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!]

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[wingtamed]

Think we can pick the lock again?

[remarch]

Don't think I've... Got any ice left... Sorry.

[Not even fighting the carry SO TIRED.]

[wingtamed]

Exploring it is.

[ it's cool, lepus. you just chill there. mira'll just lug him over to the mosaic to inspect it. ]

[soulping]

[You slosh across the water to get a better look. It's. Actually a good thing that you let some of the water out of the room, because now you're able to see it easier -it's half covered, where the water stains on the wall indicate that it was previously three-quarters of the way up.

It's a mural depicting a harvest festival. There are several odd blank spots, as though parts of the image were removed, and in those spots short metal rods are embedded in the wall.]

[remarch]

...Take a rod out?

[wingtamed]

[ releasing lupus' hand to pull on a rod?? ]

[soulping]

[They're in there pretty good! You'd have to have some serious super strength or tools to wrench them out.]

[wingtamed]

[ and yet he has nothing. ]


Useless.

[remarch]

... Maybe push it in?

[wingtamed]

[ okay, okay, pushes the rod in?? ]

[soulping]

[Nope, they are firmly in place.]

[wingtamed]

Can I go to bed yet.

[soulping]

[Unless you wanna take a nap in the water, no.]

[remarch]

[Wriggling off Mira to go poke around the water slash floor. Is there anything in the room??]

[wingtamed]

[ you do that, he's gonna power nap against the goddamn wall.

while standing up. ]

[criticalbark]

[ but I could pull one...]

[ team???? ]

[remarch]

If I don't find anything, you yank one out.

[criticalbark]

Ok...

[soulping]

[The water is murky, but you can kind of see various debris that's sunk to the bottom. Since you lowered the water level, you see a few brightly colored shapes that stand out. You'd have to dive under to get any better of a look, but you DEFINITELY see something shiny down there.]

[remarch]

[But... So tired...]

Lupus, fetch.

[criticalbark]

[ IMMEDIATELY DIVES DOWN TO GET THE SHINY

LEPUS IS A QUALITY TEAMMATE ]

[soulping]

[UNDER THE SEA GROSS DUNGEON WATER, Lupus is able to see a number of things- aside from crumbling debris, there are several brightly colored, flat stone shapes. They look like pictures in the same style of the mural, and they have holes in the center.

Near the floor of the room, there's a wide pipe. It looks like you could swim right through, if you could hold your breath long enough.

Finally, the thing you came for! Partially buried in pile of mud is a shiny object that you feel an intense need to retrieve. Once you're out of the water and can look at it properly, you see that it's a familiar coppery wedge shape.]

[criticalbark]

[ She grabs the shiny, but also an armful of the mural pieces, before pushing off the ground and surfacing.

and then just dumping it all in front of Lepus and wagging her tail DID I DO A GOOD? ]

[remarch]

Good job.

[We're naming the shiny Henry, and he will join our paperweight family.

ALRIGHT, matching the murals with holes in them to the mural on the wall and sliding them back onto the rods.]

[soulping]

[It's pretty straightforward. There's an apple piece and a tree rod, a pie piece and a plate rod, etc. You're super lucky that you had a super strength swimming puppy on your team, these things are kind of heavy!]