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Re: To Find a Way Home (Mamono Assault Force)
Part 1
Bakan: HP = 84/88, PP = 38, EP = 51/54, Status = Got some scratches
Part 1
Raptor: *Is sitting in front of you, cosplaying as Bakan with Bakan's sheet in front of him.*
hme220: sweet, you're ready
Raptor: :
:3
*puts a loli in your lap*
pomf=3
hme220: *ded*
Raptor: *threatens with lolidom if Tass doesn't revive*
hme220: D:
alright, what's Bakan's perception?
Raptor: 19!
hme220: Bakan spots numberous holes in the wall, as well as several in the floor as advances forward. Cory had sighed and fallen silent, keeping a short distance between them. Bakan also spotted that about half of the tiles on the floor looked strange, like they might depress if he stepped on them. "Watch out for those." Cory muttered, and pointed with her rapier at one of the plates.
Raptor: Finding the plates curious, Bakan took a knee, and positioned himself where he wasn't in direct line of the holes, and made sure Cory wasn't either, before looking to test the plates by pushing his hand down on them.
hme220: A spike shot out of the wall, passing right in front of Bakan's face, and pierced the opposite wall. It hung before him for a moment before receding back to its previous position, hidden in the wall. "Told ya."
Raptor: "Will you shut up?" he scolded Cory, "If I didn't know, it would have hit me."
hme220: "Alright, alright! Jeeze...."
Raptor: "I wonder if all of them are spike traps," he vocalized aloud, curious to test each one.
hme220: "I'm pretty sure they are. Question is, do you really wanna spend the time to test all of them?"?
Raptor: Bakan glances over to see just how many there are.
hme220: Bakan counted twenty tiles in all, with as many holes in the floor.
Raptor: He smiled, "Yes~"
Then, he tried to find another safe spot, and press another tile.
hme220: Much the same thing happened, only this time it shot out of the floor at an angle, almost nicking his shoulder on the way. Had he been standing on the tile, the spike would probably have gone right through his privates.
Raptor: "How malicious..." he commented. "Although... If one tile were different from the others, it wouldn't have a hole associated with it, I'm sure." he reasoned, as this was proving dangerous. "If the Lady is going to be my enemy, I can't pass up the opportunity to help myself to her belongings!"
hme220: "Heh, you'll get no argument from me. And aye, that line of reasoning makes sense." Cory said, and then glanced around the bend. "It looks like there might be something of interest to you up ahead then."
Raptor: Bakan's eyes shined, "Where!?"
hme220: "Around the bend. Be careful, there might be more traps."
Raptor: He nodded, before carefully making his way along the traps, looking for the holes to see if something wasn't right. "This is how I make a living, you know. There are a lot of bad people in this world, and oddly, many of them have come into ownership of valuable things. It's not a crime if you do it to a criminal, right?"
hme220: "Really? Interesting..... I knew you had some experience with this sort of thing, but I wasn't sure how much. But if you do it for a living, I guess that sets me at ease a bit." Cory replied, carefully following him across the field of spike traps and pressure plates. "Yeah, I guess that logic holds. I mean, they probably stole them in the first place anyway, right?" They made their way around the curved wall carefully until they'd passed the last of the pressure plates, and by then Bakan saw two thing. >>
Firstly, on the right hand side, there was a gap in the wall leading deeper into the gloomy maze, the path turning left and curving around another wall. Secondly, there was a small chest with a padlock on it up ahead.
(just an fyi, the >> means I'm not done yet)
(now I'm done btw XD)
Raptor: "I'd die of hunger if I didn't," he replied. "Everyone in this world is so unkind, save for a select few. But I never would have expected to have been the victim of an assertive woman... Twice," he added with a depressed sigh. But then, cat ears seemed to perk from his hair from his immense interest. >>
"It's there... A powerful force beckons me forward, but I am well knowledgable of these things. Treasure that seems near is often far away. All kinds of terrible things could happen if I went for it now, and there isn't always valuables inside such chests, as the owners sometimes lay them out to trick treasure hunters into their doom."
hme220: "If you want it, be careful. There's probably a trap."
Raptor: Looking for such dangers, Bakan took a serious, and slow look at the hall before him.
hme220: Bakan spotted a crack in the floor as he drew closer to the chest, Cory having remained behind with an alert look on her face rather than join him in moving forward. It ran around a sizable portion of the hall, and he would have to hug the wall to avoid it, but he could step around it and get up to the chest. There didn't seem to be anything else blocking his progress.
Raptor: Bakan looked around for something, a rock, anything he could use to trigger the trap, if there was one.
hme220: There was a sizable chunk of debris that haf crumbled from one of the walls nearby.
Raptor: haf?
hme220: (had)
Raptor: HAFNIUM!?
hme220: they're right next to each other on the keyboard
Raptor: Bakan fetched the debris, setting his hammer aside, and took it to the crack, and rolled it along the ground, over the crack.
hme220: The rock rolled a bit, and the ground slowly descended until it clicked. Then, a sizable chunk of the floor shot up and slammed into the ceiling with a loud boom. Cory jumped in surprise. "That... Could have hurt."
Raptor: "Are you alright?" Bakan asked after noticing her shock.
hme220: "Yah. I'm just surprised the traps are all so... Lethal. I guess we really haven't had time to work on them to make them less so yet, but still.... Something like that. What's the damn point?"
