Dino started moving after Lamare "Lets follow her, I'm sure it will lead us someplace interesting..." Dino flew up to the ceiling.
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Dino started moving after Lamare "Lets follow her, I'm sure it will lead us someplace interesting..." Dino flew up to the ceiling.
Lamare was dragged off into the ceiling room. "Wheee!" She was whisked away into the opening and into a room that was full of, stairs. "This looks somewhat familiar!" She looked at the jars as they kept taking her around the place, going up one flight of stairs the reappearing on another set of stairs that were upside down and she wasn't falling. "This place is awesome!"
The colt looked up, nearly spilling his tea over the 'mad hare.' He heard the distant sounds of a mare crying for help.
"Well, that can't be good" he mumbled to himself, "well gents, thanks for the conversation, but it appears I am late for a very important date. Pardon me..."
Gingerly, the colt went to the only door in the room and vanished through it.
"No, Dark Pasts!!!" Dino looked down to the floor, and up at the ceiling confused about which way to go. "Sweet Celestia, now we have two missing! How do we solve this??" Think Dino think... "I've got it, all of these things must have a central magic source. There was to be a way to shut down the traps in this area. Trinket, try to see if there's something in this room. Lamare, can you hear me?"
"got it!" Trinket replied, starting to knock the various artifacts out of the way. He quickly realised that was what had got them into this mess, and started to check more carefully. "I'm not seeing anything, but then again nothing is what it first appears to be!"
"Kinda!" She called back as she was going around the room of continuous stairs, the voice somewhat faint though it echoed far enough to hear.. "These are the coolest shoes I've ever had! Actually, the only shoes I've ever had, I don't wear shoes that much cuz I don't go out often or to fancy parties! I'm usually at the parties though but just as the entertainer mostly and I don't mind cuz I LOOOVE doing shows for others! Fireworks are awesome and... She was ranting on from one thing to the next.
Dino did a hoofpalm. Lamare, focus! You have to see if there's something that looks like it's controlling everything, maybe it radiates with magic or something. But try to get out of those vases!" Dino then moved to look at the ground where Dark fell through. As the hole was no longer present, it looked just like the rest of the floor, but Dino yelled anyways. "Dark, can you hear me??"
Trinket spread his wings, taking off from the floor. "I'll follow Lamare, try and get her to focus and get out of those pots. You try and find Dark Pasts, and then... wait here I guess." He took off, following Lamares ramblings. "Sweet Celestia, Lamare, do you ever stop?"
Lamare was going down a spiraling staircase sliding down it on the rail, upside down. "Woohoo! They should make this a theme park! It's fun in here!"The jars stopped her and went back up in reverse then down again and she popped back up on a different staircase that was sideways. "I feel like I'm in a painting or something!"
Dino nodded at Trinket. "Right, see you soon!" Dino looked around and found a heavy object to try to break the floor to get to Dark Pasts. However, as soon as he turned his back, the floor opened up, and he fell down as well, hitting the floor with a thud. "Sweet mother of Celestia, that hurt!!" Dino grimaced, and looked around the room. Seeing Lamare, he smiled. "Surprise!"
Trinket flew through several corridors, noting all the potential discoveries he was passing up on as he went along. Eventually he reached a dead end.
"Unusual... I could've sworn Lamare was this way..." He turned and headed back the way he came, only to reach a separate dead end. "aaaand I'm lost." He sighed, landing with a thud.
At that moment he noticed a pony up ahead who wasn't part of the expedition team. "Uh... Hello?" He called out to the brown colt up ahead.
Lamare looked at Dino and waved with a cheerful grin. "Hello! Whoop!" She said as the jars dragged her along. "They've been taking me everywhere here! It's a fun tour!"
Dino smiled at Lamare. Dino then turned and saw Dark Pasts as well. "Oh thank Celestia you are both here! Did you see Trinkets?"
((That was a typo, I meant to see Dark Pasts, but I'm getting the names confused :p oh well, it's still interesting))
Lamare shakes her head. "Nope! And I think I've had enough of these now!" She shatters the jars with firebolts that she shoots from her horn then wiggles her hooves around. "That was fun, but it got tiring." She looked to her left and there was a painting of the stair cases. "I thought I recognized those stairs! And this thing is crooked, I'll fix it!" She shifted the painting that also shifted the room around and it was still crooked and she kept moving it back and forth and the room shifted with it. "Why won't this stay in place?"
Dino looks around the room, gathering his thoughts. He reaches over and puts on his fez that had fallen off his head. "Yes, it is fortunate we are all ok..." Dino smiled and Dark Pasts, then walked over to Lamare. "But, we have to get out of here. Lamare, will you stop shifting this room?" Dino chuckled.
Lamare looked at Dino questioningly. "Is that what this does?" She looks at the room as she shifts the painting a few times then grins. "Neat! I found the room control! This is what you wanted me to find, right?"
"Do you ever listen?" Dino smiled again. I'll never know why I joined up, but this exhibition is kinda fun. "Alright, come on, lets find a way out!"
Pwny watched on as the various traps took hold of his crew and defied all known logic. They seemed to have no discernible control, or even a source. It could be magic of some kind...but magic was usually cast at the time it was desired and only by the one who wanted it to occur. For the temple itself to be sustaining its magic for this long would require a power source of an incredible magnitude. Of course this was the Temple of Chaos. Wait...maybe that's the point. This temple is dedicated to Discord. We're trying to solve these riddles using common sense, but you can't use logic to solve an illogical problem. So let's see. If I were a Spirit of Chaos, what would I do? Looking at the vases that had ensnared Lamare not too long ago, they each in fact had the telltale sign of Discord emblazoned on them. I have an idea. Heading over to some of the vases, Pwny touched them and they too latched around his hooves and began to carry him up to the ceiling. As soon as he was on the ceiling, there was a flash, and was back on the floor, the vases gone from his feet. Pwny started dancing and singing about how he had figured it out.
So when Lamare was on the ceiling, we tried to pull her back down, but we couldn't because she was stuck to the ceiling in a temple of chaos. When I had vases on and went upside down on the ceiling however, I started thinking like a Spirit of Chaos, and thus the floor became the ceiling and the ceiling became the floor. I couldn't pull Lamare 'down' because to Lamare, she was already down. Logic has no place in a temple dedicated to a Spirit of Chaos. No more than it would in the actual magic of Discord, which I'm sure some of us remember from when Discord was in Ponyville. Hard to forget a situation like that. Looking around, Pwny decided he had to find the rest of his group and explain what he had discovered. Pwny gave a wry smile as he stated matter of factly to himself, "It makes sense if you don't think about it. In other words, if we want to make it out of here relatively unscathed, we are going to have to learn to think like a spirit of chaos. We have to be able to follow Discord's 'Wonderland logic'." With that Pwny Rushed off to find everyone and tell them what had happened.
((Just follow my lead and I think this will lead to some cool stuff))
Lamare didn't really understand as she gave a confused look then shrugged and bounced along as Dino walked off. "I just think this place is nuts, but fun! I wouldn't think about it too hard, but if that's what you think then ok! And how do we get out of this room of never ending stairs? It just goes on, and on, and on, and ooooooon forever! Kinda neat you can walk upside down and not fall though! It's like we have SUPERPOWERS!"
"Probably not. You see, I'm part of an expedition team, and we've all got separated... I was looking for another member who got dragged away by this weird trap thingy and... Wait, who are you?" Trinket stared intently at the colt, wondering how he'd even got here in the first place.
Dino stopped. "That's it, superpowers!" Dino flew down a few flights of stairs out of sight, then he flew back up, and smashed into a wall next to Pasts and Lamare. The wall gave way and Dino went flying into another room. "Ow, that hurt..." Dino felt around. "Celestia! Where is my fez??
Dino took the fez and put it on his head. "Thanks..." He got up and looked around. "The question is, where are we?"
Rushing off into the next room, Pwny suddenly had trouble breathing. As he gasped for air he ran back into the last room he had just come from. Peering back through the door it appeared to be a room with some large decorative pool or fountain in it. Oddly enough there were various fish swimming in the air. Okay, let's think. Chaos logic. I can't breathe in there, but the fish can. So that means...
Taking a deep breath and holding it, Pwny walked back into the pool room. Stepping into the pool, he found it was actually quite deep and sank to the bottom. Once he was submerged underwater, Pwny tried to breathe. Figures. This actually isn't all that hard once you get the hang of it. Looking around in the pool, there was a small canal that seemed to lead out of the room. Following it, Pwny swam through and found himself in another pool. Taking another deep breath, he resurfaced and exited the new pool room he now found himself in, preparing himself for whatever challenge he found through next door.
"Whoo! Way to smash through that wall!" She lit up the room with a flare that she shot up in the room and stayed there like a light. "What do ya make of this?"
"I'm not sure Lamare...." Dino looked around and heard water coming from one of the walls. He trotted over to it, feeling the walls looking for an opening. "Here, come help me with this!" He continued feeling along the walls, then hit something, and a door opened, flooding the room with water. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea... Dino tried keeping his head above water. "Everypony, hang on!"
Lamare gasped as the water swept into the room. "Yaaaah! I hate water!" She paddles to try and fight the rush of water that poured in, bobbing up and down in the water. "This is the part I...don't like!" Fire was her natural element with her magical capabilities, so it was natural she hated water, though it was reluctant she could swim. "So, are we gonna drown in here?"
Dino regained some composure and tried to float. "Of course not...I'll try to find a drain or something..." Dino went under the water, searching for something that would prevent the water from coming through the door anymore. Dino was caught in an underwater current, and was swept to a wall where he hit his head. He floated up to the surface, unconscious.
Walking through the rooms, this next one seemed to be empty. Just a door. Opening it up and walking through, Pwny was suddenly shooting towards the opposite wall and smashed into it. Getting up and looking around, Pwny realized why he had rocketed towards the wall. He wasn't on the wall right now. He had landed on the ground, and the door had opened up into ceiling. Rubbing his head and groaning, Pwny looked up to see he had fallen into some company. "Hey Trinket! I found you. And you're with...um, you weren't with the group. Who's the new pony? Is he an illusion cast by the temple or something?" Pwny gave the Doctor/Time Turner a few pokes to make sure he was solid.
Lamare kept afloat alright in the water. "I'm alright, but I can't say the same for Dino. She replied to Dark, looking over to him floating up on the water surface. She swam over and got a hold of him, keeping his head above the water for air. "How do we get out of this now?" She looked around the room only seeing the opening that the water was coming through and the level getting higher.
Dino came to in the water, spitting some out. I don't feel good... Dino coughed before speaking. "Where am I? Why is there so much water?" He continued trying to stay afloat.
"You're in the temple that was dedicated to Discord, and you broke apart the wall causing water to flood into the room and now we're all about to drown!" Lamare replied to Dino. "But if ya can't find an exit, make one!" She held her breath as she dived underwater and swam over to another wall. She took out some waterproof fireworks and lit the fuses, tossing them at the wall which suddenly had a mouth that ate them. Lamare wide eyed as that happened then followed by the explosion that opened a hole in the wall and drained out, herself being sucked in by the rushing current.