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Amidst the Tower's rubble: Stairs going down

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 18
Friday January 24th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Nonam speaks agreeing with Jus' earlier comment, "If it's a grave then we should stay away from it." Then as an afterthought, "Though those two," he points to the two dead bodies, "aren't real close to the pile of rocks." Nonam quickly looks down the hole as he leaves the area containing the rock pile and the gargoyle. As he walks away, he continues to listen for the noise he associates with the attacker. His dagger is still in his hand.

Gareth puts his shield over the back of his neck and pack. He grabs a handful of dirt when he realizes it's a flying creature. He backs away from the stone pile for a moment to see if the assailant attempts to attack again. He says "Maybe its more like he's guarding the entrance into the caverns under the tower! Maybe left by the wizard."

Gareth pauses and then when there is no further attack says, "Watch my back.". He then moves to the pile and kicks off some stones to see what's under it ready for assault from the air or from the pile. The stones collapse in a heap falling down the hill.

Gareth stands ready.

Korok stuffs the paper in his belt, and draws his scimitars, turning around slowing listening intently for what ever creature Nonam has described. An invisible opponent would allow him to test his merit, he has yet to test them against an invisible foe.

Since Nonam is still nearest to the pile, Jus asks him; "Nonam, do you see anything inside?" Jus continues looking around, ready to dodge if the creature attacks again, and begins slowly walking back to Nonam.

Gareth responds to the question simply in a sing-song type voice, "Stairs going down."

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Friday January 24th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

Next turn due Tues. Night.

Enjoy.

Jerry

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 19
Tuesday January 28th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Nonam stays a little distance from the center, lights up a torch, and prepares to go down the stairs. He is still listening for the flying sounds.

Gareth pulls out a torch and lights it and proceeds down the stairs with sword in hand testing each stair before placing any weight on it. He looks for obvious traps or other obstacles like oil, glass, trip lines, etc.. He will wait for a formation to be made behind him before he proceeds too far down the stairs.

Korok waits until there is something for him to do...

The staircase is spiral and strewn with rocks and debris. It descends into the dark earth. The staircase is 10' wide. You can see perhaps 30' ahead of you before the spiraling of the stairs blocks your vision.

Korok spots that the Gargoyle statues seems to glow strangely under the torchlight. One of them shifts slightly.

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Tuesday January 28th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

Jerry to Tom: Korok wanted something to do? Ok. <Evil Grin>

No response from John this turn. One suspects that Tina has him in training on how to be a better husband.

Next turn is due on Sat. 2/8.

Jerry

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 20
Saturday February 8th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Gareth leads the way down the stairs redrawing his shield and continues down the stairs carefully. He says back to the group in a whisper "Better build up those rocks again. That way we can hear if anything trys to follow us." . He watches the walls for marks or cracks as well as watches the stairs. The staircase is strewn with rocks and debris.

Jus draws his swords and skips down the stairs to Gareth walking beside him. "Can't you go a bit faster? Maybe there is something more fun to do farther down."

Nonam follows the other two down the stairs. He positions himself just behind Jus and Gareth as there is no other logical position for him at the moment. He readies himself for action gathering a component in his hand.

The stairs curve around a full 180 degrees and opens upon a corridor of cold stone. The corridor opens into a wider unlit area 40' away, and its walls are painted with mosaics of peculiar runes and designs. Pebbles and dust, loosened by the tower's explosion, have fallen from the ceiling to the floor.

Above, Korok yells loudly, "BEWARE!!!! THE STATUES MOVE!!!!! He moves closer to the gargoyles, warning the statues away from his trusty blades. He notices that something moves under the gargoyles. Centipedes!! They do not move to attack having not yet noticed that they face a brave and fierce opponent.

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Saturday February 8th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

JK says: I'm thinking of playing around with the home page stuff. how's a woldian home page sound? I'll start reading about how to do it and we can figure out what kind of things to put on it. It might be a good way for the people we play with to get the maps instead of always having to mail them. Having a few scanned to disk at Kinko's probably isn't too much. Let me know your thoughts.

Jerry says: Sounds cool to me.