Raptor: "I'm used to it," he laughed, "I've been stabbed, crushed, zapped, and set on fire plenty of times."
hme220: "Ouch... Guess you really earned all those scars then."
Raptor: His smile faded, now wearing a rather sullen expression. "Yeah..." he replied, before seeing if he could navigate to the treasure easily.
hme220: Bakan could easily make his way around the raised section, and found himself at the treasure chest. This time, Cory joined him, a look of mild concern on her face, but she didn't speak.
Raptor: (lockpicks?)
hme220: (got thief?)
Raptor: (I can't, eh?)
hme220: (not without thief. Tis a very unique skillset.) "Well? You gonna open it?"
Raptor: "To think I'd have learned how to pick locks by now... I could never hold the things in my hands correctly." he sighed, and decided to fetch his hammer, and test it on the chest's lock, but not before looking back to Cory, "Step back."
hme220: "Wait, you're going to smash it!? Don't do that! You might break whatever's inside! Here, let me." Cory said quickly as Bakan took up his hammer, and knelt in front of the chest and drew out a couple of pins. "It took me a while to figure out how to do it too. Maybe I can try to teach you when we get out of here, eh?"
Raptor: "H-hey!" he immediately complained, "That's dangerous, anything can be trapped, you know! Get away from there!"
hme220: "I know it can, but I'll check for traps before I open it." She rpelied, and then the lock clicked open. "Stand back and to the side a bit."
Raptor: He gritted his teeth, "I'M NOT SO FRAGILE! Do you recall who is protecting who!?"
hme220: "Could be a poisoned dart. That's what I'm woried about. You could be as tough as an oxe, and a good dose of venom will kill ya all the same you know."
Raptor: "You as well!" he retorted.
hme220: Cory calmly moved to the side of the chest, and slipped her rapier through the crack she had opened.
"Will you move already?"
Raptor: Bakan quickly moved to the side on instinct when she did that, even though it was killing him inside to be led by this woman again.
hme220: Cory opened the chest, and nothing happened. "No trap. Good." Inside, there was a small collection of assorted baubles and rotted scraps of paper, most of which seemed to be worthless. On closer inspection, however, he withdrew a couple of things that might be valuable. (Gain 1 Faerie Horn, 2 Darkhearts, a slime amber, 20 denarii and a dagger)
Raptor: (btw, how much would a satisfying meal cost?)
hme220: (1 or 2 denarii on average)
Raptor: Bakan clutched the denarii in his hands, the happiest look on his face, as if all his dreams came true, "I can afford to eat to eat for a week with this kind of money!"
hme220: "Heh, I'll bet." (More expensive meals are available, and they taste better, but that's about the minimum one needs to feed themselves for a day)
Raptor: Bakan actually giggled slightly before clearing his throat with a blush, perhaps appearing too similar to that one dreadful word. "Right, well, let's get back to business."
hme220: "Right." They made their way around the crack, the part of the floor having descended back into place by now, and turned down the path forward. There weren't any other traps, and they reached another split in the path. One way went directly inwards toward the center of the maze, while the other continued forward and round a bend.
Raptor: Bakan took his hammer, and jabbed the end of the grip against the corner of the wall that went round the bend without explanation to Cory, in order to mark where he made a turn, a technique he adapted when exploring mazes previously.
hme220: Cory looked at him with confusion, but didn't ask why he'd done what he'd done. Upon seeing the mark, she nodded and smirked.
Raptor: Traveling down the bend, Bakan moved very, very slow. The scars he earned weren't for nothing, after all.
hme220: The path continued for some time, gradually looping around until another right turn put them on a path deeper again. Only a short ways beyond, there was a wall and a T intersection. Left at the intersection ended up at another chest, this one with no lock on it, and right led deeper into the maze.
Raptor: "Same routine," Bakan sighed, taking a knee and carefully observing.
hme220: There didn't seem to be any traps this time, and Cory poked at the chest, lifting the lid with her rapier slowly and cautiously. "Looks like it's-" She was cut off as a click sounded, and a puff of golden powder erupted from all around them. (Resistance?)
Raptor: "No, you idiot-!" Bakan uttered quickly, before trying to crawl back, covering his mouth and nose, and closing his eyes as she shuffled away.
(19)
hme220: (and he has untemptable, right?)
Raptor: (Y)eah
LOL
(Yeah)
hme220: lol
Huh
(Bakan has become Aroused. Cory, it seems, is not so lucky.) Covering his mouth to avoid breathing in the powder, Bakan still felt his body heat up quickly under its effects, but discipline and an effort of will kept him from needing to stop and satisfy that urge right away. Cory stood coughing in the cloud for a moment, and then collapsed to the ground, shivering as her hands went under her clothes. She began to moan and writhe on the floor, spitting curses between her lewd sounds. "Stupid..... Sloppy.... Dammit...."
Raptor: Bakan cursed slightly as he gathered himself to his feet, and shuffled down the hallway, face red, and heart racing. "Breathed some in accidentally... Caught me by surprise... Damn it..." he cursed, fighting with his lust to wrestle it under control.
hme220: Having only breathed in a little of the dust, Bakan didn't have too much trouble in wresting his lust into submission, and even though it would be awkward to walk and fight with the erection straining his pants, it wouldn't be impossible. Cory groaned as she heard his voice, however, and spat; "Help me dammit!" In his general direction
Raptor: "Shut up!" he spat back, before holding his hands to his head, and trying to wait out the effects.
hme220: The effects on Bakan seemed to last only a short while, but he could hear Cory groaning in pleasure on the floor for several moments, her hand between her legs moving quickly. She cried out several times, but it was almost twenty minutes before she finally calmed down. Blushing, the demoness rose from the floor and walked to stand next to him, the effects of the poison on him having worn off almost completely by then. "Right.... Sorry about that."
