2017-10-21: The Spooky Scary Library
- Log: The Spooky Scary Library
- Cast: Sephilia Lampbright, Layna Manydays, Seraph Ragnell, Seraph Nimue
- Where: Great Krosian Plains
- Date: 10-21-2017
- Summary: Sephilia gathers a crew of friends to investigate rumors of a haunted library. Fittingly, some of them are ghosts. That means they should be right at home, right?
==========================<* Great Krosian Plains *>========================== The bulk of the countryside around the capital city of Krosse consists of rolling, grassy fields, a stark contrast from the arid desert sands to the north. Every year, however, the desertification spreads, and more and more life is swallowed up by the sands. As travellers near the capital, the grasslands transition into cultivated fields. The yields from Krosse's farmlands have given the kingdom the nickname of the breadbasket of Ignas, and the majority of its trade centres around grains, fruits, vegetables, and other foodstuffs. While its might pales in comparison to its larger neighbours, Krosse maintains a significant standing army to help deal with monsters and green-eyed neighbours who might seek to seize that bounty for themselves. These soldiers are kept active by frequent patrols and maneuvers throughout the Plains and major roadways; as a result, travel in the kingdom is safer than nearly anywhere else on the continent.
DG: A party led by Sephilia Lampbright is now entering Haunted Library. DG: Party formation is now over. An Entry Challenge will now be drawn and displayed to the party.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ =================================<* CHALLENGE - The Library is Closed to Visitors *>================================= |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- You come to a heavy oak door. It won't open. The ridiculous part is, it's obvious there's no lock on it. It's just stuck. It's probably been stuck for decades. Will you be the ones to finally open it? =Dungeon Conditions: Wound====================================================
DG: You have left Sephilia Lampbright's party. DG: A party led by Sephilia Lampbright is now entering Haunted Library. DG: Party formation is now over. An Entry Challenge will now be drawn and displayed to the party.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ =================================<* CHALLENGE - The Library is Closed to Visitors *>================================= |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- You come to a heavy oak door. It won't open. The ridiculous part is, it's obvious there's no lock on it. It's just stuck. It's probably been stuck for decades. Will you be the ones to finally open it? =Dungeon Conditions: Wound====================================================
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia heard two things about the haunted library that made her know she had to come here.
First, it was a lost library, full of valuable lost information and stuff--something every famous explorer wants to be able to uncover and have on their resume.
Second, it is haunted. Sephy, despite some bad experiences with spoopy ghosts in the past, still wants to prove her bravery, so she's assembled a crack team of anyone who'd listen to her inviting them to come along, and travelled to the rumored location of the library.
"Great," she says, surveying the big stuck door. "We just got here, and already there's a door."
Yes, Sephilia, that's actually fairly normal for buildings, in fact.
"Oh well. Chauncey an' I have faced tougher doors than this, haven't we, buddy?"
Chauncey's expression remains stoic and unchanging. Sephy grows him to big-size and, from inside his backpack, points. "Let's bash this door in!"
Hopefully it's a push door, not a pull door. That would be embarrassing.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Brute Basic Action toward her party's challenge, The Library is Closed to Visitors. +votes: You have received votes from Talise Gianfair.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
Layna's mostly just here because Sephilia had asked her along. She wasn't entirely sure if a spooky ghost library would have much in the way of loot and she wasn't the greatest fan of books, but a friend wanted help, so of course she decided to tag along.
In hindsight it might've been better to bring Dahlia along with her. She probably would be more interested in a place like this...
Well, hindsight!
She approaches the imposing library and looks it up and down before turning her attention to the door.
"Aye aye!" She replies with a grin, reaching into her coat and drawing out a couple of bottles. One for herself, and a non-alcoholic beverage for Sephilia. She takes a swig of her own before setting the bottle aside...the perfect opportunity for any spooky ghosts in the area to take advantage of.
She then moves to the door and decides to join Chauncey in attempting to smash the heck out of it.
DG: Layna Manydays has used her Tool Quartermaster's Stash toward her party's challenge, The Library is Closed to Visitors.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
One wouldn't think it based on her general attitude, but Ragnell a) loves to read b) loves to learn c) has an insatiable curiosity. However, since traveling to western Ignas, her forays into the local ruins haven't really yielded any interesting secrets. Treasure, sure, which is nice, but knowledge is power, and she thirsts for it. Rumors of a haunted library piqued her interest--there's gotta be *something* interesting in there!--and so she invited her old friend Nimue for back-up and headed out for the location in question.
Someone, however, appears to be here first. Ragnell peers at Sephy and Chauncey, then rests her hands on her hips and sighs. "Oh. It's the squirt." Layna's here too, of course, but Ragnell has no particularly strong opinions about her one way or another. She strides up, taking a look at the extremely stuck door. "These things always are a pain in the ass... Lemme give y'all some support."
And then she tosses a LITERAL GRENADE at the door. Granted that it's a magical one that explodes with electricity, but still!!
