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[Jetsquirrel]

MUsttt..... Touch.... ThAT MONOLITH!

[andrea]

With a bit of luck tehre will be a turn this evening.

[Kashyyk]

well, that was interesting.

First: I get up and turn on one of the computers. If it is a laptop I take it with me.
Second: I go to the storage room and search it for anything useful.

[andrea]

This turn, something happened! You got outside, which requires a nice wall of text that is now too late to write.
Also, flashlights start depleting, and a couple of you are carrying depleted ones. I will be nice and pretend you put them in a pocket, but there is space just for one ( looking at you, kashyyk) so anything beyond that uses an hand slot.
When i started thinking about what you would find outside, I thought about something, which would be horribly deadly and dangerous. Something too bad to inflict it to players. So i decided to use it only if you got a double 1.
Guess what happened?

I attempt to utilise my magical abilities to remove the curse on this room.

|You call you magic abilities to help you removing the curse away from this room. There is no curse however and you wouldn’t even know how to remove it. Is a curse even possible? You can’t remember. You, however, take a mop and a bucket, and start cleaning the fuel from the floor. After a while, you clean the fuel from the areas near exposed wires and the generator. Nothing as big as a curse, but still useful.

Follow Flintus, bash open the door if needed.

|Well, it is time to do something. Flintus went toward the exit, and you run there to help, climbing the stairs at great speed. Suddenly, your flashlight switches off, due to depleted battery and you , watching the lamp to see what happened,  don’t see that the stairs ended, smashing against the steel door with the shoulder. The sturdy door repels you with ease but you put an hand on the floor and use it as pivot to make a powerful roundhouse kick to the hinges, knocking them out! Miraculously uninjured , you stand up and with the help of Flintus you push the door outward, making it fall. Daylight finally enters, arriving in the corridor and, partially, in the rooms. Only Jetsquirrel doesn’t see it.

search around for an oversized steel glove

|You look around, but for some reason you think there is no oversized steel gauntlet lying around. How could they not think about somebody doubling his hand’s size and then looking for a gauntlet? Dabbling organizers, that is the truth.
 

Announce that i saw the whole creation of hte universe! and hold the monolith again

|You go toward the monolith, to hug it again! Like last time, nothing happens and this time you don’t even manage to imagine anything even remotely big. Just a bunny with 2 fruit juice bottles on the back like a jetpack. After the first 2 minutes spent trying to imagine something, you feel like you put your fingers in a socket and quickly jump backward. The monolith is alive! And seemingly annoyed by your hugs. Or maybe static electricity of some kind that for some reason didn’t hit you last time.
 

I get up and turn on one of the computers. If it is a laptop I take it with me.

| You travel in the now lit corridor, but only find terminals in the walls, nothing even remotely portable. And all powerless. Entering the Vat room seeing that there is another , open, door you go ahead through it and enter a dark room, full of computers and papers. All off of course, since there is no power. You really need that generator.
 

Investigate the plants and then see if I can use mental powers to make them grow enough to force open the door. 

| You try to  focus to find a solution to the problem, possibly involving magic, but you have to stop to dodge Hellhound which rushes in and somehow manages to annihilate the hinges on the door, so quickly that you don’t understand what is going on. That may be because you wasn’t looking, though. After he gets up you 2 push the door outward, finally seeing daylight.
Background roll :[1]You notice nothing worth enough to be written here.

Important event(exit): luck:1 (doublecheck:1).
Well, sorry people but such a thing requires its own post which I will write tomorrow. I’ll just say that a double one on this roll spawns an herd of the most dangerous animal on this world. Kashyyk, if you know what I am speaking about, don’t spoil too much before tomorrow’s update.

STATUS

Location: Generator room, unknown building
Equipment:  XClothesX  , flashlight(8/20), bandage kit (19/20), pain killer(gel, 18/20)
Health: unharmed
Abilities:thermal magic   
Special Status:

Location: Generator room, unknown building   
Equipment: Clothes ,flashlight(0/20),needlegun,diary
Health:
Abilities: .
Special Status: stone arms

Location: Storage room, unknown building   
Equipment: Clothes, crowbar, flashlight(8/20) 
Health: 
Abilities: none .   
Special Status:hulk hand

Location: Monolith room, unknown building 
Equipment: Clothes ,2 fuel tanks
Health: Unharmed 
Abilities: none   
Special Status:suicide bomber, darkness

Location: Control room, unknown building 
Equipment: Clothes , flashlight (0/20), flashlight (9/20), cup
Health: Unharmed
Abilities: .
Special Status: Drowsy, caffeine(9/20)

Location: Exit stairs, unknown building   
Equipment: Clothes, funnel, flashlight(8/20) 
Health: broken nose 
Abilities: .   
Special Status:cheater
 

