Topic: One Day in Underville... :Cave Envy (Read 39033 times)

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #75 on:** October 13, 2019, 03:54:45 am »

Frank, experiencing difficulty getting up in his hardsuit, stretched out a hand upwards, seeking salvation.

"Little help? Anybody?"

Spoiler: Frank (click to show/hide)

Egan_BW · « **Reply #76 on:** October 13, 2019, 04:02:09 am »

Click on the flashlight so that we can see, and go through the double door.
Search for shinies. Which includes anything interesting in addition to valuable. Also Vaiae is the sort to be briefly interested in random boring things like pencils.

"Come on knight, looks like they're getting ahead of us..."

Spoiler: Vaiae (click to show/hide)

Parisbre56 · « **Reply #77 on:** October 13, 2019, 04:05:27 am »

Make sure I have taken a video of Frank's epic fail so I can post it on Facetube and get mad views.

If nobody else wants them, loot some of the money and cards. Try to figure out if they're the useful kind of cards.

Then help provide illumination for my teammates. If my flashlight is not enough, pop a flare.

Spoiler: Sherry Bobbins: Ordinary Human Handler (click to show/hide)

Hotfire90 · « **Reply #78 on:** October 13, 2019, 07:59:38 am »

Alice was so focused on reading the article that she didn't notice that the van had already arrived until she looked up for a moment and noticed the empty seats.

"Hey, wait up for me!"

Hurriedly catch up with the others, equip the night vision goggles and explore.

Spoiler: Alice the full-time mage (click to show/hide)

Naturegirl1999 · « **Reply #79 on:** October 13, 2019, 08:58:44 am »

Spoiler: Nora the Spider (click to show/hide)

Nora asks Thag I’m going ahead, are you coming along!

Go through the new set of double doors

Questorhank · « **Reply #80 on:** October 13, 2019, 11:27:43 am »

"Bodies. Six. Continuing further into the compound."

Back before Frank hit a pillar...
"I will now respond to 'Other Robot.'"

Ignore the loot. Quick check for traps on the doors, enter, taking more care to not slip than to not step on the bodies.

Spoiler: Ares (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Description (click to show/hide)

Enemy post · « **Reply #81 on:** October 13, 2019, 12:12:41 pm »

Assist Frank, and then follow Ares.

Spoiler: Arp (click to show/hide)

King Zultan · « **Reply #82 on:** October 13, 2019, 06:14:24 pm »

Oh shit during his trying to figure out who the government spy was he missed everyone leaving the van.

"Hay wait don't leave me, I want to loot shit!"

Use my tape to tape the flash light to my shotgun, then follow everyone else into the corpse hallway.

Spoiler: Burt (click to show/hide)

AbstractTraitorHero · « **Reply #83 on:** October 13, 2019, 06:40:42 pm »

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 13, 2019, 04:02:09 am

Click on the flashlight so that we can see, and go through the double door.
Search for shinies. Which includes anything interesting in addition to valuable. Also Vaiae is the sort to be briefly interested in random boring things like pencils.

"Come on knight, looks like they're getting ahead of us..."

Spoiler: Vaiae (click to show/hide)
Name: Vaiaerioun
Race and Profession: Avian Coldblood
Description: A young and flighty crow, almost completely black. Fond of shiny things and people, though she thinks humans are a little lame.
Backstory: She joined the coldbloods to help her fellow avians, and even started to learn some magic, but when an opportunity for adventure came up, she leapt for it.
Stats
Strength 3
Dexterity 2
Mind 1
Health 0
Skills
Melee 1
Defense 1
Focus 1
Lifeforce
Inventory
Money: $0
Greatsword
Hardsuit
Survival knife
Flare gun
Flashlight (attached to helmet)
Radio
Duct tape
Stim-gel syringes (2)
Current Status
Fine

Spoiler: Knight Without A Cause. (click to show/hide)

Be ready to stab and chop things with glaive, pet the beetle, it is a good beetle.

