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Faleen stopped, in the crowded group, lit from the bottom and top by pokemon.
The light illuminated a few... out of place markings.

She didn't say anything, staring from the pads to the carvings."hum..."

After a few moments, looking over what clues they did have. she had a couple of options.
She didn't know who would have left the carvings there, but she guessed it was something the held figure out the combination.

Walking over she tried from top to bottom, but in numbers 'Eights, one, nine, and six' as her first attempt

Aila resisted the urge to have Pitre Hammer Arm the stupid door. The cavern was definitely messing with them. It was messing with them in the worst possible way. She was sick of caves, sick of closed spaces, sick of everything. She wanted to go back to the base and take a shower and maybe watch a movie.

Ugh, but no. They were trapped in a room in a mine in a cave in a mountain where they had haplessly crashed and ugh. Calming breaths. The design of the lock caught her attention; how many unfortunate idiots had wandered in only to be trapped when they realized they didn't know the combination? How much productivity had been wasted while they shouted for someone outside to let them out?

...That was a distressing thought, and Aila promptly abandoned it. Instead she turned her attention to inspecting the room, and the carved word caught her attention as Tethys referenced it. She narrowed her eyes at the thing.

"...Is this some kind of clue, do you think? To people that got stuck here accidentally?" She pointed to the E, "Backwards it's a 3, right? And the O could be a 0..." None of this had any relation to the number 7, though...

As all the Rockets voiced theories and Faleen tried the lock, Deimos had started scribbling the equation he'd been mumbling in his journal. "SSHHHHHH!! I'm trying to concentrate!!"

His attempts at concentration were broken by the loud click of the lock opening in Faleen's hands. E O N S. Eight One Nine Six.

Deimos' eyebrow twitched.

TRP looked very impressed, "..excellent work, Faleen. .....Though I'd like to know who closed that door.. or how the padlock locked itself.."

Deimos' breathing was speeding up. The sedatives were definitely wearing off, "It's gotta be pokémon, right? Has anyone seen any pokémon??"

"No."

Upon opening the door again the group would be presented with another surprise. All the supplies they needed had been piled neatly on the other side of the door. Like a prize.

"Who put that there?"

Well that was... surprisingly quick. Good, she wanted to get the hell out of this damned cave, out of the stupid mine, away from the mountain and away from the Galactics. Freaking Arceus.

It was so much easier to channel her nervousness into frustration.

...wait who put the supplies there? There had to be ghost-types around that were messing with them and playing tricks on them. There had to be. The creepiness of the mine was starting to make her more nervous, maybe even -- no, no, Tethys was still creepier. She preferred the mine over Tethys. "Better get this all back to the lift, I suppose," though she didn't trust it either.

Tethys gave her leader a doubtful look as they filed out. "Sir, perhaps you should breathe. I can empty the sandwich bag.."

Ah, that did explain the scratched off sevens... With a knowing nod, Aila moved to remove herself from the room finding her path - her mental path, at least - blocked by all of the supplies that had been removed from the supply room. She closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. "We're being played for fools," she muttered, "but I'll take it if it means we can get out of this infernal mine." Again, as if it would be so simple. Whatever it was that was toying around with them likely wasn't going to be satisfied with the results of its puzzle, especially considering Faleen had solved it so quickly.

"Arceus, just let us get out of here already..." The words were muted, the tone weary. Aila was exhausted by the unexpected detour. Hopefully they wouldn't be sent to to outpost after this...