Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 223: Trap Mountain
Date: 1:21:05 PM, July 16th, 2005.
Garrick Fy`aar glances about for any MORE books...
Metal Man (GM): It has various measurements with the omega sign next to them.
Digifanatic: "I'm full, so don't expect me to take anything unless I use a loooot of items."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You see a flimsy piece of paper with 'BOX' written on it.
MrMonster just starts forward again. "We should continue."
Azure: "I have room. Hmmm what could the omega symbol stand for."
Aetos follows Mr.Me
Azure: "Aetos? Mind if I hold on to this. I'm sure in time I can understand more of this Ex wie. Do you mind?"
Metal Man (GM): It's a 'usable item', but only works for... certain people.
Garrick Fy`aar hands his over to Azure and keeps on moving
Aetos: "Eec Wie... and sure go ahead."
Digifanatic follows the others.
Metal Man (GM): It starts snowing... this area is colder. There's a rather weak looking bridge around this bend on the mountain.
Aetos wraps himself up with his cape...
Metal Man (GM): It's old and the structural supports don't look like they can hold much. Well, not really, no. You're really high, though. In the area where it always snows.
Digifanatic: "Oh boy... we got nature working against us..."
Aetos: "Who thinks that can get over that?..." *He points at the bridge*
MrMonster: "Hrm..."
Azure: "Well we could try burning a path. But... avalanche..."
Metal Man (GM): The bridge itself covers a treacherous curve in the mountain of 30 feet.
Aetos: "Do you think there is any way around it?..."
MrMonster walks up to, but not on to, the bridge and peers over the side to see what's below it.
Metal Man (GM): You see a deep cliff. You'd fall all the way down to the dust fields. Which is... deeadly.
Digifanatic: "Well... should we all just risk it and make like Sonic? Or what?"
MrMonster: "... I say we go one at a time up it."
Aetos starts humming Sonic's theme song...
Azure: "Like Sonic...." *looks at his speed shoes placed oddly inside his gi.* "Nah..."
Digifanatic: "If anyone doesn't want to risk it, I can just Digiport them over while everyone else does however they want to."
MrMonster: "... I'll go up..."
Aetos wonders if he can jump it...
Azure: "I think I will as well. We can attempt to support each other."
Metal Man (GM): Maybe, but... the dirt on the other side looks weak.
Digifanatic: "Alright then, Mr. M... but right now, I can't double jump or anything like that."
Metal Man (GM): You could wind up causing it to erode away.
Azure: "With a combination of jumping and flight it might be possible..."
Jina Jina appeared in the distance, huffing and puffing, trying to catch up to the main group.
Azure: "But with that foundation..."
MrMonster sheaths his sword and starts across the bridge... For the record he weighs 235 pounds, and his equipment can't be light either.
Metal Man (GM): The bridge creaks and groans... but holds.
Aetos: "Are you sure the heavy one should be going fi-- wow."
Metal Man (GM): It holds the entire way... bending a little bit.
Aetos: "Do you mind if I go now?"
Digifanatic: "Hey, glad you could make it, Jin..."
Jina nods to Digi, huffing still.
MrMonster reaches the other side... "I made it..."
Aetos: "Guess not..."
Digifanatic: "I don't mind..."
Aetos steps lightly across the bridge, repeating "light as a feather light as a feather..."
Jina: "Alright... uh... what are we doing, guys?"
Metal Man (GM): Aetos gets across, the bridge barely bothered.
Digifanatic: "Trying to figure out how to make it across this bridge without problem..."
Azure is next to make his way across the bridge.
Metal Man (GM): Azure gets across easily.
Jina: "Ah..."
Metal Man (GM): The bridge is minorly bent each time.
Garrick Fy`aar moves across too.
Digifanatic: "Which is a problem because we don't know if and when this baby will snap."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick gets across without much trouble.
Julian Sawyer: *A generic blue warp portal opens up, and Julian is launched out, landing on his back.* "OOF!" *Gets up, that book he picked up on roman stuff still with him, and looks aorund* "...Bridge?"
Jina: "I see..." *He looks across the bridge, attempting to figure out if he could double jump over it without trouble.*
Metal Man (GM): The ground on the other side might fall down on landing.
Julian Sawyer: "...Meh." *Heads across the bridge*
Metal Man (GM): Julian gets across with little trouble.
Garrick Fy`aar: "As long as there aren't a lot of people on it at once, it'll be fine."
Jina groans. "I guess... I'll go next..."
Julian Sawyer: "Just walk."
Digifanatic tries walking on it, as carefully as possible but with as little strain to the bridge as possible.
Metal Man (GM): Digi manages to quietly get across... but a snap is heard somewhere.
Aetos: "Uh oh..."
Digifanatic turns around... "Oh GREAT."
Aetos looks at where the bridge may have snapped
Jina sighs.
Metal Man (GM): Can't see where... the bridge just made a single snap.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...just come ON. Quickly, but not too quickly."
Jina holds onto the rope, walking slowly.
MrMonster: .oO(I'm glad I went across first...)
Metal Man (GM): *SNAP* something snaps behind Jina...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...come on!"
Aetos: "Jina!!"
Metal Man (GM): But the real danger is a single board which leans up and threatens to smack him!
Julian Sawyer: "RUN FOR IT!"
Metal Man (GM): The board smacks you for 15 damage... and one of your legs is stuck down there.
Jina graons.
Metal Man (GM): The bridge is beginning to fall apart.
Azure: "Come on... come on..."
Jina: "Great..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Idiot!"
Metal Man (GM): You hear some more snaps.
Aetos: "RUN!!!!"
Garrick Fy`aar moves to try and grab him...
Jina attempts to pull his leg out.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: SPD, then STR check. Jina: STR check.
Azure: *Holds his hand out as well also trying to grab him.*
Metal Man (GM): Jinar pulls out his leg... but does Garrick move fast enough? STR check for Garrick now. And now... another SPD check to run back. Garrick runs... runs... drops Jina on the other side... but the bridge is too fast. It falls all down, and Garrick's dangling from a single rope. A rope that is slowly disintegrating.
