On the 4th day, one day before Mother arrives. Kol decided to check his status, hoping to be fully healed. After all the wound in his gut no longer ached and bled. Though the wound is still present. This was normal for the people of the balanced world. Thanks to the status their condition rapidly changes based on the individual's HP.
[Name: Kol (family name unknown)]
[HP: 9/7+(9)] [Blue EN: 10+(9)]
[STR: 9]
[DEX: 9]
[CON: 13]
[CHA: 12]
[WIS: 18]
[INT: 18]
[ABILITY] -PERMANENT BODY-
[Weakness Awareness]
[Blue Energy Accumulation]
[Health Development]
[Guidance]
[Blessed]
[Frightened by Eden]
Comforted by the increase in health and blue energy, Kol decided to talk to his companions in the hopes of running through their plan once more.
Kar was already awake and no longer bleeding, though he still felt the pain and was walking sluggishly. This assured Kol that they no longer had to move as slowly as he had expected to.
"Remember, once playtime is over when you're brought back make sure to note which one of the fish has the keys. We'll handle the rest when you get back." Kol assured both of them.
Eden's selection was not difficult to discern, she said before that she was saving Kol for her mother. That leaves the 3 of them, Eden used one of them each day. After Balfir on the first day, then Drew, and after that was Zar. Unfortunately, after mutilating himself, Eden now has to choose another for her playtime. It boiled down to either Drew or Balfir.
On cue, the 2 fish came and took Drew for Eden's play time.
"Nothing to do now except wait," Kol said to himself.
After some time had passed the group's nervousness was evident. Balfir paced in the center of the room, every step displaced the water on the floor. Zar kept on checking under his red-stained pants, hoping it would immediately heal or maybe regretting what he did. Kol sat beside Zar tapping his foot on the surface of the water.
"Why did you do it?" Kol finally asked looking at Zar who was checking under his pants again.
"I know you're still a kid, but once you understand who you are you'll know."
'Was that a riddle?'
"You're right I don't understand," Kol said looking down. "Can I ask you another question?"
"Sure kid," Zar said relaxing and leaning back on the wall.
"You knew we were planning on escaping," Kol said turning to him. "Yet, you cut yourself anyway."
Zar tensed trying to expect what Kol's question would be.
"I want to know what you will do if we succeed. If we did escape, what would you do then?"
"Well. What if we don't?" Zar said.
Zar's answer sent shivers down Kol's spine. It made him wonder if the kind of world he read in all of those holy scriptures was false. All those books filled with goodness and kindness are being spread worldwide. Where was it?
Balfir's ears perk up. He looks to the two on the bench.
Red magic circles around Balfir's, shattering and replacing it with red translucent armor. Though the shape was pronounced at certain angles it can't be seen.
"they're coming," Balfir sat beside the door.
Zar laid back down on the wood as Kol stood beside him. His heart pounded as multiple circumstances flashed through his mind.
'This is it. Obedience, guide us.' Kol thought to himself.
Soon the splashes of water could be heard, Drew was coming. The group each turned to one another signaling their readied state. Then, the doors opened and Drew was thrown inside.
"Help us, please! I think he's dead." Kol shouted to the fish pointing towards Zar's body.
[Deception roll D20+D4] – 22
The fishmen looked at each other. The one with a harpoon on its back gestured to the key bearer to check. It approached the body beside Kol. Balfir stood up behind the two fish and so did Drew, who stood between the two fish.
Kol looked at Drew who gave him a reassuring nod.
'We begin.'
Kol focused on the fish before him, the same area glowed. Its gills. Kol thought of every spell he had in his arsenal, only one had shown to be the most effective. It was Peter's spell.
Blue magic circled Kol's hand pointing towards the fish before him. A sickly green beam of light erupts from his hand as the circle shatters, hitting the fish.
[Blue EN: 17/19]
The fish starts spilling its guts out from the poison.
Behind it, Balfir grabs the harpoon on the fish's back. Before the fish could react, Drew tackled It to the flood and held it in place. Balfir then came up to its face and stabbed its harpoon through its gaping mouth.
Zar stood from his board and combined his hands into a fist, striking the back of the fish Kol attacked. Killing it.
Seeing the fish lay lifeless in its vomit, Kol looks up to see the other one still struggling while impaled by a harpoon.
He summons his magic once more shattering it to summon a swarm of purple butterflies to attack the prone fish. Looking at the butterflies, Balfir pulls the harpoon and stabs the fish once more. Leaving it lifeless on the floor.
[Blue EN: 16/19]
The prison cell fell silent, making the crashing of the waves from outside more pronounced. The party looked at each other. Kol almost smiled from their small victory, his voice then turned low and hushed.
"Get torch from outside," Kol said tossing the key to Drew. "Zar, can you walk?"
"I can. Don't worry about me."
The door swings open and Drew comes with the torch from outside.
"Why the torch?" Balfir asked.
"Unlike you and Zar, me and Drew can't see in the dark."
"Let's go," Drew said picking up the harpoon.
The party moved out of the prison cell. Greeting them was the wooden floor that ends after another room beside theirs, the wood then turns to dark water and stone that leads down into darkness.
"Remember, this is only a piece of a ship, the rest of the way is stone," Balfir said.
"We're inside of a cave," Drew said coming behind them.
"Our goal is to leave this place, that means no unnecessary fights and no splitting up, if we encounter Eden, Don't engage. its not worth it. " Kol said in a hushed voice.