[Yes, the clothes are still there. I just didn't mention them.]
The sun, hanging in a sky partially covered in collecting cloud glints off of Gauronne's golden colored hand as he, William, Sarah and Mephis start to hunt for a spare key, to save themselves the horror of dealing with the monstrous remains of the thing that swallowed them.
The search of the car proved fruitless: the external and internal nooks and crannies revealed nothing that would be of any use to the group, unless they were willing to abandon their quest and become taxi drivers. And that seems to be a rather risky profession these days...
Turning to the tattered remains of the clothes, Mephis uncovers a wallet in the pocket. Inside he finds $50 in various denominations, as well as a spare key from AAA.
[Everyone can thank Cubist for the spare-key-in-the-wallet idea. Not having a car, I had no idea.]
Glad to no longer have to deal with the malformed being's stomach contents, the party unlock the trunk and retrieve their backpacks with their equipment. Now their true challenge: the dungeon's narrow door beckons them with a murky darkness and odorous blackness.
[Can I also get a list of the order in which the characters enter the dungeon? I won't write a reply until you're all in agreement. I'll then take this as the usual sequence of entry for tight areas; obviously you can change this as we go along.]
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Cubist: Yes, I know enough about gold to have thought of that, but I figured the metal of the taxi frame was both thin and soft enough to get away with it. It would have mangled your hand - though that could have been fixed with a Healing spell after the Dispel spell, or even a Change Combat Object before the Dispel (and this might have given you an opportunity to add another few fingers or something!
ReplyDeleteMephis: "G." is short for Gauronne, I think.
Also, if I haven't mentioned it before, resting recuperates lost MP and HP.
*Sarah talks with a bit nervous voice*
ReplyDeleteWe must go inside? Are you talking seriously? After what happened to the driver?
*looks a bit scared*
Who are going to go first? I don't like go inside at the first, i like to be the last...please...
ooc: Actually, Sarah's question is a rather valid one: Why should she enter the dungeon? Gauronne has a reason to go there; he wants to study Vlad's magick, and going to the source is a very good way to do that. But that's just Gauronne -- why the heck would Sarah, or William, or Mephis, want to go into this godforsaken hive of scum, villainy, and TFs?
ReplyDeleteI can't and won't answer for anybody else's character, but I will note that every one of us was, in fact, a passenger in this taxi. This suggests that we each have, or at least had, a reason to be here... so what is that reason? And now that the driver is a semi-metallic corpse, is that reason still valid?
If everybody's reasons for being here are still valid, those reasons are presumably why we're going into the dungeon, so it might be appropriate for us to post some sort of comment that explains said reason (and if that reason is secret, make the post OOC).
In the event that one or more of us do not, in fact, still have a valid reason to enter the dungeon, I recommend that our beneficent GM provide those characters with reason... by force, if need be. Unca Vlad went to the trouble of zapping our driver -- why wouldn't he be willing to throw more magick our way, in order to ENSURE that we all enter his playground?
Case in point: Sarah has an "odd foreign coin" in her pocket; maybe that coin carries some sort of icky slow-acting TF magick, such that she needs to find a cure Before It's Too Late -- which would mean entering the dungeon, that being the most likely source of such a cure. And of course we've all been pawing over the taxi of someone who was hit by a nasty curse -- any or all of us could easily have gotten zapped in some way, hence require a cure, and therefore need to enter the dungeon.
Just some thoughts for the GM...
"Well, Sarah, I presume you had some reason for being a passenger in this taxi, to begin with. Was this place your intended destination, or were you scheduled to disembark at a different place?"
Ooc: FFFFFFFF damn it all! It didn't save the post I had. aargh.. . hey Cube, how'd you get the italics, and yes, my character has a reason, blahblah.
ReplyDeleteAfter finger through his remaining amounts of money, Mephis stuffs his wallet back into his pants, and taps the now strapped-on swords at his waist with a smile, happy that they're back at their rightful place. (Now, were we wearing our special clothes? Or were we just wearing Tshirts and pants, etc. and our clothes were in the trunk?) and stands there in his .. rather interesting clothes. (Yeah, back to my charactersheet again, same clothes, but just add boots.)
OOC: Italics are actually not difficult to do, provided that you know the trick. Key concept: HTML tags. Type <i> into the "Post a Comment" box, and that's the HTML tag which says "Okay, start italicizing everything from here on"; type </i> into the "Post a Comment" box, and that is the HTML tag which says "No more italics, already!" Note that the start-italics and end-italics tags are bookends -- you need matched pairs, with an end tags for every start tag, and vice versa. And yes, the blog software will get cranky if you have any unmatched tag-pairs.
ReplyDeleteBoldface type is pretty much the same deal, except using "b" rather than "i" -- type <b> to start boldfacing, and </b> to turn it off again.
OOC: Shoot, and here I was for whatever reason typing in php. :/ Should've tried HTML.
ReplyDeleteOcc: Sarah is searching his brother, that he disappeared in the zone after read something in a newspaper about Vlad
ReplyDeleteYes....*looks sad* I come for a reason, but i don't like to talk about it.. I only don't know what was happening in here.. and because that i'm a bit scared, i never see something like this before...but i must continue...
Gauronne nods at Sarah. "There is no shame in feeling unnerved by a spectacle as unnatural as what we have just seen," he says, carefully not making explicit reference to the piggified driver. "If, in future, you choose to speak of the goal you seek here, I will gladly serve as an attentive audience; until then however, I will not intrude on your privacy."
ReplyDeleteThen, speaking to everyone in general, Gauronne says: "I have reason to believe that I possess the highest degree of resistance to magickal effects of all of us. Accordingly, if magickal effects are the most common hazard, it would be prudent for me to take the point position. However, if the threats are more physical than magickal, it would only make sense for Mephis to lead us, inasmuch as his swords suggest that he is best suited among for dealing with physical threats. Since i cannot say which variety of hazards we may face, I will abide by the will of any companions who choose to accompany me down into that passage. And should we find ourselves unable to come to a decsision, perhaps we might flip a coin?"
I....I will go,i will help with anything , I promise, but if anyone need it....wait...
ReplyDeleteYeah! I have one, i found it in the taxi *say smiling with innocence, pick up the coin and give it to Gauronne*
*Take my bag from the taxi and put on my back*
I'm ready for anything now *say tryiong to appear with more self-confidence than before*
I will do for you my brother *say in my mind*