| QUOTE (Bellix Z. Backstory @ Feb 16 2009, 12:27 AM) |
| What do you do? > |
| CODE |
| Fiddling with the note wouldn't do anything useful. >PUT NOTE IN POCKET Using the technique Rena taught you, you stash the note into hammer-space. >I You take stock of your possessions. A financial nymph appears on your keyboard. "By the way, you can check the amount of cash you're holding at any time with the CASH command. Or, just type a $ followed by [RETURN]. Bye!" She disappears with a wink. You're not wearing anything interesting. You have no money. Inside hammer-space you have: 60 rocks. 1 note. >ENTER FIREPLACE A technical nymph appears on your keyboard. "You don't need to refer to that to complete this story. Bye!" She disappears with a wink. > |
| CODE |
| You are in the Great Hall. Exits are FIREBALL 1, TROUBLE 1, BLACK KNIGHT 1, and SHIELD 1. There is a suit of armor here. >Enter Shield 1. The doorway is boarded up. >Throw rock at boards. The rock bounces off soundly. (ROCKS:59) |
| CODE |
| >Enter Fireball 1. |
| QUOTE (shade @ Feb 17 2009, 01:28 AM) | ||
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| QUOTE (Richard @ Feb 17 2009, 12:17 AM) | ||||
[opening the door first] You enter Fireball-1 The room is dark and cold after the warmth of the great hall. The walls around you are once-neat brick-work blackened by many years of moisture. Above a stone-flagged ceiling starts a few feet beyond your current vantage point; under which a passage-way runs ahead of you in the gloom. You can see nothing above you. Exits are BACK TO GREAT HALL. > |
| QUOTE (Jon God @ Feb 17 2009, 11:13 AM) |
| Try to make it to the passageway. |
| QUOTE (Bellix Z. Backstory @ Feb 17 2009, 05:36 PM) |
| Attempt to kick some Vulture ass. With rocks. I don't know how you can kick with rocks, but I try anyway. |
| QUOTE (Gullwhacker @ Feb 17 2009, 09:30 PM) |
| > Throw rock behind me |
| CODE |
Wham! Your rock impacts with an armoured person coming out of the door, who crashes to the woodwork. A satirical nymph appears on your keyboard. "You've played on intermediate before, haven't you?. Pity you didn't watch that vulture. Bye!" She disappears with a smirk. [Your experience went up. You have achieved the rank of Level 1 Male Peasant] The vulture claws at you from behind. [Your endurance just went down.] > |
| QUOTE (lonerook @ Feb 17 2009, 10:50 PM) |
| > Use fairy in bottle |
| CODE |
| You are surprised to find yourself outside - standing on a plank or maybe what was once a drawbridge of some sort. Lack of any discernible method of raising it is just as well given the huge drop below it (and you) into a ravine. Above you a castle tower rises into the sky - by whose battlements a flock of vultures has gathered in the air. Further off you can see solid land and a set of three parallel ropes hanging from the a suspicious branch jutting out from a cliff-face made of boulders. Two rather improbably flat stone ledges jut out from this cliff-face conveniently close to the ropes; the upper one of which continues into the cliff itself. It is night-time, past midnight. The moon is about half up. Obvious exits are BACK TO [PASSAGEWAY TO] GREAT HALL, DOWN (JUMP) An armoured man or thing is lying unconcious by your feet. A weird creature has appeared on top of that branch. The vulture pecks you, hard! Ouch! [Your endurance just went down.] > |
| QUOTE (lonerook @ Feb 18 2009, 10:46 PM) |
| Your endurance is 0. You have 4 more lives. > Wait for level reset timeout |
| QUOTE (lonerook @ Feb 19 2009, 06:46 AM) |
| Your endurance is 0. You have 4 more lives. > Wait for level reset timeout |
| QUOTE (Bellix Z. Backstory @ Feb 18 2009, 11:52 PM) |
| > Check Endurance level. |
| CODE |
| >STATUS Bryant/Level 1 Male Peasant EN: 04 ST: 30 DX: 06 IQ: 07 CM: 07 LK: 06 AC: 01 |
| QUOTE (Jon God @ Feb 18 2009, 11:52 PM) |
| Run for dear life. |
| CODE |
| >RUN Which way do you want to go - towards the GREAT HALL or the ROPES? > |
| QUOTE (Bellix Z. Backstory @ Feb 20 2009, 01:08 AM) |
| > Go towards ROPES. |
| CODE |
