Cheating isn't allowed.
Before continuing, you decide to go for the simple solution first. You walk up to the door, and get ready to knock until you realize you're about to use your stump for it. You switch hands nonchalantly, and rap the door with three quick taps. The sound echoes throughout the deathly quiet wasteland. you shrug, and try to just open the door normally, first by pushing, then by pulling. There's no handle to pull the door with, however, so you give up fairly soon. So, you likely need to touch the flame, somehow. You know puzzles, there aren't that many ways other than that to get inside the tower. Although...
You move around the tower, and see what lies beyond. Just behind the tower is another infinite black void of nothing, like the one you saw when you first entered. You're not interested enough to find out what happens if you were to touch that, so you return to the tower entrance. Looking inside the hole, your hand is still there. So, time for the next possible approach. You get a glob of webbing in your hand and...
You're a spider.
Oh goodness.
The tower, while smooth, proves to be no match for your climbing prowess. You rapidly gain height, smirking to yourself as you come closer and closer to the purple flame on top of the tower. Whatever interesting test there may be, it can't beat drider powers! You laugh for a while, until you realize the flame seems a bit further away that it was before. Eventually, the falling sensation finally gets through to you. You end up landing on your behind. HARD. Pain isn't that impressive here, but that still kind of hurt. You rub your sore hindquarters, and get up. your sense of balance is completely out of whack, however, and you fall backwards again, as if you're missing six legs. You look backwards and see... Nothing. Your spider abdomen are gone! You look down and see a pair of perfectly human legs! With muscles, and skin! Five toes! Ankles! Only a single joint to bend! What the hell?
Eventually, you come to the realization that whatever is in control of this place doesn't want you cheating. You sigh, and try to get up. Your new legs work completely differently, and it take a few tries before you stop falling and manage to stand. Then, you attempt to walk forward, but you misplace your foot and fall again. Get up, fall down. It's a routine after a few times, and eventually, you manage to clumsily walk back to the hole in the wall. Time for the alternative approach, then.
You pick up the glob of webbing you carelessly dropped, and attempt to throw it in the hole. Of course, a sticky material like this doesn't fly too well, and it sticks and unravels as it travels down the tube. Nothing activates, and you carefully grab the webbing and pull it back. There's no real way to check for traps now, is there? Welp, on to the next option. you just resurrect your hand, or at least, try to. You've never tried to animate a body-part before, it was always a complete corpse. It feels rather different, like you need to pull some invisible strings with your mind instead of having it work automatically, but you manage to get the hand moving!
As fun as it would have been to make it crawl around like a little spider, it doesn't have the required strength or dexterity to do that. You just make it crawl forward until it touches the flame. It instantly engulfs the hand, turning it to ash! The flame then douses itself and the door rumble to life! Slowly, laboriously, the massive door slides upward, revealing a dark hallway with an unbelievably high ceiling. You can't even see it! Considering there's no way to go but forward, you press on. The hallway is long, but you're glad you got some walls to clamp to. These legs remain clumsy, and you smash your little toe against the wall a few times. What is even the purpose of that dumb digit!?
Eventually, you reach a well-lit room, with a massive chandelier above you. The light is pale and soothing, and you notice an altar in front of you. A boney hand is floating there, but there are other things inside the room. A massive pillar with many holes inside. A pale, purple light is visible inside. If its anything like the last one, you need some way to touch the inside. You're a little hesitant to put your hand inside, but you really can't see much. The purple light shines through the stone itself, which gets really confusing if you look at it for too long. You need some way of looking inside the holes, so you know which one seems correct. Just getting a closer look is probably enough, if you can see the end of the hole, you can probably figure it out.
RIDDLE 2!There is a massive pillar, with a height of 10 meters and a width of 3. it is circular, and a pale purple light is in the middle of it. You need some way to look inside the hole, so you can see where it branches off. There has to be some way to look at the end. Remember that pain or injury has little consequence here, but it can still end up preventing progress if the wounds are too bad. Level: 4
HP: 15/15
Mana: Unlimited
Stress: XX/XX
Equipment:
Naked Time! With human legs!
Items:
Nuthin'
Magic:
Resurrect vermin: Allows you to resurrect very small creatures such as rats(1) (invests 1 of your max mana)
Reshape minion: Allows you to slightly change the appearance of your resurrected minions. (//.......) <== advancement bar
Minion Vision(weak): Allows you to see what a minion sees. The minion must have eyes.
Animate Piece: Allows you to animate just a piece of dead tissue. It requires your constant attention, however, and cannot act independently.
Skills:
Poison Stinger (Potentially lethal)
Major experience in blocking and swords.
Climber
Crafty: Bolas
Cooking skill: excellent
Corpse Cutting: Awful.
Animal handling: inexperienced.
Author
Topic: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure (Ended) (Read 189964 times)