Game Thread: The Life and Times of Atto Ngoogol

Excellent Dave. Thanks much. Here are my answers copied from the master.

The same. I couldnt get them to add up bravo sir.

Almost forgot items.
Armor to Anna
Potion kit to honorious
Darts to anna

And here's one for background, in case anyone is interested. There may be several players who knew how to do it but had not run through the actual steps, others might not have even recognized it.

I hope this is not stealing Earthling's thunder -- by all means please do post your own backstory.

Shameless copying.



Sorry if I haven't been active enough. I didn't have much time to look through the puzzle today and my internet connection is horribly unreliable.

This was finally going to be it. They'd tracked Ngoogol back to the entrance of a large series of caves, and there was no doubt this was where he'd intended to bunker up as he left elemental guardians right there at the entrance. The party camped for part of the afternoon as far away as they could manage, with lookouts for a few hundred meters around just in case and prepared and discussed there course of action.

The first plan was for the more proficient magic users among them again to set up whatever protection and in some cases offensive spells that they could, and it worked pretty well.


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Meanwhile items were distributed as almost everyone armed themselves. Anna took the Armor and the Darts and Honorius Cummerbund took the Potion-Making Kit.

There was basically a unanimous decision on how they would organize themselves for the fight, Lo Hwang Halfblood stepping forward and Yarai volunteered unceremoniously.

Nomination Tally


Item Tally


There was no choice but for the party to press the attack themselves, and so they did, charging towards the creatures at the mouth of the caves.




This was one fight they knew they could win, with half of the party fully prepped for combat and some of them gaining quite some cohesion as a fighting unit. Still, the creature got some blows in and Anna was injured

This time, when enough of the earthen creature was strewn about and hacked apart, it collapsed entirely to dust, and they knew the Earth Elemental has been defeated, and destroyed

Lo Hwang Halfblood picked up the Earth Elemental Core that remained, looking like a shining white rock.

"No, not exactly a diamond, not sure what it is" Halfblood told them all.

He described how the small object is incredibly heavy, yet doesn't throw him off balance at all, and gathered it up with the rest of his gear as everyone cooled down from the battle.



Yarai's attack on the other hand, was bold but very dangerous. He lacked the support of really any other warriors as he charged ahead towards the Water Elemental.

"I've had it up to here with this quest so far, these stupid Elementals, and all this flashy, pointless wizard magic. There are far better things in life than trifling with all that, and that means you Ngoogol." He shouted to the air.

Unfortunately, all of Yarai's talents and considerable poise and strength weren't enough alone against a creature of such size, magic or not. He dodged many blows, struck where he could, but eventually the creature smashed him against a wall to fall limp as it seeped away back deeper into the caves.



It was a surprise to find out more about Yarai's allegiances and secret practices, but another welcome surprise was to come as members of the party tentatively felt out what they could about the magic in the air and the tracks they were following.

"Ngoogol is tiring, we'll force him to a final stand here."

Can we see who all is still alive?

lurker's comment: Just doing a copypasta from front page which apparently has been updated last night.

It looks as though the end is near then. If Atto awaits, but is tired, he may be somewhat weaker than we might expect. I'm guessing Magic Wielder now very much comes into play. So getting the next puzzle is very important, instead of a 2-3 bonus, we could get 6-10 (depending on what rank you're at.)

Thanks for the update

These men have not been participating in the puzzles.. I find that very suspicious.

FOS:
Jacob Keal
Kidush Pogar
Ceroz Molten
Elvsh Darkfoot

There was a bit of commotion during the night, nobody could deny that, with so few people left when something begin to move around and others cry out soon everyone was awake, some hours before dawn. However, nobody was able to determine who was a guilty party to anything, except that Honorius Cummerbund was injured and would hardly be fit for combat today.

The party had decided to take a very slow and methodical approach to the morning but it was necessary they'd have to move forward eventually.

"We have to know what we're facing, thoroughly scope out these caves."

"How about we go in groups of two - no, three would be better. Don't anyone dare walk into an ambush, report back to the group as soon as you see anything."

Collectively they figured they could find where they must go by midday and hope not to run into more Elemental creatures before then. So, members of the party set off, always being sure to look ahead with their eyes, ears, and magic as far as they could, and checking back in for discussion when possible.

(there's no limits on posting or private discussion or anything, just flavor here)

There is no puzzle today.

You suspect Ngoogol is preparing for a final showdown and many of you hope to have more than enough magic to continue to combat his creatures. Thusly, from each of yours Magic Wielder promotion level each player will accrue a small magical strength bonus from a formula that divides and rounds off the level.

No new items are up to vote.


Also OOC question: We could go to 24 hour Day phases by default starting next day (Day 10) if everyone is ok with that, some might have wanted it

Autolycus said:

Oh, and items:Keen sword to Otto von Venati
Shovel to Ceroz Molten
Fire Elemental Core to Yarai
Potion Kit to Anna
Smooth stone to Elvsh Darkfoot

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Jarrema said:

I believe, that we must have TWO supported players.
So, I vote: Grof Mouthbreather, Grof Mouthbreather

I think that we should avoid concentration of items in one hand. So I vote:
Keen sword to Otto von Venati
Shovel to Grof Mouthbreather
Fire Elemental Core to Yarai
Potion Kit to Anna
Smooth stone to Elvsh Darkfoot

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Above are the item votes for Autolycus, and Jarrema, both of whom have been proven to be evil. Now, both give the smooth stone to Elvsh, and they are somewhat split on who to give the shovel to, but Jarrema's vote to Grof, and his support of Grof, shows he knew Grof was evil (which we know is a fact now.)

autolycus voted the shovel to Ceroz Molten. I think there is a good chance that both Elvsh and Ceroz are evil. But since both Grof and Yarai (Autolycus and Jarrema) both voted Elvsh the stone, I will

Nominate: Elvsh Darkfoot

I think I'm gonna have to agree and Nominate Elvish but I will also send myself Harold Amal to face the elementals and would like some support

I can't lend you a hand today, because of my injury, I will however let you fight dcmort. I see you have helped with the Elemental Slaying too.

Nominate : Harold Amal

It is evident that 48 hour days are still very much required, things have been horribly quiet today.

Can someone tell me how to find out the post count for each person in a thread, I just want to see how many posts CivGeneral and TheLastOne have made over the entire thread.

On the thread list, click on the # posts column, it opens a popup with the details.

Thanks DaveShack.

Ok, civgeneral has 3 posts, one of which is probably a sign-up. TLO isn't too bad with 13, but we haven't seen him in a while.

Anyone out there willing to support someone who is willing to place their life on the line for the rest of us