"Lightning in the hole!" Ragnell adds helpfully.
DG: Seraph Ragnell has used her Tool Electric Grenade toward her party's challenge, The Library is Closed to Visitors.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Where Ragnell goes, Nimue can... sometimes be found. Every now and then. You know. When she feels like it. She needs to get out more, anyway!
So here she is, walking along behind Ragnell with her sling-staff in hand, lazily and nonchalantly looking at different parts of the building from the outside before ultimately coming along with Ragnell toward the front.
Nimue pulls out a canteen and takes a long drink, looking at the door. "... that sure is a door," she declares, before pulling something out, putting it in her sling-staff, and chucking it at the door. This, too, is a bomb. ... though a less cool bomb than Ragnell's.
Nimue takes another drink.
DG: Seraph Nimue has used her Tool Stolen Drinks toward her party's challenge, The Library is Closed to Visitors.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ =================================<* CHALLENGE - The Library is Closed to Visitors *>================================= |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- You come to a heavy oak door. It won't open. The ridiculous part is, it's obvious there's no lock on it. It's just stuck. It's probably been stuck for decades. Will you be the ones to finally open it? =Dungeon Conditions: Wound====================================================
===========================================<* Haunted Library - Round 1 *>=========================================== ===================================< Results - The Library is Closed to Visitors >=================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sephilia Lampbright 0 --(6)--> 6 Pass Force 0 Brute Effects: BASIC --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Ragnell 0 --(4)--> 4 Pass Electric Grenade 2 Brute Effects: Strengthen --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Nimue 0 --(4)--> 4 Pass Stolen Drinks 1 Brute Effects: Cleanse --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layna Manydays 0 --(4)--> 4 Pass Quartermaster's Stash 2 Brute Effects: Strengthen ------------------------------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------------------------ Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 0 --(20)--> 20 Pass Conditions: Wound(2) Effects: Cleanse|Strengthen(1) ==================================================< Dream Chasers >==================================================
DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
"SQUIRT?!" Sephy all but shrieks in indignation. "I'm a FAMOUS EXPLORER and I -- WAHH! Careful! Don't just chuck bombs around!"
Between the group of them, they manage to knock the door into sensibility. Or smithereens. Whichever comes first.
Sephy shrinks Chauncey down and continues to mutter under her breath angrily, glowering at Ragnell.
DG: Layna Manydays has drawn a new Challenge.
============================<* Haunted Library *>============================= =======================<* CHALLENGE - Shut the Door! *>======================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- You're traversing a series of small rooms, most likely once reading chambers. The skeletal remains of what appear to be a group of Drifters like yourselves lie against the wall of one of the rooms, puzzling you slightly, when from behind you comes the sound of a door slamming shut in the distance. Then, another, closerthe doors behind you are shutting in sequence! There are still several rooms between you and the stairway aheadcan you make it to the stairway before the doors close on you, too, leaving you to await a terrible fate? =Dungeon Conditions: Tire=====================================================
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
Layna should stick up for Sephilia, but she can't help but chuckle a bit at Ragnell's comment. She leads the others through the doors. There's a small foyer area, leading into a corridor full of small rooms.
Also, skeletons! There are plenty of skeletons here.
It's about the time that the party notices them that the door they thought they had destroyed completely...slams itself shut. The rest of the doors soon start to follow.
"Right. Looks like its time to move, me hearties." Layna comments, breaking into a run. She knows the Seraphim are there, but she can't actually see them. She can just kind of...hear their voices, and get a vague sense of their presence.
DG: Layna Manydays has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Shut the Door!.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
"You're a famous explorer," Ragnell tells Sephilia calmly, "and a squirt. Deal with it." She smirks at Layna when she chuckles, and when the explosives and punchings and massive force brings the door down, she glances over her shoulder at Nimue and gestures forward. "C'mon, let's get goin'."
Ahead are more doors. And also skeletons. Ragnell takes a long look around, one eyebrow raised, just in time for the door to slam shut behind them. And then another. And another... "Well, that's great," she says dryly, right before breaking into a sprint right after Layna. "No arguments here! Nimue, move your ass!"
DG: Seraph Ragnell has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Shut the Door!.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephy can see--and hear--the seraphim just fine, which helps her aim her glowering in the appropriate direction.
However, Sephy's not going to glower when she needs to be looking ahead, and she's not going to quip when she needs to run as fast as she possibly can.
She's really not very fast at all, after all.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Shut the Door!.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Doors! Skeletons! Thanks -- I hate it!
Just kidding. Nimue honestly doesn't have that much of a skeleton fear; do Seraphim even have those? Nevertheless, as she strides into the library, the doors start shutting -- and that seems to give her a start. She's off like a shot in short order, holding her staff and occasionally using it to smack a door. ... the doors she smacks generally are nowhere near closing yet. She just wants to make sure they don't get any bright ideas.
"Famous explorers are just nerds and squirts who get invited to parties!" Nimue adds, because dunking on Sephilia is fun and easy.
