Session Start: Sat Mar 15 19:54:22 2003 [19:54] * Now talking in #pvpexaltedrp [19:54] * Topic is 'Exalted: Chances thrown Nothing's free Longing for what used to be Still it's hard Hard to see Fragile lives, shattered dreams ' [21:06] When last we met, you had all climed into boats.These aren't too bad-looking boats. Red jade folding skeleton with white cloth draped in between. Each of the paddleboats have two oars, and seem to float well in the marshy waters. [21:06] Right now you're floating around the tree with your treehouse./ [21:06] Sanyet and Cicada are in the same boat, and there are three boats, so i'll let you decide whose in what. [21:07] * Jynaru 's wandering about in the trees, last I checked. [21:07] There are basically three search patterns, so i'll let you guys roll to see how long it takes to find the correct place. [21:07] allright then, you're wandering about in the trees. [21:08] Monkie-Jyn? [21:08] this will be a perception + survival roll, seeing as we're in a wilderness. Maris doesn't want to play his character anymore so he's basically along for the ride. [21:08] Jyn, Jyn, Jyn of the jungle. [21:08] * Hikari is now known as Cicada [21:08] so, um...what do we roll ? [21:08] remember i'm laggin like a mofo [21:09] * Cicada hands Jyn of the Jungle a vine and points in the direction of the VERY dense forest with all the concrete hard tree trunks. [21:09] !ex 5 [21:09] Vanal (5) 10, 6, 5, 2, 6, Successes : 2 [21:09] !ex 6 [21:09] Jynaru (6) 10, 9, 10, 8, 10, 6, Successes : 8 [21:09] !ex 7 [21:09] Cicada (7) 2, 7, 2, 7, 5, 10, 10, Successes : 6 [21:09] !exa 10 [21:09] Tabius (10) 4, 9, 9, 10, 10, 4, 6, 9, 1, 1, Successes : 7 [21:09] ...DAYMN. [21:09] (*heck yeah!) [21:10] This whole being a chimerical abomination is good for the mojo. [21:10] also make dex + survival [21:11] or, if yuo have it, sail [21:11] !ex 7 [21:11] Vanal (7) 5, 2, 5, 5, 8, 5, 8, Successes : 2 [21:11] (I'm using ath for leaping amongst the happy trees, yes?) [21:11] dex + ath [21:11] yea [21:12] !ex 12 [21:12] Jynaru (12) 8, 9, 7, 6, 5, 1, 8, 3, 6, 3, 10, 5, Successes : 6 [21:12] (I believe I can flyyyyy, I believe I can touch the skyyyyy) [21:12] !ex 4 [21:12] Tala (4) 6, 8, 7, 1, Successes : 2 [21:13] !ex 9 (dex + sur) [21:13] Cicada (9) 9, 5, 8, 8, 1, 8, 7, 7, 6, Successes : 6 [21:14] (sorry) [21:14] !ex 11 (dex + ath) [21:14] Cicada (11) 5, 1, 3, 9, 8, 4, 1, 8, 2, 7, 6, Successes : 4 [21:14] (figures) [21:14] !x 6 [21:14] dex + ath is for jyn only [21:14] !ex 6 [21:14] Tala (6) 5, 1, 2, 8, 1, 9, Successes : 2 [21:15] unless you are ALSO jumping through the trees? [21:15] (and the rest of us Int + sail? :) [21:15] [dex + sail or survival] [21:15] (use above roll? :) [21:15] [fine] [21:15] is everyone done rolling [21:15] ? [21:16] c'mon everyone rolls dex + survival or sail [21:17] !exa 8 [21:17] Tabius (8) 3, 7, 2, 7, 10, 5, 7, 3, Successes : 5 [21:17] I've rolled both mine. [21:17] 8 sux on perception, 6 sux on dex. [21:18] (*7 & 5 for Tabs) [21:18] done [21:18] 2 for both [21:18] (6 in both) [21:19] Allright... the all of yous paddle slowly through the strangely beautiful ruins, lost in a sea of floating bushes and trees.... [21:19] "...anyone else smell that ?" [21:21] whose with who? [21:21] (*Tabs + Vanal*) [21:21] (*screams in agony*) [21:21] * Jynaru 's in the treetops, trying to keep an eye on all the boats as best he can. [21:21] (LMAO) [21:22] Jynaru catches sight of it first. How? It's the only bit of land above ground. It seems as if a glinting triangle of metal can be seen under the jungle vines, as you leap closer. [21:22] * Jynaru leaps up and down on the branch and throws nuts and berries at the metal. [21:22] dex + thrown! [21:23] !ex 3 [21:23] Jynaru (3) 5, 8, 5, Successes : 1 [21:23] Your nuts and barries hit the metal with a ringing CLINK [21:23] Yay! [21:23] +1 stunt. [21:24] * Jynaru hangs down under the branch and waves to the others. "I found something!" [21:24] * Tabius (*tries to answer his Cell Phone as he thinks the Clinks are the ringing tone*) [21:24] Tabius' servents are either swimming or staying in the treehouse. [21:24] * Cicada sails in closer with Sanyet behind her in the boat. [21:25] (*Servents, not allowed, to heavy for the trip??