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Author Topic: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — In trouble D:  (Read 274138 times)

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2205 on: March 23, 2013, 01:26:39 pm »

Look for anything of value nearby
[1] You see your allies
((What are you implying about our value? :P))
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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 17 — Mirrors and Windows
« Reply #2206 on: March 23, 2013, 01:36:40 pm »

Rod stares at the handfuls of nesting material for a long while, a vaguely disturbed expression on his face, before stuffing them away wherever things go when they aren't being used. He starts, suddenly noticing Roana and recalling the overheard conversation between her and Ace. He begins to speak, voice trembling and eyes tearing up slightly, "Y-you mean you're a healer? A real one, not a dabbling faith healer like the rest of us? Gods be praised!"

Hug Roana. Or shake her hand. Try to avoid the dragon-thing and hatchlings while doing so.

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2207 on: March 23, 2013, 08:24:07 pm »

Look for anything of value nearby
[1] You see your allies
((What are you implying about our value? :P))
((Look at [6] :3 its perfectly clear what Tir is implying about everyones value to Shadow. I have to agree >:3))
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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2208 on: March 25, 2013, 09:19:41 am »

Kahn 2 The dragon? hisses in annoyance. It snaps at Kahn 6 who realizes that it isn't actually attacking and manages to abstain his reflexive impulse to punch it in the face. 6->5 He carefully says, "Dragon?" and watches it hiss again. Must not be a dragon.

6->2 He asks where the stairs are, but it ignores him.


Azastre 3 Juha shakes her head, her curly hair bouncing around, and squeaks, "He fell off!"

1 Wind blows as if to reinforce Juha's statement. The sound of the wind wasn't audible from the middle of the room, but it is here. And boy how harsh it sounds. Azastre peeks out between the arcs and sees wind-scoured stone lining the outer edge, with a small chunk recently broken off. The indigo night sky stares back at him. Nary a cloud.


Roana 5 feels the arches, making sure not to poke her hand between the masonry. She pokes and prods, 5 finally finding a small removable tile. She pries it away and finds a box! Of mystery!

It's a black felt box, with hidden hinges. It feels pretty heavy.

Also cobwebs.


Arianna 4 looks at the shiny marble. It does the sparkly thing that always leaves her breathless. She turns the perfect, smooth orb around in her hands, but there's nothing that even hints at its use. 6 She uses her rusty but serviceable gem appraisal skills to find that it isn't a gem at all. It's probably not even real metal. +53 points to Gem Appraisal.


Ire 2 decides to poke her head out the arches, and is immediately buffeted by the strong, powerful winds that howl just outside the Tower. She flails a bit, then catches her grip on the inside of the arches and pulls herself back in. That was close.

She sees the dark sky, the lack of clouds... It feels so empty down there. Just like as if there was no such thing as a ground, just the Tower, her friends, and her adversaries. Is she even still in 'her' world? Twenty floors shouldn't be that high by any measure, but in the dim light nothing of the ground is visible.

5 Lizard nudges Roana in the behind with its thankfully not-spiked snout. It rawrs softly.


Shadow 1 sees his allies.
 
4 Perhaps he should do something better than passively seeing. Maybe search for something...


Ace 4,5,4=6 HP recovered (I counted this as recovery, not Lucid Healing).

3,2,6->2 He spins his hook around and catches it on various places, like the stairs they came up, Azastre's chainmail skirt, Lizard's spiky tail, and the neck of a hatchling.

Oh waiit....

6->6->5 Thankfully, the mother doesn't notice!

Ace gets +12 points to Hook and +24 points to Aiming.


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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 17 — Mirrors and Windows
« Reply #2209 on: March 25, 2013, 10:51:19 am »

Search for new stuff. Avoid the thing and her hatchlings, don't go outside the arches.

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 17 — Mirrors and Windows
« Reply #2210 on: March 25, 2013, 10:57:09 am »

Kahn trains Dat Charisma and continues to talk. "My apologies. I didn't mean to offend you. Regardless, my companions and I would like to move on, and the sooner we do the sooner you and your hatchlings will be undisturbed."

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18
« Reply #2211 on: March 25, 2013, 11:13:16 am »

Azastre bites down on his lip, his mourning unfortunately cut short as a grappling hook catches his chainmail. He turns to look at the source of the assault only to watch Ace training with his hook, with abysmal consequences.

The young man gestures for Juha to stay safe and sighs deeply, cooling his mind down, before standing up to try and do what is right.

Check and heal wounded hatchling, sacrificing 7~10 hp.
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"Hey steve." You speak into the air.
>Yes?
"Could you guys also make a hamburger out of this arm when they cut it off? I wanted to eat it just for the sake of tasting it."
>That is horrible and disgusting. It will no doubt set you apart and create fear in your team mates. So of course.

