Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)13:16 No. 78712 ID: fb5d8e
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"I apologize, Sticks, it won't happen again. Please stay closer to me from now again."
"Y-yeah, alright."

She seems relieved by my attention.

I did not see anything special about the recordbooks apart from the key I found.

>>78712
Put her on your shoulders.

>>78712
Yes, put her on your shoulders. That way you will always know where she is AND she will act very much like a second pair of eyes without you having to worry about her.

... what happens when you turn the two keys...
at the same time?

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)13:31 No. 78716 ID: fb5d8e
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I'd.. really rather not put her on my shoulders. Her bodytype suggests she's an adult. It would be very awkward.
I'll lift her when it is absolutely necessary.

>>78716
Hm...
Give Sticks the keys.
Tell her to go into the previous room and use the sunrise key on the BABBY door while you wait in here.
Perhaps this room will open to a different place after it rotates.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)13:37 No. 78718 ID: fb5d8e
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"Sticks, take these keys and head back into the hall. Turn the baby door key. I'll see where this door leads."
"Uhm.. I can't reach the locks by myself.."

>>78718
That chair.
Is it movable, or is it bolted to the floor? Or, is it not even a chair at all?

If it's movable, it would probably be enough of a boost for her to use well enough - although you might want to switch to the Baby room and get that chair as well, so she can reach the Old Man room's keyhole with minimal effort.

>>78718
How heavy is the chair?

How did she break into houses?
Let's see if there's anything above ground that can give her a boost. (Doubt moving chairs is a good idea.)

Well you could ask if she tried to open the door after you turned the key.

Hey, where's Timotei at?

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)13:53 No. 78727 ID: fb5d8e
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You underestimate a man of combat. I move the chairs without trouble.

"Now you should be able to reach them. But I wonder, how did you break into houses if you couldn't reach the locks?"
"I had my tools on sticks.. That's why everyone called me Sticks. It made lockpicking a lot harder, but I'm the best so I managed."

...Clever Girl...

what happens... when we turn both keys... at the same time?

>>78731
The sun god jacks off in your eyes, obviously.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)14:07 No. 78733 ID: fb5d8e
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Being inside the rooms as the keys are turn have a claustrophobic but otherwise uninteresting effect.

Better hope she lets you out.

She is, after all, a thief.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)14:10 No. 78735 ID: fb5d8e
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Turning both keys at the same time has no interesting effect either.

Enough Canoodaling about; you have a third key to find.

>>78735
Go through the door to the east.

>>78738
Well, to the right anyway.

Wait, did the room rotate in two directions or one?

If the room rotated in only one direction then the third room becomes momentarily visible during the rotation. If you time it right, you could jump in.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)14:27 No. 78748 ID: fb5d8e
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But where do I find the third key?

I've visited every place in this complex apart from the room that will be accessible when I unlock the adult man.
When I've cleared that room I can confidently say that this complex is safe, and we can begin setting up our base of operations.

>>78727
continue with previous plan.

>>78748
Does Sticks have the third key?

>>78747
Before we try any death-defying leaps...

Go back to the child room, and inspect the desk for drawers... also check that balled up paper on the ground next to it.

Try combining the keys somehow. Their shape looks like they'd fit on top of each other.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)14:40 No. 78759 ID: fb5d8e
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"Sticks, do you have the third key?"
"No.. Why would I have it?"

With a soft click I snap the two keys together. The pictures turn out to be semi-transparent.

>>78759
Well I'll be damned. Try the newly formed double-key on the last remaining lock.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)14:51 No. 78761 ID: fb5d8e
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I try the key on the middle lock. It fits.
I can't help but feel the combination of death and birth is an eerie one.

The usual grinding and rumbling begins.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)14:51 No. 78762 ID: fb5d8e
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The door bursts open.

"GGRRUUUAAHHAARRRR..."

This sun god is rather strange. Well, check where the door leads to now, but be careful.

>>78762
...nevermind.

Tell sticks to use the fire and get away from it.