*) [21:25] (you can't fit that many servents in a 2-3 person canoe) [21:25] (can make a trip back for them if you like) [21:25] "Some sort of metal. Goes clink when you hit it." [21:25] (*No, I ment on the Cloud*) [21:26] * Jynaru points it out. [21:26] (ah, sure you can do that if you REALLY want to burn 2 WP for it. [21:26] (spells cost money, after all) [21:27] (the minions went with us. Problem is how they participate in the search of the ground) [21:27] (so do you want to cloud them over now that you've found the island? [21:28] [don't forget we have Tala's intel on where the city really is] [21:28] (*Not really thats another 8 days of travel time thats not necessary. Not unless I want to herd them in like shep to set off all the traps.) [21:28] [and her map she made] [21:28] yea but you still have to find it before you went to it] [21:28] (Trap fodder good!) [21:29] (*No we have Van and Maris for that ;-) [21:29] (And you, oh bronzed one.) [21:29] You paddle closer to the island. It is not very large, maybe as big as a castle couryard. The metal bit seems to be sloping down into the ground/swamp, covered with vines. [21:30] However you get there, you end up all standing in a clearing before a great steel object, twin massive golden doors jutting out of the land [21:30] (*no bronzing for the T*) [21:31] On the door is the face of a ornately carved blue dragon, claws and teeth bared in a frightening pose. [21:31] * Jynaru whistles. "Is it me, or do all bad horror-adventure stories start like this?" [21:31] "Seems that way. You cna go in firs,t goldenrod." [21:32] * Cicada us looking over the entrance, and then sets to getting some torches or lanterns going. [21:32] * Tabius looks at Vanal with a scathing glare but approaches the doorway anyways. [21:33] cicada lights the torches, the light pretty much useless up here with the daylight streaming down from above. [21:33] * Tabius starts studying the door as best he can, intrigued by the blue dragon and wondering if it looks like the dragon on the front of the Mountain Manse. [21:34] "Want me to try and cut the door down ?" [21:34] as Tabius approaches the gateway, the vines with their exotic flowers seem to squeeze in around him, as if they are trying to move... but when you look again, you see they have never moved. [21:34] * Cicada then enters to check out the entrance. If there are traps and guardians, then the very entrance is a likely spot for them. [21:34] "Yeah, great. start destroying stuff that we might need later." [21:34] Tabius, it looks completely different. [21:35] roll valor [21:35] * Tala looks around the clearing [21:35] [tabius, cicada] [21:35] !exa 4 [21:35] Tabius (4) 3, 8, 10, 3, Successes : 3 [21:35] !ex 3 [21:35] Cicada (3) 9, 5, 5, Successes : 1 [21:35] * Tala uses her blindfold's powers [21:36] The dragon seems to bite out at you from the door, making an eerie grolwing noise! [21:36] * Tabius examines the magical eminations of the door to see if he can counterspell it like Minnow suggested [21:37] Unperturbed, Tabius sees through the illusion, but cicada takes a step back before she realizes it. [21:37] different style, different... everything. It looks like it has been melted on, like sealing wax. [21:38] You hesitate to approach it, but the power of this barrier is nothing you have encountered before. [21:39] [if you can melt on black jade, of course] [21:39] * Tabius proceeds to follow the paths of whispy energies as he maps out the objects mystical lines of power. [21:40] !ex5 [21:40] Tala () 5, Successes : 0 [21:40] !ex 5 [21:40] Tala (5) 5, 7, 4, 10, 7, Successes : 4 [21:40] * Vanal watches curiously, adjusting his coat and keeping alert for any potential threats [21:40] * Tabius following them loop for