Plebs run july 15

[13:19] <PlebeiAnon> The space is ambiently lit from no apparent source. On the wall opposite to you, is a structure that looks to be a fireplace that has had brickwork laid across the opening. You have no recollection of how you arrived here, nor any clues, seeing as how the room lacks any other openings. Scattered about the floor are a pry bar, an array of small coins and about a meter's worth of string.
[13:19] <Jolt> Can I punch it
[13:20] <PlebeiAnon> The bricks leave a dull ache reverberating through your hand and wrist.
[13:20] <Jolt> I punch the string
[13:21] <PlebeiAnon> Your fist mostly hits the floor, reviving the ache in it.
[13:22] <Jolt> Pick up the crowbar
[13:23] <PlebeiAnon> You take up the crowbar. Its weight feels solid, as well-tempered cast iron should.
[13:23] <Jolt> Remove pants
[13:23] <PlebeiAnon> You unfasten your belt and drop your trousers.
[13:24] <Jolt> Tie belt onto crowbar
[13:25] <PlebeiAnon> The result is a malicious looking device.
[13:26] <Jolt> Examine brick fireplace
[13:26] <Jolt> (The outside)
[13:30] <PlebeiAnon> The dark wood that encases is secured firmly to the wall and covered with a thick and durable coating. The mortar joints between the bricks appear to have the same composition as those you would find on a building. The mortar around the edges are of a slightly lesser quality, but do well to hold the bricks in place when they are pressed up against. The bricks themselves seem well-aged and solid.
[13:32] <PlebeiAnon> *The dark wood that frames it
[13:33] <Jolt> Retrieve pants and string, using string in place of belt. Pick up coins and place them in pants pocket. Head into the fireplace
[13:35] <PlebeiAnon> The length of string does not fray at the ends nor demonstrate any elastic properties. Perhaps it may be a different material. You pocket the coins and get down onto you hands and knees in order to enter the fireplace, which is waist height on you. You bash your head against the brick barrier that is still there, because you forgot to remove it like a total dingus.
[13:38] <PlebeiAnon> As an afterthought, you note that the coins didn't seem as cool as the room temperature would lead you to expect.
[13:38] <Jolt> Go wild swinging the newly named Belty McCrowbar at the brick barrier
[13:40] <PlebeiAnon> Belty McCrowbar pits his newfound mutant strength against that of the brick barrier, but the swings glance off, the final one giving you hardy thump on the knee.
[13:41] <Jolt> Investigate coins.
[13:44] <~GangstaSeifer> The hell are you guys going on about?
[13:44] * GangstaSeifer is now known as DarkSunDuelist
[13:44] <PlebeiAnon> Oh, uh. Nothing.
[13:44] <PlebeiAnon> We got bored and I sort of did a thing.
[13:44] <PlebeiAnon> Sorry.
[13:45] <PlebeiAnon> If it bothers you, I'll put a stop to it. It's nothing worth moving people over to #rp over.
[13:45] <~DarkSunDuelist> I didn't say stop
[13:46] <Rapey_Lemons> lewd
[13:46] <~DarkSunDuelist> I said I wanted to know what you guys were doing.
[13:47] <PlebeiAnon> There were some off-hand comments about how empty the room was and I did a shitty text-based game style description of the room. Jolt picked it up from there.
[13:49] <Jolt> Kinda spent a bit testing the limits, but got to the point of taking it seriously
[13:50] <Jolt> Still at work though, so if someone more available wants to take the helm?
[13:52] <PlebeiAnon> After only a short interval spent in your pocketspace, they've become lukewarm to the touch. You have five in total. Three the color of oxidized copper, with a μ on the front and a handful of symbols resembling cuneiform on the back. A slightly larger bronze-colored coin, not much heavier than the smaller ones is engraved with a θ symbol and symbols from in a similar script on the back. The final coin is the same size as the forth and made o
[13:56] <PlebeiAnon> *fourth
[13:57] <Jolt> (Busy now)
[13:59] <PlebeiAnon> Feel like humoring me, TankAnon?
[13:59] <TankAnon> hm, suppose I could
[14:00] <PlebeiAnon> Go for it. You've just investigated the coins. The bricks remain an obstacle. You've got some grotesque combination of belt and crowbar at your disposal.
[14:00] <TankAnon> try to chip away the mortar at the edge of the fireplace with the straight end of the crowbar
[14:01] <TankAnon> just trying to get a big enough hole to get some leverage for the bent end
[14:01] <PlebeiAnon> After about seven motivated thrusts, some of the mortar at the top crackles away, you've got barely enough space to get most of the bent end in.
