{ ZONE 4 } Sandy Claws' Workshop (Yellow Door) SEE PG 8!

[Appeal]

Lucien near well had a heart attack when Israfel slipped out of his hand and took a dive into the hole. If Lucien had any second thoughts about going with the group down into the hole it was blown away with the wind and out of his mind. He panicked for a moment, and then looked around. Damn that reindeer! If it wasn't for that reindeer he would be able to fly down and go with Israfel! But he couldn't, so he looked. And he looked again for something he could use to make sure he'd get down the hole but not by falling... the thought terrified him: falling with no control.

He looked to Nukpana for a moment and considered waiting but his bird had jumped and he remembered faintly hearing his bird say he didn't want to die and he had to get down there now to make sure he didn't! He had to find something else. Something that wasn't already in use. If they all used the same thing to get down then they might take too much time and the fire could spread!

He swallowed, and dug around the workshop until he found a bunch of sparkly gold garland go with his elf hat shoes. He didn't consider it too much. He only considered the idea that he was light like air so the garland should support his weight and it was the longest thing he could find. After deciding on the garland, he looked for something to tie one end to and when he was securely tied to a weight he tied the other end to himself.

Slowly he walked over to the edge of the hole that had been created in the floor and looked down. He gave a small nod to everyone and then slowly lowered himself over the edge of the hole and then downward. He could not fall, he would not fall. No falling. He had to get down to his bird as quickly as he could but he had to do it as safely as he could as well. If he wasn't alive when he got down there in the thirty seconds of so it took to fall. then he wouldn't of any use to his friend even if he got there fast.

"I'm coming Israfel!" He called out, giving one last glare at the gnome who had stared the fire in the first place before his head could no longer be seen from the surface.

 

[Huni Pi]

Petro kept looking from the hole and the students that were already heading down then back to the encroaching flames then back to the hole. Garlands didn't seem like they could support his weight and the small ghoul he was carrying. And he didn't know if he could wait for the skinwalker to reach the bottom so he could have a go. "How smooth are the walls?" he called to those below. Was he seriously considering scaling down the pit bare handed? And with added weight?! Desperate times calls for desperate measures, he supposed. If worse comes to worse, he still had two pumpkin pills to help speed up the healing process. Wait, no bad idea! What about Amrita? Oh Jack he couldn't risk her safety as easily as he could his own.

Rock and a hot place, Tro, rock and a hot place. "Any footholds or things?" Jack, that fire was getting closer!  

[Enoh Love]

The moment the Tikbalang leaned down, Amrita practically lept into his arms, scrambling as high off of the floor as she was allowed. Her bruised and twisted hands latched tightly around his neck, making it quite clear she had no intentions of moving them unless she was pulled off, or unless the fire was gone gone. For a moment or two she buried her face into Petro's shoulder, her tears - both water and thicker blood-like substance - falling against his skin.

It became clear to her that they were not moving...and that it was getting hotter in the immediate area. The slight comfort that being off the ground had given her was getting taken over by that panic again now that the flames were closing in. Why weren't they moving?!

"Go!" She urged the poor Monster Boil, now staring wide-eyed over his shoulder at the bright and glowing flames; thank Jack there was no smoke, or this would have been really difficult! "Justgo!" She couldn't bring herself to say anything more; that she still had her two pumpkin pills, or that she still had four uses of her healing bell, or even that she could cling onto him without being held onto. All that was in her mind rang to the tune of:

ohcandlejackdamnpumpkinfirehotfiregetoutgetoutoutoutnowplease  

[demon_pachabel]

Shehk had snapped at Nukpana's hand when it had shoved her away from her holding on that shoulder region, not quite biting into it due to other...more delicious distractions... in her mouth. Instead, the Pricolici scowled back at Nukpana, baring her slightly-bloody teeth at him. At least she'd stopped shrieking all over. So perhaps some ears were saved by the skinwalker's BRAVE SACRIFICE. Or something.