loop, crossing over and under, wrapping around, smoothing, broadening. [21:41] * Jynaru juggles random objects, trying to calm himself before entering this nasty place. [21:41] * Tala has been staring at the dragon for several moments [21:41] * Tala finally addresses the doorway [21:41] "Greetings." [21:41] * Vanal unshethes his blade a takes a few experimental swipes with it [21:42] (in the air, not at the door) [21:42] The doorway does not respond, but you all get the feeling that you are not welcome. [21:42] Valor, everyone. [21:42] !ex 4 [21:42] Vanal (4) 10, 3, 7, 4, Successes : 3 [21:42] !ex 4 [21:42] Jynaru (4) 6, 9, 2, 2, Successes : 1 [21:42] !ex 3 [21:42] Cicada (3) 1, 4, 7, Successes : 1 [21:43] The air seems to become even more hot and muggy, slowing down as the sweat beads on your forehead [21:43] [Tala? Tabius?] [21:43] * Jynaru is gladdened that he's not stuck in armor for this. [21:44] * Vanal blechs at the increase in air temperature [21:44] !exa 4 [21:44] Tabius (4) 7, 6, 1, 4, Successes : 1 [21:44] !ex 2 [21:44] Tala (2) 4, 8, Successes : 1 [21:44] "Muggy weather..." [21:44] "You know, odd disembodied being that wants us gone, we're not going anywhere until AFTER we open these doors." [21:44] The doorway, if it is capable of talking, does not respond, but it seems to look at you, though you are sure nothing has moved. [21:45] * Tabius is still studying the door so that he is at least familuar with it enough to find out if Countermagicing it will make a huge explosion and kill everbody if they stand where they are. [21:45] "This is one weird place." [21:45] it does not even have eyes with which to look at you, being highly ornate. [21:45] "And I'd appreciate it greatly if you would move on beyond the petty annoyances, open up, and let us deal with the dangerous traps within." [21:45] tabius, roll per + occult +2 stunt [21:46] "Somehow, I doubt he's listening. Think he minds if I light up ?" [21:46] * Vanal fishes a cigarette out of his pocket [21:47] !exa 20 [21:47] Tabius (20) 1, 10, 1, 10, 7, 4, 10, 1, 9, 3, 8, 3, 4, 8, 8, 7, 1, 5, 5, 3, Successes : 12 [21:47] * Cicada puts a few steps distance between her and Vanal. [21:47] "Can't hurt, I suppose. Might drive away some of these mosquitoes." [21:47] * Vanal nods, places the smoke in his mouth and lights up "anyone else want one ?" [21:47] * Vanal politely blows the smoek away from Cica [21:48] * Tala approaches the doorway, still studying it [21:48] "Maybe the door wants a smoke?" [21:50] "If I could have everbody take a few steps back, and be combat ready." [21:50] * Jynaru steps back carefully and places the varios objects in a pocket. [21:50] * Tala backs off, but continues watching carefully [21:50] * Vanal nods takes the steps back, and readies his blade and shield [21:51] * Cicada gets back behind cover and fishes out her chakram. Sanyet too hides with her behind a tree-trunk. [21:51] Maris watches from behind, slipping his hands into his claws. [21:51] * Tabius makes sure that Maris is close by so he can duck behind him if needs be. [21:52] Maris has backed away with everyone else. He doesn't want to blow up either. [21:52] * Tabius starts chanting lightly motioning with his hands over his chest Xing them, with a flair of flaming essence Sapphire Countermagic flashed out and at the door. [21:53] The essence flies out from Tabius with a great flash of blue light, hurling itself at the door.... [21:53] the light slows down before it hits the door, and spreads out over the island.... [21:54] * Jynaru looks around. "Shit." [21:54] a moment later, it pushes back into everything, the full force of the magic striking the door. [21:54] * Cicada ducks, covering Sanyet under her. [21:54] * Vanal clutche shis gear tightly, ready to leap at whatever may come at them [21:54] A brilliant light explodes from the doorway, and the sound of shattering glass can be heard. [21:56] When the light is gone, the dragon is gone from the door, a field of broken shards of black jade