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Elidae chooses B.4--->B.6
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Gaze scanning the crowd, Elidae sought out the owner of the voice calling her name- as well as another name, Sarcel. Lorata! The gorgeous seadweller! She glanced up at the blueblood. Did they know each other? Lorata sure did know a lot of amazing trolls. While she wanted to bounce up to the purpleblood and embrace her, they were in an urgent rush to get out of the gaseous room. The blueblood's comment made her stumble. Tealblood?! "Hemera!" Elidae shouted, urging her to follow suit. While holding onto the older troll, Lorata on the other side, they made for the exit, hoping Mera decided to join. Then, somehow, someway, something felt off. In the midst of the chaos, Lorata disappeared.

"Wh-where's Lorata? Lorata!" Elidae called, but there was no answer. No, only she continued to latch onto the blueblood. Oh no. She tried again. "L-Lorata?! Hemera?" Elidae's pace seemed to become sluggish, her vision swirling in a haze. Why was she suddenly so drowsy? Was that heavy noise her breathing? Trying to force herself back into gear, Elidae persevered and continued to match the speed of the speedy blueblood the best she could. Abruptly, she came to a halt. Were those... noises? Standing stiff and attempting to focus on making use of her sponge clots, she could make out the distant noises from behind the walls. Peculiar! However, she perked up at a stranger's voice speaking her name.

"Ah! That's it! My name is Elidae!" She brightened, flashing a smile. So Sarcel was her name. "It's lovely to meet you, Sarcel! I sort of wish it wasn't under these circumstances." A strange pang in Elidae's chest denoted her strong appreciation for her kindliness within their current situation.

After the other girl found the opening behind the curtain, Elidae peered around Sarcel's frame into the menacing blackness leading to the unknown. She swallowed hard. What could be lurking down in that passageway? Erilyn Awassi? Monsters? Scawy rainbowdrinkers? Or... or perhaps the possibility of an exit.

"I'm okay. C-Could be a way out, at least?" Gripping Sarcel's hand tighter, Elidae contemplated scurrying away, her eyes flickering to the staircase. Not this again. No. No. Too many times this night she was put in the position of facing this dreadful terror. One would think she would be over it by now, able to conquer the fear. Alas. Last time, she had Kursha to hold onto, and everything turned out... okay. He was nowhere to be found now. This time...? She looked up to Sarcel, finally noting her cherubic face and blue tinted cheeks, adorning a smile. With a firm squeeze of her hand and the grip on the gifted knife strengthening, Elidae nodded her head, matching her grin. She had to be optimistic here. Have a little faith.

"Okay! Let's go!" And they plunged into the darkness.


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Eostre chooses path B.1]

Eostre watched Tamiya leave, and a strange feeling came over her. She was feeling dizzy and sleepy, probably the effects of the gas. That means it's likely not lethal... Still, as Tierte left, she rubbed her eyes and saw a blueblood standing by the curtains looking a bit... dazed. He must have turned off the gas. She walked over, grabbed his hand gently and pulled him along, meeting back up with Nahori and Tierte closer to the exit. "Come on, let's get out of the rumpus block," she said simply, leading her own herd of children to relative safety.

The front door was still obviously locked, like she thought. But upstairs, there were voices. Perhaps Gerard? Or Comedi, if he decided to go to the second floor of the hive. They would likely know a good way out of here. "I'm going to go ahead and go upstairs. Tierte..."She looked the small redblood in the face "See if you can find a way out down here."Eostre glanced at the window, and then to the stairs. She looked at the little orangeblood, who she thought she recognized from somewhere...? Maybe Old Hemisect. And the blueblood she didn't know, but she always had a soft spot for bluebloods like herself.

She wasn't going to let anyone be upstairs without her! She put on her knuckle dusters and charged up the stairs, ready to punch some people and maybe get something good done.

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Yunonia

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saihen

eostre herds the children quickly so we can move on

Tigwyn Ioyana

Tigwyn hung back. The kids were finally filtering out of the room - helping each other, grabbing hands, buddying up. Touching. He sniffed and shook his head, clearing his mind for another shot. Those windows had to go. He waited before the bulk of the other partygoers had left and with a shrill peal his telekinesis laid waste to the windows of the rumpus block. Fresh air. He ripped the outside camera off of its base and tossed it aside. With a shaky hand, Tigwyn lit up another cigarette and stalked cautiously after the rest of the group up the stairs.

OPTION: B.6] Walk forwards with your hands out

Once inside the dark secret pathway, the highblood was determined to find Awassi, though she couldn't do things recklessly. After all, she did threw some cookies and the little smell trap they had pulled made the child feel a bit worst. Eridia was tempted to investigate her surroundings, but that would get her sidetracked and there was a murderer to catch! She had to catch them first to rub it all over certain grupos of trolls on her growing hit list. Eridia chuckled evilly as she navigated through the dark, imagining her success over those idiots, magnificent. Her evil chuckles echoed a bit in the secret passway, which just made her want to do it more. The child remembered her father had the luminescent tube Hazmas gave her, yet she knew it wasn't even useful for this kind of situation. Plus, that would turn her into an easy target.