Though she did growl back at him when he growled at her...though her's was an actual stand-alone-growl rather than an accompanied grr to say 'BAD SHEHKY, NO BITE. >8C BAD GIRL'. Well, that hadn't been exactly what it was he was saying. But the gist, really! Either way, Shehk wiggled, albeit more helplessly when the skinwalker made a point to swash her movements better, in protest of being yanked from the snow.

Or whatever it was she was really pissed about. Wait, why was she pissed? Terrified, maybe?

She'd attempted one or two escapes while Nuk was tying off the lights as well, too easily caught again in her flailing panic (truly, it was no surprise to see how she got hunted in her previous life if that had been her reaction to panic), not really starting up her shriek again, but more an anxious sounding noise (eeeeeeeeeeeee) as she grabbed at imaginary holds to free herself.

Sadly, invisible and non-existant holdings were not condusive to 'able to get oneself freed of not-boyfriend-arms'. Not that right then Shehk would have been 'there' enough to make such denials.

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SHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!

When Nukpana jumped down that hole, it was possibly the first time since she'd seen fire that Shehk started being compliant, letting out a, more pleasant than her death-cries, scream of more human-sounding-woe as she practically clung to the skinwalker.

Don't wanna die, don't wanna die, don't wanna die, don't wanna die.

But at least she held on by her own will without using her teeth! That was progress, right?

Right??

Well, the fact there were still tears to be had all over wasn't a complete victory, but close enough!..Maybe.  

[Huni Pi]

You heard the lady, Petro, move! At her demand and the feel of something wet against his skin, all thoughts of careful calculation left the Tikbalang. Not that he would be able to give a proper name to the mathematical face of trajectories and velocity and angle of launch and all that other stuff. All that was going through his mind was: Get her away from fire by jumping in hole. He took a few steps back from the mouth of the pit, making reassuring noises since he looked as if he were going closer to the flames. He didn't have to make those sounds for long, though, because he broke into a full gallop straight from resting. Usually a bad idea but the fights and all that travelling had limbered him up enough.

He launched himself down into the pit, much like the winged boil who screamed as he fell, only Petro had extended both his legs forward, and his free hand. He angled his torso to keep Amita from the wall, grunting just before impact, "Hold tight." He grimaced and no amount of mental preparation was enough to duplicate the actual pain of skin, nails, and fingers clawing at the hole's walls. He dug his hooves deeper, focusing on something that didn't make him go: Candlejackpainowowowarrrrrrghpaaaaainmustholdonmustnotloseitjackdamnitpaaaaaaaaain!!!! amidst spitting out pieces of rubble and debris that his raw hand and horse hooves were dislodging. He hoped it wasn't just his imagination that their descent was gradually slowing down.  

[Chobi_Chocobo]

There was no time to waste. Tahki took herself and Sammy down the hole with a great leap and dive. Her white wings close to her side for maximum speed as the two fell almost weightlessly.

((SHORT POST IS SHORT))  

[Marushii]

"There it is!"
"Oh no! The yellow workshop is on fire!"
"Quickly! We need to make sure everyone's okay!"
"Roger!"
"Hey! There's people down there!"
"Oh no! Quickly! We need to help them!"
"I'll stay here and take care of the fire!"
"Okay! Be careful!"
"I will!"

As the students fell or climbed down the hole, they quickly realized that they weren't the only ones with that idea. "I gotcha!" Out of the darkness, something swooped down and picks your student up, lowering them to the ground gently. This is repeated for other students.

The torches the students made were held up, revealing their rescuers to be... er...

"Let us introduce ourselves! We are...

THE RESCUE REINDEER!

"I'm Dip!"
"Cale!"
"Gizmo!"
"And Fruitcake!"

One of the deer looks around, gawping. "Oh wow! This place sure is deep! Look at all this leftover abandoned stuff! Hey Gizmo, do you think you can make anything out of it?"

