October Mini Event: Dance, Magic, Dance!

[solravehmods]

As the bats and will o’ wisps become a little more...absolutely everywhere, a curious addition can be found within the Altar Room. The doorway stands in the middle of the room, cheerfully holding itself up and leading to...somewhere.

That somewhere may or may not be an underground maze. An odd liquid (that may or may not be blood) has been used to write on one of the high walls; great riches await those brave enough to venture forth.

What riches could be in there? Better yet…

What else is in there? A log from the 18th to the 24th will be made for anyone interested in taking part in this mini-event, and further details can be seen below!


The Maze

Any character worth their spit knows better than to go into a strange door in the castle alone; for each of the specified encounters, there is the potential to choose your own adventure, or play up RNG to see what fun shenanigans your characters might get up to when it comes to running through this underground domain.

1. Start
At the edge of the map are four, green dots. You may elect for your characters to start at any of the four corners, and all will lead to the center eventually. The starting points that can be chosen are:

1. North West
2. North East
3. South West
4. South East

2. Monsters
Any maze worth it’s spit has a myriad of cool monsters that one can come across. For the unfortunate, getting lost and finding one of the many dead ends within the maze will increase the chances of coming across those ominous purple dots upon the map, at which point, characters may find:

• 1. Minotaur- It’s a maze. You didn’t think there’d be a minotaur? These half men, half bulls aren’t the most intelligent, but standing at a good eight feet and equipped with large, stone hammers, they aren’t the type of crowd you want to cross.

• 2. Sphinx- These wily cat women may not be inclined to attack at first, but out of all monsters within the maze, they are the hardest to be rid of. Capable of teleporting those who irritate them right back to the beginning, the easiest method to defeat them is to answer them these questions three… or a riddle. That also works.

• 3. Skeletons- Fresh from the skeleton war, these guys have a bone to pick with you. Unfortunately, they cannot be coerced with ketchup and puns, and spaghetti will just make them angry.

• 4. Dead Hand- Some characters within the castle may already be familiar with these insidious creatures, but for others, the first sign of their appearance is sickly, grotesque hands jutting out of the ground. Getting too close to them will lead to a nasty shock, as the moment a character is within reach, they will seek to grab and hold them there, as it’s body rises from the grave, and seeks to take you back down with it.

• 5. Headcrab- THEY’LL GRAB YOUR HEAD, BY THE-- HEAD!!! But no really.

• 6. Tonberry- These small, reptilian creatures may not appear to be much harm, and they aren’t, so long as you keep your distance. Difficult to defeat, Tonberries also deal an immense amount of damage; if a single blow doesn’t kill you outright.

• 7. Blockhead- these irritating living walls will trap characters within dead ends, refusing to let them past and loudly proclaiming that characters will never find their weak points. Characters will have to be keen eyed and fast to respond to take these massive walls out- or they could simply wait for them to get bored and go away. Spoilers: they won’t get bored and go away.

• 8. Boggart- a creature with no true form of it’s own, it will take the shape of one’s greatest fear. The more people involved in confronting the creature, the more confused it will get, leading to a horrible amalgam of their conflicting terrors. Word on the street is, the easiest way to defeat them is laughter.

3. Chance
Chance areas are less about hostile encounters than they are significant, and often odd, changes to the environment. The only thing to do in most situations is grit your teeth and keep moving forwards- but will you really want to?

• 1. Tar and feathers- less horrific, and more humiliating. A suspicious black sludge covers the floor and walls of the corridor, emitting a somewhat odd smell. Characters will find themselves covered in the substance whether they want to be or not- it is tar, after all, and tar loves to cling to whatever it can. And at the end of the corridor…. Poof. Hope you like looking soft and fluffy.

• 2. Topsy-turvy- Characters who wander down this corridor will find themselves suddenly on the ceiling- or is it that the floor has become the ceiling, or the ceiling has become the floor? Aside from being rather disorientating, characters who take the chance and continue on will find things returning to normal soon enough.

• 3. Multicolor Tile Puzzle- In the words of the great Papyrus, remember what the each color does! Red tiles are impassible! Yellow tiles are electric! Green tiles are alarm tiles- step on these to fight a monster! Orange tiles are orange-scented; they make you smell delicious! Blue tiles are water, which contains piranhas! If you smell like oranges, they will bite you! Purple tiles are slippery! You will slide to the next tile! However, they also smell like lemons, which piranhas do not like! However, yellow tiles are electric! If a blue tile is next to a yellow tile, it will zap you! Finally, pink tiles! They don’t do anything! Got that? Good. Go!

