There was a Basement? [X2 Missions] [Concluded]

[Claws of the Tundra]

Name: A Surprising Treasure
Rank: D
IIRC: None
Difficulty: Trivial
Objective: Search the secret and dusty basement underneath Yukigakure's Castle.
Description: By means that were not intentionally a really really REALLY old basement...or dungeon has been found under...well a basement. Look through it and see if there is anything that stands out, and more importantly if nothing crazy dangerous or weird is in there.
Reward: (x1) Dusty clothes, Adoptable vampire child, new searchable area within Yukigakure.

Name: I'm Awake?
Rank: D
IIRC: None
Difficulty: Trivial
Objective: Awaken Ortlinde the...dead child? Where is its face?
Description: Something has been revived within a weird dusty place. Experience life and prosper, and hopefully its not the end of the world.
Reward: Life

"Ugh, disgusting...remind me to have this wretched place severely deep cleaned when we get out of here." Growled a distinctly irritated female voice echoing off in the distance of the dusty, and stale hallways of this long dimly lit basement underneath a basement. This voice belonged to Lana Dethorne the princess of the Dethorne family, and kage assistant of the Yukikage. "Oh quit your whining and help me look around already." quipped another female voice whom belonged to the Yukikage. Up until now, the residents of the Yukigakure Caste have never ever suspected, something as old as this damn near dungeon like section of the place to even be here.

The thing reeked literally of old architecture having eroded itself into the earth it was carved into. The thing was stable enough to hold tons, and tons of history despite possibly being hundreds of years old. Locked behind a big heavy door, that was hidden behind a wall that used to be sturdy enough to leave no trace of the door's existence.

That was until the Yukikage accidently uncovered the once secured secrets by literally knocking the wall over...by leaning on it. Perhaps its fate telling her something about her tendency to lean on things... Or maybe its simply by chance that the royal rump of the Yukikage knocked a loose brick out of place which caused a chain reaction that toppled down, and created a full hole in what was deemed a normal wall from within the castle's basement which is placed right above this one. Odd stuff.

Regardless of this the two women continued to walk throughout the halls of the basement. The Yukikage finding herself oddly interested in all of the possible new finding she could use for the village...or herself it need be. Nothing of major interest came about until her heterochromia eyes of white and azure, feasted themselves on a large room with a golden door, and fancy artwork engraved into the wall the door was attached to.

It is this room that could possibly lead the Yukikage into yet another big discovery. Her face lit up in amazement. "Jackpot...hehe what do you think is in there? I hope its a golden toilet that would be such a good joke. I'd so do that." she'd joke in a giddy manner before reaching out for the handle, only to have her left hand roughly slapped by her assistant.

"Owww! What the hell was that for Lana?" she'd whine while turning her gaze over to her assistant whom, only sternly held out a single white glove towards her. With a deadpan stare she'd oblige only to get things moving along. Slipping her now slightly stinging hand into the glove until it fit verily snugly. Once that was done. Kahimi would reach for the door and...

*jiggle jiggle*

"Shit...its locked. Guess I should have expected that. Okay I tried it the easy way. Time to prepare for the hard way Mr. Door." she'd announce before her gloved hand would be encased in ice. With that done Kahimi would nonchalantly bust the door open, and break the lock using her ice claw transformed hand. Now freely able to witness what was behind the golden painted door.

---

@ortlinde

[Deleted]

The room discovered by the Yukikage could only be described as a crypt. The bones of Humanoids long dead lay covered in the dust of insects equally long dead and decayed. Even the wood of the burial containers had been reduced to naught but dust. This was a tiny realm that had not seen the warmth of a beating heart in a long, long time. Several decades at the least, very possibly a century or more. A word was carved in elaborate script on the opening archway; "Walkure".

Also of note was its size...or lack thereof. Barely enough room for an adult Human to pass between the tiered remains. It was unclear if this tomb was an act of reverence or dismissal of the inconvenient. Either way, what was left of its occupants was not likely to care.

The end of the hall opened up somewhat into a reliquary chamber, dominated by a pedestal holding an ancient lance. Once upon a time, it may have been a fine piece, or else held powers worthy of a pedestal. Now however, a cursory glance alone told that it was utterly unremarkable in every way - except perhaps its size. To use such a weapon properly would take both strength and skill.

