Just Keeping Swimming | March Planet Mingle

[thespaceopera]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: Anywhere on Mafik
When: The month of March



[Welcome to Mafik, the water world! Hope you brought your best swimming gear and don't have a paralyzing fear of water, because that's all that's here! So get out those wet suits and enjoy life under the sea!

In other words, it's a mingle! ]

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[arfvader]

Let's hope that I'm not the first.

[Once he's free to move again, he immediately approaches the door with the big padlock around it's handles.]

You mentioned you were having trouble with doors?

[tough_love]

[She will eagerly swim up behind him, likely putting entirely too much faith in his ability to solves such problems where she could not- or, more accurately, would not.]

Mmhm! But this one is different.

[Well, in that it looks different anyway. She's still pretty certain that if she couldn't punch her way through before, she can't punch her way through now.

And a quick punch to the lock she completely failed to warn was coming just confirms that. Fortunately all the water keeps the pressure wave to a minimum, just enough to jostle them a bit.]

Yet it still denies me passage!

[arfvader]

[Ravi sort of jolts back a little when she throws that punch without warning. He'd say agreeing to this "quest" may have been a mistake if he'd actually had any real say in the matter. Oh well!]

... right, well, there's obviously some kind of puzzle we have to solve to get to the key. It's basically like one of the escape rooms that have been so in vogue as of late.

[tough_love]

[...half of that last part may as well have been complete gibberish, because she has no idea what he was talking about. And while she doesn't say as much, the confusion is definitely visible. But she understood the first part well enough!]

Well, then solve it we must! I have heard treasure is at stake!

[She has no idea where to begin, but she swims off all the same. The first thing that grabs her attention is a raised circle on the floor in the center of the room, but that's probably just where said key will appear.

Not that she won't be doing her best to see if it's pressure-sensitive or something, and generally just getting tunnel visioned in on that one part of the room.]

[arfvader]

And who doesn't like treasure?

[The answer is "no one", obviously. While she pounds at the glowing pedestal, he drifts over to a wall where a bunch of symbols are sketched out and contemplates it.]

[tough_love]

People who insist on being as infuriatingly dull as possible, for starters.

[She is not used to rhetorical questions, okay? They don't come her way often.]