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🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

Location: Hotel Valhalla - 100th Floor - Game Room
Skills: Crane Control

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Location: Hotel Valhalla - 100th Floor - Game Room
Skills: Crane Control

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Lara blinked as she looked into the room and paused a bit at that. What had Loki even done to the room, and what was this even? She had never seen anything like this before, having died well before the time of video games and game arcades. She looked around the room and noticed that there were seven controls, one for each of them. Hanging around were those that had been presumed to be killed, including Helgi! She then looked over to the coins and put her hands over her mouth seeing the lifeless body of another there.

Astrid's brows furrowed and her mouth drew taut at that point, as she also saw the lifeless body there. Apparently she had been too good, as their attacker was now dead, laying there having bled out. They probably wouldn't come back, as they were not a prize in the game. She didn't like this set up at all, as this was set up by Loki. Everyone knew that god did not play fair, and this game was probably rigged. "...What do you gain from this, Loki? Why have us gamble for those lives that shouldn't be hanging in the balance. You know they should be here, in the Hotel, not like this."

Lara walked over to one of the sets of controls and looked them over. It seemed simple enough, move the stick, press the buttons and try to get those Einherjar and others out of the game. She then walked over to pile of coins and then picked up one and took it over to the machine she had picked out and put it in the machine. It light up and made a cacophony of sounds that made her wince a bit at that point. She turned to the controls, and started working. It took a bit to get use to it, but soon, Lara had managed to pluck nine Einherjar out of the machines, and free them from their prison.

Astrid wasn't sure they should be so easily playing the game, but those lives were at risk, so once she got an answer from Loki she walked over to the pile of coins, picked one up and headed over to one of the unattended machines and put the coin in. She had played a few of these at the arcades back home, and she worked on carefully angling the crane. One, two, then soon eleven Einherjar were free at her hand. Sure, they were probably confused as to what had happened, but she didn't focus on that. She focused on getting all the ones in the machine she had picked out of the machine.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Just outside the Arena -> The Arena
Skills: N/A

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"Well of course I'd care about you, we're all family after all! I'm Stella, and I'm glad that you're doing alright." Stella offered Demi a small smile at that and then stood up and brushed herself off a bit. She was glad that he could talk, as she knew that if he couldn't that might mean his voice was damaged. She did frown a bit as she saw the bruises forming on his neck, and wished she could do something. However, Kristin caught her attention when she said they should go talk to Chrion and she nodded. She figured they were all safe by now, but that the centaur did need to know.

She followed Kristin back to the bonfire and over to the centaur and looked up at him as she spoke. "Yup, there is something to come see." She could see that some of those that were at the campfire were looking at them, as they were pulling Chiron away from the campfire. Once they were outside the arena and away from most of the other campers, she spoke. "Chiron, something really weird is going on here. I've seen two people act weird tonight, like possessed or something. I'm not sure what's going on, but... I can tell this isn't normal."

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

Location: Hotel Valhalla - 100th Floor
Skills: First Aid

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Location: Hotel Valhalla - Elevator Bank -> Top of Elevator
Skills: N/A

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Lara groaned as she sat up and looked over at the wolf that laid dead near her. She scooted away from the dead creature, as if fearing that it might rise up and chomp off her own hand at that point, vengeance for its untimely death. She really really hated wolves, and they hated her just as much. Just because her father had been the one... No, that wasn't his fault. He had been the honest one. He had sacrificed his hand while the other gods were more than happy to try and trick the wolf. She pushed her thoughts aside as she went to dig around for her pocket first aid kit.

Astrid looked a bit sheepish as Klara spoke. She had been too worried about the wolves that were outside and inside the elevator than to have heeded Klara's words. She wanted to apologize, but what was done was done. They couldn't go back to before at that point. Klara was right, they had gotten very lucky with that fight. She climbed off the top of the elevator and hopped out and into the elevator with everyone else at that point.

Lara dug out the little kit and started treating herself and thankfully, she got herself cleaned and bandaged up. She looked up at Arnora as she spoke and then let out a loud sigh. "We found nothing there, but I do feel better that we checked again and didn't see anything rather than miss something by moving on." She finished binding her wounds and then stood up with a low groan. She looked over at Dalisy as she spoke and then nodded. "I guess we should head that way then. Thank you for spotting that Dalisy."