stretching around tabius [21:56] You wait uneasily for a few moments, but nothing happens; looking around, you realize that the offending presence is gone. [21:56] "...oohkkkayyy...what the fuck just happened ?" [21:58] "Wait" [21:58] "There is still magic remaining on the door." [21:58] * Tabius looks around for any left overs. [21:58] [change Door to Jade Shards" [21:58] Tabius, you can detect no more magic in the area. [21:59] * Cicada looks up. Sanyet is grumbling and swiping swamp water from his face. [21:59] * Jynaru blinks. [21:59] "Well that was less catastrophic than I thought. [21:59] "Tell me we aren't going to have to do that again." [22:00] "Well I hope not." [22:00] "We'll see. So...who wants to go in first ?" [22:00] * Jynaru points at Maris. "He does. I can tell." [22:00] Maris doesn't seem to. [22:00] * Tabius mentaly orders one of his Minions to move forward and scout. [22:00] Maris looks at you as if you are mad [22:01] * Cicada gets up and moves to the entrance to look in. [22:01] The minion approaches the closed door, until it is touching it. [22:01] the door is still closed [22:01] (ah) [22:01] "Should we hack our way in ?" [22:01] * Tabius has the minion open the door. [22:01] everyone with dex + ath below seven roll it when you walk over the field of broken jade. [22:02] * Jynaru is above seven. Yaaay. [22:02] The minion pushes against the door with all it's might! [22:02] Storyteller (7) 3, 7, 1, 9, 9, 5, 6, Successes : 3 [22:02] !ex 7 [22:02] (9 baby, yeah) [22:02] the door doesn't budge. [22:02] The eyeless creature continues pushing against the door to no avail. [22:02] * Tabius starts looking for leavers or some other method of door opening. [22:02] * Jynaru wanders over and attempts to assist. [22:03] * Tabius then absentmindedly tells the Minion to stop. [22:03] !ex 11 [22:03] Jynaru (11) 10, 10, 9, 1, 10, 10, 4, 4, 1, 6, 4, Successes : 9 [22:03] The door screeches as Jynaru leans into the door, and seems to move a bit. [22:03] "If you WONDERFUL people with your nice bulging muscles wouldn't mind helping me out here?" [22:04] * Vanal moves to help Jyn [22:04] str + ath [22:04] * Cicada too leans on the door to assist. [22:04] !ex 7 [22:04] Cicada (7) 6, 7, 6, 8, 2, 10, 1, Successes : 4 [22:04] * Vanal cracks his knuckles, digs his feet firmly into the gorund, and with all the momentum of a landslide, pushes with all his might [22:04] +1 stunt van [22:04] !ex 9 [22:04] Vanal (9) 4, 8, 6, 10, 3, 9, 7, 2, 3, Successes : 5 [22:05] The door slowly screeches inwards [22:05] After what seems like an eternity, you have pushed one door halfway open, the other remains closed. [22:06] A stairway has been revealed, and a room of inky blackness... [22:06] "Wow, that took a lot of muscle. Good to have some around." [22:06] * Jynaru pokes a lantern on the end of a stick inside. [22:06] * Vanal rubs his shoulder a bit "ah...was nice to find something that gave me a workout." [22:07] what you see is destruction..... the celieing is covered with soot, the walls... what was once gold carving, now melted slabs warped and falling to the floor..... [22:07] * Tabius slots his hearthstone out of the circlet on his thigh and back into the Circlet on his head. [22:07] on the ground, charred, broken bits of dozens of skeletons. [22:07] "Very pretty." [22:07] underneath them lying jade blocks. [22:08] * Cicada kneels down and picks up a piece of one to judge how old they are and what they came from. [22:08] They are long dead. [22:08] roll perception + lore cicada [unless better idea] [22:08] * Jynaru links a couple of the sticks together and sweeps the shards off the jade block closest to him. [22:08] !ex 7 [22:08] Cicada (7) 10, 4, 10, 5, 5, 1, 1, Successes : 4 [22:09] * Cicada would also like to check how they died, if possible. [22:09] It seems to be blocks white jade, Jynaru, framed in black and green. [22:09] * Tala follows the others through the doorway (Dex Ath = 7, do i need to roll? you said below 7) [22:10] * Tabius