(Game idea by Heath)

Whoever's turn it is acts as DM and posts a room or rooms.  It can be any kind of room, from puzzles to encounters, to something just plain interesting or weird, or even bland.  The idea is roleplaying, possibly even being comedic like Knights of the Dinner Table.

Whoever is playing takes on some kind of persona for that room, from your own made up character to Abraham Lincoln to Buck Rogers -- whatever you want.  You can use that persona multiple times on the different rooms or change each time there is a new room.  However, your character does not have any special powers or equipment unless the DM okays it first.

ONE RULE:  The one rule is that any action you take must be decided on by the DM before you take your next action.  This is simply a matter of logistics for running the room.  You may, of course, communicate with each other, but actions must be resolved one at a time (unless the DM says otherwise). Please put actions in bold type.

The idea is to roleplay/explore the room and then exit.  Maybe you need to solve a riddle to exit or pass some guard, or maybe you just have to say you are leaving.  The first one through gets to post the next room or pass it on. If you don't want to DM the next room, DO NOT be the first one to leave this room!  (But seriously, you can pass your turn if you want.)

We recommend that the DM re-post the scenario for the room frequently so that everyone knows what's going on.

Here is an example:

DM1:  You descend into a pit.  There is an exit on the far end, and the ceiling is above you beyond your sight.  The ground is covered in guano.

Player1:  I take the guano!!
Player2:  You dolt.  Do you even know what guano is?
Player3:  I smell the guano for strange excretions.

DM1:  Your talking has awakened a hoard of bats that descend on you from above.
Player1:  I fling my recently acquired guano at the bats.
Player2:  I duck behind Player1 and use him as a human...err...half-orc shield.
Player3:  I try to make sounds to throw their radar senses off.

DM1:  The bats are deflected by the radar, and Player2 is safely behind Player1, so the bats hit Player1.  He is bitten and contracts rabies.  The bats fly out the entrance you came in.
Player1:  Let's hurry and get out of here.  I'll take on the nickname Cujo.

DM1:  You leave with no further problems.
(Change DM to Player 1 for next room.)

(We have also had a room by Raz in testing that was like a puzzle room and a room by Heath that was like a riddle room.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:12, Tue 17 Feb 2009.

You fall down the fun slide of doom and find yourself in a room (as always).  There is no way back up the fun slide of doom and you are all standing knee deep in all manner of bodily fluids and filth.  There is one door, ten feet above the ground.

*Ikyu prances around the room.*

(My family's been here!)

Oh, how messy.

*looks around*

No where to go but up, but how to do so...

*Begins moving around feeling for anything that might be under the filth.*

Something slithers by under the pile.  It's probably nothing.

Okay you feel around and find (rolls) a golf club.  3 iron.

(Ikyu realizes that he still needs to get out of this mess and looks around to do so. Noticing the door, (it says we saw it on our way in) he will try to jump up and reach the doorknob.*

(Uh. Uh. Uh... Can't. Quite. Reach...)

*He continues until told otherwise be DM.*

*Sighs and holds the golf club over his (my) shoulder*

Well, I believe there may only be one way out of here. Hey Ikyu! Let me climb on your shoulders!
This message was last edited by the player at 21:34, Thu 06 Nov 2008.

Fore?

for me to see if I can reach the door that way

Who wants to explain the joke to PyroFX?

*is sad because he feels as though the creator of this room is laughing at him from somewhere beyond*

*sigh*,  what do golfers say before they hit the ball?

(Ikyu is NOT a GOLFBALL!)

*Ikyu jumps on top of Pyro's shoulders when Pyro gets close.*

(Lift me up Pyro!)

oh, if that was all, then I understood the joke... *sigh*

The golf club is violently shoved into Pyrofx's shoulder as Ikyu jumped up with blatent disregard for the positioning of the item. Pyrofx was caught completely off guard, fell sideways from the pain, and now suffers from a possibly dislocated and very bruised left shoulder that is now incapable of holding anybody's weight.

SON OF A-!!!

Fortunately this is healing filth.  Your arm is cured of all ailments, except for a minor case of sepsis.

Oh, just sepsis? That's alright, then.

*Pyrofx lifts Ikyu up on his shoulders to reach the door. If, for some reason Ikyu doesn't attempt to open the door before too long, Pyro gains temporary mind control powers over him. If this happens, Pyro forces Ikyu to hoist him up to the door to try to open it. (too long is up to the interpretation of Grug)*

(Oi.. Thanks Pyro!)

*Ikyu reaches for the doorknob and tries to open it if he can reach it*

Unfortunately, the human tower is one human short to reach the knob.  Anyone got a friend?

I'll join in.

