THE HIGHLANDER'S TOMB (TEAM FORUM RPG)

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Right, I'll light a torch on... some fire somewhere (there's a fire around here somewhere right? Like maybe a lit torch on the wall or somethin) and whether I have a lit torch or not I'll run with everyone else.
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
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"Run, everyone!"
Kairy says as she starts limping down the hall swiftly.
Everyone agrees and follows suit, but Kairy can't keep pace with everyone.
Wes easily solves this by picking her up and running!
Zuko holds up the glyph, and it shines once more, revealing that the floor was actually moving! With a quickened pace the party slowly makes their way passed the illusory wall that once looked like a never-ending hallway, and appear at a door. Quickly they walk int a dark room. Wes puts down Kairy and lights a torch. The room is instantly lit.
The room is a long rectangle, the party had come out of the middle of the longest side. There are two doors, each on the short walls. The long wall across them are hieroglyphs that no one can read. Lined along the walls are many, many pots, all with infinity symbols on them.
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4! Bazyli cats miasmal currents on the tether! The miasmal energies are drawn into Bazyli, and soon the tether dissipates. The miasmal currents solidify MAGI inside of you, and it drops down in a Ball of Magi.
"OHoohohohohohoooooOO! Wonderful, little doggie! You really are a LIFE SAVER!
BahhahahahaaaA! Life! How I wish I still had that! Ah well, a promise is a promise, let the surprise gift come first!"
The spirit then launches itself into the sky. You look up for the first time and see a giant floating temple! You see the spirit enter. After a while it emerges bearing an orb.
"This! This, I have no idea what it is. I WAS going to explore that temple and claim it's treasure for myself when THIS BLASTED ROCK TRAPPED ME! AAAAUUUUGHHH!"
It screams with malice and makes many threatening hand gestures at the Mutae Rock.
After it's tantrum, the spirit breathes heavily and speaks to Bazyli
"Well, take the treasure! Now, for the second part... I know a way back to the realm of the living! OHohohohohoho, YES! Quite amazing information, yes? I feel inclined to share it with you..."
The creature stares away into the forest, frowning as if making a decision.
"Right! Through the Misty Forest, that's here if you didn't know, there lies a GIANT pyramid! It's called the Highlander's tomb! Oh my, it's wonderfully bright, wonderfully crafted... WONDERFULLY DANGEROUS! There's a giant spiral of miasmal energy that's said to come from the material world! With it we can go through it back to the realm of the living!"
As the creature claims this, you look down solemnly.
"Ahahaha- ah? Oh, of course you can come with me, doggie! My savoir deserves as much! Come, let us travel!"
Unable to break the news, you reluctantly follow it.
After a few moments of walking you both happen upon a... thing.
A stone thing, with carving all over it.
"Uh, hm? This world holds new fascinations for me! Oh..."
The creature looks about.
"Lost souls are coming dog... I'd know that sensation anywhere! They've always come for me before, but in my life I was once a magician... ohohoho, my peers told me I had a frozen heart, and it was true! WeheheheheeeEEE!"
The creature squeals with delight.
"Oh, soon, soon I shall meet with them again! Oh, but I get ahead of myself..."
As it says this 5 lost souls surround you!
They all prepare soul drain, react! The spirit inhales deeply...
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Lvl 4 Wes: (E)Angelus Bracelet (E)Holy Longsword, (E)Moonscale-Platted Iron Shield, (E)Chipped Quartzine Armor Set with two small holes in the chestplate, (E)Lit Torch(5 Turns) x1 Filled Canteen, 5 MREppers, 1 Red Pulp Fruit, 1 Valkinite Ore, 90 CEIL,, Log, Rope.

Lvl 3 Zuko is burned on his face! (E)Demoni Bracelet (E)Katarina Demoni~Fire~Force, (E)Sanguine Balgroth Leather Armor(Empty), (E)Murkal Shell Chunk(Shield), x1 Filled Canteen, 5 MREppers, 1 Red Pulp Fruit, x8 Valkinite Ore, 90 CEIL, 1 Torch, Golden Statue™, True Sight Gylph(7 Uses left).

