<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/VjAyLp4.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Rei (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=333483.msg15890913#msg15890913)<br/><strong>Race and Occupation:</strong>Plucky Human Ninja<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time:</strong>Generic Cave Dungeon One | Noonish, W1D2<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Lucien<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>In all of Rei's hijinks, she missed the part about Lucien asking her about what exactly it was that she was good at. Her potion-lathered grin was noted by him in that moment - so much so that he whipped out a little logbook to jot all of the details down. She felt a little guilty about her little joke then, thinking that perhaps she had gone a little too far and was in the midst of ruining the natural and very complex process of alchemy. Mentally, she made a promise to both herself and Lucien that she would only report any clear signs of the bolstering potion doing its bolstering business as advertised.<br/><br/>"Okay! I'll go first. Try and be sneaky about everything, alright? I don't want to get bonked on the head more than I have to." Rei smirked before wiping away at her lips with her left forearm while her right hand reached for the fancy sword that he had mentioned. She slashed the air this way and that to make a bit of a show of it and to test whether or not the potion actually was as efficient as she first joked. Didn't seem that way, but she wasn't about to disappoint Lucien given how excited bright and joyful he seemed to be when he heard that it was performing as it should. Relatively speaking, that is.<br/><br/>Bending down slightly at the hip and knees, as if she really needed to be closer to the ground than she naturally is, Rei began their journey into the cave system. The ninja was still not entirely sure what it was that they were looking for, or even if they were only meant to rid the cave of its dummy inhabitants, but she had a feeling that as long as they undoubtedly got to the end of the cave, they would find exactly what that thing was. She could feel the anticipation in her gut, along with a little warmth growing further south. That's a bit new...<br/><br/>It wasn't long until they had gotten their first hint that they weren't alone in this cave. A familiar creaking of wood, with some added spice of it being upright, somewhat sentient, and on patrol. Rei looked back, somewhat expecting Lucien to be right behind her but standing tall and ready to fling something at the wooden training dummy that she could just barely make out in the dark. "Alright... I'm going to try and get around this thing and poke it in the back. Bail me out if things get bad?"<br/><br/>Not waiting for approval, Rei hugged one wall of the cave, slowly making her way to the wooden sentinel. She'd stop whenever it was looking in her direction (or at least thought it was looking in her direction), then continue inching closer when she was confident it was travelling away from her. Soon, she was ready to pounce, completely emboldened by what was thought to be a bolstering potion adding a bit of punch to her strike. Sword at her side, Rei lunged at the machination, cutting it clear in two with very little effort at all. Was it the potion or her sneakiness that did the work? There was no telling - she was a little too distracted by the fact that the pacing sound didn't stop. In fact, it had gotten a touch louder and sounded as if it were coming directly toward them. "What did I say about being sneaky!?"