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2212 on: March 25, 2013, 05:23:50 pm »

SEARCH for anything of value nearby

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 17 — Mirrors and Windows
« Reply #2213 on: March 25, 2013, 05:26:12 pm »

"Jeez. Not doing that anymore."
Take dragon egg shells, if said dragons don't mind.
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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2214 on: March 25, 2013, 09:27:39 pm »

Examine dragon-things in greater detail.

Train... Biology? Monsterology? Scale Appraisal?

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2215 on: March 26, 2013, 10:30:07 am »

"Humm. Interesting. Wonder what this could be?"

Roana opens the old black box, eager to discern its contents.

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2216 on: March 26, 2013, 10:43:43 am »

Meanwhile, at a White Mage near you...

The Lizard hovered over Roana, amused at her lack of response after being nudged. Surely the manling would notice after being pushed an inch, right?

Hm.

Perhaps that other manling with the mustache and longarm would be more accomodating. Also, shiny. Quite shiny.

And it seems to be intoning with other creatures!

The Lizard hovers (not literally) over Kahn, now. Ready to protect the good sir from danger.

Also, tries to learn or do anything beneficial. Gain Inspiration, probably?



Near a window...

Oh good gods...
Turn away, turn away!
Hell no...
Steady now, steady!

Ire spun around and clung to the wall with her hands, slumping to the ground with the feeling of shock and the fear to move. She felt paralyzed at the height from which they were at...and moved her boots across the stone floor inch by inch, ascertaining that there was solid, unbroken ground beneath her.

May nobody know my fear of heights...

Train Stealth, also try to examine if there seems to be any kind of hidden switch along the walls, or look up and try to ascertain if there are no minute gaps in the ceiling or trace lines where a passageway could unfold.

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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2217 on: March 26, 2013, 10:52:54 am »

Roana noticed a tingling sensation as something nudged her and left, but it was much less interesting than a treasure box!
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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 18 — Empty Nest Syndrome
« Reply #2218 on: March 30, 2013, 01:14:17 am »

Rod 4 searches around. He walks around the circumference of the room, trying to find some lucky false tile or a random piece of expensive-looking stuff. 6->? He finds a lever! It looks like it's been made out of normal steel, with a red, round tip. It is currently in the "up" state.


Kahn 5+1  The creature yawns in Kahn's face and lies down again, its eye peering at Kahn through the semi-dark.

A satisfyingly diplomatic conclusion!


Azastre 6->1 None of the hatchings are wounded, so he just throws away 7 HP. After he does that, he wonders why he did that anyways.

An aura of lucid healing surrounds him, temporarily increasing his defense by 35. It feels like a bunch of extra-thick cloth is wrapped against his limbs, making his movements harder but not excessively so. How long will it last?


Shadow growls in frustration as he isn't able to do anything. 6->5 He starts breaking random floor tiles with the scabbard of his sword (made of pure metal, like any respectable holy sword should be). One, clink, two, crunch, one, shatter, two, break.

After that goes on for a while, he finds that the tiles are made of semi-precious stones like jasper for the red tiles, and moonstone for the pale brown ones. The darker brown ones are apparently brown opal.


Ace 1 finds that whatever creature the thing in the nest is, its young consume the egg shells when they hatch. No shells in sight.

1 He wanders around aimlessly.


Arianna 4 It has a thin snout and head, with very few spines. It has small scales that are dull in color, and its belly is leathery, not scaly. The tail has a triangular end, and it doesn't have four limbs and two wings like a dragon, but rather two legs, and two wings that have arms attached to them, like a bat. Arianna 2 can only vaguely remember that it's not a dragon. She's not sure what creature it really is.

+15pt to Monster Appraisal.


Roana 5 opens the velvet box.

5 Inside, is a round, cool, and crisp snowball. It has a white color, with a tinge of blue where the light doesn't hit it. It almost glows with its own light...

But what good is a snowball?


Lizard 4 yawns and wanders over to the Kahn. It gains +6 points to Lazy.

Ire 3,5, 4 gains  +21 points to Stealth. She 4, with her Ire-sense, spots that Shadow has found a steel lever. Her sense tell her that it's an important steel lever. 6->4 She looks up and sees through the dim and dark that there's a thin line, circular, in the ceiling in the center of the room, above the nesting creature.
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Re: Ascend Sky Tower :: Floor 17 — Mirrors and Windows
« Reply #2219 on: March 30, 2013, 11:10:28 am »

Hrrrgh. It's a lever, but it's red.

Rod moans slightly, stuck with a difficult decision.

Examine the lever. Attempt to determine what it does without touching it.

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