GAMBIT BRIAR and THE HAUNTED HOUSE

Your fate in this route may be affected only by your current skills. They will be recorded as they appear the moment this thread is published so as to avoid discrepancies between skill level ups and your character's fate.

Most rewards gained in your adventure will be account bound and therefore not tradeable. A handful of the benefits will be for the character you bring only.

There will be fewer choices on this route, except for at a critical juncture. Your story will unfold based on the whims of the universe and your skills.

As the story progresses, encounters will become riskier though you can choose to abandon the adventure at any time. If you choose to remain, you do so understanding the risks!

Eraithus is Beginner Intellectual and Advanced Fighter
Lets begin!

GAMBIT BRIAR - THE HOUSE

You emerge from an unfamiliar part of the forest into a clearing, blinking slowly as your eyes adjust to the sudden deepening of the gloom that surrounded you your whole walk. As the dim light slowly becomes more and more comfortable you start making out a hulking shape on the other side of the clearing. Old and creaking woodenly in a wind you can't feel you lay eyes on a dilapidated mansion. The whole building skews to one side, and even in the gloom you can make out that parts of it appear to jut out unnaturally as if grafted onto its massive shape after the fact. Something about it seems wrong, though you are not sure why.

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• Approach the mansion
  
• Flee with your tail between your legs [Leave]
  

I JUST WANT A TASTE

The strange building in front of him gave him the creeps. Eraithus was blinking at it warily as he looked around the woods. The night air lifted mists moving to and fro the only thing that was well within his sights was the creepy mansion. The blue male narrowed his eyes - he didn't know how he got here or maybe it was even a dream. Either way he was never one to back down from a challenge. Eraithus had never been afraid of the macarbe or the dangerous. He knew he was one himself on the inside as nice as he could be. Besides, what other way was there to go?

Eraithus took a few shaky steps forward. He lowered his head and attempted to use his nose to smell anything out. There was nothing but the rotting wood filling his nose with each paw step he took forward. Soon enough he was near the door. The windows looked black, unable to see inside of them Eraithus inspected the front doors. Trying to see if they were open or closed.

Approach the Mansion

MADE BY MINNIE of BTN

Failure

You take a few shaky steps up the wooden stairs, fighting what feels like a much heavier keel to one side than you'd expect. You decide it'll be much more effort to fight the slant and walk up the right side of the stairs, suddenly a board gives out under your weight and you plunge leg first into the hole, your ankle smacking painfully on the interior structure of the stairs as you do so. You’re too focused on your pain to notice anything out of the ordinary as you push through the door.

Eraithus has sprained his ankle

GAMBIT BRIAR - HALLWAY

The space before you is wide and open. The air is musty and through the gloom you can see motes of dust. Wherever you are it’s not seen life in a long time. In the center of the foyer is a massive carpeted staircase. You can see doors on either side of the ground floor, but you feel something drawing you up the stairs. Your paws move before you have time to process this fact, puffs of dust rising with each paw step and you quickly feel your paws become covered. This time your trek up the stairs is a safe one, though the place has clearly been abandoned the steps are sturdy and carry your weight. Still you press yourself to the heavy wooden banister until the moment you reach the top floor. You peer into the dark and notice there is a hallway off to the left. On the right is a door, you try it first but the room beyond is covered in debris so you can’t enter, the furthest wall is all but collapsed, the night sky visible through it’s crumbling structure. So you start down the hallway, losing count of the doors you’ve passed as you feel yourself once more drawn towards the middle of the hallway. You pause, even a few feet from the door your being drawn to you can hear something making noise from the room behind.

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• Approach the door
  
• 2 Spoopy 5 me [Leave]
  

I JUST WANT A TASTE

Eraithus Left front paw is sprained

His trip inside was not an exciting one, Eraithus' trip left his left paw sore. Still he moved on and trekked further into the mansion. It was an interesting place - fear did not grip him even with his limp as he carefully made sure to put his weight on his other three paws. Eraithus didn't think it was too hard - he'd broken a bone before and had healed through it. The male sniffed, making the mistake of injecting dust into his nose only to sneeze it out again. After his failed attempted of door to door through the mansion he finally came to something worth noting.