Lvl 3 Kairy has a fractured leg: 22 Hardened Tip Bolts, 19 Quartzine Tipped Bolts, Large Wooden Crossbow (UNloaded), (E)Ferall Leather Armor, x1 Filled Canteen, 10 MREppers, 2x rope, 1x hook, 285 CEIL, x1 Red Pulp Fruit fruit.

Lvl 3 Razuna: Raven Companion Gourd! (E)Force Bracelet (E)Dual Shoddy-Iron Gladius, (E)Ferall Leather Armor, x1 Filled Canteen, x1 Log, x1 Ferall Pelt, 285 CEIL.

Lvl 3 Bazyli is in Null. Surrounded by five Lost Souls!
Spirit Partner!
Energy: 496/500
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Pots everywhere? Sounds like we should smash 'em! wait this isn't Zelda

"Augh! I wonder if that thing got out of the pit? Do you think it's following us... CAN it even follow us through that hallway we were in? It seems like it would be a bit too large to fit...

Well, I think we shouldn't rest easy, at least. What shall we do now, then?"
"I don't know... Maybe we could check what's inside of them. What do you think, Kairy?"

P.S. : We still have the POWER STONES, seiromem. Just saying...
NeverSilent
Got any Dexreth amulets?
6299
Thanks for carrying me, Wes. For once, I really appreciate it.

"Do you really think that's a good idea, Zuko? You seemed to be pretty frightened by whatever was in the last pot of this kind you inspected. If we have to mess with them at all, I'd rather say we break them to pieces. At least, no one should be alone when doing anything with them."

Anyway, I go ahead and check whether the two doors can be opened or not. If they can, I peek inside, but don't enter the next rooms yet.
Remind me, NeverSilent, when was that?
Oh yeah! I completely forgot that! And it was just a few pages ago! XD

Anyways:

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"You may be right, if a creature like the one before came out of one of this pots, I don't think that anything good comes out of these either. So, I'll just leave these alone and I'm going to check if there's something interesting around."

My attention then goes to the hieroglyphs in the wall:

"I'm guessing that nobody knows what these mean, right?"
"Hm, Bazyli might be able to read those hieroglyphs, but most likely not the rest of us... they seem quite unreadable to me."

(Question: are any of my skills still on cooldown?)
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
(They aren't? Oh.)

"Say Kairy, before you go see what's beyond those doors, would you like me to heal your leg the rest of they way? And Zuko, um, do you think it'd be a good idea to try casting Soak on you again or...?"
I think the final boss of this game should be a mighty and rude owl.

"I certainly don't understand any of this gibberish,
Must be some kind of ancient language...klingon perhaps?"

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Raven's are rude.
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
Maybe I should make up my own language.

Yeah, sounds fun!

EDIT: Y is right next to U on my keyboard.
Wait, who the hell's Kairu?

Edit: Oh, yeah that makes sense,
But Kairu could be Kairy's twin brother.
NeverSilent
Got any Dexreth amulets?
6299
Kairu?! Someone please tell me, what have I missed?

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"Sure, Wes, if you can do that, go ahead. Thanks!"
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
You missed a spelling error.
God, I love this wierdo. Heaven's covenant on a random soul!

"Woof!" This is the optime of rp. I love it.
I'll check the wall of hieroglyphs in more detail.
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
---------------------Turn 64---------------------