Grug lifts up PyroFX who in turn lifts up Ikyu, who opens the door.

Teamwork wins the day.  As the door opens, a magical vortex sucks all three of you through the door.

since ikyu got there first, he does the next room.

Gee.. thanks. >.>

Oh well...

Umm... Let's see...

You all end up in a room full of stairs and doorways, but only one doorway seems to have an actual door in it, besides the one you just came through.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:35, Fri 07 Nov 2008.

*I walk to the door and open it?*

Ok. You don't reach the door. You find yourself on a walkway that goes in three different directions, right, right(?) and left.

Oh, I'm definitely going right(?)

You mean they're all open doorframes?  Do any go anywhere?  I pop my head into as many as I can.

Ok.

@ Pyro: You end up going "up" instead of right(?). At the top you find a doorway without a door.

@ Grug: Your head pops out just as many doorways at once, including Pyro's.

@ Pyro: Grug's head pops out of the doorway but doesn't seem to be attached to a body on the other side.

I reach my hand through the door that exits closest to Pyro and tell him to take it.  When he does I yank him through.

@ Grug: Your hand comes out backwards so is hard to grab.

... what?

(fourth dimensional reality here Grug. Weird and unexplainable stuff happens.)

I run through doors at random.

You show up in multiple places at once, causing you to experience multiple fields of vision and several split personalities, each "Grug" has its own unique "shape"(since you are a shifter :P).

We all have brunch.

oh hell.  hyper cubes.  so I see that you guys managed to escape Darkmane's manor.  It will be back next time I win a room.

I jump headfirst through the door grug's hand is coming backwards through.

You end up feet first on the ceiling above Grug's brunch party. Then you fall into their brunch.

i eat their brunch.

At the last second, I turn my Brunch into Branch.  PIA gets splinters inside his mouth.

The splinters feel and taste like cotton. (not cotton candy)

Are you guys gonna try to get out of here? The door is just right over "there"

*points over at the one door in the room, that is up and over and around and through many other staircases and walkways and doorways and walls.*

TK appears in his obligatory burst of flame, much like a phoenix.  "Okay...what now?"

Where am I?

Alright...  I do what the alien/bug/pickle says.

@ TK: (sorry I had the wrong person ^^;)

You find your flames explode violently around you instead of being put out. When the flame finally clears, you find yourself in a room(?) with many doorways and stairs and pathways going every which way. In front of you(or is it behind you? I'm not really sure) is a pathe that splits into three different directions. Right, Left(?), and... down? How interesting. You see one door in this whole place, but it's way out of reach. You have to make your way there.

@ Grug:

You do nothing but look where I "point". You see the door exactly as I have described it.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:27, Mon 10 Nov 2008.

Hey. What's goin' on, guys?

@Ikyu I'm not the one that burst into flame.

Hmm...

*Pyrofx goe s"that way" just for the heck of it and if that doesn't work, he just leaves to go home.*

@ Pyro:

You mysteriously end up in front of the door... but its upside down. What do you do?

TK coughs and waves away the smoke.  "Dang, why does that never work right?"

Ummm, he works his way to the door?

i swallow the splinters.  then I guess I will wander through random doorways until I get to the one that seems to be the way out.

Ok. PIA eternally wanders through the doorways and gets stuck in the random loop. Never getting close enough to the door he needs to get out.

Okay, I go join Grug, Grug, Grug, Grug, Grug, Grug, and Grug for brunch.

Oh, that's not a problem. I just turn my frown upside-down so that the door thinks I'm sad. Because deep down, we all know that an upside-down frown is still just a frown and an upside-down door is still just a door.

Ok. The door just sits there, still upside down.

I poke my finger through a doorway.

Now that the door thinks it knows how I feel, I open the door.

Tired of waiting eternity, Grug reaches through a doorway that makes his hand go backwards, then opens the upsi-door.

The rest of the Grugs continue their Eternal Brunch.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:44, Mon 10 Nov 2008.

TK decides to experiment some, so he throws a few Grugs through neighboring doors.

Blue pecks her way out of an box of cold Chinese take-out from the eternal brunch. Her beady eyes swivel madly as she takes in the odd surrounding.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:26, Mon 10 Nov 2008.

*continues to wander*

@ blue: You see what has been described in early posts.

*waits*

@ Pyro: The door doesn't seem to want to open. (sorry. I missed your post. ^^;)

*attempts to turn the door over*

The door stays put, but you flip over to the other side of it, where you find a note.

"If you've reached this side of the door, then you did not come to be here in the correct manner. Go back and start again. There is no door knob and the door is sealed, as if it has always been a part of the door frame.

