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Author Topic: The Pillared Garden: A Miracle of Rare Device  (Read 24198 times)

Harry Baldman

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The Pillared Garden: A Miracle of Rare Device
« on: October 02, 2016, 05:40:13 pm »

The Pillared Garden
The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot

Your landing capsule rumbles and shakes and you fret over your precious cargo as the heat shield peels away, bleeding off velocity rapidly. It's been hours since you ejected from your ride here, and it's not gotten any less cramped. You'd be throwing up now, but you got it all out when you woke up after a busy night of drinking yourself half to death with your motley crew of associates in an impromptu Holy-Fuck-There's-No-Turning-Back Party following a more-or-less-simultaneous standard Holy-Shit-This-Is-Really-Happening epiphany.

You are about to land on what the resident Frog People call Kwarrem. You vastly prefer this name over the Simple Galactic common name of Death Hole, as catchy as it is. If the numbers the shady Spider captain gave you are accurate, you should be landing slightly off the coast of its only supercontinent, Kwar.

You get to find out how wildly optimistic this estimate was in not very long, as the turbulence eventually subsides, you become subsonic and eventually your parachutes deploy, and in what feels like way too long you make a soft landing upon the waves. Desperate for fresh air, the most anxious of you pops open the hatch.

It's a sunny day on this part of Kwarrem at least, but you don't see even the slightest smidgen of land in any direction, or even the characteristic browning of the water you were told to expect in the vicinity of the Great River's delta. Just blue waters every which way. You're glad the effort of kissing your ass goodbye might not have gone to waste, at least.

One of your crewmates turns on the distress transponder. Or, rather, the backup distress transponder, the main one seems to have malfunctioned. That done, you sit here and reflect upon your wild ambition here. You were going to be the dream team! The ones who would venture into the depths of forbidden Kwar, unearth its deadly secrets... study them, learn them... manipulate them. You were going to return home as legends, kings, GODS, wielding the tools that the ancient Frog People used to usher in the glorious, almost entirely forgotten First Galactic Age!

For now, though, you draw straws just in case. The one who forgot that the longest straw is actually the losing one (as settled during Serious Time in your Holy-Fuck-There's-No-Turning-Back Party) will be the first to get eaten in case nobody comes to get you.

Wait. That was the rule, right? You're starting to have second thoughts from the looks your crew is giving you.

Spoiler: What Is This? (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Races (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: October 13, 2016, 02:09:43 pm by Harry Baldman »
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2016, 05:41:01 pm »

People of Science

Doctor Carnifarex, spider-thug looking to turn her life around (AkumaKasai)
He Who Sees Beyond, shiny physicist incredibly out of his element (ATHATH)
Eccentrica Gallumbits, galactic ecdysiast extraordinaire (Draignean)
Bertillious "Bert" Callion, thief of science (S34N1C)
Waffels, spider-janitor (Pancaek)

People Who Haven't Made It Yet

Arana Carnivora, spider ecologist (ziizo)
Sisunesh, structural engineer, also a spider (crazyabe)
Peter "Mingus" Yeltzin, world-class fly bassoonist (Greenstarfanatic)
Zoomboomafoo, highly enthusiastic barnacle acrobat (Xantalos)
Snapper Johnson, shiny photojournalist (lawastooshort)
Utargh, spider artisanal cook (FallacyofUrist)
« Last Edit: October 03, 2016, 12:15:37 pm by Harry Baldman »
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2016, 05:48:45 pm »

Looks interesting, I'll post a character sheet when I have the time.
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« Last Edit: October 02, 2016, 07:46:14 pm by AkumaKasai »
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2016, 05:50:04 pm »

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« Last Edit: October 13, 2016, 02:31:57 pm by ATHATH »
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2016, 05:53:46 pm »

Coming in from the failed attempt to get into Draignean's game! PTW
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2016, 06:09:46 pm »

Name: Eccentrica Gallumbits

Gender: All.

