>>13364092

We have a diamond word. Shit is cash.

You are yourself an adventurer, and one of greater accomplishment than the Baron's child. You have slain a great red dragon, and had a hand in thwarting the incursion of the hordes of the abyssal realms. As a result, the Baron has promised you 10,000 sovereigns of gold for finding his son, and 10,000 more for his corpse or 20,000 more for his safe return. You've gathered some information, and believe you are hot on his trail, perhaps near his current location. The most recent lead is but a few months old, well after the Baron last saw his son.

>>>/v/

is this on a MP server perchance?
also, how do you plan to deal with creepers

We're all armored up and lugging around a Diamond sword? Shy of a horde of ambushing Creepers we're pretty much set to take on the fuckin' world.

Now let's kill some creepers, get some sulfer, make some TNT and start to level some mountains.

You are well equipped for your task. You have a magic sword, 10-foot pole, plenty of arrows for your bow, 50 feet of rope, a hatchet to cut down wood or possibly break through wooden barriers, a pick for climbing, a shovel for digging, stout armor with which to protect yourself, and enough torches to see your way through a dungeon if need be.

I suggest we make for the nearest settlement, if there is one.

Otherwise, find a good clearing near the shore, and begin constructing a temporary camp. a Simple wooden or earth cabin should suffice. Construct a basic workbench and some chests too, since we may need more tools if we need to make an Excavation of this.

>>13364204
>I suggest we make a settlement, if there isn't one.
FTFY

Your information has brought you here. You believe this to be young Arquellette's goal. Somewhere near here is the barrow of a long forgotten wizard-king. What little you know of this long-dead king is that he was a most terrible ruler who dabbled in obscene magics and terrible experiments.

As you draw near the marshy shore, you feel a sense of wrongness. The trees stand like dead soldiers against the sky. You hear no birdsong or insect calls, even though it is high summer. The air is still and oppressive.

>>13364204
To further on this, try setting up the shelter near any large mountains or lakes. People will generally go where there's resources, right?

>>13364221
A swimming cow?! SORCERY! MURDER IT!

You make your landing upon the shore near where you found a broken up canoe. Nearby there is evidence of a campfire no more than a few weeks old.

No time to make camp, you must find the Baron's son! Besides, the day is yet young!

>>13364221

Make a large sand dune to see get a view of what's going on

If we're not allowed to minecraft in Minecraft, then I guess we best go with adventuran instincts-

Head towards the nearest mountain and look for any sort of cave entrances?

>>13364265
Climb to the highest point within a few hundred yards of your landing site. Don't stray too far before setting up a camp somewhere.

>>13364267
You decide that finding high ground would be an excellent idea, and proceed to do just that.

What's this? A formation of stones on an unnaturally level surface? You begin to suspect that you are very near your goal indeed. You search around more carefully and in the sand dunes you find the openings to three caves, each of them hidden by collapsing mud and windblown sand.

>>13364335

Immediately begin a thorough search of the area around the stones, look for any entrances, monsters, or clues. If none are to be found, begin digging at the foot of these stones, and keep a weather ear open for any telltale dungeon sounds.

>>13364335
>>13364335
>>13364335
Inspect.

A western cave...

>>13364335
the left one! the left one!

..a middle cave..


>gorked ofc

Sorry capcha, haven't seen any orks yet.

... and an eastern cave.

Which one do you inspect first?

>colines Masques.

But capcha, I wear no mask.

>>13364458
west

>>13364458
The east cave. It shows the fewest signs of being buikt on or around unstable sand which could make for an unneccesarily dangerous excavation. Also, I gather some dirt before venturing in, handy to ease falls and build bridges with.

>>13364469
this, but move carefully, wizards are tricky sorts.

>>13364458
Middle.

why enter a cave? He is pretty close to the coast, right? Dig a trench and lead it into one of the caves to flood it. Fuck the prince.

You dig away at the sand and mud covering the entrance to the western cave.

You quickly discover that it isn't a cave at all, but instead an entrance corridor lined with worked stones. In the dim light you can see two very heavy doors at the end.

>>13364528
We get paid more if we recover the Prince, so bringing him back alive for an extra 20,000 gold is highly favorable.

I say once you select a cave, seal off the other two to prevent anything from sneaking out.

>>13364535
excevate the two other cave entrances before proceeding.

>>13364552
>>13364553
Both of these, poke around and then cov the other two with sand. Earth if easily doable.

