Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Turn 13: Weedo su (5!,5!,3!), Mr. Person (5!,5!,2!), Sephiroth (3!), Dwarmin (4!); New order: Weedo su, Mr. Person, Dwarmin, Sephiroth

Weedo su-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(GM action-Cross bridge) (Action:4!)(Observation check:1!)
 
You carefully cross the interesting bridge and the ropes creak and sway a little as you step onto it but they hold well enough. You make your way across and enter the fortress itself. The room you are in is large but your eyes are having difficulty adjusting to the dimness and all you can see is a sloped down poriton to your left, with a coffin on a dais in the middle. It appears to be open. Ahead you see a stone wall and what appears to be a ramp down.

Mr. Person-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Pain endurance:5!-2) You again awake, though it's almost a miricle at this point. You feel chilled and are starving. You are so weak it is difficult to move at all and so you decide to rest where you are. You realize only then that most of your belongings seem to be missing. (Observation check:5!-1) It must have been that kobold you ran into earlier, the thieving bastard. It makes you wish you had been more successful in pushing him into those traps. It seems he left your gauntlets, as well as your waterskin. Your backpack lies next to you, essentially emptied.

You lie there and rest, then, closing your eyes again as a now familiar coldness washes over you.
(Pain endurance:3!-2) You black out again.

(Recovery roll:2!) (observation exp. +1)
(Luck:1!-1) You are unconcious.

Dwarmin-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You carefully loop the rope into a proper coil and put your arms through it, carrying it on your back. Rope can always be useful in a pinch. (Observation check:5!) You enter the darkened room at the end of the hall way, the bodies of several rats lie behind you in the hallway. It is very quiet. You thought you heard the human behind you stir for a bit but he's quiet again.

You take some time to examine the room. It's large enough but not huge, and in it grows a variety of plants, but most have been crowded out by the huge mushrooms. These do not seem to be glowing for some reason and it is well and truly dark here. You make your way around the room and see several plants that have been nibbled on abundantly by the rats. This must have been a food supply for them. To the south of the room you notice some sort of dilapidated structure. It is what appears to once have been a workshop of some kind, though it is overgrown as well. Little remains of it. On the north side of the room you see an old and broken down ballistae, still loaded but with it's ropes chewed through. It is overgrown. You see as well a small door set into the north side of the wall. The ballistae is next to it and there is a firing slit in the wall that overlooks the ramp you came down. There also appears to be a stairwell heading down.

(Luck:6!,2!) You see a few wood bins in the undergrowth on the west side of the room behind the stairwell heading down. They appear to be covered in weeds.

(+2 Observation exp.)

Sephiroth-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You find a comfortable spot near a tree to rest. Your arm still hurts considerably but you're quite hungry so you pull out your berries and consume them. They fill you up somewhat and you feel better.

You realize you had better do something about your arm. (Healing check (mundane):4!-1) (Luck:4!) You use the tree to get in a good position and use your good arm to get your injured one back in the proper position. Then you throw yourself into the tree. (Pain endurance:1) You feel your dislocated arm pop back into position but the sudden pain brings you to your knees and you pass out for some time.

(Pain endurance:6!,6!) You awake again a short while later. Your arm feels somewhat better and you can twitch your fingers at least, even though it hurts considerably. You sit to rest.

(Recovery roll:2!) You movement of the arm has caused it to start bleeding again.
(+1 to Healing (mundane) exp.)

[Mr.Person]

Eat dat soup. Rest some more. This is going to take forever, if I keep those shitty rolls up.

[major_sephiroth]

Stay around and attempt to stop the bleeding.

[Dwarmin]

Investigate the bins carefully, if case something jumps out at me or they are trapped somehow.

Then check the ruins of the shop to see if anything usable is left there, or anything interesting.

If I have time, peek through the North door, but don't enter it yet.
 
Finally, snag a juicy rat corpse (most intact as well, in case I want to use it's pelt later), chuck it over my shoulder and start making my way back to the entrance, and down to my sleeping spot.

[Anti-Paragon]

Now that I'm back in order here...

