THROUGH DARK AND TWIST [FORUM RPG']

The meat is heavily salted and dried, obviously some kind of jerky. There's no reason not to take it. The table it is on is a bit rickety, made of what was once light wood. It could probably be broken down with enough force applied.

The pillow is made of moth-eaten cloth surrounding a small pallet of straw. It might be good for keeping a fire going, but it's so compacted from years of being used that it's useless for anything else. The bedding itself is threadbare, with holes and rips. It wouldn't be much use for anything due to the state - it's too dirty, dusty and grimy to make bandages out of and it would barely cover you as a cape - its condition would render it useless as one in any case.

The bed itself is little more than a pallet of straw. It is full of dust and dirt and stinks of human sweat and worse. You dig through the straw and find a few things - a couple of copper coins and some mouldy crumbs - but ultimately find nothing of real use.

The coins are added to your money pouch. +4 Sika




Lit has made a torch. It will require an initial fire source (magical or mundane) to light, but will last for 5 turns of exploration and can be used as a make-shift melee weapon in battle (+1 POW, if lit possible fire-based damage).


Torch added to inventory.


You carefully ease the pick into the lock and quietly jiggle it around, trying to find the catch. It takes a little while, and your hands are getting sweaty. You stop for a moment and listen - you can hear breathing and you think you can make out a cell across from yours, though there's no movement from within. You can also see another cell to the right of it which is better illuminated by the weak light - the door is open but it looks much like you'd imagine your own cell would if you could see it better in the dark.

Taking a breath you try again to pick the lock, this time succeeding. With a sharp SNKT and a dull clunk the tumbler turns and your door is now open. You pocket the lockpick, which thankfully didn't break despite the large size of the lock and your fumbling.

Your door is now open and you may exit your cell, or continue to search.


In this case any food on your tables or in the room with you is counted as the food you started with. Anything extra will have to be interacted with. Assume that if you find food, it will be added to your inventory unless you make a point to not add it.

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Skills will be handled with die rolls on my end. If it's something that your class is expected to know how to do (for example, a Rogue using a lockpick) then you will receive two tries per turn. If it is a skill that your class or character would not know how to do (for example, a Warrior trying to disarm a magical trap) they will get only one try per turn.

There will also be some skills that cannot be done by certain classes and will always be met with failure, though I will make sure to let you know after the initial try that this is the case (for example, a Farmer trying to decipher an ancient text). Rule of thumb will be that if a skill falls under a certain stat (Con, Pow, Agi, Int) if that is your classes worst stat then you are very likely not to be able to do that skill.


That said, I'm going to be pretty lenient with the kinds of interactions you can do. The tutorial area will hopefully help you realise just what you can do, but you should be free to interact with most things. If you do interact with something but it doesn't update the Point of Interest count, then you either have interacted with that thing before OR it was not one of the Points of Interest.

An example of this is Lit making a torch with the table. He'd already interacted with the table before and it was then counted as a Point of Interest. He has yet to interact with anything else in the cell, so the only PoI he has triggered is the table.

Feel free to try stuff out. I'll be pretty accommodating for the most part, but if there is something that cannot be done, at least you'll get some funny text out of it. X3