Freezing Mall! (Ami and Haruka thread)

[Anastasia]

Viluy nods. "I think it's getting colder, too. We need to try and finish this before it gets any worse."

Or before we waste all our energy upstairs. Ami's starting to look a little strained...

Ptilol nods. "We passed on a message to Professor Tomoe, but it may take a little bit for anyone to arrive because of the field." Cyprine glances down at that, agreeing. "So the sooner the better..."

[Liddo-kun]

Responding to the Twins, "The first one we ran across, we blew apart, but with this one, we had Ami use her ice mastery to keep it from triggering," Haruka tells the pair.

"Hopefully, we'll be able to end this quickly then," Haruka tells Ami and Viluy with a nod.  "But first, the annoying little trap...."

[Anastasia]

Cyprine nods. "Can you walk us past it as you did with the others...

...Ami?" Ptilol finishes automatically. "Or we can expend the energy to destroy it ourselves?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami smiles, a bit wearily. "I can hold it open for you, I think." she agrees, nodding. "We should probably avoid destroying traps that have us on either side..."

Reaching once again into her command over the element of ice, and the talisman encircling her wrist to bolster it, she tries duplicating the moove that allowed them to pass...

[Anastasia]

* Musk-bot --> "Ami-chan rolls 2d6 for entrapment! and gets 2."

IC: With having mastered this trap before, it's simple play for Ami to guide the Twins past it. It barely takes an effort at all, even, to get the two to your side.

Nodding a short thanks, the Twins turn their gaze to the escalator nearby. "We're heading downstairs?" Ptilol asks.

OOC: Only expended 1 EP due to a critical. Lucky Ami-chan.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods in return to the the twins, turning her attention to the iced over passage in front of them. Encouraged by the relative ease of her dealing with the trap, she turns her attention to where the elcalator disappears into the ice, and once again dips into her power over the element, commanding it to part for them...

[Anastasia]

* Musk-bot --> "Ami-chan rolls 2d6 for 'waiting for luck to run out' and gets 5."

IT does so, Ami's excellent control again sufficient to part the ice and move it away from the path ahead!

Artemis smiles to himself a moment, before stepping forward. "Let's go. We're getting close to ground floor again, and that's where this will hopefully end."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods, smiling with rueful admiration at the Mau. Out of all of us, even me, he's probably the least equipped for this, and he's leading the way...

She moves up beside him, her nearly forgotten visor scanning for threats once more as she accompanies him through the passage...

[Liddo-kun]

"Good work," Haruka tells Ami with a pat to her back, as the group begins to make their way towards the now opened passage to the next floor.  "Looks like you're in a starring role today, eh?" she teases with a grin.

After her moment of musement she drops back a few paces to fall in step with the Twins and Viluy.  "Do the two of you have anything to deal with something like possession and the like?"  Haruka gestures to Viluy at this, "There was a woman we encountered, who might be at the center of this, but we're not sure if it's wholly voluntary."

[Anastasia]

"We have a little bit of experience with it," Cyprine nods. "But we're not overly capable at it," Ptilol finishes. "We learned the majority of our spells that we have under Germatou's influence, and he didn't teach from that sphere of magic."

Frowning a bit as she finishes, Cyprine goes on. "We'll have to do as best we can."

[Liddo-kun]

"I guess, 'our best', is all we'll have to work with then," Haruka replies with a slightly strained smile.  "I don't like the thought of confronting someone who might not be our enemy minus influence..." she begins, then with a sigh Haruka laments, "I wish Rei was here now for this...."

Turning her head towards Viluy, she asks hopefully, "Is the Mirror picking up anything more, now that we're headed closer to the first floor?"

[Anastasia]

Viluy shakes her head, withdrawing the Mirror again and viewing in it. "No good...it's still cloudy." With a slight, controlled shake of her head, she continues on downward.

As you head on down, the second floor is a bit different than the first. Instead of a sheet of ice across the empty space, the upper parts of what appear to be castle towers poke through. It's dark here, the only light coming from gleaning reflections of light from the ice castle.  Dazzling to look at as you come down, it's like a starscape cemented in the icy reaches of this place.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami winces inwardly at the condition of the second floor. She seems to be moving in. She reflected. Not commenting at all, Ami simply continues to scan the floor for traps that might snare the unwary.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka whistles at the sight.  "Someone is getting reaaaaaaally comfortable down here," she notes, truly taken back by the changed surroundings.

"Although let's see if we can do something about the lighting..." Haruka comments before drawing out her Space Sword.  She holds it in front of herself like a torch then pauses, concentrating slightly.

[Anastasia]

Ami - By your computer's scans, this seems to be the likely source of the anomaly. In other words....this is it.

As Haruka fires off another commentary, her Space Sword lights up brightly. This casts light in a roughly circular radius around yourselves, greatly aiding your sight. You can see that the floor is a solid glaze of ice now, everything else around subsumed to it.

"So...this must be where Celcia is holed up. Can we get inside from here, Ami," Viluy asks the lake-blue haired girl.