The Chamber of the Ordeal (Open)

[lionesschampion]

Alanna had decided that it would be best to at least scout out her new surroundings. After all, she'd rather not find out the hard way that there were dangers out there just waiting for them all to drop their guard and if she was really fortunate then she might even discover a way out of here. She wouldn't hold her breath, but she also held on to a certain amount of hope that the solution to their captivity would be found soon. It wouldn't be found through inaction though.

That wasn't what she found though as she entered a new area and found herself face to face with something very familiar. Her breath caught in her throat and her hands clenched at her sides as she stared hard at the stone chamber within the room. To someone unfamiliar with it, it didn't look terribly intimidating. It was a plain stone chamber, rectangular in shape. Alanna was far from unfamiliar with it though and she knew that it was far more than it appeared.

The Chamber of the Ordeal... why had it been brought here? Did it function the same as it had in Tortall? Given that the Chamber could not be manipulated by outside forces, at least as far as she knew, she assumed that it had to function as it had. She was in no hurry to test it, in truth. She'd managed to pass the Chamber's test, but she didn't think that there was anything in the world that would convince her to walk willingly back into that room again.

Not totally trusting her eyes, she took a step closer to further investigate, biting down hard on her lip. It was forbidden to make a sound in the Chamber of the Ordeal.

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[first_of_steel]

She wasn't the only one scouting the area out. Roger Maxson hadn't lasted twenty years in the post-nuclear deserts of California by not getting to know his environment. The sound of human footfalls had caught his attention, so he'd headed towards them, slow and careful-like. No sense startling whoever it was.

But this didn't really look like anywhere he'd seen on the ship before...

[encourage]

Sakura paused near the entrance, catching sight of one of the other people trapped on this side of the ship. Or this portion, she supposed. The ship had more facets than a shaped diamond, and how large a portion this actually counted as she didn't know.

The young woman looked -- Sakura wasn't sure. Intense. Like something was unexpected about what she saw, in a way that reminded her of something else. Hard for Sakura to say if it was the area itself, or some faint echo out of memory coming through loud and clear to the other woman.

"Are you all right?" she asked softly, not wanting to startle the other woman too greatly. "Did you see something around here?"