Shadow Temple - The Soul-Reaping Machine

*Characters involved:*

* *John*
* *Wolf*
* *Itami*
* *Kentas*
* *Lude*
* *Melkibren*
* *Talion*
* *Dorjan*
* *Shura*

**SHADOW TEMPLE**

Spoof APP [9:20 PM]
The party
arrives at the gate of the graveyard. The old gravekeeper is startled
to see such a large group in the graveyard, and scuttles off to his
hut nearby. As the group walks further, they begin to feel the
pressure of the aura that Itami spoke of

Nezlahi [10:38
PM]
joined #shadow\_temple by invitation from Irina, along with 29
others.

Wolf [11:18 PM]
Wolf runs up to the graveyard just
catching up to the group "sorry I slept in guys I'm ready to go
now though. Wolf smirks. (edited)

Itami APP [7:15 AM]
"Once
we are over the gate separating the temple, that would be the best
time to take your potions. I don't want to say taking them inside
would mean it's too late, but best to be safe than sorry about it
later," Itami described to the group. "I can provide simple
passage for the group to cross over. A crude set of steps or ladder
isn't outside of my range. I could make them more elaborate, but that
requires more effort."

She aimed her hand at a patch of
grass once they were within range, causing the earth to raise beneath
it to form into a makeshift ramp.

Kentas [7:25 AM]
Kentas
clears his throat, trying to get Itami's attention, "What should
I do about Radella? She helps me fight but she won't be able to see!"
He asks curious as Radella buzzes out from under his hat.

He
stares at the ramp in awe, amazed with her abilities and wishing he
had his own skills like that!

Lude [10:48 AM]
Lude cracked
his neck and proceeded up the ramp, hopping over the wall he waits
for the others to arrive with both his sword and shield at the
ready.

Wolf [11:28 AM]
Wolf runs up the ramp and waits
readily with Lude

Kentas [12:18 PM]
Kentas still in awe
climbs the ramp energetically as he scales the wall and rests
curiously, his eyes fixated on the entrance to the Shadow Temple that
awaits them.

Itami APP [2:45 PM]
smirked. "You don't
need to worry about your fairy companion. Fairies have been known to
survive in the most unusual and extreme environments. She doesn't
need to see in order to sense danger," she reassured
Kentas.

Once up the ramp, she took out a potion and began to
drink it down so that her vision would be ready. " Rely on your
natural senses. Magic is nice, but not all it's cracked up to be,"
she cautioned the group. She was confident in her potions, but that
didn't mean they would be needed for everything. Some dangers didn't
need illusions and deception in this place.

Melkibren [2:50
PM]
Mel follows the rest of the group up the earthen walkway,
pulling his sword from its sheathe as he drinks one of the potions.
As he eyes the entrance, he notices his vision swim for a second,
then fade back to normal. Nodding, he readies his shield and steadies
himself to enter. Mel knows his knowledge and experience of magic is
lesser than some of the others, so he is perfectly fine with helping
where he can

Kentas [3:11 PM]
Kentas opens the potion and
sniffs it, curious. The smell was unusual and tingled his nostrils,
he throws the bottle back, his other hand resting on his hip as he
chugs the potion.

"AHHHHH." He yells with relief as
he gasps fresh air, his pupils waver before settling again, his gaze
still fixed on the entrance. He has disbelief as his eyes settle, the
shape of a hand sinking into the floor disappeared immediately from
sight.

He blamed the potion, but it wasn't all to blame.

Lude
[3:28 PM]
Lude follows the rest and drinks his potion.
Feeling
dizzy, he rests himself on the pedestal in the middle of the room
surrounded by unlit torches.
After a few seconds he comes to, his
eyes feeling like they got hit by a shock arrow.

Wolf [5:41
PM]
Wolf grabs his potion out and puts it on the ground "well
this is gonna be kinda difficult to open" wolf says then laughs
a little

Kentas [7:30 PM]
Kentas walks up to Wolf, giving a
little giggle as he pulls the cork from his potion on the
ground.

"There you go! Bottoms up!" He says with a
smirk as he raises the bottle from the ground. Kentas gazes towards
Lude who makes his way into the entrance to rest, he nods to Radella
who seems to understand his gesture and flys over to him.

"Are
you ok there Mr. Lude?" Her fairy voice calls out to him as he
rests, she then observes the room with the pedestal and
torches.
Kentas notices the sky darkening and quickly looks up
while letting out a gasp, "Is this the work of the
Wizzrobe?!"

Lude [7:35 PM]
"I'm fine, thank you
fairy. I am not used to drinking such potions."
He stands
up.
"Magic is not a topic i have much knowledge in."

Lude looks in the direction Kentas was staring.
"By the
goddess! I swear on the name of King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule i shall
slay this Wizzrobe!"

Wolf [7:36 PM]
Wolf drinks his
potion "ewwwww what was that taste." Wolf spits.

Kentas
[7:40 PM]
Kentas turns to Lude with his statement, oblivious to
Wolf's comment on Itami's special brew.

"So this Wizzrobe
is capable of such things?! Should we be worried?" He says
shocked as he holds his Dagger and looks in every
direction.

Wondering if the Wizzrobe will conjour dark
varients of themselves, or summon colourful poe's to attack
them.

Itami APP [7:52 PM]
Itami wasn't bothered by the
varied reactions to her potions. She expected that as she's had time
to endure them and build up a resistance to their effects. She cast
her eyes into the dark corridor of the Shadow Temple and then
outside, seeing the skies had darkened considerably. "...I know
it was daylight a few moments ago," she spoke gravely. "If
you need proof of the differences in darkness, then look outside. I
can't tell if it's by the wizzrobe or not, but I've never known one
to have that kind of power," her face was stern and her voice
even more so, even if she was currently shaken by the event. "One
thing is certain, we should be absolutely worried. This is no typical
magic."

Wolf [7:55 PM]
Wolf walks down the steps and
stops at the big corridor that leads deeper into the temple. "Well
I'll be damned, if that ain't a huge corridor I don't know what is
hahaha." Wolf laughs to try and brighten there decent into the
abyss."

Kentas [8:07 PM]
Kentas walks further into the
passage of the temple, he holds his hand out and rests it against the
wall. Only to immediately pull it away...

Chills run down his
spine and his breath became visible briefly before the heat returned
to him, "It may be huge... but for what?" Kentas states to
Wolf and everyone else.

Wolf [8:08 PM]
"thats exactly
what I was thinking." Wolf replies.

Lude [8:11 PM]
Lude
walks past them. "The shadow temple was made to hide the shame
of all the noble families, mine included. They hid their atrocities
from the civil war here."
"Godless times those
were."

Wolf [8:12 PM]
Wolf sniffs the air. "it
stinks of the dead." Wolf says while licking his lips.
(edited)

Kentas [8:19 PM]
Kentas shivers again before
looking to Mel and Lude, his chipper self being lost in the cold air.
"What happened? Seems like alot of darker things occurred
outside Kokiri Forest.. things everyone should be aware of."

He
shuddered again as he looked to the wall as he starts walking down
the passageway, the walls texture seemed to shift and move
eerily.

Wolf [8:20 PM]
Wolf follows kentas

Spoof APP
[8:40 PM]
A noise like a light, rythmic tapping is heard behind
the group.

Melkibren [9:38 PM]
Mel spins quickly, searching
for the noise, his shield and sword held at the ready, his eyes
darting to the shadows, looking for the slightest hint of movement as
he had grown accustomed to doing the past few years while
hunting.
"Youre right, the sun was just shining, not even
noon yet. Something is happening, and it isn't good. We have to get
through this temple and get rid of the wizzrobe, but after that we
have no time to waste checking on the village."
"Scruvo,
Radella, can either of you sense any change in the magic in the
area?"

Spoof APP [9:43 PM]
One of the shadows near the
entrance to the temple stirs slightly.

Melkibren [9:50
PM]
"Everyone, be sharp, there's something with us!
(edited)

Cursedtalion APP [9:51 PM]
Talion stumbles out of
the shadows, his cadence and stance similar to a redead. A dark blue
and purple glow eminates from his eyes.

Cursedtalion APP
[10:08 PM]
"Ama... Amakah... Ramata... Karuk...
Metala..."

Melkibren [10:09 PM]
"TALION!"

Wolf
[10:10 PM]
Wolf goes white "wha..wha... WHATS GOING
ON?!?!"

Lude [10:10 PM]
"The rito?!?" Lude
faces Talion with his shield drawn.

Melkibren [10:11
PM]
"Itami! What can we do?"

Wolf [10:11 PM]
Wolf
shakes it of and barks, snarls and growls at talion
(edited)

Cursedtalion APP [10:13 PM]
Talion lunges at
Melkibren in an almost zombie-like way. His entire body tensing as
he jumps at him. While his body shows intent for harm, his face is
still balnd, that faint glow still in his eyes.

Melkibren
[10:15 PM]
Mel slams forward with his shield, half attempting to
stave off Talion, half attempting g to catch him in the head and k ok
him unconcious

Lude [10:15 PM]
Lude pushes the rito back
with his shield.
"Itami! What manner of curse is this?"

Wolf
[10:16 PM]
Wolf lunges at talion to head but him but gets knocked
back. "grrrrr!" (edited)

Cursedtalion APP [10:18
PM]
Talion's head hits Mel's shield, knocking him back, letting
him out a gutteral sound. He starts lumbering toward the group
again, "Ama... Amakah..." He repeats the same
phrase.

Melkibren [10:19 PM]
"Lude, try and grab him
from behind, Kentas, grab some rope, if Lude catches him, tie him up
the best you can!"
Mel rushes forward with his shield,
attempting to knock the cursed Rito onto the ground

Wolf
[10:20 PM]
"pass me an end and I'll run around him."

Lude
[10:21 PM]
Lude attempts to rush

 behind Talion to grab him. If Mel can
knock the rito with his shield Lude can hold him down while he is off
balance.

Cursedtalion APP [10:23 PM]
Talion gets knocked
back by the shield, causing him to collapse on his back. His blank
face and unblinking blue and purple eyes unchanged.

Melkibren
[10:24 PM]
Mel leans his body weight on top of the Rito, pinning
one of his wings to the ground while the others tie him
up

Cursedtalion APP [10:36 PM]
suddenly begins to shake
violently as the glow in his eyes intensifies.

Lude [10:37
PM]
Lude punches Talion in the face once to try to knock him out
and stop the shaking to allow Kentas and himself to tie up the
rito.

Cursedtalion APP [10:42 PM]
Talion stops shaking and
goes limp, his eyes going a milky white, loosing their colorful
glow.

Lude [10:43 PM]
Lude ties up the rito and slings him
over his shoulder.
"I hope Talion isn't dead."

Melkibren
[10:44 PM]
Mel reaches over to the slump Rito and checks his
pulse
"Well you didn't have to knock his beak nearly
off"

Talion [10:44 PM]
Talion lies limp over Lude's
shoulder, his eyes still completely white. Faint wheezy breathing
comes from his beak.

Lude [10:46 PM]
Lude is relieved when
he hears Talion's breathing.
"When you come to your senses
you will tell us what happened."

Melkibren [10:47 PM]
Mel
reaches into his pack and pulls out a red colored elixir and pours it
in the Ritos beak
"Here, drink, you'll feel better."

Talion
[10:48 PM]
After a few involuntary gulps Talion blinks and his
eyes return to their normal state. He groans as he tries to move
before realizing he's bound, "W-why am I tied up?"

Wolf
[10:48 PM]
Wolf sniffs the air. "hey I smell something pretty
good guys come on." Wolf says as he runs down the
hall

Melkibren [10:48 PM]
"Itami, do you think its
safe to let him go?"
"Talion, you were possessed and
tried to attack us, are you feeling better?"

Lude [10:49
PM]
"Hey hey keep squirming like that and I'll punch you
again."

Melkibren [10:49 PM]
"Wolf! Don't run off
alone!"
Mel pulls out a torch and sparks it alight
"Lude,
will you be alright here with Talion?"

