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Sasori walks ahead and comes to a mountainous area with jagged hills. "It will be easy to get lost here. Where do we go from here?How are we suppose to find a way to the future, I wonder."

((Woo hoo post 3,000!))

Acos could sense Tarik. She decided to find out what he was doing, so she floated around until she found him, outside a temple. She hissed, wishing she was still alive so she could attack him. But Acos couldn't, so she just said, "What are you up to this time?"

Tarik says to Acos, "What is it with you guys? You can't die properly? First Leaf, now you. Why don't you go back to your daddy?" He is perturbed.

To have lost the opportunity to right history and then to be thwarted by Skurai and now to be stuck in the past, in the time of demon slavery, was wearing on him. He was grasping at straws when he decided to look for a vortex in the Realm of the Dead. Now another stupid ghost.

When Aku arrives as he talks to Acos, he says "Yes, you take care of her. I am tired."

Salen walks into Midera's hut, "were have they gone?, and dont try any of that mind trick crap it doesnt work on me"

Sasori picks herself up and looks around. It is dark, they seem to be in a cavern. Looking up, she says "Looks like we are not going back the way we came." It was a good twenty feet and they had no rope.

((edits - I think I was suppose to play Midera too))

Midera looks at Salen and says "You are too late. They are gone to meet their destiny." Smiles at Roarke and departs the house and disappearing into the crowd of the market.

Tarik smiles, "Good trick." Now that Acos is gone, he waits for Ryuu to show up then enters the temple. "This temple looks empty but this is just the front of the temple alter. There is a secret staircase behind the alter that leads to a larger room below. It is where secret ceremonies were held. To access it you need to shed some demon blood."

Tarik takes a knife from the table and cuts his hand. He drips his blood into the alter offering bowl. Then waits for a panel to open, revealing the secret passage. In the room is shelves of bottles of different powerful ingredients and another larger sacrificial alter. On another wall are ancient books and weapons hanging on a wall. In the middle of the room is a table with a book that was left open. Tarik goes to see the book. It is a diary with the ancient royal demon text written with a woman's slanted writing. "Odd." Tarik picks up the small book. "Seems I guessed right," Tarik mumbles.

A smile crossed the Scotsman's face. "Too bad you don't realize that I, like my friends, are long gone from here, and we did not make the choice to end up in this place," he murmured before his form simply dissolved into water, splashing on the dry ground as it fell. Amiric nodded fractionally, unsurprised. "If I am right, this is some sort of maze or crypt, and I can sense something dark and sentient is watching us... it seeks our deaths for some reason," he said quietly. He focused as a ball of black flame ignited above his palm, casting a lurid purple glow around them for nearly ten feet around. He saw nothing moving in the darkness, but sensed plainly they were not alone.

Tarik reads the coded text aloud. "Your journey continues to the hinter lands to find the traveller who will show you the way to the moving door. Seems we guessed right that there is a time vortex but it appears that it is not in a fixed place."

The diary is small and only partially filled. Tarik sits at a table and reads the rest of the pages. When he is done, he goes to a fireplace and sets it on fire. "I don't know if we might get captured again and I don't want this information falling into Skurai's or another upper demon's hands. We can trust no one now."

"This traveller, maybe it has to do with Aku's dream."