soulping | GULGALLANA & TIAMAT

[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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Of course they're locked. Finishing the puzzle is probably what unlocks 'em.

[sighs and steps back to examine the tiles]

Guess we'd better start working if we want to get out of this room quickly.

[But that's... going to take forever. Cut's idea is better than doing that.]

...Cut brought up another possibility, actually. If there are screws keeping the doorknob on, we might be able to unscrew them and take off the doorknob. Would you be able to unlock it in that case?

[. . . grins]

Taking the doorknob off of a door is just as good as unlocking it.

Then, let's investigate that first.

[Yes, she is checking all the door's doorknobs for screws, just to be safe.]

[ POPPING IN HERE ]

Got anything to unscrew them, if they do have any? It doesn't have to be a screwdriver, just anything with a thin, but sturdy, flat edge should do the trick.

We have our shoes, don't we? It might be a bit hard to work with, but those stars on them might work.

Edited 2014-03-08 00:42 (UTC)

I don't have any of my usual tools on me, so let's give the stars a shot.

The screws look a bit rusty, so it's probably best if you handle it. The screws breaking halfway could be a problem.

[I'm trusting your dexterity for our improvised screwdriver, okay?]

There are no hands more steady and careful than those of a magician, my lady. ♥ I'll do my best.

[ GO FOR BROKE but seriously, don't break them. Cut doesn't really give a shit about his boot so break that if it'll help Lucky better. He has a second, anyway. ]

[hopefully he won't break anything, boots or screws. HE'S A PROFESSIONAL THO, HE'S GOT THIS]

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sakazuki - 2014-03-08 00:59 (UTC) - Expand

The spinning stars at the end of the boots? It's better than nothing.

[ He starts taking off one of his boots right now, picking it up. Hideous boots actually do something good now, but the stars are attached... Maybe they should rip these off? ]

The only problem is getting them off, then... It could be simpler if we had a knife to just cut it out, but...

[...Could we use another boot to cut it off, maybe...? That's probably going to be really awkward, though...]

If we had a knife, we could have just used that to unscrew the doorknobs. Let's see if this guy can just somehow use the stars while they're still attached first. If not, we'll then worry about trying to rip the stars off.

[ No point in ripping them off and wasting time if Lucky can manage. ]

[there are! it appears to be a standard doorknob, complete with screws. they're a little rusty though.]

[after retrieving some cowboy boots with spurs on them, Kaito will attempt to use those spurs to unscrew the rusted screws from the doorknob. he's working carefully, so as to not accidentally break the screws]

[one of the screws does break, but the other one comes out and you're able to force the knob out. the door can now be opened!]

Tch. . .

[laying the unbroken screws down on the ground neatly, before pushing the door open]

Oooi, guys, it worked!

Hey, you did it!

Alright, should we try unscrewing all the other doors too, or just go through this one?

Let's just go through this one for now. If we need to go through them later, we can do it then.

[handing his boots back to him]

The screws are fragile, so if we want to do as little damage as possible, I think we should just go through this door.

[ Taking them and putting them back on. ]

Then let's go. We can come back, like Dissolve said.

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carptricks - 2014-03-08 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

[I'm still going to sigh since we broke something, though.]

We should try to leave things as undamaged as possible, so if you have faith in your skills, we should probably put it back together before we leave. I suppose it's not possible to completely repair it at this point, though.

Edited 2014-03-08 01:07 (UTC)

Most of the screws are still in tact, so I could easily put it back together from the other side.

The one that broke is a lost cause, though.

Let's just focus on what we can do for now, then. Maybe we'll find something more practical if we keep moving.

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

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