No Poultry, Guaranteed [Doc Genzo]

Eve responded surprisingly quickly.

"I'd like to roll him again but it's g'nnae be harder with 'em strugglin'." she gave Ruairi the once over in regards to his other statement. "Just trust yer instinct and those Keese 'll be no problem."

As a last-minute spark of inspiration Eve tried to shove some of the blocks over, but something was preventing the wall from coming apart. Without any additional hope she continued along the path with Ruairi. Their hesitancy was proven a bit silly as the blocks led to a simple corner exposing the rest of the room as the series of blocks halted.

As Ruairi had pointed out, there were a number of other ChuChus and Keese littering the open empty space. As expected of the Temple, as there had been one on the opposite side of the complex was yet another sudden drop instead of a flush wall. It was probably there to act as a barrier for intruders as something could have been unsatisfactory about a solid wall. Eve remembered all the times she attempted to skip parts of dungeons by smashing into the wall with something heavy. While the mechanism of this chasm wasn't specifically intended for her it was certainly effective at dissuading individuals like herself. She also knew of some individuals who could phase through walls but that was likely not the deciding factor of this design as much of the rest of the Temple used simple walls. That's when she remembered the outside of the Temple being protected by the portal, and it seemed likely the surrounding chasm was meant to stop intruders from coming in through the ground. Eve knew of the existence of such miners that would find digging such tunnels into Temples to be something of a welcome challenge.

"Weird cliff." is all she had to say about that entire situation. She turned her attention to some of the bumbling ChuChus.

The closest ChuChu teetered around, its head bobbling like a car antenna. Eve braced herself, but she was too late. The awkward and fast wobbling of the ChuChu guided the broad side of its head directly into Eve's face. The forces at play launched the Kokiri backward and the most pain came when her head collided with the floor.

The sudden face trauma led her to let go of her rope and the Pols Voice began to wander forward on its own. The bunny like glob must have been hungry because it began to inhale through its nose, and in no time at all it sucked a full ChuChu all the way up its nose. It still looked somewhat terrified and unsatisfied as it continued to wobble away.

Dizzy as all get out, Eve thrust herself to her feet as her arm pushed back the violent ChuChu above her. The ChuChu drooled and chewed on her arm with its rubbery mouth. Eve activated her Harvest Ring and immediately combined the resulting pumpkin with the ChuChu's head. With it reeling, she thrust her dagger into its lower body and turned it instantly to ice. What resulted was an incredibly odd ice sculpture with a partially broken pumpkin for a head.

Wasting no time, Eve ran and grabbed the rope to pull the Pols Voice back.

Eve was finally having a better time as she noticed Ruairi providing cover fire from the Keese. They were becoming the biggest hazard, too. Luckily for the trio of companions, the Keese were flying in a pack and not just approaching one by one. If they had rushed over while the ChuChus were a threat the group would have been overrun.

Eve dug around in her pouch for something to help Ruairi fend off the approaching small cloud of Keese. She pulled out her Ghastly Doll, then stared at it knowing full well it did not have the ability to fly. She continued to dig around and found herself unable to grab anything useful.

"I need a bow or a slingshot or a boomerang like all the other 'venturers 'ave." she complained.

She tossed her dagger into the crowd and held tight to its chain. The small weapon had no trouble knocking out a Keese in the tight grouping. There were still at least five more fluttering around and they were already in biting range. Eve grabbed her Book of Mudora and slammed it through the air. Her hefty tome swing knocked three of them painfully to the ground.

"ARRH They're on me!" she scourged as her arms flailed at the menacing Keese.

It was quite inevitable. Ruairi's boomerang dropped and clipped Eve's elbow. Before she could let out so much as a yelp she tumbled down, her arm bending almost the wrong way. Ruairi's flailing boomerang did swat down a couple Keese. Thankfully, the flock was now thin enough to not be a threat. The last one or two Keese were startled by this friendly fire and actually took off as the Kokiri noisily hit the floor.

"Ssss that stings ahh." Eve whimpered as she clutched her weirdly bent arm.

