Scene #2242: A Lost Heirloom

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Ainsley	A rocky and formerly volcanic island is covered in strange and large caverns. The winds are low and the waves are calm, making entering the very large ocean cavern quite easy. The ship that crashed into the cavern can be seen sitting in the water at an incline. The sky is clear, with only a few distant and wispy clouds. The sunlight is pleasant, and the temperature is practically vacation-worthy. And there's not a single sound or sign of any animal life. There's no fish, there's no birds, there's not even any insects. Through the crystal-clear waters, people can see to the bottom and can't even see a speck of sea weed. It's as if the very mundane life most people take for granted has fled this place in fear of the Kraken that lives here. And for good reason, because its ominous presence itches at the back of the mind, threatening with primal influence. Its powerful thoughts thrum through the pleasant air, slow and old and very much more than a simple sea creature. It's an unhappy and hungry beast, and it's age can be felt in the ancient wavelengths it emits. It cannot be seen immediately, stuck in its cavern and behind the ship as it seems to be. The ship, oddly enough, is fairly modern in design. It's a large metallic ship meant to have held hundreds of passengers, so searching it might take a while. The Kraken's effect on it can be seen in parts of the ship that have been torn off in a manner that the sea and jagged rocks around the island would never have managed, with large holes torn into the sides of the ship where the Kraken ripped people out of the ship for snacking on when it was angered all those years ago. Ainsley is not attending this trip, though she tried to arrange for a boat to carry any members of the party that would've needed it. She does, after all, have some funds to spare and, as a Union ally, it's not difficult to request something like that. She would've paid out of her own pocket for this, however, because of its personal value and lack of value to the Union as a whole.
Sakura Kinomoto	"You know," Sakura says idly, as the boat travels across the crystal-clear waters. "My big brother once told me that, if you see perfectly crystal clear water out in the wild, you shouldn't touch it because it's probably irradiated." She leans over the side of the boat to gaze into the water. "...So what's the game plan? Are we gonna be sneaky or just get the kraken out of the way before searching? ... What are we even looking for?"
Riva Banari	Riva has a bit of a conundrum. On one hand, this place is /beautiful/. Riva wants to get her frolic on and maybe paint a picture of this amazingly pretty cove. On the other hand, she can /feel/ the danger here. It's kind of putting a damper on her frolic imperative. As it stands, though, Riva peers over the edge and drags a hand through the water, watching the ripples her hand makes in the crystal clear water. "This place is so pretty..." Riva says, simply. I mean, she's prepared for trouble, but that doesn't mean she's not going to appreciate the moments of good stuff while she can.
Faruja	Faruja's fur is on end the entire time, that thrum reminding him of his first encounter with Leviathan. A distinctly /not/ fun encounter on his part, and certainly on those who sent to guard him. Sitting upon the boat Ainsley had hired, frowning as he spies their shiply target, the priest shakes his head. "Bluntly? I highly doubt stealth shall work against a sea-beast of this mental might...but I am open to suggestions." A glance to Sakura and Riva at this point. The Inquisitor isn't really made for stealth. Still, he smiles. "Quite. Mayhaps after all of this is over ye canst do a piece on it, hmm, Dame Banari?" Suggests the rat. Still, even as he speaks, Faruja and Carbuncle are already getting Haste and defensive spells on everyone. Buff round go!
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga is wondering if her coming along for this was really wise....seems like it might be quite physically demading. Still, the would need a healer and there's no one else she knows with wards as good as hers, unless Ayako was also planning to help. So, here is the wisewoman, looking overly warm in a sweater and a long skirt, staff in hand and hair tightly braided. It's beautiful, at first, but as the seconds and minutes pass Inga begins to feel the wrongness. There's no fish, not plantlife, nothing. The emptiness is strange, ruining the beauty she saw at first. Then there is the sheer magnitude of the kraken's presence, a weight in the back of her mind pressing his influence, urging them; Go away, here is danger. Inga looks to Inga, lips pursed. "I thought so at first...but look, nothing lives here. It is barren. That...rather ruins it for me I think. By the gods it is /hot/ here," she complains, reaching down to grab the hem of her sweater and pull it over her head, intending to go in just the white undershirt she wore beneath. The sweater is stuffed in her pouch. Inga looks to Sakura, tilting her head slightly in question. "Irradiated? What does that mean?" she asks. As Faruja starts casting spell, Inga nods to him. Well, time to get to work then. She shall do the same. Her knife is drawn from her belt, a quick wound opened in her arm, the blood directed in puffs of crimson mist toward each person in turn. Hopefully, the kraken isn't like sharks...
