RECORDING 7: THE THIRD WEEK.

[foundationmods]

A third week in this place begins, with less of your number among you. The final week completely covered by everyone's rations, though with proper meting out, you'll be able to make it stretch until after week 4. It seems as if everyone will have to go without a few meals here and there..

To make things worse, when you wake up - it's clear the Miasma has gotten thicker. Everyone, save those still protected either by their powers or items they brought with them, is now even more deeply affected by the curse. Arguments will be flaring up more, along with negative thoughts and feelings...and even more worrying Is that any magic that touches the house itself will corrode over time. If a barrier is put in place and touches the floor, walls, or ceiling, in half a day it will be completely consumed by the miasma and fizzle out. Spells or seals will also corrode, and even personal healing abilities have been halved.

The Temperature has dropped, just a bit - down to the mid to low 60's. Strange, isn't it? As before,the rooms have changed, so hopefully you kept anything essential in the static area.

25 of your number still remain.

...What new horrors await you this week?


WARNING: Some investigations of new areas will contain traps that may be harmful or even lethal.
MIASMA LEVEL: 2
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[foundationmods]

[ROLL 13 OR GREATER TO SUCCEED ON ATHLETICS
Nick: 12
Waku: 10
Shini: 18

ROLL 10 OR GREATER TO SUCCEED ON SAVING THROW

Shini: 9

SAVE FAILED

Unfortunately, as soon as they all make it on the stairs, the stairs themselves sink down for a moment before slatting flat, making it so that they all suddenly slide down on the now smooth surface due to gravity. There are no rails to hold onto, and it's narrow enough that if Ky had been able to react fact enough to wedge his legs against the sides, he could have braced them with his body.

But, unfortunately, he wasn't. Down, down, down they go, seeing just a hint of a cobwebbed room before landing in a heap in a pit that's about 6 feet tall, with jagged looking stone walls all around them.

The top of the pit is open - and for now, it seems like they're relatively safe...]

[white_camellia]

[...She knew it. Nanaka knew this would happen, but she still failed to respond in time. And she's in the middle of the pile, too.

Anyways, a cobwebbed room, is it? For the time being, while she works to extricate herself from the pileup, she focuses most of her effort on her Enemy Identification ability. She wants to know the exact second that it picks up something new.]

[zweivoltage]

[Oh No I'm falling!

Soon as he felt the stairs sank - he realized they made a terrible mistake. Tried as he might, he was not quite fast enough to brace them all as they fell.

jagged walls... that's not good. He wiggles out from the pile]


Get up! We need to climb out now!

[impyroverished]

Then move!

[Nothing to do but start climbing, really. It's six feet, it shouldn't be terribly difficult! If only he was a bit more athletic, really, haha]

[foundationmods]

[The walls are terribly sharp - It's more than possible to climb out, but your hands will end up being gouged and cut and bleed profusely. If that's what you plan on doing, you'll need to make a roll in chat to make sure your grip doesn't slip. You will have to make a roll of 11 or greater to succeed.

However, in the space it takes for them to get to their feet, Those same jagged walls begin to move forward.

You're all stuck in a crusher trap, it seems - so think and move fast.]

[white_camellia]

Everyone, step away from the wall for a moment...

[With that, suddenly a large number of sword begin to appear behind Nanaka, and...]

White Camellia!

[The swords launch themselves at a wall, impaling themselves into it.]

Use these!

[And with that... Nanaka hops up onto the hilt of a sword, and continues... "climbing" the swords out in that manner.]

[foundationmods]

[WAKU ROLL: 11

SUCCESS

With the swords in the wall, it becomes much more easy to get out of the pit. However, since the two of the boys aren't as used to being a sword magical girl, they'll have to risk climbing out...

SUCCEED ON ROLL 5 OR GREATER

Shini: 17
Nick: 7

....Which both of them manage to do! The pit closes shut with a dramatic clunk behind them, as they get their bearings and find themselves in the intensely cobwebbed room they spotted earlier...]

[zweivoltage]

[Ky may not be a magical girl, but he was a prodigy in several matters - which apparently includes climbing now. He leaps easily after Nanaka, and once he lands on solid ground - upon seeing Emil behind, he unhooks his sheathed sword and held it out for the swede to grab once he's in reach.]

Hold onto me and we'll pull him up!

