The new Goat Simulator is looking great

[hellawrath]

Who: Lup, Kravitz, Shepard, Shion, Knight, Erika
What: Exploration on Maati and Big Bad Door shenanigans
When: November 29
Where: Maati
Warnings: several dumbasses cursing up a storm as they fall down some cliffs probably

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[hellawrath]

[Go buckwild on some fucking fire goats my friends.]

[savedbyasong]

[It's not too far from where he and Connor had explored the day before and so the moment he saw the goats he turned to the group.]

They breathe fire. Me and Ceej found some yesterday, be careful.

[They were't exactly great predators, but it's easy to be overwhelmed when you are not expecting goats to breathe fire.]

Knock Knock

[hellawrath]

The canyon is getting almost oppressively narrow in places, this far out from the center of the island. It feels like they're being funneled towards something and the anticipation is rising in Lup as she leads her merry gang onwards. Could be anything at the end of this? Cool loot or shitty puzzles or like, a deadly and breathtaking drop into the ocean? Or, y'know, just kind of a dead end.

She's so busy painting mental pictures of a not completely useless ass climax to this adventure that she almost misses the surface of the cliffside changing beside her. Where it was dusty rock a second ago, it's now dusty wood and rusted iron.

What she doesn't miss is the glowing sigil embedded into the large imposing shape.

Lup steps back like she's been burned. And stares at it as if she's seen a fucking ghost.

[savedbyasong]

It was narrow here and Shion wasn't far behind Lup, looking around them with wide eyes. They had already found fire breathing goats, anything could be here. He kept an eye on the rest of the group as well, not wanting to let anyone out of his sight in this narrow twisting canyon.

He freezes when he sees the door and looks worriedly at Lup. He knows why she looks so stricken, she was the first one to tell him the story of the door on Enso after all. He's been told it since, by others.

He reaches out to touch her arm, offering silent comfort. He makes no move to go closer to the door.

[bitch4bitch]

Erika, meanwhile, fully lacks the context to know what the hell this is all about. So, instead, she tries to peer at the door from where she is, squinting past Lup and Shion. "...You good? What is that?"

[hellawrath]

At Shion's touch, Lup seems to snap out of it, one startled ear twitching in his direction. Oh yeah, that's right, he probably knows what's up. She's too fucking tense with alarm and dread to say it, but she appreciates the grounding. Thanks, lil dude.

"I'm-- yeah, I'm good," she says, distantly, and does not sound particularly good. But she steps forward anyway, pressing her hand against the sigil as if to dare it to pull some shit. This is, it's gonna be bad news sooner or later? Fucking terrible news, probably. So why the hell wait.

She forgets to explain literally anything at all for all the blissfully ignorant in the group, while feeling out the magic pulsing beneath her hand.

[deathfindsaway]

Meanwhile, Kravitz is... distracted. He doesn't know the story with the doors- he missed that experience, thankfully, and no one is certainly lining up to talk about their trauma- but he has a specific reason to be afraid of this.

Kravitz was keeping himself at the back, using some enhanced senses to keep watch, and thankfully able to see over most of the group. Which means as soon as he sees the sigil, he knows what it is, and his hand crosses over to press his palm heavily over the back of his hand. His mark matches. The dark blue, the magic that moves underneath it, it all fits.

He doesn't really know what to say, other than to slide his eyes to Lup's, the only one he knows who's certainly seen it.

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded once at Lup and then took a deep breath, reaching out to touch the door himself with his other hand, his first does not leave Lup's arm as she made no move to shrug him off.

As he touched the door he blinked, looking between the mark on his hand and the sigil on the door. It is not the same, his is red whilst this is blue, the shapes are different but...

"It's similar... Gladio's mark is blue but a lighter blue and looks a bit like an hourglass. But the style is similar."

[bitch4bitch]

"Hourglass? I've got one like that, too." Erika frowns, squinting at the door. "They are similar... fuckin' weird. Any ideas on what it means?"

Let's Get This Mineral

[hellawrath]

[This is it. The cliffs have become almost impossible to squeeze through. Like, short of turning everybody into fucking cockroaches, but Lup's not currently specced for that.

The only way is up.

Thoughts?]

[savedbyasong]

Does anyone have rope? [He should have asked for it really, after finding these cliffs yesterday but it takes him literal days to build himself up to asking the Storyteller for anything, to even start thinking about talking to them.]

[deathfindsaway]

[Kravitz shakes his head, but is studying them closely.]

How high do you think these are? I... may have a way for at least one or two of us.

[This statement is accompanied by a quiet grumble of if this place worked properly, I could get us all through, but he keeps that under his breath.]

[lightlessfuture]

[ The Knight, meanwhile, is looking at the cliff's sheer surface, head tilted thoughtfully.

They pull out a pair of hooked claws and make an experimental attempt to clamber upwards with them, while everyone's discussing like sensible adults. They make several attempts, none of which are particularly successful and one of which kind of ends with them tumbling backwards and landing with their horns stuck in the ground.

....

They wiggle a bit, attempting to dislodge themselves. They might need help. ]

[savedbyasong]

Are you alright? [Perhaps a foolish question when they are literally stuck in the ground but Shion runs over and crouches down next to them. He doesn't want to just pull them out, doesn't want to hurt them so he begins digging at the dirt around their horns, trying to free them.]