posts two of his Minions at the half open door as a rear guard. [22:10] The bones are from a people long ago, who led lives of ease, though with some exercise (no you dont. It's just diff 1, 7 dice is 1 autosuc] [22:10] Any carvings or such? [22:10] The one you are examining may have been a guard. [22:10] He died from physical trauma, however, not the burning... [22:10] these bones are all shattered. [22:11] There is no carving on the floor, but looking up to the door, you can see long gashes, as if many people tried to chop their way out of here before they died. [22:11] "Centuries or millenia old. Got torn to pieces. Some military types, some not." [22:12] "Great. One dor in and we've already found the aftermath of some trap. [22:12] "Maybe they were stuck inside and something came and hunted them down." [22:12] This room is triangluar, with the door at one point. Part of the wall is gone here, and it leads through a long hallway to a spiral staircase down below. [22:12] * Cicada gently puts down the peices again and says a paryer for the deceased souls. [22:15] the maps are no longer available, hope you saved 'em [22:16] you see light coming up the spiral stairwell and the end of the hallway [22:16] * L_Jynaru looks around carefully at the walls, checking to see if anything suggests murals or language. [22:16] * Cicada gently puts down the peices again and says a prayer for the deceased souls. [22:17] It may have at one time, but now the melting has erased any hope of understanding them. [22:17] "How is it an inferno in one room fails to knock out the light source in another?" [22:17] * L_Jynaru looks over at Tabius. "Magical light?" [22:18] * Tabius has one of his Minions actually go scout this time. [22:18] The minion goes down the stairway [22:18] you can hear it descending [22:18] stopping at the bottom. [22:18] coming back up [22:19] * Tabius waits patiently [22:19] It signs back to tabius [big room, more dead people] [22:19] * Tala sticks close to the others, carefully studying the passage as they move, keeping an eye out for magic or other patterns of essence [22:19] "OH goodye, more dead people in a big room. [22:20] The minion goes back down to scout s'more. [22:20] "As long as they stay dead, fine by me." [22:20] * Jynaru looks around for levers, switches, idols on pedestals, that sort of thing. [22:21] * Tabius follows with the rest of the minoins. [22:21] [tabius, it also isn't burnt down there] [22:21] The walls have long melted, if there were any tapestries or paintings, they have long burned away. [22:22] The walls otherwise are unardorned [22:23] the soot covers the floor as well, you leave your footprints behind you as you move deeper into the forgotten palace... [22:23] * Tabius looks for the nice light source other than his flaming self. [22:24] any magic source of lights that may once have worked here, no longer do. [22:24] The light from down below gives some hope, though. [22:24] As do cicada's torches and lanterns. [22:25] * Jynaru nervously follows along, each footstep clicking as the fighting claws contact the floor. [22:25] You come to the place marked on the map, but you do not see any lever there. [22:25] * Tabius is wondering what is down below. [22:25] only a large block of melted gold, like the rest of the wall. [22:25] "A dead end. Wonderful." [22:26] "Let's check the walls, maybe the switch is hidden." [22:26] (stairwell!) [22:26] (whoops) [22:27] * Jynaru tosses a nut down the stairwell and listens. [22:27] * Vanal idly makes sure he's got a firm foothold [22:27] pink-pink-pink-pink [22:27] there are footsteps coming up the stairs! [22:27] (*Is wondering if he isn't already down the stair well and looking at a big cooled, but previously slagged block of gold? [22:27] (the minion?) [22:28] so far everything has been in the room [22:28] * Tala moves to a spot flanking the opening, but a few feet back from it [22:28] the minion is indeed coming back up the stairs. [22:28] are you going