:[VDay 2020]: The Maze of Wars Past

[FA Goddess Eris]

Rock crumbles off of the Pae who are sent to the Maze of Wars Past. They climb out of their own marbled statues, marveling at the scene that is now before them. Marbled columns soar into the sky in rows, each varying in height and covered in gorgeous, if not faded bronze accents and a bronze bowl sitting on top. The accents are mimicked by bronze armor and helmets that are scattered about, some even impaled into the columns. If somepae isn't careful, they may even step on a broken spear or sword that's jutting up from the ground.

As they inch forward, the bronze bowls on top of the columns light with a mighty blaze and yells can be heard in the distance with the clanging of weapons in combat. With no way of turning back, they have no choice but to go forward. One way forward is a long straight path with the rows of columns looking as if they go on forever. Every now and again a burst of fire explodes from between the tiny slits between the columns. The other path takes a sudden turn to the right and you can hear sorrowful wails ringing across the columns.

Prompt
Welcome to the war zone. What will your Pae do now?
A. Stay where you are and maybe try to dig out a weapon or something?
B. Start down the long path
C. Take the sudden turn towards the wails

Reply by Feb 8 @ 11AM EST

Participants

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• Henry
  
• Ninat
  
• Sedna
  
• Coraciidae
  
• Eleora
  
• Feng Zhi
  
• Twog x Krayyven
  
• Rosewater x Asurea
  
• Beatrice x Dulce
  
• Carnelian x Kulamani
  

 

[Twitchapher the 3rd]

Sedna is going option C

Sedna groaned as her conscious came too after that fall. She could feel cold marble around her being slowly crumble and fall off her beautiful scales. What. "OOF!" The marble that had been holding up in a attack jump pose crumbled away. She hissed and rubbed her face and looked around. Where was she? She paused and looked around. This...Well...Was something...Everything looked very dangerous. Huh. This didn't seem to be Eris' style honestly. Then again she always checked up on them when they were little and they were all about fighting. Was that why Eris liked her parents so much?

She look around and noticed she wasn't alone anymore. s**t. She didn't want to be caught up in all this. She wanted to leave asap. Some tail feathers caught her attention. A harpy? Oh boy! Dinner! She couldn't help but lick her lips until her eyes caught a SECOND one. Crap. One she could take. Two?No. She was out matched. She couldn't think anymore. She had to leave. Now.

She took the first sudden turn she could find to get out of sight of the group. She wasn't thinking, running on the instinct just to get out away from there. Once she was at a 'safe' distance she stopped....Was that wailing? Oh boy she was in trouble. No sense in stopping now. She continued down her chosen path.  

[MiddyGlow]

Rosewater x Asurea

RP to Come

B. Start down the long path  

[Menelie]

Beatrice x Dulce - Option C


Dulce groaned and picked herself up from the floor. She looked around in a panic, and as soon as she saw Beatrice, who at least she knew was a friendly face, she ran to his side. "Where are we?" she asked. "What happened?" With a quick glance around, she shook her head. "We've gotta get out of here, c'mon!"

Dulce was not one to sit around and wait for her fate. She took Beatrice's hand and pulled him down the sudden path to the right.

SSBrosB

Beatrice

 

[DaemonGabrielle]

Fea Line

Twog picks a
Twog landed on full alert. He had no idea who Venus was but the b***h was either a facade or just plain crazy. And that naiad? He'd give him a quick one two if he ever came across him again. Arguing with a god. What the he**??

Eyes darting to his surroundings, he took mental notes. The small area around him was chaos. There were half buried weapons, people screaming and he didnt even wanna think about what kind of mind ******** that long a** path of columns was.

He had to get out of here. Quickly glancing around, he made quick stock of who had landed with him. And the odds didnt seem to be in his favor. Except maybe the purple bird with the ferocious punch. Which made him panic. And of course that set him into instinctual mode. He needed to protect himself.



Crouching down, he quickly began to dig at the weapons around his feet. Focusing on the broken sword and spears. Weapons helped. Then, he'd figure out why and where he was.  

[Dragon Berri]

Carnelian was really starting to be glad her sister hadn't made it this year. She was gonna have some crazy stories to tell. If she made it home. They didn't seem to have a lot of options, and this place was pretty damn terrifying. "I don't like this," she whispered to Kulamani, still clinging to his hand. "What do you think we should do?" One path looked like they would get burned alive while the other one sounded depressing with those wails. [/color[

shadica

I'm gonna let you choose what they do ouo <3

 

[Elros Namasi]

Coraciidae chooses C and takes the sudden turn towards the wails

First Coraciidae had been falling and now she stood awkwardly stiff as marble grit flaked off her feathers. All her focus for a few seconds was on brushing the dust away before her attention was finally caught by a raucous din of clanging metal and shouting. Glancing up from her preening, her pupils dilated and she attempted to look everywhere at once.

Firelight danced and shone on bronze everywhere she looked. Helmets, armor, swirling patterns all over the marble columns, and those pots like beacons. She wanted a closer look. Spreading her wings, she took a quick leap in the air.. and stumbled forward a step when she failed to take flight. What was wrong with her wings? Were they still encased in marble? No, that couldn't be it.

She took a couple more test hops to see if she could get any lift, but was frustrated every time. Pouting, she picked her way through the hazardous terrain, heading in the general direction of the long path sided by columns and crossed by occasional jets of fire. But then she heard this mournful wailing and veered to the right, following the sound. Those paeple sounded miserable, sure, but it seemed better to walk into that than the middle of a fight.  