Examine the Dias! For traps first. Then for anything interesting/worthwhile. After that, let's head down the ramp.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Turn 14: Order:Weedo su (5!,2!), Mr. Person (6!,2!), Dwarmin (5!,1!), Sephiroth (6!,4!); New order: Sephiroth, Mr. Person, Weedo su, Dwarmin

Acile-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Heal check:4!-1) You try to do what you can to stop the bleeding on your arm. You don't really have anything to bandage it with so you decide to try and find some plant leaves that you might use. (Herbalism check:3!-1+1) You find some large leaves that might function and use them as a compress. It seems to be helping somewhat and you spend the rest of the time resting and tending to your arm.

(Recovery roll:2!+1) Your arm isn't really improving but neither is it any worse.

Cius-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Pain endurance:4!-3) You remain unconcious for some time.
(Pain endurance:6!-3) You wake up briefly in the semi-darkness and flounder around with your waterskin, drinking some of your mushroom soup. You feel a little better after drinking/eating it.
(Pain endurance:3!-3) You black out again shortly thereafter.

(Recovery roll:1!-1) You are unconcious.

Weedo su-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Observation check:4!+1) You begin examining the dais (not dias). It itself appears to be on level with you but the floor around it has been removed so that the bottom is actually a considerable ways below you now. The floor slants down to the central pedestal and the bottom twenty feet are smoothed and engraved. You don't understand the dwarven carvings on them. But you do find a dwarven skull that appears to have rolled down the ramp and now rests near the bottom. The coffin, near as you can tell, appears to be constructed of polished bone and looks to be truly exceptional work. The lid is off as if it's been opened or is waiting to be filled.

You can't really see any traps, nor a way up to it, short of climbing so you light a torch and head down the ramp. (Lighting the torch as per your penultimate action post.) The ramp is smoothed as well and as you near the bottom you easily find the appropriate stone to disable the traps you had been warned about. You can make out a faint glow ahead and in the room ahead you see a considerable amount of rubble, plants and mushrooms as well as what appears to be a badly injured human. He looks to be in very bad shape. You hear some noise coming from the hallway leading out of the room.

(+1 Observation exp., you can interact with Cius now)

Dwareet'ik-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Observation check:5!+1, 5!) You carefully examine the bins. They are full of cobwebs and have a thick coating of dust in them and it takes you a little bit to clear the shrubs out from around them. There is a considerable amount of clothing in them but as you pick each piece up you realize that the material is now so fragile as to make it useless. These have clearly been here a very, very long time. Even the leather is blackened and cracked with age. You are fortunate enough to find a set of obsidian mugs, unadorned but well-made, as well as a small felsite ring, buried in the dust and silt in the bottom of one of the bins.

You check out the workshop as well and from the looks of it's size it used to be some sort of siege workshop. The tools have all but rusted away and shelf-fungi are growing on one of the large wooden logs resting in the shop. There are several large tower-caps that have grown up around it. You crack open the north door and see a smallish room that has another door leading off north again. In the room is a stack of 11 ballistae bolts. The large spear-like things are in reasonable condition, though the metal on them is badly rusted. This room has no plants growing in it, though it is covered with a significant layer of dust. There are also several bins stacked against the east wall, opposite where you looked in.

You find one of the large demon rat corpses and manage to pick it up to carry with you. It should be good eating. (All of them are actually intact since Cius didn't use a weapon, just his bare hands.) You hear some sounds from the other room and decide to be cautious in departure. The human might be concious again and probably wouldn't like the fact that you stole most his posessions.

[Mr.Person]

Stupid RNG hates me, I guess. You lot should be thankful I got rid of the challenge for you, haha.

In any case, I'm kind of out of options here. Short of a bunch of 6 healing rolls or outside assistance, I'm going to be on the floor for a good long while. Kinda wish those rats actually killed me. Have I got anything else to make a bandage out of? I'd be willing to use plants, at this point, but I don't think any are nearby.

[Dwarmin]

I don’t expect any trouble from him. Just the same, stick to the shadows and move reasonably fast to get to my safe spot before nightfall, hopefully with a little time to spare.

