XCrawl: Team 1 - Killian's Killers ONLY
 

Alright guys, for today's choice, what are your thoughts. In terms of who we are, is it more evil to save our own skin by fighting as a team and THEN getting the girl or more sneaky to have two of us attack the Viper while Hoops sneaks around to save her?

I'm tempted to go with the second but what are your thoughts?

Screw the girl, lets take care of ourselves in this one. I'm in this for the long haul and want to see what kind of tricks/traps that KWhit is going to be unfurling in this one. I can't see a Day 1 deficit being something we can't overcome later.

That is my evil take on things, anyway.

If we have to dictate what actions we are taking individually, then I'll do whatever makes sense from a thief point of view.

I'm certainly up for protecting ourselves early. So let's do this nice and methodical.

I agree. The prize money and the fame for winning will get us any many maidens as we want by the end anyway.

This is my favorite team. That is all.

I like teams 1 and 3.

Poli, dubb, you guys rock!

We have fans? Of course we do ... the other would-be evil groups went dashing in to save the girl. I think there is a total of one collection of true blackhearts in this game and that would be us. The rest will be exposed as frauds by the end.

PB, it would help if the guy with the longsword could avoid being critically hit. I really don't want to have to be the one taking out foes and opening up loot.

J23 - how much are you going to charge our poisoned cohort for a heal spell?

Hmm... I never bothered to see if I could use it on others. Why would I want to help people?

Hmmm, to be honest the healing potions look like a good deal at only 25 per (but this is coming from the asshole that got himself poisoned). Rope is interesting at only 10, followed by the scroll since J23 can read magic. I put in a prelim to KWhit to buy healing potions so I can tank a bit better. Stupid viper.

Ahh, just saw this. I asked KWhit if you could heal me of poisoning but hadn't heard back.

I would prefer to save most of our cash for later items. We have three tap-outs (right?) so I'm not sweating an early death all that much. And if KWhit follows the model that Abe had for his game then the good stuff won't come up for a couple of days.

PB, I think you are the only one of us who played in that one so correct me (if you dare) in the event that my recollection is off.

I'll have to go re-read how often I can use my spells. I know if we heal in between events it will cost us some time, but probably worth it to conserve deaths from our main fighter.

Based on time constraints, I'm strongly considering going the "Silent Bob" route in the main thread. If you guys want to post threatening stuff from me in there on my behalf (I'll drop stuff in here) that would be awesome :)

Getting flask (5), rope (10), and a healing potion (25) would be a good way to go, in my opinion. That would give us multiple options in case we need them for some specific room/quest later while leaving the bulk of our cash for a later purchase.

Disregard this if we can't get multiple items or are bidding against the other teams for each individual item.

Abe had things spread out but there were some really good things late, that is true. If I recall, accumulating gold will be very important.

J23, I'll ask KWhit about the heal spell and how it effects us, although since we're shopping it may not.

I can front the $ for the rope, flask, and health potion as well, I'll send that in now.

I PM'ed KWhit the following questions:

1- Can heal spell cure poison (from Abe's game, this was not so)

2- How often can J23 use spells

3- How does his use of a spell effect our overall gameplay, movement, etc.

I'll get you answers when I get them.

Dola-

I did send in orders for me to purchase the rope, the flask, and the health potion. Who wants to hold things or do we care?

Give me the rope. It will be useful for hanging one of you two when you are no longer useful to me. Hmm, did I say that out loud?

PB, you keep the healing potion since it seems likely you'll be wading into combat most often.

Flask for J23? Because he seems like the most likely drunk out of our group.

Hoops will have the rope, J23 the flask.

J23 can only heal hit points OR poison, not both at once.

It adds a couple seconds to our time if he does it in a non-combat situation. In a combat situation it does both add time AND take him out of a combat round I believe.

I think that's all I've got.

Oh, I purchased it.

Well, we can either unpoison you or let you bleed out and start over. I suppose I would prefer the first so I don't have to get my hands dirty with stuff like vipers and the like.

Try not to waste everyone's time by getting hit next time, OK? If the other cretins are to be believed they did find the initial encounter to be all that taxing.

I'm curious if by facing it as a trio if it somehow effected our combat because we obviously were the only team to save our own skin.

I'll drink my original potion to heal my poison and hopefully J23 will be willing to heal my health points. If you want J23, I have 10 gold left after today's purchase and will give that to you for the heal.

Not sure if we were slow as the only team saving our own skin (probably) or just a bit behind because we weren't exactly efficient taking out the monster.

Sorry, been a busy morning. Catching up now.

