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So who are you to be here, weatherworn and dusty? A traveller, a tinker, a tradesman, a troubador, a tourist or perhaps a mere mysterious stranger roving outlands and outposts for specks of news?

And if not a mysterious wanderer or traveller, maybe a sandblown seeker with a secret of their own? Plundered scraps of knowledge from old ruins, artefacts and pieces hidden in pockets deep.

Well; we all have our little quirks. Something just yours away from the prying eyes of the world is a fine thing to have.

[ Name ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 [+1, of choice]
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

>>3243433
"This is a dream, right? I'm still asleep, aren't I? (No.)"
>+1Sense

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

>>3243433

> "Hmph..."

[ Nobody ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

>>3243433
what...
Where’s my salt and torch and spear?
This isn’t right. This really isn’t right.

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

>>3243479
Almost certainly, sadly, not so.

>>3243495
Lost, little Lantern, like everything else devoured by the Hungering Dark

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran
Sac2 | Nobody
Sac3 | Scrytzk
==Lost==

The waking world comes in fits and flickers, illusive, dripping in the slow treacle-flow of ancient water that licks Parans boots. This place is not home, it clings heavy with the scars of other times. The rocks are pocked and pitted with violent intent.

" Aaaaaah "

" Little flicker friends! Awake to see and know and tasteeee.

Trade a boon, trade a secret, flicker friends. The Dux is hungry. Share a blessing!

The Dux will not be hungry long "

" The others were . . . not so sporting. Shame shame shame. Friends? They rest safe. Their souls are here. With us. "

She talks a lot for a woman wearing a headband made of dry cloth and a bow that has seen better days, ribs visible at a glance beneath the layers of tatter-cloak. The Wellfed Dux keeps a flock of famished friends.

We should find a way out of here. The deeper passage carries a low rustling river of sound, many legs striking surfaces rough - a tidal wave rushing close.

[ Feel free to act. Directions are as indicated. Moving as many tiles as your Speed consumes 1 Alacrity. Climbing, however, would require better gear than bare hands and desperation. ]

Rolled 12, 85, 72, 57, 32, 77 = 335 (6d100)

>>3243596
>1Al: Move 2
>4Al: Search the Stalagmite spikes 2ward
>2Al: Examine the Guard above
>2Al: Dive for cover, reaction
"Share? Trade? Are we friends? (Again, No.)"

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 87, 77, 16, 92, 97, 4 = 373 (6d100)

>>3243596
>move 4555 (3al)
>examine corpse (6al)
These wounds...
C...couldn’t have been weapons. Oh, no...

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
Sac2 | Nobody | H2
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
==Lost==

Savenging hands find odd surplus in old place even if the finds are watermarked and ageworn. A jagged rock is easy to pry from the rocks as Paran raises, and more are potentially freeable with deft fingers. The Guard looks unconcerned with our increase in armaments. Perhaps they have seen this sort of thing before. Their weapons look homeforged and more sturdy than "sharp".

>You found a source of Jagged Rocks!

The corpses dot the ground in a exhibition the violent ways to dismember the hominid species. Most are torn apart, as if a great force burst from their chests and felt ribs, cartilage and skeletal muscle was no impediment at all to some cataclysmic final drawing of breath. The one at Scryetzk feet have, unlike all others, a single small knife clenched half in hand.

Quick eye dart compare.

Hm.

No... Not a knife to make these wounds. Not unless it was ten times the size and much, much coarser the edge.

>That Corpse Has A Knife!

And a room, in which a twisted structure of rock collect the out of ages, water, with a curious sheen and handprints marching in line all around it.

Paran notices the Guard above shifts, just so, as Scrytzk draws closer to the opening of the alcove.

some odd scuttling grows closer

perhaps some water-tinged passage out of this place can be found?

Rolled 22, 92, 47, 14 = 175 (4d100)

>>3243730
>-Be 1 step 8ward
>4Al: Gather vines from the wall 8/7
>4Al: Move 433 344
>1Al: React with Dodge

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
Sac2 | Nobody | H2
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
==Lost==

Greedvine grows in all the places one does not expect, sustaining nourishment from fickle sources and always - always - cling tighter to the wall than the gardener would prefer. It makes good rope and better binding. Some of it has been consumed by the construction of the woodgate, others, spun carefully into bowstring.

As a heap, it might need some encouragement.

>3xGreedvine! [ Rope, Length 2 ]

An blooming scent of iron fills the air.

The Guards lean forward excitedly.

What do we do?

[ Lost Phase ]

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>Let's try that again

Rolled 86, 88, 24, 18, 73, 5, 82, 7, 65 = 448 (9d100)

>>3243801
>>3243854
"I truly must be dreaming, for a moment I... (Focus!)"
>9Al: Combine 3×Greedvine to create Greedy Lasso

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Greedvine, Rope, 2L (×3)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 91, 28, 69, 38, 78, 59 = 363 (6d100)

>>3243854
>palm knife (1al)
B...better me than you, fellow.
>move 43
>examine dripping water (6al)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
Sac2 | Nobody | H2
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
==Lost==

Without avarice, how would one man start an empire and two a war?

>Paran fashions a Greedy Lasso!
>Greedy Lasso [Rope]. Length 3. Captures. 10 HP.
>Paran learns. . . To Solve! Gain Solve 1, as an Intention.

Something scuttles in the dark. And comes closer...

[ Lost Phase ]

If only ... things were clearer. What is this place? Who are those people - are... are the corpses wearing the same uniforms as us? Everything is... blurry, wrapped in layers of pain

Roight.

>>3243893

Jove
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 58, 77, 42, 32, 23, 6, 84, 90, 89, 33, 18, 26 = 578 (12d100)

>>3243893
>1Al: move 6
>7Al: Lasso the Tattered Archer
>Push! 4
>5Al: Pull.
"Time for you to come down (or me, up)!"

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Greedy Lasso, Rope, 3L, Captures, 10Hp
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 4

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

>>3243891
The knife weighs well in hand. A solid weapon, well crafted. Cared for by a fond owner.

Hungry.

Service Knife [Knife]
1 + .5 Harm, Cuts
10% Bleed
Crit >2 Punctures

A symbol on the hilt sparks some shimmer of recognition but it... it? We--- We--- needed courage to hold and will to stand against them, but... but what?

No, it's still lost.

The water flows in from some unseen seam in the high rocky sky, far above. This pit is grand, in a kind of rustic bloodstained majestic. Jagged teeth meet your eyes. They look precariously close to falling.

Hm! An oddity. The *here* is nothing at all like the water in that basin over there. Less... solid.

[ Act again, if you like ]

>>3243914
There is a dot in the centre compass - you may act freely from there.

Rolled 47, 63 = 110 (2d100)

"S'is, then?"

