A Modest Proposal

[zmflavius]

"Go it?"

[thingirl]

"Go it?"

Huh? Do you mean "Got it?" as in, they both get equipped in the best armor they can quickly find?

[zmflavius]

You trigger a poison gas trap.

[thingirl]

Usagi uses Fortifaction to protect them.

[zmflavius]

And a spike trap falls from the ceiling?

[thingirl]

They combine Fortifaction powers.

[zmflavius]

You deflect it but the door behind you slams shut.

[thingirl]

Can they see any armor?

[zmflavius]

Huge loads of it.

None of it is magical unfortunately.

And lots of weaponry as well.

[thingirl]

"Well, some is better than none." They equip themselves with the best armor they can find.

[zmflavius]

Ok, I'm defaulting all your SPs to 80 now.

[thingirl]

And what's Usagi's MR? She has UC level 90. I'd just say an even 100.

They try to open the door.

[zmflavius]

It swings open easily

[thingirl]

They go out. Usagi tries to divine where this "room 101" is.

[zmflavius]

It's blocked.

[thingirl]

They try to blast a hole in it.

[zmflavius]

No, as in, "your divi is blocked."

[thingirl]

*headdesk*

"Well... what do you suppose?"

"I have no idea. Back the way we came?"

"If we can figure it out."

[zmflavius]

You go back. There are two guards there. Most of the prisoners are dead, along with about as many guards.

The two guards attack.

[thingirl]

Each girl blasts one guard with Destruction.

[zmflavius]

They fall down dead.

[thingirl]

"You know, we could have strangled information out of one."

"True. But we don't want to risk raising an alarm. Usagi, can you tell what room number this is?"

[zmflavius]

"It says...cell 4."

[thingirl]

"Can you tell which way is out?"

[zmflavius]

No.

[thingirl]

"Sory, no."

"Oh well. Maybe we should wonder aoround until we find more guards."

"Let's try to capture at least one."

[zmflavius]

You wander around, but can't see any guards.

[thingirl]

"This is weird. Usagi, what's the closest door say?"

"You mean door number?"

"Yes."

[zmflavius]

You can't tell where doors are, remember? And you can't discern door numbers from the outside.

Unless you're using divi of course.

[thingirl]

She is. They're also resting periodically to regenerate their NR.

[zmflavius]

There are lots of doors, mostly cells.

[thingirl]

And can she find rooms 103, 99, 102, or 100?

[zmflavius]

No.

[thingirl]

What number is the closest door?

[zmflavius]

Cell 305.

It then dawns on you then that the cell numbers are all random and Room 101 was created just because of the connotations.

[thingirl]

Seriously? Uggh. Well, there goes that idea. Can she find any sort of torture cell?

[zmflavius]

Certainly, but they are all diviblocked. So you can pinpoint the locations, but you can't figure out which is which.

[thingirl]

How close are they together?

[zmflavius]

They're scattered.

[thingirl]

They go to the closest one.

[zmflavius]

You find the hallway.

[thingirl]

Usagi divines the room number.

[zmflavius]

That won't work. You actually have to look inside at the room number.

[thingirl]

)What the- :confused: And inside is divi blocked, right?)

Myrenne had an idea. "Hey, I know my Divination "skills" are lower than yours, but maybe if I focus on my connection with Alanne, us being sisters and all, I might be able to find her."

[zmflavius]

THAT. WON'T. WORK.

(And they threw up divi barriers as soon as they realized you were doing it.)

[thingirl]

*tired headdesk*

"Well, how 'bout we retreat a little and wait for the guards to show up and fight."

"OK, but we capture the one who looks like the leader, if there is one."

[zmflavius]

You soon encounter a patrol of four guards.

[thingirl]

They blast three and use Shadow Magic to render the other one immobile. They then question him about the whereabouts of this "room 101" and the exit.

[zmflavius]

"Never! I'll die first!"

[thingirl]

"Are you sure?" They squeeze tighter until he turns blue. If he begins to yell, Myrene blasts him with Destruction.

[zmflavius]

He clams up.

[thingirl]

Usagi tries to probe his mind with Divination and Shadow Magic. Myrenne keeps him tied up.

(Hey... Worth a shot...)

[zmflavius]

Room 101 is down three hallways, third door on the left.

[thingirl]

"OK, so you won't tell us anything. Fine then. You'd rather die. I will give you your wish." Myrenne blasts him with Destruction.

"What was that for?"

