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?"
THe lion beast turns his head back towards the entrance and shrugs, he continues on... Stepping on a panel as he walks by, he doesn't seem to notice though. As the group continues along the passage, seeing as there is no way back... The giggling continues...
Harbringer slides her crossbow off of her back, grinning "When i find these doggies, i'm gonna spade and neuter every one of them!" slipping a moistened bolt into her bow. "Well, the sooner we get this done the better." continuing to walk with the group.
Tiar looks back to Harbringer with a curious look before he pushes onwawrd, now not quite following the edge of the flashlight, now moreso trying to find whatever happens to be giggling like mad. He thinks better of calling out for it, just staying as alert as possible.
Salandra grumbles, "I hate when people laugh at me.." She keeps the butt of the gun at hir shoulder as shi walks, frequently turning around until she turns to the closest person, which would be whomever is third in line, "Put a hand on my flank and guide me." With that, shi stays turned around and walks backwards to stay with the group. Shi may not like strangers touching her, but it's better than maybe getting clonked in the back of the head.
The giggling turns to a playful squealing as the group rounds into a chamber, inside is... Well, more murals. Also a body of a lion beast. The murals depict the jars oozing over with a thick red substance, the lion beast with the group snarls as he spots his compainion and shakes his head sadly
The commando stares at the dead feline "Well, fuck." Noticing Salandras words, she slows behind and gives hir rump a squeeze and holds on "Sure thing." gaze moving towards the murals and the red oozing from them "I don't need to be a rocket scientist to tell you all what that means." shuddering quietly. Harbringer laughs to herself "This is probably a trap anyways."
Tiar stops short of entering the room, not at all sure what to do now. Theres a dead body, that looks promising, theres oozing murals, that also looks promising. "Whaht do we do now?" he finally moans, unable to decide for himself.
Salandra lashes hir tailtip at the squeeze but that's the only sign of hir nervousness at being grabbed. Hir ears semiphore at the growling and the curseword and shi turns hir head to look. A trained soldier would give a quick gance and see it all, but shi is not trained, so shi stares, "Shit.." Shi spies the murals and frowns, "People go in, blood comes out?" Shi t hen growls, hirself, "This this whole temple could be a jar, so to speak?"
The lion beast moves towards his fallen compainion only to jump back as the squealing stops... There's dead silence now. On the other hand... There are two passageways. There is a left and right passageway
Harbringer pats the rear she's hanging on to "Eh, probably not safe. What's your take on it?" asking the taur. She looks around nervously before noting "I have a feeling we may run into trouble." looking around the room.
Tiar stares for a while before heading right, his gaze stuck on the lion. "So do you think..." he mentions before he looks back to the lion and shakes his head, opting not to finish for their sake. "I think he came from the left, lets go this way?"
Salandra frowns, "My take would be to get out of here..but I need the cash from this. Not to mention old places usually have good stuff." Shi looks at Tiar and nods, "We should bring his body out, when we leave. Or at least remember how we got to this room..and try not to join him."
The lion beast looks at Tiar and tilts his head in confusion, then shrugs as walks along with the zompire... The silence continues... Harbringer and Salandra do notice a slight scraping noise from behind them though...
Harbringer twitches at the scraping sound "Get down...." she whispers to the taur. "I have a bad feeling."
Tiar looks back to see what they're talkingg about, as there doesn't appear to be anything in front of him. "Hunh?" he moans softly and stands at ready.
Salandra's gun snaps back up and shi aims down it, the flashlight next to hir temple helping to shine where shi aims quite a bit, "Sound behind us." Shi flicks hir tail at Tiar and the lion beast, "Keep an eye out ahead of us, unless we get attacked. We don't want to be jumped from both front and back." Shi then mutters to hirself, not meaning to be heard, "Giving orders feels weird.."
As the lion beast crumbles into bloody goop the giggling resumes... There are tstill two options. Left or right?
Harbringer stares at the goop "What the hoodoo?" scratching her head "I'v seen some shit in my days but this.....is some real walking vagina stuff right here." cringing at the slime. The commando slips off her mask and leans over, gagging for a moment.
Tiar stops being so tense and grumbles something about the lion and looks back to where they were heading. "Still right?" he suggests, unsure. He looks to Harbringer and their reaction to the slime, and decides to remove it, attempting to punt the body away a bit.
Salandra's ears are nearly flat, almost knocking her little flashlight askew while she stares at the puddle that used to be the lion beast and looks quite ill, "Zombies.." Shi hisses air out through hir teeth, "Not like I have a better idea, so I agree. Just keep your eyes open, everyone. I will be watching our back. If something gets me, well, I am a good screamer?" Shi manages a weak grin.
