Attempt 2, floor 1! WE ARE NOW ANTI JELLYFISH!

[Carthrat]

Tchaener pauses, and then he smiles. "As you will, my lady," he responds, walking over towards her bed, and taking a seat.

He does cast a wary glance at her tail, before his eyes move back to face her...

[Anastasia]

Her tail flickers back and forth, but Tch is hard pressed to notice this as she hugs onto him! "Oh, my brave, entertaining hero!" she purrs, starting to wrap around him, tail hooking over to  loop. "So wonderful! Tell me, brave one, what is it you wish in Eisenschloss?"

[Carthrat]

"Ah, my lady, from this floor, I have heard of gems; one as bright as the sun, and one as dark as night," replies Tchaener, grimly. "My curiosity drives me ever forward... to see what lies behind the next door!

"How did you come to be here, Lilithria? Why is your beauty cloistered away from admiring eyes?"

[Anastasia]

"Ooooh! You seek them?" Lilithra smiles, slowly tightening her grasp. "One lies ahead, past the door I am doomed to guard, brave hero!" Her eyes go from you to the top of her shelf, "There rests the key there. Go on as you wish. Unless...you would honor me to stay in my embrace?"

[Carthrat]

"My lady, I shall have to return here after I obtain it, surely!" he replies, sighing happily. "And even as I strive to open the great door before this one, I will remember, and once the path is clear, I will come back again."

[Anastasia]

"Thank you!" Squeezing even tighter, "Oh brave warrior!"

[Carthrat]

"My lady," coughs Tchaener, somehow maintaing his pleasant disposition despite his rapidly rising concern- "The quicker I depart, the sooner I shall return, once again to seranade ye!"

[Anastasia]

Charisma check

[Carthrat]

[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Carthrat rolls 1d20 and gets 3." [1d20=3]

[Corwin]

Corwin notches an arrow, waiting by the doorway with Aesop and remaining silent for the time being.

[Anastasia]

"Very well." With as light rustle of her tail letting go and relief coming, "Go on, brave hero!"

[Carthrat]

Tchaener does not gasp for breath- that can wait until *after* the door.

"My thanks!" he replies, calmly walking to pick up the key from the shelf, and then moving to open the door.

[Anastasia]

The door opens! Once through Tchaener sees a small jutting platform with a plaque holding podium, and four paths soaring off into the dark - white, gray, black and steel.

[Carthrat]

Tchaener gasps, and starts breathing properly again.

After a couple of minutes of that behaviour, he bravely walks along the white path, like Aesop instructed him!

[Anastasia]

On crossing the white path, Tchaener begins to feel faint! Five minutes of long walking leads him deep into the abyss of emptiness, when an image appears. A lonely snake woman sits in her bed, bored and waiting. The feeling of a great passage of time, hoping against hope to have entertainment - until that day, when...

The path is at an end. Ahead is a doorw ith a peculiar knob.