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[open] Look for the bare necessities~
Who: OPEN OPEN OPEN
What: People teaming up to check out a giant abandoned temple and look for hidden treasure, clues or just want to get into some trouble
Where: An abandoned temple ruin in the heavens
When: June 13
Warnings: TBA
Note: This is a create-a-top-level or open/closed prompts or tag around log (mod approved!) it was first mentioned on this post!
[ Outside the Temple ]
The temple is located deep inside a heavily forested part of the heavens. Outside of the temple is littered with overgrown plants and roots and crumbling rocks and rubble. Most of it seems undisturbed and serene like no one has been this way in hundreds of years. Occasionally monkey and spider spirits can be seen crawling over cracked pillars or hiding in dark corners. Looking around you might find pictures of nameless faces etched into stone or old brass and copper coins under rocks or in the dirt. Beware of pitfalls.
[ Outer Sanctum ]
Immediately inside the temple is the Outer Sanctum which is filled with spots of sunlight. The place glitters with light from the sun trickling in from the broken and cracked roof. Pillars and walls gleam with jewels and precious stones ripe for the taking. If certain gems are disturbed you might hear slight rumblings in the distance or the floor might shake but nothing else of interest happens.
If you stay here long enough you might hear the chirping of bird spirits but there are none in sight. The birds will chatter and whisper in your ear with sing song tunes. Call back to them and they might just swoop and attack you. If killed they turn into sapphires.
[ Left Wing ]
The left wing is dark and many doors are locked or set with traps. Broken furniture litters the wing like a massive fight happened here. Dust settles on everything like a thick fog. If you enter some of the rooms you will find libraries and study halls. Most of the books crumble into dust when you touch them. There are tapestries all along the walls of a young Amaterasu. They can be taken off the walls and do not crumble like the books do. The ones that might catch your eye are the ones depicting her hiding in a cave from dark looming figures.
Dig enough through these rooms and you might find some strange trinkets:
- A branch that shakes when it is going to rain soon
- A jar of yellow ink that slowly turns black over several days
- A small leather book with several names of hafuri shinki inside
- A brass lamp engraved with a map of the heavens in ancient times when lit
- A leather bracer that gives you monstrous claws when worn
- A ring which if you put on you can’t remove but your godly power seems slightly enhanced
[ Right Wing ]
The right wing makes it hard for you to breathe inside. Some sort of shade or haze fills these halls and your head starts to hurt the longer you stay in this wing. The rooms that you find are all open and no door is locked but there are several puzzles to be found. You will find abandoned weaponry rooms and storage rooms. The strangest room you might find is the room filled with opened and empty human caskets. Many jars and old boxes scatter the halls in which some of them are broken some of them are intact.
Dig enough through these rooms and you might find some strange trinkets:
- A necklace with red jewels that seems to slightly enhance shinki borderlines
- An amulet set with a carved carnelian that makes you feel warm when you wear it
- A sealed box with no openings that sounds like there might be bugs crawling around inside
- A pouch with several mix matched diamond and gold earrings inside
- A golden statue in the shape of a praying Amaterasu
- A katana with no sheath that is broken and chipped but has a gold chain wrapped around it
[ Inner Sanctum ]
First you are met with a giant set of sealed doors that seem nearly impossible to open. The doors are covered with ancient characters that are unreadable unless you have a way to decipher it. The doors seem immovable by normal strength or magic and only by god or shinki powers once you are lucky enough to stumble on this fact or have a way to read the doors. Once you find this fact or have a way to read the messages, use a god or shinki power (of any sort) and the doors will slowly crack open to a dark Inner Sanctum.
The Inner Sanctum is one large chamber with several chairs and a large table in the center. There are melted down candles everywhere. Inside you find absolutely nothing else of interest. Hope you didn’t spend too much time trying to get the doors open, Wanderer. But does this mean someone got here before you?
Someone with a keen eye might notice the small box tucked away somewhere. Inside the box is a large glowing amethyst. If it is removed the monkey spirits outside the temple will attack everyone on sight.
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What: People teaming up to check out a giant abandoned temple and look for hidden treasure, clues or just want to get into some trouble
Where: An abandoned temple ruin in the heavens
When: June 13
Warnings: TBA
Note: This is a create-a-top-level or open/closed prompts or tag around log (mod approved!) it was first mentioned on this post!
[ Outside the Temple ]
The temple is located deep inside a heavily forested part of the heavens. Outside of the temple is littered with overgrown plants and roots and crumbling rocks and rubble. Most of it seems undisturbed and serene like no one has been this way in hundreds of years. Occasionally monkey and spider spirits can be seen crawling over cracked pillars or hiding in dark corners. Looking around you might find pictures of nameless faces etched into stone or old brass and copper coins under rocks or in the dirt. Beware of pitfalls.