Aetos tries to pull Garrick up
Jina sighs in relief, then glances at Garrick. "Bad day for all of us!"
Garrick Fy`aar tries to reach up and grab Aetos' outstretched hand...
Metal Man (GM): STR check, Aetos. You grab Garrick and drag him up.
Garrick Fy`aar growls, nods a thanks to Aetos, then looks to Jina.
Aetos: "Phew, that was close, Garrick..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "You owe me."
Metal Man (GM): You may continue ahead... at least, if you don't get critical failures on breathing checks.
Azure: "Well that was close...."
Aetos tries to breathe...
Julian Sawyer: "Like an action-movie sequence."
Jina sighs. "I'll NEVER walk on another bridge..."
Julian Sawyer: *Moves on*
Digifanatic continues on.
Jina goes on.
Metal Man (GM): You reach a small plateau....
Garrick Fy`aar continues as well.
Metal Man (GM): The mountain continues on, but this area has no trails.
Aetos: "I think someone should start stocking up on those holographic bridges or whatever..."
Metal Man (GM): The mountain seems strangely vertical here. Various rocks are stuck to the sides of this place.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...gotta climb, I suppose."
Aetos: "Eh..."
Jina sighs.
Julian Sawyer: *Cracks his knuckles*
Jina sighs.
Aetos: "And perhaps one of those ladders too."
Jina: "...Times are tough."
Aetos: "Elevator... whatever."
Julian Sawyer: "Nothin' doin'. I tried one of those Holo Bridges, got shocked for my troubles."
MrMonster looks around to see if there may be an easier way up this cliff side.
Metal Man (GM): You can see off into the distance.
Aetos looks off into the distance, further even with Sharp eyes...
Metal Man (GM): You see an old, wooden bridge, similar to the one you broke, somewhere....
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hm."
Jina checks to see how durable the edges on the cliff is.
Metal Man (GM): MrMonster and Digi would remember it from long ago.
Julian Sawyer: "...What you lookin' at?"
Metal Man (GM): It looks... very familiar... you feel like you have crossed it before <--Only Digi and MrMonster
MrMonster squints, looking at that bridge... The Trulander tries to get a bit closer to get a better look.
Jina sighs, pulling out a MP3 player... only to realize it's broken and put it away. "What now..."
Digifanatic does as well... "Quite an odd mountain."
Metal Man (GM): It looks ancient and familiar and wooden. Used before... on an old mission. It's high above.
Digifanatic: "What is up with all these things that go back to our older days?"
MrMonster: "Hrm... You think that bridge looks familiar too?"
Metal Man (GM): Anyway, up here, you're at a dead end.
Jina sighs.
Metal Man (GM): There's a whole lot of snow here.
Digifanatic: "Yeah... just forgot when it came up?"
MrMonster: "... I want to get a closer look." *The Trulander tries to climb up the cliff side... Towards the bridge if possible.*
Digifanatic: "We should continue sometime before we start getting frostbite, though."
Aetos wonders how deep the snow is where we are.
Metal Man (GM): The cliff side, you find slippery. Covered in ice. You slide down as soon as you go to climb. However, you do notice something... crashed into the side of the mountain. On the other side of this ring.
MrMonster: "..."
Aetos: "Whats that you guys?"
Digifanatic: "No clue."
Metal Man (GM): It's... shiny?
Jina sits down, sighing.
Metal Man (GM): It's about the size of a large truck.
Aetos: "It's. SHINY!"
Metal Man (GM): Covered in snow.
Aetos runs over to it...
Digifanatic cautiously follows...
Metal Man (GM): Do you clear snow off of it?
Jina follows.
Garrick Fy`aar heads forward as well.
Metal Man (GM): You uncover... a spacecraft????
Garrick Fy`aar: "...holy!"
Metal Man (GM): ...Yes... completely gutted, but it's a one-person space ship.
Garrick Fy`aar immediately redoubles his efforts, looking this thing over stem to stern
Digifanatic: "Whoa."
Aetos: "Aww... I doubt Moody Mandy will let us sell this to him..."
Azure: "What contraption is this?"
Digifanatic: "Who piloted that thing?"
MrMonster: "... What IS this place?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Sell, this?! You want to SELL THIS?!"
Jina blinks.
Metal Man (GM): You unearth the wings, and it's full of debris.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Look at this thing! It's brilliant!"
Julian Sawyer: "We could find a way off this rock..."
Metal Man (GM): There's still a switch on it... a power switch. You also see some small writing on it.
Julian Sawyer: "...I ain't touching it."
Metal Man (GM): 'The Voyager'
Aetos: "Voyager..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...interesting name..."
Digifanatic: "Yes..."
Jina glances at the button.
Aetos sits and thinks about where he has heard that before...
Jina: "So... tempting..."
Garrick Fy`aar starts clearing out debris. "DON'T turn it on..."
Digifanatic looks to see any other marks of who it belongs/belonged to, etc.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Not yet, anyway..."
Metal Man (GM): Most of the functional components are gone.
Jina trembles. "But... it's... a BUTTON!"
Metal Man (GM): It's got several things in it that are useful, though. Like those nice leather seats.
Digifanatic: "Please don't become another Gibby."
Metal Man (GM): And all the metal... yup, not space-ready anymore, but still metal.
Julian Sawyer: "...We used to have a guy like you. Name of Gibby. He pressed buttons. Now e don't know where he is."
Aetos stands, "Are those leather... like... from cow hide?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I could use most of this stuff..."
Metal Man (GM): There's a glass cockpit half-open on this.
Jina: "...Oh..." *He looks at the seats.*
Julian Sawyer: "You want to share his fate?"
Digifanatic: "Human turned Kirby."
Jina: "Um... no thanks!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I might--yes..."
Metal Man (GM): There's some complex consoles, missing all buttons but the power buttons.
