Floor 1 "Wheel": 1-2

[Anastasia]

Returning, Sacchin notices one good thing. All the sharp edges have faded into the wall and floor, making the trip back mercifully painless. She comes out, finding that it's getting rather warm in this room!

[Corwin]

Euphemia knows when to flee, and one such moment is now, quite likely. "Come on!" she urges the others as she does so. "A room with a pool of lava getting hotter? Bad place to stay."

It hardly means she'll stay back to wait, if some of her companions or even all of them would prefer to remain instead.

[VySaika]

(OOC: okay, to confirm, we're all in three different places right now, yes?

Sacchin is climbing down the shoot.

Ranmaru is in the Endless Walkway room hving the mephit harvest treasure.

Flasheart and Euphy are in the room with the lave.

Is this right?)

[Ebiris]

That sounds about right to me, Gate

Sadly now lacking in fiery resistance, Flasheart agrees with Euphie and flees back up the stairs!

[Carthrat]

When Sacchin sees the others fleeing, she scratches her head, and then decides to follow suit, hightailing it outside the rapidly-heating kettle of a room.

"Button didn't have a label," she mutters, darkly.

[Anastasia]

OOC: That's right, you guys.

The three hurry up the stairs! When they reach the top, they feel the growing heat onlyd istantly. It's tolerable and okay up here, but it looks to be getting warmer down there.

Ranmaru and the steam mephit go below! It works and grunts, bits of spidery silk falling into the abyss as it fiddles. "Here you go, got one, two more to go," he says, plopping a scroll down into Ranmaru's hands.

[VySaika]

Ranmaru accepts the scroll!

(Can I hear/see the rest of the paty runing back up? I'm afraid I have NO mental map function, so I have no idea where I am in relation to them."

[Corwin]

Euphemia eyes Sacchin warily. "There was a button?"

[Carthrat]

"Yes. Paper chest too." Sacchin frowns. "Said to not trust mephit."

[Anastasia]

The mephit grins as Ranmaru can distantly hear people fleeing. Say, it's getting a little warmer in here. Not that it seems to bother your steamy friend as he goes below again.

You're past one of the four doorways at the far side of the steel mill, down a long catwalk. The party is on the other side of the steel mill now and up the stairs leading down into it.

[VySaika]

(okay, thanks.)

Ranmaru looks back, "Is that...people running?"

Calling the Mephit back up, he motions for the doorway, "Something's happening. Come on, we can come back for the rest later."

Cautiously, Ranmaru heads back out of the walkway room to see what the commotion is about...

[Anastasia]

We resume! I ask all of you to do me a favor. Due to an error in bookkeeping I lost your current HP totals. Can you include them in your next post? I'm going to start using a throwaway IRC room to keep track of them. (#avatarhps if you care to peek or need to check.)

Thanks.

Ranmaru returns to the main steel smithing room as the others linger atop the stairs! WOAH. It's getting hot in here, chokingly hot! Swealteringly hot, being exposed to this long will have bad effects on living!

[VySaika]

"Tch! This heat is worse then Koshi castle..."

Ranmaru looks around swiftly. If he can see or hear the others, and the way is clear between them, he'll sprint up to where they are. If not, he'll move back to the corridor. It's just too hot to stay here or explore.


I'm still at full since my last respawn.

[Anastasia]

* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 DC 10 and gets 7." [1d20=8]

The heat throbs and pounds! Lacking options and not seeing anything as he suffers, Ranmaru swiftly falls back!

* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 DC 10 Euphy and gets 10." [1d20=8]

However, as this happens, the relatively eagle-eyed Euphy can glimpse Ranmaru coming out and then fleeing back down below!

[VySaika]

Ranmaru falls back to the corridor room, and if there is a door there he'll get ready to shut it. He doesn't want to completely close himself off from the others until there is simply no other choice.

Looking back to the Mephit, he asks, "This heat...tell me, do you know this place well? Have you any idea what is causing this deadly temperature?"