I put my hands to the door. Do they go through? Can I feel anything?

>>6639287

You place your hands on the door and try to push them through and to see what would happen, They touch as if they were solid, but you can clearly see the door through them. You pull on the handle and it does not budge, you seem to be able to feel everything normally with your hand-- including pain.

Get that goddamn scepter! Fuck ya!

/search memories

>>6639321

You walk back to where the scepter lay on the ground, it is made of gold and is also unaffected by the decay of your surroundings. When you pick it up, you feel it's power... whatever owned this things before you did stored a lot of it's energy inside of it.

Golden Scepter of Power gained.

>>6639337

Whatever your memories were, you can't seem to recall them, but something is very very familiar about this place.

>>6639313
I walk back to the scepter and pick it up. I look over it trying to detect any markings or design obscurities.

Act like a man!
Fuck that door's shit up with this baddass scepter, motherfucker!

>>6639377

It is very plain for a golden scepter, But the bottom half of it seems sharp, as sharp as a sword. If it weren't for the lack of a guard and it being made of gold, it would be a weapon useful in battle.

>>6639384

You go to the door with your newfound weapon, and with ease break your way through it. The door has corroded, it is frail and weak from time, and you step out of the door you reach a corridor, one way going left, one way going right. It is completely dark as whatever candles lit the way have extinguished long ago.

>>6639429

Does I have darkvision?

>>6639467

No, despite your incorporeal form, you seem to require light to see as much as any other man. You have a vision suddenly of these same halls, lit by torches, nearly untouched by time, with several Minotaurs rushing down them. Then your vision ends. You wonder what it could mean.

run down hall FULL STEAM AHEAD, CAPTAIN

>>6639519

Left or right, good sir?

>>6639528
DORF saying: "All way go ter yer left ye daft git."

so obviously left.

>>6639546
Full steam ahead? There be minotaurs up in this bitch!
Unless we are about to laydown some ghostly vengeance, i suggest tactics.

Left is fine.

>>6639546

You proceed down the left and into the darkness, barely making your way through without any light, your foot stumbles on something, you bend over to pick it up and it is a bone, you feel some more and it is a pile of bones. You decide you need a light source, what do you do?

>>6639528
>>6639546
>>6639567
How many dnd players does it take to know the left hand method? Apparently one.

>>6639569
To confirm, we have not seen a source of fire correct?


Think "Light" and "fire" into the scepter of power.

>>6639569
I shift around the bones to find some type of cloth. Do i have anything on my person that is not incorporeal?

>>6639590

You have seen metal plates to which you assume would have held candles ages ago, As soon as you think the word "Light" the scepter gifted a glow, illuminating the area. Below you is a pile of bones, you immediately recognize them as minotaur bones due to the horns. You show your light around the area... It's covered and covered with minotaur skeletons. Most of them have crushed parts. There are also axes.... a battle took place here in the past.

>>6639617
Search the remains for any other clues or for something useful.

>>6639609

There are bits and pieces of cloth, and your clothes and stave are not incorporeal.

>>6639617
I grab the axe the lightest axe I can find and wield it in my hand and the Scepter in my off-hand with it out in front of me. Are their any doors or entrances in this room other than the way I came?

>>6639617
Rummage through to find and dismantle any intact corpses. The only thing worse than a live minotaur is an undead one.

Ask the scepter if it knows whats going on.

>>6639631
We've searched through our pockets at this point right?

>>6639628

You begin to search through the remains, wondering what kind of objects they could behold. You turn around and are frightened by something, It is a minotaur skeleton still intact and standing after all these years, you didn't see it. Infact, you are sure it wasn't standing there before....

>>6639641

Immediately after seeing the skeleton, you back up a few feet and grab a nearby axe, It it smaller than the others, and it seems unlike the others. It does not seem minotaur made. There is a door to your left.

You turn back at the skeleton minotaur, and wonder what to do with it. You try asking the staff, but you do not feel a consciousness in there.

>>6639691

Nope

>>6639704
Does it seem hostile?!

Don't kill possible NPCs before we establish their intent!

>>6639768

It's just standing there, it's not even moving. The stave in your hand pulsates in power, it seems to be detecting danger.

What do you do? Use a spell?

>>6639782

We could try just... attacking it with the axe? what do you guys think. Simple is best.

>>6639825
Throw axe gets my vote.... Distance is best.

