#anywhere

And the minotaur charges

"GAH!" Sylvi yelps and tries to dodge the initial charge, hoping to get a stab in as the creature barrels past.

Sylvi gets her cut in, but while she dodges the horns she still gets shoulder smashed against the wall. Then again, Siv gets clipped too

"Son of .. how does anything this big and hairy sneak UP on someone?" Siv curses

"Now he sees us, now he don't!" Sylvi whispers while lurching to grab Siv's hand, hoping the Fuddle will work to make the minotaur lose them in the shadows.

A snort.. "damn.. I'll smell you, eventually... I know this labryinth"

Siv moves with her, hand in hand and going into the dark with her finally whispers "Holy shit. I wish SYmon were here. He'd have advice on many hit dice it had or something"

Sylvi nods, then pauses and searches in her purse for a little perfume sampler. She stops and throws it as hard as she can back the way they came, hoping it will break on landing and confuse the minotaur's nose.

A quick wall mark, then hurrying down the corridor again.

A rambling noise, a sniff.. and hoofbeats 'that away' after the perfume

"What now?" Sylvi asks, "we just keep wandering?"

"Of course not," Siv says "We set a trap." She reaches into her pocket and touches a rock, concentrating and suddenly, it looks just like Sylvi. It's like a maniquin

Sylvi blinks at the mannequin...and then tilts her head as she considers if her hair really looks that bad right now.

Siv looks at her, seems to realizee it's about the hair, rolls her eyes and yanks her back against a wall and they wait

Sylvi just manages not to yelp as she's yanked to the side, then nods and waits.

And soon enough the Minotaur stumbles about, rubbiing his snout, then ..seeing the decoy, snarls and charges!

It's incredibly alarming to watch even a DUMMY version of yourself get impaled by horns

It's pretty horrific, yeah. But also motivational. Sylvi grips her blade and waits for the confused moment when the minotaur realizes he's got a fake....

Confusion as the blood comes out as pebbles?

And Siv moves forward to stab with her rapier!

Sylvi likewise lunges to stab the other side.

It bellows in rage, but with dead Sylvi still on one horn and half blinding it, with perfume still in the air a bit...while it swings wildly at them, it's already wounded, and they use their troll might to cut it bit by bit. Until Sylvi brings a dangerous gut wound, and Siv takes a long.. and it breaks apart into glamour

save for 'dead Sylvi'

and a colorful hoop of string

"Oh, man...glad we studied those myths." She grabs up the string.

"Huh? Oh right. study, let's say we did that" Siv winks. Then the 'fake Sylvi' turns into broken shards "Geez"

the string is invaluable in finding out where they've been.

"I guess I get to save my lipstick. I'll have to get the grit out of it now, though." Sylvi secures the string to a jagged outcropping, then looks at the pile of shards. "Think there's anything worth saving in there?"

"It's just a rock. I keep it because I'm not good at affecting the nature realm as some" Siv says "Let's keep looking..oh my"

They have come to another area, a puzzle waits them.

"I have no idea how to.. what is this?" Siv bliniks

Sylvi takes a look.

Cascading barrier of colors blocking their path, jewels forming a wall hovering in the ...

wait. She has this game ap on her computer

Bejeweled or something like that.

She blinks. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me."

"Okay... looks persian..." Siv says

"Wait, what?" Siv says "You know what myth this is from?"

"Not a myth. It's a computer game. You move jewels one space to make groups. Minimum group is 3 jewels, but you can make bigger groups, and in the game they get you more points."

"So...like...if I move this one here..." she points but does not touch "that would make three in a row. But if I moved this one here, that would make five going across and three down, so that's a total of 8. See?"

"I'm guessing we have to clear a bunch in a certain number of moves....?" She looks around for any clue about the goals of the game.

Looks like the Nordic runes in the jewels give clues "Ok. We've got to get ride of the blue ones. At least there's SOME Mythos."

Sliding and beeping, the wall slowly crumbles and bloops, leading them to a tunnel

"Cool!" Sylvi smiles, far preferring the non-blood-letting challenges.

"Oh, no fight?" Siv grumphs

they move down the tunnel

"Thought this was going to be action packed" Siv explains "But if it's just one minotaur I don't see the big..." Scones light up mysteriously along the tunnel they're in, with hellish red flame

"Cool" She grins "Now we're talking"

"Uh, Siv, I'd really like to survive this thing, y'know?"

"We will" she assures "ANd nothing spices up the old sex life like near death experiences. Trust me. Assuming we're healthy enough, after this, we're going to want to visit our beaus and make em smile"