(1:09:15 PM) the cheeter: hey
(1:09:54 PM) ravenconspiracy: yes hello
(1:09:57 PM) the cheeter: bummers... are deaf
(1:10:09 PM) ravenconspiracy: i see
(1:10:12 PM) ravenconspiracy: very clever
(1:10:19 PM) ravenconspiracy: you are a bummer
(1:10:38 PM) ravenconspiracy: i want to play an RPG
(1:10:51 PM) the cheeter: well i've got this gun now!
(1:11:02 PM) ravenconspiracy: its true
(1:11:14 PM) the cheeter: no you're tellin it wrong, raspberries,
(1:11:46 PM) the cheeter: lets play lonewolf
(1:12:57 PM) ravenconspiracy: are you free?
(1:13:24 PM) the cheeter: ya
(1:13:38 PM) the cheeter: pretty boring here
(1:13:40 PM) ravenconspiracy: when did we leave off
(1:13:42 PM) the cheeter: im burnt out its friday
(1:13:50 PM) the cheeter: i was crossing a bridge when an ice serpent
(1:13:52 PM) the cheeter: came out
(1:16:27 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok give me a while to find it and reorganize myself
(1:17:07 PM) ravenconspiracy: you should get a d10 roller ready
(1:19:00 PM) ravenconspiracy: you made it past there... you just found some potions
(1:19:35 PM) the cheeter: ok
(1:22:33 PM) the cheeter: i found a d10 roller
(1:24:36 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok your equipment list:
SommerSwerd
Magic Spear
Leather Armor
Silver Helmet
Firesphere (makes a fire)
Map
Red Potion - Laumspur (healing)
Orange Potion -(combat drugs)
Green Potion - Sleeptooth - Sleeping Potion (ingest)
Black Potion -
(1:26:53 PM) the cheeter: excellent
(1:31:22 PM) ravenconspiracy: Ok ok... so when we left off you had found some potions - you were looking at the black potion
(1:31:24 PM) ravenconspiracy: The stopper of the black vial is sealed with wax. If you wish to break the seal, you must risk smashing the thin glass of the Vial.
(1:31:40 PM) the cheeter: i breka the thin glass
(1:31:45 PM) ravenconspiracy: (also if you've forgotten you are in the icey caverns doing something)
(1:31:59 PM) ravenconspiracy: roll a d10
(1:32:09 PM) the cheeter: 2
(1:32:22 PM) ravenconspiracy: You manage to crack the seal in exactly the right place, and thereby avoid smashing the thin glass stem. The vapour rising from the black liquid is sharp and pungent.
(1:32:36 PM) the cheeter: i place a stopper on it
(1:32:40 PM) ravenconspiracy: You recognize the pungent smell of distilled Graveweed. This black concentration is a very powerful poison, and you quickly replace the stopper to prevent the noxious fumes from escaping.
(1:32:59 PM) ravenconspiracy: so you have a powerful poison
(1:33:08 PM) the cheeter: i look up and realize that i must get going if i'm going to stop that one d00d
(1:33:47 PM) ravenconspiracy: do you want to keep the black potion of distilled graveweed?
(1:33:51 PM) the cheeter: yes
(1:34:08 PM) the cheeter: its gotta be good for something
(1:34:12 PM) ravenconspiracy: Ok you adjust your pack and then head out into the caverns...
(1:34:48 PM) ravenconspiracy: As you move through this frigid, lightless realm You notice that the ceiling and walls of the corridor are covered with strange carvings. They seem to depict small cyclones or tornadoes, gradually changing shape into almost human form. Although puzzled by the strange hieroglyphs, you continue until you reach a point where the tunnel takes a sharp right turn. Only a few feet along the northern wall is another stone door. The lever in the wall next to it is raised and the door is firmly closed. Several yards further ahead, a flight of steps disappears upwards.
(1:35:00 PM) ravenconspiracy: would you like to investigate the door or head up the stairs
(1:35:50 PM) the cheeter: i go to the door and examine the carvings taking my time as if i was looking at a high priced paintint
(1:35:54 PM) the cheeter: painting
(1:36:26 PM) ravenconspiracy: there is a lever next to the door - there doesn't seem to be any other way to open it
(1:36:43 PM) the cheeter: i gently lower the lever
(1:36:55 PM) ravenconspiracy: You depress the lever and the stone door slides aside to reveal a large chamber. It is cold, stale and empty, except for a granite chest lying near the east wall.
