[Planescape] Squaring the Circle Redux - IC

[deadestdai]

A curious Flaust, one eyebrow raised peers into the darkness of the corridor.

Blasted bed was up to no good! Fancy trying to put one past me and think I'd fall for it's "I'm too cheap to be able to afford feathers in my quilt and pillows" act! I wonder if it has laid any other false trails about this cave?

She of course, knew that the bed and room were actually a fabricated lie. And poorly done it seems. But common sense really did point out that the bed had to die. Making sure to remember to tell someone about the pretend bedroom, Flaust stepped cautiouslly out and sidled up to the dor where the shuffling noises were coming from. Taking a few seconds to make sure there were no surprises to jump out at her from the darkness, she gently and everso slowly turns the door handle and cranes her head around to peer inside.

 

[Sephiroth no Miko]

The front doors of the mansion has been rusted in place after decades of disuse, and it takes the combined efforts of Donner, Blade, and Zoe to push them open with a loud screech that echoes off the stone walls of the entryway. Bits of aged wood break off in their hands.

With the patch of unnatural darkness still covering a considerable portion of the northern part of the estate, the room is only dimly lit by wan reddish light coming through the small window to the south. It is enough to illuminate a decayed and ramshackle chamber, mostly bare save for threadbare tapestries hanging from the walls and broken bits of furniture piled in the corners. A thick covering of dust blankets everything; obviously no one has been in here in a very long time.

A single corridor leads deeper into the mansion's depths; Flaust stands just a little ways in, peering at something inside the room to the north (B), Kiaros' spectral form hovering just behind her.

Flaust:

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She moves cautiously down the empty hallway only to run into Kiaros floating through a side wall, looking somewhat amused. Otherwise, the hallway appears empty, and the only tracks in the dust are her own. A quick glance into the room he just exited from reveals that it is a ruined library, with some sort of worm thing happily munching on books strewn all across the floor, perfectly oblivious to the most amount of excitement the place has seen in decades. A loud protest by the rusty hinges of the front entrance announces the arrival of the rest of the party.

Kiaros:

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The worm thing immediately returns to its little book pile and starts blithely feeding again as soon as Kiaros releases control of it. He moves towards where he heard the scream only to run into Flaust creeping down the hallway towards the library door. She is covered in sawdust and sporting a self-satisfied smirk. The screech of the front door behind him tells him that the rest of party have also entered the manor.

Map of Mansion​

Key: A= entryway, B= library, C= ????, D= ????, E= ????, F= bedroom, G= ????. (???? indicates unknown rooms)

 

[deadestdai]

Flaust's mouth twitched from a smirk into a look of annoyance. What was sat in the room was fat. And it ate books. And it was fat, and, it was eating books... Anything that ate books was obviously a total waste of space and not worth her attention. Afterall, everyone knew books were best kept to sell to clueless primes who were easily taken in with lies of which demon prince of the Abyss had previously owned them.

The tiefling saw her friends enter and singled out Vlad. Her smirk returned. Oooohhhh Vla-adddd? She sing-songed out to the grim dwarf. We guessed we would find something of interest here in this shabby mansion and we did - your last love interest! Come retrieve her from her intellectual feast and retame that heart that once left you out in the cold. Her manner of speech was quite unlike anything her friends had heard her use before. None of the usual course Hive street urchin was recognizable, but the gentle and alluring lilt of a high-born lady was very apparent.

Not waiting for a reply, the small girl walks off down the corridor

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Towards the door of Room C, where she will again listen briefly at the door before gently opening it and peering inside.

her saunter a surprisingly noble, strut compared to her usual cocky gait.

 

[Thanee]

Zoe Windwalker

Seeing that Flaust does not seem endangered... not more than usually at least... Zoe heads off to the first room to the right, slightly shaking her head.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Blade rolls her eyes, and peers in to see what Flaust is talking about. Wrinkling her nose at the ugly creature, she then joins Zoe across the hall at the doorway to the room opposite the library.*

 

[Serpenteye]

Inwardly shrugging Kiaros moves towards room C to see what he can see, the negative energy in the building giving him a pleasant feeling of being a little less dead.

 

[Ashy]

Burrow moves to the doorway of the library and stops dead in his tracks. A frown overcomes his features as he takes in the horrific abomination before him. A mental itch forms in the back of his brain - an itch that really needs scratching. "So we're just gonna march about this place whilst this...THING...wallows about, devouring books that might lend us precious information?" The displeasure and tinge of sarcasm is evident in his voice.

 

[Serpenteye]

Burrow moves to the doorway of the library and stops dead in his tracks. A frown overcomes his features as he takes in the horrific abomination before him. A mental itch forms in the back of his brain - an itch that really needs scratching. "So we're just gonna march about this place whilst this...THING...wallows about, devouring books that might lend us precious information?" The displeasure and tinge of sarcasm is evident in his voice.

"The thing is harmless, a lost soul that was once human." Kiaros answers without turning towards him, a note of sadness in his voice. "The books appear to be worthless."

 

[Ashy]

Burrow arches a brow, but says nothing...

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Vlad, who had followed but remained quiet until now (as he had no real good response to Flaust's teasing), turns to Burrow. "Is that really any way to be talking about one of my old flames?" The dwarf, a twinkle in his eyes from the pleasure of actually having a response to someone's teasing, tries to see if he can get any closer to the books that are not being eaten so as to see their titles and so on. If he gets too close, he'll ask the thing if she's read anything interesting lately.