Crystal Cave Adventure (RP)

The captain turns group. "But how will be get past those things?" She asks desperately, glancing at her injured comrade with concern. "Can she walk?" She asks, trying to formulate a plan.

What do you do? What is the plan to get out?

- Deoring -
You are currently in the main --above-ground-- temple building. There is a large pile of bones near the center of the room, but those closest to you have been turned to dust, revealing the stone floor and what might be a low wall or altar under the pile.

The wear on the floor indicates that at some point in the past there were rows of seats or pews, but the wood they were made of has long since rotted away, leaving no trace.

If you were extremely motivated --and maybe less tired and thirsty-- you could pry up a paving-stone or take a stone door off its hinges to use as a shield.

You can see scraps of clothing and armour amongst the bones in the pile, if you were prepared to dig in there, you might be able to find actual shields to use as shields.

There are vines on the walls just outside the open door. You know they are easy enough to climb, but you also know the grotesque statues are (or were) perched on the corners, among the vines, on the top of the walls.

What do you do?

"They only seem to attack if we try to leave." The captain comments as she glances nervously at the door before moving over to Ahsa's side.

She tries to help Ahsa stand, but the girl whimpers in pain and the blood starts to flow again. "I can't move her on my own." The captain apologises. "We will need at least two, though three would be better." She demonstrates how to cross and link hands to form a seat. "Once in the forest we can build a stretcher." She says, clearly no more keen to use the bones in the temple than the patient would be to lay in them.

"OK. We are ready." The captain says, settling Ahsa as comfortably as she can between herself and whomever is helping.

"Be careful." She says to Deoring, though a pessimist might interpret that as 'are you up for this?'.

- Deoring -

The moment you step out from the door the two grotesque statues guarding the section swoop down towards you. What looked like carvings before turn out to be tiny, little stone wings, that --while they don't allow the things to fly-- slow their descent enough that they don't crash into the ground.

The arc of the statues follow looks like it will put them on your far side, between you and the forest, but close enough to attack.

• How do you protect yourself from their slashing claws as they pass?

Deoring has pulled the guardians away, but you have no way of knowing how long he can hold their attention for.

Do you make an immediate run for the woods, or do you give the distraction time to get more established or further away?

Roald: Do you help Albert and the captain manoeuvre Ahsa out the door and over the uneven ground outside, or do you try to help Deoring with the distraction? Both have value. Or do you wait, relying on your athleticism to dart in and help where needed most?

If I'm not cursed anymore (it's so long ago not even sure if it affected athleticism) Roald waits on how things unfold.
If one of the creatures tries to go after Asha and the rest, he will step in. Same if Deoring gets in trouble.
In case both is happening, he will choose to help Asha first.

- Albert -

Spurred on by Roald's words, the captain puts on a burst of speed while doing her best to not jostle the patient. The way ahead seems clear --Deoring having pulled the stone guardians away from your position (were there only two? surely there were more on the other corners? ...).

"I surely hope they won't follow us into the trees." The captain pants, her dehydrated exhaustion showing in her slowed movements.