NPCs

Location: Kashyyk’s mind
Equipment: Clothes, 9 coffee cups 
Health: Unharmed 
Abilities: none   
Special Status:caffeine powered, asleep

LOCATIONS

Spoiler: unknown building (click to show/hide)

The building in which you started
Vat room : the room you started in. it has several vats and machinery connected to them. Only your ones are empty, the other have dead and rotten corpses in them. On the ground there are some flashlights, -1 to moving until removed.
Corridor : a corridor leading from a door in the Vat room toward the exit, it has 4 doors on the sides, one of which open
exit stairs: some stairs at the end of the corridor which go upward to the exit. At the end of them there is a sturdy steel door, few centimeters open but blocked. There is some light coming from the door
Storage room: a largish room with several crates in it. It looks like it was meant to hold more than that
Lounge: it is some kind of a lounge, that was probably also used as dining room. It has some tables, chairs,  a TV, some computers in the opposite wall, probably for personal use, and a coffee selling machine in a corner.
Generator room: a big room with a ceiling higher than that of the other rooms you have seen till now. There are cables everywhere on the floor, there are shelves, tools, the floor is dirty but the first thing you see is the machine that fills the room from the center to the back. It is made of turbines and graphite chambers, it is a nuclear power plant, very small actually. there is a smaller generator in the room, that should be able to partially power the building. there are 4 fuel tanks on the floor. Some wires are exposed and the room is covered by fuel.
bedroom: There are 6 beds on each side of the room, for a total of 24 beds, everything in perfect order: blankets, pillows… for whatever reason they abandoned this place, it was planned. Or somebody wanted to cancel any proof or fight… there is no way to know. The air is moist, there is some water on the floor. The people who lived there probably had a way to humidify the air underground, and during the years a pipe must have broken, releasing some water; the piping must be broken in some other places since it didn’t flood the place: probably the pumps stopped working, or the water tanks evaporated.                           Why would people live here? This place must have been either very secret or very important to force workers to live in their workplace, possibly using work shifts to keep people working all the day and night, or were they prisoners? You can only guess what this place was, but maybe people left something behind them that could help you to understand. there is a diary on a bed, damaged by the (years?) and moist air
Control room: A big room with computers on all the sides, maps on the walls, blueprints, desks, notes and chairs ,paper bins that were never emptied, even some chewing gum on the floor(maybe RAM would like it?) a control room of some kind. There are 4 doors, including the one you entered from.
On a wall, the map of the building
Monolith dissection: At the center there is a … thing, a black, extremely flat, non-reflective cuboid whose dimensions are in the precise ratio 1:4:9.  On its side it has a surprisingly neat and clean hole, much better than anything you could do with standard methods on standard materials. Inside, there is a great mass of electronic devices, the functions of most of them unknown not only by even the brightest minds on this world. It is put on some kind of huge operatory table, with wires connecting both inside and outside the black monolith. There are many computers on the wall, but all powered down, of course. Above the hole in the monolith, magnifying lenses, robotic arms with various tools and several other measuring instruments can be seen, used in the past to examine the monolith’s interiors, in an attempt to reduce danger of humans damaging something, despite it having shown to be nearly indestructible when needed.

Tomorrow I'll write about the outside. The deadly you find outside isn't instadeath like "you are in space" or " you are in the core of a fission reactor", so you 2 near the door aren't in danger just for being there. But outside it will be dangerous.
It will be a short narrative break.

[RAM]

Now, you see what happened, I removed the curse and succeeded on a roll, the GM has no power here...

And in case I forget before the next update.

Start generator

[omagaalpha]

Announce that i saw the whole creation of hte universe! and hold the monolith again

|The monolith is alive! And seemingly annoyed by your hugs. Or maybe static electricity of some kind that for some reason didn’t hit you last time.

Hope that it is the first option .

[Jetsquirrel]

hmmmm interesting
act like a sciencetist , and hug that monolith again

[Digital Hellhound]

Uh oh... back away and bring the needlegun up and follow Flintus, wherever he goes.

[Kashyyk]

hmm, let me think...

I should know what you're talking about Andrea but it just isn't coming to me.

Anyway,
First: I go to the stores and grab as many weapons as possible.
Second: I head to the exit.

[andrea]

hints: something i invented, comes in herds, is a big animal.

[andrea]

Well, the outside part is up.
There were some changes ( Ram and Diakron in the corridor, Digital used 2 needles), but no major ones. Mainly the position changes, since moving in the building is a free action.

If you don't want to read it, go to the bottom where i shortly say what happened.


