Chapter 10: Hidden Temple
Jillian: *walking through the trees looking at a map* It shouldn't be too much further... it looks like there's a large stone structure or something where the treasure is, based on this map..
Garnet: *walks leisurely next to everyone, arms behind her head, she wears dark purple capris and a gray zip-up tank top with the words EVIL written in lavender letters on the front, a gold and black patch is on the left side of the top reading "goodluck", she wears her usual jewelry and strappy sandals, her hair is straight and loosely pulled half-up, large silver hoops dangle from her ears* I don't even know how we're supposed to carry all this treasure. Baku's been acting reckless lately.
Aiden: I know, really. He's been really strange. *yawns*
Callie: *fluffs up her hair a little, allowing it to fall over her canary yellow dress with a low v-neck, tank top straps, and a thick waistband above a knee-length flowing skirt, she wears several strands of a gold necklace with yellow gems and gold, hoop earrings, and a pair of gold sandals with yellow gemstones adorning the straps* I don't know, I think it's fun. He's probably just not used to having us around.
Jillian: Either that or he's hiding some huge secret that he can't even tell his shipmates about *smiles and shrugs* *wears a black halter top with a thin, teal trim around the arms, neck, and bottom, stopping at her ribs, a pair of teal, long, tight shorts with a black half-skirt falling to the back of her knees, a pair of black slip-on shoes and a teal ribbon tied around each bicep; her only jewelry is a chain around her neck, its charm again hidden beneath her clothes; her hair is loose and wavy, falling around her shoulders* It should be around here somewhere... *stops and looks around*
Garnet: *stops and looks at a large stone structure with no opening to be seen* *puts arms down to her sides* It looks like a temple of some sort... *walks closer to it* There looks like some ancient writing on the stone. *puts hand up to it*
Aiden: Maybe it's some sort of code to open the doors to get in.
Callie: *pushes against a symbol, giggling* This one looks like a weird monkey! *pulls pack suddenly, looking at the symbol, now indented into the wall*
Jillian: *looks closer at it* Maybe we need to push in certain symbols to open the door...
Garnet: Here's a tiger! *pushes against it, it goes in, then comes back out of the wall along with the monkey originally pressed in* Hmm, that's interesting, it looks like you have to only press the correct ones to get in!
Aiden: *presses in a parrot symbol, watches as it goes in* This one works! I think...
Jillian: Hmm... *pushes the monkey back in and then begins looking at the other symbols, tries a snake* It looks like this one worked too...
Callie: *pushes in a horse, only to have all of them come back out* Oh, bah. This is hard. *pouts*
Garnet: Oh, this one looks like Roxas! *pushes in a wolf symbol, only for it to come right back out* Okay... we need to write these down somehow...
Aiden: *grabs a stick off the ground and squats to the ground* So which ones worked?
Garnet: Um, the monkey, parrot and snake... and the ones that didn't work were the tiger and horse...
Aiden: *scribbles the information in the dirt*
Jillian: Well, I guess we need to try all of them... *pushes on a rabbit, which immediately comes back out* Rabbit is a no.
Callie: *pushes on a panther-like animal with thick spots, and then a fish with sharp teeth, both of which stay indented* Jaguar and weird fish thing both work.. *pushes in a penguin, causing all three to pop out again* Penguin doesn't. *frowns*
Garnet: *pushes in an insect symbol and a pig, both which don't work* The insect and pig are a no-go... *looks around, looks up to see a lizard-like symbol a little higher* *jumps up and presses it, it goes in and stays* Iguana works! Did we try all the symbols?
Callie: *looks over all of the symbols* Yeah, I think so... *turns to face Aiden* So which ones worked?
Aiden: *looks at the list* Monkey, parrot, snake, jaguar, weird fish thing, and iguana. *stands up*
Garnet: *presses in the monkey, parrot and snake*
Jillian: *pushes in the jaguar and iguana*
Aiden: *walks up to the door and presses the weird fish thing to complete the set*
*the symbols glow separate colors - monkey-green, parrot-purple, snake-silver, jaguar-red, weird fish thing-blue and iguana-orange, stone splits apart revealing an entrance*
Jillian: *looks at the stones* If this is going to be as difficult as getting through that underground obstacle course from a few days ago, I'm not sure if I want the treasure.. *peers into darkness, hoping to see lanterns or another form of light*
Garnet: *prepares her gunblade, peers into the darkness, takes a few steps in, suddenly the hall is lit up with torches* *looks around quickly* That was weird.
