Night 65: Underground Lake

[dualistic]

[From here.]

This was all becoming a bit stale.

Especially the feeling of nausea that came with the transport. Harvey didn't want to think too hard on the implications of that. Just what exactly was done to their bodies when they were moved around like that? It couldn't be natural in any sense of the word, but it still beat trying to get down here the normal way.

His only real consolation was that he couldn't smell anything too well down here. It was a shame that they couldn't just keep on giving up that sense, but even Harvey realized how that wouldn't be "fair" according to Landel's rules. What really wasn't fair was the fact that they'd all been stuck in this place for weeks now, but...

Even he started to get sick of his own complaining, so he left it at that.

Once the other two seemed to have recovered, Harvey nodded toward the docks. "We know the drill by now, right? Let's make this quick." He needed to enjoy his voice while he had it, if that's what he was giving up.

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[unpriest]

Seishin looked up to offer Charon-san a questionable glance as he mentioned the 'beastie', but the situation prevented him from actually voicing the question. He could only hope they wouldn't find out what exactly this 'beastie' was in another way...

And hopefully, it was not anything like Cthulhu...

Be as it may, it would seem the lake was more dangerous than he had initially expected.

[avengingfists]

"Er, ha ha ha..." Ilia could generally appreciate a pun in better circumstances. Here it was a little difficult. But she didn't want to offend their host and cause unnecessary trouble.

"Sounds like a lot of things depend on luck..." Ilia shook her head, unable to imagine what kind of thing could live down there with all those bodies. If it had been a normal creature, it likely would have eaten them all up by now, or at least caused the lake some turbulence. But other than the ripples moving away from their boat the water was silent.

"Sounds like a nightmare." She chuckled again, a little more confidence in her voice. "But if it's as awful at cards as you say, maybe it's not so bad as an opponent." Whatever it was.

[trolltaker]

"You obviously haven't seen how it gets when it loses at cards," Charon snorted as he continued rowing.

Soon enough, the torches from the other dock came closer, and the boat reached their destination.

"All right, ladies, this is your stop!" he told them. After setting down his paddle, he rummaged around at the bottom of the boat and mysteriously emerged with a small cloth bag. "Take these -- a present from me, heh. They'll make it easier for you to come pay another visit."

[unpriest]

The torches on the other side slowly came into view, and eventually they reached the dock without any problems. As relieving as that was, Seishin had to suppress another wince as Charon-san referred to them as 'ladies' again.

He glanced curiously at the skeleton man as he rummaged through the boat and emerged with a...bag? Seishin blinked at it, before taking it with a small amount hesitance. He wasn't fully certain what Charon-san had meant with his comment, but he offered a bow of gratitude regardless.

Seishin then climbed out of the boat and stepped onto the dock. No sense in unnecessarily keeping the Skeleton man, was there? He glanced at Silvestri-san, looking if she required any help.

[avengingfists]

"Someone should tell 'em not to be such a sore loser," Ilia chuckled, feeling a bit more at ease with the banter. And just in time for them to make port at the opposite shore! A wave of relief rushed through her and exited on a breath of air.

She followed the bag with her eyes a s Seishin took it, unsure of what it could possibly be and only partly suspicious that it might be a trick.

Casting one more smile Charon's way, Ilia followed Seishin up onto the dock, perfectly capable of disembarking on her own tonight. "Hey, thanks for the gift. I guess we'll be seeing you later, for now."

She offered him a wave, thankful to be done with the ordeal this night.