down, leaving them to their switch? [22:28] "Maybe the switch melted with the wall?" [22:28] * Jynaru glares at the minion. [22:28] The minoin signs [22:29] [big room. auditorium. kitchen. small observation rooms.] [22:29] [another level] [22:29] "Can't you SAY something before you go all monsterous being in the depths of the highly dangerous plce in the middle of nowhere?" [22:29] The minion makes scary hand gestures at you! [22:30] * Jynaru makes random gestures back at it! [22:30] * Tabius smiles, thanks the Minion mentaly and then describes it to the group. [22:30] that one was rude! [22:30] the minion throws the nut back at you [22:31] Minion goes back down to go to the third level? [22:31] * Jynaru catches it and shrugs. [22:31] * Tabius goes with the lead minion and has the other 4 remaining follow wanting to search out the big room in detail. [22:31] Anyhow, those looking at the wall roll per + larceny [22:31] "Tell me, could it be that the minions are incapable of truly interacting with this place? One of them was incapable of opening the doors and this one just went around the lower level unscathed." [22:31] !ex 4 [22:31] Jynaru (4) 2, 9, 5, 1, Successes : 1 [22:31] !ex 1 [22:31] Vanal (1) 10, Successes : 2 [22:31] (woah) [22:32] !ex 9 [22:32] Cicada (9) 2, 7, 5, 6, 10, 5, 8, 7, 1, Successes : 5 [22:32] despite the melted slab, you guys think it can be removed... if you were to smash it just right. [22:32] * Vanal smirks [22:32] "I think I can handle this one." [22:33] * Cicada points out the spot and marks it with chalk, then steps the hell away. [22:33] "...um...this thing isn't booby-trapped, right ?" [22:33] * Jynaru steps back. "Go ahead, oh mighty one." [22:34] * Vanal cracks his joints and limbers his his arms, readying the daiklaive, taking a deep breath, and bringing it crashing down perfectly on the crossbars of the 'x' [22:34] dex + melee +1 [22:34] !ex 18 [22:34] Vanal (18) 10, 8, 7, 3, 8, 8, 10, 3, 6, 9, 4, 6, 1, 1, 9, 9, 6, 4, Successes : 11 [22:35] Vanal's daiklaive screeches through the gold, and with a large clang, a large section of metal is left crumped on the ground. [22:35] moving it away, you take a closer look at the cubbyhole revealed in the wall. [22:35] * Vanal gives his blade a victorious twirl and whispers a quiet "Thanks, hon." [22:35] It looks like a large bar of some kind, and a variety of gears and wheels and pulleys in there. [22:36] "that looks like a lever to me." [22:36] "Careful, the bar is infused with essence. Not alot, but some." [22:36] * Vanal nods [22:37] "someone want to do the honors ?" [22:37] * Cicada peeks in to look at the mechanics, trying to figure out their function and use. [22:37] * Vanal takes a step back [22:37] roll int + lore cic [22:38] "If saving the world doesn't work out for you, you can always get a job in construction." [22:38] !ex 5 +1 (wp for autosux) [22:38] Cicada (5) 8, 6, 1, 4, 6, Successes : 1 [22:38] "Don't you mean demolition ?" [22:38] dunno what it does, Cicada. looking at it, probably some first age lever-operated contraption... [22:38] "Same thing." [22:38] pull the lever, see what happens [22:39] * Cicada puts her arm in and tries to pull the lever. [22:40] "Here... and this goes there... and then..." [22:40] The sound of cascading creeks and clicks emenates from the contraption as you pull the lever into place. [22:40] nothing seems to happen. [22:41] * Vanal braces for it [22:41] really, nothing happens. [22:41] * Jynaru looks around. [22:41] "TABIUS?! Anything happen?!" [22:41] * Vanal blinks [22:41] Tabius is downstairs [22:41] "...well...um...that was a wash." [22:41] "Might be out of order." [22:42] "Damage and all." [22:42] "The essence from the bar transferred to the machine." [22:42] "That or it was the switch for the exit gate, and the people in here were actually sealed inside." [22:42] "Machine ?" [22:43] "What machine?" [22:44] [the rest of the gears etc] [22:44] [and then from there, somewhere out of sight] [22:45] letting go of the