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Post by Serafeyna Carroll on Jun 11, 2018 8:30:20 GMT -8
Sera giggled at Niso's observation. "Maybe it's not even a trap. Maybe it's like... The door's just there to keep wild Pokemon out, and these are instructions like you'd see 'push to open' on a normal business door. Oh! Or better comparison, like the buttons you press to open doors at hospitals rather than pushing or pulling the door directly."
As she spoke, more idle rambling than anything, she helped him search, and before too long they had managed to locate and pull all the levers. The good news was that the door slowly scraped open, and no traps were triggered. The bad news was the noise was awful for a minute, and because no trap was triggered, technically they couldn't be sure Sera wasn't right about there not even being traps, so they may not have been as guarded as they could have been... Hopefully that wouldn't be a problem.
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Post by Jay on Jul 9, 2018 14:39:38 GMT -8
The doors were indeed open now. Coming inwards, however, the pair would find a large central room with a strange mural along the ceiling. Depictions of… bodies? Of some sort? Twisted and warped now from the shifts of the cavern and the erosion over time, it was hard to tell exactly what they were. In the center, however, there appeared to be a large circle with an insignia inside of it. A small podium pushed up from this and appeared to have a… hand print carving in it? Hm. More braille as well, but what it said had been worn away.
If one looked around the central area, there appeared to be more doors, but all were closed and as heavy and impossible to open as the last had been.
Should they approach and set their hand upon the podium, the podium would immediately lock around the person’s hand keeping them in place. Right after that, a series of Pokemon-like attacks would project off inlets in the walls. Oof, better try and figure out how to dodge or deflect those when trapped quite literally.
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Post by Niso Konto on Jul 11, 2018 9:40:32 GMT -8
Returning his Minior as the two of them ventured inside, Niso rested his hands in his pockets, eyes drifting about as he took in the odd ruins, wondering if the weird images of bodies and people were actually designed so oddly or if it was just some erosion and decay over the years. 『...Is it just me or does that one kinda look like it's scratching it's butt?』
Eyes shifting to Sera as she spoke about the doors, he smirked a little, supposing that could be it. Old civilizations tended to be a little overly fancy afterall, but Niso did think of something else and quickly snickered. 『Well ya know if they really wanted to make it a pain to get in, they shoulda put 'push' and made it a pull door~』 Snickering at one of the oldest mistakes in the book, and how people could end up just walking into doors because of it, Niso pictured some old civilization types just faceplanting a stone door with the full speed of a stride.
As they walked into the main chamber, Niso's eyes glanced down from the odd statues and murals, glancing to Sera's side and giving a gentle smile, casually just slipping his hand around hers. On some level he knew she was an adventuring type, and probably used to places like this, but a part of him was also conscious of the fact she wasn't exactly immune to danger like he was, and a small squeeze of her hand without a word was just his way of both thanking her for being here with him, and making sure she knew he had an eye on her...
Plus it was an excuse to hold her hand generally. That may have been a part of it.
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Post by Serafeyna Carroll on Jul 12, 2018 9:27:55 GMT -8
Sera giggled softly at Niso's suggestion about the doors. "A missed opportunity for sure," she teased. In reality she felt like this wasn't trying to keep people out so much as just wild Pokemon and weather, even if weathering had still done a number over time, but he was cute as always.
Ionel, moving up to walk beside rather than behind them now, was much more interested in the cave carvings than their trainer, gaping in awe as they tried to take them all in. Even so difficult to discern, the fact there had once been detail was apparent, and they couldn't help but wonder what everything used to be.
Sera smiled and squeezed Niso's hand in turn, only after realizing the tinges of concern she could feel from him. Heh... She guessed that was probably fair, but she'd be fine.
Examining the new room better at last, she asked, "Ionel, you see anything?" The Luxio sure did, but as far as a way through they had to shake their head. "Hm... Well?" She looked to the 'obvious'. "There's this handprint..." Pulling away from Niso and taking a few steps forward, she placed her han--
CLICK.
... "Shit." Fear flashed through her eyes. As other mechanisms in the room grinded loudly into place, Ionel took a defensive stance.
