soulping | TAKSHAKA

[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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Could you help us get out of the room?

Get out? There's a door? I'm Angel. Go through the door!

Could we ride you to the door?

Also, could we ask something else? That is mostly along the lines of, could you please be nice to the rat, too? So that you and the rat can be friends, because, then you'll have someone that wants to support you, instead of disliking you, and it will make you happier, and probably the rat, too, and the only thing that can happen with friendship is good things.

If you like! You are so small and I am such a very big Angel!

[She flicks her tail thoughtfully at the second part.]

I do not like the rat! He will not let me in his box. I want to get in his box with the bars and play with the small rat but the big one will not let me up and the rat will scratch me! I want to play with the rat he is so small like you. But I do not like him he will scratch me.

I think it might be because he is scared of you, though... because small things can be scared of big things.

But I like small things! I want to play with the small thing like you, you are small and we can play. Will you play with me? The rat will not play with me.

Okay, then... I guess, how do you want to play?

Do you want to play rough, or ... could you show me?

What's she saying, Wren?

She says that she wants to play, but, the rat scratches her a lot.

Of course he does. He's terrified.

Hmm, but it'd be really--a heroic thing to do if we could get them to be friends instead, wouldn't it? Yeah, that would be worthy of Takshaka.

[thinking about this]

We need to find them a way to communicate. Pets of different species learn to get along often, don't they? Wren, suggest to her that it would be fun to learn how to speak to the rat.

[... :|a]

Okay. And on top of that, we are going to try to bribe the rat with cheese.

[AND THEN SWAPPING BACK TO THE CAT:]

We're going to find a way to help you communicate. If you want to learn how to talk to the rat, we can teach you?

You could? Could you? You could? Will the rat let me play in his box then?

Yeah. We'll talk to him.

[Angel meows and abruptly licks your face in a show of appreciation. If you'd still like a ride, she'd surely let you now.]

Okay!

Let's go to the Rat again, guys.

Alright, to the tabletop! How should we get the cheese up?

Why don't I climb your tape-rope, and then haul you and the cheese up?

We could wrap part of the cheese in the tape and pull it up like that...!

Could we make a slingshot? I remember seeing rubber bands. That involves less of us having to haul something up.

How accurately do you think we could sling it?

The rubber bands are in the drawer up there.

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Yes I will show you we will play!

[Eagerly moves into a crouching position, wiggling her butt as she fixes her gaze on Wren...and then...POUNCE!

Or rather, "jumps forward about an inch and bats a paw lightly against his chest."]

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He's scared of that? Sparrow, that is what the rat is scared of.

...That's silly. I played with her and I'm fine!

[ she clucks her tongue. ]

Let's take him the cheese, and see if he'll be willing to play with her once he sees how much we got him!

[nods!]

And, I can talk to the cat, and tell her that we will help with their communication issues.