Behind that, seeming almost shoved aside as an afterthought, was the sole surviving gravestone. Vaguely triangular in shape, it seemed to be less something built and more carved wholesale from the rock and ice, whether by chakra or with advanced tools. Another word was applied to this, but it was much cruder work, small and unsteady; "Ortlinde".

Claws of the Tundra

[Claws of the Tundra]

"Whoa..." the Yukikage would say as the unearthly visual of this cryptic room that was locked behind the golden door. Lana in particular had the most distain for the findings, mostly do to the near instant waft of stench assaulting her respiratory senses.

The secretary standing some feet away behind the Yukikage began to cough, and hack uncomfortably from dust, and the stench combined. Her free hand now, waving furiously in the air in front of her face to protect herself from the cruel elements attempting to invade her space. "Ugh, this whole place is a life hazard..." she'd grumble lowly clearly running out of patience with this 'treasure hunt' they were making.

Out of all the times Lana has expressed displeasure in something, this was one of those rare times where the Yukikage could let it slide unscathed. Her complaints being heard as usual, but this time they were quite accurate. Though for some reason Lady Kahimi was not satisfied just yet.

Her intuition was buzzing very adamantly as best. Her decisions to move forward with the searching, standing true to this will to discover. Which for the most part looks to be getting somewhere finally, even if that somewhere seems like a waste of effort based on what the two of them are now seeing. The only thing to possibly take of positive note, was the inscribed word...no...a name that was presented on the archway above.

"Lana remember that name up there please." the Yukikage would order, right before she carried on ahead without any warning. Much to Lana's dismay of course. The skeletal remains, and bug dust was not a very motivating find. The path now, was everything except spacious, which was to the dislikes of even the Inuzuka whom has been unnaturally resilient as lenient thus far. As she worked her way through the thin hall of these decayed catacombs with Lana some distance behind her, she could only suppress the creeping sensation that one of these skeletons was gonna reach out and touch her. Which if that happens will spell certain doom for a lot of things.

Luckily none of those worries seemed to come true, and instead Lady Kahimi and Lana now, found themselves in the presence of what looked to be a secluded room dedicated to well...this lance. A big lance! A...useless lance... The weaponry surrounded by much nicer things had its own special pedestal to rest itself on, which could catch anyone's eye even if the weapon itself has aged poorly. This find still had value to Lady Kahimi as she immediately thought about some people who could possibly restore this relic, or at least reverse engineer and build a replica of it.

"Great we found an old poking stick, can me go now? I don't feel safe down here, and neither should you!" Lana began to scold being on quite the thin line of tolerance as it is. Her mood having soured beyond repair until further notice as long as they stay down here looking through this basement of worthless things as far as Lana is concerned. "No, not yet...look." Lady Kahimi would say quietly while she gazed curiously at the gravestone casted off to the side. "Ortli-...Otlin- Ahlina...no...Ort-linde? That's a bit of a weird name." She'd mutter to herself. "So what? Its a grave. Leave it alone, and we can go and research it later if you care that much. Why are you being so weird, and why in the hell do you care this much about extremely dead people? For all we know there is dust in there too given this place's track record so far..." Lana dismissably questioned as she was quite openly puzzled about all of this. Though while looking over to the great lance laying on the pedestal Lady Kahimi put the pieces together and began to wonder some things.

"Because genius, look at all the clues? Fancy shines, and holy relic items? Possibly ancient family name? Super badass, but unforgivably old weapon piece?

This Ortanda Walkey person or whatever could be a famous and powerful warrior of the old era or something cool like that! Or you know...just a dead normal one. There are so many possibilities its almost rude not to you know...peek a little.

Why are you so uptight about this anyway? I thought you liked looking through history to uncover secrets about Snow Country? Now all of a sudden you wanna chicken out? I don't think so missy." she defended sternly not caring about how Lana felt since they had come this far already. Though once she even went to take a closer look, Lana chimed in again albeit much more angrily this time.

"ABSOLUTELY NOT! Kahimi Inuzuka!" She snapped quickly with a harsh tone that made the kage flinch once out of habit from admittedly hearing that more than once already. Although afterwards she'd turn around to face the shouting woman, with a look of confusion on her face while holding her arms out at her sides in question.

"What did I do now?"

"Don't you what did I do now? ME you damn uncultured, leper, sociopathic weirdo!" she mocked crudely "I KNOW what you are thinking in that sick disconnected brain of yours, and I am NOT gonna stand here here and just let you act on it. First it was the demon child now you wanna do this? Have you no decency? No shame? No respect?