Race: Worm Person

Profession: Strip Tease Dancer

Stats
    Body: 1
    Finesse: 2
    Mind: 0
    Science: -1

Wounds: 0

Equipment:
Incredibly Seductive Spangly Tearaway Outfit (141 Dollars)
39 Dollars in Singles stuffed in various places of the outfit
((If I can't pay for the REALLY seductive outfit, then:))
Artificial OmniLimb
10 Dollars in Singles stuffed in various places of the outfit
« Last Edit: October 02, 2016, 06:52:28 pm by Draignean »
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2016, 06:29:24 pm »

Reserved. Working on it now

Reserved. Working on it now

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« Last Edit: October 02, 2016, 07:56:30 pm by S34N1C »
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2016, 06:34:18 pm »

Name: Waffels

Gender: male

Race: Spider people

Profession: repair man/janitor (he's just so good at getting to those hard to reach spots, you know. Doesn't even need a ladder or anything. Which means he spends a lot of time cleaning up things instead of doing the usual repair work)

Stats: your four beautiful stats start at -1, and you can distribute 6 points between them at the start.
Body: 0
Finesse: 1
Mind: -1
Science: 1
Wounds: 0

Equipment: you have 200 dollars to work with in personal savings. Spend wisely. Or don't spend at all - maybe the feeling of having money is comforting to you. Jot down what you buy, and how much money you have left afterwards.

Metal helmet (69.99)
Fish mask (59.99)
5 bargain meds (9,95)
30 smoke bombs (29.70)
Single shot thermonuclear pistol (15.99)
tear gas grenade (5.99)

Toolbox (wrench, hammer, Philips and flathead screwdriver, small crowbar, lots of duct tape, wd-40.): These are apparently free!

The remaining 8.39 goes to having my fortune read
« Last Edit: October 03, 2016, 07:43:43 am by Pancaek »
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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2016, 06:48:16 pm »

@Draignean: why
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2016, 06:54:39 pm »

@Draignean: why

Why not?
Now everything is going to be really awkward.

Plus, you spent over half of your money on a dress instead of important scientific equipment that could save our lives.
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2016, 07:00:35 pm »

Maybe someone should bring food?
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2016, 07:01:35 pm »

@Draignean: why

Why not?
Now everything is going to be really awkward.

Plus, you spent over half of your money on a dress instead of important scientific equipment that could save our lives.

Look, when I'm distracting the guard monsters with my seductive worm-shimmy, you'll thank me.  What will we use to win the hearts and minds of the natives if not our bodies?

Seriously, try bartering your SCIENCE for the ancient frog tech quantum key that the indigenous people's chieftain uses as a necklace, see how that works for you. By the time I'm done, he'll be THRILLED to give it to us. Well. He'll be thrilled to give it to me.
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« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2016, 07:04:59 pm »

@Draignean: why

Why not?
Now everything is going to be really awkward.

Plus, you spent over half of your money on a dress instead of important scientific equipment that could save our lives.

Look, when I'm distracting the guard monsters with my seductive worm-shimmy, you'll thank me.  What will we use to win the hearts and minds of the natives if not our bodies?

Seriously, try bartering your SCIENCE for the ancient frog tech quantum key that the indigenous people's chieftain uses as a necklace, see how that works for you. By the time I'm done, he'll be THRILLED to give it to us. Well. He'll be thrilled to give it to me.
Actually, you make a good point.

But how do we know that there is sapient life remaining on this planet, much less sapient life that is into exotic worm dancing?

Plus, you'll eventually cause a turn to have a really embarrassing title.
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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Re: The Pillared Garden: The Search For Crafts That Time Forgot (0/5)
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2016, 07:05:10 pm »

Name: Arana Carnvora

Gender: Female.

Race: Spider People
Can climb vertical walls and horizontal ceilings with incredible ease.
Can spin extremely sticky webs with some prep time.

Profession: Ecologist.

Stats:
Body: 1
Finesse: 0
Mind: 0
Science: 1

Wounds: 0

Equipment:
2 Actual Meds 80.00 (80.00)
1 Plasma Machete 90.00 (170.00)
5 Smoke Bombs 5.00 (175.00)
1 Defective Souvenir 5.00 (180.00)
2 Blasting Charges 20.00 (200.00)
« Last Edit: October 02, 2016, 08:12:09 pm by ziizo »
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GG, Ziizo. May my spirit live on in your boobs.
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