I'll PM KWhit to say I'm healing you, and you can just give me a cut of our final spoils instead of the 10 gold now. I expect far more than that for having to lift a finger.

I don't feel like such a douchebag anymore after re-reading the write-up. I actually fought okay outside of the critical strike against me. I hit him with a critical and finished him off. I can live with that part. I've felt pretty crappy since I was the only person of the four teams (at least my impression) that got his ass kicked.

J23, I'll make it up to you.

Time to slay that bitch Scud. I want his head.

I think the fact that I didn't take magic missle, and the fact that the other teams that did got an extra one may have had some part in it as well.

Ah, good call J23. I am hoping that the RP with Scud will help raise our fame some. Everyone loves the guy that's an asshole to the reporter (think Simon Cowell with Seacrest or Brian McRae with his phone or Bobby Knight with anybody).

They can certainly get famous. Though I don't know how many people "love" them...

I'm not much of the RP guy at all honestly. Hopefully it doesn't end up ruining stuff for us. I'm just going to stick to the bad guy mentality in the thread where I can.

I suspect the others are puffing themselves up publicly to sow the kind of doubt you seem to be experiencing. There is no need to worry about their affairs, unless we are presented an opportunity to attack them directly.

I also hope you fight better than "okay" next time out. I was under the impression that I was being paired with a warrior of renown.

KWhit, does the role-play bonus include both the main thread and the team thread or just the main one?

If only the main one then I'll have to be more despicable in that thread, I suppose ...

Hey, you just sit there and keep hoping that Moore and Johnson are going to leave Purdue. And while we're at it, you little thief, did you carve those thief skills out when you stole Jeff George from Purdue? You worry about stealing and looting, I'll worry about saving you...unless I get distracted again.

Release your anger ... on the vipers.

Both.

Room 3
 

I have a couple of questions for the powers that govern this realm (KWhit):

1.) I don't see anything here that suggests a reason to rush through the room, other than fear of traps on chests. Is there a time element to this one like the last challenge?

2.) Can people open multiple chests or is it one per person?

Personally, I would like to open the chests. I realize that we could potentially unleash traps, creatures, or some other nasty surprises but I also want gold and equipment and those are usually associated with chests. I also think that our fame should increase by virtue of engaging the room, rather than engaging in a cowardly rush past this challenge.

My initial instinct is that I should check for traps and then open one of the locked chests.

Chest #4, the one that we were warned about ... anyone feel like defying the cameraman?

J23 - you have detect magic, correct? It might make sense to do that before we start opening chests. From there, we can determine which chests we want to address.

Locked chest w/magic = what I want to open as priority.

Agree with Hoops on J23's action. As for the chests, here is my belief.

Definitely open 1, 2, and 4. Hoops, you'll have to do #1 because of the lock. I am willing to risk chest #4, because of my constitution/hit points it would make sense for me to do that. Plus I'm the tank. That leaves #2 for J23. I can't really tell you why #2, just a gut feeling.

I don't think we should open them all, but that's me. This could be a chance to catch up some.

Lets wait to see what J23 finds with detect magic before we declare chests. But I'll declare now that I'll take the chest out of #1/#5 that shows magic, assuming only one. If none/both show magic then I'll take #1.

Sounds like a good plan. I'll cast detect magic. It's hopefully worth the time spent to know where to focus our efforts.

If we think one is trapped, we could always "ask" that camera crew guy to open a chest or two for us...

KWhit - Do I have to PM you for the spellcast or does saying it in the thread suffice?

Normally it's best to PM me. But this is fine this time.

You cast the spell. The spell indicates that chests #2 and #5 contain magic of some kind.

OK, then lets work with the idea that I'm going to:
1.) check #5 for traps
2.) pick the lock
3.) react with shock/awe at the power of the magical item within (or the magical creature waiting to ambush me)

Do we want to have PB open up chest #2 and eat the potential trap? Is it worth having me open a random one as well?

Actually, I think it's best if just PB opens one rather than both of us. If something unfortunate happened to me, I'm sure our team would fall to pieces. With PB, meh...

You fools are as bad as EF and Jackal. Damn women on my team.

Hoops is as charmed by magic as a girl is by a sparkly diamond. And J23 is a diva.

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty, I'll take all five if I have to. That being said, I'll let you girls have your fun, I can take chest 2 to see what happens and, I've got to be honest, I am curious about 4 as well. Give me definitive answer here and I'll PM Kwhit.

