Gojo can tell the ceiling above all of you is as plain as the floor below your feet. There's not a single thing up there except more cobwebs and the twisting shadows of the four of them from the torches as they move about the hallway. The columns look old, but not chipped. On the inner side of them where they are, Gojo can see what looks like black marks a few feet wide sweeping across all of them - from the cannons all the way to where you had arrived initially.
On the inner side of the middle two columns, he can see a section of a thin line of stone shift in a nearly invisible seam as Nona passes across the stones in the middle of the hall toward the door.
He notices too late. The hum of one of the cannons grows louder, and so too does the blue glow from the front, just as Nona, Lucas, and Kate are approaching that area. A wide ball of light swells at the mouth, and then an arcane beam pierces the air toward all of you.
It blazes by in one lengthy, but short burst, scorching the already black area of the columns Gojo had seen before. The beam grazes Lucas and Kate - Lucas on the right, Kate on the left - vaporizing pieces of their clothing and searing the flesh on that side of their bodies up and down about a foot in length. The force of the energy flings both you to separate sides as well; Lucas lands in the hallway, and Kate (OUR FUCKING KATE) slams into a column.
Nona, closest to the cannon, has her right arm vaporized as the beam passes through. It's fine! The beam is so hot with arcane energy, it immediately cauterizes the wound. But, you know. The pain is still there, and also her arm is gone.
Gojo is a tad farther back, but the beam is so fast it still catches him in all of your dodgings. It sears the left side of his face and the top of his left shoulder as it zips by and winks out near the opposite end of the hall, extinguished.
[HELP THEY REALLY ALL GOT FUCKING BLASTED. Lucas is just like ow ow ow internally as he deals with this footlong hotdog burn and also crashing onto the floor again. The snake that had been hanging out around his neck also goes to hide in his shirt, it said bye binch.
SCRAMBLING BACK UP THOUGH. GOING OVER TO HELP KATE but also looking at these other two fucks.]
—Is everyone...? [Sees that Nona is missing a wholeass arm. Well okay.]
[ kate gasps sharply as she gets blasted into a column!! god. she crumples to the floor, reaching to feel the burn on her side. there's no visible wound, but there's a hole in her robe with the edges stained black.
while lucas comes over to help her, she fishes around under the robe, pulls out a healing potion, and drinks it. ]
They're not... going to fire again, are they?
[ looking over at the cannons... and gasping again when she sees how badly nona is wounded. ]
[ Wow. That sure is pain? It comes fast, so he doesn't recognize it right away, but he also gets to see Nona get blasted, scream over her arm, then try to heal it. ]
Stop the cannons.
[ Actually. Get away from the cannons?? Can he cast witch bolt on the cannon furthest away from their side..... he will wait until people out of the way and try to stay further back. Maybe?? Not get hit? Or at least dodge if it shoots again before he can cast?
Oh yeah I forgot to ask, are the in betweens of the columns large enough for people to slide in. ]
Sometimes, traps activate inside of a little room.
Though Nona is still missing her arm, the agonizing pain diminishes mostly when she cures herself of her wounds. The cauterized side fades into gnarled scars which are tender and sore when she moves. She's not down, though! She's up!
A similar, but lesser effect happens to Kate as well. The potion is surprisingly minty and soothing, decreasing her aches and pains to something more manageable, turning the flash burns from the arcane beam into dark scars. Um. Lighter scars? Maybe the scars are inverted colors.
There is room large enough for people to slide in and behind the columns closer to the walls, yes.
Gojo casts Witch Bolt! The air begins to smell like ozone, and a blue streak of crackling lightning jumps from his hand across the hallway toward the farthest cannon. The stone cracks immediate as it collides and over-pressurizes it, then the lightning dances all around the cannon, lingering. The arcane glow inside the mouth dims and brightens, dims and brightens, then winks out.
You are all left in the sound of a louder silence, your breaths of adrenaline heard above the sound of the distant hum of the other cannon.
[the way i forgot about heals but it's fine because lucas would save his for others anyway as long as he's not put out of commission WHICH HE ISN'T. This is fine.]
