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Alright, edit is up.

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(Oops)

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Mokley said
Hmm, you raise a good point. The idea in my head was that the platform was not that big, but then again I don't think I specified that in the descriptions.Ok, it is established that Randold took a running leap and grabbed Hania. He made the attempt, he succeeded. However, he did so just as the last light was fading. When he landed, it was in complete darkness. Therefore, it may not be completely clear whether he landed on the ground or on a net of roots, which may or may not intend to drag you both inside.Does that help, maybe?

That helps a lot, yeah. Im rewriting the thing now -
Would it make sense that the forest lets us speak any language and have it be understood by everyone? Because we obviously don't have any language barrier established and we come from different places in the world - possibly even completely different worlds.

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Mokley said
Hey Yandere, that's a great post . . . except, I'm so sorry, you've already been rescued!Before my latest mod post, Randold jumped up to Hania, grabbed her, and continued on to land them both safely on the other side. Hania is now on the ground next to Randold.I really hate to ask you to try again, but I'm not sure how else to handle it. :(

Wait- what? I thought the platform was a really big thing -.-

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Hania screamed as Randold suddenly took hold of her figure, pulling her quickly up and over the platform. When he had landed she fell out of his grip and rolled out a ways from his body, she hit the earth with thud and a lowly grunt. She paused for a moment, dazed, before collecting her wits and trying to look around, she blinked a couple of times but could tell no difference between the two lenses.

Through the unhampered ticking of the forest she heard the entities snaking their way through the grass, the wolf fighting off -presumably- whatever was closing in on Randold and her. The a loud click followed the monotonous ticking coming from the platforms and the rustling was heard in full force.

Randold, having come back from the depths of his mind, grabbed her arm and pulled her up. He whispered to her:

Randold said "Do not worry, we're still alive, and for now that is enough."

Randold paused and Hania stared off into the darkness, trying to soak in the dark optimism that Randold had offered. She jumped at little when he broke the eery silence and directed his speech to the forest. After he gave his lengthy demands the cacophony of violence and not-so-sneaky stalking took its place. Anise's voice broke through the noise, faintly heard over the sound of the rustling roots and the floundering wolf:

Anise said "Randold! Other girl! I'm coming to help!"

Hania gulped when she heard it and yelled as loudly as she could, "Hurry!" She looked around in vain and gripped her rosary. She thumbed along it until she got to the small silvery rose in the center. She gulped again and began to pray out of desperation, her thumb followed along, touching each bead in order as she recited her mantras. The meanings seem deep, but she recites them without giving them a thought, its as if she's reciting from memory rather than meaning. As if she were reciting something in a different language than her own:

All the gods, deposed and ascended, I beseech now in my time of need,
Guthrun, deposed councilor, give me comfort as I ride into battle,
Runa, ascended councilor, give me the knowledge I need to defeat my foe,
Herleifr, deposed general, give me cunning that I might cheat death,
Ragnheithr, ascended general, give me foresight to counter my foes' advance.
Ethelred, deposed king, give me the courage to face my final foe,
Cynefrith, ascended king, give me righteous justice if I pass to the next life.

A battle prayer that Hania helped lead the faithful of Riverforde in before the War of 78 Sinclair. The gods' names would be foreign and unrecognizable to any but those from that world - that would be, the world of Anise Sinclair. She continued the prayer, as her finger passed a larger bead on the chain she recited a different mantra:

Bless me, make me holy, burn off my sins and restore my virgin soul.

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Whelp. Now we're in the dark, with no lantern, and a giant wolf that drools out rotting flesh and Hania's fallen into the hole the platform was covering.

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Hania's arms trembled from fatigue as she dangled from the top of the metal platform. She looked back down again to watch Anise and Arin run off into the woods before the grove grew black. Her fingers ached and slowly began to shift, within moments she couldn't hold on to the platform any longer. Her flingers slid over the smooth metal edge of the vertical platform and clawed hopelessly at its metal surface as she slid down in the darkness towards whatever lie beneath the platform. Her screams echoed into the woods adjacent so that Anise and Arin could both hear what they had done.

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Sweet, got some good nonsense going on here.

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Eek! Hania jumped back, startled by the mechanism springing back into life. The platform jerked quickly down, almost toppling her then begun to tilt at a steady rate towards the beast that came from the woods. Hania was at the edge of the platform furthest from the wolf when she finished activating the glyphs. She stood dazed as the platform began to lift her into the air the metal platform became more and more slick and her balance was fading.

As the platform neared forty-five degrees she jerked back into reality and gripped the edge of the platform and held on with all she could. The platform neared fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety degrees and Hania was at the top, dangling by her finger tips, screaming all the while. He sniffled and her breaths were heavy with fear. She gulped and looked down, at first into the hole and then to the wolf and whatever the others were doing before closing her eyes and grunting as she continued to hold on with all her might.

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Wait, so are Hania and Anise one person now? Who's this Ania character?