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#81
His decade's long sourness towards his failed attempt at auror-ism was beginning to fade as the expedition continued to reveal why exactly he'd been forced to drop out of the training program. He'd been unable to cope with the stress when faced with imminent danger and had chosen to flee instead, and now the sight of blood was making his stomach churn to where his body refused to take a step in either direction. It made his desk job no less appealing, but now he could see it wasn't the worst he could have done in life.

"I can't - this is just awful," he commented unhelpfully, his gaze shifting back and forth between the injured woman, the ground, and the rest of their party. With Miss MacKay and Spryly gone, the team had lost their most useful and physically-able members. In short, they were fucked.

"We all need to get out of here. It's not safe and we don't know the way around."





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#82
Despite her reservations about leaving people behind Belle was forced to admit that Mr Byrne had a point - they had to get away - and it wasn't as though Miss MacKay or Spryly had exactly welcomed their help although admittedly that was before the crocodile had taken a chunk out of the young woman. But they seemed to be doing more harm than good by just staying here...

"We can't just leave them behind," she said, knowing full well they were likely going to have to do exactly that. It turned her stomach to even think of doing so but Belle had rapidly come to the conclusion that she was desperately out of her league. In a hospital she could tend to them but with neither of them able to walk particularly well Belle didn't rate her chances of being able to get either of them to safety.



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#83
Annabelle Bones Finnian Byrne Jeremiah Tatting Edmund Grimm
Luckily for Mr. Spryly, an infirmary nurse with a stretcher shows up shortly thereafter. Whether she was sent by Mr. Grimm or on her way after getting Miss Lecuyer remains to be seen - but she hurries him off. This leaves the three remainders with no choice but to follow the clear path to Salem Square. It deposits them at the entrance to the casino, which is lit up brightly, doors wide open. Probably not a dinner party, though.


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#84
Jeremiah tried to help the nurse as best as he could. When all of that was done, he went with the rest of the group to the square. "Do you think it would be wise to go to the casino? It could be a trap of some sort." He said thoughtfully.



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#85
There was a very particular kind of helplessness one felt when faced with a situation that should have been within one's skill set and yet turned out to most emphatically not be. True Belle couldn't recall any incident at the Hospital where she had been faced with something as brutal as a crocodile bite, and even then she would have had magic to assist her, so perhaps it wasn't entirely her fault? Miss MacKay and Mr Spryly were in the best place for them now and it was up to them to make sure they had not sustained such injuries for nothing.

"I'm going in," Belle replied bluntly. She might be able to walk into another situation she had no handle on whatsoever but she refused to walk away now. Not after their numbers had been so depleted. "We'll achieve nothing out here," she added irritably before slowly making her way into the casino.


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#86
Ever the persistent one, Finnian followed Mrs. Bones the entire way to the casino, taking his place beside her as they stood in front of the casino. Part of him wished that the professor (and Edmund?) would just disappear—it would make the situation entirely more romantic in nature. At her words, he nodded in response; there was nothing left outside for them, and it couldn't possibly get any worse on the inside....right?

"I'm coming with you," he agreed, resisting the temptation to grab her hand before they entered the building. (Nothing had really gone well in situations where he'd decided to be that bold, he realized.)



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#87
Annabelle Bones Finnian Byrne Jeremiah Tatting Tybalt Kirke Asha Bilton

Mrs. Bones and Mr. Byrne enter. If Mr. Tatting follows, he'll find himself at the same scene.

The casino does not meet expectations.

Once Group D steps inside and the front doors swing shut behind them, they will find themselves in a limestone concrete structure with etchings on the wall around them.

Time passes strangely in here.

There are three directional options: left, right, straight. The leftward path goes downwards, the rightward path goes upwards, and straight continues at level. Collapsed in the rightward path are Messrs. Kirke and Bilton, which is odd, since they should be nowhere near the door by rights.


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#88
Kirke’s body landed on top of Asha’s as they hurtled into the corridor, the boulder rolling loudly downward. What the hell? Before Asha could even ponder the absurdity of a casino having corridor boulders he noted the door and the strangers before him. He thought he recognized them from the train ride, however long again that had been now.

Don’t go up there.” He cautioned, pointing with a shaking finger back from where they had came. His eyes wider than normal. What the hell was going on?


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#89
Finnian may not have been bold enough to grab Mrs. Bones' hand before, but the sudden shock of seeing the casino in a warped state was enough to make him unconsciously take hold of it. And then, on top of that sudden shock was the sight of the two collapsed expedition-goers who seemingly had found their way here before Finnian's group.

A look of panic crossed his face. "This is it. We're all going to die." The words left his mouth quickly and without much thought; he gripped Mrs. Bones' hand tighter, as if it were a reminder that he wasn't dead yet. He was tempted to rush over to help the others, but he wasn't yet convinced they were real, either.

"I say we don't go anywhere. Stay right here until the Ministry finds us. Let's - make the most of our finals hours or something." He shot a worried glance towards Mrs. Bones.



