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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[remarch]

[Yeah, we're cheaters like that.

STICKS ALL THE THINGS ON ALL THE RODS. Waiting to see if anything happens.]

[criticalbark]

[ super strength swimming puppy powered by alcohol, though

she's starting to look pretty visibly tired. ]

[remarch]

[At this rate Mira is carrying us both out.]

[soulping]

[As you put the pieces on the rods there are a series of mechanical noises behind the wall and heavy locks that are keeping the door closed slide out of place. You come to the end of your pile and realize that there's still one bar across the door. You're missing a tile! It might be buried in the mud, or stuck under a piece of rubble in the water.

Then again, there's only one bar left, so, you know, why not just break the door down like a bunch of thugs. We seem to have a theme going here.]

[remarch]

...Break it or finish it?

[wingtamed]

[ hold on lemme wake up. ]


Finish it.

[remarch]

You gotta help find it.

[wingtamed]

I don't wanna swim in that.

[remarch]

You already look totally horrible.

[wingtamed]

Rude.

[remarch]

It's wet, we're way tired, let's get the stupid thing so I can go eat something.

[wingtamed]

I'm not gonna look for it unless you take that back.


[ call him handsome, lepus. ]

[remarch]

[Hisses angrily under his breath.

FINE HE'LL GO LOOK FOR IT HIMSELF!!!!!!

Diving to search for the missing piece.]

[soulping]

[You can either dig in the muddy patch, or look under one of three large chunks of stone. You also see the same pipe that Lupus saw, if it catches your attention. Unless you have super cheater water breathing powers, you can only properly check one place before going back up for air.]

[remarch]

[Stupid water!!

Searching under the closest chunk of stone.]

[soulping]

[Nada, but a couple fish swim out at you, startled from their hiding spot.]

[remarch]

[Just gonna surface, take a deep breath, and repeat the process for the remaining stones and then through the mud, unless something happens.]

[soulping]

[You find it under the third stone, a large image of a moon. Pretty heavy, but you manage.

You scare a whole bunch more fish as you search, so congrats you actually got to harass some animals in this route.]

[remarch]

[If I could catch you, fish!!

Anyway hauling it out, and going to finally complete the mural before just. thumping down.

TOO TIRED, CAN'T MOVE, DONE.]

[wingtamed]

[ it's cool, MIRA HAD HIS POWER NAP.

just cooperate enough to get back onto his back, ok. make it easier on him. ]

[soulping]

[Congrats, you solved the puzzle! You should be proud of how smart you are.

...for breaking the wall and lowering the water, otherwise this would have been harder.

The final bar opens and the door unlocks! MOVING ON.]