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If you have any questions, reply to this post with them and I'll try to answer them as quickly as possible.

Now, for the general running of this RP. This RP will work in 'Rounds', these Rounds will generally last 24 hours (although if everyone has posted before then I'll move the Round on in advance). Each Round you are required to leave at least 1 Reply in the relevant area stating your action for this Round, talking and generally interacting with other PC's and Friendly NPC's is a free action, you don't need to state you're doing it, just do it (and who knows they may respond in kind).

If you are exploring, or looking for treasure tell me what you are looking for, so I can then (hopefully) give it to you if the Dice Gods allow it. Most enemies will drop loot and I will let you know what they've dropped when they die/are erased from existence.

Don't come to this if you expect it to be really serious a) we're the PPC, b) this is me. It's going to be slightly wacky and not very serious. The Fourth Wall may be broken a couple of times and various references to various games/stuff may be included. You have been warned.

If you've managed to get this far down, well done (doubly so if you've read all the other beginning posts). Now, onto some actually game-y bits. This will probably be repeated when I start the first Round, but listen to the tale. Your tale...

"You are a group of fresh-faced adventurers, believing you can take on anyone, or anything. You have heard tale of the great Dragon Paarnax and his hoard, hidden amidst the treacherous caverns of the Bore-Hole. Wanting to prove yourselves as true adventurers you have grouped up and set off to kill this dragon and claim his hoard for yourselves. You have heard tales of how large the hoard Paarnax has that it can no longer be contained within his lair alone. Instead he has spread it through out the Bore-Hole, protected by a legion of monsters that swear fealty to the Dragon himself. You have also heard tale of how adventurers before you have fallen not just to this legion of monsters but also to the very caverns themselves, with various chambers seemingly created specifically to trap and kill any who wander into them. Undaunted you have set out, not knowing what you will face but determined you will make it to the bottom and kill the great Dragon Paarnax..."

Please Note: For the majority of things I (The DM/OP/whatever you want to call me) will be doing the rolling. Some things (like Health) you can do the rolling for. Please be honest when you say what you have rolled, I will be and I will try and make sure I'm at least on Discord, if not in a voice channel when I'm doing it.

Modifiers

Cir or Circumstance is when the circumstances the character is in have either a positive or negative affect on what they're trying to do (you can't fight effectively if you're dangling over a pit and holding on with one hand for example). It can also be used as a catch-all modifier for anything that could arise in the RP, if trying to do the impossible, expect a large negative circumstance modifier. A few Circumstance modifiers are permanent whilst the majority will be active for a set number of turns, or until something else happens (in the example above the circumstance negative modifier persists until the character either falls in the pit (they're then not fighting) or until they get out of the pit (no longer dangling over the edge)).

Inj or Injury. Only a negative modifier, Injuries happen in the same kind of way they do IRL. Injuries will wear off after a while to mimic your characters either healing or just getting used to the pain. They can also be healed by certain items, Clerics and potentially by friendly NPC's. Injuries also cover poisons and the like.

Arm or Armour. How much protection you are wearing. There are four types of armour in the RP, Clothing which can naturally confer a +1 bonus max. Light Armour which can naturally confer a +3 bonus max. Mail Armour can naturally confer a +5 bonus max. Heavy Armour can naturally confer a +7 bonus max and Plate Armour can naturally confer a +9 bonus max. Although Class and Race powers can improve these bonuses above their normal maximum. If you pick two different class powers through the use of the Natural Class Race power, then the lowest armour type is the one you are able to equip. Shields will also give an Armour bonus, and can be wielded by any class, although if you have a Shield you can't wield a two handed weapon.

Dam or Damage. The amount of bonus damage you do with a weapon, all weapons will have a set damage bonus they will give you which can then be increased or decreased by your characters powers, and any enchanting or improving of the weapons you may do. Shields can also turn their armor bonus into a damage bonus if you try bash with them. Weapons are either one handed or two handed (you will be told which).

