Nona glances around the area you're all in once she is inside, trying to puzzle out what to make of it. The giant clock is a mystery, but she does sort of realize there is a mirror on this side and a mirror on the other platform which look exactly alike...
Lucas doesn't get to answer Gojo because when he steps up to the mirror, the surface undulates (if you make fun of me for using this word i swear to god) and very suddenly shoots several thick globules (also this word) of tentacles out to wrap around him. Normally, a nice DM would let you make a saving roll, but I am not nice. The liquid, reflective tentacles pull Lucas inside, and if he screams, it will be suddenly cut short like funny TikTok videos.
The surface of the mirror grows placid again afterward. Gooby.
The chest off to the side is weathered wood held in shape by metal plating along the edges. Very traditional, stereotypical chest. It's ordinary much like the door was, and there doesn't appear to be anything connected to it from the outside. There is a keyhole on the front, but no sort of separate, hanging lock.
[nona looks at the mirror on this side, striking a random pose to see if that does anything before glancing at the other mirror? even if looking at her reflection is a little awkward what with being reminded of her MISSING ARM.
The mirror did be doing the eating of the teacher.
If Nona is in front of the mirror and looking in, however, she will not see her own reflection which spares her from being traumatized by her missing arm. Thinks about her class and thinks about her missing arm. Anyhow, inside of the mirror, she can see Lucas on his gooby adventure.
The chest can be attempted to picked with a dagger, yes. Roll a d20 to find out.
[ looking at the mirror now while gojo attempts the lock. yikes. good luck, lucas.
how big is the gap between this platform and the other side of the room? can anything be made out about the mirror or chest over there, or the clock face? ]
What's happening to him inside? Ask him if he sees anything!
[ he rolled a 7, but if he can attempt again without consequences, then he'll try again. Like Kate, he glances to the other side. Is the clock ticking?
Also can he summon his shadow spawn on that other platform? ]
Lucas is lost in his delulu maybe as he does not answer or look back at the rest of you. Goodbye, Lucas...
Pazu, please roll a d20 for me!
The clock is indeed ticking. It's now 12:10. It continues to chug along. Gojo may summon his shadowspawn on the other side! A long rope of shadow splits up into the air across the gap on the other platform, then it blooms to form the shadowy silhouette of a man with long hair done half up in a topknot.
Gojo's knife fits into the keyhole. The seam separating the lid from the body begins to lift away with patient and careful ease, and then all at once, the lid snaps open to reveal a wide and gaping mouth, a long whipping tongue, rows of sharp teeth protruding from the sides of the interior. Hands you the opportunity I snatched from Aki: roll a d20 to see how well you dodge.
[ I rolled a 20 on how well to dodge... and he's going to try to whack the mimic with his quarterstaff just to have something in between them. Keep! Distance! No chomp!
I guess shadowspawn will have to chill there until he figures this mimic out. ]
The natural twenty means Gojo has lightning reflexes, and he can spring around before all of you get into more trouble than you have been. The quarterstaff sinks down into the organic interior of the Mimic's mouth, feeling unnaturally squishy for something which looks like a chest. It tries to close the lid, but it hits the edge of the quarterstaff, unable to do so.
It growls actually! The long tongue whips around out of the side, trying to get a lick on Gojo. The shadowspawn on the other platform does seem to wait for instructions.
NONAAAAA. Lucas departs from view of the mirror, and the last thing Nona sees of him is his journey toward a shadowy figure in the distance. The mirror grows dim, and then, suddenly, she can see her own reflection in the surface like a normal mirror. The gap, the other platform, the shadowspawn are all behind her back there...
And then the mirror's surface shoots out again, turning into globules and snatching her inside.
This is a Mimic, yes. It almost had a meal, but the meal was too fast, and now it's pissed off. The slimy tongue gives Gojo a lick across the chest, though thankfully, it does not have any kind of terrible tongue. He's now just gooey and moist. Enjoy.
A rippling, whirling ball of ice leaps out of Kate's hand and slams into the Mimic, icing it over not unlike the cannon had been iced over before. The Mimic struggles against the icy encasement, though, attempting to close its mouth to try to break it.
But Gojo slams it with a shot of green, crackling energy. The tongue flaps repeatedly as its electrocuted with dark, arcane energy. The lid slumps, though it is still stuck half open from the ice.
The shadowspawn can't find anything to do with the giant clock. There is a door at the bottom of it which Yussa ran through earlier. It can give the other chest a swift and heavy kick to see if it will come open. The lid swings up and over. A trap on the side activates, but the magical explosion doesn't do anything except poof the shadowspawn out of existence.
[ Ew... Good thing the other chest exploded, though. Satoru gives this chest another whack of the quarterstaff to see if it moves again. May he peer inside its mouth since it's forced open by ice? Are there treasures inside? ]
We might need to drag them back... Or maybe the mirrors are connected.
