TEAM TARZAN LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM TARZAN

READY: START Team Tarzan roster: Anastasia, Ikuo Ryuuzaki, Jack Kelly, Kasen Ibaraki, Keigo Asano, Kurogane, Kurt Wagner, Silver, Yamatonokami Yasusada, Yaeger, Yosuke Hanamura, Yugi Mutou. The city's been under siege for what feels like hours. It's only on August 3rd that you learn it's been a matter of days. Monsters begin pulling Retrospec users through portals left and right, large gaping holes in reality that spit you out in any given location around the city. However, just as you think you're finally getting away, a large blue portal opens and you're snatched up. No amount of fighting and struggling will free you and soon the pressure is too great to ignore. Darkness fills your vision and the last thing you may remember is the sound of the monkeys howling... This is the Team Tarzan Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Tarzan is as follows: 3RD: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 1 Part Two 10TH: Objective 1 closes (8PM EST), Objective 2 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 2 Part Two 17TH: Objective 2 closes (8PM EST), Objective 3 posted (9PM EST) | Object 3 Part Two 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work.

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WEEK TWO OBJECTIVE

[recollecters]

The jungle sounds make for a nice backdrop as everyone rests and gathers their bearings for a few days. The lizard meat cooks well enough to sustain the party and while the clothing they find may be too large or too small it will do for helping to keep warm at night or bandage any fresh wounds. The supplies laid out around the camp may be of use, too, to fix your gear and make a new plan. There's still much more of the jungle to explore.

On the evening of August 10th, the soundtrack of the monsters is interrupted by a frantic honking of a vehicle. Several roars and hisses fill the area as tires tread through the mud, a safari jeep suddenly crashing right through the middle of camp. It continues to honk and seemingly won't stop until every party member gathers their belongings and climb in. There are no seat belts on this bad boy, so you may wish to hang on tight even if there may be items some party members are compelled to pick up.* As the jeep races through the darkened jungle, rain begins to pour and the party will pass several wild animals and vantage points in the jungle including other camps that have clearly been attacked. Glancing out the side, the party may also notice the red and blue orbs from before fly right beside the jeep. Over the river and through the trees, the jeep doesn't stop for at least an hour before it throws on the brakes and nearly kicks everyone out.

The party will find themselves in front of what appears to be a large temple. As they approach, a loud, animalistic voice echoes from inside.

To regain what has been lost, you must lose what you have found.

All around them inside torches light up to reveal several hallways that split off from the main room. In the center of this room there's an altar with a large scarab beetle. This beetle is missing four pieces, and the red and blue orbs arrive to settle into slots five and six, transforming into solid colored glass.

Partner up and explore these ancient ruins. The only way out is to complete the puzzle.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Explore the tombs and find the four missing glass pieces.**
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Submit at least four different tomb explorations and solve the puzzles inside. Please note: some of these tombs will also have monsters.

The primary objective is required to "win" the week two objective! Completing the secondary objective is optional and may allow team members to gain extra tools/items for next week's objective. Threads which progress toward either objective should be reported to this toplevel. Your primary objective cannot be completed solo, and will require you to work as a team!

For this week's secondary objective, please comment here with directions you'd like to go and explorations of the tomb so that the moderators may provide you with information and clear the thread!

At least 9 of 12 team members must participate to pass. You must also solve the objective; be sure to communicate with your teammates and please let the moderators know of any drastic player action; for the primary objective, please let the moderators know what parts of the tomb you are checking as there may be traps, monsters or curses!

*At this time, if you put in for an item regain to be delivered during week 2, characters will now receive these items!
**Forgive my hideous work-desk art skills, I'm sorry

OBJECTIVE REPORTING - WEEK TWO

[recollecters]

Any objective progress/solutions should go here! You do need to thread out the completion of the objective in full.

[youraffection]

Cave 3 explored! - Anya & Yosuke

[feistytrader]

Room 2 cleared! Featuring gathering the right order the scarab pieces go in.

[totallynotanoni]

Room Six explored. Glass piece recovered. - Jack, Katherine, and Yosuke. And Fanny and the Lizard pal-thing.

[thisloveisjustice]

Room 5 cleared! - Tatsuo & Jaeger

[thisloveisjustice]

Cave 1 survived, by Tatsuo, Katherine, and Kurogane

TOMB EXPLORATION

[recollecters]

Please respond here with which characters are in the group (at least two minimum, three maximum if you are requesting mod comments to the thread instead of simply flavor text; in these cases please let the moderator know the tag order in your request) and which area they're exploring. Please also provide any additional notes you may need to make. Keep in mind several of these areas will have puzzles to solve and some may have curses or monsters.

Please note this is for OOC requests/information, not the exploration threads themselves, thank you!

Ok lets do this.

[totallynotanoni]

First things first:

1) When we enter, are there any odd animals watching us? Have the shadow monsters that stalked Katherine come back?