>>3243893
>Move 5444 466
>(2) look at birdbath

Jove
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 17, 75, 46, 87, 21, 47, 43 = 336 (7d100)

>>3243918
Uhuh?
>move 77
>examine basin (7al)

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
Sac2 | Nobody | H2
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

Someone falls to their death. An instructive lesson in the applications of greed. The pit fills with the bouncing laughter of watching souls. They don't very dismayed at the lack of a speaker. Some lean forward, excited, expecting, exuberant at some... something.

The Basin is old stone, dripped from the high ceiling through an age and then another but around is lies the arts and craft display of a gaggle of lunatic kidnappers for all the world to see, hands and hands again in palm print blood against the rough stone. But the Basin itself.

It is worked to a ludicrous degree. Tiny faces spiral in the seam of the rock, the drips turn into ants, small villages erupt down one long flowing strand of frozen rock. And did that one creature blink? No. Stone doesn't do this. The water in the Basin is opaque, if the bottom was very far away indeed. It smells fresh and tiny whorls dance across surface. One could drink this.

Almost surely without side-effect.

[ Environment Phase ]

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
Sac2 | Nobody | H2
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

From the passage boils a creature more capricious killing instinct than actual animal.

The fools keep a pet Spitescorp. Perhaps they have fed it, gorged it, on the fallen and the felled. Pitiful. Spitescorps aren't known for loyalty, even if some can be trained in a good mockery of it.

[ Lost Phase ]

>>3244067
That's... That's big.
uh. um.
This is almost certainly a bad idea.
>drink from basin
This tastes like...

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 94, 71, 33, 7, 88, 10, 74, 32, 71 = 480 (9d100)

>>3244121
all the wonders in the universe and just the aftertaste of small death

Rolled 76, 88, 19, 16, 92, 99 = 390 (6d100)

"'Ave us a ramp up in 'alf a mo."

>>3244067
>Move 2222 2
>(6) Push 2, Take Whip, disrobe and combine flowing cloth and whip into longer rope-like

Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13 (Fatigue 2)
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

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>>3244148
>>3244121
here is a physiological facts for the research annals of some intrepid scholar

the throat can liquid pain while the tongue is shattering ice and yet, something, somehow, can be all the sweetest ambrosia in the world.

Something nestles in your stomach, in your soul. And the Basin is a little less . . . different. Carved villages emptied of odd, rocky life.

>You Gain A Secret

>>3244067
>-give >>3244153 Greedy Lasso (Which is Not a Whip)
>2Al: Move 55
>2Al: Aquire Bow and Arrows
>1Al: Aquire Tattered (Bloodied) Cloak
>1Al: Move 32
>Catch Breath! 3Al
"You want to use my lasso? (Never!) Ok? But why? (Theft)"

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Greedy Lasso, Rope, 3L, Captures, 10Hp
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

>>3244169
"Ain't need yers."

>notices that the dropped bow is not in fact a bunched-up whip

"Need yers."

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
Sac2 | Nobody | H2
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

Under the assault of an unseen wind, Scryetzk stumbles as the Basin drains, dries, almost cracks in two.

Up in the edge of the pit one of the guards run a hand across the hilt of their blade. They look . . . displeased at our apostasy.

so be it, then.

They have no Right and we---

[ Environment Phase ]

>>3244067
>>3244164
That was a better idea than expected.
Uh.
>-AL left: 8
>move 233 432 222 22 (8AL)
Distance, friends. I'm gonna try to knock on the gate.

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

==Secrets==
Wrenchwind
-Success = Generate Spark at Reach 1 (Trade [AL] for +reach)
-Harm pushes, resist buffers, sense finds/hides
-Can chain

>>3244195
AL left = 0.

>>3244148
Spent not to die.

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

the Spitescorp lashes out - blood sprays. A guard lets out a long, lingering holler of joy, a whoop.

Bastard.

Enough of us have died here for this. More should not fall when we are this close to the goal, this near within reach. If we could only... only... no. What happened last night?

[ Lost Phase! ]

>>3244153
Fashioned by rough hands and the cloth of necessity, four lengths of reinforced greedvine rope you now possess.

Your dangling nudity one hopes causes no offence within this pit, even the temperature is hardly hospitable to the natural state of man.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>3244222
Is this what normal basinwater does?
Prob... probably not.
>move 233 432 222 22 (8AL)
What manner of shoddy construction is this?
>examine gate (1AL)
No matter. It... should... fall to the thunder.

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

==Secrets==
Wrenchwind
-Success - Generate Spark at Reach 1 (Trade [AL] for +reach)
-Harm pushes, resist buffers, sense finds/hides
-Can chain

Rolled 15, 64, 37, 54, 29, 97, 23, 34, 29 = 382 (9d100)

"Steady as she goes."

>>3244222
>(9) Block-and-tackle supports of the wooden platform together and pull

Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 30, 89, 3, 70, 81 = 273 (5d100)

>>3244222
>2Al: Assist Jove's knotwork (>>3244251)
>3Al: Move 434 5
>1Al: Aquire Stick? Torch? from 6
>3Al: Wash Tattered Cloak in Basin 2

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body: Tattered (Bloody) Cloak
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Stolen Bow
-#Also Arrows
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

With strain and travails we may be able to bring down this edifice and--

yet, it seems, it is remarkably sturdy. 6 Strength will not do to destroy both pillars. But it wobbles. Perhaps just a bit more and we can have our way!

[ Each Pillar has 10 HP. You have done 6 effective Pull. You require another 14 ]

>>3244243
This wretched gate is of sturdy construction and new wood, not yet dotted with the rot of water or age. Cut with rough axes but tiny critters still eke out a living in the remnants of their home. Is there some fantastic forest nearby to log for all this? Did we come from there? Perhaps... Perhaps we were looking for...

[ Environment Phase ]

A guard wanders off.
Another pulls a small jar from stained clothes and flings it into the Pit, expectant. Punguent odour boils from the smashed pottery. The Spitescorp, detects the thing it hates as much more than mere flesh-tainted mammals: a spitescorp loyal to a competing imposter-Queen. It clicks closer, sensory feelers swinging.

Paran wanders over to a small isolated area and finds something odd - a collection of jagged spearheads attached roughly to thin lengths of wood. Perhaps the Guards meant to allow their prisoners some valiant attempt at dying for their amusement?

>You are running out of storage space . . .
> Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!

Washing the tattered cloak in the basin has no effect. Well, other than the tattered cloaks soaks in some oddly inky water. It does little for its disposition.

[ Lost Phase! ]

Rolled 54, 66, 43 = 163 (3d100)

>>3244334
>1Al: Don Tattered (Soaked) Cloak
>1Al: Move 7
>3Al: Toss Rough Spear to Jove
"For Leverage? (Or self-defense)"
>4Al: Ready a Shot at the Spitescorp when it comes in...Range?

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body: Tattered (Bloody) Cloak
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Stolen Bow
-#Also Arrows
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 41, 46, 26, 62, 2, 97, 20, 12, 71 = 377 (9d100)

>>3244334
And-a-one-and-a
>generate spark; push down gate (9AL)
TWO!

