middleofsomewhere | Final: Purple

It has been a long and exhausting trek through the underwater caverns, even in the rare times they surfaced onto sandbanks they are attacked by creatures from the sea.

But eventually they arrive, one last water filled tunnel and a short climb they arrive in an large dry cave. In the centre there is a marble plinth. On the ground nearby there is a shell bowl, intact luckily but toppled off to the side.

Fighting

More pressing however are the two shark head beasts and uncountable number of crabs in the cavern. It seems, no matter how exhausted the voidtreckers are their fight is not yet over.

Preparing the chamber

Though the chamber doesn't have all that much in it, what there is is in a mess. There has been a concerted effort to wreck the place. Ripped tapestries cover the walls and there are candles, some smashed, some just toppled. The place smells strongly of a mix of different smells as if oils had been poured out, indeed there are empty and smashed bottles around.

At some point during this fight their SCA's glow and through them they may hear some familiar voices. It seems there is more to do than just fight crabs and indeed clearing this mess might not be able to wait until the battle is over!

Clear the chamber and set things to rights! Whilst also fighting off an army of crabs!

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"We cannot..." He turned to bat another crab out of the way, stick sweeping it away and sending it scuttling. "...conduct a ceremony in a desecrated temple."

"Tch!"

Reno took out his frustration on the next crab to scuttle by, beating it with his baton until its shell cracked and it finally lay still. He took a deep breath and let it out.

"That's why we're trying to clean it up. Right?" He turned to face the old man. His expression was harsh. "Right?"

"Exactly, young man. That's why we are clearing it up. So it can be sanctified once more."

Another crab lunged for him and he raised his staff to block it.

Reno let out a big sigh a relief; it sounded more like a teen's exasperated huff. If he had to deal with these old men for more than the next hour's worth of clean up--killing crabs included--he was going to re-desanctify this shitty chamber himself.

"Right! So get to it! You guys do as much as you can while we get rid of these intruders and we'll help finish the clean up as soon as we can so you can finish the...rest of it. Got it!? Good!"

Not waiting for another boring conversation rejoinder this time, old geezer! He gets back to busting crabs with his baton and kicking them out of the inner space so they won't be entirely in the way.

"I'll help out! Just keep them off me, goggles!"

It was odd for Tangle to skip out on a fight and take the more peaceful route, but it soon became apparent why. Her tail swung out, gathering a large number of the artifacts in one fell swoop.

"Okay, priest guys! Tell me where to put a bunch of this stuff! I'll keep your temple things safe until it gets where it needs to be!"

The man only frowned at Reno's attitude but the lemur gets a more kindly smile, even as the man turns to hit another crab.

"The bowl needs to return to it's place on the plinth, if we can clear the area around it and move everything there that might... be enough."

"On it, fluffdoll!" Reno called back to the upright lemur. It was still weird working with 'monsters' but the Turk was doing his best to pretend he didn't notice. If he just thought of them as talking summons it kinda worked out for him. This one was kinda cute in a furry mascot kind of way anyway.

The Turk took the business of keeping them safe seriously despite his otherwise flippant attitude. He was quick to knock back crabs before they could get too close to the plinth now that they knew it was the most important spot. It made sense, it looked important, and the guys on Orange Team had said something about that, too.

Reno arched his electricity towards a group of incoming crabs and then dashed towards them while they were stunned. He knocked them all off their feet and started whacking on them relentlessly before they could get back up.

"Fluffdoll?" Tangle boggles at her nickname, but she has a job to do, so she can't afford to focus on it for very long.

Taking advantage of the gap Reno created, Tangle surged forward. She made it all the way to the plinth, and made sure to put down the treasures she snatched up down gently before going for the bowl.

"I just put it up here, right?!" she called out, raising the object to place it on the plinth.

"Yes, that is perfect, child." The compliment is called over a shoulder as the man bashes another crab.

They both get a nod of approval, for their efforts.

Whoohoo, a nod of approval. Reno was too busy to care at the moment though. He was keeping half an eye on Tangle to make certain she was getting by okay and the other half on the fight he was engaged in. Thankfully crabs--even mutant sized ones--weren't really all that smart. Fighting them wasn't too hard. It was more their numbers they had to worry about.

Reno dodged nimbly away from a set of pincers and attacked it with an underhanded motion that sent it flipping end over end. Then he laid in on the softer underbelly of the monster while it was vulnerable.

"Then here... we... go!"

With several pauses for emphasis, Tangle placed the bowl atop the plinth. "And now... for this!"

With a wide sweep of her tail, she cleared the altar of all the junk and refuse, using it like a humongous broom... and dropping a large amount of it on the crabs Reno happens to be fighting.

Final: Purple

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