It seemed that there was noise coming from a door. His ears perked trying to listen in as his dust covered paw pads creaked against the floor boards. It could be an enemy, a ghost, or a piece of prey. Eraithus' hackles raised his teeth moving into a snarl. He wouldn't be caught off guard. Specially with his already sprained ankle. If he was careful though the pain wouldn't be too bad. Carefully he approached the door. His hackles raised and his ears forward alert for any sort of danger now. Eraithus also tried to be careful about where he stepped on the old floors.

Approach the Door

MADE BY MINNIE of BTN

Success

As you approach the door, the sounds get louder. For a moment your courage flags. You press your ear to the door, jumping as something smashes into the wood on the other side. You freeze, listening intently, after what feels like a lifetime the sounds end and you finally summon the courage to open the door, something scrapes across the floor as you do so and as you look down you see what must have been flung at the door, a cracked glass orb. You silently thank the universe you listened to your instincts, getting hit by that would have hurt a lot. You can’t help but feel a bit more confident in yourself.

Eraithus has gained 5 Fighting Skill points

GAMBIT BRIAR - Fix Me!

You lift your gaze to a truly horrific site, the room you’ve entered is illuminated by the moon visible beyond the window in the opposite wall. Swinging ominously in that pale light are countless shapes that hang from the roof. You cast your gaze about, all around you on shelves, the floor and any other surface in the room are what feels like hundreds and hundreds of small figures. You freeze, waiting for the tiny creatures to jump you and rip you to shreds. But nothing else seems to move beyond the figures hanging from the roof, pushed by the still unfelt breeze. Taking a breath you peer closer at the closest figure and fight back the urge to recoil. It’s a strange thing, a soft body that seemed to be filled with something, and hard solid limbs… but it doesn’t resemble anything you’ve ever seen, the head is a sphere, molded fur of some kind on its head and forward facing eyes. The limbs are mismatched, different in tone and shape, one of them appears to be the leg of a deer, and you recognize a plush lupine tail poking from the back of the body. A doll, and the figures hanging from the roof are marionettes. The sphere at your paws appears to have been another strange head and as you look around all the figures are mismatched in a similar manner, limbs and heads of animals you recognize grafted onto bodies that have limbs and heads you don't. Something about it is all very wrong. In the center of the room lays a pile of limbs and heads, a single cloth body piece in front of the pile. You take a step towards it, and somewhere in the back of your mind comes a voice: Fix me.

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• Fix them!
  
• Take a Puppet down from the roof
  
• Nope out of there! [Leave]
  

I JUST WANT A TASTE

Eraithus Left front paw is sprained

This room gave him a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach. Like something was terribly wrong. Though his eyes did not seem to decieve him in the dimly lit room full of mismatched creatures. Somehow they were a bit beautiful like there was purpose to them. Something or someone had to have put them here. Eraithus didn't know what state of mind this creature had been in but he certainly hoped that they hadn't been in any pain. It was when he approached the scattered pieces with his limp that something curious happened. A small voice echoed in his ear... Fix me almost like an itch. He lifted a back leg to scratch at the inside of his ear for a moment.

Did he listen to the voice or did he not? He didn't want to intrude on someone else's work. If he tore one down Eraithus was afraid he would anger a spirit that haunted this place or otherwise. His eyes turned to the voice again even though it really wasn't coming from anywhere. He hadn't really tinkered with anything before but he didn't try he couldn't say that he was helpful. Even with the pain in his paw he made an attempt to fix what was there like it demanded to be done. Eraithus didn't want to anger it, so he would do as the voice said.

