Crystal Cave Adventure (RP)

"What?" Ahsa says impatiently, her head reappearing around the corner right by where Roald is poking. Knowing she is there you can almost make out her torso behind the crystal wall, but the passage she walked into is invisible without the clue of her 'floating' head.

This environment is hard to navigate, but she seems to be managing by just walking and not over thinking things.

"Fine. But let's get moving. I no longer want to be here." Ahsa says holding out her hand impatiently and ready to lead you out.

By seemingly just plowing on forwards Ahsa somehow makes good headway, her ability to spot and step into the gaps between the crystals is uncanny. While she does not noticeably touch them, you all have a hard time keeping up while avoiding getting small cuts from the sharp edges as you are pulled along in her wake.

You travel a fair distance in the direction suggested earlier --though the constant twists and turns and same-looking surfaces make it impossible to know for sure-- and, after what feels like surprisingly little time --though your thirst has grown-- you find yourself before another dark spot on the wall and ceiling, the crystal covering giving way to bare stone.

There is a trapdoor above the stair, it is tightly closed, and feels cold to the touch. Brushing it, your fingertips come away with the slightest suggestion of dampness.

Ahsa stares at the closed door, frowning in frustration. "How do we open it?" She asks, her ability to find progress stymied when the crystals run out.

What do you do?

- Albert -

Using your staff, you can easily reach the trapdoor from the ground. It sounds like it is made of metal, and looks like, maybe, copper.

The captain moves to help heave, and Ahsa steps onto a higher stair to reach, jamming her bosom in your face in a way you find thoughtless, disturbing, and out of character.

"It feels like there is something heavy on top of it." The captain complains as it moves the smallest amount before stopping springily. "If we all work together we should be able to shift it."

- Albert -

"What?" Ahsa asks as you squirm away.

She looks down to see what you are doing."Oops, sorry... forgot." She stammers turning away --as much as she can in the tight confines-- and adjusting her jacket to cover up, her face going bright red as she instantly starts to blush furiously.

The large copper door above, moves a bit more and then stops, with an extra heave it moves again with a slurping sound and little sprays or water emit from the edges.

One more big shove and you are sure it will unseal itself and open.

What do you do?

And water there is!

Though probably not a gift of Raynor.

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The plug --for that is what it was-- is swirled and lifted from your hands as the tons of water that was trapped in the stairwell forces its way past, sweeping you all off your feet and back into the crystal cavern. The crystal's glow is smeared with greasy, foul-smelling gunk --one small glowing mushroom bobbing along in a puddle-- the height of the covering diminishes the further from the door it gets.

After the water recedes, some slimy bones are left scattered across the floor, along with other unidentifiable, slime-covered items that were in the stairway above.

Your clothes are soaked through, and it is cold. The captain makes to wring some of the water from her shirt into her mouth but spits it out.

"Yuck!" She says. "Maybe we should go up above and look for a river?"

What do you do?

Apparently not caring about her ruined clothes, Ahsa struggles to her feet and sloshes over to look up the stairwell. "I feel a breeze!" She exclaims as though this is the most amazing thing.

"It feels like... forever since I felt the wind on my face."

With that --slightly over-dramatic statement-- she starts going up, again not waiting for the rest of you unless you remind her to.

What do you do?