Adventure Thread - Group B

Ok. Nice. Now that the obvious was out of the way, Salena decides to challenge her curiosity with a little experiment.

She closes her eyes tightly, folding her lids over themselves in an almost painful manner. One. Two. Three. Four. Five.

Her eyes open and she scans the room with a new set of eyes. For a short time, her contacts were a tool to seeing beyond sight into the unknown; a sort of psionic, second sight. If anyone used Psychic powers in this room recently, she would know. And if she followed their trail, then maybe she could find her way out!

Activating Psionic Sight and Analysis!

Salena shrugs. Well, now wasn't the time to look at that too closely.

Putting it all together, there were four walls around her. The ceiling isn't an option. Could something be under the floor? She takes a peek under the mat she fell onto. Failing that then, the walls. Aha! The walls! Well, while she was checking out the mat, maybe she could have her Pokémon phase through the wall and search for hidden passages!

She reaches down for her Pokémon idly and calls Ms. Christie out on the scene to search the walls!

Perception to investigate the mat! STMixsxW2d6+1
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"Shoot... Well, thanks girl!" Salena says, returning Ms. Christie to her place of origin.

Ok. So. Four walls on each side, and one trapdoor. Locked. Now, they wouldn't have a lock door if they hadn't intended for her to follow it, so that meant that somewhere, there was probably a key! That and maybe a cleanse tag or two. That meant that the key was either in the walls or... In the mat? Well. The actual floor was a possibility too, but you know, options. She'd save that one for last.

So Salena gently puts her hands onto the wall, except... Well. It could take a while just searching by hand. But, if someone was making a hidden compartment or something like that, there would usually be a seam of some sort. So, it stood to reason that if she found that seam. "...I'd find where they are hiding that key!" She finishes with a smirk.

Well. No drastic methods first. She takes her fingernails and softly pulls them across the back of the wall. If they catch anywhere, that probably meant there was something behind that wall, hiding in some secret cubbyhole! And if it's not there, then it's got to be rolled up in the mat! And if it's not rolled up in the mat, then it's got to be in the floor! Let's get searching!

Perception to find the key in the walls! A_6lOt3z2d6+1

Perception to find the key in the mat itself (Via rolling it, manipulating it, though not mutilating it as of yet.) 2d6+1

Perception to desperately search the floor not covered by the mat! (Oh dear, why haven't I found anything yet!?) 2d6+12d6+1·2d6+1·2d6+1

Tricky Gym. Tricky. Salena grinned just about from ear to ear. "Hah! So that's their game, huh? Well let's just try... This!"

Salena wraps her fingers about the trapdoor itself and pulls upwards! Perhaps under this fake trapdoor... There would be a REAL trapdoor!

Tricksy floor. Hah! Smart! just too smart! Salena taps the handle happily. "You win this time friend." She gives the fake handle a quick twist for good measure anyways. Could be a trick too.

Failing any results from that, she gets up off the floor and considers her options. Ok. So, the floor is a bust and the wall is a bust, and she can't really see that far up into the ceiling to assume anything about up there. So, one of those things is still hiding something. After all of the effort with the floor, the solution probably doesn't have anything to do with that. Then, there was no way she could get that far up in the ceiling; even if there was something hiding there. All that left was the walls.

She frowns. Ok. So, the fingernail idea didn't really work, but she really wasn't paying all that much attention when she was doing it. It wouldn't take too much effort to try again but... Eh. There was probably some kind insanity clause for this. If she kept trying, she'd probably go dangerously mad. Mad I say! Mad. Mad... Mad science!

Salena bursts into a fit of giggles. Of course! Why didn't she think of this sooner? There was no problem that science couldn't solve!

She slams down her chemistry kit down onto the ground and immediately gets to work on melting down her scented candles in the old Bunsen Cauldron. There were two distinct reasons for this. First, is that they made the room smell good. Reason two is that when the candles were soft enough, the wax would be able to take the shape of a surface. This meant that any indentation would be reflected by a ridge in the wax!

So, after pouring the wax into an empty pester ball casing (Which, were already basically just plasticky bags designed to hold potentially caustic chemicals), she presses the bag up against the wall to investigate, occasionally reheating the wax when it grows too firm to investigate with.

Failing that? Well. Maybe she could watch the steam? The properties of a gas dictated that it was going to seek the most impeded way out of the room, but that could just as easily mean the trap door right above her. Still. Maybe it would be a worth a shot, if all else failed...

Technology Edu. to create, and manipulate wax balls in the name of a more scientifically driven method of escape! yBA4Z5rX5d6+3

Perception, because oh no, the wax isn't doing anything this was probably a bad idea, oh no this wax is hot ow. Better watch the steam and see where it goes, ow. 2d6+15d6+3·2d6+1

Salena blinks twice and her science related fantasies all drift away. Geeze. How didn't she notice her bag was missing like that? Sneaky gym. Sneaky.

Ok so. She didn't have her things to test that hypothesis, but she was still reasonably, not insanely, sure that there was probably some kind of secret passage in the wall. There were always passages in the walls. That's just a staple of these kind of things.

So, if that was the only way out, then that was the only way she needed to search! Except, not with her fingernails this time. That kind of hurt a little anyways. This time, she would simply knock, and if it sounded hollow, than she knew that was the door with the secret passage, which meant she had to explore it further. Easy, right? Easy!

Perception, to knock on the walls and spot the difference between the four! otdW7p7V2d6+12d6+1

Yes! Definitely home free! Salena charges forward with reckless abandon to open said door with her mat key. It doesn't matter whether it fits in the lock or not, it just needs to open!

"Trick hooooouse!" Salena cries in exasperation. "I'll show you!"

...

After another minute of these shenanigans, Salena is laid out on the floor having done her cardio for the day. "Ok... So... Huff. Oh geeze. This room... Huff."

Her hands reach down to her pockets and retrieves a Pokéball. Mr. Brown immediately fills up the hallway, observing all with an even, scrupulous gaze. Arms. To think he has arms now, what fun! Oh wait, trainer trying to say something. "-go... Oh dear... Could you ah... Open the ah... Door Mr. Brown? Nnnngh..."

Mr. Brown stares at the door.. Then at Salena. Then back at the door. It wasn't his place to ask why Salena just didn't get up and walk over there herself, he thought, but it's still very lazy. But, being a nice pumpkin, he levitates placidly over to the door (If he is able), and attempts to finesse his noodle arms around the doorknob.

Salena finishes staring into Mr. Brown's eyes long enough to register this newfound fact with a great deal of confusion. "The door... Is a fake? No way..." After a quick dust-off, she rises, returns Mr. Brown, and has another thinking session.

Ok. So, this is what information has been gathered so far. She can't reach the door by walking. But, something that's not walking on the floor can reach the door. Which, was fake. So, maybe it wasn't worth going over there anyways? Maybe. For now, she goes off the assumption that Mr. Brown and her aren't insane. So. Options? Well for starters, the mystery of the floor. She gets into door way and begins to crawl. Maybe there was something that she couldn't notice when she was standing up. She needed to take a look at this from the ground level!

Rolling Perception to examine the floor in great detail! x|ryM2io2d6+12d6+1