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[Gamerlord]

Haha! The sky is not God. Thats cute though.

((We seem to be using sky and weather puns for everything else, tho ))

Huh? Oh, cool. Can you open it?

"Oh, nope! It's locked, and it's hard as Hell hailstones to get open!"

Derry walked over to Beth, pulling his gloves back on.
Tried smashing it open yet?

[Parsely]

Haha! The sky is not God. Thats cute though.

((We seem to be using sky and weather puns for everything else, tho ))

Yus. Cloud puns are the best.

Ha! I bet you guys can't figure out how to open it. Its actually pretty dumb.

[Dwarmin]

"I don't think I could break into it even if I dropped a building on it." She comments to Derry, giving him a side glance and the smallest of smiles-as one is when pleasantly surprised.

"And, we don't want to risk damaging whatever is inside...I wonder if it's like a puzzle box, that you can open without a key?" She said, poking and prodding the surface, looking for little sliders and such to manipulate. Her father had made a few of these things for her, usually so he could get a moments rest from his overeager daughters questions.

Action: See if the box can be manipulated somehow.

[Gamerlord]

Maybe one of the slimes had a key inside?

[Dwarmin]

She shrugged.

"If there was a key, I didn't find it. I don't suppose we can crack open Blooper and see if he has it in him...or maybe it was in the one that got away..."

[Parsely]

Bethany
Well, there's the latch, which you never actually tried moving. You just sort of assumed it was locked, which would make sense, given how expensive it is. You pull on the latch, and, just as you thought, its stuck in place, but it does move a little bit, which is odd for a lockbox. You run your hands over the sides and top again. Whats this? There's a small button on one side of the box. You try pushing it, but its stuck. You find a second button on the opposite side, and that one refuses to move as well. You scratch your head, and Derry tries pressing the switches again, this time with a rock.

[Gamerlord]

Maybe press the at the same time?

((Please hold off on ic replies for a while, need to go down to the police station.))

[Dwarmin]

Bethany began turning it about, her mind steadily working away at it.

She never thought of herself a very smart person...but, she was extraordinarily persistent...

Action: Try to manipulate the latch and both buttons at one time.

If that doesn't work, manipulate the latch, then try one button, then the other.

Assuming that doesn't open it, try either of the latches and/or the button/buttons in a two pair combination simultaneously, then if they depress, try the third one out.

Make sure to hold these positions for at least 10 seconds, listening for the distinctive click of a timer lock.

If none of those work, look for more buttons and latches I might have missed.

[Parsely]

Bethany
*shhhhhh-click* You held both buttons and pulled the latch hard and the lock slowly opened. You and Derry share an excited look, then push the lid open together and look inside. There are several objects lying inside the chest, each wrapped in different brightly coloured sheets. You almost tremble with excitement. Real live treasure! You grab the largest lump of cloth, a rich velvet red, and haul it out. Turning it over in your hands and hugging the cloud-like cloth, you find that it has a set of small gold letters woven into it: To Beth.

A chill crawls down your spine. You let it fall to the ground, and are horrified to see that Derry has done the same, finding a blue package inside with his name on it. You rifle through the chest, your heart pounding. Kyle, Alex, Jack, even Wells has one! The nicknames that your friends have, the ones that only the six of you have shared with one another, not even your parents, are written on gifts that you found in a treasure chest in the middle of the forest. You suddenly feel like crying, when the others arrive at the same time. They all pipe up, curious and jealous about your find, and then you show them whats inside the chest. They all grow pale. Eventually everyone gets up the courage to take their gift, as curiosity slowly overwhelms your fear. Still, you're all reluctant to see what lies beneath the cloth.

[Dwarmin]

Beth cocked one eye so wide it looked like it was about to pop out.

She didn't know what sort of...magic...this was...

Magic. Like a cold draft seeping under a door frame, the word came in, and sneaked up her spine-memories of a long childhood raised on fantastic stories coming up unbidden, stories she had always once believed, but had not the doubts already begun? In her heart (her as of yet untamed heart) she had always wanted to believe them...that the kind spirits saved people in trouble...that everyone fell in true love, and lived happily ever after...that the good guys always beat the bad guys.

But, until she saw her nickname on that simple piece of cloth, she could never have been sure of those things. Seeing and believing...and since there was no explanation...

Well, it turns out when you couldn't explain something, it was then something magical-it was enchanting-it was glamorous. Magic, Enchantment...glammer. It could be bad, or it could be good. It could be real, or a clever illusion. Your hearts desire or a painful lesson.

Beth decided to reveal her present first.

Action: Open!

[Gamerlord]

What the hell...
Watch Beth open hers and then open mine.

[GreatWyrmGold]

"Interesting..."

Open my package.

[mastahcheese]

Take mine, wait for others to open theirs first.

"I don't think I really need to say this, but we should probably be careful with these."

[Dansmithers]

Öffne mein Paket!

[kj1225]

Open the package with the opening away form my everything.