Of Getting Lost & Yetis [Take 2] [Wicked Basket]

[Ethereal-Star]

With a sigh, the blonde mage in white looked at them briefly before saying, "A pity. We could have achieved many great things together. Ah well. It's off you go then!" And with a wave of his staff, the ground opened up right underneath Adelaide and Cryce, opening up into a dark pit below, causing the two of them to fall right down into it!

Adelaide let out a yelp! as she tumbled down into the darkness and landed on her side hard. Groaning, she rolled off of the large rock she had fallen on top of and tried to sit up, gingerly holding her side in the process. Looking up at the hole above them, the infuriating mage simply said, "Enjoy your stay!" before the hole closed up, leaving them in total pitch blackness.

[Wicked Basket]

Cryce acted fast, creating a slide beneath him for him to slide down and dampen the fall. Cryce got to his feet and looked up.

"Let me out of here so I can kill you," he roared. "I'll freeze you solid and break off your limbs one by one!"

[Ethereal-Star]

There was no response other than the sound of faint laughter through the rock and dirt which separated them from their captor. Adelaide winced and sat up, looking around. She couldn't see a thing and went to go feel for the torch she had dropped. Feeling around for it, her fingers grabbed onto the familiar piece of wood a few feet away, although in the darkness it was difficult to tell for sure how far. It must have sputtered out in the dirt which could be felt beneath her hands.

Blindly reaching for her bag, the ice mage located that too and fumbled around for the tinder box to relight the torch. Orange-red flames lit up the small chamber they were in, revealing a barren place of rock, dirt and not much else around them. She glanced quickly around for any kind of exit or tunnel. There was none. And so Adelaide cursed yet again.

[Wicked Basket]

"I'm gonna kill him," Cryce said simply. "I don't know how, but he is definitely going to die."

[Ethereal-Star]

Adelaide could only agree, nodding her head with a grim expression on her face. She looked around again, once more trying to find some sign of an exit. There was nothing. Sighing, she planted the torch into the loose dirt beneath her, wedging it in securely so it would stay put.

To Cryce she said, "If we find a way out of here, that jerk is going to know some real pain." Although her words might very well have been feathers against a storm, for all the weight they carried. Sitting down in a corner, the ice mage thought about what to do, but no ideas were forthcoming.

[Wicked Basket]

There wasn't much for them to do besides sit at the bottom of the hole, but Cryce wasn't giving up that easily. A pillar of ice rose up from beneath him and carried him all the way up to the ceiling. It was solid rock.

Cryce lowered himself back down to the floor and sat down. He began contemplating a way to somehow escape and then murder their captor in the most gruesome way imaginable.

[Ethereal-Star]

Watching the other ice mage conjure up a pillar of ice to raise himself to the ceiling and then back down again, Adelaide watched this all solemnly wondering how the heck they were going to get out. Then she realized now was as good a time as any to ask for further instruction on the practice of ice magic. Like really, what else was there to do in this forsaken hole in the earth?

She conjured up a small ice figurine that very much mimicked their mage captor, complete with staff before she use that same magic to shatter it again to pieces. That was how the mage should meet his end. She smiled a little at this. Summoning a snowball, she played around with it making it spin in her hand, varying the speed from slow to fast and then back again. Then the ball of snow disappeared with a pop! as Adelaide relinquished the energies sustaining it.

She glanced at Cryce then. "How long have you been practicing for?"

[Wicked Basket]

"Several years I assume," he replied. "I haven't really kept track of time."

How long has it been? Cryce wracked his brain. He couldn't remember. He had been so focused on vengeance that he had no idea how long he had been practicing magic. In fact, he wasn't even sure how old he was.

[Ethereal-Star]

Adelaide nodded and continued creating various ice and snow shapes before her as a way to pass the time. Looking up at Cryce then after making her last snowy creation, she asked him, "Can you teach me more?"

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"Like what," Cryce asked.

Cryce was normally quite antisocial, but now he was being asked to teach magic to some stranger he met in the tundra. Had she even told him her name? He did help her with her magic earlier, but he wasn't sure how good of a teacher he would be.