Keep up with everyone.

Yottawhat · « **Reply #84 on:** October 13, 2019, 09:53:52 pm »

Spoiler: The Doctor is in (debt) (click to show/hide)

Night vision googles on, Crass looks down and examines the corpses on the floor, trying to identify any sign of what might of ripped this people to shreds.

The Lupanian · « **Reply #85 on:** October 13, 2019, 11:04:57 pm »

Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 13, 2019, 03:54:45 am

Frank, experiencing difficulty getting up in his hardsuit, stretched out a hand upwards, seeking salvation.

"Little help? Anybody?"

Spoiler: Frank (click to show/hide)
Name: Franklin Walker
Race and Profession: Ordinary Human Tinker
Description: Looks extremely average as far as humans go. Medium length dirty-blonde hair. A little shorter than six feet. Has a fancy mustache that he likes to twirl when getting excited about machines.
Backstory: Frank grew up in Nede, and has only rarely seen the surface before, never for extended periods of time. Due to his natural proclivity of working with machines, he quickly joined the Tinker guild, and was just as quickly assigned to this mission by the guild. Equal parts earnest and practical, he decided that to ensure his survival on this mission he would buy a full body hardsuit so he didn't croak before finding cool old-world relics.
Stats
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 1
Mind: 2
Health: 2
Skills
Guns: 1
Crafting: 3
Research: 2
Electronics: 1
Computer Engineering
Inventory
Full Body Hardsuit
100 ft. Rope
Revolver
Flashlight
Advanced Crafting Tools
"Tinkering for Dummies" How to Tinker guide
Money:$0

Quote from: Enemy post on October 13, 2019, 12:12:41 pm

Assist Frank, and then follow Ares.

Spoiler: Arp (click to show/hide)
Name:Automated Repair Product, or Arp.
Race and Profession:Industrial Robot, Work Horse.
Description:A vaguely humanoid, orange robot with a single red eye and a utilitarian design.
Backstory:Originally a repair drone, "Arp" eventually attained sentience after being given a vague order to "Clean up the mess" after an office party just before the apocalypse. Those who gave the order are long dead, but Arp cannot ignore the order. Now that the office has finally collapsed from age and decay, Arp has wandered out into the shattered world on an almost certainly hopeless quest to finish "cleaning up the mess."

Stats
Strength:3
Dexterity:1
Mind:3
Health:3

Skills
Crafting 1
Electronics 1

Inventory
Toolbox
Hammer
Wrench
Axe
Welding torch
Mini-chainsaw
Wiring kit
Tinkering kit
Lighter
Radio
Money:$0

Current status
Fine.

Arp helps Frank, then proceeds with his fellow robot.

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 13, 2019, 04:02:09 am

Click on the flashlight so that we can see, and go through the double door.
Search for shinies. Which includes anything interesting in addition to valuable. Also Vaiae is the sort to be briefly interested in random boring things like pencils.

"Come on knight, looks like they're getting ahead of us..."

Spoiler: Vaiae (click to show/hide)
Name: Vaiaerioun
Race and Profession: Avian Coldblood
Description: A young and flighty crow, almost completely black. Fond of shiny things and people, though she thinks humans are a little lame.
Backstory: She joined the coldbloods to help her fellow avians, and even started to learn some magic, but when an opportunity for adventure came up, she leapt for it.
Stats
Strength 3
Dexterity 2
Mind 1
Health 0
Skills
Melee 1
Defense 1
Focus 1
Lifeforce
Inventory
Money: $0
Greatsword
Hardsuit
Survival knife
Flare gun
Flashlight (attached to helmet)
Radio
Duct tape
Stim-gel syringes (2)
Current Status
Fine

Most of what they were carrying is in as bad a state as they are, but you do find a sledgehammer, a working flashlight, a hardhat, a flask, a couple cigars, and a stick of dynamite.

