GULGALLANA & TIAMAT

[soulping]

[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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ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[soulping]

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[debate_avenger]

[Well, the first thing that comes to mind is...]

...A sliding block puzzle. The first thing we have to do is a sliding block puzzle.

I really hope I'm wrong about this.

[sakazuki]

What, of the floor?

[ He uses his foot to nudge a few. ]

They at least move a bit.

[debate_avenger]

Yeah. Looks like some are missing, and there's a design that goes across them. Presumably, if we put the design back together, it will unlock a door or something.

[That's going to be a pain, though...]

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[carptricks]

[he is RPG savvy enough to know what that means]

Why? What's wrong with a puzzle?

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[debate_avenger]

The problem is these kinds of things are designed to waste people's time as much as possible. If we could lift the tiles it would be easier, of course, but...

[Wait a second...]

I suppose we should try that first, huh?

ROOM 2 - THE PATH OF ?????

[soulping]

[You move through the doorway to discover the first room: a large open space with a high ceiling. Directly in front of you is a deep trench, with a narrow board being the only apparent way across. At the other end, a rope dangles, leading up to a series of platforms. It's a little hard to tell from here, but this room looks...kind of like a simple obstacle course? Huh.

Well, better get started, I guess. Watch your step!]

[sakazuki]

... What is this? We just need to get through to the other end?

[ Looks kind of easy. ]

[debate_avenger]

Seems like it, yeah. I'd be careful on the board, though. If something shoots at us, we won't be able to dodge.

ROOM 3

[soulping]

[You make your way through the tunnel on hands and knees, hopefully trying your best not to bump your heads or get stuck. It's slow going as you shuffle along in single file, which isn't helped by the lack of light. By the time you're halfway through it goes completely pitch dark and stays that way for several agonizing yards. But eventually it starts to lighten again and soon after you emerge, no doubt pausing to let your eyes adjust and stretch your cramped paws-

Wait, what?

You look around at yourself and your teammates and realize that at some point in the darkness, your clothes have magically changed into some kind of bizarre costume. Bizarre, but appropriate: a glance back will reveal that the tunnel you came through is a mousehole, and you now stand in a truly MASSIVE room, surrounded by immensely tall pieces of furniture. The perspective might throw you off for a minute, but it appears to be a fairly ordinary looking living room...seen from the scale of a rat. Have you shrunk or has the building grown? There's no way of knowing.

On the plus side: you all look adorable.

At the moment, you're standing between an immense couch and a gigantic end table. Across the room, distantly, is a door...a non-rat-sized door. How will you proceed?]

[sakazuki]

[ ... Oh fucking hell no, oh hell no. ]

What the hell is this?! When did our clothes change?!

[debate_avenger]

It probably has something to do with this room.

ROOM 4

[soulping]

[Success! You stride confidently through the hole (your precious little rat costumes changing back to regular clothes in a blink as you pass through) only to be immediately halted again on the other side. Everything is once again properly proportioned to human size and you're standing in what might have once been a ballroom or fancy dining hall, but after about six feet the floor of the room abruptly ends, having fallen away completely. Looking down, the hole goes down at least three floors before fading into darkness. There is nothing but a yawning chasm between you and the other side of the room. And of course, where else would the exit be? Yep, waaay over there.

To your left and right are the remains of a set of short staircases, leading to a crumbled balcony above the main area. Above, an extravagant chandelier hangs from the ceiling, which - thank goodness - looks much more solid and intact than the floor.

What now?]

Re: ROOM 4

[carptricks]

[barely reacts when their clothes turn back to normal]

This house sure is fond of obstacle courses.

[the next course of actions is obvious to Kaito]

[sakazuki]

[ Oh thank god, their clothes are back. IT'S A MIRACLE, Cut is very happy with this but this ends with seeing this room... ]

What the hell are we to do now, though? The stairs are broken and we're not risking going down.

ROOM 5

[soulping]

[You made it safely across the gap! Wow, that was really dangerous. Hopefully this next room will allow you a moment to breathe. It's a kitchen of some sort and it certainly looks normal enough as you enter, although it's completely barren aside from a large bowl of apples on a counter near the door. There's a simple wooden door on the wall opposite the entrance and no barriers stopping you from reaching it.

No obvious barriers, anyway. As soon as the first person through puts their foot down on the tile floor, there's a loud click and the tiles directly around you immediately light up in the following pattern:



(The bolded square at the bottom is the entrance. The one at the top is the exit.)

Nothing else happens, but perhaps you should be cautious as you proceed...]

Re: ROOM 5

[carptricks]

. . .

[oh boy]

Weeeee should probably be careful.

Re: ROOM 5

[debate_avenger]

It's one of these then, huh...? Should we stick with the lit squares, or the unlit ones?

ROOM 6

[soulping]

[SO, HAVE FUN PLUMMETING SEVERAL STORIES. Don't worry though; there are a number of giant spiderwebs that intermittently break your fall as you tumble down, finally landing with an unpleasant but non-harmful thump. So now you've probably had a heart attack and you're all covered in gross sticky spiderwebs. Are we having fun yet?

The place you land in is a completely empty, square room made of grey stone that's slightly damp and covered in mildew and dust. It looks like a dungeon of some sort, which makes sense considering how far you fell. But there's no door or other obvious exit- the room is bare and the walls are smooth. Hmm...]

Re: ROOM 6

[carptricks]

[sitting up with a groan, shaking some spiderwebs from his hands]

Keh. . . we should've just taken it one at a time.

Re: ROOM 6

[debate_avenger]

Okay, maybe that wasn't the best idea...

[Well, time to focus on the current situation... Let me go check all the walls by hand, at least.]

Re: ROOM 6

[carptricks]

Haa. I've definitely had better ideas.

[standing up, and dusting some glitter off of his shirt as he does so]

ROOM 7

[soulping]

[You descend the ladder for a short while before emerging into a half-flooded room, dropping down onto a platform above the water level, allowing you to take a look around.

This room is still obviously a dungeon, dark and dirty like the last, but there's something rather out of place- on the opposite wall is a door, almost fully submerged, and surrounding it on the wall is a curious mosaic. It's a little hard to tell because it's mostly underwater now, but- yeah, no, it's OBVIOUSLY a puzzle. Or at least it once was.

But it's underwater! What the heck do you do now?]

Re: ROOM 7

[debate_avenger]

Well, only one thing to do then... There's no avoiding it, is there?

Re: ROOM 7

[carptricks]

I hope we're all good swimmers. Heh.