Spire City (Inactive)

Game Master Mysterious Narrator

Xander heads down the right path. He goes for a time before he sees red grass covering the ground. It leads him to another ladder that goes high up. Beyond the ladder he can see the path continue.

Xander darts around the ladder and keeps on going, not even wasting the time to consider climbing up this time. 'Too much to do, too much to learn!" Marking where the ladder is mentally, he continues on over the grass.

Xander goes forward! As he moves down the path he notices the grass getting longer and longer till it felt as though he was walking through a safari. Xander can hear a low deep rumbling ahead like something large is breathing

Eventually he comes to a large circular clearing. Inside the clearing, in the center sleeps a large red scaled purple under bellied 20 foot long dragon. It was laying on its side twitching on occasion like it was dreaming intensely.

The ground leading to it was covered in blue squares making the ground look like a chess board. Beyond the dragon Xander could see the continuing path.

Xanders eye begins to twitch as he stares at the Dragon. "A f+!&ing Dragon...? A Dragon?! I don't even have armour, or a Lance. And I am not f@+&ing Welsh either..." He shook his head softly before taking a deep cleansing breath. "Maybe I can sneak around it..."

Xander stopped for a second, pacing up and down along the area right beside the Chessboard style markings, before frowning and taking a step on to the square that would have put him on the Queen side Bishop spot. He braced himself and waited for something to happen.

A Dragon?! Apollo have mercy on your most beautiful of worshipers! :-P

The dragons eyes snap open, Large yellow. They scan the area till they focus on you. The dragon forms what seems to be a grin then it... speaks, "So you chose the bishop, eh?" It says in a low deep voice. "You should of chose the queeny. Hahahah!" It laughs a moment eyes shut. Then snaps them back open and says "So you want to challenge my board, eh? Well then let me explain it to ya. So as the bishop you can only move diagonally. But! My board works a lot different. You have to call out how many spaces you are moving. But you can only move up to three per turn. you never want to be on a blue space when you end a round. if you are you'll have to fight something of my choosing... You need to make it 8 spaces to reach the other side. Currently the colors ahead of you are red, red, blue, blue, red, blue, red, blue "But be warned the colors switch every two rounds. Now begin!"

"Apollo doesn't fancy me like that, I would not look good in a dress, but I do like to spread his good name, so Bishop kinda fits! I move two spaces!" Xander grinned, strolling his two spaces forward to stop on a red square.

"Must be awful lonely down here, for you to waste your time building a board like this. A great and powerful Dragon such as yourself would be better suited to a hilltop, surrounded by jewels, bedecked in the finest of gold and served by the most beautiful of maidens. What keeps you here oh mighty Drake?"

Diplomacy-1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

The dragon grins as it responds in it deep low voice,"Oh I don't know... This is where I was born this is where I feel I belong. Admittedly I have wondered of the surface world. What's a Irish?" It then looks at you curiously.

Xander makes a motion towards the Dragon, indicating that he would wish to make his second move, before he begins to speak.

"The Irish are a group of people who live in a place called Ireland. They are descendants of the Picts and the Celts originally but due to the warring of Nations also have Norse, Spanish and Teutonic blood. The word Irish also can be used when speaking about Drinking, Fighting or Boston. What is the Shadow that terrorizes the city above?"

Tony, with a heavy sigh, took out his fifth of walnut liquor and took a large, encouraging swig.

Rubbing Wichita seductively, he hiccuped and laughed in Reilly's face What goes up.... Must come down ?

Tony can't stop thinking about bob sledding

The dragon laughs hardily, "HAHAHAHA!!! I am more confused now! But It is ok, I don't get to talk to the surface folk often... The shadow? Well I am not sure exactly what it is or why it is, I do know it came to this labyrinth a very long time ago, or was more of invited I suppose by the one who ruled it. You will find some creatures like me who were apart of the labyrinth before the shadows. While some creatures came after. But in a way we are all here to guard this place, I suppose. Shadow creatures kill. Original guardians do not unless attacked. How one got up to the surface I don't know..."

What will be your next move Xander.

Tony scratches his belly and taps Wichita to his head with a smile alright, alright, fine you got me, up we go then.

