[Matsu]

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[attr="class","likedotitle2"]GETTING TO THE "ROOT" OF THE PROBLEM

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Whether you chose to enter the hole or were simply observing it was clear that something wasn't right. Those who entered would feel as if they were being watched, yet the inky darkness obscured their vision and diluted their senses.

The roots extending from the top into the pit formed an intricate network that could be used as footholds or to climb up/down if one so desired. For those who dove in they would find themselves either bracing themselves for impact or crashing into the branches and the feeling of being watched would intensify.

Along with the sound of chittering metal steps. Dozens of them simultaneously.

A sheen in the darkness as webbing shot out at the interlopers, but for anyone unfortunate enough to either get caught by it or get close enough, these were anything but ordinary as they were made of a liquid metal that, when it settled, became as rigid as steel wire. The creatures who created these webbing soon revealed themselves, moving erratically as they would flash in and out of sight.



If that wasn't enough, below, a quiet but steady buzzing could be heard. Whatever that was it was headed from wherever this pit led to where everyone was currently.

[THREAD MODIFIER ACTIVATED: AWARENESS DEBUFF!]

Mod Note: Hi all! Welcome to Pt.2. For this modifier, everyone will receive an awareness debuff of ONE FULL TIER unless you have alternative (Mechanical) sensory abilities. I'll follow up on this post once everyone who wants to post has done so (or an appropriate amount of time)

For new people, welcome! This thread directly continues from the last point in [this thread]

PHARAOH LEAP.

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[Kikurage Shimeiji]

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[attr="class","really"] [attr="class","exhausted"]Arachnophobia Unlocked [attr="class","rhythm"] Having launched herself off of the edge and into the depths of the pit, Kikurage was at least very grateful for the foresight to cushion her entire body in an entire sphere of mushrooms.  Just spinning in free fall, bouncing along edges and walls, Kikurage was starting to feel motion sick and losing track of what was up and down. Only upon finding the spinning and rolling ceasing did Kikurage will the mushroom ball to hatch open.  The redhead poking her head out in curiosity as the darkness was starting to encroach.  Deathcap could barely breathe with her mask over her mouth like this, as she felt quite lightheaded from the suffocating mushroom ball experience.  Pulling down this mask and pulling herself out, she would find herself trampling upon branches. With such darkness around her, it soon became excessively apparent that she couldn't see too far out in front or around her.  Heck, she couldn't see any of the other chumps that either fell or dove into the pit either.  That was the first problem she aimed to fix, and thankfully the wondrous garden of mycoculture having an answer for that.  Grateful to have some knowledge of Bioluminescent Fungi, Kikurage would hold her hands apart and let black spores shoot outward.  Along the branches these spores would land, growing some oversized mushrooms that would start to brighten up her immediate surroundings. Bioluminescent blues and greens would create a low glow, nothing that could fully illuminate the cavernous, buzzing abyss below.  But this light amount of light illuminated something to which she was not expecting. An oversized spider that seemed to refract the glow-in-the-dark mushroom lights.  Skittering and chittering, larger than her own diminutive height. Each with a set of six beady, crimson eyes that looked mercilessly upon her.  Now up to this point Kikurage wouldn't have thought herself to have a phobia.  Maybe a disdain for insects because of their pest like nature, but nothing that encroached onto the fear. But in the perfect circumstances of being in a pit with nowhere to go, them hiding in darkness, being the size of rather large dogs seemingly illuminated.  Along with the isolation the oppressive darkness imposed... "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Kikurage momentarily fainted, head whipping backward as an intense fear overtook her.  Foam coming out of her mouth as the fear-stress overtook her mind.  Metallic webbing covered and bound Kikurage up, as she was completely out of it until someone slapped some sense into her.... >> Kiku falls into the pit, caught by branches in her Mushroom Ball >> Grows human-sized Bioluminescent mushrooms to try and counteract the darkness. >> Develops Arachnophobia from the Dog-sized spiders >> Faints and gets caught in metal webbing (tagged)⏤ Matsu,

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[Rui Matsui]

Rui landed with a thud, the ice that had kept her feet trapped shattering on the branches on the way down. As she finally came to she rubbed the top of her head and pouted. ''She touched my horns, that bitch.'' She quickly got up to her feet and shouted up to the top of the hole where Ylva presumably still was. ''Hah! That didn't even hurt! Now I'll kill your friend with my knife!'' There was a pause in Rui's shouting as she patted herself down only to realize she was missing something. ''-Where's my knife?!'' She exclaimed angrily, and as she finally stopped to take in her surroundings she realized how dark it was down here.

Was someone watching her too? It certainly felt that way. Jeez, if she had just bumped into Retsu right away, or if she could ask the Elementalist for a meeting directly, but that coward wasn't going to invite her in.

''Oop-'' She looked down at her body as she got caught in the webbing of the metal spiders immediately. Great, armored enemies. They looked too strong for those hero students, so maybe she should just run away? Well, assuming she made it out of this trap. All in all, she was taking it pretty chill considering her quirk made her near immortal. ''Hey! I heard that! I heard someone moving, you're not a spider! Bomb Bestie is that you?!'' Maybe it was just the fall disorienting her or the general debuff that was affecting her, but she could barely see anything.

That was until the whole area brightened up because of Kikurage. Squinting, Rui scrunched her face and directed her anger towards the redhead. ''You're not my Bomb Bestie! Show off! Get me out of these webs and I'll help you.'' She was totally going to shove her at the monsters and run, but Kiku didn't need to know that until the moment she betrayed her. ''Wait- no, no, no!'' She watched in despair as her potential savior passed out. ''Are you dead? Bestie, are you dead? That's rude I was supposed to kill you!'' She would be throwing a legendary tantrum if she could freely move her body. ''Don't eat her!'' She sneered at the spider. ''She's mine! Get in line! You're not even a real living creature you're just a trashcan with legs!''

Kikurage Shimeiji

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muffled cry woke Farrin from his temporary slumber. He wasn't consumed by the blast a few moments ago, but he was close enough that the sheer force of it sent him slamming into some of the falling debris, which knocked his lights out for a few. What's more, said debris blanketed him in stone, metal, wood, and dirt. Something was weighing him down, and it was too dark to see what.

"Yup, that's me' bell rung," he groaned, disoriented but on task. 

Natural reflexes and honed instinct. These things took control. His hands set flat against the large, cool surface, pinning him to the ground. He pulled his arms back by the elbows, then shoved them forward. A thick metal sheet, shavings from the Rook's armor, burst into the air and off the time-turner. He was free! 

"Alright, what's goin' on." 

A flare at the back of his brain. Time-warned danger (flavored natural awareness). Farrin rolled over, but something caught his wrist and stuck it to the ground. "You feckin' gob!" He shouted, tugging his bound fist from the network of roots that built the floor below. Time was useful, but he could barely see down here. Still, One, two, three tugs and tore his hand from the ground. Another flare. He dodged into a spin, then returned fire with a stun round. It bounced off the armored foe. 

Whatever it was, it was metallic. Blue and green light sheen off a smooth, silvery surface. No problem. Farrin fired again, funneling a stronger measure of temporal acceleration through the next stun round. This time, it smashed into one of the spider's leg joints, depriving it of that leg. 

Farrin was heaving, though. Chronokinesis took its toll. Building up all the extreme speeds behind that excessive strength displayed above and the earlier fighting was a taxing affair. Yet, he pushed himself further. Farrin burst ahead and ran his fist into the spider, puncturing its armor. Still, it writhed and resisted. And he could hear more of them out there. From atop the mechanical arachnid, he could see the source of the light, though. Several large, glowing mushrooms. That had to be Kikurage. He had to take this thing down, then meet up with any of the others down here. 

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tldr: Farrin woke up from the blast and was pinned by some metal but pushed it off him. He's fighting one of the metal spiders now and will attempt to find Kiku after he finishes the spider off.  

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[attr="class","FarrinQuote"]Even if it's already been decided. Even if it's set in stone. I'll smash that future!