If... if the gate is really as sturdy as it looks, I'll help pull down the pillars.
Alright?

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

==Secrets==
Wrenchwind
-Success - Generate Spark at Reach 1 (Trade [AL] for +reach)
-Harm pushes, resist buffers, sense finds/hides
-Can chain

>>3244251
Visibility:>>3244384

Rolled 27, 4, 39, 92, 27, 16, 93, 63, 81 = 442 (9d100)

>>3244334
>9 pull more!

Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13 (2 fatigue)
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

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Rolled 5, 31, 50 = 86 (3d100)

==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

With enough force surely you can change even the most recalcitrant wood.

>>3244384
your spinal cord tingles, wrapped, as it is, in starlight contaminated by something as mundane as fabric.

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

The Spitescorp moves close with taste of mammal meat in the air and then lunges for Jove exposed back and heaving trapezius on full display. It rakes deadly claws across the skin!

>You take damage. You take 1 Stun. You have less Alacrity this turn.
>You also have 2 Wounds, 2 Fatigue and 2 Misfortune.

In response, Pharan flicks off a quick shot with the Scragbows rough arrows. If we fling enough arrows perhaps the words of the wind will come easier.

>Scragbow. 1+ .25Harm +Projectile. 4+Sense Range.
>9xRough Arrows. 1d. 10% Bleed.

A guard seeing the end approach for what might be a fond tower in which to watch the dismemberment of the helpess drops a rock on Jove. It does little. The woods creaks and shudders.

[ Lost Phase ]

Rolled 97, 49, 71, 30, 82, 27, 14, 20, 22, 11 = 423 (10d100)

>>3244458
>push 3AL
-and-a-three-and-a
>add +2 reach, generate spark (10AL), push pillar
FOUR!
Just... knock down the pillar. Okay.

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 3

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

==Secrets==
Wrenchwind
-Success - Generate Spark at Reach 1 (Trade [AL] for +reach)
-Harm pushes, resist buffers, sense finds/hides
-Can chain

Rolled 98, 49, 28, 68, 46, 19, 21, 11 = 340 (8d100)

"Feck off, 'm busy!"

>>3244458
>1 Stun
>8 pull, keep moving 6-ward if supports fall

Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13 (2W, 2F, 2M)
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

Rolled 75, 18, 16, 97, 93, 16, 56, 46, 57 = 474 (9d100)

>>3244458
>4Al: Shoot Spitescorp again
>5Al: Convince Starlight that this is not (only) mundane fabric, but (also) a history of violence, misfortune, and opportunity grasped.
>Push! 2
>2Al: React- Take cover

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body: Tattered (Soaked) Cloak
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Scragbow.1+.25Harm+Projectile, Rng4+Sense
-#Rough Arrows. 1d, 10%Bleed (×8)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_12.png (1.45 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

With a mighty wrenching of muscle and a soft sussuration of a sudden wind, wood breaks and shatters and bends before the assault! They deserve, the Second Sky, in their hidden homes and deep holes. If they knew what . . . what happened last?

Jove stumbles back as the greedwine slackens and and the gate rises upwards as the stone counterweight shifts. With a snapping rip the terrace tears from the upper floors, one confused Guard grabbing the railing --

But in the confusion, as Jove steps into the path of arrow, he takes a mortal shot.

>Achh, such pain! 2 Pain! 4 Wounds!

The Spitescorp flecks six of its eighteen eyes towards the falling wood and chitters an entirely too pleased sound.

[ environmental collapse phase ]

File: ThePit_13.png (1.48 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
>Sac3 | Scrytzk | Prey.
Sac4 | Jove | R2
==Lost==

Sharp wooden fragments fly like fletchettes and flense like acid rain. Paran ducks beneath the storm but poor naked Jove takes the worst of it at buck shot point blank range and then the claws.

Blood squirts. The heart is still.

>>3244542
Was this cloak always dark? And. . . why won't it come off?

--

The gate tears open as the heavy stone finally comes to rest and the bladed guards beyond pour in to restore predictability to their arena. Scrytzk takes the sting of angry blades. Roughened, they don't cut very deep.

>4 Wounds! 2 Pain!

[ Lost Phase ]

File: ShadowCloak.png (195 KB, 1505x1288)

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>>3244542
Cloying, sickening stuff that feeds on misfortune.

Rolled 8, 61, 57, 3 = 129 (4d100)

>>3244651
Not dead yet.
I think.
>stab with service knife at 2 (4AL)
>move 65
>react with dodge (3AL)
Paran! Cover me! There's one-two... three of them!

[ Scryetzk ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 3

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

==Secrets==
Wrenchwind
-Success - Generate Spark at Reach 1 (Trade [AL] for +reach)
-Harm pushes, resist buffers, sense finds/hides
-Can chain

>>3244689
Misfortune fell on other shoulders. Alas.

File: ThePit_14.png (1.45 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
>Sac4 | Jove | Prey
==Lost==

Scrytzk lashes out deftly with the service blade, carving a gouge clean through the old weave the Guard wears. He spits a quick curse of pain and stumbles.

[ Environment Phase ]

File: ThePit_15.png (1.45 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
>Sac3 | Scrytzk | Prey
>Sac4 | Jove | Prey
==Lost==

We may never get out of here.

high above, Pharan spots the jagged teeth of hundreds of hanging rocks, ready to drop. But they are just beyond reach of a simple bow . . .

[ Lost Phase ]

Rolled 70, 41, 72, 37, 92 = 312 (5d100)

>>3244779
>1Al: Move 6
>2Al: use wall 6 to vault over spikes to 7
>4Al: Move 788 881
>Push! 3
>5Al: Mount Spitescorp at base of tail, inside minimum strike angle.

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body: ShadowCloak
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling] (×2)
#Scragbow.1+.25Harm+Projectile, Rng4+Sense
-#Rough Arrows. 1d, 10%Bleed (×7)
{Scavenger 1}
{Shadowcloak} 1.5×Ef Flanking, 2×Ef Surprising, 4Light->1Recovery
==Condition==
Fatigue! 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_16.png (1.45 MB, 2381x1581)

1.45 MB PNG

==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
Sac3 | Scrytzk | R2
>Sac4 | Jove | Prey
==Lost==

The slick carapace of the Spritescorp offers scant handholds, especially when our hands are as occupied as they are. Paran quicky decides to:

>Discard their rock?
>Discard their bow?

The Spitescorp munches away on Jove. It is good to know that our metabolic byproduct will be recycled into the maw of a thousand voracious young. And then.

An intruder in soveriegn soil. It buckles and bends. Paran holds on.

