A Legend of Ys!

[Zenthor]

Jade started cautiously into the dark cavern, careful to make sure she stayed close to a wall and to step cautiously so she didn't fall.  Again.

[Dracos]

It was dark and grew darker still...before she saw some otherworldly illumination in the distance.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

Jade quickened her pace, heading towards the illumination, still walking cautiously.

[Dracos]

And so she came upon a sight that she had never before witnessed...

A gigantic factory.  Huge.  It stretched on further than her eye could see.  The entire interior of the mountain hollowed out as tentacled creatures surveyed their robotic workers, an errie glow lighting the place, giving just enough light to see.

There must be hundreds of them here though, building something.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

"Holy..." she squeaked out.  Her first instinct was to run, but her curiousity got the better of her.  She just had to see what they were building in this mountain.  She inched forward towards the factory, trying to keep hidden from the eyes of those tentacle monsters.

[Dracos]

They were building weapons.

A robot army, the likes the world has never seen.

It was terrifying!

She had to get out of here!

Dracos

[Zenthor]

I've got to warn someone!, she thought, sneaking away from the factory.  But in order to do that, I need to get out of here... but the walls are too smooth.

As soon as she was far enough away from the factory, she stopped.  Maybe there was a second passage in this cavern that'd get her out of there?  She started looking.

[Dracos]

If there was, she couldn't find it in this darkness.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

That plan failed, she headed back to the hole where she fell, her only known exit from this place.

[Dracos]

There was no way she was going to scale back up there.  It was crazy high.  She was lucky she didn't break anything.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

Jade frowned and started walking back to the factory.  No way of leaving the way she came, and no other exits between here and the factory.  It seemed like her only solution would be to sneak through the factory and find some exit there.  This wasn't going to be fun.

She got to the factory and stopped.  The poor illumination should give her some cover, but just to be safe she began inching forward, trying to stay as well hidden in the shadows as possible.

[Dracos]

Well, she could try and slip under the equipment.  There were plenty of conveyer belts around and the aliens weren't exactly staring at the ground.  Or perhaps dashing side to side?

The further she headed in, the less there were really any shadows to hide in at all.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

Jade decided that the safest route would most likely be crawling under the conveyor belts.  At the next conveyor belt she saw, she dived under it, and quickly but silently started crawling through the factory.

[Dracos]

She spots...eww, a slimey tentacle in the way.

Some weird clicking and clacking is going on above.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

Jade stopped herself from groaning in disgust, but made the face nonetheless.  Crawling over the tentacle was too risky, and it's unlikely that it'd move.

Crawling around, maybe?  She glanced out from under the conveyor belt, the side where the tentacle wasn't protruding, to see if it would be safe to quickly crawl around the tentacle.