The Mirrored Palace [abandoned... sorry]

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Fort_Master_Gustav
(The being caused a curse on his bowel regions)

Darknessry

dafeeeeeeeeeesh (pfffft, hilarious typo right there folks!)

Ten

Darknessry The pilot would do a scan of the acid rain

Darknessry

Ten

The scans revealed that the aflame acidic rain was a result of the stormclouds condensing, a scary thing about it was that it was scarily potent, capable of rather slowly eating apart a plate of titanium.

Darknessry

(also Ten are you going to reply or are you just gonna stay there frozen in time?)

Darknessry

Fort_Master_Gustav

As the staff began siphoning, arcane energies flowed in, of course it was a bit more difficult than normal energy there was enough arcane energies that he'd have no shortage for a while. Oh and surprise, it seems the storm stopped condensing into aflame acid so the inquisitor could create a new husk without anything melting it instantly. The surrounding magma, instead of cooling down into obsidian, well it did cool into rock but at a rather slow rate, bagan releasing exceptional amounts of grey steam, rising into the storm covered sky.

Then without any warning, a massive amount of arcane energies seemingly rushed into the inquisitors staff, then no more arcane energies allowed itself to be absorbed by the staff, avoiding it's absorbing aura. That's annoying. The magma also started heating back u pagain, the rocks slowly becoming it's molten form.

Luckily the storm hasn't begun again so the inquisitor could decide to go away back to the northern pole if he wanted...

Fort_Master_Gustav

Darknessry
"Good enough"
He thinks, as he knows that energies can sometimes be annoying, specially anomalous ones. He wouldn't insist so much, after all, he already got his fair share of what he came for, this little detour would grant him a good boost in the temple, as he'd have more energy to use before he had to use his own tricks.
He grabbed the staff, and the tip of it closed, obscuring the bright light that emanated from the crystal in the center of it, and swung it with violence towards the rock platform, as a quite sizeable explosion emanated from the strike, propelling him onto the skies as he took onto flight back towards the temple again.

Darknessry

Fort_Master_Gustav

Off he goes! Again. It seemed his temporary messing with the southern pole supervolcano had gotten the aflame acidic rain to stop, atleast he didn't have to bother with having his husk melt for a while. For upon reaching the planets equator the rain began anew to fall.

Upon reaching back to the temple's cyan barrier, he once again seemlessly teleported back to one of those sandstone porches, seems the teleportating inwards went to these porches while teleportation from within didn't have a set destination.

Dumb

Darknessry (oh godamnit......why you have to give a riddle to a person named "dumb" ;/) "well......to be honest actual time flow cannot affect me much,but if i have to answer,i will say that whoever that each of us are serving is the time for us. Just like time acts on mortals,our masters will forces us to continue with our jobs,and no matter how hard the job presented is,we will still gladly accept it and carry on,as they are the ones who created us,who shaped us and protected us at needed times......ahem anyway,it seems you did your job well,and here i am,doing my job to discover and harvest unknown matterials,and maybe even excavate some artifacts. i understand that you can't quite move in order to maintain this cyan forcefield to keep out the various dangers from outside,but......can you tell me where i should look after?"

Darknessry

Dumb

There were no reply from the statue, wait, Dasha looked back at the engraved symbols, Under the riddle she read.

''Thine answers lay within. Whom is time?''

Whom is time, again? is that question like the final riddle of which this riddle would answer? The answers lay within part may refer to the temple or was it what time was to her? Although she did just answer that so the first may be what's true.

Darknessry

Namek

As the ship descended, it passed through the blackened storms, then when it came under, the rain began to hit the ships shields, before, the rain suddenly stopped? nevertheless, it would allow them better time should the barrier turn out to not be enterable.

Then the ship descended onto the dense carbon sand, the ships landing gears sinking just a few millimeters before stopping. The shield expanding to allow the trio to safely traverse the dense sandy waste to the barrier without the aflame acidic rain possibly eating them alive.

As the trio exited their ship, they could look in awe at what could be seen past the seethrough cyan sphere. A massive pyramidal temple, near the top it inverted downwards to give space for a chained crystal 100 meters in height, around the temple were numerous entrances, a river separating the temple from the rest of the temple grounds, sandstone bridges connected the temple's entrances to the rest of the temple grounds and most of the sandstone paths, a total of 6 shrines were located on top of 6 plateaus separating pieces of forested areas with sandstone paths going through them to stairs up the plateaus and to the bridges that lead to the temple itself.

When the trio approach it, suddenly they find themselfes on the other side of the barrier, more accurately, on a sandstone porch in one of the forested sections of the temple grounds, the porch were around 10 meters away from the barrier itself, going from the porch lead a sandstone pathway that lead to one of the temple bridges, going off from the path around the halfway point, split off two pathways, each leading to one of the 6 plateaus.

Namek

Darknessry

Lian was looking around, and at the temple with disbelieve, until he accepted what happened, which was easy for him to do.
“Isn’t this amazing, guys?” He said in a tone of pure excitement, as he turned around towards his friends, who had more trouble accepting it.

“This is... Scientifically impossible?!” Jason said, as he turned around towards the sphere and ship, walking towards it, until Eve held him by his shirt, as she took a deep breath. “I don’t know how this happened, but I suppose we move on.” She said, as she dragged him towards the bridge, with Lian walking by her side.

