⇨ FAERIE TALES

[ringleaders]

Who: Rescue Teams!
When: Day 61
Where: The Athenaeum
What: The carnival goes to get their kidnapped comrades, and use the Athenaeum's magical power of narrative asspulls to guide their way.
Warnings: Two out of three of the fae here are deeply unclean.

TELL YOUR STORY↴ Five of you have been lost, and it's time to get them back. Below, we will be threading the encounter threads one at a time. Put on your best improv hat and feel free to join in.

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[insidescoop]

She hates this. She hates this a lot. Revving the engine, Carly picks up the speed- sending her monstrous bike plowing over anything ahead, and practically daring anything to try throwing them off course. "As Fire was not the only one at her side, the Feathered Champion pushed onward- commanding the Earth itself to create obstacles for their enemies!" she snarls, 'Lady Earth' raising her staff at the command. With a wave, she sends spikes and chasms off their path but against the zombies, cracks moving through much of the surroundings. "Their time was clearly short," she adds, grimacing. "So it was fortunate that their trail would not have much farther to bring them..!"

Please, let that cheat of distance work, she thinks.

[mylastchance]

The zombies are utterly decimated in the wake of Carly and crew's narrative powers. Their storytelling combined with the powers of bone, earth, and fire have the zombies falling behind and literally falling into pits they can't jump out of as they are affected by Papyrus' blue attack. It's not long before the bone path comes to an end, the only hint that they've reached their goal.

[spaghettimonster]

It's with great relief that the bike moves on. Maybe the zombies will find workarounds and catch up, but at the least they're not actively pursued, and have time to work in. But, though the zombies haven't (yet) traveled here, their surroundings are still unfamiliar - the graveyard story's influence has changed their surroundings even this far. Dark sky, knotted trees and spiderwebs and wilted grass abound. And the bone trail comes to an end with little sign of bookshelves.

"Is this the end of the path...?" Papyrus asks the world at large, checking around. There's no others in sight, and these last couple are skewered in the ground, half-buried like a clue what they lead to. "Well! This is a good place to stop. And then start!" And he hops out.

[sunflowerfields]

"We made it?" She's only a little in disbelief. There were so many of those things! The story magic here really did work.

"In that case, we've got to go to Lauren!" Wait, she needs to add something: "Who should be right up ahead!"

[insidescoop]

"We made it," Carly confirms, driving until there is no more driving to be done. The bike slows to a stop, and Carly sets down the kickstand not that it's needed with two side cars. With the snap of her fingers, they are surrounded by walls of fire. "And to make certain they could work uninterrupted, the Feathered Champion thought to set forth a wall. A barrier that would at the very least give time to defend themselves against anything that could follow them..."

With a pause, she looks back- and then nods to Papyrus and Hinawa. "...I don't want to have Earthy begin digging until we know where he is- exactly where he is," she adds firmly.

[mylastchance]

[Pass]

[spaghettimonster]

"So we won't dig too long?" Papyrus wonders, scanning the ground with squinted eyesockets.

There aren't any really good signs where exactly Lauren was buried, just an end to the trail... And he hadn't thought to start dropping the trail until a few feet away. The last couple bones of the trail are within the firewall, at least, and he picks one up.

"Hey! What if... these bones can help us? They're for finding Lauren... Like divining rods! Bone finding bone." The scenery's still changed to the story surroundings, so maybe that logic will still work.

[sunflowerfields]

Magic bones are weird, no matter what way you slice it, but everything about this is strange, after all. "It may be worth a try... I doubt he could call out to us if he's buried underground."

[insidescoop]

"Hmm...So long as the bones show us properly, I can work with that..." she mutters, nodding to Earthy. "...Earthy- follow Papyrus' guidance; where his bones indicate, you dig, and dig with care, got it?"

The brown-garbed 'witch' nods, her staff at the ready from where the hologram/summon hovers.