The Misadventures of the Missed Adventurers

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[feel free to have narp swing his sword as many times as nessesary. he's good at that. idea for three: invulnerable to physical or magical damage, but not both at the same time. i just got to get creative and come up with words. having trouble thinking up stuff. we need more people to take on some of this plot stuff. ]

[ June 13, 2003, 05:34: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[We don't really have any way to deal magical damage (I could bake a clay golem with a hot sun, but I can't really do anything to stone without flooding the cavern), so that won't work well. Besides, we did that with the golem. However, we may be able to use one of the fallen heads to sneak a dispell past the defenses into the source behind the wall to cut off its supply of power, causing it to become normal stone. Like so:]

Jack notices that he can now get to the fallen first head without being in the range of the surviving third, and walks over to examine it more closely. After a few minutes, he says
"I think I know how we can unravel the enchantment now. It seems the defenses watch for spells coming from outside. We just need to put a delayed dispel into one of the heads, and repair it. After that, it will rejoin, the dispel will go off, and it will skip the defenses."
"Retarde Le Charme"
Jack puts his hands together and then draws them apart; as they separate, half of a small glowing green sphere can be seen between them.
"D, dispel this for me."
D casts dispel at the half-orb, but just before the dispel takes effect, the orb completes itself, encompassing the dispel-spell. Jack then places the glowing sphere into the mouth of the first fallen head, and closes it. He then taps his fingers together, and again, glowing green lines can be seen flowing between them. He quickly writes several runes on the severed head, then backs away.

The fallen head then rises and re-attaches itself to the wall. Jack smiles and incants
"Dégagement"
At that, the heads slow down, the glow leaves their eyes, and they are still.

"We should be able to proceed now."

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[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[guess i didn't think to much about that one. D, can you give yourself some offensive spells, please?]
the three adventurers find a room with doors on the left, middle and right. the door over the left has rabbits circling it, the one on the middle owls and the one on the right turtles. Narp says "in classic literature, the rabbit represents speed, the owl represents wisdom and the turtle perseverence. it seems we are being offered a choice of tests. i think between the three of us we stand the best chance at the middle door. what do you guys think?"
D. "i'm just tagging along."

ooc:[ok, just post a preference, then i'll troop our adventures through a door and come up with some problems and a few solutions. i really should have come up with something for the third head, i'm over my allergy attack. D, could you post a few spells for your guy please?]

[ June 13, 2003, 07:26: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

"We might just learn something from a wisdom test, and that is always valuable. However, if there isn't too much of a hurry...."
Jack sits down and begins reading his newest book.

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[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[going now]
after about an hour, jack gets up and the three adventerers troop through the middle door, where they are faced with a simple trap: the walls on both sides of the cooridor are covered with stone blocks, which are covered with spikes. the door slames shut behind them. a carved face appears on the opposing wall and says "you will be presented with 3 riddles and 5 questions. fail at any and die. to answer, say 'the answer is' and then state your answer. the first question is: given the insolubility of oridice, what is the best magical spell for melding it with nydium?"
the three adventureres huddle and jack says "oridice strongly resists magic and combining with other materials, so a spell of magic vulnerability and a spell of solubility would seem nessasary. but the face seems to specify only one spell is nessesary, which seems impossible. what are the properties of nydium? every time i asked my master about it he'd say i wasn't ready. and then he would shudder a little."
narp "before i learned that my capabilities where better spent as a fighter, i spent some years learning to be a scholar. i once found an obscure reference in an old book that simply stated that 'nydium is a dangerious material. nydium is volitile.'"
jack "a spell of characteristic balance then? but the oridice would resist it. perhaps if it was sequenced...if the nydium is magically volitile to, which is the only solution i see, then make that part of the spell the strongest and balance that characteristic first and it should work."
everyone else "ok."
jack turns to face and says "the answer is: a spell of characteristic balance, made so that the part to balance the magical resistances is stronger and goes off first."
the face says "the answer is correct. the first riddle is: what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?"
narp "this thing is really old, isn't it?"
everyone nearly trips over each other giving the answer.
the face says "the answer is correct"
ooc:[hope you don't mind my sticking words in jack's mouth. feel free to post some rewrites if you don't like them. didn't see any other way to solve a question and a riddle though and i felt i should do a big post. 4 questions and 2 riddles to go. just occured to me that not everyone might have run into that riddle, so the answer is: a human. crawling in the morning of his life, walking on two feet in the noon, the answers i've read say afternoon but it make more sense to me as noon, walking with a cane in the evening.]

[ June 13, 2003, 08:36: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[As long as we don't have others' characters say anything that puts traits on / removes possible traits from the speaking character, it should be OK.]

ooc:[The other way this could be done is for one of us to pose a question that the other's character should be able to answer, and wait for the other to post the response. You are running a fighter-type character, so questions on weapons or armor are appropriet; I'm running a mage, so questions on physics or logic are appropriet. We also ought to throw in imaginary questions (like the nydium/oridice question). Your character is a good target for story-world history, as mine's from a different plane and your's was going to be a scholar; my character is a good target for magic physics, as he's a rather skilled mage. D's is a good choice for a mouthpiece when riddles are posed, as he is a wise and mysterious character, and is thus likely to have responses for them.]

Face: "The second question: What is a cranequin used for?"
ooc:[Question for narp - weapon related; real.]

[ June 13, 2003, 09:42: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

narp "well, a crenequin is a crossbow, so it's used to shoot bolts and kill people. but is that two uses?"
D. "doesn't that make it a weapon?"
narp "your brilliant!"
narp "the answer is: a crenequin is used for a weapon."
face "the answer is correct."
ooc:[don't you just love the internet?]
face "The second riddle is: Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
ooc:[i use yahoo. but this is solvable, and one of those kick yourself when you look up the answer ones. i actually thought i had solved it, but i hadn't. going now.]

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