[ From this side of the room, if he looks to the mirror, who is it showing now? ]
Ow.......... The Mimic is stiff and does not move when it's slapped by the quarterstaff. Hopefully dead. At least iced even if it might not be, right? There doesn't seem to be any treasure inside. Just a mouth much like Gojo's own mouth, except it's in a chest and has rows of sharp Boothill teeth rather than rounded ones.
The mirror on this side with the two of you has Nona in it now. She's getting helped up off the ground by an unfamiliar young man with dark hair, but she's surrounded by Cloud and Ashlyn. The mirror across from them on the opposite platform now has Lucas, but it's a front view of Lucas, unlike the view from before. Lucas is facing you both, but Scien - it looks like by the bread-tie ass hair and sloppy clothes - is there, offering the two of you his back.
[ and cloud and ashlyn? yeah she's also looking at the mirrors. ]
Maybe he can come out on that side...
[ this may be hopeful thinking.
but she will try casting Mage Hand to conjure a spectral hand and send it to go tap on the distant mirror, like a child at an aquarium who does not read the signs. can she try to get lucas's attention? ]
[ No loot??? Blasts it again because he's annoyed, not because it's helpful. ]
It looks like they're both in separate instances despite being from the same mirror... But he did get pushed to the other mirror when I think it was just Nona looking in and it was just Lucas, right? [ WOULD BE AWFUL IF THEY BROKE ONE, he won't do it. ] We might need to just go in.
[ But he'll wait until Kate does her check. Strokes his chin... Checks the clock time again. ]
Maybe if we go at the same time, we'll be in the same instance?
It'd be funny if he broke a mirror. The Mage Hand appears - it really is this big fucking hand. It traverses across the gap to the other platform and taps on the mirror. But Lucas doesn't notice or respond. His adventure...
The time now is 11:50. That's weird.
The second hand on the clock ticks forward over and over, but ends up falling back when it goes. Forward - back - forward - back, like it's stuck.
The Mage Hand swoops into the other non-Mimic chest. It grabs something...? It pulls out a wide, golden bracelet which fits on the forearm. It will bring this back to her.
11:45. The second hand keeps attempting its forward ticks, only to be kept from going ahead through time. One. One. One. One.
Godmods Kate into doing what she will probably do which is send the Mage Hand back over to the clock. Which hands (of the clock) do the Mage Hand try to mess with? Hour? Minute? Second?
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[ He will follow Kate to monitor chest... But for beasts. ]
I can summon something if we need it.
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Lucas doesn't get to answer Gojo because when he steps up to the mirror, the surface undulates (if you make fun of me for using this word i swear to god) and very suddenly shoots several thick globules (also this word) of tentacles out to wrap around him. Normally, a nice DM would let you make a saving roll, but I am not nice. The liquid, reflective tentacles pull Lucas inside, and if he screams, it will be suddenly cut short like funny TikTok videos.
The surface of the mirror grows placid again afterward. Gooby.
The chest off to the side is weathered wood held in shape by metal plating along the edges. Very traditional, stereotypical chest. It's ordinary much like the door was, and there doesn't appear to be anything connected to it from the outside. There is a keyhole on the front, but no sort of separate, hanging lock.
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to gojo—]
It might be worth a shot—
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AND THEN GOOBY LUCAS???]
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What just... Did the mirror do that!?
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What... Did it eat him?
[ Because they don't see a Lucas? For the chest, is the keyhole big enough to try picking with a dagger... ]
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If Nona is in front of the mirror and looking in, however, she will not see her own reflection which spares her from being traumatized by her missing arm. Thinks about her class and thinks about her missing arm. Anyhow, inside of the mirror, she can see Lucas on his gooby adventure.
The chest can be attempted to picked with a dagger, yes. Roll a d20 to find out.
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Lucas!! Can you hear me!?
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[ looking at the mirror now while gojo attempts the lock. yikes. good luck, lucas.
how big is the gap between this platform and the other side of the room? can anything be made out about the mirror or chest over there, or the clock face? ]
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[ he rolled a 7, but if he can attempt again without consequences, then he'll try again. Like Kate, he glances to the other side. Is the clock ticking?
Also can he summon his shadow spawn on that other platform? ]
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Pazu, please roll a d20 for me!
The clock is indeed ticking. It's now 12:10. It continues to chug along. Gojo may summon his shadowspawn on the other side! A long rope of shadow splits up into the air across the gap on the other platform, then it blooms to form the shadowy silhouette of a man with long hair done half up in a topknot.