[ Paran Phase ]

Rolled 94, 62, 10, 72, 77, 88, 94 = 497 (7d100)

>>3244894
>-Discard rocks
>7Al: Hold on to Spitescorp (bronco), and self (who?).
>Catch Breath! 2

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body: ShadowCloak
#Spite
#Scragbow.1+.25Harm+Projectile, Rng4+Sense
-#Rough Arrows. 1d, 10%Bleed (×7)
{Scavenger 1}
{Shadowcloak} 1.5×Ef Flanking, 2×Ef Surprising, 4Light->1Recovery
==Condition==
Fatigue! 6

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_17.png (1.48 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
>Sac3 | Scrytzk | Prey.
>Sac4 | Jove | Prey.
==Lost==

Sometimes all one can do is hold on as the world blurs to maddening speed by a mount who would rather brain itself against a wall than let a monkey-kin, mono-heart dependent creature climb upon its majestic shell.

Paran retains their grip. Barely.

The Spitescorp should have a concussion if the ichor-stained cracks in the rockface is a judge. Yet, Spitescorps have resilient nervous systems. It takes hardy substrate to sustain ire.

[ Paran Phase ]

Rolled 78, 32, 4, 36, 12, 47, 18, 35 = 262 (8d100)

>>3244942
>8Al: Keep on holding on
>1Al: {Shadowcloak} Convert 4Light to 1Recovery on Spitescorp
"Whhhhyyyy (Why Not.)?!"

[ Paran Theses ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body: ShadowCloak
#Spite
#Scragbow.1+.25Harm+Projectile, Rng4+Sense
-#Rough Arrows. 1d, 10%Bleed (×7)
{Scavenger 1}
{Shadowcloak} 1.5×Ef Flanking, 2×Ef Surprising, 4Light->1Recovery
==Condition==
Fatigue! 6

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick & The Dead
!Jinx
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_18.png (1.56 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Paran | S2
>Sac2 | Nobody | Prey.
>Sac3 | Scrytzk | Prey.
>Sac4 | Jove | Prey.
==Lost==

Ah. The Pit does not contain something that eats us. Merely something that eats Spitescorps.

--

The archers arranged begin taking aim.

[ Environment Phase ]

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. . . The soft drip of old water leaks in and with, the awareness to take in older stone and dry wood in haphazard erection by the mad or those lacking such oversight as engineers might bring...

. . . this place smells of fresh blood and spilled ichor. . .

fin

Thanks for playing!

>>3245021
"Oh sh-!! (Well, that could've gone better. Maybe the next one?)"

>>3245044
>thanks for running!

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So who are you to be here, weatherworn and dusty? A traveller, a tinker, a tradesman, a troubador, a tourist or perhaps a mere mysterious stranger roving outlands and outposts for specks of news?

And if not a mysterious wanderer or traveller, maybe a sandblown seeker with a secret of their own? Plundered scraps of knowledge from old ruins, artefacts and pieces hidden in pockets deep.

Well; we all have our little quirks. Something just yours away from the prying eyes of the world is a fine thing to have.

[ Name ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1 [+1, of choice]
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248007
Didn't we just...
>knives!
No, must've been a nightmare.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 13
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Jinx
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248007
"Gah....head covered in...water? No...that's red and that's not good."
>Add intent to Harm

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1 [+1, of choice]
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248007
"Hello. Yes. I am here. (Are you?)"
>+1Solve

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_1.png (1.75 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
==Lost==

The gentle drip of time and age and time again, through strange paths in old rocks to find newer sights or be the nourishing thirst-quencher of a wandering beetle.

yes this feeling Scarf knows. Can relate to the rock and the water and the beetle. Feels like one, sometimes. In the secret soul. Or that is gravity taking its inexorable course.

oh

Scarf senses you are awake!

Hello!

Have you woken to trade and barter scrap and secret with Scarf, the most magnanimous merchant in the land? Some difficulty presents itself to your fond dreams of enterprise that Scarf assuredly assumes you have! Yes, new friend, Scarf is sad to say that today Scarf is like the humble insect!

A great god has kicked over the nest and rooted through the precious innards and, also, tied Scarf up.

time to consider the ways of the world is grand in such abundance as Scarfs interlocutors have provided

Yet one hangs on a fact:

little gouges in the rock is not from feet
where did our pitifull captors go? Some must be here to jeer, and yet, no. And here was Scarf alone with a sea of corpses.

[ Lost phase ]

Rolled 2, 65, 8, 86, 64, 62, 46, 6 = 339 (8d100)

>>3248142
"Doesn't seem to be my blood, plenty of it though...Focus Silas! You've been in worse jams than waking up naked in a pit of corpses. If I take these vines maybe I can lasso something and climb out."
>Push for 1 Al
>2Al: Move 8-1
>4Al: Search the body 5 of me
>4Al: Harm with my jagged rock to gather some of the vines 1

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue: 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248142
>3Al: move 554 3
>2Al: Climb Spiky Stalagmites up to reach scarf
>2Al: Climb Scarf
>2Al: Swing 2/6

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248211
>move 544 444 443 22 (8AL)
You seem oddly familiar.
>loot knife
I'll need this, though.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_2.png (1.75 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
==Lost==

ah hello
is that hand meant to go there? that is one of Scarfs more private pockets, new friend

--

>>3248228

Service Knife [Knife]
1 + .5 Harm, Cuts
10% Bleed
Crit >2 Punctures

What a sharp boon to find in such a place!

>>3248227
This poor man was taken from behind by a creature four times the size and murderous, pallid skin shining through with the stains of deep burn toxins. He has nothing of use unless one can think of a grisly design for the carcass . . .

but the greedvine is a bounty. Long, strong and verdant.

>You have found 2 Lenghts of Greedvine!
>Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.

[ Lost Phase ]

>>3248296
Wait, what's...
Paran? Are you sure that's a good idea?
>move 6677
>react: prepare to catch Paran if he falls off (5AL)
Just don't break your neck, alright?

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248227
"You're mad, but if you make it up on that walkway I'll throw you my rope. You can find a place up there to tie it down."
>>3248296
"There we go...now to find a point to use it on."
>7Al: Move 544, 444, 4
>1Al: Catch Breath for 1 Fatigue

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
2 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 32, 20, 84, 12, 61, 6 = 215 (6d100)

>>3248296
"(Friend? Truly?) Yes. Hello. I am Paran. Be ready."
>3Al: Swing more
>3Al: Slide down to land on Platform when in reach
3Al: Maintain hold on Scarf's scarf

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_3.png (1.82 MB, 2381x1581)

1.82 MB PNG

==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
==Lost==

excuse as Scarf pauses inner narration. The wood is in my mouth and my airway deliciously constrained.

[ Lost Phase ]

>>3248527
>3Al: Haul Scarf up to Platform
>3Al: Prepare to catch Rope
>3Al: Assist rope climbers
>>3248416
(Mad, is it?) Throw rope. Time to climb. Incoming."