[14:02] <PlebeiAnon> *crumbles
[14:02] <TankAnon> attempt to apply leverage to get a brick loose with the curved end
[14:05] <PlebeiAnon> You put most of your weight into it and sure enough, a brick comes out a whole inch with just one firm push. With a bit more effort, you manage to extract it from the rows. The air that pours fourth from the opening is cold and wet, the odor musty.
[14:05] <PlebeiAnon> *forth
[14:06] <PlebeiAnon> Pfft. Can't spell it wrong when I need to.
[14:06] <TankAnon> I know that feeling
[14:06] <TankAnon> continue removing bricks via leverage until there's enough ambient light to see what's on the other side
[14:07] <TankAnon> and stack the bricks to the side whole, if possible, in case they come in handy later
[14:13] <PlebeiAnon> You arrange the bricks in an orderly stack, off to the side. Their weight would probably make them cumbersome to toss, but would definitely come in handy to pulverize something. The light from the room shines through the cap you've created to dimly illuminate what seems to be rock about five feet back into the wall. You can barely make it out without squinting, it being a dark color like storm clouds.
[14:14] <PlebeiAnon> The temperature of the room gradually cools to match that of the area behind the bricks.
[14:15] <TankAnon> continue removing and stacking bricks until I can squeeze through the hole created, might as well investigate
[14:15] <TankAnon> (also, brb)
[14:20] <PlebeiAnon> Sure. After removing the majority of the bricks that had been laid across the fireplace, the room's light shines upon a layer of soot sitting at the bottom of the fireplace, with a crawlspace roughly carved out of rock behind it. At the bottom of the crawlspace is a hole, the depth of which the light does not betray.
[14:20] <PlebeiAnon> It'd be a tight fit, but you could probably work yourself in there.
[14:23] <~DarkSunDuelist> (Lewd)
[14:23] <TankAnon> Hm. Try and look down the tunnel and see if there's light on the other side
[14:25] * Jolt (Mibbit@ARG-zOmBiE-4h3cd4.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) Quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
[14:26] <PlebeiAnon> Pitch black, like the depths of Lemons' soul.
[14:26] <PlebeiAnon> )roll 5d10
[14:26] * %Crunk --> "PlebeiAnon rolls 5d10 and gets 23."
[14:26] <TankAnon> *shutter*
[14:27] <PlebeiAnon> ((DarkSunDuelist: How do I into five seperate die?))
[14:27] <TankAnon> (shudder, damn it)
[14:27] <~DarkSunDuelist> )roll 5d#10
[14:27] * %Crunk --> "DarkSunDuelist Dice Error: Illegal characters in input!."
[14:27] <~DarkSunDuelist> )roll 5#d10
[14:27] * %Crunk --> "DarkSunDuelist rolls 5#d10 and gets 1, 5, 5, 1, 9."
[14:28] <~DarkSunDuelist> There we go
[14:28] <PlebeiAnon> Two rerolls, because I'm a nice guy.
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[14:29] <TankAnon> )roll 2#d10
[14:29] * %Crunk --> "TankAnon rolls 2#d10 and gets 3, 5."
[14:29] <PlebeiAnon> Reroll the three.
[14:30] <TankAnon> )roll d10
[14:30] * %Crunk --> "TankAnon rolls a d10 and gets 10."
[14:31] <PlebeiAnon> Good enough.
[14:31] <PlebeiAnon> I'm going to need a moment to figure out what those mean.
[14:31] <TankAnon> no worries
[14:32] <TankAnon> oh, dsd, what all do I need to do to get squared away to join?
[14:36] <PlebeiAnon> 9 Health (HLT) 5 Brawn (BRA) 5 Charm (CHA) 5 Sensitivity (SEN) 10 Resolve (RES)
[14:37] <PlebeiAnon> On closer examination, some of the rocks have a thin smattering of translucent, white, crystalline material on them.
[14:38] <TankAnon> use the corner of a brick to try and scrape some off
[14:40] <PlebeiAnon> It comes apart fairly easily into an almost invisible powder.
[14:40] <TankAnon> Hm, try scraping some onto the coins to see if anything happens
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[14:41] <PlebeiAnon> The coins, still warm, show no reaction to the powder.
[14:41] <PlebeiAnon> FrederickPhone: How's San Diego?
[14:44] <TankAnon> Hm, these coins seem to react oddly to temperature. put a mu coin in one armpit, the theta coin in the other armpit, and the last coin between thighs, and wait five minutes to see how they react
[14:45] <PlebeiAnon> The the mu and theta coins seem to level off at about the temperature a coin would get from remaining in one's back pocket after a long period of sitting. The omega coin accumulates heat until it becomes the same temperature as the area between your thighs.