John says: What happened to Turn 17 and 18? And what do you mean no response from John? The last turn I received had a rock falling down a pile -- and I responded.

Due to the missing turn(s), I don't know what Nonam is standing in the center of; I assume it is a room behind the hole exposed by the falling rock.

John, how about you expanding on your novel you wrote the first turn and doing a "log" of our adventures in first person form? Only if you want to. I have the turns which makes a log of sorts.

Sure, send the logs and I will see what I can do (time allowing).

The AOL problem is beginning to be maddening. I have been checking mail almost every day and this is the first turn I have received since Turn 16.

Sorry John that you didn't receive the turns. I'll try to send them again. I've added your work address to the list. You should receive the turns at both addresses now.

I've heard nothing about any new players. John, recruit away. :)

Next turn due Monday 2/10.

See yall soon.

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 22
Monday February 10th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Korok is now up top alone, and from beneath the statue emerge four giant centipedes. Korok laughs aloud, "Ha, Just harmless centipede. I shall take care of them." He advances on the creatures, weapons ready. They sense his presence and move to attack. Jus walks over to the nearest wall and tries to make heads or tails of the runes. He checks the floor to see if anyone or anything has disturbed the dust ahead, but he finds little of interest.

Gareth says to Jus in a forced whisper "Quiet down! What's wrong with you?" He then looks at the walls to see if he can understand anything. He moves toward the widening area carefully looking for any sign of traps which may have been exposed by the blast. He observes the walls as he goes. He observes Jus's behavior to see if it is different than normal. Gareth asks "Does anyone understand these drawings?"

Nonam slowly follows Gareth and launches into a discussion of the runes on the wall. "I don't believe that I have seen these before. Perhaps they are some sort of artwork. They don't look magical to me. They're too imprecise."

As Nonam and Gareth slowly and carefully descend, Jus turns abruptly and quickly walks ahead into the darkness.

Jus continues rapidly down the stairway and moves toward the opening at the end of the hall. By the time Gareth and Nonam reach the foot of the stairs, Jus is about 30 feet down the hall. Suddenly Jus feels the ground give way slightly beneath his foot. Then he hears a loud click and the sound of stone grating against stone. Gareth and Nonam see a huge stone block start to slide across the passage behind Jus. It looks like it will completely seal off the passage in just under a minute and will separate Jus from the rest of the party unless something is done quickly.

Up above, Korok hears a loud scraping noise from the passage below. The centipedes come closer.

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Monday February 10th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

At this point we will go to initiative. There are 2 reasons for this. 1) Korok's fight & 2) the stone about to close off the passage. What this means for now is that you can all send 1 e-mail to everyone instead of just me (this should allow you to all be able to work together now that you need to). Whoever acts first gets the iniative. Keep in mind that you may do one thing in your message. Also keep in mind that whatever you do must be able to be accomplished in a minute or less.

Sorry this was late, but my computer has been down.

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 23
Wednesday February 12th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Outside the stair entrance, Korok draws his scimitar and slices the nearest of the centipedes neatly in half. As he attacks he counts: One, two, three, four more centipedes!

The Centipedes begin to crawl up Korok's legs sticking to him like glue. All five bite at his splint mail causing no harm to the mighty warrior!

Meanwhile down the stairs in the corridor...

Nonam sees the passage closing and begins to head over to the other side to join Jus. While he's on his way he yells, "KOROK, the passage down here is CLOSING. If you don't HURRY down here, you'll be TRAPPED OUTSIDE!"

Glaring angrily at Jus, he passes the closing stone.

Gareth yells as he runs to Jus "Look out! Jump back!"

Jus turns around ready to run back to the other side of the stone.

Gareth then rushes forward reaching for Jus grabbing at him with both hands in a panic.

Seeing Nonam and Gareth coming through, however, he shrugs out from under Gareth's bear hug just in time and races back to the inner side of the sliding stone block trying futilely to stop it with a dagger.

Gareth then reverses and races back to the outer side of the stone trying unsuccessfully to block the stone with his great strength. He throws down torches and shields frantically trying to block the stone.