Lucas nodded. "Alright then, up we go." he said before he began leading the way to ascend the stairs.

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Until finally they reached the top where a giant throne room awaited them. It was gold walled and red carpeted with a large jeweled throne and lit by a mysterious blue flame that hovered high above the ceiling was covered in a giant mural of a beautiful woman embracing what looked to be a warrior. A large door was in the back near the throne.

"Well I am here to stop those Shadow beasts. A task with which I will accept any and all assistance with, just so you know!" Xander grinned as he stared around himself slowly.

Diplomacy-1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

"And I have no plans to attack you, my dear Drake, unless you decide to attack me. I do not mean to be your enemy. But it is my turn, so I will continue on my two squares and land on a red and safety. Ah but now it is your turn and you get to change the squares, do you not?"

Xander moves on to the square he counted.

That is a lot of up! Is that way more up than we have gone down? I mean, are we obviously in some sort of wonky Escher space?

This place seems to exist in a non-Euclidean arrangement. How can there be this many stairs, and where can this room be? None of this makes sense.

The dragon grins, "If you had been rude I would change that spot to blue and make you fight something terrible, but you have been pleasant so far so I will not." The spot under Xander turns blue.

"So how will you stop this big dad shadow you hunt?" The dragon asks cheekily.

Can I get a breakdown of colours before me. I can move 4 directions including the way back, right?

"Why the only way you can, by dragging it in to the light!" Xander pulls the glowing white knife from his belt and focuses on it, trying to make it flare a little brighter. "I'm trying to gain power, become stronger, BE the light I need to burn that shadow away. Think you can help me?"

Red, blue, red. you are on the edge of the board the dragon blocks a lot of spaces so you are going around him. The way a rook can at least. you only have three more spaces might as well just go forward.

The dragon gives the dagger an appraising look, then says, "Depends. If you can bring me 100 hundred virgins to be sacrificed before me then maybe... HAHAHAHA! I joke of course just wanted to see the look on your face. When you finish this board I may have something for you."

Perception/ Something to bring the Shopkeeper: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Panting heavily, Tony cursed See, detective. I f@!~ing told-you-too-many-stairs. AGH. Hoisting himself to his feet with Wichita, the Last Maenad attempted to steady himself as he continued to breath heavily.

Xander grins at the Dragon before laughing. "I wouldn't trust me with one virgin not to talk of so many at once. I might forget the Shadow and just occupy myself in untainted flesh. I'll move the next three and land on that their red my dear Drake."

"It seems all of that hard living is taking its toll, Tony."

Reilly will carefully investigate the carpet, working his way toward the throne, looking closely but not touching anything.

Tony investigates. He thought he would be to tired to move but a small glint on the ground near the left wall, reinvigorated him as he moved towards it. He found what looked like a ring sat on the throne gold it was with a emerald at the center.

Xander moved to the final space the board ending one step before him. "Well it is obvious you won. I could have made things harder but I did not want the conversation interrupted. Now for your reward. I bestow upon you..." He reaches a claw into his large maw and pulls out something very small it glints from the light of the fireflies. "A ring of my own essence. A dragon fire ring. A very powerful tool. Though its uses are very limited I don't know the exact number but it is at least good once." This ring allows you to shoot a powerful fire ball 50 feet ahead of you damage 2 d20

Reilly searches the throne room floor. He notices Tony make a beeline for something near the left wall. He himself sees a small rip within the center of the carpet as he looks closer he notices it looks as though it had been cut then placed back almost perfectly...Almost.

Reilly removes a pair of forceps from his bag and picks at the slit in the carpet.

Xander took the ring without hesitation, before sliding it on to the middle finger of his right hand. As an after thought, Xander pulled his MP3 player from his pocket and leaves it before the Dragon. "I might not be here to talk to you, I need to head on now, but I have this MP3 player you can have. It has all of the modern club mixes and a few original mixes on it too. Just tap the center lightly and it'll start playing!" He smiled up at the Dragon before bowing.

"Thank you great Drake. You have been most helpful. Now I have two questions remaining. Do you know of a weakness to the Shadow? And when I leave you here, what direction do I take?"

