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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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?

[recollecters]

Hello!

1.) While animals and shadows can be seen on the journey there, they seem to be avoiding the area around the actual tomb itself!

2.) There are a few shattered pots scattered in some of the hallway areas and there seems to be a lot of sand around the altar itself. In the center room there are no markings, though there's plenty to be found in the other rooms!

3.) At this time the scarab is pretty much straightforward that it needs to be filled in, though one of the other rooms may be able to help give an idea what it represents!

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo and Jaeger are going to check out room 5!

[recollecters]

In room 5, Jaeger and Tatsuo will find what appears to be a giant hourglass with grains of sand still funneling to the bottom glass. It's hard to say just how long this has been going and the hourglass itself is roughly the height of the room floor to ceiling. Upon closer inspection they may realize that it looks like the glass has been broken before and put back together, and buried deep in the sand is something that flashes the color orange. However, it's too hard to tell what it actually is! It may be one of the pieces they need for the scarab, it may be something else.

On the walls in the dimly lit room they will also find ancient paintings that depict the story of a young girl who was defiant to a god and thrown into a room of sand that buried her alive. What a fun, happy tale!

If they choose to break the glass to investigate the piece, there will be consequences and this will require some mod threading! Please let me know what you guys would like to do.

[thisloveisjustice]

Yeah... they're going to hold off on breaking the hourglass. Can they take torches from the hallway into Room 5 to look at the room with better lighting? Maybe investigate the walls?

[insantafe]

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

[recollecters]

In room 6 this group will find that it's dimly lit and there are unlit and half-melted candles on the floor surrounding what looks like an open coffin-like structure! There are old dressings in the box but it doesn't appear to be disturbed in any other way.

However, the group will soon hear the loud squeaking of bats from above them and should they look up, they'll spot hundreds and hundreds of bats in the room. Colliding into each other and bouncing off the walls, it'll take some looking but they will notice that one of the bats appears to be carrying something small and green.

These bats are hard to catch and have a tendency to dive in and out of reach! It may even feel like the bats are passing the piece around bit by bit. However, with some patience and creative thinking they may be able to pick out the one bat in 100 that has their required piece. Please let me know when they manage to catch this bat, and I'll slide in with a mod tag to round you out!

[totallynotanoni]

Do they smell or see guano as they enter the room? With that many bats coming in and out, they'd surely have too eave some sort of trace. They didn't just suddenly appear or anything like that surely.

[okitactless]

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

[recollecters]

Ah yes the wonders of Cave 2. Cave 2 leads to a long hallway back and opens up to what appears to be a trophy room. Filled with treasures such as crowns, jewelry, goblets and more, these items seem to be on display and perfectly in line. The paintings on the walls depict someone with the Midas touch as well.

Will the two of them simply look and not touch? Or will they attempt to take something?

[youraffection]

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

[recollecters]

Cave three is really, really dark. Like super duper dark. Hopefully they thought to bring a torch with them to light the way. As they enter the cave, they'll notice they're descending down into the depths of the temple/tomb and soon come to a room at the very bottom.

Sitting in the corner propped up is a coffin. However, unlike the one Yosuke encountered earlier this one's...not..quite...so empty. As Yosuke and Anya enter the room at the bottom of the cave, the coffin door will slowly swing open and a mummy will shuffle out to greet them.

It pauses, staring at the two of them for a moment before deciding they may be worthy of the true and ultimate test. Reaching over, the mummy will pull up a radio that looks very similar to the one Tatsuo, Anya and Yamato grabbed from the treehouse in the jungle. He'll tune it for a moment before a song begins to play and the mummy starts to dance.

There's the glint of something yellow in the back of the mummy's coffin, but the door creaks shut as the mummy gets his groove on. Should Anya, Yosuke, Fanny and the Bouncywild put on a good enough show and join him, he may consider giving them the piece they need.

[feistytrader]

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

[recollecters]

I SEE THAT.

In room 2 Silver and Jeager will find...nothing. This is definitely the appearance of an empty room that seems to stretch really, really far back. However, there is a picture of a scarab beetle alllll the way on the back wall. If they approach this beetle, they'll see the order that the pieces of colored glass are supposed to fit into the beetle on the altar!

However, now that they're all the way back they'll notice that the entrance is very far away and several things happen at once. Periodically, arrows shoot out from the wall. A crevice opens in the floor with fire that spurts up and above them a few pendulum blades swing.

Have fun getting out, guys!

[thisloveisjustice]

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

[recollecters]

Heading down into Cave 1, the group will find themselves in what looks like a boneyard. They'll also find a much larger sacrificial altar in the middle with a set of bones on the altar top. Looking around the paintings on the walls, they will learn that this was in fact a sacrifice room! There are brutal kills depicted across the walls under a thin layer of dirt.

When the group turns to leave, however, they will find themselves facing an uprising skeleton army that they will have to face before they can flee the cave! These skeletons can easily be taken out just by hitting them (or even having them hit each other.) The longer they stay in the room though the more they'll feel themselves begin to change. Their skin will start to become transparent and they will be able to see each other's skeletons. The message is clear: the skeletons want them to join their army, and unless they prove they're strong enough to fight they will need to submit.

[digthefuzz]

Kurt and Keigo, aka Vitamin K, are going to Room 3!

[recollecters]

Alright! So K-squared will venture straight into room three and they will be greeted with a giant tile puzzle on the wall kind of like this. The tiles will be scrambled up and eventually when they finish the puzzle itself, it will reveal a picture of a giant scarab.

Additionally, the wall will slide open to reveal a large entrance to...well, let me know if they would venture on their own or take others with them before we get that far!

[constellates]

Anya and Keigo are going adventure in Room 4!! please tell me that's where the ghosts of Boyz 2 Men are

but really what will we find

[recollecters]

The ghosts of music past.

In all seriousness, at first when they step into the room they will find nothing. However, after about two steps into the room they will find the floor crumbling and they'll fall very, very far into the driver and passenger side of a jeep. The steering wheel is in the center and it will take both of them to operate the vehicle!

Looking waaaay up they'll see the room that they came from and with the glow of the jeep's headlights they'll find themselves in an underground catacomb-like area. There are hundreds and hundreds of openings in the walls that probably contain sarcophagi. Cobwebs are all over the walls and as they drive they'll find that their path is pretty steady.

They might want to be careful they don't fall off of the road though. That's a very, very long way down. Not to mention that if they look down in the water they'll see a friend following them and occasionally raising its head to investigate. (Photo mostly for size.) The further they drive toward the exit, the faster the snake will pursue them and the catacombs begin to shake, rocks crumbling from above and splashing into the water. They'll have to gun it and jump a few holes in the bridge, make some tight turns and outrace the snake before flying back up and out of room 4 and potentially crashing right into the altar.

Have fun, kids!

[youraffection]

WE'RE GONNA GO FOR A BLACKOUT!!! Yosuke, Kurogane, and Yamato are gonna go for the remaining room 1!

[recollecters]

Opening room one will reveal...an armory! Inside this fabulous armory there are several tools such as shields, swords, some guns, some whips, some actual armor, rope, etc. It's a mishmash of gear from different time periods though they seem to lean mostly medieval, minus the guns and whips. Congratulations!

...yeah this might have been helpful a while ago. Oops. They're free to pick up and carry whatever they can manage!

Totally Important

[totallynotanoni]

I know this is a bit late, but did the team find any sort of booze or alcohol at the campsite from before?

[recollecters]

They most likely did not!