[New map: you're currently standing "on" the entrance to this level.][Another quick update for today, as I have to unpack and repack for leaving this evening. For the sake of expediency, I will assume that the person who has the best ranged attack will try to fire the arrow-plus-rope.]
Musashidan fires an arrow from the wooden bow; it sails across the room and... it hits, embedding itself into the wall.
The party then ties the rope taut (say, by grabbing a loose stone from the first floor and weighing it down the hole).
[The Archivist casts Change Miscellaneous Object at a cost of 10 MP]
The rope begins to stiffen and harden, its surface smoothing from plaited cord to smooth hard metal as it becomes a pole; one end attached to an arrow, the other hanging down the hole in the floor.
The two most nimble characters, William and Musashidan, flip a coin... and upon winning, or losing, the coin toss, he climbs along the pole towards the doorway. When his feet touch the other side, the plates halt in mid-motion, as though someone had just switched off the music they had been listening to. If it had been the luggage carousel at the airport, you would now be worried about getting your bags.
Fortunately, it's not and and the party isn't here for national flights; the party can now safely cross the floor.
[Just as some general housekeeping notices:
1. If you wish to have a summary of game events, let me know by next week, so I know how far back I need to go. I'll work on it after that.
2. If anyone's wishing to quit the game, it'd be really handy if you let me know. With the number of people "playing" being as high as it is, doing the calculations and updating things takes a fair amount of time; if I can shrink this down a bit, that'd save time and make things easier for me and better for the other players.
3. I hope people have a good Thanksgiving. I promise not to attack the party with a horde of Haunted Sweet Potatoes... or do I?]
The archivist moves forward nervously,and pokes the now-stationary floor with his ten-foot-pole.
ReplyDeleteNo, not that one.
Upon ensuring it is entirely safe, he pushes Grarg roughly in front of him and executes plan 'meatshield' by steering him through the door.
Reginald, impressed with Musashidan's marksmanship, and the somewhat miraculous landing of the arrow in the dungeon wall, AND the strength of the pole in holding his daring companion as he crosses, smiles as the novelty of it all. I'm not sure what it's called when it seems like something shouldn't work, and then it does, but I like it He smiles a little at the thought.
ReplyDeleteWhile the floor is slightly less mesmerizing than it was before, it also lost its potentiality for death, and so Reginald is confident in his stride over it. Following behind Archie, perfectly happy to have not one, but two, meat-shields, he walks pleasantly along.
Reginald looks over his shoulder every once in a while to see where his companions are behind him, but mostly sticks to vigilantly watching his step as they press onward.
[ooc: I'm not sure how you organize everything, but if you have character equip./stat.s charts, could you maybe send me mine? I'm fine for the summary of game events. I just read the posts ^^]
Upon reaching the other side, William checks to make sure the machine isn't moving anymore, and that everyone regroups before beginning to walk down the hall shield first.
ReplyDelete(Thanksgivings was good. Went to a friends house and had ham, turkey, and homemade potatoe and armenian cheese :)