As that happened, Jason gave the ship the order to go back in orbit, near the temple, just in case, while Eve had quite a big gun ready in her hands, as she looked at Lian. “Remember mom’s promise, don’t fight at any cost, alright?” She said with quite some emotion behind it. “I can deal with things alone, just stay behind me.”

Lian nods, as they moved towards the splitting paths, where one can approach the Plateaus, and they stopped. “Should we approach the plateaus?” Lian asked, unsure if it was safe.

Eve looked down, at Jason, and lets him go from his shirt. “Can you scan the... Thingies?” She asked, and Jason nods in excitement. He took off his backpack rapidly, and revealed some self made tech from scrap. “Can’t wait to make sense out of all this!” He said aloud, and began to scan the plateaus.

Ten

Darknessry The dropship would leave the planet atmosphere and head back to the fleet

Darknessry

gearshift48

As he approached and began to sit down, he suddenly levitated a couple centimeters off the ground and he fell towards his intended surface, landing softly without any strain put onto his legs, it seemed his theory was correct, only thing was that his gravity shifted before he even touched the wall, well he was now capable of traversing normally impossible terrain without any assistance from technology.

gearshift48

Darknessry utterly unknowing of what to do continues exploring trying to create a map the best he can with this randomness and insanity.

then he stops
“Wait who the heck is talking?”

Darknessry

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

The drone saw that to the left and right of it's teleportation site, were two plateau's on top of these platou's sat a shrine with a sizeable statue of a humanoid figure sitting in a meditation position on top of a block of stone. The forests that the drone could see didn't appear to have any kind of wildlife other than the plants around.

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Darknessry
The drone slowly approaches the statue doing the floating machine equivilent of the dio walk. As it gets closer it does mutliple scans infored thermal arcane psychic and simple sensors. Checking if this "statue" has any trickery associated with it while in orbit the dropship just sits their while the crew. Wait in the most awkward situtation in Galactic history waiting on a drone to do the job.

Dumb

Darknessry "hmm.....atleast you are capable of answering me,well thanks for the directions,in the mean time i shall find the dale between forested hilltops in this deserted world,and hopefully find the answer to your question.Anyway i will setup a checkpoint here and return from time to time to check on you,if you got any questions other than "whom is time" i would be more than glad to answer" Dasha speaks as she slowly setup a gateway,purposefully slowing down and looking at the engravings from time to time to see if theres any responses

Darknessry

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

The statue remains unmoving, the statue was of a humanoid in a meditating position, it's hands each holding a swinging clock, it's face covered by a orange cloth, a large golden eye in front of it. Scans show that it's is simply made of stone, well, the cloth and large eye were the only things on the statue not simply made of stone, a large aura of arcane energies swirl around it, the inscriptions on the stone block not being recognized by the drone.

Dumb

The statue remained unmoving, no new inscriptions showed themselves on the stone block, none of the ones she did not already read she recognized, the silent rustling of the forests were one of the only things that kept the surroundings from being dead silent.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Darknessry
"Welp time to head to one of these damn shrines."
The Inquisitor thinks, as he uses his favourite method of transportation, slapping the ground with the staff so that he is flung towards it.

Dumb

Darknessry "cya soon then" Dasha said as she stepped into the gateway,and appear on a nearby shrine,for some reason she brings out a gigantic blade this time and puts it on the ground before inspecting the surroundings

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Darknessry
The drone attempts to touch the statue extending its grabber to it just like the barrier. While the dropship begins to fly down into atmosphere with all it's shield power up.

Darknessry

Dumb (what pieces of metal? there is no metallic objects in the forests or pathways, and the forests aren't exceptionally big, seperated by the sandstone paths, plateaus with the shrines or the river which seperated the temple from nature, bridges connecting to the temples entrances.)

Darknessry

Dumb (did she teleport?)

Darknessry

Dumb

Again, the statue remained unresponsive, over at the other shrine, there was another statue, this one unlike the other statue had a humanoid skull on his right hand while the other held a blade with golden ornaments and inscriptions in it's metallic blade, a golden eye on the crossguard.

It's face covering cloth was a crimson red, the rest about it was pretty similar to the previous statue, with a large golden eye hanging in front of its covered face. looking onto the stone block, it also had insriptions, looking over them she was able to read two of them.

''Ye who cometh. Thine time is what ye seek. Over dale, over forests, there lies a tower, whom is time?'' It said. more of the whom is time huh? also under it she read. ''Thine answers lay within. Whom is time?''

Could be that the riddles were connected somehow? Then again the answers lay within part might be saying that the answers to the riddles could be found inside the temple itself.

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

As the drone approaches the statue, it seamlessly teleports backwards 10 meters away from the statue. It appears something doesn't what the statue to be touched.

As the dropship dropped through the storms, it's shields pushing away the gasseous arcane trickery. Once it came below, the aflame acidic rain fell down, the ships shields proving to be ample protection as the cyan barrier came into view.

It was doubtful that the dropship would be able to enter the barrier in the same way the drone did, but the people could certainly enter, presumably, could be that the barrier only let unorganic beings past, but wouldn't hurt, the dropships shield could take the aflame acid for a sizeable while.

Dumb

Darknessry (oh its just scrap metal stored in her pocket dimension,i just want her to have atleast something to do while hiking)(......~~shit~~ i thought theres somehow a random forest that can only be seen from the shrine,will edit my response then)

Darknessry

Dumb (ah,k, she could go to the temple or explore the other shrines. oh,k)

Dumb

Darknessry (yes but actually no,she need to walk atleast two steps in order to go from her current position to wherever she wants)