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Herryk squeezed into the claustrophobic hallway, slime and grime coating his broad shoulders. Yuck. He had to walk down the stairs with his shoulders crouched in, his back hunched and his arms held slightly in front of him. If he was less of a boil he would back right out of that tiny hallway with the drippy drips and the nasty getting all over his bare chest, but Herryk didn't mind getting down and dirty especially if there might be a prize at the end.

Herryk liked prizes.

Entering the room at the bottom of the staircase, Herryk was first transfixed by the blue flames that glowed from the wall sconces. The cold flames licked upwards enticingly, as did the flames that shimmered from the eyes of the skull lock.

He noticed that the dragon who went before him had moved to the westernmost door -- someone would find something, there was no use in hovering over the dragon with bated breath, right?

Then again, a smart boil (like the dragon) would look around, maybe search for an alternate doorway, a secret button, anything. Herryk could not lay much claim on being smart. No, he was a pretty simple-minded bloke, and so he approached the central locked door, grasping a horn of the skull lock in each meaty fist before pulling at them with all his might.

If that didn't work, well, maybe then he would look around. Or maybe he'd just try harder.

Having been the first to go in, he found the honor incredibly unsettling. The stairway, which looked wide enough to begin with, was growing narrower with each step, and the air was stale and making him sick. The walls of the narrow passageway were covered in some kind of clammy, slimy substance that reminded Oppa of aloe, but with a kind of chill that was making his skin crawl. He pulled his hoodie over his hand and pulled the sleeves over his hands so he could avoid touching the walls as much as possible.

After descending the staircase for a while, he noticed his eyesight starting to darken and his head starting to swim. He felt like he was going to pass out and fall the rest of the way.

He felt something rush past him. It startled him. But the creature had brought him out of his daze, and real or not he followed the slithering thing the rest of the way down the steps. It was a dragon! Not long after he reached the end of the hallway another student entered the chamber. He watched them both from the shadows for a bit.

The chamber had another door, but this time with cold blue flames running from it's spires. Oppa wanted to touch the fire, but thought against it. He started to look around for more instructions. Since the first door was so clear, he was hoping for the same here.

This was very, very different from the Haunted Mansion. There, Vero had felt fear. Here, though, Vero fed off it; the tomb pervaded the substance of which all of Halloween Town wanted.

Little wonder the small spirit wandered through the coarse grass and sea of gravestones to the threshold.

Here it could see that there was already a small group assembled, including a certain strix Vero knew all too well from that same haunted mansion. Although in this instance, it saw the boil was rather infuriated at not being allowed in by the cloaked figures before the actual tomb. "Greetings," Vero told them all as it approached, tugging its hood down to have a better look at them with its large, dark eyes.

Hum . . . Was there a riddle in this resting place to solve?

"The sign says to approach the tomb," it stated, beginning its process of intellectual dissection. "And thus here we are . . . Guardians of the tomb, we are ready to enter if you will guide us. We wish to know who or what lies interred."

Specifically Vero meant itself, though the statement could have been tailored to anyone there of course.

Ys looked thoughtful at the hooded figure's reply, but made no further comment for the moment. They weren't allowed in for some reason, but... why? She stood in the midst of the clutch of ghouls and boils, bubbling absently as the pondered what the others had done differently. Her thoughts were interrupted by the piercing screech of that that new boil, Ulmuka. Magnified by the water, it was particularly effective in getting her attention, whether or not that was his goal.

"Sssssssss! If that doessss not work, I'll ssshove you in there mysssself!" She hissed in irritation. It wasn't that she disliked the boil, as he had seemed nice enough before, but she could do without sudden, high pitched noises when she was already nervous about the prospect of going underground. Thinking that it might be nerves on his side too, she softened a bit and added with a touch of her usual good humor, "Got quite a ssset of lungsss there, yesss."

Returning her attention to the guards -since that seemed to be their function- and the tomb itself, she considered the entrance again and moved closer to peer at it for some other clue. "What do I have to do to enter thisss placcce then? Perhapsss there is another way for sssome of usss?"

Amphi had been debating about the tomb for awhile now. It was hard for her to work up the courage to go from one booth to another. First it had been the Poi fish booth, where she had caughten a little friend and then onto the Dunking one, where she had hit the poor old vagabond AND came back later to dunk him in water. it was like insult to injury.

So here, in front of the tomb was she now. Her eye's swept back and forth over the tomb as she watched other students attempt to go in. Jokingly, she walked over to the tomb and out stretched her arms. "Ah....Open Sesame!" she said in a weak voice.

Sin sighed softly and glanced back at the tomb with a raised brow. So much for trying to charm her way in. "Do I need somesort of key?" Except she watched as others were admitted and her eyes narrowed. Well that hardly seemed fair, was this demonic discrimination? No probably not, demons were usually not the ones discriminated against anyway...as she should well know. Her hands moved to her hips and she tilted her head studying the entrance curiously and then at the tombs...guardians?

"What does this tomb hold that not all may enter freely?" She had dropped her more charmingly sweet voice realizing these tomb guardians weren't reasonable in the least...or easily charmed at least. Unless she was loosing her powers of inflirtation as her mother called them.

Ooc: This is a combination game. Each student who approaches (please bold West Door if you approach, so I know you have done so) will be assigned a secret color combination. Your student must then choose three stones -- the serpent's eyes will flash green three times if all your stones are correct. If you have one wrong, its eyes will flash green twice, then once red. If you have two wrong, its eyes will flash green once and red twice, etc. Order does not matter. You will only be granted entrance into the room when you have guessed all three stones correctly -- you will also automatically receive a Mermaid's Purse and be pm'd a clue for the North Door combination for completing the task.