Gojo's knife fits into the keyhole. The seam separating the lid from the body begins to lift away with patient and careful ease, and then all at once, the lid snaps open to reveal a wide and gaping mouth, a long whipping tongue, rows of sharp teeth protruding from the sides of the interior. Hands you the opportunity I snatched from Aki: roll a d20 to see how well you dodge.
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[POKES THE MIRROR?? GLANCES AROUND WILDLY AS IF THIS WILL HELP HER SOMEHOW?]
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[ I rolled a 20 on how well to dodge... and he's going to try to whack the mimic with his quarterstaff just to have something in between them. Keep! Distance! No chomp!
I guess shadowspawn will have to chill there until he figures this mimic out. ]
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It growls actually! The long tongue whips around out of the side, trying to get a lick on Gojo. The shadowspawn on the other platform does seem to wait for instructions.
NONAAAAA. Lucas departs from view of the mirror, and the last thing Nona sees of him is his journey toward a shadowy figure in the distance. The mirror grows dim, and then, suddenly, she can see her own reflection in the surface like a normal mirror. The gap, the other platform, the shadowspawn are all behind her back there...
And then the mirror's surface shoots out again, turning into globules and snatching her inside.
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Ah...! Nona! No...
[ but they have a threat right in front of them to deal with. so she'll prepare a spell... ]
Look out!
[ and cast Chaos Bolt on the mimic, giving gojo some warning to get out of the way of it. ]
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Shadowspawn can... Can it do anything to the clock? What about the chest on the other side? Can it kick or break it open.
Is this also a mimic. ]
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This is a Mimic, yes. It almost had a meal, but the meal was too fast, and now it's pissed off. The slimy tongue gives Gojo a lick across the chest, though thankfully, it does not have any kind of terrible tongue. He's now just gooey and moist. Enjoy.
A rippling, whirling ball of ice leaps out of Kate's hand and slams into the Mimic, icing it over not unlike the cannon had been iced over before. The Mimic struggles against the icy encasement, though, attempting to close its mouth to try to break it.
But Gojo slams it with a shot of green, crackling energy. The tongue flaps repeatedly as its electrocuted with dark, arcane energy. The lid slumps, though it is still stuck half open from the ice.
The shadowspawn can't find anything to do with the giant clock. There is a door at the bottom of it which Yussa ran through earlier. It can give the other chest a swift and heavy kick to see if it will come open. The lid swings up and over. A trap on the side activates, but the magical explosion doesn't do anything except poof the shadowspawn out of existence.
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[ looking cautiously at the mimic... ]
What do we do? Maybe we could use a rope to cross to the other side, if there's something to anchor it to...
[ are the chests heavy enough? maybe the clock... ]
But, those two were swallowed up by the mirror...
[ can they really try to move on like this? ]
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We might need to drag them back... Or maybe the mirrors are connected.
[ From this side of the room, if he looks to the mirror, who is it showing now? ]
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The mirror on this side with the two of you has Nona in it now. She's getting helped up off the ground by an unfamiliar young man with dark hair, but she's surrounded by Cloud and Ashlyn. The mirror across from them on the opposite platform now has Lucas, but it's a front view of Lucas, unlike the view from before. Lucas is facing you both, but Scien - it looks like by the bread-tie ass hair and sloppy clothes - is there, offering the two of you his back.
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[ and cloud and ashlyn? yeah she's also looking at the mirrors. ]
Maybe he can come out on that side...
[ this may be hopeful thinking.
but she will try casting Mage Hand to conjure a spectral hand and send it to go tap on the distant mirror, like a child at an aquarium who does not read the signs. can she try to get lucas's attention? ]
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It looks like they're both in separate instances despite being from the same mirror... But he did get pushed to the other mirror when I think it was just Nona looking in and it was just Lucas, right? [ WOULD BE AWFUL IF THEY BROKE ONE, he won't do it. ] We might need to just go in.
[ But he'll wait until Kate does her check. Strokes his chin... Checks the clock time again. ]
Maybe if we go at the same time, we'll be in the same instance?
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It'd be funny if he broke a mirror. The Mage Hand appears - it really is this big fucking hand. It traverses across the gap to the other platform and taps on the mirror. But Lucas doesn't notice or respond. His adventure...
The time now is 11:50. That's weird.
The second hand on the clock ticks forward over and over, but ends up falling back when it goes. Forward - back - forward - back, like it's stuck.
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You mean, we might push them onward so they can get out...?
[ she looks to the mirrors, then up to the clock. weird. ]
... I'm willing to try.
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[ Hmm. ]
Think you can move the hand on the clock with your hand? If nothing comes out of that, we should head in, too.
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11:45. The second hand keeps attempting its forward ticks, only to be kept from going ahead through time. One. One. One. One.
Godmods Kate into doing what she will probably do which is send the Mage Hand back over to the clock. Which hands (of the clock) do the Mage Hand try to mess with? Hour? Minute? Second?
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