Ha, Ha, Ha happy Halloween.
Day 5 8:00
Just the same as far as anyone was concerned. Another day of hiking around this "pitiful scab or rock." They had come across an old and abandoned village and had settled in for the night. While everyone else had gone to bed Robin had stayed awake with Raven.
"So will you fill me in here on what's going on? S.O.L won't tell me anything." Asked Robin
"What do you want to know?"
"Like what did you see in Twisted Bend, why was S.O.L. so determined that we stay out?"
"Well you could say hell was walking on 2 legs."
"What does that mean?"
"Zombies, the city was infested with them."
"Whoa."
"And guess who else was there."
"Who?"
"Terra."
"Terra?!" Gasped Robin in a mixture of confusion and indigestion (He ate some bad food)
"How did she get here?"
"Well when we were coming back she told me the story. You see after we had awakened her and she had escaped (Best Intentions Worst Results) she stole a boat out of the city harbor. Unfortunately she sailed right into a storm. Her ship wrecked and when she woke up she was on the island."
"Jeeze could this get any crazier?" Asked Robin
"Yeah Ilmatar is 7 days pregnant with Red X's child."
"Wow." Was all Robin could say.
They just sat there thinking about this journey.
"I wonder where we're going next?" Asked Robin out of the blue. He pulled out the map S.O.L had given all of them and traced the path they had taken with his fingerer.
"Look at this." Said Robin showing the Map to Raven.
He showed the mountain ranges they'd been passing, and judging by the pattern they'd follow they were heading for a range called the Impassible Mountains. In the middle there was a star. Robin looked at the key. Star equals dangerous/threatening place.
They both looked at each other.
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Day 8: 11:00 A.M.
Ilmatar, Robin, Raven and S.O.L finished pulling them selves up a hill. Surrounding them were mountains and in front of them was a giant hole that lead into the mountain.
"Well now isn't that wonderful?" Asked S.O.L. to nobody apparently "I hopped we wouldn't have to come through here but. I guess we'll have to go through."
"What is this place? And why shouldn't we go through here?" Asked Robin.
"It is the Cave of Illusions. And it is a cursed cave."
"Why is it cursed?" Asked Raven
"Back several thousands of years ago before the Sages ruled us; they were young on the run from a tribe who didn't believe they had truly been enlightened and want the large sum of gold they had with them. They came to this cave and cursed it so that they couldn't be followed. But legend also says that they hid their gold in the cave so many have tried to find it."
Three clean cut young men hurried up the hill and saw the cave. 2 were carrying a chest the one without the chest ordered the other 2 into the cave. Right before he ran in he raised his staff and a spell fell over the cave then he ran in.
"Basically you see your worst nightmare or the worst thing that has ever happened to you in your life, and even though it isn't real it looks so real that it can drive a person to insanity."
"Is there any trick to not going insane?" Asked Ilmatar
"Yes you must tell yourself, no matter how real it looks or feels, that it isn't."
They all walked into the cave's entrances and saw 4 different paths.
"We need to each take a path, in the end will reunite."
"Why?" Asked Robin
"Look." Said Ilmatar pointing to a sign with a riddle written on it
Subsisto una quod vos vadum pereo,
Tamen scindo sursum quod alo vestri vexillum.
"That's why." Said S.O.L.
"What Language is that in?" Asked Ilmatar
"Latin, it was the official language of the sages they spoke nothing else."
"What does it say?" Asked Raven
"Stay together and you shall perish, but split up and cherish your company."
S.O.L. took the far right, Ilmatar took the right, Raven took the left, and Robin took the far left.
"Remember, it's not real." Said S.O.L. as they each took a passage.
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