Wolf [10:51
PM]
Wolf doesn't hear Mel as he's running down the hall. He stops
when he hits a wall "who put that there?" He says all
sarcastically and hurt. (edited)
Wolf shakes it off and waits for
the rest of the group to follow

Spoof APP [10:52 PM]
the
light from Mel's torch lights up the surrounding area, but its light
doesn't reach as far as it should, almost as if the sir its self is
eating the light

Lude [10:54 PM]
"Sure captain, go get
the dog." Lude rests Talion on the floor and examines
him

Melkibren [10:55 PM]
Mel nods and runs off after the
wolf, if ding him sitting facing a wall with a dejected look on his
face
"I wouldn't run off Wolf, you saw what happened to
Talion, we don't know yet if it was caused by this place

Wolf
[10:58 PM]
Wolfs eyes cycle through a green to a purple and back
to green while he looks at mel and say. "ok, Mel."

Melkibren
[11:00 PM]
Mel crouches in front of the Wolf as he tightens his
grip on his shield
"Are you feeling alright?"

Wolf
[11:01 PM]
Wolf spins around "never been better. Why do you
ask that?" Wolf turns his head flopping one ear over

Itami
APP [11:04 PM]
This was already getting off to a hectic start and
Itami couldn't say she was ready, but at the very least, she could
say she was prepared for circumstances like these. "I'm not
certain of what to make of what happened to him. It all depends. Keep
him bound for now. He may just be a danger to himself as much as he
formerly was to us."

A breath she didn't know she was
holding was released as Wolf was caught up with. "We must not
run off or split up. I can't stress this enough," she emphasized
sternly. "Now that we have, Talion?" She questioned of the
Rito's name. "We can keep him with us. Whatever happened to him
may give us a clue of what we're bound to run into. Tell us, what do
you remember of what happened to you?" She eyed Wolf cautiously
while questioning the bound Talion. She could't be certain their
companion was all that well at the moment.

Melkibren [11:05
PM]
Mel pulls his sword out a few inches so wolf can see his
reflection in the glittering metal

Wolf [11:07 PM]
Wolf
watches as his left eye turns purple and his right stays green.
"....." Wolfs silent as he notices what Mel noticed but
wolf shakes it off and thinks maybe it's from the potion taking
effect. (edited)

Lude [11:08 PM]
Lude slings Talion back
over his shoulder and meets up with the rest of the group.
Seeing
Wolf's eyes he sighs "Am i going to have to punch you
too?"

Melkibren [11:09 PM]
Mel shakes his head with a
sly grin
"Always knocking something around aren't you Lude
"

Lude [11:11 PM]
"I've never met a problem i
couldn't solve with a good ol' fashioned beating."

Wolf
[11:11 PM]
Wolf growls at Lude "I'm not ready to be punched"
wolf says as he slowly walks a bit away from Lude while eyeing
him

Melkibren [11:13 PM]
"Good thing you never
married..."

Lude [11:13 PM]
Lude chuckles. "No
one is ever ready to be punched."
"But i'm glad to see
you aren't possessed, like our bird friend over here."
He
jostles the limp rito.

Wolf [11:14 PM]
Wolf smirks "not
the sense I meant silly knight" wolf says, his voice changing
slightly. (edited)
Not enough for anyone to notice though.
(edited)

Lude [12:17 AM]
Lude checks on Kentas, making sure
he hasn't become possessed either.

Kentas [4:39 AM]
Kentas
held his head, a buzzing noise crawling into his head, shaking his
head side to side, he felt the sound quieten.

Radella shifts
and moves closer to Kentas before turning to Mel and the others, "I
sense we are all enveloped in an energy.. one that Itami might of
mentioned.." she states bluntly and cold as she worries about
the situation.

Talion [7:51 AM]
Talion stirs, "Uuurgh."
He groans in pain as he begins to regain conciousness.

Talion
[8:53 AM]
"W-what happened? And why does my head hurt? And
why in the name of Hylian am I tied up?!" (edited)

Melkibren
[8:57 AM]
Mel looks around at the group
"Keep your wits
sharp, if anyone starts feeling different in any way, let the rest of
us know immediately. We should start heading further in, it could get
worse the deeper we go, so stay on your toes."

Lude [9:00
AM]
"Tell me Talion, what do you remember before now?"
Lude jostles the rito still slung over his shoulder.

Talion
[9:06 AM]
Talion looks down, scanning his memory, coming up with
nothing, "No, I.. I don't remember. What happened to
me?"

Spoof APP [9:08 AM]
The party stands in one of
the corridors, the shadows enveloping everything around them. The
scant light coming from tie torches barely holds the darkness away,
and even then the group can feel the air around the place beginning
to wear on them. They feel the emotions of the cursed who were played
to rest here, their very spirits palpitating the dark murk around
them. It makes the group feel uneasy, feeling the cold and despair of
broken vows and unresting souls. The walls have retained most of
their structure, but instead of reflecting the light from the
torches, it seems to drink it in. The floor shows signs of recent
passage though, as though something had come in before them. Or
something had awakened in the depths of the temple and was now
prowling its dark and musty corridors.

Melkibren [9:10 AM]
Mel
looks into the Rito's eyes
"You were possessed, and tried to
attack us. Luckily rock-fist here was able to render you inept while
we tied you up to prevent anyone getting harmed."
Mel jabs a
thumb towards Lude

Lude [9:19 AM]
"Talion do the words
Amakah Ramata Karuk Metala mean anything to you?"

Kentas
[9:19 AM]
Kentas squints his eyes as he tries to pierce through
the darkness with his vision, he walks slowly Radella's fairy glow
barely illuminating the way for him.

As he keeps walking he
has doubts of his mentality as another hand sinks away between the
cracks of the floor, hidden by the darkness.

Melkibren [9:24
AM]
Mel suddenly gets an idea to help them keep track of eachother
and pulls an extra firefly from his bag and smashes it, using the
glowing paste he smears it on his armor, the glow being visible for
quite a distance.
"Everyone mark yourselves with this, we
should be able to see eachother a bit better."

Kentas
[9:32 AM]
Kentas steps closer to Mel before grabbing some paste
and rubbing it on his hat and shield.

Turning back and walking
along further he spots a wall up ahead, as they get closer it becomes
obvious that it is a stone door, marked with Hylian script from top
to bottom, but it was too dark for Kentas to read.

Melkibren
[9:37 AM]
Mel walks over to Lude and marks his armor with the
glowing paste before walking down the opposite side of the corridor,
keeping even with the kokiri

Kentas [9:59 AM]
His eyes
squint again before Radella flutters close to the door, highlighting
barely anything with her shine.

"What can you make out
Mr. Melkibren?" He asks curiously and cautiously.. "I see..
\_is gathered Hyrule's bloody history of greed and hatred...\_" he
struggles to read as the darkness closes in more, draining more of
the light that they summon. (edited)

Melkibren [10:20 AM]
"Its
basically the history of this place. As Lude mentioned, its a burial
chamber for those of the Royal bloodlines, many of those buried here
were unfaithful to the Royal lineage, and attempted to harm Hyrule in
some way."
Mel notices one of the walls shimmering in an odd
fashion
"Everyone, look here, looks like the potions work as
intended, this wall isn't really here."
He exclaims as his
hand passes through the illusion

Talion [11:35 AM]
Talion
rubs his head, starting to repeat the words that Mel told him,
"Amaka, Ramata Karuk.... Metala....." His eyes begin to
glow once more. He shakes his head, "NO! NOT AGAIN!" He
shouts in a commanding voice. The glow fades away and Talion slumps
back, breathing

 heavy.

Wolf [11:42 AM]
Wolf
walks through the illusion unaware on what's going on around him,
wolf continues to walk through the illusion and stops and notices he
hears this turning of a gear sound but it's very faint. " I
don't like the sound of that." Wolf says as he sits there
waiting for the group (edited)

Kentas [1:04 PM]
Kentas runs
his hands along the illusionary wall before turning to Lude and
Itami, "These walls are mysterious.. Lude did you knoe about
these?" He asks the guy who has ventured in here
before.

Radella flys through, a ripple effect hitting the
illusionary wall, she flys close to Mel and Wolf, watching them both
for changes.

Lude [1:27 PM]
After restraining the rito once
more and walking through the illusory wall he answers. "Yes i
did there are also illusory traps and monsters here. I remember my
arm being broken and being thrown out by a hidden hand. Be on the
lookout for it."

Talion [1:32 PM]
Talion rubs his head
as he stands up, a little woozy at first, but he manages to regain
balance. "Damn magic, thought I could handle it.". He says
to himself.

Kentas [2:28 PM]
Kentas pushes through the wall
and spots Wolf and Mel a few steps ahead, he can barely see in front
of him and the potion doesn't help with that.

Itami APP [4:29
PM]
Itami found some time to find entertainment on the situation
they're in, laughing about the response to magic. "I'm sure you
know now there are different levels to magic," she regarded
Talion with amusement. "Good thing I thought to keep you bound.
Given hiw tricky magic is, perhaps we csn refrain from uttering
phrases we don't understand?" She directed the statement at no
one in particular, but it was said to everyone.

She kept
herself focused on her task, the darkness of this place almost felt
thick enough to breathe. She had to admit, this place gave the Forest
a run for its rupees. Her experiences there felt similarly to the
darkness here.

"I've never been in here to know much
about it," she spoke to Kentas. "I've always known the
presence it had but that's it. Yet, I have run into the hand Lude
spoke of." She grabbed a torch off the wall and held it aloft to
bring some light to their group.

"Wolf, what is it that
you hear that's bothering you? Can you figure it out?"

Kentas
[4:43 PM]
Kentas' ears twitch as he focuses on the sound that Wolf
heard, his ears aren't as good as a wolf, though through drops of
water and a what sounds like faint moaning, he can hear
something.

"What is it indeed?" He asks curiously as
Radella flys over wolf, before returning to him.

Wolf [5:19
PM]
\*I'm not sure what but it sounds like clicking and if I listen
more I can hear faint screams and moaning. This place has never seen
better days."

Lude [5:20 PM]
Lude follows behind Itami
Talion still slung over his shoulder.

Kentas [5:22 PM]
Kentas
screams like a girl.. or a high pitched boy as he feels a hand wrap
around his ankle and yank, as he looks down though the hand is
gone.

"I thought I felt a.. and then it wasn't.. b-but.."
He stays silent and embarrassed as he screamed aloud infront of
everyone, he is still inexperienced to such dark mysteries and the
atmosphere of this Temple begins to break him.

Lude [6:27
PM]
Lude picks up the Kokiri and rests him on his other
shoulder.
He could come down when he calms down.
"It was
the hand wasn't it?"

Melkibren [6:34 PM]
Mel looks
over at Lude
"Any more room up there?"
He says with a
wry grin. Even with his humor, his step lightens and his eases his
sword in its sheath, one hand resting gently on the hilt

Talion
[6:48 PM]
Talion looks over at Kentas, then Mel, then up at Lude,
"I don't suppose you could let me down and untie me?"
(edited)

Kentas [6:54 PM]
Kentas shakes his head at Talion
before gulping hard, "Well Mr.Bird.. I would rather stay up
here.. you might not even be able to see the things in here. I \*KNOW\*
I don't wanna go back down just yet.." Radella hovers around
Lude worried for them all, she can sense all the energy around
them.

Wolf [7:03 PM]
Wolf starts sniffing the ground "what
is this hand you speak of knight?" Wolf says as he looks at
Lude

Lude [7:09 PM]
"It's like a giant hylian hand,
years ago when i tried exploring this temple it broke my arm and
threw me out. Now that i can see through illusions i can have my
revenge."
He jostles Talion one more time.
"Not until
Itami says you are fine."

