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RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-30-2014
Evangeline grins, "Perhaps we are Coatleque. However, indulge my viewpoint just once." She stands, "Think of our fate as Ul'dah, even Eorzea, stuck in a precarious position. Perhaps we shall fall, or perhaps we shall rise."
"You would sit and give thanks to the twelve, hoping they will bless us... I tend to be more active in such matters." Evangeline laughs, "Even if it does nothing but speed us towards our eventual fate."
She points to the floor, "Kneel, if you would Lady Crofte, I need more height if I am to reach the grates in the ceiling."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-30-2014
She threw Evangeline a rather incredulous look before groaning to herself and crawling towards the middle of the lift. There she sat up into a kneeling position with one knee raised flat having her foot on the floor.
"Just make it quick. And do not dare to read into this as if it is some sort of symbolism, or so help me I will drop you."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-30-2014
Evangeline nods, then clambers onto the woman's thigh, then places her other foot onto a shoulder. "I wouldn't dream of it. Though I feel the twelve, in this case the Royal Elevator service, are not responding to prayers until the morrow."
With the raspy grate of metal on metal, small bits of rust flicker down as the grate is moved. There is a slight thump as she busies herself, "How good are you at climbing, Coatleque?"
"The ropes, not the ranks of course. Unless you can sleep your way up this cable." With a crackling spark, some piece of metal hits something it should not, and the light in the lift flickers before dying.
"Er...How good are you at climbing in the dark?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-30-2014
As the light fades she groaned once more. "What... did you do?"
She stood slowly while boosting Evangeline up and out of the compartment then looked up after her while squinting into the darkness in vain.
"Despite your preconceptions of my personal life, I have not gained any amount of station through such favors. And yes, I can climb. The question is, can you lift? Because now I am stuck down here."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-30-2014
Evangeline laughs nervously, "Unlike the gods, mortals are fallible. Probably nothing to worry about."
With this the elevator gives a suspicious creak, almost sounding like a moan. "We... mortals have limited lifespans as well, we best hurry."
"We shall see on my lifting capacity, I have been exercising of late..." With an oof, she pulls herself through the grate, and onto the top of the contraption, long cables trailing up the dark elevator shaft towards the airship dock.
"Here, take my hand..." She grins, "Perhaps the only time you'll have the honor."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-30-2014
Coatleque reached up and grabbed Evangeline's hand with both of hers. "Alright. On three, I jump - you pull. One... Two... Three!"
Pushing off the floor she almost braced herself to fall back down but Evangeline's grip held, and she managed to get high enough to catch the lip of the opening with one hand. With new found leverage now added and the efforts of the other woman Coatleque soon found herself standing but hunched over for breath with no more light than before.
The lift groaned beneath them once more and she froze in place trying not to breathe. Steadying herself with one hand gripping a cable she looked in the direction she thought Eva to be standing. "Alright. Now what?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-30-2014
Evangeline fiddles around in her coat for a moment before pulling out a small tube. Pulling a cord from it she drops it on the grate. It sputters for a moment then bursts into life, filling the shaft with a bright flickering red glow as it burns.
She clears her throat, "See, perfectly legitimate uses for my items. I haven't used those to burn down even one mansion yet."
"As for what to do next..." She turns and massages her arm, not wanting Crofte to see, "Erm... I didn't think that far. Could we perhaps climb up to the next landing? Or find a way to lower this contraption gently?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 01-02-2015
She squinted at the sudden burst of light and looked up the shaft until her eyes adjusted. Surveying the top of the lift all she could do was shrug. "I'm a Paladin, not an engineer." She quipped. "As we cannot go down from here, I think it is safe to say we must go up."
Coatleque reached up and wrapped her hands around one of the thick cables before yanking on it. Once she was sure it was secure she jumped and wrapped her legs around to begin her ascent. It was then that a gleam caught her eye off to the side in the dim light.