OOC:
@Anti-paragon:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

you wanna work together when we meet? As you can see with Mr. Person, combat is tough, and you only get one deus ex machina healing in form of prayer. Two can fight better than one, hopefully with less injuries. I'm also interested in having someone that can watch my back while I sleep in the more dangerous parts of the fortress, and vice versa. There's no way in Hell I would want to be sleep where Mr. Person is now, right by the giant demon rat feeding room 
 
*Dwareet'ik has invited you to a group*

[major_sephiroth]

I look for leaves and maybe a stick or two to make a splint for my broken arm.

[Anti-Paragon]

@Dwarmin

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 My character is naturally very benevolent and I've got no problem with it. Just a forewarning that I keep my character very IC and try to play him without any OOC knowledge, so depending on what you're doing when they meet, he may see you as a threat. Especially when a bad judgement call could make it look like you brutalized Cius and his giant rats.

Whoops on the slip with 'dais', that was of the fingers.

Action:
I quickly rush towards the injured naked man. When I reach him, I first look around for any threats before checking his wounds. If I find any threats, I deal with them first (although as my fight-style post states, I may just abandon him if the danger is great)! Anyway, depending on what I diagnose:
If I find a bleeding wound, I'll wash it with a bit of water from my water skin (which is on my mind, since I'm thirsty. I'll take a quaff of it, too.) and then put my hand on the wound and attempt to stop the bleeding with a gentle attempt at healing magic. Regardless if this succeeds or fails, I'll then go briefly into the mushrooms and plants and look for some sort of healing herb or 'shroom cap. If I don't find anything that I am pretty sure is a healing herb I won't use it on him (but I might keep edible things). Finally, realizing I should probably be resting myself within the next few hours, I remove my cloak, carefully roll the man onto it, and slowly drag him back out of the underground jungle and up the ramp (while the traps are disarmed).

I'd do more, but that's about an hour's worth of work - supposing I don't get into a fight, that is. I wouldn't be able to drag him away in that case.

[Warlord of Woe]

It may be a bit late, but I'll take a place in the waiting list.
I am...

Name: Matheu
Race: Human
Class: Knight
Gender: Male
Preferred Weapon: Battle axe (two-handed)
Deity: Lugh, the lawful NetHack sun god

He's that cliche armor-clad (at least I hope I can be armor-clad )knight, drawn to a life of adventure by the ever-present promise of wonderous riches.

[Anti-Paragon]

I have the feeling one of us isn't going to make the night (despite my best efforts). We'll see how the rolls go. Either way. Whomever is next in line should prep for entry in the next few days.

[Dwarmin]

I dunno Mr. Person is in bad shape, but as long as he doesn't get attacked by anything else he will probably recover in time, with your help. Maybe. Depends how much time and resource your willing to give.

Hey, at least if he dies in your hands he might get a proper burial due to your benevolent nature.

If he had died on me I would of skinned him... 

[Mr.Person]

I dunno Mr. Person is in bad shape, but as long as he doesn't get attacked by anything else he will probably recover in time, with your help. Maybe. Depends how much time and resource your willing to give.

Hey, at least if he dies in your hands he might get a proper burial due to your benevolent nature.

If he had died on me I would of skinned him... 

Note that I don't have any problems with going out swinging. After all, Xom would find that highly amusing. On the other hand, dying in my sleep is not amusing at all, so I'm going to avoid that fate.

[Anti-Paragon]

That's what I was getting at, really. If my character gets attacked during the night and it's not something he immediately feels like he could take, tough luck - he's running. He's kind, but not that big of a fool.


Also, just a note for Paulus regarding Weedo Su and potential religions - just so I don't waste half a turn to confirm I want to convert.
Gods of Luck, Karma, or clarity are pretty much auto-chosen.
Gods of shadow, defiance, or combat are fine so long as they are benevolent and are light on the whole 'you can't do this if you believe in me' things.
Everything else will be passed over, generally. Although I may still pay tribute to certain shrines, like ancestry, healing, balance, and peace, but this is more a sign of respect than following them - a passing belief.