"Pfft... fine"

*Pyrofx moonwalks away from the door and continues doing so while rocking out and  humming Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson*

I've been wandering for days now.  have I found the door?

Blue preens the rice out of her feathers and hops to the edge of the table and hops off. She very slowly hopes to the door and trys to stick her beak under it.

TK waits for something to happen to the Grugs which he threw through the doors.

@ PIA: You never find the door. You never will that way.

@ Blue: You never make it to the door. The 4th dimensionality of the place turns you about and you become horribly lost, though you can still see the door.

TK is wondering whether he actually exists here, or if it's all in his head.

(Oops! Sorry TK! ^^;)

The Grugs you through bounce through the doorways and randomly appear through other doorways, making this room full of flying, bouncing Grugs. They continue to go on forever like this just as PIA has.

TK has an idea!  He carefully steps through a door, making note of where he is, relevant to before.

Alright.

You show up on the other side, but if you look back through the doorway, you'll notice that the floor is now the ceiling, or rather, that's on the otherside(where you were). You're still on the floor here.

I go back through, then check another door.

This time you're on the "wall", but the floor beyond the door is now at a 90 degree angle "up" from where you are.

Figuring out the puzzle, Grug bashes all of the other flying Grugs out of the air, heaps their groaning bodies into a pile, and mails them to Santos.  Meanwhile, he realized that the open doors adjust a person's orientation, so after a quick bit of figuring he enters the combination of doors that will bring him to the same plane as the destination door (we need better names for these things.  How about "Portal" for the open ones, and "Door" for the specific one."

Well, You find yourself on the same plane, but for some reason the door is out of reach. You see a pth that seems to lead "up" to it from a different direction.


(The difference is "Doorways" and "Door" because they are doorways without doors except for the one door.)

Well, I'm stumped.

Grug assassinates Ikyu with hopes it will solve this puzzle.

This figure of Ikyu is incorporeal, so your attack misses. You spin out of control and land on the ceiling, where you lay there until you stand up, er, down.

How about this:  I walk on the walls.

There are none. Pick a path.

(Ok. Hint: Doorways do nothing in getting you closer to the door.)

Rush to the post office, grab the other Grugs, and pile them up to make a ladder to get to the door.

I'll head through a doorway on my left.  then see where my floor is in relation to the floor of the door.

Ok. Grug. There is no post office you can try going through a doorway to see if you can reset yourself.

PIA. You find yourself facing the direction you cam,but now everything seems backwards, as if you were looking in a mirror. In fact, if you were to try to raise a tentacle on your right side, it's corresponding left tentacle would be raised.

(Hint Hint: Doorways do nothing in getting you closer to the door. >.>)

(I know)

anyway, I go to the doorway first doorway on my right(left?), go through, and check relations.

Everything is now upside down and backwards, but your left is still right and your right is still left. And you notice that maybe it's not the room but yourself that is this way. As in you perceive the room in this way though it is not.

I know!  I walk around the doorways.

You never said there were walls ^.^

(But I did say there were walkways, or pathways. Whatever you wanna call them. They're hand railed walkways that lead up to doorways or split off on to other hand railed walkways. I'm still wondering why no one's noticed the positioning of the doorways... or asked about the positioning of the doorways.)

@ TK: You can not move pass the doorway. There is a railing on either side of it that prevents you from moving forward. If you try to jump over it, you smack your head on an invisible barrier and fall back onto the walkway..

alright, i'll go back through those last 2 doors.  and check things.

Alright. You go back and look at the doorways.

...ok....

what is preventing me from just walking to the door?

PM to PIA

...i hate hypercubes.

how many doorways are there?

PM to PIA

umm...17 doorways

In reply to Kisa (msg #92):

PM

did I mention I hate the 4th dimension in general?

so...

i start with the door to the left of the entrance and check my perspective.  then go back through, make sure the perspective is the same and continue on down the line of the doors.

PM to PIA

!!!

so how does it change each time?

PM to PIA

So, how are the doors arranged?

PM to TK

So...

Ummm...

And if a turn around and walk back through a door, it lands me right were I was, or no?

No.

It lands you someplace else. Good luck figuring out where. Though you can still see the door. It's that way...(pick a direction and point, that's how random it is in here.)

Okay, I go back and forth through the same door, just turning around, trying to discern a patter in where I end up each time.

Grug sits on the floor, tired of this too-complex puzzle.  Shouldn't this go in another thread?

@ TK: The pattern is Pi.

@ Grug: No it shouldn't. If you guys pay attention to my hints above, then you'd have realized the doorways don't help at all. There. You happy? Don't use the doorways.

Sweet!  Alright, now, each time I go through a door, I go away from the Door, and see if there's a pattern in that.

