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Travis heads into Citadel 1 and examines the entrance to the walkway.

[piecewise]

Go in and shine the lantern around.

Travis heads into Citadel 1 and examines the entrance to the walkway.

Travis waits while Simus hops down and then the pair step back into Citadel 1 and look around. The room the walkway connects into is different from the rest, it's smoothed and molded to fit with the walkway and lacks any alcoves. It almost looks like a funnel.

"Hm... the sand level in here might rise and fall. Best be careful in case it starts rising again.

On the other hand, that would imply a lot of the structure might only be accessible when the sand is at a given level. I wonder what the rooms would be for in that case?"

Continue on, exploring as we go.

You continue down. One rotation. Two rotations, three rotations; the sound of rushing sand is getting ever closer. Finally, you stop. The ramp ahead of you is buried in the sand, but is noticeably, if slowly, being uncovered as the sand flows away. Somewhere near by you can hear something strange, a sort of thumping noise, like a piece of debris being banged and scrapped against something by the flow of the sand.

Run up the ramps, look into each room for something shiny.

You begin running up the ramp you're on, looking in each room. It's tiring work and you're not sure how far you get up in the tower before you're out of breath, but you don't find anything.

Follow the group, continue checking the rooms on our way down.

Check the sand level in my containers, dump the excess, if needed.

...Hmmm...

You check your sand containers. There is a bit more but thats not the thing that strikes you. The sand is all clustered against one side of the jar, as though it was cowering back or under the influence of a sidelong gravity. You turn the container and it it shifts to keep it's position. It seems to be cowering away from the last place you heard the worm, from the current source of the strange tones that are still ringing quietly through the citadel.

[IronyOwl]

Begin carefully testing the stability of the sand, starting with places that I know have ramp beneath them and then moving on to what might be freefall. Get someone to tie a rope around me if we have one, and make sure Charro films the process.

[Caellath]

"If this thing is going down now, we'll have problems with it rising back again soon enough."

Use the remaining rope to tie Faith.

[Nikitian]

The sand in the containers seems to be sort of anti-gravitated from the source of the tones by the way. Another tune-staff in vicinity, I guess.

... I don't think we want to risk having to rescue too many people in case the sand drops down too suddenly, do we?
Unless we do (in which case follow the group further down), lean against the nearest wall and wait.

[PyroDesu]

We've gotten into a room in Tower 1, looks almost like a funnel from this side. Anything on ya'lls end that shows anything like that?

[IronyOwl]

"Be careful with that. I'm starting to suspect the brother might have been pushed by sand coming out of there."

[Yoink]

'I don't think "fallee" is a word,' Charro was deep in thought as he followed along, filming whatever was ahead. 'Isn't it faller?'
He came to a halt along with the others, peering through the viewfinder at what was going on.
"Well, that's certainly odd!" he said of the receding sand, "How... How long do you think it's been there? The sand? Does it do this regularly or something?"

>Follow along.

>Film.

[piecewise]

Begin carefully testing the stability of the sand, starting with places that I know have ramp beneath them and then moving on to what might be freefall. Get someone to tie a rope around me if we have one, and make sure Charro films the process.

You wait till milno has tied a rope around you and then start easing out into the sand. Despite the very fine texture of the sand it holds up to your weight surprisingly well, not letting you sink. However, there is a definite current in the sand and it seems like it would be very hard to stand on it without being swept off toward where ever it's going. Even on the areas just around the ramp it's like standing on marbles that are on a slope.

You think you could probably keep your balance for a little bit, but it would be best to know where you were going.

"If this thing is going down now, we'll have problems with it rising back again soon enough."

Use the remaining rope to tie Faith.

You tie the rope to Faith and hold on to it as she steps out into the sand. You wonder, vaguely, if she realizes she's putting her life in the hands of someone she's had a habit of insulting.


Maybe you don't need to hold the rope so tightly.

The sand in the containers seems to be sort of anti-gravitated from the source of the tones by the way. Another tune-staff in vicinity, I guess.

... I don't think we want to risk having to rescue too many people in case the sand drops down too suddenly, do we?
Unless we do (in which case follow the group further down), lean against the nearest wall and wait.

You lean against a wall and rest, your legs acting up. They were feeling better this morning but all this goddamn walking up and down ramps isn't helping things.

'I don't think "fallee" is a word,' Charro was deep in thought as he followed along, filming whatever was ahead. 'Isn't it faller?'
He came to a halt along with the others, peering through the viewfinder at what was going on.
"Well, that's certainly odd!" he said of the receding sand, "How... How long do you think it's been there? The sand? Does it do this regularly or something?"

>Follow along.

>Film.

You keep the camera trained on Faith as she edges her way out onto the sand and then back onto the ramp. This is award winning filmmaking right here; suspense worthy of the masters.

[PyroDesu]

Travis, this place seems empty. Let's see what's down the other way.

[IronyOwl]

"Pretty sure his corpse is in here. I'll try to grab it, but I might need someone stronger to go in if I can't."

Try to get to whatever "debris" is making that noise.

[piecewise]

"Pretty sure his corpse is in here. I'll try to grab it, but I might need someone stronger to go in if I can't."

Try to get to whatever "debris" is making that noise.

You close your eyes and listen for a long moment, trying your best to pinpoint where the sound is coming from, and then take a deep breath and head out in that direction.

[dex:3+1]
You struggle your way across the sand, feeling the current with every step and having to hop from foot to foot and run against the flow to stay on your path. Finally you come across the source of the noise; it's what looks like a bundle of cloth and leather rolling and bouncing languidly against what looks like the wall of another building, a concentric building inside the first. As you get closer and steady yourself against the wall you can see that the bundle of cloth and leather is a desiccated corpse wrapped in heavy clothing and wearing a backpack.

[Caellath]

Milno turned towards Nikitian and Chin, both the cripples of the turn.
"Wouldn't it be better if you waited a little more away from the sand and maybe inside that walkway? Just in case, so I don't have to tie a bundle of people to my back and then try to escape a wave of sand."

"Talking of which, I'm staying near that walkway just in case the sand decides to flush Worst and we end up with almost no reaction time."

Check how much more slack the rope has so the group may move closer to the room that leads to a walkway while still allowing Faith to explore.

Edit: Drag Gorat along.

[Nikitian]

Affirmative. We'll wait up in the walkway.
...Good luck.
Take Gorat and help him get back to the walkway. Sit down there and have a light nap.
Oh, and by the way, Faith, mind if you give us the video feed so that we could also see whatever is there without the need to see it in person?
If she agrees, try establishing a link to her suit's camera.

[Knight Otu]

"Sure, let's hobble up. A bit further perhaps, there may be something I want to test."

Hobble upwards.