[Chaos Raid Quest] Digging Secrets Pt.1

He noticed a patch of particularly dense bleeding heart trees, not blatantly obvious, but would only be noticed if you've been at the pits for a while. He picked up Sire and drifted through the branches and landed on the ground inside the clump of trees. This is good. Come on, let's start. Sire eagerly begins and rapidly digs his hands into the moist, chilled ground. His method could be found unique as he soaks his goo into the ground and solidifies the soil to bring it up and toss it elsewhere. Altum starts as well, curving his wings to be used as large shovels. The hole was getting deeper while the surrounding soil was slowly rising from the extra mass being thrown. The risen soil made the trees even thicker, making each path smaller and smaller. The smell of fresh soil meant digging, and that was luring something closer. Altum could hear rustling, but he wasn't worried.




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Sire...? His call rang in the maze. Altum dug a small pit in the tunnel he was currently in. Tar came seeping in, filling the crevice. It felt warm against him, not trying to drag him down, but making him buoyant, keeping him at the surface. Sire oozed down a steep tunnel towards Altum to help him around the labyrinth. Thanks buddy, can you lead me around the tunnels? We need to make them larger.

Around they went to each tunnel and back outside, in a small loop to make the tunnels larger. Altum spread his wings, scooping at the walls to collect soil along the way. The walls grew in the passing time. Soon enough, every so often there was a cavern big enough to perhaps fit an ichor sized creature if they squeezed themselves in the space. Of course, the tunnels leading to them were much too small, barely fitting Altum when he flew with full wingspan. The extra dirt, besides being tossed outside, were made to be pressed into stalagmites and stalactites. Those were then laid across the many caverns and tunnels to decorate and further confuse whoever entered.

I'll leave everyone else to continue digging, not that they would stop, I suppose your species likes digging, huh? Sire bounced happily in confirmation. I believe we are so far down, that no one would find these tunnels, even if they were dug slightly into the other lands. Besides, the tar pits would protect themselves from trespassers. Anyway, we can do other errands while they have fun.



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While Sire was continuing to fix his first stick, Altum grabbed some more fallen branches and whittled various flora and fauna, and even a little ichor. There were many sticks from the restless and playful smucks breaking them, so it wasn't much of a hassle. Once Sire was satisfied with his figure, he left the other stick to ooze next to Altum. I am proud of you buddy, let's go hand these out to the blobs we meet. Although, we have to be careful on who we hand them to. Perhaps neutral blobs, but definitely not those fancy orderly ones. Altum wrapped his tail around the statues and both him and Sire went towards the sands to hand them out.




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Sire and Altum arrived back from the sands and decided to check up on the small collection of tunnels the smucks were building earlier with them. They were heading to the collection of trees when he saw a dark blue blobling. This one however was evolved. They had wings like himself, but since the pits weren't grabbing at them, he knew they were pro-Eris. He spoke aloud a little ways away to alert them before he started flapping towards them with Sire in tow. Hello, I don't believe we've had the pleasure of meeting. Would you like to help me and the smucks create a underground labyrinth here? Just make sure to take a guide with you, it will eventually be hard to navigate. Oh, and feel free to share any ideas on how to make this place more... isolated.





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Soma is back later, greeting the two blobs as he sees them. "Hey, it's nice to see you two again." He holds up a blueprint, nodding. "I've been at work. There's an idea which is pretty far-fetched, but if we could make it work, it would be really nice."

He begins explaining a mixture called 'concrete', something he remembered from the old world. "I don't remember what it was made of, exactly, but I believe it was made of crushed rock, to a very fine degree, mixed with limestone. Then sand, and water... It's a pretty far reach, though."

Soma admits that the idea is probably far, far in the future, but if it could be done, it'd probably create a labyrinth to match Reinala's. It's currently out of the question, however.

On the other hand, he has other ideas. "Even if we can't make concrete, we can still make the walls harder to collapse..." He points out sand, mixed into the tarry, damp walls, and then stuck together. "Even if we just use the sand to soak up the moisture, the walls would probably get more stable. Then, if we add glue, like from the bleeding heart fruits dried up, it might be enough..."


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"Either way, the best part about this is that only Eris-aligned bloblings would find this easy-- for them, the worst is that they'd swim down through the tar like water, holding something heavy to make themselves sink if they don't mind it, but for non-eris aligned bloblings, they'd get stuck in the tar, only slowly falling down, and then we could capture them when they're caught by the sieves."

"If we make these 'tar falling pits' the only way to get into the labyrinths, we'd get a secure entrance to only Eris-bloblings... kinda like a secret hideout!"

... It'd also save bloblings from the grim fate of being stuck in the tar pits forever as they're slowly directed towards the sieve grates. Hopefully. Soma supposes it can't get worse.



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Soma nods. "It's even better security that way. Since the tar acts as water for chaos bloblings, any blobling that isn't chaos-aligned would find it really hard to swim through the tar, but a chaos blobling could swim them to the top quickly and drag the other blobling with them."

Soma blinks, thinking. "Actually... yeah, even non-chaos bloblings can go up, but the process would be slow and could take days. All they should do is get an air bladder or anything that can be filled with air, like the hide of a hollowed-out creature, and hang onto it. The density difference should allow them to eventually 'float' up into the tar pits above, but it'll take a few days and probably be uncomfortable. It's the same logic as floating in quicksand. A chaos blobling would make things really easy for them with the same material. They could even hang onto a piece of wood and the density would float them to the top in seconds."

The dragon folds his arms, tapping. "Wait a sec, hang on... I think I heard something about it from Yggdra, anyway. Those Order bloblings have special vines that can pull up bloblings anyway, so it doesn't matter. Or chaos bloblings could run a few vines into the pit itself along the floor of the tar pool into the sieve... That'd actually help with the pressure, since the tar would prefer to cling onto the vines as pathing as they went down, so we can control the tar flow even further."



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