(1:37:14 PM) the cheeter: i go over to the chest and put my ear to it
(1:37:44 PM) ravenconspiracy: it is very cold and you hear nothing
(1:37:46 PM) ravenconspiracy: The faces of grotesque and distorted creatures adorn the surfaces of the chest. Their obscene expressions and unnatural proportions make you shudder with revulsion. Set into the centre of the lid is a large stone block carved with a hideous face, the mouth of which is shaped around a keyhole.
(1:38:13 PM) the cheeter: i pat my pockets for an equal hideous key
(1:38:24 PM) ravenconspiracy: processing
(1:39:50 PM) ravenconspiracy: you actually find a large silver key in you pocket - you recall that you found it covered in ice-beast acid
(1:41:07 PM) ravenconspiracy: I assume you want to try the silver key into the key-hole yes?
(1:41:36 PM) the cheeter: yes
(1:41:40 PM) the cheeter: i fit it in
(1:41:44 PM) the cheeter: and hope for the best
(1:42:19 PM) ravenconspiracy: You insert the Key and turn it clockwise. A click confirms that it works. Slowly the shank of the Key slips from your grip and disappears into the lock and the great stone lid opens to reveal a magnificent Silver Helmet.
Thanks to your mystical Kai-senses, You sense that this Helmet has magical properties that can aid you in combat. You detect no evil surrounding this Item or the stone chest in which it lies.
(1:42:40 PM) the cheeter: i wear the helmet
(1:43:00 PM) the cheeter: and backflip out of the door
(1:43:02 PM) ravenconspiracy: I think we are retracing some steps because you already found the silver helm... but whatever it was like a million years ago we played this thing
(1:43:20 PM) the cheeter: ya i think so too
(1:43:31 PM) ravenconspiracy: Despite its size, the Helmet feels light and comfortable. It will aid and protect you in combat.
(1:43:41 PM) the cheeter: i smile
(1:44:14 PM) ravenconspiracy: You leave the small treasure chamber and the only way to leave appears to be up the ominous steps.
(1:44:33 PM) the cheeter: i run up the steps with king kai speed
(1:44:44 PM) ravenconspiracy: You climb over a hundred stone steps before arriving at a narrow landing. Roll a d10
(1:44:57 PM) the cheeter: 4
(1:45:05 PM) ravenconspiracy: on your right, you notice that a stone door is cunningly concealed by an intricate wall carving. A close examination of the carving reveals a lever.
(1:45:13 PM) ravenconspiracy: you can either pull the lever or continue on
(1:45:37 PM) the cheeter: i pull the lever
(1:47:17 PM) ravenconspiracy: The stone door moves slowly to one side. It reveals a narrow archway that is full of billowing and swirling mist, hiding whatever it is that lurks beyond. You notice a severe drop in temperature.
You can sense the presence of a powerful life-force beyond the misty arch. As you concentrate, you suddenly recall a tale told to you when you were a small child, 'The Legend of the Vagadyn Gate'. This was a tale of Ice Demons and how they once fought a war to be able to leave their world and come to Kalte.
They were formless creatures, without shape and substance, and existed as pure energy in another dimension, beyond the confines of space and time. The Ice Demons discovered the Vagadyn gate, a sort of door between their world and Magnamund; they fought each other to enter this gate, unaware of the fate that awaited them.
The Ancients had also discovered the gate. As the Ice Demons passed through the Vagadyn, their spirits were imprisoned in crystals by the cunning Ancients, who harnessed the power of the Ice Demons to build Ikaya. The M'lare bowls that light the fortress each contain the spirits of lesser Ice Demons trapped within. You also remember that the tale warns against destroying the crystal prisons: if an Ice Demon is released it will seek to claim the body of its rescuer.
(1:47:28 PM) ravenconspiracy: let me know when you read all of that
(1:48:09 PM) the cheeter: ice demons
(1:48:15 PM) the cheeter: got it
(1:48:33 PM) the cheeter: little demon never hurt nobody
(1:48:40 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok... forwarned by this knowledge, do you wish to continue through the misty gate or turn back the other corridor
(1:48:47 PM) ravenconspiracy: ?
(1:49:20 PM) the cheeter: i head back and go up the steps shutting the door and deadbolting it
(1:49:55 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok, so you fear the demons
(1:50:11 PM) the cheeter: yes
(1:50:18 PM) ravenconspiracy: you return to the stairway
(1:50:22 PM) the cheeter: yes
(1:51:03 PM) ravenconspiracy: You continue upwards until you reach a narrow stone door. Like the other doors you have seen so far, it is controlled by a wall lever. This door also has a small spy-hole cut into its centre. Carefully placing your eye to the aperture, you peer into the small room beyond. There, lying on the floor of the cell, are three sleeping Doomwolves. In the north wall, a cell door is open, and the outline of an Ice Barbarian's back can be seen filling the archway.