You also find a snazzy metal lighter with a picture of a woman who should probably be wearing more clothes.

Quote from: Parisbre56 on October 13, 2019, 04:05:27 am

Make sure I have taken a video of Frank's epic fail so I can post it on Facetube and get mad views.

If nobody else wants them, loot some of the money and cards. Try to figure out if they're the useful kind of cards.

Then help provide illumination for my teammates. If my flashlight is not enough, pop a flare.

Spoiler: Sherry Bobbins: Ordinary Human Handler (click to show/hide)
Name: Sherry Bobbins
Race and Profession: Ordinary Human Handler
Description: A girl in her thirties with immaculate blonde curly hair. Wears frilly dresses and always carries an expensive-and-fragile-looking umbrella with a spiral pattern, despite spending most of her time underground.
Backstory: Lead a privileged life as a bureaucrat (a job her parents got her) before being assigned to this expedition. Though many saw being assigned to this expedition as punishment, she sees it as no different than any other assignment. Believes in her greatness and the greatness of humanity. Friendly and polite but distant. She feels no need to prove herself or show off despite how much she owes to her parents, but will try to ensure that whoever challenges her will think twice before doing so again.
Stats
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 2
Mind: 2
Health: 1
Skills
Speech 2
Projection (Casting) 1

History
Psychology
Government
Telepathy (costs 2 points)(Casting)
Inventory
Silenced pistol
Stun gun
Handcuffs
Camera
Radio
Cellphone
Flashlight
Binoculars
Lighter
Cigars/cigarettes
Assorted flares(12)
Assorted glow lights(20)
Money:$0
Current Status: Giving everyone a friendly smile

You realize that you had your thumb over the lens when you were taking the video.

You take the money and the cards. The plastic cards used to be an old world digital money storage device of some sort. They're not very useful anymore, but it is the kind of thing antique collectors and archeologists might pay for.

There's enough flashlights floating around that you don't feel the need to pop a flare.

Quote from: Hotfire90 on October 13, 2019, 07:59:38 am

Alice was so focused on reading the article that she didn't notice that the van had already arrived until she looked up for a moment and noticed the empty seats.

"Hey, wait up for me!"

Hurriedly catch up with the others, equip the night vision goggles and explore.
Spoiler: Alice the full-time mage (click to show/hide)
Name: Alice
Race and Profession: Ordinary Human Explorer
Description: A young and energetic human with medium length blonde hair.
Backstory: Alice spent most of her education focusing on her magical studies. Eager to master all magic and to show off her talent, she wandered around practicing her skills, and eventually signed up for the expedition.
Stats:
Strength 1
Dexterity 1
Mind 2
Health 2
Skills:
Focus 1
Projection 1
Elemental Electricity
Elemental Water
Physical Body
Eldritch
Inventory:
Wand (projection point)
Ballistic vest
Night Vision Googles
Binoculars
Radio
Laptop
2 Stim-gel syringes
Lighter
Duct Tape
Money: $0
Current Status: Fine.

You don't find anything that hasn't been discovered yet, unless you want to venture further in, but your teammates seem to already be on that as well. So you join the rest of the team in the hallway.

Quote from: Questorhank on October 13, 2019, 11:27:43 am

"Bodies. Six. Continuing further into the compound."

Back before Frank hit a pillar...
"I will now respond to 'Other Robot.'"

Ignore the loot. Quick check for traps on the doors, enter, taking more care to not slip than to not step on the bodies.

Spoiler: Ares (click to show/hide)
Name: Autonomous Reconnaissance/Exploration System (Ares)
Race and Profession: Cyberbot Data Harvester
Description: See second spoiler
Backstory: Originally a mindless recon drone, Ares gained sentience when he first connected to the Old Archive. Now he searches for information, both for the Archive and in the hopes that it will lead to sentience in other robots.
Stats
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 2
Mind: 1
Health: 1
Skills
Electronics: 4
Guns: 4
Inventory: Computerpad (integral), Cyberjack, Electronic Repair Kit, Bolt-Action Rifle, Night Vision Goggles (integral), Binoculars (integral), Radio (integral), Duct Tape
Money: $0
Current Status: All systems functioning within normal parameters.
Spoiler: Description (click to show/hide)

There is currently a caveman pounding on the door to inspect it for traps as well. However, for some reason, this method does not satisfy you. You thoroughly examine the door, and determine that not only is it not trapped, it isn't even locked.