Julian Sawyer: "Then don't press the buttons!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...if I had the right stuff... I could rebuild it."
Metal Man (GM): There's a ruined console in it, with... some sort of radar?
Azure: "I couldn't understand this if I wanted to...."
Aetos watches the radar screen...
Jina frowns.
Metal Man (GM): It's dead, but you do see some small writing. Says who made the screen.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Yeah... something here... and then a modual over there..."
Jina looks at the writing.
Metal Man (GM): 'Solaratech Ltd'
Julian Sawyer: "...Solar?"
Digifanatic: "Solarian device..."
Julian Sawyer: "As in Solarian?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...if it's Solarian..."
Digifanatic: "Yup. Sounds like it to me."
Metal Man (GM): ...That piece of paper pretty much settles it.
Jina blinks.
Metal Man (GM): That one you find on the seat.
Julian Sawyer: "Jackpot."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...then that means... it's probably magitek."
Jina: "Uh... Solarian?"
Metal Man (GM): It's official 'Solarian Military' stationery.
Julian Sawyer: "...Hot damn."
Digifanatic: "An ethnic group of sort."
Azure: *Just lost.*
Metal Man (GM): "It says 'Lost from refugee group XX85'"
Julian Sawyer: "We got a Solarian piece of equipment on our hands."
Metal Man (GM): 'Please return to Solarian Authorities if found by those with capable movement vehicles.'
Aetos whistles
Metal Man (GM): 'On button activates radar. Use this to find me.'
Jina whistles.
Metal Man (GM): That's all that is on it.
Garrick Fy`aar double checks to see if he's right. Could he rebuild it? With the right parts?
Aetos quietly hits the button...
Julian Sawyer: "...Okay, should we press the button?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "No no!"
Digifanatic: "Too late."
Aetos: *Too late*
Metal Man (GM): *PING!* *PING!* *PING!* *PING!*
MrMonster: "... I think so... Eh?"
Metal Man (GM): You see a dot... nearby.
Julian Sawyer: "...Aetos..."
Jina: "Ten bucks says we'll be hit by a deathray!"
Metal Man (GM): On the screen.
Digifanatic: "Oh would you shush?!"
Julian Sawyer: "Did you not hear my Gibby speech?"
Digifanatic: "Sorry..."
Aetos: "It's just a dot... don't tell me you guys are afraid of dots..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "You DON'T TOUCH THE BUTTON! Damn it, you coulda blown us to kingdom COME?!"
MrMonster squints at the screen and the dot...
Metal Man (GM): The coordinates work out to being inside the... tower made of rubble down there!
Jina rubs his chin.
Metal Man (GM): It also appears to have a small map of the nearby area.
Azure: "Yelling does nothing for us now. Let's just hope nothing happens..." *Peers at the map on screen.*
Aetos looks for a printable version of the map
Metal Man (GM): There's some stuff at the top of the mountain, and a valley, and another mountain.
Azure: "I wonder... could this link to the ruins... maybe..."
Digifanatic: "Right. We can't blame anyone for anything wrong yet."
Metal Man (GM): Well, you could print it, except whatever printers or controls this thing had are gone.
Jina sits on a leather seat, scrathing his head.
Metal Man (GM): All you can do is turn it on and off.
Jina: "Anyone got some paper?"
Julian Sawyer: "...Weren't we supposed to be looking for a magical blacksmith?"
Garrick Fy`aar smacks Jina in the head "Get outta there..."
Digifanatic: "Was gonna ask."
Aetos: "Worthless high-tech device..."
Metal Man (GM): The only leather seat, that is... it's comfy. Although a bit worn.
Jina whines. "It's so comfy, though!"
Aetos looks for a path to said tower...
Garrick Fy`aar smacks Jina again
Jina takes another look at the cockpit. "Ow!"
Julian Sawyer: *Double-smack*
Metal Man (GM): You remember the tower being at the bottom of the plateau.
Aetos: "Guys, if were going back... how?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Get out! I wanna see what else is in this thing."
Metal Man (GM): In fact, there's a convenient little key hanging from the dashboard.
Jina: "I get the seat." *He climbs out.*
Digifanatic gets out and looks around...
Metal Man (GM): The thing is fairly nondescript.
Garrick Fy`aar climbs into the cockpit...
Metal Man (GM): It looks ancient.
Julian Sawyer: *Steps back*
Metal Man (GM): You'd love to use your dexes on it, but your dexes are all broke, so...
Aetos hops in before they probably start the thing...
Garrick Fy`aar: "Okay... let's see here..."
Metal Man (GM): All you can do is poke and prod it. Garrick: You see a cup with a coffee stain on it in the cockpit.
Garrick Fy`aar pulls a makeshift multi-tool from his pocket and starts to fiddle...
Metal Man (GM): You also see a weird 'Solarian Bible' in a shelf.
Jina sighs. "Anyone got something to read?"
Julian Sawyer: "Just wait..."
Metal Man (GM): Your tool opens up the dashbar... you see a ton of wires and stuff.
Garrick Fy`aar tosses him the bible. "Read that. Enjoy."
Metal Man (GM): There's some wires that appear to be cut.
Jina grins. "Yay." He begins to read the bible?
Garrick Fy`aar: "Ah ha..."
Metal Man (GM): They lead to some climate control units aka Air conditioning. Jina: you read it... 'And God gave us the power to fuse magic and technology, and it was magitek! He gave us the message to destroy all who did not use his most great creation!'
Jina blinks. "Interesting way of life..."
Metal Man (GM): 'And so, the many warriors went to destroy the evil Whalleranians and Maricians.' It goes on and on and on about destroying every one else and promoting Magitek.
Garrick Fy`aar reconnects those. Easy enough. He double checks the main drive system.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick reconnects the air conditioner. *Spark* *Spark* *Spark*
MrMonster paces about, thinking a bit...
Metal Man (GM): ...It's now kinda warm in the cockpit.
Julian Sawyer: "Any progess, Garrick?"
