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Post by Dota on Apr 5, 2007 21:24:22 GMT -5
As Trunks approached the wall, the text became readable...it even seemed to be in their common, shared tongue. The words were arranged in a list. It read as follows: Gold Silver Fire Water Wood Metal Earth ------------------------------- The torch Blu inspected had nothing spectacular to it. It was a simple torch that only differed from the others by the engraving (it was a moon...the others were not). Nothing special was on the wall, from ceiling to floor. There were some dry materials in the torch that could be easily lit. His pull on the torch resulted in nothing. The torch did not so much as shift.
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Post by Ayame on Apr 5, 2007 21:33:06 GMT -5
"Well? You guys find anything useful?"
She waited at the doorway where Trunks had left her and continued to inspect the room. The ceiling was about as 25-30 feet high and was a mirror. It reflected the room below it, though from where it sat, the reflection wasn't its clearest.
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Post by Trunks on Apr 5, 2007 22:01:14 GMT -5
"Well? You guys find anything useful?"
"Yeah... " Trunks thought back to his tranings with Inu in hell. Many of the pagan teachings that he learned involved the solar system and the elements of each of the planets.
"Blu light the moon, the one your standing next to, and we'll light them in this order: 5 o'clock being the moon that you're at 10 o'clock 4 o'clock 8 o'clock 7 o'clock 2 o'clock"
Trunks grabbed a stick, lit it in the sun, or 12 o'clock torch, and tossed it to Blu
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Post by Dota on Apr 5, 2007 22:20:52 GMT -5
As Trunks picked up the stick, the door shuddered, then began to plummet to the ground. Ayame, unfortunately, was standing beneath the door where she had been told to wait.
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Post by Sakabatou on Apr 5, 2007 22:28:08 GMT -5
Blu had learned some astrology in his travels, and one thing about Trunks' order seemed off to him. "Wait, Trunks. I think it's--"
He was cut off when he heard a rumbling as Trunks lifted one of the sticks. He identified it immediately as coming from the door, which Ayame was standing directly beneath. With her wounds, he knew she would not be able to move quickly enough on her own.
Without a word, Blu dove. He was close enough to tackle her, clearing the door back into the main room. Trunks' thrown torch clattered to the ground, as Blu wasn't there any more, and the door crashed into the floor, tightly sealed, Trunks inside the sun room, and Blu and Ayame without.
Blu pounded on the stone door, but to no avail. "Trunks, you have the wrong order! Switch the last two! 2 o' clock then 7 o' clock!" He could only hope that the door wasn't as soundproof as it felt.
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Post by Trunks on Apr 5, 2007 22:36:57 GMT -5
Trunks slammed on the door trying to yell back to Ayame and Blu.
"Are you guys alright? Can you hear me?" He continued to yell as the stick he tossed finally came to a halt on the ground around his feet. Suddenly, there was a click and the door slid back open.
Blu and Trunks were face to face at this point. Trunks backed up.
"Hey"
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Post by Ayame on Apr 5, 2007 22:45:34 GMT -5
Ayame was aware of the door shuddering above her, but could not react fast enough. Luckily Blu dove to knock her out of the way. There was the slam as the stone hit the floor, but she had been knocked out of its way.
She stood back up as the door finished opening, dusting herself off. She walked back to Trunks and Blu and the entrance.
"I guess I have a debt building to you for all the times you've pulled me out of harm's way so far." She offered this as thanks to Blu.
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Post by Sakabatou on Apr 5, 2007 23:14:45 GMT -5
"Yo."
Blu peered past Trunks to the stick he had thrown. The impact had extinguished its flame, thankfully. He didn't want the stick to burn to ash and have the door shut permanently.
"I guess I have a debt building to you for all the times you've pulled me out of harm's way so far."
Blu put his hand behind his head, a little sheepishly. Gods, this girl was even making him feel a little shy. It had been a long time since that had last happened. "It was nothing, really. I just tend to get a little queasy when I see people get crushed to pulp by booby trapped stone doors."
"Now, as I was saying Trunks, I think you had the last two reversed. I've seen these symbols in some astrology-based cultures."
Blu scratched the dried-up "light" kanji from the hilt of his lashknife, and picked the new scab from his finger, writing and activating a small kanji for "flame." He moved to the moon torch to the right of the door.
"Sol, representing gold, is already lit. This is Luna, silver. At 10 o'clock is Mar, fire. 4 o'clock is Mercurus, water. 8 is wood, Jupita, followed by metal, Venu, at 2. The final is Satrun at 7 o'clock." As he spoke each of these, he lit the torch in question.
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Post by Dota on Apr 5, 2007 23:24:38 GMT -5
Blu was correct in his order. As he lit the torch with the moon, a blue line began to glow on the floor, connecting the sun torch and the moon. As he lit each in turn, a blue line connected them. When he was finished, a final blue line ran from the satrun to the sol, completing a heptagram. In the center of this shape formed a pentagon. The pentagon flashed blue, the the floor faded away in that shape only. Below, seated in a small compartment was an orange-ish orb with a sun symbol swirling in its depths.
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Post by Trunks on Apr 5, 2007 23:30:42 GMT -5
Trunks just looked at the orange orb in the middle of th room. He's done enough damage today. Why cause any more.
"Blu go for it. You figured it out."
Instead Trunks prepared himself to grab both of them and run if needed.
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