Raptor: (Could bakan repair his armor while waiting?
hme220: (Yes)
Raptor: While Cory was writhing on the ground, Bakan found a private spot out of her vision to take his armor off, and lay it down on the ground. Folding his legs as she moaned, he took his hammer in one hand, holding it close to the top of it's neck, and hammered at it until it was almost as good as new. "It'll have to do until I can borrow a blacksmith's equipment." he decided, and walked back out to >>
Greet Cory, "Oh, were you affected by the drug?" he asked with mock curiosity, his eyes half closed in a sarcastic expression, "You seemed the same as usual."
hme220: Cory rounded to look at him, but she was surprisingly not glaring at him. Instead, she simply shook her head and stared for a moment, before turning and starting down the corridor again, not bothering to wait for him.
Raptor: "You still are going to try and take the lead? Why not let me protect you now, or haven't you learned your lesson?" he asked her. "It's a man's place to protect women, that is the natural law."
hme220: "Uh huh." She replied numbly, and simply continued forward. They arrived at another intersection, one path continuing forward while another opened on their right and went in the opposite direction. It was the latter that Cory went down, her sword in her hand and her eyes too busy casting about searchingly to even glance in Bakan's direction.
Raptor: Bakan reached forward, and took Cory by her shoulder, pulling her back, and glaring at her silently, before stepping in front of her.
hme220: "Oh, so now you're alright with touching me." She spat venomously, and then settled back, letting him go first without further argument.
Raptor: Irritated by that comment, he rounded on her, and began to poke his finger against her forehead several times over.
hme220: Cory took about two pokes before she began to openly glare at him, and Bakan found the point of her sword up against his throat. "Really not a good time, hero."
Raptor: "I'm not a hero," he said, pushing her rapier aside with his hand, not caring to be intimidated. "But one thing is for certain, you are threatening me. I said I was going to help you, because you're a beautiful woman with so much she could enjoy out of life instead of working under a woman like her. However..."
"If you're going to be my enemy, I'll still at least show you mercy."
hme220: Cory let him push her blade aside, and lowered it back to her side, but held her glare on him. "If you want to fight, can we save it for later? This is really isn't the time or the place."
Raptor: "Better here than when we need to cooperate most." he announced, before moving forward to settle the situation as he grabbed her, and kissed her without warning. Only a quick peck, but something he wanted to express to her. "If only you requested kindly, I would have touched you." he replied to her, before focusing on the path ahead.
hme220: Cory looked shocked upon the kiss, and stood stock still as he turned around and focused on the path. He went a couple of steps before she moved to catch up with him, blushing slightly. "I'm.... Sorry. About the sword. And the yelling, I guess. You're right too, I suppose, if we've got to be at each other's throats, better down here than when we're fighting the Lady. Truce?" >>
The path turned left up ahead, once more going deeper into the maze, but this time there was no other way to go. A table lay in an alcove, with a moldy piece of paper sitting on it.
Raptor: Bakan chuckled as he heard her words, and turned to her with a sincere smile as he placed a hand on her shoulder as a gesture of support. "You know... You sounded very lady like when you said that. I was charmed," he said, winking at her, before turning back to the path, feeling a renewed confidence that there was hope for her yet. >>
Upon finding the table, Bakan stopped for a moment, and had to assess the situation with a raised brow. "Strange..." he said, looking at the scene.
(BEHOLD THE CUTE WINK! BAKAN'S POWERS OF CUTENESS UNLEASH!)
hme220: Cory blushed again, but this time offered a fairly sincere smile. "Thanks.... I guess." When he winked at her, she giggled quietly, beaming and blushing like a young girl before she held a hand up to her mouth to quiet herself. As he approached the table, Bakan saw that the piece of paper on it contained a picture of a circle, with a bunch of lines drawn into it dividing it up. After a few seconds of consideration, he realized that it was a map of the maze, and not only that, but it had all of the traps labeled on it.
(lol)
Raptor: "Handy, but not fully trustworthy, to be sure." Bakan noted. "We'll just be as cautious as usual, but even moreso in these locations." he decided, holding the map in his off-hand while holding his hammer in the other.
hme220: "Aye, seems too good to be true that it would just be lying around like that." Cory agreed, and set about following him carefully. (Perception = Bakan fails on a 3, but Cory spots it with an 11) A short while later, Cory's hand suddenly grasped his shoulder, pulling him back a step, and she pointed down to a pressure plate that he'd been about to step on. It hadn't been marked on the map. >>
The map marked their path as straight for a good while, and this turned out to be true. This time, however, when they found an intersection, it was exactly as it had been labeled, including the four tripwires that hung just over the floor. Knowing where they wqere and not spotting any other traps, Bakan led the way over. Left and right looked identical, both curving around, but the map marked the righthand path as the way to reach the center of the maze, while the left path led to a room labeled T.
Raptor: Bakan stared at the map for a while, before all the paths and T's began to spin around in his head. "I think we're proceeding to fast, my head is spinning," he groaned. "Weren't there some corridors we missed?"
hme220: "Yeah, back a ways. Why?"