You can't just go around finding stuff, and looking for things as if this is some sort of open market at a thrift shop. This is a tomb! A place for the dead. That mean what is gone, should be left alone and remain un-di-sturbed.

Do you understand me young lady? Cause I know that think Inuzuka head of yours has a hard time hearing with all that damn hair of yours.

I need you to get your act together; NOW. I am leaving and its my job to watch over you, so you are coming too damn it." she'd say unapologetically having finally had it with this whole trip.

Lady Kahimi on the other hand? She'd be standing there...silent...seemingly unfazed just blinking at the woman. Then without a single care in the world she'd go back to look at the gravestone inspecting it for a minute before reaching for the conveniently left behind shovel next to it.

"Lana sweetie. Please be a good girl and hush up before I hit you for insulting me so loosely. With all that noise you are making the dead will be hearing you for the next generations or two." she jokingly insulted back as easy as that. Which basically pushed Lana enough to make her give up trying to convince the Yukikage to turn back. With this Lana groaned in annoyance, while looking back at the entrance they came from with half the mind to leave right now. Leaving the secretary to pout in silence.

The only sound left would be the sounds of the shovel scooping into the dirt in front of the gravestone, and then being dumped out right next to it. All of this going on for a surprisingly short time before a deep, yet slightly muffled *thud* sounds emitted as the Shovel hit something solid.

"A coffin? How they hell did they manage to get a coffin in this through that gap?" she'd question out loud. After a minute or two of searching Lady Kahimi would fully uncover the coffin. "Looks like they cared enough to put you in a death box right Ortlinde? That means must have been kind of important right? At least to have a lance that big." the Inuzuka playfully mentioned out loud.

"Oh please for the sake of my sanity; don't start talking to the dead too Ms. Kahimi." Lana practically pleaded in annoyance hoping she wouldn't have to repeat herself. "I am sure Orlin or whoever is in there doesn't want a mutt like you teasing them like that." she'd finish. Lady Kahimi whom wasn't listening anyway and already had the shovel in hand, would stand up a bit of a distance away, and then use the shovel to wedge in between the coffin's door. With some effort she'd use her adequate upper body strength to lift thing open to finally reveal whatever may or may not be inside.

[Deleted]

The simple wooden coffin was still relatively intact, though the rot eating away at it made excavating it without smashing it to bits more difficult.

Opening it was much easier. Nobody had ever bothered to seal it closed. What lay inside would surprise anyone expecting Human remains: nothing. The container was empty aside from a pair of small bags, one containing a modest sum of currency and one containing what looked like hemophilia medications. And also...a somewhat tarnished but absolutely unmistakable slab of carved steel attached to a length of cloth; a Yukigakure headband.

Depending on interpretation, this could mean a lot of things, but there was one objective truth - there was no body there.

[Claws of the Tundra]

The old rotting coffin was opened with ease, which left the Yukikage to find the discovery of...nothing? Her heterochromia eyes blinked a few times, as she stood there puzzled while staring into the generally empty coffin. The only findings inside the thing were two bags. One containing what looked like a lump sum of currency, and then the other had...medication?

"Okay this is officially weird?" Lady Kahimi muttered highly suspicious of what she was seeing. "Now you say that?" Lana chimed in with a sigh, as she turned around to see what was even going on. Once she took a look her worries, were rising more and more on this whole trip being a bad horror trope waiting to happen...

It didn't make any sense. It there is no sign of this 'Ortlinde' person anywhere in the coffin besides some worn out headband of the village. The Yukikage would reach down to pick the tattered headband up, and look it over. "What happened to you Ortlinde?...tell me something." she'd say trying to think. With her mind running on possibilities Kahimi eventually, made her way over to the headstone looking at it again. Her curiosity building up, just as fast as Lana was getting uncomfortable. Eventually she shrugged, and would prop herself up on top of the headstone rock, now looking at Lana.

"You think Ortlinde  escaped as zombie walking around amongst our people?" she'd half jokingly ask. Which Lana with her intense deadpan stare did not find very amusing.

[Deleted]

Due to its shape, the headstone was poorly balanced. When the Yukikage leaned against it, it tipped over and smacked loudly against the wall, sitting at an angle. A large crack ran from the point of impact halfway down the length of the front.

And then it exploded. A misshapen THING covered in tattered rags was launching itself at the only sources of warmth it could feel, all flailing hair and wicked whirling claws and gnashing fangs. It unleashed shrieking howls of anguish and rage.

