"I am... not going in there." Mitigation looked over to Vex with a frown. Of course he would say that upon immediately finding out that it was in fact a door in front of them and not some cartoonishly monstrous face. However, Mitigation wasn't going to let their adventuring partner just turn around and walk away from an obvious path forwards. "Yes, you are going in there. And you can't intimidate me into giving in this time! What is so bad about it? That it was a little...

The walk back was a bit more than a little awkward. Madness had a feeling that Mitigation would end up lost on their first trip down to the furnace, but he really hoped that he feeling would be proven wrong. Alas, here he was walking the shorter courser back out of the dungeon after finding them hopelessly lost in a small set of corridors. "So... what happened?" Madness tried to start a conversation, hoping that it would lighten up the mood. "Dogs." Mitigation responded. ...

Mitigation looked up at the other courser on a small cliff face in the caverns, with a large silken cocoon on his back and large jugs strapped to their sides. The courser obviously didn't notice Mit, seeing as they were looking directly in front of them, searching for another platform at their height, even if the drop to the lower section of the cavern wasn't that far. Mit tilted their head slightly, unable to pinpoint why the other courser seemed so familiar... until they gave out a h...

The stone creature looked down at Mitigation with a smile, and the small courser attempted to smile back at it, their expression somewhat nervous. They were clearly being addressed, but they had no idea what was being asked of them. Where was their knight? Were they supposed to have brought another courser with them? The only one they brought with them was Niles, but that was mostly because they couldn't stand the thought of leaving the toad alone at home. "P-Pardon? I don't kno...

Mit used to live further away on the surface, in a town bustling with life, coursers and crops aplenty. Alas, they couldn't exactly go back there after disappearing for so long. They hadn't left with good reason, or even told anyone where they were going. They knew that if anyone knew, then someone would try to stop them. So they lived closer to the dungeon, residing in a small outpost that allowed them to return to the dungeons as soon as the sun rose. They imagined it would be quite ...

Mitigation had a good thing going on the surface, there really was no need to go down to the dungeons. They had a safe life, with people that they cared about and who cared for them in turn. They were even on the path to dedicating themselves to a beloved friend of theirs and working towards a beautiful family. So what could have caused a courser who seemingly had their life together to abandon it all? It wasn't money, for they weren't hurting for coin in their previous life, en...

Mit looked at their hooves, the sight of them now slightly disrupted by the movement of the water. He had no clue about the function of the room, but felt a sense of peace as he looked around it. The beautiful images of coursers prancing between the archways, the walls otherwise clean. The lack of moss in comparison to the rest of the cavern was a pleasant change for Mitigation. Not that they were upset by the presence of moss, but admittedly they were more of a ruins explorer than a w...