[14:46] * Smutty (Mibbit@ARG-zOmBiE-n6uhpu.bchsia.telus.net) has joined #RSLV
[14:46] <PlebeiAnon> Hey Smutty.
[14:46] <Smutty> Yo
[14:46] <Smutty> >Fem Marth is the new Falco
[14:46] <Smutty> lol
[14:46] <TankAnon> well that was a bust. carpe diem, let's check out what's down the tunnel
[14:47] <PlebeiAnon> Ah, shit. I forgot to mention that the hole is one that goes down. I'll draw up a quick diagram because I can't describe worth shit with this headache.
[14:48] <PlebeiAnon> But towards the interior of the crawl space, you notice a few small lose rocks that don't appear to have come from the rock surrounding you. They appear similar to quartz, but of a smokey grey color.
[14:48] <TankAnon> oh, whoops
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[14:50] <Kroked> there we go
[14:50] <Smutty> What are you guys up to?
[14:51] <TankAnon> PlebiAnon is running a text adventure
[14:51] <Smutty> Ahh
[14:51] <Smutty> Cool
[14:51] <TankAnon> I've so far managed to break down a brick wall covering a fireplace and nearly fall down a bottomless pit
[14:52] <PlebeiAnon> http://imgur.com/3RHfDUH
[14:52] <PlebeiAnon> Like that one right there.
[14:52] <PlebeiAnon> Forgive the shittiness of my visual aid. I'm no drawfag.
[14:53] <TankAnon> If there's a small rock in the fireplace, or a pebble of brick that broke loose, then lay down with just my head over the pit, ear pointing down, and toss it down while listening for it to hit the bottom
[14:55] <PlebeiAnon> You take a chunk that came off of a brick you pried lose, and drop it down the hole, listening closely. The sound of rock hitting rock can be heard, give-or-take eight feet, by your ear.
[14:56] <PlebeiAnon> The the area where it hits sounds like it's more open than the the top of the hole.
[14:57] <TankAnon> take one of the quartz-like rocks out into the main room to experiment on
[14:57] <PlebeiAnon> Specify.
[14:57] <PlebeiAnon> Oh, just take it?
[14:57] <PlebeiAnon> Right. Good. Do that.
[14:57] <TankAnon> rub the coins on it, expose to body heat, see if it reacts to brighter light
[14:57] <PlebeiAnon> Nothing. Just toasty little discs of metal.
[14:58] <PlebeiAnon> Holding up to the light shows that the composition is indeed similar to quartz.
[14:58] <PlebeiAnon> *it up to
[14:59] <PlebeiAnon> Try something else?
[15:00] <TankAnon> stand on one side of the room, and pitch the quartz into the wall on the other side
[15:00] * WPW is no longer away - Gone for 2 hrs 10 mins 48 secs
[15:00] <FrederickPhone> If you're ever in San Diego, the food in little Italy is great.
[15:01] <FrederickPhone> You'll be hard pressed to find a parking place though.
[15:01] <Kroked> cool
[15:02] * FrederickPhone is brought to you by the San Diego committee of tourism.
[15:03] <PlebeiAnon> Nothing spectacular happens. You're not sure, but you might've caught sight of something at the point of impact. If there was anything, it was just barely noticable. Faint enough to make you question your eyes.
[15:03] <TankAnon> go to the pitch black hole, and throw the quartz pebble down the hole. maybe the darkness would make whatever it was easier to see
[15:04] <FrederickPhone> (should I be in #dsdooc for this)
[15:04] <PlebeiAnon> ((It's just a spur of the moment thing. Don't worry about it.))
[15:05] <PlebeiAnon> In the darkness of the hole, a few tiny sparks are clearly visible when the stone hits.
[15:06] <TankAnon> gather up all the quartz like rocks, and dump them all down the hole at the same time, to see if it will produce enough light to see anything
[15:08] <PlebeiAnon> Only a few out of the handful produce a spark, as they click upon impact. The clatter emphasizes the size of the area below.
[15:09] <TankAnon> and there's no visible light source in the main room?
[15:10] <PlebeiAnon> The light is just there. You try not to think about it too hard. ((Need to take something for the headache. We'll be right back with more geological action in a moment. Don't change that dial, folks.))
[15:13] <TankAnon> (no rush) pocket the coins, drop all but one brick down the hole, then dual wield brick and crowbar and jump down the hole
[15:13] <TankAnon> carpe diem
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[15:20] <Saia> Beeo Bee
[15:20] <Saia> .....
[15:20] <Saia> *Beep Beep
[15:21] <PlebeiAnon> Hey Saia.
[15:22] <PlebeiAnon> All right, about half the headache's gone, which I think is cause enough to move on with this business.