Fix them

MADE BY MINNIE of BTN

Success

You sort through the piles and try to pick out pieces you think match, your unsure exactly what your supposed to be looking for, but finally you manage to get a set of limbs your pretty sure match, you carefully rearrange the pieces a few times, finally settling on an arrangement your pretty sure looks right, then step back- a harsh ringing starts in your ears and you flinch, eyes screwing shut. You just barely make out a soft clicking somewhere in the room, you open your eyes and notice a wall panel has moved revealing a small hole. You notice something glinting in the dark and dig your paw in, scooping out the contents just as the dolls on the shelves start to rattle, you flee the room as dolls begin to fly off their perches at you. You just barely get out unscathed and keep pelting down the hallway, you race down a smaller staircase and stop only once you're at the bottom. You skid to a halt, panting but otherwise no worse for wear. You quickly sort through the items you found, stashing a pile of pretty looking stones and are about to leave the rest when something makes you grab a seemingly innocuous femur bone and stash it too.

Eraithus has found [Redacted] and and old femur... cool?

GAMBIT BRIAR - F̸̢̀I̷͍̽N̷̟͑D̵̢͗ ̸̠̅M̷̭͒E̵̪͒!̵̧̉

The room before you is a kitchen, oddly the centerpiece of the room is a magnificent dark wooden table, it’s covered with tarnished aged silverware and plates and grotesquely a carcass of some kind, right in the middle of the table. The corpse is old and mutilated beyond recognition, you’re not even sure what it was anymore, somehow so old it’s stopped smelling of anything and yet remarkably pristine despite it’s otherwise gory appearance. The voice from earlier whispers in the back of your mind: find me. You cast about the room, toss open cabinets and search under everything you can. Still the voice returns: Find me. You jump up onto the table, hoping it’ll offer you a better vantage point… still nothing… You step closer to the mangled thing on the table and the voice cries out once more, stronger this time. Find me! You look down at the corpse and feel a familiar pull… With a dawning horror you realize what the voice wants from you and glance up, through the door opposite you you can see the front foyer, offering a tantalizing escape…

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• Find them! In the Corpse
  
• Find them! By searching the room again.
  
• The door is right there! [Leave]
  

I JUST WANT A TASTE

Eraithus Left front paw is sprained

Even if he wasn't disturbed by the macarbe usually, the strange sight in front of him put him in awe. Eraithus stared for an ungodly amount of time listening to the voice in his head. His quick glance to an escape was not really thought off as his curiosity did also get the better of him. It was disturbing, but also interesting. The old femur he'd found in the previous room sort of gave him an idea. Eraithus didn't want to look around the room after all the voice seemed to be coming from inside this body. Whatever it was. He clamped his jaws on the femur bone and began to peck around the flesh.

Eraithus carefully pulled apart flesh and bone with his stick that was a femur. There was no smell unlike he expected as his eyes fixated trying to listen to the voice he wanted to please. His ears perked forward as he moved away flesh across the corpse. So far he couldn't see anything that was worth noting, but perhaps it was a test of listening. Either way he had to stick by his decision.

Find them, in the corpse

MADE BY MINNIE of BTN

Failure

You swallow the lump forming in your throat and tear your gaze from the temptation of escape. Taking a moment to berate yourself for your cowardice. You use your femur to pull apart the corpse, it makes gross wet squelching noises, something you wouldn't expect for something so old and yet so preserved. Despite your stronger stomach for gore a sudden spurt of blood hitting you in the face and a rancid, septic scent rolls over you and suddenly a wave of nausea hits you, you pull the femur free and immediately turn, emptying the contents of your stomach over the edge of the table. Clearly you were insane to try this in the first place, you jump off the table and head back into the Foyer, feeling quite the fool.

Eraithus has lost 10 Fighting skill points.

