Sorry for the delay, my brain is busy being spaghetti. I'll just reply to these two keep things moving.
Campaign
Campaign, Ike!
"Oh, no insults here. Just a call for a cooler, more cucumber-like attitude to these things. On that note, let's take a quick look-see."
What setting is the slider on? What symbol is beneath it?
Move it to the triangle.
Then check if the handles are manipulable.
River says nothing. He just emits an annoyed grunt.
Here's a diagram of the thing I quickly put together to make it easier to understand:
 Sorry for the high resolution, just trying to preserve all the details And yes, I know I said the symbols were in squares, but using circles helped me save time. Plus I think it looks better. |
As shown by the image, the slider is currently in the circle with the half-carved interior. You can just give a number from 1 to 19 if you want, with 1 being the leftmost. So with that system, triangle would be 19.
You start moving the slider to the triangle. It's surprisingly easy to move. You could probably just shove it with your leg. It feels well oiled, which is kind of strange considering it was next to a fire. Maybe the oil was protected by magic. Or maybe the slider is held in place via magic. Although the second option is probably less likely, given the fact that you can hear something moving behind the wall as you move the slider. Someone who would use magic to oil a slider would probably not bother with installing mechanisms in the first place. Then again they could. Might be doing it for cultural reasons or just because they like the sound of things. Maybe whatever you hear moving behind the wall is completely unrelated to its function, it might just be decorative. Who knows with those guys?
Specifically, you can hear something like stone grinding against stone coming from two places, one staying in the same place somewhere near the centre of the wall and one moving upwards. Every time the slider passes a symbol there is a click, after which the slider cannot be moved back towards the previous symbol, only towards the next.
You reach the final symbol, a triangle. There's a final click and then the slider refuses to move anymore. Nothing else happens.
You grab the leftmost handle and try pulling it. You feel and hear the stone it is attached to move slightly, as if it could be pulled out of the triangle-shaped hole but something is preventing it from doing so. You can also feel the handle turning slightly clockwise and counter-clockwise. Hopefully that doesn't mean that it has become unscrewed and is about to fall off. You try the other two handles with pretty much the same result.
<That doesn't look good, someone's been digging at our entry-hole. Zech, be careful when we go in, ok?>
cautiously continue inside, and once inside search for intruders.
((I'm pretty sure the digging was River removing anti-magic rocks from the entry tunnel, but w/e.))
((I'll probably be able to post again around this time tomorrow))
You cautiously walk through the entrance. Hm. That feeling of uneasiness you felt the two previous times you went through it is gone. You continue moving as carefully and as quietly as you can, keeping your eyes and ears open.
After carefully investigating the inside of the shelter, you conclude that there is nothing living there, at least nothing that you can sense. Although judging from the smell Ike and River were here some time ago.
Rocks have been moved around inside the shelter, exposing a small hole in the ground and some of the broken furniture you were using to fuel the fire have been moved around. That's pretty much all the changes you can see.
Other than that, it's the usual. Just rocks, some damaged clothes, broken objects and some corpses with very little to no flesh remaining on them.
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