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[Dwarmin]

Head outside to the lake-drink from it and refill my water skin.
Then search for bundles of dry wood (to make a splint and firewood) before heading back in to the fort.

[major_sephiroth]

I emerge from my hiding spot, hands held high, and ask if they have any spare food or water for me to have. I make sure they can see my dagger.

[zestorum]

I'll attempt to become invisible.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

The night-time action is now finished. Mr. Person and Sephiroth, I'll need a Day 2, Turn 1 from you.

Sorry Zestorum. Sleeping in an unsecured slugman infested fortress was a bad idea apparenly. I'll update the first couple of pages later today. You're on the High score list though! Official cause of death is: Eaten away by acid. Which happened to be coating your head.

Serephe, you're up! I'll have your character up later today. I'll give you till monday, at which point you're a no show and Reece is then up.

Again, I should point out that it's rather easy to die. A single bad choice likely won't kill you, unless it's a really bad one. And combat is very balanced. You're not overpowered compared to the monsters. At least, not yet. Make good decisions and you might be able to keep yourself alive.

[Mr.Person]

Take the crown and scepter, climb down, put on the crown, and head back down the way I was going last night. You never know, the crown might be magic

[major_sephiroth]

Eat, Drink, and listen for running water.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Turn 1:Order:Sephiroth (1!), Dwarmin (6!), Mr. Person (3!); New order: Dwarmin, Mr. Person, Sephiroth

Dwarmin-

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(Observation check:4!-1) (Action:5!) (Pain endurance:4!)
You carefully stand and, using your staff as a sort of crutch, make your way to the doors. It takes you a while to remove all the debris but you manage to do so reasonably well, prying open one of the doors enough to slip through.

You look around in the early dawn light and see ahead of you a smallish lake that should serve your hydration purposes well enough. Fortunately for you the mud around the lake is still frozen on the surface and you have little difficulty getting to the water. You break the ice with your staff and take a deep drink of the frigid water. You drink until you are satisfied and then fill your waterskin in the liquid.

You manage to grit through the pain in your leg as you set about gathering dead branches from the trees. You manage to make a small pile and bring it inside. It's enough for a small fire but with your leg even that much action took you a good while. At least one of the sticks should be suitable for splinting if you had something to tie it in place with.

(Obtained firewood, water.)

(Recovery roll:6!+1, 1!+1) Your condition continues to improve, but your ear is not healing back in place.

Mr. Person-

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You climb out of the coffin, leaving the lid next to the construction. You pick up the scepter and the crown. (Appraisal check:2!, 2!) They're very pretty but relatively unadorned. They've got to be worth something though and you put the crown on your head. It fits surprisingly well. The scepter you stow in your backpack.

Your hunger and thirst make you feel weak but you valiantly attempt to climb back down from your perch. (Climb:5!-2) You slip over the edge and make your way carefully down. Hey, you think you're getting the hang of this climbing thing a little. (Climb:5!) you make your way down the engraved portion fairly easily. (Climb:1!) Your apparent confidence get's the better of you though as you get to the last portion and your shaking hands lose their grip, spilling you the last few feet onto the floor. (Luck:2!-1) You fall badly, re-injuring the leg. Standing shakily you begin making your way towards the ramp, whose darkness continues undaunted.

(Including last climb +4 climbing exp., You are hungry, you are thirsty)

(Recovery roll:6!) After the workout your leg, though worse off than initially, begins feeling a little better.

Sephiroth-

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(Observation check:3!+1) You attune your hearing to the darkness and can hear no movement of water through the thick walls that surround you. But you do take a drink from your waterskin and eat two of your prickleberry cakes, which makes you feel better. They're not terribly filling, but it's better than nothing.

You are satisfied.

[Mr.Person]

I just wanna get this out here, the turn before I starve, pray.

Yeah, keep going. Fast. To whoever's next in line, prepare to take my spot.

[Dwarmin]

At least Zestorum got to die in his sleep-lucky him!

Actions
Start a fire, warm myself up a bit.

Then do a thorough search of the area, for old tools, scraps of leather and cloth etc, anything that looks useful. Make sure to pick up a roundish rock that could be used for smoothing bones.

Finally scavenge the goats remains for
-2 femur's
-a bone that that could be used as a needle
-a Skull or something that could possibly be used as a bowl

EDIT:Try to move the bandage on my head so it doesn't obscure my vision-remove it temporarily if I'm not bleeding too bad, and put it back on when i'm done searching.

