The Raconteur
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Jan 7, 2020 17:32:06 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 7, 2020 17:32:06 GMT -8
As far as Olive could tell they were in some sort of underground structure.
After a very short amount of time, the hallway abruptly changed direction to right, and then left, and then right again.
Continuing onward, because there was nothing else to do, Olive and company found a long hallway without any obstructions and a lazy curve to the right.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Jan 7, 2020 20:25:36 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 7, 2020 20:25:36 GMT -8
"do any of you see any openings?" Olive asks before looking at the fire. This hallway could be booby-trapped for all they know, but onwards they must go.
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The Raconteur
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Jan 7, 2020 20:35:03 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 7, 2020 20:35:03 GMT -8
As they continued, Gloria noticed something. "Hey, what's th-"
Just as Reginald stepped on a pressure plate.
John just barely managed to tackle everyone to the floor as a giant blade sailed over their heads and then retracted.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 7, 2020 23:00:44 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 7, 2020 23:00:44 GMT -8
as if the gods sensed her suspicions and decided to prove her right. What great timing, sometimes Olive hated being right especially now. Olive looked around to see if there was anything that could help her navigate the hallways without stepping on any more pressure plates or if there was something off about the walls. (per se a little slot where a dart can be fired from)
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The Raconteur
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Roleplay posts: 98
Registered: Nov 16, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -8
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Jan 7, 2020 23:07:38 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 7, 2020 23:07:38 GMT -8
Olive's investigation offered a very annoying realization, the walls were always exactly the same, when the blade came out, a section of wall peeled back to let it out and went back in to become exactly flush with the wall.
The pressure plate however was easy to spot if you knew to look for it, knowing to look for it being the hard part.
Olive saw several other pressure plates further down the hallway and a few that she wasn't actually sure about but guessed were probably also pressure plates.
The next hurdle was getting through without anybody stepping on a single one.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 8, 2020 16:49:06 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 8, 2020 16:49:06 GMT -8
"so based on the floor I have been looking and that's not the only pressure plate there is." Olive takes another good look at the floor. "I need you all to follow me stepping exactly where I step to avoid getting our heads stepped." Olive takes the lead and takes a deep breath before navigating the hallways making sure not a single pressure plate was stepped on by herself. The others, she hopes that they are good at instructions.
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The Raconteur
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Roleplay posts: 98
Registered: Nov 16, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -8
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Jan 8, 2020 21:04:54 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 8, 2020 21:04:54 GMT -8
While there were a couple close calls because certain members weren't very flexible, John and Olive were able to keep them out of trouble for the most part.
Finally, they reached the end of the hallway with all their body parts attached.
The hallway continued to the right.
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Olive Atwood
Dedicated
Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 9, 2020 22:50:19 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 9, 2020 22:50:19 GMT -8
"good job everyone, now let's continue on cautiously." Olive follows the hallway making sure to be alert of her surroundings. It's best not to think of what might or could happen for fear it might come true. Thoughts often hold immense power and boy does Olive adore it when people think of her.
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The Raconteur
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Roleplay posts: 98
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Jan 9, 2020 23:01:39 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 9, 2020 23:01:39 GMT -8
As Olive continued down the pathway, carefully watching for traps, she turns a corner and sees a ballista in a small room pointing at the pass next to it. It was connected to a mess of tripwires that simply could not be avoided.
"Why'd you stop Olive?" Reginald calls out behind her.
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Olive Atwood
Dedicated
Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 10, 2020 21:35:19 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 10, 2020 21:35:19 GMT -8
"there's a string of tripwires that seem to be connected to a cannon. It seems things just got a lot harder" Olive wasn't sure if they were going to make it across without snapping any of the wires. Maybe there was a way to trigger the balistics without anyone getting injured from its artillery.
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The Raconteur
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Roleplay posts: 98
Registered: Nov 16, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -8
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Jan 10, 2020 21:43:30 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 10, 2020 21:43:30 GMT -8
Olive further examined the wires in the cramped hallway, and so did the others, which didn't really help with that.
