Some focus on attacking while others make a break for it. The river bed is filling up... Water is pouring into the basin below. The ones who are fighting realize now it's best to run and they begin to make a break for it as well. Jax readies himself to cast a fire spell in a bottleneck in the basin. Eventually everyone makes it past the bottleneck and Jax casts his spell lighting the fire and blocking the howlers from entering the opening past the bottleneck. The howlers bound up the side of the cliff, snarling and snapping at the party as they rush out of the riverbed on the opposite side of the Howlers as they growl in protest. After this moment the party takes a bit to decompress and they continue on. As they travel, the clouds begin to part, the sun low in the sky. The party notices that there is parts of robots and husks of them scattered about the pathway. They litter its sides, overgrown by flesh. Soon they find the junk pile is now blocking their path. Many of the robots that make up the junk pile resemble otis closely. There is a sign that states "Introducing our new tour guide robots" That's half-consumed. The junk pile begins to twitch and move, jerking violently to life, metal scraping together as dozens of hands begin to form together, creating a snouted face. hand-antlers (hantlers if you will) sprout from its head. it leans forward, studying the party, greeting them with. "Ah yes, Travelers… there sure is a lot of you." The junk pile soon garners a name, Frank as decided by Jax. The thing soon gets along with Seven, making conversation about the nature of being robots. Frank mentions to the party that Otis had separated from them, and they're looking for him. Seven offers to give Frank his location, but the party soon cuts him off. The party mentions how they want to get past, and the junk pile mentions how it has riddles the party must answer. The party readies themselves and Frank states the first riddle: "I am unstoppable yet untouchable, Depending on how you perceive me I move fast or slow. If you held a mirror to me, all you’d see are two hands and a face." The party makes quick work of it, answering "Time". A correct answer! The junk pile soon fires off the second riddle: "I am a foundation but I have the capacity to grow. If you cut me down, I will bleed. My core is soft yet I remain strong, what am I?" After some deliberation, the party answers "Bone". Which was correct! This third and final riddle however had higher stakes. the party only had a limited amount of answers to give the sentient pile. The final riddle: "I am a puzzle for the sharpest of tongues. during our game I will gracefully dance around the answer. With just a pen and ink, I shall make you think." After deliberating Seven and Bishop come to an answer that the party agrees with, which was "Riddle" The final correct answer! Frank gets quite happy that the party answered their riddles successfully giving them a whole round of applause before moving away, revealing the path beneath them. As they are leaving Seven asks if Frank believes in god... and they say "There is only one god, and it is among us." This echoes in Bishop's mind. Soon the party finds themselves at ladle rock! The rock's basin is filled with water and the cave looms behind it, opening covered in tooth-like growths. The party decides to set up camp for the night and take a long rest. Bishop and Scraps decide to go look for food, while Jax decides to follow behind Bishop since he's been quite suspicious of him as of late. Bishop soon finds something to eat, an injured howler from the flood, he rips off his gas mask and takes a large bite, leaving the wolf's corpse behind. Jax, having heard the Howler die, he looks at its corpse, finding a large dog-like bite taken out of it. Upon returning to the camp, having left Rainn and Seven alone (Much to Rainn's dismay) Jax gives Bishop a suspicious glance before Scraps begins to remove his prosthetics. Seven asks what happened to Scraps, and Scraps goes into a disassociates. He's soon snapped back to it by Bishop tapping him on the shoulder.