[major_sephiroth]

If the dwarves are still around, go for a sneaking stab. If not, look for them and do the above. Because they are almost living in here, they'd have some loot.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Turn 2 Order:Dwarmin (5!), Mr. Person (1!), Sephiroth (2!); New order: Dwarmin, Sephiroth, Mr. Person

Dwarmin:

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(Observation check:3!+1) You slip the bandage off your head. The bleeding seems to have slowed enough for it to be ok, though it is still sore to the touch. You start a small fire and warm yourself. You feel a little better. Looking around you try to find anything of use in the quarry, and manage to find a few tattered pieces of cloth but they disintigrate almost as soon as you touch them. You did find a small piece of a broken chisel, but it's not useful for much. You did find a large selection of stones you could use and the remains of the goats are easy to scavage for bones, including two femur's and one of the skulls. There are plenty more bones to use.

(Action:5!) You select a small bone from the pile and using the stones, manage to shatter it. One of the fragments you remove and bore a small hole in using some sand and a stone and soon you've fashioned yourself a passable bone needle.

(+2 bone carving exp.)

(Recovery roll:5!+1, 4!) You continue to recover and your head is already feeling better.

Sephiroth-

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(Observation check:4!) (Stealth:2!+1+1) You quietly head back up the central tower to the top and search for the dwarves but it seems like they've moved on. The bridge is no longer in position and you can barely make out what you assume to be the levers on the far side. If you could figure out a way to get across you might be able to follow the dwarves. The distance between you and the levers is roughly 30', too far to attempt to jump. The distance between you and the floor is also about 30'. The walls around you is made of smooth hewn stone blocks.

Mr. Person-

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You rapidly continue again to where you were before, stumbling your way through things in the darkness. (Autofail observation checks-> no visibility) (Trap avoid:5!-1-1) As you move on you can once again see a very faint phosphorescent glow ahead of you and as you move forward you feel one of the stones underneath you shift. You roll forward out of the way quickly as you hear blades spring up from the ground behind you. (Trap avoid:6!-1-1) You feel the stone beneath you shift again and continue to roll out of the way, making it past the section just as the stone falls away beneath you. You breathe a sigh of relief. You've made it into the fortress proper.

You enter a large chamber and in the dim glow you can make out what is causing it. The room appears to have become nearly wild in the centuries it was abandoned. Thick tree-like mushrooms grow from the ground in several places, having destroyed a building that was in the center of the room. Blocks lie in piles of rubble around the tall mushrooms that give off a very faint glow. A variety of other, small plant life seems to have grown up as well. (Observation check:4!-1 (poor visibility)) You can see very little in the near darkness but you think you can make out two fortification slits in the north and north-west walls, and perhaps two doors, obscured by growth. Only part of the room has plants growing in it and as you approach you see that only half the room is stone, the other half is packed sand, silty and rich and smelling faintly of iron.

(+2 Traps and Snares experience, you are thirsty, you are starving)

(Recovery roll:3! No change)

Serephe, you haven't posted. Sorry, you're removed from the list due to inactivity. tehstefan, you have until Wednesday to post your first action and starting location. Your character sheet is up and ready. Unfortunately you had some severe mishaps while travelling here and seem to have lost most of your equipment and were forced to eat your horse. Or at least most of it. See inventory for remaining parts.

[Dwarmin]

Time to elevate that leg and take a rest by the fire.

Try to turn the femurs into a workable pestle (smooth out the top) and knife (smash a femur into chips and choose the best piece to sharpen).

Shape and hollow the skull into a bowl.

Make sure to burn organic matter off any bones I use.

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Because I'm paranoid if I make a skull bowl and use it to eat soup, you'll turn me into a zombie...

If I make a knife, practice whittling to kill time. Try to whittles myself up a wooden hilt/handguard to complete the knife.

[Mr.Person]

om nom nom nom delicious plants. Yes, eat the random plants growing in this hell hole. I'll probably get poisoned, but that's one way to get PR in Nethack, so here we go! Besiders, being poisoned is better than starving.

For reference, the glowing plants are the tower-caps, right? If not, I just found a torch, but no way I can fell a tower-cap with my bare hands.

Then check the doors, starting with whichever appears larger, (since I don't know direction). If it's openable, go through it, otherwise go to the other one. If that one is openable, go though it, otherwise try and clear a path to one of the doors.

[major_sephiroth]

Search like all hell for food/water.

[Dwarmin]

Mr. Person, in a *ideal* situation you could probably boil mushrooms to make them slightly less dangerous. Not that you have much of a choice now heh

Sephiroth, you could be more specific, so you know, Paul doesn't make something "exciting" happen to you.

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Like poor Zestorum!

Really though, it would be sad if I had to loot your emaciated corpses.