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Post by Niso Konto on Jul 12, 2018 13:12:51 GMT -8
Niso approached the hand-stamp a little slower, letting Sera move ahead with a soft smile, her own confidence putting his own nerves at ease in a weird way. His eyes just shifting around this inner chamber of these ruins, a little offput that they hadn't seen any symbols that seemed similar to Hoopa yet, but he supposed that maybe such vital information would be in a deeper chamber. He was just stepping up behind Sera at a fairly casual pace when-
CLICK
Niso's head whirled around to the source of the sound and the practical cage around Sera's hand. If she was feeling scared already, his own emotions ontop of that probably weren't helping. Every small sound in the walls as the old mechanisms whirred to life had him on edge, and as the small pours in the walls began to open up, he made a good guess that this was in no way a good thing. Fumbling in a hectic state, he tossed out a pokeball as he rushed up to Sera from behind, pushing her front down over the hand-print as he pushed himself over her back, the Pokeball he'd chosen at random luckily resulting in his rather hefty Garbodor, the Pokemon unsure what it was here for, but with Niso holding over Sera's back, and the Garbodor at her front, Niso just closed his eyes and grit his teeth.
As flames, poison needles, and ice beam like attacks poured out from the walls, Niso had to bite his tongue so he didn't yell down Sera's ear as he took the brunt of the attacks, Garbodor not so prepared and letting out a whining noise of pain despite his bulky status.
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Post by Serafeyna Carroll on Jul 22, 2018 13:04:16 GMT -8
Sera struggled to get her hand free, twisting and contorting it in an effort to squeeze through, but while the mechanism did seem made with a slightly larger (likely adult male) hand in mind, the best she could do was pull out up to the base of her thumb, and even that was a tight squeeze.
Ionel jumped in to take some of the brunt of the attacks as well, and fired off bits of lightning to intercept what else he could. Even so, Sera was made really cold on one side and very lightly burned on the opposite arm-- the one not trapped-- by what small bits of attacks the others couldn't block. The Pokemon should be okay, but she turned as best she could in concern for "Niso! Are you okay?" Of course he would be but that didn't mean she couldn't be worried now.
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Post by Niso Konto on Jul 22, 2018 13:42:22 GMT -8
Niso was holding onto Sera around her waist tight as the attacks hit him from all sides. His world was darkness as he shut his eyes as hard as he could and grit through the pain. In truth he may have been hurting Sera just a little, but the pain surging through his nerves made it impossible for him to loosen up, his muscles naturally just tensing harder and harder the more he took. Eventually the influx of sensations started to subside, but for a moment that only really made things worse. It was like how you rub a toothache to ease it up. Somehow without the pressure of the forces on his sides the pain just had time to settle in and burn him more furiously, and somehow, where it should mellow out in the middle, where the icey and firey sensations met...it stung the worst.
『I'm...fine...pretty sure...』
Easing his arms off...easing his burned arm off, the frozen one kinda stuck in it's current pose, Niso stumbled backwards onto his ass and took a few long, deep breaths. Garbodor was slumped back against the hand trap pillar, dazed but not fully KOed, his body clearly weak from all he'd endured, Niso feeling the pain slowly fade but the hazy look in his eyes said he was probably barely staying concious through it. He let out a yell as sparks ran down his burned side, the burned and dead cells purged for fresh living ones. It was never a pleasant process but the brief pause between pain pain and healing pain had let him lower his guard and he quickly grit his teeth again as he continued to heal, his clothes scorched on one side, and frozen to the point they could probably be shattered on the other.
『I'll be fine in a second but...big red buttons...and all similar things...mine. My territory...』 The pain really starting to subside now, his eyes clearing up a bit, Niso winced as he tried to move his frozen arm, a small set of crackles but nothing that seemed too serious before sparks started flowing down his arm and healing the frozen muscle fibers. 『Geeze though hun...I know you wanted us to cosplay sometime but...gotta be an easier way to make me a Todoroki...!~』He lifted his head, some pain still on his face, but a bright beaming smile pushing through it.
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Post by Jay on Jul 25, 2018 11:13:52 GMT -8
It was only after all the attacks had fired that the podium’s hand trap would release, and the entire thing seemed to start seeping into the ground? Becoming a flat point on the floor as if it had never been there before. One of the heavy doors of the tunnel would swing open slowly as the other ones had. Well, it seemed whoever had constructed this had assumed someone would have survived that trap, maybe? Probably.
Down through that tunnel, however, there would be numerous divisions, twists, turns, and curves that had them doubling back into the central room again. As they came back around, another door would open as if beckoning them down this one, this time. No this one! AH this one! What were those inscriptions on the walls? They were so hard to read and so worn like the rest! Maybe they would have given some explanation if they weren’t so degraded.