• 4. The randomly swinging axes- there’s always some randomly swinging axes.

• 5. Indiana Jones theme- is...is that a boulder? That sure is a boulder- are you...going to just stand there, or-?

• 6. Icy what you did there- stone suddenly gives way to ice, leaving characters to slip and slide their way across the space to the other side. Unfortunately, slipping and sliding seems to mean ‘only going in one direction at all times, with no ability to stop themselves’. Less unfortunately, there does seem to be a way out of this.

4. Goal
Incidentally, this small, yellow section of the map is your-- well, goal! Located in the center (sort of) of the labyrinth itself, a nondescript wooden door leads into a room that’s seemingly safe to hang out in, at which point, characters will have the option to select from a series of pedestals with the words choose one inscribed upon them. For those looking to RNG:

1. Very worthwhile*
2. Not even remotely worthwhile.
3. Sans probably left this here
4. Pretty standard for an ancient labyrinth, honestly

*Please note that very worthwhile is not, and will not be David Bowie. It’s just not happening, I’m sorry.

Comments

Questions, Queries and Concerns!

[solravehmods]

[helborn]

But why not David Bowie. 8(

[generalflirt]

What about David Bowie's ball thing from the movie?

[oldschoolghostbuster]

But what if someone apped the goblin king? Would Bowie then be a prize?

[incendiarize]

1) Given you've provided us a map, should I assume the maze's layout is static and can be mapped ICly?

2) How much of a brat move would it be if Arthur wanted to tackle it multiple times...

[helborn]

More seriously - will the Sphinx's riddles be the classic ones (like the "four legs in the morning, two at noon, three at evening" sort) or something else?

[heritrix]

MY DEAREST MODS

Would it be possible to nominate some fine warriors and mighty hounds for the skeleton war? ...A-And maybe also their pet liopleurodon? >>

[souldeterminant]

on a scale of yes to heck yes







how dateable are these monsters

[hollower]

Considering Perona's powers make it so she, in her ghost form, can pass through walls - as well as the ghosts she creates doing the same and covering a wide area - I want to know if that'd be nerfed? I'm assuming yes because giving her such a huge advantage is absolutely no fun at all to myself and others involved, but she'd still try, lol.

Also how dampened would her powers be? IE: not able to use them at all, use only for attack and defense on monsters, etc.

Re: Questions, Queries and Concerns!

[notsoitsybitsyspider]

Question. For arachne, can she walk on the walls, as well as her spiders? and maybe have her spiders go through cracks?

For Phoebe, Can her ghosts pass through any walls?

FOr Nico Robin, Can she use her devil fruit to sprout Hands and eyes to get better views around corners or other places she herself cannot reach?

Prizes!

[solravehmods]

Once the log has gone up, place a link to your parties' thread here, and select what style of prize you'd like to receive!

[generalflirt]

I'd love to collect a group of two other people (so a total of three*) in order to to brave the maze with Masaomi. These do not, necessarily, need to be people he always knows because I'm open to new CR for this. They can either meet up in there or set out together, but he himself would lean towards not going down unless he was in at least a team of two, if you want to follow internal logic.

So any takers? He's a moderately competent Pokémon Trainer / former gang leader / trainee ninja... ish.

* - I'm open to doing this one on one in a two man team thing or more than three, but three people seems like the ideal group in terms of practical threading to me could be four or five or whatever tho too.

EDIT2: Also open to temporary team up things too.

[incendiarize]

Given Arthur is from Mapping Mazes: The Game, he's running headlong into this thing, paper and pen in hand. His own world's labyrinths are significantly more dangerous, but he's not going in knowing what to expect, so his ideal party is five people with varied and balanced skill sets. He'd be willing to go in a party of three, though, if they had the right skills.

He provides he squishy mage type, so he'd absolutely want a healer/fighter and a tank.

But no seriously come map the maze with him he will be all over this.

OH YEAH and Fubuki would be interested, too. He's basically a cryokinetic soccer player? He's not as gung-ho about it as Arthur, though, and would be more party member than LET'S DO THE THING.

[helborn]

Casper is absolutely for this and will be in favor of the varied party because he's played video games, okay.

He's a dex-based fighter but will absolutely tank for people since he can heal (himself, though not other people).

[generalflirt]

So you offered Fubuki for a plot for me before I ended up having other plans and I feel bad for that do you want to do something now?

[achievementhunter]

Chara: I'm gonna do the thing.
Everyone else: No.
Chara: I'm gonna do the thing.
Everyone else, quieter this time: No.

