soulping | BARGHEST

[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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You take the floor, there might be a trapdoor or something.

[STEP 1: ASCERTAIN WHETHER GEORGE, THE PAPERWEIGHT, IS STILL WITH THEM.
STEP 2: METHODICALLY RUNNING HIS HANDS OVER THE WALLS AND KNOCKING.]

[Sweet, noble George is perfectly safe. He landed right next to Lepus and glints clearly on the dull floor.

The walls are constructed of heavy, solid stone, with no obvious openings or hollow spots. It's fairly run down though, so there are various chips and crumbled parts that could possible used as handholds.]

...More climbing, seriously?

[ george belongs to mira, he is mira's sidekick and thus he's gonna. take that and repocket it. ]

Think ya can handle it this time?

I can do it.

[one day i'm getting back my pakour and then i'll run up these walls!!!

LETS CLIMBING.]

[Have fun with that. The walls are slick with moss and mildew, and it's really hard to get a good grip despite all the cracks. After you've slipped and fallen back down a few times, you might get the idea that this isn't really working.]

How tough's the paperweight?

Just don't break it, I wanna keep it.

Sooo... Like, no using it as a hammer?

Ya can use ice, can't ya? Make ice handles.

Yeah, ice handles, that's not gonna be slippery or anything.

Better than the wall?

[Looking around.

How stable does that ceiling look if, theoretically, one were to try and take out a wall.]

's long as ya don't try an' burn it.

[Technically, there is no ceiling. Above you is nothing but the shaft that you fell down, fading into darkness after a few stories. Now that you're looking up, though, you spot an opening about 30 feet up the sheer wall. Considering how hard it is to climb, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way up...

Until, in the distance, far above you, you hear an ominous rumble.]

[ BARK ]

... ... ... What.

[You stare up into the shaft in the direction the sound came from. For a minute you can only see darkness...but then, a white shape appears! As it gets closer, you can see that it's a square- no, a cube...

A giant cube...

A giant cube that is descending upon you as we speak...

WAIT, WHAT.]

[ooc: Giant blocks are falling on you! Every round, one block will fall. The room is (metaphorically) a 5x5 unit grid like this, and the blocks are 2x2x2 cubes. The blocks can and will stack, even if they only share one square, because physics has no place within these walls. Thread out actions, but let me know when you're done and choose where your characters are ultimately standing each round (ie: Bob is standing in A1, Bill is standing in C4) and hope that the blocks don't land on you! Multiple characters can share a square. The goal is to get out of the room through the opening in the wall, 10 units up. Good luck!

One "unit" is three feet. So the room is 15x15 feet, and the blocks are 6 feet cubed. The opening is 30 feet up.]

Edited 2014-03-08 22:39 (UTC)

Time to go, like, now.

[Planting both his hands on the most crumbled looking area on the walls, takes a deep breath in, and frosts over the wall. Letting the frost sink into the cracks and begin to expand, turning the already weakened bricks brittle.]

Guys, kick the wall out.

What d'ya think I am, some kinda tank?

[ does he look like he has any muscle on him like seriously.

but okay, kicking the goddamn wall. ]

[ ALSO KICKING THE WALL

it's a good thing she actually has super strength ]

Hey, but won't he get mad if we break his castle...

[Titanicking - Verb - To make bad life decisions in a game.

Usage: "Did you see Ratatoskr, they totally titanicked and wiped everyone out in that trauma game."
"Barghest decided to go titanic on the exploradora."
"That strategy went down like the titanic."

See also: Kyriakos' favorite hobby.]

[Your metaphor is appropriate because you are about to iceberg the hell out of that wall. Already partially decayed by the dampness, the ice works magnificently to weaken the structure, and you can already hear the stones creaking and cracking. Lupus' extra strength is efficient here, because after just a few kicks a hole starts to form. Keep going and you'll be out of here in no time!

With a hefty penalty for property damage, maybe, but you'll still be out.

Unfortunately, your metaphor is also appropriate in that as soon as a big enough hole is broken in the wall, a stream of water shoots out and sprays you all in the face.]