@SAF @122 Generation @ChocoChicken Aine smiled, pleased with the group's progress. "During my performances today, I heard some more rumors worth looking into..."
"I'm glad everyone has had chances to improve on their skills, even if it is small progress," Atelier remarked. "Welcome back, Blacky. I went on an outing to the Dragon King's lair on my own. It's a pretty hot place, for starters."
@122 Generation Aine balked at what Atelier had said. "Oh my! What did you discover down there, if anything?"
“Not much,” Atelier replied. “I just had a close encounter with a lot of lava, and the lava lake itself, and that was about it. The pit can go on forever down there.” With that said, he began to eat.
"Then I suppose we will have to be very prepared for it." Note to self: learn next water spell FAST. And don't drop the orb in lava.
Having nothing else to say, Blacky simply nodded in agreement. He still needed more preparations even if he didn't fear the heat as much as Xuehua might. It's her biggest weakness, after all. "By the way," Blacky turned to Aine. "Didn't you say you got some rumours?"
@SAF @122 Generation @ChocoChicken Aine nodded. "I have not verified the truth of these, but if they are true, it could be a valuable lead." She then tells you the following: The weathered stone statue of a dragon lies deep within the Adamant Spires. A fair princess is held captive within the Lost Chambers of Souls. Ghouls are gathering in the crypts beneath the Cathedral of Eternal Light.
Atelier hadn't heard of any of these locations. "So... what will these rumours do, if they are true? If anything, will they aid us? I suppose anything that could help with taking on the Dragon King will do."
@122 Generation "This is why we must investigate." Aine smiled. "They may be true, and they may not, but we can at least try and see if they will help us."
"The Adamant Spires, the Lost Chamber of Souls, and the Cathedral of Eternal Light..." Blacky gave the locations a thought. "Out of the three, which one is closest from here?"
"The 'Cathedral of Eternal Light'... Doesn't that sound like something that would be kept in Kickenham? You know, where the Sol King resides." Xuehua responded in a low voice.
@ChocoChicken Aine contemplated the rumors. What her companions were saying, she couldn't tell. She figured she would find out the rumor's truthfulness soon enough.
(Uh, Wave, are you trying to assume that Blacky knows where the locations are without at least telling me OOC?)
@SAF (That wasn't what I was trying to imply at all--how should Aine react, here? Fixed my post accordingly.)
(Blacky originally planned to investigate whichever rumors taking place anywhere close to Steamington first, hence the question.)
@SAF (Oh, I see...all three of these rumors are worth investigating in the future.) "I don't believe these rumors anywhere close to Steamington..." Aine sighed. "The Adamant Spires are near Latermore..."
"Then we'll investigate that one when we get there," Blacky suggested. "As for the other two..." he opened his own map of Ardamore, not wanting to take any risks in guessing. (Where are the Lost Chamber of Souls and the Cathedral of Eternal Light btw? Blacky is looking at his map right now and Xuehua kinda guessed the latter is somewhere in Kickenham.)
@SAF (the Lost Chamber of Souls is inside the Adamant Spires, and Xuehua guessed that the Cathedral of Eternal Light is in Kickenham)