Over and over this seemed to be the case no matter what way they took. Slowly, though, all the doors would be opened. Hm, that was no help? Maybe back to where the podium was? As they approached the floor square where the podium had been, they would notice the hand print had turned into a foot print? Ah oh no.
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Post by Serafeyna Carroll on Jul 28, 2018 0:42:52 GMT -8
Sera had mostly winced at that joke, not really able to look directly at Niso while he was healing, but she did try to force a small smile and laugh. "Heh.. S-sorry, I'll keep that in mind." Honestly, though, he'd make a cute Todoroki, but if she was going to be really indulgent, Eraserhead was where it was at, gosh Niso didn't you know her tastes by now? Or, pff, maybe even Shigaraki. Apparently depressed assholes and childish psychopaths were her forte after all, hehe...
All right, little mental tangent having helped her relax while he was healing, she guessed they were following the path--.... um.. No this path? "...Are we going in circles?" she commented at one point.
When they finally came back once more only to find the footprint, Sera stopped in her tracks. "...So I know what you just said but uh... Any chance we can find a really long stick or something?"
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Post by Niso Konto on Aug 13, 2018 14:34:53 GMT -8
Niso sat with his legs crossed, eyes still a little dazed as he finished healing. So many pokemon level attacks wasn't an easy recovery, and the brief moment of more intense pain before the cool sensation of relief really started to fuzz his head. If he had to place it, it was probably like that brief moment before an adrenaline high registered, where your head wasn't quite processing it yet but could feel something was coming, but the most Niso got out of it in the end was a sense of relief when his body stopped trying to scream back at him.
Pushing himself slowly up to his feet, he rolled his shoulder back, looking down at his jacket and the shirt beneath it, sighing and starting to tug at it as the two of them walked. He said it about practically everything he owned, but that was (maybe) his favorite jacket. The fabric was easy enough to just tug and tear apart on one half, while the other half, frozen, literally just snapped into pieces when he tried to move his arm the fabric was that frozen, eventually leaving him exploring the ruins in tattered pants, stretching out his upper body here and there as they walked, smirking a little as Sera seemed a little confused over the directions, while Niso just focused on constantly moving forward. For him, a maze had an odd sense of familiarity he couldn't place, rather than the confusion and frustration it could bring out in others.
『How many times we been back here?』 Niso stretched an arm over his chest as they came back to the main room, but catching the switch as he followed Sera's eyes, his expression dropping a little with a whine, not too eager to sacrifice himself even if he knew he could...but also knowing Sera wouldn't be happy if he sacrificed a Pokemon to it. At least she gave him an out with that suggestion. 『Errrr...』His eyes darted around the room, not inherently finding any sticks but his eyes soon drifted to one of the deformed figures littering the room, spotting something akin to an arm coming off of one, lightly nudging Sera and directing her attention to it. 『Think I got something』
Stepping away, he released Excadrill again and snapped his fingers repeatedly till he got the frustrated Pokemon's attention, direction it to the statue with naught more than a smirk. The Drill Pokemon shot up towards it, cutting hard and letting the arm drop into Niso's hands, his body briefly falling forward with the weight but managing to catch himself, looking back to Sera with a bright smile. 『Big stick!~』
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Post by Serafeyna Carroll on Aug 13, 2018 14:58:48 GMT -8
Sera blinked as Niso carved out an arm. Well... It was a footprint, but she guessed it wasn't exactly a cutting edge high tech trap, right? As long as it applied pressure it should spring whatev--... Sera did a double take, for a moment thinking she was just having too many impure thoughts, but no, no apparently uh. "When did your shirt come off?" Once Slowpoke properly awarded the girl, her attention turned back to the 'arm' stick stone thing.
"Anyway uh. I'll take the back and you take the front and we'll see if this'll work...?" Moving into position and helping him keep it nice and steady, they worked the piece of stone into the footprint, and she prepared to duck for cover at another set of attacks.
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Post by Niso Konto on Aug 13, 2018 15:28:07 GMT -8
Niso was a little bewildered that Sera was only just now catching onto the fact he'd been walking behind her shirtless, stretching out his 'new skin' for the better part of the likely several minutes they'd been walking through those dark halls, but ultimately all that came out of him was a snicker. He lifted a hand from the arm (quickly dropping it in the process, but a quick glance to make sure it didn't shatter further was all that earned) and gestured for her to come a little closer. Rather than give her an answer he just cupped the back of her head and gave her forehead a light smooch. 『You're cute.』 He offeredm without much rhyme or reason...heck even he didn't know. Something about her surprise just...resonated, and seemed endearing in a way he couldn't quite place.