You decide that you need more information before you can make a prudent decision, so you opt to check the other two caves first.

The eastern cavern also appears to be artificial, but your eyes cannot penetrate the gloom beyond thirty feet or so.

The middle cave, however...

>>13364535
Oh fuck, that looks promising.

Cover the other two caves, light up that area with a torch or two and see if we can't get the doors open.

Also, this thread is not helping to convince me to not play Minecraft all night.

The middle cave is most exceptional. The floor is lined with tiles, and the walls and ceiling are lined with fresh plaster. The walls are painted with frescoes depicting all manner of grisly and macabre scenes. In the dim light you can see what seems to be a chest sticking out of the wall.

On the floor is a clearly marked trail of red inlaid tiles.

>>13364650
Looks like a blood trail.

>>13364650
this one! this one looks like all kinds of "fun". proceed carefully, using the 10 ft pole liberally to check the floor and ceiling. and get a good look at that chest.

>>13364650

Search the chest.

>>13364650
Middle cavern is clearly a puzzle trap. I suggest ignoring it and going with either the dark tunnel cavern or the double doors. Wall up, or better yet, flood the middle cavern and the one we dont go down and then head out.

>>13364650
Wall off the cave of deep darkness and the cave of dark doors, and then proceed down the middle cave, carefully entering with a torch in one hand and sword in the other. I want me some treasure chest.

>>13364677
>>13364675
this, but give those "tiles" a good look while we're at it. Just in case.

>>13364675
At first you fear you find a blood trail, but no, they're simply red glazed tiles set in a trail in the floor

>>13364677

Before approaching the chest, you decide to give the tiles a closer look.... There's a message written onto the red tiles!
You hearken back upon your experience as an adventurer, knowing full well that old tombs are often riddled with traps. You deploy your 10' pole with the full expectation of finding unpleasant surprises.
>>13364701

>>13364698
but puzzle traps equal fun and profit! and we've got all kinds of useful gear. for example.... 50ft of rope and a pick. do we have any pitons?

>>13364335
>>13364535
>>13364620
>>13364650

...and that's all I'm going to say on that

>>13364732
What does the message say?

The message reads:

ACERERAK CONGRATULATES YOU ON YOUR POWERS OF OBSERVATION. SO MAKE OF THIS WHATEVER YOU WISH, FOR YOU WILL BE MINE IN THE END NO MATTER WHAT!

The message continues further on in the tiles, and it takes the form of a poem or riddle...

>>13364751

I just got it. Without runing it, My advice is that we take everything EXTRA, EXTRA CAREFULLY and seriously consider flooding the corridors we're not taking.

this is going to be...interesting.

>>13364779
I don't get it

sadface.jpeg

(no picture, just words words words)

Go back to the tormentor or through the arch,
and the second great hall you'll discover.
Shun green if you can, but night's good color
is for those of great valor.
If shades of red stand for blood the wise
willl not need sacrifice aught but a loop of
magical metal - you're well along your march.

(more)

>>13364766
Unfortunately, continue reading.

(the text continues in the tiles)
Two pits along the way will be found to lead
to a fortuitous fall, so check the wall.
These keys and those are most important of all,
and beware of trembling hands and what will maul.
If you find the false you find the true
and into the columned hall you'll come,
and there the throne that's key and keyed.

(still more.. this acererak guy likes to go on)

(last bit)
The iron men of visage grim do more than
meets the viewers eye.
You've left and left and found my Tomb
and now your soul will die."

All that from a bunch of red tiles.

Now what?

>>13364816
keep checking our footing as we read. don't wanna fall into those pits he just mentioned, fortuitous or not, quite yet...

>>13364826
Walk on the red tiles, perhaps they're a path?

>>13364826
well, we've examined the floors for now... what are all these things on the walls?

>>13364766
I didn't "get it" till here.
I vote we go back to civilization and let someone else do this.

>>13364830
You prod the floor checking for deadfalls. You find none up to where the image indicates.

>>13364847

Perhaps, but also perhaps a trap for the unwary. Since your prodding finds nothing amiss with the red tiled path for now, you decide it's as safe a route as any.
>>13364852

The paintings on the wall are frescos- a type of artwork painted on fresh plaster. They are many and varied. You see paintings of monstrous beings at war, copious skulls and screaming mouths. You see a pair of Jackal-headed beings which you suspect to be yugoloths holding a very real chest (the one embedded into the wall) and near them a painting of some sort of demon captured in a wizard's workshop.