DG: Seraph Nimue has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Shut the Door!.
============================<* Haunted Library *>============================= =======================<* CHALLENGE - Shut the Door! *>======================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- You're traversing a series of small rooms, most likely once reading chambers. The skeletal remains of what appear to be a group of Drifters like yourselves lie against the wall of one of the rooms, puzzling you slightly, when from behind you comes the sound of a door slamming shut in the distance. Then, another, closerthe doors behind you are shutting in sequence! There are still several rooms between you and the stairway aheadcan you make it to the stairway before the doors close on you, too, leaving you to await a terrible fate? =Dungeon Conditions: Tire=====================================================
=======================<* Haunted Library - Round 2 *>======================== =========================< Results - Shut the Door! >========================= Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sephilia Lampbright 6 --(17)--> 23 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seraph Ragnell 4 --(14)--> 18 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seraph Nimue 4 --(16)--> 20 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Layna Manydays 4 --(17)--> 21 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 20 --(10)--> 30 Fail Conditions: Tire(2) Effects: ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
The party tries to outrun the wall of shut doors approaching them...but unfortunately, when it becomes clear that they actually stand a chance of escaping, they speed up, and the hallway extends appropriately so there is no chance of them outrunning them. The doors slam shut all around them, until they find themselves locked in a single chamber, with no way out...
Well, there is one way - the floor disappears out from beneath them, sending them down to who-knows-where. Ragnell and Sephilia land just fine, with the latter having a Chauncey for convenient cushioning, but Layna and Nimue aren't so lucky.
The question is...where have they ended up...?
DG: Seraph Ragnell has drawn a new Challenge.
=============================<* Haunted Library *>============================== =====================<* CHALLENGE - Everyone's A Critic *>====================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- A book floats across from one shelf to another in front of you. Then another does the same behind you, a little faster. Then books begin to be thrown more and more violently. It seems some of these books are being handled by a spectral literary critic! You'll have to move quickly if you want to avoid being hit by the tossed tomes! =Dungeon Conditions: Hesitate=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
Speeding up is just plain unfair. Naturally, Ragnell has no expectations of the world being fair, so when they're finally locked in on either side, she braces herself for anything--"anything" including the stupid floor vanishing beneath them. This allows her to fall and thus land with grace, ending up in a three point landing with knees bent. She stands up and looks around at the others; Sephy seems to be okay, Layna and Nimue... less so. With Sephy having chosen to focus on running rather than making retorts to her and Nimue, she has no further quips for her, which is probably for the best.
"Hmmm... looks like we're in an underground shelving room," she remarks. "Rows of bookshelves an' the like. Let's start lookin' around for a way--uh?" That would be Ragnell getting interrupted by a book floating across the room in front of her. Another one does the same behind her, a little faster, and she spins around. The third one, she snatches out of midair. "The hell is with these books?" she says, beginning to crack it open. "If you want our attention, you got--OW!"
That would be her getting hit over the head by a fourth book, which heralds the shelves basically unloading themselves and hailing their contents down on the group. Tucking the book she snatched out of the air under her arm, Ragnell, well... *books* it.
"Get under cover!" she yells to the others (mainly Nimue) as she slides around a corner to attempt to find exactly that.
DG: Seraph Ragnell has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Everyone's A Critic.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephy grumbles to herself as she picks herself up off the floor. "That was...that wasn't funny! This place is seriously haunted!
Then there's a bunch of flying books. "I'm sorryyyyyy," Sephy yells, dodging, ducking, dipping, dodging, diving, and dodging to avoid being hit herself. She could probably get Chauncey grown to big size and let him act as a shield for her, but--well, he has feelings too! Sephy's too good a buddy to do that to him.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Everyone's A Critic.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
With a groan Layna hauls herself to her feet, picking up her hat from the ground. Ragnell makes an observation, and Layna nods.
"Aye, looks that way." She agrees. She puts her hat back on her head...only for a book to come flying past and knocking it off again.
"Well, now that's just real damn rude, it is..." She mutters, picking up her hat again and moving quickly in an attempt to find some cover as suggested.
She doesn't try putting her hat back on just yet. It's liable to just get knocked off again.
DG: Layna Manydays has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Everyone's A Critic.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Flying books! Thanks! I hate it!
This one Nimue actually does hate pretty bad, especially after landing on her butt. She groans and rolls onto her side before suddenly popping up, all apparent injury totally forgotten. She rolls back and forth on the balls of her feet a few times -- and then of course, it turns into a bombardment of books, and she lets out a high-pitched scream.
"UGH!!!" she declares, immediately sliding across the ground and into some cover. Unfortunately, it only gives her one angle -- which means she has to follow up by swatting books out of the air with her staff. "Damn it, Ragnell! Can't you find normal libraries to go to?! With normal friends?!" She appends, with a totally gleeful tone instead a moment later, "Or don't! I like this one too!"
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
"I'm normal!" Sephy retorts.
