Fifth Adventure 03.2: The Path of Darkness

Rory, Z, Fier, Tabran, and Kolson all materialize within a room at the same instant. It is a strange looking room, cloaked in a bizarre fog that seems to mask your vision everywhere except where you are directly looking, so wherever your eyes are tracking line-of-sight looks fine, if a bit dim, but the rest is shrouded. The room is fairly large, rectangular, and is filled with small, blue flowers which glow an odd hue, giving the room all of its light. There is a strange series of runes on the north wall that you can't quite make out from here, and a strange blue orb, which looks like a blue pearl but much larger, laying on the ground amidst the flowers.

tab walks over to have a closer look at the runes and orb

Fierneceal, trembling slightly, looks about the room with wide eyes. She notices that only a few of the group are here with her and immediately grows worried. "Guys? Where are everyone else?"

"I would guess they materialized elsewhere. I was given a choice between 'darkness' and 'light' and chose darkness. If this was the case for you as well then it's likely they chose light." Kolson moves forward and picks a flower, just to see what happens.

The runes are some sort of algorithm and the more you look at them the more they seem to form a sort of mathematical pattern. If you spent some time working on it you might be able to deduce it through sheer logic.

The blue orb is some sort of power source, though not Magicite.

tab looks at the other
"oh Rory so your not dead?"

to Fier
"thats a good question i saw us all go though"

Kolson:
The flower refuses to be picked, sticking to the ground unnaturally.

Rory looks around for his axe.

Oh and Rory's axe is lying on the ground.

Grabbing up his axe, Rory slings it over his shoulder. "Nope. Aren't you just glad?" he says sarcastically.

Without warning the blue orb moves, hovering up and rotating briefly before sitting still in the air.

"Hmm. Yes, I suppose we did all have to choose. But this... that flower did not move." Fierneceal presses the flower to see what happens.

tab picks his rope up and heads over to the runes

"well im actually thinking of killing the whole team" tab smiles

Fier:
The flower bends downwards, but upon releasing pressure reverts to its previous position, still giving off blue light.

Rory walks up to the runes to investigate, keeping a wide berth between him and the orb, eyeing it warily as he passes.

Spoiler:

"What a fascinating room. The flowers refuse to be picked and now the orb is acting strangely." Kolson says to Fierneceal.

To the orb, "Are you alive? Can you understand me?"

He repeats that in every language he speaks if it doesn't respond.

"Yes, the orb is acting strangely, though not as strangely as I have seen before." Fierneceal glances at the orb as she walks near it, and moves to examine the runes.

"humm"

Spoiler:

Fier:
This is the exact same type of stasis.

The Orb suddenly moves towards the north wall, near the runes.

Tab:
The Orb appears to be a power source for something, though you do not know what exactly.

Rory startles at the sudden light from the orb overhead, raising his axe. Observing that it is doing no harm, he lowers his axe and continues to try and make sense of the runes.

Spoiler:

"well that nothing from the orb lets have a look at the runes see what we can make of them"

"I think the orb is directly connected with the runes, and the room. I've seen this sort of ... stasis before. Where nothing moves, nothing changes. Nothing ages. It stays the same."

Z announces, briefly, "The Orb is a power source, we need a receptacle, so let's try and figure out the runes. I've been looking at them and I noticed they all give off a different Elemental signature, each rune in order; Life, Fire, Light, Water, Spacial, Air, Dark, and Earth." Z points this out going down the line of runes.