Watching the sunlight after years is like a second birth , you feel the light hitting your skin, you feel the heat of the day, the fresh air flowing inside the building. Then you open your eyes and look around. The roads are cracked by bushes and trees growing, lined with mossy hills that must have been cars in the past. Buildings are covered by vines, climbing up to the highest heights. Sky is full of birds, but life is not only above you; as soon as you step out you find a big rat looking up toward you curious, having never seen a person in his short life, then he runs around you a couple of times, and disappear in the basement of a nearby building. The place is no more the thriving  city that it used to be, it is ruins covered by vegetation. While most buildings still stand, they started falling down, filling the old roads with debris and leaving holes where in the past there were houses of many.
After few minutes in which you try to understand and accept what you see, you hear a sound coming from the forest; many birds are flying away from shacking trees. A trumpeting comes to your ears. Soon you can see the animal who caused that : it has a greenish skin, its head grey . It is a 4 legged mammal, his body is covered by thick scales  everywhere except on the bottom half.  It has a long muscular trunk , 2 big ears and 2 long, pointy ivory tusks, designed to kill. It is a mabàli , more than 2 times higher than the average person, incredibly tough, highly aggressive and with an impressive strength. In the past herds of these animals attacked and destroyed whole villages, causing as much bloodshed as a war, nearly impossible to stop until modern ages. Killing one was such an hard task that mabàli ivory was considered a material that only the most wealthy kings could afford. In modern times the mabàli population was exterminated by the army , during battles to defend the endangered settlements near the forests, leaving the only survivors in the zoos across the world.
They escaped , and they are reclaiming the world.

He raises the trunk, letting out a powerful cry answered by all the herd in the surrounding area. The ground starts trembling, so much that it seems an earthquake, till the beasts are all here, watching at you, preparing to charge.
Exploring the area, you walked several meters far from the door,  enough to make a safe run to the building near impossible. When you finally move, turning toward the door you just removed trying to run for safety, the herd charges at you, with ferocious rage and the tusks low on the ground.
Flintus barely dodges one of the running monsters jumping on the left but for Hellhound it is too late and in a desperate attempt to save himself  he dives between the tusks, rolling on the ground barely avoiding the big feet and managing to land a few shots with his needlegun on the blood vessels of the neck, enough to stun him. You are now close to the door, followed by one of the beasts charging; he is too fast, almost reaching you ,  but you manage to jump inside just in time to avoid becoming kebab on elephant tusks. The mabàli charging at you smashes against the door frame, revealing a steel layer under concrete which should save you, at least for a while. Some animals of the herd , angered by the cries of the stunned mabàli, and the ones of the mabàli who broke his tusk against the door frame, start hitting the wall with their heads and kicking it,  while the other stomp on the ground in their rage. They don’t tolerate intruders in their land and much less intruders who harm them. The building and the underground base start shaking strongly under their attack.

Meanwhile, underground, all the people can feel the animal-induced earthquake: Ram and Diakron go out of the rooms they were in, meeting in the corridor and trying to decide where to escape; Kashyyk hides under a table in the lounge; Jetsquirrel falls on the ground; Diakron and RAM decide to run toward the exit before the ceiling fall on them, but  Hellhound and Flintus burst out of the corridor door shouting “Mabàli! They are destroying the building, we can’t go out “.
After 10 minutes of fear, the stomping on the ground ends and while the herd still attacks the door, the building isn’t in immediate danger of cave it and the people can go out from their shelters under the tables and door frames, now having to find a way to get out again before the mabàli collapse the building.
In the vat room, several vats fell, breaking and leaving on the floor liquid and rotting corpses; in the bedroom some beds fell; in the storage room not much happened; in the lounge most bottles fell and broke; in the generator room many tools fell from the shelves but not damage was done to the generator itself.



Long story short, you got attacked by bloodthirsty, armored, stealth elephants, created to kill. And heavy and strong enough to destroy the building you are in.

Edit: vote: do you want me to do things like this every time a very important event happens?  or do you prefer having only normal turns? remember that during this kind of narrative I make as little changes as possible, since you can't decide on your actions and get no rolls.

edit2: anyone knows how to add a poll?

[Digital Hellhound]

Crap.

Uhh.

Is there a back-door? Try to find another exit.
If there is none, we need to blow a hole in the wall.

Also, it's easier to read like this, so keep it.

[Diakron]

explain to the elephants that they don't really won't to hurt me, if that don't work; Cold-cock 'em

[andrea]

uh.... Diakron, are you sure it is a good idea?


also, do anyone know how to add a poll, if it is possible?

if not, then i would still like you to give your opinion about this kind of narrative. I took control of players and eliminated rolls for a "turn" , so I would like to know what you players think about it before the next major event happens ( there are few places who would deserve such a thing, and as many situations as the rolls want.)

[Jetsquirrel]

there was somewhere here a button for it


ahhh there it is
scroll down the page and you should see this

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