Staren	The transport boat is, presumably, able to carry heavy people, although maybe Staren and Kotone shouldn't stand all the way on one edge jumping up and down. Yes, he's a robot again. He thought about the possible issues, and then decided he'd rather risk sinking to the bottom than floating as a piece of squishy meat near a sea monster. So far, being a robot has worked out fine, except for waking up with some stupid part of his mind all panicked at him going 'you didn't exist! You were dead!' and having to focus on the rational thought 'It doesn't work that way.' "There's no life here. It's almost like visiting an alien world." He reaches up and rubs at his head. "Does anyone else feel something... weird? Or only robots? Maybe it's a robot monster that lives here... But it's not radio. Hmm. It's like... like noise I can almost hear but can't quite make out..." Staren takes a deep breath, and sighs. "This place will be a lot more beautiful when it's safe." He looks to Faruja. "Shall we just try to get its attention first and fight it, or search the ship in hopes we can get away unnoticed?" He looks to Inga. "Radiation... the term has broad and specific meanings, but in this case... hmm... Imagine that there are dangerous things that glow with an invisible light you can't see. The light corrupts your body. A very small amount, you can take, but a dangerous amount can cause you to get cancer, a kind of sickness that slowly kills you as it steals your body's resources and disrupts its function..." he turns to look over the water. "In really severe cases, you can die in a few days as the processes your body needs to keep living fail. I hear going that way is extremely painful and unpleasant." He blinks at a sudden thought, and turns his head, scanning the ocean. "...It's clear. No radiation."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is suited up for trouble and armed as well. The young Cyborg is wearing a darkly coloured form fitting body suit with various armoured and paddec sections along with gunner gloves and combat boots. She seems ready as she's ever going to be and finds herself missing the sorts of HUDs that Rory often gave when they worked together. She'll just keep up with the group but it doesn't take long for hwr to come to the same idea as Riva. "This place really is something isn't it? Fire, I'd say Faruja." She looks ovier to Inga for a moment. "Irradiated, basically lethal posion that does bad things to beings made of flesh. It damages the body causes things to break badly." She looks over to STaren for a moment as he arrives and exlains it better. "It's a nightmareish way to go...yes."
Ainsley	The waters remain calm and clear. The weather remains neutral. Nothing disturbs the peace, not even their arrival. If the boat Ainsley had rented for them is pulled up to the shipwreck, they can step up onto the deck. By the looks of it, parts of the interior WILL be filled with seawater, making a full investigation a bit of a risk while the Kraken is still there. The Kraken notices them. Like a squid, a dumbfounded and probing curiosity can be felt in the air. It's not /intelligent/, not like humans are, and it's clear it might eat anything it can grab. Tentacles can be seen poking up around the far end of the ship, where the Kraken's thick shell can be seen, cracked and pinned against the stones back there. It doesn't attack, not overtly hostile. And, thankfully, its mental presence is clearly not something that can be reasoned with. This fact clears up any plans where people might want to try to negotiate with it. A faint, distorted whale-like noise can be heard in the back of the mind, seeming to come from all directions at once.
Sakura Kinomoto	When Faruja and Inga begin casting their buff spells, Sakura pulls out one of her cards - although she sneaks a scritching pet between Carbuncle's ears before she casts it. "Shield," she says in a firm voice while tapping it with her wand. There's a momentary flash of a wing-like kite shield in everyone's minds, before their bodies are surrounded by pale yellow spheres of force. Handy! Sakura steps off the boat and onto the ship's deck, then winces a bit, putting her hand to her head. "...Nngh. You guys feel that too, right? It's not... magic. Weird..." She shakes her head a bit. "...I don't think that thing is particularly safe to keep around."