Can I walk to the door?  Can I find another way out?  Can I go back the way I came?

@ TK: Wait. What I meant by "The pattern is Pi" is that there is no real pattern. You might as well be trying to solve for Pi. And the same happens now.

@ Grug: Yes, you can walk to the door, but first you have to solve the maze. It's a 4-dimensional maze.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:53, Thu 13 Nov 2008.

If it's four dimensional, I get in line with the door and wait until time brings me to it.

Ummm... Time flows away from the door. Sorry ^^;

Alright, where am I again?

Blue grinds her beak. With a hops she is air born and gliding low along the paths, she carefully huggs the 'wall' to her right following it along and going past any doors with out going through.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:18, Thu 13 Nov 2008.

@ BCL:

You pass through so many different time-spaces that you become utterly disoriented and inadvertently pass through a doorway, sending you to what seems to be the far side of the room from the door.

@ Pyro: You were last seen moonwalking away from the wrong side of the door.

Okay, I strive ultimately to get away from the Door.

I think I've tried that before, but I forget what the result was.

You succeed. You become as disoriented as BCL and end up near her(him? For some reason I wanna say BCL is female. I don't know why).

Ditto, and I've known him elsewhere.

Okay, I try to get back to where I first showed up.

You fail. You have no idea which of the many doorways you came through. Or where exactly you showed up. But the door is "there". (This puzzle is solvable. Just nobody has gone about trying to solve it the right way yet. PIA is close though.)

Okay... so there are paths and doorways, but the only walls are those of the room itself, right?

Soo, how many doors are there?

@ Pyro: You see no walls. Just an endless space of doorways and walkways/paths.

@ TK: Since a lot of you have asked this, there are 256 doorways, but only one door.

The only way you can find the walls is because the doorways seem to be mounted on them, other than that the room looks as if it stretches on forever in all directions, though in reality it does not.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:33, Thu 13 Nov 2008.

Hmm... *thinks*

that might be why.

anyway...

grug, the fourth dimension isn't time.  Thats just the way between dimensions.  THIS is 4th dimensional space:

to the best of my knowledge on the subject, all of the variations shown are possible and co-exist at the same time in 4-D space.  Think about it for a minute.....  Think.....
Now you know why I don't like this.


so theres no pattern?  that could be an issue.  anyway, are we talking about like bridges between 2 doorways, or what?  if theres no pattern, then it seems as though theres no way to do it...

UNLESS!!

can I see what is on the other side of any of the doorways?  if I can, I look for an exit which appears to be normal, and go through that door.

Ok. You've got it all wrong. This is not a Hypercube. There are pockets of differently oriented space-times all over the place. They even overlap each other in places, that's why perception is all screwy in here. The "doorways" are on solid walls but there is an illusion that makes the walls seem as if they aren't there. If you step through a dorrway, you come out another one someplace else, and into a different space-time, which is why it's always screwy. The paths have paths connecting each other and the doorways, but there is only one way to get to the Door, and that is to find the path that doesn't go through a doorway. It's a four dimensional maze. Not a four dimensional Hypercube. Which is wrong anyway, Hypercubes can only exist in the 5th dimension.

There you go.

So I try to get to the door without going through a doorway.

Well, what else am I supposed to do?

This is too confusing.  I cast "dismiss convusion"

@ TK: Ok. You can follow paths until you find the right one that takes you to the door. Each path is connected to another in some way so maneuvering the maze shouldn't be too difficult. Ok. Where you are at there are 3 options for you to go. Pick one of those 3.

@ Grug: Your "convusion" is "dismisted". You have the same options TK does.

Well, time flows away from the door, right?  Well, I am a character from Diablo 1.  I'll just quit without saving and load my old file, thus reversing time and bringing me close to the door.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

I pick Up.

TK: Up it is then. You find the path takes 2 directions this time. Pick one of them.

Grug: You go back to having brunch with the rest of your Grug buddies.

Left

You could at least give points for creativity.  That's the difference between this thread and the Puzzle Rooms thread.  Rooms here are meant to have lots of ways to solve them.  Plus, mazes are ridiculously difficult to describe in a text format, let alone a 4 dimensional, which is like difficulty^3.

Besides that, I'm wondering why whoever made this place would require a minion to go through a 4 dimensional maze to take out the trash.  Just weird to think about.

PS, Convusion was purposeful.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:09, Fri 14 Nov 2008.

TK: 5 options this time.

Grug: The minion has already solved the puzzle eons ago and knows the shortest route to take. Which is "That way".

*an arrow points forward in front of Grug, going kind of in a rightly direction*

Grug feels compelled to follow.