>>78762
"Hello there. How are you this fine day?"

>>78762
SHIT THE FUCK
GET STICKS OUT OF THE WAY
ALSO YOU DONT HAVE YOUR WEPON WHAT THE HELL
FLEE
PREFERABLY TO YOUR WEPON

>>78762
Tell Sticks to use the orb on it!

Oh also, use chair as improvised weapon. At least it can keep it away. If Sticks can't burn it tell her to fetch Tim and your spear while you hold him in place with the chair or by retreating to the next room and closing the door.

Kick the chair at the monster, hard! Then douse it with burning oil!

Dead ghoul?
SET IT ON FIRE! (with orb...)
and start moving to thy weapon... (you really need to buy a dagger/knife)

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

>>78762
Flirt with it.

>>78762
...heh. Turn the key while it's in the doorframe.

>>78775
THIS

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)15:08 No. 78777 ID: fb5d8e
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"Use the fire on it!"

With loud screams Sticks manages to sprinkle some of the burning oil onto the thing, then drops the orb in panic.

"Go get Timotei!"
"Who?!"
"The human!"

She runs to the door behind me. I pick up one of the chairs, ready to strike it when it comes close.

>>78776
Hey.
Stop that.
You don't do that here.

I'm assuming she did go get Tim, right? That is, the door's knob isn't too high to reach or something? Because then you'd have to turn around and open the door and leave an attack opportunity for the creature.

>>78777
Wow that thing is slow. Poke it with the chair.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)15:15 No. 78784 ID: fb5d8e
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I hurl the chair at the thing. It makes contact with a loud thud, making the thing stumble back into the doorway.
Reacting quickly I use the key on the baby door.
With grinding and rumbling, the thing - and the door - are shred to pieces.

>>78784
Okay, go back to Tim and Sticks to tell them the threat has been dealt with. Then explore the new room as a team!

Look over your shoulder frequently though, if it can go through walls maybe it can reform itself.

>>78761
>>78762
Life and death = UNDEATH

you know, zombies man.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)15:29 No. 78796 ID: fb5d8e
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I find Timotei and Sticks just as they come stumbling down the stairs.

"Stand down. The threat has been dealt with."
"Sir! I am sorry I was not fighting with you!"
"No, you were ill and needed rest. I would not have you fight. It is in the past now anyway. Come, we will explore the new room as a team."

prepare for bad things happening... happening
And at least find a kitchen knife or something. Having no weapon is pathetic.

>>78796
Arm yourself, sir, and lead the way.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)15:38 No. 78803 ID: fb5d8e
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I turn the undeath-key again. With the door destroyed the room where the thing came from comes into view.
It is barren, save for the remains of the monsters and the door, and a pile of very old skeletons. I suspect they were killed long ago by the thing that attacked us.

>>78803
Any loot in the skeletons?

>>78803
Just thinking out loud, but a base of operations where some of the rooms are only accessible when the others aren't sounds like a pretty stupid idea. Good for safety and for a trap, but for actually trying to get things done?

>>78803
Examine the skeletons and their possessions. What kind of condition are the weapons/armor in? They may be of use or value.

>>78803
Don't be so sure the skeletons are inanimate. Be on guard.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)15:51 No. 78815 ID: fb5d8e
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It is true that this set up won't be good for the base of operations I have in mind.
Obviously the original owners were more concerned with secrecy for whatever reasons.
I'll have to think of a way to alter the layout.

The skeletons are not animated.
I manage to salvage a pot helmet, a nearly complete suit of chainmail, two keys, a small gem, a pouch of gold, a rapier, a longsword and a mace. The rest is too worn to be valuable.

>>78815
Are any of your companions familiar in the use of any of those weapons? How about you, since your spear is currently attached to the banner. Sticks is right out, but either you or Timotei could use the armor. You were a mounted knight, you'd probably be used to it.

>>78816
Gold is good. We may need the keys and gem for later.