Dice Rolls

Combat

In combat a D20 will be rolled for each character fighting, both PC and NPC. Every PC has a base 'Armour' of 5 (meaning that the dice roll, plus modifiers must be at least 5 to hit), some NPC's will have a higher base Armour, and a couple may have lower. This base armour is then modified by the characters armour score and any circumstance or injury modifiers that may effect the characters defence. The overall armour is then compared against the dice roll which will have also taken into account Damage, Circumstance and Injury modifiers, which forms the overall attack. If the attack is greater than the armour, then the character loses HP equal to the difference, if the attack is equal to, or more than half the armour score, then nothing happens, if the attack score is less than half the armour score, the attacking character's weapon will break (if they are wielding one) or they will either suffer Injury of some kind, or lose HP otherwise. If the attack is over double the armour score, then either a piece of the defending characters armour, or if they have no armour on (or nothing that gives an armour bonus on), the character will suffer another hit at half the original attack score. A Natural 1 will always fail to do damage, and a natural 20 will always do damage AND be treated as if the attack was double the armour score. Fractions will always be rounded UP.

Exploring covers every scenario which is not combat. In this case 2D6 are rolled, then modifiers are added, with the following being the results:

1 or less: Epic failure of Epicness: You fail, so badly in fact that I'm wincing just thinking about it.

2:Epic failure: you fail, badly. Like really badly, so badly in fact I'm surprised you got to here without an accident

3/4:Failure; It didn't work out for you, in fact it didn't do anything.

5/6:Success (barely): Didn't exactly do what you wanted it to, but no bad side effects.

7:Success: Wow it actually worked out for you, did exactly what you wanted it to. no extra's but no bad points either.

8/9:Good Success: It worked slightly better than you thought, and no side effects that may harm you, isn't it just brilliant?

10/11:Brilliant Success: It worked a lot better than you thought it would, perhaps the Gods are smiling on you today.

12 or more:Godly Success: It worked so well it may of worked too well. now that's a problem.

Health.

Every Character has health, the amount depends on your Race. When you reach 0 health, that's it you die, if you do die you are allowed to re-enter with a new character who will be dropped off at the point where your last character died. Necromancers will be allowed to raise any dead PC's and they will re-roll the dice to see how much health they come back with. Do not fear though, for there will be plenty of chances for you to recover health along the way, as well as the fact that some of your fellow party members may be able to heal you. If you are a Thir-Kreen, Elf or Halfling you will start with 1D20 +6 Health, if you are a Tako, Dwarf or Centaur you will start with 1D20 +8 Health, If you are a Shardmind, Half-Orc or Lizardman you will start with 1D20 +10 Health. NPC's will have between D6 and D100 health dependent on their race and when you meet them. (an example of a D100 NPC would be a Dragon, whilst a D6 NPC would be a Wolf).

Races

Lizardmen

Dry Skin: Any Liquid heals you either by D6 (if not harmful) or by however much it was meant to damage you by (if it was harmful). Anything Fire or Heat related does double damage.

Tough Scales: +2 armour at all times.

Natural Hunter: If you are not a Hunter, pick one of the Hunter's abilities and take it, if you are a Hunter you get both abilities.

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Dwarf

Smith Folk: Can take a turn to Improve a weapon or piece of armour, adding +1 Circumstance onto it. One use per weapon or piece of armour.

Bane of Goblins: Do +2 Damage to all types of Goblins and Orcs, cannot talk with any type of Goblin or Orc, must battle with them.

Natural Fighter: If you are not a Fighter, pick one of the Fighter's abilities and take it, if you are a Fighter you get both abilities.

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Elf

Arcane Archer: Can enchant any ranged weapon to fire magical projectiles. 1 turn to enchant weapon, unlimited uses thereafter. Weapons enchanted by an Arcane Archer can only be used by an Elf and/or a Wizard, Sorcerer or Hedge-Mage and give +3 Damage and no longer need ammunition to fire.

Beast-master: +2 Damage against all animals and beasts, can talk to (and thus try to control) animals and beasts in the same room. Talking to animals takes up a turn.

Natural Wizard: If you are not a Wizard, pick one of the Wizard's abilities and take it, if you are a Wizard you get both abilities.

