You are in a dungeon.
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- mantrakid1
Ugh, i cant seem to post my post - there's something causing it to get blocked by qbn... i dont understand what...
- The word "Halfway" is blocked lol weirdmantrakid
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- mantrakid3
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You yell at the door hoping to communicate with the goblins, but their frantic shouting is in a language you cant understand and is barely loud clear to make out anyway.
You look at the coin, it looks like a simple silver coin with the head of a goblin on one side and a 4 leaf clover on the other. There is no writing or markings on the coin other than that.
You try putting the lens in front of Dennis' eyes but it just makes him blink and squint. Putting it in front of your own eyes just distorts the hallway into a tiny, magnified, upside down version of itself.
- i_monk4
Flip the coin:
Goblin head = go left
Clover = go right- I say we go whichever direction the goblins *didn't* come from. Which seems to be right? I'm not sure.sarahfailin
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- Wolfboy2
I need more information, I need to get my bearings. 50 paces doesn’t seem like much, so quickly quietly check out each end of the corridor. As I reach each end I crouch and peer carefully at the new parts of the dungeon so I can make a decision on which way to go.
- garbage-2
Move down to the end of the hallway before flipping the coin, take a gander down each corridor. Check inventory.
- lol who downvotes caution when escaping a fucking dungeon?garbage
- We know the inventory from mantra's last postsarahfailin
- scarabin4
Attack again, aiming for its throat with our shiv. Hoping to get a good stab or two in and then strangle the thing.
Thank goodness it’s unarmed!
- I want to silence this dude. We heard a couple other voices out therescarabin
- ok, this. but dice roll for the genitals flapping/dangling.sarahfailin
- Interrogative to the DM: Is the orange light coming from an item the Goblin has, or is it emanating from outside the cell?garbage
- ^^ lolscarabin
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- Been a bit busy at work today haha sorry for the delay. :)mantrakid
- No worries man, proceed at your leisurescarabin
- mantrakid2
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The itch near your genitals is slightly satisfied.
You push on the door to slam it shut and it closes but doesnt 'latch' - there is a mechanism on the door that looks like a wheel with a series of switches.
You surmise that the switches are likely some type of combination for unlocking the cell and hope that just by manipulating the wheel you can lock / fasten it.
*ROLLS*
You spin the wheel to the left and immediately hear a sound like a large piece of metal springing out from the interior of the door into the wall, locking it in place. You can hear the goblins' muffled anguish behind the door. At least they have a poop hole.
Looking around it appears you are in a simple hallway, no other doors exist within your view, there is a passage to the right and to the left of the door you're standing in front of, but both passages turn a sharp 90 degree corner after about 50 paces.
The hallway is lit with the same dimly orange light that spilled into the cell earlier, but you begin to notice that there is no source for it - it appears to be.. everywhere. Looking down at your feet you don't even see a shadow and the strangeness of everything being lit equally begins messing with your mind.
Dennis peeks out from the cloth glove, and his eye, glowing green, adds some shading and definition to things when it mixes with the orange light.
The hallway itself is silent.
- Ah shit, i ended it too early. Give me a sec Ill do a follow up post for the other actions.mantrakid
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- mantrakid3
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' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'You immediately lunge at the goblin before it gets a chance to react...
*ROLL*
Your wooden shiv penetrates its throat and you pull it out opening the wound! It reaches up in pain as blood gushes down its neck onto its simple clothes. You reach to strangle the goblin and prevent it from alerting the others, but you can already hear 'booted' footsteps at a distance outside the open doorway. They echo as if in a long hallway but they definitely sound like they are quickly approaching.
Dennis rushes over to you, his eye wide open and gleaming green again, which gives the room an odd hue when it mixes with the dim, flat orange light coming from the hallway.
- mantrakid4
Your eyes—puffy and crusted with dried tears—open weakly as you regain consciousness. You feel the cold stone under your back.
Looking up, you see only darkness, but as your head falls limply to the side your eyes can make out a subtle hint of light coming from a thin horizontal crack along the base of what must be a nearby wall.
- garbage1
Strip and search the goblin as quickly as possible, grab Dennis and cover his glowing eye with one of the gloves, run outside and tuck in behind the outswung door, perfectly hidden and waiting for the footfalls to approach.
