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PRELUDE
May 21, 2012 5:39:29 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 21, 2012 5:39:29 GMT -8
Unfortunately, Toby finds nothing of real value; these are mostly classic literature, medical books, philosophy, etc.; nothing to note pertaining to scary monsters. But just as he's about to leave due to a growing uncomfortable feeling, he pulls on one particular black book spine that seems to be stuck; pulling at its top corner, it suddenly swivels forward on its lower edge and 'clicks' into place. With the sound of metal grinding somewhere deep below and a loud cla-CLACK!. one thin section of the bookcase shifts and pops open, revealing a vertical inch of blackness from the ceiling to the floor. Cool air suddenly rushes forward from the crack passing over Toby and sending a chill down his spine.
Prying the section open a little further with a creak, Toby peers in to see a tight, narrow spiral stairwell of grey stone that veers sharply down and to the left, into darkness below. He takes a deep gulp.
'Adam said you were up here,' he suddenly hears from behind.
Swiveling around in fright and barely catching his balance to prevent toppling into the darkness below, Toby sees Rosalinda, the young daughter of Enrique and Lupe, standing at the doorway to West's study just a few feet away. She is of roughly his age with light, golden brown complexion, dark straight hair tied off into a single ponytail down her back, and warm hazel eyes. Her attire is casual but nice as usual whenever he's seen her around. Toby always felt a bit awkward around her for whatever reason, and though he's surprised she was able to sneak up on him like that, at the same time he's relieved to see her.
"What are you doing?" Rosa asks inquisitively.
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PRELUDE
May 22, 2012 2:14:09 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 22, 2012 2:14:09 GMT -8
Rosa, you startled me. I was looking for a book and found something else. I think it's a door maybe..Toby looks at the girl.."pretty" he thinks to himself .."Do you wanna me to check you out?" Toby's face turns a bit red Um.. I mean do you want to check it out with me? He walks over to the desk to grab a flashlight. "It might be fun..unless are you scared?"he says playfuly. "I should call Adam" he thinks to himself, but his common sense seems impaired by the lovely Rosa, and makes no effort to do so. "Rosa, are you in?" He begins walking over to the bookcase.
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PRELUDE
May 22, 2012 9:03:04 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 22, 2012 9:03:04 GMT -8
No flashlight to be found in this old study. What Toby does find are matches and a pair of strange candle/torches about a foot and half in length wooden handle, with carved skulls at the top, the head hollowed out to hold a fat candle. These are still plenty good but have seen use (not recently) with frozen wax in a dried state dripping out the eyes, nose and mouths of both skulls.
" 'Scared?' Pffft," although Rosa's eyebrows raise and her eyes widen when you display the candle holders you found. Watching you light the candles she rubs her arms and says, "This place gives me the creeps. Never even been in this chamber before; mom hated cleaning here and would only come once a month or so, which was just fine by your father. Sometimes he'd yell at her for coming here at all. Said she heard freaky sounds sometimes. What exactly are you looking for, Toby?"
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PRELUDE
May 22, 2012 19:55:32 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 22, 2012 19:55:32 GMT -8
" adopted father" Toby hisses.then looking at Rosa his tone softens "um, sorry..I did not mean to ..it's not you it's just.." Toby ashamed, turns his eyes away from her and looks toward the bookcase "to answer your question I am not sure what I am looking for but will know when I find it. "Is it okay, if I go first ? I know you are the girl and you should go first but it may not be safe..not that you can't protect yourself or anything..I would just hate anything to..ah ..Toby looks at his feet for a moment to hide his red cheeks "What would you like to do?"
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PRELUDE
May 22, 2012 22:35:08 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 22, 2012 22:35:08 GMT -8
Shaking her head playfully, Rosa smiles slightly and pushes Toby from behind towards the staircase entry, "Just move it, tough guy." There's a look of caution on her face as she peers into the darkness below, but also the glint of excitement and adventure in her eyes, like they're about to do something the grown-ups would definitely disapprove of. Overcome with a strange surge of courage, Toby begins descending the steep steps holding the bright candle out before him and touching the cool stone wall as he continues downward, with Rosa close behind him.
It is dank as the two descend, the air stale and musty. Sounds of small rodents scuttling away can be heard just in front of them each step they take. The flittering wings of a bat. The slow and steady echoing drip of water somewhere, as the staircase continues its spiral path. "Toby, what is this?" Rosa says nervously; Toby pauses to glance back and shrug his shoulders.
He's unsure how far they've gone down but they appear to be underground, Toby estimates by the cool temperature. Their candles flicker slightly as they reach the bottom which opens to an arched tunnel leading to another passageway where the sound of running water can be heard. Looking at each other for a second, the two proceed through the tunnel and come to a "T", standing on a narrow, slick ledge.
Peering over the ledge about six feet down, Toby and Rosa see their reflections in a blackish stream that seems to be flowing steadily from East to West; they can see where the water leaving terminates: a channel roughly 8 feet across, a grey wall dropping about 1 foot above where the water flows into the stone opening like a hungry mouth. Turning to the East, they cannot see where it begins; the flow seems to follow the same narrow path they stand on and recedes into the blackness.
About 30 yards in that same direction, Toby spots what seems to be a side archway, another entrance perpendicular from the tunnel they just came from, a slight warm glow coming from it.
"Toby," Rosa says worried. "I... I don't like it here... I think we should go back now."
