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phantasmalrift2018-12-14 11:02 am
phantasmods) wrote in phantasmalrift2018-12-14 11:02 am
DUNGEON - BELLMARE MOUNTAINS, PT 1
Expedition day dawns with the androids in a final flurry of activity - this time, it's in the glider hangar, where they're furiously setting up racks of heavy coats, piles of warm socks, and snow boots, as much as they could manage to pull together. If you've already got your own, great! Otherwise, you can grab some here, though it will be in the usual amount of mismatched Keystone chic.
There's also a variety of emergency flares and the like. Strange is there to admonish everyone to take at least one - unlike Earth flares, they're magical and silent, and will recharge over time - just in case.
Because you're going up into the mountains, and even more so than the usual abandoned places that you explore, it's going to be dangerous just by the nature of the place, nevermind what you might find up there. Incendia was the biggest market for the Bellmare mountain resort, after all, and you're all quite familiar by now with how long that's been abandoned. More to the point, it's far easier to lose track of each other in the snowy slopes. Keep your phones handy and look out for each other, as well as anyone else you might find up there.
Indeed, in addition to the clothes offered for you now, Strange will push extra warm clothes on anyone with hammerspace, and Down, surprisingly enough, has emerged from their usual place with a good number of extra communication devices to hand out. You should still have signal in the mountains, even in a blizzard, but it's better to be prepared for things to screw up.
Once you're all bundled and ready to go, it's off with a wave, into the land of ice and snow.
[OOC: There is an exploration header for each area of the dungeon! Please limit yourselves to 3-5 characters per thread, and don't double dip in order to allow everyone the chance to explore! Otherwise, feel free to top-level as normal.]
There's also a variety of emergency flares and the like. Strange is there to admonish everyone to take at least one - unlike Earth flares, they're magical and silent, and will recharge over time - just in case.
Because you're going up into the mountains, and even more so than the usual abandoned places that you explore, it's going to be dangerous just by the nature of the place, nevermind what you might find up there. Incendia was the biggest market for the Bellmare mountain resort, after all, and you're all quite familiar by now with how long that's been abandoned. More to the point, it's far easier to lose track of each other in the snowy slopes. Keep your phones handy and look out for each other, as well as anyone else you might find up there.
Indeed, in addition to the clothes offered for you now, Strange will push extra warm clothes on anyone with hammerspace, and Down, surprisingly enough, has emerged from their usual place with a good number of extra communication devices to hand out. You should still have signal in the mountains, even in a blizzard, but it's better to be prepared for things to screw up.
Once you're all bundled and ready to go, it's off with a wave, into the land of ice and snow.
[OOC: There is an exploration header for each area of the dungeon! Please limit yourselves to 3-5 characters per thread, and don't double dip in order to allow everyone the chance to explore! Otherwise, feel free to top-level as normal.]
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[Prompto yanks his hand back and shakes it out, then sticks his fingers in his mouth.]
Thun uhff a bifth! Nnnnh.
[8^8]
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I mean. I think? That it's working? I think it's working!
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[He takes his fingers out of his mouth and blows on them.]
Just reconnected the fuse. I don't think it's gonna last much longer, but I ggguuuueeesss it's working for now? Gonna have to totally replace it soon enough, though.
[He blows on his fingers one more time, studying the chairlift above and listening to the workings groan.]
...Going up?
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Should we look for some? I wouldn't want to get stuck halfway up.
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I'm gonna shove another fire crystal in there.
Tell my husband he can have all my shit if I burst into flames. [church no...]
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Are you, uh, Leonard in there?
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Oh, the armor--yeah, I guess some people haven't seen me in this yet, heh. Yeah, hi, in retrospect mentioning anything about my husband around you is probably a bad idea that I regret.
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No, it's okay! We, uh, we've talked. We talk. Kinda. [Prompto rubs the back of his head, too.] I was just thinking... Ardyn might be able to make a new fuse, if anyone here can.
[He's quick to turn away and nod at the chairlift.]
So maybe we should go up and see what's there while this one still works and, like, report our findings to everyone? To see if it's worth it.
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Let's do it.
The going up and then reporting thing, but also the asking Ardyn if he can jiggery poke something out of this nonsense.
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[Power armor doesn't make for good high-fiving, so Prompto casually bumps his arm and bounds into a lift chair.
LET'S-A GO!]
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Ha, we're a team now? Then I call dibs on team leader.
[Let's also pretend power armor isn't so heavy it's gonna break the lift shh how does rvb armor work it's a fuckin mystery]
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It's even colder up here than it is down at the bottom, but that's to be expected with how high up in the mountains they are. What might be a surprise, however, is the view.
It's spectacular, but that's beside the point. Because far off in the distance – not, however, too far to reach on foot, if they must – looks to be some kind of small town or settlement, surrounding an enormous lake. It's sat at the very bottom of the very tallest mountain in the Bellmare Range and though it's hard to see from this distance, it doesn't look quite as abandoned as the rest of this place. ]
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And then the third thing:]
Hey, what's that down there? Big lake. Are those buildings? Is that--does that look like some kinda lake town?
[He doesn't, technically, need to shield his eyes with the visor and shit. He also doesn't need to squint, cuz c'mon, man, that's really not gonna help. But he does these things.] Androids didn't say anything about that, but I mean, makes sense. Ski resort, you're gonna have towns, right? Workers to live.
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[Prompto rubs his arms and shivers to try to physically shake off how bone-meltingly terrifying the ride up was, and Church's discovery is a welcome shift in attention. Prompto blinks, but he can't see any better at that kind of distance than Church can in his visor. After a pause, he nods earnestly.]
I mean, yeah! That sounds normal. And I bet we can find a replacement fuse there!
[He materializes his snowboard again. They're at the top of a mountain and the town's around a lake, please tell me he can snowboard down there.]
Why don't we go take a look? There might even be new people who turned up there, they won't think to look for help outside the town!
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...I wonder if my armor's slick enough to be a makeshift sled... Wouldn't be the worst thing it's seen in snowy bullshit.
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[Hey. Hey, remember the inappropriate use of an ancient family weapon/heirloom? Because Church is gonna just summon up the good ol' Shield of the Just out of thin air. This should look familiar.]
Nevermind. I've got a sled.
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You know, I think every single person who can pull that out's been using it for exactly that.
[He puts his snowboard down to strap his boots into the... boot. Thingies. I'm from Florida.]
Though I guess Noct would do the same thing. [He pauses in the middle of strapping in and looks up.] You can summon the Royal Arms, dude?
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