Excavation: Completed

[Mistress Guendolen]

"Hey, you can't blame me for this! I've poked plenty of things in my life, and they've never done anything like that!" She stared, wide-eyed. "That is so weird..... I wonder how it does that?" Transfixed by the bizarre sight, she didn't seem inclined to move.

[Stellar]

Holly sat frozen on the stone as it rose from the ground. When she finally thought to jump off... well, it had stopped moving and seemed like quite a long drop for the girl.

"H..hey! Can someone help me?!" Holly cried out trying not to fall off.

(This is awesome XD If you don't want Holly ontop of the statue/rock/thing you can change my post Nekkid. It just seemed like you left it up to me to decide wether Holly stayed on or jumped off XD And I'm sure you knew I'd have her stay on it)

[Mitera Nikkou]

(OOC: Yeah, I had left it up to you to decide. I wasn't sure what I was going to do, exactly, should your character stay on... But I'll think of something here. XD)

When Donald heard Holly's outcry, his senses perked up and he quickly turned his head to find the source. His jaw dropped when he spied her on the floating, glowing rock, and promptly let go of his water-filled cup. His mind raced as he ran over to his charges, unmindful of his physical limitations, their safety being his first concern no matter how amazing the rock was.

"Quick!" Donald addressed Holly urgently once he was before the rock, outside of the pit, with his arms raised. "Jump; the rest of you, start running!"

[Stellar]

"Are you crazy?!" Holly thought for a moment then decided, yes, he might classify as crazy, so... She took a deep breath and jumped~

[Mitera Nikkou]

Donald caught Holly, but his strength wasn't enough to stay standing; he fell back from a squating position, and grunted in both pain and exertion.

"Go!" He urged Holly, as he laid on his back, grimacing.

Whatever anyone had been doing at that moment, the rock began to spin slowly, although the motion couldn't be seen through the glow. If anyone were to look, however, they'd see that streamers of light had slithered out, which lashed out at a blinding speed, and everyone in the vicinity had a streamer pass though them harmlessly, without eliciting any feeling. The streamers returned to the rock and disappeared afterward, then the white glow winked to a blue hue with small, silvery speckles that twinkled while they moved.

[Stellar]

Holly quickly moved off Donald and turned to stare at the rock. "Whh.... whu..." was all she could stutter out as she marveled at the stone and it's actions.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily was busy running, and stopped when the streamer hit her. She looked down, and saw that there was no wound. "Guys! This thing hit me with some sort of beam of light. It was like that time I saw a sunbeam distorted through a window. I don't know how it's producing the light, but it's apparently not immediately harmful."

[Mistress Guendolen]

It had taken Brenna a moment to get going, when they were first told to run. This thing was so strange, after all.... But given that all the others were fleeing, she figured that oh yeah, that was usually a sign she should get out of the way too....
But... it didn't seem to be harmful in any way.... "You're right, Lily!" Brenna stopped, looking back at the now-floating stone. It was glowing... almost alive.... So fascinating.... Transfixed by this new development, and secure in the knowledge that it wasn't going to hurt them, she started to wander back in that direction.... Just to take a closer look, that's all....

[Chibi MitchellTF]

"Of course, it might have been a targeting laser, or a beacon. But, if it is, we're probably already dead anyone."

She looks at it, and hums a little tune. Unknowingly, this is the 'monolith' tune from 2001 A Space Odyessy. "Dum. Dum. Dum. DADUM. Dumdumdumdum. Dum. Dum. Dum. DADUM."

[Mistress Guendolen]

Brenna didn't hear any of this, except dimly, on the edge of her hearing. "A beacon? That sounds nice.... Wonder who it's for, though? I hope we like them, when they get here...." She was getting steadily more transfixed by the floating rock. "This is fascinating.... I wanna know how it's doing that...."

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily, upon hearing Breena becoming transfixed, turns right around. "Um, guys. We may need to drag Breena away from this thing...'

[Mitera Nikkou]

The rock flashed suddenly, bright enough to leave a spot linger in any onlooker's vision. Where the rock had been was now empty, and there seemed to be no sign of it. However, if anyone were to look down the hole (made when the rock had unearthed itself), at the bottom they would see what looked like a glowing array of crystals clustered together, far from anyone's reach.

Donald, having been looking at the rock at the time that it had flashed, had an annoying, greenish spot in his vision. Of course, he was more concerned about his charges, since the flash could have done anything and he couldn't see everyone from his position.

"Is everyone alright?"

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily raises a hand. "I'm fine. I saw a flash or something out of the corner of my eye. I can see fine, though." She turns to Breena, walks in front of her and throws up four fingers. "How many fingers am I holding up?"

[Mistress Guendolen]

Brenna blinked owlishly. She was swaying a little on her feet. "Man... haven't felt like this since I tried that local homebrew on that dig last year.... Tha' was weird...." It took a minute for Lily's question to sink in. "Fingers? Lemme check...." She leaned closer. "I think you've got four. You're missing one! Didja lose it in that blast?..." She turned, still swaying a little, to look where the stone had been. "That was really something! And oh, it's gone now...." She slowly seemed to be coming back to a less dazed state of mind. "And I didn't get a chance to find out how it was doing that, either!"

[Chibi MitchellTF]

She puts a hand to her head. "Breena's fine, she's just a little punch-drunk. She's getting better, I think. No harm done. We could probably investiage now, if we get some rope."