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[Ella Barnett]

Maybe the puzzle was trickier than Ella originally conceived, and she'd have to move things around. She paused at a wall of urns and sighed, not relishing the idea of having to tip over a bunch of people pots, but when it came to looting, one did what one must.

She tentatively lifted the lid on one of the urns, which displaced enough of the weight on that shelf to topple another one further down. It kicked up a pile of dust--people dust--and Ella couldn't stop wheezing, even if she covered her mouth as she reeled away.

Oh, ew. Gross. She'd just inhaled somebody's dust, and it was probably butt dust. Gross, gross, gross.

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You come across a large wall of urns. Without warning, one of them slips off the wall and shatters at your feet, sending dust flying around you. You lose - 5 HP

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HP: 5

[ Entering Sailor Genbu ]

The shift from that first place to here was startling, disorienting, and Genbu stumbled as she landed, pitching to the side before catching her self a shelf carved into stone walls. "Woah, that's not fun," she huffed, hoisting herself up and glancing around for Seiryuu before looking up to see what she'd caught herself on.

"Jesus ********!" That was a dead body. that was a ******** dead body! She snatched her hand back like the stone had burned her, backing up rapidly from the old corpse on the slab, only to give a startled squeal as she bumped into the opposite wall.

When she whipped around there were more shelves, more bodies. They were surrounded by them. Rows and rows of bones and dust and death disappearing into darkness on all sides. The only light from a lantern resting on the ground beside the wall. The tall girl grabbed it, turning the knob the turn the flame up a little higher. "Where the ******** are we?"

A voice echoed softly through the tunnels. "Just how curious are you? Enough to riffle through the dead? You're looking for a golden bone. Find it, and you pass this trial."

"Oh come on." That was wrong on just so many levels.

Seiryuu, Senshi of the East- Entering

As soon as they were in, Seiryuu snatched her hand from Genbu, cradling it close to her chest and looking away from the woman. She had just witness her cousin being crushed to death and now they were in a bottle of trials surrounded by death.

She wanted to puke.

She didn't care anymore, if this stupid voice wanted them to rifle through bones, then she'd ******** do it. Her cousin was GONE. Did that even matter?

"Just look." She wiped away tears and hurried over to a body, when a third voice joined them, sounding a lot like her cousin. She turned, stared at the man, mouth open before blinking. "What....the ********?" Was this a trick?

She came up to him, "I saw you die!" She flailed her arms around, "You were CRUSHED." She started to inspect his body and then came to stand in front of him, taking him by the shoulder and shaking him.

"What the ******** is happening?"

Eurydike

It was a big reaction, more than he'd honestly expected. To be fair, he didn't really know what his death (that was awkward to say) would've looked like from an outside perspective, but Harley was a pretty recent addition to his life.

Though he guessed, what would he have done if it'd been her? That's different. She's different. You're you. That didn't change the fact that he'd been enough for her to cry over, and maybe it was a little selfish or something, but... he was honestly kind of touched, and he was suddenly very, very glad he hadn't just given up and laid there in the ground. If she was like this now, how bad would it have been if he hadn't come right back?

At first, he rocked with her shaking him, more dirt falling out of places dirt had no right being, and then he put a hand over her's, trying to stop her as he moved to look her in the eyes. "You're right, you ain't crazy. This place is." He tried to think of the least upsetting way to say it, but, "I totally got crushed, an' then I woke up in the ********' ground, an' then - some other s**t, " because if he could avoid mentioning the porcupine thing he was absolutely going to, "but the point bein', magic's ********' weird as ********, an' I ain't dead or a zombie, so it's okay - I'm okay, " objectively speaking, anyway.

Then, there was a grind of rock, and Eurydike looked up just in time to see the younger senshi get slammed into the ground by a huge ******** slab of a coffin. With a heavy string of curses, he flew over to try and pry the rock up and over, but -

[ Sailor Genbu - Entering ]
Inventory: 1 Attack Potion - 50HP Damage
HP: 20/20
Dice: 1d8

Her landing this time wasn't anymore graceful than the last, but at the very least she managed to keep herself from smacking her face on the stone shelf she caught herself on. Then jumped back and away because she really didn't want a repeat of last time. There hadn't been time for it to hurt, that she could recall, but the sight of that coffin dropping down on her was going to stick with her for a while.

She'd popped up behind her teammate and her cousin and got witness Seiryuu desperately trying to move the coffin with Eurydike's help and a spreading pool of blood on the stone floor. It made her grimace, baby blues flicking up and away because she really didn't need to see that, and then she was hurrying forward to reassure her friend that she was alright.