[+] Kursha Vidari

Selects: Path B4 --> B8
Sleuthsparks: 8/10

Kursha just barely cleared the pit, landing in an undignified sprawl. Picking himself up off the floor, he glanced around and clicked his tongue against his teeth. In his haste he had lost track of Schrad and the others. He needed to slow down, think, and approach the situation carefully. Considering that Awassi stood to hang, it seemed reasonable to assume that the greenblood would attempt to kill their would-be executioners first. Rushing into things head first might result in him losing it.

Pausing for a moment to collect himself, Kursha surveyed his surroundings. As he did, he heard the muffled sound of voices. They came from his right, leading to... a wall. Made sense. Awassi had vanished seemingly into thin air. Learning all that he had about her hive, he did not find it hard to believe that she had secret passages in place. Withdrawing the combat knife from his boot, Kursha approached the wall, feeling for cracks in the surface. A moment later, the wall swung open and he found himself facing a familiar seadweller before the world became swallowed up in darkness.

“So... I take it that this party was not some elaborate scheme to weed out problems in the ranks?” he asked, as his eyes adjusted. While still too dark for him to make out much, he could see the vague silhouette of the empress and the length of the passage. Brushing past Regina, he continued down the corridor at a brisk pace, though not quite at a run, away from the central hivestem. “Watch my back?” he said to the seadweller with a grin.

Azrael hadn't even had the time to thank Hazmas for the help when the two were split apart. He would make it a point to reunite with the greenblood and thank him somehow for the assistance, he might not have found the switch as fast without him. He was too dazed and groggy to recognize that he was being dragged away from the wall by the pretty blueblood from the table he'd met Elidae at. He shook his head to try and clear the fog and looked at the blueblood. Where was Hazmas now? Had he got away? It was when he'd heard Machim bellowing loudly that he raelized that Hazmas was still by the curtains. The young blueblood peaked back into the rumpusblock. No sign of the greenblood that helped him find the switch, and his lusus was pounding on the wall. Did he find the secret passage?

Azrael peaked back at the trolls that he'd been with briefly. "Best of luck to you!" he shouted before running towards the wall that Hazmas lusus was at. He slowed down as to not startle the freaked out creature. When she finally calmed down he tentatively approached. He liked hazmas, the last thing he wanted was to start a fight with his lusus. When he was able to squeeze past machim and to the wall, he began a search until the wall opened and he fell right in. The passage closed behind him and -- boy was it dark.

"Hazmas?" The young blueblood called out. It was not in him to be cautious at this point, but there had to be something to these tunnels unless Awassi had some other light source to follow, there had to be something else here. Maybe there were other clever mechanics to this thing. He began to feel the familiar surge of excitement he'd felt adventuring busthind and at the beginning of his swamp adventure. He kind of figured that if Awassi was smart, they would cover their asses with other tricks in the tunnel and he wanted to find those tricks. How could he not let his curiosity get the better of him? He found himself scouring the tunnels for whatever secrets they had while he searched for Hazmas. "Hazmas?!" he called out again.

Path chosen
A.4 -> B.7

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8.5

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ADVENTURE & MYSTERY BUDDIES

B.8]
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Striding determinedly through the darkness, sword out, Regina almost ran Kursha through as he suddenly stepped in through yet another hidden door. "Hey - watch it! Bladed weapons out here, Vidari!" As the greenblood pushed past her, and she made a note of that, she gave his shoulder a slight tug down, bringing the taller troll closer to her own level for a moment. "Discussion later - hunting now. Good job with the lights."

Her fingers slid off the greenblood's shoulder as quickly as she had tugged him down, and the empress gave a neutral shrug in return to his second question. "I figured that was a given." Shooting a glance behind her, she sheathed her sabre to avoid any friendly-stabs and set off right behind Kursha, hand still resting on the hilt.

PATH B.4 > B.5
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The moment he stepped over the other kids rushing to the exit, Zindel knew he'd be at least somewhat safe from the fumes slithering through the house like poison. He felt his heart-rate accelerate and his body felt almost weightless as he stumbled to a stop, looking around nervously before hearing a few voices nearby. The redblood squinted, glancing around before finally and realizing-- Trolls? Here? Why would there be trolls speaking in this area? Had they been there before they'd all arrived? They had quite literally just entered it, no reason for there to be any other voices than their own-- Oops. The moment he tried to investigate and press his ear to see what was going on, the redblood fell through a space on the wall, stumbling into a completely dark secret passageway filled with quite a few other surprised trolls. He practically gaped at the amount of trolls in the area before pulling back and waiting for the right moment to move around, hands fumbling, trying to find an exit. Zindel pushed and pulled frantically, eyes panicked and swallowing hard, nervous, scared. He wasn't about to stay in a place with so many trolls willing to shove and rush to get somewhere safe.