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 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:24 pm
Nodding, she took a deep breath and followed her through the tunnel, doing her best to keep her fear on the back burner. As they went deeper, she looked around the tunnel with wide eyes, in awe of the digital-like markings in the walls and the many butterflies swirling and fluttering about. Looking towards the small girl in the middle of the larger body of water, she looked from her to Kailani, then back to the girl.
Letting go of Kailani's hands, she did her best to keep her fear subdued, keeping her eyes on the girl in front of her and not the seemingly endless body of water below her.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:42 pm
The humongous jellyfish swirled about beneath the surface of the water, appearing to be large enough for even Moira to ride had she intended to. The little girl smiled brightly up to Moira as she approached, a soft and innocent face as she held out her hand to take Moira's and flipped it palm up. "This is for you..." she child spoke, bringing forth her other hand that had been behind her the whole time. It held a deep blue stone the same as the others, chiming lightly whenever it was moved. Dark blues with light murky greens swirled within the orb as the little girl placed it into Moira's hand. The little girl placed her hands over the orb and it began to glow, resonating with the markings on the walls as it shone bright enough to make even Kailani cover her eyes for a moment.
When the light subsided, the orb was gone and Moira now had three arms and the little girl giggled a bit. "You might be a little lopsided until you find the last stone... You passed it on the way here. It's in the side of the cliff you jumped from to get down here. Kailani can show you the way." she instructed in her little voice. The water moved slightly as it began to pull away from Moira and a rock terrace rose up from beneath to give Moira to firmly plant her feet on. "Good luck, pumpkin!" the little girl exclaimed with a giggle and ran back toward the draining water and jump down into deep waters further up and did not resurface.
Kailani stood there watching, an endearing smile on her face. "...I knew it... they want you to have the stones... There's just one left. Then maybe the forest will let us go back to the village..." there was a slight remorse in her voice. "Then you can go home.."
"Anyway, I bet everyone's worried about us, we should try to get back..."
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:05 pm
As she was handed the orb, she looked down at it, squinting down at it and rolling it in her hands before it started to glow bright. Putting the orb into her left hand, she held up her right arm to block the light, though as it subsided, she felt a sudden bit of weight on her right side, a second right arm now hanging limp at her side. Distracted by the third arm, Moira wasn't fully aware that the water ha been moving before she was standing on top of the rock terrace. Slowly lifting up the second right arm, she tried to focus on moving it, finding the muscles to move it similar to the ones she used when she had originally had wings.
"This is so weird.." she mumbled before looking over to Kailani and smiling back, "My offer to adopt you still stands, even if I have three arms now." she laughed a little bit before looking around the cave, "the girl said that there's one more stone and it's in the side of the cliff..."
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:22 pm
Kailani watched her struggle to maneuver with the new arm, now starting to realize maybe this wasn't a thing she just... did. As Moira mentioned adopting her, she smiled, even if her eyes were beginning to wander, maybe as though honestly considering her offer but said nothing. She did chuckle about the third arm part now as she waved Moira back to her. "In the side of the cliff. That's at least a 40 ft drop..." she exhaled with a bit of worry and slight exasperation. "Well, it would be the fastest way back towards the village." she half-joked. "But first, we should get out of the cave." she commented, waiting to take one of Moira's hand before moving back through the cave the way they came, the water they had cross was much more shallow now as well, only come up to her ankles now.
In the first section where all the lanterns were fallen, Kailani put them back up where they belong, putting the red one in the direction Moira had come, and then following the red lanterns again. Despite how odd this seemed, it somehow followed back to the opening of the cave and where Kailani's blouse was. "I'm really glad you didn't get lost in the cave... you must have followed the red ones.. right?" she spoke quietly with a faint smile.
Kailani put her green blouse on now that it was at least a little more dry and she moved out of the cave and looked up the cliffside just outside. Frowning, she looked around. "Do you see it?"
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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That One Halfling rolled 1 20-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:43 pm
Moira nodded, "Yeah, I followed the red ones, it felt right to find them. Your eyes, my grandmothers eyes, the blood I kept seeing in my wolf form..." she mumbled, rubbing the back of her head with her main right arm, the other one still just hanging at her side. It was going to take her quite awhile to get used to having another arm, though if the fourth stone was anything like the previous, she would more than likely end up with four arms.