Grug: Grug goes down the first right path. He comes upon a 5 way split, the arrow takes him up the middle path. After a short bit he comes upon a point where a path intersects this path twice, leaving 4 options to go. The arrow leads Grug down the right(left) path. Grug comes upon a normal two-path four-cornered intersection. The arrow begins to blink out, but manages to point Grug down the left Path. Grug follows the blinking arrow until he comes upon a 3 way fork. Unfortunately, the arrrow blinks out before it can point Grug in the right direction.

Um, I call out loud, "Show me the way out!"

(Oops! Sorry TK. I really don't mean to ignore you. ^^;)

You go left and find the same normal intersection Grug did. Which way do you go? (note: just because it's the same intersection does not mean that you came from the same direction Grug did. Please keep that in mind)

Still convused.

I call again, "Show me the way out!"

Grug: Pick a direction.

TK: The nothingness responds silently....

"Darn..." I go left.

TK: You end up where Grug is.

first I remember the path the arrow led me on as best I can.  Then I go right, or the equivalent.

I'll stand back and watch what happens to him.

Grug: You follow it until you come upon a fork one goes up, the other goes down. but what's strange about it is that they both seem to be the same path, this one. So it's straight no matter what, but the path seems to split in two, but not. Well, you have your options. Which way?

TK: Grug disappears over the edge of the path that seems to end in mid-air, but you don't see him fall, nor do you hear him scream as if he fell. It's as if he just continued walking over to the underside of the path. (I said things were really screwy here)

Okay, I go the other way.

TK: you come around to another 4 way intersection. You're not sure, but it's possible this is the same one.

i follow them hound dog style - mostly smelling where their feet (read: grug's feet) left footprints.

PIA: You find Grug and have the same options he does for moving on. Or, you can just continue following him and hope he doesn't get you horribly lost. ;]

I reverse my moonwalk and attempt to go around the final door.

For some odd reason, you smack into a wall.

i dont keep following him anymore.

In reply to powerisall (msg #152):

Ok. You are just standing/sitting there. Which is what Grug is doing anyways. What do you do?

I go off to do something else because this puzzle is too obtuse.

Ok PIA, Grug leaves. What do you do?

Grug: You jump over the edge and fall to your death, resetting your character back at the beginning of the dungeon.

I search the muck for a dowsing rod or 4 dimensional GPS.

Sofia quietly opens the door and cautiously slips in, glancing at all the doorways in quick contemplation. She then walks to the other door.

Sofia: You get horribly lost and turned around. You find yourself as far away from the door that you think is ossible. (Next to BlueCrowLaughing)

Okay, I walk AWAY from the door.

You walk into the wall.

I open the door I came through.

You fall down into the slush of the previous room. This aint my room so good luck trying to get back. :P

Grug? You've got people in your room. Wait.. you are in your room. :P

I search in the muck for.. anything good.

Um, Sofia, we've all already tried that stuff.  Oh, well.

I go West.

@ Sofia: That is not my room. Grug! You have someone back in your room with you!

@TK: Ok. You end up where PIA is and Grug was. The path leads both up and down. Which way do you wish to go?

I turn myself on my head and go down.

Alright. The path splits. Which way? right, left, or back(down)?

TK: 1

I spin myself around, fall on my back, and go up.

Alright. You come upon a split a loop and a ledge. The loop splits in two about the middle, one part continues in the loop and the other goes straight down. The split has 3 different paths to take and the ledge follows along a wall and leads to a doorway.

TK: 0
This message was last edited by the player at 21:53, Sun 16 Nov 2008.

What's the number?

You'll see. :P

lives?  Um...

"Oh look, a perfectly good quantum space anti-scrambler.  People throw away too much good stuff.  So, as for getting out of here..." Grug throws Sofia up to the door.  By opening it, they are both sucked into Ikyu's room.  Grug pushes the button on the quantum space anti-scrambler and walked to the door now conveniently in front of him.  But then he pauses, and throws Sofia through that one.

Sofia's turn to do room #3.

I'm not sure it works that way...

You enter the room, and find yourself on the edge of a cliff. The door behind you has disappeared.

Turning around, you see a stone archway, a through it, a castle courtyard with a multude of roses is various colors. In the center is a dry fountain. On the edges of the fountain, facing you, are three statues, each about 3 feet tall- a lion, a wolf, and a fox. The fox iin the center of the two, with the lion on the left and the wolf on the right.

Well, do you want to stay in the maze where you're essentially waiting for an event with a 3.7% chance of happening, or do you want to do something else?

Grug tosses his device to The Kool.

"Sweetness!"  TK uses is randomly, and eventually finds himself launched like a rocket out of the room.

He lands in the next room in his obligatory burst of flame.

