Topic: The Labyrinth (Read 27902 times)

Guild · « **Reply #420 on:** October 05, 2008, 10:38:10 AM »

Defenestration V: You're still struggling with pleather straps and plastic snaps when the gunpowder explodes. You return and grab the sword. You pull it from the scabbard and gasp.

The sword is beautiful. It glows with a cheerful silver light that seems to pass through objects and banish shadow, even around corners. Depicted upon the blade is a ghost running in terror from a knight wielding the sword.

You are in the sword room. The bees are all dead.

Suddenly you hear a gentle droning sound. It's coming from a tiny hole in the stone. There is what appears to be a metal door that slides down over the hole recessed into the topmost edge of it. The buzzing is suddenly deafening as killer bees flood the room from a half-dozen such holes, swarming you. One manages to fly into a curled, ill-fitting joint in the armor and bite your neck and you feel the world spinning as you drop to the floor, dead.

whrrrrrrr... click.

Don't go back or I'll kill you myself, Window.

Defenestration · « **Reply #421 on:** October 05, 2008, 12:45:36 PM »

I enter the maze and go Southwest, Northwest, Northwest, West, West, North, North and pick up a snake pendant. I then go South, South, East, East, Southeast, Southeast, South, South, South, South and check to see if I'm still alive.

Guild · « **Reply #422 on:** October 05, 2008, 01:46:25 PM »

Defenestration VI: You are alive and well and standing in a fractal room with a floor of snake-patterned carvings that lead in four compass directions from a centerpoint in the middle of the room and leading into four new fractal rooms around you. Each fractal room also splits thus, creating an illusory infinite pattern in every direction.

"True" Exits: E, N and W.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake amulet.

Defenestration · « **Reply #423 on:** October 05, 2008, 01:53:55 PM »

I go West, North, West, South, West, North, North, West and see where I end up.

Guild · « **Reply #424 on:** October 05, 2008, 02:10:57 PM »

Defenestration VI: You go W, N, W, S, W, N and stop. Before you on the N wall is a door shaped like a dragon reared up on its hindquarters, with the seam of the door running vertically down its face. The wings of the dragon are unfurled and make up the rest of the door. In the dragon's heart is a keyhole.

You hear a sound behind you. A sound you'll never forget...

whrrrrrrr... click.

A camera mounted into the ceiling above the S exit to this room focuses on you and the shutter opens. You get an eerie sensation that the camera is looking past your skin and into your brain.

From de- and the Latin "fenestra," meaning window.

The sound is coming from a tinny voicebox mounted just to the left of the camera. It's one of those flat metal round ones with three large vents and bugscreen underneath.

Defenestration ... 1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from L. fenestra "window." A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window (into a moat) of the castle of Hradshin by Protestant radicals. It marked the start of the Thirty Years War.

Our war has only just begun, Window. Ha ha ha. You'll never get out of this place.

"He gets louder once he's in yer head, lad."

A pirate is standing next to the door, smoking a cigarette.

Exits: S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake pendant.

Defenestration · « **Reply #425 on:** October 05, 2008, 02:36:16 PM »

"I take it you're employed here too?" I say to the pirate as I take my pole and jam it into, and hopefully through, the lens of the camera.

Guild · « **Reply #426 on:** October 05, 2008, 02:45:39 PM »

Defenestration VI: The pirate fizzles, splits and disappears as you break the lens.

In the room to the S, the counter on the wall reads 54/63.

There is a dragon crying somewhere nearby.

Exits: S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake-shaped pendant.

Defenestration · « **Reply #427 on:** October 05, 2008, 03:03:28 PM »

I knock on the locked door and yell "Hello?"

Guild · « **Reply #428 on:** October 05, 2008, 03:14:19 PM »

Defenestration VI: You hear the sound of something huge dragging across gold coins. "What." The voice sounds less than enthusiastic about talking to you.

Exits: S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake-shaped pendant.

Defenestration · « **Reply #429 on:** October 05, 2008, 03:18:58 PM »

"How's it going? Must suck to be stuck in that room. Would you happen to be a snake?"

Guild · « **Reply #430 on:** October 05, 2008, 03:21:18 PM »

Defenestration VI: "Hey, if you're only here to insult me you can just fuck off, buster."

The "snake" sounds annoyed.

Exits: S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake amulet.

Defenestration · « **Reply #431 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:15:08 PM »

"Insult you? No! Why, I'm sure that together we can get out of here! I have so much faith in you I'm wearing this necklace that looks like you!"

Guild · « **Reply #432 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:17:44 PM »

Defenestration VI: *sniff* "Well, if you want to help me, find my gold and the key to this room. Bring them here and I'll let you out of the Labyrinth. I might even give you a coin for your trouble."

Exits: S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake pendant.

Defenestration · « **Reply #433 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:29:21 PM »

"What does the key look like? And do you know where the gold might be?"

Guild · « **Reply #434 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:34:34 PM »

Defenestration VI: "I haven't a clue, and no. I woke up here two days ago and 5,342 coins were missing from my hoard. And if that weren't bad enough, I'm hungry."

Exits: S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake pendant.

Defenestration · « **Reply #435 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:59:35 PM »

"How very... DRAGONY of you."

I go South, South, East, North, East, South, East, and North 6 times.

Guild · « **Reply #436 on:** October 05, 2008, 05:12:56 PM »

Defenestration VI: You're in a room full of dead bodies and chopped-up furniture. There is a room to the E that looks like a kitchen.

Exits: S and E.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake amulet.

Defenestration · « **Reply #437 on:** October 05, 2008, 05:46:22 PM »

I take a long piece of a dead body or furniture and stick it in the doorway east, as if to try and trigger a trap.

Guild · « **Reply #438 on:** October 05, 2008, 05:55:59 PM »

Defenestration VI: You use an eight-foot long bed post. You poke the floor, the walls... nothing happens. A 12-foot tall man holding two meat cleavers watches you from his bent-over position in a corner of the kitchen. There is rotten food lying around him and a kitchen knife near his foot. The kitchen also has two other exits, N and E. Through the N door you see a toilet. Through the E door you see a well-cleaned bedroom.

Exits: E and S.

Items: A 10-foot pole, 1 gold coin, a snake amulet, an 8-foot bedpost.

Defenestration · « **Reply #439 on:** October 05, 2008, 07:08:33 PM »

I brandish my bedpost and pole like weapons in each hand and sidle through the kitchen and into the bedroom, keeping my eye on the "chef".

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