Raptor: "I'd like to explore them. Might have missed some more denarii~" he said, drooling with anticipation. He seemed to forget himself when money was mentioned.
hme220: "hahahaha! Sure, lets head back. We know where the traps are already." Cory said, and then the two proceeded to backtrack. >>
(Do you want to go all the way back to the bedn that you marked the first time first? I think you had like 3 or 4 path splits.)
Raptor: (Yeah, Bakan wouldn't want to leave any location unchecked.
hme220: (mkay, looking back there's only 2 really unexplored paths, so I'll jsut go back to the first one)
Returning to the place where Bakan had marked off a section of the wall, Cory glanced at the map. "Looks like it's just a straight shot, and a trap is marked at the end. It looks like more of that gas. That means that there's probably treasure!"
Raptor: "I've never encountered gas like that before..." Bakan said quietly, seeming very nervous. "It's like I've found myself in more than just a dangerous place. Why must traps like these affect men too?" he said, carefully stepping out into the room.
hme220: "It's probably pollen from an alraune or shorn weed. If it hit you too, I'm guessing an alraune. We've had a bit of trouble keeping them from attacking the men we've got working on fixing stuff. Those might have been the traps we changed a bit, yeah.... We were probably being watched at the time, so I guess it's a good thing you kept your head after all." Cory said, and the two of them proceeded onwards into the heart of the maze. They passed over a tripwire and another field of pressure plates, until they found themselves staring at another chest, this one larger. A pressure plate similar to the one from before was sitting right in front of the chest, where one would need to be in order to unlock it.
Raptor: Bakan let out a sound of surprise, "Alarunes?" he procounced it in an easier manner. "Strange, I fought them before, and they were more interested in the women at that time. In fact, I was nearly ignored until I was swinging at her." he stated as he moved along the traps, and thinking about how he'd manage with that chest.
hme220: "Heh, the ones around here go for men and women with impunity. They don't seem to be going for captives though, just a lay, so maybe yours were going for slaves instead? I guess women are needed in greater numbers than men, since one man can handle so many. That, or you were just lucky." Cory said, and scratched her head at the plate. "I'm not touching that thing. Sitting on the floor feeling myself up for a while is really only a once a day thing for me. Or once ever, if I can help it."
"Maybe you should just try and smash the lock while standing away a bit?"
Raptor: "That pollen only affects us if we breath it in, right?" he inquires.
hme220: "Errr, as far as I know. I'm not really an expert on the subject."
Raptor: "Stand back, Cory, I mean really far back. I'll brave it." he stated.
hme220: "Alright.... If you're sure." She replied with some concern in her voice, and then stood well back and out of the way.
Raptor: Bakan inhaled deeply, and then shut his mouth, holding his breath, before planting his foot on the pressure plate, and attempting to hurry back, away from the pollen.
hme220: The burst of golden powder came as expected, but Bakan was ready for it, this time holding his breath and stepping out of it quickly. The cloud dispersed quickly, and the corridor was soon clear. "I don't know if it has more than one shots worth...."
Raptor: "Are you kidding!?" he exclaimed, before tip toe-ing his way back, to try it again.
(
(She has to be my favorite heroine)
hme220: The trap clicked, but this time nothing happened. "Good, looks like it's clear." She said, and then walked up beside him and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks!" Cory then unlocked the chest, revealing it's contents.... (lol) >>
(Bakan gains another 30 denarii, a horror carapce, two hound's teeth, and three monster fangs)
(Bakan is also now rich XD)
(derp)
Raptor: TASS!?
RESPOND!?
TAAAASSSSSS
hme220: not sure what happened there
can you hear me now?
Raptor: Bakan blushed at Cory's kiss, but rejoiced at his earning, the carapace and teeth almost completely overlooked for the sake of the denarii. "Ooooh! Thank you for letting me steal all of your stuff, Lady of the keep!" he blessed the evil woman's name.
hme220: "She probably doesn't mind much. We got a lot of funding from Acheron to build this place." Cory said, and then turned around. "Wanna go back to that other place we skipped by? It looks to be a bit longer than this one."
Raptor: "Maybe we can ransom her!" Bakan suggested, his mind lost to money as he walked down the hall, before he chuckled nervously, "O-of course I was kidding..."
hme220: Cory quirked an eyebrow at the suggestion. "Of course." She said, grinning as they proceeded back to the place they'd turned shortly following their first expsoure to the pollen. Taking the path they hadn't taken before, they once more passed by some traps harmlessly, and then ended up at a four way intersection, the path continuing ahead, or going right and left.
(Derp)
>>
Left had many traps marked along it, and dead ended according to the map. Ahead led to another branching path, with no marked traps along either of the routes, both of which also seemed to dead end. Going right offered a couple more branches, one of which seemed to meet up with the path to the stairs leading up.
Raptor: (This works a lot like an RPG right? Bakan can use items he doesn't need to upgrade his 'party member's' stuff?)
hme220: (yep)
Raptor: (I should try to be stingy, I think. Who knows when a rock will fall on them, a rock covered in pain, suffering, and knives)
hme220: (lol)
Raptor: "So, left is a deathtrap, eh?" Bakan concluded. "All the more reason for there to be treasure there!" he announced happily, eager to go left.
hme220: (Oh jesus.)