Quote from: King Zultan on October 13, 2019, 06:14:24 pm

Oh shit during his trying to figure out who the government spy was he missed everyone leaving the van.

"Hay wait don't leave me, I want to loot shit!"

Use my tape to tape the flash light to my shotgun, then follow everyone else into the corpse hallway.
Spoiler: Burt (click to show/hide)
Name: Burt
Race and Profession: Mammal Mercenary
Description: A slightly overweight deer man with one antler that's broken off.
Backstory: Being the anti-government nut job that he is, lead him down a path that didn't include normal employment so he had to get by doing odd jobs for money that eventually lead him to becoming a mercenary.
Stats
Strength 2
Dexterity 1
Mind 2
Health 1
Skills
Guns 2
Crafting 1
Explosives 1
Chemistry
Inventory
Money:$0
Combat shotgun - Free
Pistol - Free
3 Grenades
3 Detonation charges
Basic toolset
Flashlight
Lighter
Cigarettes
Tinkering kit
Knife
Duct Tape
Assorted glow lights(20)
Current Status: FINE

You finish jury-rigging your weapon and join the rest of the team in the smelly hallway.

Quote from: AbstractTraitorHero on October 13, 2019, 06:40:42 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 13, 2019, 04:02:09 am
Click on the flashlight so that we can see, and go through the double door.
Search for shinies. Which includes anything interesting in addition to valuable. Also Vaiae is the sort to be briefly interested in random boring things like pencils.

"Come on knight, looks like they're getting ahead of us..."

Spoiler: Vaiae (click to show/hide)
Name: Vaiaerioun
Race and Profession: Avian Coldblood
Description: A young and flighty crow, almost completely black. Fond of shiny things and people, though she thinks humans are a little lame.
Backstory: She joined the coldbloods to help her fellow avians, and even started to learn some magic, but when an opportunity for adventure came up, she leapt for it.
Stats
Strength 3
Dexterity 2
Mind 1
Health 0
Skills
Melee 1
Defense 1
Focus 1
Lifeforce
Inventory
Money: $0
Greatsword
Hardsuit
Survival knife
Flare gun
Flashlight (attached to helmet)
Radio
Duct tape
Stim-gel syringes (2)
Current Status
Fine
Spoiler: Knight Without A Cause. (click to show/hide)

Name:Gigantic Frosted Knight/White Haired Knight/Frost Knight.
Race and Profession:Preserved Human Dead, Knight.
Description:

Giant of a knight, standing at 7ft0. White hair faintly pokes out from beneath a frostbitten helmet. Eye's relatively obscured, appear white and glazed over if one were to literally shove their head against the helmet.

Lean and toned underneath, skin is frostbitten and very pale.

Small muffled sounds occasionally leave her, might help decern their gender.
Backstory:Found encased in a block of ice within a deep cave by recruits of what were apparently her order. She hasn't spoken, since then, but she has notably seemingly taken it in stride. Having little to no memory of her past life.

This Knight dosent have a name noir any idea who she was, perhaps some record seeking could give her the answer. But for now, she's doing what she's supposed to do apparently. Protect the innocent, raid dungeons, the like.

Despite a clearly cracked and unstable mind, that seeks closure and purpose. She nonetheless continues without a true reason to live or a true purpose of her own.

