Test 1.

[azumods]

VALOR Your arrival at Lake Valor is met with no fanfare at all, nor are there any obstructions; it seems that Team Galactic has moved on from here, the area devoid of activity and strangely-dressed people for the time being. The area is also largely devoid of water. There's some, in the area that presumably was the lake once; however, it can hardly be called a proper lake now. There's a massive crater in the middle of the clearing that that now-unobstructed path through the woods takes you to; it's refilled some since whatever incident caused it, but the water is only about knee-high at the deepest and generally incapable of impeding you much if you should choose to wade into it. Whatever you choose to do, there's a massive, raised area in the middle of what's left of the lake, a rock formation of some sort; it's capable of being scaled with reasonably little difficulty. An opening is visible in the rock face, large and gaping, leading inwards and downwards into a cavern system of some sort. Your exploration starts now; time to see if there really is nothing worth reporting in the area.

Comments

[enjoymyatelier]

[oh god they’re fucked.

TIME TO SEE IF HE CAN DIPLOMACY THIS SHIT]

Excuse me. I apologize for my idiot companion who thought that picking up a strangely glowing rock in a world with living rocks wasn’t a terrible idea. Would you accept these as an apology.

[he proffers berries. Oh god.]

[eudaimonikos]

She picked one up too!

[Pointing at Rin.]

[heritrix]

[HEY MAN, DON'T SELL HER OUT]

At least I didn't throw it!

[She is backing the fuck up though, you guys have fun with your fighting. She's just going to be over opening her backpack??? And rooting around for some paper.]

[eudaimonikos]

At least mine is farther away now!

[He's literally just holding his parrot, who probably cannot see in the dark, so he has to stay until the sleep thing works or doesn't

you have fun though]

[enjoymyatelier]

Tohsaka, if we survive this, we are going to have to discuss this.

[heritrix]

[LIKE YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING STUPID THE WHOLE TIME WE'VE BEEN HERE, KAYNETH.]

Sure. Just please remember not to shout at me when we have such a discussion, Lord El-Melloi. Use your indoor voice.

[enjoymyatelier]

That was once.

[heritrix]

So was this!

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael, without looking, reaches out for a fistbump.]

[heritrix]

[Right back at you, dude. Give her some knuckles.]

[azumods]

[They do look tempted by the food, actually, in the way that animals tend to; at the same time, they weirdly don't go after it - the effect is sort of like a dog that's being commanded to wait for a given signal to have at, they obviously want to but for some odd reason won't.]

[enjoymyatelier]

[....huh. Now, that’s interesting...]

...do you serve the Lake Deity? If so, we have no intention of harming it. Quite the opposite, really.

[azumods]

[The lights are still blinking, but that's the only answer you're getting.]