The Skyward Tower

[Taxim]

(( It's been a few days and people from the lower rooms don't seem to be moving up, shall I continue or wait for them? D: ))

[drlupinmario]

((Continue already! I... Erm, We, Are waiting in suspense!))

[Swix]

((Continue. I'm sure they'll catch up ))

[Coolpikaaa]

((We had been waiting? I thought everyone had forgotten about this thread and I was sad ))

-coolpikaaa

[Taxim]

"Me? I'm ol' Captain Corral. I'm a guy you don't wanna muck with after he's had a shot or two o' the Fire-water." At this, the Captain began to laugh in a smokey sort of hicking laugh, as one who had years of women, smoke and heavy drink under his belt. "Anyways, th'whole idea of this island is that you've got t'find the exit. It's like a recipe - you use some stuff on some stuff at a certain time and something else pops up that might help or might be the exit." The Arianwen/Captain shrugs and pushes off the chest as Coolpikaaa comes towards it, moving her/his gaze down to fix on the little yellow creature. "Hello little rabbit, how're you?" The woman/man clearly had no idea what it was.

As Coolpikaa pulled the chest, he would find that it would lift up quite easily, giving the impression that it was empty. Upon seeing this, the Captain would comment "Well o' course it's empty, you haven't done anything to put somefin' in there yet. All I know is this;" ( Pay Attention! )

"1) You need to make an offering to the Water Goddess first in order to gain the next trap.
2) The people would row here and take the offerings from this island to give to the Goddess on this island.
3)The Chest changes its contents dependin' on wether you need 'em anymore.

Apart from that, I'm sure I remember more than I'm tellin', but if you run into any problems just ask me and I think I might jog my memory... I've done this once or twice bu' never with more than one person."

[Coolpikaaa]

"Uhh...right."

Coolpikaaa was actually really freaked out by the pirate, and decided that a fast get away was in order. After listening to the pirate's clues, he nodded and moved away toward one of the coconut trees. Since it really was the only thing on this island to offer, the electric mouse guessed that he had to throw coconuts into the mysterious island hole.

After careful deliberation, then climbing, he managed to reach one of the nuts and pull it down.

"Would one work?" He said to himself, wondering if it really was that easy. If not, he could just go back for more.

The small animal, now encumbered with the coconut, struggled to the dock and let the tropical seed drop into the mysterious water-less hole.

-coolpikaaa

[GBE]

Ballari suddenly found herself feeling a little woozy, the entire room seemed to have flashed black for a moment with a temporary feeling of displacement. Suddenly she found herself partially blinded and almost fell over due to the sudden new texture of the ground. Managing to right herself, she took a few deep breaths before becoming stable again. Carefully opening her slightly sensitive eyes she could see she was in a completely new room? No, it wasn't a room, it was more like an island. Either she was no longer in the tower, or the this tower had properties far beyond her imaginings.

He companion Daijiro hadn't fared a whole lot better, she'd landed near the water, and had almost fallen into the water. The sudden shock of cold on her paws made her dash quickly from the water. Getting her stability, she began trying to shake of the wet sand from her paws.

This entire room or island or whatever was strange. Four coconut trees, a pier and a treasure chest. Some kind of pirate was addressing the adventurers. The small electric creature approached the chest and opened it, only to find that it was empty. The pirate, whom Ballari suddenly realized was the previously plate clad female, seemed to give some kind of rules or instructions. Not knowing the language made it difficult for Ballari to understand what was being said.

Ballari took a walk towards the pier to try and get a better look into the far distance. It surprised her that there was a large hole in the water near the pier that somehow was not absorbing water. Maybe it was important. She called in her own language for the others to take a look, gesturing at the same time knowing they might not understand what she was saying.

[Cirrial]

((Oh schnatz, I forgot about this thread and in fact most of the Dojo for a bit too long! >_< Back to watching threads with emails to remind me this place exists now and then :X))

Serakree suddenly finds herself falling through an abrupt scenery change into a brightness, followed by the unpleasant sensation of trying to breathe underwater through her lungs. Instantly her gills open and frantically attempt to take over respiratory functions, while she thrashes around frantically trying to stay aloft.

It's only a few seconds later that she realises she's already half on the beach, with her legs on the beach and her upper torso underwater. She rolls onto the sand, coughing and spluttering as her extremely underused and vastly inefficient gills flap and spasm. After staring blearily at the golden sands of the small teardrop-shaped island, she looks up, tongue writhing around in unspoken discomfort, her tail similarly twisting in the air.

As far as experiences went, whatever had just happened was not one she'd want to ever, ever repeat again. She dreaded to think what would happen next time someone chose to go up a floor without her noticing. All the more reason for her to be the first to ascend this time around.

She stumbles up, clutching at her stomach, coughing and hacking most of the remaining water out of her lungs. After a few seconds, she walks over to Coolpikaaa, recognising him as one of the few familiar sights from both the previous floor of the tower and the outside world. "You. Creature from near that laboratory. What's happening now? Is this still the tower?"