Wolf [7:11 PM]
Wolf nods at
Lude "well I wonder what its gonna do this time" wolf says
to group

Talion [7:13 PM]
Talion sighs, then rests down on
Lude's shoulder. "Well, if I'm stuck up here I might as well
tell you. As Lude knows, I have the ability to use my panflute for
magic. However, this magic doesn't come from me. The magic actually
comes from another source, one you may know as the Granter of Boons.
I draw my ability from him, the only problem is that sometimes he,
she, whatever it is, decides to try to use me as a vessel. Usually I
can fight it since I hear those words in my head, the ones I was
repeating earlier. I think it must be the dark magic of this place
though, it must be."

Kentas [7:23 PM]
Kentas gazes at
Talion, "Then the dark magic magic provoked it to attack us?"
He raised a brow weakly as he ran through his thoughts of this
place.

The hand certainly crept him out, but he was sure that
there would be more disturbing creatures within this temple.

Talion
[7:39 PM]
Talion nods to Kentas, "Yes, I believe this place
is so powerful that I couldn't resist it, neither could the
Granter."

Itami APP [8:01 PM]
Itami continued forward
down the corridor, introducing the group to a room with stone
pillars, circling the room with strange carvings of bird heads
settled atop. Across the room us a gap that leads down to...who knows
where. Another false wall reveals a secondary corridor to
follow.

"I'm not familiar with this Granter of Boons,"
she remarked to Talion. "But I'm assuming that this Granter is a
force of good? I don't have anything in particular to counteract the
darkness, but..." She looks up to Radella and resists her
natural urge to grab her.

"With some fairy dust, I may be
able to blend something together that can offer us temporary
protections. Fairies can live in places like these, but we'd have to
find them. For now, we have a companion among us. Would you mind
lending aid for some pinches of dust?" She asked of
Radella.

(ooc: APP [8:03 PM]
Whoops. Forgot to include that
gap has a door on the other side, surrounded by a stylized stone
carving of some beast.)

Fallon [8:03 PM]
(OOC: Double
fudge. Hahaha. Just goofing all over the place)

Kentas [8:04
PM]
Radella bops up and down in a moment of shock, she heard
stories from other fairies of people that devoured them for
lifeforce.. she gulped. "H-how would you acquire this dust from
me?.." She spoke hesitantly to Itami.

Kentas looked
around the room from Lude's shoulder, feeling his food sink back in
his stomach he climbed down of his own free will and looked about the
room.

Lude [8:24 PM]
Relieved Kentas regained his nerve, he
walked to the gap eyeing the door on the other side. "I don't
suppose you have any spells that could get us over there?"
Turning
to Radella he says. "I'm sure Itami could acquire the dust by
non..lethal means." (edited)
"Oh before i forget, remind
me to remove one of these statues for Netri. We do still owe her
treasure."

Itami APP [8:54 PM]
"Shake it out of
you," Itami replied simply. "That is to say, if you shake
yourself enough, you'll produce dust. I can gather it and combine it
with other ingredients to produce a warding mixture," she
grinned at Radella.

To Lude, she continued, "I don't
think it wise of us to remove a pillar. In temples, many features
often have significance. Perhaps we can grave rob something else for
Netri," she chuckled. "But I can respect your desire to do
something great for her."

Kentas [9:00 PM]
Radella
became reluctant to be shaken and began shaking and shedding her
fairy dust in the air above Itami.

The minute she felt she
made enough dust fall she Babombed her way under Kentas' hat, it
shocked him but he remained calm as he tried to regain his
courage.

Melkibren [9:21 PM]
Mel slowly walks around the
edge of the room, surveying the walls and statues and floor. Finally
he pulls the grappling hook from his pack and hands it out to Lude to
throw across the gap.
"Best thing I can think of. One at a
time, single file. Someone will have to anchor this end unless you
think that statue is sturdy enough for an anchor to be tied off
on."

Talion [10:30 PM]
Talion's struggles a bit, "When
exactly can I get down?"

Lude [10:54 PM]
"I
honestly forgot about those..." Lude takes the grappling hook
and sets Talion down next to a statue. Examing it he concludes it
could be used as an anchor. Going to the edge of the gap he throws
the hook across, landing on the stone carving.

Pulling on the
rope it seems to be fine, he anchored the rope to the statue and
knelt down to untie Talion.
"Don't make me regret this rito.
I will not hesitate to hit you again."

Talion [11:05
PM]
Talion chuckles a bit, "I don't doubt that."

Kentas
[8:07 AM]
Kentas steps to the edge before looking down the gap,
the darkness swallowing its contents.

Pulling a Deku Nut from
his bag he tosses it directly down, after a few seconds neither a
flash nor a sound was made and Kentas stepped back, unnerved by the
pit.

Building up courage he places himself right at the edge
of the pit and roars loudly into it, his scream more masculine and
angry this time.

Talion [8:10 AM]
Talion's steps up to the
edge, looking down at the gaping darkness below.

Wolf [12:25
PM]
Wolf walks up and looks down at the pit and then turns away
and waits

John APP [12:48 PM]
John checks to make sure his
equipment is well secured, then clambers onto the rope and starts
across, shinning along underneath. "I don't imagine our
quadrupedal

 friend could manage this," John
remarks as he goes. "Anybody have any ideas for getting him
across?"

Melkibren [1:06 PM]
"Talion, are you
well enough to fly? Maybe you could haul wolf across."

Lude
[3:10 PM]
Lude straps his shield to his hip, climbs across and
makes it safely. His armor is heavy hylian plate so if he could make
it anyone else could easily clamber across.

Kentas [3:12
PM]
Kentas walks across the rope like a tightrope his small Kokiri
feet making it a simple task with a few off-balance wobbles here and
there.

As he gets to the other side he looks back, a sigh
escapes him before he looks downward into the pit.

prattboy1996
[3:53 PM]
joined #shadow\_temple.

Melkibren [9:06 PM]
Mel
makes sure all his gear is secure and climbs his way across as well,
pulling out his sword and shield once he is on the other side and
begins inspecting the door

Wolf [9:22 PM]
"I think I'd
be able to walk across it ain't that hard." Wolf says as he
walks up to the rope and begins to cross, when he reaches the other
side he sits down and again his eyes go from a green to a purple, and
his fur this time changes in a slight wave from its black to a very
rich dark blue. (edited)

Itami APP [9:45 PM]
"Enjoying
that pit? It's unsettling, but I guess giving it a good shout can
help steel the nerves," Itami remarked of Kentas' actions. She
summoned her broom and used it to float in the air and across the
gap. Even if she was confident in her ability to fly, hovering over a
vast emptiness wasn't exactly the greatest feeling.

"I
hope we find this wizzrobe soon. I'm not liking the differences of
energies swirling around in this place. It's bothering me," she
grumbled.

Melkibren [9:46 PM]
"You're not the only one
its bothering I think."
Mel says as he notices Wolf's
"ripple"

Wolf [9:48 PM]
"seems a little
small of a gap to have with such a huge corridor at the enterance."
Wolf says as he waits for the group to move on. (edited)

Itami
APP [10:21 PM]
"The distance across doesn't matter much. You
saw what happened with the deku nut our companion tossed down. It
never once flashed or struck any surface. What matters is the depth
which appears to be endless," Itami described to Wolf. "Let's
move forward." She moves towards the door, noting Mel's remarks.
She didn't draw attention to it quite yet, but her eyes were
searching over the group to see who it was.

As they entered
the next area, they were treated to another long hallway. This temple
seems to favor those, but it starts to stand out that this place
appears to have been traversed before and not just by a wizzrobe. The
hall opens up to a circular chamber, its false walls revealing a
treasure chest that's long since been opened and a couple of re-dead
sitting to themselves in their own nooks. In the center is a slowly
rotating spike trap. The western most part of the area features a
door that has been opened, the bars that once locked it in place now
peeking out from above the stone frame.

"Looks like this
might have been the source of all that grinding and screaming, so to
speak... We should tread carefully. You do not want to draw their
attention. Unfortunately, I can't make anything for warding yet, but
I've been holding out some meager hope that I'll find something to
assist in that...I have the fairy dust, but I'll need something
more."

Wolf [10:59 PM]
"would it be much of a
challenge to take one of those undead down?" Wolf asks
Itami.

Wolf [12:26 AM]
Wolf sniffs the air towards one and
isn't shocked by hownbad they smell but shocked at how they have a
faint smell of something familiar but he can't pin point it so he
walks a little closer, and closer to see if he can identify the smell
untill he hears and ear piercing screech and hes frozen in place and
he's watching the redhead walk towards him slowly.

Itami APP
[1:25 AM]
"Suppose that answers the question," Itami
states as she takes her torch and tosses it across the room towards
the redead to set in on fire. It may not destroy it, but it may be
enough to break the trance that it placed upon Wolf. The other
readead, seeing that its dead kin has been assaulted, begins to raise
up and slowly pad across the room, its feet clicking softly against
the ground where the flesh was thin enough to give way to bone
beneath it.

Talion [2:03 AM]
Talion snaps out of his daze,
he had another moment, "S-sorry, I had to process
something."

Wolf [2:17 AM]
Wolf shakes it of and jumps
back. "Yikes! That's a lot harder to deal with than I
expected."

Lude [3:01 AM]
Putting pieces of cotton in
his ear Lude advances toward the first redead.
Making sure to
avoid eye contact with it, he thrusts his sword into the weakened
beast's chest, the redead slumping down to the floor in a foetal
position. He never could tell if they die or just go dormant.

Kentas
[5:50 AM]
Kentas wavers at the first scream, it seemed to be out
of range.. or wasn't focused on him yet.

There was no point
clogging his ears, his sharp senses would wriggle through any
blockage. He steps closer to the awoken Redead only for the others to
rise up like puppets on strings being pulled by a dark
puppeteer.

"This isn't good.." Kentas
states.
Radella looks in the direction of them, she can clearly
see them but is spooked by their intimidatingly grim
appearance.

Melkibren [10:28 AM]
Mel's steps falter for a
second upon hearing the redead scream, then he charges forward as he
regains his senses, thrusting his sword into the chest of the
shambling fallen, twisting his blade as it enters to create a sizable
hole in its chest, weakened bone and flesh giving way to trained
muscle and hardened steel.
"It seems we have found our
welcoming party! Wolf, remember what I taught you about weak points,
and remember the flesh of the dead is quite flammable!"

Cxnthandy101
[12:33 PM]
joined #shadow\_temple.

Kentas [1:17 PM]
Kentas
dashes at a Redead who seems to be directed at someone, as he closes
in Dagger drawn he hears a gutwrenching scream and freezes mere
inches from it.

It's head shuffles around as it looks down on
Kentas, it's hollow eyes pierce into his very being before it moves
like a snake and wraps itself around Kentas.

He screams out in
pain as he thrashes about, the Redead attached and draining him of
his lifeforce. Radella shrieks and slams herself against the Redead,
her efforts in vain as the undead barely reacts and continues to feed
on him. (edited)

Melkibren [1:31 PM]
Mel switched his sword
into his shield hand and spins, dropping low to one knee. As he
spins, his arm arcs wide, 2 knives leaving his hand as he moves,
aimed right at the neck of the redead on Kentas. As the knives fly,
he jumps towards it in a sprint, putting his sword back in his main
hand in a charge towards the ancient flesh being

Redead APP
[2:21 PM]
The beast weakens from Mel's knives as they slice
through its nape, however this undead creature functions fine as it
throws Kentas, limp and weak as he had his lifeforce stolen.

The
Redead slowly rises and gazes at Mel as he approaches, it leans back
before letting out another cry of death, attempting to freeze Mel and
the other companions.

Wolf [2:29 PM]
Wolf Pulls his ears
down to avoid the screech and grabs a near by stick. "Can some
one light this stick? I've got an idea."

Lude [2:35
PM]
Lude could feel the scream of the redead vibrate his plate
armor, turning around to face the source he sees Kentas on the floor
and a redead shambling towards Mel.
He could not help however as
another redead was advancing toward him.
Picking up the still lit
torch Itami threw he flung it in the direction of Mel and attacked
his foe, slashing at the legs, his blade cleaving through old bone
and withered flesh with ease.