DG: Seraph Nimue has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Everyone's A Critic.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"There's no proof of that!" Nimue shoots back
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
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=============================<* Haunted Library *>============================== =====================<* CHALLENGE - Everyone's A Critic *>====================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- A book floats across from one shelf to another in front of you. Then another does the same behind you, a little faster. Then books begin to be thrown more and more violently. It seems some of these books are being handled by a spectral literary critic! You'll have to move quickly if you want to avoid being hit by the tossed tomes! =Dungeon Conditions: Hesitate=================================================
========================<* Haunted Library - Round 3 *>========================= =======================< Results - Everyone's A Critic >======================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sephilia Lampbright 23 --(21)--> 44 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Ragnell 18 --(13)--> 31 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Nimue 20 --(15)--> 35 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layna Manydays 21 --(20)--> 41 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -----------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------ Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 30 --(10)--> 40 Fail Conditions: Hesitate(2)|Tire(1) Effects: ===============================< Dream Chasers >================================
DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
"An' Rose always gave *me* shit about bein' a ghost," Ragnell grumbles as she dives to dodge a hurled book and instead gets clonked between the shoulderblades by another. With one arm around the book she captured and the other on her hat, she doesn't really have a way to defend herself, which means she's taking quite a beating as she attempts, without success, to find cover. "If I were a REAL ghost, I wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit!!"
Layna's probably taking the smarter move by not trying to keep her hat on her head. She has better luck than Ragnell does with dodging the books, at least. Maybe her un-hattedness is why...? Nimue, too, has better luck this time around, while Sephy probably should have let Chauncey protect her.
"You're the least normal person I know, Nimue!" Ragnell calls back to her friend, which is a blatant lie, but it's okay for the sake of swapping quips with her friend. "I figured this place'd be perfect for ya!" And evidently she's right, considering how gleeful Nimue turns out to be about the place. She snorts in amusement at the back-and-forth between her and Sephy, which gets cut off into another squawk of indignation when she's once again smacked by a book.
There is a way out of the room. Eventually. Thank the goddess that the books don't try to follow them out, though Ragnell managed to keep hers, even if she paid the price for it with an array of bruises. Where to go from here, though...?
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has drawn a new Challenge.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ ========================================<* CHALLENGE - Spectral Librarian *>========================================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- A stern-looking spectre appears before you, raising its finger against its lips to shush you. Apparently your efforts to be quiet are insufficient for the ghost, as its expression becomes enraged rather quickly and it begins to hurl balls of ectoplasmic energy at you! =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia is battered and bruised but otherwise intact as they exit. "That was bad. I might change my mind on books if I get hit with too many more of them!"
The spectral librarian appears and raises a finger. "Shhhhhh," it hushes.
"Oh shhh yourself," Sephy retorts. "Your library's throwing books at us, that's making more of a racket than we are!"
That's evidently not the right attitude to take, as it ticks off the spirit something fierce.
Shepheres of energy fly at the girl, who raises Chauncey in front of her and grows him just in time for the blast to deflect off his big plush body. "All right, buster," she says, pulling out a folding chair from the backpack she's riding in, passing it forward. "You mess with Lord Chauncey of Foxington...you get THE CHAIR!"
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has used her Tool Folding Chair toward her party's challenge, Spectral Librarian.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Sorry! I've never shut up for anyone. Not even Althena!" Nimue declares as she's shushed by the librarian; the ball of energy gets her attention a little more. "Oh! Oh we're playing the throwing stuff game. Cool. I can do that too!"
She reaches into her pack and pulls out a grenade; this time she remembers to put on her safety goggles, to boot. She tosses it up into the air, hooks it into her... let's be real it's still a lacrosse stick, and gives it a hurl in the spectre's direction.
It's only after this is attended to that she adds, for Ragnell, "How do you even find places like this!?" She lets 'least normal' slide, because honestly... that part's probably true.
DG: Seraph Nimue has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Spectral Librarian.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
Ragnell peers at Sephy. "Thought you didn't like books," she remarks, "what with all them big, fancy, complicated words they got."
A ghost shows up and shushes them. Sephy tells the ghost to stuff it, and Ragnell snorts again with laughter, which probably doesn't help at all. The next moment, a ball of spirit energy gets hurled her way, and Ragnell avoids it just in time with a sidestep. "Whoop! Almost got me there!" she taunts, laughing aloud. She only laughs again when Nimue sasses it too. "Yeah, you tried shushin' the wrong crowd, pal!"
It would've been nice to have a moment to actually *look* at the book she snagged, but no time for that. Ragnell shoves it into the item bag hidden on the inside of her poncho, then draws her twin pistols and opens fire upon the spectre. Given that she shoots magical lightning bullets rather than regular ones, they should hit just fine.
"Call it a talent!" she shouts back to Nimue. "Life is borin' without a little adventure to spice it up from time to time, an' you know it!"