- Also gentle pat Dennis and hope it somehow comforts him while we hide behind the door.garbage
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- mantrakid2
You stand next to the door and yell and holler loudly like you're in a great deal of pain. Surmising that the door likely opens outwards, due to the lack of visible hinges, you stand with your back against the wall on the right side of the doorway, with poop shiv at the ready.
*ROLL*
Dennis gets frightened by your yelling and skitters off towards the poop hole with the twine still attached to his leg. He keeps his eye open to look at you but it looks noticeably dimmer than it did a moment ago, which brings the brightness of the room down by about half.
Suddenly, you hear activity on the other side of the door. A man's voice yells out something in a language you can't understand. You start to hear a couple more voices joining his but from a distance, and as they get closer/louder, you hear a sort of metal grinding coming from a mechanism being operated on the other side of the door.
A loud 'KELAK' is heard and in seconds the door begins to swing outwards, a dim orange light fills the room and mixes with Dennis' greenish hue which...
*ROLL*
Quickly disappears entirely, looking over at the poop hole, Dennis' eye is now entirely dark, but in the soft orange light you can still make out his shape quivering in the corner.
A four foot goblin-looking creature enters the cell, unarmed, and immediately starts looking around. You can hear other voices getting nearer still as you stab your poop knife towards the goblin.
*ROLL*
The poop shiv grazes its shoulder—causing it to take a step backwards & deeper into the cell with you. It turns towards you, ready to attack, and you see the scratch the poop shiv made start to pool with the slight bit of blood.
- cannonball19780
*following along*
Can the DM start their posts with an announcement bar so we know what's officially happening?
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SHUT UP THE DM IS TALKING SILENCE I SAY SILENCE YOU
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- Btw thanks mantra, this is fun as hell. Adding a link in the notes so one can easily click through the story is really cleverscarabin
- If someone was bored and felt like illustrating each turn we could make a bookscarabin
- mantrakid is the DM, so you know the DM is talking when mantra speakethsarahfailin
- Of course. I just mean for scanning.cannonball1978
- I can absolutely put a little header on them! I did the links in the notes so you could basically click through the story one click a time and it should isolatemantrakid
- But ill definitely put a header on the 'dm posts' now!mantrakid
- mantrakid1
You approach the crack and feel around the wall. There is indeed a door there! It feels wooden, but you cant find any trace of a handle or hinges on this side.
You notice the texture of the wood is raw and splintered around the edges as if someone had already been clawing / scratching at it. There is a large splinter about 7" long that would likely break off if enough pressure was applied.
You put your head near the door in an attempt to listen for activity on the other side but it seems quiet.
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- sarahfailin0
I grab whatever is producing the dim orange light from the goblin (presumably a torch?), side-kick him in the gut, knocking him backwards into the cell. I abandon Dennis and slam the door shut behind me, locking the goblin inside.
I stand for a moment in the hall and look around. My exposed genitals dangle in the humid air.
- garbage0
On the assumption that the attack worked, I realize that abandoning Dennis was a dick move, and my nakedness is too stark for an escape. Re-enter chamber, go to for the heart, acquire goblin disguise, feed Dennis a little piece of ear from the fallen foe.
- goblin skin is too thick to be pierced by your 7" splinter!sarahfailin
- even a regular human wouldn't likely be killed by a wooden shiv to the chest. better to go for the kidneys.sarahfailin
- Eyes then kidneys then. We're already in a dungeon, might as Those clothes are a must. Plus he might have some gear.garbage
- mantrakid0
When you stick the shiv in the poopy hole, it gets a little bit of poop on it, but nothing else happens.
Dennis has become pre-occupied with getting the twine untied from his leg.
- scarabin3
Stand to the side of the door and howl like a dying man, trying to lure a guard into the cell, where i intend to stab him with the poop knife
- i_monk1
How tall is the door? I go to the opposite wall, hold Dennis as high as I can and point his eyes into the crevice. Can I see anything?
- the door is too high to do this I think, which is why we're yeeting dennis towards the hole up there.sarahfailin
- babydick-1
You have died of dysentery
- fake news, doesn't happen in 14 hours.sted
- let's try to be realistic here.sarahfailin
- pango2
I look at my hands. then turn them over to look at the back of them with sense of wonder.
- take a look at these hands!
take a look at these hands!sarahfailin
- take a look at these hands!