Melkibren [2:42 PM]
Mel
instinctively points his sword straight up in front of his as he sees
the creatures mouth prepare for another scream, its cry freezing even
his experienced body and mind for a moment. Mel fought in his mind
against the waves of fear and anguish, forcing them into a small
flame he imagined, taking every though and burning it to nothing, his
mind enters a void, no thought, no feeling, no emotion. Slowly the
redead shambles towards Mel, his blade still held vertically. As it
leans forward towards Mel, he thrusts his sword straight into the
creatures head from below
As its body weight crumples towards him,
Mel inverts his sword still in the redhead's skull, point down and
thrusts down into its spine and burying the point of his sword in the
floor tiles. His face blank and unconcerned, he looks down at the
redead folded backwards, skull and spine transfixed on his blade and
grabs the torch and lights the withered flesh alight

Kentas
[4:50 PM]
Kentas pushes himself up from the ground as best he
could, his energy sapped and his consciousness fading. Radella zooms
close to him, analyzing his situation with worry, "Kentas! Oh
goddess... Its ok, there doesn't seem to be too grave of a
wound."

He rolls over in pain, it was true there was
barely a bite mark, but his whole body felt on fire and numb at the
same time. He looked around the room at the remaining Redead's and
notices one in the corner, tucked away by the shadows..

It
wears a chestplate with Hylian Noble markings, wrapped up in old
rotten bandages yet, barely visible behind it was a thick and rusted
broadsword wrapped in cloth and more bandages.. was this a mummy or a
knight?

Wolf [4:54 PM]
Wolf walks over to kentas and guards
him. "You ok young one?" Wolf ask kentas.
(edited)

Melkibren [4:58 PM]
Mel surveys the group with an
expressionless gaze, his empty eyes passing over Kentas laying on the
ground to Wolf and over to Lude finishing off the other redead. He
pulls his knives and sword out of the burning redead without any
change in his face, his eyes cold and glinting in the scant light in
the room.
His voice hard, cold, dark, and commanding; very unlike

 his normal lightly sarcastic tone, he
says
"Rest and recover. Lude, take point. Lets clear the room
and connecting corridor."

Kentas [5:07 PM]
Kentas
pushes himself up more as he looks at wolf who has his back to him,
"I.. am f-fine. Just weak.." he states calmly with pangs of
pain and wincing.

Radella sticking close to him.

Wolf
[5:18 PM]
Wolf walks over to kentas and drops him a bit of rabbit
he had in his bag from before. "Here take this."

Lude
[5:20 PM]
"HAHAHAHAHA... Aye." With newfound vigor Lude
puts away his shield and grips his blade with both arms.
Hacking,
slashing and rending flesh using the techniques taught to him by the
ex-captain he decapitates the heads of all undead close to him. The
scent of rot filling the air as old blood, black and foul clung to
his armor.
"Good to see you again... old man." He says
to Melkibren looking at the expression on his face.
(edited)

Melkibren [5:25 PM]
Mel puts his shield on his
back and makes quick work of any enemies that get past Lude, striking
with precision with quick thrusts and snappy slashes, body parts
dropping around the two fighters, their bodies almost working in
unison, dancing around one another, large blade followed by the
smaller, thrusts thrown under outstretched slashes, feet always
moving around one another as Lude takes the heavier enemies and Mel
attacks the smaller and faster creatures. After a minute, both
knights stand back to back, breathing easily despite the vicious
attack they just made; surrounded by twitching undead limbs and body
parts. (edited)

Spoof APP [5:29 PM]
darknut
The nobly
clad corpse stands, the body falling to dust beneath the armor, the
suit of steel stands empty and hefts its considerable two handed
blade onto its shoulder. Dark orbs shine from inside the rusted
helmet, fixated on the two knights and their dance of death. As the
last undead falls, it steps forward with a \_THUD\_, drawing the
attention of the rest of the group

Darknut APP [5:52 PM]
takes
another undead stride to the knights a boom in its feet as it roars
loudly with a sonic boom effect, playing with the handle of its sword
it then almost utters words filled with rotten blood and flesh,
"..fiIiIIggGGghhTTt.."

Melkibren [5:58 PM]
Mel
stands next to Lude and hooks his shield onto the back of the bigger
knight. sword in hand held lazily by his side, tip hovering barely
above the floor tiles, looking sideways at the darknut. His face
still blank and unconcerned, cold eyes measuring the possessed
armor.
"Ill go high, you go low?"

Lude [6:08
PM]
"Hoo rah."

Melkibren [6:09
PM]
"Attack."

Lude [6:15 PM]
Lude charges at
the darknut going for the legs and gut. His back toward the
ex-captain.
Swinging at the knees the knight blocks a downward
strike let loose by the darknut.

Melkibren [6:19 PM]
As
Lude rushes forwards, Mel jumps onto his shield on the others back,
and then springs into the air, pushed by the momentum of the stronger
knights speed and power, he leaps into the air above the darknut,
coming down with his body weight with his sword pointed down, he
drives the sword home into the lumbering armors open face of its
helmet as Lude connects with its lower half, the combined force
sending the darknut crashing to the floor where it laid silent and
unmoving

Lude [6:26 PM]
Lude picks up the defeated
darknut's greatsword and his helmet. "I'm keeping these."
(edited)

Melkibren [6:44 PM]
Mel pulls his sword loose with
a small flourish, closing his eyes as he slowly sheathes it. He takes
a deep breath and stands completely still with his eyes closed for a
few moments. When they open, he looks his normal self, eyes no longer
cold, expression on his face again. He nods once at Lude and then
studies the battlefield
"Looks like that's over with, lets
check on the others."

Kentas [6:55 PM]
Kentas stands
up, better after consuming the rabbit leg but still weak from the
redead's feast on him. He props himself against the closest wall and
sighs heavily as he looks at Mel and Lude, two experienced knights
making light work of such nightmares.

He glare's slightly and
frowns on how easy they made the task, then he realises his thoughts
and crashes to his knee's. This place was crawling it's way in his
head, he shouts to everyone, panicked by his actions.

"Oh..
Oh god.. I-I am not in my right mind! I felt so angry about you two
knights.. I felt hatred for you both cause of my inexperience.."
he says meekly as he sheds a tear and looks to the darkened stone of
the temple floor.

Melkibren [6:59 PM]
Mel pats the kokiri
on the shoulder gently
"It seems this place feeds upon the
instincts buried deep within us, growing and intensifying them until
they consume us. We will have to support each other in more ways than
just in battle."
Mel pulls a healing salve from his belt
pouch and rubs it on the kokiri's bite mark

Lude [6:59
PM]
"HAHAHAHA I remember being a whelp and being equally as
angry with Melkibren. He would always best me at
sparring."

Melkibren [7:04 PM]
"Remember little
one, you have held your blade less than a week. I've held mine for
many years. As time goes on, your instincts and strengths will come
naturally."
Mel stands and walks past Lude, flicking the
other knight's armor
"As for you, I bested you because you
insisted on wearing half the garrisons armor at once, and then
fighting with a banged up piece of steel taller than yourself."
(edited)

Wolf [7:10 PM]
Wolf sits a bit away from the group
just examining the environment seeing if he can find any more enemies
or secrets

John APP [7:11 PM]
John shoulders his bow (yes,
he's been contributing to this combat even though his player hasn't
had a chance to pose) and kneels by the remains of the darknut. "I
recognize this crest. It's from the House of Loranis." John
glances over to Itami. "Miss Itami, do you think Ruscov's soul
could be used to exert command over the bodies of those who were
loyal to Loranis in life?"

Talion [7:16 PM]
Talion,
his blade being resheathed as he emerges from a hallway after a bit
of exploration, walks towards the group.

Kentas [7:20
PM]
Kentas sobs a little more before looking up to the knights, "I
know.. I just let the darkness of this place get inside.. I won't let
it happen again!" He states proudly as he punches his chest
where his heart lies.

Radella calms her flight, at ease of
Kentas' condition, he lays back though to rest more, but feels worked
up from the shaken will of his.

Melkibren [7:22 PM]
Mel
looks over to Talion
"Anything ahead?"

Lude [7:24
PM]
"I don't remember giving you permission to wander off
rito. I hope you found something good for my sister."
(edited)

Talion [7:39 PM]
Talion snrks at Lude, "I'm
not a pet Hylian. Not much ahead though, just some more of those
strange dead creatures."

Itami APP [9:25 PM]
Itami
conserved her energy where she could, contributing where she felt was
necessary in the fights, but much of her attention would be given to
the wounded, it seems. She went over to Kentas after the ordeal,
having witnessed the actions the redead took against him. "It's
not easy fighting against the undead. They like living things.
Sometimes a bit too much," she remarked to him. "However,
you should be fine if you rest up. You fought pretty well, though
considering it's your first time at it," she flicked her hand
and produced a red potion. "You should take this. It will
restore some of the vitality you lost," she offered to him.

"As
for the crest, well, we could give it a shot. Given that it was the
house Ruscov was part of, it is quite possible he has enough of a
connection to exert control," she remarked to John. "I've
heard this sort of thing being referred to as Phantoming. Let's try
it." She raised up from the ground to her full height. "I
think we should give ourselves a chance to recuperate for a short
time, then proceed forward. As for our Rito friend, no, he is not a
pet, but I stress the importance of staying with the group. You came
here alone before and ended up bewitched. Distancing yourself may
risk that happening again and I don't think you want to have any
reason to be bound by Lude again. I feel he may be all too eager to
engage in that duty. He is a knight, after all." She
grinned.

Melkibren [9:29 PM]
"Agreed. We could build a
fire, warm the cold. Can you create a small ward Itami?"
Mel
dropped his pack and began pulling out rations, jerky and dried
fruits mostly, neatly bound into parchment packets for planning and
began handing them out

John APP [9:35 PM]
John blinks.
"Try it? I was asking if that could be what Dorjan is using
Ruscov's soul for. How could we..." John glances at the guay
on his shoulder. "...Um..." Scruvo flaps his wings
excitedly. "Crikey, that'll be bonzah if it works! I could be
like, 'Oi, you dead bloke, rustle me up some nightcrawlahs an' a side
o' grubs!'" 8D John pinches the bridge of his nose. X| "I
hate to desecrate the fallen more than they already are being, but we
do need every advantage we can get...how would we go about trying
that, though? I'm guessing Dorjan also needed that artifact for
whatever he's doing, and we only have a tiny fragment of Ruscov's
soul...and I'd hate to risk it getting pulled out of Scruvo
before..." >.>

Itami APP [9:50 PM]
"Oh,
that's what you were asking. I thought you were seeking to utilize
some of those powers for yourself, but now I understand. It seems my
background hasn't left me quite yet," Itami snickered. "I
wouldn't place it past the wizzrobe to be utilizing his soul to
control those of his house. However, the same effect should also be
true of Scruvo to the Loranis servants. In fact, that may be a
loophole we can exploit. Of course, it does come with the danger of
having his soul pulled, that much is true, but it also means an
advantage. Magic like that usually doesn't come without some
drawbacks," she shrugged.

"But if you'd like

 to play it safe, it'd keep the
fragment secured into the guay. If he does go commanding bodies, he
could reconnect with pieces of himself that could strengthen his
attachments. Assuming the 'gateways', of sorts are open, which they
should be due to Dorjan, Scruvo shouldn't need an artifact in order
to perform the same magic. He still maintains his senses about his
soul, so...it's highly possible that he could break a connection if
he ever felt threatened. Unfortunately, given the circumstances,
desecration is a tool to utilize in the absence of anything else."
"I
can try to form up a ward. I'll have to check through my belongings
and see if I have something that can work with this fairy dust that
was so generously given," she knelt to the ground and searched
through her bag for ingredients to use for a ward, per Mel's
request.

Lude [10:02 PM]
Lude sat next to the fire
sharpening his blade and eating jerky, thoroughly confused by what
Itami was saying.