Metal Man (GM): Rather than freezing cold.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh hell." *He looks for a fire...*
Metal Man (GM): No fire. It appears the sparks was water.
Jina blinks, flipping around the bible again.
Metal Man (GM): The drive system itself is missing.
Julian Sawyer: "Garrick?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, I can't get it off the ground..."
Metal Man (GM): Jina: More references to how Solarians must conquer everything with Magitek.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Or maybe..."
Aetos grabs the key if no one has yet...
Garrick Fy`aar checks to see if it has a working power source...
Metal Man (GM): The key is old and rusted. Garrick: It has a weird crystal with electrodes in it.
Jina: "...Some people love to conquer. Mostly these guys..."
Metal Man (GM): It looks similar to the ones from the ruins. But far more bulky... and it has wires stuck in it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...that must be it. Wonder if I can run it off my suit..."
Jina puts the bible in his sideback.
Julian Sawyer: "Hello?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "WHAT?!"
MrMonster: "... Perhaps we should leave this thing and head back to that tower down below?"
Julian Sawyer: "Any progress?"
Metal Man (GM): There's also a single propulsion unit in the back of the spacecraft.
Aetos: "But Monster... how? The bridge is broken."
Garrick Fy`aar: "The computer is missing."
Metal Man (GM): ...You do notice how streamlined the thing is.
Julian Sawyer: "Okay..."
Metal Man (GM): Snow... slippery. Downhill slope.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Without the drive system computer, we can't get it off the ground."
Metal Man (GM): Streamlined thingy.
Digifanatic: "Yeah... and I dunno how far I can get all of us at once... But anyways..."
Jina: "Hmm... hey... does it look like it got forcebily pulled out?"
Metal Man (GM): There is plenty of room to stand inside it and you can always climb onto the wings.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Yeah, I suppose..."
Jina: "Problay natives."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...but I'd rather not damage the thing more than we probably will."
Jina looks around for anything else of interest.
Metal Man (GM): You see a single wire... conspiciously placed from the single propulsion unit, right next to the power thingy.
MrMonster tries to start down the mountain to the ruined bridge...
Metal Man (GM): MrMonster: You get there quickly, though the way across that bridge looks tricky.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...we could... run it down the slope... hopefully not bust it up too bad."
Aetos: "Thats actually... a good idea!"
Metal Man (GM): The slope down goes to the plateau. The tower is also in the plateau.
Jina rubs his head.
Metal Man (GM): With the lake.
MrMonster looks around... Didn't they see some sort of dirt path from the area below the bridge to the other side earlier?
Metal Man (GM): And the warp point.
Aetos: "Everyone out, were going to push it over to the slope..."
Jina: "We could... turn it into a toboggan!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Whoa whoa whoa. We're not riding anything down anywhere yet."
Aetos: "Why not??"
Garrick Fy`aar: "This is our way BACK to the warp point."
Metal Man (GM): Nay, you saw the dust fields. Waaay down there.
Garrick Fy`aar: "We still need to climb higher and get to the smithy."
Metal Man (GM): You could try some rock climbing. The area near the bridge is less slippery. And the bridge supports remaining look easy to use.
Digifanatic tries climbing near that bridge...
Aetos goes back to the broken bridge with Mr. Monster
Garrick Fy`aar: "No one touch this ship."
Jina follows after Digi.
Garrick Fy`aar gets out, after resealing everything, and follows
Metal Man (GM): STR checks to everyone going down and trying to go down the bridge.
MrMonster: "So will we be going down to the tower, or trying to climb up higher?"
Azure: "I think down then around and back up?"
Aetos: "I think we should go help the ... person in the tower."
Metal Man (GM): The tower itself, being 10 stories tall, is far shorter than the mountain. And it won't get you up. You're currently at the bridge which fell apart earlier. Walk up a little ways on the path to reach the space ship. Walk a little ways down to reach the lake, tower, and plateau. The smith stuff is supposed to be further up, but you can't get to it. Too steep. No, you're going down. You can't go any further up than the space ship.
Aetos tries to climb down the bridge then.
Garrick Fy`aar heads in the direction of the lake, tower, and plateau
Jina is still going down the bridge.
Digifanatic follows that lead.
Julian Sawyer: *Goes with everyone*
Azure: *Follows.*
Metal Man (GM): STR checks to everyone going downhill. Aetos, Digi, Ocean, Garrick, and Julian get down. Jina falls to his doom, losing a life before reappearing with the others on the lower part of the path.
Julian Sawyer: "...You're not that good with heights..."
Jina snorts.
MrMonster tries to see how far apart the two sides are...
Metal Man (GM): 30 feet
Jina checks around for another... strange.
MrMonster backs up a few feet and tries to jump across the gap. He double jumps the rest of the distance.
Metal Man (GM): MrMonster clears the distance... But his jump causes ground to erode. He makes the gap 40 feet wide now.
Jina blinks. "Great!"
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Jina: "Just FRIKKEN great!" *He looks around again.*
Metal Man (GM): You can continue down to the bottom if you want.
Julian Sawyer: "I can't make that..."
Digifanatic looks at what options there are at the bottom, other than the warp back... *If there are any.*
Jina sighs, deciding to go dooooooowwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnn...
MrMonster: "Err... Sorry."
Metal Man (GM): You start going down. You reach the plateau. Now what do you do?
Jina waves up to the other guys then looks around.
Aetos looks for an entrance to the tower
Digifanatic: "Well then."
MrMonster follows the others down to the plateau and then goes after Aetos, also looking about the tower.
Digifanatic: *He really didn't go down; he was just peeking around, so he follows the others on his side of the bridge.*
Julian Sawyer: *Goes with the person who's going to the tower*
Jina: "What to do now..."
Azure: *Follows julian.*
Metal Man (GM): You reach the tower, et al. The tower has an old, rusted door. It looks familiar... There's a lock on it. It has a keyhole.
Aetos grabs the key he picked up and inserts it "Does it work?"
