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[chokepoint]

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
This is an RTD based largely on Dante's Inferno. Warning: If players haven't read it or it's been a while since reading it I would recommend to avoid reading it until after the game, as it will have a lot of spoilers while also giving you no in-game advantage.

Plot
Dan T. Alighieri, a poet, thirty-five years old, and thus "halfway along our life's path"  finds himself lost in a dark wood  in front of a mountain, assailed by three beasts - a lion, a leopard and a wolf he cannot evade. Unable to find the right way to salvation, he is conscious that he is ruining himself and falling into a "deep place" where the sun is silent. Unbeknownst to Dan, God has shown mercy on him and sent powerful angels representing virtues down into hell to find save him. But hell is full of corruption and dangerous both physically and morally. Can the Virtues find Dan and bring him back without losing themselves in a world of sin? Above the Gates of hell reads a sign "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Virtues
Temperance NRDL
Bring Non-violence, forgiveness,  humility and modesty, restraint from excesses, anger; calmness and self-control.
Prudence Ozarck
Have foresight wisdom, insight, and knowledge
Courage MidnightJaguar
Confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation.
Justice Lermfish AbstractTraitorHero
Conviction to give everyone his or her rightful due.

Rules

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[1]-Crit Fail
[2]-Fail
[3]-Slight fail or success
[4]-Success
[5]-Crit Success
[6]-Success with a consequence
+1 to rolls related to your virtue or well thought out actions.
-1 to rolls that go against virtues or poorly thought out actions.
(Bonuses do not affect crits. Bonus scores withheld)

[MidnightJaguar]

In

Virtue is courage.

[NRDL]

In

Temperance and moderation in all things

[Lermfish]

Not yet read Dante's Inferno. Only know it's a video game. That said, in.

Justice
Conviction to give everyone his or her rightful due.

[Hawk132]

Uh, GM means Dante's Inferno as in the first part of the Divine Comedy, not the game.

Also, PTW.

[Ozarck]

Sure, I'll take prudence.

Prudence looks at the sign above the gate to hell. "That's a bad sign, you guys." She proclaims.

[MidnightJaguar]

Courage snorts in derision, "Hardly, this is a place to prove our virtues."

[NRDL]

"We must try and remember, we are here for Dan, not for ourselves.  I would not wish this journey upon anyone.

[chokepoint]

Welcome everyone! First off, don't worry. Your not in hell... yet!

The entrance to the underworld
Descended from heaven, you four angels, in the form of virtues Temperance, Prudence, Courage and Justice must pass through into the underworld to accomplish your task of finding and saving the poet Dan T. Alighieri who prayed for mercy and was repentant. You survey the muddy banks of the river Acheron where the souls of uncommitted men, neither evil nor good are trapped outside of hell for eternity. The innumerable men are all engaged in  endlessly pursuing a banner that seems to whirl about and float through the air like sand in a whirlwind. As they grind and battle they are constantly stung by wasps and gadflies and worms at their feet greedily drink up the wretches blood. The buzzing and shouts are deafening. Thank goodness your divine auras seem to keep the vicious insects at bay. It is here at the backdrop of terrible fighting that you must pass across the river by way of a Ferryboat and proceed into Hell.
Charon, the pilot of the ferry does not want to let you pass, because you lack payment and because only the souls of the damned are meant to travel across the river and into Hell proper.
Charon explains:
"Hope never more to look upon the heavens if I were to lead you to the other shore,to the eternal shades in heat and frost. Withdraw from this place for the damned dead souls. By other ports or other ways you shall go to shore. You cannot pass this way, A lighter vessel must carry you."
You have to find a way to cross the river safely.

[Ozarck]

((Should I cheat and look into the Poem for inspiration, or should we do this more organically?))

[chokepoint]

((Should I cheat and look into the Poem for inspiration, or should we do this more organically?))

It won't really help you, but it will sort of spoil the setting so I think that wouldn't be ideal. Keep in mind I've really bastardized the story.I'd say play out the game, then read it after.

[MidnightJaguar]

I fear this journey shall be more treacherous than planned, but take heart my fellow Angels, I shall swim across and find other transport for you.

swim across

((Would something like this be a courageous action? Or is it mere vainglory))

[Ozarck]

Do not be so hasty. Let us look on this side of the shore before we act.

Look about for a "lighter vessel." Consider God's divine grace and mercy as sources of light and lightness. Also balloons.

[Nunzillor]

PTW

[NRDL]

"Indeed.  Patience inevitably brings one closer to what our Lord intends."

Temperance walks over to the figure Charon.

Speak with the ferryman

"Who are you, to be shackled with such a responsibility as the passage of the damned?"