Kentas [10:04 PM]
Kentas slowly drinks
the red potion given to him by Itami, he is thankful for the words of
wisdom and reassurance from everyone as he slowly feels strength come
back to his body.

He sits down still, trying to reserve what
little energy he has, pulling out his own food concoctions from his
bag he unwraps them from a large glossy leaf, deku nuts filled with
various herbs and grains and a mushroom grilled like a steak with
fine Kokiri herbs.

He also takes his time with his food, not
wishing to push his stomach which felt empty, much so after the
draining effect of the redead.

Melkibren [11:02 AM]
Mel
crouched on his heels with his back to the fire with his bow across
his knees, eating his rations and watching the hallway for signs of
movement

Wolf [12:31 PM]
Wolf layed on the floor a bit away
from the group just so he could keep an ear on the other side of the
hallway. (edited)

Dead APP [2:12 PM]
Hand Though the
Adventurers were successful in slaying some Redead's guarding the
room.

A more twisted beast awaited further into the temple, it
could sense their presence and awaited to tangle them and hold them
with its rotten white hands.

The Dead Hand's revival was
important to the Wizzrobe.. It's dark presence and nature made the
perfect guardian and fuel of evil energy for its plans.

Rome
[2:13 PM]
(btw, side note, if you use an underscore in /p
Dead\_Hand, it'll do a space

Kentas [2:13 PM]
(Yeah! Just
remembered that as I hit send! Such a fail! xD)

Rome [2:14
PM]
(It happens to the best of us xD)

Irina [2:18
PM]
(Also, you can do /p dead\_hand, the command will do the
uppercasing for you!)

Kentas [2:19 PM]
After a moment
Kentas stood up and slowly stretched out his aching body. The potion
did its job but there was still something there from his encounter
from the Redead..

His body felt stiff like a zombie no matter
how much he stretched but knew that it should pass when they leave
this place.

He draws his dagger and makes slow swings to get
his body ready for any more encounters, he then stared at Wolf and
Mel guarding the group without giving such a presence.

Kentas
then turned to Itami and walked over, he asked her casually as he
felt left out, "Is there anything I can do to help?" He
asked her, she seemed to have a grasp at fighting off this temple's
array of energies. (Thanks guys! Will keep that in mind!
:smile:)

Lude [12:03 PM]
Lude takes a bites of his
jerky.
"And to think just a few hours ago my sister, Tika and
I stepped through a portal to another land. The town was on fire..."

The stress of his journeys was starting to wear on him it seems
as he layed his back on the floor.
"Dark times these
are."

Kentas [3:17 PM]
Kentas looks to Lude, a sadness
in his amber eyes, "They are.. I didn't realize till I left the
woods as well. How foolish I am to think that everything would be
simple and joyful."

Radella rubs against his head, the
fairy's attempt at comforting the boy. "It's ok. It is a
surprise to me too, but we have friends to brighten those times. And
maybe we can help too!" She says with a reassuring glow before
fluttering over Lude and sprinkling fairy dust in his face.

"Don't
give up Mr. Knight! I am sure we can all fix this after we deal with
the Wizzrobe!" She then begins to zoom about all the warriors
bumping and prodding them with her body of light as if she was trying
to encourage some kind of interaction as they seemed a bit absent
from the conversation.

Wolf [3:22 PM]
Wolf lays there still
just watching, he then gets up and walks a bit ahead of the group and
sits there and watches

Dorjan APP [10:24 PM]
Meanwhile, a
bit deeper down in the temple, in the room where the twin reaper
statues spin with their giant scythes outstretched, Dorjan sits on a
pile of wooden beams in the corner, focusing his magic. The artifact
he stole during the raid on Castle Town, which looks like a huge and
impractical torch stand, has been nestled between the statues, and on
top of it sits a jar containing an ethereal glow. Every so often a
similar luminosity comes up out of the ground and stretches out
toward the jar, only to be harvested by the giant scythes and cast
toward a recently-opened hole in the wall by Dorjan. Dorjan's eyes
crinkle in malicious glee as another redead shambles out of the
breached crypt, and he begins to hum to himself in his raspy
voice.

:musical\_note:
This is a triumph
I'm making a mob
here, huge success
It used to take so long to raise a
faction
Stalfos and redeads
They took so much juice to make and
keep
Now I've got the Duke's army (at least the ones who are
dead)
But there's no using keeping them in dirty deep holes
I'll
just keep on reaping 'till I run out of souls
Then the Dukedom
we'll raid
And more pawns will be made
From the people who are
STILL ALIVE
:musical\_note:

Wolf [12:12 AM]
Wolf walks
ahead a bit more away from the group and starts to get curious.
(edited)

Itami APP [5:35 PM]
Itami had been working
diligently in silence while the group recovered. There was a clear
overlapping in the darkness of the temple anf that which was Dorjan's
work. Between the both of them almost neither were
preferable.

Still, none of this beat her time in the forest
just getting here. She still finds herself wondering how she managed
to make the trip and survive.

With the fairy dust she had and
some choice ingredients she had to scrounge around in her pack for,
she managed to produce a warding potion for the adventurers to drink.
Finally.

"With these potions, we can keep dark forces
from affecting us for a limited time." She proceeded to pass
them around by floating them to their destinations.

"I
think it's about time we started to get moving. Any longer and I
think precious time will be at stake."

Kentas [6:18
PM]
Kentas nods casually before grabbing the floating potion
before drinking it eagerly, the effects wouldn't kick in right away
but he was happy to have some reassurance for his mentality for
now.

Radella turned to fly back to Kentas until she noticed
Wolf walking further away from the group, she spoke aloud to notify
everyone.

"Is the big wolf ok? He is wandering off!"
She states as she bobs up and down in the air.

Lude [8:58
PM]
Lude wiped the fairy dust off of his face, and added it to the
potion that floated toward him then drank it,
"We ready to
go?"
He stood up and readied his blade.
"Let the
wolf go, though if he dies i will want his pelt."

Wolf
[10:41 PM]
Wolf starts walking totally zoned out and unaware of
what he is doing and where he is "Hmm I wonder what other ways
you could fry up some rabbit?" He says to himself

John
APP [10:49 PM]
John swigs down his portion of potion and nods. "I
agree, time is not our ally right now." Scruvo tilts his beak
up and lets John pour the last trickle from the bottle down his
gullet. "Hmm, int'restin' stuff. Is that glow-worms I taste?"
:9 John shudders. "The rest of us don't want to know about
that stuff, Scruvo." >.<;

John hurries along the
downward-sloping passage after Wolf, trying to be at the vanguard of
this venture as much as possible. It might make more strategic sense
for a more heavily-armored ally to do that, but John still thinks of
this wizzrobe as primarily \_his\_ problem, and he doesn't want to put
anybody else in more danger than he has to. The passage ahead opens
up into a small room that serves as a four-way intersection. In the
not-too-distant past, a certain Hero encountered a beamos here, but
today it's occupied by the above-mentioned dead hand. Eight arms
stick up out of the floor, one on each side of every doorway in and
out of the room, ready to grasp any intruders. There seems to be a
crooning moan coming from below, and those of especially sharp
hearing might even imagine there are actually words
involved.

:musical\_note:
I'm not even hungry
I'm being
so sincere right now
I won't even grab you if you come in
Or
tear you to pieces
Or bite you and rip your sweet flesh off
I'm
just here to greet our guests (I'm really happy you've come)
I'm a
cordial host and not a hideous beast
Let me shake your hand and
welcome you to the feast
I'm in very great haste
To meet you
and have a taste
Of the people who are STILL
ALIVE
:musical\_note:

\_OOC: Sorry for taking over your mook
Kentas, but I needed to get the situation the group is facing
established, and I also need every opportunity I can get to move
through this song. X) Feel free to be in control of it in the fight
that's doubtless about to ensue.\_

Wolf [11:22 PM]
Wolf
turns around and snarls at John. Wolfs eye glowing a beaming red but
darker than those of a stalfos. "Stay away from here humans, you
don't want to find out what's going on down here." Wolf barks,
snaps and growls before running in and straight through the 4 way of
doors, deeper into the temple.

Melkibren [11:29 PM]
Mel
nods and tucks the potion onto his belt pouch and then notices wolf
and John are

 missing from the room.
"Lude,
your friend disappeared, as did Wolf. If we're ready, we should move
on, find where they went."
Mel then pulls his shield back
onto his arm and lessens his sword in the sheath and resumes his
crouched watch off the hallways while waiting for everyone else to
ready themselves

Lude [11:41 PM]
"We should look for
John first. I believe wolf would catch up to us." Lude readied
his shield and sword and begins moving, assuming the rest to
follow.

Wolf [11:43 PM]
Wolf continues running down the
hallways going deeper into the temple untill he stops and comes too,
realizing where he is he starts panicking untill something grabs him
and drags him downward into the darkness.

Lude [11:55 PM]
Lude
comes across a downward sloping passage and traversed it, shield and
sword at the ready. He came through a passage and into a small
room.
Seeing John he steps forward to him.
"You shouldn't
run off like that, where's wo..."
Before he finished his
sentence two long rotting arms bursted up from the ground and latched
onto the knight. Gripping him in place, the arms squeezed Lude so
tight his armor could be heard groaning under the pressure.
"Argh!!
by the goddess!!"
Lude could hear rumbling in the dirt close
to him. (edited)

Melkibren [12:16 AM]
Mel runs past Lude,
sword slashing at the hand holding the knights sword arm. As he
reaches John a hand bursts from the ground and grabs his ankles,
sending him sprawling, his sword falling from his grasp

Kentas
[5:40 AM]
Kentas sticking close behind them see's the hands
reaching out to grab them harshly, he exclaims as he draws his
dagger, a newfound rage in his heart, "That is the hand I have
been seeing!"

He charges into action as he jumps and
latches onto Mel's big back before then slashing at the hands at
Mel's ankles he rips through their undead white flesh gripping him
tightly making a huge leap off him towards Lude in case he needed
help.

More hands began to sprout throughout the room as they
reach for John, Mel, Lude and Kentas. Itami was still a bit outside
the room and could prepare herself.

(No worries! Anyone is
free to take over Dead Hand, I just thought it would add to the
Shadow Temple as it is fairly menacing!) (edited)

Itami APP
[6:29 PM]
By this point, Itami was slowly reaching the point of
lacking care. She often didn't care, but when she did care, she cared
so little enough that what she donated would return to her without
many losses. The idea of the group splitting up once again has
brought her to the edge and soon, people were going to end up lost
here and she would just have to accept that.

She advanced with
the group, bouncing between going solo and or maintaining with the
rest of the group. Considering the numbers that were still available,
she erred on the side of the group. Having fell behind, she ended up
missing the lovely song crooned out by the Dead Hand, but her arrival
allowed her to bear witness to the fight already in progress.

"Don't
attack anymore hands!" She called out. "Let it capture
you!" That...didn't sound very team worthy. Maybe she did reach
her end or maybe she had something else in mind. With Kentas now in
its grips, she continued, "Let Kentas remain captured! Clear
away from any hands and hold positions!" It was her hope the
Dead Hand would be drawn to the Kokiri, leaving the former open to
attack.

Dead Hand APP [6:50 PM]
Sure enough, Itami's
knowledge proved true as the ground rumbled and the undead
monstrosity revealed itself, its white as snow skin stuck out from
the darkness but the splotches of purple blood and bruising covered
its skin as well.

It towered over the warriors with its big
blubber shape and decayed aura but its attention drawn to the kokiri
boy it felt within it's grasp of the root like hands it spawned from
the ground.

It shuffled it's mass closer, unexplainable dark
magic carried it across the ground but its massive jaw became
dislodged as it prepared to bite the boy in half, it was only a few
feet away now.

It was becoming impatiently hungry as its hands
clutched their blood red nails into Kentas' skin, drawing blood. It
gripped him tight and made it impossible to move, Radella could only
cower under His hat.

