Reforge

Use the water. Let's not go through the ladder.

You get an aim as far up the passage as you can manage while moving as little as possible. They don’t seem to notice. Or move.


whoosh!


wHY is there a pipe here? It’s just right in the way! Your ribs are in inCREDible pain!
The hollow sound of the collision reverberates through the room.


Immediately, the sound of frantic movement comes from below. Also you knock a bunch of stuff over the edge you guess but that’s the least of your problems!


Are they going to come back up here? You might have only a few seconds to do something!

Should you lay some kind of ambush? Find some way to stop them from getting up or from hurting you? Fighting would be risky though, especially without a weapon.

Or maybe you just run for it with your head start- it looks like the tunnel continues past some kind of glowing chasm. You might find a better position or escape it that way... but you think... that's just a pipe laid over the presumably magma-filled gap? That seems just a lil unsafe! And if it catches up with you while you're on it... um. That'd be bad probably.

There's always more blue stuff you suppose? But you still have that feeling that using it again will really wear you out.

What do you do?

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A bit dark for my phone, can still tell what's going on.

Alright, thanks! I tried to make this one a lil brighter but the scene also moved to the part of the area I'd already established as more shadowed so I think this update is even darker overall :|
It's no trouble to edit these if they're too murky, just lmk!