soulping | EPONA & ALECTRYON

[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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[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~

[Jiiii]

[Huffing intensifies]

I'll be the judge of that! A good host would be giving me burgers and helping me find a way out of here!

Oh, dear. Well if you're sure you can't stay, the exit's right there...but are you sure you can get to it?

[It extends one long leg toward the opposite wall. If you twist around in the web you'll see that there's a doorway down there, right between two of the slowly advancing spiders. There's also the sticky, difficult to maneuver web to consider.]

[Mmph]

[Well, she still has her torch, maybe that will help with the webbing and incoming spiders. Tries to get unstuck at least!!]

Look, spider guys.. I get it, you guys are huge and menacing and scary. But I'm seriously having a bad day, and I just had to leave my teammate with a giant kitty. [Surely a spider can sympathize!!! 1! 1] I'm not kidding about the food poisoning thing, either, so could we skip the whole trying to eat us thing and just part as unlikely friends?!

[The spiders stop as soon as Star starts waving the torch around, clucking her tongue-

Do spiders have tongues? Is clucking a thing they can do? Wait, nevermind that is literally the least of your concerns.]

Do be careful with that! There's no need to go swinging around weapons now! Sweetie, we aren't going to eat any of you.

Edited 2014-03-09 00:19 (UTC)

Why didn't you say so from the beginning?! The whole 'moh hon hon hon you're so tasty why don't you stay for dinner' kind of implies you want to eat us, you know!

[Long suffering sigh]

Okay, can you let us through? I'd really appreciate it.

Edited 2014-03-09 00:26 (UTC)

It was only a joke, dear! It really has been ages since we had humans for dinner, but you took it so seriously I couldn't help teasing a bit.

[The spider moves closer, poking her with a hairy black leg.]

Well you could keep burning up my home if you like, but the drop would be a bit nasty. I suppose I can have my children give you a hand- or eight! Ohoho.

... Well, I guess if I was a giant spider I'd tease people about eating them too. [That feels weird]

Well, I don't wanna wreck your houseweb... Sorry about that.

It's perfectly alright, I'll just fix it up later. Come along now!

[You are swiftly surrounded by the smaller spiders, who bundle you onto their backs and begin climbing down the side of the web.

As they do, however, you notice something shiny out of the corner of your eye, caught in the webbing across the way.]

[This is actually pretty fun, yay spider rides!!]

Thanks a lot, spider gang--- Hey, hey, what's that? I see something shiny!! [She wants it!!]

[Spider leader turns curiously to the item.]

Oh, that? I haven't the slightest idea. It's just something that fell into our web earlier.

Can I have it? Can I have it? It's shiny!!

If you really want it! I have no use for it.

[It waves a leg and Star's spider scuttles over so she can pluck it out of webbing!

It's a small lump of coppery metal in the shape of a wedge, like a big chunk out of a sphere. You can't imagine what it is or what purpose it could serve, but you suddenly feel very strongly that you have to hold on to it.]

[As if Star wouldn't already want to keep it, this little klepto]

[Gilly can hold onto it, okok]

Thanks! You guys are really nice!

[To the bottom then?]

Edited 2014-03-09 01:26 (UTC)

[To the bottom, on your mighty spider steeds. They drop you off and all wave multiple legs at you as you go.]

Goodbye, dears! Please do come back for dinner sometime- not as the main course this time! Ohohoho~

[ONWARD.]

Next time I'll bring burgers!

[Next room go!1!1]

EPONA & ALECTRYON

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