Raptor: (It's Bakan)
hme220: The two proceeded down the left path, Cory not minding at all, and they carefully avoided some trip wires, followed by some pressure plates. (No, not you. The dice. first trap: 19 and 18. second trap: 16 and 8. Third trap: snake eyes.)
Raptor: D:
hme220: sweet, you're ready
Raptor: :
:3
*puts a loli in your lap*
pomf=3
hme220: *ded*
Raptor: *threatens with lolidom if Tass doesn't revive*
hme220: D:
alright, what's Bakan's perception?
Raptor: 19!
hme220: Bakan spots numberous holes in the wall, as well as several in the floor as advances forward. Cory had sighed and fallen silent, keeping a short distance between them. Bakan also spotted that about half of the tiles on the floor looked strange, like they might depress if he stepped on them. "Watch out for those." Cory muttered, and pointed with her rapier at one of the plates.
Raptor: Finding the plates curious, Bakan took a knee, and positioned himself where he wasn't in direct line of the holes, and made sure Cory wasn't either, before looking to test the plates by pushing his hand down on them.
hme220: A spike shot out of the wall, passing right in front of Bakan's face, and pierced the opposite wall. It hung before him for a moment before receding back to its previous position, hidden in the wall. "Told ya."
Raptor: "Will you shut up?" he scolded Cory, "If I didn't know, it would have hit me."
hme220: "Alright, alright! Jeeze...."
Raptor: "I wonder if all of them are spike traps," he vocalized aloud, curious to test each one.
hme220: "I'm pretty sure they are. Question is, do you really wanna spend the time to test all of them?"?
Raptor: Bakan glances over to see just how many there are.
hme220: Bakan counted twenty tiles in all, with as many holes in the floor.
Raptor: He smiled, "Yes~"
Then, he tried to find another safe spot, and press another tile.
hme220: Much the same thing happened, only this time it shot out of the floor at an angle, almost nicking his shoulder on the way. Had he been standing on the tile, the spike would probably have gone right through his privates.
Raptor: "How malicious..." he commented. "Although... If one tile were different from the others, it wouldn't have a hole associated with it, I'm sure." he reasoned, as this was proving dangerous. "If the Lady is going to be my enemy, I can't pass up the opportunity to help myself to her belongings!"
hme220: "Heh, you'll get no argument from me. And aye, that line of reasoning makes sense." Cory said, and then glanced around the bend. "It looks like there might be something of interest to you up ahead then."
Raptor: Bakan's eyes shined, "Where!?"
hme220: "Around the bend. Be careful, there might be more traps."
Raptor: He nodded, before carefully making his way along the traps, looking for the holes to see if something wasn't right. "This is how I make a living, you know. There are a lot of bad people in this world, and oddly, many of them have come into ownership of valuable things. It's not a crime if you do it to a criminal, right?"
hme220: "Really? Interesting..... I knew you had some experience with this sort of thing, but I wasn't sure how much. But if you do it for a living, I guess that sets me at ease a bit." Cory replied, carefully following him across the field of spike traps and pressure plates. "Yeah, I guess that logic holds. I mean, they probably stole them in the first place anyway, right?" They made their way around the curved wall carefully until they'd passed the last of the pressure plates, and by then Bakan saw two thing. >>
Firstly, on the right hand side, there was a gap in the wall leading deeper into the gloomy maze, the path turning left and curving around another wall. Secondly, there was a small chest with a padlock on it up ahead.
(just an fyi, the >> means I'm not done yet)
(now I'm done btw XD)
Raptor: "I'd die of hunger if I didn't," he replied. "Everyone in this world is so unkind, save for a select few. But I never would have expected to have been the victim of an assertive woman... Twice," he added with a depressed sigh. But then, cat ears seemed to perk from his hair from his immense interest. >>
"It's there... A powerful force beckons me forward, but I am well knowledgable of these things. Treasure that seems near is often far away. All kinds of terrible things could happen if I went for it now, and there isn't always valuables inside such chests, as the owners sometimes lay them out to trick treasure hunters into their doom."
hme220: "If you want it, be careful. There's probably a trap."
Raptor: Looking for such dangers, Bakan took a serious, and slow look at the hall before him.
hme220: Bakan spotted a crack in the floor as he drew closer to the chest, Cory having remained behind with an alert look on her face rather than join him in moving forward. It ran around a sizable portion of the hall, and he would have to hug the wall to avoid it, but he could step around it and get up to the chest. There didn't seem to be anything else blocking his progress.
Raptor: Bakan looked around for something, a rock, anything he could use to trigger the trap, if there was one.
hme220: There was a sizable chunk of debris that haf crumbled from one of the walls nearby.
Raptor: haf?
hme220: (had)
Raptor: HAFNIUM!?
hme220: they're right next to each other on the keyboard
Raptor: Bakan fetched the debris, setting his hammer aside, and took it to the crack, and rolled it along the ground, over the crack.
hme220: The rock rolled a bit, and the ground slowly descended until it clicked. Then, a sizable chunk of the floor shot up and slammed into the ceiling with a loud boom. Cory jumped in surprise. "That... Could have hurt."
Raptor: "Are you alright?" Bakan asked after noticing her shock.
hme220: "Yah. I'm just surprised the traps are all so... Lethal. I guess we really haven't had time to work on them to make them less so yet, but still.... Something like that. What's the damn point?"
Raptor: "I'm used to it," he laughed, "I've been stabbed, crushed, zapped, and set on fire plenty of times."
hme220: "Ouch... Guess you really earned all those scars then."