If the creature could be held at bay long enough to get a good look at, the duo would see thin, wrinkled, sheet-white skin wrapped tightly around limbs that bent at unnatural angles and ending in large, curved nails. The face was dominated by a gaping mouth, but was otherwise smooth - eyeless, noseless, earless. There was hair, but it was gray and matted and extremely long.

What manner of creature had been unwittingly unleashed upon the world?

[Claws of the Tundra]

Once again the royal rump of the Yukikage has uncovred the hidden long lost secrets of something done years ago. All she did was bless the stone with the gentle surface of her tush, and it caved under her lightweighted body. Its poorly designed, and established foothold did not hold the stone properly to such weight.

Kahimi would pause in her speech, flailing her arms and leaning forward as soon as the headstone started tipping backwards. The effort gave herself enough momentum to catch herself, and land on her feet though the loud sound of the stone hitting the hard wall had her pause similar to how a child would pause to the sound of their parents coming to the kitchen unknowingly about to catch them in the act of stealing cookies.

This pause would be as cute as can be from an outside point of view, but to Lana is just another one of Kahimi's careless idiotic moments, making more trouble. The empty sound of the room they were in now once again filled by the sound of Lana's gloved hand completing a full agitated facepalming gesture as she sighed in disappointment.

"Does it look bad?" The Yukikage asked sheepishly while straightening her goofy posture back into a normal standing stance. Although of course she is also acknowledging that this time she probably did do a little too much. However there would be more to this situation than the both of them initially thought to be simple accidental vandalism to an old forgotten headstone.

To both of their surprise the headstone would explode, and in its place would be a creature neither of them knew how to describe pleasantly. Kahimi shrieked as her visible jagged outline of her body ran from head to toe with her hair spazzing out from the jumpscare she wasn't prepared for. "Its a zombie!?" Lana on the other hand, although startled did not react in such as way. The loud, room shaking roar of this wrinkly thing, was clue enough that bad things were happening.

The creature although closest to Kahimi would seem to favor Lana, and although she was gonna jump ahead of the Yukikage anyway this attack put things in her favor. She didn't have time to summon her bo-staff in defense so instead she'd rely on her hand to hand skills. The secretary practically sprung into action as the creature came at her rashly and without any direction other than to just be on top of her it seemed. So using Aikido Taijutsu, Lana would capitalize on the clawed grapple attempt. Her movements catering to keep from leaving any time for the hellish thing to scratch or bite her for obvious reasons.

Her body moved with force, and precision when interacting with the creature. Her face being stone cold flat, as she'd palm it in the face aiming for the chin to snap its head back enough to startle its senses, before she would twist the beasts already weird body around to her advantage using its momentum against it. Grabbing a hold of its wrist while capturing its other hand firmly Lana would use a simple technique in order to flip the creature over using her hip and her grip on its wrist alone. After sending it crashing down onto the floor, she'd take no hesitation in pinning it down face first using her weight to keep it uncomfortably locked down. With this done, she'd be able to free her left hand, and access a knife hidden in her buttoned vest.

However as she held the knife at the creature's neck ready to silence it, Kahimi would go out of her way to stop Lana by grabbing her arm very firmly. Her kage side now slipping through fully as her adrenaline woke her up the the weight of the matter.

---

(Enter the passionate verbal flames and personality spirit of the Dognado Mom)

"Lana stand down,...now." She'd order very firmly.

"What? You can't be-" Lana protested only to be cut off, though not in a means to mock or tease as usual for the Inuzuka.

"No listen to me for a second. Isn't kind of odd that this...thing was just in the stone that whole time? I knew something was up about this place the minute I found it, but the reason I was so forward with continuing to look around is because of weird shit like this. Look I know you have your issues with things like this, but we need to investigate further. For all we know we could be killing an innocent villager who was locked away for no reason."

"OR we could be wasting time, and be unleashing a virus, or letting loose some mind melted beast who was locked away in a stone for a REASON just because you wanna play witch doctor, and try reviving more monster people for no reason other than you think it can be a good thing to do. Not everything things needs to have a grey area. This is a weird coincidental encounter, we don't need to think deep for this, just let me kill it." she protested harshly.