DG: Seraph Ragnell has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Spectral Librarian.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
The books have ceased flying, so Layna is finally able to put her hat right back where it belongs on top of her head.
"Well, that was a thing..." She mutters, following the others out of the room, where a spectral librarian appears. Layna's about to move in to intercept the shot, but Chauncey is faster than she is...and Sephilia responds by giving him a folding chair of all things.
Layna gives a wide grin at that.
"/Nice." She replies. Unfortunately, she can't exactly punch a ghost...but can she use magic at a ghost? Let's found out.
Layna recites an incantation and gestures at the spectral librarian, sending blades of air to harry them. It might, at least, make things easier for the others.
DG: Layna Manydays has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Spectral Librarian.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ ========================================<* CHALLENGE - Spectral Librarian *>========================================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- A stern-looking spectre appears before you, raising its finger against its lips to shush you. Apparently your efforts to be quiet are insufficient for the ghost, as its expression becomes enraged rather quickly and it begins to hurl balls of ectoplasmic energy at you! =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
===========================================<* Haunted Library - Round 4 *>=========================================== ==========================================< Results - Spectral Librarian >=========================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sephilia Lampbright 44 --(2)--> 46 Pass Folding Chair 2 Combat Effects: Stalwart --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Ragnell 31 --(3)--> 34 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Nimue 35 --(4)--> 39 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layna Manydays 41 --(3)--> 44 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------------------------ Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 40 --(25)--> 65 Pass Conditions: Hesitate(1)|Treasure(1) Effects: Stalwart(1) ==================================================< Dream Chasers >==================================================
DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has passed this challenge! The party gained 25 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
"I didn't!" Sephy explains as Chauncey swings the chair to bat a ball of ghostly energy back at the spirit. "But if nobody's going to take me seriously if I don't know the book-words, then it's on me to learn the book-words, right?"
Air blades, lightning bullets, and grenades herd the ghost into the path of its own entropy-bolt, dissipating it rather definitively.
"Anyway I've been doing some reading lately, so you can't make fun of me with that anymore." Sephy accepts the folding chair back from Chauncey and slides it into the backpack again firmly, as if to drive her words home with the...firmness...of how she's...you know, she's just being a brat.
DG: Seraph Nimue has drawn a new Challenge.
=============================<* Haunted Library *>============================== =========================<* CHALLENGE - Bookalanche! *>========================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- A creaking sound is the only warning before one of the bookshelves in the room topples over, and begins a chain reaction. It won't be long before all of the shelves start to toppleand not only does this threaten to block the exit, but also to crush anyone too slow to get out of the way! =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Ha! Girl you know falsehoods don't protect you against being made fun of," Nimue says, strolling casually forward, smirking, nose pointed practically straight up in the air. "Everyone gets to make fun of you for everything and you can't do anything about it. Like how one time Ragnell woke herself up with a fart that was also lightning." Is it true? False? Unknowable.
She takes a moment to flick Layna's hat out of position again. She's... like that.
It's because of that double-back, though, that she puts herself right in harm's way, as one of the bookshelves starts to buckle under the weight of the earlier tussle and take a tumble. It nudges another -- and comes crashing toward Nimue, who promptly hops to one side, with a scream of, "KYAAAH!!!"
Then she's running for the exit at full tilt, having totally forgotten every sass she was delivering.
DG: Seraph Nimue has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Bookalanche!.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia starts running. Unlike the last time she had to dash, she does take the breath to quip--or rather, to wail--"Libraries aren't supposed to have this much running!"
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Bookalanche!.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
Layna's hat is knocked out of position again. It doesn't take much extrapolation to assume that the chatty Seraph is responsible for it. Layna frowns, and puts it back into position. She smirks, though, at the sudden screech that follows. It's good when you don't have to deliver your own vengeance.
She does, however, need to escape.
"Aye, it might be time to cut the chatter, and..." Layna pauses, a wide grin appearing on her face.
"...Book it!"
DG: Layna Manydays has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Bookalanche!.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
When the ghost is defeated and Sephy explains herself, Ragnell gives her an appraising, even approving look as she holsters her guns. "It sure is," she replies. "Good on you to work on improvin' yourself. You can't rely on anyone to hold your hand for ya if you wanna be a truly great explorer, after all." The brattiness behind the words doesn't seem to bother her, so long as the words are true.
But Nimue doesn't take them at face value, and in fact goes on to tear the girl down. Ragnell snorts, then rolls her eyes at the maybe-true-maybe-false anecdote. "Or the time Nimue thought a ship rat was a Hellion an' jumped screamin' overboard," she adds. True? False? *Also* unknowable.
With the ghost defeated, it would seem like they could move on peacefully... but then bookshelves begin to topple at their back. Whump. *Whump*. WHUMP. Ragnell groans, rolling her eyes again, and likewise books it after the others. "Coulda sworn we *just did this* ten minutes ago with doors!" she complains--but that's cut with a laugh of delight at Layna's frankly terrible pun. "*Word*!"