Zuko looks around the room 1! and spies nothing new. In fact, somehow he's managed to know LESS about the room he's in! Kairy checks both door, and they're both open. The one on the left contains and alter and the one on the right is a small room with five more doors! Three on the other walls, one on the ceiling and another on the floor.
Once Kairy is finished, Wes feels his power resotred and casts Soothe Wounds! 6! Kairy's leg muscles are now sprained! After a two more turns of rest she can walk it off.
Razuna inspects the hieroglyphs 4! and sees that they are really giant pictographs, 6 in total that go from ceiling to floor. Of course, he has no way of knowing what they mean or what order to read them in.
So now what?
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The spirit emits a frost breath! 5! and freezes 4 of the Lost Souls! It then goes insane and smashes every single one! Bazyli uses Holy Covenant! 2! Holy light sputters and fades, failing to harm the lost soul. The lost soul is about to use Life Drain when The Spirit charges it and grapples it! The Lost Soul squirms and screeches in the spirit's grasp as it slowly freezes. Once a sculpture, the spirit proceeds to... eat it!? After lots of sounds of crunching and ice breaking it says
"Deeeelicious~! Oh my what is is very.... refreshing! Now then, shall we be off, little doggie? Ohohoooo wait, the stone, what do you purpose we do with it?"
As if waiting for you to say something the spirit stares at you. Then it emits a howl of laughter "OHoHoho! RIght, you're a DOG! I think I'll just hold on to this then," it says as it picks it up "Now let's get a move on! Did I mention I liked pitbulls?"
Then the creature goes on and on about ice magic. Spewing nonsense and telling you incantations that actually make sense! In fact, thanks to the spirit's lecture you learn the recipe for Ice Runes! One Ice Essence and one stone of any kind, infused at an alter.
Soon you both step out of the forest. "Well well, bewilderment and awe strike me!
Such is the effects of the Highlanders Tomb! But..." The spirits looks about.
"Where's the pillar? WHERE!? COULD I HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN!? WAS IT NOT AT THE HIGHLANDERS TOMB!?!" The spirit then yells profanity at itself and bangs it's head on a tree. Then, it starts sobbing. After a few moments it has a realization.
"Maybe we're not- no, this is without a doubt the tomb... but, the spiral of energy surely would attract many... perhaps there are guardians? YES! THAT MAKES SENSE, EEEeeheheeeeE! That has got to be it! We must activate the pillar somehow! Genius Shiva, absolutely geniusaaaahhhahahaaaaAH!! Let's get a move on doggie, I might need your help!"
Starting towards the tomb you both are halted by a gate, no doubt the entrance. It's a massive stone door with a glyph in the middle.
"Oh... well this is something new. Look there, you see those levers?"
You look to where the spirit points and see what you didn't notice before, three levers above the door and to the left.
"And over there, there's an offering alter! We place something there, then flip the switches! Of course, it has to be in a certain order... which order would that be I wonder? Oh, and what shall we put in the alter, hmmm? What do you think doggie!? YOU MUST HAVE AN IDEA, OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT!" it howls and grabs your shoulders, shaking you slightly with desperation in it's eyes. The just as quickly, the desperation fades.
"No stress! No stress! Tell you what, I'll make communication easy! Bark once then pause for the first lever, bark twice then pause for the second lever and bark thrice then pause for the third lever. Give me any order, then we'll place this thing in the alter, only thing we have unless we want to pick up a rock and place it. Growl if you want me to do that!"
Then the creature strokes you from head to tail gently, and you feel slight affection. "Oh, I can see intelligence in your eyes! I've a fondness for that! Now bark to it! Eeehehheee..."
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Lvl 4 Wes Soothe Wounds on Cooldown(3 Turns): (E)Angelus Bracelet (E)Holy Longsword, (E)Moonscale-Platted Iron Shield, (E)Chipped Quartzine Armor Set with two small holes in the chestplate, (E)Lit Torch(5 Turns) x1 Filled Canteen, 5 MREppers, 1 Red Pulp Fruit, 1 Valkinite Ore, 90 CEIL,, Log, Rope.

Lvl 3 Zuko is burned on his face and confuzzeled! (E)Demoni Bracelet (E)Katarina Demoni~Fire~Force, (E)Sanguine Balgroth Leather Armor(Empty), (E)Murkal Shell Chunk(Shield), x1 Filled Canteen, 5 MREppers, 1 Red Pulp Fruit, x8 Valkinite Ore, 90 CEIL, 1 Torch, Golden Statue™, True Sight Gylph(7 Uses left).

Lvl 3 Kairy has a sprained leg: 22 Hardened Tip Bolts, 19 Quartzine Tipped Bolts, Large Wooden Crossbow (UNLoaded), (E)Ferall Leather Armor, x1 Filled Canteen, 10 MREppers, 2x rope, 1x hook, 285 CEIL, x1 Red Pulp Fruit fruit.

Lvl 3 Razuna: Raven Companion Gourd! (E)Force Bracelet (E)Dual Shoddy-Iron Gladius, (E)Ferall Leather Armor, x1 Filled Canteen, x1 Log, x1 Ferall Pelt, 285 CEIL.

Lvl 3 Bazyli is in Null. At entrance to the Highlander's Tomb?
Spirit Partner! Holy Covenant on Cooldown(3 Turns)
Energy: 495/500
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