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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[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.]

[all7seas]

Raine. Forget. The. Sample. Bugger. Where. Are. YOU? [He gropes around for her in the dark, hoping against hope that another trap won't spring and that he won't go crashing through the floor.]

[wise_maiden]

I'm a few feet above you. Maybe. Stop moving around and I'll try to make a -- ...



Oh. So that's still not working...

[all7seas]

[In the darkness, the pirate stretches his arms out as high as he can, trying to get hold of her.]

Shifter nearby? Bugger.

[wise_maiden]

[It takes a few moments, but she's finally able to get that knife out of her bag and cut herself free.

... But she's hesitant to drop down in case there might not actually be something to drop down to, instead clinging to the rope.]

Jack?

[all7seas]

Darling?

[wise_maiden]

There aren't any large gaping holes in the floor, are there? It would be impractical if I missed this jump.

[all7seas]

Well why don't you let me catch you? I haven't found any holes yet, but I'm here, love.

[wise_maiden]

But Jack, that's -- [She fall silent for a moment as she listens now, to the sound of the rope starting to come apart.] Just make sure you catch my bag first, all right?

[all7seas]

Send it down, darling; this temple is one great trap and I don't relish the idea of sitting in it any longer.

[He waits, ready---even though he can't actually SEE anything. He again brings up his arms, feeling around for the sage swinging somewhere above him.]

[wise_maiden]

[First the bag-- it's packaged well but still reasonably light to carry. Her staff is attached to it though, which might make it awkward for catching. He might be able to judge her distance to him from that, at least-- maybe about two to three feet above where his hands can reach. After all, the people who built this place could fly.]

[all7seas]

Ouch. Right. Got the bag. Right in the head. [He sets it on the floor beside him, along with the staff, and, more confident about her location now, reaches for her.]

Now I need the beauty.

[wise_maiden]

-- Right. I'll be right --

[The tear of the rope again. She jumps back as it starts to fall, managing a backflip as she heads downward. Will the pirate catch her?]

[all7seas]

[Yes---somehow---he manages it, though his grip might be a bit rough. He doesn't want to drop her.]

Hear me now, darling: we? Are leaving this temple, together, you and I. No more fancy rocks; you know those Malnosso. They won't allow any treasure back to the village, will they?

[wise_maiden]

... No, I suppose not, but -- [She could have at least made some sort of copy, maybe. Not that it was anywhere within reach.]

we'll need to find a way out of it first. There must be an opening somewhere.

[all7seas]

[The pirate set her down carefully, keeping hold of her hand. It wouldn't do to get separated in the dark.]

Perhaps we should listen for one...