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Halfling

Tracker: Can take a turn to try and determine what is in the next room, if successful gain +1 Circumstances in all actions against whatever is in the next room

Sling-man: +2 Damage when using a sling as a ranged weapon, can also use a sling as a melee weapon for +1 Damage. Slings have unlimited ammo. If the target of a Sling-man is not focused on the Sling-man, +1 Circumstance

Natural Thief: If you are not a Thief, pick one of the Thief's abilities and take it, if you are a Thief you get both abilities.

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Half-Orc

Bezerker Rage: +2 Damage on first 3 rounds of combat, no negative modifiers for injury during those 3 rounds, can't do anything for the next round afterwards though.

Tough Hide: +1 Armour at all times, injuries heal twice as fast.

Natural Barbarian: If you are not a Barbarian, pick one of the Barbarian's abilities and take it, if you are a Barbarian you get both abilities.

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Centaur

Charger: Can Charge into combat, +1 Damage in first round of combat, becomes +2 if you have a lance or a spear (in addition to the damage of lance or spear). can't stop a Charge, so if the enemy dodges you (or dies before you get there) you can either potentially hit either a friendly NPC (or even another character) and do the full amount of damage to them, or you hit a solid object (eg a wall) and you take a hit of 4 Damage (before modifiers).

Healer: May attempt to heal another character, creature or NPC, roll 1D6, on a 1 creature loses 3 HP, on a 2 creature loses 1 HP, on a 3 it does nothing, on a 4 creature gains 1 HP on a 5 creature gains 3 HP and on a 6 creature gains 5 HP, effect is opposite for undead, cannot heal above max health.

Natural Hedge-Mage: If you are not a Hedge Mage, pick one of the Hedge Mage's abilities and take it, if you are a Hedge Mage you get both abilities.

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Tako

Many-Handed: Counts as having three hands when it comes to wielding weapons and shields.

Tentacle Tangle: Humanoid enemies have -1 Cir when attacking in melee

Expendable Limbs: +2 Cir when disarming enemy traps or making your own. May take the Trapmaster class characteristic, regardless of class.

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Shardmind

Being Of Willpower: +1 Cir when outnumbered. +3 Cir if outnumbered by more than five.

Being Of Crystal: Takes no damage from poison. +2 Armour against sharp weapons, -1 Armour against blunt weapons.

Natural Psion: If you are not a Psion, pick one of the Psion's abilities and take it. If you are a Psion, you get both abilities.

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Thri-Kreen

Chitinous Exoskeleton: +1 armour at all times, The heavier the armour, the quicker Injuries heal.

Rending Claws: +1 Damage and -1 to your enemies Armour when unarmed.

Natural Monk: If you are not a Monk, pick one of the Monk's abilities and take it. If you are a Monk, you get both abilities.

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Classes

Fighter

Weapons Master: Name one specific type of weapon (one handed axe, short sword etc.), gain +2 Damage when using that type of weapon, -1 Damage when using any other type of weapon.

Dual-Wielder: +1 Damage when Dual wielding, cannot Plate armour.

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Barbarian

Woad Warrior: +1 Circumstance in the first round of every combat, enemy has -1 Circumstance when trying to hit you. However you can't wear Light armour or better.

Vanguard: +2 Damage if first person into combat, goes down to +1 Damage if another person enters the combat alongside you. Cannot voluntarily leave a battle. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Knight

Shield wall: +1 Armour for each other player in combat in the room.

Man of Honour: +1 Circumstance when speaking to any female -1 Circumstance when fighting any female. (Swaps genders for females).

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Hunter

Bowman: +3 Damage with ranged weaponry, -1 Damage with melee weaponry, cannot wear Mail armour or better.

Trapmaster: Can try and make traps to kill your enemy with, most will be deadly if made correctly. (Requires a roll, type of trap depends on what materials are around/on you, traps can blow up in your face however, either in the making of them or the setting of them) Setting traps takes an extra turn, but they can be made whenever you wish. Other Players CAN set off traps, even if aware of them (likewise if enemies are aware of them they may be able to avoid them) -1 Damage with all weapons. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

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Thief

Stealer of Things: +2 Circumstance when scavenging or looking for things -1 Damage with all weapons. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

Stealer of People: +2 Circumstance when talking, can enthrall people to fight for you (a failed enthrallment could turn them against you, enthralling takes a turn) -1 Damage with all weapons. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Rogue