The puddle is quickly sucked into the dry earth... Leaving our heros a choice... Left or Right?
Harbringer looks left and then right "uh, well. Which way do we go now?" she starts doing an einey meanie. "crap. Well, what would you guys suggest? I'm out of ideas here."
Tiar first watches the puddle dissapear, then proceeds right dutifully, shambling to the best of his abilities towards the goal of whatever lies ahead.
Salandra smiles at Harb, "Follow him." Shi gestures to Tiar and then resumes walking backwards. As shi goes, shi quickly pops the clip out of hir gun and checks it before putting it back in, "Half a clip in the mag, two more in my saddlebags. After that, I am down to my natural skills."
The descion made, the lion beast that hasn't been gooped follows the group. The giggling continues as they pad down the hallway to... Another chamber! This one is brightly lit from crystals hanging from the cieling and in the center is a pedestal with a tablet on it
Harbringer stares at the crystals and the table "Looks like a puzzle." The merc rests the crossbow on her shoulder "Not me, i'm sitting this one out." walking over and sitting on the floor. "Good luck figuring it out."
Tiar moves as able bodied as possible over towards the tablet, slow deliberate movements with a readiness to move back slightly, but besides that rather straightforward. If he gets close enough to the tablet he examines it for anything readable.
Salandra glances over hir shoulder and then frowns as Tiar moves forwards, "Watch where you step! Put out something shiny and wait for someone to trip a trap in front of it!" Shi looks back down the passage and then seps to hir left, so shi is out of the doorway, while shi watches Tiar.
On the tablet, which looks very valuable, is a strange mural of Coyote traping a bee in a jar... The jar filling with blood, and then more, smaller, bees popping out of the ooze...
Harbringer checks her gear before pulling out a strange container "Show me your secrets, little box. What powers do you possess?" scratching her head. The girl seems to be preoccupied with trying to learn about the box to really be of use.
Tiar stares at the tablet. "Bee, blood, tiny bees." he says as he tries to think of what it could mean. "Should I take it?" he asks back to the group, unsure what exactly he's doing up at the tablet in the first place. "It looks valuable."
Salandra looks back down the passage they came from, gun pointing down it..in case any buzzing is heard, "Not until we find a way out. It could be on a pressure plate; Say it floods the rooms when picked up? Or releases a poison gas or something?"
THere is no buzzing, only giggling... Ever present giggling...
Harbringer twitches, getting angrier and angrier at the giggling "Well, this is getting on my nerves real fast." She frowns and walks up to the table "So, bees, red goo and such? Don't trust it. I don't care how much it's worth, it's not worth risking our lives for." leaning up against a wall.
Tiar thinks about it, unsure what to do, so he looks up at the ceiling. "Maybe they already opened it back up?" he moans.
Salandra suddenly lets out a string of cursewords fit to make a sailor blush. After about ten seconds of nonstop swearing, shi finally speaks, "We should have left a trail where the path forked! They could be looking for us and going the wrong way!" Shi looks to be about three seconds from rushing back alone.
The giggling, the giggling... Always the giggling... There is that left path too...
Harbringer cries out, the laughing getting to her more and more "Ow..." her head starting to hurt from the sound. Quickly she reaches for her back to try to pull out some earplugs. "oh gosh, oh willy!" Barely able to come up with clear sentances as she scrambles to slide the plugs into her ears. Finally she sighs, the laughing over.
Tiar shrugs and kicks the pedestal, moving back towards the others to proceed towards the entrance. "We should see if they got us a way out yet." he suggests sloppily, thinking as clearly as possible. "And if not, the left path is open? He came that way, we might find what killed him."
Salandra seems quite on edge and growls, "Check out the entrance first." ShI moves ahead at a brisk pace, clearly agitated from the laughing.
The pedestal does nothing but gleam in the crystal light... The way back to the entrance is clear for now and yet there doesn't seem to be any exit...
Harbringer sighs with relief. The mercenary walks back over to the taur and places a hand against her rear "For safety." she smiles, giving it a pat. She looks back to the zombie "You coming, mate? we gotta move!"
Tiar nods, saying "Yeah I'm coming." He looks at the others and tries to figure out what they're so aggitated about, shrugging as he proceeds to the left passage, ready and willing to fight once more.
Salandra frowns at where the entrance was and rummages in hir bag. Shi pulls out three glow sticks and pads back to the first roomw ith two exits, "So..back to the book or the other way?"
Tiar proceeds down the left path swiftly, eagerely awaiting something new than the previously explored rooms.