Either way, Olive observed that there is no possible way to get through the messy net of tripwire without touching any of it, but it may be possible to trigger it without anyone being in the firing line.
Sarah mentions that the ballista bolt could be enchanted and to be careful, everyone else is unhelpful.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 11, 2020 21:44:20 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 11, 2020 21:44:20 GMT -8
"enchanted how?" Olive asks wondering if Sarah could possibly use some magic to change the course directory of the ballistics enough for everyone to dodge the line of fire or something. It's definitely worth asking. At least they haven't met the classic giant boulder rolling towards them.
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The Raconteur
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Roleplay posts: 98
Registered: Nov 16, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -8
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Jan 11, 2020 21:53:12 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 11, 2020 21:53:12 GMT -8
"No silly, the ballista bolt could have been already enchanted to kill us better. I can barely use magic at all in here." Sarah struggled for a moment and a tiny fireball appeared over her hand. "This is about as much as I can do."
"What good are you then?" Reginald asked jokingly.
Sarah glared at him.
"I'm just kidding Sarah, I value your hard work, determination, and general know-how."
Sarah stopped glaring at him. "So yeah, be careful is all I meant."
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 12, 2020 15:16:16 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 12, 2020 15:16:16 GMT -8
Olive took another examination of the wires. She wondered if all the wires were connected to different ballistics machines or if they are connected to the same one and if that machine might run out of ammunition.
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The Raconteur
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Jan 12, 2020 15:21:38 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 12, 2020 15:21:38 GMT -8
Other than the fact that there was only one ballista that Olive could see, Olive could make no more observations about this predicament as it stands, the time was now to determine a strategy to get passed this inconveniently placed siege engine.
Olive could ask her companions for advice, but she strongly doubted they'd have anything of use to say.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 12, 2020 19:34:59 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 12, 2020 19:34:59 GMT -8
Olive looked to see if there was a way to disengage the ballista by jamming her sword into the gears. Might as well try, she aims her sword and throws it letting it hit its mark between two gears. "Let's hope this will actually work. Look out if it doesn't" she says to the group before carefully triggering a wire.
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The Raconteur
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Jan 12, 2020 19:44:48 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 12, 2020 19:44:48 GMT -8
The mess of wires immediately untangled and receded rapidly from every angle imaginable.
Then a thunderous sound erupted from the ballista as it fired.
As if it shot with with the fury of the sky itself, the bolt struck the opposite wall, punching a person-sized hole in it.
After the ringing in everyone's ears stopped, Olive and crew noticed that the wires lie in a heap on the ground and the ballista snapped in half.
"Wow, okay." Sarah voiced, clearing her ears.
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Olive Atwood
Dedicated
Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 12, 2020 19:50:06 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 12, 2020 19:50:06 GMT -8
Olive silently cheered as her plan worked. Luckily no one was in the path of the bolt, but she isn't sure of her sword. She carefully walks over and retrieves her sword hoping that it will be in one piece. However, she wouldn't be surprised if it ended up snapping in half.
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The Raconteur
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Roleplay posts: 98
Registered: Nov 16, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -8
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Jan 12, 2020 19:53:06 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Jan 12, 2020 19:53:06 GMT -8
Olive searched amongst the wreckage of ballista and found no sign of her sword.
"Hey Olive, look up." Reginald said, pointing.
Olive looked up to see her sword jammed into the ceiling.
It took a little doing, but after a few minutes, she had her sword back.
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Olive Atwood
Dedicated
Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
Registered: Oct 10, 2019 13:43:23 GMT -8
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Jan 12, 2020 20:20:09 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Jan 12, 2020 20:20:09 GMT -8
She gave her sword a few test swings, glad that it was still usable. "Alright lets continue onwards" Olive said leading them past the ballista and to their next challenge
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