BARGHEST

[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

[remarch]

[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.]

[soulping]

[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.]

[remarch]

[On the positive side, maybe that'll wash away the webbing.]

...I so need new clothes...

[criticalbark]

[ ]

[wingtamed]

Hggfffph!!!

[remarch]

[LETS JUST. GO THROUGH.

ONCE THE WATER HAS STOPPED.]

[wingtamed]

[ yes okay just.


gonna lean on lepus. ]

I'm so done with this. I knew I shoulda quit before.

[remarch]

[Visibly exhausted, a little pale despite his naturally dark skin.]

Yeah... I'm hungry.

[criticalbark]

Don't be a quitter!

[wingtamed]

I did enough already! 's Le--

[ wait a second. ]


You okay, Lepus? Aside from needin' food.

[remarch]

[Musters energy up. I'm fine!!!]

We're not gonna quit, like Lupus said. Let's get this stupid thing over with.

[soulping]

[The stream decreases after a minute as the water level on the other side goes down, and you're able to keep breaking through, making the hole big enough to move on.

Of course you realize you'll have to wade through the water on the other side to do that, but on the upside all the webbing (and paint and glitter) has mostly washed off.]

[wingtamed]

[ well that's easy enough here he'll just.

slouch over to shove lepus over a shoulder and reach his free hand to take lupus' own. ]

[criticalbark]

[ what a nice mira ]

[wingtamed]

[ i take my job as nonofficial puppy herder completely seriously. ]