switch, it sputters and clinks back into it's previous position [22:45] [remember all the bars have to be pulled simultaneoulsy!] [22:46] "The bar has recharged." [22:46] "Righty-o, then..." [22:46] "So we have to locate the rest of the switches?" [22:47] [teh switches are the X's on the map!] [22:47] "Oh, bloody hell. What kind of people build a place with a built in puzzle?" [22:47] "Seems that way." [22:49] "Old-ass lizard people ? [22:50] "Cute. Maybe that was the big trend in architecture, like fountains or columns." [22:50] "So, lets take a walk around and locate the switches." [22:51] * Jynaru bows. "After you, m'dear." [22:51] * Cicada begins following the map to locate the switches. [22:52] The next one is downstairs! [22:52] anyone staying up here? [22:52] * Cicada goes downstairs, might as well hook up with Tabius, this place is supposed to be dangerous, after all. [22:52] * Jynaru follows carefully, chewing unhappily on the tip of a broken arrow. [22:53] Cicada and Jynaru head down the stairs, finding a minion greeting them at the bottom of the stairs. [22:53] "We can go back to pull the switches after we find them all." [22:54] The minion then goes to find tabius [22:55] * Cicada tells the minion to wait by the stair and go after Tabius herself. [22:56] The minion has report! [22:56] * Jynaru runs a hand carefully along the wall as he waits. [22:56] * Vanal follows jyn and Cic [22:57] * Cicada will wait, then. [22:57] the minion goes after tabius. [22:57] The three of you stand around on the lighted blocks underneath you [22:57] apparently the floor here is what gives the light [22:57] "Please, let's try to keep everyone together as long as possible. As soon as someone suggest splitting up, people start dying." [22:58] there are already a lot of dead people. [22:58] as can be told by the curiously unmangled bodies here, and more mangled the farther you get from the stairwell. [23:00] * Jynaru examines the bodies for any clues as to their demise. [23:00] The bodies are mysteriously unharmed! [23:00] "ooohkaaaayyyy...." [23:00] "Maybe they starved?" [23:01] there are also a lot of unarmed and unarmored bodies with the tattered remains of cloth along the edges of the walls [23:01] "The others are likely the dead from the failed Blooded uprising." [23:01] "Maybe. Might be some sort of disease as well, from the other corpses." [23:01] * Tabius heads to the stair wail dragging a red jade grand diaklave behind [23:01] "OH VANAL, I have a PRESENT FOR YOU!" [23:01] * Vanal stops dead [23:02] "...Dragon's tits...what the fuck is THAT ?!" [23:03] * Jynaru shrugs. "A big sword." [23:03] * Tabius barely able to heft the sword in both hands and not even getting it off the ground, "Oh just something I picked up" [23:03] * Vanal raises an eyebrow [23:03] "Impressive... [23:03] "I thought Shak might wanted a bigger house some day?" [23:04] "It doesn't quite work that way, bud."" [23:04] * Jynaru shrugs. [23:04] "Take it with you, sell the toy, buy her a house once she gets a new body form some Fae-eaten slave." [23:04] "works for me." [23:04] * Tabius winks at Vanal with a twinkle in his eye. [23:05] "But I can't really lug that thing around, I've got enough juice in my gear as is." [23:05] * Tabius leaves the sword at the bottom of the first stairwell. [23:06] it's quiet, and echoy. Obviously, you folks are the only ones who have been here for centuries. [23:06] "Anyways, there is an auditorium with a weapons stash under the stage, a kitchen with a stairwell, some other rooms, and a stairwell over there near the benches/ [23:07] "Okay. So, lets follow the map and find the switches." [23:07] "Switches. Yes." [23:07] "I suppose you found nothing dangerous, Tabius." [23:07] There should be one in this stairwell. [23:07] !ex 5 [23:07] Tala (5) 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, Successes : 4 [23:07] * Jynaru takes a look at the map, picks a switch, and heads off to find it. [23:08] "Other than the big scary phantasmal demon spirit of doom in the kitchen eating a snack, no." [23:08] "...." [23:08] "...you're kidding." [23:09] "You are kidding, yes?" [23:09] [it was big and green and slimy] [23:09] [;)] [23:09] (Cthulu likes fried banana and peant butter sandwiches?)] [23:09] "Well it was big and green and slimy, but ........ damn, I really must display a sense of humor more. [23:10] (per+awe for switch-finding?) [23:10] per + larceny [23:10] it's well hidden. [23:10] !ex 4 [23:10] Jynaru (4) 9, 3, 6, 10, Successes : 3 [23:10] "Anyway, lets take a walk around. Leaving one of us at each switch." [23:11] "let's FIND the switches first, THEN leave people at them." [23:11] "Even better." [23:11] you don't see the switch anywhere, jynaru [23:12] * Cicada goes switch finding, trying to recall how the first one worked and notice the places where similiar mechanics could be placed. [23:12] these walls are covered with inscriptions in old realm [23:12] (Ouch! Diff 4+?) [23:12] (indeed) [23:12] * Jynaru looks at them carefully. [23:12] per + larceny cicada [23:12] "Tabius? Any idea what the walls say?" [23:12] (Plus you have to know where it's going) [23:12] !ex 9 (first one) [23:12] Cicada (9) 1, 5, 1, 10, 9, 1, 1, 7, 3, Successes : 4 [23:13] * Tabius reads the walls a bit skipping some here and there so that he doesn't active some damn hidden spell of doom! [23:13] (as it is you have to know where it is, and then it's diff 5.) [23:13] (Does it read HASTUR COME FORTH HASTUR COME FORTH HASTUR COME FORTH?) [23:13] Cicada, you cannot find the hidden switch! [23:14] Reroll. [23:14] It has obviously been hidden. [23:14] 4 motes personal [23:14] !ex 9 [23:14] Cicada (9) 1, 10, 10, 7, 4, 9, 9, 9, 6, Successes : 8 [23:14] "We should hurry. I think that the essence in those jade shards was...doing something. When we came in that is, at the door." [23:14] (Wooo!) [23:14] There it is! you pop off a small panel, that was before completely invisible to the naked eye. [23:14] There is a lever, everything else is concealed. [23:15] * Cicada pops open the panel and marks the spot clearly with chalck. [23:15] * Cicada then walks with the group to the next spot. [23:15] the one on the stage, or the one in the small rooms? [23:16] (Rooms. rooms are more likely to have evil stuff.) [23:16] The stories on the wall glorify the solar king! [23:16] * Cicada goes for the stage. [23:16] they tell of how he fought the great behemoth who existed in the first age, who guided their enemies fleets to the realm! [23:17] and how he broke the behemoth totally.. and other things. [23:17] Like his preference in women. [23:17] Cicada goes for the stage, and begins seaching around the ground. [23:17] * Tabius doesn't read out load the crap about womenly preference. [23:17] Here there are dead people lying around, their skeletons preserved as the day they fell. [23:17] (as long as he did not like whitehaired one with exotic features, AND haunt the place) [23:17] looking under the stage, there is a large compartment where a variety of daiklaives were once kept. [23:18] There is still a few more. [23:18] "This place is a bloody treasure trove." [23:18] (Any of them particularly well-made?) [23:18] if you like mass-produced grand daiklaives, pick one up. [23:18] "I guess the Blooded began the revolution during a play, to have their targets assembled." [23:19] (roll for the next one?) [23:19] yea [23:19] "A reasonable conclusion. [23:19] !ex 9 (second switch) [23:19] Cicada (9) 8, 7, 9, 3, 9, 9, 10, 4, 3, Successes : 7 [23:19] Cicada crawls around on the stage for a minute. Finally, she thinks she has found the place, and stabs one sai into the wooden board, pulling it off. [23:20] underneath, she sees another lever waiting to be pulled. [23:20] Roll per + occult [23:20] * Cicada looks under the stage, nods to herself and mutters; "As I thought. Here it is." [23:20] !ex 8 [23:20] Cicada (8) 5, 4, 6, 6, 1, 9, 7, 1, Successes : 2 [23:20] "How many levers were there, again ? [23:20] 6 [23:21]