All that anti-scrambling really screws up the maze. Everyone inside dies and restarts at the beginning of the dungeon.

>.>

<.<

>.>

Those numbers were to keep track of how many guesses you got right in a row. Get 3 you're out. >.>

Don't be mean, Ikyu! Your room wasn't fun.

Luckily, some people were already outside, and TK uses his new cool device to grab everyone before the maze collapses.

Alright, now post your actions!

Also, TK launches out of the room.. and off the cliff.

AAEEEEEIIII!!!

He falls into the deep river at the bottom, and is carried upward (the river flowed uphill) back to the top of the cliff.

I know, Ikyu.  If we had three options each time and had to guess correctly three times in a row:  .33 x .33 x .33 = .037 = 3.7%

Grug walks slowly through the garden, stopping to smell the roses.  He continues pass the fountain and too the castle if possible.

You do so, but the castle doors are securely locked. However, one of the statues, the one of the lion, yawns and turns it's head. "If you wish to access the keep, you must first solve our riddles, traveler. When this fountain flows once more, the keep shall open."

Ikyu follows everybody from the maze room to the Chinese garden on a cliff. (Tey would like it here. :P)

Let's hear it, lion dude.

The lion smiled. "so be it.


The life I lead is mere hours or less,
I serve all my time by being consumed.
I am quickest when thin, slowest when fat,
And wind is the bane of the gift that I bring."

*Ikyu Gyet walks up to the where Grug and the Lion is. He hears the riddle.*

(Oooo... Butterflies! My favorite!)

Easy.  Candle.

The lion froze into stone, water pouring from it's mouth. Next, on the other side, the wolf awakened.

"Ha, lion already defeated? Hmm. Let me see. I don't really wish to be stone again.

Right. What is the name given to the seaborne cousin of the gargoyle? No cheating."

(oo.. oo.. I know this!) :D:D:D

 - - -

(Dang it... I can't remember.) T_T

Easy.  Kapoacinth.

"Damn!" Wolf said, then laid down and froze into stone, water flowing forth from his open mouth.

At last, fox awoke, stretching his legs. Unlike the others, it seemed that he was fully animated.

"Well, free at last! Wait, travelers? Drat! Hrm, what's a good riddle? Ah, The Man on the Mountain!"

"There once was a wise man who lived in a cave the top of the greatest mountain. He knew the answer to every question and every riddle. A young man made the ardous journey to the top of the mountain, and greeted the old man with respect, then asked a question. The elder bowed his head, unable to give the answer. What was the question?"

(What is the answer?)

(do you think I'm going to tell you?)

((That wasn't OOC. This is. That was Ikyu's translator, since Ikyu can't be understood normally. It comes out like this: #@!$#@#$!))

Yeah, mantis's can't talk good english.

The journeyman asked "am I lying?"

Ah yes, the paradoxical question.  The question...without an answer!

No, dangit.  The answer to that is 'No'.  Or 'Yes'.  Either way.  The paradox is 'I'm lying'.  How to put it in question form...

Or, I've got it!  He asked: What is the answer to time, the universe, and everything?
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42!

Darn, hm...

Quick! think up a good one!

When will you die?

What does god look like?

Why?

Oooh, good one.

I got it!  Who are you?

I've got it.  Are YOU lying?

Perfect!  You rule!

Oh wait.  He could just say No.

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

"Any chance for a hint, fox dude?"

Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?

:D Answer that paradox!

The chicken, it says so right here.  *points at Bible, Genesis 1*

"What is the name of one who is more learned than you?"

Actually, evolution says the Egg came first.  Think about it.  The chicken's ancestor would have different DNA, each generation moving a little closer to its tasty destiny.  Eventually, the DNA will be infinitely close to the DNA of the chicken until one generation later, an egg is made with a real chicken in it.  thus, the Egg came first, brithed from a non-chicken, but a real chicken inside.

Evolution vs. Creation.  The war wages on.

Actually, you're right, but it was a dragon egg, which a wizard experimented on, resulting in a chicken egg.

Alright, gonna have to go with one of the famous ones.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

If a tree falls in a forest, but nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

and finally:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

1. It makes a sound like Cl.  The other hand provides the ap.
2. Yes.  Soundwaves can be detected in other ways besides hearing them.  Detecting displaced soil and leaves after the even, for instance.
3. A would chuck would chuck as much would as a woodchuck could chuck wood.

1. Ok, you have me there.  But does CL exist in this man on the mountain world?
2. Ah, but how do you know it made a sound unless somebody was there to hear it and testify that it made a sound?
3. But exactly how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

pssst... grug.  you're not helping.

"What does your brain look like?"

oh, now thats not nice.

wait!  I have it!

