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Post by frankiestein on Dec 30, 2020 6:34:27 GMT
If hauling him out fails I'd like to smite the mirror decrying it for it's wickedness
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Post by Spwack on Jan 1, 2021 8:36:10 GMT
Jax can't do it alone, barely hanging on to the chain. Hurricane swoops in:
tDcwWSuj1d20+3
And yanks his erstwhile ally out from under the mirror. Jax's foot and ankle are marked with strange bluish claw marks, but he is otherwise unharmed.
What next?1d20+3
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 1, 2021 13:08:14 GMT
We have that exchange with Henry from the previous page.
Also Hurricane's idea about smiting the mirror might be worth a try, to see what happens?
"There appear to be far more of these small rooms that I anticipated. What do you say we split up and each try to explore in one direction? Shout for the others is you find something interesting or need an assistance."
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Post by frankiestein on Jan 1, 2021 17:46:25 GMT
We could also take the mirror and try to use it against foes.
"Jolly plan!"
There is as yet an unexplored room right? If so, I'll take that one.
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 1, 2021 18:34:01 GMT
We could also take the mirror and try to use it against foes. "Jolly plan!" There is as yet an unexplored room right? If so, I'll take that one. Depends if it can be taken off the ceiling. But it would be nice to just disappear our foes.
To the north and then right, I think. And I will go north and north again.
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Post by garmr on Jan 2, 2021 21:40:49 GMT
I will take out my gravity ring and twist it around until it points 'up', so I am walking on the ceiling. I will then approach the mirror, being careful not put my hands over it. With the point of an iron spike I will investigate the possibility of prying the mirror free from its position.
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Post by Spwack on Jan 3, 2021 9:41:56 GMT
Henry: Up on the roof, you can work the spike under the mirror. It would take some considerable work to get the mirror off intact, but definitely possible. The mirror looks to be quite "deep" into the ceiling, and you get the feeling breaking it could be bad.
Jax: North leads to the wooden pyramids, now a frothing and active mix. The north passage from there turns left, leading to the blue crystal room ((I'll assume you shut that door again hurriedly))
Hurricane: Heading north and then east leads you to another twisty passage, this one a fair bit longer. It opens into a large and long room, several times larger than the chambers you've been wandering in. At the far end, curiously illuminated and mottled, is a large stone throne. Resting where one would sit, lies a gold crown. Even from this distance your eyes can pick out details - the gems pried out, dented here, twisted there, and the hole of it splattered with some strange glowing fluid. What colour is neon-brown? That's the colour of the fluid smeared across the throne, the crown, and the ground all around.
What do you do?
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 3, 2021 16:17:32 GMT
From the blue crystal room, there were exits to the north and east, right? Have I peeked in through the eastern door?
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Post by frankiestein on Jan 4, 2021 5:55:53 GMT
I will avoid looking at the crown directly but keeping it in my periphery of vision.
"Herald, please,go fetch Jax as quickly as you can! I don't want to lose this room or for something untoward to happen so I am trusting you to fetch him!"
I will nudge Wizard and say "Perhaps best to avoid looking at it for fear of activating it eh?"
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 4, 2021 11:02:30 GMT
I will join Hurricane as soon as Herald comes to me.
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Post by Spwack on Jan 4, 2021 12:42:54 GMT
Jax: That is correct, you peek through the east door, then Herald comes to get you. "Come quickly quickly! Storm-knight foundedes the shiny!"
Hurricane: Wizard looks at you, then back at the crown, then shakes his head. "No. It rests. Can you smell the hate? So much hate."
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 4, 2021 14:01:04 GMT
"Yes! Thank you, Sir Hurricane, that must be it. We should also call His Majesty here."
I will try to telekinetically bring the crown to me. I don't want to touch the brown gunk, so I will set the crown on the ground and wrap it into a handkerchief or something. How does it smell?
"I was told that the crown is cursed and should be handled with caution. We should probably clean it up first and try to use it only once we are safely back in Cell Block 0.
Say, master Wizard, would you know what this strange liquid is?"
Are there any other exits from the room?
Is it possible to walk around the throne without touching the liquid? If so, I would like to examine the throne from all sides to see it there isn't anything interesting, like engravings/graffiti or gold decorations/gems still set into the stone.
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Post by garmr on Jan 5, 2021 1:08:57 GMT
I will leave the mirror alone for now and stay close to the others.
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Post by Spwack on Jan 5, 2021 4:07:38 GMT
The crown doesn't move at all when you reach out with your mind. For the first time since using your new power, you feel a sensation of terrible weight.
Wizard sniffs a few times. "Mostly blood. Don't lick it."
There is another exit on the south side of the room that you can see from here, but all around it is a pool of the brownish fluid, blood and whatever else.
You've got time to pick your way through, but yes, you can look all around the throne. Only about a third of the blood is glowing neon-brown, the rest is just lying in sticky pools. There's even more of it than you thought.
The throne and some of the floor around it is plain stone, making it easier to see the odd cracks and hairline fractures all around it. It doesn't look like it's been hit or broken, more like the throne has been... twisted? Bent and stretched like a piece of bread, before being pushed back into place, but leaving the cracks behind as evidence.
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Post by frankiestein on Jan 5, 2021 6:38:34 GMT
"Perhaps the thrown is part and parcel of the crown? What is authority without a place to sit?"