Which is to say lol who needs a partner to go in a scary labyrinth full of scary traps and puzzles? Chara is going to elect to go alone, but of course, they won't be adverse to teaming up if they stumble upon someone else along the way.

And not because they're lost. No sir. Whatever would give you that impression?

[everyonecanbekind]

DATE!! DATE!! DATE!!!



(but really though, Pap wants to hang with the tiny fan club president. If you'll have him. ♥)

[ishotyouuu]

please help Wade he's lost /)_(\

[blackblooded]

okay so

clearly chara needs to wind up running into crona and ragnarok in the maze at some point. nobody is lost here. yep.

I require sacrific-- I mean volunteers

[concasse]

So because I haven't made fun of Sanji in a long while and that can't stand, he's going to flirt with the sphinx the moment he finds her, piss the creature off, and then get teleported multiple times all over the maze. SUCKS TO BE U, BRO.

Eventually she'll get tired of toying with him (or someone can just defeat her), BUT UNTIL THAT POINT. Anyone up for a random Sanji cameo? 8D No need for established CR! This random jackass will just pop into your thread for a few comments before he's whisked off again.

Make my dreams come true, guys.

Re: I require sacrific-- I mean volunteers

[incendiarize]

please

[mamaterasu]

Still debating on who exactly of my three girls are going, but Ammy here is definitely one of them!! I'd like to keep all my group of no more than 3 characters (including mine) so keep that in mind, please. Ammy can either join another group (she tends to wander a lot on her own) as needed or someone can join and follow her, I'm open to anything!

As for the other two, Perona and Norma respectively, Perona...will probably try to make friends with the "cuter" monsters like the minotaur and sphinx. This may or may not land her in a bad spot, so help from other characters (or general head tilting) is welcome and encouraged!

Norma will probably just need a meat shield. 8|b She's a mage-class, she's squishy and needs someone to distract the beasties while she casts. Also she might leave someone behind if they don't have deep CR and beeline for the goal. EYES ON THE PRIZE.

[idmapthat]

Nami is a smart navigator, and will utilize the 'put your hand on the wall to your right and follow it until you reach the center' trick. This means she will run into a few encounters. Will you:

> Watch or help/hinder Nami as she throws a fit over the overly complex multicolor tile puzzle
> Slide helplessly on ice or compete in a race with a giant rolling boulder along with her
> Let her help your character defeat the topsy-turvy puzzle with her keen sense of direction
> Encounter some kind of monster (or several)? Honestly I could work with anything here.

I'm open to previous or new CR! Nami is more likely to go slapstick with a side of seriousness as this is how One Piece rolls anyway. Nami is not above forging her own path unless crewmates are involved (and even then...) so I can go with group stuff or one on one. For groups, I think no more than 3 is a good number!

[generalflirt]

Let's do something together, please. Lot of milage there.

[bigman]

Okay, okay, okay... I want to play. I really do. Hunk on the other hand needs convincing. And I'm not seeing any of my Voltrons up here yet (LANCE! Allura! Where are you two, Hunk knows you'd both do this kind of idiot move). WOULD ANYONE BE WILLING TO TAKE A HUNK WITH THEM!? He's curious (like a cat) but not going in there if he can help it, which means I just need someone how's like "come with me, i need halp." and he will be like "this is a dumb idea and I never should have looked but someone should go with you so here we go" yes.

This is what he gets for going exploring at last. He doesn't like it. This is a terrible idea. He's leaving now.

[mamaterasu]

If you're up for it, I would love to get CR with Hunk!! He was among my favorites when I watched Voltron, and I think Ammy would adore him as well (she adores nearly everyone). Come follow your faithful doge companion, Hunk, she'll pee on your enemies.





No really, it's a weapon in her canon.

[metempsychic]

LINK will probably want to go exploring and, being a Link, weird labyrinthine monster-infested puzzle things are totally his jam, man.

Let me know if anyone would like a Big Damn Hero accompanying them, valiantly leading the way with sword in hand despite the fact that, you know, he should probably still be regaining his strength in the infirmary.

[majestygate]

Late to this but I'm planning on throwing a certain blond king in to this mess. I'll make it an OTA but I'm all for Link coming across him! :D

[everyonecanbekind]

PAPYRUS WILL BE YELLING AT THE NAKED SKELETONS!!!

WHY ARE THEY NAKED!!!

WHY DO THEY NOT HAVE CLOTHINGS!!!!

ALSO HE IS GENERALLY GOING TO BE WANDERING BECAUSE I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH HIM YET. I welcome all friends. ♥

[ishotyouuu]

possible future brother-in-law talk plz?