Everyone but Rex hears Gak yelling. So, now you all are more or less in the same place again, oddly enough. Except Rex, who has fallen below.
read each other's actions please, so everyone knows what is going on, more or less.
Vlad let's out a rather scared and almost girlish yelp and scream as he tumbles down
"OH WHAT...NO..NOPE...oh gods nope! Someone...please let me up...Can I get some food too please?"
Try to keep freddie from eating me, otherwise, try not to poop self in terror.
Keeping Freddie from eating you auto succeeds, since Dev didn't say to try to eat you. As for not pooping yourself: (6) Well, I'll spare you the gory details, but you certainly don't soil yourself. You transcend into a state of utter detachment. "Oh, a magic net. Falling dragons. The end of the world. hunger. whatever, it's all the same."
FIGHT BACK!
"You bloody tool! You are just a brainless jewell, not even fit to be a slave and even less a peasant! You try to rebel against your master? You make me laugh, tool. You will serve me, as I am stronger than you! Resisting is futile, because this is MY mind! This is MY world, MY kingdom, MY body! I won't follow anyone else but myself, and everyone will follow me! Because I am THE Octopus King. And you? You're nothing. You will bend to my will, useless piece of trash!'"
(1) v (1) your contest ends in a draw, as the ring goes stupidly inert, and you go limp. (2) you fall into the hole in the wall. (1) hooo boy. alright, your unresponsive body bounces off a few outcroppings and some pointy bits as you drop into the depths ... (6) and land with a hard thud, somewhere far below. Everything hurts. Especially your brain.
((those rolls were: you v the ring in mind combat, whether or not your body stayed put afterward, whether or not an inspector noticed what was going on and assisted you, and a constitution roll for the landing.))
(Couldn't Freddie just start flying after he starts falling? Assuming there's enough space?)
Start flying, and go see if I can find the crack everyone else was working on from the other side. After that, spit a little fire down and see if it illuminates anything.
You are in a net, remember? are you gonna just rocket along with the net, and Vladen, in tow? I can do that, if you want. No, Freddie couldn't just start flying instantly when he slipped. bad luck on his part, the floor suddenly giving out below him like that.
"Oh. OI FUCKERS! I'M IN HERE! THERE'S BEAMS AND SHIT, IT'S KINDA LIKE CRAWLING AROUND THE INSIDE OF THE WALLS IN A GIANT'S HOUSE! REMIND ME OF WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING."
Remain chill, try to contact teammates through that big hole Freddy just tore. Avoid any shenanigans my teammates may cause that'd be of a detrimental sort.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that Freddie, Vladen, and Kongor, along with the inspectors, all hear you calling. Rex has other things on his mind, or a lack of things on his mind, as the case may be.
Hmm, aside from Freddie squirming and Rex falling, no one is inclined to cause trouble ... yet.
One of the inspectors shouts down "We're supposed to be going to the center of the world to jumpstart the Heart!"
So this tunnel just...stops? I mean except for Freddie's new hole of course. What about the beam that Vlad and Gak were on?Discuss with the inspectors some more
"The shaft, the shaft we've been descending just stops here at the mist. We thought it went further in, or that there were additional exits down here to other places. But behind the wall" The inspector bangs on the wall for emphasis "It looks like things continue inward and downward. Yes, I think the beams and stuff, even this rubbery tunnel thing, are passages we could exploit, though they are perhaps not meant to be used as passageways." He shrugs, or something like a shrug, given his physiology. "At any rate, we could climb the carts down the inside of the wall now, through this hole, if we can get rid of the remains of the rubber tunnel, which, as you can see, are now blocking our way."
"Oh ... get rid of the rubber tunnel? I got you covered" says the long skinny one. It moves like a whip for a moment, and suddenly what's left of the rubber falls into the wall.
"Idiot, the dragon is under that."
"oops. I hope I didn't hit him, then."
"You down there! did you get hit by a falling rubber tunnel?"