Thug: +1 Damage on all weapons, -2 Circumstance when talking. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

Backstabber: +2 Damage on daggers, +2 Circumstance when attacking an enemy (or player) who is focused on something else. -1 Circumstance if attacking an enemy focused on them. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

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Hedge Mage

Cleric: Can heal any injuries on any person in the same room as them. Takes a turn, -2 Circumstance on all combat rolls on turn you heal someone. +2 Circumstance if facing any type of undead. Can use Magic Items. Cannot wear Plate armour

Druid: Can control all natural things (although that does not mean they are initially friendly towards the Druid) takes a turn to try and gain control, but thereafter can use natural thing as needed. Can use Magic Items. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Wizard

Enchanter: can 'enchant' add +1 Circumstance to any weapon or armour once per turn (takes the turn) can do this with any weapon or piece of armour in the room. Enchanting lasts for 5 turns. Can use Magical Items. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

Necromancer: Can revive dead enemies (or players) as thralls (the larger/tougher the enemy (or player) the tougher it is to revive and control). Can try to control undead enemies -1 Circumstance if the enemy/thrall you're trying to control wasn't created/revived by you. Using this takes a turn. Cannot wear Light armour or better, Can use Magical Items.

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Sorcerer

Fire Mage: Can control/create Fire. As with all things the more Fire the mage tries to create/control the harder it will be to a) create and then b) control. Doing this take a turn. Cannot wear Light armour or better, Can use Magical Items.

Water Mage: Can control/create Water and Ice. As with all things the more Water/Ice the mage tries to create/control the harder it will be to a) create and then b) control. Doing this take a turn. Cannot wear Light armour or better, Can use Magical Items.

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Psion

Fate Seer: -1 Cir for all enemies in the same room as you, unless they are in combat. +1 Cir for allies in combat in the same room as you. Cannot wear Light armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

Eldritch Presence: +1 Damage for each allied magic user in the room, +2 Cir whenever a magic user/Elf is trying to use their abilities in the same room as you. (Magic Users are Hedge Mages, Wizards, Sorcerors and Shamans, only the Arcane Archer Elven ability is affected) Cannot wear Light Armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

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Brawler

Slugger: +2 Cir when fighting unarmed. +1 additional Damage while unarmed for each point of Armour you have, ignoring shields. Cannot wear Mail armour or better

Dirty Fighter: Enemies have -2 Cir when in melee range of you. Do 1D6 extra damage when entering combat if your target was fighting someone else in the previous round. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Monk

Martial Artist: Gives 1 extra unarmed attack per round (if the character is unarmed) and all unarmed attacks do +2 Damage. Cannot wear Light armour or better.

Ninja: Gives enemies -1 Cir when attacking at range, and +2 Damage on Thrown Weapons. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

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Shaman

Witch Doctor: Enemies in the same room have -2 Cir when attempting to use Magic Items and/or spells. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

Spirit Guide: Allies, including yourself, in the same room gain +1 Cir and +2 Armour if they are holding a Magic Item. Cannot wear Mail armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

Hello and welcome to the RP. Below you'll find various posts each containing different bits of the RP, for example the Class and Race lists, the Dice mechanics etc. as well as a General/Q&A post and an example post. Yes this is filler to hold it all together, no I don't care if this isn't how things are normally done.

So once again welcome to the RP. Be inquisitive, be proper and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Storme Hawk

Some force kept the monsters from entering the room. Unfortunately, it didn't stop the Reaper of firing more orbs of energy. And the devastation they caused with each blast didn't feel like an hallucination at all.

"Not the word I'd use!" yelled Jack as they pelted into the large room.

"Well, I can almost guarantee those ice spikes being shot at us before would've dinged the mirror. Cracked it in some way."

"Shame, that," said Jack, slightly irked at the ineffectiveness of his firearm. "'Just once, I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets,'" Jack quoted in a mutter, holstering his sidearm.

"Well, it is actually a shame," said the Detective, pacing quickly before standing stock still in the center of the room, his gaze taking on the vacancy of mental abstraction. "As there wasn't a crack in that mirror. And we didn't see our reflections- atmosphere wasn't thick enough to block the images. The mirror only appeared once we got to the end of the hallway. . . And if they wanted to kill us, there are a lot more effective methods than sending us here to meet some bizarre monster. Which could've killed us without a thought as we ran down the corridor, instead of relying on monsters, so. . ."

