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The first room the group steps into nearly conks one of the taller party members in the forehead, bearing low ceilings that cannot be flown in and are warmed by the glow that is coming off of the floor. It is rooms such as this one that were at fault for the scareling games of 'The Floor is Lava'. Because truly, it is just that. Lava. Warm, bubbling, and ...very warm. You think there might be flaming piranha skitters in there. There is only a 6 foot wide platform on the side of the room the five are standing on to explore for now. However, the floor itself seems to shift underneath the party's feet and small cracks can be seen in them.

Beyond that, however, the room seems almost... normal. As though it is trying to persist being a room despite the fact that the floor is threatening burning and pain upon the party in question. It seems for now, there is nowhere you can go. A look around this side of the room gives a glass coffee table, two large armchairs, and a couch. They all seem rather comfortable.

On the table it seems, should one look, is a thin sheet of glass. Picking it up, a few pieces of it fall off and shatter - leaving incomplete instructions to the readers.

The warmth in the room was the first thing Draven noticed. Then he noticed the way Aksaja was moving--the ceiling was quite low. Very low. It made the raven-mocker uncomfortable, he didn't like feeling so crowded, especially from above. Can't let it ruffle my feathers, he thought as he moved to have a better look at the room.

The lava--Was that real lava?! He'd never seen real lava before!--was likely to be the more pressing issue anyway. Clearly they were not going to be flying over it...hopefully they were not expected to swim it, either. It was quite warm. Did give a nice glow to the room, though. Of course, it would be more pleasant if the floor beneath his feet seemed a bit more solid.

Draven turned his head when he heard the glass shatter. It looked like the dragon had found something.
"Interesting," he said after moving closer to Aksaja and the glass he'd found. Draven glanced at the lava then back at the glass. Red had said something about a puzzle, hadn't she? "Think it's a clue to getting out of this room?"

Nefertari was amazed that such a room could exist in such a seemingly wood made structure. The heat didn't bother her so much, after all she was from a desert area, but the smell was horrible. Bleh, lava smell. She followed her group in, ducking as she was rather tall.

"Great Seth you'd think they would at least warn us a bit. Ah well, lets see what we've got," she went to the dragon right as the glass shard smashed.

"Gah! Well it seems we will have to play the game of chance here," she picked up the pieces and examined the shards, "we have to move from point to point and hope we don't get hurt. But there is a path and these are the first few direction. Hmmm...."

It was a puzzle, she liked a puzzle. It was also a game of chance, which weren't always her favorite. She examined the first few that they were given and looked the floor over. Slowly plotting in her mind. She figured that each move had to be two steps a piece and it hand to change direction. She quickly formulated a pattern in her head.

"Ok guys, here's my idea. F; 1, F;2, E;2, D;2, D;3, C3, C;2, B;2, B;1, A;1. We are never on the same letter twice and the same number twice. At least thats what the pattern looks like to me. What do you think?" she showed them her idea.

Aksaja watched as the others all entered the room and a few of them came over to examine the partial clue that he had found. Tilting head, he looked from the floor to the clues and back again. Then swallowed nervously. Well, he was the oldest of them all . . . and thus probably the toughest.

"I'll go," he said, raising his hand just slightly. Taking a deep breath, he stepped out onto the first space listed on the instructions that he'd found. F;1, . . . then in quick succession he moved to the others that were actually listed: F;2, E;2. Then he stopped. And carefully eyed the path ahead before stepping onto the first of the "mystery" spaces, D;2.

Aksaja let out a breath he'd been holding at that and glanced back behind him to the rest of the group. "So far so good . . . " he murmured, and then in quick succession attempted the rest of the path that Nefertari had suggested.

After all, he was pretty sure that he would know if one of the spaces wasn't safe and hopefully he could back up before getting too badly hurt.

Here goes nothing. D;3, C3, C;2, B;2, B;1, A;1 . . . . . .

Nefertari watched as the brave older student wound his way over the path she had created. After all if he got her hurt it was her fault as she made the path out. But....he....did just fine. No burning dragon scales. She blinked then clapped.

"Way to go Aksaja! Come guys, lets go!" Nefertari walked her way across the path next and sighed. She was glad she had been right. That also filled her with a bit of good old fashioned pride. She had figured it out on the first try! Her parents would be proud. Her brothers would just say it was a baby test, that any of them could have figured it out. Then she would hit them and many bandaids were in the future.

"Where to now fearless leader?" she grinned at him.

Aksaja blinked himself when he stepped safely onto solid ground on the other side of the lava. He had . . . made it? No pain, no falling into hot lava, no nothing? Jack this was easy so far! Then he winced inwardly and mentally kicked himself for that thought. Probably their next test would just be really damn hard now . . . damn.

Still, he couldn't help but grin at his teammates as he watched all of them follow the same path across the lava. "Who knows," he murmured, glancing around a bit nervously. He hadn't been able to see a door or anything from the other side of the room, but now that they were here . . .