DG: Seraph Ragnell has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Bookalanche!.
=============================<* Haunted Library *>============================== =========================<* CHALLENGE - Bookalanche! *>========================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 | ---------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------- A creaking sound is the only warning before one of the bookshelves in the room topples over, and begins a chain reaction. It won't be long before all of the shelves start to toppleand not only does this threaten to block the exit, but also to crush anyone too slow to get out of the way! =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
========================<* Haunted Library - Round 5 *>========================= ===========================< Results - Bookalanche! >=========================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sephilia Lampbright 46 --(14)--> 60 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Ragnell 34 --(9)--> 43 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Nimue 39 --(16)--> 55 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layna Manydays 44 --(17)--> 61 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC -----------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------ Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 65 --(10)--> 75 Fail Conditions: Injure(2) Effects: ===============================< Dream Chasers >================================
DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"That was one time! And it had a very spooky aura!" Nimue insists -- and pays for it, taking a bookshelf to the shoulder. Really, at some point or another, everyone gets hit by a bookshelf, falling books, or some other library fixture -- except for Ragnell, whose sprint through is honestly pretty effortless.
There's no shortage of getting dunked on to be had, and the library spares a lot of it for Layna's awful, awful pun. In the end, though, everyone makes it to the other side -- though Nimue is buried under a bookshelf for a little while and has to shove it off of her with considerable force.
DG: Layna Manydays has drawn a new Challenge.
============================<* Haunted Library *>=============================
=====================<* CHALLENGE - The Endless Stairs *>=====================
|Type: Climax |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
The stairway up to the library tower is ahead. It stretches on seemingly
endlessly, doubtless due to some otherworldly weirdness. You'll have to
climb, and climb, and climb to the top. Some parts of the stairway have
collapsed - you'll need to leap across, or carefully edge your way up.
No one said this would be easy.
=Dungeon Conditions: Exhaust==================================================
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
Everyone's looking a bit disheveled after all of that. Fortunately, they can't be too far away from way they're going, right? In fact, there's a set of stairs just up ahead. This should be easy, right?
No. No, it is not easy.
The party starts trying to make their way up the stairs...but they seem to be going on forever. One could almost expect them to be on a treadmill of some kind, but there are sections of the staircase that appear to be collapse, requiring agile movements to traverse.
Layna doesn't really have any clever remarks here, unfortunately. After a certain point she's just quiet, trying to make her way up. She does not want to slip.
DG: Layna Manydays has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, The Endless Stairs.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia trudges.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, The Endless Stairs.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
"Uhh huhh, suuuure it diiiid," Ragnell drawls at Nimue, but only *after* she's started running, like a smart person who is intelligent. Because of this, she manages to evade the bookcases entirely, for all the good it does the group at large. Eventually, at the end of their sprint, they stop at the foot of a massive, spiraling stairway up a tower. It seems far taller than it really ought to be. Ragnell frowns as she squints up it. Some parts of the stairs are visibly missing. However, it's the only way forward.
"This is some bullshit," she declares, right before she starts climbing anyway.
DG: Seraph Ragnell has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, The Endless Stairs.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Unlike Sephilia, Nimue does not trudge. She takes the opportunity to be big and visually loud in her movements, doing cool pole-vaults with her sling-staff and going into grand, balletic leaps over crumbled segments. Sure, at any point this could backfire and send her sprawling to the ground... but she looks so cool!
It's fine. So fine that Nimue adds, "I'll put a rat with a spooky aura in your BED next week and see how you like it!!" as she does the windy thing and propels herself up a banister.
DG: Seraph Nimue has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, The Endless Stairs.
============================<* Haunted Library *>=============================
=====================<* CHALLENGE - The Endless Stairs *>=====================
|Type: Climax |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
The stairway up to the library tower is ahead. It stretches on seemingly
endlessly, doubtless due to some otherworldly weirdness. You'll have to
climb, and climb, and climb to the top. Some parts of the stairway have
collapsed - you'll need to leap across, or carefully edge your way up.
No one said this would be easy.
=Dungeon Conditions: Exhaust==================================================
=======================<* Haunted Library - Round 6 *>======================== =======================< Results - The Endless Stairs >======================= Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sephilia Lampbright 60 --(33)--> 93 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seraph Ragnell 43 --(11)--> 54 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seraph Nimue 55 --(31)--> 86 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Layna Manydays 61 --(30)--> 91 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 75 --(5)--> 80 Fail Conditions: Exhaust(1)|Injure(1) Effects: ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has failed this challenge! The party gained 5 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
Nothing particularly terrible happens on the stairs. It's just that it goes on for a really, really long time, it's kind of hard to maintain enthusiasm. The gaps in the stairs aren't too difficult to overcome...it's almost as if the library itself is taunting you, forcing you to exhaust yourself.
Occasionally, mysteriously, the party manages to switch positions - occasionally Layna's in front, next it's Sephilia, and so on...