"Cale! Focus!" Snapped the deer wearing the snazzy cap as the token female googles-wearing reindeer trotted merrily over to the side benches, "Are any of you hurt?" He asks in a happy, if blunt and forceful way. "We saw a fire and came as fast as we could! The fire should be contained now, but the wall is still on fire. There's an arrow pointing down here so anyone following can, well, follow."

"So what're you guys up to? In need of any more rescuing?"

The deer look almost helpful. But... they are reindeer...

HP: 40

Quote:

Next thing to happen will occur sometime tomorrow! Each of them have 10HP, but for the simplicity of this they have a shared health pool should you decide to attack.

The room you're in is, well, dark. Aside from the torches, the glowing noses of the reindeer isn't much to see by either. What you can see are half-open boxes filled with... something. You'd need to take a closer look to see.

The other side of the room, nearly hidden behind the giant Fruitcake the Rescue Reindeer, is the robot. It occasionally shoots spark that do nothing but look dangerous.

...and yes, The Rescue Reindeer are a spoof. 8D DON'T JUDGE ME.

 

[-Yasha Alchemist]

Hazel founded her self falling, but soon it all went fuzzy literally. She was sitting on the back of a big reindeer's neck. Creeped out as ever she jumped off just before they landed. She attacked, but pondered why no one else had and stopped her attack.

Wreath damage: 5
HP:: 15  

[Appeal]

Lucien was finally feeling a little safe on the garland rope he had made for himself when something had grabbed him off his garland rope and started going down into the hole. Lucien frozen. Panicked. He was falling! His worst fear had come true! He wanted to scream but Lucien's mind started going a mile a second, so much that he couldn't even get a peep out from his throat. So instead his mind screamed. And screamed. And in the most ghoulish manner possible.

Finally he hit the ground, but it wasn't at all like he had imagined. It was quite soft, and certainly not at all like it should have been given the height he had been at. He could only look around bewildered, still at a lack of sound from the panic he had suffered. Why had he landed so gently? His first response was to make sure he hadn't fallen on his bird. Check. No bird. Then he looked around for other reasons that could have caused this strange phenomena.

He couldn't make a sound. He couldn't even make a peep. All he could do was watch as the figures came out of the darkness. His clear blue eyes could only widen when he wanted to cry out. Reindeer... Reindeer... Flying reindeer. He... he was saved by reindeer. The world of Christmas was just too twisted. Far too twisted. Lucien was just in too much shock to even think properly, let alone stand. He quickly found his legs unable to stand anymore and he fell to the ground.

There he sat on the ground and rubble. He seemed to stare blankly. After a few moments passed and he had been given a chance to weigh his options, all Lucien could bring himself to mumble was, "I think I'd rather have fallen..."

 

[Chobi_Chocobo]

Deer? They had just been diving down a hole and then deer had saved them? Tahki was one confused gryphon that was for sure. The deer had attacked them early on but here they were helping them? Didn't helping them mean they were more then likely on their side.

Tahki being well Tahki and being well passive, decided it was best to leave the deer alone. Attacking them for no reason seemed to be a bad option. At least for now. If the deer meant serious business then Tahki would be happy to correct her mistake.  

[Enoh Love]

Amrita had been too terrified to even scream as Petro jumped down the hole. The little Vetala clung as hard as she could to the boil, trying to make herself as small as possible so she didn't get hurt, and so she wouldn't accidentally cause him to get hurt. ...Okay, she was mainly doing it so she wouldn't get hurt. Who could blame her? It was a survival instinct! Believe it or not, she had them! Albeit small amounts, but they were still there!

Of course, the sudden fall was slowed and even she could understand that they'd been put down nicely on the ground. In the dark, kind of. It was comforting; the coolness, the lack of raging fire...so nice. Sniffling, the child looked up to see...Reindeer?! Like the ones on the path? No, they couldn't be, they were helpful! They'd saved them, not attacked them! Still clinging to Petro, she loosened her grip enough to wipe her teary eyes, even her skull one, with the back of a bruised hand. They were offering help, and jackdamnit, Rita was sure they needed it!