2) as we walk to this center room of sorts, what have the makers of this place left behind? I'm asking about any hieroglyphs on the walls, any shattered or whole old artifacts on the ground or placed around, or anything else.

3) Any foreign inscriptions around the scarab? Anything to make clear what it symbolizes?

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo and Jaeger are going to check out room 5!

[insantafe]

Jack, Katherine, and Yosuke are going to check out room six! What's in store for them there?

[okitactless]

Yasu and Silver are gonna be tackling cave 2! What adventures await them?

[youraffection]

Yosuke is an overachiever and is teaming up with Anya to explore Cave 3 as well!

[feistytrader]

WE'RE THIRSTY PEOPLE- Jeager and Silver are gonna nab room 2! (I'm really feeling the number 2 I guess--)

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo will also be checking out Cave 1 with Kurogane and Katherine (provided Room 5 doesn't kill him)

ROOM 5

[thisloveisjustice]

After getting a look at the rather odd looking alter, Tatsuo jerks a thumb back toward the entrance.

"There were a couple tunnels that branched off earlier. I'm going to go check out the left-hand one. Anyone want to come with?"

CAVE 3

[constellates]

[It's cave exploring time!!

By some miracle, Anya got washed up and traveled along with her heels and also her monkey companion - so I hope Yosuke doesn't mind having a bouncywild tagging along. For now, he rests on Anya's shoulders and plays with her hair idly. She'll be fearless yet again - haven't we learned from this, Anya - and light a torch to go exploring into the cave as she steps carefully.

She looks behind her shoulder at Yosuke, tilting her head.]

Yosuke...? You are doing okay, yes?

ROOM 2

[scythegun]

[Well, this has been an entertaining trip through the jungle. Jaeger's actually excited now that we've found a temple because where there's a temple, there's bound to be treasure. That's totally how this is going to go, right?

Anyway, he'll pull Silver aside so they can investigate the ruins together, picking a path at random to proceed down.]

Isn't this exciting? This is much better than exploring the jungle!

ROOM 6

[insantafe]

[ As they walk in, the first thing Jack thinks is that they should've brought a torch. All these candles, and there's still no light. And then he sees the coffin and hesitates. ]

I swear, if we get dead people jumping out at us...

[ Against his better judgment, he approaches it with a grim expression. And he leans over slowly to peek in... and breathes a sigh of relief. No dead bodies - thank god. There's got to be something in here, though. Otherwise, what's the point of having a room here? Then he hears a noise, looks up, and groans. ]

Oh, no. You've got to be kidding me. We're supposed to chase down Dracula now?

CAVE 1

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo looks around at the various tunnels, noting which ones have been explored and which haven't.

"I don't think we've looked at this one yet."

He points to the third tunnel from the left.

ROOM THREE

[digthefuzz]

[Kurt carefully steps into the room with his new traveling companion and takes a look around.

Of course, the main thing that stands out is that tile puzzle.]

Oh man! It's like some kinda ancient puzzle... Radical!

[He hopes it's not cursed.]

CAVE 2

[feistytrader]

[There isn't a single part of this that isn't exciting. They're out of the jungle, for starters. It's not exactly civilization, but he can appreciate the simplicity of a cave in some jungle temple straight out of an action movie. Or maybe- hey, it's not like he's alone. He has company, so while the two of them are walking, he offers-]

Do you think this is more like a movie or a video game?

[Because this is clearly the engaging discussion they need to have while wandering through some cave.]

ROOM FOUR

[loudmouths]

[ this exploring stuff was exhausting. keigo wasn't really the type to do strenuous activity for very long, and hauling ass through various rooms didn't liken him to the idea of a repeat performance, either. but, there they were... this time around, his partner was a girl, and that only put keigo on edge even further. he was a protective person, so at his insistence, he was the one who led.

not that it would matter in a few. ]

Maa... I wonder what the point of this one is...

ROOM 1

[youraffection]

[ After the bat fiasco and dancing to the Backstreet Boys with a mummy, Yosuke feels like he's ready for anything. There's only one room they haven't checked out yet, and no one has died, so... (he's feeling optimistic, okay?)

This has to be the big one. Maybe it's Frank, The Resurgence or something. (He really hopes there's not a giant crocodile waiting for them.) Either way, he steels himself as he looks over his shoulder to the others who also agreed to complete the circuit. ]

Okay...everyone ready?

SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED

[constellates]

[IT'S TIME TO GET THIS DONE - since apparently all the pieces have been assembled? Anya will gently ask for them before going to look over to the altar itself and hum thoughtfully as she looks at the glowing areas, then back at the pieces in her hands.]

... головоломка.... We have to do a puzzle...

I wonder what it will show.

[Well, time for no fear gang - does anyone have the order memorized that wants to help her out?]