18: Lucky you! Within the bottle is another bottle you somehow get out. This is an attack potion. You use it by throwing it at a target. It does 50 HP DMG. Use it on some poor soul now or stash it in your inventory for later use
Encke wasn't the only person to get another bottle. Basiluzzo looked at his with some bemusement once he got it out and then tucked it away. It seemed like it might be useful later on, at any rate? It was what Encke had done, tucking it away, and Basiluzzo was inclined to follow his example.
He had done this before, after all, where Basiluzzo had not.
Though, to be fair, he wasn't sure how many times Encke had done this, either. All he seemed to be doing was the same thing Basiluzzo was doing. That is, looking around and evaluating their circumstances and trying to puzzle out what the best course of action would be. Trials? Well... he supposed so. If that was the best shot they had of getting out, he guessed that was it. He wasn't happy about it, but he had told himself he wouldn't get in Encke's way, and he was determined to see that out.
"Alright," he rubbed the back of his neck, fingers tangling in the--what was it, a snood?--around his neck briefly. "Any... idea which first?"
He landed with an ungraceful thud on the ground, staggering a little in an effort to maintain his balance. All around Scamander, there was a confusion of sound, voices, lights (or lack thereof) and for a moment, he had the disorienting sensation of floating through air.
Then he was back to himself and there was a small, glowing bottle floating beside his head. Scamander plucked it out of the air with a sense of mild curiosity and uncorked it, peering inside the small neck of it, but all that seemed to be inside was a little vial. He pulled the vial out and examined it closely; it seemed safe, at least. It said HEALTH-UP on the side, which he thought might be useful.
Scamander tucked it into one of his pockets, took a breath, and felt something on his foot, eyes flickering downwards.
There was a rabbit there. A white rabbit, missing one of its eyes and pawing restlessly at his boot, looking, for all intents and purposes, somewhat flustered, if rabbits could look flustered. Scamander gave it a curious look, then crouched down, reaching out to pet its soft head.
"What are you doing all the way out here?" he said softly. "Are you frightened?"
General Aurostibite - [ entering ] INVENTORY: x1 attack potion (50 HP ATK power)
He was still relatively sure that whatever happened was now Kainite's fault, Aurostibite finally managing to get his feet beneath him and standing straight. He glanced around, looking for his wife, and then for Stillwaterite, and then, with some grudging resignation, for Kainite, since the lieutenant had to be around here somewhere, and he was pretty certain that Kainite wouldn't give up on him so easily.
There were bottles floating around his head. Aurostibite glanced at them, then away, then sighed, reached up, and plucked one up, pulling it towards himself with gloved fingers. He gave it a suspicious look, but then twisted the cork anyway, taking a breath.
Nothing happened, but there was a smaller bottle inside the first. Aurostibite fished it out and stuck it in his pocket for later use, reminding himself to not forget about it, and continued searching for both Mintaka and Kainite and probably the latter was stuck in a bottle himself probably.
9: Lucky you! There's a health potion inside. Use it now, or stash it in your inventory for later use. Restores 10 HP
He was not okay.
This was not okay.
This place was not okay.
The thing he grabbed from the smaller bottle seemed to be pretty okay.
Nothing else was okay.
Phaethon turned slightly in place, taking everything in and trying to see if he could see a way out. It... wasn't looking good, honestly. He turned back in place in the other direction, and then he saw the corrupted senshi. He kicked himself a bit for not seeing her first, considering it wasn't like there was a lot around to hide her, but there she was.
Aogashima's landing was less than graceful for the idol-in-training, and it took her a moment to come to her senses. When she finally stood, she realized the person she had been talking to just moments ago was still nearby. Looking around, it looked almost as if they were in space for a moment... if space had bottles for stars.
Well, that was one way to kill any hope about finally being a space idol.
"Get moving?" she repeated, confused, "To where?"
The page heard the voice tell them about having to break the seal in some of the bottles, as some sort of trial, and was even more confused. Were they in a video game? It sounded like a game she might have played before in between waiting for stamina to refill in her idol gatcha games.
