Even though Andronicus had tried to shove her up to the stairs, Themiscyra had no intention of just letting the others go racing for the Code and... not help. Cussing--particularly to see how fast Andronicus was able to move--Themiscyra turned away from the stairs and raced for the Code and the group heading towards it. It wasn't particularly fun to try and run in armor--though Kairatos seemed to be doing damn fine--but she tried to keep an eye out for falling rocks, or worse case, see if she had to grab someone if they slipped.
So long as someone got the Code, and they all ran the ******** out after.... it was all she really cared about in that moment.
The ungodly scream from the monster was silenced by the roar of the falling rocks as the ground began to cave in. Grus shouted, leaping from over the boulder, and then backwards as the floor crumbled, giving way beneath the insane weight.
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:40 pm
"No, it's a corrosive," he hissed in labored breath. "I need something to neutralize it before it melts my foot off." Speaking calmly demanded far too much effort; he broke into a cold sweat from pain and demand. A quick glance cast about confirmed what he already knew - no treatments existed for him here. He needed to leave this place entirely if he wanted to save part of his body.
He did note, however, that the scorpion youma went down with an immense crack, and he initially assumed its exoskeleton suffered a cleaving, but the floor began its descent into the abyss instead. Soon it began a cascade effect, leading toward the outer edges of the perimeter, where he and Centisima stood. "You're shitting me. This is just what I need." His beleaguered gaze remained on the scorpion, transfixed, until he felt an arm around his waist and a forceful hoist sending his bony body to his feet. He winced then, and groaned terribly from the pain, but he complied in summoning his bone cane once more to aid in the hobbling. Inwardly he noted he held far too much experience for crippled locomotion while he followed Centisima's lead.
Sparing a glance back toward the Code and the numerous knights breaking for its rescue, he offered his gratitude. "Thanks, but we might be faster if you carried me. How well can you lift a hundred thirty pounds?" A hawkish glance was spared toward the senshi's body. "You look fit enough." These stones will hold at least that before they fall. We don't have much time. Only an hour - and how much of that passed down here while they were fighting? Sure, we found the Code, but what treasures will be lost to this building?
This feels as much a failure as it was a success.
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np!
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:43 pm
What had started as a slow drop of stones was quickly becoming a wave as the floor crumbled into the abyss below. The three that had been trapped in a room above the rest of the group and had been saved from the horror of the fight or knowing the source of the shaking in the floor around them. Paris would manage to make it to the surface in one piece. Both Altair and Neqgrange would find their balance on the stairs tested. Seems the fall had affected both of them a bit more than originally believed.
Down below was a slightly different story.
People going this way and that. Slievenamon was able to make it to the stairs with ease. Right behind her, Ananke was struggling on the floor and lose stones after having lost her feline companion. But she too would make it safely to the stairs and begin the long climb back up!
Centisima, thanks to the weight of Scholomance, had to take it slower across the mess. The pair would be cutting it close!
But it was the mad race across the room that truly would test the Senshi and Knight’s speed and agility!
With so many people heading towards the code piece, it was a luck in and of itself none of them ran into each other! Several though did stumble. Varuna, Dallol, and Liryn found themselves slipping on loosening stones, falling hard on the ground costing them valuable time. Grus, Sidouer, Athena, Elenora, and Andronicus would each in turn find the path they had chosen weaker than some of the others thus forcing themselves to cut off into other directions or return to the stairs empty handed.
Themiscyra, Arthur, Corinth and Palatine were quickly out runned. Even with an added boost or two, it was down between Falias and Kairatos as Alcor’s desire to help her twin was stronger than the pull the two knights had coming from the code.
In the last second, it was Kairatos fingers that snaked around the callous, dark mass that had formed around their beloved code. This was the largest piece of the code and Chaos was clearly trying to claim it! But that was a matter for another time…
Right now, they had to get back to the stairs!
In the rush for the code, all that remained still intact was the edges of the room. The center was nearly gone! However, Havasu supported by Nirvana was doing his best to offer assistance to those in need!
This room would be lost to all and anything that fell would never be seen or heard from again! It was time to get back.
It was time to leave this ancient building...
The Code no longer belonged here.
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With the Code recovered, it is time to get out of the Academy! The floor and lower stair levels will not hold out much longer!
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:43 pm
Corinth, Page of Neptune
As soon as he saw the other knight's hand grab the code, Corinth wasted no time in quickly turning around and making a mad dash for Dallol. He hadn't seen her fall, but he hadn't really expected her to follow him for the code either. Though, he wasn't surprised she had. Instead, he knelt next to her, and quickly scooped her up into his arms in a princess carry. "Got you!"