| >RUN TOWARDS ROPES You run towards the ropes. However as you nearing solid ground you accidentally trip over the edge of the wooden structure and go flying face first on to the ground. [Your endurance just went down.] A satirical nymph appears on your keyboard. "What a klutz. It would probably help if you were a bit more coordinated!" She disappears with a smirk. The world is full of stars >WAIT Time passes. You hear a vulture call out, but are too dazed to figure from where. The world is full of stars >WAIT Time passes. You shake off your dizzyness. Fireball - 1 Below ropes. You are standing close below a set of three hagning ropes. Beyond the ropes a ledge slightly above head blocks what little light there is below it. There is a second ledge near the top of the ropes. The middle rope has a weird blob-like creature sliding down it. A Vulture is approaching you. Back on the wooden structure, the armoured man has recovered. The guard has a cross-bow poined at you. Obvious exits are BACK TO [PASSAGEWAY TO] GREAT HALL, UP ON TO ROPES (JUMP) > |
| QUOTE (Gullwhacker @ Feb 20 2009, 06:45 AM) |
| I think I'll be naughty again. > Crawl under ledge |
| CODE |
| >CRAWL UNDER LEDGE [Crouching down first.] The vulture flies past above your head, missing by a hair. You crawl under the ledge. Fireball-1 Under lower ledge. You are in a dark area at the base of a cliff made of boulders. A large ledge above your head obscures most of the light. Some luckless fool has left a cloth bag lying on the ground. Further off, the blob creature has landed below the rope. The blob creature jumps up and down, arms in the air, "Ny-ny-ny-ny-nya!" > |
| QUOTE (Richard @ Feb 20 2009, 12:32 AM) | ||
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| QUOTE (Alaric Was Here @ Feb 20 2009, 05:24 PM) |
| > Talk to creature |
| CODE |
| >TALK TO CREATURE Which creature do you mean? [ARMOURed, BLOB or VULTURE]>BLOB The jumping blob on legs looks at you expectantly. "Ny-ny-ny-ny-nya!" The vulture pulls up short and circles back into the sky. The armoured man turns around to face the GREAT HALL. > |
| QUOTE (Richard @ Feb 20 2009, 11:10 AM) | ||||
I'll presume you mean the mutant :)
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| QUOTE (Alaric Was Here @ Feb 20 2009, 10:09 PM) |
| > throw rock at blob |
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| >THROW ROCK AT BLOB [The Blob Monster.] [Standing up first.] Your rock deals the little blob monster a decisive blow. "Yeow!" The monster collapses into a pile of dust. [Your experience went up.] > |
| QUOTE (Alaric Was Here @ Feb 20 2009, 11:47 PM) |
| > search dust |
| CODE |
[stepping out from under the ledge] You search through the dust left behind by the blob monster, but find nothing of interest. Fireball - 1 Below ropes. You are standing close below a set of three hanging ropes. Beyond the ropes a ledge slightly above head height blocks what little light there is below it. There is a second ledge near the top of the ropes. Some luckless fool has left a cloth bag lying on the ground below the ledge. A Vulture dives towards you. The guard has turned to face you again. The guard has a cross-bow pointed at you. Obvious exits are BACK TO [PASSAGEWAY TO] GREAT HALL, UP ON TO ROPES (JUMP), CRAWL BELOW LEDGE. > |
| QUOTE (shade @ Feb 21 2009, 06:05 AM ) |
| >jump and grab middle rope [...] >climb |
| CODE |
| > JUMP ON MIDDLE ROPE. CLIMB Fireball - 1 Near base of ropes. You are hanging on the middle of a set of three ropes, which strangely does not sway despite your weight. Above you, they continue up to a large branch they appear to be looped around as if designed for a game of priates or children's play area. An upper ledge just below this branch blocks your view higher up the cliff. There is another flat ledge in the wall of boulders on your right, on which a small bottle lies forgotten in the dirt. Above and to the left, a flock of vultures circles in the air. A vulture circles below you. Obvious exits are JUMP TO LEDGE, JUMP DOWN, CLIMB UP. You climb up the rope. Fireball - 1 At top of ropes. You are hanging on to the middle rope of a set of three which are looped around a branch above you. To your right, there is a large flat rock forming a ledge which leads deeper into the cave. Above this opening, the wall of boulders continues a long way up. Below you, you can see another similar ledge on which a small bottle lies forgotten in the dirt. Further below, you can see the ground. To the left, a flock of vultures circles in the air. A vulture is about to peck you from underneath. Above you, another blob monster has climbed out of a tiny hole in the cliff onto the branch which holds the ropes. Obvious exits are JUMP TO LEDGE, JUMP DOWN, CLIMB DOWN. > |
