Ugh, I'm so busy with thesis stuff that I don't have much time to reply anything, sorry. :( Which means Andy's part turned out way longer than it should have cause I needed to catch him up. ;)
"Just 'Max' huh? We're you planning on heading outside too?" Ma nodded reluctantly in response, still looking at her hands.
“I … yes, I suppose I am.”
Elyssa giggled bit, "Unfortunately I can only do offensive magic so if those two run and leave us behind we're done, sorry.” Ah,
wonderful. Well, at least he wouldn’t have to die alone then. Some company would probably be nice while bleeding out, he supposed. Maybe. Not that he’d ever tried it or really was willing to try in the near future, it just seemed like a thing that might be nice ... nice-ish … sort of better than doing the bleeding out all by your lonesome.
“I think the time for talk is over gentlemen - and lady,” Alex winked at Elyssa as she started to examine the wall.
"Don't they usually make secret doors so that you'll have to pull some obvious switch to open it? Like pull certain book from bookshelf or yank a candlestick or something?"
“Maybe this is the key?” Emit moved towards a picture close by, moving it around a bit. “Now try to open the wall?” It had actually worked then? How cool was that!
"I have to say this is so movie cliche...," Alex muttered before trying the wall again and opening it.
“And here I thought you didn’t watch any movies,” Andy grinned, peering into the passage around Alex.
"Ladies first or should one of us test it to make sure it's safe to enter?"
“I don’t mind going first. I mean what can possibly happen?” Emit said before stepping inside. “Plants grow in this sort of place?” Indeed there were some plants growing on the walls, sort of slimy looking. Wasn’t that the sort of thing you expected from ancient secret passages though? They didn’t usually come with gardeners, right? Or was that secret dungeons he was thinking off? “Ok guys so far nothing but I think the closer we get in the more chance of being attacked by something.”
Elyssa tilted her head, "Uh guys, before heading further in how about making sure that the door actually can be opened from that side too?" Clever girl. Andy smiled at her. Maybe she’d keep them from ending up as a horror movie cliché – he at the very least wouldn’t really have thought of that. But then again he had a habit of not completely thinking things through.
"Well, unless this thing has a switch mechanism to snap back in place once we enter here like going into a haunted house, even if we enter, whose to say it probably won't close us in and we'll have to find something else anyway?" Alex wondered looking around. "And plants growing on secret passageways - not uncommon considering I'm sure they don't care to try and keep these places kept like they would the gardens outside," he shrugged. "If there's a curse on these places, I'm not sure what to do because I'm not trained in curse breaking. There is some sort of energy here, but I'm not sure if it's good or bad..." he added looking around, but not touching anything.
"Well I don't mind walking ahead and looking for an exit, I am seriously positive there is one as it does finish somewhere in the school as the map showed. Knowing our luck it will most likely be in a classroom," Emit sighed. "So there is some sort of energy about?" Andy looked around curiously. He seriously doubted anyone would curse a place they didn’t really think somebody would enter in the first place … unless it led to a secret lair of evil. Were those even a thing? "We are going to need some sort of light? Does anyone know of a way to light these?"
Elyssa giggled bit, "You didn't listen at all when I boasted about my skills did you?" She walked to him snapping her fingers lighting the chandelier. "There you go."
"Thank you my dear," Emit said to Elyssa with a wink. In the light this place was more overgrown than it should’ve been. There was also some sort of writing on the wall but Andy couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
"Damn, can't read this. Let me try something...I don't know if it'll work though..." He watched as Alex closed his eyes. He was doing something to the writing, or trying to Andy supposed. It was working, sort of at least. Sort of shimmering in and out of existence. It made him a bit nauseous to look at it as he was doing it, so Andy looked away blinking into the darkness. He thought there was a fork further down the passage. They’d have to decide on a direction then. He as cool with anything, as long as the others didn’t want to split up. Splitting up never worked in anything.