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[Arataki Noa]

Because she wanted to be as prepared as possible for whatever was waiting for them down there, by the time the giant water ball with Noa at the center reached the bottom of the pit, it had grown to the size of a small house from all the water she had gathered along the way. This entire time she had been focusing on growing the water ball because she was being extra cautious about running out of resources to use. At first the pit was almost pitch black. It was a big mistake to not have a light source on her besides her phone and she couldn't exactly take out her phone now. But even while her eyes couldn't make out anything, her other senses would let her know that they were definitely not alone. From the water content in their bodies, the things waiting in the darkness were about the size of large dogs. Or maybe they were tiny humanoids? Her water sense was not accurate enough to tell for sure. However when the glowing mushrooms began to sprout all around, she would soon get her answer.

It was spiders, or at least they looked like spiders. Water content in bugs and the like were very different from vertebrates and in this case, the 'creatures' in question were larger than what Noa was expecting. Even without counting their size, they weren't ordinary arachnids. They had what seemed like metallic exoskeletons, which the girl assumed meant that they were harder to squish than your typical bug. A few of them tried to shoot a web like substance at her that looked like liquid metal, but her water ball was keeping the 'web' from settling and hardening, getting dissolved and washed away as the water itself was constantly flowing around her. Well, she couldn't just hide in her water shell all day. She figured she ought to give themselves some space before the spiders completely surrounded them.

Focusing her power, Noa would shape part of her water ball into a large snake-like construct and proceed to sweep away and push back any spiders that came within her range. She would do this repeatedly until she was able to secure a 30 foot radius of 'safe space' around her for her and her allies to regroup and set up a perimeter. She was careful of course to not sweep away her fellow raid participants.

"I can hold these things back but we'll need a more permanent solution of putting them down. I'm open to suggestions!"

At the back of her head she was also considering if it was possible to drown these things. But she would probably need even more water than what she had at the moment if she wanted to get them all.

TLDR: Noa arrives at the bottom of the pit inside a giant water ball the size of a small house. She proceeds to use her water to wash away webs and sweep away and push back any spiders that approach. If anyone is close to her, she would be protecting them too.

Farrin ,Rui Matsui ,Kikurage Shimeiji

[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

Well, she was still on her feet. That was something. Her knees were going to be killing her tomorrow though with that landing. Having ridden the falling earth down she wasn't as badly hurt as she could have been but she didn't exactly float to a stop either. Well, if nothing else the lack of light here made her headache lessen. Shame she had to change that before something snuck up on her. Drawing Temper she ignited the blowtorch dagger and lifted it over her head to restore at least some visibility. 

Not a moment later she had to duck to the side to avoid the metallic webbing. That was too close for comfort. Hearing an absolutely horrifying chittering Retsu drew her rifle with one hand, put a bullet through the spider's head and then another just for good measure. More webbing shot out at her forcing her to dodge again, a move that put her off balance and caused a third string to hit her arm. Clicking her tongue Temper cut through the steel wire, several sizzling droplets charring her arm and causing her to hiss but setting her free nevertheless. It left her forearm covered in steel wires but she'd dealt with worse. So long as it wasn't poisonous she'd be fine.

Retsu let out a rattling sigh. It was finally time to go deal with the source of that horrifying chittering. Turning on her heel and jogging at an even pace so she could either speed up or slow down to dodge more webbing Retsu approached the area lit up by the mushrooms and more specifically Rui. The barrel of her rifle aimed at the little devil's head right before she pulled the trigger. If this was another clone that'd deal with the problem, if it was the real Rui she'd just shake it off. 

"Oh, hi Rui." 

The real one then. Dropping to a knee Temper sliced through the metallic webbing holding Rui captive -and Rui herself- while Retsu aimed her rifle at any spider that came within view and opened fire. Unless she hit the eyes again it might not be enough to pierce but so long as it kept them busy long enough it'd suffice for now. 

"Friend a' yours?" Retsu asked Rui while nodding in Kiku's direction. Either way they should move soon. If Mushroom Girl came with them that could be useful, they wouldn't get anything done if they were left on the dark.

TL;DR: 
-Retsu shoots a spider and gets webbing on the forearm, cuts herself loose but still has steel webbing around one forearm
-She then heads over to Rui and Kiku, cutting the former free and asking about the latter.

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