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga's lips draw into a thin line as Staren explains radiation. "Yes, that sounds terrible," she agrees quietly, putting her knife away again for the time being. Her staff is on hand of course, ready to serve as a focus for her elemental attacks. Fire, she can do. She's practiced. Inga then looks back toward the ship, seeing the huge tentacles. Her face drains of color, eyes widening. The whale-like noise in her mind doesn't help matters. Inga shudders from head to toe for just a moment, shaking her head. "That's...incredibly huge. No wonder there is no life, it has eaten everything and hungers still." Inga purses her lips thoughtfully. "Do you think it likes tacos?"
Staren	Suddenly, the sensation changes. And there are tentacles. Staren raises his arm into firing position. But they're not... attacking? It's more curious and hungry than hostile. Although, hungry and hostile might come to mean the same thing. "Tacos? I don't know, but I wonder if we /can/ distract it. I doubt we can bring enough food to sate it, though... maybe if we dumped a bunch of, like, artificial sweetener and flavoring into the water, so it /thought/ there was food there and focused on that?"
Faruja	Faruja takes a breath, pondering. "Honestly? I rather like that plan Ser Staren. Gets its attention, then hit it with every bloody thing we hath. Plenty of firepower on tap, I trust?" It's said with a smirk. Faruja's seen what that robot body can do to things, so much as it hurts his head to think about. More magical barriers swirl around Faruja thanks to INga's and Sakura's efforts. A small bow. "Keep us all in one piece, hmm, Lady Inga?" She's about the closest thing to a healer here, most likely. Fire! "Mmm. Methinks I shall offer a more...physical obstacle, if ye will." Then, magic swirls as the great beast approaches! The waves grow wilder, turning into a whirlpool behind the great Kraken that mysteriously doesn't seem to draw in the boat Faruja's on. "COME FORTH, OH WRATHFUL BEAST OF THE SEA! LEVIATHAN!" The great, serpentine head of Levithan peeks from the great tempest, before its jaws widen. It instantly starts to tangle its massive lower body with the other creature to draw it ever away from the ship and towards itself, aiming to bite right into the Kraken's body! From the massive bulk, it seems the two seabeasts might be of roughly equal size.
Riva Banari	Riva gets all kinds of defensive wards going from the three mages. She feels positively tanky, almost. Blood wards, Haste, Protect, Shell, The Shield, everything is stacking up. How good it'll be for dealing with a massive kraken should it get feisty is yet to be seen. Riva doesn't comment on the radiation, but she does nod to Faruja. "Yeah, maybe I will." She says with a faint smile. These days, Riva much prefers to be a lover than a fighter. But that doesn't keep her from having that giant Ajoran cross-mace on her back. That Christmas gift just keeps giving, probably to Faruja's delight. In the meantime, she gets up onto the deck, looking around and carefully picking her way over the ship as she looks for a way inside. Riva is much more in favor of trying to stealth this than killing the massive beast. This is probably because she'll probably have to tank it if they do. And Riva and giant squid-monsters, they don't see eye to eye. Not since that last batch of calamari. It's when Faruja summons up Leviathan that Riva sighs a long-suffering sigh. "Aw, hell."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is moving ahead with everyone else well until the Karken and we're not talking the Rum neither. Kotone is on edge as she sees the Tentacles she knows what those are she does not like to see this. She has no idea just what about it's mental nature. "A hunger that can not be saited by any means always driving it onwards." She thinks about the parallels to her own world and soceity. "Tacos would be good they might actually..." Well there goes FAruja and it's time to get readyt as she pulls her battle rifle off her back.
