Stairway to Arceus [Treasure Search / Complete]

[Kouji Sakuraba]

Kouji had stayed away from the Ruins for most of the month; due to getting wrapped up with several Breeding requests and some very interesting shenanigans happening in-between. Now that he’d finally found some free time (and had left Darren in charge of the Ranch until he returned from this quick trip) he then made his way back to the old, dilapidated, somewhat moldy expanse of unexplored Ruins once again; and was surprised that he didn’t need to bundle up as much as he needed to. Now that spring was in the air (the wind was starting to smell more of sunshine and he could hear chirping birds more often in the morning now) he could now return to wearing his thinner clothes in this weather.

Unlike in Bayonada; where even the winter season could only dent the place with temporary snowfalls, the expanse where the Mega Ruins were found was more steeped and skewed towards the extreme scale of the weather specter. In any case, he then slung the backpack that he’d hitched on his shoulders and then checked to make sure that he was wearing the diver’s shoes he’d so recently invested in; the last time he’d traversed in the Ruins, he’d literally had to swim his way out of the darned place because one of the traps that he’d triggered brought forth a sudden burst of water! “Nope, not having any more of that…” he muttered with a shake of his head; before extracting a flash light from the depths of the backpack and flicking it on.

Once the thing in his hands was producing a steady beam of light, he then proceeded to walk into one of the yawning, wide-open entrances that were dotted around the place. Who knew if he was going to be triggering another trap of some sort this time around?!

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last of the month!

CODED BY SYLVIE

[Speedy Gon Yumi]

Dig Dig Dig . . . What's this?!
Congratulations, You've found RELIC STATUE!
A stone figure made in a civilization about 3,000 years ago. A maniac will buy it for a high price.

( Post a Mod Summons to exchange this for •20 )

[Kouji Sakuraba]

So Kouji wasn’t exactly expecting anything unusual to happen—yet. He’d already began his solitary trek inside the ruins and began wiggling the beam of light around, trying to look for the nearest door that he could enter; and explore the room that lay beyond. He hadn’t gone even fifty paces in when he felt his right foot sink a little; and then a loud ‘click’ noise was heard echoing throughout the din. “Oh, shit,” he hissed, quickly straining his ears and looking around—before a glint of metal caught his eye! “CRAP!” he barely got out before doing the only sensible thing he could think of; and that was to force his knees to buckle and flatten himself, splaying out backwards as the whooshing noise of a giant axe-like thing swept through the corridor like a pendulum.

He could feel his heart literally hammering inside his chest as the blade skimmed by his flat body (he’d already sucked in his stomach to avoid that really sharp, nasty-looking pointed blade of the trap that had very nearly bisected him) before it swung backwards. He didn’t dare to make a move; because after the initial swinging of the trap on its ‘pendulum’, it came back for another attempt! Shit, shit, shit, this thing wants me dead! His mind screamed as the blade whistled by his head; shaving off some strands of his ash-gray hair. After the second swing had completed its course, he then did the only other thing he could—and that was to roll himself towards the wall! Once he’d forced his body to move, he then felt his legs hit something, before hearing a familiar, shattering noise.

“Well, that’s done,” he hissed as he then slowly pulled himself upwards and then saw the entire thing swinging back and forth in the corridor; while inching his way out of and around the trap while sticking as close to the wall as he could manage.

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yikes! Also, pass.

CODED BY SYLVIE

[Sage]

Dig Dig Dig . . .  What's this?!
Congratulations, You've found Sceptilite!
With a Key Stone and Mega Knowledge, this can make Sceptile Mega Evolve!

[Kouji Sakuraba]

After he’d barely survived the crazy ax-like trap that was now swinging rather onerously on its mounted pendulum, the Breeder began to inch forward, while hugging the wall—just in case he stepped on another floor tile that could trigger another potential trap that could spell the end of his life! Now that the danger was past, he then slowly looked around—before inching forward once again while still hugging the wall—not realizing that he’d run out of room to maneuver and had fallen into a room at his next misstep! He then howled out of surprise as he took yet another backwards tumble; before feeling another sharp pain jolt through his behind. “Ow, ouch… really have to work on those unrehearsed landings…” he groaned as he then looked around; before seeing that he’d landed in another room.

The problem was that the room was nearly shrouded in darkness; and since he hadn’t thought of training any single one of his Fire-types yet, he then sighed, before groping around his backpack and finally extracting another flash light (as he’d lost the first one when the first trap had very much nearly bisected him vertically just moments earlier) and clicked it on. As the beam of light poured out of the contraption that he held, he then began to walk ever so slowly into the room; before the light fell on something… that looked hauntingly familiar.

He then made his way over to the object in the middle of the room, before shining the beam of light onto it; why did it look familiar? He thought he could see lines of his Grovyle, Yamori, represented in the statue that looked like something with a gigantic Christmas Tree for a tail.

“Weird…” he began, before shining the beam of light down and finding a dais. He then hopped onto the statue’s dais and began poking around; before spotting his target: there it was, a marble, glittering in one of the statue’s hands. “Please don’t kill me,” he whispered softly as he then bowed his head and slowly wedged the marble loose from the statue’s grip; and sharpening his ears, hoping that he didn’t trigger any kind of trap!

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woo, this is perf! Claiming!

CODED BY SYLVIE