Raptor: His smile faded, now wearing a rather sullen expression. "Yeah..." he replied, before seeing if he could navigate to the treasure easily.
hme220: Bakan could easily make his way around the raised section, and found himself at the treasure chest. This time, Cory joined him, a look of mild concern on her face, but she didn't speak.
Raptor: (lockpicks?)
hme220: (got thief?)
Raptor: (I can't, eh?)
hme220: (not without thief. Tis a very unique skillset.) "Well? You gonna open it?"
Raptor: "To think I'd have learned how to pick locks by now... I could never hold the things in my hands correctly." he sighed, and decided to fetch his hammer, and test it on the chest's lock, but not before looking back to Cory, "Step back."
hme220: "Wait, you're going to smash it!? Don't do that! You might break whatever's inside! Here, let me." Cory said quickly as Bakan took up his hammer, and knelt in front of the chest and drew out a couple of pins. "It took me a while to figure out how to do it too. Maybe I can try to teach you when we get out of here, eh?"
Raptor: "H-hey!" he immediately complained, "That's dangerous, anything can be trapped, you know! Get away from there!"
hme220: "I know it can, but I'll check for traps before I open it." She rpelied, and then the lock clicked open. "Stand back and to the side a bit."
Raptor: He gritted his teeth, "I'M NOT SO FRAGILE! Do you recall who is protecting who!?"
hme220: "Could be a poisoned dart. That's what I'm woried about. You could be as tough as an oxe, and a good dose of venom will kill ya all the same you know."
Raptor: "You as well!" he retorted.
hme220: Cory calmly moved to the side of the chest, and slipped her rapier through the crack she had opened.
"Will you move already?"
Raptor: Bakan quickly moved to the side on instinct when she did that, even though it was killing him inside to be led by this woman again.
hme220: Cory opened the chest, and nothing happened. "No trap. Good." Inside, there was a small collection of assorted baubles and rotted scraps of paper, most of which seemed to be worthless. On closer inspection, however, he withdrew a couple of things that might be valuable. (Gain 1 Faerie Horn, 2 Darkhearts, a slime amber, 20 denarii and a dagger)
Raptor: (btw, how much would a satisfying meal cost?)
hme220: (1 or 2 denarii on average)
Raptor: Bakan clutched the denarii in his hands, the happiest look on his face, as if all his dreams came true, "I can afford to eat to eat for a week with this kind of money!"
hme220: "Heh, I'll bet." (More expensive meals are available, and they taste better, but that's about the minimum one needs to feed themselves for a day)
Raptor: Bakan actually giggled slightly before clearing his throat with a blush, perhaps appearing too similar to that one dreadful word. "Right, well, let's get back to business."
hme220: "Right." They made their way around the crack, the part of the floor having descended back into place by now, and turned down the path forward. There weren't any other traps, and they reached another split in the path. One way went directly inwards toward the center of the maze, while the other continued forward and round a bend.
Raptor: Bakan took his hammer, and jabbed the end of the grip against the corner of the wall that went round the bend without explanation to Cory, in order to mark where he made a turn, a technique he adapted when exploring mazes previously.
hme220: Cory looked at him with confusion, but didn't ask why he'd done what he'd done. Upon seeing the mark, she nodded and smirked.
Raptor: Traveling down the bend, Bakan moved very, very slow. The scars he earned weren't for nothing, after all.
hme220: The path continued for some time, gradually looping around until another right turn put them on a path deeper again. Only a short ways beyond, there was a wall and a T intersection. Left at the intersection ended up at another chest, this one with no lock on it, and right led deeper into the maze.
Raptor: "Same routine," Bakan sighed, taking a knee and carefully observing.
hme220: There didn't seem to be any traps this time, and Cory poked at the chest, lifting the lid with her rapier slowly and cautiously. "Looks like it's-" She was cut off as a click sounded, and a puff of golden powder erupted from all around them. (Resistance?)
Raptor: "No, you idiot-!" Bakan uttered quickly, before trying to crawl back, covering his mouth and nose, and closing his eyes as she shuffled away.
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hme220: (and he has untemptable, right?)
Raptor: (Y)eah
LOL
(Yeah)
hme220: lol
Huh
(Bakan has become Aroused. Cory, it seems, is not so lucky.) Covering his mouth to avoid breathing in the powder, Bakan still felt his body heat up quickly under its effects, but discipline and an effort of will kept him from needing to stop and satisfy that urge right away. Cory stood coughing in the cloud for a moment, and then collapsed to the ground, shivering as her hands went under her clothes. She began to moan and writhe on the floor, spitting curses between her lewd sounds. "Stupid..... Sloppy.... Dammit...."
Raptor: Bakan cursed slightly as he gathered himself to his feet, and shuffled down the hallway, face red, and heart racing. "Breathed some in accidentally... Caught me by surprise... Damn it..." he cursed, fighting with his lust to wrestle it under control.
hme220: Having only breathed in a little of the dust, Bakan didn't have too much trouble in wresting his lust into submission, and even though it would be awkward to walk and fight with the erection straining his pants, it wouldn't be impossible. Cory groaned as she heard his voice, however, and spat; "Help me dammit!" In his general direction
Raptor: "Shut up!" he spat back, before holding his hands to his head, and trying to wait out the effects.
hme220: The effects on Bakan seemed to last only a short while, but he could hear Cory groaning in pleasure on the floor for several moments, her hand between her legs moving quickly. She cried out several times, but it was almost twenty minutes before she finally calmed down. Blushing, the demoness rose from the floor and walked to stand next to him, the effects of the poison on him having worn off almost completely by then. "Right.... Sorry about that."
