[Power Sliders session 5] [Last time on Power Sliders, you folk journeyed north to an ice island. Upon this island you discovered a icy funnel which led you to, what appears to be, an ice temple. Once within the temple you discovered a mirror puzzle which, once solved, opened the door straight ahead from the entrance and the one to your left. The door to the right is blocked off by a heavy rock. Once the puzzle was solved, you all decided to rest for the night and start fresh on the temple in the morning. It is now the next morning.] [Begin] * Micah is still sleeping his cloak pulled tight over him, shivering a bit. * Kyler is up, having taken over keeping watch from Micah. * Lex is also up, being used to getting up at the crack of dawn. * Kyler is also currently sitting on a convenient outcropping, shaving gel on his face, electric razor in hand, doing what seems obvious given those two circumstances. * Katsuo is awake, used to being awake early in the morning as well, to open his shop. * Katsuo checks his watch. "We have provisions?" * Henry is not a crack of dawn type, and far more a curled up mostly inside his cloak waiting for his alarm clock to go off type. [Link is up and walking around the room. He has his lute in one hand and his sword in the other. His shield is still strapped to his back.] * Cassiopeia is up as well, having emptied her messenger bag (which is full of an enormous amount of random junk), and is almost done repacking it. * Kyler shrugs. "I've got some stuff, but not enough for everyone, not for long." * Lex looks over at Kyler incredulously. "You keep an electric razor on you?" Same here. If we went out on the boat, I could probably scrounge up some fish for us all, but might as well keep going forward. * Katsuo nods. We must be swift through dungeon, then. * Kyler looks over at Lex. "Yeah, in my backpack." He finishes up and wipes the remaining gel off with his hand. * Lex walks over to Henry and shakes him gently by the shoulder to wake him. * Kyler has now changed at some point into a white crew shirt with an oar and "Head of the South Regatta" in blue lettering on the front. The back says "Stroke Hard," and underneath, there are what look like team member names, positions and quotes. Kyler's name has "coxswain" and "Gentleman and Sculler" next to it. * Henry blinks blearily at Lex. "Wha? School already?" * Kyler grins over at Henry. "Sure, if that's what you call 'savin' the universe'." Not quite. More like a Zelda ice temple. Hope you've done your homework. Zelda Ice and Light temple. Goooood combination. * Henry sits up and rubs at his eyes. "Oh. Oh yeah!" * Lex now walks over and does the same for Micah. * Micah mutters something about being awake, stretching out. * Kyler wipes his hand on his pants and tests his chin with his other hand for missed spots or cuts. * Cassiopeia finishes repacking her bag, a broken chair leg sticking out of the top. "There. Much better." * Henry yawns and then blinks. "I don't think I've ever played a game where the hero needed to remember to bring a toothbrush." I have! Really? Which one? Hygiene usually isn't your biggest worry in most games. * Micah slowly rolls over, losing his cloak. "Shit, cold, fuck not a nightmare." * Henry nods at Lex while he pulls his nice warm cloak over his cold bits. * Kyler eyes Cass's broken chair leg bemusedly. Journey To The Center of the Pancreas. There's a museum in the gall bladder that's fallen into disrepair, and you need the toothbrush to clean a plaque so you can read it. * Henry blinks. "Wow, I've never even heard of that one before." Obscure freeware adventure game. Not fantastic, but you take what you can find nowadays. * Micah looks around, yawning some. "Any food?" ...Oops. I've got some energy bars and a trout. Er... bar? * Kyler blinks at Cass. "Smoked, I hope." I'll take a power bar, I guess. Nope, fresh caught. *pulls a trout from a pocket; tosses energy bars to Micah and Henry* * Kyler stares at it. It's been in her pocket since she caught it? D: * Micah grabs his looking over it before opening it up and eating it. * Henry doesn't manage to get a hand out of his cloak fast enough to catch it and it lands in his lap. * Lex blinks at the trout. "I guess if no one has any matches, I could try lighting a fire to cook it." * Katsuo scratches his head. "Sorry, I no prepared for adventuring." Though I don't know how much there is to burn around here...