Thank you, Gojo... [FOR EXPLODING A CANNON. i think the other cannon is just on the other side of the doorway unless everything's already getting lost in my memory soup.] Shall we take care of the other, then?
[IF IT'S VISIBLE IG HE WILL TRY RAY OF FROST to like freeze it so they can blow it up easier or something.]
[ it's extremely difficult to make out her injury, but the fact that she stands up straight suggests that the potion had some effect. she'll duck behind one of the columns while lucas is blasting this cannon. just in case it doesn't go as planned. ]
No problem! Try to stay away from the cannon, its line of fire, and duck between the columns.
[ He hopes Lucas isn't too close to it because he will witch bolt that cannon as well instead of waiting for it to fire. Who/what is faster... the cannon??? Or them???? ]
I make you roll and keep you in this room when it's low (no).
The other cannon is right across from the first destroyed one by the door, yes!
As the name suggests, a ray of icy, crackling frost shoots from Lucas's hand much like the arcane beams from the cannon, blue and white. The frost latches onto the front of the cannon, blocking the mouth of it with solid, sparkling ice.
Thankfully, nothing happens when Kate ducks behind the columns.
The same sizzling, twisting lightning shoots out from Gojo's hand and toward the second cannon. This one cracks somewhat as well, but the light into the mouth begins to grow exponentially. Instead of firing, the frost on the front traps the beam inside, and the cannon explodes on itself, sending chunks of stone scattering in all directions. You all may get hit with a bit of dust and debris, but none of the chunks take any of you out.
The humming has ceased. You are all left in a completely silent hallway in the light of torches with the doorway ahead.
He looks relieved to see their stupid bullshit plan that they didn't even plan worked out, though! Yippie! No more cannons!]
I believe that golden thing was the item we're meant to take, yes... [Thinking again about how the dude just booked it despite being a powerful mage and Gojo just like WHY'S HE LOOKING LIKE THAT.
He doesn't want Nona to accidentally lose another limb somehow even though the cannons are gone, so he will move toward the doors again first, cautious this time and looking around for More Traps.]
[ Satoru gets whacked by some debris, but he's okay! Likely feeling his injuries from the cannon more... Which I should ask how bad is it? Should he consider healing the phasma burn?
He will go behind the cannons, but not through the door yet. Not even going to touch it. Can we perceive anything about this door... ]
Yeah, we want that golden ball. [ Hovers over Nona, too. ] How much does it hurt right now?
Gojo has become Nanami Kento as retribution for his chaotic and arrogant crimes all his life, so if he is a big man, he can suffer through it. If he is a weenie, then he may use a healing potion, or Nona could heal him? Probably won't get the special eye back, though.
Lucas moves away from the rest of you and toward the door. It's tall and wooden, though there doesn't seem to be anything attached to it, staining it, or carved into its face. Simple. There's a knob that can be turned.
Gojo Kento finds the same thing. A wooden door with nothing on it, but also nothing attached to any part of it. The way you are all highly suspicious now.
I-I'm okay. [JUST CONTINUES TO TRY AND NOT LOOK AT WHERE HER ARM SHOULD BE.] With the healing, it doesn't really hurt, and I don't think I'm in danger or anything... I don't think we really have any choice but to keep going, anyway.
[ANNA JUST SNATCHED THE WHOLEASS EYE WHEN WE WEREN'T LOOKING.]
Please do let us know if you need anything, though... Even if it's just to take a bit of a break.
[NONA YOUR FUCKING DEPARTICLED ARM. He's glancing at it with concern to make sure it isn't a bleeding stump once she's closer, but what the hell can he do here!! HE CAN'T REGROW A LIMB. Since they are all so fucking paranoid, though, he will not reach for this doorknob without giving everyone ample warning.]
I'm going to try opening the door, so please watch out...
[He. He will do that unless someone stops him first, after everyone seems well prepared for him to risk blowing them all up again.]
