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[thaumewturge]

Who: Rhel, Sagi, Akira, Fai, Joss, and Efi | Rhel, Sagi, Joss, and Toki
Where: The ruins
When: At some point this month time is a lie
What: They are finally at Melona! Aaaand Gale's family is missing so that means rescue party go. | After finding her parents, they go looking for her brother.

[This is. So very stressful Rhel's used to having to go into ruins and whatnot, she's a bloody Warrior of Light after all, but she has so rarely been this invested in making sure everyone is okay. The Kings have to be okay. Poor Gale needs them to be okay.

Thankfully, it's not hard to find others who agree to go searching for the missing people, and getting supplies together doesn't take long at all, either.

Still, Rhel can't help but look at the ruins with some degree of trepidation.]

Twelve, I hope we have enough medical supplies...




[Investigation thread]

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[infiltrationtools]

Not what we're looking for.

[There's no way the kids could have gotten past here. Akira kicks it lightly, not for any particular purpose of investigation, mostly just for something to do with his foot.]

But it looks like it's here for a reason, right?

[scension]

Couldn't it be what we're looking for? If they had a Pokemon that could make barriers like that, and were being chased.

[Fai's wondering was already enough to convince Sagi that taking a peek might be worthwhile. With little fanfare, he takes out a blank card and holds it up to the rock slab to activate it. With a flash of light nearly as bright as the glow from his dagger blade and a high pitched sound, the rock fades out of physical existence.

Causing a shower of yet more debris to come crashing down the moment it's gone. Startled, Sagi hops backward out of the way with a yelp and a clatter of feathers. Who could have seen this coming?]

[partymagician]

[ Oh. Well, that's one way of getting rid of the rock. Fai covers his nose and mouth until the debris settles before stepping inside the now open room. The carvings are a surprise, but the largest one at the back of the room catches Fai's eye. ]

Hyuu, nice carvings. This is one of the legendary Pokemon, isn't it?

[ He vaguely remembers it from some of the books he's flipped through. ]

[infiltrationtools]

I mean, I gue–

[Sagi's doing something? Akira just watches in confusion as he lightly taps what looks like a card against the rock, and it simply disappears into air. He continues to watch in confusion, and possibly something else, as the entire ceiling shudders above them.]

[However, any grumbling is quickly silenced by what's inside the cave.]

...Cool...

[Yeah, he's gonna whip out his phone and start taking photos. As if there's some Instagram he can post it to.]

[scension]

[Sagi walks back over once it seems less like they're about to get buried alive for the second time today, and - stares. That artwork is nothing like the kids' picture books he's seen, but he gets what Fai means.]

Whoa. I think you're right. This is... a shrine? There's dolls, there's offerings. Not Kyogre... which one was it?

[He looks over at whatever Akira is doing. It seems like the kids couldn't have come this way after all, not with the load-bearing slab blocking them - he figures it would be useless to try putting it back now - but this is it, the first piece of evidence that the godlike presence out there isn't all in their heads. The kind of thing Joonghyuk and that Nozomi girl had really wanted to hear about. They shouldn't just walk away.]

Does that thing work as a camera? [Today in things that definitely came out of the mouth of someone wearing stupid armoured bracers who previously didn't know what a phone was.] Can you... take pictures of the whole room? It feels important.

[partymagician]

[ Fai watches as Akira starts taking pictures. ]

Taking pictures is a good idea.

[ Especially since Fai isn't sure how long this room will still be here after they leave it... the way the ceiling above them shuddered has him believing it'll collapse eventually.

He crouches down to get a better look at some of the dolls without touching them. ]

Hmmm... was it Groudon? I'm sad to admit I don't remember much aside from the name.

[infiltrationtools]

Sure.

[Akira changes his approach, from getting aesthetically pleasing shots of certain objects or altars to getting large sweeping photos of the entire room. More for documentation than for visual appeal.]

Uh, Groudon... that was an earth god, right? Hopefully he won't get mad if his shrine becomes one with the earth...

[scension]

Yeah, hopefully... Good thing nobody was hiding in it after all.

[Sagi holds his dagger steady towards the middle of the room to maintain a little extra light for the photos, but waits near the exit instead of wandering around or touching anything. Akira's got this covered, so now he can safely shove all deeper contemplation of the shrine aside for later. They still have some kids and chaperones to find.]

[partymagician]

An earth god sounds right.

[ It feels like he read that somewhere, at least. Fai makes his way back to the exit, both so he can be ready to leave and give Akira more room to work with. ]

I agree... it's a good thing there's no one here. We should move on as soon as Akira's done. Hopefully we're close to finding everyone.

[infiltrationtools]

[Click, click, click... yeah, he's done. Akira looks around one more time — but they're right, this is not their mission, and there are people's lives at stake here.]

Yeah. Let's move on.

[And since everyone's in agreement, the group toddles on towards the next chamber.]