Event | Dungeon Master | Plotting

Kormal - Zhetan

412 Words

He didn’t know how many times he had paced back and forth behind the metal bars. Enough to start a small divot in the floor, or maybe that had already been there from prisoners before them? It didn’t matter. The pink raptor stopped, locking eyes with his orange partner who had sighed. Ferdinand had already complained about the pacing, had questioned its use when being locked in here.

 “It helps me think” Kormal repeated his earlier response, even though Ferdinand had not repeated his own statement. It was true. It was not the anxious pacing of someone desperate. Just calm wandering to occupy his limbs while his mind was working. It helped to calm the simmering rage that he had pushed down, clear the head for reason. At least one of them had to use reason, Phaeniss had already tried to use brute force the second he had woken up, knocked unconscious by one of the armored tanks clubs. His little outburst had amounted to very little, and had earned the yellow and green raptor nothing more than being pressed to the cold ground under Ferdinand's talons.

 The pink raptor stopped, the sound of footsteps, someone approaching their little part of this wannabe dungeon, a grin spread on his face, and he glanced at his partners. Phaeniss was no longer trapped under their orange partner’s weight. He still looked worked up, but at least not still on his brainless little rampage, which was probably as good as they were going to get from him in this situation. It would still take the guards some time to debrief each other before officially switching posts. Before the new one went down this way to check on them specifically. That much he had learned from the time they had spent in this cage.

 “Maybe this new guard can be of some help” he mused, voice low enough to not carry far enough for the approaching guard to hear. Of course he did not intend to convince the guard to simply help them. Where was the fun in that? And if they failed with whoever this was, no worry, he had had plenty of time to come up with back up plans and redundancies, this just happened to seem like the most fun plan of action.
“Before they get here, let’s go over the plan” he turned toward them, but looking specifically at Ferdinand, trying to get Phaeniss to plan anything was a waste of time.

Phaeniss - Dillyweed

700 Words

The knock-out had come as quite a surprise. Perhaps that’s why he was still very angry when he woke up. It took him a shorter amount of time to attack the metal bars in front of him than it took him to realise that they were in fact stuck behind those metal bars. His default had often been to attack first and ask questions later. That’s why he wasn’t the strategic mastermind in their trio. 

It hadn’t taken long before he had been forced face first down into the ground by Ferdinand. He struggled against Ferdinans foot, wanting to keep on going at the metal bars despite it being a meaningless task at best, but eventually laid his entire body flat down on the floor with a heavy sigh. Ferdinand didn’t let him go just because he was flat onto the ground. There was a certain fear that the green and yellow bioluminescent raptor would attempt to hatch a plan if he was allowed to talk and Ferdinand was afraid that it would lower the IQ of the entire room if he did. So Phaeniss simply had to wait until his partners decided that it was worth letting him loose again.

It didn’t take long before he was free however. When Ferdinand let him go he immediately let his crest rise again. It seemed to almost raise and lower itself together with his heavy breaths as he stood back up from the ground and shook off the dust. 

He gave Ferdinand and Kormal a glare each, getting ready to attempt the futile fight against the metal bars when he heard the footsteps of someone outside their prison cell. He let his neck quickly turn as he listened to the sound of whoever was walking outside. Only losing his focus on these individuals whenever Kormal or Ferdinand spoke. He tried moving past Kormal. Slowly as if Kormal wouldn’t see him. Only to get smacked in the face by his tail as he attempted it. Phaeniss let out a small hiss at him. It was so low even Kormal who was next to him could miss it. 

He couldn’t move up to the bars because it seemed as if neither Kormal nor Ferdinand would let him. Kormal and Ferdinand were plotting together about something he didn’t quite understand - which annoyed him quite a bit. He whipped his tail against the ground, only a few times to show a quiet and quite restrained impatience. The best plan of action was always, after all, to just go for it. To fight whatever and whoever was in front of you. If they all put their strength onto it then they could probably actually knock all the bars down. 

At one point Phaeniss did try to speak up but was quickly silenced by both Ferdinand and Kormal. The latter who also added: Don’t speak, it slows the rest of us down. It caused the yellow and green raptor to sit down instead. Moving his head between his two partners as they spoke about a plan that frankly sounded quite stupid in his mind. There was no fighting from what he could gather. It was all about talking, and tricking guards or something along those lines. His brain had quite quickly stopped taking in much of the information they were throwing around themselves and instead Phaeniss had started jabbing at the air with his teeth. Something he often did, along with a few other bad habits, when he was impatient and struggling to keep up with the conversation. This was usually followed by the raptor trying to bite his partners instead.

“But can’t we just fight them.” He hissed impatiently as quietly as he possibly could. Kormal let his gaze fall on him. He was looking down on him for his stupid input into the conversation. Phaeniss couldn’t help himself but to quickly flick his tail behind him. Something about those gazes he loved getting from the two raptors. He was quiet for the rest of their conversation. Almost quiet at least. He couldn’t help himself but to drum with his talons impatiently against the ground. It caused a soft drumming sound to be heard underneath him.

Ferdinand - AberrantKapro

489 Words

Ferdinand was just about done with these stupid games by now. Phaeniss wasn’t usually getting on his nerves like this, but being locked behind bars in a small room with him made his fuse slightly shorter. They needed a plan to get out, and sadly, only Kormal was any use having a discussion with. Imagine the power they would have if their third partner had some more brain behind his thick, crested skull, what an unstoppable force they would be!

The cells were guarded not only by the short statured, clubbed herbivores, but also by something much, much larger. Yet another species they had never before seen on the island they called home. They looked strong and sturdy, with deadly spikes adorning their front limbs. Not as scary as a therizinosaurus, perhaps.. Or maybe they were, they had yet to determine this as they gathered more information. But one thing was certain, getting stabbed by that thumb spike could make you lose an eye, or even your life if not cautious. They had to tread carefully.

“We must find a way to sneak out.” Ferdinand quietly whispered to Kormal, as one of the guards was passing by and glaring into their cell. A large, spiked herbivore with swirls all over his body.
“I heard about the three of you.” the guard scoffed. “You will never see the light of day, once our Queen’s plan has been fulfilled we will no longer have to tend to any of the scum down here, which of course includes you.” he rudely added with a smug look on his face.
“You all will rot down here.”
“That’s enough.” they could hear another voice say, but they couldn’t see whoever was speaking, though judging by the guard’s reaction it was surely someone he respected.

Ferdinand gestured to Kormal to move further away from the bars, in an attempt to keep their conversation more private. He highly doubted that this guard would be possible to be  persuaded to let them go, he seemed devoted, Ferdinand thought. It seemed foolish, he thought. To blindly follow the words of one individual. Strength in numbers is way superior.
“I have an idea.” Ferdinand said as he discreetly pointed up to a vent near the ceiling of the cell. Too high to reach on your own, but if stacked on top of one another.. For sure a reachable height for them.

“If we can just get that open we can surely find a way out.” Ferdinand suggested. “Though getting all three of us out that way would likely not be possible.”
After thinking for a bit he laughed to himself before speaking once more.
“What if we just leave Phaeniss alone here as a little decoy? Surely they will open the cell if they notice two of us are missing.”
It was not a bad idea, actually. It was rather genius, in fact, especially if you asked Ferdinand himself.

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