"Why are girls so weird?"

Not yet! It's exceedingly simple!

The fox grins. "It seems I'll be free soon."

What is my name.

Why are we here?

Of he course he knew his name, he knows everything!

What do you not know?

Nothing.
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Did you reply to mine?

What was it?

Why are we here?

What is the question to the answer of life, the universe and everything?

42?

To propogate!?

Why are we here? I don't think you answered that one.

To propogate!

I'm not the wiseman!

I'm confused...

The wiseman can answer all those questions because they have answers.

What's the only question that has no answer?

Think about it.

No, that's what I'm saying the guy asked the wise man.

In reply to Sofia (msg #229):

That is the answer to Life, the universe and everything. I asked what the question was. You didn't answer that.

He could easily give the answer, which is the answer to this riddle.

... Still confused.

God! It's so easy!

I'll give yout he answer for 1000 wots!

What is the answer?

I don't know about that....

Seriously? a 1000 wots?

No. Not at all.

No, I'm talking to Ikyu.

Oh. :P

THe answer is very, very simple.

But that's not a question. :P

hrm?

What is the question?

Very, very simple is not a question.

No, I'm using it as an adjective phrase.

I know what you're doing. I'm picking fun at you. :P

What am I thinking?

Yeah. Making fun of my bad english is cool.

It was perfectly fine english. I was playing stupid.

Playing?

:(


That was mean.

Sorry!

Hey! Can we PLEASE get back to the riddle you guys? or, guy and gal.

Not until Sophia stops trying for royalty.

Not until i get royalty.

PSH!

Grant, just let her have royalty.

PASH!

In reply to Ikyu Gyet (msg #264):

But I need to go to bed too!

Well well well.

You should crack first.

Crack is bad!

Depends on what crack you're talking about.

I give up. I'm leaving. Bye.

crackberries?

In reply to Ikyu Gyet (msg #271):

Have fun wherever you're going.

Knowing him, to bed.

Like where you should be!

Speak for yourself! stop spamming this thread!

Go to bed and I will!

Why do you care!?

Because I want my crown!

ok... so what is the dungeon about now?

I still don't know how to earn wots.

Anyways, Grug grabs the fox, forces him to drink water from the lion, and squeezes the fox like a water noodle.  pssssssh.

In reply to powerisall (msg #280):

It's still Sofia's riddle. Sofia and Grant went on a Roaylty battle last night. >.>

i see. the man on the mountain, knows the answer to everything, what question can't he answer thing?

Yep. That's the one.

Hey, the chicken egg one wasn't answered.

For it to be a chicken egg, it has to be laid by a chicken.
If it's a chicken, then it has to hatch from a chicken egg.

It's a closed loop.


What question can't be answered? <--- That's what I'd ask him :D


Oh, how about this one: What has 3 legs walking up a hill and 4 legs walking down it?

Sir Francis Drake.

this gives me an idea of a game.  To the suggestions board!

na na na na na naaaaaaaa

(batman music)

*head smack*

duh.  I knew I've heard this one before.

What don't you know?

or some variation on that.

You can't tell somebody what you don't know.

Hey Fox dude, what's going on?

not much.  you?

Gah!  An octopus!

hey! some people think I'm foxy....

...  No comment.

Grug throws several pounds of salt into the fountain and throws the octopus in as well.  "Now stay in your natural salinity like a good little cephalopod.  Meanwhile, The fountain is flowing so we should be able to go in."  Grug throws his trusty A ROCK at the door.

I'm not only A ROCK, but i'm an A ROLL too :D.

I throw A ROLL at the door.The roll bounces off the door and falls into some dirt, getting dirt encrusted into the melted butter topping.

Why did you waste a perfectly good roll?

*drops from cieling riding a war sheep* How dare you! You threw away the

MAGIC BREAD ROLL.

Why would you squander infinite bread?! *pockets bread*

The door doesn't seem to be opening yet.  I know!  We'll use the power of sheep!

Grug takes the sheep and wedges it between the doors.  Then he takes his Fox hose again and sprays down the sheep.  The resulting wooly expansion forces the doors apart in a cascade of splinters.

Who wants to go in first?

Not me.  You said I shouldn't leave this fountain.

Well, someone oversaturated my sheep. >_>

Maybe you could swim around in its wool?

maybe i should just go to sleep....

no, thats not a good idea either.

I'll go!

*bravely marches through the door!

*slams the door shut*

lolz.  we actually got him to go through the door.

grug, you owe me a nickle.

Here's your nickle.  Now stay put or I'll squish you.

Grug enters the castle.  Since Praguepride went in first, it's his turn to pick the room.

WAIT!  we were picking who did the next room!?

dang.  I wanted to subject you all to darkmane's manor again.