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 Scarf scarf
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 74, 65, 92, 8, 94 = 333 (5d100)

>>3248428
"Hurry up and save our lucky friend who was allowed to keep their clothes. I might need some help with this rope."
>>3248527
"Oh....oh that's why these people are dead. Guess I need to accelerate those rope plans!"
>Push 2 for 2Al
>6Al: Move 442, 222
>5Al: Examine the wooden gate to see if there's a jagged bit on the top that I can lasso a rope around

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
2 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue: 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248527
Oh, shi-
Silas! Get the rope up there, I think that creature can't climb.
>move 343 23
Runes and stuff, yeah? Should give me the edge I need.
>dip knife in basin

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Service Knife [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm, Cuts, 10% Bleed, Crit >2 Punctures
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248613
"Working on it, checking the gate just in case Paran can't hold both our weights!"

>>3248622
Well, my eyes tell me there's two of them up there.
Failing that, we can climb one at a time.

File: ThePit_2_4.png (1.87 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
==Lost==

Skittering, chittering, clattering claws on the rocky floor, the Spitescorp Crawler inches closer, manipulators poised and testing the air.

Flickering sparks of nothing coalece as Scryansi is tossed by a unseen wind. The knife-blade takes on an odd, transparent seeming, glittering with its own unreal light.

>Glimmershard [Knife]
> 2 + .5 Harm.
> Crit3+ : Steal Thought
> 10 % Bleed

Silas spot several places they can throw a rope - whoever built this wood, they built it well enough to last, incorporating the learned pain of previous destruction.

[ Lost Phase ]

Oh!

Little scrapsouls, Scarf has found trace-tell of our absent gaolers!

They are right over there.

Rolled 76, 17, 11, 35, 90, 90, 7, 14 = 340 (8d100)

>>3248656
"Damn, no time to risk the throw catching the right place on the gate. Paran, I'm trusting you on this, get Scarf to help if you can!"
>Push 1 for 1 Ala
>4Ala: Securely tie one end of the Greedvine to the other
>4Ala: Throw the combined rope to Paran
>2Ala Reaction: If Paran catches the rope, climb 8,8

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
2 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue: 3

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248732
Mere manual labour?

Scarf thinks not.

Rolled 87, 10, 76, 64, 34, 64, 12, 40, 39, 88, 20 = 534 (11d100)

>>3248656
>4Al: sever greedvine rope on Scarf with Jagged Rock
>4al: Catch rope >>3248732
>Push 2
>3Al: Secure Rope to Platform

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Re-Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fatigue! 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248656
Ooh, very good. Let's get out of here, then.
>reaction: fling rock at spitescorp when in range (9AL)
>>3248751
One at a time up the rope, then. Hurry up, Silas.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_5.png (1.83 MB, 2381x1581)

1.83 MB PNG

==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
==Lost==

One small rock can be enough in the right hands. To slay giants, monsters. Or... ah. It still moves.

>Silas learns to scamper quickly! Secrets of Kinematics 1.2!

Scarf is happy to be freed. Our jailors over there are not happy Scarf is freed.

[ Lost Phase ]

>>3248796
>2Al: Assist Silas' ascent
>4Al Assist Scyansi's ascent
>Catch Breath! 2
>1Al: React with Parry

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Re-Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 91, 99, 57, 59, 59, 94 = 459 (6d100)

>>3248796
>>3248821
>Dice

>>3248796
"I always hate this part of spelunking!"
>2Ala: Finish climbing the rope
>2Ala: If the bottom of the rope is on my shoulder drop it down for Scyansi
>2Ala: Move 22
>3Ala: Catch Breath for 3 Fatigue

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
2 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248796
oh sweet stalactites above that's close.
uh
>move 87 (2AL)
>climb rope (4AL)
>move 2
>react with parry (2AL)
We might get out of here yet.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248796
Is it too late to join? first time being in one of these and it seems interesting

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1 [+1, of choice]
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3248915
You might want to select your +1intention. Unless you are planning to discover another one? (Clever sacrifice)

>>3249030
Oh yeah,thanks for reminding me about that.
Updated stats
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
Everything else is the same.

>>3249049
>>3248915
Never too late, little fresh soul friend. We are nice and gregariously accommodating around here. The Pit is so large!

File: ThePit_2_6.png (1.89 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | New | R2
==Lost==

With quick hands and quicker hearts the rope is scaled! Behind us the Crawler bleeds but seems all the more irate at our presumption to escape its waving claws. One vicious manipulator gouges deep scars from the wooden construction.

The tower stands, resolute in defiance.

We find a fellow fallen friend hidden behind a rock, another sorry soul to add to the menagerie.

Scryansi holds their blade high to prepare for the assault of a monster - deflecting a probing clawed attack.

And a gaunt looking excuse for a woman, deepset eyes in a skull that fair shines through the pallid skin it is enmeshed, waves a blade at Silas. Their weapons looking heavy slow to swing, but vicious for the bite. They want us back in the Pit, friends! Scarf does not want to go back to hanging about!

the Crawler swipes at the air! Stumbling feet tumble towards us. Now there are eight hostile arms in front and behind us. What a fortuitous arrangement of murder by number.

>>3248821
>That almost slipped between your hands, jinxheart.
>+1 Misfortune

>>3249049
>>3248915
Now that our striking time has done, new soul, you will find yourself as numbered [4] and proceed to... do your thing!

What thing? Any thing! Scarf holds it reliably that the sky is the limit in enterprise and adventure.

You perform actions by spending Alacrity, which are effectively dice. Roll xd100, where x is the amount of Alacrity you wish to put into something. This means you can be fast, effective and multi-purpose . . . or mono-focused in magnanimity.

You pay push your lungs to the breaking point by taking 1 fatigue, thus gaining 1 alacrity and again, and again, and so, do more! At only the cost of endurance and dizzied breath.

And the best part of all?
You may learn something new in the doing of your various deeds!

in doing, you wish for 1-40, and matches Do Nice Things. High missed matches such as 99 or 88 Do Not Do Nice Things, but much rarer.

Rolled 91, 7, 97, 73, 10, 89 = 367 (6d100)

>>3250298
>3Al: Move 222 2
>6Al: Shoulder-slam Guard 1: Force Up & 1, onto stalagmites
>Push! 4
>4Al: React: Dodge 2wards

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Re-Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 4

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 89, 40, 72, 36, 86, 1 = 324 (6d100)

>>3250298
Wh-
He-
SILAS! You bastard!
>stab (6AL)
>push 3AL
>react with parry (6AL)
Alright, chtinheart, let's see how you dance.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3250298
>1 AL, move 2
>5 AL, stab the guard
>3 AL, React: Dodge to 6

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3250934
"It came loose when I threw it down to you! You couldn't have climbed a rope wrapped around my shoulders!"
>>3250298
>4Al: Move 666,6
>3Al: Cut a length of vine from where Scarf was tied up
>Push 2
>Move 2
>3Al: Tie this new vine in place so Scryansi can climb up

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
2 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2}
==Condition==
Fatigue 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 14, 78, 60, 83, 44, 91 = 370 (6d100)

>>3251071
Dice were lost when I had to reset captcha

Rolled 66, 42, 59, 41, 25 = 233 (5d100)

>>3250978
Forgot to roll for my attack.

