A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

[built_fjord_tough]

Today, class, you were meeting in the Danger Shop outside a large cave entrance. Fjord was there leaning against a boulder, arms crossed over his chest.

He was smirking.

"First off," he drawled, "I want to congratulate Yelden on taking initiative and becoming the new face of the party in conversation."

Really, if it had to be the fighter or the rogue, Fjord wanted the one who wasn't just acting in self-interest. Though watching this whole campaign slowly snowball into a nightmare of consequences had been fun in its own way, too.

"For the rest of you, this means you've got two homeless kobolds and a wyrmling all looking for an assist in clearing out the cave of the violent creature that shredded the wyrmling's wing and is keeping him from going back home. Remember, for the more monetarily driven of you, that there's still a handsome reward back in town for keeping the dragon from wandering too close to the outskirts, and," he nodded toward the wyrmling, whose good wing was mantled and whose tail was thrashing behind him as he peered into the cave, "dragons keep treasure troves."

Just throwing that out there for the roguish of you.

"So," he smirked at the party. "In you go."

Fjord enjoyed this entirely too much.

[OOC: Open!]

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Into the Cave - The Demon

[built_fjord_tough]

You walk, and... nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Until you enter a chamber with a floor that seems to sparkle as though illuminated on its own, any light you're setting off reflecting over thousands of pieces of gold and gems.

And then even that light disappears, seems to get pushed away violently as shadows coalesce in the middle of the room, and from those shadows, rises a shape.

Looks like you've found your demon.

Re: Into the Cave - The Demon

[goldfishontherocks]

"Oh," Yelden said out loud, glancing at the now possibly useless torch in her hand as she reached for the morningstar at her belt. "That's . . . okay. Damn it, why didn't I pick the light cantrip?"

Hey, at least this was motivation for Keyleth to be more selective about the ones she learned for real later on.

She'd throw the torch at the demon, but nobody needed the party melee fighter having to attack at disadvantage.

Re: Into the Cave - The Demon

[unusual_sith]

Was any of this worth the trouble?

Yeah, Jatila was stealthing. At worst, it'd let her attack from hiding. At best, maybe she'd just get out of there.

Re: Into the Cave - The Demon

[hashtag_chocobro]

Light was a good thing, but Seros knew right away that this was not the sort of source of light he was wanting to have right now, because he played more than enough video games and had been in this class really, I swear long enough to know...

...but Seros was having a real hard time doing what he needed to do right now with Prompto over here trying his very best to not freak out over being in a cave with people who made bad decisions with a daemonic shape rising up out of the shadows.

Prompto reached immediately for a gun at his hip that was not there, muttered "Fuck!", and quelled his panic by reminding himself that this wasn't real, this was just a game, remember, you spastic stupid coward, and it was okay. No guns, but Seros had magic, and so he was going to go ahead and use that magic as soon as he was able. Because if this wasn't a good time for a good dose of Magic Missles, then he really didn't know what would be.

Seros, he decided, was not afraid of the dark and daemons. And though he didn't fully actually manage to believe it, it did sort of help a little.