Raptor: (Could bakan repair his armor while waiting?
hme220: (Yes)
Raptor: While Cory was writhing on the ground, Bakan found a private spot out of her vision to take his armor off, and lay it down on the ground. Folding his legs as she moaned, he took his hammer in one hand, holding it close to the top of it's neck, and hammered at it until it was almost as good as new. "It'll have to do until I can borrow a blacksmith's equipment." he decided, and walked back out to >>
Greet Cory, "Oh, were you affected by the drug?" he asked with mock curiosity, his eyes half closed in a sarcastic expression, "You seemed the same as usual."
hme220: Cory rounded to look at him, but she was surprisingly not glaring at him. Instead, she simply shook her head and stared for a moment, before turning and starting down the corridor again, not bothering to wait for him.
Raptor: "You still are going to try and take the lead? Why not let me protect you now, or haven't you learned your lesson?" he asked her. "It's a man's place to protect women, that is the natural law."
hme220: "Uh huh." She replied numbly, and simply continued forward. They arrived at another intersection, one path continuing forward while another opened on their right and went in the opposite direction. It was the latter that Cory went down, her sword in her hand and her eyes too busy casting about searchingly to even glance in Bakan's direction.
Raptor: Bakan reached forward, and took Cory by her shoulder, pulling her back, and glaring at her silently, before stepping in front of her.
hme220: "Oh, so now you're alright with touching me." She spat venomously, and then settled back, letting him go first without further argument.
Raptor: Irritated by that comment, he rounded on her, and began to poke his finger against her forehead several times over.
hme220: Cory took about two pokes before she began to openly glare at him, and Bakan found the point of her sword up against his throat. "Really not a good time, hero."
Raptor: "I'm not a hero," he said, pushing her rapier aside with his hand, not caring to be intimidated. "But one thing is for certain, you are threatening me. I said I was going to help you, because you're a beautiful woman with so much she could enjoy out of life instead of working under a woman like her. However..."
"If you're going to be my enemy, I'll still at least show you mercy."
hme220: Cory let him push her blade aside, and lowered it back to her side, but held her glare on him. "If you want to fight, can we save it for later? This is really isn't the time or the place."
Raptor: "Better here than when we need to cooperate most." he announced, before moving forward to settle the situation as he grabbed her, and kissed her without warning. Only a quick peck, but something he wanted to express to her. "If only you requested kindly, I would have touched you." he replied to her, before focusing on the path ahead.
hme220: Cory looked shocked upon the kiss, and stood stock still as he turned around and focused on the path. He went a couple of steps before she moved to catch up with him, blushing slightly. "I'm.... Sorry. About the sword. And the yelling, I guess. You're right too, I suppose, if we've got to be at each other's throats, better down here than when we're fighting the Lady. Truce?" >>
The path turned left up ahead, once more going deeper into the maze, but this time there was no other way to go. A table lay in an alcove, with a moldy piece of paper sitting on it.
Raptor: Bakan chuckled as he heard her words, and turned to her with a sincere smile as he placed a hand on her shoulder as a gesture of support. "You know... You sounded very lady like when you said that. I was charmed," he said, winking at her, before turning back to the path, feeling a renewed confidence that there was hope for her yet. >>
Upon finding the table, Bakan stopped for a moment, and had to assess the situation with a raised brow. "Strange..." he said, looking at the scene.
(BEHOLD THE CUTE WINK! BAKAN'S POWERS OF CUTENESS UNLEASH!)
hme220: Cory blushed again, but this time offered a fairly sincere smile. "Thanks.... I guess." When he winked at her, she giggled quietly, beaming and blushing like a young girl before she held a hand up to her mouth to quiet herself. As he approached the table, Bakan saw that the piece of paper on it contained a picture of a circle, with a bunch of lines drawn into it dividing it up. After a few seconds of consideration, he realized that it was a map of the maze, and not only that, but it had all of the traps labeled on it.
(lol)
Raptor: "Handy, but not fully trustworthy, to be sure." Bakan noted. "We'll just be as cautious as usual, but even moreso in these locations." he decided, holding the map in his off-hand while holding his hammer in the other.
hme220: "Aye, seems too good to be true that it would just be lying around like that." Cory agreed, and set about following him carefully. (Perception = Bakan fails on a 3, but Cory spots it with an 11) A short while later, Cory's hand suddenly grasped his shoulder, pulling him back a step, and she pointed down to a pressure plate that he'd been about to step on. It hadn't been marked on the map. >>
The map marked their path as straight for a good while, and this turned out to be true. This time, however, when they found an intersection, it was exactly as it had been labeled, including the four tripwires that hung just over the floor. Knowing where they wqere and not spotting any other traps, Bakan led the way over. Left and right looked identical, both curving around, but the map marked the righthand path as the way to reach the center of the maze, while the left path led to a room labeled T.
Raptor: Bakan stared at the map for a while, before all the paths and T's began to spin around in his head. "I think we're proceeding to fast, my head is spinning," he groaned. "Weren't there some corridors we missed?"
hme220: "Yeah, back a ways. Why?"
