Coyotes traps and jars Oh my - RPLOG
From Flexible Survival
Participants
Date
29/4/2013
Log
It's a bit of a trek to the forest, but you get there relatively unmolested. Waiting for you at the coordinates given is a Talakai Dedicant, dressed in field lab clothing. With hir are two Lion Beast infected guards, the Talakai seems to be eyeing a large hole in the ground curiously as you arrive on scene
Harbringer looks around, breathing in the fresh air "This place is beautiful. I wonder how these guys found it." scratching her head. The commando sits down and checks her gear, making sure she's prepared.
Tiar shambles himself out towards the coordinates given, doing his best not to get lost. This stupid tech Rsx keeps trying to get him to use seems harder and harder to use day by day. He approaches the Talakai very directly, saying first "Arrugh..." then shaking his head he says, rather neatly regardess of his lost jaw, "You needed help?" He doesn't seem all that prepared in the gear department, but he seems ready to go.
Salandra is also making hir way out to the coordinates shi was given, the taur looking around as shi goes. Hir gear seems rather basic, but shi made some effort to be prepared. Shi always has one finger on the safty of hir rifle while hir ears semiphore to catch any sounds as shi walks. Shi is the third to arrive and blinks at the others before shi comes to a stop, keeping a bit of space between hir and anyone else.
The Talakai looks over at the arrivals as one of the heavily armed lion beasts moves between the heros and the Labakai, the Labakai gives him a look and shakes hir head, "It is beautiful, isn't it? We found this place by accident really." then shi turns to Tiar with a nod, "Yes, as I'm sure you heard. We found a ruin of a temple here, it's just through this hole..." Shi gestures to the hole shi'd been looking at and one might notice a rope leading down, "I sent one of my teammates down... But I haven't heard from him since he entered... We aren't sure what to expect. So be prepared."
Harbringer cycles through her gear, noting each item "bio bombs, harley, Nanite nades...." Eventually the soldier finishes up and slides the bag onto her back. Looking around at the other people in the area, she thinks to herself "boy are these people odd." Suiting up, she slips into some sleek combat armor and gives a hearty salute. "SIR!" she shouts with pride.
Tiar eyes the heavily armed beasts as his body tenses on impulse. He looks down the hole as he listens before he moves over to the rope, and in a strangely able bodied fashion, shimmies down. He barely seems to be waiting for the others, just standing and looking about to pass time.
Salandra eyes the lion beasts and then the hole. Shi pads over and peers in as Tiar shimmies down, head tilting, "How in the nine hells.." Shi mumbles and then frowns and turns to rummage in a saddle bag and pull out a harness and starts to put it on; snapping clasps and attaching carabiners so shi can rappel down.
The Labakai blinks as the two go down and shakes hir head, "Well, that's done... Anyway, I'll send one of my guards with you." Shi whistles shrilly and one of the lion beasts moves to follow the two down, then the Labakai looks at Harbringer with a smile, "After you?" At the bottom of the hole, Salandra and Tiar can see that there are murals of what seems to be some kind of coyote... Salandra can tell it's about /the/ Coyote, but can't make out what they mean
The girl stares at the rope and looks down at the hole. Slowly she slides a harness on and hooks it up, repelling down into the depths of the hole. Eventually she reaches the bottom, looks up and yells "Got it!" back to the Labakai.
Tiar looks the murels over. He doesn't know what to make of them, so he just continues down the path aimlessly until he sees something of interest.
Salandra perks hir ears forward and walks up to the nearest mural, the panther taur running hir fingers over it very lightly, "Hmm.." Shi frowns as she scans them, "This is about Coyote but that's all I can make out." Shi is speaking to everyone, "So keep an eye out. A temple to a trickster could be dangerous."
The labakai calls out, "Be careful down there!" and then the Lion beast turns on a flashlight to shine around the room, revealing a passageway that leads deeper into the temple. The murals all depict Coyote tricking others into... Jars?
Harbringer stares at the mural of Coyotes being crammed into jars "I don't get it." staring at them "Anyone here care to elaborate what the heck this means?" scratching her head "It seems pretty messed."
Tiar sees the jars and thinks the situation over, as clearly and elaborately as he can. Once that is done his immediate response is to try and punch one of the depicted jars and continue onward. He moves towards the passage way with a swiftness, almost as though he were pushing towards the edge of the flashlight.
Salandra scratches hir head and frowns, "I have no clue.." Shi blinks at Tiar and shakes hir head while shi reaches into another saddle bag, "Flashlight..ah!" Shi pulls out a small device that attaches to the base of hir righr ear and sits next to hir temple. With the press of a button, it turns on and shines a white light ahead. The side of hir head keeps it from shining in hir perephiral vision but, being smaller, the cone is more focused than a normal flashlight, "I have no clue what this means.." Shi walks up to another mural and frowns before trying to push on various parts; the Coyotes head, the beings, the jars..
The lion beast grunts and shakes his head as he follows Tiar. The passage seems long and when the murals are poked and prodded they do... Absolutely nothing! Seems they are just for decoration
The commando stops for a moment, thinking about something completly terrible "Everyone stop." Looking at the floor, she continues "This seems too simple. Coyotes were known for tricking people. Wouldn't the master tricksters have a few traps laying around?"
Tiar stops when he's told to, looking forward for a while before turning back to examine the floor. "I got here just fine." he moans, looking forward to see if the floor was any different before he moves forward ever so slowly. "Should we keep going?"
Salandra blinks towards Harb, "I already said that." Not in so many words, though." Shi is near the back of the group, looking here and there with a frown, "Hmm..Our job, as it were, would be to keep moving forwards, but keep your eyes open..I have spare flashlights, should anyone need one?"
Should everyone continue onwards a soft, childlike, giggling can be heard... By Tiar and the lion beast at least. The giggling seems to be coming from everywhere and nowhere at once. When the group has left the entrance... A mural winks at them and then there is a small rumble before a loud "NOOOOO!" can be heard as the hole closes up
Harbringer looks around "I told you this was bad!" she screams, looking around rapidly. suddenly she clings to the closest person, looking back at the entrance "Aww, why today?"
Tiar looks the murel over again, clawing at it in an attempt to disfigure it aggressively. "Do we go back?" he asks, trying to think how this would work. "They could get us out right? Or maybe a lock inside we should turn?" he moans, making a gesture like he's turning a door lock.
Salandra hears the loud 'noooo!' and spins, gun lifting and safty clicking off, but shi does not fire. The taur gives a low growl, "Calm down. Those outthere can send word back and get some explosives, I would think. Or we can look for another passage out. Just stay calm, unless you enjoy runing around and triggering who-knows-what?"