Ragnell makes her way up first, with the rest of the party joining her shortly after...though they somehow emerge from a window, rather than where the stairs logically should terminate.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has drawn a new Challenge.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ =========================================<* CHALLENGE - The Grand Master *>========================================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 3 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- A ghostly man in fine robes sits, looking bored, at a table. Behind him is a door. Lying in front of him is a key, and a chess board. He looks up at you as you enter, smiling a sinister smile. If you wish to earn the key to the door behind me, you must first defeat me at a game of chess, he says in a sepulchral voice. He's had decades or centuries to study the game...dare you face the Grand Master? =Dungeon Conditions: Stupify==================================================
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia's exhaustion vanishes at the sight of the ghostly man. "Oh wow, we're going to get to do something other than run! Right? Chess. Okay, Dad had a part about chess in his journal! I can do this!" There's a lot of chess puzzles in dungeons, you know.
Sephy looks at the ghost, then at the others. "Is it one player or can we consult one another?"
The Grand-Master smiles and spreads his arms. "I will accept the handicap, just to make things interesting. You can act as a team...but if you fail...I shall claim YOUR SOULS!"
He pauses, and Sephy bites her lower lip.
"Just playing with you. I don't want your souls. Do what you need to. I'm confident I can face you all together." He must have a twisted sense of humor from being a ghost up here all alone for so long.
"Okay," Sephy says, and sits down. "I think we can beat YOU," she says. "And I'm going to start by moving this pawn!"
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has used her Tool Dad's Journal toward her party's challenge, The Grand Master.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
A ghost in robes...this man must be the Chief Librarian. ...Is that what you'd call the master of a haunted library? Whatever the case, he seems to be challenging them to a game of chess.
"Don't have much experience with chess. It's hard to keep a board stable on the sea, aye? That's why pirates are always preferring card games." Layna comments with a shrug. She...wasn't sure she even knew how the game worked, so how was she supposed to face a master?
Still, she might as well take a shot at it. She draws her telescope from her waist and focuses on the board. She can't really provide much in the way of strategy...but she can at least make sure that the ghostly man doesn't cheat.
DG: Layna Manydays has used her Tool Captain's Telescope toward her party's challenge, The Grand Master.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Never before has Nimue been more excited to --
-- do absolutely nothing! "Well, I'm not playing," she declares proudly. She hooks a foot around a chair at the corner of the room and shuffle-kicks it slowly toward the table, stretching out and plopping herself down in her seat contentedly. Canting her head to the side for a moment, she follows up by finding a small side-table and doing the same with it.
Now equipped with tiny chair and tiny table, Nimue sits down, plops her pack on it, and digs around. She pulls out:
* Two loaves of double chocolate quick bread, one of which has been hollowed out through the center and filled with a chocolate-peanut butter paste
* A large bag of caramel-covered popcorn
* Three paper bags of crisp apple slices
* A comically oversized Anime Meat Cylinder (tm) wrapped in tinfoil
Nimue sets to work doing the best thing she can possibly do in the circumstances: eating. Loudly. With her mouth open half the time. She experiments with placing an apple in the hollow part of the chocolate bread and eating it.
This is a great use of her time and not at all disruptive to the game.
DG: Seraph Nimue has used her Tool Stolen Food toward her party's challenge, The Grand Master.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
"Joke's on you, ghost-man, I don't have a soul," Ragnell cracks. Alternately, she's nothing BUT soul. Either way, if the ghost attempts to make good on his threat, he'll see hell, so Ragnell's not worried either way. Good thing he recants a moment later. Regardless, Ragnell pulls a hand fan out of her poncho and uses her lightning magic to power it, giving herself a nice breeze, which is refreshing after that long climb. Even if she reached the top first, it was still a long and tiring run! Ahhh, so refreshing.
This is probably just irritating for everyone else who ate shit this past climb and run and so on.
Either way, Layna says she doesn't know jack about chess, and Nimue is literally stuffing her face rather than making any attempt to help, so Ragnell shrugs and says to Sephy, "Looks like it's all you either way. Good luck on the game, Miz Famous Explorer! Since you're a mature and intelligent adult, I'm sure you don't need our help! Hey, Nimue, you gonna eat all that? Gimme." She reeeeeeaches for the popcorn...
DG: Seraph Ragnell has used her Tool Portable Fan toward her party's challenge, The Grand Master.