Digifanatic: "We'll find out."
Metal Man (GM): You have to turn it to find out.
Aetos turns the key...
Metal Man (GM): The door is now unlocked.
Julian Sawyer: *Enters*
Aetos takes the key out and opens the rusted door...
Digifanatic: "Simple enough..."
Aetos then enters
Digifanatic continues inward.
Azure: *Enters.*
Metal Man (GM): Stale air. Ancient, weird air. That's what this place smells like. There's a door to the south and a door to the East. The room is made out of... debris. Weird.
Aetos: "Just got in and we already have two ways to go..."
Digifanatic: "Quite peculiar, I must say."
Metal Man (GM): The floor here is made of dirt.
Aetos kicks some dirt while checking out the Eastern door
Digifanatic looks in that door as well (not going through, though).
Metal Man (GM): The door opens....
Aetos: "Uhh..."
Metal Man (GM): You see a staircase... Keese hanging from it.
Aetos: "...shhh..."
Metal Man (GM): The room has a variety of ferns growing in it. Ruined and mismatched tiles dot this floor.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...those are keese... Hylian monsters..."
Digifanatic: "Nice room, though..."
MrMonster follows the others, Racualk drawn. "Just how are things from Nintendus coming here?"
Digifanatic quietly exits and looks at the other room... "Lemme see this other room first."
Metal Man (GM): Digi: Electrified floor room. The South room is all full of electricity and wires and looks dangerous.
Digifanatic shuts that door, obviously. "Don't bother over there... unless you don't mind being electrocuted."
Aetos shudders
Azure: "I get the feeling we may have to see that room again... just slightly..."
Metal Man (GM): It's the same size as this room.
MrMonster: "I hope you're wrong..." *The Trulander slowly and hopefully quietly heads up that staircase.*
Metal Man (GM): Wait! MrMonster: The Keese attack you. Digi: Electricity is everywhere in that room over there. You couldn't jump it if you tried. I assume everyone's gonna fight the Keese? The size is the same as the room you entered. About 50 by 30 feet.
Julian Sawyer: "Bats!"
Metal Man (GM): And 10 feet tall.
Aetos gets ready to fight the bats...
Metal Man (GM): So then. Everybody fighting Keese?
MrMonster: "Blasted bats... We should make quick work of them at least."
Julian Sawyer: "Hate bats..."
Aetos: "I wonder if these bats will be the same... Mandy has been known to feed these monsters..."
Julian Sawyer: "Okay then..." *Removes his fedora and extends the blade along the brim, and it at the Keese, hitting each bat except bat 5 twice* "Hat Trick!"
Metal Man (GM): All hit.
Julian Sawyer: *Catches his fedora on the return and puts it back on his head*
Metal Man (GM): The Keese do not like this. So they all swarm to bite Julian.
Julian Sawyer: *Moves hither and fro like a Disco Bandit, dodging each and every attack* "Can't touch me!"
Garrick Fy`aar unloads on three of them, one after the other.
Metal Man (GM): All hit. They die. 3 down, 2 to go.
Digifanatic: "Nice..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Keep it rolling..."
Digifanatic decides to give that 4th bat a nice little Fire Punch...
Aetos: "They will all be gone by my turn heh."
Metal Man (GM): Miss. The bat moves quickly to avoid the fire punch.
Digifanatic is a bit angered at that... "Swift little bugger..." He then SM Punches that same one. He will take the miss... and defends for third action.
MrMonster conjurs up three rings of green energy and throw them at Keeses 3, 4, and 5... A Ring Toss. Mr. Monster then fires a Sword Shot at the fifth Keese, hoping to down it.
Metal Man (GM): All miss. On the plus side, you got some uses down.
Aetos motions his hams to whip up then down...
Metal Man (GM): *Whip* Hit *Bat dies* Only 1 bat remains.
Aetos then runs up to the last bat and tries--
Metal Man (GM): Oh. Finish your turn, Aetos.
Aetos: *--To impale it... probably going to fail*
Metal Man (GM): Hit The bat is almost killed. Finish it!
Julian Sawyer: "This one's over." *Julian rushes the bat, jumps up, and spikes it into the ground*
Metal Man (GM): Hit. *Death* All bats defeated! +200 EXP +500 coins
Digifanatic: "Well done..."
Metal Man (GM): The way up is clear. But!
Julian Sawyer: "It's what I do."
Metal Man (GM): There's also a door South here. If you want to check it out.
Digifanatic takes a quick peek before deciding what to do.
Metal Man (GM): Several cracked floor pieces are there. There's nothing else of interest in that room.
Digifanatic: "Eh... I'll head upstairs."
MrMonster tries to head up the stairs again.
Julian Sawyer: *Checks to make sure there's nothing that nifty in that room Digi checked...*
Metal Man (GM): There's only debris in that room. And dangerous looking floors. You head up the stairs. you see a window outside... it's pretty.
Julian Sawyer: "...Hmph..." *Heads upstairs*
Aetos goes up as well then
Digifanatic goes upstairs...
Metal Man (GM): You see two doors: One north, one East.
Garrick Fy`aar is now with the group again.
Julian Sawyer: *Heads East, as East=Right*
Aetos checks out what is behind the north door before going east.
Metal Man (GM): North door has another empty room in it, but a whole ton of doors on the East side of it.
Julian Sawyer: "...Whoa..."
Metal Man (GM): The East door Julian takes, however... Is a gigantic pit. No sense going in there.
Julian Sawyer: *Throws a rock into the pit*
Aetos ends up at the east door now, using Sharp Eyes to see to the bottom of the pit...
Garrick Fy`aar heads to the north door then, glancing over Julian's shoulder before hand and 'hmpf'ing
Metal Man (GM): It falls down... and keeps on falling. It hits the floor of a floor blow this one. *SMASH* The floor there cracks and keeps on falling. The pit looks bottomless.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Aetos: "Uh..."
Digifanatic: "Alright..."
Julian Sawyer: *Does that and heads into the north door*
Aetos does as well...