*looking around at ice and rocks* [There are, in fact, torches.] We'll just have to solve this place fast and then get back to the town! * Kyler points to the torches, but is still eyeing the apparently unpreserved at all fish very very skeptically. * Micah barely nods, listening to every one. [They appear to be frozen to the wall. But that doesn't mean you can't find something to light with them.] Does anyone actually need to eat the fish? Or can we just get going? * Henry unwraps the powerbar and eats it. Yeah, let's...just get goin'. Agreed. Sooner done, sooner we go back! Yeah. * Kyler stands up and puts his backpack back on. "So..." [Link makes his way back over to the group and then looks at the left door, and the one straight ahead and shrugs. "Which way do you think would be best?"] * Henry looks at the doors. "Follow the right wall?" Straight likely blocked path. Side path probably have puzzle to key or other helpful item. Whatever, this is your show. * Kyler shrugs. "The specialists have spoken, I guess." * Henry nods at Katsuo. "He's prolly right. Left." Left it is then. * Micah slowly gets up still chewing on that energy bar. * Cassiopeia heads left, hanging a few steps back from the group as she rests her scythe on her shoulder. * Lex pulls out the crossbow again. "Do we need a marching order?" * Henry stands up, dusts the crumbs and snow off of himself, and draws his sword. "People with range in the back?" Isn't Link... never mind * Kyler cracks his neck and remembers to buckle his katana sheath on, reaching under his backpack to do so where necessary. "Sounds good." He takes out his flashlight and moves up to flank Henry. * Micah looks else where, obviously keeping myself from saying something. * Kyler looks over at Link. "But since Link is the hero, he should probably take point. If that's all right?" [Through the left door is another square icy room, there is a closed door to the right. Other than that the room appears empty.] * Henry looks around for pots or switches, or suddenly popping mobs or something. * Katsuo looks for the telltale signs of Zelda adventuring: eyes on the wall, cracks in the wall, grapple points, Triforce symbols, etc. [Link also follows you all in. Once everyone has entered the room, the door behind you closes and 5 swirly black vortexes appear around the room which eventually manifest into what appear to be floating blue robes around a black void with two glowing red eyes.] * Kyler backs up, or backs away at least, trying to keep everyone in view. * Lex points the crossbow at one of them nervously. * Micah frowns at them looking ready to punch something. * Katsuo keeps his pistol out and looks at the attackers. "Wizzrobes!" What the--? Casters, they teleport when you hit'em! The heck are we supposed to fight 'em then? So, we hit them. Great. They teleport after attack, not when hit! * Lex backs up to the closest wall so at least nothing can pop up behind her. * Kyler sighs and duplicates Lex's maneuver. * Kyler also takes a swing at the nearest wizzrobe. [As Kyler's sword gets close to the Wizzrobe it disappears from view and appears on the other side of the room. The sword hits nothing but air in the process.] * Kyler overbalances a bit, and backs up to the wall again. "...whoaaa." [Link suffers the same problem. He rushes towards one of the Wizzrobes and does a leaping strike at it. The sword hits the ice with a load clang! As the Wizzrobe disappears from sight and appears elsewhere in the room.] I'm... gonna try and make 'em easier to hit. * Henry points his sword at one of the remaining Wizzrobes on this side of the room, concentrates, and a black cloud billows up to briefly envelope it, then the cloud fades leaving a slightly slower-moving Wizzrobe behind. [The Wizzrobe that Henry hit slows to a crawl, then he disappears and appears closer to Henry, unleashing a blue ball of spiraling ice that floats quickly towards him.] [Henry's slow, though, seems to be effective. The reflexes on the wizzrobe were just not enough and Henry can easily move out of the way and avoid it.] * Henry ducks to the side. "Yipe!" [The next Wizzrobe to move is the one that Kyler attacked initially. It decides to get its revenge by doing a similar maneuver. It disappears and appears a few feet away from Kyler, blasting at him with a ball of icy