After watching him grab a coconut from the trees, she assumes she must have missed some valuable, life-preserving advice, and looks up to the coconuts. How am I going to get a coconut from up there?

"Lab creature, can you get me a coconut as well? I'm finding it a bit hard to stay upright right now-" As if on cue, she launches into what sounds halfway between a coughing fit and a choked gurgle as her lungs and gills have a momentary disagreement over which should be doing what. "...Please? Urrgh..."

[Taxim]

The piratey paladin would shrug before tilting his head, trying to de-muddle the thoughts in her head. "Uuuhhhh... yeah... I think it might, why not give it'a try?" The woman would shrug once more at the little fat yellow rabbit before pointing towards the hole in the water. "I don't see if there's jus' about anything else ye' can do but try. Yeh' might need mor'than one though."

[Swix]

Endorphine blinked, carefully listening to the translation being fed to him through the two way device attached to what passed for his neck. His vine like tendrils undulated gently in the fairly pleasant climate, though the dry sand ruined it a bit.
"Wait!" Endorphine called, the device responding loudly but too late, as the yellow creature dropped a coconut into the hole. Even before the translator had finished that word, the Krkrln had moved off towards one of the coconut trees, as far distant cousins to his kind as the ancient reptiles were to humans. Once he reached the other vegetation, the alien began to climb. It was unwieldy and slow due to unfamiliarity, but his prehensile limbs were uncannily suited to the work. Especially since they were meant for subterranean rathe than arboreal movement.

[3kul]

"Hmm... Now that I think about it, I remember reading somewhere that coconuts are a good source of fluid." Rogan thought aloud (talking to nobody in particular) as he watched Coolpikaaa climb up the coconut tree to grab one. "Maybe I should try to get one or two to take with me for the later floors?" Standing up and brushing the sand off his knees, Rogan wandered over to one of the trees to see if he could get some down himself. He'd managed to get most of the blood off of his jacket, but unfortunately he now smelled rather strongly of seawater...

Now that he stood before the coconut tree however Rogan began to have second thoughts. Yes, coconuts were very good to have, but climbing up a tree that high without any branches or any other kind of hand/footholds was not something that he was capable of. He contemplated trying to shake the tree until some fruit dropped, but remembered reading in a book of a man who died when a falling coconut struck him on the head. A sad tale that one, of a hero who'd lived through three wars and was done in by rogue fruit...

Rogan couldn't rightly recall if it was a work of fiction or of truth, but just to be safe he backed right away from the tree. He decided to wait patiently to see what the others would do, and if they'd found out something to solve the challenge for this floor.

[drlupinmario]

((Mmf, Crap I just got the rough ideadraft of the disoriantation.bleh...))

Volkov grabs the liqour from the Paladin's hand. "What is this filth you are drinking?" he asks as he inspects the bottle and sips a drop of it. "Bleck. Tastes like old sewer water. And What are theese lies of which you speak of some kind of goddess? Because whoever she is, I have something for her..."

Volkov takes the bottle, as well as whatever is in it and stuffs a rag in it, Chuckling as he turns it into a quick Molotov Cocktail...

[Swix]

((I think you may need to look at the Powerplaying page on the Blackstar Wiki DLM.

If you still don't understand what is wrong with what you just put, then PM me and I'll explain))

[Taxim]

The Piratey Paladin had been watching the ball of tentacles try to climb the tree, which was immensely amusing and brought a large grin to his/her lips. All this for the sake of a coconut? Heheheh. The attention was ripped by the metallic humanoid who seemed to think himself the dominant male with his acts of violence and criticisms which made the Pirate grin even more. "Yeah right, try to use a fire-bomb on a water Goddess. Smart. I can tell you went to college."

The Pirate/Paladin left the cyborg-thing, reaching into his pocket and taking another bottle from seemingly empty space before watching Rogan wrestle with the idea. He was staring up at the coconuts with a thoughtful expression so guessing was pointing towards trying to get it down. "Throw a shoe or something." The man/woman offered, shrugging the shoulders as he/she yanked the cork out of the bottle and gulped down a good few mouthfuls.

The next point of interest was the rabbit, still by the pier. A few moments after the coconut had been thrown, there was a dull "clunk" that echoed up through the hole followed by a small shaking through the tiny island as if a weak earthquake had just erupted. "Yeah she likes that, more of that thanks." The Pirate announced before swigging from the bottle once more.

[LordPsycho]

"Well, if that's the case" Blackfoot said. He had been walking around watching everyone - but now that CP had stumbled upon a solution.

He quickly tranformed just his hand, and with a quick slash, brought down a tree. He then hefted the entire tree onto his shoulder, walked over to the hole, and then toting the end of the palm over whole, shook the coconuts into the pit.