『Sounds like a plan!~』 Rubbing his hands together, Niso bent over and lifted up the front of the satue's arm like appendage, moving it a closer to the center of the room little by little so as to not risk dropping it on Sera's foot. 『Easy does it...Excadrill may wanna er..step back.』 The Pokemon complied, backing up to one of the walls, Niso easing the arm's hand towards the foot print, wincing a little as he got closer to it and eventually shutting his eyes as he felt the arm push back against him, touching the foot-print and the black haired teen fully expecting something to roast his skin off again.
『IhatefireIhatefireIhatefire...!』
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Post by Jay on Sept 29, 2018 8:39:01 GMT -8
As soon as pressure met the stone footprint, rather than a blast of Pokémon attacks or fall of the ceiling— the entire floor dropped right from under Niso and Sera. It would be a fifty foot drop and a detrimental one should they not catch themselves in one way or another. The walls were slick making grip and grab difficult. Still, Pokemon were around so…..
At the bottom of the pit was spikes growing upwards ready to impale anyone who happened to land directly on them. There… also appeared to be a strange dark moving object writhing around on the bottom. It wasn’t a Pokemon per-say but very much akin to one in movement. Some sort of ancient machine, perhaps? Ah, yes it was a snake. Going to have to break that down.
Still, thereafter, if they landed safely and defeated the monster, the pair would find a passage way that lead them down deeper into the ruins. This was the correct tunnel, apparently.
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Post by Serafeyna Carroll on Oct 5, 2018 15:01:09 GMT -8
Sera froze as the sound of some mechanism activating hit her ears, but she never would have expected it to be the floor activating, and an involuntary scream flew from her mouth as she found herself suddenly falling.
Fortunately, the sounds also had her Pokemon's attention, and Raven, the Pidgeot who'd brought them here, popped out of her PokeBall to scoop Sera up on her back and-- well shit uh-- okay she managed to grab Niso with her talons. This wasn't the roomiest area and she could hardly maneuver, but she was at least able to spread her wings enough to break the fall and glide down.
Once Sera had her bearings, she scrambled to return her other Pokemon to their balls before they hit the ground, and prayed Niso was doing the same or that his Pokemon would be okay. The snake machine still remained to be dealt with as well, she was realizing as her eyes adjusted enough to see it below. Well, landing mattered first. "Are you all right!?" she called to Niso.
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Post by Niso Konto on Oct 12, 2018 11:24:33 GMT -8
Niso wasn't sure what he was expecting. His vivid imagination could go a lot of places, but the floor opening up this time certainly wasn't one of his expectations. And after they'd gone to all that trouble of getting a pokey stick for the foot button. Feeling the floor rapidly fall under them the sensation of actually falling felt so weirdly delayed till gravity caught up with the fact they should no longer be as 'up' as they were. An uncharecteristic yelp escaped him, dropping the piece of the statue they'd used to poke the button and clutching to Sera. He didn't really know what he was doing here, but he told himself if he stuck close to Sera, she'd be safe. He'd be in fucking agony, but she'd be safe.
Wouldn't ya know it he was right.
『HEY!』 Watching the bird steal the girl from his arms he flailed up towards them, not TOO afraid of the fall but kind of pissed he wasn't so lucky to be a passanger, squeaking and biting his tongue as the talons dug into his shoulders, whimpering as his eye twitched. His entire body was in consistant agony today. The price he payed to find his dragon buddy.
Eventually they reached the bottom and Niso...truth be told, he'd been torched, frozen, and clawed at today. He weirdly felt like crying without an influence like Bruce to keep him on the wilder side of his own scale. In the presence of Sera he wasn't so much giggling through his own pain as he was actualy experiencing it.
Excadrill, who'd taken a step back, had actually managed to escape and stick to the edges of what remained of the floor up above. Diving backwards he began drilling a hole down to the ground floor, giving the two humans a way back up later if flight for whatever reason was removed as an option. Niso gently pet the steel 'hat' of his pokemon as he arrived, leaning on the mole for some support.
『I'm...okay...just been a while since I've gotten out and about I guess...weird shock to the system to remember how much the world like to bully me~』His words as ever had his weirdly chipper tone despite the weight of his choice of wording.
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