GAMBIT BRIAR - Ș̵̨̦̫̗̤̻̝͌̊̌͗̌̚à̶͙̗̭̜̈́͆͊͂̿̉́̔v̸̢͇͇̹̘͒̈͐ͅe̴̖͖̺͍̼̦̬̩̻͗̄̈́͛̄̚͘ ̷͙̩̣͔̣̖͖̤̞̃͜M̵̬̩̟͉̯͑͆̈́e̴̮̪̻͉̔!̸̹͙̹̮̙͇́͗͑̿̈́͗

The door you’ve just exited was the one you saw earlier off to the left of the stairs… all that remains is the door on the right. You cautiously pad towards it, noticing it’s less a door and more an open frame, stairs leading down into darkness not even your eyes can see through. You hesitate for a moment, then something wills your legs to start moving and you cautiously descend into the darkness. Your movements are slow, now even in the thick of if you can hardly see the end of your nose, let alone the end of the stairs. The darkness feels thick, like it’s pressed down on you. You take a step forward and realize you’ve hit the ground floor, you glance over your shoulder, the door way you’d stepped in through is a tiny pin prick up much higher than you thought you’d descended. Something moves in the dark, you can hear it and you jump when something brushes past you, ruffling your fur. The voice returns, stronger than ever: Save me!

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• Save them!
  
• Save them by using your femur as a weapon!
  
• Locked
  
• Locked
  
• Alright that’s enough adventure for one day! [Leave]
  

I JUST WANT A TASTE

Eraithus Left front paw is sprained

Despite the darkness and the shock of the previous disgusting events of the corpse he wanted to press on. The shivering feeling in his bones he felt when whatever it was rushed past him made his teeth go baring. The pain in his paw was ebbed even if it still hurt. If he used the femur it really wouldn't be a good weapon, not unless he could find a way to splinter it off. Eraithus thought it a better decision to rely on his teeth. Pulling back his ears and raising his hackles he growled intensly. If someone needed his help then he was going to try his best to save them.

"Come out then!" he barked spreading his limbs evenly. He couldn't see a thing but he could smell. Even if the air was filled with the mustyness of the mansion. Eraithus was letting his ears flick trying to listen and feel for his surroundings. His tail made even with his body and the blue eyed wolf was more than ready to defend the voice or creature that had asked for his help.

Save Them!

MADE BY MINNIE of BTN

Failure

The fur along your spine begins to rise and you feel a growl bubbling in your throat, you’re just about at your wits end in the place and you aren’t eager to be toyed with by whatever it is that’s lurking in here, still you’re a seasoned fighter and you feel confident in your ability. You hear a tail scraping against the floor and leap into action. You’re really only aware of snippets of the fight. Your fangs meeting fur, the feelings of a wing hitting your face. Something squishy and leathery wrapping around your legs. The crunch of an exoskeleton beneath your paws. You remain tense as you strain to hear your opponent, all is silent and then - Crack! You feel pain blossom in your tail and roar in pain. You thrash about wildly, the femur slipping from your grasp and shattering loudly against a nearby wall and it seems whatever was fighting had decided you weren’t worth the effort you hear whatever it is retreating, sliding further and further away from you. You remain tense for a moment longer and then suddenly an electric hum starts and you are thrown into light. You blink against the sudden light, wincing as the adrenaline starts to fade and your wound started throbbing, you curse your luck and turn to check your surroundings.

Eraithus has gained a minor maim, his tail now has a bend to it.

GAMBIT BRIAR - Ŗ̸̛̘̤̤̪͐̅̾͑̈́͗ĕ̸̫̫̘̮͖̣͓̖͆̈́̿̿͜ͅL̷̡̼̝͎̥̏̊̌͋̓́͐̚͝͠E̴̛̤͇̤̩͑͂̀ͅą̶͖̟̭͖̗̣͌̆͆̓̈s̶͇͎͎̦̮̊́͋̓̊̚e̸̡̮̠͙̥̱̖̥͆ ̵͉͚̦̱̒͆͐͛̈́͘m̴̨̺̻̗͇͚̐̈̓̆̊͗Ë̶̛̦͓̞̬͇̯͍̲̰!̶͖̰̱̬̹͓̉̋̇

