Fifth Adventure 03.2: The Path of Darkness

Arch: The one that's lit up. The NOrthern door.

Rory follows Fierneceal to the lit up door, watching expectantly.

The North door is no longer lit up, consequently. Sometime when the Orb came thudding down it wasn't lit up.

You carry the Orb in that direction but, without any particular warning, the West door opens with an audible ka-klunk.

Rory whips around to look in the direction of the noise. Upon seeing the west door open up, he runs toward it to run through the open frame. "Quick, before it closes!"

Fierneceal opens her eyes wide, "Oh! Look! That... that may or may not be good, actually," and takes the orb to the open West door and attempts to look through to see what's on the other side.

"well it seams that we have a way forward?"

"RORY Wait! What did we just talk about!"

You cannot see through the door at all. It looks like it just opened to the rest of the night plains.

Fier:
The light goes through without incident or issue, as though the doorway were simply that, an empty doorway.

Fierneceal wrote:"RORY Wait! What did we just talk about!"

When Fierneceal yells, Rory slows to a trot and peers into the frame of the door, merely inches in front of it.

"He's gone. Should we follow?"

"try droping the orb in the pool?"

The group suddenly sees a cone of light emanate from Fierneceal's eyes, going through the doorway into the darkness, yet what's on the other side remains dark.

Fierneceal smiles at Rory and pats him on the shoulder.

"Tabran, we can try it, but there's a risk involved. We may lose the orb, or the doors."

Z, who's impatience is growing more visibly pronounced, marches through the open doorway and vanishes.

"Well? Are we just going to sit around waiting for the 'right' door to open, or are we gonna take a risk?" Rory says. He marches through the darkness.

"you know im really getting fed up of members of our team doing that"

Kolson shrugs and walks through the door.

tab follows slowly

Fierneceal sighs YET AGAIN, motions for the others to come on through, and marches in after Z and Rory, hoping there's nothing untoward in this room of darkness.

The moment you walk through the doorway the entire surroundings change. You are in a very poorly lit area, nearly pitch black, and what looks like what used to be a pasture. The grass here is dead and rotted, the wood is broken and dilapidated. The barn attached to the pasture has only one door remaining, which is slowly creaking open and shut in a low wind. This area is very cold, and gives you the impression of a haunted grave. You also hear someone crying nearby.

Without any warning the central part of the area, right near the door to the barn, becomes lit up with some bright white light. With this amount of lighting you can spot what looks like a young Elven boy sitting over amidst several trees, turned away from you and crying on his knees.

You also spot a strangely well-kept marble rune with an indent in it the size and shape of the blue orb. It looks completely out of place with the ruins and rot, and blends so well with the dark dirt that you wouldn't have seen it without the light.

Edit: Adding something.

Upon seeing the crying boy, Rory moves up to him, while keeping his distance and his hand on his axe, but lowered in a nonthreatening pose.

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