Stats
Strength:2, Her muscles appear to have slightly atrophied, but overall she's not bad.
Dexterity:1, She's a bit stiff.
Mind:1, She dosent really speak ((though she is capable.)) noir does she seem entirely there, a bit worrying. (Not going Crazy)
Health:4, The pinnacle of well preserved, psychically at least. Being trapped in solid ice surprisingly can preserve things very well.
Skills
Melee:2, Her skills haven't left her yet it seems, muscle memory serves her well.
Medicine:1, Learned it quickly, had to, was the only way she could keep on going.
Projection (Casting):1, She has some remnant of lost casting ability.
Elemental Water (Casting):1, She remembers this well, it's probably the only bits of anything that she can remember of her old life. Knowledge and the feeling of it, but nothing else.
Inventory
Frostbitten Glaive ((Ice Minor Enchantment))
Frostbitten Platemail and Helm.
Frostbitten Knightly Shield, has remnants of a crest and a name, illegible beyond recovery.
Icey blue, Giant Beetle, good jumper. Horse sized!
Journal and Pencil's.
Three first aid kits
Two splinting Kits

Money:$0

Be ready to stab and chop things with glaive, pet the beetle, it is a good beetle.

Keep up with everyone.

It is indeed a good beetle.

You go stand valiantly, yet menacingly, in a pile of corpses.

Quote from: Yottawhat on October 13, 2019, 09:53:52 pm

Spoiler: The Doctor is in (debt) (click to show/hide)
Name: Crass Beakerton
Race and Profession: Special Human (Spectral Aspect) Doctor
Description: A pale man in a stained, unwashed doctor's coat. A brass plate has been hammered into his face, covering the entire right side and the entirety of his jaw. A metal hinge connects to a swivieling mouthguard with a built-in air filter that is kept in place a leather belt and buckle. Crass carries around a large satchel with bright red stitches were ever he goes, the handle of his baton peaking out from the edge of the bag.
Backstory: Born a slum rat, Crass joined up with a small splinter group that was apart of one of the larger gangs Nede, acting as an errand boy and dealer for some of the more low-level drugs. But the group leader took an interest in young Crass, and when she saw his steady hands, quick wit, and his skill with a needle and thread, she knew Crass could do more than just a dealer. A loan from the bank and the upper echelon was barely enough to cover the cost of sending young Crass off to apprentice at one of the local medical guilds. Crass returned home with hope and pride in his eyes, hope, and pride that was snuffed out the second he took a step into his old home in the same moment a bomb planted by a rival gang went off. He came to in the hospital, finding out that most of his face was burnt off by the explosion and was stuck with a bill. Worse, a statement form the bank came and apparently as the sole survior of the attack, his Guardian's debts was being transfered to him, including the ones to the the Syndicate. Stuck paying off a multidude of debts, Crass has grown to be choleric fellow, one who has as many cares to give as he does dollars to spend.
Stats
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 2
Mind: 2
Health: 1
Skills
Medicine: +3
Biology
Criminal Underground
Inventory
Money:$1
Pistol
Cigarettes
Lighter
Gas Mask(Integrated into face)
Binocular
Night Vision Goggles
Baton
Doctors bag
3 syringes of stimulant
3 syringes of sedative
Current Status: In debt

Night vision googles on, Crass looks down and examines the corpses on the floor, trying to identify any sign of what might of ripped this people to shreds.

You find the same items as the other person. And in addition, you determine that these people were definitely the excavators that went missing.

You can't tell what killed them, but you notice that most of their flesh is missing. And that there are no obviously identifiable wounds.

Quote from: Devastator on October 13, 2019, 03:51:30 am

Horrible smell.. Pile of debris.. This must be either where the inhabitants kill things or where they drop their trash.

Prop the doors open with a rock or something, metal till, maybe? Then run my wooden club along the ground ahead of me looking for traps or obstacles as I cross the hallway. If I get to the far doors, bash them a few times to see if that triggers something, or they fall down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Thag Simmons

Human (ordinary)
Description: Thag's a stereotypical broad-shouldered thick necked caveman in a loincloth with a large club.

