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Adventurers Club Mods ([personal profile] pleasureislanders) wrote in [community profile] adventurersclub2020-08-01 12:00 pm
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Final Trial

[It seems as though the badge that Tadashi found fits neatly into the indent in the broken statue in the main room. Once inserted, the ground quakes as the statue begins to shift to the right, revealing a narrow, spiral staircase leading down, down into the ground.

Lots of secret passages in this place, huh?

Lit torches line the walls of the stairwell--clearly, someone is anticipating your arrival. As you descend down the staircase, the air grows cooler, not unlike the atmosphere when descending towards the trial room back on the island. The passage grows more and more narrow, until, eventually, you're forced to shimmy between the walls.

Eventually, however, there is a doorway. As you push yourselves out of the stairwell, you find yourself in a ruined chamber. Ancient stone carvings decorate the walls, crumbling and defiled after centuries of wear and tear. One of the walls of the chamber has been torn down to reveal an expansive cavern, wooden bridges spanning any drops and rope and pitons marking off certain areas where dig sites have been abandoned. The area is dimly lit by gas lanterns strung up around the rocky walls.

This isn't a trial room. It's an excavation site.

On the far side of one of the rickety bridges, shrouded in shadow, is a slim figure. They stand at attention, holding a cane in the crook of their arm. They slowly lift their hands and begin a slow, sarcastic clap that is heard throughout the cavern.]


Congratulations. You've made it here, no thanks to that ridiculous, cowardly genie.

[The voice echoes throughout the chamber, amplified by the acoustics of the cave. The speaker is male, and although his tone is otherwise friendly, there's a certain cold quality about it. Sweet, in the way that antifreeze tastes before it kills you.]

I must say, you are a tenacious bunch. But, unfortunately, this is where we end our little affair. But, before you make any rash decisions, I must remind you that I have your little friend in my possession.

[He shifts slightly, revealing the Genie's lamp tucked in his jacket. The artifact shines in what little light it can reflect, before he folds his jacket back. He chuckles to himself.]

You wouldn't want anything dire to happen to this lamp, now would you? [A pause.] Though, if you must know, he's the one who came up with the "murder game" concept. He's the one that kidnapped you and brought you to this place. So, really...if anything, you're going after the wrong guy.
feudalladyshandmaid: (No)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2020-08-01 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...So are you going to elaborate on that, or...?

[God, she's tired.]
neverhadafriend: (02)

[personal profile] neverhadafriend 2020-08-01 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you ever heard the book The Most Dangerous Game?

When he summoned me he first wanted to wish for that and I had to think of an alternative and, well.

That was it!

[:)]
halloteen: (I'm not gonna die for you)

[personal profile] halloteen 2020-08-01 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[siiiiiiiigh she hates being right]
feudalladyshandmaid: (Sigh)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2020-08-01 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[She's from. The 1800s?]
halloteen: (my voice is real)

[personal profile] halloteen 2020-08-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The most dangerous game is, y'know. Man. And Chicken, I suppose.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Facepalm)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2020-08-01 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're telling me there's a book about people hunting other people in a "murdergame".

[That's a word she just had to say.]

Out of everything else, that might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
halloteen: (we're gonna say)

[personal profile] halloteen 2020-08-01 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, no, not a "murdergame." I think Genie just made that up. The book is about this rich guy, a big game hunter, who got so bored hunting animals that he started hunting people. We would've been the people.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Whiskers)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2020-08-01 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...That's stupid.

[This whole thing is stupid.]

...But it reminds me, there's a whole group of kidnapped animals out here that we should probably help.
bottlerockets: (feeling some kind of existential dread)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2020-08-01 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah! We gotta let them go home somewhere... just like how we need to get out of here and go home too.

[though, at the thought of coming back home to oakey oaks, a thing he wanted nothing more than to do week one, has him now hesitating]
halloteen: (you might as well face the truth)

[personal profile] halloteen 2020-08-01 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The walruses... probably can't go back to the wild. [being, y'know, mad.] But, I can find them a home in Halloweentown. They'd fit right in.
bottlerockets: (someone please get this kid a therapist)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2020-08-01 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You think so?

[They sure as hell can't come to Oakey Oaks... not just because they mad, but also Oakey Oaks sucks.]

Okay. I'll trust you with taking care of them then.
halloteen: (I don't fit in your ways)

[personal profile] halloteen 2020-08-01 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They'll have lots of space to roam and all the cheese puffs they want... And Luke needs some responsibility in his life, anyway. [she is absolutely dumping them into luke's house and bouncin]