Evening One
The party was journeying onward, still hot on the trail of Ngoogol, though they were coming up on some quite rough terrain and would have to find ways across. There would probably be a need to pause and rest at night but there was time and progress yet to be made.
In the meantime, after many consultations and discussion it was decided the protective spell would be given a go, the scroll deciphered and ritual prepared. It was then that a distinct feeling of being watched grew on them, and somehow magically amplified that awful voice rang out.
“Trying to prepare a spell…? Oh, Ngoogol ngows the answer, ngows all you don’gt. You’re like childreng, playing with powers beyond your keng. How do I put this? Twelve points to Slytherin! Four points from Gryffindor! You call yourselves ngood nguys, really more like Lawful Stupid. Ahahaha, ngow you will die.”
Some of the group hastened to act on the spell, not really sure what they were doing and grabbing handfuls of tokens, but some others acted more calmly and held them back. “No, hands off, no one touch anything yet, we’ve got this figured out, gotta get the spell right.” So what they did was being to magically examine the tokens very methodically. First many tokens were simply examined then cast aside, reference points just had to be established. The plan was to take the next most powerful one, and the party got nervous as they continued to test tokens that were weaker than the ones before. But finally, with less than a hundred left, they found a token more powerful than any so far and decided it was now or never. The spell was a moderate success.
Puzzle One Results:
Correct answers: 4
Partial Credit: 3
Wrong answers: 7
Correct answers: 4
Partial Credit: 3
Wrong answers: 7
Details on puzzle solution:
Spoiler :
from a couple of players I do think I was clear and did not incorrectly state things in this version of puzzle despite its background dressings, and an overall neat problem.With that matter settled, the party had chosen some champions to scout ahead for possible paths and confront any monsters on the way. Borin the Plunderer was to make his way up and around the rocky crag and secure some ropes. However, the pressing worries about Ngoogol made everyone nervous.
So Borin took matters into his own hands and addressed some people in the group:
“You think this is just a one-man job, you want someone going alone? What are ye, cowards? You, and you” he looked at some people square on “could you really live with yourselves if you let your fellow warriors die needlessly?”
Borin proceeded to extol dwarven virtues and valor and his ensuing speech was quite heroic, couldn’t be done enough justice. But the disappointing end result being, he had gathered just one supporter to come with him. As they ascended the hill to the gentler slopes on the other side, something nasty was happening. Out of the ground a great monster of earth and stone was gathering itself up, aiming to crush the smaller humanoids.
Spoiler :
Borin’s companion was unfortunately not the strongest warrior either, and no matter how you sliced it, they were two against a quite formidable foe. Fate was not to be kind to Borin this day though. Out from the shadows under the setting sun, some slimy, amoeboid-like creature oozed its way towards Borin, dragging him down to the ground where he could not escape. Clearly, this slew of monsters was the main event, and Borin’s true hearted ally couldn’t help free him. Even the slimy monster hastened aside as nearly a ton of rock came crashing down, and Borin was crushed, the Earth elemental finally seeming to sink back into the soil.
Spoiler :
The second nominee for today’s dirty work had been Arminius, and he wasn’t happy with the way the party was treating him either. A path through dense underbrush could have been an option to skirt around more rock-climbing.
“Any of you going to come with me?”
“No, we’re sure you’ll just be a perfect match for Ngoogol, it’s decided”
So Arminius began hacking his way through the vegetation and soon was out of sight between the branches while the rest of the party waited to see what he reported back.
“They’ve no right to treat me like this, it’s so rasist, I’ll show them though…”
Spoiler :
This frightening creature was clearly another onetime plaything of Ngoogol’s. A searing heat began to burn through all the wildlife, at what must have been many hundreds of degrees. The rest of the party who hadn’t already done so were scrambling to climb up the rocks where the elemental creature wouldn’t follow. Arminius turned at the last minute to meet his doom; he couldn’t fight it alone, and was burnt to a crisp.
Spoiler :
Nomination Vote Tally
Spoiler :
Everyone gathered together as the sun kept falling and were still very much on guard for further threats. The rest of the party had survived the day unscathed and finally decided to make camp, and it seemed their enemies had gone, as the summons of such elemental creatures to this world often don’t last very long. (but what was most to wonder, and most to fear, was not necessarily the unusual creatures themselves but whatever dark magics Ngoogol used to bind them so irrevocably to serve his will so specifically), Undoubtedly attacks like this would be tried again.
It is now Night One!
PMs shoudl be out for anything from the Day
Send me Night Orders.
Night ends in ~ 22 hours.
Edit: note posting is open at night
PMs shoudl be out for anything from the Day
Send me Night Orders.
Night ends in ~ 22 hours.
Edit: note posting is open at night