Without giving it a second thought as to following the lieutenant around, Aogashima got ready to accompany him to wherever he was planning to go, before she was momentarily distracted by the bottles floating around. Curious, she picked one up, removing the cork... only to find herself suddenly 15 feet tall.
Maybe it would have been a better idea not to touch anything. Or rather, that's what Aogashima was certain her sister would have said, if she were here with them.
That, and don't talk to strangers.
SSBrosB
npppp wasn't sure if they were going to continue interacting so rolled for the ship prompt
Where were they? Where were they? Acubens had been holding on to her two charges when they had all been sucked to... where ever and now they were gone. She frantically turned in a few circles, searching the faces around her for the ones that she had lost. Around and around, voice paralyzed in her throat. What if they had been taken somewhere else? What if they were still back at the park? What if something had taken them from her?
Rage bloomed to life at her last thought and propelled her forward, searching for the bandaged fuku and blond head only to find nothing. This place wasn't so large, how could she have lost them?!
Her foot hit something and sent it bu,ping a few inches away with a delicate little glass sound. It cut throught her panic and drew her attention.
A bottle?
Acubens stooped to pick it up, inspecting it. How had this gotten here? Curiosity momentarily took over her as she opened the bottle and in an instant, she felt nothing.
ACUBENS is EXITING
Leopleuradon
tefla
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:59 pm
ACUBENS is ARRIVING
Acubens announced her arrival back into the central hub with a cry of anger and soil clinging to her. It was in her hair, smudged on her fuku, and lodged under her nails. She still smelled it, and later she would be traumatized that she had evidently died and come back in her own open grave. She would remember that it was eerily close to the funeral for her former self that she had attended when she was brand new and still learning this new body. When this was all said and done, then it would be the time for sorrow and panic and grief.
But right now was the time for war.
She marched over to the place she had evidently <******** died and stomped her foot down on the bottle, ignoring the shock of pain that ran up her leg as the offending bottle shattered. She needed to find Lacerta and Jason now.
Cheomseongdae was still holding onto Arthur when they got into this STRANGE place, this weird dimension of darkness and... bottles. She heard the voice, she listened to the message... And she Did Not Like Any Of It. She shifted so that Arthur could go back on her shoulder, a deep frown on her face as she looked around at the vastness and all the people here...
And the four SPECIAL bottles, as well as the myriads of other bottles she was seeing.
"So, we seem to have found our way to the center of whatever the hell is going on, Arthur. I do not know what, exactly, this place is and I do not want to know. I want to get the hell out. Should we explore one of the bottles?"
As she spoke, she found herself noticing an interesting bottle, not one of the four, near her and she reached out to snag it, almost without thinking... And found herself incredibly grateful she had, because it seemed it was an actual healing potion.
If she had to fight someone, this would definitely help her quite a bit.
She was positive that over the different heights of people that she had seen Acubens arrive. Lacerta was still aggravated at Mel. The cat's timing couldn't have been worse. Shaking with a little bit of anger the red-head peered to the area that she thought she had seen the Velociraptor Senshi only to be met with nothing that jumped out as being familiar to her. Sighing she glanced down at Mel who seemed to still be rolling around laughing before feeling her frustration grow.
Reaching for a bottle as she bent down over Mel's large frame she swatted the cat upside the head. Maybe that would knock some sense into him. At least it made her feel just a tiny bit better ... before she was hit with a wave of guilt. If the effect had come from the bottle it wasn't fair.
Speaking of bottles - Lacerta pried the newest one open and peered at the inside. As her eyes drifted to the interior her eyes widened. That definitely was Acubens and she didn't look very happy at all.
Lacerta's Inventory 1 Attack Potion - Does 50 HP Damage 1 Health Potion - Restores 10 HP
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13: Uh oh. Quote Lucyal for the result...
Lucyal
Raises hand ... Rolled a 13
Leopleuradon
Sweenys_Revenge
Fiction1119
Hitting Mel properly on the head. Stop laughing now.
Allegra was trying hard to stop screaming as she arrived in this place... But the apparent infinity of space surrounded her, and the disembodied voice was suggesting she might be KILLED here if she, and everyone around her, did not figure out how to break the seals in the bottles, and it was not making it any easier to stop screaming. There was a long moment where her voice sailed upwards in her fear and panic... And then she managed to stop, and step back, taking several slow breaths.
