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[ he takes note of that, but doesn't dive deeper. not right now when they're preoccupied. ]

Kinda waiting to hear talking where there's nobody, at this point, but I still got a lotta ground to cover.

[killies]

Oh, uh... There... might be a place like that.

[concoctive]

... been that way, huh?

Never a great sign.

[killies]

I hate not being able to find what's making all that noise.

[concoctive]

The grey-haired guy, Caelus, we tried moving the coffins around to see if there was anything in them or under. Mentioned something about... speakers?

I dunno, we don't have that kind of stuff in Orsterra.

[killies]

I thought about that too. Like maybe there was a pressure or light sensor so it knew when to stop when you go looking for the source.

[ she pauses like. should she explain speakers. no caelus brought them up so he probably explained. then she thinks about her conversations with caelus and is like. would he explain?

it's like an awkwardly long pause while she thinks about this. anyway. ]

It was worth checking, anyway.

[concoctive]

[ alfyn did not ask and just rolled with it so he still has no idea what the hell speakers are. it's fine. he'll learn what it is if he needs to, is his philosophy so far about some of the stuff that people have mentioned.

vibes through the pause, carefully leading the way across the floor. ]

That was kinda what I was thinking - the sensor thing. We do have those. Usually they're for boobytraps, though, not... for shits 'n giggles?

[killies]

We might be lucky there aren't traps all over this place, now that you mention it.

[ toeing at the ground........ ]

Unless you count falling through the floor.

[concoctive]

I'd kinda count it? Though I dunno if it was intentional or it's just not someone's priority to keep stuff nice. Friend of mine, he got dropped down into a pit on purpose when we weren't with him.

He got rescued, at least, but... uh, she had rope to drop down to him. Don't think any of us have that? Unless we tied our cult robes together into a rope.

[killies]

Better than nothing... [ the tying robes idea. ]

Wait, dropped into a pit on purpose? [ explain. ]

[concoctive]

Not his on purpose, at least. See, the Professor likes to talk. And not, like, to talk over you? He just enjoys teaching, and talking at length about stuff. So he's kinda easy to trick or distract.

So this guy we were trying to stop from doing shady stuff kinda just. Opened a trapdoor under him and dropped his ass into a pit that one of his students had to get him out of. But he was just gonna stay down there for however long, apparently?

[killies]

[ woah!! that guy sounds annoying!!! is what she thinks but decides not to say. ]

Huh... [ well okay! ] Did you stop the shady guy?

[concoctive]

[ SHE WOULD BE RIGHT!!!

alfyn: i love this guy, he's great
also alfyn: oh my god please shut up professor ]

Yeah, we tracked him down after.

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[ ... ]

He kinda blew up after we fought him, though. Absorbed a lot of dark, arcane magic way above my paygrade to understand.

[killies]

He...

[ well. alfyn just said he doesn't understand how it works so there's no point in asking. ]

Is that a good ending or a bad one?

[concoctive]

Good ending. He was evil and kind of a rat bastard of a person, to boot. So.

Not really a huge loss? [ pokes at a floorboard with the end of his axe as he says this. ] Moral of the story is, don't fall into pits you can't get out of by being distracted by some dude monologuing.

[killies]

[ very seriously ]

I'll try to avoid it.

[concoctive]

[ euqally as seeriously, although he's trying (and failing) to keep his expression serious: ]

Good, dunno how many robes it'd take to pull anybody out of a pit.

[killies]

[ a lil nod... falling's dangerous... ]

So do you always hunt down bad guys like that?