"Man, we really got lucky that it was only two of them." Astrid looked around, and then paused as Dalisy headed towards the arcade. "Alright, seems that we're going that way." Astrid gripped her spear at that point as she went to follow Dalisy, trying to keep on guard at that point. She really hoped it was only the two wolves, but she had a bad feeling that something else was here, but she didn't know what. She just had an itch that something was wrong.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Just outside the Arena
Skills: N/A

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Stella smiled happily as Kristin gave her another bronze drachma so that she might call her dad's. "Thank you again so much, hopefully this time I can call them without trouble." She half chuckled at that before looking down and seeing something right in front of her. She leaned down to pick it up, and examined it. It was a beautiful bronze sickle, that shined beautifully in the flickering firelight from the camp fire. As Stella wrapped her slender and small fingers around it, she instantly knew that this was a gift from her mother. She smiled brighter at that, as she could tell that this was going to come in handy.

As she was getting ready to split from the group, her attention was drawn back to it when Zeke started choking Demi! "What are you doing?!" She nearly screamed out as she saw that. She was about to summon vines when she saw that Mary had done it and the vines were tying up Zeke. She went over to Demi, kneeling next to him. "Are you okay? Say something? Is there someone I should go get?" She looked up at Kristin, ready to do anything that she could to help the poor young man out.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

Location: Hotel Valhalla - 100th Floor
Skills: Grappling/ Spear Fighting

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Location: Hotel Valhalla - Elevator Bank -> Top of Elevator
Skills: Spear

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Lara let out a slight sigh of relief as the doors opened, and they were finally able to see two people in there, at least their heads. She knelt down at that point and was about to help her when she heard the howls again. Wolves. Her ancient enemy. And now she was sure there was more than one of them at that point, as that was the sound of more than one was echoing through the halls. As she kept her hand out, she was taking off guard by the wolf launching itself at her and then knocked her down. She let out a cry as she put her arms up in front of her, trying to protect her face. Thankfully, one of the Einherjar knocked the wolf off of her, leaving her with some scrapes and bite marks on her arms.

Astrid heard Lara's cries and was worried about her, but it seemed that fate wouldn't be so kind to the group of them atop the elevator as well. Thankfully she already had her spear out, but she wasn't fond of the idea of fighting in such tight quarters. She lunged at the wolf with her spear, and her first attack , more likely ticking off the wolf than doing anything of note or worth damage wise to the wolf. She snarled a bit as she pulled back, getting ready to attack again.

Lara grasped at the pendant around her neck and then tugged at it, summoning her spear to her aid as she worked on getting up at that point. She was injured a bit, but that didn't matter much for the moment. She stared at the wolf, and narrowed her eyes as she went to lunge at the wolf, missing the first time as the wolf moved to the side. The second time she lunged at the wolf, and that time the spear managed to penetrate the skin of the wolf, and she smirked a bit at that.

Astrid pulled herself back and then lunged at the wolf again. This time her pierced flesh, causing the wolf to let out a bit of a growl of pain. The wolf backed off a bit at that point with that attack, and that was probably a good thing for them, as it gave them more space between them and the wolf. She narrowed her eyes as she went to pull back, waiting to attack again at that point.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Just outside the Arena
Skills: N/A

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Stella had been a bit worried that she had done the right thing until Kristin ruffled her hair a bit and told her that she had done good. She did smile a little bit at that. She had done the right thing, and it seemed that she had helped prevent Demi and Zeke from being hurt more. "Thank you." She spoke softly and shyly at that point as she wasn't sure that she could add too much to the moment, since she hadn't witnessed too much earlier. "I'm sorry Lauryn, I do hope I didn't bind you too tightly." SHe shuffled for a bit at that point and then looked back up to Kristin.

"Can I have a couple more drachma please? My Iris call to my dad's got cut off because I went to restrain Lauryn and I didn't think they should see it." Stella looked sheepish as she asked this of Kristin and waited for her response. She doubted that she was the first ever demi-god to have an Iris message cut off, but she did feel bad for having to ask for more money to make the call.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

Location: Hotel Valhalla - 100th Floor
Skills: Strength

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Location: Hotel Valhalla - Elevator Bank -> Top of Elevator
Skills: Climbing/ Spear

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"I agree, we should get the others out before we do anything else." Lara walked back over to the elevators and looked up and down the door. She did hope that she had enough strength in her to help with the doors, but she soon got a great idea. She pulled out her spear and then jammed it into the place where the doors opened and wedged it in there nice and tight. She wiggled the spear for a moment and then frowned as she didn't seem to do anything with the first jiggle of her spear in the door. "Drat, give me a moment."

Astrid chuckled a bit at that, but said nothing to Dalisy. She wasn't happy to hear that it was a wolf, but better that they find the wolf there rather than running around in the hotel attacking other people. She remembered that the children of Tyr always had a hard time with wolves, as any child of Fenris was not a fan of them. She shook her head as she tried to change her thought track and went to follow up Klara and Dalisy to help them both with the wolf.

