Crystal Hearts - Part 2!

[Goryokaku]

Kal sits down not bothering to do much till goo girl was finished with what she was trying to do, obviously having been forced to breath and take in what ever the goo girl is. Kal's didn't look to happy she liked her free will and she didn't like the idea of being addicted to something she didn't choose, if she was addicted Kal would make sure to avoid the goo girl from now on till she had gone cold turkey.

[Taria]

Praedy falls off and goes floating away through the water.

[TCELESBHSUP]

Kathryn took note of Kal's struggle, giving her a quick glance after Praedy had fallen off- one that betrayed concern, as though to see if she were alright. Apart from that? Well, nothing really. She'd be okay! What she was more curious about was these Crystal Hearts and their relevance to this crystalline sword- other than crystals, obviously.

[Goryokaku]

Kal blinked, she had ingested the part of the goo girl a while ago, so was a little surprised she'd let her go so quickly when she had pretty much fucked everyone else she'd engulfed. Yup Kal struggled but then Kal wasn't going to be easy for anyone, she didn't believe in casual sex, if she slept with someone she would end up getting intimate with them again.

[Kittykitty501]

O'lgerr watched the snake girl curiously, she was a wonderful sight, maybe another of the goddess's followers. The pyramid took her gaze now as she scanned it with her beautiful elven eyes. A spot of worry hit her when the goo girl vanished, she her addiction and needed her to stay. She would've lept into the water her self but Praedy would more than likely be okay. With a little stretch she looked down into the water, and smiled softly. the others were busy again with what ever they did. Her mind wondering back to her home village, sometimes this whole adventuring can take its toll. The beauty of this place reminded her greatly of the caves under her village that she used to explore. with a soft sigh she turned to the others and awaited the next course of action

[TCELESBHSUP]

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Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Following the adventures of Kathryn in the Pyramid of Doom and Sadness (I don't got a name for this thing, damn it), firstly the human was tested with the Trial of Strength. Two statues, standing at least twice her size and weighing far more than her stood in her path, holding two long, heavy chains. As it was a Trial of Strength, she figured that to pass through, she would have to pull on those chains. Firstly, she tugged them towards her chest- nothing happened. However, with another attempt, she pulled them straight downwards and the statues spoke unto her! The next chamber opened as they did, the wall opposite to her sliding up and disappearing.

"Your time spent plowing fields has helped you here, farm girl."

"Perhaps the next Trial will help you learn."

And indeed, the next Trial did. The Trial of the Mind. A simple chamber, with a puzzle on a table. During her first attempt, Kathryn failed, losing her way in the midst of the puzzle. That was when she heard a loud clicking sound, and small rocks and dust fell from the ceiling. Surprise, surprise, it was a trapped room! A spiked ceiling, slowly descending, would make itself apparent as stone grinded upon stone. Managing to finish the puzzle after a few more attempts and causing the wall to once more slide up, Kathryn barely escaped by the skin of her teeth, her helmet being grazed by a spike but not much more.

The next room contained the Trial of the Soul. An expansive void of white filled the next chamber, with a floor of water and a dead tree ahead. Two flowers were upon one of its branches- one blue, one pink. As Kathryn made her way forward, she would find herself growing... Sluggish. Tired. She wanted to curl up and sleep, eyes growing heavy... However, her armour intervened, promptly bringing her an orgasm to jolt her into alertness. This Trial was her most difficult yet. It made no sense to her- what was she to do? Then, some sudden compulsion caused her to eat the flowers! Her body changed, causing her bust to expand significantly and a few other changes to occur. Then, the whiteness faded and the chamber opened.

Finally, the Trial of Heart. Upon a table in this chamber were three cups. One of copper, the largest of them, one of silver, and one of gold, the smallest. Behind them rested a bowl of platinum, with water within it. Taking up the silver cup, Kathryn would fill and drink from it. Everything became blurred, her heart racing, breathing erratic... Was there some kind of poison in the water? In the cups? What was causing this burning sensation within her? Luckily for her, it soon faded... And the chamber opened. What awaited her was her final prize...

The blade that she now wielded. (Alena cameo to show the sword! http://www.gelbooru.com/index.php?page= ... id=2040315 )

[Motoko]

sasha blushes as kon starts to suckle, looking extremely surprised as the milk starts to flow. She blushes and brings a hand to her nipples as kon jumps on Kath, surprised at the feeling of the milk leaking from her nipple still....She quickly pulls up her shirt "O-oh hi kath....Made it out I see.."

