[Closed] The Aerial Exploration Syndicate (RP for Non-Anthros that can fly)

[Niphi]

Niphi approaches the foreboding stairs, sniffing at the stale air within as her fur bristles with excitement, "This is phenomenal! Who knows what kind of fantastic things we might find down here," she turns her head and smiles at the group, "Well, come on then," and with that she disappears into the construct within the island, eager excitement overwhelming the worry of dangers within.

[Sarrus]

Sarrus watches his mate disappear inside, then rolls his eyes and follows her with a knowing, yet slightly apprehensive smile.

Cobwebs and fusty smells might be the things people generally associate with old tunnels but that is not what meets the drakes as they descend into the island. The air is clean and dry and the entire place is deathly quiet.

Every surface is perfectly smooth stone that almost looks polished and while the stairwell is not lit, the passageway it leads onto is.

After descending about 50 or so steps, the drakes reach a long tunnel which stretches away, running underneath the water of the lake. Glowing white runes have been drawn onto the walls, illuminating the passageway in a dull white light.

[Angder]

As Niphi goes down the stairs, Tan grins at Raz. "Someone obviously disagrees." he then follows, moving into the construct, at first cautiously, then hurrying to catch up with Niphi.

[Razuel]

Raz gave a grunt and followed after the group shortly after they would all go in

[Sarrus]

After following the passageway for some time, the drakes find themselves in a large chamber, big enough to hold all four of them comfortably. Initially, it appears to be perfectly square. The group can see four torches on large stone columns rising out of the ground, each one with a single white flame burning on top and filling the room with a revealing light.

There is a large skeleton on the other side of the room. It looks to have belonged to an adult dragon. It sits completely alone with no indication of how it got there.

[Angder]

"Skeleton...  its probably been here a while, probably not part our  missing expedition, I would expect to find a full corpse if it as one of them..." Tan inches forward, into the room, cautiously approaching the skeleton.

[Razuel]

Raz walked in behind the group, looking at how dark it was, Raz found a divot in the wall, leading into an oil trench in the wall, he lit it with his fire and the room slowly lit up to a dim lighting.

[Niphi]

Niphi strides forward, neck craned to look up at the architecture surrounding them with a smile on her face, "Who'd have thought we'd find a mystery such as this?"
She examines the pillars with great interest, clearly searching for some form of markings.

[Sarrus]

Sarrus looks around the room with interest. "This truly is a strange place." He says with a mixture of worry and wonder.

As Tan approaches the skeleton, he suddenly feels the tip of his snout bump into something hard. Seeing his comrade's reaction, Sarrus steps forward and tentatively stretches out a set of fore claws and is rewarded with a soft clack as they bump up against something. He furrows his brow for a moment, then leans forward and exhales, the moisture in his breath condensing for a moment on an invisible flat surface in front. "Is this... glass?" He says to himself, then traces it across the room to each wall, the pane perfectly flat and extending to both walls, cutting the room in half. "What in the gods names is this?"

[Razuel]

Raz looked at it and he immediately reared, "Oh no... If I'm correct, that glass there is that of a viewing hub, a room used to observe specimens... If nobody is watching us, we should leave now!"

[Angder]

Tan, starts to back away from the glass. "I suspect this place is completely abandoned, judging by the state of the 'specimen' as Raz puts it." Tan says. "Besides. We don't seem to be in any danger yet."

[Niphi]

Having taken in her fill of the rooms architecture, Niphi joins the rest of the group at the far end of the room. She watches Sarrus breathe on the barrier with a puzzled look then steps forward and taps it with a talon tip, ears twitching as she hears the soft clicking sound it makes.
A mild grin spreads across her face before she rears up, lays both her front legs against the barrier and smashes her horns into it, clearly with the intention of breaking through.

[Sarrus]

Where Niphi strikes the glass with her horns a great web of cracks appear, spreading outwards to each edge before the entire thing shatters.

All four drakes are presented with an impossible sight. What seemed like nothing more than a panel of transparent glass falls away to reveal a solid brick wall, almost as if it had been a mirror, yet each shard now shows the floor below as one would expect for a piece of glass.

Carefully, Sarrus picks a shard up and holds it out in front of him with a set of fore talons. Like a mirror, the back is coated in a dull brown substance but when he holds it up where it had once been, Sarrus can again see the skeleton on the other side.

Experimentally, he rotates his body, looking through the shard at the rest of the room, when he turns 180 degrees to face the rest of the group, his eyes go wide and he gasps as he sees something past them, through the strange piece of glass.

[Razuel]

Raz backed up into something invisible, and to the naked eye, Raz was picked up and was thrown into a wall, falling limp onto the ground, groaning, "... **censor** run!!"

[Angder]

Tan, thinking quick, raises a set of 3 mirror shards off the ground with his mind, they wobble in the air, Tan looks over to Raz, looking through the shards, trying to see if he could see Raz's attacker, through them, or at the very least, get some advance warning about the invisible monster if it came his way. As he does this he backs away, moving to the nearest wall, and keeping close to it.