"A spacer friend of mine who got caught by the Rapine said he saw something like that back in the Sal system, or something like that." Cathera replied. "Where do you think this thing leads?" He asked.
"I'm sure that whatever this passage leads to will help us figure out what this dome was used for," Fautal said.
Cathera held on to his gun even thighter and sarted down the hall. "How can you be sure we want to find out what it was used for?" he growled. "this place might have an ancient testing ground for all we know, it could kill us if we fail," suddenly, he stopped. "don't move," he whisped, vioce full of fright. There was a large blue rock in the middle of the path, it was slowly blinking.
Fautal looked at the large rock in the center of the path. He then looked around at the lights along the hallway and noticed that they were blinking at the same time the rock was. Whatever it was it was probably powering them. "I don't understand why you seem to be so afraid at everything..." He paused for a moment to consider the things that Fautal himself had been through, at how they were much much more scary than the situation that he was in now. Fautal chuckled to himself, not much seemed to make him scared any more.
"I don't like all this old stuff. I saw a full battalion of sloders vaporized because I accidently pushed a utton on an old controll panel hooked up to a glowing rock. If you had seen some of the things that the archeoligists arent usually allowed to study out of Neurotech, you'd be scared too." Cathera then noticed the lights blinking as well. "Besides," he said getting back up "you can never be to careful." As he walked over to the rock a chunk of the ceiling fell down and knocked him silly.
Fautal laughed to himself and then went over to Cathera to see if he was ok. While doing so he said, "That is nothing to what I have seen. Imagine this, if you will. An arden that performs vivisections on other pendragons. One that enjoys to see others writhe in agony. One that would put you through both mental and physical torture for his shear delight! Then you see the remnants of his experiments... Ardens and thills, or rather, what was left of them. Pushing the wrong button would be the least of your worries after that experience." Fautal sat back, the memories of that day were so vivid and the cruelty of Xavius was something that angered him more than anything every had. They were something that he'd rather forget.
Fautal could only sigh and smile to himself. While Cathera was out for now he took the moment to examine the room they were in. It was a long rectangular room and had many cracks scattered around which made walking perilous. One had to watch their head as they went in as there were many broken pillars up near the top of the room which may have chunks fall off if one wasn't too careful. Fautal made his way towards the center of the room to get his bearings. All that they needed was a way out, but untill they could find one Fautal would take advantage of the time they had here to learn as much as he could. As is common knowledge, what exactly happened to this civilization that thrived here wasn't known. Fautal hoped to at least get a glimpse of what might have been those causes. Fautal worked his way up a mound of rubble in the center of the room and sat on the top. He had to make sure to be in hearing distance of Cathera and within viewing distance to be able to see if anything would happen to him, he was still on guard from the earlier encounters they had in this structure. As Fautal sat there he looked around the room.
Cathera awoke from his daze as a jolt of energy flowed through the suit into him. "Good damn thing I take procautions," he grumbled, rubbing his singed butt and aching head. He tried to rise to his feet but the legs shorted out and he fell on his already sore ass, giving out a yelp. He struggled out of his power suit and grabbed his weapon out of his holster. He would just have to drag the thing untill finding a suitable spot to repair the electrical malfunction. He was more then a little pissed off.
"I see that you are awake," Fautal said when he glanced over and saw some activity coming from Cathera.
"Yeah, to bad huh?" he grumped. He was having difficulty moving the big hunk of metal. "Hey, I might have some locomotion again if you help me with this thing!" he growled, sure that Fautal could start to smell the burnt fur any second now.
"A giant fire beatle, what the hell does it look like!?" as Cathera lugged the suit along with one hand he looked for the emergency tool kit using the other. He grabbed a good handful of the packege and yanked it from it's spot, spilling tools everywhere. Cathera swore that his latest round of cussing actually perked up Fautals ears.
Fautal quickly got up to help Cathera with his problem. He went over and proceeded to help put out a small fire that was burning Cathera's fur off. Fautal then used a spell on it that would suck all the oxygen away from the affected area and eliminating any chance that fire shoud break out. "Does that work?" Fautal asked and then proceeded to help pick up the tools Cathera had dropped.
Cathera nodded, grabbed the tools an got to work. His hands were an incredible display of delicacy adn speed as he patched circuts, replaced shorts and rebent wires. When he got up the suit caught fire again. "SHIT!" he yelled and jumped to the side as a small beep noise arose from the suit, then a loud bang as a hydrolic tank exploded. Cathera swore loudly enough for it to echo.
Fautal acted quickly, he cast a spell to remove the oxygen again from the fire to put it out then he proceeded over to Cathera. "It's a shame this had to happen. We could have explored this place a little more before leaving," Fautal said.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN LEAVE?!?!?!?!?" he screamed. He then tried to patch up the suit again, this time it did absolutely nothing. "Fronima damned thing, I paid a fortune for all the base components!" he was having a tantrume when the floor underneath him suddenly opend up and he dropped a foot, landing squarly on his butt. His throat hurt to much to cuss so he just fumed silently.
Fautal went to Cathera ignoring the cursing and fuming coming from him and put his arm around his shoulder and helped Cathera walk. He was heavier than Fautal thought and he struggled to even get him standing. Fautal looked for the most promising way to get out, he took a corridor to his right. They walked slowly down the hallway all the while Fautal was admiring the architecture noting areas that he'd have teams excavate later. "I think that you'd receive compensation for the damages to that suit of yours. It was damaged on the job and it wasn't really your fault," Fautal said as they continued down the hallway.
Cathera birghtend up considerably at that thought. "Should we, uh, just leave the thing here? I can't salvege anything off the suit anymore and it's to heavy to carry with just us." he glanced back worried. "I don't know what leaving the suit in a dimensional rift will do either, so I'm a little nervous about this whole affair."
OOC: Gah! I hate it when I have short posts. IC: "You can try that if you want. It will definitely make it so it is easier to carry you," Fautal said.