(1:51:26 PM) ravenconspiracy: You sense that the Doomwolves are sleeping deeply. There is a chance that you can slip past them, overpower the Ice Barbarian guard, and close the cell door before they awake. However, you know that this is very risky and the odds are against you.
(1:51:45 PM) ravenconspiracy: or you can turn back
(1:52:01 PM) the cheeter: do i have any food?
(1:52:25 PM) ravenconspiracy: No, looks like you ate it all or lost it on the glacial flats
(1:52:52 PM) ravenconspiracy: so you have the choice between wolves and a barbarian or incorporial demons
(1:53:01 PM) ravenconspiracy: story of you life, right?
(1:53:07 PM) the cheeter: totally
(1:53:28 PM) the cheeter: i use my kai abilities to sneak past the doom wolves
(1:53:42 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok
(1:53:54 PM) the cheeter: i lean down and look for their paws
(1:54:23 PM) ravenconspiracy: You don't have time! As the door slides back, you are horrified to see the blank pupil-less eyes of the Ice Barbarian staring directly at your face. A low, unnatural cry comes from his open mouth, and in an instant the Doomwolves are awake and snarling!
(1:54:37 PM) ravenconspiracy: You must choose to fight agains the odds or retreat!
(1:55:16 PM) the cheeter: i down a combat potion and kick a doom wolf in the face
(1:58:19 PM) ravenconspiracy: Your enemies can only attack you one at a time due to the narrow confines of the cell. You must fight them one at a time. As the first wolf charges you uncork the alether potion with one hand, using your thumb. The bottle opens with a satisfying uncorking noise and the cork arcs gracefully through the air as you down the potion and kick at the wolf in one kai-motion. Your "combat potion consumptions" professor at the kai monastery would be proud... may he rest in peace.
(1:58:25 PM) ravenconspiracy: roll a die for the wolf kick
(1:59:21 PM) the cheeter: ok
(1:59:26 PM) the cheeter: 2
(2:00:14 PM) the cheeter: brb for a sed
(2:04:09 PM) ravenconspiracy: let me know when you are back
(2:05:19 PM) the cheeter: ok
(2:05:20 PM) the cheeter: im back
(2:05:22 PM) ravenconspiracy: You boot the wolf right in the face but it shakes it off and bites you right on the foot - luckily your boot protects you from having your foot bitten cleanly off.
The alether potion begins to work - your vision goes slightly red and unfocused while you feel your muscles bulge under your winter gear and you can feel you blood pounding in your temples while your veins pop out all over body, including your neck and forehead. Your teeth clench involuntarily and you start frothing at the mouth a little. You feel like you could take on a Drakkarim horde by yourself! You feel a strange desire to see bloodshed.
(2:05:26 PM) ravenconspiracy: roll again
(2:05:50 PM) the cheeter: 1
(2:08:17 PM) ravenconspiracy: the wolf bites and rends at your foot, distantly you notice blood flowing from your boot but you strangely feel no pain. You see someone reach out an crush the wolf's neck with a gloved hand and you realize it was you!
Just as you toss aside the wolf carcass just before another huge icewolf lunges at you with slavering jaws. Roll a dice.
(2:09:38 PM) the cheeter: 4
(2:09:49 PM) the cheeter: it was me!?
(2:10:53 PM) ravenconspiracy: yeah, you feel strangely detached - like you are watching someone else fighting
(2:11:05 PM) the cheeter: sweet
(2:11:11 PM) the cheeter: i continue to shed blood
(2:12:16 PM) ravenconspiracy: You try to bring your glimmering sword to bear and impale the lunging wolf, but despite your increased speed and strength you only graze the beast which bites at your arm. Roll again.
(2:12:29 PM) the cheeter: 2
(2:12:39 PM) ravenconspiracy: are you rolling a d10?