[impyroverished]

[Climbing walls was definitely something Emil could have done -- he thinks. Sure, it would have shredded his hands, but he's sure he would have been able to do it. He had been about to grab the wall when Nanaka used her swords to create a way that wouldn't shred hands]

Oh, good!

[He ended not being that good at climbing with swords. How do you step on these without slipping? How did those two do that so easily?! Emil climbs, but every step was slow, like he feared slipping. The walls are closing, but he still is going a bit too slow.

The help Ky gives is a godsend. Emil grabs onto it with a hand, while with the other he grabs onto the edge of the pit, trying to contribute in hoisting himself up. Chances are Ky saved his life, really. Emil gets out of the pit right when it was about to close, the hole shutting and trapping the tip of his boot. Yelping, he pulls, freeing his foot before the stone walls crush the tip of the boot]

That was way too close!

[All toes seem to be intact! He hopes so. He'll check later when he's not in an evil basement of doom! One hand has a cut, but it doesn't seem that bad, he'll get over it]

Where are we now?

[white_camellia]

[Having helped Ky pull Emil out, she takes another glance around the room and checks with her danger senses once more: Is there anything new trying to kill us?]

I believe this would be... The basement.

[That doesn't answer anything, of course, but...]

[zweivoltage]

A lot of cobwebs...

[He doesn't immediately rehook his sword back to his belt as re-creates the little ball lightning to shed some light on things]

Damn it, I should've checked the stairs properly.

[foundationmods]

[No new names, beyond the new vessel name.

As for Ky, he'll see That there's not much in this room - it looks mostly like an empty, dusty space - save for what looks like a few papers and a diary laying on the floor.]

[impyroverished]

Before we even touch those we should try to define a way out. Just in case we need a hasty exit.

[Which he proceeds to do. Any obvious pathways to get out of here?

[white_camellia]

I assume the stairs will still be here, though we will need to find a way to reset and disable the trap.

[For the time being, Nanaka will be checking out the stairs we slid in from and looking for a way to disable the trap on it.]

[zweivoltage]

[Ky will just adjust how he's holding the ball lightning to make it easier for them to search since they got that covered]

[foundationmods]

[Well, that's easy enough - the only exits are back up those stairs.

However, when Nanaka goes to check them out...oddly enough, it seems like now they've been locked in place. No matter how much weight she puts on them, they stay as firm and straight as ever.]

[white_camellia]

...It appears that the trap only works once, at least. Using the stairs should be fine.

[Let's... check out that diary, then.]

[zweivoltage]

Thank the Lord for small mercies...

[He'll go over the newspapers]

[impyroverished]

[May as well peek over Ky's shoulder!]

[foundationmods]

[The Diary...has a bunch of papers torn out of it, leaving only some blank pages in the back. It's a plain hardcover book, wrapped in brown leather.

Ky, however, finds the papers aren't newspapers - they're torn pages from a book, written in thin, spidery looking handwriting:]

My previous home fell victim to the floods...it was horrible, but I managed to escape with my life, though I've lost a place to live.

As I am still a young, healthy woman, I am certain that I will be able to recover from this awful loss...but I should find a far better place to live, away from the water.

I will have to travel for some time, but I believe it will be for the best. There should be plenty of food to find where I am going, at the very least.

[That's all on that page - the second one continues where the first left off, though there's no dates.]

I'm finally at my new home, though it took a few days travel and preparation. I am tired, but I've already had a nice meal and settled in as much as I could. MY new home is out of the way, I think - and as I suspected, there's plenty of game to go around here, so I should never truly go hungry.

On my way here, I noticed a particularly handsome man staring at me. Though I hurried away at the time, I certainly wouldn't mind if he came calling in a bit - though perhaps not so soon after settling in. He did look quite fine, though...certainly a man healthy enough to also catch my eyes!

i shall leave it at this for now, and look forward to more peaceful days of living quietly off the lay of the land.

[That's all there is for now, though.]

[zweivoltage]

[Just for the record - would the pages match the tears in the Diary?]

[foundationmods]

[They do.]

[white_camellia]

It looks like all the pages with something written on them have been torn out of here. All that's left seem to be blank pages.

[...Although, she's going to check if that leather can be removed from the cover.]

[impyroverished]

Any names anywhere?

[See anything, Nanaka?]

[white_camellia]

Understood.

[Well then, time to grab onto Ky, who is lifting his sword, which Emil is holding... Best not to think about how it all works, and just help pull.]