Let it Snow: Orange Start

[voidtreckermods]

The moment Red team jumps the voice speaks again. “Orange team to doors. Void shift imminent. Ten, nine, eight, seven...” There is a lurch and the train seems to tumble. The windows flash with the void for a second before they are once again surrounded by snow.

The train steadies, the doors open, the train is in mid-air and one step away from the train doors there is an ice platform. Crossing is not too hard, though a bit daunting. They are very high up and the ice is inherently slippy.

The platform is not large enough for them all and so the only natural way is for them to begin entering the labyrinth to allow everyone off the train. The moment the last person leaves the train it blinks away and the moment everyone has entered the labyrinth there is a grinding sound and the ice behind them closes.

For good or ill they have entered. Their goal is clear, a strange machine suspended in the centre of the maze but getting there will be a challenge. Though it looks like they should be able to merely walk towards it walls of ice stand in their way. The only way to stop any of this is to get through the labyrinth.

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[shockinglycaffeinated]

Telli followed as he moved further down the passage, tapped one knuckle against the labyrinth wall, and considered how it felt before she spoke.

"This seems to just be ice, do you think heat might melt it?"

[so_dark_a_road]

"I, too, am detecting nothing but ice," he answers. "And if it's just ice, then it should be possible to melt a hole in it with enough heat. Why, do you have a means to do that?"

[shockinglycaffeinated]

"I do."

She shifted her grip on her cane, brought her free hand up to grab it about half way down, and with a twist she separated the two halves of her cane. Her right hand twisted as a green energy blade emerged and she struck out at the wall.

The blade skittered off the wall, causing a loud screech, but the ice appeared unharmed.

Telli frowned at her lightsaber, "Hmm. Normally that works."

[so_dark_a_road]

He watches in fascination.

"Very odd. Your light saber ought to penetrate the wall, but it does not. The ice seems not to be normal ice."

[shockinglycaffeinated]

She struck out again and hit the same spot, confirming that it wasn't a fluke, before she powered down the saber and put the cane back together. A moment passed while she considered her options before speaking again.

"I have one other thing I can try, but I need you to move a bit behind me. I haven't done it here and I don't know if my control will be the same."

[so_dark_a_road]

"All right," he agrees, and moves behind her and a little way back. "What are you going to do?" he asks, eagerly.

[shockinglycaffeinated]

She tossed a grin over her shoulder and confirmed Curufin was a sufficient distance from herself, before raising a hand in the air and concentrated.

Above Telli a storm begins to appear, lightening arcing through the clouds before Telli pulled her arm down to point at the wall. As she does so a bolt of lightening follows her gesture and slams into the ice with a resounding crack. The flash and noise blinded and deafened them for a few seconds, and once their vision clears they see the wall sustained no damage.

"Well fuck."

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin gazed in delight at the storm clouds and the lightening as it appeared above Telli's head. And then again as she directed the lightening bolt straight into the ice wall. He has always liked the crash and the flash of lightening and the boom of thunder, and now it seems his teammate has powers of this sort. Nice!

But. . . no effect.

"Yeah, fuck. You'd think that much power would reduce the wall to a puddle. Maybe it's not really ice, maybe it just looks like ice."