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Part 1: A: Escaping The Tunnels & Acid Room

At last, he heard Pokemon music play through the headset. Unfortunately, it did not keep his spirit in a good mood. The rancid smell still surrounded him. His current situation was far worse than fighting the swarm of locusts or the heat in the desert...

After some minutes had passed, the Pokemon music stopped and he heard Mark's voice again - this time he was being told to abort the entire mission.

There was no hesitation. If he stayed in this horrid room any longer he would lose focus and consciousness from vomiting so much -- and die a slow and painful death while smelling his own flesh being corroded away.

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[ PART 1: To escape your ZONE YOU ARE IN ], roll 1d4 to try to navigate through the mess and match the results to your character. If your character is KO'ed they need someone else to take them/ roll their dice for this part.

- If they KO DURING this phase, then they will need someone to carry them through the next phase

1) Your character sustains light damage as they escape. They take -5 damage (cannot go below 0 HP)
2) Your character is barraged by a swarm of insects as they try to escape. They take -10 damage (cannot go below 0 HP)
3) Your character is being chased by the largest scorpion they've ever seen and get stung badly in (pick a location). The venom spreads rapidly making them lose focus. They take -15 damage (cannot go below 0 HP)
4) Rocks fall on your character. It is terrible. They take -20 damage (cannot go below 0 HP)
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Sy would;ve gone further down the tunnels to look for Mark if the acid had not ate the meat off of his feet. it hurts so bad to even walk on them. Staggering against a solid wall outside the meat room, the boy took out one of the two water bottles he had left. the third he had lost sometime between fighting the swarm and crawling in the dark...

He uncapped the lid and poured the water over his feet to try and wash the remaining acid that desperately tried to cling onto his feet to corrode more flesh... "******** it hurts..." he said out loud and ripped the sleeves off from his jacket. His uniform was completely tattered and ruined.

Taking advantage of the glowing bugs again inside the tunnel, he sat down for a moment to wrap the cloth around each of his bleeding feet, tying the knot as tight as he could. He was about done with the second knot when friggen buzzing noises echoed through the tunnels again.

"Wtf now?" he screamed and scrambled to his feet. The pain jolted up to his calves. The noises were nothing more but of bloodsucking insects. typical for they could smell the blood oozing from the bottom of his feet.

Sy ran awkwardly as he backtracked, limping through the tunnel, unable to fight off the insects. After giving his last efforts to escape, he'd spotted the cave's entrance, and had lost more blood. The insect stings were painful too but not as painful as running with open wounds at the bottom of his feet. He wished he was lighter as for each step that he took while running felt like knives being stabbed deep into his soles and flesh.

The boy fell forward out of the cave, into the heat and into the sunlight, grains of sand had flown into his mouth but he didn't care. He was outside the cave, the insects didn't follow, he laid there, just breathing, his whole body sore and aching.

But it wasn't over yet...

Sy's current HP: 29 - 10 = 19 / 40

[ THE DISSECTION ROOM ] -> Searching for TUNNELS/Shu

What was a highly illogical atmosphere shifted back into an undeniably logical one, and Mimsy's posture relaxed as she made the connection of what must have happened. It was reasonable to conclude that the moths produced some sort of hallucinogen in addition to its sedative effects, and her family had still been with her all along.

Of course, this did mean that the two horsemen who had attacked each other until one ceased combat had not been horsemen at all; she gave Lawr a lengthy stare to convey her understanding of his actions, then moved to tend to the sobbing pile near her. She had no doubt that this was the order in which her mother would have wanted her to do this.

"Mother." Both her voice and the touch of her hand against the woman's hair were uncharacteristically affectionate; she still had no idea how to comfort someone, but this was how Robert always calmed her, excepting an enveloping hug that she was simply not willing to give to Caroline. "You will need to stand up. What you were seeing was not indicative of reality."

Then the whispers began again, naturally choosing the worst possible time to do so. She pressed her lips into a thin, unamused line, and intended to set to work reversing this too.

But something took precedent. First Shu's voice, then Mark's, warning them to get out of the cave. She'd made a rule for herself before embarking, one dictating that she'd leave at the first sign that she might not make it home to her husband and her child, but she couldn't do that - not without Shu. Not without Dwight.

"Shu? Shu, where are you? I am coming to find you. I will help - please continue to be careful in the meantime."

She stood to leave just as Caroline began to push herself up and off of the floor, and looked first to Liam, then to Lucky.

"I expect you to aid mother, if further assistance is necessary," she informed Liam, before returning her attention to her brother. "In her previous communication, Shu stated that she was venturing into the tunnels. I am going to find them. If you will be joining me, come with me now. If you are not, please inform Mark of our position when you are safe."

With that, she gathered and secured her belongings, then began to journey further into the caves.

-ignore this totally forgot the eye rolling blindness

The Tunnel -Locust Attack
Matt watched as the locust began to avoid both hunters after their efforts of shooting them away from where their were standing.

“No I am not saying that this is one of their lairs what I am saying is that is likely that these things have something to do with them. Which means they are either were here or still here. As for Dwight being alive there's about a fifty/fifty shot that he is still alive somewhere if he is lucky. Our mission is to find him so that is what we are going to do and avoid getting killed in the process.” Before the older hunter could say anything else to the younger sun a loud buzzing began to erupt from the tunnels as locust began to surge forward stinging blindly as they tried to escape.

HP: 48 -7 = 41

Tunnels being stung


The locust clung around, stinging sharply as Harper continued to swing widely doing her best to chase them away completely unaware to what was going on to any of the other hunters or even more so where she was in the maze of tunnels to the entrance that she had come from. It felt as if there was no escape until they started to fade away as a rumbling noise of buzzing began to grow.

Harper froze in horror as a swarm filled the tunnel heading in her direction before overtaking her stinging as they flew by.

HP:33/40

Prison Escaping- ready to support

Having all the empathy of a rock, Elio arrived at the prison as soon as Mark told them to abort the mission. Suited the Italian just fine. Callous perhaps, but the man was not one to prioritize someone above himself. As he turned around to escape the prison and underground caverns, he found himself facing off a very large scorpion. Spear summoned he wasn't fast enough to kill it, stinger getting his leg and making him shout in sudden pain and fire.

It burned and he hissed, pressing onward.

[ Tunnels ]

Travis might have panicked a little bit. It was dark and far more terrifying than he'd imagined any cave had a right to be. He'd heard stories of dark places and bug infestations, but it was another thing altogether to actually see it.

So, when the call came to leave, Travis was all over that. Especially since the sounds of buzzing were growing louder. And louder. "Ow!" Something had just stung him. "Ow!" Another one. He couldn't even see the damn things, but he sure could feel them.

40 - 5 = 35hp