You are in a dungeon.
- Started
- Last post
- 93 Responses
- 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
- scarabin6
Sit up and pat my person for injuries and items.
Shout “hello?”
- Do i have a sense of who i am?scarabin
- <--mantrakid
- Continued @ https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- 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?!"
- Also: examine coin, and fashion a laser monocle for Dennis while waiting on an answer from the trapped goblins.garbage
- <<<<this is a good ideasarahfailin
- -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- 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
- https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- scarabin3
If there’s time, quickly craft two hand wraps, equip, and...
ATTACK!
My intent is to try and capture the thing, but failing that will attempt its death or injury by shiv
- If we catch it, we make tools out of the corpse. Skittering implies bones.garbage
- Odd note for the DM: IRL scara saves injured birds. I've put them out of their misery and given them respectful shoebox funerals.garbage
- Yeah. But maybe it knows of an exit or becomes a useful companion?scarabin
- This is great, im busting out the dice now. :Dmantrakid
- -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- @scara I love your thinking.garbage
- sarahfailin2
Seeing nothing of particular interest to the left, and fearing more Goblins may await in that direction, I decide to explore first what is to the right.
Before heading off to the right, I look down at lil' Dennis who seems to be antsy to walk on his own, and I tie his leash around my wrist. "Stick by me lil buddy," I whisper to him.
I unfold the folded cloth and wrap all of my inventory items up in it, so I can more easily carry them with one hand.
I shuffle off the other way, stepping lightly to avoid making any noises. Dennis walks just ahead of me, illuminating the floor and perhaps knowing better the lay of this dungeon. I peer around the corner before proceeding down the passageway to the right.
((unless there's some obvious danger or reason why I shouldn't, I say explore the area to the right and see what is there. if there are any other turns or doorways, I quietly and carefully peek check out the areas before going forward. lead on, DM!))
- Also put gloves oncannonball1978
- I tuck my (still exposed) male genitalia into one of the cloth gloves. The glove hangs like a cow's udder from the front of me.sarahfailin
- -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- 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.
- Inventory:
- Bloody Makeshift Shiv
- Cloth Gloves
- Leashed Dennis
- Small Coin
- Glass Lens
- Folded Clothmantrakid - -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- Inventory:
- mantrakid3
.--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--.
:::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! ACTION TIME !
' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'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.
- mantrakid3
.--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--.
:::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! MORE ACTION TIME !
' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'continued from: https://www.qbn.com/reply/402793…
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.
- cannonball19780
*following along*
Can the DM start their posts with an announcement bar so we know what's officially happening?
================================...
/// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// ================================...
SHUT UP THE DM IS TALKING SILENCE I SAY SILENCE YOU
================================...
/// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// ================================...- 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
- 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
- _me_-1
you enter a room...
grafician is there.
do you ?
A: beat him to death
B:- B: bludgeon him to deathi_was
- https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- ^loli_was
- C: Clobber him to deathsarahfailin
- E: beat him to death, then undeath, then death againcannonball1978
- you guys have serious issuesgrafician
- scarabin1
Poke the shiv into the poopy hole and see if there’s anything in it
- i haven’t said that in a whilescarabin
- (lofl)garbage
- -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- scarabin2
Start thinking about those scratches, wondering what made them and if i’m in any danger.
Shiv in right hand, turn to where i heard the noise earlier. Wrap pants cloth around left hand to protect it and investigate the area, looking for whatever made the sound
- mantrakid3
Wearily, you push yourself up off the stone and sit upright. Your hands search your body and feel sand and dirt brushing off your naked arms and chest.
Desperately you try to recall how you got here or where 'here' even is, but your mind runs blank with blunted panic. Your head throbs in time with your quickening heart rate but upon feeling for wounds or trauma, you feel only your dry skin. You try to imagine yourself—to think of your name—but your mind comes up empty, which only adds to the building terror.
Your legs adjust along with your aching muscles and as your body weight shifts its centre of balance, you feel a fabric on your legs rustling against the ground. Upon closer inspection with your hands, it feels like a type of coarsely woven fibre is wrapped around your legs and waist—the seams stitched with thin strips of leather or twine.
Nothing else seems to be on or around these 'pants'.
- mantrakid2
Hahah oof this is a lot of work what have i got myself into haha. <3
- mantrakid1
.--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--.
:::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! ACTION TIME !
' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'Inspecting the various desks and tables you cant seem to find a lantern or candle which is odd considering how dark the room would be without Dennis' eye-glow bathing the room in the greenish light. You continue your search through the books and notice on one of the desks behind some glass flasks, there is one laying wide open.
You walk over to the open book, holding Dennis and comforting his still quivering body. Directly on the open pages of the book is an illustration of a creature that looks exactly like Dennis, you scan the adjacent page. Written in a simple script in common you are astonished to see that it appears to be a thorough description of your crab-like friend.
---
The Cycrab is an incredibly rare creature found in the seaside region of Twar. Its smooth, thick, crustacean-like shell protects a paradoxically complex biology including a heart, brain and central nervous system.
One of the most peculiar features of this unusual creature is the large eye ball found embedded directly in the center of its hard shell. Stranger still is that the creature initially appears to not have any other source of processing sustenance for survival. Through vast experimentation it has been discovered that it gains nourishment from light sources entering its cornea.
The Cycrab can live up to 100 years of age, with the average age being approximately 87 years old. While the newborns are quite small—roughly 6-10 ropknots in diameter on average—adult Cycrabs can grow to an incredible size, some reaching as large as a young elephorg.
There is much to learn in regards to a Cycrab’s physiology and intelligence. They appear to be a highly empathetic, hyper-aware creature. There may be some links to its usage of light as nourishment that could mean they have an instinctual grasp on light-based biological telemetry.
---
You look up from the book and at your new one-eyed friend & it blinks at you innocently, the room flickers as its eye closes for that fraction of an instant.
- Continued @ https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- nicely written!sarahfailin
- Chlamydia pneumoniae (TWAR) is a recently recognized third species of the genus Chlamydia that causes acute respiratory disease.sarahfailin
- scarabin2
Quietly try and crack the door a bit to take a peek inside.
If it doesn’t open, investigate what’s down the hall in the other direction