Underground Explorers North

[Circe]

Circe:
"Ah ha!" Circe takes out some earplugs and puts them in. "Hope yer ready, because if yer not, oh ho ho ho!" She hefts and takes a moment to aim the shotgun at a corner of the wall door thing. "I can't hear yer objections."


Circe adjusts her aim, "I should make a silencer fer this thing. Sorry fer not doing that!" having taken her time aiming, she now pulls the trigger.

7 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-09 21:55:16	Circe rolls 13 to Knock on the door + aiming (9 Again)	9, 5, 5, 10, 10, 5, 7, 5, 1, 3, 8, 4, 6, 9, 8, 5, 9, 1	7 successes

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Narration:


Everyone has made appropriate preperations, and whilst their ears will ring for a short time, it will fade quickly. It may not go so well if Circe KEEPS shooting.


The door's lower right corner is badly damaged, a massive hole in it. The damage is sufficient to give a +2 bonus to using a crowbar to loosen it free. Or a little more violence will probably knock it loose. The structure of the door has been reduced to 3.

Any attack has its successes reduced by 2, results must exceed 3 to knock down the door. A crowbar will provide a +3 to Strength rolls to knock down the door.

Decide how to finish off the door and make your rolls please.

Lionell / Jasper
Yum Yum Crow / Anatole
Abyssalstar / Sonnie
Saber Sloth

[Sonnie Wu]

For once, Sonnie was glad she didn't have her hearing enhanced by her Bestial Contracts. That would have made the ringing in her ears much worse.

"WHAT?!" she asked loudly, temporarily deafened. "OH GOD AM I DEAF NOW? I DON'T KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE!"

As the ringing subsided, she shook her head to clear it. "Oh... that was... something..."

The simian Beast looked at the damaged door, the tip of her tail scratching her head as she held Goaty McSkullface in her hands. She had no crowbar, but she wondered if her Hedgespun staff would work, instead. Sonnie was a bit loathe to try, however, as she worried about damaging her beloved weapon.

Then she remembered Anatole had a crowbar. The solid iron was probably a better choice. "Wanna give it a try, champ?" she said to the Burnt Dwarf, her voice still a bit too loud.

Hedgespun Staff (+2 DMG), Boots (+2 SPD) and Coin Pendant (+2 DEF). 3 throwing knives (concealed), Goblin Fruit (2 dream-a-drupes, 1 coupnettle tea), smartphone, plastic wind key charm, walkie-talkie, 5 chemlights, lamp helmet, bottled water.

[Anatole]

The blast thunders behind him and reverberates through the confines of the stairwell. Despite his best efforts, the Burned Dwarf is shook up.

Ears ringing, eye watering; even a bit of staggering as, in a semi confused fugue, the wizened misses a step as he stumbles back to the room.

At least Sonnie Wu Abyssalstar seems to have the right idea. The simian Beast's voice bubbles into Anatole's consciousness as if he were underwater. The Claviger's gesticulations are easier to understand and he spots the gap in the wall (or is it door?). He moves over and gets to work.

And for once his thick, gnarly, arms bulge beneath his clothes as he exerts himself.

[Anatole]

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-11 03:40:48	Anatole to leverage / destroy doors rolls 11 to Strength + Athletics + Crowbar bonus (10 Again, WillPower)	10, 4, 6, 9, 7, 4, 2, 1, 8, 4, 9, 3	4 successes

Timeout shenenigans all over the place with this one and I wasn't able to get to the Advanced Panel.

Anatole spends 1 WILLPOWER POINT

Anatole WP: 1/2 WP available for this story arc.

[Circe]

Narration:
There is a horrid metal screech sound coming from the secret door as Anatole works his crowbar. It end with a sudden crack, and the door pops up. Anatole's pressure on it and gravity does the rest, sending it falling away from him.


It hits the floor with a loud bang, kicking up dust, but clearing the way for the Lost.


On the other side of the hidden door is a very dusty basement with a lot of smooth white objects present. The white catches the light, reflecting off the filthy, dirt encrusted the solid white material and showing off the smooth curves of this vast bone white collection. The paleness of these off-white objects are arranged as if for display by someone.


Someone that had not been her for a long time, given the dust accrued, and with way too much free time back when they'd been visiting. And very disturbing hobbies too.


It is an obscene number of toilets for the space. Over a dozen are present, in varying states of functionality. The Lost's examination of the toilet basement will avail them of neither ladder nor stairs going up. There is what looks like a stair well that is leading to a landing that has a crumbling wall of plaster. Light is leaking through this crumbling wall, reflecting off of the porcelain toilets and back into the secret door the Lost forced open. Quite a coincidence.


Any additional searching of the toilet room requires perception rolls. The Lost can try to figure out a way to get up the stairs or just try climbing if they prefer. Can't really examine the wall without reaching it.
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Circe:
"Woot, great job Anatole!" Circe cheers her friend. She quickly moves up to him to check on him, "Didn't inhale any of that stuff did ya?"


Then sweeps the room, gun and helmet light shining upon the...the...that is a lot of toilets. "Hoping fer treasure and got this instead. Ain't that pisser?" Then quickly points a finger at Sonja, "I beat ya to it."


Circe will examine the room, trying to find what she can. Because a room full of toilets with a missing stair well? Like somebody found a dead relative's secret, noped, and sealed it away. Too cliche, she didn't believe it.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-13 21:17:57	Circe rolls 5 to perception - clarity (10 Again)	7, 10, 7, 8, 6, 4	2 successes

Lionell / Jasper
Yum Yum Crow / Anatole
Abyssalstar / Sonnie
Saber Sloth

[Sonnie Wu]

The toilet room was a surprise, for sure. Indeed, Goaty McSkullface has his jaw hanging open!

Sonnie stepped into the odd room after Circe had done her security sweep thing, looking around. Her only reply to the blue elf was "Yeah, I guess I'm #2, and what better place for it?" said with a smirk.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-13 21:37:07	Sonnie Wu rolls 6 to Perception: Wits 4 + Comp 2 (10 Again)	9, 5, 10, 6, 8, 6, 2	3 successes

As she examined the room, she took particular wry amusement in searching the toilet collection, both the bowls and the tanks. "If anyone needs to go, now would be the time."

[Anatole]

BUMP Jasper Lionell

[Jasper]

Jasper winces at the loud boom from the shotgun, eyes clenched shut as he tenses at the cacophony of noise that comes in the small area. He's also glad that his senses weren't enhanced to canine acuity, it would have made this so much worse. He gives a shake of his head to try to get the ringing to stop and it's just starting to ease as he watches the Burned Dwarf work the rest of the door open. His ears swivel back at the loud screech of metal and the clang as the door falls to the floor. He glances around, tapping the side of his head as if trying to knock his hearing back into place.

"Well, shite. Coulda been worse.." he says, glancing around the room and peering about the place. He shines the light from his helmet around as he ducks down through the ruined doorway.

Perception (4 successes)

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-16 20:08:56	Jasper rolls 4 to Perception (10 Again)	10, 8, 3, 6, 10, 10, 2	4 successes

[Circe]

Narration:


The Lost find that, well, there are a few toilets that may still be functional if salvaged correctly. No, there are no hidden passages, treasure alcoves, secret armories, or alcohol cellars. NOr are any of the toilets secretly some kind of talking monster seeking excrement. A few tanks do have some contents. Piles of greenish filth that may have been cash a century ago but didn't survive the test of time. Sonja Wu finds in one such pile a set $50 gold coin that is over a century old. And a third in a second pile.


The same goes for Jasper, whose discovered a coin to yield the total of $50 gold coins to 5. He also finds some very messy silver jewelry as well. Very tarnished and worn down, it is only enough jewelry to fit in one hand, but still treasure!

Cue the item discovery music!


Circe finds not riches in one large toilet's tank, but a very old sawed-off shotgun. Opening it will take great effort, but the ammunition had paper cartridges that very much rotted away. Time hasn't been kind to this weapon.


There is nowhere to go but either up or back. To climb will require athletics roll as per the normal climbing rules. That or they could try doing something to make a structure to climb up.
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Circe:


Circe starts to gasp in surprise at her find, before groaning in disappointment. A gun, yes, but a very worn down gun. Circe puts down her own shotgun and is very careful with the old shotty, keeping the barrel pointed down before pointing it into the toilet's bowl for some safety. First step, clear the barrel. The very stuck break action, oh wait! Old!


Restoration of the Dawn's Beauty should do the trick.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-16 21:14:09	Circe rolls 7 to Restore Dawn's Beauty (10 Again)	8, 1, 9, 8, 7, 7, 1	3 successes

The fixed the old part, so now it was all about knowing how to open such a weapon and elbow grease.

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-16 21:14:38	Circe rolls 7 to Open seasame (10 Again)	4, 2, 7, 9, 10, 9, 10, 7, 6	4 successes

It opened, and waste fell into the toilet bowl. Shot, powder, and rotten paper. She flipped the shotty to start tamping it out into the bowl, "Nobody smoke over here. Gunpowder in this bowl now. Grrrr," she tries to close the small shotty but thinks better of it, "Needs oil. Varnish. Maybe screws, tubes, safety, wingnut, and, ha! It really needs repairs."

She gently puts it down beside the toilet near her more modern version as she looks up to the rest, "Anybody find another door?"

2 days left, please roll to climb if you want to see the next space, +1 if you use a toilet as a step stool...or crafts roll if you've a pisser pyramid scheme stairing at you

Lionell / Jasper
Yum Yum Crow / Anatole
Abyssalstar / Sonnie
Saber Sloth

[Anatole]

Anatole wipes his brow with a dust flecked hand and slams the crowbar back into his belt. A wolfish grin ghosts across his features as he eyes the shattered doorway.

His work.

He lets the others pass, observing the room in the bright glare of his own light and that of Jaspers. Shadows recoil leaving only the bizarre chamber and its rust encrusted occupants, ranked as if waiting some hidden command to animate and fling themselves upon their enemies.

They don't.

Anatole sighs and fingers his ax.

The toilets don't interest him; and besides the rest of the group are looting excitedly. He moves up to the stair well with its plastered wall. While the rest of the group dig through the remains, he began to inspect the walls.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-08-18 03:29:43	Anatole inspects the wall rolls 5 to Intelligence + Craft (10 Again)	2, 6, 10, 4, 5, 5	1 success