>>13364871
Seconded. The son is dead, get the baron to bring righteous lava and flood this hellplace.

Examine EVERYTHING, literally everything carefully. Don't even think about opening the chest.

Heck, go back, and just dig a new entryway down by the stone foundations.

rolled 3 = 3

Spot check.

>>13364901
yugoloths are ok guys, right? I say we pry open the chest. We're not actually touching it with our hands if at all possible, but a sword, pole, or pick will do fine. Do this from beside it, not in front of it.

do you have ausberger's syndrome

>>13364937

Do not disturb the chest, just...back away slowly.

FYI in case you haven't guessed it by now, this is The Tomb of Horrors. AD&D rules, and not Minecraft rules, are how this will be conducted, if you have the necessary intestinal fortitude for the task.

You are a very high level character, and it is safe to assume on your part that you have an excellent suite of dungeoneering skills and are more than capable of handling yourself in a fight. Your abilities will be kept purposefully nebulous so that I can fudge things. You can make it, and I'll give you every opportunity to do so, but death is a very real possibility.

Think of this as a very elaborate graphical aid similar to the one found inside the pages of S1.

OP, I just want to pop in and say that, what you did there ...

I see it.

And picture related.

>>13364937
>>13364947
well it's either the chest or whatever's at the end of the hall. or mabye we should think about the riddle a bit? Hopefully it's in order
>Go back to the tormentor or through the arch
so either an arch, or someone tormenting someone else. There are a lot of "tormentors" on these walls. Are there any arches?

>>13364779
>>13364751

Whoa, wait a minute.

This is a Minecraft version of Tomb of Horrors isn't it?

>>13364923
While you're looking for traps, you happen to notice an essentially unconcealed catch at the base of the chest. A closer inspection reveals that there is a pivot along the top of the chest against the wall. Apparently the whole thing lifts up and out away from the wall with a hinge being pooly concealed along the top.

>>13365079
Leave it be and head down the corridor

rolled 17 = 17

>>13365079
I didn't get a 20 on that spot check, so this is obviously some diversion. Rerolling.

>>13365144
You decide that discretion is the better part of keeping your hide in one piece, and proceed down the colorful corridor. Along the way, your trusty pole finds five trap doors, each of which are 10 feet deep and lined with vicious looking spikes. You're confident that you've probably found all of them, and can make your way to the end of the great hall...

>>13365144
Listen to this guy, he obviously has some idea what's going on.

>>13365213
Tread carefully, don't get cocky.

Off Topic for a second: I wish you could make the string spiders drop into rope for repelling or climbing.

rolled 1 = 1

>>13365213
Listen Check.

>>13365213


Sounds legit. Let's go.

At the very end of the hall is a great stone face not unlike a devil's. It is carved out of green stone and has a blank expression on its face. The opening for its mouth is easily big enough for a person to climb into, and the space inside is a dead black. To your left is...

rolled 19 = 19

>>13365265
Mine the surrounding mossy cobblestone.

>>13365265

Seeing as how I'm sure there are plenty of things in here actively trying to eat me, I'll pass on voluntarily crawling into anything's mouth

An archway filled with glowing mist. As you approach, a stone at the bottom right glows blue, a stone at the top glows yellow, and a stone on the bottom left glows orange. The mist obscures whatever might lie beyond the archway.

>>13365318
Jump through, no looking back. Immediately set up cobblestone shelter.

>>13365318

Does touching the blue stone do anything?

>>13365366
Touching the blue stone causes it to pulse brighter and stay that way.

>>13365375
Can I pick up the blue stone and put it in my pack?

>>13365375

How about the others? If i touch the red, does the blue go out?

>>13365400

Good enough. I'm a brave adventurer, onward!

>>13365386
The blue stone was a normal grey color like the rest of the stones in the arch. It only started to glow blue when you drew close. It is a very solid part of the archway, and except for the fact that it glows, is structurally identical to the others. It would take several hours of work with your pick in order to chip away the mortar that holds it in place, not to mention the difficulty with which you'd have prying it out, as it looks load-bearing.

>>13365389

There's no glowing red stone?? There are, however, faintly glowing orange and yellow stones, located at bottom left and top, respectively.

rolled 20 = 20

>>13365435
Spot Check.

>>13365400
Go in, and prepare your anus.

>>13365483
Do I still have my boat?

>the tomb of horrors played out with minecraft
this is so awesome

>>13365445

Using your prodigious dungeoneering abilities (and casting a quick detect magic to boot), you inspect your surroundings.