Ainsley	The Kraken is content to just waggle its tentacles vaguely in the party's direction, some of them flopping messily against the water and frothing up the seawater. It has no real hostility toward them because it's not in a rush to eat them. It doesn't seem THAT hungry, though it seems to be able to stretch its tentacles out to almost touch the boat they're on, getting closer and close... And then Faruja summons Leviathan, and things get messy. When a tremendous water dragon coils around it out of nowhere, the Kraken gets MAD. Tentacles SLAM into the surf and send huge waves up that threaten to capsize the boat! And as it's dragged away from the boat it was trapped under, red sprays up from the grind of metal against its wound until it's pulled free, and slams against the jagged stones surrounding its nest. It wraps about ten tentacles around Leviathan, constricting them to try and strangle the spiritual creature. Or, by how violently loud that action is, possibly pop his dang head off. This Kraken is just as vicious and dangerous as Leviathan himself. The oppressive mental influence gets so loud that it could turn everyone's thoughts into a drunken fog, and its bellowing whale-song imitation gets so loud is screeches up through the water like nails on a chalkboard. At the very least, Leviathan is keeping it distracted, but who knows how long that'll last. Making it mad seems to have made this whole experience far more unpleasant when it comes to the ship as well, which slams deeper into the water in the cove and comes to a rest half-submerged, further than it was when the Kraken's shell was propping it up.
Sakura Kinomoto	As Leviathan appears, Sakura reaches into a back pocket to produce a card - but then the whole ship is shuddering and tossing about, causing her to lose her balance and go tumbling off. "Uwah!" she yelps out, crashing right into one of the walls at the edge of the deck. She kinda just lays there for a few moments, dazed, before scrambling to her feet, holding onto the wall for support. "...Okay this ship is going to -sink- at this rate if we don't do anything!"
Faruja	Magic-bodied Esper-Sealords may not need to breathe, but being squeezed and strangled by a bunch of tentacles isn't good for the creature's form. Bones beneath the creature's hard scaley skin crack, bending like some kind of pipe and writhing about. Leviathan's own scream is equally ear-shatteringly loud, though muffled a bit from biting at the Kraken. Faruja certainly isn't immune to this double-whammy, tripping and landing in a seaspray-sodden lump of fur and robes as he clings to a railing. The Burmecian coughs and sputters, the mental effects caused with the pure amount of mana and concentration required to control the massive Esper has him tossing his lunch overboard. Not fun times. Meanwhile, Leviathan continues to forcefully try to draw away the Kraken, snapping, counter-squeezing, and generally getting itself as entangled with the Kraken as the Kraken is with it. HOpefully the others can hit the Kraken amidst the horrid melee!
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga watches this clash of the titans with a slack jaw for a moment before letting out a 'SKREE!' as the boat rocks dangerously. She clings to Riva in order to not be thrown overboard. Then, she glares toward Faruja. That was a terrible plan!
Kotone Yamakawa	Well now things are getting nuts with Levithan to go heard to head sith the Karken. They need to get moving and she attemps to keep her footing and is able to. "Sakura's right We need to either get off or find a way to keep it form sinking. She's also shifts her body grabs on to something and is making no bones about her own strench as she crushes part of the hull to keep herself from losing her balance.
Riva Banari	As predicted, everything promptly goes to hell. Riva yells as the deck bucks, and Inga grabs onto her. They both go sliding as the ship upheaves, and Riva flails, grabbing that Ajoran-cross mace and once again making use fo the fact that the cross looks like an anchor as they go tumbling around. With a yell, Riva slams the hammer into the surface of the deck to create a hang point. With Sakura's yell, she looks over and flips over. "Hang on, Inga!" She calls, as she throws out a hand to Sakura to try to help her up and let them get to more level ground.
Staren	Staren nods to the mages providing buffs, and watches the tentacles nervously... and then Faruja summons Leviathan. The boat shakes. Staren's wings materialize and he takes to the air, thrusters kicking in as well once their exhaust won't scorch the boat. They're fighting the Kraken? There's a brief discussion over the radio, and then Staren shakes his head. They don't have time. Staren pulls the RAISER rifle off his back, and the rocket launchers on his shoulders rotate into position and fire, a half-dozen fireballs trying to melt the exposed shell -- followed by Staren firing the rifle down from the sky, on as powerful a setting as he thinks won't damage Leviathan -- or his allies on the boat!