John APP [9:31 PM]
John knows about
dead hands. He and his fellow soldiers were instructed in the theory
of how to deal with them, and they put that training into practice
the night Dorjan's minions attacked the Dukedom of Loranis. It's a
horrific foe, especially for whoever gets grabbed, but it's not too
difficult for a group to take down, as long as there's enough
cooperation and knowledge of what to do. Itami seems to be
dispensing that knowledge, thankfully.

John draws his
longsword and hacks through the hand clinging to Melkibren's ankles,
then runs over to where the main body is menacing Kentas. A couple
of strokes to the monster's head keeps its jaws from bring able to
aim at its target. "Don't chase it if it starts to retreat!"
John calls out as he slashes. "Keep well back, you'll see why
in a moment!"

Lude [9:06 AM]
As Lude's hand was freed
he gripped his sword only to realize the dead hand squeezed his arm
so tight it bent his gauntlet rendering his sword hand useless.
All
he could do was throw his hunting knife at the thing's back until he
could remove his gauntlet.

Wolf [12:45 PM]
Screaming from
wolf could be heard throughout the temple, what he was screaming for
though is unknown for now and will soon be revealed to the group.
(edited)

Itami. APP [5:45 PM]
This temple was now a runner
up in contention with her time in the forest. Itami's frustration at
the situation was growing into a broiling anger.

The darkness
permeating this place from that wizzrobe was intense and grew worse
the closer they got to him. She would want nothing more than to see
him taken out. Besides, he's making her life more difficult.
Honestly, all she wanted was for some saps to go hunting for hinox
and lynels for a generous sum of rupees that she didn't have to pay
on the off chance they died. Sigh.

"The creature is
retreating! Like our companion stated, do not follow it!" She
spoke while watching the Dead Hand turn away and begin shuffling back
across the floor to dive into the ground. Sending a burst of earth up
strong enough to throw a giant moblin off its feet.

She
hastened over to Kentas and cut away at the hands grasping him with
her claws until they relinquished their grasp.

"Alright,
next round," she went and threw herself into a pair of hands,
hissing softly as they held tightly onto her body like a vice. "When
it resurfaces, that's the time to launch your attacks. We should
alternate between catching and releasing so we can maintain our
control over this battle."

The scream that echoed
throughout the temple provided a dramatic introduction for the Dead
Hand to return to the surface with, his hiding spot having been
fairly close to Itami. Enough to make her worry that her flesh was
about to become mince meat.

Kentas [6:01 PM]
Kentas rubbed
his wounds quickly before gripping at his dagger, he makes a dash for
Itami as he slices at the Dead Hand, his arm swings fluid and smooth
as the blade cleanly cleaves through its throat, he swings again for
the eyes before rolling closer to Itami and taking up a guard-like
pose with his shield.

"I have your back! If you feel too
vulnerable, I will free you." He clenches his dagger close with
an intense aura as he stares deeply into the Dead Hand's Gaze,
Radella feels the ferocious energy in the air and stays under Kentas'
hat.

Itami APP [6:32 PM]
"I'm fine for now, just make
sure the Dead Hand is taken care of! This is all necessary to fight
it!" Itami stared at the creature as it turned about and began
hiding once again.

"Now you can free me and someone else
can become the victim of the hands, once again. Together, hopefully,
we can get to this Dorjan menace and be done with this place. It
needs to return to normal once again before it turns into a draw for
monsters."

Kentas [6:50 PM]
Kentas gives a simple nod,
freeing Itami as he was freed, he sighs before looking at the claw
marks in his arms and legs, "I will go again! I believe the rest
of you have more strength to take it down." He states calmly as
he focuses on the hands sprouting from the tainted ground.

He
steps casually towards it before he is in it's range, it snaps at
Kentas. Seizing him tightly for another attempt at a meal, it can be
felt rumbling below them, the Dead Hand would certainly love a
deliciously fresh Kokiri.

John APP [8:12 PM]
With the
method established, the group has little trouble finishing off the
dead hand on its next emergence. Blades slash in unison at the head
of the monster, finally twisting its neck past the breaking point and
causing it to collapse in a twitching heap. As the
unnaturally-held-together flesh starts to dissolve, a last verse
gurgles from the dead hand's throat.

:musical\_note:
Go on
and cleave me
I think I've fulfilled my lord's desire
Maybe
you'll find someone else to play with
:musical\_note:

John
grimaces. "That doesn't sound good. We'd better hurry."
John strides over to the nearest door and opens it...only to see a
mix of grinning stalfos and hollow-eyed redeads barring the
way.

:musical\_note:
Please step right through here
THAT
WAS A JOKE, HAHA, FAT CHANCE
Anyway, your living flesh
Looks so
delicious and moist
:musical\_note:

Dorjan eyes the small
crowd of undead as they push out toward the adventurers.
e.e

:musical\_note:
Look at me, still working while my
minions have fun
When I get out there, I bet it all will be
done
Still the future looks great
I can pour out all my hate
On
the people who are STILL ALIVE
:musical\_note:

Lude [10:24
PM]
Lude finally ripped the bent gauntlet off. Thoroughly vexed
that he was not of much help in the fight against the dead hand he
took off the other gauntlet and plucked

 the hunting knife out of the thing's
back. He readied his sword and shield, awaiting for orders from John
as this was his fight after all.
Lude was content to fighting off
the stalfos and redead and allowing John to claim his long awaited
victory... and his revenge.

Itami APP [10:39 AM]
"I
hate undead things so much. I mean, there's a reason why they're
dead. They should just stay that way. Well, I shouldn't say that.
They can honestly prove useful if utilized properly, but this is just
frustrating. Alright, here's what I'll do. I'm going to..."
Itami inhales and resists trying to take back her words. "I'm
going to toss myself in there as bait and draw the attention of those
redeads. What I want every single one of you to do is go in swinging.
If I approach first, at the very least, all their stares will be on
me and they'll seize me up. That will at least give you time to take
them out, I'll hope."

That being said, she volunteers
herself, running up with the intent of having the bunch of redead
seek her out and draw their attention only to her. Honestly, having a
number of them feast on you at the same time is incredibly unhealthy
and...nothing she's experienced has been worse. In fact, this is
probably the most insane idea she's ever come up with, but it'll have
to do.

Already, she can feel her fears locking her up as she
draws close enough to experience the full brunt of these
monstrosities up close.

Kentas [11:56 AM]
Kentas feels his
inner courage build up as he spots Itami waver, he act's childish his
mind forcing him to think of others in the most simple way, \_"I
have experienced it before I will go again."\_ he thinks more
than once as he nudges Itami with a fake smile.

"I don't
mind going again as bait, you are more experienced and needed ahead..
Also I am a lot lighter to carry back if worse comes to worse!"
He faintly speaks with a little pride, he holds his dagger tightly as
his hand shakes, the horde ahead making themselves known
more.

Radella flutters hard against his head shouting out,
"Kentas it is too dangerous! I will never forgive you if you do
this!" Red light pokes out of the cracks and holes of his
hat.

John APP [9:11 PM]
John backpedals as the undead foes
push out into the room. It might have been smarter to try and hold
the doorway since it looks like the enemy outnumbers them, but trying
to \_hold\_ a position against foes that barely feel anything is a
tough order, and John imagines this group can match two or three
enemies per person. ~Besides, holding the doorway himself would
leave the others with nothing to pose.~

John regains his
balance and holds his sword ready, trying to guage the next move.
Then Itami steps up and declares her intention to act. Ah, good,
she's a witch, maybe she has some sort of magic blast that can wipe
out or at least damage the whole lot at -- SHE'S GOING TO JUST LET
THEM ALL PILE ON HER!?!? x.X; "Oi, Johnny-boy, this is th'part
where you 'eroically slaughter th'foul monstahs an' rescue th'damsel
in distress!" Scruvo calls out gleefully. "Y'can't ask for
a bettah setup, she's even cooperatin' wi' it!" :D John
splutters incoherently, then lunges forward swinging his blade as the
undead converge on Itami. "ATTACK!!!" >.<;

Spoof
APP [11:14 PM]
Another scream coming from wolf could be heard, a
scream of pain with a hint of a demonic voice laughing in the
background, it only added on to the creepy, dark aura the leaked from
the deepest part of the temple.

Lude [11:50 PM]
Hearing the
group's plan, Lude sheathes his sword and straps his shield across
his back.
A wild look comes across his face as he charges into the
group of undead, the defeated darknut's greatsword in hand.

With
wild swings, Lude cleaves a path through the vast swathes of
undead.

Shura [8:45 PM]
Standing at the very entrance shura
ended up examining the entrince before delveing in farther eventualy
finding a trail left behind by someone or some more then one keeping
a very serious point of composure this place reaked of dark energy
his sword drawing him for more then likely just that the evil flowing
from this place. Though through more or less anoyinces of the fake
ilusanary walls that just so happened to mess with his mind alittle
made him feel strange when he found or stumbled on them eventualy
fallowing the remains of monsters strewn farther in this place a soft
clanging of metal in the distance to main group would let them know
something was on the way as it got closer the closer shura got to
them his blade slowly drawn hearing the noises of the group
ahead.

Kentas [9:45 PM]
Kentas noticed how the plan of
sacrifice went out the window, Lude devastating the horde of undead
with his newfound blade.

Making a hasty attack, Kentas ran for
the the left side of the enemies, now distracted and thrown by Lude's
mighty strength, he uses his blade and swings in an eight-like
figure. His body relaxed and bending easily, cutting through the air
and slicing at the backs of legs and napes.

Sometimes he would
make a quick jab and send his sharpened dagger through bone and
rotten flesh, killing off a few already weakened foes, his
quickfooted self dodging and ducking between them all at the side of
the passage. His small stature was helping with this sneak attack, he
hoped more of his allies would join in this charge lead by Lude and
John.

Itami APP [10:24 PM]
It wasn't exactly a bright idea,
but it was just enough for Itami to question the lengths that her
sanity has tread this time. Drawing the attention of stalfos and
redead didn't come without its consequences as those that could fit
wrapped around her and collectively sucked a good amount off of her.
It was to be expected, but their attachments weren't for long. Swords
and melee of all kinds went into chopping them down and off of her
body, dwindling the numbers of the enemies significantly.

Itami
proceeded to drop to the floor on her hands and knees, feeling dizzy,
but otherwise fine. She'd have to crawl to some safety at the moment,
but what she managed to do helped in some form. Instead of all of
them being frozen, only she bore the brunt of it.

"Keep
doing what you're doing!" She regarded her group as she slipped
away up against a wall to search through her satchel. She was going
to need a potion and quickly.

"You there," she
pointed out Shura. "Get going," she pointed weakly to the
monsters and the group fighting. They'll need all the help they can
get right now. She can't be bothered to figure out who he is at the
moment. Still needs that potion.

Spoof APP [10:24 PM]
The
screaming coming from wolf stopped and a voice could be heard, if you
listen closely you can hear it say "bloodlust, bloodthirst,
bloodshed. There all something that a warrior can go through the weak
will give in to it all, while the strong can overcome it. Seems like
your friend had more bloodthirst in him than he could handle, but
don't worry hes perfectly fine I've just made him stronger is all.
AHAHAHAHA." A pause happened and then it said. " But do
hurry, you don't want to keep him waiting now, do you?"

Shura
[4:41 PM]
Shura obviously getting the hint and rushing in twards
the monsters plageing this group of others his smaller sword in hand
chargeing forth with almost water like flow he atempts to cut down
the nearest enemys to him while trying to clear the others from any
struggleing his curved sword held in one hand his heavy swing meaning
to cleave any aposeing force he was paired agesnt.

John APP
[8:57 PM]
John is...too busy hacking up undead to notice any voice
that has to be listened to closely in order to hear it. c.c It was a
crazy plan and doubtless quite costly for Itami, but it seems to be
working. The stalfos are taking a bit longer than the redeads,
having shields and the intelligence to use them, but their defensive
nature also makes them a bit safer to ignore while chopping up the
zombies that had piled on Itami. "I think we're going to pull
through this," John grunts, blocking a slash from a stalfos.
"Nobody take any more big risks, okay? Just watch yourself and
take down these stalfos!" There's about one of them per person
now, so hopefully that's an achievable goal.