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PRELUDE
May 22, 2012 23:44:13 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 22, 2012 23:44:13 GMT -8
Toby sighs, he is one part scared and one part fearless. He looks over to Rosa and takes her hand. " It's gonna be okay and if it turns out there is a monster or something... you can beat me up." He throws her his bravest face. Then guides her toward the glowing unknown. OOC: common sense has left the building..you may now play the Goonies soundtrack ;D
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PRELUDE
May 24, 2012 23:00:43 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 24, 2012 23:00:43 GMT -8
ooc: lol you know it
Carefully negotiating the narrow and slick path, Toby leads Rosa to the illuminated archway. As if suddenly realizing they're holding hands, Rosa wriggles free. "Seriously Toby, my folks… they'll be wondering where I am by now." But Toby eyes are narrow, transfixed on the 20 meter corridor he peers into leading to a mid-sized chamber with a strange alcove and raised stone steps at the furthest end of it. It looks... almost like... an altar? An even, reddish light and cool breeze seem to emanate from the mysterious room, making their candles flicker momentarily. "Uhh... no. If YOU want to go check it out? Be my guest. But I am staying right here," Rosa says adamantly, one arm folded, the other lifting her torch slightly to inspect the archway.
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PRELUDE
May 25, 2012 0:29:09 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 25, 2012 0:29:09 GMT -8
OOC: Admiral Ackbar's " It's a trap!" Toby ponders for a moment.."Ok, your right. We go back. Mr. Burton was not well in the mind. I wonder if he might have left something down here to discourage unwanted visitors. I, would very much hate anything to happen to you." Toby looks at his feet. Grabs Rosa's hand a bit tighter and leads her back to the office/study. OOC: OK you can turn off the Goonies soundtrack now. Gonna ditch this NPC liability and burn the whole place down!!!! ok maybe not
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PRELUDE
May 25, 2012 23:33:51 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 25, 2012 23:33:51 GMT -8
ooc: *aww shucks!*
As Toby and Rosa turn and begin to walk, a strange chittering can be heard echoing from the chamber, followed by a faint TTHWWIPPT....
Toby is holding Rosa's hand about to start negotiating the narrow path back to the first corridor they came from, when suddenly her arm goes taut.
"T... Toby! Something's... got me!" Toby turns around and sees silky strands wrapped around Rosa's torch arm which extend and disappearing back down to the chamber and altar... at the far end of the corridor, a large dark shape now hangs from ceiling where once there was nothing... its silhouette spider-like, the size of a small bean-bag chair...
"TOBYYY!" Rosa is being pulled back.
ooc: quick Strength FEAT for Toby; then Declarations & Initiative!
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PRELUDE
May 26, 2012 5:10:49 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 26, 2012 5:10:49 GMT -8
str roll:[dice=100]
DECLARATION: SPEND GOBS OF KARMA TO BLAST BEAN BAG BEAST -WITH MAGIC MISSILE..ER BOLT-AND FREE ROSA (I HOPE) [dice=100] FOR INIT
[rand=1508532052394002708717470429837704265709065366536423698700428940356]
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PRELUDE
May 26, 2012 5:11:12 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 26, 2012 5:11:12 GMT -8
PHEW THANK GOODNESS FOR KARMA
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PRELUDE
May 26, 2012 5:39:17 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 26, 2012 5:39:17 GMT -8
Rosa is yanked free of Toby's grasp with such force that one of her black leather single-strap shoes remains where she stood. He sees her receding down the corridor as if supported by an invisible force, her heels dragging and feet moving fruitlessly attempting to take root.
ooc: there's actually a special die for initiative (the 'blue' one) that's an actual d10 (would've been nice to distinguish the color of the die in the resulting post, but it wasn't possible). anyway, in this case i'll use the first digit or your roll as Toby's Initiative roll (i.e., "5") +1 for EX Intuition modifier, so 6 total (no Karma spent yet til action phase after order is determined)
Rosa's attempting to gain her footing (Agility FEAT) and resist against the force (Strength FEAT v. pull intensity): [dice=10]
The pumpkin-sized arachnid is busy dragging Rosa back, another a round or two at best. Its Init: [dice=10]
[rand=83556269633034033845697073595903213499680530571331265910026884257]
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PRELUDE
May 26, 2012 5:49:45 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 26, 2012 5:49:45 GMT -8
Rnd 1 order
9 Rosa 6 (5+1) Toby 4 arachnid
Rosa twists and turns against her pulled arm, attempting to gain footing (PR Agility, but a Green result would right her footing momentarily, giving her a followup Str FEAT to try resist)... [dice=100][rand=12503536924863778626738613007778073312114243360265813460867027042]
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PRELUDE
May 26, 2012 6:04:03 GMT -8
Post by Relic on May 26, 2012 6:04:03 GMT -8
Not even close.
She's being tugged and pulled too violently to establish footing.
ooc: Toby's move now. He needs a successful power rank roll to cast (green or better on EX), if successful the creature makes a Psyche FEAT v. intensity; if fail, Toby forgot/mispronounced/fumbled something in the incantation making it fizzle (here's where you would declare 'spending karma' or not)
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PRELUDE
May 26, 2012 16:18:21 GMT -8
Post by nightson on May 26, 2012 16:18:21 GMT -8
ooc: whoops hit the wrong button I should proof read more..meant to hit the "10" and thought I had to declare karma use (for magic attack) during this phase my bad. [dice=100] (for power rank roll) -using karma[rand=818520234908529674130818291319784597262837653058692544069952282]
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