Viridian Plague--Autumn's Enigma [Obscurity]

[Rystil Arden]

*Obscurity feels the world shimmer around and the air grows far less stagnant to the sound of leaves blowing in a breeze that carries with it the scents of autumn. When the bright light fades enough that Obscurity can see again, she looks around to see that she has been transported to a glade in the jungle, the ground covered in the fallen leaves of myriad colours. In the centre of the glade is a tall hollow and transparent pedestal ringed by circular platforms of various tiers, some of them moving back and forth or up and down, others connected by vines or narrow logs or separated by gaps, and all stretching upwards towards the top of the pedestal, which is located up and out of sight.*

"Greetings, guardian," a strange ever-shifting voice speaks from everywhere and nowhere at once with a voice that seems to be three voices at once and yet one, speaking in an unknown yet somehow familiar language that Obscurity can mysteriously understand, "The Trial of Autumn is a test of your resourceful and adaptability, much like fickle autumn brings about a shift to winter and symbolises change. Will you move quickly enough to avoid winter's chill and claim your prize, or will you be frozen with indecision and fail? Only you alone can decide. Are you ready, guardian?"

 

[Erekose13]

"I am ready." replies Obscurity, blinking away the last of the sun shadows behind her eyes.

(ooc: cool, thanks. completely forgot about the min half, don't know why I missed the max at 1st, but its been a while)

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Then it begins. Prepare yourself. "You seek the heights before winter's icy grip consumes you.""[/color]

*As the words are spoken, a giant reptilian eye sculpted entirely of ice begins to rise up through the transparent pedestal until it is about level with Obscurity. The eye slowly turns towards her--if she remains in place, it will be facing her soon.*

 

[Erekose13]

Obscurity moves around behind the eye.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Since she is currently on the forest floor, it is trivially easy to simply circle around, although the eye turns about as quickly as she can move, since she has to circle in a wide radius and all it has to do is spin around, so she doesn't really get behind it. Still, she gets a nice view of all the vines and logs and platforms surrounding the pedestal and leading upwards, and she notices some weird mirrorlike sheets of crystal located at certain points on some of the platforms.*

 

[Erekose13]

Not knowing what she is supposed to do beyond avoiding the gaze of the eye, Obscurity casts blink as she moves. She intends to use the ethereal skips to move towards or up one of the pedestal.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: There's just the one pedestal in the middle with the eye in it. That doesn't look particularly safe or even scalable, since it is so tall that it continues out of sight. She might be able to Blink inside since it is hollow, but then the eye could just look up at her and she would have no chance to avoid it. It is surrounded by many platforms that she should probably be able to Jump, Climb, and Balance across to get to some of the weird mirrored crystals and continue upwards)

 

[Erekose13]

She'd like to try and get to the weird crystals (to try and reflect the eye's vision back at it). Is there any chance of that at all?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Yep, sure. There look to be two valid paths--one of them would require swinging across several vines and then climbing up a wide vine-covered trunk. The other one requires running across several narrow branches and leaping onto a platform)

 

[Erekose13]

Lets try the narrow branches then.