The kid snapped back her elbow into place, clumsily and loudly. It seemed to be less so damaged as it was bent the wrong way. The ChuChu group had also thinned enough, whichever one was left was now being chased around by the Pols Voice. That silly creature had turned out to be useful after all.

As if by some sort of act of defiance, Eve started to storm away toward the north end of the outer room. Her bravery was well rewarded. As she scuttled to the other end of the room, a Beamos had let loose and projected its burning gaze down on her. The somewhat explosive force of the surprisingly solid beam knocked her somewhat back. She rolled to stay out of the sentinel's range.

"Shit I'm hit! Stay back there!" she yelled. It would be counterproductive to let Ruairi try to deal with a Beamos this early.

"Augh shite shitt shitte." Eve babbled as she scrambled like a spider monkey over to Ruairi.

"That's Beam. . .O. Beamos? Sounds plural but there's only one ri-nnow." she gestured, poking her gloved arms through the air in some sort of sign language.

"'S like a tower w'innae eye on it. It goes booom booom beeeee---! Shoots a big line of light like BAM POW. It can kill ye in seconds." she waved her arms around.

Eve looked Ruairi all the way up and down. If he had some sort of buckler or shield he could block it. Out of her Adventure Pouch, Eve yanked out a pocket mirror for doing her makeup with.

"We're in pig shit." she announced as she started walking toward the Beamos with the pocket mirror. She waved the mirror as she entered its range. The beam started to come out, and her arm waved around quickly to try to catch the beam. From Ruairi's position, he would hear a very loud pop, like the sound of a million balloons being caught on a cactus. The beam caught Eve in the side, she blocked the beam with the mirror and it instantly exploded.

At this point, the eccentric Kokiri ran over to the tower-like enemy and clung to its blind spot. The shredded mirror seemed to have ripped up her glove on her right hand. She was also absolutely bleeding and burned in several places. She'd have to be somewhat shocked if this sort of thing wasn't an everyday occurrence for her. She started wrapping some sort of off-brand bandage onto her arm. She would have looked dumber than usual if she wasn't trying to tend to her own wounds. The beam above her was jutting around in every which direction. The Beamos knew she was below it but not exactly where.

With her hand wrapped up, Eve grabbed the tower and tried to lift it. There was a slight budge, and the Beamos tilted as one would tilt any heavy column. With its sudden loss of balance the entire thing tipped over and fell on its eye-like head. The beam continued to blaze against the wall in many directions but eventually powered off.

"Coast is clear we can go through!" she yelled over. Her face was locked on the awkwardly trembling device.

Eve hobbled over to Ruairi. She looked at the back of her hand, wrenched out a piece of glass and let it drop to the floor. She swiped the rope and pulled at the Pols Voice. Her Power Bracelets gleamed a little as she tugged the creature across the floor.

"Guess we go deeper." she mentioned, turning her head to the hallway.

She didn't take any breaks and pulled the lumpy creature over the fallen Beamos. When the darkness went away, there was an open chasm. While the walls on each side were lined with very visible torch sconces, the foggy depths went straight down to blackness. There appeared to be something written on the wall in the hallway. The Pols Voice looked kind of dizzy and exhausted from struggling against the rope. Eve let go for now and examined her Book of Mudora.

"Looks like it says Barve." she noted, flipping the pages. "No. it says 'Brave.'" she corrected herself, her cut hand smudging the pages.

Before the two could even solve the puzzle, and as the very words were leaving Ruairi's lips, the Pols Voice started moving. It used its outrageously acute hearing to figure out that the chasm was actually solid ground and began to flop around on the invisible bridge. Eve sighed heavily and continued wrapping her arms in cheap bandages.

"'S not how it used ta be." she lamented, continuously grabbing at the rope.

She followed the long eared creature across the transparent expanse. The opening on the other side led into a roomy chamber. Looking feverishly, Eve noticed a shut door on her left when entering the room. There was a somewhat open chamber with a circle of stones in the middle. Within the flat circle of floor was a simple pair of ordinary bows with an array of scattered arrows.

"Oi maties! It's be a Fairy™ bow!" she cheered in delight.

Her head tilted down and she didn't pay much mind to whatever else the room contained.