Corinth sprinted for the door then, carrying Dallol in his arms and running as fast as he could.
"Hold together just a little bit longer..." He muttered to the building as he ran. "Just a few more minutes, for the love of god..."
At this point it wasn’t a matter of ‘if’ he had the ability to carry another guy out of danger. It was do or die. The floor was rapidly crumbling away, promising a particularly unpleasant demise in a dark abyss. Of all the ways Centisima had imagined he could potentially die on this little outing, falling to his death while carrying a wounded ally wasn’t one of them.
“If I can jump up a building, I can carry you just fine. Get ready for the ride of your life.” He hadn’t missed the glance or the vaguely suggestive words and was honestly impressed the other guy could flirt, even just a little bit, considering the situation. Centisima took did a quick calculation and decided that no matter how hilarious a princess carry would be, he was better off offering a good old fashioned piggy back.
So he moved in front of the squire half-crouched down, giving an impatient, “get on let’s go”. He was ready to hold tight and run like hell because they were really going to cut it close.
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all aboard!
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:12 pm
Grus
Yeah it was time to bounce.
People were running. The important thing was in...well. someone's hands. Someone that was on her side. She didn't even know what it was.
But they had to go. And fast. She jumped down from the boulder, taking off toward the door she entered only a few minutes previous. The floor rocked and crackled, she hoped it would hold out a just a little longer...
Wrapping his bloodied, burned grip around the code felt like validation, as if Hermes himself had strapped wings to the heels of his martian uniform, but it was a feeling that was all too quickly in a position to be tested by gravity. "Go go go!" He shouted, aware this was unnecessary urging to the others.
If, God forbid, he couldn't make it back across, someone had to be in a position that he could throw it to them.
He was right, they'd found the code... he was right...
And he hadn't a clue what they'd do about it, only that they needed to get it, and them, out of this place.
Let us make it out, please...just let us all get out. He prayed, as they made a collective, desperate path toward freedom. He wasn't even sure who he was addressing, but he hoped that whatever ears it fell on were merciful.
Beckoning Chaos
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 5:06 am
Eternal Sailor Athene
The floor was collapsing. The stones falling slowly at first but then increasing in speed as they fell stone by stone into an ever-growing abyss.
Athene ran.
It was a desperate run over loosening stone as he tried his hardest to try and reach Liryn and Eleonora with every ounce of speed at his disposal.
It was something that he was going to remember in his nightmares - one to join all the other things that graced the nightmares that he had collected since finding out that he was a senshi.
He continued to run because he would not, could not leave the mauvian and the white-haired senshi out ahead, even as he felt his heart beat a staccato beat of terror...
But the path he had chosen was weaker than the others forcing him to waste time in order to shift onto a 'steadier' path - although steadier was relative giving that the place was collapsing around them.
However it had also put him closer to Eleonora - the white-haired senshi of heat just up ahead.
There was no time. No time and so as he moved closer to Eleonora he called out "Alcor please get Liryn! I'll get Eleonora."
Alcor had been ahead of him and he would have to trust in her to reach the mauvian - would have to trust in them both to be safe as he reached out to help Eleonora before making a grab for the rope that a voice had yelled out for them to grab.
Fiction1119
Athene accepts the offer gratefully
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for Athene helping Eleonora, will do a Liryn tag for Alcor asap
Falias wasn't how he did it, but somehow he managed to pick his way across loosening stone and get across the floor to the Code.
He reached for it - but another hand was quicker - Kairatos' blooded hand the one to actually grasp the Code.
There was no time for congratulations, Falias not needing the Mars Knight's urging to know that they had to go and had to go now.
Although it was hard to see how to backtrack over the route he had just come from given how the stones were dropping fast and thick.
A voice called out, yelling for them all to grab onto a rope - a rope that he noticed to his bemusement was suddenly there...
Or perhaps had been there for a while but that he had overlooked in his attempt to get to the Code.
"Kairatos - the rope" he called to the Mars Knight even as he reached out with a hand to grab it. "I think it might help us get back across."
At least Falias was sincerely hoping so, because Kairatos getting the Code piece wouldn't mean much if they couldn't get it back out of here.
Ryuthulhu
Falias is just glad that someone managed to get it and is perhaps wondering about his mad floor dashing skills
Beckoning Chaos
rope grabbing attempt
Fiction1119
taking Havasu up on his offer
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 7:17 am
Mauvian Liryn -- about to be rescued by Alcor
Navigating the floor was hard.