Jack glanced at the Detective, lips pursed in indecision, and ran up a few of the stairs.

"I don't think that's necessary, Jack. . ." the Detective murmered dazedly.

"I'm taking the high ground," Jack called down, turning and aiming the pistol at the doorway.

"Good- you'll have a head start on the monster that's IMPERVIOUS TO BULLETS," snarked the Detective, rolling his eyes.

"Not leaving, D," Jack called down.

"Much as I appreciate the sentiment, Jack, I doubt that'll be necessary," said the Detective. "I think I know what's going on here. We're not trapped in some alternate reality, we never have been. I seriously doubt we've actually moved, though we may be in very real danger. None of this makes any sense. Everything going dark in medical? The vanishing? Angels acting as transport? The mirror was the real giveaway. But you just couldn't resist, could you?" called the Detective out at the empty room. "Couldn't resist tipping your hand? That little bit of irony, the touch of the dramatic? I understand, really. But I've beat your game- solved your little puzzle. AM I RIGHT?!" The Detective snapped, bellowing now.

The Reaper was barely annoyed by the gunshots. But it was enough for it to answer in its own way. It leveled one of its guns. Purple orbs of energy formed in front of it, before it used them to bombard the crossroads, wrecking havoc and blasting the poor mirror to oblivion.

In front of the agents was a room with big stairs inside. Unfortunately, it also looked like a pretty long sprint to do.

Jack was patting at the mirror, horrorstruck. “How the hell did we not see our reflections running down the hallway?” he demanded of the Detective.

“What, you think I know? It’s obvious we’re dealing with some kind of reality warper with an Alucard complex,” the Detective snapped, turning back from the mirror to face the monster.

“Although. . . there’s a chance the mirror was there the whole time, and the low-lying fog obscured our reflections. . . Dammit! Multiple variables, screwing with my brain. OKAY- from the beginning.”

The Detective stood, dead-eyeing the creature, as Jack looked at him like he was mad. The Detective stared, taking in every detail. The wear of the trench coat, the obvious fact that the bag had been used to cover someone’s head in a previous shooting. It had shot several victims, apparently, as the blood around the eye was dry, but its gloved hands were dripping. No other bodies apparent. So observing, the agent opened his mouth to speak, then tilted his head.

“Ah, screw it,” he said, “OPEN FIRE!” and Jack slammed his spare mag into the pistol, firing three shots into the wailing, chain-ridden monstrosity, before they legged it into the left corridor at random. Every good Whovian knows to turn left, after all.

The two agents hit a junction with a conveniently placed mirror.

Floating above the mob of monsters was some sort of very tall, although gaunt for its size, humanoid monster. It wore a tatterred trenchcoat with traces of blood on it, and chains were rattling around it. It also looked like it hadn't feet, or legs, for that matter. It had gloved hand which looked like they were dripping blood which were holding what looked like revolvers, but these weapons had the size of rifles. On its head was a paperbag with a grin painted where the mouth would be, and one opening for a red right eye looking like a gunshot, with traces of dried blood.

The other ways forwards were left and right.

The only sounds were the Detective shouting "D'you know, I think we've upset something! Probably around when you shot it!"

Jack just kept running, muttering "Must go faster, must go faster," under his breath, eminently grateful that there was no rearview mirror to tell him that the approaching objects were even closer than they appeared.

The thing was actually wearing a blue mask with round eyes, a bar making up a nose, and a sad expression. Something was also seemingly carved on the forehead's mask.

The monster tried to slash with its hands the Detective as it jumped over him, but missed him. It then made a strange hissing sound, and suddenly, some sort of ice crystal formed in the air and was shot towards the two agents, passing a few inches over their heads. Some of the other monsters began shooting other ice crystals, but were fortunately inaccurate.

Meanwhile, a roar began to accompany the chains' rattling.

“Any ideas?”

“Well,” the Detective said calmly, though he had to raise his voice over the rattling of the chains. “Totally unaffected by gunshots, and probably rather irritated that we’ve tried it to find out.”