Raptor: "I'd like to explore them. Might have missed some more denarii~" he said, drooling with anticipation. He seemed to forget himself when money was mentioned.
hme220: "hahahaha! Sure, lets head back. We know where the traps are already." Cory said, and then the two proceeded to backtrack. >>
(Do you want to go all the way back to the bedn that you marked the first time first? I think you had like 3 or 4 path splits.)
Raptor: (Yeah, Bakan wouldn't want to leave any location unchecked.
hme220: (mkay, looking back there's only 2 really unexplored paths, so I'll jsut go back to the first one)
Returning to the place where Bakan had marked off a section of the wall, Cory glanced at the map. "Looks like it's just a straight shot, and a trap is marked at the end. It looks like more of that gas. That means that there's probably treasure!"
Raptor: "I've never encountered gas like that before..." Bakan said quietly, seeming very nervous. "It's like I've found myself in more than just a dangerous place. Why must traps like these affect men too?" he said, carefully stepping out into the room.
hme220: "It's probably pollen from an alraune or shorn weed. If it hit you too, I'm guessing an alraune. We've had a bit of trouble keeping them from attacking the men we've got working on fixing stuff. Those might have been the traps we changed a bit, yeah.... We were probably being watched at the time, so I guess it's a good thing you kept your head after all." Cory said, and the two of them proceeded onwards into the heart of the maze. They passed over a tripwire and another field of pressure plates, until they found themselves staring at another chest, this one larger. A pressure plate similar to the one from before was sitting right in front of the chest, where one would need to be in order to unlock it.
Raptor: Bakan let out a sound of surprise, "Alarunes?" he procounced it in an easier manner. "Strange, I fought them before, and they were more interested in the women at that time. In fact, I was nearly ignored until I was swinging at her." he stated as he moved along the traps, and thinking about how he'd manage with that chest.
hme220: "Heh, the ones around here go for men and women with impunity. They don't seem to be going for captives though, just a lay, so maybe yours were going for slaves instead? I guess women are needed in greater numbers than men, since one man can handle so many. That, or you were just lucky." Cory said, and scratched her head at the plate. "I'm not touching that thing. Sitting on the floor feeling myself up for a while is really only a once a day thing for me. Or once ever, if I can help it."
"Maybe you should just try and smash the lock while standing away a bit?"
Raptor: "That pollen only affects us if we breath it in, right?" he inquires.
hme220: "Errr, as far as I know. I'm not really an expert on the subject."
Raptor: "Stand back, Cory, I mean really far back. I'll brave it." he stated.
hme220: "Alright.... If you're sure." She replied with some concern in her voice, and then stood well back and out of the way.
Raptor: Bakan inhaled deeply, and then shut his mouth, holding his breath, before planting his foot on the pressure plate, and attempting to hurry back, away from the pollen.
hme220: The burst of golden powder came as expected, but Bakan was ready for it, this time holding his breath and stepping out of it quickly. The cloud dispersed quickly, and the corridor was soon clear. "I don't know if it has more than one shots worth...."
Raptor: "Are you kidding!?" he exclaimed, before tip toe-ing his way back, to try it again.
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hme220: The trap clicked, but this time nothing happened. "Good, looks like it's clear." She said, and then walked up beside him and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks!" Cory then unlocked the chest, revealing it's contents.... (lol) >>
(Bakan gains another 30 denarii, a horror carapce, two hound's teeth, and three monster fangs)
(Bakan is also now rich XD)
(derp)
Raptor: TASS!?
RESPOND!?
TAAAASSSSSS
hme220: not sure what happened there
can you hear me now?
Raptor: Bakan blushed at Cory's kiss, but rejoiced at his earning, the carapace and teeth almost completely overlooked for the sake of the denarii. "Ooooh! Thank you for letting me steal all of your stuff, Lady of the keep!" he blessed the evil woman's name.
hme220: "She probably doesn't mind much. We got a lot of funding from Acheron to build this place." Cory said, and then turned around. "Wanna go back to that other place we skipped by? It looks to be a bit longer than this one."
Raptor: "Maybe we can ransom her!" Bakan suggested, his mind lost to money as he walked down the hall, before he chuckled nervously, "O-of course I was kidding..."
hme220: Cory quirked an eyebrow at the suggestion. "Of course." She said, grinning as they proceeded back to the place they'd turned shortly following their first expsoure to the pollen. Taking the path they hadn't taken before, they once more passed by some traps harmlessly, and then ended up at a four way intersection, the path continuing ahead, or going right and left.
(Derp)
>>
Left had many traps marked along it, and dead ended according to the map. Ahead led to another branching path, with no marked traps along either of the routes, both of which also seemed to dead end. Going right offered a couple more branches, one of which seemed to meet up with the path to the stairs leading up.
Raptor: (This works a lot like an RPG right? Bakan can use items he doesn't need to upgrade his 'party member's' stuff?)
hme220: (yep)
Raptor: (I should try to be stingy, I think. Who knows when a rock will fall on them, a rock covered in pain, suffering, and knives)
hme220: (lol)
Raptor: "So, left is a deathtrap, eh?" Bakan concluded. "All the more reason for there to be treasure there!" he announced happily, eager to go left.
hme220: (Oh jesus.)
Raptor: (It's Bakan)
hme220: The two proceeded down the left path, Cory not minding at all, and they carefully avoided some trip wires, followed by some pressure plates. (No, not you. The dice. first trap: 19 and 18. second trap: 16 and 8. Third trap: snake eyes.)
Raptor: D:
