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 3 OBJECTIVE

[recollecters]

Stepping out of the room, the party will find themselves among wispy layers of clouds and yet the ground is as solid as ever. Green grass is neatly trimmed and flowers line the paths, trees bending gracefully and pulling together a perfect fairytale picture.

At their feet, however, appears to be twelve pairs of glass slippers. The party may put them on if they wish, but once they're out of their shelter the shoes begin to run down the path. The wind whispers a song about home, wishing to run away and be free. The party has no choice but to follow.

As the shoes lead them down the path they'll notice the castle looming in the distance. As they approach, a drawbridge lowers for them. Up close, the castle seems incredibly large and it looms over them. Several members of the party may remember a similar feeling when the world was so big and they were so small. Crossing the bridge after the shoes, the doors will swing open and the sound of royal trumpets blare from somewhere within.

Inside the castle proves to be massive, several stories higher than the party can even see. The throne room at the end of the castle is locked tight with two giant swords crossing over as a barrier. The shoes approach the throne room and slide up onto 12 pedestals as golden words scroll through the air.

The prize of the kingdom so large and fair, seemingly now vanished in thin air
All the king's horses and all the king's men will be needed to put your adventure to end

Well. That makes as much sense as anything else, doesn't it?

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Explore the castle and earn back the crown.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Submit at least four different room explorations and solve the puzzles/disable the traps within. Please note: some of these rooms will have curses/traps/monsters!

The primary objective is required to "win" the week three objective! Completing the secondary objective is optional and may allow team members to net higher rewards. 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 (please select a letter!) and any items/weapons/etc your character has on them. Please note: room C will be locked until all other rooms are opened/solved.

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/secondary objective, please check in with the moderator once you've solved your room!

OBJECTIVE REPORTING

[recollecters]

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

[scythegun]

Room G cleared!

[thisloveisjustice]

Room D cleared

[gandora]

Room A is Done!

[totallynotanoni]

Room F is done.

[okitactless]

Room B is done!

[insantafe]

Room E cleared

ROOM EXPLORATION/DUNGEON CRAWLING

[recollecters]

Please comment here with which room you would like to take to explore and any other notes you have! Please note: Room C is locked until all other rooms are unlocked and accomplished!

[youraffection]

Yosuke and Tatsuo are going for room D! GIVE THEM THE D.

[scythegun]

Jaeger and Silver are going to check out room G! What sort of terrible wonderful things will we find there?

[insantafe]

Yasusada and Jack are going to check out Room B! What might they find over there?

[totallynotanoni]

Katherine and Yasuda are going to Room F. Lets get F'd up!

Re: ROOM EXPLORATION/DUNGEON CRAWLING

[gandora]

Kurt and Yugi will be taking Room A!!

[insantafe]

Keigo and Jack will be looking in Room E! What's over there?

THE D

[youraffection]

[ He's not sure what he expected.

Castle in the sky?

Definitely not that. Although is arguably a move up from the shack in the sky, but Yosuke is still complaining. The only thing he's holding out on is the fact that the scroll said "put your adventure to an end".

They could go home! ...Probably. Maybe. Hopefully? Yeah.

They split up as per usual to cover more ground. Slowly they descend the steps, Yosuke keeping one hand on the wall as they go. ]

These go pretty far, huh? I thought we were done with these underground passageways...

[thisloveisjustice]

[Tatsuo's stomach sinks as the closer they get to the castle, the larger it seems to get. Giants. Somewhere... there has to be giants. Or they are suddenly shrinking again. Either way, Tatsuo doesn't like it.

As they splinter off into smaller teams once again, Tatsuo finds himself with Yousuke.
Which isn't bad at all, considering he knows the younger man already has an interest in investigating Retrospec and its shenanigans.]

Doesn't help that whoever lived--[lives?]--here is... much taller than us.

[Seriously. These stairs are going to be a pain in the ass to climb back up.]

THE G SPOT

[feistytrader]

[You know, there's something to be learned in the past few weeks about usefulness, teamwork, cooperation... This has been a truly profound bonding experience between the jungle, the temple, the traps, the near death experiences...

Yet here he is, dressed up in armor, bearing some old ass sword, ready for adventure in some god damn fantasy castle. He's taken a damn crown. What other treasures can they find here?

...

Keeping his spirits up will make it easier for Jeager and the others, too. Hopefully, anyway.]

You ready to solve this puzzle and find some treasure?

[scythegun]

[This has been a wild ride and one Jaeger would really like to get off of by now, but the castle's looking even more promising than the temple in terms of treasure and Jaeger is absolutely here for treasure. It's the one thing he's holding out hope for.

He's likewise got some armor on but he's forgone any new weapons because nothing can top his totally awesome scythe/rifle/sword/crossbow/shield combo. He's ready for whatever this room has to throw at them.]

Ja, of course! Hopefully we'll be more successful in finding treasure this time!

[As opposed to the death traps he kind of had a crisis over.]

ROOM B

[insantafe]

[ You know, they should be used to weird stuff by now. It's been, what, two, three weeks straight of sheer insanity, one mind-boggling experience after the other - they get lost in the jungle, driven to a tomb by a ghost car, caught some bats that Jack still isn't totally convinced weren't actual vampires, stocked up on medieval weaponry, climbed up a giant beanstalk... and somehow, following a bunch of glass slippers to a castle is the weird part.

It's the clouds, isn't it? That's where he draws the line. Brings a whole new meaning to walking on sunshine.

There's not much else to do but explore the castle. Another week, another place to wander around and hope they don't die. Fantastic.

So, you know what? Fine. Jack's going the easy way this time - straight ahead. And he is quite pleased with what he's found. ]

Hey, it's like a banquet hall or something! Maybe we get a welcome feast, eh?

[okitactless]

[It's true--even Yasusada, who's the type to take pretty much everything in stride and go "sounds legit", is starting to get worn down by the fact that he's apparently living in a video game. HE DOESN'T EVEN PLAY VIDEO GAMES.

And honestly, he's always been kind of a homebody. By now, he would've been ready to go even if he'd been on vacation in Hawaii--and considering he has absolutely no idea about the state of his loved ones (save for those weird tapestries in the cabin??), he's this close to simply trying to jump off the clouds and see if that lands him back home.

...Okay, not really. But still. All he wants to do is go home. And if that means poking around this giant castle until they find... whatever it is they're looking for, then he supposes he'll just have to suck it up and do it.

Luckily, he'd stocked up on weapons at the armory, urging everyone else to do the same--in probably an annoyingly insistent manner, but, well. The memory he'd seen is still halfway on his mind, even now. He's got his own vessel in hand, as well as another sword he'd managed to secure to his belt, a dagger in one pocket and a whip in the other (which he'd only taken because he couldn't fold up the rope well enough for it to fit). Of course, none of this is particularly lightweight, so against his better judgment he'd forgone grabbing any armor, preferring to maintain his speed in case any enemies decided to surprise them.

Jack's comment makes him laugh, though, something he hasn't really done this entire trip.] That would be nice. But with our luck, these dishes are going to come to life or something.

Getting F'd up.

[totallynotanoni]

[Kath is honestly tired of wandering around abandoned structures at this point, though its definitely an odd feeling of deja vu from her misspent teenage years. There are plenty of secret or hard-to-get to places in San Francisco, and she knew of a few of them. Except those were a lot less dangerous than these places.

Sword at the ready, wearing some pieces of leather armor, some slight hope (and doubt) from the telepathic messages, and alongside her companions, she's...ready to likely face imminent peril yet again. She's getting tired of imminent peril.]

Is it getting hotter in here.

[She's also beginning to see flickering lights ahead, and the possibility of them not really being alone in this place comes to mind, causing her to slow and look back to her companions with a questioning look.]

yikes, this should be fun

[shutupmage]

"Yeah, looks like there might be someone with a fire up ahead. Be on your guard."

Because yeah, this place creeped him out. They all did, but something out this one just didn't feel right. Then again he might have just been used to the constant danger at this point and was on edge, who could tell? Certainly not him.

He took the long tachi from where he'd slung it over his back - over the armor he was wearing, just in case - and held it at his side instead. Better to be prepared, and all that.

A for EFFORT!!

[gandora]

[ Yugi rubbed his neck as they got into the room. Though the bar was set pretty high for weirdness, Yugi had to admit this was the weirdest thing by far. He did feel bad that he couldn't have helped much with the last week; he wasn't sure where his own talents would really be beneficial. But riddles and puzzles? Yugi could handle that.

Or, at least that's what he interpreted from the message. He took out his small notebook and looked at what he had written down. ]

I guess our best option is to look around. Want to get started?

E IS ALSO A LETTER

[loudmouths]

[ keigo was getting rather tired of these little games. dungeon crawling and barely escaping with his life... it was getting to be too much. but he couldn't exactly do much for it now, could he? all the traumatizing things he'd had to deal with up until that point would have to be put on the backburner for the time being, as they needed to yet another arbitrary mission to advance.

this time, it was a crown. he wanted to roll his eyes, but he found he lacked any modicum of energy to do so. instead, he waited around, taking a breather to recuperate from the taxing missions from days before. and when someone was ready to explore further, he finally tapped in.

he didn't know the majority of their team, but keigo was finding it easier to ignore the lack of familiarity in favor of teamwork. as they approached the winding staircase to the tower room, keigo glanced from side to side, and finally over at his companion for this mission, jack. ]

You think there'll be some kinda boobytrap garbage that'll knock us off the stairs 'r somethin'?

[ after all he experienced in the jungle and ruins, he was perhaps a little on the overly-cautious side. ]