[15:22] <Kroked> beep beep
[15:24] <FrederickPhone> Sup Saia.
[15:24] <PlebeiAnon> The bricks come down like a pile of bricks, as bricks often do. You move yourself legs first in the hole, grasp the edge and let go. You land feet first on your pile of bricks, which turn out to be extremely insecure footing. You lose your balance, but manage to prop yourself up against a wall. It's dark and you've got bricks.
[15:25] <PlebeiAnon> The dim glow at the top of the hole you just came down does nothing to illuminate the chamber you've entered.
[15:25] <FrederickPhone> Plebe is doing a text adventure of sorts.
[15:25] <PlebeiAnon> I have to give TankAnon some credit for being a good player.
[15:26] <TankAnon> heh, thanks
[15:26] <FrederickPhone> I'd ask to participate, but...
[15:27] <PlebeiAnon> Frederick: Roll 5 d10, reroll threes, PM results.
[15:28] <TankAnon> feel around for pebbles on the ground, and start pitching rocks out into the darkness in an arc, and use the sound to try and get a sense of the size of the space
[15:28] <FrederickPhone> I'm kinda being dragged around San Diego.
[15:28] <PlebeiAnon> I'd be glad to work you in whenever a suitable oppurtunity arises. The more the merrier.
[15:29] <FrederickPhone> Alright then.
[15:31] <TankAnon> Though if someone does want to jump in feel free, I'm going to be too busy to play in half an hour
[15:32] <PlebeiAnon> You cast some chunks of brick that broke off during the fall in the surrounding directions. To your right, about five or six feet, a chunk thuds against a stone face. Ahead of you, the chunk hits... not quite a flat cave wall, but not really floor either. Maybe a steep slope in the rock face. You toss a chunk to your right and hear a thump. Sort of a hollow noise.
[15:32] <PlebeiAnon> It sounds like it came from a height below your waist.
[15:33] <PlebeiAnon> The sound is accompanied by a slight rattle.
[15:33] <TankAnon> ready crowbar just in case, and then head off to the right to investigate
[15:35] <PlebeiAnon> You cautiously tread to the right, prodding the way ahead of you with your Crowbelt. It makes contact with something fairly solid, but stationary. You're fairly certain it's inanimate.
[15:36] <TankAnon> run your hands over it to try and get a sense of what it is
[15:37] <PlebeiAnon> Feels like smooth wooden planks, with corners. From what you can tell, it's a crate.
[15:39] <TankAnon> if the top is closed, try and feel for the gap and use the crowbar to lift it up, then feel around inside it to see what's there
[15:40] <PlebeiAnon> Between the lid of the crate, and the sides, there's a gap of about one inch.
[15:40] <PlebeiAnon> Almost a perfect fit for the crowbar.
[15:41] <TankAnon> cool, pry it up
[15:43] <PlebeiAnon> The motion from the prying causes a further clinking/rattling sound from with in the crate, that you now recognize as glass containers in close proximity being shaken about. The wood comes up easy. You probably wouldn't even have needed the crowbar.
[15:44] <TankAnon> pick up one of the containers, and try and get a feel for size and weight
[15:46] <PlebeiAnon> Cylindrical most of the way, with a bottleneck forming as you move your hand towards the top. There is a cork at the zenith.
[15:46] <TankAnon> does it feel like there's anything inside?
[15:47] <PlebeiAnon> The weight implies the container is almost totally filled.
[15:49] <TankAnon> pitch the bottle towards the ground around 5 feet away
[15:50] <PlebeiAnon> You hear the bottle crack violently as it strikes the ground, along with burst of noise that sounds like a gush or a spray.
[15:51] <PlebeiAnon> ((Smutty: Would you be interested in taking over once TankAnon is busy with whatever?))
[15:52] <Smutty> Oh uh, sure, I guess
[15:52] <TankAnon> thanks
[15:53] <PlebeiAnon> ((Excellent. The show must go on, no matter how dull. I'll pastebin you the unedited log.))
[15:55] <TankAnon> I will admit I tend to play pretty cautiously, which makes things a bit slow sometimes
[15:56] <PlebeiAnon> No, that's fine. An investigative player is great.
[15:56] <PlebeiAnon> I prefer them.
[16:00] <FrederickPhone> Note to self. Poke everything with a stick before actually touching it.
[16:01] <PlebeiAnon> CrowBelt is your friend. Especially in total darkness.
[16:09] <Smutty> Alright I think I've absorbed all the important stuff
[16:09] <PlebeiAnon> Excellent.
