[Artifact PRP] The Orphic Wildwoods (Ignatius/Brenley)

[Seiana_ZI]

Ignatius pulled some webs away from his skin, trying very hard to distract himself with everything but the music that kept trying to lure him towards what he now knew was a cliff.

No thanks, music. He was fine with not dissipating today.

HP: 5/50
Stamina: 17/27

Smerdle

 

[Smerdle]

He thought he caught sight of something... sparky against the trees, but it was just his imagination. Probably the fault of the music again.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: 8/20

Seiana_ZI

 

[Seiana_ZI]

This music was all-encompassing and very distracting. It was preventing Ignatius from really going anywhere...

HP: 5/50
Stamina: 16/27

Smerdle

 

[Smerdle]

Bren sat down. This would have been tedious had it not been killer music, which for all its faults, was very interesting.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: 7/20

Seiana_ZI

 

[Seiana_ZI]

Ignatius decided to sit down with Brenley.

"Nice music at least, right?"

HP: 5/50
Stamina: 15/27

Smerdle

 

[Smerdle]

Bren brushed some web away from where it had clung to his face and was pulling at his cheek.

"Hm. Yes. I know we're never going to get anywhere if we don't move, but that was a very large cliff. I don't want to be lured in."

HP: 25/60
Stamina: 6/20

Seiana_ZI

 

[Seiana_ZI]

"Agreed, though I'm not sure where to go."

It was like the lights had heard him. The lights that had been flying around all over the place suddenly lined up, and they seemed to be pointing ahead, out of this place. Was this another trick? He didn't want to get lured off the cliff, either.

But the music seemed to mute in a way, and Ignatius suddenly felt that this was okay.

"I think I know where to go," stated Ignatius, distractedly, as he got up from his seat on the ground. He followed after the lights, thankfully away from the cliff side...

HP: 5/50
Stamina: 15/27

Smerdle

 

[Smerdle]

"No, wait," Bren said, certain that Ignatius had just wandered off of a cliff out of sight.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: 5/20  

[Smerdle]

As long as the music kept playing, he wasn't going anywhere.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: 4/20  

[Smerdle]

He had kind of been expecting Ignatius to come back, and when he didn't Bren tried to get up, but the spiderwebs weren't having it.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: 3/20  

[Smerdle]

He lay flat, a Brenley pancake.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: dun mattah/20  

[Smerdle]

And the music played on.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: not zero/20  

[Smerdle]

The spiderwebs curled around him even though he was no longer moving, and Brenley dissipated quietly and painlessly, for once.

HP: 25/60
Stamina: yes zero/20  

[Smerdle]

Brenley awoke once more in the bioluminescent part of the forest, not that weird part with all the webbing and music. Once his head had cleared enough for him to realize where he was, the boil shot to his feet, expecting more vine monsters, but the area was surprisingly free of them. Even the pair they had already killed were gone. Not stopping to overthink his good fortune for a change, Bren moved on as quickly as he could.  

[Smerdle]

The first thing he heard as he moved farther into the forest was that stupid music again. He plugged his ears with his fingers and dragged himself back on the path, determined to figure out where the other boil had gone.

HP: 60/60
Stamina: 19/20