The Underground Temple of Darkness

[AmberVael]

Aesa hums and taps her lips thoughtfully.

[Fenric]

Krystal helps Kantur shovel everything up.

Maybe we can find an evil army being outfitted somewhere.

She turns to Exachix

Both, either, yes. Ways to use my skills, ways to improve my skills: either one.

[AmberVael]

Aesa keeps the rod in hand as she turns her attention to the others.

[Fenric]

Krystal looks at Aesa

How's the evil glowing diamond thing?

[AmberVael]

Interesting enough.
Aesa twirls it a little.

[Fenric]

Krystal gestures at the remaining stuff on the shelves

Mostly swords +5, evil, of brilliance. I've got all I can carry

[AmberVael]

Aesa shrugs and looks down at the scepter.
I believe I have what I want.

[Fenric]

Krystal nods.

There's more further up, but the weaving went a bit... odd... in that direction.

[AmberVael]

Aesa tilts her head.
What do you mean?

[Fenric]

Krystal tilts her head, red eyes somewhat distant

The world there is... wrong. It changes while I look at it. It seems to react to my looking...

[AmberVael]

Aesa hums and attempts to make an entirely normal (As in, not breaking the laws of the universe, which is really hard, but somehow possible) scrying sensor and send it in the direction Krystal indicated.

[Fenric]

Aesa sees the corridors flash by, soon turning to a depressingly familiar shade of bright pink. Sea-anemonies sprout deep underground and trout waltz in midair as Smashmouth plays in the background.

[AmberVael]

Aesa closes her eyes.
Not again...

[Fenric]

Krystal tilts her head

Aesa? What's wrong?

[AmberVael]

This.
Aesa opens up a viewing of what the scrying sensor sees.

[Fenric]

Krystal's incorporeal jaw drops

What is that place???

[AmberVael]

Aesa chuckles.
It's wild energy.

[Fenric]

Krystal blinks

Wild... I've read about that. I didn't know there was any of that on this world, though.

[AmberVael]

Oh there is, there is.
Aesa seems quite assured and a bit bitter.

[Fenric]

Krystal looks at Aesa in shock bordering on worship

You've... been... there... already?

[AmberVael]

YES.
Aesa scowls.
It didn't exactly have a happy ending... what with that living wild surge and all...
I did manage to get the hell out of there with the rod Magician wanted though... and that statue. Nearly forgot about it.

[Fenric]

(( Oh yeah... the living surge. It's still there, isn't it? ))

Krystal hmms

Maybe I didn't see anything real after all... Home, then?

[AmberVael]

Oh no, it is quite possible that there is something up there.
Aesa grins and rubs her hands.
I probably didn't get it all...

[Fenric]

(( You didn't. Not nearly, actually, but I had plans.

It's not as wild as you remember, and it's not as empty anymore, either. Though only one post there, and I think one in Myrkul's Temple since that time makes any hint about it.

But wow, Aesa took a beating there. I forgot how rough that was on her. If I hadn't rolled quite so well in her favor at the end... Really did, too. ))

Krystal grins and drifts back out to the tomb chamber to fetch the orb.

[AmberVael]

((Thank heavens she got lucky. She'll be better this time around though, because she hasn't been frying away her energy all day))
Aesa waits, twirling the scepter.

[Fenric]

Krystal returns with the orb, and returns to corporeality.

Well, the way there is back out, then left... shall we proceed?

[AmberVael]

Aesa nods to Krystal.
Very well. It will be as you say.
Calicyra. What powers do you have, hm?

[Fenric]

The staff stirs, reluctantly yet obediently

I was an elemental adept, and can manipulate light and fire directly, so long as it is neither radiance nor holy flame.

Krystal leads the way back out; leading Kantur, fox-Exachix, and Aesa. And feeling a bit awkward to be leading, though trying not to let it show.

[AmberVael]

Interesting.
Well, lets see what wild energy will throw at us, hm?
Aesa keeps next to Krystal, just in case that wildsurge shows up again.

[Fenric]

Krystal gets to another block of rubble. There is light through some cracks in the debris.

It's past here...

She digs a bit, and it slides enough to allow passage through to here...