I wish to consult the minotaur bones. Gather up an armful and cast them onto the ground. Then look to see where they fall and in what order.

attack minotaur with axe

>>6639768
>>6639825
>>6639846
>>6639865

You play around with the axe in your hand, wondering if you should strike at it, or just leave it be, it might just be your imagination. You finally decide to watch it carefully as you gather up the minotaur bones around, and place them in your hands. You throw down the bones hoping to see some divination happen, but you get no knowledge from the bones falling. Disappointed you look back to the skeleton, your grip on the axe tightening.

>>6639886

You get up and strike the minotaur with the axe, and suddenly its bones move to block with it's own axe but it makes no attempt to attack you otherwise, The stave is telling you that you are in danger.

>>6639907

Whoop sorry forgot tripcode'

>>6639907
Advance to the rear?

wanna try to flee through door?

>>6639942
Seems best, apparently this skelly is a badass.

>>6639269
Wait...... wait.... so I'm essentially the King at the very beginning of Oblivion?

>>6639942
>>6639964

You back away cautiously, and the skeleton does not move until you are about 20 feet away, at which points it steps back and out of your radius of light. You turn to this door, and also break it open and continue on. Another vision, in this one the Minotaurs are murdering the armed men, the women and children too, fear is rampant in the air... and then it is back to reality. You trudge on, now paranoid about the minotaur. You can take a left into a small room or continue down the hallway, which do you choose? or do you do something else entirely?

1)can we look and see whats in our inventory
2) small room will probably have a trap in it so might not wanna go in there

>>6640025

You have a scepter, the clothes of a king, two rings, a small axe of different design than a minotaurs, and the scepter is loaded with power.

>>6640025
Seems like its been a long time since anyone lived here, plus most traps were probably sprung in the invasion.

also ghost.

do the rings have any strange writing on them? or just normal rings

>>6640058

They are gold and are inscribed with strange writing, yes, you can tell they have enchantments on them but you can't tell what the enchantments do or how strong they are.

i think we should check out small room see if there's anything in it

>>6640064
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY CROWN!

>>6640064

Remove the rings to see if they have any effect when they're off (like making my hands visible again).

If not, swallow both rings to prevent anyone in the future from taking them off of our hands and using them against us. If we're at the liberty to poop them out later, I'd say we've survived long enough to deal with it later.

>>6640086

You enter the small room and find a painting on the wall, Most of it has been destroyed by time, But what you can make out is a king love and adorned by people, surrounded by them, and at the outskirts there is another king amongst a horde of minotaurs, It also shows the minotaurs killing the murdering the villagers.

>>6640106

You take off the first ring and you don't notice a change... but you feel more vulnerable. You take off the second ring and you feel a great drain and collapse. You put the second ring back on, and you ponder what to do with the first ring.

>>6640129

Put it back on.

>>6640136

You put on the first ring once more and are filled with a sense of security. You look up at the painting once more and ponder what it has to do with the visions you are having. Out of the corner of your eyes you thought you saw the minotaur with the axe again, you turn around and your suspicions are true, but it sulks back into the shadows around the door and in the hallway.

What to do?

put rings back on and see if you can try to sense where you are using the scepter

>>6640154

>and see if you can try to sense where you are using the scepter

could you make that a bit more clearer?

nevermind i miss read something might wanna ready the scepter or axe seems like the minotaurs are following us

concentrate on the minotaur skeleton through the scepter, then say "come here" or "come closer" or some shit like that

Follow the skeleton. I mean we've got no other leads thus far right?

>>6640167
Use it as a divining rod?

>>6640197
>>6640201

You ready your scepter in your hand and you think "Come here" and "Come closer". The skeleton steps out of the shadows and comes before you again, taking no hostile actions or moves. It stands before you.

You wonder what to do now.

Think "give me a blowjob"

>>6640216
"Kneel, servant"

try to use scepter to see if it can lead you out of here like in this >>6640201

>>6640222

It kneels before you and bows it's head.

At that moment you feel it's soul come under the control of your own.

Minotaur Guard Gained.

>>6640236
search for more servants, preferably less powerful, dont wanna overtax ourselves and have a rebellion on our hands

leave room and continue down the hallway

>>6640244
>>6640251

You continue down the hall, proud of your accomplishment new minion thus far, and search for others to sway under your will. You enter a new, much larger room, at the center of the room is a fire, finally, a source of light you think, and turn off the light of your scepter.

Around the fire is small amounts of cargo and items, stones and knives fashioned from stones, it all looks rather new, and then you see the green eyes from behind the cover and in the darkness, there are at least 17 sets of them.