Ainsley	The Kraken is not a find beast to tangle with in a melee. It slams about with vicious purpose, and even tries to physically wrench Leviathan up and off of it. The two titanic creatures wrestling with each other knocks pillars of stone off and turns the crystal clear water muddy red from the blood drawn from both of them. And when the Kraken feels the Leviathan biting a bit too hard, it releases something truly horrific into the water. A blast of black liquid a lot like ink hits the water, but once it hits the air, the water itself bursts into flames, turning the area around the Kraken into a hellish firestorm. The Kraken tries to wrap its tentacles around Leviathan's head and rip the dragon off, not caring about the damage to its own flesh, then like a very unhappy hitman, would try to hold Leviathan down in the boiling, burning, acidic water around it. THIS is why there's no life around the island. Just the smell itself is acrid and awful...! Leviathan managed to bring the Kraken far enough away into the ocean that this doesn't hit the party, though it's so bright it casts shadows darker than the sunlight does. Staren's blasts crack the shell further, but the rifle's effect is negligible, apparently not doing much to the creature, though the reason for that is quite obvious by that point. The explosive damage seems to be the way to go. Unfortunately, the hellish boiling seawater fog that billows up from the battle is probably not going to be fun for Staren to be flying over for any extended period of time.
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura manages to regain her footing. The Kraken apparently setting the -ocean on fire- gets a confused stare from the young mage for a moment, before she shakes her head. She's really more worried about the ship than the kraken right now! She pulls one of her Cards out. "Okay, guys, just... keep blasting that thing, I'll take care of the ship! I hope!" She tosses the Card into the air, bringing her wand up to meet it. "FLY!" Up she zooms, borne aloft by twin pink, feathery wings, until she reaches a few dozen meters into the air - high enough to see the entire ship. "Hold on tight!" she calls down to the deck while producing another Card. "O frost and ice, bouy our vessel to the ocean's surface! FREEZE!" she shouts out. Her magic circle appears at her feet - a yellow circle containing a star flanked by the sun and the moon - as she brings her wand up to meet the Card. There's a bright blue glow as the Card vanishes, replaced by a car-sized koi fish composed entirely of crystal. The fish plops down into the water. At the stern of the ship, ice begins to form with an audible 'cracking' sound even from the surface. The thick ice clings tightly to the ship as it spreads stemwards, forming a ring a good five meters thick and wide - more than enough ice to displace enough water for the ship to, quite suddenly, pop out of the water and level out. The water -within- the ship is also freezing. Mostly to prevent it from flooding the deck and washing everyone overboard.
Kotone Yamakawa	Sometimes energy weapons just don't cut it, this is one of those times and here goes Kotone as she now brings up the battle rifle while trying to keep her standing. She's got a few ideas of how to deal with the Kraken and she starts firing the battle rifle. The Reaper rounds are made to deal with heavy biological targets like Mutons who are living tanks. Hopefully the added punch of this ammo will do something vs the hulking creature. "Good idea Sakura!" Kotone calls out and she's attemping to give her allies cover as they work, she really needs to get some bigger guns.
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga holds on alright! She is soon reinforcing her belief that this was a poor idea for her. She's struggling to hold on as Riva reaches to help others as well, wathcing in horror as the kraken lets out its boiling, fiery ink and sets the ocean aflame. The ocean. ON FIRE. This is so incredibly wrong. "Odin's bones! This is madness! We should flee!" Inga says. She doesn't possibly see how this is going to end well for them. Then Sakura show a ludicrous amount of powering, turing the sea round them to ice. Inga's eyes widen further. Well, that will certainly make it easier, but there is still a Kraken to deal with! "Well, it's bloody distracted isn't it!? Lets get inside!" she suggests desperately.