[16:09] <Smutty> Poke the substance that spilled out of the bottle to try and get a sense of what was in it
[16:12] <PlebeiAnon> You feel around and you've managed to create one or two sharp glass shards from the impact. The substance is a thin liquid, that smells not-so-faintly of alcohol.
[16:13] <PlebeiAnon> In addition to the crowbar and coins on your person, you have your pile of rocks below the hole and the crystalline coating on some rocks at your disposal.
[16:14] <Smutty> Use glass shard and some rock as flint and tinder, try to see if the liquid is flammable
[16:15] <PlebeiAnon> Use a specific rock from your inventory?
[16:15] <Smutty> The crystalline coated ones
[16:16] <PlebeiAnon> Crystaline coating is on the rock that makes up the walls. You can break it off into a powder, though.
[16:16] <PlebeiAnon> You have the quartzy rock and the bricks.
[16:16] <PlebeiAnon> And your coins.
[16:16] <Smutty> Hmm, try using glass on the rocks below the hole to create sparks
[16:17] <PlebeiAnon> The quartzy rock is what did it before. Class doesn't do anything.
[16:17] <PlebeiAnon> *Glass
[16:18] <PlebeiAnon> In hindsight, I wasn't as clear as I should've been.
[16:18] <Smutty> What did the quartz rocks do?
[16:19] <PlebeiAnon> Created a spark when tossed at the ground from the top of the hole.
[16:20] <PlebeiAnon> Dig them up out of the pile of bricks and stones?
[16:23] <Smutty> Yeah lets do that
[16:23] <Smutty> Lets also use the crowbar to break a plank off the crate. Is there anything more in the crate?
[16:25] <PlebeiAnon> You break off a nice sized plank. Feeling around in the crate, it's just more bottles like the one you smashed on the ground. You move back over to the site of the spill, smoky quartz-like stone in hand.
[16:26] <Smutty> Tear off an arm of your shirt and wrap it around the end of the plank
[16:27] <PlebeiAnon> With a bit of effort, you manage to tear off a sleeve and bundle it around the end of the plank.
[16:27] <Smutty> Roll the wrapped end around in the liquid
[16:28] <PlebeiAnon> You do so. Feeling the cloth bundle, it has soaked up a generous quantity of the liquid.
[16:29] <Smutty> Hold the makeshift torch in one hand, and the quartz in the other, start striking the quarts on the ground to create sparks
[16:29] <Smutty> quartz*
[16:31] <PlebeiAnon> You hold the end of your torch to the ground and strike the flint next to it with all your might. A few sparks fly, and in a matter of seconds, the torch sustains a healthy flame.
[16:32] <Smutty> Examine surroundings
[16:37] <PlebeiAnon> The ceiling is fairly low. Three feet above your head. You've got the pile of bricks and the hole behind you, with seven feet in any outward direction. An opened crate of wine bottles to your left, a wine bottle partially shattered on the ground before you and a steep slope leading into the darkness above, ahead. Nothing on your right.
[16:38] <Smutty> Pocket a bottle of wine, may come in handy
[16:39] <PlebeiAnon> It's a bit large to fit in your pocket.
[16:40] <Smutty> Forget it and press onwards up the slope
[16:43] <PlebeiAnon> Pulling yourself up the slope with a torch still in one hand you arrive at a flat wall. Your torch illuminates some metal rungs, like staples in the rock, covere in surface rock. They ascend farther than your can illuminate. You think you can hear the wind high above.
[16:43] <Smutty> Grab hold of the rungs and climb further
[16:43] <Editanon> afternoon folks
[16:43] <PlebeiAnon> Hey Edit.
[16:44] <PlebeiAnon> You're going to need to free up your hands.
[16:44] <Kroked> HELLO EDIT
[16:44] <Editanon> howdy
[16:44] <Smutty> You don't need two hands to climb a ladder
[16:45] <PlebeiAnon> You're also carrying CrowBelt. Sling it over your shoulder?
[16:45] <Smutty> Oh
[16:45] <Smutty> Yeah
[16:46] <PlebeiAnon> You make your way up the rungs, for what must be about twenty feet before you approach another ledge. Your hand grasps smooth, eroded rock, unlike the rough rock inside the cavern.
[16:47] <Smutty> Drop one of the quartz rocks down to get an idea of how far the drop from the ledge is
[16:49] <PlebeiAnon> You drop another chunk of flint and make an accurate estimate of the distance.
[16:49] <Smutty> So... How far is it?
[16:50] <PlebeiAnon> Twenty feet.
[16:50] <PlebeiAnon> I... think I might've fucked up the description.
[16:50] <Smutty> Oh?
[16:53] <PlebeiAnon> http://imgur.com/HM5dsoC
[16:53] <PlebeiAnon> It's a testament to my prose skills when I'm having to draw visual aids.