Lara summoned her strength to herself at that point and the grasped at her spear again and focused. She wiggled and worked her spear and little by little the door soon gave way and the doors opened on their end, and she let out a soft sigh at that until she heard the sound. The howling of a wolf, just in the elevator. "Oh... fuck." She had a bad history of wolves, with whom her father was. She held her spear tightly in her hands, as if waiting for the beast to launch at her. She frowned more as she waited, her hands gripping so tightly that the patter of the wood was probably ingraining itself in her hands.

Astrid tasked herself with getting up to the top of the elevator car, and then dragged herself up and out of the hatch, and paused as she heard more howling at that point and then she grasped at her necklace. She summoned her full sized spear to her aid and her eyes narrowed as she hoped that she could truly be of aid to the others, and she held it out in front of her. She did not speak, as she wasn't sure what would happen if the wolf heard them.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Just outside the Arena
Skills: Plant Control

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Stella paused a bit as suddenly Kristin and Marygold came over, as well as a few others. She was second guessing herself, wondering if she had done the wrong thing. However, she did see that Demi and Zeke were all cut up now, and it seemed that Lauryn was confused as to why she was there now, all tied up. It took Stella a moment, as at first she was too flustered, but once she focused again the vines came down from around Lauryn, and let the young woman go.

"I don't know what happened myself, but all I know is that I was trying to Iris message my dads, and they both must be super confused now since I cut off the call, and I saw Lauryn attacking Demi and Zeke... and I felt I had to do something, but I didn't see the shadows wrapping her up either until after I had tied her up in the vines as well. I can't attest to anything else that happened, but I am sorry Lauryn but I couldn't let you keep doing that. I'm sorry." Of course, Stella was stumbling over her words and speaking quickly as if she had just gotten in trouble for breaking something.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

Location: Hotel Valhalla - Elevator -> 100th Floor
Skills: N/A

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Location: Hotel Valhalla - Elevator Bank
Skills: Lifting

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Lara nodded at what Nadia said and then smiled a bit at that at that as they waited for the elevator. Once they arrived, she got in and then leaned up against the wall a bit as the elevator went up. She listened to the music as well for a moment before tuning it out. "I do hope that it is nothing serious." She looked up at the dial counted up to the floor they wanted to get up to before they got to the 100th floor and she got out with Nadia and started looking around.

"No problem Dalisy." Astrid smiled a bit at that as she truly had no problem holding the other woman up, as she was stronger than she looked sometimes, especially with her upper body strength. She was a bit glad that everyone else had stepped up to help Runa, as she was trying to focus more on Dalisy and keeping her up there. When Dalisy told her that it was stuck she simply nodded. "No worries, I got you. I don't mind if you put more pressure on my shoulders." Astrid did adjust her grip to hold Dalisy up, and then she waited.

Lara looked around the 100th floor and paused a bit as she realized that it was residences and a room that was marked 'Arcade.' She knew what they were but had never really gone to one herself inside the hotel. She did notice the bloody hand print there and narrowed her eyes a bit at that. "Hey Nadia, did you see this?" She didn't want to say aloud what it was as she noticed the group waiting for the elevator as well. She was still worried as it looked like the other elevator was still not going up or down, but well, she turned back to the door and waited for Nadia.

[color=#EDDA74]"Are you alright?"[color] Astrid had seen Dalisy fall and had tried to catch her, but had just missed her it seemed. She offered her hand at that point and waited for to either decline or accept at that point. She could tell that Runa was still panicking a bit, but she was slowly getting control. "If anyone wants to go up and out the hutch, let me know. I can lift you up."

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: The Arena -> Just outside the Arena
Skills: Iris Message + Plant Control

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"Stella... we know you had to go somewhere, but where are you? We've tried calling your cell but nothing. We've been worried." Kenneth looked worried as he spoke to his daughter, and Stella noticed a new patch of silver in his hair. She felt guilty but she couldn't really feel too bad. She had needed to be at the camp, to understand and learn how to control her powers.

"Dad, is Otou-san around? I want to tell you both at the same time."

"Yes, he's here." Soon the face of Stella Otou-san, Taka, appeared in the mist.

"Stella! Oh thank spirits. You're well!"

"Yes, I am Otou-san. I'm sorry to both of you... I promise I was not ignoring your calls. I've had to have my cell phone off since we started traveling. It turns out it is dangerous for me to have them on..." Stella was about ready to give her father's a brief explanation of what was going on when something else caught her attention. She recognized Zeke, and Lauryn, but not the third person. However, Lauryn didn't look right, and she was attacking. "Sorry! I'll tell you later!" She cut off the message and dropped down to the ground, and put her hands on the ground.

"C'mon..." Stella focused, like she this morning. The first time, nothing. The second time, nothing. It was like the plants didn't want to react to her. She frowned and focused a third time, and that time was the charm. The vines rose out of the ground and joined the shadows that wrapped around Lauryn. "You two okay?"