Final Fantasy: Fugue [IC]

[Lycan 01]

Ralix's eyes go wide in terror. "Oops..." he mutters. He then leaps backwards, spinning around in mid air, and takes off running towards the exit the moment he lands. "RUNNNNNNN!!!! RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!! I MADE IT WORSE!!!! DON'T ASK, JUST RUN!!"

[Jayngfet]

"I'm not leaving anyone anywhere. Everyone who's leaving leave. I've got the feeling I'm supposed to be first into a fight and last out, and that's whats going to happen." A look of determination crosses his face, his blank mind was filled with ideas of combat, tactics, and a few ideals. He would not break on these ideals, he would not bend or falter not ever. "If this turns nasty you run and I'll cover you."

[Viera Champion]

What are they so angry about?!
She yells at Ralix as she finally follows him through the door.

[Jayngfet]

"EVERYBODY OUT! GO GO GO!"He leaps to protect those too slow and only advances with the shield/door behind him.

[Lycan 01]

"I'm a dead prince, or something like that!" Ralix yelps back at the rabbit-eared girl, stopping at the door to make sure she goes in first. Ralix was a coward, but he also wouldn't feel right putting a girl between himself and the enemy. "Ladies first," he smirks, gesturing down the hallway. He then flashes a nervous grin and adds: "Trust me, you don't want to be between them and me!"

[Jayngfet]

Thana returns the grin. "I don't have much experience WANTING. I've got some instructions from the crystals and some crazy code to live by. I don't have anything else so I'm going to use that!"he still waits til everyone else is through before advancing himself.

[Elagune]

The passageway is damp and musty. There seems to be several smaller corridors, but as you look deeper they seem to consist mostly of dead-ends. There is a faint smell of... water in the air. After several seconds of running through the corridor, you come across a large chamber.

The chamber is beautiful - hauntingly beautiful. It is made entirely of glass, and keenly decorated in gold and silver. As you walk across the stained floor, you can see through your surroundings. You are underwater, somewhere deep down. All around there are beautiful schools of fish... Aquatic creatures from beyond your dreams. But your worst nightmare as well - there is no exit. This is a dead-end.

There is machinery here. In the center of the chamber is locked gate. On the other side of the room is a mechanical terminal, gently sleeping. Near the terminal are two treasure chests.

[Viera Champion]

She reluctantly goes ahead of Ralix but continues talking to him.
Dead prince?! Wow... If thats what you are I can wait to find out what I was.
She is a little to excited for a scenario where her life is at stake.

As they enter the room Layla stops amazed.

[Lycan 01]

Ralix nods at the guy bringing up the rear as he heads into the hallway. He had to admit, the guy's sense of duty was impressive. Hopefully it wouldn't get him killed... "Heh, I never said I was the prince. I just have his name. Haven't you noticed that I'm too much of a scoundrel to be a prince? Hah hah!"

When Ralix gets to the chamber, he grins. Its just so pretty. Instinctively, he walks towards the terminal. He had a feeling that he might know a thing or two about it. As he approaches the terminal, he looks around at the machinery in the room. What could it do? What is its purpose? He also eyes the locked gate, pondering if he might be able to slip through or maybe break in somehow.

[Viera Champion]

Layla looks through the treasure chests. She doesn't actually take anything but she does look. By the way, what does she see?

[Jayngfet]

Thana looks all around. Any predatory looking fish? Can he see the surface?

[Elagune]

In the left treasure chest is:
[Worn Shield] x1
[Potion] x3
2000 Gil

In the right treasure chest is:
[Mage Masher] x1
[Ether] x2
[Pile of Scraps] x3
1000 Gil

There are no predatory fish around, and the surface can be seen, but is much too far. Light does reach down, but most of the light is supplied by the lights in the chamber.

[Revanmal]

Surg looks awestruck at the room, eyes glued most of all at the panoramic view around them. So many creatures, so much life all around. The lack of an exit was distressing, but this seemed a very nice place to die.