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 5, 2021 7:09:34 GMT
"Thank you, I will not lick anything.
The crown, it has an incredible... heft to it. I cannot touch it with my mind."
I will try and pick my way to the throne, avoiding the neon blood. I will use a knife to scrape off as much of the gunk as I can from the crown, no touching, then try to stick my cane through the crown and lift it, still no touching.
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Post by frankiestein on Jan 7, 2021 3:14:50 GMT
While he's doing this, I want to keep a hand on Jax's shoulder so that I can assist him if his mind gets pulled in or something. Just want us to stay connected so he doesn't have to face things alone (that's the hope anyways).
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Post by Spwack on Jan 7, 2021 13:28:23 GMT
The gunk slops and slides in a way you wouldn't exactly expect for a dried fluid. The crown shifts a little bit as you move it as well, but it's still a chunk bit of gold. When you put the cane through it and lift, the crown tips and rises, and then gets... stuck? Just the corner of it is touching the throne, and it feels like you are trying to lift the whole throne. The crown can get pulled back and forth along the stone by the cane, but it can't be lifted off of it.
Wizard rolls his eyes, audibly: crackle crackle.
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 7, 2021 19:27:34 GMT
"It doesn't want to make this easy, apparently" I chuckle.
I will drag the crown along the surface of the throne to one of the cracks, until it touches the stone only at the edge of that crack. Then I will ask Sir Hurricane to hold the cane and pull the crown away, take a hammer and a knife from my pack and use the knife as a chisel to try and chip off the bit of the throne that the crown is touching. Ideally, this would mean that the crown never stops touching the stone, but can be removed from the throne along with the bit of stone.
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Post by frankiestein on Jan 7, 2021 19:56:42 GMT
"I fear it is as I said! The thrown belongs with the crown. Perhaps you are overthinking this, you could sit upon and maybe the crown will let you remove it to put it upon your head?"
Hurricane will dutifully assist however
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 7, 2021 22:15:59 GMT
"I fear it is as I said! The thrown belongs with the crown. Perhaps you are overthinking this, you could sit upon and maybe the crown will let you remove it to put it upon your head?" Hurricane will dutifully assist however "May be, may be. I would first try to take it with me back to the safety of Cell Block Zero and don it there, but if this doesn't work out, I will sit on the throne and hope for the best."
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Post by Spwack on Jan 8, 2021 6:43:03 GMT
Chips of stone fly, landing with a plop in the pool of blood.
((Honestly, it's a clever idea. My first thought was that each piece of stone would also be stuck to the throne, so you'd eventually have a string of pebbles between here and CB0. Which is funny, but not quite befitting the mood))
Sticky black fluid wells out of the cracks you've made in the stone and turn to odd-shaped gas, and you feel a horrible sensation of... satisfaction? Gain 1XP, but you're correct, once you are sitting on the throne, you can lift the crown easily.
What are the rest of you doing?
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 8, 2021 7:59:16 GMT
Chips of stone fly, landing with a plop in the pool of blood. ((Honestly, it's a clever idea. My first thought was that each piece of stone would also be stuck to the throne, so you'd eventually have a string of pebbles between here and CB0. Which is funny, but not quite befitting the mood)) Sticky black fluid wells out of the cracks you've made in the stone and turn to odd-shaped gas, and you feel a horrible sensation of... satisfaction? Gain 1XP, but you're correct, once you are sitting on the throne, you can lift the crown easily. What are the rest of you doing? ((Just to make sure - so it didn't work and I had to sit on the throne and wear the crown, right?))
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Post by Spwack on Jan 9, 2021 1:26:25 GMT
When you sit on the throne, you can pick up the crown easily. It feels heavy on the end of the knife, but otherwise nothing else happens. Do you put it on? Wizzard is watching you very carefully, his pupils narrowed to points.
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 9, 2021 7:39:36 GMT
Yes, I put it on.
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Post by frankiestein on Jan 10, 2021 1:44:23 GMT
To the side of jax, out of his sight while he's putting on the crown I want to have a sword up and at the ready to run him through the side. I know jax wouldn't want to become a monster and I don't have the spell knowledge to solve this besides with a sword.
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Post by garmr on Jan 10, 2021 4:00:16 GMT
I will stand on the other side and be ready to snatch the crown off his head if something terrible happens.
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Post by Spwack on Jan 10, 2021 7:37:15 GMT
At first, it feels like nothing except wearing a heavy bit of jewellery. Then, your spine bends, your arms lock, and your legs kick wildly. Absolute agony courses down from your head and burns in every one of your joints. You drop to 0 HP, and are left, weak and twisted on the throne. Something has occurred. What do you want to do?
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jan 10, 2021 12:23:26 GMT
Oh, I know this pain. This is the kind of agony that I felt when the doctors opened my skull and poked in my brain to learn what bits of the grey matter might allow the mind to influence physical matter. Of course I should've expected it to return when I try to forcefully make my mind grow in power again, but I was too foolish to really think this through.
No need to dwell on should-haves and could-have-beens, now.
I try to concentrate on the necklace and will it to switch its healing magic from my wrists to the pain and the convulsions.
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Post by Spwack on Jan 11, 2021 7:59:22 GMT
Makes sense to me. The ruby glimmers, and the pain in your head fades, replaced by the sickening sensation of your wrist-bones starting to melt.
What next?
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