Meanwhile, Dorjan
scowls as the souls which had been animating the redeads float back
into the room he's in, drawn once again to Ruscov's soul. "What's
going on out there anyway?" Dorjan mutters, casting the souls
back into the crypt to possess more dead bodies. "Can't a
wizard enslave the souls of the deceased in \_peace\_ around here?"
:P

Lude [9:28 AM]
Lude could not notice the voice but he
did notice wolf stopped howling. He assumed the dog died and made a
mental note to himself to retrieve his pelt if he could.
But now
was not the time to think about that there were stalfos to cut
down.
With heavy devastating swings he broke the stalfos before
him, the stalfos tried and was successful in blocking his attacks
with their shields but the sheer force of the swing easily broke
their arms off leaving them quite vulnerable.

Souls could be
seen leaving the defeated redeads and floating to a room in the back.
He assumed that was where Dorjan lay.

Kentas [9:57 AM]
Kentas
pushed up the side some more, slaying foul beasts and freeing the
souls trapped within, they traveled back down leading to the
source.

His dagger clipped and stabbed many bones and fleshy
textures, he got many of the leftovers thrown about from Lude's brute
strength. This could be more experience for him, and his dagger, but
that wasn't the priority, getting through this horde and keeping
everyone safe was the goal here.

Shura [12:33 PM]
Shura
sighed as he looked to the fleshy and boney enemys and his posible
new allys as he moves to a redead rushing at him only to leap up
spinning in air qwite a feet for his size as he slashes down the
middle of the redead hopefully shuting it up for a while there

 screams more of an anoyance for
everyone there to shura that takes priority. His blade ready for
another enemy stalfos ..fun ... though he grinned pulling out what
seemed to be a bone dagger now in his other sword hand bone blade in
a back hand stance as he readyed himself for whatever the crafy
skelitons shild work "aim for those b\*\*stards spines they seem
to hate it as much as we would"

Itami APP [7:32
AM]
"Please, listen to him. He knows this threat better than
any of us here given his experiences with it. No more big risks like
I did," Itami emphasized the point as she finally found a red
potion to pop the cork to and suck down with vigor. So much so that
she choked a bit and coughed as some slipped down the wrong
pipe.

"Ugh," she grunted out as she recovered. She
should be back on her feet in no time, but at least the redead were
dealt with. She'd never been so drained in her life and hopes not to
be anytime soon. "Time to get my magic back up..." She
muttered as she sifted through her satchel to retrieve a green
potion. She was more careful with taking it down than the former one
and tossed the vial aside as she stumbled to her feet. She could feel
her energy returning and her magic restoring.

"Alright,
back into the fray..." She wasn't at her full strength, but what
she had was better than where she was at moments ago. With her claws,
she moved in, taking more calculated strikes towards the remaining
stalfos as they swung their blades around and bashed with their
shields to counter the collective attack of the party.

Spoof
APP [7:37 AM]
With the group concentrated into a full assault, the
combination of overwhelming force was beginning to wear on the
stalfos as their limbs were beginning to sever from their bodies and
with them, their weapons and defenses. Without much to protect them
aside from shoddy and well worn bits and pieces of armor, the
rattling bones begin to collapse into heaps. The glow in their eyes
fade and vanish from their bodies as the souls that revived them were
sent back to their source.

John APP [6:27 PM]
John dodges
past a leaping stalfos and swings his sword around as it lands,
knocking its skull off. With that, it seems like the skirmish is
won. No more zombies or skeletons trying to make mincemeat out of
adventurers. Phew, now they just have to deal with the wizzrobe hims
--

A nauseatingly familiar moaning from the next room clues in
that this was wishful thinking. "He's making more of them!"
John groans. "Okay, we can't afford to be slow here, just...be
very aware, all right? I've seen some really big holes left in
buildings by this guy." #.#;

John ducks into the next
room, taking in the situation as quickly as he can. Giant scythes
dominating most of the space from the center, redeads shuffling from
a hole in the wall and heading toward the door, and -- aha, there's
the wizzrobe up on that pile of beams in the corner! "Dorjan!"
John shouts, ducking as one of the scythes goes by. "You're not
getting away with this! This all ends here!" >.<

Dorjan
turns his malevolent eyes from the hole to the crypt over to John.
"...Who the hairy hinox hump are you?" e.e

Spoof APP
[12:44 AM]
loud thumping could be heard, the walls started to
shake and a loud growl and roar could be heard then \*BOOM\* this big
creature comes falling down from the roof of the room onto the center
piece of the spinning scythes, breaking the mechanism.

Wolf
[12:46 AM]
Wolf comes flying down from the ceiling, breaking the
spinning scythe mechanism and roaring loudly. A dark aura could be
seen around wolf and his eyes were beat red whipping his new long
chain around. (edited)

Kentas [4:05 AM]
Kentas leaps back
slightly in shock, "Is that the same wolf we know?!" He
helped before Radella fluttered out and \_locked-on\_ she knods to
Kentas, making her way back closer to him.

Wolf letting off an
intimidating roar and aura certainly spooked Radella and Kentas but
he held his dagger firmly, a lump built up in his throat as he looks
to the others, "What do we do?!" He swallowed painfully,
dreading the possible answer.

His gaze then drifted to Dorjan
the wizzrobe, he could feel his hand hovering over the skulltula fang
strapped to his chest in a rainbow sash, \_"Could this really end
it so easily?"\_ His inner thoughts spoke and raced around as he
waited for a response.

Lude [1:29 PM]
Seeing the changed
wolf Lude falls back closer to Itami. Using the greatsword as a
shield for now he looks over to her.
"Looks like i may get
his pelt after all.. any ideas on how to deal with this?"

Itami
APP [9:00 PM]
Itami was still in the middle of recovery, but
otherwise was holding her own well enough. They were finally at the
wizzrobe and she couldn't be anymore elated! With some
exceptions...

"I've never dealt with anything bigger than
a white wolfos and they can be as tall as you," she stated
bluntly. "Between Dorjan and our companion, I must say I'm a
little stuck. I've limited experience with wizzrobes aside from
knowing that they have a high defense against magic," she
explained to Lude.

A dark smile spreads across her face. "But,
I have been looking for an opportunity to test some poisons I made!
It's been so long since I've been able to put them to use! Now, let's
see..." She summoned up an organized case with a snap of her
fingers.

"As much as we'd love to get a nice pelt, we'll
have to make sure he's returned in one piece to your sister. I'm
certain she'd want him back alive. We'll consider spoils after we've
dealt with this problem." She grabbed a couple vials and
inserted them into her claws. "Sleep poison. I'll need your help
to make it work, though. If you can create openings, I can teleport
in and get some slashes in. At his size, I'd need to cut him a number
of times, but this stuff is potent. He'll be knocked out for some
time. Can't influence anything when they're unconscious."

Dorjan
APP [9:20 PM]
"...What." .\_.

Dorjan just stares
for a moment at the random wolf monster that crashed the party and,
more importantly, crushed the all-important soul-reaping machine.
Then dark fury flares through his synapses and he begins hurling
fireballs, mainly at Wolf, but with enough wildness that the others
present are in danger too. "YOU TICK-RIDDEN BAG OF SCRUFF!!! I
BARELY GOT A \*TENTH\* OF THE SOULS IN THAT ARMY!!! I SPENT \_YEARS\_
BUILDING UP TO THIS!!! AND I WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO, IF IT
WASN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS AND YOUR MANGY DOG!!!" D<

(For
reference, the fireballs are nowhere near the big-holes-in-buildings
variety, since they're being produced and flung very rapidly. Still,
fire = ouch.)

Meanwhile, the jar containing Ruscov's soul has
miraculously survived the smashing on the mechanism on which it
rested and rolled off to the side...amongst the group of redeads that
were shuffling across the room and are now still closing in on the
nearest warm bodies, heedless of the extra monster's sudden
appearance.

Spoof APP [10:51 PM]
Wolf turns and starts to
dodge the fireballs, realizing that his real enemy is his so called
"Master" breaking the control over him and making the
darkness flow out of him. Wolf is now only 8ft tall but his strength
grows with every bit of rage that grows within him.

Wolf
[10:54 PM]
Wolf growls at the wizzrobe "I'm going to kill
you, look what you've done to ME! I'm a bloody MONSTER!" Wolf
jumps off the wall at the wizzrobe to end him once and for
all.

Shura [11:02 PM]
Shura chuckles alittle watching wolf
aiming to maim the poor wizrobe. While that was going on ,shura made
it to pick up two of the stalfoes sheilds in case the first atack on
it wouldent work he had a somewhat unorthadox idea "tear him to
shreds wolf "

Wolf [11:07 PM]
Wolf stops midair and
turns to the voice that just called out his name. "What?!?
Who?!? I'll figure that out later in the meantime I'm coming over
there move back."

Lude [11:10 PM]
"I must say,
I'm somewhat disappointed here. I was hoping to see those poisons in
action." He spoke to Itami
"Maybe we could go use them
on Ingo after all of this is over. I still have to pay him back for
letting Netri into the bull pen." (edited)

Wolf [11:13
PM]
Wolf awaits for someone to tell him the plan of approach to
take the wizzrobe down.

Itami APP [12:03 AM]
Itami raised
up a barrier to block off the fireballs that were flying in hers and
Lude's direction. She supposes she should be thankful they were
thrown so recklessly, but there are elements of wood in this place
that have the potential to catch fire.

"Myself included,"
she sighed. "But tell me more about Ingo. For the right price, I
could provide you with the same poison," she chuckled. "But
time to focus. It seems Wolf has snapped to his senses without our
help," she pointed out his change. What once was about to be
their secondary enemy has now begun to work on assisting them.

"It's
probably for the best you didn't attack him directly! You'd be
chewing on fireballs right now if you did. He's upset and he still
has some advantage over us. The souls are still filling up the dead
and reanimating them. I think this is likely where Scruvo will be our
best bet. If he has any connection to them, he may be the one to help
get us out of this mess," she described to Wolf, though
addressed the whole room as she did.

Wolf [12:05 AM]
Wolf
nods "I'll wait for your signal to attack when the time is
right." Wolf says to Itami

Shura [2:09 PM]
"So
then those ugly things need to get delt with" shura pointed to
the redeads then to the wizrobe " or him first cause personaly
i wouldent mind hiting that wizrobe?" Shura not to sure what it
was called only hearing something about it... though the sheilds in
each hand were going to be put to use just not as there intended use
as he tosses one like a heavy frisby at one of the redeads head with
a powerfull throw watching it make a clanging sound as

 it conected couldent help but chuckle
after that however.

Itami APP [4:22 PM]
"I don't think
any one of us would truly mind striking Dorjan, but we have to be
careful. Wizzrobes are tricky. We need to think of what advantages we
have. Ours just so happens to be the possessor of a piece of Ruscov's
soul," Itami explained.

She considers if they might be
able to test his power. She isn't exactly certain of what Dorjan is
capable of and yet he seems capable of raising undead easily enough.
Still, since the mechanism was broken, the souls aren't filling up
nearly as fast. Hmm. Wait...

"Something fell off of those
scythes." The jar! "I think my magic has restored well
enough to do this. Elements aren't my strong suit but I can still use
them..."

She raised her hand and her broom blinked into
her grip. Wielding it like a greatsword, she leapt into the air and
landed at some distance from the redeads. Channeling fire into the
bristles, she swung it and shot off a fireball towards the redeads
with the hopes of knocking them over from its momentum and
impact.

"John! The jar!" She pointed it out. "Claim
what's rightfully yours!"

"Nice thinking, whoever
you are," she pointed out Shura's prior shield throw. "Now,
let's get to those redead and then to Dorjan! I'll cover for John!"
She gives her signal to attack and proceeds to raise a barrier nearby
the jar in hopes to prevent interference in its collection.

