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[callada]

[The video begins pointed at what looks to be a stone slab of some sort with an unusual symbol carved into it.]

Anyone know what this is? Or where? The SmartSnail location isn't working down here.

[That's not entirely the fault of where he's at; it's intentional on his behalf. But the question still stands. Rosinante backs away from the symbol to reveal that it's on a large stone door, then slowly rotates around his current location to show it in the video feed. He seems to be in some sort of interior - a cave, or a collapsed ruin perhaps, given how the stone surfaces look worked but worn. It's lit dimly by bioluminescence that grows on the walls themselves, twinkling and pale blue-green, and in that illumination the edges of a statue at one end of the cave is visible - a warrior, holding a chalice raised to the sky while winged people encircle him. The passageways look to continue in at least two directions and a faint buzzing is heard. Interference in the video? Or insects? Who knows, as the video ends there.]

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[While awaiting any replies, or guidance of any sort, he stays near the door and the statue for now. The buzzing hasn't stopped, even with the snail tucked away in his pocket. It's pretty down here, but he'd like to leave. Or maybe find someone else stuck down here so at least he has someone to talk to.]

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[callada]

[Captain Buggy sure does impress! The fire rips through the swarm, sending charred bits and pieces of exoskeleton to the floor, where many break into soot on impact.

But there's no time to relax yet. Rosinante raises his pistol again almost as reflex, but since the old man hadn't really been obviously harmed by his shot, maybe these won't either. Instead he barrels forward and stomps down onto the nearest skeleton once and then a second time, smashing its ribcage and clavicles, leaving it helpless to do more than twitch in broken pieces on the ground.]

I can feel cool air coming from the back of the room. There must be a way out, we just have to get to it!

[big_top_boss]

[Buggy is impressed now, watching Rosinante just stomp down onto a skeleton like it's nothing at all. And while he doesn't have Rosinante's size behind him for force, he's got his powers and he starts launching his fists into another skeleton, breaking it apart with violent hits.] Then all we gotta do is clear enough of a path for a flashy exit!

[callada]

I'll settle for any exit, flashy or not!

[The skeletons themselves don't seem armed, but they're quicker than they seem like they should be once they've fully reanimated. Their leader, the old, dead - king? He sure doesn't know - seems to direct their movements by pointing at Rosinante and Buggy, and the skeletons dart toward them and reach with bony arms to try and grab them and hold them down. They're not much of a match for Rosinante's bulk, however, and he has no real trouble dashing another to pieces with a swing of his arm, shattering a jaw with one punch and following up with the other hand to drive his fist right through the ribcage and spine.

He's clearing a path forward, moving toward the feel of cool air, but he glances back to check and make sure Buggy isn't stuck or captured, and a skeleton takes this as an opportunity to leap and wrap its withered limbs around him and pull him to the ground, sending a choking dust of bone particles and dead insects into the air.]

[big_top_boss]

Then let's take what we can get!

[Buggy is in his element. He doesn't have much of a chance in the bulk department, he's certainly nowhere near the size of Rosinante. But he's a powerhouse in his own right, a spinning twisting chaotic mess that can't be cut and separates to protect himself. And he starts grabbing at skeletons, and using them as weapons against their bony allies. And he's cackling madly the entire time.

And then Rosinante goes down, and Buggy goes into action. He grabs the head off of the corpse, and throws it back at another skeleton that's coming up close. And then all it takes is a couple of hands ripping into the rib cage to end the monster that took his new friend down.] Come on! Come on, Rosi! We gotta go! If we can get a little further out, I can buggy bomb their asses to a second afterlife! Haha! It's gonna be so flashy of an end for them! They'll die fabulously! Again!

[callada]

[With that welcome assistance he shoves off the others clawing at him, shatters another into pieces with a whip of his forearm right as it tries to grab at Buggy's hair, then keeps running forward. What's a "buggy bomb"? Who knows, but he's eager to find out, especially if it means all these assholes stay dead.

