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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[sakazuki]

[ grumble grumble, he better get his clothes back after this. ]

Where to, then? I'm assuming we have to leave this room somehow, just like the last two.

[debate_avenger]

Well, the obvious answers are to either look for another mouse hole, or find a way to open the door in the distance. Finding another mouse hole is probably "too easy", though.

[sakazuki]

How can we open a door that big, though? It'll be easier to find an open window or through any kind of hole.

[debate_avenger]

That's the problem, yeah. If there's an open window or a hole we can use, things would be a lot easier, but that's probably exactly why we won't find one.

[Looking for one anyways, though... If there isn't another mousehole or something to use, this will be really painful.]

[sakazuki]

How about we split up?

This room is huge so it's better if we try to cover more ground in a shorter amount of time. We can meet back here in ten minutes to share what we've found.

[debate_avenger]

Sounds good. I'm definitely not climbing anything else today unless we have to, so I'm going to stay here on the ground as long as possible.

[sakazuki]

Yeah, just meet back here at the hole and we'll figure out what to do next.

[debate_avenger]

Yeah, that's probably the best way. I'll look around for any holes along the walls, at least.

[sakazuki]

I'll check the couch and see if there's a way to climb it, then. Yell if you found something important.

[ That can't wait ten minutes so walking off to that side of the room now. ]

[soulping]

[You can indeed climb the couch with relative ease. Once you get up there, it's pretty comfy and offers a better view of what else is in the room. Aside from the couch and end table where you started, there's a there's a desk, a TV, and a lounge chair facing it. There's also the door, of course.]

[sakazuki]

[ From the couch, Cut tries to look in between the cushions for anything that might be a clue, and also trying to climb to the top of the couch to see if there's anything sitting on the desk, end table, TV, or lounge chair. ]

[soulping]

[There's some great shit in these cushions; a whole bunch of coins, a cell phone, an old receipt, a shoehorn, and a box of toothpicks. You won the jackpot here, clearly.

You also spot something else behind a throw pillow...something shiny.]

[sakazuki]

[ Huh, this stuff is useful, if they're the proper size. If they 100x bigger like the furniture here is, then Cut can't do much. He would like that box of toothpicks, though. ]

[ But the throw pillow... Okay, trying to move and check behind that! ]

[soulping]

[They are in proportion to the room, sorry. You are the size of a large-ish rat, so you could still carry all of it...though maybe in a couple of loads.

Behind the pillow you find a small lump of coppery metal in the shape of a wedge, like a large slice of orange. You can't imagine how it would be useful in this room, but you get a strong sense that this is something you should hold onto. Maybe it's the fact that it's the only thing in the room scaled to your own size.]

[sakazuki]

[ ... Well, that sucks. He guesses he can take a few toothpicks for now, if he can get the box open, since those can hopefully be light enough for him to carry. He'll come back for this other stuff if it's needed. ]

[ For the... weird copper wedge, he literally has no idea what the hell it is. He honestly can't imagine what it would be, but this is a discovery, especially his size, so he'll grab that. ]

[ He'll go through this couch one more time, though, to make sure that he's not missing anything. ]

[soulping]

[You feel inexplicably good about the decision to grab the wedge.

There doesn't seem to be anything else of note on or in the couch.]

[sakazuki]

[ +1000 good feelings ]

[ But okay, guess this couch is done, so getting the toothpicks and wedge, Cut jumps back down onto ground level and heads back to the hole that his group came from. That was about ten minutes, time to wait for the rest and share info. ]

[carptricks]

[someone is there waiting for him]

What'd you find?

[sakazuki]

[ Looking up once Lucky approaches. ]

The couch had a bunch of things: coins, a receipt, shoehorn, but they're all oversized like everything else in the room. Got back a few toothpicks, though.

[ He nudges them with his foot, about four of them piled on the floor. ]

But there's this weird copper thing. I have no idea what it is, but thought it might be important.

[ And pulling out the properly sized wedge from his pocket to show it. ]

[carptricks]

[crouching down to pick up one of the toothpicks, weighing it in his hand]

Your teammate found another hole, though it also looks like someone tried to seal it with boards. I think we should go that way. 'M not sure we can make it through the door.

[holding out the toothpick with a grin]

We can use these to pry the boards away.

[sakazuki]

Yeah? That might be our way out, then.

[ He puts the wedge back in his pocket and picks up two toothpicks, one in each hand. ]

Don't know how strong these might be against boards, but let's give it a shot. There's a whole box of these so we can break as many as we want and still have more.

[carptricks]

Right! Let's give it a try.

[Nods at Cut, then makes his way to the hole behind the trashcan that Diz revealed. TIME TO TRY PRYING THESE BOARDS AWAY. with toothpicks]

[sakazuki]

[ Don't say it like that, this is still a great and important mission. Toothpicks, don't fail them now...!! ]

[soulping]

[Toothpicks are maybe not the best tool for this! You break three before you manage to get one board off. There are ten in total (nine now). You can get more toothpicks and keep going, or perhaps try to strengthen your tools somehow?]

[carptricks]

[hmmmm]

Diz said she found a paperclip, right? Why don't we try that instead?