Silent Fractures

TheCavalry wrote:

Spoiler:

Nope the gate is not connected to the light in a physical sense.
((OOC) stop concentrating on the gate, you might make some progress.)

Xel Unknown wrote:"OH bucking hell..." Cold yells in anger, runs stright to the gate, and goes quickly to attacking the gate, trying to open it by force. "NOT AGAIN!!!"

When Cold Iron started beating on the bars the door on the bottome floor swung closed and with a "click" locked

Cold's just kinda broken... This was the worst possible thing, ever. All he kept doing was just pounding on the gate saying "no" over and over again. Splitting the party was ALWAYS a bad omen... Even if it didn't spell death, it was always bad. The team was now at half power in both groups. Anything either side faced was when the team wasn't at their theoretical best. Which is ALWAYS bad news in Cold's mind.

Spoiler:

So what if we-
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Or try-
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Bet it tastes like-
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The Reini screamed, throwing her hooves in the air.
"I CAN'T THINK WITH ALL THIS SNASHING! Knock it off so I can think, or I'll buck you in the stomach and [i]make[/I{ you quit it!"

A shme, since during her rant she missed the click from below.

Cold was shaken and just turns around. "What?" was all he said. "We're cut off from our allies... Both groups are the team at half power... Also splitting the party ALWAYS is a bad omen I've learned." He was less trying to talk to the Reini, but more justify his actions to himself.

[color=#0066ff]"Half power? Not exactly. We've got a brainiac, a ninja and the only route is back out the fracture. They've got two medics, a soldier ant and a dead end. Nd we've both got a giant death ray pointing at us. I wouldn't say half. Death ray lighthouse. Hmm... I wonder how that works."[color]

She turned away from Iron, kneeling toward the ground.

"The light goes down, and burns ponies. But there aren't any scorch marks on the bars. So does it only damage animate material? Hmm. Hey, someone try throwing something into the light, and tell me what happens!"

The knife clatters into the light. The cloth on the handle turns black and chard but the metal is fine. The knife touched something else in the light.

With no immediate answer to the problem, nor any immediate threat if she stays out of the light, Heart calms down, backs away, and begins looking around for other ways out, mechanisms that might control the light, big shiny buttons, monsters, stallions behind a curtain, etc.

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Perception: 18+3=21

Wormwood jumped in alarm at the sizzling with Bleeding Heart entered the light briefly. "You all right, Bleeding? Call me master of the obvious, but I don't think that light is good news."
He then attempted to scrutinize the room...

Perception Roll:

As Cold's mind brewed with ideas... She looked over the Light of Doom as carefully as she could.

skill check:

Bleeding Heart sees a keyhole in the door

Wormwood sees a key in the center of the circle of light

Cold Iron can just barly see the light fixture. Closer inspection may be required.

"Hey, this needs a key!" Heart calls out. "Maybe its a trick, maybe we need to open it with the key to get out!" She was skeptical of herself- she saw the brick wall behind the door, she knew a key made no difference. But it locked itself, so that had to be some kind of answer.

Wormwood perks up. "Well, there's a key in the center of the light... is there anything around we could get it out with?"

Heart turns around and looks for the key. Seeing it, her horn lights up, and she tries to lift the key with her telekinesis, pulling it over to the door.

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Because I just KNOW it wont work, I'm leaving it open ended.

Heart's horn heats up like she is touching a baking tin right out of the oven without any mitts.

(OOC: Heart's horn gets burned she let's go of the key which didn't move at all. No fatal dmg)

72 sees Heart's attempts with the key. He looks up at Cold and The Reini "Do you see anything that could be of use up there?"

Heart lets out a scream, clutching her horn. "OOOwww ow ow, hot!" She stays far away from the light. "I can't get it!"

"You have a unicorn and a shapeshifter, I don't think you should be criticising us on usefulness."

The Reini hummed, staring at the beam of light.

"And to think, I left it back in the lab..." she muttered. "I don't suppose any of you happen to have a...urgh, it doesn't translate well! Something to hold the light in... a light trap? What an imprecise language you Equestrians have..."

"....Oh my gosh, that's- I do!" Heart pulls an old, ornate locket out of her front pocket. She opens it, her horn glowing as she casts a spell, chanting. "Occidere solis, inducet noctem!" The locket glows as well, and suddenly all the light in the room is snuffed out.

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Gothic Locket (Light Trap) (3) – 1/Day
Preparation Time: 10 Seconds
Pull all the light within 50 feet of you into a small object you are holding. For the next 1 minute or until the object is destroyed the area affected is completely black. Treat the area as if it was obscured by a cloud of total darkness. You may release the light trapped within the object at any time you are not in combat, either returning the area to normal illumination or releasing the light in a brilliant flash that blinds all creatures seeing it for five seconds.

Cold Iron claps, just for both the Reini's comment & seeing that Heart happened to have such a skill. This filled her with pride knowing that her team's power wasn't truly cut in half, but was skilled enough to deal with whatever trials were before them even in the two groups that they've now become.

As the light dissapears so does the key leaving only the nail that was holding it in place.

In the darkness a hissing noise can be heard coming from your bags. The longer you are in the darkness the louder the hissing gets. You can hear something moving around on the stairs and the bottom floor, but you cannot see what it is.

"QUICK GET THE KEY NOW THE SOONER THE BETTER!" Cold yells, she was deeply worried, but was trusting her allies could solve this without her aid at this point of time. But was getting ready to throw knifes to distract anything that tries to attack the Healer Team.

skill check fail: