A sudden revelation: Open RP

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((Takes place a couple of days after Musical Day.  Much like last time, start a new comment thread when your character shows up.))

In the classic manner of all great ideas, this one came to Sallah at an unlikely time.

He dreamed he was walking through the Temple of Mara -- the original, not the replica.  Before him was the cistern, and within he could hear a tap-tap-tapping of metal on stone, and a voice: Becker's.  He leaned forward to hear what the man was saying, but it was faint, so faint -- six feet ... down ... below ... below ... six feet ... more ...

He leaned further into the cistern, straining to hear, and then his foot slipped and he fell, down into darkness --

-- and Sallah sat bolt upright on his cot.

Of course!

The entire entrance display to the Indiana Jones Adventure was underground.  More than six feet underground -- past the putative barrier that they'd encountered!

He burst out laughing and, too excited to sleep (dawn was still at least a couple of hours away, he guessed), scrambled out of bed and dressed.  He scrawled a note on a scrap of paper, grabbed a pickaxe, shovel, and lantern and headed out, first to tack the note onto the front gates of Adventureland, next to fill a rucksack with food and water, and then onward to the Indiana Jones Adventure itself.  He descended into the tunnels and when he'd reached a suitably deep spot -- as best as he could tell -- he set up operations.

The walkway shattered most satisfyingly when he smashed into it with his pickaxe.  This was more like it.

***

The note tacked to the Adventureland gate read:

Not done exploring yet.  Continuing work inside the Indiana Jones Adventure.  All are welcome to join.  --Sallah

Comments

[bestdigger.livejournal.com]

"It is research, Mr -- Macavity, is it?" Sallah glanced from Kira to Macavity. "Help or not as you will, but kindly do not interfere." He glanced down the passage. "We have enough distractions as it is."

[hidden-paw.livejournal.com]

"Interfere?" Macavity spread his paws wide, his expression guiless. "Why on earth would I what to interfere? I've merely come to watch, and potientally gloat if everything goes as I've predicted."

[bestdigger.livejournal.com]

Sallah had very little use for unhelpful observers on a dig -- but on the other hand, he'd also had a great deal of experience with them as well, and the best thing to do was to simply get the job done and not rise to their bait.

"As you wish," he said, his tone so neutral as to be almost rude. "Mr Potter, I will only be a moment -- I wish to investigate the passage briefly. I shall rejoin you and Mr Kira shortly."

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

James looked from Sallah, to Macavity, to down the tunnel. "I'd like to come too, in case something happens," James said. "There should be two of us so that one of us can run back for help."

[bestdigger.livejournal.com]

Sallah nodded; of course, James had the right of it. "Very well. Mr Kira, I hope you don't mind staying behind." He preferred it that way, really -- especially if Kira knew this Macavity ... person. Whom Sallah did not particularly trust.

[hidden-paw.livejournal.com]

Macavity gave him a long look, ears back. He spared another glance to Sallah and James, tail twitching, and snorted at Kira's comment about 'screaming like girls'. Inwardly, he was still incredibly amused at the reaction of the two men to his pranks, and wondered what sort of past event had made them so scared of the dark.

After a moment or two, he sighed. "Very well. I'll go first."

The cat-man crouched and marked an X in the centre square.

[hidden-paw.livejournal.com]

The cat-man blinked, and grinned briefly before marking the square to the left of Kira's O.