EPONA & ALECTRYON

[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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ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[soulping]

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[acemedium]

[starts testing the moving tiles with her feet..]

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[soulping]

[once you push them, they move easily.

suspiciously easily.]

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[acemedium]

[puts all her weight on one]

[untilitsleeps]

... What do you think?

[acemedium]

There's a door.

[HELPFUL]

[untilitsleeps]

There're four.

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[wingtamer]

[. . . lllllooking around the room for any unlit torches, we should get some better lights around here]

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[soulping]

[there are a number of torches on the other walls, but they won't catch. you'll have to carry the one around.]

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[wingtamer]

[I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING NOW]

[bringing the torch light to the doors to check out the images on them]

ROOM 2 - THE PATH OF DANGER

[soulping]

[You move through the doorway to discover the first room: roughly a hundred feet across to the other door, it appears to be completely empty and free of obstacles.

Until you take a step forward. And an axe falls from the ceiling to land mere centimeters from your foot.

Holy shit, don't just stand there! In another few seconds, knives and bullets start shooting from the walls and if you don't move quickly they'll be making swiss cheese out of you. You can't go back; the door has just loudly locked behind you. But the path ahead doesn't look much better, what with the swinging blades that have suddenly appeared and the continuing barrage from the walls. There's no choice though, you're just going to have to make a run for it and try to dodge as best you can- but watch out for the tripwires!]

[ooc: pick an order and thread sequentially what your characters are doing- what happens will be based on DnD style dicerolls!]

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[tothedepths]

[ Rolls in fifteen minutes late with Starbu—what the hell are you kids doing

BACKPEDALING UNTIL HE'S PRESSED FLAT AGAINST THE DOOR, probably smooshing anyone behind him in the process ]

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[acemedium]

--Aaaack!!

[HELP A MERMAID IS CRUSHING HER]

ROOM 3

[soulping]

[The last person dives through the door just as one final knife comes flying directly at their heads. It slams shut behind you, intercepting the projectile with a distinct thunk. Phew! Of course, now you're stuck in a pitch dark room, but such is life. If you shuffle around a bit you'll find that it's actually a narrow hallway, and after a minute of adjusting your eyes can make out a patch of light down the way. Be careful not to trip, but follow it and you'll soon emerge into the next room, your paws padding on the wooden floor-

Wait, what?

You look around at yourself and your teammates and realize that at some point in the darkness, your clothes have magically changed into some kind of bizarre costume. Bizarre, but appropriate: a glance back will reveal that the tunnel you came through is a mousehole, and you now stand in a truly MASSIVE room, surrounded by immensely tall pieces of furniture. The perspective might throw you off for a minute, but it appears to be a fairly ordinary looking living room...seen from the scale of a rat. Have you shrunk or has the building grown? There's no way of knowing.

On the plus side: you all look adorable.

You quickly realize that the wooden floor isn't actually a floor; you're on a tabletop overlooking the room. And right next to the mousehole is a large cage-]

Hey you! Are you crazy?! Get over here, quick!

[-inside of which is a white rat, who is frantically trying to get your attention.]

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[tothedepths]

[ A merman in a rat suit holds an unconscious tiny girl in a tiny rat suit and contemplates the meaning of life while being yelled at by another rat: the autobiography. ]

—I am going to strangle the vampire.

[ HE SAYS while taking a few utterly numb, perplexed steps toward the cage. ]

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[acemedium]

[Gilly looks really cute and it's... kind of terrifying] Um... despite all your rage, there's still a rat in a cage....

[GOING TOWARDS THE RAT THOUGH??]

Hello?

ROOM 4 - THE DUNGEONS

[soulping]

[Success! Kind of? Yeah, success. Flame stays behind to play with a kitten for the rest of the game and will be eternally remembered for his heroic sacrifice. The rest of the group rushes through the doorway, which mysteriously changes back to a proper size as you pass through (your precious little rat costumes also changing back to regular clothes in a blink)- along with Parmesan, who is suddenly a normal-sized white rat! He drops the torch which is back to being much too large for him. Somebody should probably scoop that up while your new rat friend makes a beeline to crawl up Star's leg.

In any case, you're now free to investigate the next room. It's a plain little area, not much to it. Most importantly, there's no door other than the one you just came through. You have just enough time for someone to say "What now?" before you hear a distant click.

And then the floor opens up underneath you.

HAVE FUN PLUMMETING SEVERAL STORIES. Don't worry though; there are a number of giant spiderwebs that intermittently break your fall as you tumble down, so you're completely and totally unharmed when you finally land! In another spider web. A giant one that stretches across the entire room, and is much tougher than the others. So now you've probably had a heart attack, you're covered in gross sticky spiderwebs, and you're caught in another one. Are we having fun yet?

There's a minute or two to catch your bearings. You are indeed hanging roughly ten feet off the ground, in a dim, dank room. It looks like a dungeon of some sort, which makes sense considering how far you fell, and it's partially flooded, which could potentially help your landing. When you figure out how to get down, that is. The giant web is sticky and moving is like flailing around in a massive hammock, but you can move on it.

Before you have the opportunity, though, something moves in a dark corner of the room. It slowly approaches, skittering over the web with eight massive black legs...]

Oh myyy, look what we have here! How delightful! It's been so long since we had humans for dinner...

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[acemedium]

[Star grabs the torch! And squeaks as Parmesan runs up her leg, but hey, he can chill on her shoulder!]

Hey, I've got you...

[And giant spiders and webbing everywhere, GREAT]

[HUFFS]

We're not humans, we're a mermaid, a robot, and an Eveningstar, and we'll give you food poisoning if you try to wat us because Gilly tastes that bad!!

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[soulping]

[The spider moves closer and makes a weird insect-y noise that sounds like laughter. From the other corners you catch more movement as three more spiders emerge from the shadows- a good bit smaller than their leader, but no less giant and hideous.]

Oho, is that so? Now now, don't be so difficult! We can be such good hosts if you'll let us~

ROOM 5

[soulping]

[You head through a short tunnel and emerge on- the banks of a river? To be more accurate, it's an underground canal with stone platforms on either side. A boat is tied up near you, and the door is on the other side. Easy peasy, right?

Well, no. As you enter three other figures are moving toward the boat- translucent, wispy, white humanoid shapes that turn to you with hazy faces.]

Oh, hello. I didn't know we had company.

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[acemedium]

... Are you guys ghosts? [Is being a spirit medium actually going to be relevant in a game?]

[Let's see if she gets any spirutual pings]

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[tothedepths]

[ BUT WATER

But narcoleptic loli that he's still holding......

But water ]

Ghosts?

ROOM 6

[soulping]

[After bartering your way across the river, you move into the FINAL CHAMBER.

It's a round stone room with a pit sunk in the middle. Unless you can fly or crawl on walls, there's pretty much no special way around- you just walk straight through the middle. Directly across, you can see the last door, gilded and pretty and waiting for you!

And in the center of the pit, precisely positioned between you and it, is a hulking, growling chimera.]

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[acemedium]

[s...scream.....]

[but everything else has been harmless, maybe this thing will be too?]

[slowly and nervously walking forward]

Um... hi.....

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[soulping]

[He arches his back, snake tail swishing and hissing dangerously. Around his neck you see - what else - another metal wedge, tied to a string. It looks like you could snap it...if you could get close enough.

He doesn't pounce or advance yet, but tread lightly.]