Gareth and Jus stare helplessly at each other as the stone slams shut effectively blocking the hallway with a hollow sound that echoes further and further away until a still silence settles on both sides of the stone...Gareth on one side, Jus and Nonam on the other.

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Wednesday February 12th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

I hope everyone got what they wanted on this turn. I went with what you wrote and where you stated that you wished to end up. That was the purpose of the open conversation before this turn. So you could act as a group as JK so aptly put it.

Thanks a bunch to JK for running the last turn. My computer is up and running, but not well. I'm still getting lots of glitches. Had to reconfigure the printer driver tonight. Also the Microsoft Word will have to be reinstalled. No help features or spell checker. Did you do that David? Hehe.

David spend many hours trying last weekend to help me get up and going. I have a knack for creating computer problems Dave has to struggle with. Thanks Dave for everything!

I'm stating that the turn is due on Friday, but if I receive all four responses on one day for the next week or so, I'll do daily turns to try to get things back on schedule. No pressure of course.

See y'all soon!

Jerry

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 24
Friday February 14th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Nonam looks around and studies his situation while speaking to Jus, "You do know its alright to be careful and patient, don't you?"

Jus looks at Nonam for a moment to see if he is serious and then laughs. "You have to admit the last few minutes filled your blood with excitement! What are advertures for, anyway?"

Jus sheepishly grins towards Nonam and says, "I don't suppose you have a Pass Wall up your sleave, do you?"

He looks around for a moment and then remembers: "My apologies, Nonam. I forgot you humans can't see in the dark. Do you have a torch we can light?"

After lighting the torch, Nonam hears scratching and yelling coming from the other side of the stone. He looks back in that direction and notices a small hole in the wall gushing with spiders. Little ones. Harmless.

Meanwhile:

Korok disengages from the remaining centipedes, finally hearing the screams from below.

Gareth runs back up to help Korok with the centipedes. He passes Korok who is running down the stairs.

Korok tears at the block of stone trying to get it to move.

Gareth then says "We should move down into the corridor for the night. Lets reset the rocks so that if anything comes down we'll hear them."

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Friday February 14th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

JK says: Well, it's not finished, but it's a good start. All I have done is our current group of heroes. But see how you like it. Oh this works better on netscape than it does on aol's browser - so if you don't have netscape I recommend going to keyword netscape and downloading version 3.0 for aol. but whatever you want to do.

Jerry says: It refers to our new Wold Internet site.

Jerry says: It looks great to me! I can't wait to see if we can put the maps there. All suggestions from you computer programmer type people are welcome as long as you compliment JK for a job well started.

In the meantime, I have the maps run of for your atlas of the Wold, I just need to finish the article that will go with it, put it in a folder and send it to you. So I guess I'm taking orders. Scott Marley, our resident Kinko's employee trainer did the color copies for free for a hamburger one day bringing memories of Jacob and Esau flashing through my brain. Send me your address and I'll send you the Atlas of the Wold in a couple of weeks.

John says: There may have been an omission. I received the below for Korok's response. It was only addressed to me, so I thought he was sending me a copy of what he sent to others. This did not seem to make it into the new Turn 23, so I thought it might never have made it to you. Considering what it contains, I thought it might change the results of the turn.

Jerry says: We have a rule for situations like this that states, No "After the fact" changes. I understand that Tom tried to send his turn to everyone, but it didn't go through. Sorry, Tom. I understand. However, "The Game must go on!"

Dave says: It's amazing the pain and suffering caused by crazy characters with infrared vision.

Dave also says: Did you get any answers from Storm Jerry about the DOS program problems? Hope so. I'll see what I can find out here.

Jerry says: Actually, I've had one busy week and haven't contacted them yet......bad Jerry. I was also afraid that is would put me down without a computer for a few more days...I'll get to it. :(

Kirk says that he wishes to be removed from the address list for now. He is just too busy with school, marriage and work. Sadly I reach for the Pencil of Erasing +1. You guys should do the same.

John says: hehehe, I love this...