The only hesitation I have about opening all of the chests is the time factor. If only the first team to reach the end wins, then I have no intention of not being that team. I think it's definately worth opening #2 and #5 since there is magic inside. I would say we skip the others and just move on after that.

However, if we really think opening chest #4 is the right choice, then I think you(PB) should take #4 and I'll take #2 to speed things up. I'm less enthused about opening a chest that we were warned against, though I suppose he could just be a fan of one of those other panzy teams.

Yes, let PB take out the traps on #2 and #5 and then I'll unlock #1 and #5 .... buwahahaha! And J23 learns the secret of #4.

OK, scrap that plan while I pretend that you are both assets to our team. PB, if you want to open #2 and risk eating a trap then you can/should go ahead and use the healing potion to recover the health. Hopefully whatever is inside that chest is worth more than the 25 we paid for the potion.

J23, if you feel lucky open a chest. If not, go run ahead to the door and we'll meet you there with our loot.

I'll send a PM now to take out #2. Not because you said so, but because I want to! Yeah, some concern of a trap, but we'll handle it I hope. Is there any way in which detecting magic on something could turn out good?

If we are going to open 3 chests, then I recommend 2, 5, and while I still like 4 despite the warning, if not 4, then it has to be 3 (cause J23 can't do #1).

I like only doing three though, makes sense. My PM for #2 is sent but I will change to 4 if you ladies have trouble making up your mind and decide otherwise.

If you're getting #2, then I'll open #3. If you want to switch yours to #4, then I'll open #2.

I'm curious if our lack of fame would cause us to get mislead away from chest #4. Though I'm not nearly curious enough to open it myself.

That's what I was wondering. The cameraman wants "good tv", we're unpopular, so they wouldn't want to reward us, they would want us to get our asses kicked. So I don't know. Yeah, I'm tempted but is it worth the risk.

When you send in your PM orders, remember to specify whether or not you will check for traps prior to opening. And I will only do #2. Maybe, for the first game ever, I won't get screwed by some sort of magic.

But if/when I do get screwed by magic, I will piss on the chest, that magic and the fans. Screw them! That's right fans, I say screw you!

With hoops checking his chest and unlocking, I would hope that if we both check our chest for traps as well that we wouldn't be incurring extra time.

Yeah, I sent in an order to check. I wouldn't have cared had you guys gotten blown up, but I gotta protect this face.

Perhaps you should have exercised the same caution when you engaged the viper in the last room.

So, how does this look:

Chest 1 - Ignore
Chest 2 - PB checks for traps and opens
Chest 3 - J23 checks for traps and opens
Chest 4 - Ignore
Chest 5 - Hoops checks for traps, unlocks and opens

Did you miss the part where I critical hit him and then cut his head off? How many times did you swing and miss as you hid behind me? I understand that I'm the tank, but I didn't realize I was baby-sitting you bastards, I thought you could at least fend for yourselves.

Yeah, that looks good. Do you think we have to say disarm the trap or is it assumed?

Hopefully assumed, but I'll add it for good measure and PM it to KWhit. I won't be around from 6ish EST onward tonight, so if something changes one of you guys will have to send in an update.

Lackeys (or do you prefer minions?) do the work. Most of them have enough of an understanding of their station to not openly complain about it in this fashion.

The marching orders for the treasure chests are acceptable to me. I eagerly await our fame and fortune at 9PM this evening.

Damn. Good news is that we were smart enough to check for traps, bad news is that we failed to find anything of huge consequence. I'm curious how chest 2 had magic but nothing magical involved. Oh well. The health potion replaces the one I had to use.

Two magic items (potion + scroll) seems like a nice bit of business for us. Hopefully I was not injured seriously and gained valuable experience disarming the most well crafted lock in all of the land.

I think it makes sense to use the scroll now if this is a perm health increase, since that would factor into HP for each level. I'll consider sharing it with the meatshield if there is reason to believe that this favor will be returned at a later point in time. Any treachery on this will earn you a shallow grave ... the mage and I have enough wits about us to forge ahead if you outlive your usefullness.

As you know, my ally, I am always distrustful of you as you are of me. However, as has been proven many times, I can put that aside for the sake of destroying others.

Good observation, my friend, regarding the potion, perhaps it is of the magical persuasion.

You and the magician will never have to fear finding yourselves at the end of my sword, unless this dungeon runs out of villains. I will fight alongside and in front of you, not necessarily for your protection but because I love and adore violence.

If you deem me worthy of the scroll, I will return that favor, be it by sword or by trophy.