>>6640216
Order it to do something complex (juggle axes) just to see how far our control goes.

Hello new door opener!


OOC THEORY: We are the desposed brother of the king and attacked his kingdom with minotaurs in an attempt to take over. We were either killed or underwent some LICHLIKE PROCEDURE GONE WRONG.

ask if they speak common if we know it or what language we speak

>>6640270
re-activate light, but have Mino wait in the shadows as a trump card in case things go south. Light to max power!!

>>6640287

It refuses. It appears you do not have complete control after all, though this is a discovery best to be made now then in the heat of battle.

>>6640294

You say, "Do you speak?"

from the shadows one of them comes out, it is a goblin, wretched and mutated. It laughs hysterically, and the other goblins from the shadows come out, with their crude clubs and axes readied.

quick question do we have a class or are we just a royal dwarf?

>>6640370
Despite the OP's pick and the underground nature.... the lack of darkvision implies that we are not dwarfs. (Or that we underwent said LICH CEREMONY MIS-FIRE)
The fact our royal sceptor has light on it further implies non-dwarfhood.

>>6640344
think "kill goblin" through the staff, focus on one of the bigger ones. if that doesnt work, kill them, we are NOT afraid of some gobbos

>>6640370
nevermind forgot we cant remember anything

>>6640344

Try to exert our might on the goblins with the staff directly, to make them our minions.

If it doesn't work while they're alive, let's deadinate them.

attack goblins with blade attached to scepter if >>6640402 doesn't work

>>6640344
Time to roll a bluff check!


"WHO DARES DISTURB THE NAMELESS KING IN HIS CHAMBERS!"

>>6640402
>>6640407

You try your magic, first to control them, and you take control of one, but then it comes, they're completely insane, this place has driven them insane, and their consciousness is gnawing away at your own so you are forced to drop your control.

Frustrated but not deterred, "Kill Goblin" is the command you send through the stave, and immediately one of the larger ones falls to death.

However, you feel a major drain in the energy in the staff, and the glow is noticeably duller.

The goblins slowly advance closer, undeterred by the death of their friend.

>>6640402
Christ what have you done.

send msg to minotaur to help kill these things

>>6640484
theyve gone mad. conrtrolling them woulda fucked us up, it was for the best.

Since using scepter magic is out of the question, order our Guard to attack, and charge along with him, they're only gobbos, this should be quick

>>6640508
>>6640424
>>6640517

The minotaur steps forward from the shadows, all the goblins look at it for a moment and their faces gain a flow of terror, they all flee into the shadows, every single one of them escapes. You are now left with an abandoned goblin encampment, and an infestation of them waiting in the shadows.

What do you do?

follow where they ran too

>>6640551

Well thats a good responce I suppose.

Search camp! (eye on the shadows)

>>6640574
Never compete with someone on their strengths.
These goblins are being cowardly.
(traps?)

>>6640574

Into the shadows, they could be anywhere now.

>>6640585

You finds stone daggers, a few stones with runes carved into them, a strange liquid substance in a wooden bowl, and some raw rat meat. You notice that as of seeing the raw rat meat, you don't feel hungry nor tired.

The shadows shift a little but it might just be your imagination.

What to do now?

>>6640621
find somewhere safe to rest/recover power, then search for more GOOD minions. still eye on the shadows

>>6640665

"Recover power... recover power..." you think to yourself, and then you feel the magical energy coming from the runes found at the campsite, You can drain that energy into your scepter.

But should you really? they belonged to insane, demented goblins. Also, you are not tired.

>>6640693

Hmm... if we do it might fuck up the scepter, if we don't we won't be FULLY CHARGED.

>>6640693
did we notice anything magical to siphon on our way here?

>>6640796

No nothing... no wait, there is something, There is the minotaurs soul.

>>6640819
he could still be useful. I say we siphon SOME power, but not alot. If it fucks with us we stop and burn off the bad power immediately, if not, siphon the rest

>>6640819
Entrances/Exits?

>>6640867

There are two doors right next to each other, the one on the right is opened, the other has a huge metal lock on it.

>>6640858

Destroy his soul to gain huge amounts of power, like a recharge, otherwise draining "some" would be rather low as he is not a magical spirit but just a normal soul, and it would cripple him significantly

>>6640902
I was referring to the gobbo shit. we need our guard yet

>>6640902
Is the locked door in poor repair like the first one?

