LOBBYQUEST - PARTY 3

[idolpro]

Once you enter the door, you find yourself passing through, uh -



This front yard? It seems you've found yourself in some sort of dolphin mansion.

Comments

[sunflowering]

Ehh... that sounds sort of dangerous, but I guess that could be an even more dangerous weapon.

[ Doing science... ]

What does everyone else think? Do you want to become mad scientists?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Why not? It's that or take a look upstairs.

[sunflowering]

Let's do that first, and then head on upstairs then. I'll pour a glass bottle from the empty bottles I found behind the bar.

[ And pouring another mug in. ]

[bondsofsuffering]

We're only allowed to mix them if we can make sure we're out of the contamination zone if it turns out to create a gas or a splash. We don't exactly have safety gear to protect us against whatever it turns into, after all.

[bloodyrose]

[A nod.]

It's too risky to try and pour one into the other.

[sunflowering]

I have an idea.

[ Listen to her idea. ]

I'm going to pour another one of those mugs into one of the bottles behind the bar. And then... we throw it into the room from a distance and see what happens.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Nice! The tub's fucking huge, you can't miss.

[sunflowering]

[ THUMBS UP! Man, she's got great ideas. ]

[bondsofsuffering]

...

If we're going to do that, I say have Ren do it since she can speed herself up to make sure she's behind the wall in time to avoid anything. Though, even if that happens, if it causes fumes and spreads too much we might still be screwed, since it sounds like it's acidic enough to dissolve us if it gets in the air.

[sunflowering]

. . . I don't really like the idea of Ren doing it.

[ But she is the fastest. Nnngg... ]

[bloodyrose]

[Just a look. He doesn't want either of you to do it.]

[bondsofsuffering]

That would be the safest way, and there's still a chance it will literally blow up in our faces.

Your vision's all messed up from a simple drink - I don't think combining that and an acid bath is going to have a favorable outcome, if I'm being honest.

[sunflowering]

What if we all separate? That way if it doesn't have a favorable outcome it only affects one or two of us.

I promise I can throw it from a really far distance. I have a good arm!

Or you could tug me back from farther away.

[bondsofsuffering]

Look...

This liquid came with a note, right? But that didn't seem to imply anything about putting it in a bath, either. Messing around with random chemicals when you don't have any instructions, much less amounts is a really good way to end up with poison or noxious gasses that can do anything from respiratory damage to blinding or eating away at your flesh.

We don't know where alcheME or Venti is. Ren's our safest bet for throwing the drink, and she's our only person who can revive the dead. And if you do it, you're going to worry both your husband and daughter if it turns out to completely destroy you.

Are you sure you want to do this?

[romanticlove]

I can do it.

[Ignoring her parents!!]

I'll be able to move in and out the fastest.

[Well, if she gets hurt by acid, then she'll know it's bad, right? Clearly the answer is to just run really fast!]

[bondsofsuffering]

[He's explaining why all of this is a bad idea actually.]

[bloodyrose]

. . . And if it explodes?

[sunflowering]

We run really fast.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

What she said.

[sunflowering]

[ At least someone supports her idea...! What could go wrong? ]

[bloodyrose]

No. Ren does.

[sunflowering]

. . .

Fine. But how about this. Ren stands from a distance and throws it and runs really fast, and I'll be there to tug her away with my unit ability. I'll just have to give her a small nick, first.

[romanticlove]

We'll just have to avoid exploding?

[bloodyrose]

. . . . .

[Ren.]

[romanticlove]

I just have to be faster than whatever happens in the room, right? I can do it!

[She's confident in a way that's probably foolish.]