Choose Your Own Adventure: The Forum Game


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Even though this was kind of started in another thread, it evolved into something all its own. The rules are simple, pick an Adventure option and narrate what happens! Afterwords, set some options of your own for the next player to choose. Death = Adventure reset, either jumping to another point in the story or making a new one. I don't want this to be Tomb of Horrors/From Software levels of death though, so I'd prefer to keep it to as minimal as possible (unless you REALLY want the character to die.)

Lemme start!
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Your and your compatriots have been tasked with the annihilation of a powerful lich who seeks to mobilize an undead army against several kingdoms. His domain, known as "The Sprawling Necropolis" holds not only the plans for his craft, but untold riches! As such, if the prospect of heroism does not entice all of you, perhaps wealth beyond wildest dreams might!

As your team arrives, you see a desolate wasteland filled with crumbled ruins and makeshift strongholds of scrap iron and stone. All of you descend further into the abysmal realm, as evil energies become more apparent and overwhelming.

You wander ahead to scout for enemies, but not before a cleverly disguised magical trap causes you to fall into the entrance of a dark tunnel. As soon as you reach the floor, the tunnel seals itself up. As your companions begin to dig in effort to aid you, sounds of foul creatures begin to swarm upon and close in on your friends. Sounds of combat rage back and forth for what seems endless. Eventually, the sounds of your allies diminish as the undead horrors disperse. You only hope your allies retreated safely rather than falling to the evil hordes. You are alone in a dark cave and you are sealed from the upper world... for now. Luckily, you remember that you're equipped with a lantern and kit to light it. You also have enough metal-based equipment (sword, shield, armor) to signal for help by making a racket.

What do you do now?
A.) Blindly traverse the tunnel in the darkness?
B.) Light a lantern to see your surroundings?
C.) Wait around for your allies to find and help you?
D.) Make noise in hope that someone will hear you?

Liberty's Edge

Light a lantern and draw (applicable weapon)


(Just a heads up for future posters; the rules are to choose an option, narrate what happens as a result of said option, and then supply new options for the next posters.)

B.)

After a couple attempts at lighting a flame inside your lantern, you manage to get it working. The cavern ahead of you slightly illuminates from the lantern's soft glow. Readied for whatever dangers away, you wield a shortsword in your other hand. After a couple minutes of slowly skulking down the tunnel, you notice the tunnel bends in two directions. As you get closer, you hear shuffling ahead. Is it friend or foe?

Do you:
Extinguish the lantern and ready an ambush?
Keep the lantern lit and hope you can still get the jump on them?
Keep a defensive position and hope they're actually friend?
Run back, hide, and hope it goes away?

Scarab Sages

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C) Keep a defensive position and hope they're actually friend.

You set the light on the ground and pull out your shield, ready for what is coming your way. The shuffling is coming from the right hand tunnel. You press your back to the wall wait until it almost at the corner.

Do you:
A) Speak to it, telling it to identify itself?
B) Turn the corner and stab at it with your sword?
C) Wait for it to turn the corner?

Scarab Sages

C) Wait for it to turn the corner.

You wait apprehensively as the shuffling sound rounds the corner...it appears to be a mummy, complete with layers of linen wrappings and a fine copper death mask, indicative perhaps of one who was an honored courtier in life. You place your shield in a position to defend against its first blow, and call to mind a counterspell on the off-chance it should try to direct a curse at you, but instead it stands there, seemingly taken aback, and says (its voice, being channeled through a larynx that has been bone-dry for untold ages, sounds like that of a talking recorder flute), "You live. What are you doing here?"

Do you:

A) Answer its query directly and honestly?
B) Bluff?
C) Respond with a question of your own?
D) Attack while its guard appears down?
E) Run away screaming?

Liberty's Edge

B) Bluff

"Came down here with some friends looking for this lich. Wanted to see if we could sign up. Your buddies, I presume, took offense to that." The mummy begins pondering.

Do You:

A) Stab it now!

B) Wait for it to think of what to do with you?

C)Run away

D) Ask a question to buy yourself more time.


D) Ask a question to buy yourself more time.

"Could you perhaps direct me to the nearest torture room? I want to know what facilities I will be working in."

The mummy is obviously having a hard time keeping up.

Do You:

A) Stab it! Stab it now! It's going to figure it out!

B) Wait for it to reply?

C) Run away while it's thinking?

D) Berate it for thinking too slowly?

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