"For a reason? Lana...look at it, and look how you are treating it. The damn thing doesn't have a face of course we could just kill it and move on like we didn't just find a fucking underground basement that is hundreds of years old, with a hidden shrine dedicated to someone named Ortlinde Walkure who actually had a Yukigakure headband, AND was buried here without any known reason justifying so.

This was sketchy from the beginning we might as well place safe bets, and make something out of it. If you were a wrinkly old faceless thing being crammed in a stone for a countless amount of years, I am sure you'd awaken pretty pissed and defensively confused too. The Tsuchikage can bring people back to life in pristine condition for fucks sake, and you wanna draw the line because the scary no face lady attacked you? Are you serious right now?"

"Kahimi...listen to me, you are way over your head here. We can't just keep playing peacemaker, and be recklessly adopting outcasts, and whatcha-macallits because YOU wanna be an honorable person all of a sudden. You can't even spend a week without trying to skip out on work, and you expect me to trust you when you do stuff like this?? You have got to grow up, and be real here. This is not some time to be a hero and give mindless beasts moral reasons for attacking people. I am not taking life perspective advice from an ex-con playing leader for a day because her daddy didn't beat her enough when she was-"

*SMACK!*

Lana's whole head would be turned to the right side as Kahimi completely laid a strong and quick slap across her cheek. The act itself was so shocking Lana couldn't even comprehend that her cheek was stinging and that her glasses were tilted sideways yet. All she could tell was that Kahimi just hit her, and that she was pissed out it seemed...

"Now you look her you prissy little wench...First off don't bring my personal life into this, I gave you the respect of trying to convince you with my own logic, I don't need you throwing my father who is a village HERO mind you, into your stuck up antics. You don't know a damn thing about giving people a sense of worth considering your way of disciplining me is by calling me damn near racist remarks, and chaining me to a desk to file your precious paperwork that doesn't get anything done in the real world.

You can be a bitch to me all you want, but the only reason Juniper hasn't spread your pampered body across the floors and walls like an arts and crafts project is because I forbid her to kill senselessly like she would be able to do so in the wild. She is a survivor, and so are the rest of us and she like the rest of us deserve a place to be able to live peacefully.

Villages if ran right can provide that. Juniper isn't some beast and you know that, and you think I don't know that you have made people treat her like shit for the past few weeks damn near a month. And yet you fail to acknowledge that she has kept herself relatively calmer lately than her record had showed her to normally handle her situations.

I am trying so desperately right now to tell you that something isn't right, and taking the easy way isn't going to make it better for an already FUBAR'd situation. So excuse me for hitting you, but I'm a little pissed that you seem to just be once again okay with defying my judgment because you don't think I can't make good decisions despite all the good I have done for this village by direction certain choices and actions from the position the council gave to me. I'm grown ass woman Lana I don't need you to advise me on a damn thing unless I ask you to do you understand me?"

And with Lana, did not say another word. She couldn't muster the confidence to speak again, without considering everything already said to her, which is a first in regards to the relationship between the two of them...

"That is what I thought. Silent, because you know its true. I am smarter than you think I am, and if I didn't have such a kind heart underneath my ice cold exterior I'd kill you simply for looking at me funny.

Oh but wait...given my juvie record you out of all people should know I don't senselessly kill people unless they push me to act out due to their rash actions or, because I had no other options. Its not like I you weren't my attorney helping clear my name when I was framed for premediated murder to cover up for someone else's bullshit before.

Nooo its not like you didn't figure out, and understand that it was self defense after all back when I was some no name ninja that got into the wrong crowd trying to hide from responsibility as a teenager. Lana I kew you then and I know you now. You know when things aren't right and when something needs further looking into.

So DO NOT tell me you aren't suspicious and curious too. That was an empty fucking coffin, for someone who had been buried here, and belonged to the village. Someone with a last name that isn't in the records more or less, with history that dates back to something possibly important.

Someone who is now not being treated right, nor were they treated right before. Sound familiar to you? Listen I'm the damn kage here right? So you know what? Fuck your option if this is how you wanna treat me. Instead you WILL obey and listen to me. I know you have issues with the way I run things, and how I act and sometimes its for understandable reasons. However you are a stuck up racist bitch so...you no longer have a say in this case anymore."

From this point Lana wasn't eve sure who she was being lectured by anymore, having never seen Kahimi get this worked up and yet talk like this before. If she didn't know better she would have accidently let the pinned winkle monster go too.

"Juniper is out there trying to live like the rest of us when nobody wanted her to exist. I gave her a chance to see the world differently, but nobody except ME is going the extra mile to do anything to help."