[Ethereal-Star]

Adelaide thought about what she wanted to know more about regarding her icy powers. There was one spell in particular that had always given her trouble. While not extremely powerful, it was still a mean feat for her to accomplish at this point. While Adelaide could summon small icicles ranging in size from tiny daggers of a couple inches up to six inches in length, she had always wanted to conjure up a gigantic one of at least two or three feet tall straight up from the ground in order to impale an enemy like she had seen Cryce do before. Although his were actually taller than that, but Adelaide figured this was a good start. Not to mention powerful blizzards, but she knew she wasn't at that level yet and wouldn't be for some time.

"Like conjuring three foot tall icicles from the ground that are as sharp as spears." She shrugged and began tracing patterns on the rocky ground with a finger as she waited for him to respond.

[Wicked Basket]

"It's just like creating normal icicles," Cryce said matter-of-factly. "Just with a lot more power behind it. The more in-tune you are with the element the more power you can dump into it and trust that it'll do what you want it to."

[Ethereal-Star]

Adelaide nodded at his words. She had expected as much, yet she still needed to practice it some more. She would do so now, but there was the obvious problem of them being stuck in this hole in the ground. She didn't know why the mage kept them trapped here, but it definitely bode ill for them, whatever the reason was.

Getting up, she began looking around for some kind of opening or weakness in the wall structure, hoping to find something. So far, her search turned up nothing. And Adelaide did not like being stuck here.

[Wicked Basket]

Cryce was sorting through everything that he knew hoping that he would think of something useful. Suddenly, an idea came to him. He remembered that if water were to freeze inside a crack in a rock, the expansion of the freezing ice was enough to split the rock apart.

Cryce made another pillar of ice and carried himself to the ceiling again. Perhaps there was a crack in it somewhere that he hadn't seen before.

[Ethereal-Star]

Examining the walls still, Adelaide looked over to Cryce as he went up on his ice pillar again to check out the ceiling once more, obviously having the same idea as she did. Watching him for a moment she turned back to the wall and continued searching for something, anything at all that could prove handy in their situation.

Going over towards the left she spotted what looked like a crack of some kind. It was about two inches long and a quarter of an inch thick. Looking further, she found another crack a little southwest of the first one, this one a bit bigger at about three inches in length. Running her hand over the larger of the cracks, she debated on how much magic she would be able to channel in order to blast through the wall at this section. She didn't think she had enough power to do that. But with Cryce here, they may have a chance to break through and escape.

Focusing her magic, she cast a blast of ice at the second crack and with the sound of collapsing rock debris, she was able to make a small indentation in the rock face. But it still wasn't enough.

[Wicked Basket]

Cryce heard the sound of Adelaide casting magic and looked down to see what she was doing. It seemed as though she was employing the same tactic that he had been thinking of, but on the wall. Considering they were in a hole, wouldn't breaking through a wall just lead to more dirt? Wouldn't the ceiling be the only way out?

Cryce lowered himself back down to see what she was doing. He held out his hand and filled in the crack with ice. He then focused on expanding the ice. The wall could be heard cracking and crumbling under the strain of the expanding ice, but Cryce was determined to bring the whole thing down.

[Ethereal-Star]

Now with the two of them trying to destroy the wall, Adelaide concentrated again to send more ice into the cracks. Another small avalanche of rock came tumbling down as she forced her magic into the wall. Hopefully this would work and they could get away.

[Wicked Basket]

Cryce just kept dumping power into the wall. He soon began thinking of what he would do to their captor once they were free, and the more he thought about it the angrier he became. The angrier he became to more violently the wall began to split apart. He wanted to kill that man so badly.

[Ethereal-Star]

Focusing her icy energies, Adelaide blasted out another small bit of rock, and then another before she stopped to take a breather. She didn't want to use up too much of her mana reserve as once they got out of here, there would be no time for rest to recharge. And the chances of them facing off against their captor was pretty much inevitable. While she didn't know what they would find behind this wall, it was better than sitting here to rot for all eternity.

Focusing one last time at the wall, Adelaide put a sizable dent in it about four inches across. She would have to let Cryce do the rest now.

[Wicked Basket]

When Adelaide stepped aside to take a breather, Cryce knew he didn't have to hold back now that his companion was clear. He focused all of his power into the crack and blew the wall apart in a shower of dirt and rock fragments.

"Let's go find that bastard." he said.