[TCELESBHSUP]

Kathryn nodded to Sasha, chuckling a bit. "Yep. Almost didn't, but I soldiered on through it." She said, sounding rather proud of herself. And the new weapon she'd acquired! Looked much more impressive than her previous greatsword- which was still on her back. She could probably give it to Kon. Then again... Small child with such a hefty weapon... Probably wouldn't go too well. Oh well. She'd figure out a use for it. "But really... What are these Crystal Hearts you mentioned?" She turned her attention right back to the lamia. She needed to know what she'd gotten herself into, taking this sword for her own.

[MiscChaos]

Alena nods her head at Kathryn's reluctant to just jump right in. Really, she halfway wishes she'd shown the same quality in regards to taking on her current duties. Maybe then she'd have been able to avoid spending her life in this lonely temple. Oh well, what's done is done. Turning her attention back to the present, she says, The 5 Crystal Hearts are powerful artifacts, charged with the responsibility of maintaining the very balance of the world. I am afraid I do not know much more about them than that. I do, however, know where they reside... or at least where they were when I was placed in guardianship of this temple. I am unsure how accurate this map will be." She says, pulling a map out of her pack. "When it was created, however, it showed the location of each of the Crystal Hearts." As she shows the map to the party, there's a date near the top. The date is 962.

[TCELESBHSUP]

"Three hundred years..." Kathryn muttered to herself as she looked over the map, leaning a bit to get a closer look. It certainly didn't hurt to do so. "Three hundred years is a long time. They'll have to have been found. Probably being protected by someone, something... Or they've been moved, if that wouldn't... Y'know. Destroy the world or anything like that." She said, trying her best to rationalise. She was having some troubles thinking clearly. Impulses were bothering her quite a bit. Especially her armour. It'd started acting up again towards the end of the trials. She needed to take care of that. In her mind, she'd mentally attempt to get it to stop for the time being. Her thoughts didn't feel as...

Forceful, really. "Why would I want to find them, though? What's this sword, and what's its significance to the Crystal Hearts?" She was full of questions!

[MiscChaos]

Kathryn's words hit Alena like a punch to the gut. Th-three hundred years you say? T-that simply cannot be." She asks, dazed. 300 years... the world will have completely changed by this point. Everyone she knew will have long been dead, even their grandchildren being nothing but memories at this point. Hell, Alena herself is worse than that, she effectively doesn't exist in the world of today. Anyone with memories of her will be long gone and any diaries with her mentioned in it will been yellowed and decayed. She's alone. Completely and utterly alone in this world. The only thing carrying her through her duty was the chance of seeing her family, especially the High Priestess, again to receive a smile and a job well done. And now she doesn't even have that. Numb, she barely registers Kathryn's next set of questions.

"I am sorry. I do not know much more than this, nor the correlation between the Crystal Blade and the Crystal Hearts. I was told I would understand more when I found the first of the Hearts." She says, her voice hollow.

[TCELESBHSUP]

Kathryn immediately regretted her words, cringing as she noticed the lamia's reaction... Poor Alena. Setting Kon down, she would move in closer if she were allowed, aiming to wrap an arm tight around her and pull her into something of... A hug. She truly did regret what she'd said just then. That must've pained her greatly, based on how she was speaking, the warrior woman feeling... Like utter shit, really. Yet, she wasn't alone. She did have everyone here, at the least. After all... She was going to be travelling with them, right? It wouldn't replace the people that she'd lost, but she would make new friends. Hopefully. Kathryn was willing to give her a try!

"I... Sorry..." She mumbled, shaking her head. "But it has been three hundred years... It's... Probably better to learn now than to learn later, right?" She was trying her absolute best to make the lamia feel at least a bit better. She wasn't good at it. "I'll take up this quest. It's the least I can do for breaking that news to you. I'd hate to just leave you all alone after coming here and going through those trials. That's if you're still willing to travel with me."

[Meep Meepersons]

TCEL: The spikes on your armor retract as you attempt to hug the lamia, in fact, the plating retracts entirely and you end up giving Alena a tentacle laced slimey hug.

