> Rose: Open second door

You can't open the second door by yourself! It takes two people to do that. The inscription says so.

Not that you've read it yet.Rose looked up at the door, the previous one's precise opposite number. The hallway had not been the esophagus of a great beast, at least so far. Or it was a very stone-covered, hallway- ( Read more... )

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Honk.

Gamzee startled himself a bit by how loud the horn was in the empty hallway, but followed that up with a grin.

Honk honkNever mind that it might be attracting the attention of a monster or something else he didn't want. That possibility never came to mind. If anything, it would help the rest of his group to find him in these dark ( Read more... )

> ==>Stepping through the door, Gamzee found himself in a larger room than the one they'd just left. It was also a great bit brighter, and he squinted against this brightness with a frown. His eyes were accustomed to the darkness, and the sudden light made it difficult for him to see for a few moments ( Read more... )

> Rose: Contemplate wizardly robesShe couldn't contemplate wizardly robes, except in the abstract, since neither wizards nor robes were on display. Their armor, however, was another matter. If wizards ever stooped to wearing armor, that was, but what else could this egregiously florid and flowing suit be? Not to mention the missing chinstrap for ( Read more... )

[from here]Her expectations were met without fail. With the doors secured behind them and only a new hallway before them it wasn't hard to guess this would be much the same as their last task. Hopefully wherever they went from here would be less deadly. Hopefully, but not likely ( Read more... )

> Rose: ExploreThe purpose of this room went without saying. Its mythological inspiration was evident in every minute detail, from the smallest carving to its denizen, who sat imperiously on what passed for a throne for a quadrupedalian creature ( Read more... )

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Once they made it through the door and it had slide smoothly closed behind them there was no mistaking the sound of a final click. Dropping her juice, Ilia turned back around swiftly and reached for the handle. "Wh--Hey ( Read more... )

> Rose: DescendRose bounded off the stairs and down onto the floor of the ballroom as soon as she could, alighting on the floor in what was, on its own, a graceful maneuver. As she jumped, the flames on her wands extinguished, and her sylladex reset itself to the auto-balance modus, ejecting everything in it. Her possessions rained down on her ( Read more... )

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Yes. Hell yes. The room beyond his door was just a pantry, but that was the best thing he could have asked for just then. Gamzee wasted no time in stuffing food into his pillowcase - except the canned things. Those looked like too much trouble to mess with. He couldn't even tell what a lot of these human items were, but if it looked ( Read more... )

[from here]Ilia didn't plan on lingering long if she could help it. The walk-in refrigerator was a bit too chilly for anyone to want to stay too long, and a few large, mutated cockroaches also were cause for keeping on her toes. However, with a clear goal in mind it wasn't too hard to find what she was looking for; a hidden trap door under a ( Read more... )