soulping | RATATOSKR & OMETOTCHTLI

[You exit the parlor through a doorway in your team's color and find yourself in some kind of entry hall. Aside from the one behind you, there are four doors - one on each of the side walls, and two opposite the entrance - each with an image carved into it. They're a bit hard to make out, however, since only one torch on the far wall is lit, lending the place a gloomy atmosphere. What you can see is that the room, once richly decorated, is now a mess; the walls are covered in peeling, royal purple wallpaper, and great swaths of the ceiling are coated with sticky cobwebs. The floor is covered with large marble tiles, inlaid with some kind of swirling design in glittering gold - but sadly, it too is out of shape. The tiles seem to shift a bit under your weight, and some of them are even missing altogether.

If you try the doors you'll find that all of them are locked, and no amount of manhandling can get them to budge.]

[OOC: This game is a treasure hunt/dungeon crawl! Your characters will be exploring the rooms they pass through and facing different challenges in each one. Some rooms will be exploratory, others will have specific rules! The goal is just to reach the end. Teams will be scored on things like teamwork, cleverness, creativity, etc.

Skills are ON, but there will be penalties if you mess up Knut's castle. He lives here, you know!]

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[Looking around for another wedge, but if nothing catches his eye he's going to make the best of a running jump he can and grab for the chandelier.]

[He doesn't see anything, so a running leap it is. Congratulations, you're crazy.

He barely makes it, grabbing the chandelier and holding on for dear life as it swings wildly from one end of the room to the other.]

[He does kind of have an undiagnosed neurosis. Checking the chandelier over. Anything interesting and do any of the pieces detach/can it be lowered to the floor way down below?]

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[It's a tiered gold thing, pretty fancy. A couple of the arms look strangely bent, but that might just be because it's old. As he stays up there investigating, the swinging of the chandelier will gradually slow, leaving him hanging in the middle of the room.]

[Hmmm. ...God this is killing his arms, sob. Going to climb up so he's standing on top of the lowest tier and holding onto the support. That done, he's going to start casting a spell with the idea that the circle of light that appears around him should reflect off the chandelier and light up the room better for Roxy.

Unless this is a candle/torch chandelier then uh he will toss down a candle/torch to Roxy while he is at this.]

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[It is a candle chandelier but there's nothing left to burn. Your other plan works brilliantly though- pun intended. The room is much brighter now! +100 visibility]

Thanks!

[Gonna head downstairs and see what's down the chasm.]

[With the added light, you can now make out more details of the rooms below. Looks like a gallery of some kind right below you, followed by a study and perhaps a library. Anything past that is either too far or too buried in debris to make anything out.

At the very, very bottom of the chasm, there's something...weird. It's pale red, and maybe it's the distance playing tricks on your eyes, but it seems to be moving slightly, up and down.]

[Time to do crazy things now.]

[Unbending the end of the paper clip and JUMPING DOWN, aiming for the mid point of the fall and will use extended end to stab into a floor-and-or-wall to stop there and get a closer look.]

[Just going to keep up being a lightbulb like a true teamie. We are the bizarrest team in this game aren't we....]

Give some fucking warning why don't you?!

I said I was used to fighting bigger things too, ya know!

I did not make the jump to that including a gaping abyss, sorry about that! [said with utmost sarcasm but he's glad she's fine???]

[Cackles.] Yeah, sorry, I got a couple story jump.

I could catch ya if you want to join me.

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WHAT? No way! Even if you can do whatever... that is, you can't catch me too!

Why not?

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[I...okay. You...you do that, I guess.

You hook into the floor of the study/roof of the library. From your closer vantage point you can see that it's DEFINITELY moving, like something living. You can also see that the pale red turns darker and kind of shimmers around the edges...like scales.]

....

[So if I unfold this paperclip completely, can I poke it?]

[It's a little out of your reach even then, but you could always drop something on it...if you really want to...]

[Dropping something small on it. :D]

[It bounces.

The moving thing makes a brief, low growling noise and quiets again.]

[Well!]

[I can work with that. Folding paperclip and jumping the rest of the way to search. Along with Kilo after helping him down.]

[Will give the Thing space, but if no copper thing, will EXAMINE it to see if it might be inside it.]

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Hey, Zelos, do you think you can make the room brighter with that?

I...can try? I'm only human.

[And how pleased he is to say that.]

Well, it is a chandelier. Even kicking off a torch would be awesome.