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Wrestling action and swinging rock combine with a knife that can desire itself carving a deep blow through the carapace of the Spitescorp, but our foes are not deterred by swift violence and quick action! Their retribution will be quick!

One Guant Guard, more skin wrapped around bones than man, says nothing as they are shoulder-checked into jagged rock! Another barely flinches from Bolvars brutal battering!

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Bolvar weaves with the grace of a pitborn pitfighter and evades a staggering blow from lightly rocked opponent. Paran doesn't even try. His hemorrhaging humanoid opponent isn't quite swiping in the air anywhere near.
Yet.

Something ails these poor fools, thin and looking for nourishment. Surely rational actors would not fall on us with arms! Something in their secret soul is corroded. Should one not barter with, not seek blades?

in Shadows Below, Scyansi stands against the Spitescorp and as it lashes out with a stinging tail, parries a staggering deflection!
>Warding off 9 dice!

But the claws that follow up from a secondary source rake bone-deep. Now both bleed, beaten, but the Spitescorp looks almost worse for wear, PUSHED TO THE LIMIT and in pain.

On the thin line between victory and metabolic cessation, Scyansi is poised - and a rope is offered to allow an able escape . . . yet. Yet, friends, Scarf has heard it told that in the markets near the Stonemile, Spitescorp guts go six bits on the weight!

[ Lost Phase ]

Rolled 33, 42, 67, 26, 61, 76, 78, 69, 46, 34, 42, 38, 84, 51, 72 = 819 (15d100)

>>3251423
Need to get out-
Six bits? That's... that's a lot!
>push 6AL
Hyyaaaa
>stab spitescorp (15AL)
RRGHH!
>push 4AL
>react with parry (4AL)
Are you... hah... finished?

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 9, 16, 5 = 30 (3d100)

>>3251446
A little... little support would be nice.
Huff... probably.

>>3251455
You... you know what?
Friends, *hack*. Scratch that. Scorpion's down.
I hope.

Rolled 48, 94, 81, 82, 21, 98, 83, 53, 67, 55, 17, 31, 75, 83, 55, 22 = 965 (16d100)

>>3251455
"I...uh...I don't think you do. I'll come back down, safer from the archers trying to get me."
>>3251423
>4Al: Finish tying the rope in place on the platform
>4Al: Scamper down the rope
>1Al: Catch breath for 1 Fatigue
[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251471
>Accidentally left dice from an earlier action, apologies

Rolled 57, 90, 54, 49, 35, 26 = 311 (6d100)

>>3251423
>2Al:Move 21
>6Al: Fling Jagged rock at nearer Gaunt Archer
>1Al: Dip hand in Gaunt Guard's blood 7
>Move 1
>Push 2
>2Al: React Dodge
"Bolvar. Be cautious. (Or fast.)"

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Hand1 (Emptied!)
#Bloody
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 6

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_9.png (1.9 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Victory! And at only the cost of our appearance and the air-thickening scent of bursting pheremone glands.

[ Environment Phase ]

File: ThePit_2_10.png (1.91 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Back in the pit!

Back in the pit!

Back in the pit!

Back in the pit!

Back in the pit!

Beset by a barrage of spittle-flecked shouting, Bolvar takes 2 Terror. Why is this unfortunate so insistent that we spend our times in their corpse strewn charnel house?

And has it to do with the monstrous shadow of mountainous proportions Scarf sees in the distance?

--

>>3251478
the blood is cool against your hand, but the flow from the deep wound this man has cut in your side is much, much warmer - in tune with your heartbeat. You take [Bleed] at the end of your turn, once you have exhausted your Alacrity. You can spend up to [Bleed] Alacrity to Hold It In, and you will not take the wound damage. You have 2 Bleed. You may be able to Staunch The Flow, through some means...

>>3251446
>You Know A Little More About Knives
>Knife Secret is 1.25

[ Lost Phase ]

Rolled 72, 78, 75, 77, 75, 77 = 454 (6d100)

>>3251532
>6 AL, attack the guard
>3 AL, React: Dodge to 6


Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 64, 83, 56, 53, 14, 70 = 340 (6d100)

>>3251532
Hahaa! Hah... Oh...
Oh.

Out of the pit!
Out of the pit!!
>climb rope (4AL)
>move 22
Between that rather large... spitescorp? Whatever. Between that thing and the guards, I'd rather take the guards.
>push 6AL
>stab guard (5AL)
>react with parry (4AL)
Silas! Get back up here, we can still do this.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1.25}
==Condition==
Wounds! 5

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251597
How improbable, wandering friend. Do want to sell some of your gorgeous ability to violate the chains of probability to Scarf?

Rolled 57, 76 = 133 (2d100)

>>3251604
"Hold on, let me get myself a better weapon."
>>3251532
>4Al: Move 334,5
>Pick up spear 6
>4Al: Move 187,7
>Push 2
>2Al: Attempt to use Kinematics to pull my self up the rope at double pace

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2}
==Condition==
Fatigue 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251606
>>3251597
Scarf will trade you... urgent violence, in return!

>>3251532
>2al: hold in
>Push 2
>5Al: React to parry, disarm if successful enough
>4Al: React to Dodge arrows

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Re-Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 9
Wounds 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_11.png (2.06 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Such alacritious intent, new soul friends. Is that shadow so vast we must flee before it? This is a Good Choice.

Ooh, but the SpiteScorp below. Scarf has a thought! Perhaps the corpse will lure the bigger predator and

hm

Scarf thinks it is time to exit this tower.

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

>>3251616
>Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!

--

Wild swings and missed opportunities. Our foes are not so threatening, then! Ha ha, and up you go, little sacrificial soul. Scarf needs you over there, not on the side of this edifice to carpentry.

What a nice spear! Would you like to learn how to use it? Scarf will whisper it to you if you share your... hm... a poor soul, this. Maybe how to move, as you do?

[ Lost Phase! ]

Rolled 70, 64, 63, 53, 19, 2 = 271 (6d100)

>>3251659
>6 AL, attack that guard
>3 AL, React: Move 6
I really hope I don't mess this up

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Terror 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251668
That is precariously close to yon yawning pit, yes. You can do this! Maybe!

>>3251671
Third times the charm?
I can't mess it up that badly
right?

>>3251690
Indubitably you can, sacrifice friend.

But !

A light spot that is traded for free: if you do, it will be in a new and exciting way!

