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[Darvi]

Try and figure out what that riddle means.

While I usually GM like a pansy, attempting to have me solve your riddle for you generally results in an auto-fail.

Do not fear, Darvi is here!

And he solved the riddle minutes before you even posted.

[Taricus]

Head back to where I came in.

[FuzzyZergling]

Look to the left and right.

[freeformschooler]

Come on Ochita we miss you.

In the meantime!

Spoiler: Final Mushroomy: Weapon Shop (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The Troop (click to show/hide)

I wanted to draw bowser as close to the NES version as possible.

[SeriousConcentrate]

That new avatar is amazing, freeform. :3

[Ochita]

Magic missile Fireball at the darkness! And then Look around for anything.

[freeformschooler]

That new avatar is amazing, freeform. :3

Oh why thank you. I drew it myself! I think it's an improvement on the old one.

Anyway, I will pull together an update when I can. Unfortunately I'm going on vacation for the next 3 days (a legitimate vacation, not a "vacation from my RTD"), but if I have internet access I will get the update up during that time.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Well, it got a chuckle out of me when I saw it. ^^ Have fun on your vacation.

[Dwarmin]

Thanks for the heads up!

[applesauce machine]

Spoiler: Koopas (version 1) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Koopas (version 2) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Text text punctuation text punctuation text text text punctua... (click to show/hide)

Forgive me for using the same koopa for all three, but they're just SO HARD TO DRAW, especially the same way multiple times. I thought it would be easier, but the koopas had too many...... CIRCLES and CUVRES. So when I drew about four bad ones, one good one, and then four more bad ones, I decided to take the good one and just roll with it because I'm not good with consistency (which explains how I drew a good one and then couldn't again).
No armor on any of them because that would require me to find some way to make it fit on a non-human body. Drawing the bodies as they are body as it is was tough; I didn't wanna cover it up and use it as a hard-to-make-in-the-first-place template.
I don't have the fortitude for a lot of things, and a lot of them have to do with knowing ahead of time that something will slow down my laptop if I even think about going through with it all the way to the end, and/or the fact that, at any time, I could accidentally close the window, leaving all the time I spent on it to waste.

When I made them, I actually cut and pasted pieces of them and then decided which koopa should have which attributes afterward. The only thing I couldn't decide was whether their mouths should look like what the mouths of koopas usually look like (like in version 2. Go ahead, google up a koopa, they have puffy cheeks) or if they shouldn't so you can actually see the difference in their facial expressions better.
This is what I worked with to create the above two images:

Spoiler: ...tion image. (click to show/hide)

[freeformschooler]

applesauce is overthinking koopas. Here, like this:

Spoiler: Kooporial! (click to show/hide)

Only problem with this is my style isn't as dramatic as apples' style; I tend to not make curves as wild as she does. So they have puffy cheeks and stuff but only sort of. Also, I draw them "NES-style", as in without noses on the very top. When I do draw the noses they're not so close together. I forgot them this time but pretend that they are there.

Oh and here are a couple relevant things I did while I was gone.

Spoiler: Paper Taric (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Six Sided Box of Fate (click to show/hide)

BTW: Back from my vacation, expect update soonigh!

[freeformschooler]

Turn 15

Location: Forest of Piranha Plants (various)
Time: Night
Weather: Cold
Light: Not much

Spoiler: Map (Forest of Piranha Plants, 1F) (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Other locations (Forest of Piranha Plants, Basement) (click to show/hide)

Basement Entrance (Bradley)
Underground Fountain (Oomph, Fuzz, Red)

Turn Intro

Taric finds himself knee-deep at what is either a trap, a treasure, or both. How will he escape?
Ochita nearly walks into a horrible black mess, and attempts to fight it.
Bradley ends up taking one too many wrong turns while attempting to get back to his friends.
Lastly, Red, Oomph and Fuzz are reunited... sort of.
How will this turn end?

Turn Results

Taric: Get out of there!

You head for the way you came in. However, you bump into some sort of invisible wall! You run your hands over it. It's some kind of magical forcefield -- a beehive barrier. Looking back to the spear, you notice the numbers on the ground have all turned from 3 to 2. It's some kind of countdown. You're in a trap! You start banging on the barrier rapidly, but to no avail.

Spoiler: It's a trap! (click to show/hide)

Red: Wait it out.

You wait on the ledge, terrified of falling. Your hands and legs start shaking, and your natural non-winged fear of heights kicks in. You know your friends will help you out, but it's still scary. You do your best to stay on the ledge...

...but a section of it collapses. The section you were sitting on! You go plummeting several dozen feet in what feels like two feet a second. You may be a koopa, but there's no helping you now. You're done for. Your shell will be broken, and you'll be dead!

Spoiler: Into the Abyss (click to show/hide)

Saying your prayers, you feel a warm light around you. Is it Bronzelight, trying to comfort you? No. It's magic -- raw, unbridled, uncontrolled magic, attempting to save your life. You feel your spine rearranging itself very painfully. Then, all of the sudden...

Spoiler: Scarlet Wingspan (click to show/hide)

...you find that you have become a Koopa Paratroopa.

Ochita: Fireball! At the darkness.

You wave your arms and say the magic words (but not really, as your fireball is not strictly magical), and then launch a fireball at the pitch black darkness. As you prepare to take a closer look inside, you find that not only has your fireball fizzled out before you could throw it, but the darkness has also swallowed the tiny flame you did produce completely! Clearly, it's not any regular sort of darkness. It's almost as if it's erased part of the area from existence itself.

