Lair of the Mountain King: OOC Thread

[M0rtimer]

Also here! Also know Theis is in Holland with some others- Might be a bit hard to grab hold of during the next few days, but he's still around too.

[thinkslogically]

yeah, I've seen Gather's out-of-office (out-of-forum?) in her signature but wasn't sure who else was incommunicado due to that meetup / holidays etc... That's cool though, if no-one appears and demands more waiting time I'll do an update tomorrow and we can take it from there

[spiderwrangler]

Aye.

[Theis2]

Uuuupdaaaaaateeeee!

[GathersIngredients]

I figure I can check the forums at least once a day and probably write a quick update. don't expect long, elaborate posts with lots of RP in them from me until I'm safe and sound back at home, though.

[Dusk9]

Hey, is there supposed to be text for Eaten? Because all I can see in the update is a picture of him waving his arms around...

[thinkslogically]

Yes. Yes there was. It was hilarious text too. How odd...

EDIT: Fixed it. I couldn't remember exactly what I wrote last night so it's a lot less funny now but the outcome is at least the same

[Dusk9]

Gonna be holiday from Monday until August 21st. So yeah, let Mort decide what I do. As long as I finish the upgraded meditation technique first, I don't really care what I do. Maybe start reading through that rock book in the magic room or something?

[GathersIngredients]

Guys, are we on some sort of schedule for anything at all or do we have all the time in the world?

I seem to vaguely remember some sort of ritual and planets aligning before the last big hiatus.

Also, what is that thing with the pink glow in the room where all the monster skeletons (and one goblin meditating) are?

I'm not entirely sure what to do with Finds now. If we're not in a hurry, I'm tempted to either go and have him read some books, too. Or make him do some more crafting, that's loads of fun.

[thinkslogically]

Time does matter a bit in this game, yes. The BBEG isn't sitting on his hands...

The pink thing is Princess Sparkles in her box.

[Dlover]

But at the same time, we do want to take the time to make sure we're properly prepared.

[M0rtimer]

@Gathers
Just a bit of intended to be friendly advice- The theme of magic in this game seems to be to manipulate already existing effects to your will. So for example, say that there's a strong wind coursing around, you could try to redirect it to push something or someone (potentially hurting them). The same way you could likely try to get those keys, but trying to use magic without a source has in the past proven to be very ineffective.

Also, I'm not sure if any kind of trap is going to spring on us if we take a wrong key...


To all others- We should probably decide what we actually want to do now. I'll finish up setting my mindscape this turn as others are doing their own stuff as well... But we should probably get a move on. There's a few things we can do.

-There's the symbol on top of the mountain, which I very much expect the BBEG to have placed there. I expect that it's supposed to be a signal to his followers, and if it's there for long enough we'll get additional unwanted visitors... I'm not sure IF it is possible to remove it, but we could potentially have someone investigate it. He'd need some good cold resistance to stay there for long however. On which note Thinks, sure awesome Mr. Rock Smasher doesn't have any magic slots..? :shifty
-The other option is continuing through the teleporter. We haven't been to most locations it offers- There's the hatchery, altar, crypt, and the mysterious ????.
-Finally, we can go through the newly unlocked door- Which I believe is the way forward, though I believe we'd need to come back to most teleporter locations sooner or later anyways.

Personally, I think we should get back to the teleporter and explore some more of the locations there... Perhaps one or two persons (would advice two if we're doing that) staying behind if they're wanting to investigate that thing on the top of the mountain/craft stuff. As for where to go with the teleporter... I don't have too much favor there. I think we should check out the crypts- Although some of you have been talking about getting pets or something, so we might find something relating to that at the hatchery...

[ChuckDaRighteous]

Well, I'm doing a little reading which I'm then going to use in crafting, but after that I'm willing to join the group wherever they may go. I don't think we should split up too much though. I don't think if we go out further we should split up into more than 2 groups as that is generally a recipe for disaster.

[thinkslogically]

On which note Thinks, sure awesome Mr. Rock Smasher doesn't have any magic slots..?

Oh yes, I'm very sure

[Dlover]

I'm with Mort on what we should do next. I've been working on getting this thing sorted out so while everyone was doing stuff, but we should check the other destinations first.

[GathersIngredients]

I dunno, you can make movement in your own body with mere thoughts. Maybe you can use the same power of the mind to move other stuff via magic (substituting for the muscles). But thanks for the warning.

And I'm happy to do whatever, just put me into a group. I'm not keen on fighting (until/unless I get better gear for Finds), though, but I'll do it (just not alone).

As for the cold resistance: Finds got a chest armor with a magical slot. Atm there's "water essence" in it. But if we could maybe get some "heat essence" in it (e.g. from the forge), instead, maybe that would keep one of us warm...

[Dusk9]

Already tried that heat essence magic slot thing. Didnt work. I think we'll have to imbue the actual fabric with heat instead, similar to how we imbued the shirts and pants with rock to increase our defences.

[thinkslogically]

The heat essence would have worked, except you needed to spend 1mp to release it (in the absence of other triggers) and I think eaten ran out before he got up there. Imbuing something with heat would probably work too though...

[thinkslogically]

Also, so you don't waste a turn dusk, the imbuing will only work if you do it at the time you craft the item.

[GathersIngredients]

I got some pieces of snowbeast hide or such in my inventory, would the warmth imbuement work on those?

[Dlover]

If someone were to craft them into an item of clothing, they could be imbued during the process.

[Dusk9]

Yeah, those would probably work. Do you want to give it a go, or would you rather i tried? I already have a bunch of heat charges saved up, so if you give me the materials I could get started right away.

[thinkslogically]

Ok cool, I'll give you guys another half day to sort out what you want to do with making more warm clothes and update tomorrow morning.

[spiderwrangler]

Seriously considering stealing heat charges so he botched his crafting...

[Dlover]

Why would you do that? We need to find a way to have someone up there without freezing, so that they can work out if we can deal with the glyph and to mine the starstone stuff up there.