You are in a dungeon.

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  • sarahfailin1

    I scrape the bowl with the shiv, removing a small amount of encrusted food which I feed to Dennis, to further strengthen our bond to each other. I then point him to the crevasse above the door, holding the leash and say, "go Dennis!" expecting him to climb up the door without any yeeting necessary.

    I look through the crack at the bottom of the door to see if I can get any glimpse at what is on the other side...

  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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
    • -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
    • Been a bit busy at work today haha sorry for the delay. :)mantrakid
    • No worries man, proceed at your leisurescarabin
  • 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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    • etccannonball1978
    • 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
  • mantrakid3

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    :::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! ACTION TIME !
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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.

  • 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.

  • mantrakid4

    .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--.
    :::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! ACTION TIME !
    ' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'

    The goblin falls to the ground, still clutching its throat as blood continues to throb out of the wound.

    *ROLL (for the approaching footsteps)*

    Searching the goblin you find a small folded piece of cloth, a coin and a circular glass lens, potentially some type of monacle or telescopic lens. Everything is small enough to grab. in one hand.

    The goblin is wearing cloth pants and a shirt, and simple leather boots.

    *ROLL (for the approaching footsteps)*

    You can hear the footsteps louder now, but a voice calls out and tells you there's still a bit of time. You quickly pick up Dennis and while covering his eye with the glove you dart out of the room and behind the now fully opened door, making yourself as small as possible between the door and the stone wall.

    *ROLL (for the approaching footsteps)*

    You manage to fully conceal yourself before the footsteps arrive and, with pained breath, you stay hidden behind the door as you hear the footsteps round a corner and approach the open doorway.

    Peering through the thin vertical crack between the door and the wall, you can see there are 2 goblins similarly dressed as the first one. They both enter the room and find their colleague on the ground, unconscious and still bleeding. In a panic they both rush to his side.

  • i_monk0

    Slam the door into them, then get stabby.

  • sarahfailin3

    I scratch my still ambiguous genitals discretely from behind the door, clutching Dennis and my other objects against my side. As the two goblins rush to their dying comrade's side, I throw the cell door closed and shut the latch, trapping them all inside.

    I look around the hallway, assessing the new area that I am in. Then I lean against the door and ask them "Do you speak Common? What is this place?!"

  • caterpus0

    I steal a roll of towel paper from the 2nd floor bathroom after taking a critical shit.

  • mantrakid2

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    ' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'

    *ROLLS*

    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.

  • cannonball19781

    Creep down the left corridor shading Dennis' eye, peek around the corner.

  • mantrakid3

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    :::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! MORE ACTION TIME !
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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.

  • scarabin2

    Inspect cloth.

    If it helps, use it like a pouch to make carrying things easier

  • i_monk4

    Flip the coin:

    Goblin head = go left
    Clover = go right

  • 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
  • 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.

  • mantrakid1

    Ugh, i cant seem to post my post - there's something causing it to get blocked by qbn... i dont understand what...