"W-we..." She sniffled out, still trembling from the previous events. "We were just...going through t-the door and...and that thing attacked us!" She told the helpful Reindeer, pointing to and tattling on the Santa Scout in it's sparking robot in the background. "T-then the f...f-f..." Apparently it was so traumatic to her, she couldn't even say 'fire'.

"B-but we gotta...gotta stop it..." The more she spoke the quieter and smaller her voice became. It wasn't her direct intention to ask the Reindeer for help, but they did ask what they were doing, and if they needed rescuing.  

[Huni Pi]

((Petro HP: 17
Petro weapon: Snow cannon, not being used at the moment))

So it wasn't Petro's imagination that the descent into the pit had slowed down! He had thought it was because he was gradually managing to find some footing when he felt something grab him by his arms and plucked him (along with the undead ghoul he was carrying) from the wall to gently lower him down to the dark pit floor.

Reindeer. He -they'd been saved by reindeer. Wait, rescue reindeer? What? Was he hearing things correctly? Weren't they attacking students just outside the workshop not too long ago? Not to look a gift horse in the mouth (the first person to mention the irony of the adage will be getting a hoof to the face) Petro couldn't bring himself to attack. They did state that all they were doing at the moment was to rescue, didn't they? Also, he was still carrying the Vetala and her well-being came first.

He nodded in agreement to her answer, grunting "We were just exploring," as his own response to the question, while he carefully began to put distance between him (and Amrita) and the group of reindeer. If their supposed saviors proved hostile, well, all bets were off and the snow cannon was going to see some action again.  

[Reeshie Hack]

Julian hadn't seen the reindeer until they'd latched onto Lucien. For a moment he angled towards them, getting ready to attack to help his classmate, but before he could get there, they set the boil down and moved away. The owl veered off and saw in the dim light that they were helping other students through the hole.

He dipped down, landing next to Tahki and blinked at the JOYful creatures. Why had they helped the HalloweenTown students? Nothing else he'd run into here had been so kind. Except maybe Dasher, but he was from HalloweenTown too, and seemed a little... odd.

He looked up to Tahki with a small twitter and then nodded at Amrita's explanation. He missed one of the other students throwing something at the deer who had helped the others, he was a little busy trying to figure out what to do. Sticking by the gryphoness and her undead rider seemed like a good idea for now.

Julian's HP :: 12  

[demon_pachabel]

Oh Jack, oh Jack oh Jack oh Jack...

Shehk had wiggled her arms free at some point and utterly clung to Nukpana, practically pressing herself right against the skinwalker during their descent into god only knew where. Oh man, what was down thereshedidn'tknowtheywereallgoingtodie....

And then things started to slow down...slow..down..whyweretheyslowingdown...? Shehk almost expected like a horrible opening to Alice in Wonderland where they fell for eternity past every horrible little kitsch-y knick-knack she could possibly ever find ever and;afksf;adfhadslfk. That was probably about when she actually sort of settled into Nukpana's grasp on her, looking about curiously before leaning the side of her head against the spot where she'd bitten him previously.

"As a note: If you get the chance to do this whole 'Jump into a hole thing' again, you might want to kiss me before you jump... because you're not going to get a shot when we hit the bottom and every creature from this ******** place comes out of the wood works to kill u-fsa;lkdJ!!!"

When they'd hit the ground, the suddenly talking Rescue Reindeer caused Shehk to nearly scale up the skinwalker's shoulder, eyes wide in surprise.

OH GOOD HELL-ON-EARTH WHAT WERE THOSE THINGS??

Well, besides 'Reindeer' or whatever. Shehk just..balked...staring. But at least someone was explaining to the deer what on earth had happened. Even if some stupid kid was throwing stuff at them. Hopefully that didn't get them all attacked!!