Her eyes closed for a long moment, then she looked around, terrified of what was going on, but refusing to give in to that overpowering panic again. She needed to stay calm. She needed to find a way to help in this, even if she was... just a normal person, surrounded by what looked like the people she saw on TV, doing insane fighting with each other.
She looked around for the young person she had been talking to, breathing heavily, and when she finally spotted them, she said "I am heading for the bottle over there..." She gestured at one of the bottles, the bottle of the Sea, though she wasn't aware of that as yet. "If you wish to accompany me, I would... most appreciate it." She gave them a weak smile... And stalked over to the bottle, back stiff with her fear and also her determination to do SOMETHING.
Strickenized
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:19 pm
Quote:
13: Uh oh. Quote Lucyal for the result...
Looks like someone, the trap dimension won't name names---Lacerta---touched a particular bottle...here are the consequences.
The disembodied voice rings out to all who are currently in the space:
"Didn't I warn you about how dangerous curiosity is?"
The bottle that Lacerta grabbed suddenly spits out a whopping huge tall ship. The vessel suspends in the air high above everyone in the Central Hub and hangs there for a few moments, casting an ominous shadow on those beneath it---
Then it drops.
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gaia_starWHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
EVERYONE who is currently in the Central Hub needs to roll 1d4 (or arriving for the next 24 RL hours, until 12 AM CST) If you roll an EVEN number, you are CRUSHED by the tall ship because you couldn't get out of the way in time. You die so you go [ HERE ] If you roll an ODD number, you are SAFE because you get out of the way in time! Feel free to carry on about your normal business ANYONE ENTERING this thread for the next 24 RL hours, until 12 AM CST, also needs to roll for this quick time event to see how you fair. After 12 AM CST, the tall ship just poofs into mist and disappears You only need to react to this event ONCE (per character)! After, you are exempt from replying to this prompt
Zircon saw many people--Eurydike again, the cat that followed Schörl around, a variety of future targets from the White Moon, and Aventurine, to her relief. But there was no Sweetite to be found, and it was starting to wear at Zircon's patience. She didn't charge into a swarm of order auras with a fledgling lieutenant just to come up empty handed.
Perhaps she'd been teleported straight into one of the bottles...Zircon shot a look at Aventurine for messing around with one of the smaller ones and having the nerve to laugh when a teammate was missing, but she didn't have much time to scold him for it. A shadow loomed overhead, and Zircon's eyes widened when she realized that it looked incredibly susceptible to gravity. "Move," Zircon hissed, and grabbing Aventurine's arm she teleported to a place out of the intended path of the ship, but ruptured one of the smaller bottles in the process of reappearing, glass shattered and light flashing.
Zircon's eyes rolled back into her head and her body collapsed to the ground. Then, as insult to injury, she was crushed by the falling ship anyway.
The bottle had seemed relatively harmless ... really it had but as she continued to look inside the female voice had returned. Lacerta listened as it seemingly scolded her for her curiosity before a large shape whooshed out of the bottle. Her gaze followed it upwards to where a large ship materialized above the lingering crowd of people. Hands that shook suddenly dropped the bottle and she flung herself out of the way of the shadow of the vessel. It didn't remain suspended for long before it began to fall.
Feeling the wind buffet her form the red-headed senshi of bandages continued to scramble out of the ship's shadow. Her breath came in pants as she both heard and felt the impact ... she was alive ... but what about the others?
Lacerta's Inventory 1 Attack Potion - Does 50 HP Damage 1 Health Potion - Restores 10 HP
"Aw Cousin, can't be any fun if we don't get the code red ********. I kind of like this, change of pace from the youma hunting." She jingled her bottle, "Plus look at the shiny."
Her attention turned to her leader and she winked at her, because regardless of them being in a professional mindset, Seiryuu was always looking for a reason to flirt.
Though her attention did turn to one little corrupt hanging out, her eyes narrowing. Before she could do anything, A large ship appeared and she looked up. "Uh guys, I think we got a HUGE problem." She pushed Genbu and her cousin away, hoping it was far enough from the giant ship before rolling out of the way.