I believe that will have to rely on the supernatural again, if J23 will check for magic. Otherwise, I'm thinking two things:

1- Bottle one of the liquids in our flask

2- One of us needs to sample that same liquid

This is very much Matrix-esque, red pill/blue pill.

So we have a empty flask, a flask of poison, a rope, a healing potion, and a vial of acid. Am I missing anything?

I agree about filling up the empty flask with one of the liquids. Here is the order I would suggest.
1.) Detect magic
2.) Fill the empty flask with something
3.) Taste one of the two liquids - either the one we take in the flask (knowing we can use it again later) or the other one (surprise!)

Any other thoughts?

Also, I'm surprised that we are behind the other groups by this kind of margin. Maybe they didn't check for traps but just took the damage? If so, they will be wounded and not have as many items as we do. Maybe they just left everything behind? I suspect that will not serve them well either in the long term.

Will one of the lords of the realm clarify if the use of the scroll of constitution is a permanent boost to CON that will apply for health on all future levels? Thanks.

Yeah hoops, one thought. KWhit has said that after day 1, we may be in different rooms. I'm wondering if they didn't have this as their room.

Man, don't compliment our torturers. Just say, "Hey, Scum Fartus or VD or whatever your title is, how does this thing work?"

Certainly possible. It is always inspiring to watch the little hamsters spin that rusty cage you call a mind, PB.

Correct. It will count for all levels - even previous ones. It's a handy little scroll.

I would say that obtaining that scroll was worth our while. Excellent.

My base instinct says to take the scroll for myself, but inability to effectively coordinate with cohorts has doomed more than one evil alliance in the past. So, with some reluctance, I'll pass the scroll to PurdueBrad to use if he is able to actually read (implies both literacy - a big if - and the ability to read this particular scroll).

Only one other has reached this plateau. Hopefully this minimizes some of our collective unease (that should only be discussed here, not publicly) about our last place standing.

I am, and this is hard to express, grateful for your gesture Hoops. Ideally those hit points will never be expended but you have earned some level of respect and loyalty from me.

Also, I'm noticing that J23 is accumulating exp with every spell he casts so it may be worth our while to continue to use him whenever possible to use his identify magic or heal spells.

That tells me there is another mage, most likely, that has had to cast spells OR another team were actually in a fight today rather than with the chests.

So it looks like three actions in this room, which should be faster than we've been moving. Of course, that assumes we can find the door.

Is there any value in having two of us try the liquid, one green and one red? I do personally believe that we're best off trying one and then with that info we can assume about the other, but just want to be sure.

I will read said scroll, both to prove to Hoops that I can and to further enhance my weapon of a person.

Outside of that heal he threw my way, this mage my turn out to be useful yet. I don't believe in a lot of hoodoo and card tricks but hey, maybe he'll prove me wrong.

I am brute force and therefore have little use for something like acid. I have passed it off to Hoopsguy who, with his sneakiness, may be able to get close enough to adequately use it. Furthermore, with his skill with traps, if we need him to set one, perhaps the acid would aid him in such a task.

I'm tempted to leave a trap in the next room where it would be conceivable to do so in order to spite the other teams. That would be just great to read at some later point

Something like this ...
"Deutchbag has triggered the trap laid by KK. DB#2 passes out, due to an inability to cope with the pain of acid squirted all across his face, neck, chest, and genitals."

Post to help the post count.

Poli, do me a favor, since I can't go into anyone else's chats, go in to the team of your choice and tell them that PB says that no matter how much they try to avoid it, they will find the tip of my blade against the back of their neck. I will greatly appreciate you invading their threads to trash talk for me.

PB

Sweet!

Done. I'm sure I broke some sort of rule in the process. I'm not trying to ruin your game, kwhit, I promise.

So are there wolves in this game or is this like dungeon? So far, from the distance and outside looking in, I'm sad I screwed myself and can't play in this.

Truth is, though, I probably wouldn't have time to do anything.

It seems like dungeon in that we are competing against the dungeon and not werewolves. But I didn't play in that game, so I'm not the best person to answer that question. I know KWhit really liked Abe's game and was modeling some aspects of this one off of it.

I like the concept but I'm not familiar with the game he patterned this after.

I'm not familiar with the game either although after looking it up on Goodman Games, I am actually fascinated by it.

Yeah Poli, no wolves here, much like Abe's dungeon game.

I think KWhit will appreciate the intent and fun behind it. If he doesn't, I'm sure that he or VD or Smut Barfus will let us know.

In all seriousness KWhit, I'm not asking Poli for any information from their threads, just encouraging him to spread my hate. If don't want me to do so, let me know. :)