Faruja	Ice! Faruja whistles as he watches Sakura single-handedly raise a ship via a block of ice. He /really/ needs to get her to teach the Church's black mages a thing or two. At least they haven't lost the ship, thanks to her. Pop! Out goes a cork, and Faruja is downing an elixir after lashing himself to a mast. Meanwhile, Leviathan and Kraken duke it out, only for the great beast to release /acidic poisonous ink/. Bone, blood, and flesh are revealed as Leviathan writhes beneath the waves, trying to drag and squeeze desperately. It seems the creature's well affected by such things judging by screams and roars and flailing that causes so much turbulance. The great creature tries to draw in fresh water from the depths, actively trying to shove away the poisonous acid as it manipulated the very sea, trying to cause the pressure to increase enough to squeeze and crush the Kraken!
Staren	Staren dumps a whole bunch of energy weaponry into the kraken, trying to melt it. It doesn't seem to be working as well as he'd like. And... what the hell, it is SETTING THE WATER ON FIRE and his chemical sensors indicate some kind of acidic fog. What /IS/ this thing?! <<Don't get too close to it, I'm gonna try something dangerous!>> Just running doesn't even occur to him. Maybe he has a problem. Staren switches the raiser rifle to kinetic mode, and turns the power up /all/ the way. He aims at the shell -- at least it's a nice big target! -- and fires. The raiser rifle is a highly advanced piece of technology, far beyond what Staren can produce, and the physical explanation for how it works is pretty darn fascinating to Staren. But the result, today, is the same as if a little under a half-ton of TNT had gone off inside the barrel and been perfectly contained. A bullet of force is fired with incredible amounts of energy-- --and Staren goes flying off into the sky. 'Aaaaahhhhh shiiiiiit!'
Riva Banari	Riva agrees completely with Inga on this. "This is super insane." Riva says, grunting in the chaos of Sakura lifting the ship up and righting it by filling it with ice. Riva, of course, has no idea what the side effects of this will be. The mind-numbing howl of the Kraken causes her to stagger, trying to keep focused in the face of the horrific kaiju fight in the burning ocean beyond. "I like Inga's idea." Riva points out. "Let's get inside and maybe we can try to find it before everything goes even worse." She ducks inside, bringing Inga along. She figures Sakura might join them soon enough.
Ainsley	When Sakura's magic freezes and raises the ship, the metal groooans in protest of the power behind it. Metal screeches as ice digs into it, and the warm water makes the ice crackle and buckle. It's not easy to maintain ice to keep an entire ship afloat, and if the inside is filled with ice as well, it's not possible to search the ship quickly or easily. So when the Kraken's sea of acid is pushed away, it sloshes, unfortunately, up against the ice and sears through the ice, melting it like it was mere butter from the steam and fire that billows around the ship and fills the cove with an awful stench. Water splashes up from the sea and threatens to splash and burn the boat that the party had arrived here on as well! It doesn't seem to react with the hull at all, only attacking fleshy things. This means Kotone is completely safe, even if it'll leave her stinking like rotten fish afterward. It won't sink the ship if Sakura keeps up her efforts, but it won't be a fun experience. Sakura might also want to devote some attention to, say... making sure the steam doesn't burn her entire body. The Kraken's shell buckles under the water pressure slammed down on it, but doesn't shatter completely. And when it feels a sudden SLAM into the top of its body, it roooars out in actual terror from the foreign sensation that nearly shatters its magical shell like glass. The water explodes out around it... and the Kraken abandons its shell completely, detaches tentacles with a spray of blood, and flees at absurd speed out into the Great Ocean, running away from the very lethal threat that the party represents. And now it'll be pretty difficult to search the ship until the burning fire acid neutralizes in the water in a minute or two. No amount of ice will stay intact when that stuff is still there, but since the acid only attacks organics, the party can sit it out without worrying about coming back to a complete lack of ship to investigate. The INSIDE of the cruise ship is safe, the initial burning already dying down.