*takes out the

MAGIC BREAD ROLL.

and squeezes it. it turns into a knife* Should I get out my Greatherring too?

Hey, why are you hanging around a fountain?

because PP hasn't described this new room to us.

Oh, makes sense to me.

I'll do it.  I went in second.

In side the castle is something peculiar: it looks like the interior of a stereotypical sub-urban home, except all of the walls are made of a clear material.  Stone steps also lead upwards above the set to another of different design suspended above.

i get out of my fountain and climb these new steps.

You reach the top of the stone steps.  The upper house has glass walls and glass floors, with chains linking the whole structure to the ceiling.  A lever is on the wall.

How high is the ceiling?

and is this see-through glass?

Yes, it's see-through glass.  You can walk around in your own living room and look down on the kitchen below.  The place doesn't seem to have a bathroom though.  As for the ceiling, it is about 50 feet high.

what do the mechanisms behind the lever look like they are attached to?

It cannot be said.

EDIT: The upper foor itself is 15 feet from the platform you are on.
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Fine.  I walk up to the lever and inspect the area behind it through the clear walls and see what it may possibly be attached to.

You are mistaken.  You are on a stone ledge that the stairs led to.  The upper glass house is hanging by chains 15 feet away from you.  You can easily get to the lower one, however.

*puts face against glass and pretends to be fish*

*still-swollen sheep, Mr. Bongos, does the same*

Good Mr. Bongos! You get some turkey later!

Alright, I'll go to the area I can easily access and look around.

It seems like a classic 50s house.  Tank-like fridge, pointy backed chairs, etc.

I open the fridge

It swings open a little, and the handle breaks off with a chunk of fridge.  Little white flakes blow from the break.  Through the hole you made, the inside is empty.

i'll carefully (to avoid gangrene from possibly rusted edges) stick a finger in a hole and open it that way, if possible.

The door's hinges crumble into a white powder, and the door falls towards you...

Surprisingly, it's not heavy at all.  When it hits you it crumbles into the same powder.  Powdered sugar!  The inside is empty.

I dig through the sugar for anything else of value.

Then I snort some of it, just to make sure its really powdered sugar.

*sees what PIA did, and looks at Mr. Bongos. We both begin chewing on the wall*

Unfortunately, the walls are made of tough plexiglass.  PIA, you find nothing, and you can't snort it because you don't have a nose.  It tastes like sugar.

Buck McCoy does too have a nose!

I thought you were an octopus.

I chose Buck McCoy sometime back.

...*kicks plexiglass.* ...Mr. Bongos! My mace! *grabs a mace from sheep's wool and swings at the plexiglass wall*

anyway, I snort some of this 'powdered sugar'

PIA, you sneeze so hard your brain falls out.  PIA winds up back at the fountain.

Shatman, it's tough glass and your mace bounces off.

alright.  I think I'll reincarnate as Andrew Jackson.

Doofus Cracker will go back to the kitchen, and look around.

There's the fridge made of sugar, and there's a stove, some counters, come drawers, and a small table with 3 chairs.

... *hits table with mace and begins wringing out Bongos*

The table crumbles to dust where hit.  It appears to also be made of sugar.

*licks the suger

"Yum!"

It's delicious.

Sweet! :D

Now what?

*takes welding torch out of Bongos' fur* Ruined... *removes original print of the Mona Lisa* Ruined... *removes cannon* ...It works? *aims at wall* I need matches, gunpowder, some string, and something to fire!

You see nothing that could be used for any of those purposes.

...*smashes the chair* Can sugar be used for kindling?

Again, the chair disintegrates into sugar.  Keep in mind you're currently on the lower floor.  And no.  Flour can be explosive, sugar just caramelizes.  Flour releases energy and sugar absorbs it.

...*checks pantry for flour before heading upstairs*

I will have Doofus Cracker touch everything to see if anything in the kitchen does NOT turn to sugar when touched.

Nope, everything crumbles a bit at your touch.

so theres absolutely nothing useful in the kitchen?

any other exits other than the entrance I used?

Not that you can see.  Although you've only inspected the kitchen.

you said stairs, upper level with a lever and chains that can't be accessed from the stairs, and the kitchen.  what else am I missing?

could I perhaps pile the sugar on the stairs high enough to reach the other level?

It's not just the kitchen, it's an entire house.  Or at least the inside of one.  Plus there's a whole 'nother "house" right above, suspended from the ceiling.  Stone steps lead up to the upper level where the lever is.  Strangely, neither layout has a bathroom.

i'll climb the steps.

PP follows, searching for traps after PIA springs them

Andrew Jackson will pull the lever to see what happens