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[Angel] ([personal profile] fairwind) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2020-01-05 07:37 pm

Origin Star Finale: Session 3

Who: explorers
When: Day 54, early afternoon
Where: The Final Island

[After returning from the second mission with a little extra cargo, Thyme waits another 20 minutes before calling for the third and hopefully final round of totem hunting.
One more. If you have the energy to help, climb aboard.

Characters attending session 3 may now board the airship. As it flies, they'll get their briefing:]

If you haven't gone in yet, please pay attention.

Your objective is to find and deactivate a totem -- a source of Malice in the target area. You'll probably come up against enemies, but try to defeat them by showing them positive emotions, not through combat. Defend yourselves if you have to, but keep in mind killing things won't purify them.

This is the last totem as far as we can tell, so it's vital that you get to it one way or another.

[You land, this time, in a clearing in front of a ruined temple. The heavy bronze doors, cast with images of stars, have swung open, and one has fallen from its hinges to lay in the grass.]

Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] hot_mess_express 2020-01-06 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Wherever it goes, the thorns recoil, fading away as if burnt. You can free yourself entirely this way, though the bottle glows brightly and it's only a matter of time before another attack.]
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Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] learnedfool 2020-01-06 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[looks at the rest of the party... no, he better see if he can calm this spirit first]

We came here to help. Why don't you tell us why you don't want us here and we can start from there.

Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] hot_mess_express 2020-01-06 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[The light from the bottle is dying the whole room in red now, but the voice does respond:

HE sent you, didn't he?! I won't trust it this time! Everything's so wrong...!

The ground below your feet is growing uncomfortably hot...]
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Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] learnedfool 2020-01-06 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
That depends on who you mean by 'he'.

[time to step back. No, Des, trying to smash the bottle won't help.]

But mostly we wanted to come on our own because there's a lot of pain here.

Are you the temple divine? If so, we're in the same vocation.

Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] hot_mess_express 2020-01-06 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[I'm not anyone! I just-- I just tried to help!

You have stepped out of the danger zone, before the stone is hot enough to burn through your shoes. For a moment you, at least, are safe.]
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Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] learnedfool 2020-01-06 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Good. Trying to help is what we're doing too. And that means you are someone; someone who tried to help.

Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] hot_mess_express 2020-01-06 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[The bottle pulses more, blindingly:

And it didn't make any difference! Look at me, I'm-- I--

Died. But he can't accept it.]
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Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] learnedfool 2020-01-06 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
You're able to tell us what happens, so we can finish what you started. If you hadn't stayed, we'd be running blind.

Re: ROOM 6

[personal profile] hot_mess_express 2020-01-06 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ The darkness came, and everyone's gone! But... but by then I was already...

You're not being attacked anymore, but someone else is.]
Edited 2020-01-06 05:01 (UTC)