Jillian: Definitely. *follows closely behind her* Let's hope this isn't one of those underground mazes that if you get lost you don't get out.. *readies her naginata*
Callie: *moves close to Jillian* I don't like the looks of this...
Garnet: *walks down the torch-lined hallway and stops at a fork in the road with a big stone face in the middle* I don't know which way to go.
Jillian: *looks down each hallway* *frowns a little, then points down the one to the left* Let's go this way.
Aiden: *peers down the left hallway* I don't know, I think maybe we should go right. The left path looks a little shady to me.
Garnet: What does the map say this place is? A maze?
Jillian: *holds it up* It doesn't show anything inside of here. I think we should go left.. it looks less shady than to the right. *puts hands on hips and faces Aiden*
Aiden: Well, maybe we should split up then!
Garnet: I don't know if that's such a good idea. We have no idea what could be in this place.
Callie: If we split up though, we could find the treasure a lot faster and get out of here a lot faster. *frowns*
Jillian: *shrugs, looking at Garnet* I don't see how it could be such a bad idea..
Garnet: *crosses arms* Well... I guess you are right... *suddenly pushes Aiden into Callie* I bet we can beat you two to the treasure!
Aiden: Ow, what, HEY! You're on!
Callie: *smiles* You won't win if... we get a head start! *pushes Jillian into Garnet, then grabs Aiden's hand and runs off down the hallway*
Jillian: Ah, hey! *stumbles* *calls after them* That's not fair!
Garnet: *pushes her forward into the hallway* Let's go, go, go! *begins running*
Jillian: *giggles, running down the hallway, just behind Garnet*
Garnet: *hits a large room and looks around* Maybe the treasure is in here! *snoops around the outside walls*
Jillian: *nods and begins looking closey, moving in the opposite direction* I'm not seeing anything... just more of those weird animal symbols. *tries pressing them with no luck* Except they don't press in this time.
Garnet: There's a bunch of statues along these walls, too. *begins walking along, poking each of them* I don't know what this could--*arm gets grabbed by one of the statues as she pokes it* What the! *gets thrown across the room*
Jillian: *spins around* Garnet! *readies her naginata* Oh my gosh... *watches as two of the statues from the wall break free and begin moving towards the girls*
Garnet: *gets up and shakes self off* What the hell was that? *takes up gunblade and fires a few shots into each of the statues, watches as the fall over* *stands still for a moment, then notices the other statues beginning to move* Shit.
Callie: *still pulling Aiden along, quickly turns a sharp corner and runs into a large room* *suddenly stops* Whoa... *looks around slowly*
Aiden: *stops and looks around* Well... it looks like there's only one way out ahead, let's get going! *points to the other side*
Callie: *nods and follows him to the other side of the room* We'll definitely beat them. Jilly would spend time looking along the walls instead of running straight ahead!
Aiden: *runs to the exit, but suddenly the door closes* Umm... *looks at Callie* Maybe it's another puzzle?
Callie: *frowns and looks around the room* I don't know.. *sees a few large, square rocks sitting next to the walls, with what looks like levers above them* Maybe it's something to do with those levers! *runs over and begins climbing onto a rock*
Aiden: Be careful! *spots her while she climbs*
Callie: Just no looking up my skirt. *turns head back and sticks tongue out at him after she steadies herself on top of the rock* *stands on her tiptoes and reaches for the lever, pulling it down*
Aiden: Did something happen? *looks around, noticing movement around the room* Huh...
Callie: *turns* Um, if you call the other rocks moving closer to us something happening, then yes, something happened. *quickly jumps down from the rock and loads a bolt into her crossbow*
Aiden: *draws his sword and fights off several statues* We need to figure out how to get that door open! *looks around* Did the level open anything?
Callie: *fires a bolt into a statue* I don't know.. I'm going to go pull the other ones down. *turns to Aiden and winks at him* Watch my back! *runs over to the second of 4 rocks and begins climbing it*
Aiden: *stands in front of Callie, slicing down statues as them come* Hurry!
Jillian: *charges towards the moving statues* I'm not letting these rockheads make us lose the race! *swings the naginata twice, hitting two more of the statues, causing them to fall*
Garnet: *fires more shots into the statues then flips the blade over and slices down a guard behind her* *moves towards the other side of the room carefully, only to find the exit door shutting on her* Ah, hey! Jillian! It looks like we're going to have to figure out a way to open these doors again!
Jillian: *looks around* Hey, do you see those circles on the wall? They look kind of like buttons.
Garnet: *turns blade back into the gun and fires more shots into the statue as she moves towards the buttons* I wonder if it's a pattern like the door outside!