| QUOTE (Alaric Was Here @ Feb 21 2009, 02:35 PM) |
| >jump dow^H^H^H to ledge |
| CODE |
| >JUMP TO LEDGE You shimmy between ropes and jump for the ledge. Fireball - 1 On upper ledge. You are standing on a large flat rock conveniently balanced on a the base of the cliff of boulders. The rock continues further into the cliff where it opens into what might be a large cavern. A chilly air current flows from the entrance in stark contrast with the warm night air. Above you a small hole seems to lead to a nest of those blob monsters. A large branch protrude from here on which three parallel ropes are looped round. The ropes dangle down to the ground below out of sight. Across towards the castle, a flock of vultures cicle in the sky. Beyond them are the battlements of a watch tower. Larger towers behind can be seen - one of which defies all logic by having what appears to be its own personal thunder storm. The blob monster slides down the further rope. The vulture returns to the flock. Obvious exits are EAST (INTO CARVERN), JUMP ON TO ROPES. > |
| QUOTE (shade @ Feb 22 2009, 12:10 AM) |
| > examine tower [with thunderstorm hovering over it.] >Throw rock at guard. >Enter Cave. |
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| X THUNDER STORM. THROW ROCK AT GUARD. ENTER CAVE. Kerbalm! Forks of lightning dance around the tower, and from a distance, you can hear the clouds boom with laughter. You throw a rock at the guard, but miss. [Heading East] You enter the cave. Fireball - 2 You are standing in the entrace of a large subteraneon cavern. The ledge you are standing on gives way to a large drop a few feet from your current vantage point. A chill wind blows from here towards the exit behind you making you wish for the warmth of the day. Stalactites line the ceiling of this cave, which contains a number of rock ledges apparantly floating without any visible means of suspension in the air. The wall closest to you seems to be made of large numbers of boulders and smaller rocks, well weather beaten to a rounded consistency. Someone has scratcted something on the nearest boulder to the edge. It is too dark to see deeper within the cave itself, though a shimmering below you suggests that there may be an underground lake of some sort. Someone has left a cloth bag at the edge of the ledge below the scratchings which appears to be open. Obvious exists are WEST. > |
| QUOTE (shade @ Feb 22 2009, 05:49 AM) |
| >Examine cloth bag >Get bag [of rocks] >Examine writing on boulder >Listen |
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| >X CLOTH BAG. GET BAG. X WRITING. LISTEN [Moving to the edge of the ledge.] Your footsteps echo slightly in the cave as you approach the edge of the ledge. You note that it is a long way down. You wonder for a moment whether you heard another step just after you stopped. [Fireball - 2 At edge of ledge.] You take a look at the cloth bag. The cloth is an orange-ish colour though it it difficult to tell due to lack of light. The string at the top has come undone and inside rocks can be seen. Someone has stitched some characters around the outside, but they are in Japanese - you might have understood them if you had studied harder in school. They probably say `Handmade by slaves in a sweatshop in China for MegaCorp'. Using the technique Rena taught you, you stash the bag of rocks into hammer-space. The sound of something flapping can be heard. The writing looks more like the tally score for some game. Two names are visible scratched on the rock and to your joy, one of them is `Duncan'. Evidently your uncle has been here! The other is four characters of Japanese - or at least the first two are: a mess of little boxes. The second two are more readable strokes and might just be a messy `LT': `レイ'. After all, scratching onto a boulder is not a highly accurate way of writing. According to the the tally lines, Duncan has 11 points whilst the other has 5. The flapping noise is drawing nearer. [Your endurance is back to normal.] You can hear the sound of flapping coming from further off in the cave above you head. There is the faintest suggestion of a far-away roaring noise. The flapping noise is drawing nearer. You make out the dark shape of a bat flying towards you. One of the stalactites is wobbling. > |
