[ml1201]

Nodding her head, Agate removes her hands from the portal and gets on it, smiling at Jade who helped her to open it. "I'm excited to see what the monument looks like, since its been a long time since I've visited it."

[Witchchylde]

Jade could only nod her agreement, stepping up into the portal-way herself, already seeing past into the room they would be claiming for their home.

Rather more austere than the beach house by necessity, the inside of this monument seemed industrial in design. Jade was already thinking of ways to give it a 'homey' air before even setting foot across the threshold.

There were definitely a number of doors ringing the large main room, far more than three, which made sense, since there were many other gems that could yet be reclaimed and come to join them here.

The friendly wooden interior of the beach house would contrast starkly with the brick walls and dark marble floors within the monument building. Jade could almost hear already the clicking her bootheels would make, echoey in the undecorated room.

[Him]

Moonstone joined them and soon they were transported from the nice lively warm beach house. To a old cold monument. Looks like it used to be a hub area where Gems would stay to recooperate. It was nice a spacious but it hadn't been tended to in so long. It looked like it was falling apart.

"Wow, it's in even worse shape then I initially thought."

[ml1201]

Once Moonstone got on the portal and they were ready, they were transported to the monument, which once they got there Agate knew why it was that she couldn't activate the portal. Near the teleporter there was some ruble laying about. Sighing, she looks up at the ceiling to see the damage. Luckily it was only that portion that fell down, easy enough to fix. Using her magic she levitates the ruble back up to the ceiling and binds it back together with the ceiling.

"Well hopefully that won't come back down again for a while."

[Witchchylde]

"Gonna be pretty in here once we get it cleaned up and all," Jade said hopefully as she got busy shoving detritus into a manageable pile. "But at least there's nothing to fight in here over ownership. I mean, nothing magical, I figure there's probably critters in here like raccoons in nice little hidey holes. Not that we'd have to kick them out, really, just, divvy up the space. You furry guys on your side of the monument, us Gems on ours?"

[ml1201]

"I don't know if raccoons would live in a cave of this magnitude, I'd think more of something like a bear, wolf or lion, maybe even wild cats and bobcats." Going around to the different areas she tiles larger pieces of debris from Jade's pile and begins restoring what she can of the walls and ceiling. "Either way though, they shouldn't be too much of a problem. If need be we could just set spells to ward them off."

[Him]

Moonstone looked around the area. It was indeed in worse shape then she could imagine...however it seemed some of parts of the monument were still working.

"Hmm looks like some of the magical aspects of the monument are still in tact. Seems the camoflauge and the shields are still up. I doubt there are any animals in here we have to take care of. Although..."

There was a slight rumbling that rang through out the monument.

"It seems there might be a remenent of the what this once was in the deep end of the cave. We ought to check it out, I hope it isn't another monster."

[ml1201]

Agate turns her head towards the sound of the rumbling, sighing as she finishes replacing the ruble she was levitating. Her gems glow as she summons forth her bow and notches an arrow to the string.

"I'm hoping its something friendly over another monster to have to deal with..."

[Witchchylde]

"Sounds more like a cave-in, to me," Jade responded, casting a dubious gaze around the rubble-filled chamber into which thy had entered the monument in the first place. Kneeling down, she placed a hand on the floor and murmured, "Remember." The remaining debris all flew into their original places in the walls and ceiling, fusing into place as though they'd never been parted.

[Him]

"Well hopefully it is, that would be much easier to deal with right now."

Moonstone said as she started to make her way into the area where the rumbling came from. As they entered the gems could feel this reverberation going on.

"I hope I am not the only one that feels that."

[ml1201]

"No, you're not, I feel it too but I have no idea what it is or what's causing it. If a monster somehow got in here I'm going to be pretty mad, the spell seem intact so that means a gem would have had to become a monster after coming to the monument." Agate's back stiffens at the thought, which meant even this place wouldn't be safe.

[Witchchylde]

"Pfft, chickens," Jade teased, then moved forward several steps and shouted out, "HEY! ANYBODY THERE? COME ON OUT AND PLAY WHY DONCHA!" loudly enough to enact a counter reverberation which should either cancel out the effect of the reverberation already happening, or quantify it enough to speed another collapse of structure around them.

[Him]

Moonstone waited for a reaction.

"No reaction, I suppose it isn't a monster then. It's safe to check it out then."

Moonstone entered the area and noticed a large contraption at the center of this room they entered in. She walked around it and glanced it over a few times. She'd never seen anything like this before.

"Well, this is a rather interesting piece of gem architect. Although I am not quite sure what it is."

[ml1201]

Agate tries not to laugh at the simple way Jade handled it, finding her defensiveness silly after what Jade had done. Unsummoning her bow, Agate follows Moonstone, also confused by the contraption.

"I wonder who made it and what purpose it serves." Walking silently she approaches the devices to have a better look at it.

[Witchchylde]

Jade prowled around the circumference of the machine. There was something vaguely familiar, somehow, about this thing.
"That tubey thing, going up into the ceiling, is that giving off heat, do you think," she asked her compatriots.

[Him]

((Sorry for lateness been a bit busy))

"Why don't we find out?"

Moonstone said looking up at the strange machinery.