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!]

Comments

[sakazuki]

Won't it just bend if we try to pry these boards off with it?

[carptricks]

It might. But we can try it first. If it doesn't work, then well have to get creative.

[sakazuki]

Sounds good to me, then.

[ PAPERCLIP... GOOOOOO!! ]

[carptricks]

[MAYBE A METAL CLIP WILL WORK BETTER THAN BRITTLE WOODEN TOOTHPICKS]

[soulping]

[You get another board off and almost get a third before the paperclip tragically bends in half!]

[carptricks]

[gdmit]

. . . all right. The shoehorn next?

[sakazuki]

[ This path is just one big boss battle... ]

... Yeah, sounds good. I'll lead you there.

[ Cut will take him to and up the couch, then fetch the shoehorn. It's much bigger than what they are used to but they can try to carry it together. ]

There are coins here too, if we want to take them just in case.

[carptricks]

[yes, carrying the shoehorn together. they'll probably have to work together to use it to pry the boards off, too]

We can come back for 'em if this doesn't work. It had better work. Are those boards super glued on or something? Geez. . .

[sakazuki]

Yeah, I don't really want to make another trip up here. Let's just take off enough boards to get through, not all of them.

[ Back down there with this shoehorn and to DESTROY THOSE BOARDS ]

[soulping]

[The shoehorn is made of sturdy plastic and luckily isn't so long as to be completely unusable.

In fact, it's the opposite of unusable. Once you get it into the proper leveraging position, it works excellently to pop the rest of the boards off! The way is clear!]

[sakazuki]

Alright! Let's go!

[carptricks]

[VICTORY]

Finally. Let's keep going!

[through the hole they go!]