[ +- ] 🎹 Slave Children’s Crusade
The Kaligators swim away—much faster than a mermaid can swim, in fact!
With the marsh cleared of terrifying hellspawns, you swim. At first, the Bubble Magic seems like a waste. The marsh is only 3 or 4 feet deep. Not having to come up for air is merely a convenience… until you get to the area Orlando estimated would align with the given coordinates.
You see a hole about ten feet in diameter. It doesn’t seem natural. Nor does it look man-made. As you swim down the shaft, its wall is sand, hardened into rock… and as you go deeper, the rock is compressed into crude metal… and the current is strong here! Swimming up may be difficult. Or it may be impossible! Or it may require Gong-Ju’s flowing voice to make a return trip possible…
Deeper still! Princess Diamond is the first to feel it, then Casey… Murasaki may be stronger than Orlando Jones, but she feels it too.
Pressure.
Gong-Ju’s Bubble Magic is the only thing keeping the party alive down here! A submarine would implode from reaching such depth at such speed!
…but finally, you see something that is surely man-made. A hydrolock door!
Orlando turns the valve—and the current forces you inside! Once the door closes, all of the non-mermaids feel the headache begin to subside.
The water gradually drains from the room, and just in time, for Gong-Ju’s magical bubble *
pops!*
Princess Diamond can swim to the surface and breathe the oxygen coming from a grated vent along the ceiling. The rest of you need only hold you breath a few seconds until the water level is low enough for your heads to poke out of the water. (It’ll take a minute to drain completely.)
There is another hydrolock door in front of you, mostly made of a thick, transparent polycarbonate. Orlando points to it—
"Hoblbly shbiblblble!"
—the next room is a 20’x20’x20’ cube, and it’s so full of Kaligators, they’re writhing all over each other!
As the water drains enough so your heads are all above it, Orlando says in an obviously panicked tone,
"Well now what the fuck? Maybe whoever wrote that letter—with no return address and no signature, I might add—better have an answer!"
He whips out the letter as the water-level drops to waist-deep. As he holds up the paper, you all see it:
The letter is wet.
The ink drips and runs and forms a drooping indigo blob…
…which forms neatly written letters. Too neat to be written my a man.
Mister Jones,
If this letter is soaking wet, I assume you have safely entered the hydrolock door. The door before you leads to the temple’s entrance. Do you see it? A 6’x6’x6’ niche at the top of the large room?
Oh… of course you don’t! Please have Princess Gong-Ju activate the power in that room. Her Stormy Prong should do the trick!
"And again, no fuckin’ signature. But I’m not gonna pay the trend of etiquette breaches forward. Your Highness," he says to Gong-Ju,
"it ain’t my place to have you do anything. I am asking…"
He asks in Atlantean,
Would you be so kind as to use your third prong to activate the power in that room? I believe my whip can swing me over the Kaligators, into the niche. Then you and your friends may safely return home with my gratitude, and upon my return from the temple, a Chest Fulla Gold.
@Dmbrainiac OOC:
Gong-Ju, please roll ☢️STORMY PRONG!
• On a 💢
MISS, something happens.
• On a 💥
HIT, something happens.
• On a 💥💥
COMBO, something happens.
