Masks 2

Ken talked to the gun, but it did not answer. It was too low tech, sadly. Purely mechanical, with no electronics. Lots of weird magic, too, but none he could communicate with.

Theraea took the guns and put them in her containment unit. Sam whined.

***

The Demon looked to Finn.

"Trust me, it's better they know the danger than think everything is fine," she told Finn. "You can't prepare if you're having the wool pulled over your eyes. We have a better chance of getting through it if everybody knows what we're dealing with and conditions themselves accordingly."

With that, Nocturne finally stepped forward.

"Right, we need to keep moving. Coyote, we'll need your eyes up front," he told her.

And with that, the group proceeded down into the Slums. Reaching the bottom of the ramp and heading into the darkness, they found that the Undercity was flooded. The water near the entrance reached up to an average person's waist, and it was cool and salty. Everybody except Maria heard a soft singing emanating from deeper within the Undercity, and run-down tenements and store fronts extended off in front of them. Alleys branched off the main streets, often housing marketplaces of their own.

Proceeding onward with Maria presumably parting the water for them, the walls of the old city started to give way to bright and colorful walls of "coral" seemingly made of some kind of bone. The coral was covered in brightly coloured polyps, crawling with centipede-like worms and sea slugs, strange eyes blinking out at them from within. The water level also began to rise as they went deeper into the Undercity...

Those affected by psionics also occasionally saw the illusion of the unmarred city flicker, giving them glimpses of the city's true nature as seen by Maria.