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Coatleque · **01-13-2015, 10:28 AM**

"Oi, I'm goin', I'm goin'!"
Coatleque did not bother to look down again but continued a somewhat quickened ascent up the ladder. She almost had concern over stepping on the other woman's hands before shrugging it off as her own fault if she dared to follow so closely behind. It was not as if she could concentrate on climbing while watching her step below.

The shaft only became darker the higher they ascended, and soon the rungs of the ladder were little more than faint grey lines that disappeared if one dared to look away and back again. It was then that she saw the thin white outline of light seeping through cracks in the wall.

Coatleque stopped suddenly and called down "Hold! Look, there. Is that a door?"

McBeefâ„¢ · **01-15-2015, 04:20 PM**

Evangeline yelps and shakes her hand as a boot clips a finger, but she does her best to ignore it as she scurries up after Crofte.

"The fuck do I know Coatleque!" Evangeline growls, before looking nervously down at the sputtering flames beneath them, "If it's not a door then let's make one!"

She prods upwards at Crofts rear, when suddenly, with a crack, one of the rungs of the ladder shatters, sending bits of wood down the shaft.

"N-now please!" She clings onto the ladder, huddled against Crofte's skirts.

Coatleque · **01-16-2015, 02:59 PM**

Scanning the wall adjacent to the ladder, Coatleque had to squint in the dim light to make out any kind of a footing. Luckily there was a ledge, though it was barely a full foot's length deep. The ledge ran from the door to the ladder and had a thin arm rail close to the wall above it. Clearly designed for maintenance to be able to reach the ladder from the door without the need to jump and pray for the best.

At the zealous urging of the woman below her she carefully stepped out from the ladder with one foot to the ledge while feeling for the hand rails. A slight tug ensured it was secure before she dared push off from the ladder to hug the wall. There was no room to turn even her head to look back without awkwardly leaning away from the precarious ledge, so she hoped for the best for Evangeline as she shimmied along the ledge to the door.

From her angle it was even harder to see anything despite the cracks of light peeking through the door. She felt her hand along the seems and between to try and find something to grip but was having very little luck of it.

"I don't know... what am I looking for?"

McBeefâ„¢ · **01-27-2015, 01:31 PM**

Evangeline grimaces, and fishes her papers out of her coat, bound to a steel clip board. "I hope you know I am making a severe sacrifice for the revolution."

She tears the papers off, the leaves fluttering down the elevator shaft, and she hands the clipboard upwards, "Jam this in the crack and tilt it."

"I know you are normally on receiving side of such things, but I'm sure you'll figure it out." Her voice is frantic as she talks, looking suspiciously at the remaining rungs.

Coatleque · **01-27-2015, 03:57 PM**

With no small effort Coatleque managed to shift her grip from one hand to the other, turn enough to take the object from Evangeline, then shift back to the other direction again without dropping it down the shaft. She shimmied back across the ledge to the door and with all the strength she could muster in one hand, jammed it into the crack between the doors.

She tried to push on it from the far edge as one would a crowbar. A mistake that was met with the sound of splintering wood as it snapped in half and almost sent her tumbling forward. Cursing Byregot for such shoddy craftsmanship, she steadied herself before pushing against the half that remained, as close to the doors as her hand could manage. It was enough and the doors began to separate.

As the gap widened, the other half of the clipboard fell away, but by now it was no longer needed. Coatleque reversed her hand and grabbed the door on the side closest to her and pulled back to open it the rest of the way before wrapping her arm around and stepping out of the lift's shaft. She backed against the wall immediately with a sense of relief before remembering the other woman behind her. Leaning back around into the opening she offered a hand to Evangeline.

"We made it! This way, carefully!"

McBeefâ„¢ · **01-27-2015, 05:14 PM**

Evangeline sighs at the crack of her clipboard, but happily grabs the hand when it is offered, pulling herself up with Crofte's help.

"W-well..." She clears her throat, "That didn't go as well as it could have." Looking down at her outfit, soiled by soot and grease, "I suppose the revolution will survive a delay of one day."

Evangeline dusts off her skirt, for all the good it does. "You still going to meet your man?"

Coatleque · **01-27-2015, 05:38 PM**

Coatleque brushed herself off as well, to the best of her abilities. She gazed thoughtfully back at the open door as patrons began to take notice of all the commotion at this side of the landing. Still breathing heavily, she gave Evangeline an incredulous look.

"Meet my ... no. Even if he was still here, I now have something more pressing to deal with. And by that I mean this now gaping hole." She gestured to the lift. "I must needs find the crew responsible for repairs and see to it your flare does not ignite something. This time I shall take the stairs." With that she turned to leave.

McBeefâ„¢ · **01-27-2015, 08:51 PM**

Evangeline decides, for once, to avoid commenting on what other gaping holes Crofte might have.

She waves instead, "Good good... well at least we didn't die. Later Coatleque" Stretching for a moment, she prepares to follow Crofte, before the sound of the airship draw her attention.

"After all that, I at least deserve a drink."

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