==> Embark.

[ar0se]

INSOLITUS

[It's Friday, of course. Totally Friday! We're not late. And that means it's time for the Insolitus expedition to begin.

Game grub: check.
Supplies: check.
Sweet costumes: check.
Dice: check.

Let's get this show on the road.]

SECTIONS:
- Day 1: Mingling ==> Beginning the Adventure
- Day 2: In which minor complications arise
- Day 3:

Comments

Day 2 - GAME ON.....

[ar0se]

[The tunnels are getting pretty narrow and numerous by now. Perhaps you'd get more accurate results if you split up into smaller groups...

The monsters get bigger and tougher the further you descend into the Insolitus. Where before they were Imp-sized and kind of cute, the new ones are roughly human-sized and a little bit menacing. Horns and claws and sharp pointy teeth and all that. Some bear a striking resemblance to... rabbits? They also bear striking implements. Some bear bears.

... They're still kind of cute, if you're into flickering, shadowy, semi-solid projections of five-foot-tall creepy bunnies. Flarpers may notice the fights getting more challenging and the loot getting more phat. They should also hit level 2 sometime today, with much fanfare.

Non-Flarpers may notice the monsters eyeballing them, even beginning to approach and then changing course a second later...

Oh, and Flarping or not, hope you're not running out of food already. There's still quite a ways to go.]

[derpling]

[Up to bat is the Rainbow Gatekeeper herself, tossing out a gigantic pile of dice onto the floor. They come in multiple sides and, of course, a rainbow assortment of colors.

7d4 = 3 + 4 + 2 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 = 19
14d6 = 6 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 5 + 3 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 = 41
6d8 = 2 + 2 + 8 + 2 + 4 + 1 = 19
5d12 = 10 + 4 + 4 + 7 + 6 = 31
2d10 = 10 + 8 = 18
4d20 = 20 + 14 + 13 + 4 = 51
1d100% = 90%
1d9/+9 = +5
1d9/9 = 9
Magic 8 Ball Answer Die Says = Rely On It

Oh, also she threw a blue gem cut like a diamond, but she's Meiling, what did you expect? After all the numbers tally she gives a huge SWOOSH of her mighty sword at the monsters, a spray of bullets following it.]

JAOOOOOOOOOOOOO~

[bostrumite]

[It took Gibson a while to get the hang of his new abilities as a "LIGHTSHAFT ARCSMAN", and his outfit definitely had too much glowy circuitry on it to be camoflage--but hey, it was the only class that would let him keep his green coloring and his hood, so it was the obvious choice. Besides, all Grid programs were trained in ranged combat, even if it was with frisbees identity discs.

Over a hundred cycles of fighting Gridbugs was definitely coming in handy here.]

[teds_up]

Wait, come back a little over here-- that's good, perfect.

[totally ignoring the fact Gibson is fighting somewhat dangerous monsters and working on this map hurr]

[bostrumite]

Careful! Some of these things spit, you know.

[He tries to juggle fighting a few enemies with moving into position, which is obviously for something super critical. Right?]

[teds_up]

Yeah, yeah. [Engrossed in his map-making.] Gibson, stop moving around so much!

[bostrumite]

[He is acatually literally running on the walls here.]

Hey, you want to take care of these [zing zing, go light arrows!] monsters here while I draw, be my guest!

[teds_up]

And you wonder why I didn't join the game.

Anyway, looks like I got this area all mapped out. [Finally looks up.]

[bostrumite]

[Yeah there are a bunch of bat-things rushing straight towards you.

Luckily they get light-arrowed before they get too close.]

[teds_up]

ACK! [Ted throws his arms up in defense, his pencil going flying. When he hears the sounds, he slowly lowers his arms.]

I told you they'd malfunction! ...augh, where'd my pencil go?

[bostrumite]

They're supposed to do that, I think.

[And they drop little "gold", too, so Gibson grabs it before looking around for the pencil.]

Rolled backwards, maybe?

[peroxicide]

[ Hey, what's going on in this thread? Some glowy douchenozzle, and-- oho. He knows that bastard.

Excuse him as he whips out his sickle and stalks forward. Watch out, glowy douchebag! A monster! ]

[teds_up]

I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to fly at you're face when you're not in the game.

[Ted searches the floor meticulously for the pencil. Upon finding it, he smiles and grabs it up.]

Here it is!

[Then he starts a little when he realize that there's someone in front of him. Someone familiar..]

Oh, it's you.

[bostrumite]

[Hey, this one is green. You must be thinking of one of the other glowy douchenozzles (there are certainly enough of them).

He doesn't immediately shoot though, because this one looks enough like Aradia that he must be another resident.]

[peroxicide]

[ One douchenozzle is much like another, in his eyes. He stalks forward some more until spotted, then--

WHOCK! Handle of the sickle, right above Ted's eyesocket, good and hard. ]

[teds_up]

[Ted cries out, stumbling backward and falling right on his butt. His hands come up and hover against his head, one eye wincing.]

What the fuck?!