“Those don’t sound like ideas, D!” said Jack, slowly stepping back and away from the shadows.

“Well, they do in fact add up to one inescapable conclusion, Jack, if you could be bothered to think it through.”

“Yeah, and what’s that?” demanded Jack, aiming his thoroughly useless pistol. Some people had safety blankets. . .

“LEG IT!” shouted the Detective, and together they sprinted through the corridor ahead.

“Any ideas what these are?!” shouted Jack.

“Not a one,” the Detective returned, jumping over one of the shadowy blobs. Aware he was still in his medical gown under that coat, the Detective glared at the blob to keep it from looking up.

It turned out that the creatures were actual blobs of shadow, more irritated than affected by the gunshots. They began to crawl deceptively fast towards the agents, using their arms to accelerate. Meanwhile, the chains' rattling was getting louder and louder.

Not completely dark, for there was a faint red glow coming from nowhere in particular, but it didn't extend very far past the door. It revealed that the floor and the wall around the door were stone, covered in some kind of sticky, white substance that hung in strands from the walls and covered the floor. It occasionally lumped together, forming a kind of large boulder, and there were stone columns that looked like they had been carved by humanoid hands.

Jack had unholstered his sidearm, retracted the bolt, and fired- twelve times, by the Detective's count. Each bullet hit its mark, and Jack's expression didn't change once. His eyes were as dead as the little red-eyed creatures.

"Sorry, but I've seen this episode Scooby Doo before, and- no offense- I thought he was a p**** then."

The Detective just looked at Jack, raising an eyebrow and uncovering his ears- gunfire in a tight corridor wasn't quiet. "Why the hell did you bring your sidearm to medical?" he demanded.

"Hunter thing," said Jack with a shrug.

"Right," the Detective said, nodding. "Well, you could've at least brought my staser."

"Yeah," said Jack with a grin. "I could've. Now, you wanna stand around whining about how I stole your spotlight or you wanna keep walking?"

The Detective just grinned, and they walked on.

The DIA agents both made a rude gesture to the machine gun turret and drew their weapons. Naya quickly peeked inside before slowly entering the room with her pistol at the ready. The Guardsman followed close behind, surveying the new area warily.

((I'll go for modifications when I can.))

Then, the remains disintegrated, and a fan emerged from a hatch in the ceiling. It turned on, blew the dust away, turned off, then retreated back into the ceiling. The hatch closed, then disappeared as if it had never been. There was the sound of another hatch opening, and behind the agents, a machine gun descended from the ceiling and aimed itself at the pair. The door in front of the swung open.

"Please enter the room now."

The Guardsman retrieved his broken RA and started zapping it with his laser screwdriver. "Rule number one: never play fair. Those Suvians aren't playing fair so props to them, I guess, but I'm not gonna start waltzing into their stupid traps."

"Same," said Naya as she fished some extra RA components from her suit pockets. "Besides, ten minutes is a long time."

The Guardsman grinned. "So you know that door is gonna open in two minutes, right?"

Behind her visor, Naya grinned as well. "Better work fast, then," she said as she handed the components to her partner.

A rumble began, and a noise sounded, growing louder and louder until it nearly burst Ajax's eardrums. The sound grew more and more powerful until, when it finally reached the mouth, it blasted the door open and threw Ajax back out into the circular room. The door slammed shut again with the force of its recoil, then blasted open again, repeating this several times until the roar finally died away and the door was left closed.

Because he sure as hell was invoking it when he used his scythe to cut the beast's tongue off. "Sorry big guy." He then plunged the head into the floor of the mouth, awaiting it's impending scream.

A giggling sound could be heard coming from the golden light. Then, some kind of glow seemed to wash over Ajax, then over the tongue. It was warm, like fire, and when it reached the frozen saliva, the ice melted.

He stepped back, bringing his Talaria to life. He ran in the room, jumping for the emergency light and grabbing on, or at least hovered close to it.

Once more he felt the incredible heat and humidity of the air, saw the slime coating the walls, and could stare deep into the depths of the monster's throat. There was only one thing different about the room: One of the emergency lights burned gold.