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You Wanna Get It For Free - Nate - 02-04-2020
Torchline really was a treasure. Warm, sunny, right on the ocean, it was like a dream. Really, it was too bad he couldn’t actually enjoy the best parts of it. Not that he hadn’t enjoyed his time there. On the contrary, getting to explore through the new area had been a joy, a vacation from undercurrent of drama in his life lately. Though, he had taken some of that drama with him.
Nate had asked his drama to accompany him on a little exploration. He’d heard about some smugglers caves, winding underground, and thought it would make a good place to spend the daylight hours. Not alone though. That was just a recipe for disaster.
He waited in the mouth of one of the caves, avoiding the bright sun and picking at the walls. Dreams of what they might find in the caves swirled in his head, pirate treasure and magic items and whatever else people smuggled around in the fantasy land he’d ended up in.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Sunjata - 02-04-2020
To go to Torchline with him, all anyone really has to do is ask. He’d look for any excuse to go there, any reason to leave the mud and memories behind of the Grounds in favor for the sunlight and salty sea spray of the ocean. So it’s no surprise that he’d be completely prepared to go with Nate here, to investigate some of the smuggling tunnels, some kind of adventure for the two of them.
He finds Nate in the mouth of one of the caves, and he slips in with his avian form, landing on Nate’s shoulder with a croaky hello – accented to fit his own accent, but definitely far more birdlike. If they’re exploring smuggling caves wanting to fit in, should at least look the part in the end, yeah? Luckily for Nate it doesn’t last long, pecking at a stray lock of dark hair before Sunjata hops off the Ascended’s shoulder to shift into himself, turning his attention to the man beside him.
“[say]Did you wait long?[/say]” A cheeky smirk at that.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Nate - 02-04-2020
The bird that swoops in is honestly a little bit of a surprise, but it takes only a second for Nate to realize it’s not just any bird. A second is long enough for the bird, Sunjata, to land on his shoulder. Nate is a little wary of the talons on bare skin, but it’s not like he could feel it if something happened, so instead of worrying, he just grins up at the other. [say]”Polly want a cracker?”[/say] He laughed, reaching up to rescue his hair from the beak, and maybe sneak his fingers through the feathers before they were gone, the attuned back in his more familiar shape.
[say]”Depends what you consider long.”[/say] Nate answers drily, hands on his hips as he looks back towards the mouth of the cave, sun streaming in. [say]”I’ve been here since sunrise, so...”[/say] But he shrugs and shakes his head. It’s to be expected, running around a beach in the middle of summer.
Turning back to the attuned, Nate lets the easy grin take over his mouth again. [say]”You heard anything about these?”[/say] He tips his head deeper into the cave, stepping deeper into the darkness. Nate thought it was more fun to go into things blind, and didn’t have anything other than his own experiences to guide them through.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Sunjata - 02-04-2020
He doesn’t understand the first comment Nate makes as he hops from the man’s shoulder, but he shrugs it off to shift into himself and offer a playful smirk toward the other man. The comment of being here since sunrise makes sense, and Sunjata offers a quiet nod to that, looking into the deeper parts of the cave system. “[say]Hm, yeah. Sunlight isn’t good for you, right?[/say]” A casual raise of his brow to confirm, but that’s what he’s heard at the very least.
He begins to take a step back toward the inner cave systems, away from the mouth of the cave, following the Ascended to whichever direction the man chooses to go in. “[say]Something about being a smuggling cave..[/say]” He purses his lips briefly. “[say]Remi mentioned it was a big thing here. This is probably how they go about it.[/say]” His head lifts to scan the ceiling of the cave, seeing the tunnels and how it leads to the sea. It’s a nearly perfect system, provided word didn’t get out too much. "[say]You got any info on it?[/say]"
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Nate - 02-04-2020
Nate snorts at the gross understatement that sunlight wasn’t good for him, and claps a hand on Sunjatas shoulder as he moves past him. [say]”Yea, it’s either not good for me, or it can make me explode.”[/say] He laughs, not even glancing back to ensure the other is following.
It seems the attuned has done a little more homework than him, or at least picked up on a little more hearsay. [say]”I’ve heard about the same.”[/say] Nate offers, keeping his eyes on the walls, and the ground ahead. [say]”I’m thinking though, they gotta have some kind of... marking system? To show which paths are good, which are dangerous, shit like that.”[/say] It’s only a theory, but it makes sense.
As they descended deeper into the caves, Nate picks a rock up off the ground and scrapes a mark into the wall. Hopefully, it would be enough to keep them from getting lost.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Sunjata - 02-04-2020
A wry smirk is sent toward Nate as he follows the Ascended deeper into the cave. “[say]I was gonna say explode but I thought I’d be delicate about it.[/say]” A quiet chuckle leaves him at that, before he explains what he’s heard about these tunnels — all in all, not much. But they get a bit deeper into it, Nate’s marking one of the walls, and Sunjata pauses in the middle to survey the walls with a quick but calculated look.