"Seiry!" Tanned hands caught her by the arm and pulled her back and away from the broken earn at her feet. "It's okay, I'm okay." She let go of her arm so she could catch her cheeks. Making sure those pretty blue eyes saw her whole and unharmed. "I'm sorry. You shouldn't have had to see that, but I'm alright. I promise."

Mauvian Tiberius

Swirling magic dumped the Mauvian pair in yet another strange sub-dimension, this one a sepulcher filled with aging bones and grave-dust. Tiberius gently set Obscura back onto her own four paws and gave her much damper ruff another lick to smooth the ruffled fur back into place. He'd mussed it, it was only polite to set things right after all, even if they were now in the sort of space where each rasp of his keratinized tongue through her fur echoed in a rather unsettling manner.

Again their disembodied 'friend' spoke, giving instruction. "Well, since we're here...might as well be grave robbers..." Tiberius squinted around them, spotting a lantern they could use during the trial, then looked back at Obscura. He was delighted to see that her crying jag was over, "Hey! There's some good news at least. No more magic tear gas." His tail plumed behind him in a slow wag, like a happy banner as he did a flip and produced a single semi-broken roller-skate and some duct-tape from subspace. With these items the Mauvians could simply push - or pull - the lantern along as they searched: it would be much, much easier than trying to carry it in their jaws.

"Perfect." The pair set off - Tiberius didn't have them dig through every mouldering bower, there was no need, they could just smell if there happened to be anything worth pilfering. A rusty knife. A ring of some unidentifiable metal - unidentifiable only because it was so filthy.

And then, amongst the creepy skeletons, spiders, and centipedes, Tiberius' lantern flickered. His ears swept back in displeasure as it flickered repeatedly before going out. "That's annoying." Contrary to popular belief, cats couldn't see in the dark, they only had enhanced vision in low light; without any illumination, both Mauvians were blinded as much as anyone. Something touched the guard hairs on the back of Tiberius' neck and he bit back a hiss, not wanting to scare the kitten.

When the light bloomed back into existence, he growled softly. One of those dog-rotting skeletons was definitely looking at him. "I will piss in your eye socket, bonebreath." He muttered, moving delicately between Obscura and the pile of bones. "Nothing useful here, let's move on."

Tiberius' Inventory
Health Potion - Restores 10 HP
Attack Potion - 50 HP DMG

Mauvian Tiberius HP: 15/20

Obscura listened to what Tiberius had to say - and paid attention to the tricks he had to teach - so much more than any of the senshi under his care ever had. It was really nice and extremely gratifying, to be honest.

He supposed that it would have been a little easier on them both if he'd gone ahead and utilized his humanoid form for this trial, considering the amount of heavy objects that they were encountering...but the bonuses for having and using that particular form weren't quite worth it to his mind. Sure, it could be a boon..but generally? Just a pain. Except for hands.

Bless having hands.

The kitten climbed one of the coffins after making a good suggestion to search them too - Tiberius had been trying to avoid them, mostly because coffins often meant embalming, which meant less 'clean' corpses and more 'wet' rotty corpses - but he couldn't argue with Obscura's logic when it was so sound. "Good idea, kiddo. Just be careful, those things are probably full of booby tra--"

And there it was. A trap. Tiberius bounded over to the coughing kitten and chittered angrily at the offending coffin. "Good thing we have those potions." Taking a moment as Obscura recovered, the larger Mauvian groomed his small charge, clearing the dust from her dark, silky fur; when she was deemed suitable they would continue on. Three large stone tombs called to Tiberius, two of the lids were already ajar which made determining the worthlessness of their crumbling contents easy enough, but the third required some finesse - and physics - in order to pry open.

Unfortunately it dropped and pinched part of his tail in the most painful way, causing Tiberius to yowl and hiss at the heavy stoneware object for all he was worth until he managed to scrabble it off his poor, abused tail. "Ow, ow ow ow-- damn stupid stone trashcan!" He licked gingerly at his tail, puffing up and holding perfectly still at the surge of pain that told him two things: ow and also nothing was broken, thankfully. After a few minutes hunkered over with his elbows sticking up like sharp, fluffy peaks above his head and his tail wrapped around so it was tucked under his chin, the mackerel tabby Mauvian was finally ready to continue on.

"Okay. That sucked. Better luck to both of us next time."

Tiberius' Inventory
Health Potion - Restores 10 HP
Attack Potion - 50 HP DMG