MrMonster hrms and heads over to the open door when he hears the smash... "Are you destroying this place?"
Digifanatic heads into the northern door.
Aetos goes into the north door
Metal Man (GM): There are 7 doors to the East in the north room. They're labeled 1-7.
Julian Sawyer: "Nope, just being curious."
Aetos tries to open door # 1
Julian Sawyer: "...Prize Wall..."
Metal Man (GM): *ZAP*
Aetos: "Gah!"
Metal Man (GM): 15 electric damage to Aetos. Door doesn't open.
Digifanatic: "Yes, Monty, I'll take what's behind door..."
Garrick Fy`aar looks at this new problem...
Metal Man (GM): Door 4.
Digifanatic: "Eh... I'll try the fourth."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...we've seen too many door puzzles as Questers..."
Digifanatic walks up to Door #4.
Metal Man (GM): *ZAP* 15 electric damage to Digi.
Digifanatic: "Youch!"
MrMonster: "Hrm..."
Digifanatic: "Well, that's 2 out of 6..."
Julian Sawyer: "Two's my lucky number..." *Tries said door*
Metal Man (GM): *ZAP*
Julian Sawyer: "OW!"
Metal Man (GM): 15 electric damage.
MrMonster tries door number 3...
Metal Man (GM): *ZAP* 15 electric damage.
Garrick Fy`aar goes up and gives number...6 a try
Aetos sighs
Metal Man (GM): The door opens.
MrMonster: "... You know? I hate doors."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I'm so lucky."
Metal Man (GM): ZAP! Garrick takes 0 electric damage.
Digifanatic: "Hmm... six doors... six of us."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): The next room has a big wall.
Julian Sawyer: "Hate doors..."
Digifanatic: "Could be a coincidence, maybe not..."
Metal Man (GM): It looks maze-like.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh perfect."
Metal Man (GM): You see the ruins of some sort of stairs around here.
Aetos enters door 6 with them
Digifanatic enters this next sinister room.
Julian Sawyer: "...Damn it."
Metal Man (GM): There's some sort of energy wall... a door made of it, which is open, which enters the maze. It's open.
MrMonster enters the room and looks up the wall... And the door.
Metal Man (GM): The wall itself is made of... a sideways staircase.
Digifanatic: "Well... we can take this the hard way, or, considering this energy doesn't block... we could all get ported to the opposite end of this... royal pain."
MrMonster hrms and walks over to the energy wall and taps it...
Metal Man (GM): Your hand goes through the energy door.
Garrick Fy`aar: "The hardest path leads to better rewards."
Digifanatic: "Well..."
MrMonster heads through the door and just keeps going straight...
Digifanatic carefully walks through this door.
Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, but the hardest path is also the hardest path."
Garrick Fy`aar follows
Digifanatic chuckles at Julian's comment.
Julian Sawyer: *Moves on*
Metal Man (GM): *BZAP* The door shuts when MrMonster crosses it.
Aetos: "!"
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Digifanatic: "Oh, that's just..."
Aetos is still outside the maze, uh oh.
Metal Man (GM): MrMonster: You see a split in the path ahead: Left, or right?
Julian Sawyer: "This is the second time something like that's happened today... By Monster, no less..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...heh. Oh well."
MrMonster turns around behind him and tries to poke the door again... "Come on..."
Metal Man (GM): The door zaps you for 15 electric damage.
Julian Sawyer: *Signs "Don't Get Killed" to Monster through the wall*
MrMonster: "Gah! I hate these electric devices..." *The Trulander squints at Julian, not being able to understand sign language... He just turns around and heads right...*
Digifanatic: "I wonder if..."
Metal Man (GM): There are three paths, all go upwards. Leftmost, middlemost, or rightmost upward path?
Digifanatic: "Nah, probably block us and it'd be a waste."
Aetos: "A Door opener?"
Digifanatic: "No, I was saying I could all port you guys through the door, which would help because we have more people trying to find a way through at once, but if the door prevents such actions, I just wasted my only shot."
MrMonster heads up the middlemost path.
Julian Sawyer: "Where else would you use it?"
Metal Man (GM): You walk into it.... *PZEEEEERRRRM*
Digifanatic: "Exactly."
Metal Man (GM): You're zapped back to the start.
Julian Sawyer: "...pzeeeeerrrrm?"
Metal Man (GM): The door unlocks to the maze.
Julian Sawyer: "...Right, who's next? Hiya Monster."
MrMonster blinks and shakes his head... "That... Was odd."
Digifanatic: "Anyways... I'll go next. What route did you take?"
Aetos waits.
MrMonster: "I went to the right and then disappeared when I went straight..."
Digifanatic: "Alright."
Julian Sawyer: "Don't get killed."
Digifanatic: "I shouldn't..." *He enters, and tries Right, then Left.*
Metal Man (GM): Left? Which left? You have three upward paths. Leftmost, middlemost, and rightmost. *PZZEEEEEEERRRRMMM*
Aetos: "Hi again..."
Julian Sawyer: "Slipped up?"
Metal Man (GM): You reappear with the others like MrMonster did.
Julian Sawyer: "I'll go next."
Digifanatic: "Dah... you're down to right-rightmost."
Aetos: "I'm gunna go after Julian then... if he fails"
Digifanatic: "If you wanna try that way."
Julian Sawyer: "Always go right." *Enters the maze Heads right, then rightmost*
Metal Man (GM): You get up, where a simple path to the end of the maze is. You reach a staircase... *BZEEERM* The walls to the maze disappear, and the room now is only with a staircase.
Julian Sawyer: "Alright!" *Goes to the end-maze, wary for traps*
Metal Man (GM): The staircase itself is just like the others. Oddly familiar.
Julian Sawyer: "... This place is so confusing..." *Heads up it*
Metal Man (GM): Everybody else: You see Julian go up the staircase. Do you follow?
Digifanatic: "Well..."
Aetos follows up the staircase "Hopefully the erm, Solarguy is up top."
