AMALTHEA

[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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ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[soulping]

[codecmoment]

[ Tapping the tiles with his boots, in case one loosens or crumbles. Maybe there's treasure or a secret doorway under some. ]

[menially]

Careful, there...

[Said a bit sharply. He's not liking the looks of any of this.]

[codecmoment]

I know I'll probably end up falling into the basement level.

[menially]

[Laughs dryly.]

Well, let's try for something a little more... optimistic, alright?

[codecmoment]

Let's peel off some of the wallpaper? Maybe there's a secret wall panel, or switch.

[ Or 1000000000000 spiders. ]

[soulping]

[once you push them, they move easily.

suspiciously easily.]

[codecmoment]

[ ... he keeps shifting them around, eventually actually using his hands to lift them. ]

[soulping]

[they won't lift, but as you push one it slides right out of place and into the open space next to it...and the swirling pattern suddenly matches up with one of its new neighbors.]

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[menially]

[Quietly walking over to examine the torch, seeing if it's removable and if there are any others on the walls... '-']

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[soulping]

[it can be removed! there are several others but none of them will catch, you have to carry this one around.]

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[menially]

[He's flustered as he tries to light the other torches, blowing his bangs out of his face.]

No good. Guess we're stuck with this for right now.

[Walking close enough to try and see the right-hand wall's door in the light of the torch.]

Re: ROOM 1 - FOUR DOORS

[soulping]

[in the light you can now make out the fairly simple picture; the one you're looking at is a sword.]

ROOM 2 - THE PATH OF DANGER

[soulping]

[You move through the doorway to discover the first room: roughly a hundred feet across to the other door, it appears to be completely empty and free of obstacles.

Until you take a step forward. And an axe falls from the ceiling to land mere centimeters from your foot.

Holy shit, don't just stand there! In another few seconds, knives and bullets start shooting from the walls and if you don't move quickly they'll be making swiss cheese out of you. You can't go back; the door has just loudly locked behind you. But the path ahead doesn't look much better, what with the swinging blades that have suddenly appeared and the continuing barrage from the walls. There's no choice though, you're just going to have to make a run for it and try to dodge as best you can- but watch out for the tripwires!]

[ooc: pick an order and thread sequentially what your characters are doing- what happens will be based on DnD style dicerolls!]

Re: ROOM 2 - THE PATH OF DANGER

[unguilded]

Ah-- crap!

[ well he doesn't have his Guild speed and strength back yet. But his skills with swordfighting and martial arts at least give him some movement? ]

We can't go back either-- we have to make a run for it and try to avoid it all. Follow me!

[ he quickly sprints forward first, eyes darting around everywhere. The floor, the walls, the ceiling, trying to time movements of things he can spot and either jumping, rolling or swerving through, around and over things as best he can, hoping the others are close behind him. ]

[codecmoment]

[ Otacon has SEEN this shit done before.

From a safe distance.

So really Rook is just acting as a meat shield here, but he's thin and good at weaving around things. ]

[menially]

This is suicide--

[Said as he covers his head with his arms, doing his best to use what speed he has - nothing special, but some of his regained skills offers him some fluidity from a combat style meant to strike and dodge.

Right now, dodging would be in his best interest. He's also keeping rather low, flanking alongside Rook.]

[soulping]

[Rook expertly dodges several knives and sprays of pellets without breaking a sweat like the beautiful elf ninja he is.

Otacon does a pretty good job too, though he stumbles a bit on a pothole in the floor.

Technin's strategy of staying low betrays him, and he is struck directly in the arm by a large knife!

Which bounces off instead of cutting him. Further inspection reveals that it's made of rubber. But it was still going pretty fast, so your arm might ache a bit.]

ROOM 3

[soulping]

[The last person dives through the door just as one final knife comes flying directly at their heads. It slams shut behind you, intercepting the projectile with a distinct thunk. Phew! Of course, now you're stuck in a pitch dark room, but such is life. If you shuffle around a bit you'll find that it's actually a narrow hallway, and after a minute of adjusting your eyes can make out a patch of light down the way. Be careful not to trip, but follow it and you'll soon emerge into the next room, your paws padding on the wooden floor-

Wait, what?

You look around at yourself and your teammates and realize that at some point in the darkness, your clothes have magically changed into some kind of bizarre costume. Bizarre, but appropriate: a glance back will reveal that the tunnel you came through is a mousehole, and you now stand in a truly MASSIVE room, surrounded by immensely tall pieces of furniture. The perspective might throw you off for a minute, but it appears to be a fairly ordinary looking living room...seen from the scale of a rat. Have you shrunk or has the building grown? There's no way of knowing.

On the plus side: you all look adorable.

You quickly realize that the wooden floor isn't actually a floor; you're on a tabletop overlooking the room. And right next to the mousehole is a large cage-]

Hey you! Are you crazy?! Get over here, quick!

[-inside of which is a white rat, who is frantically trying to get your attention.]

Re: ROOM 3

[unguilded]

[ looks down at his hands... ]

We're ... rats?

[ glancing over to the cage, attention easily captured! And heads over to it. ]

Hey-- what is it?

[codecmoment]

Aw, this is actually pretty cute.

[ Squeak squeak. ]

[menially]

Cute, huh...

[Too distracted over the fact that I LOOK LIKE A GIANT MOUSE WHAT THE HELL. He's hesitantly following behind Rook, glancing up warily at the giant furniture.]

...What in the world...

Re: ROOM 3

[soulping]

Careful, careful! You can't just go wandering around in the open like that, you know? Or else- [he shudders in horror] -she'll get you.

Re: ROOM 3

[unguilded]

She?

[ LOOKING ... AROUND THE ROOM. ]

Who?

[codecmoment]

... is there a cat.