>>78815
Give them a burial later, if there's nothing else in here.
Timotei should know how.

>>78815
Chainmail goes to Timmy. He'll be in the range where protection from slashing non-heavy weapons is crucial more often than you. Helmet goes to you, since it can protect against heavier attacks. Your build looks like a good fit for a rapier, unless Sticks is any good with one. In that case, you get the longsword and Timmy gets a mace.

Are you sure this is their base of operations? For all you know it could be an "adventurer-flytrap", that is to say, a series of rooms designed with an adventurer's expectations in mind- puzzles, occasional enemies, the usual such. Except that there's nothing at the end but a grueling death; the more realistic the entry path is, the less the adventurer thinks about what's at the end, since they usually associate the path's quantity of danger with the dungeon's quantity of treasure. Usually an adventurer can't resist these since they act the same as dungeons except without the loot.

Hold on, why don't they just build these instead of the dungeons that actually have loot in them? With all the adventurers these days it'd seem like a suitable preposal...

Damn, now I wanna write a quest where there's no treasure or escape at the end, just a spikepit.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)16:23 No. 78830 ID: fb5d8e
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Yes, I imagine that this empty room with only a monster in it is nothing but a trap.
That makes me suspect that there is a room of the walking adult man..
I probably was not the only one to attempt an easy way in with only two keys, only I was bright enough to figure out how to destroy the monster.

The chainmail and pot helmet will go to Timotei. The shape of the helmet is not suitable for my head.
The rapier will go to Sticks, the longsword to me, and the mace to Timotei.
I still prefer to find a polearm, ofcourse.

I put the keys and the gem in the pouch with gold.

>>78830
As always, be wary. Check out those keys you got.

>>78830
will the two new keys git in the undeath slot?

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)16:30 No. 78833 ID: fb5d8e
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Judging from the shape, the left key will fit into the undeath slot. The other is the sunrise key.

Check behind the desk of the young age door's room maybe? The chair too. Those are really bad guesses but who knows? Failing that leave the entire area, go back to the room where there are the set of double doors and another set of doors. Then try the other doors, being ready for any deadly mechanisms within.

>>78833
The left key looks like two keys snapped together. Try separating them.

>>78836
It also has different notches.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)16:36 No. 78838 ID: fb5d8e
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Good spot.
I pry the two keys from eachother. I haven't seen this one yet.

That's because it is, we put those two keys together didn't we?

>>78838
Once this is all over we're gonna have to systematically try out all the different keys in all the different slots. For now, go try it in the man slot?

>>78838
Use the Noon key on the Man keyhole.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)16:44 No. 78843 ID: fb5d8e
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I try the new key on the middle slot.
A new room is finally revealed.

Investigate book and desk.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)16:50 No. 78847 ID: fb5d8e
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There we are.
The book of the morning, the book of the evening, and here is the book of the noon.

That's all the rooms in this complex accounted for. The trap was a close call, but I am glad we sprung it now rather than when we had already settled in here.
Speaking of which, I proclaim this area safe. It is now our base of operations.

Ask Timotei what he thinks of all this. He's a follower of the sun god after all.

>>78847
Neat. First order of business: Do something about the rooms being on a turntable. Or at least a relatively important order of business.

Clean up the top floor. Either make it cleared up and show your banner with no restriction, or conceal the entrance and work in secret until whenever.

>>78847
All that trouble for marraige records?!

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)17:02 No. 78854 ID: fb5d8e
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Me and Timotei will get to work clearing out the underground chambers and the aboveground church. Sticks will be cleaning whatever needs to be cleaned.

It is easily possible to open and close the complex from downstairs, and now I know which stone it is I can open it from above without lighting the braziers too.

As you put so well, the biggest problems is going to be turning this into a reasonable base of operations.
Here is the layout as I understand it.
The rotating rooms serve absolutely no purpose to me that I can think of, but before I go at it with hammer and pickaxe, perhaps you have any bright ideas on how to use it to my advantage.

Leave this fruitless endeavor alone for now.