"He didn't tell me anything. I probed his mind. Follow me." She sets out by the directions she learned from the guard.

[zmflavius]

You arrive at a wall.

[thingirl]

(Started to type Alanne. :()

Myrenne divines to see if this is, indeed, room 101 in front of them.

[zmflavius]

(And they threw up divi barriers as soon as they realized you were doing it.)

Still there.

[thingirl]

"Well, we came this far..."

"Yeah. So..."

"Right." They bust in the door with Destruction.

[zmflavius]

Arrows fly out!

[thingirl]

They put up a Fortification barrier.

[zmflavius]

They hit the barrier and crack it. Poison gas slips out.

[thingirl]

They drop the barrier. Usagi re-forms it, and Myrenne makes another one just inside of Usagi's.

[zmflavius]

You hear a boulder rolling out the room.

[thingirl]

Is it in front of them or behind?

[zmflavius]

In front.

[thingirl]

What's the floor made out of?

[zmflavius]

Steel.

[thingirl]

Dang. They try to run to the side and out of the path of the boulder.

[zmflavius]

It bounces off a wall but rolls away.

Axes hidden in the wall fly out!

[thingirl]

They drop the barrier. Usagi re-forms it, and Myrenne makes another one just inside of Usagi's.

They do that again.

[zmflavius]

The axes slam against the fortification barrier, wrecking it. They themselves are stopped though.

A stone block drops from the ceiling!

[thingirl]

How big?

[zmflavius]

3x3 ft, unknown height

[thingirl]

They try to dodge it by running. Usagi also reforms a barrier above them, just in case.

[zmflavius]

It smashes into the ground, releasing shrapnel.

[thingirl]

Myrenne puts up her fallback barrier inside of Usagi's.

[zmflavius]

You stop the shrapnel. You're safe for now.

[thingirl]

They look around for any signs of their lost comrades.

[zmflavius]

Secondary trap!

More poison gas!

[thingirl]

Guess what power? Double Fortifaction, right.

[zmflavius]

The door slams shut behind you.

[thingirl]

They look around for any signs of their lost comrades.
Again.

[zmflavius]

You see several figures chained up in a corner.

[thingirl]

They look to see if any of them are Alanne or Ln.

[zmflavius]

You can't tell at your distance.

[thingirl]

They walk over there. I thought that was pretty obvious.

[zmflavius]

Well, when you walk over, you trigger a poison gas trap.

[thingirl]

Fortification over everyone.

[zmflavius]

There's poison gas within your barrier.

[thingirl]

(I use Fortification too much, don't I.)

Myrenne attempts to open a small hole in that barrier and use Elementalism (wind only) to blow the gas out the hole. Then she closes the hole.

[zmflavius]

It takes several NV but you manage it.

[thingirl]

Now they see if there's anybody they know.

[zmflavius]

Corpse...Corpse...Corpse...Insane guy...Corpse...Demon...Corpse...Alanne!

[thingirl]

"SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (I think I just broke the shift key and one key) They try to get her down.

[zmflavius]

Suddenly a guard looks in and yells

"Prisoner Escape!"

[thingirl]

Did I get Alanne back or not?

[zmflavius]

Yes, but unconscious.

[thingirl]

"Shoot. Usagi, put up a barrier. I'll try to use Restro to wake her up."

[zmflavius]

You need to use restro five times, at which point there are a ton of soldiers outside the gate.

[thingirl]

"Huh? Where- Myrenne?"

"No time to talk. Look."

"Aww, shoot. You should have just left me."

"DON'T SAY THAT!!!! Now, if I have any NV left..."

"Right." If ether of them has any NR, they start blasting the guards.

[zmflavius]

Until you have how much NV left?

[thingirl]

Actually, no. They use Shadow Magic to try to clear a path so they can run. Usagi keeps the barrier up. (Gotta ♥ Grandmaster powers.)

[zmflavius]

The soldiers struggle against the magic, draining your NV. When you get out, all your characters have 0 NV.

[thingirl]

If Alanne learned anything about how to get out, they (quickly) follow her. If not, she still leads.

[zmflavius]

She was unable to learn anything. So...

[thingirl]

Ehh, they run and try to loose the guards.

[zmflavius]

loose?

[thingirl]

*Tries to *headdesk* but is laughing too hard*

Lose. Get rid of. Out-run.

[zmflavius]

You run into several giant walls of guards.

[thingirl]

"You sure you didn't learn anything useful?"