Lucas walked forward behind the other two inspecting the strange blue flame and the mural on the ceiling.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Lucas saw nothing more than what was already described.

Tony walked with Wichita up to the throne as he slowly turned and sat in it with a heavy sigh and another swig of liquor Well, I'm not sure I'll have anything to bring back to that shopkeeper. Lucas, you see anything? Eh. Those stairs were exhausting ha ha ha.

Tony then gave Reilly the middle finger with yet a third swig and the lighting of a new cigarette, exhaling smoke into the air as he leaned back into the throne with a relaxed sigh.

Remember that you found a ring Tony

Reilly uncovers the carpet to find a gold tiled floor underneath. Upon closer inspection he also notices that the tile is sticking up slightly as if it had been removed before.

Lucas turned from the ceiling and made his way to the other two.

"I didn't find anything, but Reilly seems to have."

"Lucas, come and hold this bit of carpet. There seems to be something underneath."

If Lucas will take the forceps, Reilly will attempt to slice into the gold first, to see what it is. (If it is really gold, it should be fairly soft.) Then he attempts to pry the loose tile up.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21

Lucas assists.

Reilly and Lucas lift the gold plate to reveal a hole, within the hole sits a large brass key a half foot down.

Tony is trying to keep the ring on the sly xD

Upon seeing the other two, Tony leans forward from the throne What, eh, did you guys find? Anything interesting?

The dragon ponders a moment, then says,"You will be coming to three paths. Avoid the middle if you can help it, actually anytime you come to three avoid the middle one, I offer you take the right this next time, they all have challenges but that path is guarded by a creature of non darkness so at least it will be fair. As for a shadow weakness, that's simple light of course...You seem to have the tools to get you through, at least for now... You are just getting started after all. I suggest you go to the surface now and again. To rest your body and mind. Thank you by the way for the gift I will cherish it."

Reilly takes the key from the container.

Does that work, can I just lift the key out?

Yeah Reilly you pick it up.

"Anyone see anything this could open? hidden hole on the throne, door, anything?"

Lucas looks around the room. "Well there is that door on the other side of the room."

Tony stumbled back down the throne, walking past Reilly as he mumbled with a cig in his mouth Ha ha jesus christ, COME ON Detective....

Walking to the door he began to pound on it in a very childish and silly manner with his fist and Wichita Open... up... this... dooor...

Hiccups and laughter ensued; Tony was thoroughly debautched.

The door slowly opens to reveal pure darkness inside no light seems to enter...

As the beam of light from his flashlight seems to be devoured by the opening past the doorway, the hair on the back end of Lucas's neck begin stand up as he peers into the awning darkness.

"... You know, I don't think we want to go this way after all. The stairs did actually go back down. Maybe the key we found will go to a door that way instead."

Tony waves Lucas off, and heads straight into the darkness with another hiccup and drunken laugh I knew this *hiccup* was going to happen! *Hiccup* I'm.... I'm not.... going back down! RIGHT WITCHITA?

Tony had a slight moment of anger as the cigarette dropped from his mouth just before walking into the darkness, but Wichita kept his steady and true as he plunged ahead.

Tony feels as if he is falling. Why? Because he is falling. *SPLASH* Tony lands in freezing cold water. When he comes up he swims out catches his breath then looks at his surroundings. Blues fireflies hover about giving him light. High walls are around him, Bamboo litters the immediate area. he looks up to see a purple mist hanging 50 feet or so above him. He then hears a young girls voice speak to him, "Hello Traveler" Tony sees a young blonde haired girl with a white dress sitting with her feet in the pond that Tony had just fallen in, A red fox yips in greeting next to her.

Tony, level up. You No longer have addictions. Plus 2 to your attacks against supernatural enemies. And plus 2 defense against them as well.

"Tony! Wait!" Lucas said as he reached for the man, but he had been withdrawing away from the darkness not towards it. It was too late. The man was gone, taken by the darkness, the only thing seemingly left of him was the cigarette he'd been smoking a moment before.

He looked over to Reilly and called out again. "Tony! Tony, can you hear me?!"

Lucas listen for a while but hears only silence.

give me a second to level up and then I'll post!