(2:12:43 PM) the cheeter: yes
(2:12:45 PM) ravenconspiracy: [fudge]
(2:12:48 PM) the cheeter: i know
(2:13:56 PM) ravenconspiracy: The wolf, barely alive, continues to rend at your flesh. This strength enhancing alether seems to be making your muscles more powerful but unresponsive. roll again
(2:14:09 PM) the cheeter: 1
(2:14:15 PM) ravenconspiracy: no way
(2:14:17 PM) the cheeter: yes way
(2:14:25 PM) the cheeter: try a few
(2:14:25 PM) the cheeter:
rolz.org/#(2:15:57 PM) ravenconspiracy: even as you slowly, painfully impale the wolf on the magical sommerswerd, it clamps its jaws into a frenzied death grip on your fore-arm and you watch, unemotionally and with no pain at the blood flowing from the wound - roll again as the next wolf lunges
(2:16:20 PM) the cheeter: 10
(2:16:31 PM) the cheeter: [fudge] that dog
(2:17:38 PM) ravenconspiracy: The strange fog leaves you for a moment and your insane fighting ability returns as you neatly shear the next wolf in half, mid-leap! The two halves stay together for a moment before messily breaking apart on impact with the icey dungeon floor.
(2:18:31 PM) the cheeter: i leap at the barbarian man
(2:18:48 PM) ravenconspiracy: Finally the blank-eyed barbarian stalks towards you with his wicked weapons drawn. As usually you send your mind towards your enemy to unman him with psychic confusion and fear, but are met with only a mental void! - roll an attack dice
(2:19:08 PM) the cheeter: 9
(2:20:38 PM) ravenconspiracy: You cleanly decapitate the barbarians head from the neck. His evil grimace still etched on his face as it tumbles to the ground. His body however takes 2 complete steps before falling into convulsions and tumbling to the floor.
(2:21:15 PM) ravenconspiracy: Wiping your blood-spattered face, you stagger out of the cell into the wide corridor beyond. In the distance you can see a junction.
(2:21:23 PM) ravenconspiracy: do you wish to search this area or keep moving?
(2:21:40 PM) the cheeter: i search the barbarian
(2:22:22 PM) ravenconspiracy: the alether seems to be impairing your kai-senses. You will have to drag him into the light of the corridor to search him.
(2:23:50 PM) ravenconspiracy: do you wish to drag him or just move on?
(2:23:51 PM) the cheeter: i move on impatient from my potion
(2:24:19 PM) ravenconspiracy: Turning a corner, you breathe a sigh of relief. Behind you all is silent. But you become aware that the low rumbling sound you detected earlier is much louder in this corridor. A few yards along to your left, a short passage leads to a closed stone door.
(2:24:30 PM) ravenconspiracy: do you wish to investigate the door or just keep moving?
(2:25:06 PM) the cheeter: i keep moving!
(2:26:28 PM) ravenconspiracy: The alether seems to leave your system, you limbs feel cold again and your realize you have lost a lot of blood. Thankfully your kai-healing ability is keeping you alive.
(2:27:18 PM) ravenconspiracy: On the west wall of the corridor you see another stone door, with a small spy-hole cut into the centre - do you want to peer through?
(2:27:45 PM) the cheeter: i create a fire and treat my wounds
(2:27:51 PM) ravenconspiracy: pause for bit
(2:39:38 PM) the cheeter: damn.... i cant believe it
(2:39:38 PM) ravenconspiracy <AUTO-REPLY> : I'm not here right now
(2:39:52 PM) the cheeter: im turning 30 bro.... that means i have to go get renewed
(2:40:42 PM) the cheeter:
ask.metafilter.com/139600/I-need-suggestions-for-my-Logans-Run-party(2:43:33 PM) ravenconspiracy: renew!
(2:43:45 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok
(2:44:05 PM) ravenconspiracy: so you don't have time to light a fire and rest - this place is crawling with ice barbarians!
(2:44:12 PM) ravenconspiracy: you do have a healing potion though!
(2:44:22 PM) ravenconspiracy: do you want to drink it or save it?
(2:48:04 PM) ravenconspiracy: cheetah man?
(2:51:49 PM) the cheeter: im back
(2:52:05 PM) the cheeter: i'll drink my healing potion
(2:52:07 PM) the cheeter: and keep moving
(2:53:41 PM) ravenconspiracy: ok
(2:53:56 PM) ravenconspiracy: You feel warmth and strength return to your limbs.
(2:54:19 PM) ravenconspiracy: So you ignore this 2nd door with the peep hole and keep moving?
(2:54:35 PM) the cheeter: i look through the peep hole
(2:55:06 PM) ravenconspiracy: The spy-hole reveals a cell on the other side. An old man is huddled in the far corner of the cell, his face and hair matted with blood and dirt. His blue robes are so filthy that the crescents and stars embroidered on them are almost totally obscured.
(2:55:34 PM) ravenconspiracy: the question is: is he a filthy wizard or a filth-wizard
(2:56:05 PM) the cheeter: i shout through the hole, "filth wizard!" if you value your life come with me if you want to enchant!"
