IWUAaDNW: Party 5.5

So, for now, I kept things back and watched the group explore. My bag of tricks was pretty much depleted for now. I only had one trick left.

I’d designed this floor in two sections; the main section, a mess of criss-crossing paths and interconnected hallways, and a back-section where I had put my useful rooms. The pixie floor’s rooms were quite distinct from each other, what with the tree trunks, branches, distinctive flowers and grasses, and unique dirt paths, all of which could provide landmarks. However, if I was the one providing the landmarks, or I could tell which landmarks they were using, then it was simple work to make them lose themselves. As a result, they spent an awkward around of time exploring the main section.

“…and now we’re back to the pale flower room again?” Gwen moaned in frustration as she eyed the [ILLUSION]innocuous ghostly-white flower in a corner of the room[/ILLUSION]. “We just left that one!”

“From another angle, though?” Maryll looked back behind herself. “Last time it was over on that side,” she pointed vaguely to her left. “So does that mean this hallway leads to the same room… uh… on the opposite side?”

Karjn growled in frustration and threw her boomerang at [ILLUSION]the flower[/ILLUSION]. The weapon [ILLUSION]neatly bisected it[/ILLUSION] and nearly hit the illusion pixies that were among the leaves near its roots.

“It’s not even an illusion,” she sighed, then threw both arms in the air. “Alright, fuck it, I don’t have time for this shit. You win, Taylor. Can you guide us out of this mess? Give us a map or something.”

Yeah, okay.

I broke the flower’s illusion––“Wait, what the fuck? No fucking way, it was fake?!”––and showed them a rough map of my second floor, using my pixies to highlight the way back to the stairs in red.

One of Ulfric’s eyebrows rose.

After staring at the map for a few seconds, Karjn shook her head. “I’m pretty sure this floor is going to be a nightmare, especially once you expand this section a bit and get enough pixies to make more complex illusions.”