[Wolfs Heart]

Eleora chooses A

Eleora was about to respond to the okten she had bumped into when thing had started to go south, quite literally. As she fell through the floor, she attempted to flutter her wings, but despite their rapid beating she continued to fall into darkness until she found herself sitting in the shell of a marbled statue. With much confusion, the female climbed out, looking for the male she had just been speaking with. She didn't see him among the few pae that were gathered here, only strangers covered in white dust. She attempted to fly again, but it proved useless aside from shaking off some of the marble debris that had been on her. Strange.

Eleora didn't like the sounds she could hear in the distance, actually she didn't like any of this. Other pae seemed quick to head off in one direction, and Eleora thought perhaps she should follow them, although it made her nervous hearing all of the wailing. She was about to follow when she saw a pae stop to pick up some of the weapons that were scattered around the floor. That was a good idea. With the sounds she was hearing, it felt like she could use some protection, she could still follow the others after. She began to dig out a sword, wondering if she would actually be able to use it if she needed too. At least she might feel better if she had it.  

[Fea Line]

DaemonGabrielle

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Krayyven. Was. Pissed.

The first thing she did when she landed was look around for that fish. When she didn't see him she tried her best to lie her feathers flat and study her surroundings.

Just what in the ever loving heck happened?

She spotted her toy from earlier, digging in the ground. Marching over to him, she grabbed his tail. "WHAT IS GOING ON." She screeched, probably louder than usual before kicking at one of the weapons with her feet, uncovering part of it from the sand.

An overwhelming sensation spurred up inside her however as she noticed the handsome male firebird was here too... Well she might as well get something before she died right?

Antidia

She's making googly eyes at Zhi

 

[FA Goddess Eris]

FOR THOSE WHO CHOSE A (if you didn’t post this is your option)
As Pae stood around wondering what had come of them, the columns around them began to rumble. Puffs of smoke started to emanate from, warning those who were standing around what might come of them in a moment if they decide to loiter much longer. A burn in here with no help in sight, might not be in their best interest.

1-A. Book it down the long path
1-B. Make a break for it towards the wails


FOR THOSE WHO CHOSE B
As the Pae start down the long path, a break in the columns appear to the north. The fires continue to rumble on and off before them, while the new path seems quiet and peaceful- except for the pile of armor and bones laying about of course.

2-A. Continue down the long path of flames
2-B. Take the north path into the gravesite


FOR THOSE WHO CHOSE C
The wails grow louder as the Pae head north. Soon they come to a fork in the road, one headed west and the other east. The sounds coming from the east path sound angry while the west sounds defeated. Both are calm, no fire is seen here other than those glowing in the bowls above.

3-A. Head west towards the defeated creature
3-B. Head east towards the angry creature

Next prompt will be dropped sometime around 3PM EST

 

[Wolfs Heart]

Eleora chooses 1A
Eleora jumped as the columns began to rumble. Her eyes jumped up to them from where she had been working. She didn't like the look of that. The flutter grabbed the sword she had freed and quickly ran towards the long path, she wasn't quite ready to test this sword out on whatever was causing the wailing sound.  

[Twitchapher the 3rd]

Sedna is making the poor choice of 3-B

The nagi slowed her to catch her breath. Phew. She paused to listen to the cries. Two different ones huh? One sounded defeated. The other? Angry. To say the angry one didn't peek her interest would be an understatement. The defeated one could be a trap to lull her into a trap. Hmm. It didn't seem to smart but off towards the angry creature she went with nothing but the bowels guiding her path before her.  

[shadica]

Kulamani was surprised when the ground fell out beneath his feet. Even more surprised when his wings wouldn't work right. He fell and he guess he must have lost consciousness because the next thing he knew he felt trapped?

A bit of wiggling and he manged to free himself from the stone that had encased him. His face palled as he looked around at the chaos, fire and screaming was bad enough but the ground was littered with weapons as well.

He let out a sigh of relief as he saw that Carnelian was all right.

"I don't know" He responded a bit of a worried tone in his voice. "I don't like the idea of fire, but the wailing is unnerving? Maybe we should grab a weapon first just in case? They are every where."

Digging around he found himself a sword and while digging it out he realized that Carn wasn't the only one he had to worry about being safe. "PURPURYT!" He called out worriedly. He became even more worried when he got no response from the teen. "My niece is at the party but I don't see her here, I hope she is all right." He explained to his date why he was seemingly randomly screaming names.

And just like that the columns started rumbling, there was no way HE did that right? Uh oh the puffs of smoke where ominous. Time to get out of here.

"So uh want to take the path or wailing?" He asked his date.

Strawberri Stardust

the Choice is yours!

 

[Menelie]

Dulce x Beatrice choose 3a

It took a minute for Dulce to notice the wailing, but when she did it gave her major pause. "Uh..." she looked to Beatrice. "That doesn't sound good. I wonder if we could help...whatever it is?" Surely that would be the compassionate thing to do. You couldn't only think for yourself in situations like these--you had to make sure everyone got out OK. "C'mon, let's keep going." She tugged on his hand and pulled him along with her, suddenly feeling very in charge of the situation.

They came to a fork in the path. She cupped a hand to her ear to listen for the wails again. She heard some very different sounds down one path. They sounded...not good, to put it lightly. Down the other path, she thought she could hear those wailing sounds again. "This way!" she exclaimed, starting down the west path.

SSBrosB

Beatrice

 

[Elros Namasi]

Coraciidae chooses 3-A and heads west toward the defeated creature

Cora plodded along behind the other pae who had chosen to take the path that led to the wailing voices, becoming more morose as the cries got louder. Scuffing her feet, she continued to pout and sulk over her apparently out of commission wings. Something was keeping her grounded and she didn't like it, not one bit. Her wings were, of course, gorgeous. But they had also been useful up to this point.

When she came to the fork in the road, she cocked her head west then east then west again. What she'd thought had been many voices of other pae sounded now like single somethings, one very, very mad and the other thoroughly depressed. With a small sigh, she turned west. Misery loved company, right?