Hallucinations: Session Three

Previously... Karel and Zilya had broken into a golden cube, which had popped outside the divided town of Novstrech. They've been scraping gold off the walls, broke a few robots (who initiated a lockdown, whatever that means??), and are pretty happy with getting rich, and they found a secret passageway... and apparently there's someone walking down it.

As the footsteps got louder Zilya rushed to find a place to hide. But in her desire to get into a spot for a sneak attack she just wound up standing right next to the opening to the hallway, in plain view. Karel didn't even bother; he stood in plain view, lighting his lantern, as Zilya's torch had gone out. Out walked two unknown human males (one whom was holding a torch), along with Karel's friend Arron and Zilya's mentor, Timok, who didn't acknowledge her. Karel jovially told Arron that he had some money for his inn! The two humans were aghast: the walls were scraped of as much of the gold that Karel and Zilya could have gotten into their bags. They'd defiled an Ensivalen meditation cube! The information in this cube could completely stop the religious civil war in its tracks. And Karel and Zilya had just been bumbling about in it??

Karel laughed; they'd done everyone a favor by taking out the two statues upstairs and deactivating some of the security! The four could explore to their heart's content now. Shaking their heads, the humans formed up, drawing their weapons. They would bring in these two hooligans! Timok formed up with the two humans, but he hung back. Karel made a break for Zilya, but one of the humans knocked his lantern onto the ground, where it went out. Zilya shoved both humans out of the way and they made a break for it, but they grabbed her torches as she ran, spilling them onto the ground.  Karel managed to scoop up his lantern as they ran down the worked stone hall, which turned neither right or left. Zilya and Karel swapped the lantern and a bag of gold as they ran, and Zilya relit the lantern as they fled. They came to a stair, vaulted it, and burst through the door at the top of the stair.

The three guards in the room beyond were utterly shocked. The windows opened out to the street. Their backpacks did not fit through the windows, so they threw them off as they jumped out.

Broken, bruised, exhausted, and yet laden down with bags of shaved gold, Zilya and Karel vanished into the crowds of Novstretch.