( And a trade that is not free: Scarf will still buy your marvellously odd fortune. Perhaps in return tell you a thing or two about violence? )

Rolled 19, 9, 23, 47, 77, 76, 22, 79, 63, 10 = 425 (10d100)

>>3251659
hey. guard.
you're facing the wrong way.
>move 222
>push 4AL
>stab (8AL [knives: 10d, double success])
>move 21
Pick on someone armed, you big meanie.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1.25}
==Condition==
Wounds! 6
Fatigue! 9

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 14, 76, 73, 87, 34, 85, 100 = 469 (7d100)

>>3251659
"I'm good, actually I can move pretty fast huh. Hey archer, dodge this!"
>2 Al: Finish climbing
>Equip Rough Spear in both hands
>3 Al: Move 222
>Push 6
>7 Al: Use Kinematics to charge the Archer, stabbing him with the Spear and knocking him up and back onto the stalagmites
>3 Al: React with dodge

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Hands 1 & 2: Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2}
==Condition==
Fatigue 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>3251732
But! You see! at 1.2 you get 8 dice here!

Rolled 51, 89, 13, 59, 29 = 241 (5d100)

>>3251659
>2Al: Hold In
>5Al: Staunch Bleed with Loose Cloth
>2Al: Dodge

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Re-Empty!)
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 9
Wounds 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251739
Oh, it's 1.2, not 2. That's what I get for updating my sheet at 2AM.

>>3251742
(Who would do this, putting up lies?) Messed up on Equipment

@Loose Cloth
#Hand1 (Emptied!)
#Bloody

>>3251701
Ill accept both deals, after all what could I lose? my rock?

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Bolvar swings his rock and stuns the poor guard, who takes 2 wounds and 1 stun! Reeling, he tightens his grip on his sword and refocuses but they are wearing down. In the opening, Scyansi glides forward and -- oh-- oh no. Scarf will pause his internal narration here, for the sake of propriety.

Paran staunches the dire flow of their own vital fluids, and learn something new!

> Gasp ! You have learned how to Support!
>Gain Support 1 - it is an intention
>Because Limit is all your intentions, you also have limit 16 now!

With a great bellow, Silas steps forward into the opening too and charges! But the fragile scragspear bends in the impact !
>+1 Misfortune

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

>>3251753
ooooooooooh yes

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Deftly, Bolvar steps back from the irate swing of an angry Gaunt Guard and brushes their shoulder against something hard, balanced very precariously.

Gravity takes over the proceedings from there.

One archer quietly expires from hemorrhagic complications, and the other retreats step by step, hollering loudly! Perhaps they have friends coming?

>>3251753
>>3251668
With a shuddering twist, the world is re-aligned and someone else has traded for a little of the fortune of life, leaving you with... well, surely nothing can go wrong when we are bereft of luck. Surely so.

Was that rock always so precariously balanced?

>Gain 6 Misfortune condition!
>You learn the secrets of Breaking 1.25: Or - How To Take Things Apart With Your Hands and Improvised Tools!
>When performing violence of a handy nature, you multiply dice spent by 1.25 (your rank in the secret). This means 4 dice buys you 1 more, to bash people with a rock (or other, harder things). Or your fists! Truly, the possibilities of shattering bone with your clenched fist are endless!

This Secret comes with a trick!
>*Crack! 4 dice shatters 1 point of Armor!

Rolled 55, 82, 71, 15, 31, 20, 33, 49, 51 = 407 (9d100)

>>3251784
"Keep on fighting Silas, almost done here..."
>9Al: Backstab the distracted guard with my spear

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Hands 1 & 2: Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2}
==Condition==
Fatigue 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251802
>Kinematics 1.5, I copied the wrong sheet.

Rolled 92, 94, 1, 78, 70, 55, 100, 53 = 543 (8d100)

>>3251784
>2 AL, move 3,2
>7 AL, Attack that guard!

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1} {Breaking 1.25}
==Condition==
Terror 2
Misfortune 6
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 34, 54, 25, 48, 82, 66, 69, 45, 91, 50 = 564 (10d100)

>>3251784
Maybe... he's running to the outside?
Let me take a look.
>move 677 788 (4AL)
>push 3AL
>knife the archer (8AL [knives: 10d])
Might wanna get off the platform too, friends.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1.25}
==Condition==
Wounds! 6
Fatigue! 4

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_15.png (2.2 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

What a recalcitrant guardian! He refuses to fall - rather unlike his downed peers. Passing strange to find such determination in the curiously witless, weapons in hand-- Scryansi spots a large, looming Shadow...

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

Rolled 68, 57, 78 = 203 (3d100)

>>3251784
>3Al: move 566 8
>2Al: take Bow and Arrow
>1Al: Hold In
>3Al: Shoot Counterweigth Rope 6ward

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2 | Support 1
@Loose Bloody Cloth
#Scragbow
#Blood
-#Arrows
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 9
Wounds 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: ThePit_2_16.png (2.23 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Oh! I think they're about to run away! Hurray! Well done, new found sacrifice friends.

but wait, what is this Scarf sees in the distance, beyond the light and the verdant greenery? Something comes with thundering, thumping steps!

it smells of malevolence. . . Be ready!

[ Lost Phase ]

There are no counterweight arrows. But plenty of the mundane kind!

>Scragbow. 1+ .25Harm +Projectile. 4+Sense Range.
>6xRough Arrows. 1d. 10% Bleed.

>>3251889
>3 AL, move 2,2,1 then swap out my rock for the knife and grab the shield
>4 AL, move 7,7,7,7
>2 AL,stab the guard

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2 (Empty!)
{Scavenger 1} {Breaking 1.25}
==Condition==
Terror 2
Misfortune 6
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 57, 83 = 140 (2d100)

>>3251914
forgot to roll

>>3251889
"I need a breather, I trust you all to run down the archer."
>1 Al: Move 8
>8 Al: Catch breath for 8 Fatigue

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Hands 1 & 2: Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 12, 24, 19, 98, 6 = 159 (5d100)

>>3251889
Does it... does it ever end?
>shove guard into pit (5AL)
Back in the pit!
>move 2
>catch breath (3AL)

>>3251934
Think the archer's gonna be the least of our worries soon.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1.25}
==Condition==
Wounds! 6
Fatigue! 6

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 76, 40, 56 = 172 (3d100)

>>3251889
>1Al: Hold In
>3Al: Shoot Rough Arrow at Rope 8wards
>3Al: Move 788 1
>2Al: Slide between spikes and wall 1

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2 | Support 1
@Loose Bloody Cloth
#Scragbow: 1+ .25Harm +Projectile. 4+Sense Range.
#Blood
-#5xRough Arrows. 1d. 10% Bleed.
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 9
Wounds 8

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3251920
>>3251914
This blade is curiously heavy, balanced in a way for much, much larger hands. Where did they come across such odd acroutements? They aren't made for such as us - something subtly . . . off.

But as replacements for a jagged rock? A treasure beyond accounting!

Scragblade [Blade]
Heft 2
1 + .5Harm, 10% Bleed, 1% Profuse Bleed
crit >2: Puncture

Heft 2 implies that swinging the blade costs 2 Alacrity - once you're already swinging, the rest is 1 for 1.

>2 Alacrity --> 1d100
>3 Alacrity and up --> 2d100 and up.

