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Post by SilvaShado on Mar 28, 2006 5:42:25 GMT
While Ash and Rasidar talk, Loriana quickly goes to the supply room to get food for Ciara. Even if she wasn't hungry now, she probably would soon. She returned and offered the food to Ciara.
Responding to Rasidar, Loriana says, "I'll stay with Ciara until she's ready to move on." Loriana hoped that all of this wasn't too overwhelming for Ciara. It was bad enough waking up to other confused people, but to wake up to hear all of this... Loriana almost smiled... it was enough to want to go back to sleep or pinch yourself to see whether you're still dreaming.
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Post by Shan on Mar 28, 2006 5:53:43 GMT
While Ash is checking around the tubes and the wall for traps, she just can't get what Mao told her out of her mind. The floor ate Mao's blanket strip, but it wouldn't touch her pork strip.
Suddenly a thought comes to her and she sits down on her knees. She takes a pork strip from her pouch and also tears off a small piece from the end of the rope like belt she had made. She then rubs the pork strip all over the piece of blanket and then lays it on the floor. She just had to know if this floor like pork strips.
*Assumes she gets answer*
She then takes the pork strip and rubs it all over the floor in front of her and then lays the pork strip right in the middle of it and watches to see what happens.
While she is waiting to see what happens she gets another idea. "I've just got to get Mr. Knight to put this in some of that green bubbly stuff when he is finished testing it with the bola," she thinks, "and maybe get Mao to pour some of the liquid on a piece and see if the floor will eat it that way."
*E - what kind of results did she get with both of them *
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Post by Elliot Kane on Mar 28, 2006 10:18:25 GMT
Rasidar
The liquid does not put up much resistance, and you can easily pull the bola out.
Ash
The floor eats the blanket strip, though rather slowly, and the pork that is rubbed off onto the floor. It ripples around the pork strip as if uncertain or hesitating, but leaves it.
You are sure that it is reacting more slowly and sluggishly than it did before.
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Post by Gray Lensman on Mar 28, 2006 14:46:20 GMT
"`Tis no real resistance in the fluid," Rasidar says to the others. "`Tis safe for any experiment we might attempt."
He then watches Ash's experiment. He finds the effects curious.
"`Tis possible the cleaning system is draining of power," he suggests. "Much as the lights have. Something must be responsible, but what...?"
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Post by Shan on Mar 28, 2006 23:09:29 GMT
Ash looks at Rasidar questionly. "This place is wierd," she says. "And mysterious like you," she adds with a grin. "I saw the way you looked at Caira as if you were hoping she was somebody else."
She then jumps up as she says "I gotta finish checking the tubes out." And she takes off. She doesn't go far when she looks back at him, tosses a pork strip at him as she calls "Mr. Knight catch. Feed this to a tube and see what happens." She grins at him and then is gone.
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Ash walks around the room examining each tube and the walls very carefully. Carefully she runs her hands over each tube and metal ring. She also watches the wall for any reaction as she runs her hands over it.
At one point she stops and stands there staring at one of the tubes a minute. She then takes one of the pork strips and rubs it on the outside of the tube and over the metal ring and watches to see if anything happens.
* E - does Ash find any kind of traps on any of the tubes, rings or the wall. does she feel anything or notice anything that has not already been found. *
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Post by Gray Lensman on Mar 28, 2006 23:57:36 GMT
Ciara... was that the new girl in the awakening room? Yes, it must be. There was no one else Ash could have been thinking of.
Rasidar raises his eyebrows at Ash's blunt declaration. He had tried to block Callie from his mind, to focus on the mission at hand. Yet Ash's mentioning of it brought the memory of her back to the forefront again.
"I... `Tis not my wish to keep secrets from you, Ash," Rasidar says uncomfortably. "`Twas my hope not to burden you or the others with my past, or what little of it I recall. My own woes are but a trifle compared to the matter of our present survival."
He offers Ash a glance, a silent indication to her that he may speak of it later. But for now, he turns his attention back to the mystery of the room...
Rasidar catches the pork strip in mid-air with one outstretched hand. He shoves all thoughts of Callie out of his mind, returns to the here and now.
Rasidar again approaches the tube. This time, he lifts the pork strip carefully above the tube. Rasidar gently opens his hand above the tube, allowing the pork strip to drop into the green liquid. He watches carefully to see what happens...
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Post by Elliot Kane on Mar 29, 2006 0:04:00 GMT
Ash
No traps or other things that have been missed. You DO have a rather messy tube now, though.
Rasidar
The pork strip slowly sinks into the liquid, and drifts down to the bottom of the tube.
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Post by Shan on Mar 29, 2006 1:05:06 GMT
"It's not a burden, Mr. Knight, says Ash smiling at him. "It's OK too, if you don't want to talk about it now cause we really need to get out of here. Just don't think you will make me forget about what I saw by putting me off. I can wait, but I won't forget," she adds with a grin.
Ash grins and calls "Great catch Mr. Knight." as she heads back to investigating the tubes.
"Hmmmmmm," thinks Ash to herself as she looks at the greasy stuff on the glass tube and the metal ring. "Guess the tube and ring don't clean themselves."
"Hey, Mr. Knight," calls Ash. "The glass tube and the metal ring don't eat stuff or they don't like pork strip goop," she calls running her finger through the stuff she had rubbed on the metal ring. "Yuck," she says to herself looking at her finger. She then looks around for Homm with the idea that maybe she could wipe her finger clean on him, but he looked busy so she just wipes it on the floor, gets up and goes on with her search.
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When Ash finishes her search of the room, she calls "I can't find any traps or anything else, Mr. Knight. The room seems clean. Maybe Little Sneak had more luck."
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Post by LaFille on Mar 29, 2006 2:02:00 GMT
Hmmm... taste it, or not? Mao wonders, looking at the liquid on her finger. Nah, better wait to have stuff to drink or rince the mouth, in case; later then.
She wipes her finger on the floor (no need to waste another blanket piece) and closes the skin. (Elliot, is the liquid in it still bubbling?)
As no one seems to investigate the point in the middle of the room, she goes back there to try a few other tricks. The origin of the airflow in itself seemed to pass through matter, but the air was inflating the skin... She tries to localize the spot that is the origin of th airflow as exactly as she can, takes off a globe and tries to put it so that the origin of the airflow would be inside the globe (Elliot?).
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Post by Gray Lensman on Mar 29, 2006 2:06:38 GMT
Rasidar nods with a look of resignation. He wasn't accustomed to opening up. His discipline had trained him to keep his own feelings under tight control. He had to appear strong at all times, if only to better inspire and serve others.
Still, Ash seemed insistent, and probably would be until he finally relented. Not that she was the first. Callie was always irritated with him when he held his emotions back, though he never understood why. Rasidar cast the thought aside, only now realizing the memory had just surfaced. But somehow, he knew Callie would disapprove if he refused. If his story was the price to be paid for Ash's peace of mind, then he would indulge her.
"When the opportunity presents itself," Rasidar says. "I... am not comfortable discussing such matters. But fear not, I shall not tarry long."
"`Tis peculiar," Rasidar notes, looking over the equipment. "A result of the power drainage, perhaps? Or something else entirely?"
"My thanks," Rasidar replies with a smile. "`Tis well done."
Then Rasidar looks to Homm expectantly. If they had missed anything, Homm would know...
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Post by janggut on Mar 29, 2006 2:25:49 GMT
(EK - i think u missed out on Homm's action of scoping out the tube room. anything hidden that he can find there?)
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Post by Elliot Kane on Mar 29, 2006 8:58:15 GMT
AshThe floor reacts very slowly in cleaning itself, but still does so. MaoThe floor responds very slowly in cleaning itself, as it had to Ash. Putting a blobe in the source of the airflow stops it. The liquid in your water skin is obviously cooling slowly now it has been removed from the tube. HommJang - I didn't think you were asking for results, sorry  Homm will find nothing the others have missed..
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Post by Shan on Mar 30, 2006 0:49:15 GMT
Ash watches at how slowly the floor is now cleaning itself.
"Hey, Mr. Knight she calls "This floor is doing wierd stuff. It is still cleaning, but man is it slow. Do you think us messing with the tubes had any affect on it?
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Ash walks over to where Homm is and asks "Find anything, Little Sneak? It should be safe for you to do all the looking you want. I searched the room carefully and didn't find any traps."
Looking around at Mao, she calls "Hey, Mao, you find out anything new about where that air is coming from? Does it still seem to be as strong as it way? The floor is eating stuff really slow. I think it is dying."
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Post by Gray Lensman on Mar 30, 2006 1:12:06 GMT
"`Tis uncertain," Rasidar admits, pondering this over. "`Tis possible that the tampering may have affected it. It may be the system running low on power. Or it may be some malady beyond our present understanding. I know not which. `Twas slowing down even before our intervention. Perhaps we might undo what we have done, and determine if that makes a difference?"
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Post by LaFille on Mar 30, 2006 4:17:26 GMT
As Mao puts the globe on the source of the airflow, it stops. Knitting her eyebrows, she examines the globe and observes around to see if that caused any other effect. (Elliot, did it? Also, does the texture/consistance of the fluid in the skin changes as its temperature gets lower?) "`Tis uncertain," Rasidar admits, pondering this over. "`Tis possible that the tampering may have affected it. It may be the system running low on power. Or it may be some malady beyond our present understanding. I know not which. `Twas slowing down even before our intervention. Perhaps we might undo what we have done, and determine if that makes a difference?" "I've dropped a globe in one that tube," Mao says to them pointing at the tube in question. "Maybe is it related, though I doubt it... The more we see, the more it looks like this place and what was going on here was abondonned by those that instigated it... And you, what do you think?" she asks turning to Cedric & Scim. Once she could determinate if blocking the airflow had any effect, Mao puts the globe back in her pouch, checks if the airflow seems to have diminished since the first time they checked it and calls at Homm: "Come by, Homm, I'd like you to investigate this." If he's finished checking the room and comes, she explains him what she found and tried about the airflow thus far. |
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Post by janggut on Mar 30, 2006 5:04:30 GMT
Homm listens to Mao & nods as he picks up information from her. he then proceeds to attempt finding the origin of the airflow. he tries it with a wet finger first.... .
(EK - can Homm find the origin of the airflow or he needs to find another method to do so?)
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Post by Elliot Kane on Mar 30, 2006 9:07:41 GMT
Mao
Blocking the air flow does not seem to affect anything else.
The liquid is slowly starting to congeal as it cools down.
Homm
The air flow comes out of a point in mid air. It starts up again when Mao removes her globe as if it had never been stopped.
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Mar 30, 2006 9:15:06 GMT
Stelrein looks to his hands to see if he has calysis.
(Eliot what does he discover?)
Stelrein stretches. Turning to Zumir he asks, "Would you mind practicing with me?"
Holding up his fighting club, "One of my companions showed me a few moves, but I'd like to test them against a flying opponent."
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Post by Elliot Kane on Mar 30, 2006 10:31:42 GMT
Stelrein
Your hands are entirely uncallused.
Zumir nods, drawing his sword from its sheath and whisking it about in a bewlidering pattern of deft movements. You have no doubt that he is a master swordsman.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 30, 2006 13:15:02 GMT
"This place looks indeed abandoned," answers Cedric to Mao's question. "It seems secluded, provisioned for a long stay, but there is no sign of substantial provisions being taken away. The occupants seem to have left in a hurry - or were taken away."
He pauses to think.
"These tubes look like either preserving or breeding something. Heat seems to be a requirement, and that means energy - energy is not without limits, normally. I wonder whether it was us in those tubes, before we were put to sleep - or were we put to awake?"
he shakes his head. "I'd rather leave this place, if possible!"
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