His sudden question was benign in nature.

But his taunt would change the course of their whole adventure.

"COURSE I CAN shoot the bow!" Eve yelled. She snatched a fairy bow off the ground.

Eve pulled the string tight with an arrow notched, then aimed it straight up and pulled as hard as she could. She spotted a navy colored Moldorm clinging to the wall up near the foggy heights of the ceiling. As she caught eyes on the monster, her arm pulled all the way back. The bow snapped loudly, sending a quaking feeling throughout the chamber. Wood flecks powdered the air and the bow fell uselessly in two large pieces to the floor.

A second Moldorm entered the corner of her eye. Eve sprung back, getting ready to fight. Her knife appeared in her hand.

"Aw look what happened! Ah! Crawlies!" she snapped as everything happened in sequence.

The Moldorms honestly took their time preparing their attack. They sort of had to crawl all the way down the wall. Eve waved her dagger around, somewhat anxiously expecting the monsters to come down eventually. She teased her own brain trying to think of ways Ruairi made her break the bow. She couldn't blame the poor guy, and if anything she sort of pictured sparkles and sick mood lighting around him as she looked at the Rito.

"It's not yer fault Chickydoo you were just curious. We gotta fight these!"

"Whoa great shot!" Eve jumped again as the centipede thing bounced on the floor.

She ran over to the bulbous red segment on the end of the unnerving creature and lodged her dagger into the surprisingly soft flesh. She knew this was how to do it, somehow. Watching it rile made her nervous as its legs swung and came awfully close to cutting at her.

"These things. Not sure if I saw one in person yet but rumor is you hit them here." she gasped, explaining frantically.

Odds were she had seen them, probably one of their more common yellow, hairy varieties. Moldorms were a rupee a dozen in mainland Hyrule. Being big centipedes, it was more likely to be a sight you'd never forget. Eve's arm came up and then crashed down again. They weren't convenient to take out when they took so many hits. Eve's friends would probably make fighting these look like child's play.

"Regardsless! Try taking the other one out. 'S not too bad if ya flip it over again." Eve recommended. "Or try out that other bow and arrow. Can you hit small targets?"

(((OoC congratulations to us on 100 posts. This is basically a superdungeon now. Let's keep going and see what happens.)))

Eve watched Ruairi wailing on the Moldorm. It was actually working. For every couple misses as he threw his weapon, a few of them hit and sent the creature rolling. It had already hit the floor and was wriggling around. Eve grabbed the other bow, since it didn't look like Ruairi was interested. She was guessing he was from one of the Rito communities where they specialize in grappling hook training. That would explain why he didn't have his wings yet, it was an ancient covenant with Valoo or something along those lines. Biology. . . even science and math in general were not Eve's strong suits. Her short attention span paired with the fact that she had never been to school ensured this.

"Th' wood is snappy but my muscle thing is also breaking it. I've never really had to control it before." she admitted, adjusting the glistening ornament on her head.

Grabbing another arrow, she snapped the string facing the already over-stabbed Moldorm she was lording above. It turned out firing a bow required different aiming skills than she was using to toss her dagger around. She missed the creature entirely, and her timing was really off to boot. It was hard to balance trying not to snap the bow with getting a good lock on a target. She would probably need some sort of magical aid moving forward if she even wanted to hit anything consistently.

Eve launched another arrow, barely hitting the bulbous segment and putting the monster over its limit. The bug lost all color and curled up before shriveling up dead. She definitely needed to invest in something like a reinforced bow if she wanted to keep this up. Word on the street was that Lynels made a bow with equal toughness and precision. Eve really didn't want her money going to Ganon's army though, she'd probably settle on stealing one if she had to.

She wrapped the bow over her shoulder for safe keeping. . . it was a better option than throwing it on the floor. The gremlin scooted over to the Moldorm Ruairi was beating up. She plunged her extremely sharp splinter crystal blade into the weak point over and over. It seemed like they had finally done it. There was a loud crunch as the locking mechanism on the previously unopened door rattled open and showed the true path forward. Though they might have had to backtrack to experience the full dungeon, the bow provided an easy solution to that projectile puzzle they passed earlier.