Cinder Caverns

[Wraith]

Common Difficulty: Normal

The Cinder Caverns is a cave in the Fang Kingdom that is littered and filled with lava. There were plenty of other names for it, but they stuck with cinder from how many continued to get burned alive and to nothing, leaving nothing but ashes or cinders. Common people avoid the place, and what lurks within is unknown due to the knights who go in and come out not revealing any information. None have exactly made it far due to the dangers that lurks within. Oddly enough despite the lava that burns through the cave, around the cave, and so strongly within the cave, sources of water, plantlife, trees, even some animals can be seen around the place. A true mystery.

[Phen]

Alexander sat out near the entrance to cinder caverns, the intense heat being a soothing feeling to one such as him. Unlike others of the Fang, Alexander's general affinity for heat allowed him to comfortably sit near the caverns and even go in without much trouble. He had just returned from some freelance work out on the northern front of battla, and thought it might be in his interest to head into cinder caverns for some R&R along with some exploration. He had heard the rumors about the caverns, about how people are burnt to ashes and those that come back alive never speak of the place. Well he wanted to see for himself what was there. Getting up from his seat and carrying the variable sword, in the shape of a longsword, on his back, he began his entrance into the caverns.

(Done on my phone, go team)

[Wraith]

[Pretty good to be done on your phone.]

It became rather obvious why no one had exactly got far into these caverns. More than just the heat, lava seemed to be all about the cave. Fire they may have lived from, but having lava tossed on anyone would generally burn them to ashes. There was nothing but a straight path right at the start of it all, lava spewing from the wall from time to time. Rumbling could be heard further inside, an echo going out here and there. In the end, the caverns sounded like they were rather large and expansive than what most would suggest. Perhaps some of the guards have been exploring and expanding the cavern somehow?

[Phen]

'Wow, that looks like it could be bad if it touched me.'

Despite his thoughts of worry Alexander pressed on, deeper into the caverns and heading towards the rumbling deep inside. As he traversed the path, being sure to watch and not get hit by any lava that was spewing from the walls, he wondered how far the cave actually went, and furthermore, what could cause the lava to spew from the walls. Was he inside a volcano?.. Or was it something else, something much more dangerous.

[Wraith]

Continuing further inside, Alexander would notice that he wasn't alone. Something moved about the cavern ahead of the path he was taking, before it vanished. Why it vanished could possibly be because of the three pathways he was faced with. One to the northwest, one to northeast, and one just continuing straight ahead. Now came the decision: which path would he continue to walk?

[Phen]

Not ever much for thinking, Alexander decided to just take the easy route and continued forward with his reckless abandon. Again however not being stupid and watching for plumes of lava from the walls. The thing that disappeared before him bothered him, but not by much.

[Wraith]

Heading straight, Alexander didn't see what had shown itself before. Instead he got closer to the rumbling he heard before and could hear snarls from further on in. A few plumes of lava spouted from the wall from time to time, but then it stopped for a bit as he got further along the path. Simply a straight line still, he could hear noises as though something was devouring something else, similar to how a wild animal would sound when devouring it's prey.

[Phen]

Only slightly worried by the sound, Alexander became curious, Moving forward at a slightly quicker pace and leaning his head in front of his body in order to get a better view. He took out the Variable Blade, currently in the form of a longsword and set it on his shoulder, ready to swing down and change its form back to its original broadsword form and bring some hurt on whoever it lands on.

[Wraith]

What Alexander saw ahead was different than anything else he could have seen in his life possibly. A human sized being was gnawing on the remains of what looked like a failed adventurer who had ventured into this place before the Variable Wielder, wings expanding as it suddenly heard noise and turned. Having two legs and arms that worked more as claws, Alexander was face to face against what appeared to be some sort of oversized and humanoid bat. Kicking back with it's wings, it took off back and further down the path, though the flapping didn't last long. It was dead ahead of him where he would encounter it once again.

[Phen]

Alexander looked down the hallway that the creature flew, likely a Lecross, as if its not human or animal, its likely that. Stopping by the half-eaten soldier, he looked down to pay his respects.

"You fought well friend... Though you cannot aid me now, maybe something else you have can."

With that, Alexander kicked all respect to the curb and pilfered through the warrior's belongings, looking for anything useful.

[simplified terms: I loot the body]

[Wraith]

[And now the plot thickens]

As Alexander looted the man's body, he seemed to find a medallion of sorts on him. It was in a red cloth, still in it even after the man had been torn to shreds and used as a meal. Why it was covered up was anyone's guess really, the only other thing on the man being one of the stamps used to stamp signets on papers. It didn't look like it'd be of much use, but it was pretty much all the man had on him aside from his broken and shattered equipment.

[Acquired Medallion and Stamper]

[Phen]

"Hmm... Maybe I can get a reward if someone knows who this belongs to... Or I can just pawn it off. But the medallion, I think I'll keep that one."

[Translation: Shiny]

Turning back to the path, Alexander took off in a fast walk, heading for what he thought was a Lecross, though he had not seen a Bat Lecross before. Either way, he was going to kill it and find out what else was hidden in this cave.... Like maybe a hot spring.... and nymphs.... and while he was dreaming, why not mountains of gold as well.

[Wraith]

Heading down the path, Alexander saw that the creature was hanging upside down on the ceiling of the cave, screeching as it spread it's wings, pushing off of the ceiling and righting itself upright during it's descent, flapping in place. Contrary to belief, rather than dive at Alexander, it let out another screech that had an effect on him as a whole rather than damage him. Maybe some ear damage from the sonic screech, but only his sight was affected by it, seeing multiples of it as it moved about, awaiting Alexander to make his own move.

[Phen]

"RRRRRRAAAARRRRRGGGGG!!!!"

His sight now successfully screwed with, Alexander flew into a berserker rage, changing his Variable blade to its normal form, and slamming it into the ground behind him before dashing forward, dragging the blade along the ground. As he neared the many illusions, Alexander lifted his blade up and swung in a full circle, slicing through each of the would-be opponents with his giant weapon.

[roll for initiative?]

[Wraith]

[Stalking Menace]

[dice=100][rand=75163757524497221038425557852633697543456971430243732845304035286]

[Phen]

[dice=100]


[does this mean I get a free attack?][rand=822991038576603314598153806901837265870457884893164703328352209444]