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura is... somewhat surprised as the ice begins to melt pretty much immediately. So, naturally, she just pumps more magic into the spell, urging the Freeze to keep re-freezing the ice as it melts. Unfortunately, this means most of her attention is on THAT and not on strengthening her Shield to resist the burning acidic steam... Can she even hold out for 'a minute or two'?
Faruja	When the Kraken slips shell and leaves? It leaves behind an angry, roaring Leviathan that's missing quite a bit of scales and flesh as it too gets the hell away from that much acid. The creature has its head looming above Faruja's general direction, growling at its Summoner. The two share a glaring contest for some time, the rat gasping and wheezing with exertion. Then he just motions towards Sakura and the ship. The great creature will attempt to start drawing off the acidic water out to sea, though it's a slow process! Can it lessen the acidic steam around the magical girl?
Staren	On the bright side, Staren's far away from the acidic steam now! On the not-so-bright side, he's out of action until he can slow his flight and teleport back. That doesn't take /too/ long, though. He appears, floating in the air over the scene, taking in the situation... and if Sakura's still in that cloud of acid, and he can't determine that it's not harming her... "SAKURA!" Staren flies down to grab her and shove her out of the acid!
Inga Freyjasdottir	Everything is madness, but Inga sticks with Riva and gets aboard the ship, content for now in knowing that the ink-stuff will not burn them to death. So, once inside, Inga will start looking for... Inga pauses, looks to Riva and others. "Wait what are we looking for exactly?"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is not even wanting to think about the ace and thankfully? Sakura's managed to keep the ship from going down. This is very good but well Kotone is drench but the last of her flesh is? Safely sealed away it is in the depts of her brain case. She's however going to smell horribley and she feels even her synthic skin crawling as eh attempts ti move sh eheas Inga Suggesting to get moving. "Lets go like Inga said and ... I need to be cleansed in fire." She mutters as he moves to leap after Riva and inga. Seriously Kotone can go farther than you'd expect.
Riva Banari	"OH MY GOD THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!" Riva yells as the ship rocks and rolls under all the stress. How long is this thing even going to hang together? At least the Kraken is leaving... BUT NOT WITHOUT A LITTLE PRESENT. Riva stifles a gorge at the nastiness of an underwater cruise ship that sunk with DEAD PEOPLE ON IT despite it being ages ago and begins rummaging through the rooms. "Look for a wedding ring!" Riva yells to Inga. "Do you have anything to find something like that? Just think or Harry or something!" She calls. She points in another direction. "Kotone, you look that way! Quick people, spread out, I have no idea how long this thing is going to hold together!"
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga looks to Riva darkly, then rolls her eyes. "That doesn't even make any sense Riva! Look for a safe. It isn't just any ring, right?" she asks. She listens over the radio, nodding as Ainsley speaks. Twenty rooms hmm? "Well, I'll search the first five," she says, then heads up to deck three, grumbling about wizards and their ex lovers and vampires making messes of things.
Ainsley	Staren manages to shove Sakura out of the fog in time to prevent this turning into a horror show, but she's covered in a fine layer of chemical-filled water that just feels itchy and awful. It isn't concentrated enough to hurt her thanks to the quick action... unless she really, really wants to let it sit there. It could poison her if she's not quick to get some cleaning. Leviathan pulls the acid away from the ship and, curiously, all of the ocean water as well, for a moment. The cruise ship gets wedged against the stones of the island completely, and the ice holds it in place. But the ice has to be maintained... once it melts, the ship is going to sink below a few dozen feet of sea water or break apart. The person who manages to track down the safe is Inga, who finds a lovers suite with one of the walls torn out from the Kraken's hungry rampage. The info Ainsley provides is that the password is 'I Love You,' as a three digit code. The keypad has numbers from 0 to 9 on it, and it seems to be entirely mechanical. It's also welded to the floor and bolted, and unlikely to be easy to remove without being in the creaking, crumbling ship for too long for everyone's comfort.