Digifanatic: "I might as well..." *He follows Aetos.*
MrMonster blinks and follows.
Metal Man (GM): Up you go... you have another plain room made of old staircases and sheet metal. One door West, one door East.
Julian Sawyer: "See? Always go right. Speaking of which..." *Checks the East door*
Metal Man (GM): You see the magic of a gigantic pit room. That is... Then the door shocks you.
Julian Sawyer: "...This again?"
Metal Man (GM): 15 electric damage.
Julian Sawyer: *GAH!* "Hate this place... Left it is then..." *Goes to the West door*
Metal Man (GM): The left door leads to a balcony. A very... precarious balcony.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
MrMonster follows Julian.
Metal Man (GM): You can see that you're 30 feet up.
Julian Sawyer: "We must be at the top, then..."
Metal Man (GM): ...You see that the tower keeps on going up and up.
Julian Sawyer: "...Or not..."
Metal Man (GM): there's another door across the balcony.
Azure: "Long..."
Julian Sawyer: *Heads towards it*
Aetos goes onto the balcony.
Digifanatic follows the others...
Aetos then follows Julian...
Azure walks carefully toward it
Digifanatic then takes the next door. "Now I'm starting to remember an old something..."
Julian Sawyer: "?"
Digifanatic: "That old element mansion from who knows how long ago..."
Metal Man (GM): Well, your voyage across the balcony is just nice and peachy until an evil ape leaps down and smacks Julian ..Or the air that used to be where Julian was standing. *DUEL*
Julian Sawyer: *Rolls under it and ends up behind it* "The hell? Monkey?"
Metal Man (GM): Julian vs. Evil Ape The ape's eyes are red. It is holding a blunt piece of debris.
Julian Sawyer: "...Whuzzat? A club? Please." *Julian decides to end this quickly, and tries uppercutting the Ape off the balcony with a Stylish Hit*
Metal Man (GM): How odd... the ape moves like the Flash. It blocks your uppercut with the piece of debris.
Julian Sawyer: "You're fast... for a monkey." *Tries again with the other arm*
Metal Man (GM): Your attack goes right through it ..It's a hologram! Ahhhhhhh!!!!
Aetos: "Uhh?"
Julian Sawyer: "...How the?"
Metal Man (GM): ...Or a magical projection.
Julian Sawyer: "Wasn't it just solid a second ago?"
Metal Man (GM): Either way, it doesn't get damaged by physical attacks.
Julian Sawyer: "Man this is confusin'..." *Which is all Julian has. Perfect.*
Metal Man (GM): Julian: Anything else? You could ask for an item from someone else.
Julian Sawyer: "YO! Anyone of you got a damaging item?"
Aetos summons a melee item!
MrMonster: "... Besides my swords, no... Why?"
Julian Sawyer: "Wait a sec... Anyone got a Death Stick? My punches are goin' right through this thing!"
Aetos: *Poof, a Starman falls onto the balcony...* "Sigh... well... the one time I wanted a WEAPON from this..."
Julian Sawyer: "...That'll do." *Catches the Starman*
Metal Man (GM): *Starman-tastic* The ape suddenly morphs.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Azure: "That's unexpected...."
Metal Man (GM): It becomes a hologram of a suit of armor with an ethereal sword.
Azure: "Yet expected..."
Metal Man (GM): Which then swipes at you.
Julian Sawyer: "...Now you're a knight?"
Metal Man (GM): The sword swipes are unwieldy and wild... They mostly carve slices in the balcony.
Julian Sawyer: "Still can't aim."
Aetos: "Sooo, he can hurt us, but we can't hurt it?"
Julian Sawyer: "Aetos! Gimme another item!"
Aetos summons another melee item. *Poof, a heart container.* *...* "MAN WHAT THE HELL!?"
Julian Sawyer: "...I could use that." *TAKE*
Hologram: "Destroy."
Metal Man (GM): It flickers a bit in and out.
Azure: *Looks around for a projector or something.*
MrMonster: "... Just run right past that ghost!"
Metal Man (GM): No projector seen... it's just in the way.
Julian Sawyer: *After the healing, Julian takes out Vendetta and ignites it... Then runs through the hologram at Monster's suggestion towards the other side*
Metal Man (GM): It attacks you as you walk into attacking range, morphing into a Velociraptor. 45 damage if that hits. Then you bump into it. *BONK* It's solid, all right.
Julian Sawyer: *Is barely chomped* "...What the hell! Make up your damn mind whether you solid or not!"
Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* It is gone. So is the light on your lightsaber.
Julian Sawyer: "...Woohoo! ...What the?"
Metal Man (GM): Looks like a minor repair is gonna be needed.
Julian Sawyer: *Tries igniting it again.*
Metal Man (GM): BZRT. Repair needed. The door ahead is clear.
Julian Sawyer: "...dammit! We better get those tools..." *Heads on*
Metal Man (GM): It won't take much to fix, but... you can't take it apart right here.
Azure: *Advances as well.*
Aetos heads on through the door ahead
Julian Sawyer: *Puts Venetta back in his back pocket*
Digifanatic follows again.
Metal Man (GM): You enter... and see another staircase up.
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Heads up it*
MrMonster follows, slightly confused as to what happened in that last encounter with that 'ghost'.
Digifanatic does so as well...
Aetos goes up too.
Digifanatic: "This land is not afraid to throw altitude switches on us, that's for sure."
Azure: "Really..."
Metal Man (GM): You reach... well well, this room sure is curious.
Digifanatic: "Up the mountain then back down to get to this place and back up through this place..."
Metal Man (GM): No doors anywhere. Just walls.
Julian Sawyer: "... What the hell."
Metal Man (GM): There's parts of the wall made of sandstone, that's it.
Digifanatic: "Maybe there's a revolving door or something camouflauged into this place."
Azure: "Well let's get to it..."
Aetos: "Maybe..."
Digifanatic tries to figure out exactly any ideas through this room of doom...
