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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[lionesschampion]

She nodded thoughtfully. That they had an operational base was perhaps the first encouraging thing that she'd heard so far. "That's good to know. Thank you."

Alanna hesitated, biting her lip as she considered the best way to broach the topic. She took her duty to her companions aboard Stacy very seriously, but she took the oaths that she'd taken when she'd accepted her shield very seriously as well and so she felt divided. It was forbidden to speak in detail about what one saw within the walls of Chamber, but she could at least offer a warning, even if she had to keep it vague.

"It is... magical in nature. A strange magic that cannot be affected by outside sources," she told him carefully. Everything she'd said so far was common knowledge in Tortall. "It should be marked. It would... be very bad for someone to walk in there unknowingly. I don't understand why the Chamber would be here in the first place anyway."

[first_of_steel]

Magic or science or something else entirely, it was dangerous and automated and unable to be disabled; that was the important part. Roger nodded. "There's a lot about this place I don't understand myself," he said. "For whatever that's worth. Right now the important thing is, that place is here and we can't get rid of it, so we'd better make sure nobody does anything dangerous with it. I haven't got anything to write with or bar the door, though, do you?"