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Post by wingilbear on Feb 14, 2021 11:36:09 GMT
Does the panel open on this side so I may get back up?
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Post by Spwack on Feb 15, 2021 2:18:02 GMT
It does, but only if you look very closely and know the right place to push. It takes some time to find it, even if you know where it is.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 15, 2021 10:29:01 GMT
I will make sure I know that and it’s rough placement then move to the wall of flame area. I am curious what remains by it at the moment.
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Post by Spwack on Feb 16, 2021 8:14:30 GMT
Scrap and junk, melted by the wall of flame or thrown through to test it.
((As far as I can recall? Did Phykalla leave things here?))
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 18, 2021 5:42:19 GMT
There may have been some scraps of clay, people usually ransack this stuff pretty quick. I know there is a sort of secret passage under this can I access it from here? I will look a bit and maybe try tremorsense to detect it.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 18, 2021 5:47:41 GMT
Ooh and I will send scout (the crystal gem scouting robot) up the secret passage and ask her to check around that floor to find the crystal beast we are trying to find. I will tell her to meet me in the secret passage when she is done. (Unless she just thinks she can find me wherever I wind up)
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Post by Spwack on Feb 18, 2021 6:45:26 GMT
Nobody has been here recently, so yes the clay would still be there. Tremorsense shows that yes, there's a passage under here, but it's not accessible. This end of the secret passage would be directly under the wall of flame, which doesn't make much sense. You can feel the passage going off to the west.
Scout blinks her lights rapidly and clicker-clackers away. Good luck Scout!
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 19, 2021 6:40:27 GMT
Hmmmm now to explore a little, back to the hallway then towards the life and death stuff
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Post by Spwack on Feb 20, 2021 2:34:20 GMT
You're standing there, glowing signs pointing LIFE to the left and DEATH to the right. Where to?
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 20, 2021 7:23:11 GMT
What is between them? I want to check out the area between life and death. Use tremorsense and some hitting to see if I can find secret compartments or passageways.
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Post by Spwack on Feb 21, 2021 6:38:48 GMT
You tap and thwack at the stone walls for a while, but there doesn't appear to be anything apart from solid stone.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 21, 2021 16:51:21 GMT
From what are the letters made? Can I move them or rearrange them at all? If I find nothing more to mess with, After that I will travel to the land of death.
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Post by Spwack on Feb 22, 2021 3:33:29 GMT
They are carved into the walls, you could pry them out though, if you had time, a chisel and a lot of patience.
Heading past the DEATH sign, you walk down a short corridor, veering slightly right, then another veer right till you are walking due-east. You come to a smallish stone chamber, with an altar of sorts in the middle. Atop the altar is a greataxe unwieldily size. It looks more ornamental than anything. The greataxe, the altar, and the whole room are soaked in dried blood. There's a similar-looking exit to the north and to the east, on the other side of the altar.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 22, 2021 5:21:51 GMT
Going to run crawl rapidly to the eastern exit
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Post by Spwack on Feb 23, 2021 12:13:44 GMT
You dive into the room and wriggle towards the east. The axe rises up from the altar, preparing to swing down at you! Lil Red is scurrying along behind you as quickly as his psuedopods can carry him, are you just going to dive out of the room?
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 23, 2021 20:55:54 GMT
Yeah get out of here fast!
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Post by Spwack on Feb 24, 2021 5:31:37 GMT
You're out of the room and no longer anywhere near the scattered dried blood, but you can see the axe closing fast on Lil Red!
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 24, 2021 13:35:58 GMT
“Terrance see if you can grab the shaft and slow the descent!”
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Post by Spwack on Feb 25, 2021 3:23:09 GMT
Terrance swoops under and catches the axe, pushing it slightly to the side. It lands with an almighty crash to the right of Lil Red, who lets out a terrified bubbling and rushes directly into you Blerble, bowling you over. Terrance is still holding onto the wildly bucking axe. "Help! I'm too silky to die!"
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 25, 2021 11:18:27 GMT
“Let go of the axe and fly back. You can always use your space twisting powers to become smaller if you are worried.”
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Post by Spwack on Feb 26, 2021 10:33:07 GMT
"Oh. I forgot I could do that." says Terrance, glowing pink and shrinking rapidly. The axe waves around wildly, trying to hit the tiny flying target, to no avail. The axe doesn't seem willing (or perhaps, able) to leave the room either.
Success!
Looking down towards the east, you can see a largish room that seems to be in serious disrepair. You can smell the river, there is mud everywhere, and bits of crumbling masonry abound. Peeking around the corner, you can see another tunnel leading to the north, but you'd need to cross the muddy floor and climb a partially shattered wall to do so.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 26, 2021 11:47:23 GMT
“I didn’t know you could talk Terrance. How are ya?” Is this mud water dirt combo? I have been wanting dirt for swimming. With the disrepair are there any holes in the walls I could wriggle through?
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Post by Spwack on Feb 27, 2021 3:53:14 GMT
((Doesn't he talk? Maybe it was just communicating directly into your mind, since he is your familiar))
Plenty! You spend some time wriggling through the mud and shattered stone, tremorsense works even better than normal. You poke your head out through the wall, overlooking the river flowing past below you.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 27, 2021 4:33:58 GMT
Already muddy let’s head north. Tremorsense keeping a look out for something hidden in the mud.
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Post by Spwack on Feb 28, 2021 11:31:48 GMT
The mud has bits of scrap metal in it, rusting to almost nothing. As well as... is that bone? Weird.
Heading up the north chamber, you look in on another smallish room. In the centre, hanging from a chain, is a large cage. In it is what appears to be a pile of rags, until it props itself up. "Oh, worm! Here wormy wormy... here wormy wormy..." says the figure in a raspy voice.
There's an exit to the south-west, your tremorsense easily telling you that it leads back to the axe room. There's a small door with a large lock on it in the north-eastern corner.
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Post by wingilbear on Feb 28, 2021 23:23:23 GMT
I will approach the rag cage slightly. “Hello hello who might you be?”
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Post by Spwack on Mar 1, 2021 1:43:46 GMT
As you approach a little closer, the rag creature stands up a little straighter. "I'm Ripstitch. Or maybe I'm Longthrow. Or maybe I'm actually Blueweave! You'll never guess hahahaha!"
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Post by wingilbear on Mar 1, 2021 8:30:08 GMT
“Greetings, who placed you in this cage and what lies beyond these two exits here?”
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Post by Spwack on Mar 1, 2021 9:13:04 GMT
"Don't know, don't know, don't know don't know don't know!" sings the odd creature. "But I might know... who's asking?"
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Post by wingilbear on Mar 1, 2021 13:44:57 GMT
“I am asking. Balble.”
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