[ ALL OF HIS LIFE? HE'S EIGHTEEN? He can suffer through it until it starts hindering him... But his special eye. Gone. He won't think too deeply on that until later, or maybe even not later.
Since Nona says she's okay and they've all rallied. ]
Real tempted to shoot you all with arrows as the door opens.
But no. Lucas pulls the door open for all of you, and it just swings open. Once it's wide, the four of you can hear the rhythmic, but loud, echo - tick, tick, tick - of a clock. The room on the other side is somewhat dim like the hallway, so it's difficult to see much more than several feet in front of the door on the other side.
More stone in a sweeping area, so definitely a place to step without falling.
Any of you may roll a d20 for a perception check if you would like before going through, or you can go through just inside and do the same thing there.
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[ To get cannoned. He stops since the squirrel is gone and he has nothing to chase.
Is there anything up at the ceiling... Also, looks closer at these columns? ]
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On the inner side of the middle two columns, he can see a section of a thin line of stone shift in a nearly invisible seam as Nona passes across the stones in the middle of the hall toward the door.
He notices too late. The hum of one of the cannons grows louder, and so too does the blue glow from the front, just as Nona, Lucas, and Kate are approaching that area. A wide ball of light swells at the mouth, and then an arcane beam pierces the air toward all of you.
It blazes by in one lengthy, but short burst, scorching the already black area of the columns Gojo had seen before. The beam grazes Lucas and Kate - Lucas on the right, Kate on the left - vaporizing pieces of their clothing and searing the flesh on that side of their bodies up and down about a foot in length. The force of the energy flings both you to separate sides as well; Lucas lands in the hallway, and Kate (OUR FUCKING KATE) slams into a column.
Nona, closest to the cannon, has her right arm vaporized as the beam passes through. It's fine! The beam is so hot with arcane energy, it immediately cauterizes the wound. But, you know. The pain is still there, and also her arm is gone.
Gojo is a tad farther back, but the beam is so fast it still catches him in all of your dodgings. It sears the left side of his face and the top of his left shoulder as it zips by and winks out near the opposite end of the hall, extinguished.
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WELL OKAY NONA SCREAMS BECAUSE FUCKING OW i guess she also tries to use cure wounds on herself]
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SCRAMBLING BACK UP THOUGH. GOING OVER TO HELP KATE but also looking at these other two fucks.]
—Is everyone...? [Sees that Nona is missing a wholeass arm. Well okay.]
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while lucas comes over to help her, she fishes around under the robe, pulls out a healing potion, and drinks it. ]
They're not... going to fire again, are they?
[ looking over at the cannons... and gasping again when she sees how badly nona is wounded. ]
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Stop the cannons.
[ Actually. Get away from the cannons?? Can he cast witch bolt on the cannon furthest away from their side..... he will wait until people out of the way and try to stay further back. Maybe?? Not get hit? Or at least dodge if it shoots again before he can cast?
Oh yeah I forgot to ask, are the in betweens of the columns large enough for people to slide in. ]
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Though Nona is still missing her arm, the agonizing pain diminishes mostly when she cures herself of her wounds. The cauterized side fades into gnarled scars which are tender and sore when she moves. She's not down, though! She's up!
A similar, but lesser effect happens to Kate as well. The potion is surprisingly minty and soothing, decreasing her aches and pains to something more manageable, turning the flash burns from the arcane beam into dark scars. Um. Lighter scars? Maybe the scars are inverted colors.
There is room large enough for people to slide in and behind the columns closer to the walls, yes.
Gojo casts Witch Bolt! The air begins to smell like ozone, and a blue streak of crackling lightning jumps from his hand across the hallway toward the farthest cannon. The stone cracks immediate as it collides and over-pressurizes it, then the lightning dances all around the cannon, lingering. The arcane glow inside the mouth dims and brightens, dims and brightens, then winks out.
You are all left in the sound of a louder silence, your breaths of adrenaline heard above the sound of the distant hum of the other cannon.
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Does anyone else need healing...?
[avoids looking at her MISSING ARM
but she does glance around to see if they can locate the other cannon. is it obvious where it is, or no.]
