In a darkened chamber underground...Sigmund, armed with a deep conviction that he can, against all odds, get out of this nightmarish realm, utilizes his accessible knowledge to magically uplift himself.
[Sigmund's magic roll: 4+2]
And he ascends, see how he rises! Sigmund's rising from the earth! The pillar carries him upward, upward, ever upward, bringing him almost right next to the ceiling he so desperately wished to reach. He is quite close to freedom, of that there can be no doubt. All his multitudinous parts shall soon be free, unless the gods themselves decide to screw him over!
Which could totally happen, of course, and wouldn't even be particularly unlikely, if what Sigmund's experience tells of them is correct.
In the lair of many giant spiders...Kevin, like so many poor, desperate fools before him, sees no particularly displeasing way this could possibly get any worse. So like any poor, desperate fool, he decides to pray to Velusius, god of death, magic, and other such amusing diversions that take one away from life and one's life away!
"Oh great Velusius, give me the strength to murder the fuck out of these spiders."He gets the feeling that this was probably not enough groveling, because he can feel all of jack shit right now. Or maybe that's the spider venom. He does feel a little better, he thinks. Maybe some other god would be more inclined to help him?
Outside the Mystery Forge...Niklas, goaded on by the blacksmith, moves up the stairs and gets on the boundary of the Mystery Forge - oddly, he can't see inside, despite there being plenty of light. It's like down there is only solid darkness of some nefarious kind.
Not that this worries someone as brave as Niklas, naturally. His madmanwoman instincts tell him that this can only end well, and so he climbs right in!
[Mystery rolls: ?, ?, ?]
Time passes, and Niklas comes out of the solid darkness, unknowing as ever. In his hands seems to be a metal helmet in the shape of a regular ham with no eyeholes, and a ham in the shape of the head of a rather fetching woman that looks a little familiar. As he climbs out, Niklas gazes at the other people present. The maid goes a little pale, while the blacksmith applauds.
"Wonderful work! Wonderful!" he says, in a manner that nearly makes Niklas' heart melt.
No update for Scott, sadly, since he's time-synched with Morton.