Chapter 1: Past Present and Future

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Cep100Inactive forever!

Mar 23, 2019 5:24 pm
Mar 23, 2019 5:24 pm
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
OOC:
I would like for this post to take place a few minutes after their departure since Master Selak watching them go is what would trigger this. Oh, before I forget, Ian brought a Hand Scanner as a piece of survival gear as -soon- as he realizes they're headed into the caves, that's what he'd grab. He's going to use it to take readings to help build a map so they don't get lost.
With a put-upon sigh, Ian throws up his arms. Letting the smaller Zabrak catch up to him he irritably takes the cube back from her. "Man . . . why me?" He mutters quietly as he turns the cube over in his hands, "Bein' this responsible is gonna give me'a rash." As the group passes by the rock outcropping where Ian had hidden two blaster rifles, while everyone else was packing survival gear, the human glances back. While hidden from view from the Master's direction, probably anybody can see them from the student's angle.

As Master Selak watches them go, Ian's hackles rise. A chill washes over him as he's been raised to a hyper sense of alertness by past events. As his steps plod ahead, he falls quiet, indigo eyes narrowed in thought. The others around him seem to fade away before he suddenly says, "I fergot somethin'." He turns to the others and says, "I'm goin' back fer somethin' y'all go on ahead." He takes out the scanner he had packed and starts taking readings to build a map. Checking his pockets, the long-haired human sighs, "Anybody have'a spare comlink?"
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Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 23, 2019 11:35 pm
Mar 23, 2019 11:35 pm
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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@Alyx: That looks good to me.

Taryn Koto

Carabas

Mar 25, 2019 12:58 am
Mar 25, 2019 12:58 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
Unwelcome and distracting memories, both good and bad, come to him as he recognises where they are.

"I hope Master Selak will turn out okay if Ian's vision is really to worry."
Taryn assures her it'll be fine, but thinking about it, he realises that even though he doesn't really want Selak to die, he certainly isn't going to mourn him if the vision comes true.

"Hey, T, feel free to keep going. I... Should probably do this alone."
As if. Taryn sits down at the edge of the cave, patiently waiting for Avi to finish. She's right that she should do this alone, and he certainly isn't going to interfere, but that doesn't mean he should just leave her alone.

When he spots some kind of irregularity in the cave wall, he gets up to investigate. He shines a light on the carving.
Last edited March 25, 2019 1:00 am

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 1:13 am
Mar 25, 2019 1:13 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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@Taryn: before you make your check I'm going to give you a couple of options. The poisonous mushrooms still cover most of the walls, obstructing a lot of the carving. You could clear them off but run the risk of releasing some poisonous spores, or you could make your roll at significantly greater difficulty.

Difficulty 4 if you don't clear the mushrooms.
Difficulty 2 if you do.

Let's go with perception

Carabas

Mar 25, 2019 1:46 am
Mar 25, 2019 1:46 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
ooc: Taryn has a respirator. Weird alien shrooms have no power over him as he clears them out.
ooc: these dice are nuts...
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Rolls

Survival to clear out the shrooms, adding a B because he is very careful and takes his sweet time.

1 Success, 3 Advantage, 3 Threat

Total: 1 Success

Taryn rolls Perception

2 Advantage, 1 Failure, 2 Threat

Total: 1 Failure

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 1:55 am
Mar 25, 2019 1:55 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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Would you like to describe your failure?

Carabas

Mar 25, 2019 2:46 am
Mar 25, 2019 2:46 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
ooc: to describe failure I'd have to know what success would be. I lack the necessary context.

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 3:28 am
Mar 25, 2019 3:28 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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You can make it up :). Whatever you decide I am happy to roll with.

Smeeg699Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 5:25 am
Mar 25, 2019 5:25 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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Are all four of us in this mushroom cave? It seemed like you were implying in your original comment that Ian, Evelynn, Avi, and Taryn were going to travel together into the caves to find their crystals as a group. I just want to check before I post something with Evelynn, cuz she'd investigate the carvings as well, letting Avi handle her own crystal retrieval.

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 6:31 am
Mar 25, 2019 6:31 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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Everyone is in the mushroom cave.

Smeeg699Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 7:14 am
Mar 25, 2019 7:14 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
Cep100 says:
"Anybody have'a spare comlink?"
"No, I'm sorry. I only thought to bring the one I have. Didn't you grab one?" Evelynn asks Ian as they start out on their journey into the caves. He obviously didn't, or something, and she curiously watches as he heads back before returning with a rifle. Raising an eyebrow, she makes no further comment, the caves can sometimes be dangerous.