Spoiler: Enveloping the Flame (click to show/hide)

Bradley: TURN BACK.

You head back towards the area near the pipe where you friends were last at. You hope they haven't moved! It takes you a minute or so to float back, screaming and wailing into the artificial night. And yet, you end up at the right place.

And then you see it. Floating just above the brick floor, instead of your friends, you find the most horrible abomination you've ever seen. It's like some sort of giant, pitch-black hound, with waving tendrils of darkness. It walks towards you, growling menacingly.

Spoiler: Bradley and the Abomination (click to show/hide)

Oomph: Drink from the fountain.

This is just too much. Red? Growing wings? You need to have a drink, so you head over to the bizarrely placed fountain and lap up a little water. BLECH! It tastes disgusting, like pickled mud! You lose 2 MP. You tell Fuzz and Red not to try it.

Fuzz: Look to the left and right.

Though you're now teamed up with Red, you're still missing Bradley. What's his problem with you, anyway? You look to the left and right, but can't see much for the darness. So you scout out a bit both ways.

To the left (west?) is a hallway with grand architecture. It looks like it's probably empty. You can't tell where it leads. To the east is a dead end with some coins floating in the air.

Turn Outro

Everything changes. Even people. Thus was Red's discovery. As for the rest of the gang, their underground and aboveground scouting efforts have led them into clearly dangerous territory. Will they weasel their way out and flee, or will they figure out how to progress, and if they can at all?

Player list

Spoiler: Taric (Taricus) (click to show/hide)

Race: Koopa (Yellow)
Bio: A defecting spearman from bowser's army.
HP: 5/10
MP: 5/5
Other stats:
Armor Value +1
Slashing +0
Piercing +1
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Shell Cover
Passive skills/spells:
Thick Shell I
Equipment:
200 Gold
Vine Maul
Bronze armor (worn)
Bronze spear (wielded)
High Cape (worn)

Spoiler: Red (Darvi) (click to show/hide)

Name: Red
Race: Koopa Paratroopa (Red)
Bio: A swordsmen who got fed up with Bowser and left the army.
HP: 10/10
MP: 5/5
Other stats:
Armor Value +1
Slashing +1
Piercing +0
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Shell Cover
Passive skills/spells:
Air Fighting
Flying
Shine the Way
Thick Shell I
Equipment:
200 Gold
Bronzelight (worn)
Bronze Shortsword (wielded)
Red key

Spoiler: Ochita (Ochita) (click to show/hide)

Name: Ochita
Race: Human
Bio: He's just a normal human, who decided to try his best. Still kind of young, but he has courage.
HP: 8/10
MP: 0/0
Other stats:
Armor Value +1
Slashing +0
Piercing +1
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Fireball I
Power Strike
Passive skills/spells:
Quick Learner
Equipment:
400 Gold
Flowing robes (worn)
Iron Lance (wielded)

Spoiler: Bradley Oliver Oakes (SeriousConcentrate) (click to show/hide)

Name: Bradley Oliver Oakes
Race: Boo
Bio: A rather cowardly ghost even by Boo standards. However, he's always admired the story of Mario and Luigi, and when he learned they were captured, he decided to take a stand for once in his life and try to rescue them!
HP: 10/10
MP: 4/5
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Darkness I
Fire I
Ice I
Lightning I
Passive skills/spells:
Flying
Chronic Shyness
Equipment:
Spellbook of the Elements (bound)
Iron Club (wielded)
Red mushroom x3

Spoiler: Oomph (Dwarmin) (click to show/hide)

Name: Oomph
Race: Koopa (Green)
Bio: A former football player who kicked out of the bowser leagues for falling in a pit chasing after Mario.
HP: 10/10
MP: 2/5
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +1
Active skills/spells:
Shell Cover
Heal I
Passive skills/spells:
Thick Shell I
Equipment:
Bronze Shortsword (wielded)
Haunting Club
Spellbook of Healing (bound)

Spoiler: Fuzz (FuzzyZergling) (click to show/hide)

Name: Fuzz
Race: Human
Bio: A blacksmith recruited by the Mushroom Kingdom, he is tall and well built, with black hair and grey eyes.
HP: 10/10
MP: 0/0
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +1
Active skills/spells:
Fireball I
Power Strike
Passive skills/spells:
Quick Learner
Equipment:
400 Gold
Steel maul. (wielded)

Spoiler: Pitch Black Abomination (NPC) (click to show/hide)

Name: ?
Race: ?
Bio: ?
HP: 50/50
MP: 20/20
Other stats:
Armor Value +?
Slashing +?
Piercing +?
Crushing +?
Active skills/spells:
?
Passive skills/spells:
?
Equipment:
?

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Huzzah, 15th turn anniversary! Yeah, I'm super slow with dem updates, but at least you have one now. Hope everyone enjoys it!

[Dwarmin]

"Pickled Mud...mom used to make that for dinner every night..

Look! Coins! Oomphs is always eventually right!"

Goes east and grabs the coins, then turns the other way to the Hallway

[Taricus]

...Yeah, I'm going to need a hint with this one...

[freeformschooler]

...Yeah, I'm going to need a hint with this one...

Try thinking out of the box: What's in a word?

Yeah, that's the only hint you're getting.