Metal Man (GM): Those sandstone areas look intriguing.
Digifanatic: "My suspicion might be true..."
Metal Man (GM): One of them, the north one, looks vaguely like a door.
Azure: *Starts on the side wall opposite to where they are and starts moving his hands around the walls sandstone examining each one slowly.*
Digifanatic feels amongst that wall for something that revolves.
MrMonster starts on the wall to the right of them and begins knocking on the walls, trying to determing if they're hollow.
Metal Man (GM): Azure: You feel a doorknob on the northern door. Digi feels the same doorknob.
Azure: "Hello....."
Metal Man (GM): The other wall is perfectly smooth.
Digifanatic: "Oh, sorry."
Azure: "Digi my friend I think we have it."
Metal Man (GM): MrMonster: They're hollow.
Digifanatic: "Yup."
Metal Man (GM): Both North and West.
Digifanatic: "Like I said, camoflauge."
Julian Sawyer: "Right, so open it and let's move on."
Azure backs off "You do the honors."
Digifanatic opens the door, considering it's not locked.
Azure: "And let's get the hell out of here... into the next weird one..."
Metal Man (GM): *ZAP* 15 damage to Digi. It's another fake door.
Digifanatic: "Fooled again!"
Azure: "Ouch... maybe I should have pulled..."
Digifanatic: "Nah, I'm good. Switched my Wonder Badge for Stone Skin."
Metal Man (GM): The other sandstone wall is perfectly smooth.
Aetos wonders if he could just punch through a wall hehe
MrMonster paces back and forth next to the western wall, knowing it's hallow... "I think we may have to make a door for this wall."
Aetos cracks his knuckles
Julian Sawyer: *Twitch*
Aetos walks up to the western wall He searches for another doorknob...
Metal Man (GM): There's no doorknob in that western wall.
Aetos attempts to punch through the sandstone then...
Digifanatic: "Man, I hope we don't have to backtrack to that electric room..."
Metal Man (GM): *BAM* the sandstone crumbles.
Digifanatic: "Nope."
Metal Man (GM): ...This room is odd... very odd.
Julian Sawyer: "No... more... zaps..."
Metal Man (GM): There's electronic stuff everywhere.
Aetos backs up
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Digifanatic enters the next room.
Metal Man (GM): In fact, you see a console.
Julian Sawyer: *Twitch* *Moves on*
MrMonster heads into this room.
Digifanatic: "Okay..."
Azure: *Sighs walking forward.*
Digifanatic walks over to the console.
Metal Man (GM): It says 'Holo emitters offline'
Garrick Fy`aar moves in as well
Metal Man (GM): There's a lot of wires and stuff in here... ...looks like some of it used to be in that ship.
Digifanatic: "I got a bad feeling that it's wise to leave this off..."
Julian Sawyer: "...Well, think we found the parts you need, Garrick... or at least some of it."
Metal Man (GM): Wired for sure... but in use, of course.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...someone used the stuff."
Metal Man (GM): You'd notice some other stuff laying around.
Julian Sawyer: "So? You can use it now."
Digifanatic: "Let's see here..."
Julian Sawyer: *Hey, other stuff! Looks*
Metal Man (GM): Some random food in bags, and various personal belongings.
Garrick Fy`aar: "This thing is jury-rigged like mad... look at this..."
Digifanatic walks over to the other stuff..."
Garrick Fy`aar gets a good look at all the wires...
Metal Man (GM): You can tell it was put together by a professional.
Azure: *Inspects the personal belongings.*
Metal Man (GM): The wires, some of them made without insulation, others taken from that aircraft, go through the floors and walls. The belongings are just some razors and clothes and old shoes.
MrMonster looks about the room, wondering what this place is...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...let's give it a go." *He flips the holo emitters on...*
Azure: "Bah... no information here just... cloths." *Sighs.*
Metal Man (GM): *BZZT* Same noise as Julian's light saber. Needs to be repaired.
Digifanatic: "Whoa."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...alright then. Stand back, people..." *He makes sure they're off again before flipping out his multi-tool and having at it...*
Metal Man (GM): However, right now it just shows a blue sphere hologram.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hmmm..."
Aetos walks up to the blue sphere "What is this?"
Digifanatic: "Well then..."
Metal Man (GM): The sphere does not respond, but it looks rather unique.
Aetos tries to grab it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Don't TOUCH it!"
Aetos: *Too late... ish*
Metal Man (GM): You touch it... it makes various noises.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Lord, what IS it with you and touching stuff that you should TOUCH?!"
Julian Sawyer: "What is with you and touching?"
Metal Man (GM): Strange foreign text floats around in the hologram thing.
Aetos: "It always ends up being good so far you know... except the giant stone statue in the first ruins..."
Metal Man (GM): Then it proclaims 'CRYO STASIS UNIT DEFROST ACTIVATED'
Azure: "Reminds... me of Gibby so..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...uh oh..."
Azure: "Cryo... whats... what..."
Metal Man (GM): And then the gibberish disappears... the thingy is back on standby.
Aetos: "! The man! He's..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Cryo status... deep freeze."
Digifanatic: "He'd be right..."
Azure: "Deep freeze would do what now..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "It freezes a person in suspended animation."
Digifanatic: "Well, it says the defrost is activated..."
MrMonster: "Where is this person, though?"
Azure: "Oh right... ok I get it." .oO(What the hell is suspended animation...)
Garrick Fy`aar looks at the console to try and determine this...
Metal Man (GM): You determine that your nose is 3 inches long. However, that doesn't help much...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...grrr." *He shakes it off and tries one more time...*
Metal Man (GM): Oh! Now it's 3.1482610106105306 inches long. Your nose must have been measured inaccurately the first time. After all, it is the year 11,287. The clock on this machine makes no sense. Though it is correct on what time it is. The date seems weird and incorrect.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Azure: "Maybe it's made of their calendar or something?"
Metal Man (GM): There's a door that goes North, out of this room.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...it's probably onwards a ways."