Slowly, he steps into the room, the catgirl still resting unconscious in his arms. He hovers somewhat reluctantly in the middle of the room, content to let the others do the treasure hunting for now.

[Viera Champion]

Layla picks up the Mage Masher and looks at it. She studies the rapier carefully. Still not stealing.

[Lycan 01]

As Ralix pokes around the terminal to see if he can figure out how to work it, he notices the rabbit-eared girl looking through the treasure chests. He catches a glimpse of the scrap parts, and smirks. "You gonna use that? I might be able to do something with it... If that's okay with you, Missss...?" he arches an eyebrow, curious as to what her name is.

[Elagune]

[OOC: Er, sorry. The Mage Masher is a dagger. Should've made that clearer.]

Suddenly, the terminal boots up. Ralix had inadvertently brushed by a touch-control sensor at the side of the terminal. Lines of text run down the screen, ending in gibberish. The screen bugs out, before going into what seems to be administrator mode.

[INPUT USERNAME]

Strangely enough, this terminal seems to operate in Common rather than that language from before.

[Jayngfet]

"I have an idea" Thana says "We break the glass and float to the top. We use potions to heal ourselves once the air deprivation begins getting to us. We should catch them by surprise and escape since they're weighed down by heavy armor"

[Viera Champion]

Oh really? I could have sworn the Mage masher was a rapier. Oh well.

Oh great thief. What did you do?

[Revanmal]

Surg looks at Thana as if he were insane.

"I-I... don't even know how to respond to that. That is a horrible, horrible idea."

[Elagune]

[Mage Masher: Lots of different varieties. This time I'm going with the dagger, though.]

[Jayngfet]

"You got a better one? We have armed men chasing us down and no exit"

[Revanmal]

Surg looks around at the surrounding machinery.

"Well, maybe some of this will help us. And if nothing else we can fight. We don't know how many there are, but if we bottleneck them inside the corridor we should be able to hold our own. Over all, our defensive position is better than back in the Crystal Room."

[Lycan 01]

"Apparently, I turned it on..." Ralix shrugged. If she was going to be rude and not give him her name, nor refer to him by his, he didn't see any reason why he should be nice and polite to her. Granted, he could have taken it a step further and tried his best to be obnoxious, but there was no sense in making things worse. He then eyes the dagger. "Oooh, shiney..." After he stares at the dagger for a few seconds, he returns his attention to the monitor. "Part of me wants to type my name in, since it seems to be important. The other part of me is screaming at me not to do something that stupid, and to let one of ya'll take a stab at it. The computer, I mean, not me..." he grins nervously. Chances are, they were already losing patience with him enough as it is. Inviting them to get stabby on him was probably a bad idea.

[Jayngfet]

"Well if we fight in a glass cavern we may break it anyway but lets get to it then!" Thana places the remains of the strong door and places it at the mouth of the hallway to obstruct the enemy before grabbing the worn shield.

"Everybody get ready, if this goes bad breaking the place is our backup plan!"

[Viera Champion]

Actually she doesn't know his name yet.
Im Layla by the way but you can call me Lay. And whatever your name is, just type it in!

[Lycan 01]

"Thank you. Its nice to meet you, Layla. I was going to start calling you "Ears" if you didn't tell me your name soon. Heh heh..." Ralix grins, hoping that she could detect the good humor in his tone. "At any rate, my name is Ralix Zane. And if this thing goes psycho when I type that in, just remember that it was your idea!"

He then looks down at the terminal, and prepares to type his name. but first he pauses and looks at the others. "Any complaints?" he asks. If not, he'll input his name as the terminal's username.

[Jayngfet]

"We're caught between a rock and a hard place, go for it!" Thana calls out

[Viera Champion]

Layla laughs at the joke.
Nice to meet you too. I'm glad someone here has a send of humor.

[Revanmal]

Surg shrugs. "Go for it, you've got as good a chance as any of us."

[Elagune]

[Username: Ralixzane]
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