Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28718853-20171209230237/@comment-27800590-20171215232347

Well, this is interesting....

Unfortnuately my path to the stone is directly blocked by the automatons. I look over to my partner, a cursed sword, and asked if she had any ideas.

"How tough can a bunch of ancient bolt bucket's be?" I knew she wasn't stupid or arrogant enough to actually charge out there, but she did hand me a flask of something.

"Some raiju essence. Should put at least the anubi on their asses." I smiled at her and nodded. Poking out from the cover of the hallway, I threw the container straight into the firing line. The lightning threw the two anubi forward, and knocked over a few of the automatons.

Of course that also painted a target on the fact there was another group now hanging around. Instead of waiting to see how badly we were noticed, we just bolted for the stone. The automatons were still recovering from the point blank lightning blast, and the pharoh's mamono were making the most of their distraction to put them out of comission. We were almost at the stone, when a giant red snake appeared in front of us.

Looking over to the pharoh and the apophis, we were surprised to see both of them looking at us.

"This was a private affair between myself and my rival here." The apophis says, gesturing towards the pharoh.

"Indeed, you're intrusion is unwelcome. Please leave, or we will be forced to take... drastic measures."

"Well, when you put it that way...." I swung a sword at the snake, leaping over it's coils and grabing the stone. Of course, this was still an ancient ruin, holding an item of untold power.

The pedestal the stone had been on retracted into the ground, while the rest of the room started to shake.

"Well, should have seen that coming." Thalia mutters, getting close to me.

"I wish everyone in this room was outside the ruin." I said quickly, the stone lighting up, before everything went white, and we were standing outside.

Unfortunately, all of our clothes, weapons and the stone, hadn't come with us.

"You idiot!" I heard two voices shout at me, turning to see the apophis and pharoh storming up to me.

"Do you have any idea what you've done?!" The apophis shouted, baring her fangs.

"You need to be specific, to the damned letter when making a wish!" The pharoh growled, summoning her staff through magic."

"Well, the labrynth probably won't reset for a few hours, we've got time to-" There was a rumbling behind me, followed by a cloud of dust washing over us. Turning around the mountain the labrynth had been hidden under was now sunken several kilometers deeper into the earth. I just stood there, stunned, not knowing what to do next.

"If I was capable of killing a person, you would be so fucking dead right now...." The apophis growls, the pharoh muttering her agreement.

"Well, normally I'd get Thalia to throw an alchemical smoke bomb, but seeing as that's not an option... plan B?" I hear several swishes of a blade swinging through the air, before a number of bodies hit the floor. "Thanks Tal." I feel a guantleted hand on my shoulder.

"We're going to be in so much trouble when we get back." She mutters, and I nod.

"Yep, but at least the stone's safe for a few years? How long do you think it'll take to dig through a mountain?"

"Hopefully long enough for the commander to forgive us." I wince, thinking about what kind of punishment he'll come up with for us.

After tying up the apophis with as many ropes as we can find, we make the journey back to the castle. At least there's a bright side to being in mamono friendly territory. No one gives you funny looks if you walk around naked.