Harbringer laughs
Harbringer whistles a happy tune, looking around the room. Knowledge of setting bear traps in urinals has finally paid off today "well, I think we need to find the trigger for the door. Pull the tablet?" she asks, tilting her head. "I don't see any other things in this god awful room!"
Tiar proceeds down the left path swiftly, eagerely awaiting something new than the previously explored rooms. "Let's see what's in here then make our decision." he says as he moves along.
Salandra waits until Tiar walks by and uses the three glowsticks,a fter snapping them to turn them on, to make an arrow for anyone who follows. It points down the path they are taking.
As the group walks into the left path, they hear the giggling stop... Replaced by a high pitched whine before everthing goes dead quiet... Salandra and Tiar manage to spot the lion beast from earlier reforming...
Harbringer whistles with the ear plugs in her head. Ignoring the two she continues walking, straight into the lion beasts chest. The mercenary looks up in horror at the familiar sight "O-oh no..."
Tiar moans menacingly as he attempts to draw the lions attention, and prepares to lash out at them, prepping his body for combat.
Salandra swears again and bounds forwards with a felines grace, the taur attemping to yank Harb back by her collar and bring hir gun to aim at the same time. Rifles are not ment to be used one-handed, though! "I thought nine lives was a myth!"
After the lion beast is gooped again and then absorbed by the earth... You come across another chamber... This one filled with blood like goop and in the center is a jar, with goop spilling out
Harbringer stares at the jar for a moment "Nope, i'd rather be back in the bee room." The girl walks closer to the jar and tilts her head "What the hecate?"
Salandra's tail fluffs up and shi hisses, even as shi slings hir gun over hir shoulder and draws out hir scythe. With the press of a button, the blade unfolds and the pole extends to a proper scythe, "GET AWAY FROM IT!" Shi yells, eyes wide, "DO NOT go near it! Remember the murals; people go in, goo comes out! And it becomes..like the lion! He was made of the goo!"
Tiar looks back to the others and says "Stand back." as he approaches the strange spawn for lions. He applies all his strength, grunting as he stomps the ground near the jar in what is apparently a mighty effort to knock the thing over.
The jar topples under the mighty impact! Shattering into a dozen pieces! Out pours the ooze and with it a shriek of "FREE!" nanites swarm the group as the goop starts to gather into a mighty bee! The nanites start to pinch and bite at Tiar as he is closest draining his own reserves, the lion beast accompaning the group is instantly gooped. That goop starts to move towards the still forming bee... The silence is ended by a strong voice urging the group to "Run!"
Harbringer turns around to jog "GET THE FUCK OUTTTA ZHERE!!" pulling off a speed that would make usain bolt jelous. The girl jogs off screaming "TIME TO GO GUYS!"
Tiar lets out a rather furious groan as his reserves are drained, before he too decides to accept the decision to run, moving at a surprising pace for his prior shambles.
Salandra lets out another string of cursewords but waits for the other two to pass before taking off after them, "WE STILL DON"T KNOW A WAY OUT!"
The way out is open, there is a convient ramp leading out as well... Once the group is out, the hole closes up and with a rumble... The temple collapses on itself, burying whatever treausres were inside as well as the beast. THe Labakai blinks at all this and shakes hir head, "What in gods name happened?"
Harbringer pants, wheezing and coughing behind her mask "ohuhg....what the...." turning around to notice the lack of a tunnel "Well, that was fun." Slowly she walks up to the Labakai "So, how much would you say i get for pay?"
Tiar looks to Harbringer and fights a chuckle, which just makes a strange sounding noise. "Big bee, lions..." he says trying to think of what else. He stands there awkwardly, brushing himself off and trying to collect his strength. "Destroyed the danger." he finally decides, as that is clearly what he did.
Salandra shakes hir head, the scythe collaping back down to be stored, "We saw murals depicting Coyote putting people in jars, then out would come red goo. Your advance scout was already dead by the time we went down, reformed of the goo, and attacked us twice. We found the jar depeicted but.." She shoots a quick glance at Tiar and then back to the Labakai, "It got knocked over and released a large bee, whcih absorbed the other lion beast. We heard a voice, which I believe could have been Coyote, tell us to run, then the place collapsed. We don't know if it is destroyed, or mearly buried" Now shi raises hir voice for Harb and Tiar, "Possibly looking for a way to get free!"
THe Labakai blinks at the explainations and shakes hir head, "Well... That's... I don't know what to say." ashi shakes hir head and waves you over to a helicopter that was unloading explosives, "I'll have to hear all about it in the debriefing."