Tom says: I was positive that I had sent the message ot everyone. I know the First message I sent, was to just you, since I have the belief the when a person is a long, there shouldn't be cross talk, so I took the action I did. When I got the messages with everyone yelling for me, I had sent the message that had gone to John, unfortunately, when I put everyone else in the CC section, AOL didn't seem to want to see it. Oh well, things like that happen, what can one do.

Jerry says: I understand Tom. I have a suggestion to put it from your mind. Go get Tim and rent Mario Bros. Watch it with him....He'll love it and you'll have done a great thing. Hehe. (very inside joke)

Next turn is due on Tuesday, however as before if everyone responds early, I'll do the turn early, assuming I have my computer and it's not in the shop. This turn was postponed because I didn't want to skip Tom after his not being able to get his turn through to me last time.

Everyone check out the site.

Jerry

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 25
Tuesday February 18th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Nonam begins to look about for some kind of switch to move the stone back (or anything else significant) while speaking to Jus, "Well if we can't find some way to move the stone back, then I guess we have to explore this place ourselves... How good can you use those weapons anyway?"

He also pays attention to the spiders to make sure that not too many start to pour out of the hole. No spider is harmless in Nonam's opinion. They keep frothing and spewing out of the hole, but don't seem to be growing in number.

Staying near the stone, Jus looks down the hallway to see what is ahead. He notices that 30 feet ahead, making a total hallway of 40' there is a chamber just beyond the torchlight's range.

Jus begins carefully searching the floor, walls, and as high as he can looking for any mechanism to return the stone to its former place. While doing so he asks Nonam if anything is inside the spider's hole. The walls are covered with ancient mosaics, but no mechanism's can be seen.

Meanwhile:

Gareth stacks the rocks back up from the inside. He then begins searching for levers and other methods of moving the stone. He mutters, "That Jus is crazy! We'll have to be careful how we deal with him in the future... Who in their right mind would jump inside an underground passage with no known escape route? That's crazy!"

Korok continue to try to move the slab. (Single-mindedness eh...;) ) He notices that it moves even less than before when it didn't move at all.

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Tuesday February 18th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

JK says: Jerry, I think that now that we are separated that we should not be getting messages bout what the other group is doing. Your call though.

Jerry says: Yeah, I see your point, but it's taking enough time to put out the turn as it is. Everyone enjoy the actions of the other and just do your best to not to let what you read from the other location affect your actions.

The following is a conversation between David and John which lets you guys know what I always had to put up with concerning these two. They never quit bickering. It's like they were married to each other or something:

Only my elfs are painful to you... and my barbarians... and Togmahon...

Rexbard was definitely a straight fighter. Lindorie a quiet, never-in-trouble female cleric. Itoya Tovya a gruff dwarven fighter. And my mage (I forget his name) was much more a fighter with his spells (offensive all the way) than most -- I even remember a time he ran out of spells and pulled his dagger to go engage a dragon.

I think you've just been given the privilege to play with my more "spunky" characters.

JRK

A Wizard's Fate: Turn 26
Thursday February 20th, 1997 4:00:40 AM
Nonam holds the torch to the spiders. The torch burns in the area, but doesn't affect the spiders at all. They continue to pour forth, but there doesn't seem to be more of them than before.

After waiting a little while for Nonam to finish his searching, Jus prods "There's something up ahead. Why don't we go take a look? Unless you want to reach in to the spider hole and feel around?"

Jus begins slowly walking ahead giving an exaggerated study of the floor and walls for any mechanisms or other traps -- almost as if he is doing it just for Nonam to notice. He finds nothing and approaches the chamber ahead.

Meanwhile:

Korok begins to swear in both orc and common, and stands back a step, looking like he is about to do something really stupid...

Gareth finishes with the stones and then begins to search the entire area for some lever or other device to move the stone back. He finds nothing.

Below-The-Line (OOC) Comments
Thursday February 20th, 1997 4:30:40 AM

Tom says: I have no problems with every day sessions, I am on here every night. Thanks for thinking of me though... [grin].

The next turn is due tomorrow by early evening if possible so I can get it sent out each day.

Enjoy the day.

Jerry

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