Jillian: I'm not sure.. they're just blank. *swings her naginata up to hit the highest button, then swinging it down again to hit another statue*
Garnet: *fires shots at the other two buttons, watches as they open three doors in the room revealing small rooms with buttons on the ground* *runs into one of the rooms and stands on the button, the exit door opens slightly* *looks at the other two rooms* We need to press the three ground buttons at the same time!
Jillian: *begins moving toward the second button* Wait, how are we goig to stand on all three buttons at once? *looks at Garnet*
Garnet: *thinks for a moment* I got it! *moves towards one of the statues, firing shots into it, moving it backwards into the third room, fires the last shot into it, watches as it collapses onto the button* *avoids the other statues and quickly stands on her button* Jillian, quick!
Jillian: *runs and stands on the third button, hearing the door spring open* It's open, let's go! *jumps off the button and runs to the door, only to see it beginning to slowly close* And hurry, it's starting to close!
Garnet: *runs quickly towards the door, does a dramatic dive through the shrinking opening*
Jillian: *helps pull Garnet through the door* *stands and looks down the hallway* Well atleast it seems like there's only one way in and one way out. *continues moving down the hallway*
Garnet: *brushes self off* Well, that went well! *keeps moving as well*
Callie: *stands on the rock and pulls down the second level* Got it! *looks over at the door* Hey, I think it's open a little! *jumps off and moves to the third rock*
Aiden: *sends a fireball through the room, knocking over several statues* I don't know how much longer I can fend these guys off!
Callie: *pulls down the third lever and runs to the fourth* Almost done! *jumps on the back of a stumbling statue, using it as a stair to climb onto the fourth rock* *pulls the lever down* Got it! *turns around to see the rock nearly surrounded by statues* Umm.. help!
Aiden: *puts sword away quickly then rubs hands together, blows across them creating a large stream of fire in front of him, scorches the surrounding statues* *watches the statues collapse, opens arms for Callie to jump down* Jump!
Callie: *jumps off the rock and into Aiden's arms, wrapping her arms around him in the process* *looks up at him* We should keep moving..
Aiden: *lets her down gently* Um, heh, yeah! *akwardly moves away and through the exit*
Jillian: *quickly moves through the hallway* Does it seem odd to you that there's only one way for us to go..?
Garnet: This place must be more like a labryinth than a maze... *sees another room up ahead* Hey, look! I wonder if it's another puzzle room! *sees the glimmer of treasure* *moves into the room* No way, already? That was easy! We beat them!
Callie: *follows Aiden down the hallway* I hope Garnet and Jilly are okay..
Aiden: I'm sure they are fine... *moves into another room* Hey, I see--Garnet? SHIT! *starts running towards the treasure at the center of the room*
Garnet: *sees someone running* Is that another statue?! *fires a shot at the figure*
Aiden: *gets hit in the arm with a bullet, falls over* FUCK! GARNET! *holds himself, blood pouring out of the wound*
Callie: Ohmigosh, Aiden, are you okay? *kneels next to him*
Garnet: Aiden?! Oh crap... *angrily* You should have warned me it was you!
Jillian: *stands with back to the other three* Uhh, guys, we have a problem... *holds naginata defensively, watching as several statue guards move towards them*
Callie: *picks up a gold-studded knife from the floor and uses it to tear some cloth from the skirt of her dress, pressing it against Aiden's wound*
Garnet: Aiden, I'm sorry! I really am! But you looked like one of those statue guards!
Aiden: *kicks Garnet in the stomach* YOU SHOT ME!
Garnet: *gets wind knocked out of her, holds stomach* Yooouu...
Aiden: *notices the approaching statue guards* Shit, I have to fight... *weakly tries to get up*
Jillian: *spins to face them* Hey you two, this isn't exactly the time to argue. Callie, can you help Aiden over to that chair? We don't need him getting hurt even more.
Callie: *nods* Yeah, sure. *loads a bolt into her crossbow then helps Aiden stand, aiming the crossbow towards the advancing statues*
Garnet: *recovers from the blow, flips over the blade on her weapon and faces the statue guards*
Aiden: I can fight... really, I can... *attempts to get his sword but wobbles a bit instead* Fuck, Garnet, you're going to pay for this...
Callie: Aiden, stop it! You're going to hurt yourself more! *pushes him gently towards the chair* Use my crossbow if you really need to fight that badly, but sit down! *frowns*
Jillian: *slowly backs from the guards* Is it just me, or is this really not looking good for us right now...
This chat was completed on Friday, August 10, 2007.