There is a low-level ambient magical field everywhere. You cannot determine what kind it is.

The great stone face radiates an overwhelmingly powerful aura of abjuration school magic, but does not seem to have any sort of mundane traps.

The arch, too, doesn't seem to have any sort of mundane mechanism to it, and radiates a low level illusion/phantasm aura, as well as a moderate transmutation aura.

>>13365513
Abjuration, but no Evocation or Conjuration?
I think we can fiddle with this guys.

>>13365503
The boat is still at the shore. It's a bit too bulky for you to go toting about in a tomb.

>>13365494

That's two votes for entering the arch. What say ye?

rolled 13 = 13

>>13365584
I don't like the Transmutation Aura (don't want to enter).
Can we Spellcraft check to guess what it does?

>>13365615
You're highly certain that it's some sort of teleportation effect. A highly variable teleportation effect, in fact, and one that is keyed to a number of external variables.

Perhaps we should know our ability scores? What's our Strength, Dex, Con, Wis and Int?

>>13365626

Can we make a search check to look for hidden passages? Also can we examine the skullshaped archway a little more carefully, I am curious about that powerful aura. Perhaps a spellcraft check to see if we know what it does/is?

>>13365630
Good, Really Good, Okay, Good, and Really Good

>>13365639
This is DnD, mah boy. Roll them d20s.

>>13365641

Tie something to a length of rope and throw it into the portal.

rolled 9 = 9

>>13365626
Don't know where it goes, how to manage where it goes, or if we can get back?
I think it's prudent that we leave the portal 'till last. Maybe try and find something which may hint or describe how to identify and select destinations.

rolled 13, 17 = 30

>>13365639 here

first is search, second is spellcraft

I bet that the colored stones have to do with the teleportation arch? If that's the case, then by using binary combinations of them -- Red/Yellow/Blue, where 0 is off and 1 is on -- 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, and 111 reveal eight possible destinations. IF that's the case. And I'm betting that a lot of the destinations are traps, so it'd be best to try to find the right destination before jumping in.

rolled 16 = 16

Searchin' the skull.

>>13365688
The problem is we have no way of telling which combos will lead to a trap. We can't see on through the portal.

rolled 12 = 12

>>13365718
Can we summon small creatures, or do we happen to have a Bag of Tricks? Send 'em through on a leash, haul 'em back.

rolled 12 = 12

Remove pants, switch to third person view.

Additional searches yield no evidence of traps or secret mechanisms or doors.

An attempt to discern the nature of the abjuration aura of the great stone face leads you to believe that it's some sort of modified nondetection spell capable of deflecting even the mightiest of divination attempts.

Spellcraft alone is not enough to determine how the archway functions. Pressing the orange and yellow stones causes them to glow brighter, just as what happened when you pressed the blue stone. Pressing the blue stone does not cause it to change. Other than the increased intensity of the glow, touching the stones causes no discernable change in yourself, your surroundings, or the archway.

As a last resort, you do happen to have in your possession a couple of scrolls with the spell "Legend Lore" scribed upon them.

Tying your rope around a stone and into the archway does not seem to trigger anything, and you can easily pull the rope (and stone) back through.

rolled 11, 10 = 21

>>13365741

hmm, so do we want to know about the doorway or the big face?

rolled 6 = 6

>>13365750
Remove pants, switch to third person view.

>>13365750
If there's no visible damage to the stone then I take that as a sign that we're safe to venture through. I say go in.

>>13365750

Can we try the combinations of the stones with our rock+rope test. Does anything change with the glow?

And with the third vote, you step into the archway...

There is a feeling of disjunction, and you find yourself in a very dark place.

rolled 8 = 8

>>13365824
Remove pants, switch to third person view.

>>13365824
Technically I voted twice, so really we're still only at 2 votes to go in.

>>13365824

TORCHES
TORCHES EVERYWHERE!

>>13365852

3rd vote: We go in.

>>13365852
I voted to go in before he looked left and described the portal, so pretend he counted that one.

>>13365857
Well so long as I don't get blamed for us going into some unspeakable hell world it's all good.

You hastily conjure up a light cantrip, and take stock of your surroundings. You are in a ten foot by ten foot iron lined prison. The ceiling is low, and there is a plug of worked stone in the center of it. The floor beneath you is made of worked stone.

On one wall are three identical levers. They can be manipulated so that they go up or down.