After a long hike through the tunnels of the cave system, expertly guided by Taryn who was always the best at navigating through them, Evelynn looks out over the mushroom filled cavern in wonder. She is always astonished at the diversity of these caves and isn't sure she'd ever been in this one before. However, as this was Avi's trial, she took a seat near the entrance and tried to quiet her rising sense of inner panic at the thought of what she might face. As Taryn got out the breather, she thought it might be a good idea as well and slipped her own on, but was intrigued by what he was checking out. Moving closer she also inspected the carvings on the wall, however, with all the spores kicked up by Taryn's attempts to clear them away, some of them land on her arm and start itching and she quickly backs off, happy to leave well enough alone.
OOC:
I'll take the two strain.
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Rolls

Perception to inspect the carvings

1 Success, 1 Failure, 2 Threat

Total: 2 Threat

Taryn Koto

Carabas

Mar 25, 2019 7:54 am
Mar 25, 2019 7:54 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
ooc: the next people to look at it should probably team up to combine their stats or at least get a boost die...


As he shines his light on the carving, he drowns out the naturally phosphorent lichen the carver used to make his work come to life. Taryn dismisses it as too old to make out what it used to say without having an archeologist applying his trade.

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 9:08 am
Mar 25, 2019 9:08 am
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@Evelynn: why does it cause you strain?

Smeeg699Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 9:09 am
Mar 25, 2019 9:09 am
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2 Threat. I figured that'd be strain since I didn't succeed on the roll...

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 10:35 am
Mar 25, 2019 10:35 am
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Oh yes. I get that let me rephrase. What causes Evelynn to feel strain? Narrativley speaking? Does she feel like this is something she should be able to understand? Are the carvings familiar in some way? Ir are they difficult for her to perceive for some reason?

Smeeg699Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 11:05 am
Mar 25, 2019 11:05 am
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
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Sure, can go with that combined with the "poisonous mushroom" spores just causing irritation and stress. I'd say that, based on the description of them, she has an easier time seeing them, because they're some sort of luminous fungus, which would be a living thing and more connected with her Force-based "sight", but that whatever she sees makes no sense, but feels familiar and it distracts her/causes her some mental strain as she beats herself up over not knowing whatever it is.
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Ukchanak1Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 5:24 pm
Mar 25, 2019 5:24 pm
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
With a put-upon expression, Alyx glares at Ian. "You're an idiot." When he looks back as if expecting something, she sighs and goes to double check her bag. "I don't have an extra one," she tells him as she looks inside, "nobody would bring an extra one, so I don't know why-"

She stops, then looks even more irritated, and takes something out of her bag, handing it to the older student who is now smirking at her. "I hate you," she tells him. "Don't get yourself killed by cave bats."
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Avi'ragim

Lux001Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 8:10 pm
Mar 25, 2019 8:10 pm
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
Hey, the crystal! There it is! Avi looks surprised when it shows up out of nowhere and just kinda drifts towards her. Slowly, she raises her arm to try to catch it. It's just a few inches away, she just has to — Uh, did it just slip away? Why is it descending? She tries to snatch it again but it's too late, for it just went, uh, through the mushrooms. And through the soil?

There's obviously something happening here. It shouldn't be able to go inside the floor like that. Thanks to Avi's vision, she'd naturally think it's an illusion. But... She can feel it. Down there.

She stares at the mushroom, doubting what she just saw, her hands naturally resting on her hips. There's... Gotta be something wrong. Maybe the place is messing with her senses? That could be it, right? Still, she should confirm that the floor is actually solid.
OOC:
As I mentioned in Taryn's and Avi's relationship prompt thingie, this is the place where they made out. In the same prompt, I also said that our Master uses these shrooms for whatever and task us in getting a few of them from time to time. In what way are they toxic, I wonder? Do they emit spores? Because we have to be able to harvest them before. Logically, I can see how different their effect on us might be if someone's standing on the middle of the field instead of the edge, carefully harvesting them one by one. If the mushrooms have a continuous passive effect, then she'll just rip off a few of them and touch the floor. Otherwise, if they react to someone's touch, I feel like she'd naturally have brought something to handle them, like shears. Still, I can roll Vigilance for retroactive preparedness if you want, Arina.

Cep100Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 8:58 pm
Mar 25, 2019 8:58 pm
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
The smirk turns into a shit-eating grin as Ian takes the extra comlink from Alyx. Clipping it to the inside of his pocket he jogs back before they get too far in order to collect both rifles from his hiding spot. He had wanted them hidden in case they needed them on the way back but Master Selak's strange behavior as of late has changed him, at least a little. Shouldering both rifles from the blanket they're hidden under he starts the walk back, mind drifting to the nightmarish hellscape he remembered as a child.

By the time he has returned to the group, however, his trickster grin is back in place and the map on his scanner grows. He glances around seeing everyone climbing through mushroom patches and scratching at walls. Tilting his head like a confused puppy he glances among the others before saying quietly, "Whad'I miss?"

Arina Inactive forever!

Mar 25, 2019 9:26 pm
Mar 25, 2019 9:26 pm
Re: Chapter 1: Past Present and Future
@Ian: Your had scanner picks up something the others don't seem to realise. Therr is clearly a hidden passage on one side of the cavern. The others cannot see it because mushrooms have completely grown over it, but your scanner can pick up the change in density.
OOC:
@Avi: Please feel free to add details however you like but I envisioned the mushrooms as having toxic spores. They're not gonna hurt you unless you disturb them. Although a few might burst randomly.
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