NPF Avatars IV, Chapter V: Beyond the Wall of Teeth

[POS Industries]

Rei tossed the jumpsuit to Pyros with both deadly force and accuracy.

"Okeedokee," she said, turning her attention back to the rest of the group, "Everyone else, dig in!"

[PyrosNine]

Pyros got a strange, misnamed jumpsuit in the face, and crashed on top of the unconcious Syttulg. Fortunately, he didn't feel the pain when Pyros fell, but would feel it later.

Pyros quickly dressed himself in the jumpsuit but lamented that he was, as the youths said, "Freeballin" and it unnerved him. Hopefully, no one would harm him below the belt. Or perhaps he could find some undergarments soon. Regardless, Pyros put his sword and sheathe on over the jumpsuit and walked back to the group.

"I thank you, Rei, for giving me these clothes."

[Skyshot]

Skyshot fell backwards and put a hand on his chest. Hugs could, on rare occasion, be nice, but he always had been a fan of oxygen. He'd have to watch this strangely behaving newcomer. She was almost too convenient to not be an agent of utmost evil, likely the evil they were trying to destroy. He'd try for a divine consultation later.

"Everyone else, dig in!"

He disregarded his borderline aspyxiation and dove for the briefcase. Within seconds he had emptied it of all contents, despite the many grabbing hands he had to work between.

"Whew! That was...uh..." Everyone was glaring at him. "Uh. Heh heh. Force of habit." He dumped most of it back into the briefcase, hanging on to a few of the nicer potions and victuals. After all, he had to look out for number...well, not really number one, but the number of gods he served plus one. And technically, he was looking out for them, too.

[PyrosNine]

Pyros suddenly thought of something. "Oh, one moment."

He rushed back to where Syttulg lay, and hoisted him up over his shoulder. "Forgive me, for forgetting. I shall carry you till I deem it safe to let you rest."

Pyros walked back to the group. "I think we should keep moving. What darkness lurks within the rock of this place does not stop moving either."

[Steel Shadow]

Steel looked thoughtfully at the invitingly open case. He could see there were energy drinks/bars galore inside, and his stomach rumbled quietly at him to tuck in, but the last time free food had been offered to him he'd ended up poisoned and forced into a rather unpleasant situation involving tunnels that tried to eat him and- wait, that was now.
Besides, this was POS industries.
He slowly edged away from the case, deciding that the coffee would probably see him through untill he could stop off at a little chef on the way to the next temple.

[Fenris]

Fenris just stared at Rei. He'd care about the fact that they implanted devices into his eye, but really, he had seen what Rei could do, so, he just decided to fume silently to himself.

[Flarecobra]

"Sorry, but I doubt you'd have anything I'd need or want in there." I said, crossing my arms over my chest.

[mauve]

Mauve eyed the contents of the briefcase warily.

"This... This isn't gonna, y'know, contain some kind of experimental neurotoxins or mind-control powder or something along those lines, is it?" she asked, inspecting the ingredients statement on a chocolate bar she pulled out of the pile.

[Arhra]

One scene transition later, the NPF'ers were thoroughly lost. That is to say, Arhra - the only person who claimed to have any knowledge about the temples' interior - was lost and the others had merely meandered after her off the edges of the map.

Of course there was no map, being, as it was, a metaphor for just how lost they were. Arhra pushed vines out of her way, wondering how exactly the makers of the temple had managed to fit a jungle in.

And what a jungle it was. The plants were thick and in a variety of colours, Arhra blaming their strange forms on the taint of Chaos. It was so easy to do.

But then the bushes parted and they arrived on what looked suspiciously like a plantation - the land cleared and trees and vines heavy with fruit planted in neat rows. Arhra picked a fruit. It felt slightly greasy and smelt like bacon.

"Uh, what the?" she settled on, deciding to bad grammar get.

[Tarrin]

The floor was getting slicker and slicker as Tarrin taversed the tunnel, Deciding that going much further was going to be a mistake Tarrin went to turn around, Slipped and went flying down the corridor at increesing speed.

As he slid down the tunnel it begain to remind him of one of those slip and slides at the water park, Only faster and harder, The harder part came as the twists forced Tarrin to be slamed against the walls repeatedly.
Then as Tarrin thought he was going to slide forever he was dumped out into the light of day, Unfortunately the light didn't include the ground and Tarrin fell yet again.

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The NPFers were pushing past some vines when a great hurling comet that was Tarrin landed in a pile at their feet.
Letting out a groan of pain Tarrin lifted his head smiled at the group and blacked out.