(2:56:45 PM) ravenconspiracy: 'Upon my soul, a Kai Lord!' he exclaims, his eyes now wide with astonishment. 'How I've prayed for freedom, for deliverance from this infernal place. And although hope never deserted me, I never expected such an illustrious rescuer.' In the middle of his excitement, the old man is suddenly disturbed by a fit of coughing that leaves him pale and exhausted. It is a few minutes before he can speak again. 'My name is Loi-Kymar. I am an elder of the Magicians' Guild of Toran,' he says, slowly removing a small crystal star pendant, the symbol of the guild, from beneath his tattered robes. The guild is known as the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star, and the magician shows his pendant as proof of his identity. You ask him how he came to be imprisoned here in Ikaya, many hundreds of miles from his native Toran.
(2:56:51 PM) ravenconspiracy: let me know when you've read that
(2:57:26 PM) the cheeter: ok wizard, let me break down your filth prison stand back
(2:57:57 PM) ravenconspiracy: "there should be a lever on your side of the door!" you see one
(2:58:17 PM) the cheeter: i brace for impact as i open the door
(2:58:38 PM) ravenconspiracy: it opens - the wizard continues rambling
Vonotar, that unspeakable wretch, is responsible for my plight. Days before the Darklord invasion of Sommerlund, he betrayed your Kai masters to win power--the black power of death and darkness. However, he failed to play his part in the war plans his evil masters had laid. The Darklords do not tolerate such weakness--mercy has no place in their brutal minds. In the bitterness of defeat, they sought to destroy Vonotar for his crime of failure. Vonotar knew that I possessed the only means to effect an escape from their vengeance, for my Guildstaff has the power of teleportation. He tried to steal it and flee to the safety of Ikaya by himself, but he learnt that its power is not for all men to share; only I am blessed with its secret. He was angry and would have murdered my kinspeople had I not agreed to bring him here, so I had no choice but to do so.'
(2:58:39 PM) the cheeter: dont try anything faggoty we just met
(2:58:47 PM) ravenconspiracy: let me know when you read it
(2:59:29 PM) the cheeter: you betrayed your master?
(3:00:29 PM) ravenconspiracy: Wizard... "were listening skills not on the curriculum at the kai monastery? VONOTAR, the guy who attacked your world, FAILED AND IS BEING HUNTED BY HIS FORMER MASTERS!"
(3:00:50 PM) ravenconspiracy: "I brought him here with my magical staff"
(3:00:55 PM) ravenconspiracy: because he forced me to
(3:01:02 PM) ravenconspiracy: oooo my head
(3:01:09 PM) ravenconspiracy: 'Ever since, I have been a prisoner in this cell. Vonotar has tortured my body and my mind, but I have not divulged the secret of my Guildstaff, which he now keeps in the Hall of the Brumalmarc. For if I were to tell him, my life would no longer be of any value... what are you doing in the place noble kai-lord?"
(3:01:21 PM) the cheeter: come wizard no time for games follow my lead
(3:01:46 PM) ravenconspiracy: If you tell me your mission I may be able to help you with my lame wizard powers
(3:02:20 PM) the cheeter: my mission is to destroy Vonotar
(3:02:44 PM) the cheeter: i'll sit it out though if you want a crack at him
(3:03:19 PM) ravenconspiracy: his black sorcery is too much for me! I may know a route through the caverns to his lair. Also if can retrieve my staff I can teleport us both to safety!
(3:03:50 PM) ravenconspiracy: Does this sound like a sweet plan? Choose (yes/yes)
(3:06:18 PM) the cheeter: yes
(3:06:26 PM) the cheeter: ok listen wizard
(3:06:36 PM) the cheeter: we get your staff
(3:06:40 PM) ravenconspiracy: "what do you wish of me, kai-ling?"
(3:06:54 PM) the cheeter: follow me and i will save you and we will go back to an inn
(3:07:01 PM) the cheeter: or your tower
(3:07:11 PM) ravenconspiracy: "I miss my tower"
(3:07:21 PM) the cheeter: i wonder if its still there
(3:07:28 PM) the cheeter: a lot has changed since you've been here
(3:07:29 PM) ravenconspiracy: he seems shocked
(3:07:38 PM) the cheeter: lets continue
(3:07:45 PM) ravenconspiracy: "lead on warrior"
(3:07:51 PM) the cheeter: i lead on
(3:08:01 PM) the cheeter: looking back every so often for krull like deception
(3:08:02 PM) ravenconspiracy: you feel him looking at you funny
to be continued...
(3:08:28 PM) the cheeter: quittin time