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#90
What. Just - what even. How. Why. Somehow they were back at the main entrance. Tyb was dizzy just from the idea of it, never mind the fall.

"Fancy seeing you here," he said faux-cheerfully to the strangers who had appeared inside (poor them, if only they'd known better), eyeing their intertwined hands with vague bemusement. Meanwhile, he hoisted himself up and off Bilton with a muttering of apology, reaching out a hand to help his groupmate up. Once he had, he turned back to the man who was a little bit... panicked.

Fair enough, admittedly. Tyb didn't really want to go back into the depths of this building any more than he wanted to stay here thinking about how trapped they were, but. "If you hang about here, you'll probably be crushed by another boulder soon enough," Tybalt offered in the same bright upbeat tone, jerking his head back towards the hallway arcing upwards. The man had already accepted death with buckets of enthusiasm, basically, so - if that was how he wanted to go out, good on him.

The other option was giving this death maze another go, like the helpless mice they were.



#91
The last of his group to walk in, he raises his eyebrows at the two men on the floor. Another group perhaps? He had walked in just in time to watch the two men get up off of the floor, at least they were able to. Perhaps he should have followed his instincts and stayed outside.

Hearing the mention of a boulder made him sigh. "Well, at least it isn't a crocodile." He muttered to himself. Looking at the three options they had in terms of going further into the casino, he still had his doubts that they should be in there at all.

Part of him wondered just what Mr. Byrne meant by making the 'most' of their 'final hours'. Deciding not to say anything, he walked around to the other side of Mrs. Bones. "Have you two explored the other two path ways?" He asked, deciding to at least be productive in all of this.



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#92
Belle's eyes went wide as saucers at the shorter man's piece of advice and she immediately strained her ears, glancing around nervously as though the still limestone might somehow reveal its plans where it came to unleashing booby-traps any moment now. She held the hand in hers tighter and twisted her body to accommodate it: she had thought it was for her sake but really, she was rapidly realising, Mr Byrne was even more out of his depths than she was and if he needed a tether she was happy enough to provide.

"Then we better get moving," she said decisively, pulling Mr Byrne obediently behind her as she set off cautiously down the middle path. Straight ahead or down wasn't much of a choice but at least going straight ahead had the advantage of them not being as easy to crush. If boulders were iminent only a complete bloody fool would go down!



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#93
Annabelle Bones Finnian Byrne Jeremiah Tatting Tybalt Kirke Asha Bilton

Several meters down the middle path, which is lit by torches, they discover a statue - urn? - with a cat head lying on its side in the middle of the path.


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#94
Tybalt merely shook his head at the older man's question about the pathways. No, they'd been too busy being chased by a boulder for that.

He fell into silence as they started walking, his heartrace having slowed after the fall and a little enthusiasm sparking up again in the torchlight. Only - besides the threat of imminent death that had been haunting them like a spectre since they'd set off - this was kind of exciting. And every adventure, it turned out, was made a little better by walking down a mysterious flickering torch-lit passageway.

It hadn't yet led to death, but instead to a strange cat statue. "Weird. Anyone know what that's about?" Tybalt asked, tossing a bemused face around at the rest of the group; but then, too curious to resist, crouched down to order to turn it upwards - and maybe, see if there was anything inside. Had it been knocked askew by another boulder, or another person, or...?



#95
Asha couldn't tell which route they had come from but he vaguely remembered declaring they should clockwise. "The left one I think. Giant boulder got us back here." He hauled himself off the ground and dusted his pants off.

He agreed whole heartedly with getting out of here before another boulder came and as such followed Kirke and the group. Might as well stick with the others, safety in numbers or some such saying as that.

The passage was lit with torches and randomly cat a statue of a cat on its side. "Dunno, but -" Asha started to say as Kirke when to touch the stature. "I wouldnt touch it." He finished lamely. He'd been the receipt of enough bad luck to know picking up random abandoned objects was probably a bad idea.


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#96
All Finny had wanted was to traverse the paths of the casino-turned-death-trap with Mrs. Bones at his side, as it seemed they were the only two sensible people there. (Okay, so maybe she was more sensible than him, but her sensibility kept his emotions in check. Sort of.) Instead, they had Mr. Angry-Professor-Man, Mr. Lame-Warnings, and Mr. Touching-Things-He-Shouldn't accompanying them into the depths of the building, making the chance of deciding his own fate a non-option. Even Mrs. Bones' grip on his hand, it seemed, couldn't quell his anxiety.

"For someone who almost got crushed by a boulder, you're sure eager to touch things that will release a curse from the fiery depths of hell upon us," he complained, his tone rather dry for such a dramatic statement. Should he just close his eyes and wait for the inevitable darkness to envelop him? Take his chance at scoring a kiss before they all perished? Take out a half-ripped piece of parchment and write his last will and testament with the blood of the kid who was surely going to die from touching the urn-thingy?

The options were endless.





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