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Upon entering the room, the door would close and vanish behind them, leaving them with nowhere to go but forward. The room was pretty normal looking; the ceiling was low, with spikes protruding from it to discourage flying too high. There was also a giant crevice separating their side of the room from the other side, where there is a closed door - presumably leading to the next room.

The crevice itself might be wide, but peering down, one would realize that it gradually narrows before the walls become totally vertical, very much like a 'Y' shape. Again, the place where it narrows did not hold enough space for someone with wings to go through... Flying was a near impossible feat in this room, it would seem.

On closer inspection of the crevice, one would notice a giant strange four by four grid filled with puzzles sketched to the narrow side of the wall, lights illuminating it so that it was visible from the top. For some reason, you find your attention focused on it... There is a strange sort of something to it, a compulsion if you will. It's as if the puzzle wishes to be solved...

Well, there might be barely enough space to move, but there was enough space for them to scribble...? There was even a stick of chalk on the floor...



[OOC NOTES:
-> Get down to the bottom of that crevice to solve the puzzle!
-> It being so steep and such a high drop will cost whoever tries to get down via jumping -3HP from drop damage!
-> Whoever tries to fly across the crevice will find that the spikes make it impossible to do so!
-> Once the puzzle is solved, post it here and I'll check it! Feel free to continue RPing though, while waiting for the results~]

((Astra is entering!))

It was strange. Astra had followed the rest of the student body into the house, but once she had entered the room...she was the only one in it. Red did mention the house would 'sort them out into their groups' but she didn't realize it would teleport them.

She turned backwards to see if her team had followed, only to realize with a start the door was gone. The only other way to get out was the door on the other side.

It was immediately obvious she wouldn't be able to fly here. There wasn't enough room, and the spikes would make short work of her. As she walked towards the slanted edge cautiously, she looked down and saw some sort of...puzzle at the bottom. But the drop to get there was pretty steep, and the space was too small, even for her wings.

The only thing she could do now, was to wait for her team members to get here so they could figure out what to do.

((Maritess and Legs are entering))

Maritess felt woozy when she emerged, her wings flapping in awkward intervals. "O-oh my, that felt unpleasant," she mumbled uncomfortably. Legs didn't seem as affected, she event went so far as to run towards the very edge, bending slightly forward as if it stare down into the crevice.

Hearing Yuki's suggestion, both Tess and Legs came to the unanimous conclusion that the drop bear did indeed sound like the best candidate for the job. "It's a good thing we brought rope with us."

CLAIRE ENTERS LOL

Claire felt cold, then hot as she entered the room, hearing the voices of her fellow team mates. Her eyes were snapped shut, just listening. She was scared of what might be in the room. Her ears picked up something about Mandy climbing down to do the puzzle and she opened her eyes, looking confused. Then she looked around the room. It was peculiar to say the least, and Claire thought it smelled of syrup, but that could have been her breakfast.
Without hesitation, she shuffled towards the group with wide eyes, clutching her shirt.
"I'll get my stomach to hold the line, if you like. It's got very strong tongue muscles, maybe that will work?" she said quietly, looking at Mandy. She was here to help, after all. "I can't help with the puzzle though, I'm not very clever like that."

Other than her facts, naturally.

"Well, that seems to be settled, then." Yuki stated, feeling a bit relieved that this room seemed like it might be pretty easy to complete.

He grimaced lightly as Legs looked to be peering over the edge of the gap, putting an arm out in front of her rather than putting a hand on her hip or something - that might have been offensive - in order to try and keep her from leaning any further.

"Careful, Legs, hopefully only one of us needs to end up down there. Don't get too close and risk falling yourself."

He squinted a bit, trying to make out the details of the puzzle. "Is that... Sudoku?" He knew the principle, he thought, but wasn't so sure he wanted to know what a wrong answer might lead to.

"If it's what I think it is, I know that you're supposed to have every symbol in each section, but only one of each symbol per row." The boil looked to Astra, brow furrowed in thought. "Right?"

Mandy listened to the others work out the fine details, smiling slightly. She liked this peaceful teamwork, much better than most excursions. Slipping her backpack off to leave up the top she paused to pull out her note pad and pen, handing them to Astra.

"Yeah I did, since you think you know the solution you can have 'em Astra." that said she slowly crouched at the edge of the crevasse and taking a look to make sure to was positioned right pushed off the edge.

For the first bit she merely slid down the sloped sides, slowly gaining speed, but the second she hit the vertical section all the speed translated into a spectacularly fast fall that made her glad none of the others had done this, the landing would have seriously hurt them. Seeing the ground rush up to meet her she got in a good landing position, knees bent as much as the close walls would allow, and just before she crashed spectacularly she felt the familiar lurch of her acceleration dying off to that of a jump from a low wall allowing her land, if not lightly, safely.

Getting her bearings she took the time to examine what was down here and the puzzle in greater detail than their previous advantage point had allowed.

"Huh, there's chalk down here for solving it! Looks like you where right about the Sudoku thing, there's some instructions - says 'That every symbol must appear once in every horizontal and vertical row'! It's a four by four grid and the symbols are moon, bat, pumpkin, bone! If horizontals are letters and verticals are numbers then going from the top left corner B1 has a moon, D1 a bat, C2 a bone, C3 a moon, B4 a pumpkin and D4 a bone!"

She yelled all this up carefully and slowly to give them time to jot it down, she wasn't sure how much they'd already been able to tell from up there - her eyesight was dodgy as hell.

Claire leaned back naturally as her stomach did the task of supporting Mandy's weight. It was incredible, really, the power of her stomach. She didn't care, though. She was just concentrating on the fact that bad stuff could happen any second.

Look on the bright side, obviously. As Mandy fell, she held her breath and closed her eyes in a split second. But then Mandy was okay, so it was...okay.

Claire tried her best to stay as out of the puzzle as possible, she was terrible at these kind of things.