You are in a concrete basement, the floor and walls around you are a dull, dirty grey, eerily red near the pipes that run along the roof. You cast about frantically, searching for your opponent but it’s disappeared… Which you realize is impossible. The basement is too small and too brightly lit for whatever you were fighting to have disappeared, you’re certain it was larger than you and you were blocking the only exit… You shiver, taking a few more moments to observe where you’ve found yourself and notice against the far wall is a small wire cage, the door was slightly open and through the gaps in the fencing you can see a skeleton laid out, it somehow resembles the doll from before and the voice returns, this time louder than it’s ever been and somehow distorted: ReLEase mE! You hear something rumbling under the hum from the lightbulb above you, it sounded almost like… laughter? You feel like whatever thing has been leading you this whole time has started to mock you. You feel like you’re being taunted, called a coward.

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• Release them!
  
• I am a coward, and proud of it! [Leave]
  

I JUST WANT A TASTE

Eraithus Left front paw is sprained - Eraithus now has a bend in his tail

The pain shooting through him made it hard to concentrate. First it had been his paw and now his tail, as he stared at the skeleton he looked at his tail. That was going to take weeks to heal he wouldn't be in fighting shape for some time. The pain blossoming into his rump - it looked like it was a permanent look too but it wouldn't cause him much issues once it healed. Eraithus growled to himself the voice in his head mocking him. He was no coward but a part of him debated leaving it here. It would save him more trouble, however something about his dignity was at stake.

"Fine, but you cannot call me a coward." whatever ghost haunted this place he would reap the rewards that it had. He quickly opened the cage. Whatever he was about to release hopefully it would not affect others. Yet would it be at peace? Perhaps this was all that it wanted. Eraithus waited to see, standing tall despite the pain that radiated throughout him.
Release!

MADE BY MINNIE of BTN

Failure

The rumbling echoes in your head again and you feel your paws drawing you towards the skeleton on the ground, behind it is a pile of bones and you notice there appears to be one missing from the current set up. You falter for a moment, wondering if it really was laughter you heard… but you shake it off, logically it was probably just the house settling. You look back at the shards of the femur you'd collected and then shrug and start going through the pile and find one you think will fit. You look at the skeleton again and your eyes fall on the skull, it’s an odd shape you’ve never seen before, not as rounded as you might assume with a massive eye hole in the middle, two smaller hollow tubes on either side of it. You feel something very off about the skull but at this point you simply desire to get out of this house! So you place the other bone. A soft light emanates from the skeleton and for a moment you feel the paranoia lift.. And then the light above you blows, loudly popping as it showers glass down on you. The rumbling starts again and this time you know it’s laughter, it grows in volume and you hear the sliding from the creature from before again. Fear grips you and this time you flee, up the stairs, out the foyer and into the forest. You don’t stop until you’re fully surrounded by trees, and it’s only as you rest for a moment, hunched over and panting that you realize you were in such a hurry to leave… you only grabbed one of your items. You walk back through the forest, afraid that you’ll get lost in these unfamiliar woods once more… or worse find yourself back at the house. But finally after what feels like the longest night of your life you find yourself back on familiar territory. You practically collapse, and finally feel safe enough to take stock of all that’s happened.

Eraithus left everything but the 5 fighting skill points behind.

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

Eraithus received a total of 4 punishments and 1 reward:

1 Punishment is a sprained ankle (Affects only rolls, does not need to played outside of event)
1 reward is +5 Fighting skill points [Added! - nyx]
1 punishment is -10 fighting skill points
1 punishment is a minor maim (permanently bent tail)
1 punishment is a Losing all rewards (Removed: [Redacted])

Note: -10 fighting skill points punishment has been nullified to assure Eraithus walks away with a minor prize.

Eraithus has no hidden punishments or rewards!

Thank you for your participation!
- Lolaf