Into the water...
Into the river Rivae dove, ready to end his life. Soon submitting to the water's will, he was drawn beneath the surface, and water filled his lungs. Facing final judgement, he was found mostly free from sin, and for his participation was allowed to start again.
In other words....
Shortly after plunging below the surface and being overtaken by death, Rivae awoken spluttering nothing but air in a dimly lit room, a masked GM looming over his tiny frame.
"Well, thanks for participating, I guess. Unfortunately, you didn't last long enough to earn anything, but the $300 dollars for initial testing has been depositing into your account."
Before he can say a word, he was rushed right out the door, the smog filling the skies reminding him: he was poor.
Oh, is this your food? I'm sorry! I was just so hungry...
Try to stop eating. Slap myself with my glove if I have to.
"Tchyeah! We was about 'ter have a party, 'till ye' started stuff in' yer face! Dun' ye' know today's five-hundred 'n thirty-seventh anniversary of th' day th' fifth Archmage stopped th' Sun in the sky? We 'aven't 'ad t' worry 'bout Bogeymen in ages... The only downside is tha' th' day never ends!"Libitina smacks herself with the glove, to no effect - seems it doesn't affect the user. She does manage to stop eating, however, now that she's had her fill - she was, indeed, rather hungry.
((Have you sent Kevak any PMs?))
Run back out and steal Nivae's backpack before he does anything.
Jonathan, alas, is too late. As he rushes out the door he sees Rivae sink below the surface, his backpack lost along with his body - from behind Jonathan comes a mechanical grinding and the sounds of laughter. Copious amounts of it, in fact.
Try greeting the dwarf "Ahh greetings there sorry for interrupting."
Jin catches the tail end of the dwarf's spiel, before apologizin' for interrupting him.
"Apologize t' th' rest! They was th' ones expectin' a feast! They should be here soon!"Ask the dwarf if he knows of somewhere I can cook this mush
Flabort, through the magic of metagaming, immediately senses and tracks down the dwarf, hearing a grinding from behind his person shortly after rushing into the corridor. Finding himself in the presence of Jason, Jin, and Libitina... He asks where to cook the potato mush.
"I coulda cooked it, but I be done with the cookin' now! Just store it somewhere for now! Where did lot you come from, anyways?"((Poor slime. Better safe than sorry, though.))
To the left path!
Jason heads to the left with Jin, encountering Libitina and the dwarf. Finding nothing further to say after their brief conversation, he waits around until Flabort shoves past him to ask about some much he found or something.
Advance plot.
((Seriously,I don't even know what to do right now.))
Heinrich eventually wanders back into the main room, and waits for a bit, watching Flabort run down the corridor the others followed. Shortly after Flabort enters the corridor, Heinrich is greeted by a horrible noise, and notices the statues slowly moving out of the way, with a light emanating from the stairs behind them and slowly drawing nearer. Out comes a procession of dwarves, laughing boisterously at some joke Heinrich failed to hear.
"Hail, tall one! Here for the feast?"There. That should take care of that pesky four day time-limit I foolishly imposed earlier.