In Progress [LP CYOA] Tower

I just get the feeling that going downwards is more likely to lead us to a lower floor in the tower. Don't care for that now.

 

Baltika is sure Rasputin is a Good Guy, and the elves are what Raspy thinks of as Angels.

I'm not sure at all. I think Raspy would be just as likely to construe the shadowbeasts as being angels, and the elves being devils.

But hey. Time will tell. In another Treave CYOA we had tentacle beasts from the skies, eh?

 

Well, he ascribes a modicum of common sense to Raspy* since the elves are human-like creatures of unearthly beauty, and the Nazguls are shapeshifting fire-and-brimstone monstrosities that Christianity commonly associates with devils, and Slavs specifically with the word chort. Although the latter is a little more antropomorphic and charismatic (and less openly baby-eating evil) than what we've seen.

Whether it is smart to put Rasputin and common sense in the same sentence remains an open question.

* Raspy and Wrinkly. That couple was just meant to be. *sigh*

 

We reeeeaaally have to change that name...

 

We are out of the vault and inside the caverns system. Even if it leads downwards we are not guaranteed that anything else breached the walls down there as it did here.

Edit: my bad, I thought you were talking about the levels inside the ruins.

I wonder if following along the river would make us take a leap of faith and swim. It's an underground river that may come up to the surface... somewhere, sometime. Are we feeling lucky?

And if it does require diving to get out... do we take the girls with us (who might not make it depending on how long it takes), or do we do it alone and hope we can bring someone to get them out of the ruins (and potentially leaving them to starve).

Maybe attacking the shadowbeast is the easy way out.

 

Towerspace doesn't follow the normal dimensional policies. We can go miles below ground and still not leave this floor.

 

I agree, though we should expect the unexpected and not write off the possibility entirely. There may be secret ways between floors even accounting for towerspace.

 

No, no, it's perfect! It's a sign that when you do not choose to do something with a cute elven girl in mind fate steps in to connect you to a guy with a dreamy beard instead.

(still butthurt over Cloud)

 

I will vote for Cloud over Wrinkly.

 

Votes will be closed in 3 hours.

 

I wanna flop. Gonna do so. Just because we think we hear clanking of chains, and there might be some beast, I think we should check it out first. Flopping my vote.
Wet girl contest can wait.

 

The fact that treave isn't just closing the vote even though the bAndwagon is so strong makes me suspect that A is a bad end spent starving to death underground.

I am going to flop to B as well. I don't have a good enough reason to and you men can discuss it more when I'm gone, but I wanted to at least open the door to discussion before the vote closes.

 

The faint sound of chains honestly suggests that the beast there is chained, but it's an unpleasant risk alright. This party of ours really isn't suited for combat if the beast is in fact a danger.

 

I was under the impression that it's loose.

If the beast is unchained, then it's no wonder that it tore a hole into the wall. I think that the chains are still hanging off the beast's body, but that it's not tied to those chains any longer. Maybe I'm wrong?

 

This was my impression as well.

Whatever caused the cave in (possibly Rasputin activating the orb?) caused the beast to be released.

It may even be that the beast was meant to be released if the orb was activated. A sort of trap meant to slay whomever activated it if they didn't first deal with the guardian.

I agree that there's no way we could prevail in a fight with the thing.

 

That's a reasonable take, although the hole could have been caused by something else. Either way, we're not going near it. Not with our current crew.

 

Unfortunately, now I'm paranoid as well - if this is indeed a test from God delivered by Rasputin, then we ought to find a way to trick the beast or get around it, not avoid it. How would we get to the surface by going deeper and deeper down? Perhaps there's another passageway down there? I have a feeling that if we just go deeper down we risk dying of immurement.

Flopping to B, in the hopes that we can find a way to avoid or trick the monster there. Just because we're heading upstairs doesn't mean we'd be fighting it.

Hoping to induce some DISCUSS/flops on this.

 

I'd also like to point out that we haven't been underground before this, ever. I'm not sure that our experience with ranging applies there.

I'm not so sure that this is the case. There was a shift of the floor, yes, but wouldn't we hear something if there was a cave-in and if that thing was trying to punch through a solid metal door?

I told you so. I'm seeing a pattern here.

Thanks for covering my reasons for thinking of Rasputin as the good guy. As an orthodox christian religinut, you have to have a special amount of cognitive dissonance to associate a tentacle monster with yellow eyes with Angels and the elves with Devils.

And the fact that he didn't rat us out suggests that he's rather cool with us, or he has plans for us.

So stop slandering our future instructor, yeah?

 

I don't think so. A fresh cave-in would be noticeable, and the party activating the orb left through the door, while the beast is currently outside the vault.

The test from God Rasputin is whether we get to the surface at all. If the beast eats us, or if we drown - well, such was the will of God who does not have time for losers.

It's possible Rasputin doesn't even know which exact path leads to the surface and what dangers lie there, only that it exists based on the existence of the secret passage.

No reason to assume that either path is much safer than the other.

Edit:

Well, I'd listen to you more if I didn't know you'd consider being bumfucked by a Grand Duke a side benefit of getting conscripted in Tsar's service.

 

Think you mean Daddy Cool yo. He's crazy like a fool.

 

We did hear/notice something:

The ruins felt like they were about to collapse. Indeed they may have, though only partially. And the rumbling, was that something to do with the gate or the release of the thing held prisoner here? Whatever its cause, if it was enough to make us think this mighty structure would collapse in on itself, it was probably loud enough to mask the creature punching and/or tearing its way through the metal wall.

Let’s make some logical deductions:

No one knew there as a beast here, so the locals didn’t imprison it. Therefore who did? Someone here before the locals. Who was here before the locals? Whomever built this ruin. Ergo, the creature escaped from the ruin. When would it have escaped? Probably recently, or else why hasn’t anyone seen or heard of it even though they know about the ruins and why has it made the place of its imprisonment it’s lair? Therefore, the beast probably escaped just now.

 

It is not in the ruins proper. It escaped (?) outside and is separated from it by the caved in section and a secret entrance.

(Oh, and the ruins themselves are a relatively recent find, I think. Scotty mentioned dad was meant to bring in people to investigate them)

It is possible it did so just now, but Rasputin said "devils" were noticed nearby a few months ago, presumably when we met Rain. It could have been here since then.

If this is the beast that can punch out walls, well... things might get a liiiittle complicated if we go check on it.

 

Have it punch an exit for us.

 

A it is then. Let's see where we wash up.

 

And then a plumber walks in.