you're in the jungle, baby / you gonna die

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: Fighting the Third Party... and perhaps the wildlife.
When: June 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th. (Characters will be pulled out at 11:59 of the 6th.)
Where: An as-yet unmapped by the Malnosso tropical rainforest.
Summary: Here are your details. Try to stay alive, won't you?
Rating: Anywhere from PG to R.

No cut for you. Most of you will know how this works by now; if you don't, follow the lead of the others, or perhaps look to the last draft's fighting post for ideas. Don't forget to use your handy dandy character tags. Go forth and conquer thine enemies!

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[all7seas]

My favorite? [He holds on to her with hands that are now trembling badly.]

[wise_maiden]

That's right. But you'll need to drink up all of it for me. It's very important.

[all7seas]

For you I would do it. I would, darling.

[wise_maiden]

It's a promise then. [She carefully brings the glass up to his mouth.

There's no real scent to it; it's medicinal, of course, and the taste would probably be unlike anything he's had before. Unless he remembers how the magic felt while healing him.]

... All right. Drink up.

[all7seas]

[His whole body is shaking, now, apparently with cold, although it is hot and humid in the jungle. Jack sips the liquid, but doesn't react to it as he does. He is staring off into the distance, acting now as though she is not even there.]

And later we'll drink the wine, and then...

[wise_maiden]

Shhh. [She's trying hard to keep her own hands from shaking.] We'll have the wine later, but this is more important.

[all7seas]

Aye. More important. [He seems to be quieting some, now. perhaps the elixir is starting to work.]

[wise_maiden]

[She can only hope that's the case.] You're almost there.

[all7seas]

[It takes several minutes, but finally Jack calms. He opens his eyes, looking up at her in surprise and then at their surroundings. It looks so tomb-like.]

Are we dead, then? I wasn't fast enough.

[wise_maiden]

No -- no, we're all right. Mostly. Maybe. [She sets the empty bottle aside, her hands showing a little of that shakiness.]

[all7seas]

[Jack tries to hold those hands steady. He sounds like he can hardly believe it.] You broke the curse, Mistress?

[wise_maiden]

... Yes, the curse is gone. You should be fine now. [She shakes her head a little. Focus. She still doesn't feel her magic.]

We need to get out of there. There could be enemies close.

[all7seas]

[Right. Enemies. Jack gets to his feet slowly, trying to pull Raine up with him. He resists the urge to say YES THAT IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG.] Your temple, mistress...perhaps you'll have a chance to return to the bloody place one day though I don't know why you'd WANT to and---

[and suddenly his attention is caught by something shiny...]

[wise_maiden]

[She lets him help her to her feet, as she grabs hold of her bag and fallen staff, half listening and nodding and then frowning when his attention suddenly seems to wander-]

And what?

[all7seas]

[Jack reaches down to pick up what he has spotted in the low light of the temple: a small clay tablet covered in runes. This he hands to Raine.]

Dunno. Found this.

[wise_maiden]

[Now you've gone and done it, Jack. Those eyes are all lit up again as she quickly gets her bearings, peering over the object almost greedily.]

Marvelous!

[all7seas]

Raine? You're...............completely obsessed with temple treasures.

[wise_maiden]

Ohhhh, I wonder what it is that these runes say! Perhaps it's a code, or perhaps a clue to the true past here in this world. If only I had the means to decipher them, here! No, surely there must be some way... this tablet may have once been part of something larger. The surface is smooth, but the edges, rough, worn down by years of weather. Even the patterns on them are faded, and yet...

[all7seas]

Mistress Raine, darling? I'll not leave you here to die in this cursed temple.

1/2

[wise_maiden]

[Sorry Jack, she's too busy comparing the symbols on the wall to the tablet slap in her hand, looking to see if it fell down from there, still rambling on a bit, when suddenly-]

[wise_maiden]

[Snare trap.


A pretty good one too, as she's yanked right up through the open hole in the ceiling area]

1/?

[all7seas]

RAINE!? [If there is one sort of trap Jack is intimately familiar with, it is the snare. The pirate desperately tries to trigger another, aiming not to get caught in it but to free a rope that he can use to follow her.]

Raine, I'm coming, love, I'm--

2/?

[all7seas]

[SCORE. Sparrow steps aside just in time to avoid being snared himself, while grabbing hold of the rope that yanks him upwards through the very ceiling where the sage disappeared.]

COMING!

3/done

[all7seas]

RAINE? [It's DARK up here.] Where are you?!

[wise_maiden]

[For the moment, there's no answer-- only the sound of a slab of stone falling, falling and crack on the path below.

Then:]

No!

My precious sample!



[Oh, the echo. That's probably not good. That might stir anything hiding up here in the dark. Strangely leafy dark, at that.]