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Thank you, Gojo... [FOR EXPLODING A CANNON. i think the other cannon is just on the other side of the doorway unless everything's already getting lost in my memory soup.] Shall we take care of the other, then?
[IF IT'S VISIBLE IG HE WILL TRY RAY OF FROST to like freeze it so they can blow it up easier or something.]
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[ it's extremely difficult to make out her injury, but the fact that she stands up straight suggests that the potion had some effect. she'll duck behind one of the columns while lucas is blasting this cannon. just in case it doesn't go as planned. ]
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[ He hopes Lucas isn't too close to it because he will witch bolt that cannon as well instead of waiting for it to fire. Who/what is faster... the cannon??? Or them???? ]
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The other cannon is right across from the first destroyed one by the door, yes!
As the name suggests, a ray of icy, crackling frost shoots from Lucas's hand much like the arcane beams from the cannon, blue and white. The frost latches onto the front of the cannon, blocking the mouth of it with solid, sparkling ice.
Thankfully, nothing happens when Kate ducks behind the columns.
The same sizzling, twisting lightning shoots out from Gojo's hand and toward the second cannon. This one cracks somewhat as well, but the light into the mouth begins to grow exponentially. Instead of firing, the frost on the front traps the beam inside, and the cannon explodes on itself, sending chunks of stone scattering in all directions. You all may get hit with a bit of dust and debris, but none of the chunks take any of you out.
The humming has ceased. You are all left in a completely silent hallway in the light of torches with the doorway ahead.
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[nona lets out a squeak and ducks to try and avoid the scattered debris.
but once everything is settled, she looks towards the doorway warily.]
Guess we gotta chase after him, huh...?
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He looks relieved to see their stupid bullshit plan that they didn't even plan worked out, though! Yippie! No more cannons!]
I believe that golden thing was the item we're meant to take, yes... [Thinking again about how the dude just booked it despite being a powerful mage and Gojo just like WHY'S HE LOOKING LIKE THAT.
He doesn't want Nona to accidentally lose another limb somehow even though the cannons are gone, so he will move toward the doors again first, cautious this time and looking around for More Traps.]
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I suppose we should...
[ and lucas has gone ahead to take the lead with the door, but she'll stop to check on nona. ]
Nona, your arm... [ worried!! ] Are you sure you can keep going?
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He will go behind the cannons, but not through the door yet. Not even going to touch it. Can we perceive anything about this door... ]
Yeah, we want that golden ball. [ Hovers over Nona, too. ] How much does it hurt right now?
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Lucas moves away from the rest of you and toward the door. It's tall and wooden, though there doesn't seem to be anything attached to it, staining it, or carved into its face. Simple. There's a knob that can be turned.
Gojo Kento finds the same thing. A wooden door with nothing on it, but also nothing attached to any part of it. The way you are all highly suspicious now.
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[walks towards the sus (?) door]
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Please do let us know if you need anything, though... Even if it's just to take a bit of a break.
[NONA YOUR FUCKING DEPARTICLED ARM. He's glancing at it with concern to make sure it isn't a bleeding stump once she's closer, but what the hell can he do here!! HE CAN'T REGROW A LIMB. Since they are all so fucking paranoid, though, he will not reach for this doorknob without giving everyone ample warning.]
I'm going to try opening the door, so please watch out...
[He. He will do that unless someone stops him first, after everyone seems well prepared for him to risk blowing them all up again.]
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[ she's tempted to fuss more, but they can't exactly stay here. hopefully they can just leave through the door!! ]
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Since Nona says she's okay and they've all rallied. ]
All right.
[ LET'S GO ]
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But no. Lucas pulls the door open for all of you, and it just swings open. Once it's wide, the four of you can hear the rhythmic, but loud, echo - tick, tick, tick - of a clock. The room on the other side is somewhat dim like the hallway, so it's difficult to see much more than several feet in front of the door on the other side.
More stone in a sweeping area, so definitely a place to step without falling.
Any of you may roll a d20 for a perception check if you would like before going through, or you can go through just inside and do the same thing there.
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