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ =========================================<* CHALLENGE - The Grand Master *>========================================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 3 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- A ghostly man in fine robes sits, looking bored, at a table. Behind him is a door. Lying in front of him is a key, and a chess board. He looks up at you as you enter, smiling a sinister smile. If you wish to earn the key to the door behind me, you must first defeat me at a game of chess, he says in a sepulchral voice. He's had decades or centuries to study the game...dare you face the Grand Master? =Dungeon Conditions: Stupify==================================================
===========================================<* Haunted Library - Round 7 *>=========================================== ===========================================< Results - The Grand Master >============================================ Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sephilia Lampbright 93 --(6)--> 99 Pass Dad's Journal 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Ragnell 54 --(5)--> 59 Pass Portable Fan 3 Wits Effects: Rally --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seraph Nimue 86 --(8)--> 94 Fail Stolen Food 3 Wits Effects: Rally --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layna Manydays 91 --(6)--> 97 Fail Captain's Telescope 3 Wits Effects: Fanfare ------------------------------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------------------------ Leader: Sephilia Lampbright 80 --(35)--> 115 Pass Conditions: Stupify(2) Effects: Enlighten(1) ==================================================< Dream Chasers >==================================================
DG: You have overcome the dungeon's trials! This run is a success! DG: The party led by Sephilia Lampbright has successfully explored Haunted Library!
================================================<* Haunted Library *>================================================ ======================================<* CHALLENGE - A Collection Of Folios *>======================================= |Type: Discovery |Dungeon Ability: Conclusion|Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- As you defeat the final guardian of the library, the door behind swings open, leading to a small chamber. Inside, carefully stored for preservation, are a series of what look to be extremely valuable folios. It is, indeed, a complete collection and in pristine condition. This discovery will be very valuable to scholars or collectors - enough so that you wont be worrying about money for a while if you can find the right buyer! Score! =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia glances around at her friends, then sighs. "I'm sure I can do this anyway."
The game is tight. Sephy spends a lot of time tapping her nose deep in thought. The grandmaster's expression changes through the game, from smug composure, to slight worry, to obviously pressured...and finally to disbelief.
"I didn't lose! I didn't lose!" he protests as his spectral form shrivels up into a corn cob. Behind him, without even needing to use the key, the door opens.
"What...a corn cob? Does that make sense to anyone else?" Sephilia shakes her head then goes to look at the books, eyes widening at the obviously valuable books they've discovered.
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
Layna at least understands the game well enough to know what that means. Sephilia wins and Layna gives her a well-meaning slap on the shoulder.
"Good job there, lass! I knew you could do it! And you didn't even need our help!" She says, obviously quite proud.
And with that the door at the back of the room is open, revealing a veritable treasure-trove of ancient knowledge. Layna whistles at the sight.
"Well, well...look at that! I'd say that makes this all worth it, aye?" She comments with a grin.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Go nuts, all of it was free," Nimue declares to Ragnell, stretching out before picking up the giant anime meat and taking a bite. "Just put the bag back in my pack when you're done. Even if it's empty."
The ghost turns into a corn cob, and Nimue smiles. "I dunno, but we all know the 'five second rule!'" There's a pause, before Nimue declares, "If you don't throw dropped food in the trash within five seconds it unleashes toxic spores."
She then turns her attention to the folios, and her nose scrunches up. "Ugh. I open my Evil God Day present and it's books. So I have to say, 'What's this? What am I going to do with books.'" Another bite of giant anime meat. "Ragnell, take however many I'd get too. If we're not just selling them to some loser, anyway."
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia frowns. "We'll sell them to a collector as a unit and split the shares after that, I think would be the fairest way," she says, noticing that nobody's calling her a squirt NOW. She likes that.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
"Sweet," Ragnell says, and then stuffs herself on caramel popcorn. It's the perfect treat to snack on while watching Sephy beat a ghost at chess, then watch a ghost turn into a cob of corn. She tosses the last kernel of popcorn into her mouth, comments, "Well, that was weird," and then shoves the empty bag back into Nimue's bag. "Nice goin', kiddo! Knew you could do it."
ragnell you liar you just didn't want to do anything yourself
The door in the back opens, and the four of them enter to find quite a few valuable books and folios. "Yeah, no kiddin'!" she remarks to Layna, looking around. Ragnell wipes her gloves off on Nimue's dress, like a jerk, then picks up one and flips through it. "Hmmm... Some interestin' stuff here," she remarks. "Botany, agriculture... This might be useful to a certain someone I know. I'll have to check up on her anyway. She's probably done the analysis by now, but who knows? Maybe this'll help."
She eyes Nimue. "Read 'em? You loser." Then Sephy says they ought to sell them all and split the money because that's the most fair. Technically that's true, but-- "You wanna just *sell* em? Sheesh. Fine, I'll trade ya." She reaches into her poncho, pulls out the book she sto--*borrowed* earlier, and hands it to Sephy. "Here ya go. One ghost book, for you."
ragnell they're ALL ghost books
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia narrows her eyes. "I mean, this isn't a part of the set that--oh whatever, we'll figure out some fair distribution. Let's just get out of this stupid ghost tower already."
<Pose Tracker> Layna Manydays has posed.
"Aye, I hear that!" Layna agrees with a nod. I mean, it's been nice to hang out and they've gotten some nice loot...but this place has been really exhausting, and she's ready to see the end of it.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Ragnell has posed.
"Works for me," Ragnell says brightly, tucking the folio away. "Nimue? Do your own damn dirty work." At least she'll probably get a cut of the money from the sale of the rest of everything?