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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[ THIS IS NO TIME TO LAUGH ]

It's not funny! Where the hell are our other clothes?!

Heck if I know, we'll probably have to pester the Echo to give 'em back to us when the game is over.

[soooo amused]

We look really stupid.

Stupid is just the least of it. That Echo better give them back to us before we leave this place!

[ OR ELSE HE WILL throw a tantrum for a few seconds ]

Relax, he probably will. He doesn't seem like the kind of Echo that likes to piss people off.

[linking his hands behind his head]

I'm gonna go check out the door. You coming?

[ Better not be that kind of Echo, hmph. ]

It's better if we split up and cover more ground. Dissolve's going to check the ground floor, so you can head off to the door. How's that?

All right. I'll let you guys know what I find.

[walking towards the door in the distance, then. mostly to examine it and see if there's any way for them to open it]

Meet back here in ten minutes, or yell if you find anything, then.

[ And Cut's going off in his own direction to check the couch, both under it and seeing if there's any way to climb it. ]

You got it. I'll let you know if I find our clothing, too.

[team dragoncows exploration mission: COMMENCE]

[ THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: FINDING THE CLOTHES ]

[As for me, I'll be walking the perimeter of the room looking for any other holes in the walls.]

[You make your way around the room, checking the baseboards for any sign of another hole. Almost the entire room is covered without finding anything, and you're just about to give up when you spot it: behind a conspicuously placed trash can, a patch of wall that's been hastily wallpapered over.

[The one that's been wallpapered is at least reasonable to check by myself, so let me just feel around it to see if it's hollow, yes.]

[It is! The paper even gives way a little when you push on it.]

[Then, time for our shoes to come in useful yet again!

...Yes, I am going to try to cut the wallpaper along the edges with the spurs. We're trying not to make a mess, after all.]

[You snip away the wallpaper to reveal another mousehole-like opening! It's been mostly boarded over, but if you find something to use as a lever or crowbar you might be able to get them off.]

[Something to keep in mind for later, then. I suppose I should see if I can slip behind the trashcan too, but I don't have my hopes up for that one.]

[You can, just barely, but it's less interesting back there. You find a quarter and a paperclip.]

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[The door seems even bigger up close. You have to crane your neck to see up to the top of it, but it appears to be an ordinary wooden door with an ordinary metal doorknob.]

[Well getting to that doorknob would prove to be a challenge. Checking at the bottom of the doorway to see if there's some sort of crack between the floor and the beginning of the door large enough for the group to squeeze through]

[There is, but it's a tight squeeze. The smallest member of your group could make it, but probably not the others.]

So much for that plan. . .

[crouches near the crack and places his ear next to it, trying to see if he can hear anything from beyond the door]

[You hear...the wind whistling. Maybe the next room has an open window or something?

But nothing interesting, sorry.]

[hrrrrm. standing up and stepping back to see if the door has handholds or footholds he can use to climb to the doorknob. YOU WON'T DEFEAT THIS THIEF, DOOR!1]

[he hopes]

[The door has some generic decorative carvings that you might be able to use ~~if the whims of the DM's dice roll declare it so~~.

The lower part of the door has some scratches in it that will make the first part of the climb easier.]

[filing this away for later, but once he hears about the hole Diz found he might think this a lost cause]

[TIME TO MEET UP WITH THE OTHERS]