(re-search inventory for a key)

Nameless King: Ride Skeletaur like a mechanical bull.

>>6640967

Well you take the runes along with you just because anything magical is usually useful one way or another.

Which door do you enter?

Your minotaur is right behind you and watching the surroundings carefully, and you could swear you saw a goblin in the shadows before it vanished again.

>>6640987

The locked door is indeed in poor repair, but the lock is not.

>>6640998
then fuck the lock, bust the door

Oh, then we had the key the whole time.
/smash door sceptor

>>6641018
>>6641029

You bust the door open and enter the room, There is blood on the walls and mad scribblings in common, like an insane poem, but it is written in a way that it is impossible to understand. There is a creature there in the corner, Large in size, in fetal position, crying.

The sight is disturbing to say the least.

archived
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6639269/

>>6641049
Written with?
say....does it match our own fingers?

>>6641106

It's impossible to tell from a distance, you dare not get closer with that beast there, some of it definitely matches the hands on whatever creature this is, but the rest of it seems to have been written by either a human or a goblin...

tell the guard to slowly approach it.

>>6641218

Your minotaur slowly approaches it, and suddenly the sobbing stops, so does your minotaur. Then the beast, whatever the hell it is, pounces on your guard, but the guard defends itself with the axe. They begin fighting and it looks like the guard is losing.

What do you do?

>>6641261

So our only guard is losing?

We're fucked

>>6641289
"Stop! If we fight now, no matter who the winner is... we are both goblin food!"

>>6641324

You try reasoning with the beast, but it continues to fight, Your guard runs back out the door, the beast turns to you and is about to charge. The guard stands right behind you but it is obvious that he cannot keep fighting.

Course of action?

>>6641356
Come up behind beast and stab that cunt in the neck with the Awesome Scepter of Golden Power Hoodoo. And take his soul.

>>6641356
Activate Scepter Power -> Smash Faces.

>>6641365
>>6641366

You pour the staffs energy reserves into its killing power and slash it into the beasts face, it pierces through.

The staff is immediately drained of all power, but you gain the soul of whatever monster it is you just slain.

What do you do with it's soul? oh and light is draining fast. There is a fire nearby, remember that.

P.S. >>6641356

my mistake forgot tripcode again'

Drain soul to re-energize self and staff scepter thinger.

>>6641422
If we are draining souls, why not from that dead gobby while we are at it.

>>6641422

if you waste the soul of whatever beast this thing is, you could be losing a valuable asset. On the bright side you would be greatly re-vitalized.

Are you sure you want to go through with this?

>>6641446

It's soul probably escaped by now, there isn't a large amount of time it is trapped in the body.

>>6641457
Can we interrogate the Soul?
Or raise him as undead?

get closer to wall of crazy and see if anything is intelligible

but yeah, lets eat that soul

>>6641501

You don't know as of now, but you know that interrogating wouldn't work, and that you can't do jack shit with no magic in your scepter.

>>6641507

You go read the wall, it uses the letters of common but it is another language, or just gibberish, however you do detect a disturbing rhyme from reading it, it rhymes on every 5th and 17th syllable.

>>6641539

Alright one person saying so and you will eat the soul and absorb its energy.

>>6641575

Alright one MORE person saying so*

can we recite this rhyme? perhaps it like makes room open a door or something (door to moria style)

>>6641598

You can TRY but you will fail, you are more than likely to mispronounce something and the legibility is terrible.

hmm, guess we'll eat that soul then

>>6641633

You consume the soul and you feel the power seep into you, the energy rushes through your veins and once again your scepter glows, it glows very brightly now that you've gotten used to it's normal dull glow, perhaps brighter than it was when you first got it.

Alright guys, i'm going to have to cut the quest for now, but i will continue it something this week at about the same time i did today. Could i hear people opinions, criticisms, and speculation for who the fuck your character is?

Thanks,
-Greed

its pretty great, wut day u think u'll pick it up next?

>>6641661

I'm guessing

>>6640287
>OOC THEORY: We are the desposed brother of the king and attacked his kingdom with minotaurs in an attempt to take over. We were either killed or underwent some LICHLIKE PROCEDURE GONE WRONG.

Is a good theory to apply to this.

>>6641680

Tomorrow or the next day, if for any reason not those days, the day after that. Thanx to whoever archived, That helped me greatly.

Does the archive "Auto-update"? if not, someone go update.

>>6641744

Updated'