The "activation" cost is 2

>>3251945
>Shoot Rough Arrow at Rope 8wards
Error
>6Wards

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

We did it, soft skin soft soul friends! We are free! The pit is closed off, you see, and so, we cannot be in it ! by the majesty of territorial demarcation, we have raised ourselves!

That Screamer looks disappointed.

wait, Scarf hears...

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

File: ThePit_2_18.png (2.14 MB, 2381x1581)

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJ3AgZ4Cw0

--
It walks with a thundering steps, yet, glides closer across the shaking cave ground. The final Gaunt Guard raises their bow in rank elation as their Guardian arrive at long last to push us back into the Pit.

Below, the Screamasti - the Pytheriian taxonomists have a sense of humour, indeed - bite into the fallen, a lesser insectoid kin to feed its ravenous hunger. But that concerns us little.

We are beset by a behemoth in fluted armour. Beneath the black helmet, no skin is seen, no eyes peer out. Scarfs thinks... this may not be an all too common human.

Perhaps the pit would be preferable, to this.

[ LOST PHASE ]

>>3251920
>>3251914
You picked up how to block rather quick there, sacrifice!

> Blocking!
> It happens when you have a shield and more reflexes than a Gaunt Guard - which, Scarf is told, is most any creature that can breathe and blink simultaneously.

> You automatically roll Resist dice when you have a shield in hand, as a reaction, to block anything that comes your way. You can also of course add more, if you want.

> Alas, Shields have HP. And when they break...

>But yours is pristine!

Plankfriend [shield]
.5Harm, 20% Stun
Block 1.33xAL
12 HP

Rolled 79, 40, 30, 20, 18, 69 = 256 (6d100)

>>3252002
>3Al: Shoot GreenSpan Knight
>2Al: Move 332
>-Drop scragbow
>1Al: Bleed on Hand1
>3Al: Dip hands in basin, claim Blood

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2 | Support 1
@Loose Bloody Cloth
#Paran's Blood
#Gaunt Blood
-#4xRough Arrows. 1d. 10% Bleed.
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 9
Wounds 9

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 54, 97, 58, 35 = 244 (4d100)

>>3252002
>3 AL, Move 8,8,8
>4 AL, Attack that thing
>2 AL, React: move to 3

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Scragblade [Blade] Heft 2 1 + .5Harm, 10% Bleed, 1% Profuse Bleed crit >2: Puncture
#Plankfriend [Shield] .5Harm, 20% Stun Block 1.33xAL 12 HP
{Scavenger 1} {Breaking 1.25}
==Condition==
Terror 2
Misfortune 6
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 24, 2, 5, 91, 41, 48 = 211 (6d100)

>>3252002
"There has to be a weakness, somewhere!"
>3 Al: Move 888
>6 Al: Search for a weakness in its armor
>Push 3
>3 Al: Reaction Dodge

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Hands 1 & 2: Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
==Condition==
Fatigue 3

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3252002
H-hello.
uh.
>move 813 22 (4AL)
>catch breath: recover 5 fatigue (5AL)
>--recover 3 fatigue from catching breath last turn
W-what is that thing?

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1.25}
==Condition==
Wounds! 6
Fatigue! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
Sac3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

Paran commits a sacrilege. The walls whisper and wave and something shatters, an audible pop.

Scryansi, catching breath, breathing deep, sees the little gorged heart on the beating underside of the world twisted in twain and all the ways the multitudinous veins of the world connect to pump the blood that is the people that move, as one, around. It is entirely too much.

>10 terror!
>Terror shock! You break!
>Flee!
>Fatigue gained running!
>Double fatigue cost for pushing yourself!

--

Our attacks bounce off of the shell of this hard-hearted amalgamation of steel and spite. It raises its halberd to swing a blow that would cleave mountains . . .

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

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>>3252030
Well done, Sacrifice! You have managed to change class.

You can trade in tricks from an old class to learn those of a new.Push, Catch Breath, Quick and the Dead, Secret Soul are all eligible.

You learn the Woeheart secret automatically.

You can trade in Intent to learn a new Trick, too.

And finally, Time and Experience would allow you to learn them. So you don't have to go go all in now

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==Lost==
Sac1 | Scyansi | S2
Sac2 | Silas | H2
He3 | Paran | So2
Sac4 | Bolvar | R2
==Lost==

The Knight swings its halberd in a scything arc - Bolvar stumbles back, but still bears the brunt of a mighty blow deflected and reduced but still bone-scattering vicious! And then the Knight leans forward

It means to charge! Get away!

Silas zigs when zag was the answer and takes an arrow for the trouble. But we have learned some - the knight has heavy, front-facing armour but must be much more vulnerable in the rear, lesserly plated! If we can but survive darting in . . .

--

Delicious terror
Dearest of all Scarf's trades...

[ Lost Phase ]

>>3252194
Of-of course.
T-take it.
>move 22
>sell terror
B-but, you deal in trades, right? W-wh-w... what do I get in return?

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 2 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Body
#Hand1
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
{Knives 1.25}
==Condition==
Wounds! 6
Terror! 10

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3252194
>3 AL, move 3,2,2
>6 AL, React: Dodge 6
T-This is gonna suck
Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Scragblade [Blade] Heft 2 1 + .5Harm, 10% Bleed, 1% Profuse Bleed crit >2: Puncture
#Plankfriend [Shield] .5Harm, 20% Stun Block 1.33xAL 12 HP
{Scavenger 1} {Breaking 1.25}
==Condition==
Terror 2
Misfortune 6
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3252207
oh a cunning whisper friend. For all the fear in this rapid beating heart, Scarf would offer sights unseen and thoughts unthought, bladed and sharp.

Do you want to learn how to Cut?

>>3252241
That.
S-sounds nice.
So, do we shake on it, or...?

>>3252194
"Gahk...ignore the pain Silas, have to make this count..."
>Push 6
>Move 1
>11 Ala: Reaction: Kinematics rush 5 to stab the Giant in the back after he charges (Roll 13 dice)
>3 Ala: Reaction: Dodge towards 1

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Hands 1 & 2: Rough Spear. [Spear] Reach 2. 1 + .25 Harm. Wounds. 15% Bleed. >2 Crit Punctures. Fragile!
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
==Condition==
Fatigue 9
Wounds 3

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 40, 25, 83, 80, 44, 24, 21, 65 = 382 (8d100)

>>3252137
>trade Quick & the dead, Catch Breath
>Gain Path8genic Transferencs, Sympathetic Vitae

>>3252173
>1Al: Reclaim Bow
>2Al: Move 67
>push 4
>8Al: Transfer Paran's Fatigue to Greenspan Knight
1Al: Hold in

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 2 | Support 1
@Stained Robe: 2DR vs Chem + Fire
#Scragbow: 1+ .25Harm +Projectile. 4+Sense Range.
#Blood
-#4xRough Arrows. 1d. 10% Bleed.
{Scavenger 1}
{Woeheart}
==Condition==
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 13
Wounds 8
Bleed 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae