Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-14745711-20140421011632/@comment-14745711-20140510012701

OOC: keep things moving along here please people. :)

IC: the second room Xerex comes to is dominated by a large pedestal of stone, on which is resting a fragment of black rock, with a series of inscriptions on it. It is clearly a corner of a larger whole. The floor this time is composed of rings, each one like a hoop set around the pedestal in the centre, growing larger the further out you went. The cieling in here was high in the air, and could only be discerned dimly in the dusky light.

Xerex looked around the room, carefully scanning for any traps that could be awaiting him. Finally he stepped forwards onto the outmost ring. Suddenly, a bright light showed between the cracks in the floor, and the rings rose slightly off the ground, some high, some low, a few even descended to below the level of the room. A quick glance down told Xerex and his monitors that one wrong move and would plummet into an abyss that could be seen far below, ending in a harsh red light. As if this wasn't enough, scarabs detached themselves from the walls, where they had been hidden and dormant, and began to whirl around the room. The rings also began to spin, faster and faster until the g-forces forced Xerex to implement extra energy to hold onto the platform.

The air was now filled with whizzing scarabs and stone platforms, moving so fast that for a human it would have been impossible to proceed, or to retreat. There was a gap, a timed interval in which it was possible to leap to the next platform, but it was only a window of a single second, and it would decrease the closer ne came to the center. The computers in Xerex's mind began to calculate the precise point to jump. Dagorekh meanwhile said and did nothing, there was little or nothing he or Sarumanekh could do to help Xerex out of this one.

One of the Lychguard had followed Xerex through the previous room, and suddenly seeing the moment during which he might make the jump, he leapt. He would have landed on the platform easily, had the swarms of scarabs not instantly zeroed in on him and torn him to shreds. This forced Xerex to stop a d reconsider. Slowly and carefully he removed a small circular device, and activated it, holding it high in the air. Every scarab in the room turned to face the device as flung it into the pit below. The insectoid robots quickly followed the device which was transmitting on a frequency that the robots were programmed to follow, it was a method to destroy scarabs when control was lost, and unique to the Isandrekh dynasty. Xerex now had to act fast, it would not be long before new scarabs were produced, he had to make his move at once.

With precision timing he leapt from platform to platform, until finally he reached the central pedestal. There was no time to scan it, no time to be cautious now. Xerex seized the piece of stone and turned to return the way he had come. But, suddenly the platforms slowed and became still, returning to their places as the room's floor. Carefully Xerex stepped forwards: yes, the floor was stable. He was about to cross out of the room and leave, when from behind him came the noise of machinery long dormant, powering up, back into life.