking through the gap between the platform and the tree. However, when checking for a gap, all he finds is a lip around the tree where the wood has grown over the hole in the platform it was once intended to easily sneak through. Thankfully, he does manage to catch sight of a stairway heavily concealed amongst the overgrowth. Ysadora finds no cumrot or cockblock. Instead, she finds a pitch black and highly reflective flower.
(Umeko) Umeko glanced around the immediate area for a bit, before looking up and enjoyed the sight. "It is most definitely illusion nanomagic, but it sure is pretty. I suppose we can entertain it for now, but Junes can activate the field if things get a little too crazy. I feel like there's probably some purpose to this mysterious force showing us all of this after all... Still, that jet up there, this has to be a vision of the past..."
(Syntax) As the party looks over everything, Ysadora notices that something doesn't quite feel right about the plants up here. Looking at the flower, it would be best suited to a place with a ton of access to sunlight. Considering how black it is, she can only imagine it would also like to exist at high temperatures as well. As she shines her light over it, the reflective surface seems perfect for only taking in however much light it needs. Frankly it doesn't make too much sense here. However, this upper area seems almost temperate. After pointing this out to the others, Umeko and Junes take a closer look at the plants on this floor. Sure enough, all would be far better suited to a more barren environment. All of the overgrowth and more temperate plants are growing up from cracks and holes in the platform from a lower level. It's then that there's a massively bright flash from above and Umeko realizes what's going on. These plants would be perfectly well suited for a barren post-nuclear disaster environment. Considering she's detecting no illusion nanomagic from these plants, the environment in here is about to very rapidly change and either fleeing hydroponics or moving to a lower level is the safest option.
(Umeko) After a moment, Umeko's admiration of the sky quickly turned into a concerned frown as she continued to use awareness nanomagic to monitor the situation as it quickly became apocalyptic. "We need to get out of here now, keep going down or risk turning back! Thermal nanomagic might roast us and even the field won't stop it if it turns our surroundings into an oven!" She quickly made her way over to way out, waving the others over to what is hopefully safety.
(Junes) Junes was looking intently at the flower but with the lights they jumped, tails inside the suit puffing up and looking around, following the leash with eyes and seeing booker near the stairs rushing over "this is so cool but so horrifying!" arms pumping back and forth running to the way down and yelling a little
(Ysadora) Ysadora looks up in alarm at Umeko's proclamation. She takes only enough time to snatch up the reflective black flower before scrambling to her feet and running for the stairs down. Wordlessly, Ysadora glances at Junes and Booker. They're both experienced, her body language seems to say, they'll be fine, right?
(Booker) Booker heard Umeko's callout, already taking steps toward the stairs. Only a step or two behind junes atleast. He glanced backwards as he started down the steps, making sure everyone else was down and into safety.
(Umeko) Umeko was fairly familiar with dealing with tense situations, and was ready to pick up and drag any stragglers as she held off and waved them to go further down, before moving further down into the bunker complex herself. "We'll ride it out down here, the nanomagic's up there. If this thing wants to roast us, I feel like it can do it no matter where we are... Hell, if this thing pulls a Las Vegas and the server tells everything to become grey goo, there wouldn't be a single safe spot in all of Eureka. We might as well do what it seems to want at this point and continue on, away from the simulated apocalypse above..." she said as she kept on moving.
(Syntax) Once everyone is down below, there is a violent shaking...above you. While you barely feel it, there is definitely something happening above. Some of the plants around you wilt slightly, but only the ones that were advancing to the upper floor. This lower level is almost like a temperate forest, just with a single tree's roots growing up to make up the trees. Hydroponics of many kinds surround you. For the moment, it seems you have time for a breather.