energy.] * Kyler dives to the side, barely managing to get out of the range of the icy ball. * Micah runs up to one of the wizzrobes, or whatever the hell they are. "FIRST I get dragged into this godforsaken mission, THEN the damn old man gets the only fucking gun, THEN I'm put into a talk land where no one listens, NEXT I go to a fuck freeze your balls off island" He throws a punch, oblivious that it sounds like a shotgun that just got fired. I don't get much sleep. I don't get shit to eat, and you're the first fucking thing I can punch. The rest of you shits? RUN. [As Micah hits the Wizzrobe it explodes in a puff of smoke.] [The next Wizzrobe disappears and appears in line with Micah. Once again, a icy sphere is sent hurdling towards Micah.] * Micah dives out of the way a bit, flattening himself, and slowly stands up. "You misunderstood run, didn't you? Fucktard." [Next, a Wizzrobe goes for Link. He is the hero, after all. It disappears in a swirl of black and appears at point-blank range, launching an icy sphere as it does.] [Unlike the rest of our heroes, though, Link does not manage to dodge in time. The ball hits him and he gets knocked back a few feet. "Ugn..." And his skin seems to pale for a moment before he shakes the damage off.] * Katsuo raises his hand as a gust of wind raises around him in a brief motion, and he motions, swinging his hand to the side at the area around the two close wizzrobes: the one Link attacked and the one that hasn't acted yet, to burst in a fury of air, ripping at the two creatures. [Both the Wizzrobes disappear in a puff of smoke. as the air rips through them.] * Lex 's brows draw down as she raises her crossbow and fires across the room. [As the arrow strikes at the Wizzrobe it seems to implode on it, disappearing into blackness.] * Cassiopeia charges at the remaining Wizzrobe. "Popping in and out like that won't help you! Today, there'll be no 'port in the storm!" * Micah groans. Heavily. * Cassiopeia grins as the Wizzrobe reels back in pain from the pun, then slashes into it with a big, clumsy, two-handed overhand swing of her scythe. [The scythe slices right through the wizzrobe which promptly disappears in a puff of smoke. Immediately after that a block of ice moves up and aside in the center of the room as a pedestal of ice is raised into view. Upon the pedestal sits a chest.] * Henry eyes Cass. "That was terrib- Hey, we won!" * Cassiopeia beams at Henry. "Thanks!" Couldn't give me another one to pound on? Sorry I kill steal. There'll be more... * Kyler phews, and resheathes his katana after a quick glance around to make sure no more enemies are gonna pop up. "Yeah, I'm not gonna complain about you gettin' 'em out of the way." * Lex relaxes visibly, then after a moment's thought pulls out another bolt and reloads the crossbow. [Link moves towards the chest and fiddles with the lock some.] Need it open? [Link shrugs. "I can usually get it open. But if you want to help, sure!" He steps aside.] No blow up. * Micah moves up to the chest and just punches it hard in the lock. "Not quite a face...hey, shotgun noise. Maybe these aren't so bad." That's one way to get it open. [The lock goes flying off and the chest flips open. Link digs inside and retrieves... a map!] * Micah stares in disbelief at this. "That... that's it?" [From Link's bag a tune familiar to Katsuo and Henry plays. It's the music for when an item is acquired in a Zelda game.] Hey, the map, now we just need the compass and the key. And important item. Wonder what. Compass and key? No, seriously, that's it? It's a piece of paper. WE COULD DRAW IT. And what is this a map of? Map of dungeon. Not if we don't already know what's on it. There, see? Show where we are and what rooms are where. This dungeon, the compass shows where the boss is. [If you look it is a map of the dungeon you are in. There are several floors drawn into it. But it is essentially just unmarked rooms and doors.] It doesn't even have an X mark the spot on it! I've seen Mall Directories more helpful. We've got a comp--oh, a boss compass. [Also both doors open.] * Kyler matches up the rooms on the map to the room they're hopefully in now. Hmmm...So I guess we'd be... It's better than nothing. * Lex looks over Kyler's shoulder. "Definitely. At least we won't get lost." Compass show where treasure is too. * Micah stares in disbelief at all this. [Session End]