Story (Hole in workshop Pt. 1)

Balthier wanders over to the hole in the workshop and shoves his face and left arm through it, and then undulates through after his body parts.  Now in a room, there is a metal jail cage with a pile of something in the corner, and a door.  The door is locked, and made of reinforced metal of some kind.  Inside the jail the pile of something moves, and the metallic sound shakes again.  Balthier calls out to the cage. "Hello?"  A thin rasping comes from inside the cage.  "Help, please.  I need to eat, I can't get out."  Balthier responds: "What manner of creature are you?"  "Last time I checked, human.  I can't promise that for long if I don't get out though."  A thin person stands up in the corner, still mostly covered in darkness.  Balthier: "I have no food, but do you know where I could find some?"  The figure shrugs "I do not know where I am, but if you have no food, perhaps you could get me out somehow?"  Balthier steps closer to the cage.  The rusted metal seems strong, yet it is very old.  The door has recently replaced double lock.  They are very small, and highly polished, as if they just were made.  He pulls out his pistol, and shoots both the locks off, and the door swings open.  The figure walks over, showing itself to be a woman, badly bruised, cut, and starved.  "Thank you.  My name is Lady Krisaga.  I am going to assume you have a way out."  Smiling a little, Balthier asks, "Are you sure you are okay?"  Krisaga looks at him, "Yes, if we get out.  I need some rest and food."  Balthier introduces himself. "My name is Balthier, and uh, we should probably try to get you some medical attention."  Krisaga holds her side gingerly.  "That would be nice, but some rest would do me some good for now."  Balthier says, "I came in from the ceiling.  Do you think I could help you get up there?"  Krisaga: "I suppose we could try."  Balthier boosts Krisaga up, and she exerts an extraordinary effort, and climbs through the hole.  Looking around once more, there seems to be nothing around.  Balthier clambers up into the hole, and gets into the workshop.  Jim introduces himself to Krisaga.  Balthier wanders over to the golem, and says "Hey boulderbrains, Krisaga needs to get over to our camp, do you think you could give her a lift?"  The golem turns, looks at Balthier, considers this, and then considers how easy it would be to step on him.  He gets lost in thought, and ignores Balthier.  Jim offers Krisaga a ride back to camp, and offers to make a nice hammock for her.  Krisaga says that Balthier was the one who rescued her, and that he had promised her lodgings.  Balthier turns to Jim and says that he can take her back to camp.  Upon finishing his turn, Jim is putting some carnivorous grass into his aptitude potion.  Jim starts having violent convultions, and collapses hard on the floor, knocking himself out.  The golem picks up Krisaga and Jim, and books it out the door.  Balthier is surprised by how fast it moved.  He chases it out of the cave and sees it pound off the beach and into the forest, chasing it over to where Jim's camp is.  It gently places them on the platform, and then sits down at the ladder.  Jim's camp is quite simple, a platform made of wood lashed to a tree, with small notches hacked into the trunk.  The only thing odd is that wherever Jim is moved, small objects around his feet like pebbles or such seem to float, as well as when he is placed, he seems to float slightly.  Balthier asks the golem if he can get up onto the platform to try and fix Mr. Stupor, and the golem scoots over to let him up.  Balthier looks over at Mr. Eats acidic grass, and determines that he needs to sleep it off.  Some of the pebbles float over and land on Jim.  One gets stuck in his nose.  Balthier starts to lift Jim, and puts him back down after some consideration.  While thinking some more, a small shock hits his hand.  John takes the plant and rock package meal, and thinks very hard at it.  His left foot catches on fire.  He slaps the fire out, then gutpunches Jim.  Jim hurks, but doesn't upchuck.  He rises to his feet.  The pebbles fall back to the ground.  Balthier tells him that Jim better vomit that crap up right now or hes gonna have bad munchies for the rest of his life, which may not be for very long.  Balthier suggests that Jim tell the golem to at least listen to him sometimes, at least not just when Jim's life is in danger.  Jim concentrates on the golem.  It says ping, then nods its head.  Balthier, investigating why his leg caught on fire, thinks hard at Jim.  Jim yells as a very loud noise goes off in his ears, with a bright flash of light.  Jim, wondering how powerful his acidic stomach is right now, eats a pebble.