[ Outer Sanctum ]
Immediately inside the temple is the Outer Sanctum which is filled with spots of sunlight. The place glitters with light from the sun trickling in from the broken and cracked roof. Pillars and walls gleam with jewels and precious stones ripe for the taking. If certain gems are disturbed you might hear slight rumblings in the distance or the floor might shake but nothing else of interest happens.
If you stay here long enough you might hear the chirping of bird spirits but there are none in sight. The birds will chatter and whisper in your ear with sing song tunes. Call back to them and they might just swoop and attack you. If killed they turn into sapphires.
[ Left Wing ]
The left wing is dark and many doors are locked or set with traps. Broken furniture litters the wing like a massive fight happened here. Dust settles on everything like a thick fog. If you enter some of the rooms you will find libraries and study halls. Most of the books crumble into dust when you touch them. There are tapestries all along the walls of a young Amaterasu. They can be taken off the walls and do not crumble like the books do. The ones that might catch your eye are the ones depicting her hiding in a cave from dark looming figures.
Dig enough through these rooms and you might find some strange trinkets:
- A branch that shakes when it is going to rain soon
- A jar of yellow ink that slowly turns black over several days
- A small leather book with several names of hafuri shinki inside
- A brass lamp engraved with a map of the heavens in ancient times when lit
- A leather bracer that gives you monstrous claws when worn
- A ring which if you put on you can’t remove but your godly power seems slightly enhanced
[ Right Wing ]
The right wing makes it hard for you to breathe inside. Some sort of shade or haze fills these halls and your head starts to hurt the longer you stay in this wing. The rooms that you find are all open and no door is locked but there are several puzzles to be found. You will find abandoned weaponry rooms and storage rooms. The strangest room you might find is the room filled with opened and empty human caskets. Many jars and old boxes scatter the halls in which some of them are broken some of them are intact.
Dig enough through these rooms and you might find some strange trinkets:
- A necklace with red jewels that seems to slightly enhance shinki borderlines
- An amulet set with a carved carnelian that makes you feel warm when you wear it
- A sealed box with no openings that sounds like there might be bugs crawling around inside
- A pouch with several mix matched diamond and gold earrings inside
- A golden statue in the shape of a praying Amaterasu
- A katana with no sheath that is broken and chipped but has a gold chain wrapped around it
[ Inner Sanctum ]
First you are met with a giant set of sealed doors that seem nearly impossible to open. The doors are covered with ancient characters that are unreadable unless you have a way to decipher it. The doors seem immovable by normal strength or magic and only by god or shinki powers once you are lucky enough to stumble on this fact or have a way to read the doors. Once you find this fact or have a way to read the messages, use a god or shinki power (of any sort) and the doors will slowly crack open to a dark Inner Sanctum.
The Inner Sanctum is one large chamber with several chairs and a large table in the center. There are melted down candles everywhere. Inside you find absolutely nothing else of interest. Hope you didn’t spend too much time trying to get the doors open, Wanderer. But does this mean someone got here before you?
Someone with a keen eye might notice the small box tucked away somewhere. Inside the box is a large glowing amethyst. If it is removed the monkey spirits outside the temple will attack everyone on sight.
[Any questions or ideas? Ping me at
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Kairi's wandered her way around two or three times now and so long as she's going with someone else, this is fine. Yukine's a friend after all, and one of the most skilled shinki anyway, right? She'll be fine. She does stop when Yukine does though, and looks over his shoulder.
"Everything okay, Yukine? It's not more of those darn birds is it?" She's still mad that they didn't like her singing!
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"Yah, 's fine. What about birds?" Please distract him with this story.
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"Oh... I thought the birds were bothering you." She stands next to him, since they're both pretty lithe. (It's still a little weird to her that he's actually her height. He was so tall when they met the first time!) Then she tries to look at his face and hands and the rest of his body language. "Something else? I don't mind if you need to go back for something you forgot." Which she only considers because of how laden with items Lara was earlier.
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Keeping his expression carefully blank he shakes his head slightly. "Maybe... If I remember what I forgot to bring, I'll go back for it." One hand unconsciously shifts the strap of his backpack. He's pretty sure he has everything he'd need in it, but having 'forgotten' something would be a good reason to leave. In his other hand, he lifts his large flashlight and concentrates on keeping the beam focused a short distance ahead of them.
Not wanting to get too far into the darkness of this wing though he quickly asks, "should we try one of these doors?" He can see the outline of three doors in the ambient light from the flashlight, but he doesn't cast the beam further in that direction. He wants the area closest to him to be lit.