[MiscChaos]

Dazed and feeling empty inside, she doesn't attempt to stop Kathryn from closing the distance between them. The hug actually feels rather nice, reminding her she hasn't felt the warmth of another being in such a way since she left home. Apparently, for three hundred years, the closest thing to affection she's received was from a man who was trying to charm her into retrieving the prize of the temple for him and killing her afterwards. It takes every fiber of her being not to break down into tears at the revelation that she's been that deprived. Why did the High Priestess condemn her to this? Why did her goddess allow it? Why, oh why didn't she ask for details instead of foolishly agreeing to something she knew nothing about!? Despite her best efforts, tears slowly start to make their way down her face before she forces herself to conquer them. She has just met these people. She should not burden them with this. Her inevitable breakdown will wait until she is alone and unable to bother anyone with it.

Her train of thought complete, she realizes she's been clutching Kathryn to her, as if afraid of losing her warmth. In fact, she was so desperate for the feel of another person, she didn't even realize that she'd been covered in slime. The shock of it is enough to force her mind to start turning in other directions. Releasing the warrior woman from her grip, she tries to sort herself into some kind of working order. "I... Thank you. I do not like the idea of continuing a quest I have spent 300 years of my life waiting for, but I do not know what else to do at this point. I have nothing else left." She says, wiping the slime from her body and throwing it to the floor. "May I perhaps ask why you have covered me in goo? Is this something that happens often in the world of today?"

[TCELESBHSUP]

Blushing like an utter fool, Kathryn would back up, peering down and glaring at the cat's-eye gemstone that hid amidst the tentacles. "You little..." She growled out, sounding very pissed off, and twice as embarrassed. "Long story. Suffice to say, living equipment like this set of armour are all assholes so far." The sword hadn't done anything yet, thankfully. Shaking her head rapidly, her cheeks would remain flushed, almost as red as her hair. She truly wanted to get rid of this armour as soon as possible. She'd deal with an inferior set of equipment so long as it didn't molest her with tentacles or embarrass her like this any bloody further!

"I'm not sure if today's been good or bad so far, based on this prick." She promptly flicked the gem. It likely didn't do that much. "But... Well, welcome to our little rag-tag group. Dunno how long we'll all be together, but I'll stick with you." Kathryn nodded, taking a grip of the crystalline sword in her hand. "Guessing I got this sword for a reason- may as well see it through, huh?"

Time for Kathryn to become a shounen-level hero!

[Motoko]

Sasha recovers from her ordeal enough to glance up at the lamia and Kathryn, hoping of course her nipples had stopped leaking by now. She did just was her clothes after all. Either way she would make her way towards both of them, looking at kathryn curiously, now seeing what had bothered the warrior woman so much "oh wow..." she says, looking betwixt the warrior and lamia with a soft sigh "being down here for that long? ouch....I wish there was something we could do to turn back time.."

[MiscChaos]

"I... see." Is Alena's dry response to living armor being assholes. Living armor! What will this crazy world show her next? What other advances have there been in the past 300 years? Well, at the very least, it doesn't seem like Kathryn did it on purpose based on how red in the face she's become. Hearing the new woman's comments, Alena responds with a wistful sigh. "Yes, the ability to command the hands of time would be a blessing right about now. Unless something has changed in the... in the last 300 years, I do not see this being in the realm of possibility, however." It still pains her to acknowledge that so much time as passed.

[TCELESBHSUP]

"I... Don't think that there is." Kathryn sighed, crossing her arms. Her cheeks remained quite red, eyes shutting in order to hide herself from everyone's gaze. Or at least, feel as though she was hidden. Fucking armour... Now was not the time to be playing up. "If there's possibly a way, and we find it, then you'll be the first to know I'm sure." Once more, her best attempt at keeping the lamia hopeful. "Think we should get moving at this point, Alena? I'm sure you'd like to be able to leave the temple after so long..."

[Motoko]

She shrugs, scratching the back of her head thoughtfully for a moment, watching the Lamia with a smile pointing to her breasts and feminine body "I suppose if I can go from completely male to this in less then an hour anything is possible right?" she would ask, her charming smile dropping to a slight frown "I still don't know how okay I am with that right now..."

[MiscChaos]

Alena nods her head in agreement with the new woman before what she actually said sinks in. "Pardon me!? You were formerly a man?!" She cries, shocked that such a thing is possible. This world has become a strange place... "Please, let us leave this place. 300 years of it were more than enough for me. I would prefer to suffer no more of it." She says, gathering her effects, ready to move out.