[16:53] <Smutty> Ahh
[16:53] <PlebeiAnon> All right. Sorry about the confusion.
[16:53] <Smutty> Mourn the loss of the quartz stone and examine your surroundings
[16:54] <PlebeiAnon> Climb up onto the ledge?
[16:54] <Smutty> Yeah
[16:55] <PlebeiAnon> The rock floor here is uniformly smooth. Crystalline coating is still present along the walls. You face a tunnel that bends left.
[16:55] <Smutty> Walk down the tunnel
[16:56] <PlebeiAnon> Moonlight faintly illuminates a rocky terrace under an open sky.
[16:57] <Smutty> Examine surroundings
[16:59] <PlebeiAnon> You peer about. You're about ten feet above the ground. The area below has thick soft-looking grass that looks like it'd make a good cushion for a fall. You can't see much past that.
[17:00] <PlebeiAnon> The terrace you're standing on is about the size of a large doormat.
[17:00] <Smutty> Fall to the grass below
[17:00] <PlebeiAnon> You jump, and land square on your feet.
[17:01] <PlebeiAnon> You can go travel parallel to the rock face, or move forward.
[17:02] <Smutty> Move forward
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[17:03] <&Nekubot> [DarkSunDuelist] "Are you Pansies or Parisians?!"
[17:03] * Nekubot sets mode: +qo DarkSunDuelist DarkSunDuelist
[17:04] <PlebeiAnon> After walking for a minute, you come to some rows of bushes, a head taller than you are. Well, they might've been rows at some point. They're wildly overgrown and criss-cross the channels between them.
[17:05] <Smutty> examine surroundings
[17:06] <PlebeiAnon> The rows of bushes go as far either way as you can see. You could probably travel between the rows if you didn't mind pushing some vines and branches out of the way.
[17:07] <Editanon> (Logs cleaned an add'd seekers http://pastebin.com/zVCshA4C   EDGE http://pastebin.com/d0C49MnH )
[17:08] <PlebeiAnon> Behind you is grass, and a cloudy moonlit sky is above.
[17:08] <Smutty> Move through the bushes, holding the torch above your head so that you don't ignite them
[17:11] <PlebeiAnon> You eventually arrive at a clearing in the middle. There, is a small pavillion, with a table and some baskets stacked up to the side.
[17:13] <Smutty> Open the baskets
[17:17] <PlebeiAnon> They are empty, aside from a few dried, pruned fruit at the bottom.
[17:17] <PlebeiAnon> Tiny.
[17:18] <PlebeiAnon> Berries of some sort.
[17:18] <Smutty> ((brb))
[17:19] <PlebeiAnon> Sure.
[17:19] <PlebeiAnon> Sorry that last one took so long, by the way. I was prepping something for a bit later.
[17:26] <Smutty> back
[17:26] <Smutty> no worries
[17:26] <Smutty> Smell the berries
[17:27] <PlebeiAnon> The carry the same scent, as the one in the bottles from the cave.
[17:28] <Smutty> Try eating one of the berries
[17:29] <PlebeiAnon> Bitter, but flavorful.
[17:30] <Smutty> Pocket some of the berries
[17:30] <PlebeiAnon> You scrape up whatever you can from the bottoms of the baskets.
[17:31] <Smutty> Examine surroundins
[17:31] <Smutty> surroundings*
[17:32] <PlebeiAnon> You notice something on the table. It's a small cloth sack.
[17:32] <Smutty> Open sack
[17:34] <PlebeiAnon> Five mu coins and some berries. The cloth of the sack itself is worth noting. The inside appears to be stained, but not in a random way. The markings seem deliberately applied with a variety of dies. http://imgur.com/Clw2gmE
[17:35] <Smutty> Well it's clearly a map, head east towards what looks like a river
[17:35] <PlebeiAnon> Take anything?
[17:35] <Smutty> Oh uh, take the sack and its contents
[17:36] <PlebeiAnon> As you do so, the atmosphere suddenly becomes opressive.
[17:36] <PlebeiAnon> You can almost hear a faint rustling the way you came. Upon listening you are positive you hear something moving about in the hedges.
[17:36] <PlebeiAnon> But it's moving... further away?
[17:37] <Smutty> secure the sack to your makeshift belt and prepare thine crowbelt
[17:37] <Smutty> Begin to head east towards the river, keeping an eye out for danger
[17:38] <PlebeiAnon> You move on from the center of the bushes toward the other side of the yard. You can hear nothing as you go about your way.
[17:38] <PlebeiAnon> You arrive out the other side without incident.