He sprints toward where the room narrows into a sort of cave at the back, following the scent of fresh air. It's a scree slope, where the cave formed too close to the surface, and part of it collapsed. There's a narrow beam of light and he throws himself at it, digging at the rocks with his hands and trying to widen the gap enough to get out.]

Almost there! Gonna go quiet for a bit so this doesn't make things worse.

[There's a chance that placing a Calm on himself will still the very edges of the rocks as well. They won't grind past each other quite so loudly - and the ripple of sound when he throws them behind won't trigger a collapse of some weaker point in the cave ceiling. Any little thing to get out of here without being crushed by boulders is a bonus. Seeing an opportunity as he turns to check on Buggy, he hefts one of the rocks at a few oncoming skeletons and enjoys the spectacle of them cracking and crumbling on impact, even if it's missing a satisfactory crunch as bones shatter.]

[big_top_boss]

Fine, fine. Just tell me when to bomb them all to dust. A flashy end for an unflashy foe, but I don't want to go for it until you think it's safe. The you back home would know, so I'm hoping the you here's just as capable.

[Buggy doesn't know what Rosinante really wants for him to do, so while Rosi works on the collapsed area widening he keeps the skeletons at bay. Buggy gives him a thumbs up in approval of the crushed skeletons, and goes back to slicing at ancient bones, trying not to think about how weird it is that there's no expected sounds when Rosinante interacts with anything.

Oh well, as long as he still gets to bomb the hell out of the corpses before they leave that's all he cares about.] Die! Die flashily! I really wanna blow them up, especially the old bastard!

[callada]

[That moment Buggy is waiting for comes now, with one last scoop of rock and soil. The path is narrow and he'll still have to haul himself through on his arms and stomach but he's not waiting around any longer than he has to.

He's also not going to just bail and let Buggy toss a bomb near this potentially unstable cavernous exit on his own, so he swaps the effects with a snap of his fingers and a muttered "Silent", and lets the barrier settle in between open air and the rocky ceiling. There will still be vibration from the blast itself, that's not something he's worked out if he can dampen or remove yet, but it's surprising how much effect the sound waves have as they ripple through air and stone.]

Do it now, and then get the hell out of here! I'll be right behind you.

[big_top_boss]

Time for a fabulous death! Die flashily you corpse bastards! [Buggy grins wickedly as he reaches into his coat and pulls out one of his current projects, a sparkling black version of the Special Muggy Ball meant for even greater devastation...

And then for once in his life he's smart enough to realize that sometimes one can be too flashy. And it's best to show a little temperance if he wants to survive. So it goes back into a pocket, and he leans back and out of a sleeve shoots a regular Special Muggy ball.

Which is still really, really impressive! It comes forth in it's shiny red glory, and the minute he shoots it down into the hole the blast is phenomenal. Buggy hauls it out the exist as best he can, and as fast as he can, finally separating into pieces to make it easier to just get through.]

[callada]

[Okay, that is cool. He loves a good explosion and this one ranks up there as both impressive for what it is, and awesome because it's saving both their asses. He reaches for Buggy's arm to try and help pull him along faster right as the guy breaks himself into pieces - which he'd forgotten he can do. Okay. Jarring, weird, but also cool and there's no time to question it.

Hopefully the skeletons are all dust but he's not going to stop and look. He throws himself at the exit he's dug out of the collapsed wall and claws his way along the dirt until he's outside and can stand again. That place down there? Dangerous. Full of undead. Maybe full of taboo ruins for all he knows, so he doesn't feel bad at all when he calls out:]

Buggy! Another one? Let's seal them down there so they can't come after us!

[Going to have to add explosives to his own shopping list now that he's finally free.]

[big_top_boss]

You got it! Haha, Rosi, behold a flashy finale! Die, dead men, die fabulously in the blast of my Super Muggy Ball!

[Buggy laughs manically as he shoots another down towards the dead, and comes back together with a victorious and maybe a bit insane expression. He's so thrilled to be out and safe and alive, and leaving them alone down there where they belong.

They're corpses, and they've begged for a second grave.

He didn't get any treasure, unfortunately, but there's a good story that was gained if nothing else.]