Sliding the meager two fulms back down the cable she pointed off to the side where the maintenance ladder was attached to the wall. "Perhaps climbing would be easier if we used that?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 01-02-2015
Evangeline blinks as well, following Crofte's eyes. "Ah, I think so." She gestures in front of her, "Ladies first of course."
"Do not worry Lady Crofte, I shall of course avert mine eyes." Sighing, "Next time I believe I shall take the stairs."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 01-08-2015
"Avert your eyes? As if one such as you would lower her standards enough to bother with one such as I?"
The ladder was a little more than a step away from the Elevator itself, and there were no catwalks. It was a maintenance ladder and nothing more, extending from the bottom to the very top of the lift's shaft. Coatleque peered over the edge of the lift into inky blackness before stepping back with a sigh. She stepped forward again and pushed off the lift into a jump, catching the ladder and quickly wrapping her arms around one of the rails to steady herself. A metallic groan echoed down the shaft at the sudden addition of her weight to the rarely used ladder.
A moment later she managed a look back to Evangeline. "Alright... it held. Let's get out of here." With that she began to climb.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 01-08-2015
"You wound me Lady Crofte, I would oggle you most fiercely, given the chance. Regardless of my issues with your personality."
Evangeline tucks her papers into her jacket, and hops onto the ladder as well. "Let us hope you have been going easy on the sweetrolls, lest this quality Ul'dah manufacturing fail us."
She climbs after Crofte, "You know, I'm not sure if that underwear is appropriate. Just what sort of gentleman are you meeting?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 01-08-2015
Her climbing stopped for a moment as her hands gripped the bar of the ladder in a mixture of embarrassment and anger. "So much for averting ones eyes..." She muttered to herself, though it would still echo loud enough.
Through some force of will she continued to ascend once again. "Who I am meeting is none of your concern. To be perfectly honest, he may not even be there. Such is the nature of his business." She began to pant from her exertions combined with long-winded explanations. "How bloody high is this place anyway?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 01-09-2015
"High enough to sneer down at the populace from." Evangeline quips absentmindedly, feeling the stress of the climb as well. She pauses to rest for a moment, "I believe I might be out of shape."
"Lady Crofte." Evangeline looks up as she readies another flare, "You'll have to tell me what exercises have given you thighs so massive. I believe you could crush my head in betwixt them."
"Either way, here, Catch!" She tosses the unlit flare up, "Pull the cord, and keep your hand away from the end, I need to know how much further."
She exhales, and rubs an arm, "The life of a scholar does not prepare one for such adventures."
"While we are waiting, tell me of this gentleman. He is a businessman? I suppose in U'dah that is as close as one gets to nobility."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 01-12-2015
Coatleque stopped her ascent once more at the quip over her apparently massive thighs and closed her eyes. Her forehead rested momentarily against the cold steel of the gauntlet that gripped the ladder just in front of her before she looked down to Evangeline who had also stopped below. She had no more words, no logical objection or witty retort. She only scowled disapprovingly.
Suddenly an incendiary was being lobbed in her direction.
"What? Wait!..." was all she managed to cry out before the flare was almost face-level. The toss was slightly wide, however, and she had to let go of the ladder with one hand and swing out from the wall to reach it. There was a ping as her gauntlet smacked against it, followed by a crack as the flare hit the opposite wall.
Coatleque cursed as she clamored back to the ladder. Another metallic groan echoed around them as the hinges protested the sudden shift in weight. A second later a clatter was heard below as the flare presumably landed on the top of the lift.
"What are ye doing!?" She cried, heart pounding at having nearly fell. "Ye cannae just hurl things at me like tha!"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 01-13-2015
"Ah... my apologies Lady Crofte. I thought you would be apt at grasping phallic objects."
Evangeline looks forlornly at the flare sputtering below them, "Let us hope the builders considered fire resistance among their priorities. A faint smell of smoke indicated that might not be the case. The Elezen climbs frantically upwards, almost burying her head in Crofte's skirt, "Let us make haste to be out of this shaft."
"I have no desire to be baked."