Stats:

Strength 2
Dexterity 1
Mind 1
Health 2

Skills:
Melee: 4
Unarmed: 1
Defence: 2
Crafting: 1

All others: 0.

Items:
Large Club.
Loincloth.
Bow drill.

Quote from: Naturegirl1999 on October 13, 2019, 08:58:44 am

Spoiler: Nora the Spider (click to show/hide)
Name:Nora
Race and Profession:Arthropod Underhiver

Description: A human sized trapdoor spider with a black exoskeleton with the following eye arrangement

(I would put the image in a spoiler but spoilers can't be inside of other spoilers)
She tries talking to others when she can, but has trouble showing emotions
Backstory:Nora works for the Underhivers, but she thought adventuring could help them find new areas to expand to.
Stats
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 1
Mind (Not going Crazy): 2
Health: 2
Skills
Knowledge Skills:
Biology
Chemistry
Other Skills:
Melee: 1
Defence: 1
Speech: 1

Inventory
Hatchet(sidearm), 100 ft rope(climbing gear), a circuit buster, a forging kit, Lockpicks(lock breaking tools), Skinning & butchering kit, Gas mask, Clean up Kit, Duct tape, Shovel, Taser, Radio

Money:$0
Current Status:Following Thag
Nora asks Thag I’m going ahead, are you coming along!

Go through the new set of double doors

Thag's attempts at trap detection and door propping go smoothly, if not crudely. As he hammers on the door, he does notice that the door seems to have been damaged. Specifically, it was forced open, towards the hallway.

Once the caveman and robot have finished their examinations of the doors, Nora cuts right to the chase and struts through them.

The room beyond is large. Sleek tiles make up the floor, and the ceiling is vaulted. The room is punctuated by large columns lined up in two rows, running forward along the length of the room. There is a small door on the right wall, and another set of double doors on the far wall.

None of this, however, grabs your attention as much as the thing currently occupying the center of the room.

There is a large, elongated mass in the middle of the chamber. This thing is at least ten feet long, resembling a massive serpentine worm. It has the texture of raw flesh, and the front ends in a gapping maw lined with teeth, which have an uncomfortable resemblance to human bones. The creature lets out a startlingly high-pitched screech when it sees you. Filling the room with a ringing echo.

In addition to this, you see around half a dozen roughly human sized shapes shifting around just beyond the veil of darkness.

Devastator · « **Reply #86 on:** October 13, 2019, 11:35:05 pm »

Give a very large shout, but dive to the side of the doorway, ready to club anything that comes through. Hopefully the worm thing (or anything else) will be dumb enough to do that.

Spoiler: Thag Simmons (click to show/hide)

Egan_BW · « **Reply #87 on:** October 13, 2019, 11:49:45 pm »

Vaiae immediately grabs at the lighter.
"My, what a pretty picture!"
She almost jumps out of her bones at the shriek coming from the next room.
"Aah! What's that!? Come on, knight!"

Drop the lighter into my pack and run into the big room! Protect Nora; stand near her and slash anything that gets close!
While I'm moving, draw a burst of vitality into me, to use later.

Spoiler: Vaiae (click to show/hide)

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #88 on:** October 14, 2019, 12:24:25 am »

Frank had gotten up just in time to see the door open, and upon sighting the weird flesh-worm-thing, he let loose a shrill scream rivaling that of the creature. His immediate reaction is to draw his revolver and fire at the worm with reckless abandon, stopping only when out of ammo. Any teammates that passed between him and his target did so at their own peril.

Spoiler: Frank (click to show/hide)

Questorhank · « **Reply #89 on:** October 14, 2019, 01:12:51 am »

"Movement detected. Investigating."

Get a better look at the people. If they're armed, order them to drop their weapons. Return fire if fired upon. If the worm attacks, shoot it, otherwise ignore it.

Spoiler: Ares (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Description (click to show/hide)

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