[17:38] <Smutty> Examine surroundings
[17:39] <PlebeiAnon> You can't see all that far ahead of you. Grass on this side. But you hear the flow of a powerful current up ahead.
[17:39] <Smutty> Move towards the current
[17:41] <PlebeiAnon> Your torch flame is beginning to die down, but the clouds are now allowing more moonlight through. The smeared stain on the sack cloth did not do this mighty torrent justice. It's wider than you care to guess, and the water is moving dangerously fast.
[17:41] <Smutty> Look for a way to cross
[17:41] <PlebeiAnon> There's no way you're crossing it here.
[17:41] <PlebeiAnon> Travel north or south?
[17:42] <Smutty> Hmm, north
[17:43] <PlebeiAnon> You head north along the bank. The grass becomes increasingly tall and dense, up to you waist belly button in some patches.
[17:44] <PlebeiAnon> You eventually come to a tall pole in the ground, with rope at the top that runs out across the river.
[17:44] <PlebeiAnon> The grass around it has been cleared away, and some large planks of wood are laid down in an orderly fashion beside it.
[17:45] <Smutty> Give the rope a pull to see how secure it is
[17:46] <PlebeiAnon> The rope is taught.
[17:47] <Smutty> Is it just a single line of rope?
[17:48] <PlebeiAnon> Just the one.
[17:48] <PlebeiAnon> The ground below your feet is muddy squishy.
[17:48] <PlebeiAnon> *muddy and squishy
[17:49] <Smutty> Examine the planks
[17:50] <PlebeiAnon> The wood is solid and does not give under weight.
[17:51] <Smutty> Ditch the dying torch and use the rope to climb across the river
[17:51] <Smutty> Er well, not climb. But you get the idea.
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[17:54] <PlebeiAnon> You shimmy like you've never shimmied before. The river turns out to be even longer than it appeared from the bank, and the trip is hell on your muscles. You're in jeopardy of letting your rope-burned grasp slip at any moment.
[17:54] <PlebeiAnon> )roll 1d10
[17:54] * %Crunk --> "PlebeiAnon rolls 1d10 and gets 4."
[17:56] <PlebeiAnon> One of your hands slip and you are dangling by one hand, about twenty feet from the opposite bank. What will you do?
[17:56] <PlebeiAnon> The current rages just a meter below you.
[17:56] <Smutty> Take out the crowbelt and use its hooked end to pull yourself up
[17:57] <PlebeiAnon> )roll 1d10
[17:57] * %Crunk --> "PlebeiAnon rolls 1d10 and gets 3."
[17:58] <PlebeiAnon> I'm going to pretend that didn't happen.
[17:58] <PlebeiAnon> You manage to pull yourself back up and drag yourself the rest of the way, letting yourself fall into the muddy soil of the bank from exhaustion.
[17:59] <FrederickPhone> Heading home now.
[17:59] <PlebeiAnon> Good. I'll have use for you in a bit.
[18:00] <FrederickPhone> Eta: 2.5 hours.
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[18:00] <PlebeiAnon> You lay there for a bit, the hum of insects unseen soothing you.
[18:01] <Smutty> examine surroundings
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[18:04] <PlebeiAnon> This side of the crossing looks much like the other, with a clearing of the high grass surrounding the tall pole. Something that looks like a tin can is by the base of the pole.
[18:04] <Smutty> Examine can
[18:07] <PlebeiAnon> It contains a single coin, with the same oxidized color as your three mu coins. This one has Rho ρ on the front of it, and like the others, some cuneiform script on the back. It occurs to you that the cloth might make for a good wallet, to seperate the coins from the other posessions in your cluttered pockets.
[18:08] <PlebeiAnon> The can also contains a scrap of papyrus with cuneiform script.
[18:08] <Smutty> Take coin from can, make cloth into wallet to contain coins
[18:08] <Smutty> Decipher the script?
[18:08] <PlebeiAnon> No can do.
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[18:08] <PlebeiAnon> Get it? Because you found it in a can.
[18:09] <Smutty> pffft
[18:09] <PlebeiAnon> Anyway, a well-tread path leads out away from the bank and toward where the map showed a path to be.
[18:09] <Smutty> Take the papyrus scrap and head down the path
[18:10] <PlebeiAnon> You're sore all over from the crossing, but you trudge on in spite of this. For a moment, you believe yourself to be hearing a set of footsteps echoing your own, but you are alone on the path.
[18:11] <Smutty> Head down the path, keeping your head on a swivel for enemies
[18:13] <PlebeiAnon> )roll 1d10
[18:13] * %Crunk --> "PlebeiAnon rolls 1d10 and gets 1."
[18:16] <PlebeiAnon> From out of seemingly nowhere, behind you, a tall, impossibly slender figure steps onto the path. He is cloaked in an all concealing tunic, peering down at you with slits that might be eyes. He does not take any action.
