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Rosc had done his best to protect himself from the debris, but he couldn't dodge them all. The heavy force had cracked against his back, sent him back to his knees, but didn't keep him down. He was back on his feet and running after Sin and the crazy reaper. He didn't want to follow, because that meant he was giving some sort of trust to her, but what other choice did he have?

He had to get out of there, and this seemed like the only way. Besides, he wasn't about to let Sin out of his sight if he could help it. He'd lost her once already, he knew it would shake her too strongly to lose track of one of her friends.
It would shake him too much to lose track of her in this place.

Just as he stepped onto the path the reaper had made, he felt it crumble beneath him. His wings spread, but it did nothing to help him as he fell, his damaged wing completely useless when it came to flight.

"SIN!"

And then there was nothing, no even a white feather in the darkness.

((Rosc's HP :: 23 - 8 = 15

Ohshit... Poor Rosc))

Ah, there! West bent over to retrieve his bat, his fingers just beginning to curl around it when something screeched. Ow.

"Jackdammit!" the boil yelled, straightening once more. That weird cloaked ghoul was back and she was suddenly not so cloaked anymore. Ahem. It seemed she was still crazy though. "What's wrong wit'you," he muttered under his breath. She wanted them to die? Well too Jackin' bad! He watched as Famine made her way unsteadily across some sort of invisible bridge. Okay, he could do that. He continued to watch as the succubus followed suit followed by the incubus and, well s**t, that wasn't good. The ground crumbled out from under Rosc and then Holly...

...

Holly was fine. She had to be.

West was sorely tempted to drop to his hands and knees and feel his way across after watching his friend disappear into that chasm, but he decided that would be pretty lame of him after all he had been through already. West chose a path that seemed to mirror the one Famine had taken and strode across the invisible bridge, head held high. He sighed with relief when he reached the other side. If anyone called him on the sigh, they would get a bat to the kneecaps.

He glared at Famine and the students who had made it this far, then looked back over the rift at Savior. If the Marrowstripe made it across, the first thing he was going to do was tell her to eat this horned b***h.

((This has been edited if youre reading this! I accidentally read the dice roll wrong!!

Bul was about to keep moving until a sudden ruckus occurred behind him. All he could do was turn and look to see what had happened and noticed the cloak had revealed themselves. Were they... helping the students? "Huh?" he asked then ran to the edge of the chasm to watch.

"Guys come on you can do it" he roared angrily. He already lost one friend there was no way he was going to let another fall down into the abyss.

Sin went over.. but Holly and Rosc went. "s**t.. s**t!" he growled furiously. "Way to make a s**t a** bridge!" barked the half beast. He extended his hand to those who were still making it across, including West. He too watched anxiously for the Marrowstripe to cross, seemingly hoping she would make it so they could make better light of their situation earlier.. but..

Bul did happen to see the black papers that the Marrowstripe grabbed for and watched some of the others flutter about but could not reach them from where he stood. Instead of grabbing for the paper though, he went to where Savior was hanging and also extended a hand to her, though if West made it first would simply do what he could to keep her from stumbling back into the pit.

(( HP: 18 - 8 = 10 ))

Dazed, Aurian lay on the ground where she'd fallen as the centralised earthquake had struck. Falling debris rained down. Aurian's first attempt at getting back to her feet had failed when something struck her from above. By the time she shook it off, a strange woman had appeared. She seemed to be ushering more students across the chasm.

At first Aurian thought they were being herded to their death, but as she saw ghouls walking across the air, she realised there must be a bridge of some sort. Of course it couldn't actually be visible to make this easy on them, oh no. The island wasn't that nice.

Aurian had a moment's thought to wonder if this new woman was the daughter of Famine that the riddle had spoken of. She was easily distracted, though, first by grabbing at several of the black pieces of paper that the Famine-lady was shedding like feathers, and then it was her turn to cross the chasm.

It was a terrible balancing act. With the metal pipe tucked back in her bag (along with the black paper pieces), Aurian raised her arms out at her side and took a first, faltering step out into midair.

"Don't look down, don't look down," she muttered to herself, repeating it over and over again. Red eyes remained fixed on the other side, refusing to see anything but Aurian's goal, as though that would ensure her success. Perhaps it helped. Slowly but surely, Aurian crossed the chasm. She wasn't immune to the cries of students who fell, flinching as if struck at every one. One of the voices sounded like Damien - Aurian's vision blurred and she prayed to Jack that she was mistaken.

Finally reached the other side, Aurian collapsed. She'd never been so glad to have ground below her again, not even after the shipwreck. After a few moments of shaky breathing and tremors wracking her body, Aurian wiped at her eyes and tried to pull herself together. She looked around, hoping to see that all her friends had made it.

Hobbling over to West and Saviour, Aurian gave them relieved smiles. They weren't as bright as her usual ones, and the reason was soon apparent. "I thought I heard Damien fall... Did our other companions also...?" she trailed off, unable to ask who had made it and who had not.

Death wasn't permanent in Halloween Town, Aurian knew. But this wasn't Halloween Town, and the island had been anything but kind to them so far. Jack willing, the fallen students would re-form. Aurian had never had friends before this trip - she didn't want to lose them so easily.

Uh oh. Uh oh. That's all that seemed to be running through Alcie's head as she stared at the ever growing chasm. This was pretty much as bad as it was going to get or she could hardly imagine how it could be worse.

She watched as Rosc walk across the seemingly impossible bridge and she gasped out loud when she saw Rosc fall into the depths below. Cursing audibly, the water demon knew that she couldn't stay here. She was going to die anyway so might as well just take a step of faith. She remembered to grab the little black pieces of paper also before she stepped out on the invisible bridge.

She almost wanted to look away but Alcie kept her eyes glued to the other side. If she looked at the floor, she didn't think that she would be able to make it across. She kept inching across the rift but then changed her mind and ran into a full sprint. There was no way she was going to stay on here longer than she needed to.

"Dear Jack." Somehow she managed to get to the other side and she gave a huge sigh of relief. Then she realized that Sin had made it but Rosc didn't. There were quite a few students that hadn't made it across the rift. Alcie had no idea what to say to Sin or if anything she said would be able to comfort her. "I'm so sorry Sin! I don't know what happened to Rosc or the other students but I think they'll be okay." Frowning, Alcie didn't know how to hide the concern and fear in her voice.

((Alcie's hp: 19 - 8 = 11 HP))

"Damien fell, yeah," West confirmed. "An' th'ghoul witthe dolls an'Holly an'..." He gestured at Sin and her crying but didn't comment further.

In response to Famine's outburst, West turned away from Savior and Aurian for a second to tear open his bag and pull out two rumpled sheets of paper. "Here! Y'want paper?" he said, throwing the sheets at the strange ghoul. "An'thissun too!" It wasn't like West had discerned what was on them yet or would any time soon. He hoped the crazy hag choked on them.