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura blinks in confusion as she suddenly finds herself sprawled on the deck. "Hweh?" She sits up, peering at Staren - and scratching one arm as the chemically itchy sensation grates on her a little bit. "Decom... Uh, okay. Watery!" she calls, summoning the mermaid-ish Card spirit - who gives her Master an alarmed look for a moment before promptly dumping a few gallons of water over the young Mage, completely soaking her clothes in the process. Her skin has gone a little pink now. She's... going to have some horrible itchy chemical burns later. She sits cross-legged on the deck, still dripping, and just focuses on making the ship not-sink.
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga calls out once she finds the weird metal box with the numbers on the outside. While she's learned her numbers, she's not sure what to do with the thing. How does "I love you" turn into numbers? She doesn't understand. "Is it...number of sylables?" she wonders, then counts out the sylables and tries the numbers she comes up with. Might as well.
Faruja	Faruja, for his part, is still outside. His task? Finish dealing with acid water by seeing it shoved far, far below the depths. Then, he finally lets Leviathan fade away. In between sucking down ethers like a madman, he'll use Shiva to help keep that ship in one place. He'd rather not have the occupants die, after all, right now.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa lands on the wreck with a crunch as she impactrs into the deck. She looks up to Riva nodding in agreement. 5R "Copy that I'l head that way." She goes off in the direction that Riva indicated she knows she's not got too much time but she's going to do what she can. she comes up empty but it seems osme others are having more luck then she is.
Riva Banari	Riva rummages through a lot of icy, waterlogged nastiness. There is a moment where she makes a lot of unpleasant noises in one of the cabin restrooms before she wobbles out of it, a little pale. Before she continues messing with nasty watery junk, however, Inga calls out that she found a safe. Riva rushes over towards Inga and bursts into the room, looking things over. She pauses, looking at the door of the safe. And then Inga. And then back at the safe. "Ummm... Try 1 4 3!" She tells her.
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga looks over her shoulder to Riva, then nods, plugging the numbers is. She might have figured that out if she wasn't still mostly illiterate...
Ainsley	When the door clicks open, the jewelry box is seen there, airtight. What wasn't airtight was the safe, which releases water that pours down at their feet, and a very confused white-scaled cave blind fish that somehow ended up in there flops about and out the hole in the wall and into the ocean with a few lucky slaps. The inside of the safe is covered with ocean moss like some kind of self-contained aquarium. It's, apparently, magic in nature. The safe might've had arcane failsafes, by the magic circles covering the inside of it. Ainsley is going to be extremely apologetic for all the trouble they had to go to in order to get this for her little project. The good part is, though, there's other stuff in the safe to get. Like a couple whole gold bars.
Riva Banari	"HELL YEAH!" Riva yells, despite getting drenched. "WOOOOOO! VICTORY!" She reaches in and grabs one of the bars of gold. And the fish. "Inga, get the ring! and some gold if you want." She carries the fish carefully upstairs and tosses it over the side into the water. "Let's move, we don't have time!"
Inga Freyjasdottir	Inga examines the magic of the safe, brows pinched in curiosity. "Interesting," she remarks, then spots the gold bars. Her eyebrows lift. "Even more interesting," she adds reaching for them, handing them to Riva. "You hold them, we can divide later," she says, taking the box with the ring and putting it securely into her Agartha-linked pouch. It will be safe with the Bees until she can deliver it to Ainsley. Then, time to go. "Agreed!"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is able to catch up with Inga and Riva at this point. "You got the stuff? Shall we get the heck out of here then if it's needed. We need to get going." Kotone will not even argue about loot, she just wants to get her friends out of here it's a bad place and for the moment she's forgot Riva and Igna are more or less immortal.
Staren	The immediate danger is passed! The kraken's run off, Sakura's washed off, and they found the ring! "Wow, you found it fast! Successful mission, guys..." he looks around the deck of the ship. "...I guess there's no reason to hang around, now." Except to loot it, there must be more valuables than just what was in that safe... but, everyone seems eager to go, so maybe they can sell the info of its location.