"Define 'useful'. But yes, I am."

Are there any windows around?

[zmflavius]

No.

[thingirl]

When you get out, all your characters have 0 NV.

HAHA!!!!!!! Usagi still has NR. She's not mine, I just control her. Alanne and Myrenne are my characters, because they are on a game account that I know the password to! HAHA!!!

That said, Usagi divines how far they are from the outside and how thick the thinnest wall section is between their current position and outside.

[zmflavius]

Usagi also has 0 NV.

[thingirl]

Oh, come on, all she did was use Fortifaction. That can't use up THAT much NR, can it?

[zmflavius]

Well, all the double fortifications, fortifying that huge wall of prisoners, and using SM and fortification to force your way out.

[thingirl]

Yes, but it was Alanne and Myrenne who used the SM, and they used it to push the guards out of the way, while Usagi held up the barrier that kept anything the guards threw at them off. The double Fortifaction was Usagi using her Fortifaction by herself with Myrenne using ber Fortifaction by herself, except Myrenne crafted her barrier just inside of Usagi's.

OK, the wall of prisioners MAYBE!!!!! But that was the only time that Usagi and Myrenne actually combined powers, which is why Myrenne was able to disrupt it easily to blow the posion gas out.

[zmflavius]

Fine, Alanne and Myrenne are drained, and Usagi has 10 NV left.

[thingirl]

(:D)

Usagi divines how far they are from the outside and how thick the thinnest wall section is between their current position and outside.

[zmflavius]

They are around 1 and a half kilometers from the thinnest section of wall, which is 2 meters wide.

8 NV.

[thingirl]

(:()

Any hallways visible in that direction?

[zmflavius]

Actually, all the crowding and SM blew a hole in the wall. You see several hovels and an open manhole.

[thingirl]

Usagi attempts to open a portal near the manhole. They do not step in until they see the other end over the manhole.

[zmflavius]

They do not step in until they see the other end over the manhole.

?

[thingirl]

A Shadow Path has two ends, right? Usagi opens a portal, and they can see one end (the enterance) in front of them. You said they can see an open manhole. The other end of the portal sould be either directly above or really close to said manhole. If they can see the manhole, they should be able to see the other end of the shadow path, right?

And since they know how unrealiable Gating is, they want to make sure it works this time.

Get it?

[zmflavius]

Is there a reason you're trying to gate over a manhole?

[thingirl]

No, I'm trying to gate just to the side of it so that they can try to escape through the sewers.

(Hey, you're the one who provided the manhole. I'm just taking ideas and running with them...)

[zmflavius]

So basically, you want to gate inside the manhole?

[thingirl]

For all purposes, yes. However, they want to make absolutely certain that Usagi doesn't mess up, so they want to portal above or right beside it so they can see it.

[zmflavius]

(Heheh...)

Are you certain you want to gate?

[thingirl]

(:p:p:p:p)

No. But Usagi opens a portal above the manhole they see anyway. They wait for the other end to apear over the manhole before stepping in.

[zmflavius]

You lose concentration and the exit portal is moved on top of a fetid pile of sewage and excreta. You lose 20 dignity points because you're all covered in feces now.

Wait...there's no such thing as dignity points...

[thingirl]

(...)

"This is..."

"Don't say anything, Alanne. Just don't say anything. Usagi feels bad enough all ready..."

"Yeah. Sorry, Usagi. Hey, can you tell which way the city exit is?" (through Divination)

[zmflavius]

According to my Divi...

Down the yellow brick road? Huh?

You look at the sewer tunnel, and you're swiftly convinced that the yellow stuff lining the floor is not gold bricks (in the traditional sense)

[thingirl]

"Yeah, but which way? All ways are equally as smelly."

[zmflavius]

There only is one way with a yellow brick road.

[thingirl]

Sorry, wasn't thinking. They hold their noses and go on.

[zmflavius]

You arrive at a fork in the tunnel. Both have "yellow brick roads."

[thingirl]

"Usagi, can you tell which way?"

[zmflavius]

"Actually, both lead to outside."

[thingirl]

"Hmm. All sorts of monsters live in sewers. Which is less dangerous?"

[zmflavius]

They're equally dangerous it seems.

[thingirl]

They go left.

[zmflavius]

Your assaulted by Febt creatures, which are too unspeakable to describe.

[thingirl]

How many and how much MR/SP?

[zmflavius]

12, with 250 MR/SP ea.