>>13365901

Toggle them one at a time

>>13365901

Uh. Tie a length of rope to each lever; stand in the entrance to this room and pull them in various combinations.

rolled 9 = 9

>>13365901
Remove pants, switch to third person view.

>>13365901
Set them all to the up position.

>>13365916

You have to roll a 21 or higher on a single d20 for that type of action to be successful, anon.

>>13365901
Set the two on the left a right up and the center down.

>>13365901

Set all of them down.

>>13365945
You have something against playing MC in third person, broski?

>>13365914
>>13365915

You tie a rope to each lever and toggle them one at a time. Nothing seems to happen regardless of whether you move each lever up or down. You perhaps feel a mechanism slip at a critical point. Either it is broken, or maybe more than one needs to be moved at a time.

Also, this small room has no obvious entrance. You teleported into here.

>>13365916

You find your leather leggings too comfortable to remove, and you neglected to memorize wizard eye today.

rolled 6 = 6

>>13366009

Examine the discoloured ceiling tile.

rolled 6 = 6

>>13366009
Spin in circles, cycle between crouch and stand.

rolled 20 = 20

>>13366009
There appears to be a mismatched bit of ceiling. Check for any sort of traps.

rolled 6 = 6

>>13366063
In other words, SPOT CHECK.

>>13366009

Making sure not to stand under the stone plug, move all levers to the down position individually, then up simultaneously. If we can only do two at a time, then the end ones.

rolled 12 = 12

>>13366090
Except I roll Nat 20's when I do it.

bunp

>>13366223
see: >>13365445

>>13366231
CURSES!

>>13366063
The stone plug seems fairly solid, but there are small seams around the edges of it. You surmise that the levers control it somehow. You also suspect that they are somehow connected to the floor.

>>13366091

Gonna need some verification before we do this.

>>13366091

second

>>13366289
I will support on the condition that we move the levers with our feet.

>>13366309

It's going to be hard to move two levers simultaneously with our feet. Let's compromise: kick one of the levers like a badass, and flip the other one with a free hand so we don't end up more vulnerable than we already probably are.

>>13366289
I also say go with >>13366091

Moving the levers down individually has no effect, as you've already proven. Moving all three of them up simultaneously, however, is a different story. You feel a mechanism catch, and after a moment, the plug in the ceiling shifts upwards slightly, and wheels slowly out of the way. Above you can see a crawl space leading into pitch blackness.

>>13366348

Can we put a torch up ahead of us and see what's up there?

>>13366348

Wave the 10 foot pole to check for blade traps, then take a peek provided we don't now have two 5 foot poles

>>13366348
I say we climb up into that bitch.

>>13365942
Oh, look who was right. Maybe you guys will listen to ADVENTURER MASTER RACE next time. Watch out, fatties, I got dis.
>>13366348
Shoot an arrow up there. Then get it lit.

it's a simple matter to introduce light into the crawl space. It's also trivial to pull yourself up and take a peek inside.

The passage heads north for roughly twenty feet and then makes a hard right.

>>13366446

Proceed carefully, checking with the ten foot pole, take a peek around the bend and see what we can see.

>>13366459
show me dem dice.

>>13366472

rolled 11 = 11

>>13366472

>>13366510
You tap around with the pole, finding nothing. As you get to the corner, you realize the difficulty in maneuvering a 10 foot pole in a three foot wide corridor. Realizing that you'll have to stuff it in your bag of holding so you can make the turn, you accidentally bang it against the roof of the corner.

It makes the unmistakable sound of metal on wood.

It appears that the ceiling here is a trap door disguised as the regular stone of the tunnel. You push on it, and it easily flips up and open. Inside you can see the ceiling of another darkened chamber.

>>13366578

Light + climb

>>13366586

second

rolled 12 = 12

>>13366615
Third, and rolling.

You climb up with your torch in hand.

There are three chests here, one covered in gold leaf, another plated in silver, and a third oak chest bound in solid bronze bands.

Participation seems to be slacking, and I'm getting tired. This is where we leave off tonight.

Shall I resume this at a later date?

>>13366665
Do as you see fit, good sir.

>>13366665

yeah, was fun

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13364092/

Archive is up. Feel free to bomb it in the voting.

Awesome.

Though I didn't find the thread until it was already over...

None the less, this kind of stuff is why I keep coming back to /tg/.

Good stuff, OP.
Looking forward to when you come back for part II!

bumping this so that the late-niters can read it.