“[say]They might have marked them other ways… A space where the stone is worn a bit more than others?[/say]” He muses, deeming it out on the walls, running a hand over the rocky surface, catching on the jagged pieces of rock. But his attention returns to Nate with a raised brow. “[say]Something specific you’re looking for? Or just browsing the goods?[/say]”
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Random Event - 02-07-2020
It pulses...deep within Nate's core. A compass needle suddenly spinning, equilibrium desperately trying to be reached.
It calls and pulls, pulls and calls...deeper...in the walls...
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Nate - 02-07-2020
Delicate? Nate turned, still moving but backwards now, to give Sunjata a look of disbelief and amusement. [say]”Thought I’d made it pretty clear by now that I’m not a delicate kind of man.”[/say] He purred, grinning wide enough to show off his fangs. The look could only last so long, before Nate’s confidence wore off and he had to turn around again to avoid tripping.
A soft hum leaves him as Nate considers the suggestion that the tunnels might be marked in other ways, his head tipping this way and that. It seems less intentional, if it’s a simple wearing of stone.
[say]”Just brows-“[/say] Nate begins with a clipped laugh, before his scratching on the walls seems to awaken something in his chest. Without thinking too much, he starts to tap the rock he’s holding against the walls, taking slow, quiet steps, and listening for any difference in the noise. [say]”No... there’s something here.”[/say]
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Sunjata - 02-08-2020
A chuckle leaves him toward Nate, looking back at the man to give him some sort of Cheshire smirk in response, until he suggests that there were likely other ways that a path might be considered without outwardly marking them. Only to be distracted when Nate begins to respond, cutting himself off as he begins to tap against the wall as if he’s searching for something.
Sunjata approaches, brows furrowed toward the wall, placing a hand against it to see what might have distracted the man enough to be knocking on the walls. “[say]In the wall?[/say]” He asks quietly, raising a brow to watch the man continue, trying to think of what to get to maybe get into the wall. But nothing quite comes to mind just yet, imagining the claws to be rather ineffective… But there’s likely something around here that might prove useful to breaking into it if Nate finds the spot where it sits. So he searches the surrounding area for a pickaxe or something like it that might be able to break into the wall.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Random Event - 02-09-2020
Indeed, in the walls.
The subtle differences might go unnoticed, but of course Nate's senses are not normal. He'll hear where it is, pinpointing where this discrepancy is behind the wall.
Now it's just a matter of getting to it.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Nate - 02-10-2020
[say]"In the wall."[/say] Nate confirms, sparing a glance towards Sunjata. His eyes are wide, excited in a way the attuned should know well, though the look doesn't linger long, all of Nate's focus dragged back to the wall, to the tapping of his rock against it, to the place where it changes, almost imperceptibly. Or maybe completely imperceptibly, and he's finding it some other way. Whatever
The rock in his fingers scrapes against the walls again, marking out a rough spot, and then Nate is looking around, noticing for the first time that Sunjata is already a step ahead of him. [say]"Look at you go."[/say] He rumbles, mostly to himself, before joining in the search. Though his own criteria are far looser than a pickaxe specifically. [say]"We just need something with a point, to get a hole started."[/say]
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Sunjata - 02-11-2020
The excitement that radiates from Nate – and it causes something deep within him to stir. He swallows hard and returns to his search, understanding that it was in the wall, letting Nate decide where the best place to try and get at it was. Meanwhile, he searches for something, eyes focused on searching for anything with his back toward Nate.
He can hear the rumble from the Ascended and smirks lightly while he lifts the lid to a box, finding something like a hammer of sorts that might have been used to put the nails into crates. And with it, he returns to Nate with a smirk. “[say]Start with this, I’ll see if I can find anything else.[/say]” He hands the hammer to Nate before returning to search for something with a point to make a hole.
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Random Event - 02-12-2020
In Nate's head, the pounding seems to grow more insistent as stone is chiselled away.
Take care now, we wouldn't want to break what's inside would we?
RE: You Wanna Get It For Free - Nate - 02-19-2020
The discovery of the hammer was met with an excited huff from Nate, the aborted result of a sound that would have been much louder if he hadn’t remembered where they were at the last second. [say]”I knew I brought you around for a reason.”[/say] He crooned, snatching the hammer and turning back to the wall.
It was a struggle to not just smash against the rock directly, open the face of it up in the most direct way Nate knew of, but this was a situation that required a little more tact. A moments more searching. The hammer had to be for nails, which meant there had to be nails. At least one. Buried in the muck, in a crack in the ground, but not so deep that he couldn’t pry it out. Rusted, but not so much that it was unusable.
Nate was practically vibrating as he returned to his spot on the wall, nail and hammer in hand. It was weak, it was rudimentary, but it should get him at least a little bit into the wall, carefully enough that he wouldn’t damage whatever called to him.