Perhaps it was the way that the stones were loosening and shifting under every step, or perhaps it was the fact that Liryn was still pretty new to being a cat person or perhaps even a combination of the two - either way Liryn was just not as steady on his feet as usual...
Well at least not as steady as when he was on his paws.
Whatever - he wasn't going to let that stop him from at least trying to get to the thing that seemed so important because if it really was that important then it made sense to at least try and get to it - to try and bring it back with them.
And whilst he wasn't the only one trying - the more hands helping the better right?
Right?
He continued across the loosening stone, but his next footfall was undoing as he stepped on a stone the wrong way and it caused him to end up stumbling and taking a tumble, surprise causing him to lose the cat human form as in a flash of jade green sparks he was once again the cat as paws landed hard against stone.
He knew he couldn't stay where he was though, despite his paws being sore - because with the stones continuing to tumble staying still wasn't an option.
And then he thought he heard the voice, a feminine one, a familiar one.
Alcor?
Shanyume
For Alcor - feel free to yell at him when they are all safe wink
Sailor Alcor // Senshi of Cold Sailor Eleonora // Senshi of Heat
It was a horrifying event to witness as the ground cracked then disappeared into the growing chasm completely cutting Eleonora off from Liryn. First he stepped in the way of the scorpion stinger and now she was having to watch helpless as the rocks and crystals around him fell into the unknown depths below.
She paused in her pursuit looking frantically for a solid path towards the Mauvian when the stones beneath her feet shifted then dropped several inches eliciting a startled yelp from the Senshi of Heat. Had it not of been for Athene’s well timed grab pulling her towards more solid ground Eleonora would have undoubtedly joined the youma caracas in the ever growing pit.
Terror gripped her heart and turned her legs to jelly but with the eternal’s hold on her hand Eleonora somehow found the strength to still stand. It took a moment for what he had just shouted to register but when it did she felt the cold lance of dread strike her heart in the most unforgiving way as she watched her twin make a jagged V-line towards the otherwise stranded bobtail tabby.
Perhaps it was thanks to her ability to maneuver effortlessly around inexperienced ice skaters on the rink or her natural awareness of her surroundings, either way Alcor did not hesitated when Athene overtook her in speed and made it to her sister first. “Got it!” she hollered back towards the Eternal without sparing him a second glance. It’s just like playing hot lava monster… I got this… Thought she was surefooted in each step she took Alcor was not like her sister, she did not share her twins courageous nature, but that was their friend and he needed help.
Reaching out, Alcor grabbed ahold of one of the crystal clusters to stop her forward momentum just as the place she was about to jump to broke away leaving nothing for her to land on. “Damn it…” Slate blue eyes scanned the area for the next direct path but those she could find were deteriorating at an alarming rate. “LIRYN!” The Senshi of Cold called out to the mauvian.
“LIRYN...I’m going to need you to jump!” Not wanting to waste more time she darted to the next still attached slab of solid ground then the next which brought her as near as she could get to the little gray kitten. “I will catch you, please jump now”
Near the others, Eleonoras’ grip tightened around Athene’s hand. “Come on… come on.” she repeated in the suspense of the moment. “You can do it…” Her words were spoken barely above a murmur and were lost upon the sounds echoing in the chamber.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 10:29 am
Mauvian Liryn
It was Alcor - the blue-haired senshi of cold holding on to a nearby cluster of crystal as she called out to him to jump.
There was no where for him to make a decent run of it - which meant that the jump wouldn't be an easy one, but that didn't mean that he couldn't try.. Didn't mean that he wouldn't try.
"Okay." For one brief moment purplish eyes looked into dark blue and then Liryn used every ounce of kitty strength to jump the gap that separated himself and Alcor, his small tabby-grey form sailing towards the Senshi of Cold.
Teetering over the edge of the yawning crack in the ground Alcor reached out over the darkness and grabbed ahold of Liryn’s outstretched paw. The biting pain of curled claws into her palm went unnoticed with the adrenaline coursing through her system as she pulled the mauvian closed and jumped away from the ledge towards the cluster of crystals she had been standing beside when she had called his name.
“It’s okay… you’re safe.” she panted while trying to get her heartbeat and breathing somewhat under control. It wasn’t till she tried to speak that the Senshi of Cold realized that she had been holding her breath when Liryn made his leap of faith.
Not yet out of harm's way Alcor tucked her friend into the inner lining of her winter coat and held onto him closely. “Hang on!” were the only two words he received as warning before she she began their retreat back towards the staircase where her sister and Athene waited with outstretched hands.
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