John
APP [4:34 PM]
\_(OOC: Hmmm. I had almost gotten a pose written up
where Dorjan gets away with the jar. X) Originally I'd intended for
Ruscov's soul to get released in this scene, but when Wolf provided
another avenue for averting the limitless undead crisis, I figured
why not let that be victory enough for now and extend the plot a bit?
 But I hate to shut down Itami's contribution, and if this goes much
longer it'll start to feel twinky for Dorjan to get away, let alone
with the jar, because everybody will be pounding on him and he'd have
to no-sell it all. Anybody have any suggestions?)\_

Itami APP
[5:20 PM]
(OOC: Theoretically, the fireball could have enough push
to send the jar away from his hands. She's not used to using
elemental attacks, so she could have easily miscalculated how strong
it was. Opening the scene back up to Dorjan taking it for
himself.)

Lude [6:30 PM]
(OOC if you want dorjan to get
away with the jar you could use wallmasters probably)

Dorjan
APP [9:44 PM]
Dorjan fades from existence as Wolf jumps at him,
then rematerializes in the midst of the redeads. "Done to YOU?!
 What, did one of my flunkies lose a finger in your food bowl and
poison you or something? I'm a busy warlock, I can't be expected to
keep track of every bug I step on!" :P

Then comes Itami's
fireball. It scorches the area, setting the redeads on fire and
causing them to moan and buckle. Dorjan, on the other hand, stands
straight through the conflagration, and blinks in curious surprise.
He reaches up and calmly pinches out a tendril of flame on the brim
of his hat, then turns his gaze to Itami. "Yowza. You're a
spicy little package of prestidigitation, ain'tcha? Howzabout
you'n'me catch dinner and roast some peasants afterward?"
:wario:

John makes a dash and slides on the stones, reaching
his hand out for the jar. >.< Dorjan points a finger and zaps
John with a lightning bolt, making him spasm. x.x "That was
utterly predictable. What's this, a barrier? How cute."
Dorjan reaches down and touches the barrier with his fingertips, then
shatters it with an arcane squeeze. He picks up the jar and fades
out again, then his voice can be heard from the previous
room.

:musical\_note:
And believe me I am still
alive
:musical\_note:

Dorjan's voice grows fainter with
every line.

:musical\_note:
I'm doing MAGIC and I'm still
alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying
I'll be still alive
And when you're dead I will be still
alive
Still alive
\_Still alive\_
:musical\_note:

Lude
[10:41 PM]
Lude gives chase to the previous room but his vision
started to blur, he had to stop and drink another potion and wait for
the effects to kick in before moving.

Itami APP [11:35
PM]
"You're not quite my type, but I'll keep you in mind,"
Itami returned the joke back to Dorjan. As her barrier was
threatened, she made a motion to try and lift it once again, but the
jar was already swept up and taken.

She sneered and growled to
herself, feeling frustrated at the amount of work that went into
this, but it was over. She sighed and shook her head.

"I
suggest we all do what Lude did and take another potion of
sight...we'll need it to navigate back through here...Dorjan is
gone." She flicked her hand to launch John back up onto his
feet, not quite being attentive to his current state with her
irritation at its height.

"Lude, there's no point in
chasing him. You won't find him. Let's focus on getting something for
your sister now..." She looked around the room they were in.
"Maybe we should try another room. This one is filled with metal
shards and...whatever else."

She moved to the previous
room. "I think I saw a smaller version of those strange bird
statues. Figures. We can probably grab one of those and offer it to
her."

Wolf [11:57 PM]
Wolf just laughs a little. "I
don't need to take your potions anymore Itami, not to be rude I just
can see everything in the temple that's an illusion."

Kentas
[4:14 AM]
Kentas sighs heavily, lowering his hand from the fang,
"I guess that means we failed? Well.. I dunno if Netri would
want this, but do you think we can do anything with this?" A
curious tone escapes his mouth as he runs over to a part of the
broken scythes, grabbing the snapped pole that held one of the scythe
blades.

He held it carefully and watched the blade, an evil
was definitely inside it and danced around with the reflection of the
light. Something just called Kentas to it.

Itami APP [4:25
AM]
"You did change while you disappeared. Not sure if it's
for the better or not, but you're not attacking us." Itami
shrugged towards Wolf's remarks. No offense taken. "I'll just
charge you for all the potions you have left or if you don't have the
rupees..." she popped her head in from the other room. "Perhaps
you'd like to be a test subject? That's a much faster way to remove
the debt. I still have yet to test the poison on these claws.
Speaking of tests..." She grinned as she slipped back to speak
to Lude.

"Lude. Quick question. How well do you tend to
sleep?"

Her attention was brought back to Kentas and,
deciding she couldn't be two places at once, she maneuvered back to
the reaping room. "We'll, it all depends on what the knight
thinks. The mechanism that held it is broken now. Looks like that has
been here for a while, too," she looked back over the wreckage.
"Hope it's replaceable."

She sighed to herself,
"Well, at least the darkness that was rolling through here has
returned to its...normal darkness. If that can be said. We should be
heading out soon. This temple has been disturbed and desecrated
enough."

Kentas [6:59 AM]
Kentas nods to Itami,
keeping a firm grip on the broken scythe in his hand. He gives out a
burst of air as he lifts it into a better position, the weight of it
quite impressive as he hobbles back to the previous room with
Itami.

With a quick gesture, he free's one of his hands to a
potion and pops the cork with his teeth spitting it to the ground as
he chugs down the eye potion by Itami, "Ok then!" He states
excitedly as he places the hand back onto the scythe.

The
Temple certainly shifted in its malevolent energy, and the darkness
wasn't as harsh on Kentas' amber eyes, as he gazes towards the other
room.

Lude [10:32 AM]
"I intend to sleep very well.
I'll not need your sleep poisons but thank you for the offer all the
same... \_you spicy little package of prestidigitation you"\_ he
laughs.

Walking back to the room he placed a hand on Kentas'
shoulder.
"I'm not sure a seemingly cursed scythe would be
the best present for a five year old girl. Lets try to find something
shiny or... not as sharp." He said as he ran his fingers across
the blade feeling a slight energy from it.

John APP [12:15
PM]
John finds himself roughly on his feet and somehow doesn't
topple over again. This despite the fact he doesn't seem to be
paying much attention to the world around him. "It...it was
that close," he mutters. "If I'd just been a little
quicker, or a little more aware..." Scruvo settles onto his
shoulder. "Tough luck, Johnny-boy, but at least we stopped 'im
doin' what 'e wanted wi' it. Now we don't 'ave t'worry so much."
 John gives Scruvo a glare. "Oh, and that's great for you,
isn't it!? Now we can take all the time in the world before -- "
 John bites off his words, then exhales heavily. "Nevermind."

A
ghostly glow rises up from one of the burnt redeads, then floats away
in the direction Dorjan took. "Looks like Dorjan still has
control over the souls he reaped," John muses. "That's
probably why he bothered taking Ruscov's soul with him, even though
he can't reap any more..." John blinks, and his eyes focus.
"Itami! Is there any way you can capture any of these souls?!"
 It'll have to be something quick, more wisps are rising out of the
charred bodies and sailing away as John speaks.

Kentas [12:44
PM]
Kentas gazes at Lude before looking down at the scythe again,
"Well yeah.. I know it is probably too much for a little girl
like her, but I feel we need to take it with us. Something in my gut
tells me.." He speaks with a resonating tone of perplexity at
his own words.

He looks to Radella who hovers over his
shoulder glaring down at the scythe, "All I can say is that,
that thing is evil! EVIL I TELL YOU." She groans at him before
gazing ahead the group, she spots Shura, the new member of their
party and fly's over, her yellow glow right in his face, "And
who are you?!" She asks harshly,

 the fight was sudden and so was his
appearance to the situation.

"I don't recall anyone
talking about another person joining us later? So who are you?.. and
how did you stumble in here?" She demanded the strange warrior,
though he was ten times the size of her.

Shura [1:19 PM]
"You
sure ask alot of qwestions for whatever you are" looking to the
small thing called radella qwirking his brow behind his mask sighing
as his armor shifted alittle when he stood from how he was crouched
for a moment .

" my name is shura.... i ...dont really
know what brought me here other then well might sound crazy but my
sword led me here...." if anyone in the group could see auras
there was a malevolent one atached to the sword the one as tall as
him at 6 feet tall shura scratching his head past his cloaks hood the
only visable thing was his botom half of his face his stature was
that of a man whos life was dedicated to nothing but training or
fighting but very well hidden in a very samurai-esk look to him very
obvious he dident belong from this land at all.

Shura however
kept his eyes on the little redella and everyone elce though the wolf
looked fremillure " only one here that looks slightly like i
known them is.." he points to the wolf with a thumb before
reaching into his cloak near his chest for a pipe takeing a drag of
the tabaco within. " what brings you all here"

Wolf
[1:23 PM]
Wolf looks over at Shura and scratches his head. "Your
scent is familiar but I do not recognize you warrior, we shall have
to talk more at a more appropriate time."

Itami APP [4:36
PM]
Itami laughed with Lude, glad she could find some humor after
this situation. She was considering leaving the temple now that the
trip was over, but found that there was still work to do. John's
voice rang through her ears and she focused in on the room to see
what he was speaking of.

"I have something quick,"
she summoned up a glass bottle and swiped a soul into it. Once
inside, she had the bottle attuned roughly enough to the wisp as she
held it outward and the souls that were flying off proceeded to
retract backwards as if being pulled by some strange wind.

She
gathered as many as she could, even those that managed to escape the
room as she chased them down. When she was certain she captured all
aside from what Dorjan took with him, she came back to the room,
swishing the contents of the bottle around.

Together they
looked like an ethereal liquid, but acted as if they were some sort
of cloud. "Glass bottles are useful for many things and are not
quite the same as my vials or usual potion bottles. I haven't solved
the mystery behind them, but they can hold almost anything..."
She placed the cap on the bottle and walked it over to John. "This
is yours to keep, temporarily, to gather up any other souls from
Ruscov. Don't worry about a fill limit because there isn't one. Not
like there would be for poe souls, but the reasonings behind that are
all mixed and muddled." She shrugged at the thought.

"If
there's nothing else, I'll be taking my leave. I have to go and start
my shop all the way over since the attack from that gunk. This time,
I might have to make it a traveling one." She sighed. There's so
much to do. Namely, acquire her rupees from her safe and some
important ingredients...

She grumbled as she walked away. The
amount of effort that was going to take would be draining, but she's
certain it'd be worth it.

Lude [9:02 PM]
Lude decided that
he too, should take his leave, he was not too keen on staying here
without Itami.
Searching the temple he came across a large open
door with silver chains and an ornate lock.
Digging through the
lock he found a large golden key with a ruby skull in the middle.

"I
suppose this will have to do."
He pocketed the key and
returned to the rest of the group.
"So are we ready to go? We
should get out of here before the potion's effect runs out."

John
APP [10:08 PM]
Well, that's a decent consolation prize. John
watches Itami gather up the loose souls in a bottle with a feeling of
renewed purpose. Each soul they can gather up is one less soul
Dorjan can exploit, and maybe they can use these souls to \_find\_
Dorjan too. :open\_mouth: John accepts the bottle carefully from
Itami. "Thank you," he says solemnly. "I'll be very
sure to repay the favor somehow." "Some'ow that involves
roses an' wine," Scruvo suggests cheerfully. n.n

John
stows the bottle away carefully and heads back the way they came.
"Yes, we should probably all be getting out of here. I'll tell
you about my quest on the way out, Mister Shura." "Long
story short," squawks Scruvo, "th'wizzrobe's got a lad's
soul, Johnny-boy's tryin' t'get it back, an' apparently th'whole
whiz-bangah was so 'e could enslave a bunch o' othah souls. An'
steal th'witch-lady's heart."

Wolf [10:13 PM]
Wolf heads for the
door leading upwards back to the enterance. "Damn, I was looking
forward to continuing our adventure down haha." Wolf tries to
brighten his situation up.