Survey the ruins of the city in search of more survivors, gold, and supplies.

>>78854
When it comes to expansion, hollow out from the doorways that are blocked off when the key hallway isn't on them.

Also, do any of you have non-dungeoneering skills?
A craft?

Use it the way the previous owners did, trapped gaterooms for safety. Or make it a handy way of storage.

No wait those ideas are stupid. Alright. Find some way to make a hookup-terminal thingy to the turntable that moves the rooms around. Put one in each room and then use that as the main "hub" for your future fortress, expanding underground from each of the other 3 cardinal directions. It'd be cool.

Question- what powers the turntable-room thing? Is it magic, or can we find whatever engine it is and use it for our own purposes?

>>78854
If an additional tunnel was dug out that connected to the four rooms, you could make it a sort of security gate. Someone with the proper key would rotate the room from the entrance side, and then would wait in the correct chamber. Then someone else would rotate the room again from either the entrance area or from further inside. Obviously to keep it from becoming a death trap, a similar mechanism should be installed on the other side that rotates it.

>>78854
We can't really remodel without trained workers. It can work as is for now until we obtain some help.

Suggestion 2009/11/18(Wed)17:14 No. 78861 ID: 34470e
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You can dig a secret tunnel that connects all the rooms, and still allow for rotation. Each person would get a room to sleep in: Blue for you, Red for Sticks, Yellow for Timotei. The white room could be for meetings. The other empty room could be a... um... guest room?

The problem with using the rotating room for anything other than a security gate is the danger of getting crushed by the moving wall. It's also likely to disturb whoever's in it when it rotates.

I think the turning rooms would make for good storage. By default it only accesses unimportant stuff, and with each key you can access something else. I suppose using any incorrect key on any keyhole makes the trap room appear (you should check how it works exactly), so you could easily assign functions to the keys and given them to whoever should have them, with a reminder to trigger the trap room when they're done with whatever.

Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)17:29 No. 78865 ID: fb5d8e
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That's right. I have no way of digging tunnels or finding the mechanism turning the room by myself. I will need expert miners to dig underneath a city.
I was thinking about simply tearing down the walls of the rotating room, but you imply that it can be most useful. I'll use them for storage for now.

Me and Timotei are going out to salvage any supplies and furniture. He will pay any dead we find their last respects in the name of the Sungod.

..I'm absolutely exhausted.

>>78863
An example:

Trap room: Everyday food, torches, tools.
Dawn room: Treasure.
Noon room: Weapons and armor.
Dusk room: Emergency food.

I suppose you could also use them as cells in a pinch.

End of chapter 3 Ridder 2009/11/18(Wed)17:30 No. 78868 ID: fb5d8e
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A lot has happened and a lot is still waiting to happen.

I better not get ahead of myself.

How do I shot trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2009/11/18(Wed)17:30 No. 78869 ID: 6faa8c
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>>78861
An interesting desi-
OH SHIT.

I just remembered the Forest Temple from Zelda!

Anyway: Secret doors in all of the roundtable rooms connecting to the others. 'North'
connecting room is the Vault, where you keep your shit. The 'East' is your meeting hall. 'South' is an escape route to a safe location, preferebly with a FUCK THIS DUNGEON switch hidden cleverly inside.

Another secret room 'south' of the entry hall is one that leads to your private quarters. Enlarge these rooms as needed for comfort.

To make this even more effective, hide the doors into the branching rooms as engravings of the sun.

>>78862
>The problem with using the rotating room for anything other than a security gate is the danger of getting crushed by the moving wall.

>security
>crushed by a moving wall

I see no problem with this

>>78865
Tim could do without wearing the helmet while you're just walking around.

>>78870
I was saying that if we used it for bedrooms or something, someone could decide they need to access a different room at the same time that someone else leaves. Also you can't really rotate the room from inside it, so it's not a place anyone would want to stay for an extended period of time.

So, I say either use it as a security gate, or disable the mechanism.