Adventuring Party 3-To Defeat a Mad Goddess

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"Uh..not exactly.." Aqua tried to tell iris how she knew about the earth before they were all interrupted by the crazy fanatic. " Ill try not to iris." she laughed a bit before frowning slightly at something bothering her.

"Its ok Kail." she said looking to him with eyes of sympathy while placing a hand on his back. "You did what you thought was best, it wasn't a bad plan in theory." she said trying to be supportive to kail while pulling her lance out once more obeying his order to keep them out.

She was surprised that crazy man had enough strength to hold the hold group most of down, she took a mental note and continued to walk until they found the castle door. "Ok, well this is a bit strange... a place meant to be an impenetrable fortress and the door is just wide open pretty much letting us in. I don't really see any signs of a booby trap too." Aqua said while examining the door for runes or other things to indicate tampering.
 
"Arthas can you see anything?" she asked wondering if he had some form of visual magic since his eyes are able to change color and he did some sort of analysis on her and Kaguya when she arrived to the arch. After the group could ascertain that the entrance was fine aqua would walk behind the group closely in case she needed to grab someone for safety again.

Once they arrived inside the castle and Aqua saw the wall she was puzzled at the discolored wall. as the decision was being made on which way to go, aqua floated over using her wings that were still out to see the wall and flew back quickly in horror. the moment she distinguished what the wall was made of. "Are those...body parts..?" she said while covering her mouth in horror.  "This is..horrible..all these lives..wasted..." wondering about the families and lovers these people had.

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Arthas had bee prepared to endure the magics that the being was casting but as he stopped and the doors opened his eyes switched over to his aura visual filter rune. Scanning the doorway as Aqua suggested and shaking his head, "I can't detect anything." He entered with the others and was pretty sure what the wall was adorned with but left investigating it to Aqua. He looked at the doors with his still glowing eyes and found there was magical enchantments of some sort on them due to the different manna signature compared to the rest of the room. "I don't know what it is but there is an enchantment on both sets of doors. I would suggest moving with a mixture of care and haste. So which way do we want to go, I vote left."

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Kail, it's fine. Happens to the best of us. She moved to walk past him, patting his shoulder as she passed. She stopped when the entrance was before them, not an enemy in sight.

Iris narrowed her eyes.

When Arthas confirmed he detected nothing, she tilted her head off to the side narrowing her eyes a bit further. She know's we're here, that's for sure. And probably any other team headed her way. She wants us inside. She sighed. No matter what they were going in, even if that's exactly what the winged bitch wanted.

Left works for me too.

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The heads shown on the wall would suddenly open their eyes, “Company? Oh Company we have?” The mouths on the head would ask and answer in unison creating an eerie harmony that fills the room.

Ah the living have arrived,

The living arrived?

Yes the living arrived!

Bravery or Stupidity?

Followers of the gods or the dragon?”

The wall seemed to be talking among each other as the limbs and heads seem to twist and turn making the wall seem almost like a living being.

“Three to one,

Two and two,

What should to be done,

What needs to be done.”

Suddenly all the heads seem to turn towards the adventurers “Ignorant fools who come, why have you come, The Morgg is no place for the living!”

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Kail did feel a bit better as at least most of his team did say he did give it his best shot. As well as going to do better when dealing with this kind of thing. When they walked deeper into the castle, he would see the many bodies fused into the wall. It unerved him a bit, but seeing the many undead and zombies. The blond was not too phased by it at all. That was until the many bodies began to speak and now it really unsettled him. But had to push that down as this was a good oppertunity to get information. "It maybe true that we the living should not be here. But we are here to stop Helena from snuffing out all life. And making a enternal silence to this world, by unleashing this dragon. But tell us what she is doing exactly with unleashing this dragon. You can answer if you like since, either some of you want to help us, or just saying about it as its futile to stop her. Either way you all don't really lose on this" he said to the collective spirits and dead that were in the wall. The blond knew that they had to stop Helena from getting this dragon awakened. But information and knowlage could help them in the long run. Since it could give them a clue to stop all of this. Again it was a gamble but it was one that would not cost them that much. Except maybe a bit of time.

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Iris rushed over to Aqua, pulling her away from the walls and back towards the group. Don't get too close. Their heads can move, whats to say they don't still have arms? She sighed, holding back a shiver of disgust for what she was seeing. Kail, of course, took the chance to either taunt them or ask questions, she really couldn't tell the difference there.

Aqua was shaking slightly in her arms, no doubt scarred by the sight in front of her. Her face was white, mouth still slightly open as she stared out in front of her. Iris sighed, rubbing a hand along her arm. Adrain would not be pleased with her if she returned back to the Arch with Aqua just a shell of a person. Dead wall people/things, if you would like to help, speak up. But just so you're aware, if Helena succeeds, the world is all but over. And that probably includes this homey little castle you have here. She shrugged.

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Arthas put a hand on Aqua's shoulder to remind her to not let her emotions get the better of her in a situation like this but didn't say anything. Kail said something to the wall and he couldn't help but speak up, "Talking to the dead is pointless, either they lie or leave out important pieces of information. At least from my personal experience. I just feel like this is wasting time that we could be using to get closer to our goal."

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The walls laughed as they saw the blonde pull the girl away and the small interactions that happened afterwards. The heads would look at Kali.

“Eternal Silence?”
“No such thing”

“Tell me boy to what lengths would you go to win a war?”
“How much will you change?”

“A unworldly existence they are”
“A unworldly power they possessed”


“Foolish boy, she wishes for the fallen to return to their rightful place, For the dopplegangers to vanish. For only a sea of truth, not an ocean of lies.”

After answering him their eyes turned towards the satyr

“A living picture, an unattended castle fills the void”
“Surviving the passage of time, a timely end and a untimely beginning”
“Power fills every entrance, yet it's never the same”
“To help there must be information, yet for information there must be help”
“To obtain both you must solve our riddles, only then will the cycle end.”

After speaking to both of them the walls seemed to go silent, the eyes closed, the moving stopped. As an eerie silence filled the area

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Kail just rolls his eyes and it seemed the group was slightly right in this case. As the many souls that were there, were just messing with them and there riddles. Anyway he was not in the mood for this "Well I tried to get info on all of this. I don't have the time for this shit, lets take that door over there" as he pointed to the far left of the room. And it also seemed that Iris had the same thought as he did on trying to get the info. But at this point, Kail wanted to get this over as he kind of agreed with Arthas that something was stalling them. And things he felt were getting rather worse so Kail wanted to move on and went to the door to the far left side of the room and was going to open it. "I'm seriously have a bad feeling" he said was about to turn the nob on the door.

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After Iris brought her in close she closed her eyes as memories flashed in her head. She stood there confused, seeing things she didn't understand or fully remember. She put her hands over her head and left iris's grasp kneeling to the floor, she was having a horrible flashback. "It hurts.." she whispered..

It wasn't until Arthas placed a hand on Aqua's shoulder that she came back to and realized where she was. She looked at her group and apologized. "Sorry. I lost myself there for a moment.." she said looking to iris with apologetic eyes cause she was only trying to help. what were the thing she saw there? Well at the moment she was not going to get any answers so she decided to focus on the path ahead of her.

She listened to the wall speak it's confusing riddle and wrote it down using her light manipulation ability in the air to create a hologram of text using her light manipulation. "What could it mean.." she said to herself while observing the text, reading it over and over...she became lost in thought as the other members of the group seemed to decide that they were going to head to left. she followed closely behind them while the light text followed her as she stared at it. 

However once the group went through the door together she ended the light manipulation and gripped her lance most likely expecting a confrontation of some sorts.

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Iris rolled her eyes at Arthas. Whether he was right or not, trying couldn't hurt them. After all, these were souls dammed here, they may not all worship Helena yet. As the heads started their riddles, she felt a pit form in her stomach. One that grew when their eyes turned to her, and their riddles shifted. She felt targeted. Like they were aimed at her for some reason.

But that couldn't be... She wasn't even from this world. Why would some godly riddle to save Nova have anything to do with her? Lets just keep going.

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All he really wanted to do was avoid dealing with the dead if he could but if the others wanted to play mind games with them then so be it he would just hang back and avoid the situation if he could. Looking at Iris as she seemed to be unsettled by the words spoken, he wondered if the dead were reading her like they had with so many others who conversed with them. In his opinion she didn't seem to be the kind of person who would be easily shaken. "I'll be over here if you need me since I have no interest in dealing with the wall's prisoners." He made a note to keep an eye on Iris and Aqua for now as both were having adverse reactions to the wall so far.

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Once they went through the left door then they would walk into a long hallway which seems to fork to the right in two places, the first fork would be at the middle, and the second at the end. They would notice three doors, two on the left and 1 in front of them. They would hear noise and armor rattling as four guards seem to pace left and right.

The walls would be poorly tended to, having either cracks or bloodstains on them, the middle wall would be another corpse wall though though besides from jeers and grunts made at the guards it was unknown if they could actually say a coherent sentence.

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She studied the puzzle further, she figured that there is a piece of info still missing from this riddle and that maybe this wall could possibly tell them what to do. After aqua quickly dispelled the light manipulation she moved over to the closest area she could hide behind. She began to hum, she prepared thin slices of water at high pressure to try and cut through the armor. She stood prepared to fire the slices if someone were to tell her to.

Once the group decided to launch their assault she began to sing loudly so that she could fire the 5 slices of highly pressurized water. She aimed for one of the guards, trying to take out his head, chest, legs, and both arms. If she missed then she would continue to sing and bring the water back towards her and formed a defensive bubble around her.

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The runes on Arthas' sword began to glow as he fed them manna and flourished it once as a feeling he hadn't had in a very long time started to resurface. His heart starting to beat faster as the thrill of the unknown and battle started to feed adrenaline into his body getting him amped up for this quest to stop a mad god from releasing a even more mad dragon. He didn't make much of an advance just enough to be at the lead of the group, "Guarded path or unguarded path?" he asked the group in a slightly hushed tone as to keep from alerting the guards down the hallway from them.