>>5257601With your pal clearly preoccupied, you continue to search the room from before as Ly emerges from your body in his <span class="mu-g">ASTRAL FORM!</span>
"I'll keep a lookout. Try not ta' set off a trap or somethin'."
<span class="mu-i">TRAP</span>. Bah! Waving him off as you swim deeper into one of the surviving structures, your face becomes intimately acquainted with a polished stone wall before you can correct your trajectory. OW! Rubbing your masked nose, you paddle back a little bit to get a closer look at what you discovered: dominating the room like a wide, rectangular obelisk, your discovery is surprisingly light on barnacles and algae--so much so that you can almost see your reflection in its polished surface.
Huh... these are ruins, right? Where are all the, like, murals and wall art and crap? Giving the monolith a good flick, you recoil a bit when a small, translucent eel darts out from a hole at its base! Leaving you with a cautionary hiss, the sea critter makes for greener, or in this case <span class="mu-i">bluer</span>, pastures as you stoop lower to examine its nest.
Roughly as wide as a tall can is, well, <span class="mu-i">tall</span>, the recess houses two small, circular holes on each side--almost as if it were…
"A battery slot."
GAH! Flailing at the sudden voice, you turn to find the grime-covered husk of your BFF Sybil standing behind you like a disheveled scarecrow. "Excellent find, Stanley--t-there's bound to be a power source somewhere..."
"Nothin' below..." Ly announces as he drifts through the rock below you. "You uh, you okay, teach?"
"<span class="mu-i">NEVER BETTER.</span>" She snaps as she shoves a few messy bangs out of her face. "Just... just overwhelmed... just overwhelmed..." As you watch Syb trace the bottom of the monolith to a series of snaking rectangular patterns on the muck-covered floor, you lock eyes with Lil' Stanley as she gives you the animal-equivalent gesture meaning '<span class="mu-i">oh no she AIN'T!</span>'
"There's a clue here, Stanley, and we're going to find it." Sybil mutters as she idly taps her <span class="mu-g">EYEBROW PIERCING CAMERA.</span> "Eye sharp, now--this could lead us straight to <span class="mu-g">ATLANTIS.</span> Eyes sharp."
Trotting off with a few more '<span class="mu-i">eyes sharp</span>' under her breath, Sybil makes her way over to another structure just across the way. yep, you blub, that's our Syb!
"Stan..." Ly murmurs as you poke at the monolith more, "Where'd all da' fish go?"
<span class="mu-b">ROLL 1d100+5 FOR REASONS! I'LL TAKE THE BEST OF 3 ROLLS!</span>
