All, I'm going to be stepping away from this game. It was a ton of fun playing with you guys and getting to know your characters! I look forward to seeing where the Crusaders head next!

Looking at the LFP thread, do you want to continue this game, or reboot?

:: Scanner Visualization Report 003 ::
:: Legend : Color Signification : Orange - Danger - Exposed Magma ::
:: Legend : Color Signification : Blue - Unexplored Passage ::

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We're back! Hurray!

Uh, where were now?

Bertie risks using the scanner again to double check their route and get a better reading of the challenge ahead. Tracing back with the scanner, she is surprised to discover that there is a second passage leading to the ledge the party is standing on, obscured by some tumbled rocks. From the scanne...

Are we at the top or the bottom ledge in the map? What do the dashed lines indicate? Good questions! You are at the bottom of the map. The dotted lines indicate a zone of volatility in the magma. That is to say, it sputters and gutters and sends up the occasional gout of boiling hot lava once you m...

The party collects themselves and continues on, winding through tunnels and lava tubes, exploring side passages and dead ends. You encounter some more native fauna—large herbivores with broad, flat snouts that subsist by scrapping algae off the wet cavern walls. You take some recordings and readings...

Bertie attempts to contact the giant Ul-Mor, but finds nothing… or rather, and echo or even a reflection, like a glittery mirror made of a thousand shiny motes, each reflecting a small part of her image. Somewhere beyond this, she senses Kallina, unconscious but still maintaining the calmness of a ...

Good news! I am hopeful that I can resume three-day-a-week, regularly scheduled posts again. Even if there are a still more hiccups over the next two weeks, come May I'll be thoroughly free.

Let's get this show back on the road!

Asked what he sees, Jeeves replies, “I observe the three of you are in a high state of agitation. Mr. Vonn has discharged his weapon, Ms. of Furie has lapsed into unconsciousness after suffering some manner of fit, and Ms. Wilberforce appears to be engaged what behavioral scientists refer to as the ...

Kallina finds herself pressed down by a great, blubbery weight. The flesh folds around her, clammy and grasping, like a hundred gripping hands. She tries to wriggle against what feels like a weight of tons. But despite her struggles, she doesn’t feel like she is making progress, like a nightmare of...

Kallina fires a stun-blast at the flailing monstrosity. The creature is entirely unfazed. Skur Vonn readies his laser pistol, but holds off firing. Bertie screams and flees down the way you came with her carryall. “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ul-Mor R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!” bellows the giant Ul-Mor, tearin...

Kallina investigates the chimney, but is unable to detect anything in the way of a draft from it. The snake-like-creature slither-crawls up the chimney and disappears. Bertie activates the scanner, working quickly to grab as much information as she can quickly while avoiding running down the device...

Bertie scans the mop and bucket, and finds every indication that they are entirely as they appear: completely mundane items of low-grade industrial manufacture from the Galactic Core worlds. Survival rolls: a mixed success and two failures. Despite attempts to conserve on limited resources, the par...

I think this week's update will land on Wednesday. Thank you for sticking in with all these delays!

The party decides on a direction and a marching order, and decides to save the sensorpak for evaluating food and water sources. Many of the passages are wide enough to walk two or three abreast, but sometimes in narrows to the point that even one’s carryall must be removed and passed along separatel...

:: Sensorpak Geospatial Readings :: [hr] Volturnus Caves Image 001.png [hr] :: Red Zone: This region is experiencing dangerous instability. Approach with caution. :: :: Blue Star: The current location of this Sensorpak device. :: :: Sensorpak batteries unstable. Please remove from source of magneti...

Bertie finds her scanner is having a hard time maintaining definite readings of the are due to the magnetic roiling effect she had noticed earlier. It also appears the rock is honeycombed with cavities from gas bubbles trapped when these rocks cooled. This is making it hard to identify the true tun...

PING! PING PING! :: Local network disruptions detected. :: :: Local data link and appliance query has resulted in the following responses : : No regional datastructure responding. : : No global relays responding. : : 3 links responding. : Personal Tags : Bertilastrix Wilberforce : Kallina of Furie ...

From a distance, you see the Ul-Mor scatter, ready spears, and then circle around one Ul-Mor who appears to be struggling with something. The Ul-Mor perform some maneuver with their spears, and then tighten their circle and attack something on the ground. Athru comes back to where you are defensivel...