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"Well if you're sure you're ready to go further in." She can't tell how nervous he is, but she does cross her arms in thought. "I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to check out the doors - I was worried about more of those birds showing up, or something like them in here - like maybe bats. You know, I tried singing to them before - the same song they were singing, I thought - and they attacked instead! The monkeys outside weren't like that at all!" There, he got most of the story out of her anyway. "Maybe they didn't like the bright lights or something." She shrugs and stands close by one shoulder, since he has the flashlight. "If nothing else, we always have Borderlines, huh?"
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Yukine cuts off as she stands close by his shoulder. Close!
"R-right, borderlines. We gotta watch out for traps that are faster than borderlines though. A trap wouldn't be effective if it wasn't built with the potential trespassers in mind, right?"
And taking a slow breath to help him concentrate (which is no small feat as it is, but he's going to do this, darnit!), he crouches near the chosen door. Shining his light over it, he can't notice anything unusual. Not that he knows what's he's looking for, exactly, but Lara-sama said to look for anything 'out of place'.
"Does anything look off to you?"
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Kairi walks up and looks at the area around the handle, but then just shrugs. "Nope, I don't see anything 'off' at all." She reaches for the door's handle, clearly not afraid.
"Let's look inside!" She opens the door without another word, letting it swing wide on creaking hinges. Inside looks like a bedroom, unlit - but from the faint light of Yukine's own lantern, Kairi can see a bed and desk. "There's another lantern in here, Yukine!" She spies it on top of the desk. There's also a chest at the base of the bed.
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Entering in behind Kairi he shines his light around the room, lingering a moment on the lantern she points out.
"I can light it." Nothing wrong with more light, for sure. Moving over towards the desk he sets down his backpack and starts digging around in it. And realizing that this is leaving most of the rest of the room in the dark he asks,
"Seeing as I have the light over here, do you want to check the desk first?"
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She's definitely less paranoid than him, but not necessarily braver either.
"Sure, I don't mind... but that's a really interesting lantern over there. That design isn't anything I recognize." It kind of looks like a map to her but not of a place she knows. When she opens the desk drawer, she doesn't see anything really special at first, but then she opens one of the larger side drawers. "Oh, there's a... tree branch in here?"
She pulls it out into the light and it has a little blue band attached to it. "I can't believe someone would keep this..." She touches the blue band though. It's definitely ornamental, but there doesn't appear to be anything else special about it. "What do you think, Yukine?
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Paperweight?
[He leans across the desk to get a better look.]
Looks like nothing special. [He supposes the way the branch is smooth like it’d been worn down by water is kind of pretty, but that’s about it.
Turning his attention back to the lantern he tries closing its shutters. They’re stiff from age.]
I suppose it’s possible that stuff that had meaning to the owners and no one else was left behind.
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[She keeps twisting the branch in her hand, looking at it while she talks to Yukine.]
Do you have a paperweight like this? I mean, I guess I could just ask if you keep trinkets like that at all, or what your favorite one is.
[She says all that while looking for a towel or box or something to put the branch in and take it with her. Maybe some kind of map case...?]
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[He looks up from the lamp towards her.]
That's kinda random. But no, I don't have any paperweights, or 'trinkets' or stuff like that.
[Turning back to the lamp his voice becomes softer, yet serious.
He's dead. (And he has a debt to pay off.) So,] I don't need things like that.
[Finally getting the last shutter into place he huffs a little in satisfaction, then leans in closer.]
Oh? It has a bunch of tiny holes in it. All over, too.
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[She gestures to the star-shaped barrette in her hair.]
Senri made this for me, and some little animal figurines. I got a lantern playing games with Sousuke before the parade turned bad. And now I have a mysterious stick from my time with you, haha.
[She realizes it sounds incredibly silly when she says it like that. Because it's a stick.]
They're just another way of keeping my friends close to me, you know?
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[He doesn't really know, actually. Except for a promise his late friend carved on a cherry tree.
If she wants to keep a memento of this time though, he can't argue.]
... Would you rather keep the lamp? It's old, but maybe it's nicer than a stick.
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Really, you'd let me? It looks so fancy when it's lit...
[She kneels down to look at the sides of it.]
I can put it next to Sousuke's. It's really cool all on its own too. You're really okay with me having it Yukine?
[She stands back up.]
Do you want to look for something else for you?
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I don't really need to keep anything. Finding it is enough. [It's the experience that counts, or something.]
Anyway, I want to go outside for a break. If we're done in here, let's go.
Wrap?
[Taking a break from adventure makes perfect sense to her. She doesn't even question it. She does take her several trinkets now and holds them carefully as they walk back out though. It's been an exciting little jaunt with Yukine.]