"Wait that's not the same thi-"

"NO! Shut up. Don't forget I'm the bitch that went up to the damn council and told those assholes to do something about it. I STARTED the push to revive this village. I STARTED the push to learn the history so we can grow. There is a BIG PIECE of history sitting right underneath you ungrateful uptight ass, and you wanna kill it!!

A whole bunch of strong people who lived in a time period before now, are still around able to recall the old days yet NOBODY has ever said anything about a damn basement under this stupid castle's basement! You don't get to tell me what IS and AND isn't worth looking into considering YOU didn't take the initiative to look in the first place, and let something like this become another chore for you but your stupid standards.

So stand down and subdue the thing already so we can leave. I'm putting it in a stasis tank like Lord First did when he got sick years ago. We are gonna figure this shit out, and I bet you on my life that this is Ortlinde who for some reason was buried and PERSERVED in a fucking gravestone for crying out loud. Now hurry up and knock her out we got work to do..."

Kahimi'd say this last bit and then finally give her voice a rest so she could stand up again. Though she wouldn't bother making sure Lana followed orders. She was already on her way out the room ready to leave, thus the only thing Lana could and would do...was follow orders...

---

Technique Used:

SPOILER: Click to show

Katadori Nikyo Omote
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A swift, and simple defense against a grab using a pronating wristlock takedown.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture From Gyaku Hanmi, when your partner grabs your shoulder, step well off the line of attack to the left and execute an atemi to his face with your right hand. Grab his right hand with your right hand from above, holding it against your shoulder. Grab his wrist from below with your left hand. Change to Gyaku Hanmi and apply a Nikyo lock to his wrist. Apply Nikyo pressure by inclining your body toward your partner. Proceed with the Nikyo pin. It is important to utilize fully the power of your shoulder when executing this technique. When an opponent is on the ground, the user is free to break an elbow, dislocate the shoulder, dislocate the write, or even strike the controlled target. The user is able to redirect 15% of the opponent's fighting power back to the opponent when performing this technique as a counter.
Limit: Must learn from an Aikido Master. Must know Basic Techniques.

[/font]

[Deleted]

If it had eyes, the rampaging creature would most likely have appeared most perplexed as it felt its momentum suddenly change right when it was at it's most eager, that instant of first contact.

But instead of tearing into flesh and blood, it was thrown effortlessly to the floor, hard. Dazed for a moment, it was relatively still, only to roar back into flailing action with as much fear and bewilderment as anger, only to be more thoroughly restrained. It had no idea what went wrong, but something was very wrong with this situation. Its prey held it pinned, completely and utterly dominated.

When the two voices spoke, the earless head could not hear per se, but could feel the vibrations and the movements of stale air on its skin. Two creatures. But only one warm spot? Displaying intelligence on the level of a particularly befuddled wolverine, it quietly attempted to work out the difference between what its senses were telling it. This just strained its mental faculties until it gave up thinking and went back to trying - incredibly ineffectively - to eat the warm thing.

And then it was clobbered senseless.

[Claws of the Tundra]

The spat between the two women concluded with one side over powering the other, and leaving the loser left with no choice except to follow the winner. At least this is how it was going on the surface. Lana was not particularly comfortable, or happy with the way Kahimi was suddenly acting out lately, but she didn't want to press further on the matters. Her orders were clear, and for the time being she'd comply silently.

It surprisingly would take a few chops to the neck, to actually get thing still trying to take a bite out of her, go back into silence. This is most likely, because Lana had some real fear of what would happen is she went ahead and killed the thing, so she refused to be incredibly rough with it, in fear of somehow killing it or breaking it too much. Once that was done, Lana would to her disapproval would retrieve the wrinkly creature in preparations to leave. A creature who Kahimi was acknowledging in a hunch of it being Ortlinde Walkure whoever that may have been. As much as Lana didn't want to be affiliated with a other weird project to rejuvenate something previously lost to and transformed by the harsh world around it, she had no choice now.

Her task was laid out for her in full. So she'd carry the late creature out of the basement as directed by Lady Kahimi. The very person who was determined to get to the bottom of figuring out what exactly Ortlinde and all of these discoveries surrounding her mean...

[Exit with Ortlinde. x2 Missions concluded.]

[Hoarfrost Imp]

Mission completed.

x2 credit; Claws & Orty

[Deleted]

-dragged along-