OOC: Well since arthur asked me to do this nicely I'll see what i can do. Please don't be mean Hehehe I have NO ideas as of yet But i'll think of something as we go.

IC: Di'Ethe look at the footsteps leading in. As each member stated his path of choice a new set of footsteps imprinted itself into the dust.

~IT knows we're coming.~ he considered to himself.

He just wondered what IT was. He looked toward eagle and wondered who should take the lead. Eagle only nodded towards him acknowledging his ability to lead and track.

Di'Ethe waited for the group to finish choosing and assemble before there respective pathways.

"I'll run point, everyone follow my lead. Should anything happen ensure we stay together. I will signal any danger."

They entered the tunnel. After 20 metres, they came upon a turn and Di'Ethe leading the way turned to meet 3 large stone statues, each shaped like a man and standing on one side of the tunnel. Each took up half the tunnel making moving around them difficult as the tunnel wasn't that wide to begin with, there was enough room for a human to squeeze through just comfortably. The most remarkable feature was the glinting ruby eyes of all three guardians.

Di'Ethe look at them puzzled and signalled the others to catch up. He picked up a loose stone and tossed it down the tunnel past the guardians. A flash of red and the stone was no more. The others had just reached his position to see the ruby eyes fry the tossed stone.

"Well we still need to get across" He murmured, "But how?"

OOC: Okay. First puzzle/task, I suppose you can all try to work your way around all three or do them one at a time to let the others do the next ones. Arthur no eagle form to get past. Not enough room for your wings just to make sure you don't just fly over the top or something. Just remember. We ARE the control thread have fun people.

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Death need not be the end of all things, Hopelessness is worse than death ever will be. Learn to survive through hopelessness and death will hold for you no fear.

~Di'Ethe

OOC--Just cuz A) I've got time and B) I wanna go along for the ride and C) I told my sister (not the one referred to in my last post) I'd take care of her character until she decided to post again... She's taking too many courses.
(sigh. No avatar for Naurelis) I'll just use a cool one then.

IC--Naurelis watched the statues. She picked up a rock and threw it through the small passage between the first statue and the wall. A stone hand batted it out of the way. No such luck in simply walking by. She threw a rock above the first statue's head, to see if it would block that, since there wasn't any way for anything even vaguely humanoid to fit through the space between the thing's head and the roof of the cavern. Nothing happened. The dryad had an idea.

She took a seed and found a third rock. Kissing the seed, she pushed it into the small, clay-dirt rock, and lobbed it such that it passed over all three statues--don't ask the physics of it, this is a world where what we say happens, happens. When the clod of dirt landed, it hit the ground and became part of it. Naurelis knelt and began to sing softly. A sapling grew, just enough that it sprouted leaves in the dim passage.

She planted another tree where she knelt, singing it into growing in the same manner. Once she'd finished constructing her network of trees, the dryad simply stepped into one, thanking the tree for its hospitality, and moved from it to the other--don't ask how, it's just how dryads usually move--and stepped out the other tree. She had crossed the statues' test.

OOC--yeah, Naur actaully has used the tree-walking thing before.

OOC-Uhhhhhh...

IC-Chori thought for a minute. What could she do? She wasn't a magical being...She wasn't an animal...She didn't have any special powers...Hmmmm...
She watched Naur pitch rocks over the statues and saw the trees grow. Naur disappered suddenly and reappeared on the other side. Hmmmm...Can't do that thought Chori. She considered some options. Then, An idea! From her belt, she took the smallest of her many knives and an arrow from her quiver. Then, she reached into her pack and looked at her jewels which had come with her whan she fled. (She figured she might need money at some point) From Emeralds, Sapphires, and Rubies, Chori chose a Sapphire, because those were so rare at the moment. She took the tools and jewel and walked up to a guardian. Keeping a tight grip on the Sapphire, she waved it at the Guardian. It took her up in its huge, cold hand to examine her. Once she got up there, she stabbed the arrow into its shoulder and braced it with the knife. Then, she jumped into one of Naur's Trees. Catching a branch, Chori lowered herself to the ground, set the Sapphire back in her pack and waited for Eagle and Di'Ethe to catch up.



There have been days when wariness kept me from recognizing a broken heart or when fear kept me from seeing a shattered soul.

IC:
Did it really mean anything? He went through gruelling training with iZrAfeL at one point, and eventually found his path and truly felt that he belonged to the path of Neutral. But does he really? Eagle doesn't know, and he wanted to find out.
Path of Control it is. He feels a sort of calling, an attraction to this path. He is needed here.

"Hm...hm...hm...hm........" He wondered. Naur and Chori both passed the 1st test in spectacular fashion, while Eagle and Di'Ethe stood back and watched. As he stared in thought at the red glow of the 3 stone statues, he thought of blue. Red. Blue. Natural oppositions as basic and natural as fire and water.

Taking his wind blade that is hung onto his back, he softly smooths his hand over the blade, and called upon the blade. In response, it gently floated in mid-air, hovering at shoulder height. Eagle strengthened the wind energy swirling around and within the blade, and it glowed a bright blue, as blue as the eyes of the stone statues are red.

He motions the hovering wind blade forward, until the tip of the blade crosses the seemingly uncrossable line of the red stare. flash...the eye lids of the first guardian seemed to have opened up completely as an intense beam is now bombarding the blade of Eagle's trusted weapon. The wind within the blade did not waver, but fought back strongly, holding off the bright red beam. Now, the whole wind blade is glowing a clear bright blue, spreading it's power out.

This is the time. Right now. No more hesitation, right now!

With the wind blade, hovering, still facing the 3 stone statues at the same time, Eagle did a run and roll with as much speed as he could summon and rolled across. He was quick enough to dodge the stony feets of the first two statues, but he got a good kick in his left shoulder.

As he went through, the blue in the wind blade has visibly weakened. It knows it's mission is over, and Eagle grabbed it down at the tip of the blade just as the wind in it has depleted.

He made it across. Di'Ethe's the only one left.

OOC: kinda had the urge to say 'eagle took a big stone and smashed the heads of the stone statues to bits and thus no more red eyes frying anything'...but this is the control thread =P