[18:17] <PlebeiAnon> The insects are dead silent.
[18:18] <Smutty> Say "Hi"
[18:19] <PlebeiAnon> He does not react, only reaches inside his garb and withdraws a cloth similar to your own, but in much better condition. He holds it out, on display. It looks like it has a map on it, but you can't really tell in this light.
[18:20] <Smutty> Undo your makeshift wallet and dump the coins into your pocket, hold out your portion of the cloth on display
[18:21] <PlebeiAnon> He gives a nod, then shuffles his feet back and forth on the path beneath him. It would appear he's somehow prompting you.
[18:22] <Smutty> Approach him
[18:23] <PlebeiAnon> He does not react. Apparently, he hasn't gotten what he wants.
[18:23] <Smutty> Continue down the path
[18:24] <PlebeiAnon> He moves to follow you, holding out his cloth in front of him.
[18:24] <Smutty> Try to take the cloth
[18:25] <PlebeiAnon> His long arms keep it out of reach. He gestures to your own.
[18:26] <Smutty> Try to hand it to him
[18:27] <PlebeiAnon> He does not move to accept it. He waves at your pocket, then shuffles his feet again.
[18:27] <Smutty> Take the coins out of your pocket and hold them out
[18:28] <PlebeiAnon> He unfurls two of his long fingers.
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[18:29] <Smutty> Try handing him some of the coins
[18:29] <PlebeiAnon> Which ones?
[18:31] <Smutty> The three mu coins
[18:34] <PlebeiAnon> He puts his cloth over his hand, map side up, kneels down and strokes two mu coins off of your hand onto the cloth all without ever touching your hand. He stands up straight again and before you know it, it's as if he was never there. The only sign of his presence are the two coins that have been taken.
[18:34] <PlebeiAnon> The night suddenly seems more welcoming, and you are at ease as you find your way to the main road.
[18:35] <PlebeiAnon> It is a simple dirt path, with grassland on either side. You can't see the end of it.
[18:38] <PlebeiAnon> Alongside it is a trench, about a foot and a half deep that runs the length of it.
[18:47] <Smutty> Sorry, back
[18:47] <PlebeiAnon> No worries.
[18:47] <PlebeiAnon> I'm here all night, or until you're bored out of your skull.
[18:47] <Smutty> heh, k
[18:47] <Smutty> Examine the trench
[18:48] <PlebeiAnon> Some rocks and sediment have acumulated at the bottom of it.
[18:49] <Smutty> Climb down into trench
[18:50] <PlebeiAnon> ((Just to be sure, we're both on the same page about how deep a foot and a half is, right?))
[18:50] <PlebeiAnon> ((I mean, I know it's a shitty system of measurement but...))
[18:51] <Saia> (and off to class)
[18:51] <PlebeiAnon> ((Take care, Saia.))
[18:52] <Smutty> Oh, oops, I read it as more than that
[18:52] <PlebeiAnon> No worries.
[18:52] <Smutty> Umm, dig around in the trench
[18:52] <Smutty> See if anything useful is buried
[18:52] <PlebeiAnon> Nothing much, though the quality of the soil is noticably high.
[18:53] <Smutty> Pocket a handful of the sand
[18:54] <PlebeiAnon> The soil?
[18:54] <Smutty> yeah
[18:54] <PlebeiAnon> You do so.
[18:54] <PlebeiAnon> There's nothing else remarkable where you are.
[18:55] <Smutty> Continue down the path
[18:56] <PlebeiAnon> As you move along, the occasional tree appears alongside the road. You come to one with branches that you're able to climb on.
[18:58] <Smutty> Climbe tree
[19:02] <PlebeiAnon> You ascend the tree and reach a decent height. An opening in the branches gives you a picturesque view of the grasslands and river that you've crossed and the cliffs behind them. You are so overcome by this portrait that you don't notice yourself relaxing into a state of rest as the night's exhaustion catches up to you.
[19:02] <PlebeiAnon> END WHATEVER THE HELL ALL THAT WAS
[19:03] <PlebeiAnon> Rewards: Coins of some sort, some rocks, a mean weapon and an encounter with somethin or the other.
[19:03] <PlebeiAnon> I hope I was able to sufficiently pleasure you, Smutty.
[19:04] <Kroked> lewd
[19:04] <Smutty> Yay~
[19:04] <KindAnon> congrats
[19:04] <PlebeiAnon> Indeed. If anybody here has criticism, I'd love to here it.
[19:05] <PlebeiAnon> *hear
[19:05] <PlebeiAnon> Not startin with my spelling.
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