As they made their way out of the cave and looked up, Moira squinted and looked up along the cliff side, "I think so.."
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:51 pm
Kailani was visibly embarrassed by the mention of reasoning behind following the red lanterns, quickly trying to focus on the other things she said she had seen.
As they peered up she tried to see where in the cliffside the orb would be. "Ahh.. It's hard to tell.. but I think I see glowing up there in one of the divets..." she spoke calmly as she pointed to about halfway up the side of the cliff. "I'd be able to tell if we were closer..." she commented then frowned. "How are we even going to get up there?"
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:49 pm
Squinting more, Moira sighed and let her hands fall to her sides, "Well.. I can't fly, so that's out of the question...I don't particularly like the idea of climbing up a straight cliff...with nothing but the ocean below me and the possibility of death from that height.." as she spoke of the height, she looked down at the ground, clearly uneasy about it. "I have an idea on how to get up there, but I'm not sure how much weight they can hold.." as she spoke, she rubbed the back of her head an sighed.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 4:16 pm
"I can't fly either..." she commented solemnly as she tried to think of a different way to get up there. "I mean, I can climb, but 40ft is a long way up and a long drop should anything go wrong.l" her voice was soft despite her own fear as she looked toMoiea. "What's your idea?"
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:11 pm
"Well..." Moira sighed and ran her hand through her hair again, looking back up at the cliff, "I can summon some rock walls to technically walk on..or I could burrow into the rock, but it'd take about an hour or so to get up there with the right depth and making sure we don't go too high or too low.." she muttered, letting out yet another sigh.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:18 pm
"Oh, like the wall of stone you made in Drisall... That may be the safer option, we just need to get up halfway and get the stone... Burrowing might cause the whole cave below to collapse..." she thought for a moment. "Oh shoot, but then how do we get to the top to get back to the village?..." Kailani made a frustrated noise as she thought of how to get up there. "I don't know..." she finally answered with a frown and then looked to Moira.
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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That One Halfling rolled 1 20-sided dice:
10
Total: 10 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:24 pm
"Yeah.... I mean, I guess I can try and get all the way up with the pillars - ...though wait, I have an idea.. maybe." Moira smiled a little bit before pulling Kailani close and summoning a pillar below the two of them, the pillar shooting up around ten feet tall.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:35 pm
As Kailani was pulled in tightly, the ground shot up as her eyes widened and her body tensed up. "Ed' i'ear ar' elenea!" she blurted out quickly as a sort of exclamation of being caught completely off guard, gripping onto Moira tightly then buried her face into Moira's chest as she was starting to tremble and her breathing quickened. "...amin delotha sina amin delotha sina amin delotha sina...." she was muttering under her breath until she gain enough composure to even look how far up they were before burying her face into Moira once again, still shaking tremendously. Peeking out just a bit, she pointed her quivering finger up to one of the holes in the cliffside that appeared to be glowing softly now that they were higher up. "K-keep going... I think... it's there..."
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:39 pm
As they shot up into the air, Kailani clinging to her, Moira was grinning, that was until she looked down to console the girl. As she got to see just how high up they were, she felt a little bit dizzy and had to rest her hand on the wall and close her eyes, taking a shaky breath in. 'I ... I can do this. I can do this. I used to fly all the time... I got this..' Moira thought to herself before forcing the pillar to go up about ten more feet, slowly getting closer to the hole in the cliff side.
"Ha..hahaa I can't even look down. I'm scared too." Moira laughed uneasily.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:58 pm
Kailani made a muffled noise of panic as she felt the pillar move again. She was still shaking bad as she heard Moira's voice. She was scared too, which was slightly comforting that she understood the fear of high up they were. She took a couple deep breaths to try to calm herself before looking slightly upward and focusing on the cliffside rather than how far away the ground was. "There.." she pointed to a glowing hole that was just out of her own reach but Moira was tall enough to reach inside the rather deep but narrow hole easily. "I think it's in this one... it's the only one that's glowing like that..." she commented, still holding tightly to Moira.
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 7:10 pm
"We can do this together..." Moira whispered, saying it for both Kailani and herself, figuring that they were helping each other with this chared fear as they went higher, high enough to actually see the glowing hole. Taking a deep breath, she reached up to put her hand into the hole, really hoping that it was the final orb.
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