Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #2: The Citadel of Chaos

Dr_Noface · Post by **Dr_Noface** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:03 pm

We got ourselves thoroughly fucked for a man faced spider in a jar? WTF fighting fantasy.

I also say left.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:23 pm

The staircase creaks as your foot falls on it. You try to ascend as quietly as possible, but the old timbers groan under your weight. Suddenly one of the stairs flicks as to trigger a switch of some kind. To your surprise, all of the stairs flick downwards! You are now standing on a smooth, steep slope! Try as you might, you cannot keep your balance and you fall down the slope, tumbling head-over-heels. If you wish to use a Levitation Spell, you may fly up and out of danger, to land on the balcony above; otherwise you fall.

(Just like almost everything in Deathtrap Dungeon, it turns the one on the left is the bad one. Looks like we're finally going to have to break down and cast a spell... we have lots of Levitation Spells so we shouldn't even need to use our Magicka Potion. But we don't get the Xbox Achievement for completing the game without using magic.)

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:37 pm

Whatever wrote:We'll need our spells for super bullshit encounters later on.

Such as this one! Levitate.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:44 pm

Along the balcony are three doors. Will you try:

The door to the left?
The door in the center?
The door to the right?

Manstaff Cockbeard
Skill: 10/12
Stamina: 10/18
Luck: 8/8
Magic: 12/13
Equipment: Magic Battlesword (+1 Attack Strength,) Leather Armor, Enchanted Throwing Dagger (can be used once to automatically deal 2 damage to an opponent)
Backpack: Weeds, Ointment, Silver Mirror, Spider in a Jar
Keys: Copper Key, Silver Key, Green Metal Key
Gold Pieces: 10
Potions: Potion of Magik (restores a used spell, 2/2 doses left)
Spells: Fire x 3, Levitation x 2, Creature Copy x 1, E.S.P. x 1, Fool's Gold x 1, Illusion x 1, Shielding x 1, Strength x 1, Weakness x 1

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:46 am

I still vote left. Cockbeard.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:04 am

The locked door is very strong and made of solid oak. It is unlikely you will break it down, but you may try. Otherwise you could use a Strength Spell to smash it. The lock is copper and you could try using a Copper Key if you have one.

(I assume we use the Copper Key that we have never needed before this.)

The key turns and the door opens.

The room is an elegant bed-chamber, plushly decorated with fine lace and a fur carpet. In the center of the room is a large four-poster bed. Sitting up in the bed, evidently awakened by all the commotion, is a beautiful, sylph-like woman with long dark hair and deep piercing eyes. "What right have you in here?" she screams at you. With those words her eyes turn blood-red and two jets of liquid fire shoot from them directly at you. Will you:

Create a Shielding Spell to protect yourself?
Leave the room quickly and try the next door?
Tell her you have a special gift for her?

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:43 am

We've got a special gift for her, all right.

(It's our sword)

(the one made of metal)

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:47 am

Okay, this is someone with caster levels. Also, the scorching rays have left the eyeballs, it is too late for Bluff checks. Shielding.

CapnTthePirateG · Post by **CapnTthePirateG** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:34 am

As much as I'd like to give her our, uh, special gift, shield first.

Than see what happens.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:52 am

You cast your Shielding Spell. Alas and alack, this Spell is ineffective against magical weapons! The jets of fire sear straight through your shield and burn into your own eyes. Screaming in pain you drop to the floor. The curtain of death drops over you.

You have failed in your mission.

I won't count this spell against us, or this death, as if we never made this choice. (But I will add it to our Running Total of Deaths.) Our choices are now to either:

Leave the room quickly and try the next door?
Tell her you have a special gift for her?

Manstaff Cockbeard
Skill: 10/12
Stamina: 10/18
Luck: 8/8
Magic: 12/13
Equipment: Magic Battlesword (+1 Attack Strength,) Leather Armor, Enchanted Throwing Dagger (can be used once to automatically deal 2 damage to an opponent)
Backpack: Weeds, Ointment, Silver Mirror, Spider in a Jar
Keys: Copper Key, Silver Key, Green Metal Key
Gold Pieces: 10
Potions: Potion of Magik (restores a used spell, 2/2 doses left)
Spells: Fire x 3, Levitation x 2, Creature Copy x 1, E.S.P. x 1, Fool's Gold x 1, Illusion x 1, Shielding x 1, Strength x 1, Weakness x 1
Running Total of Deaths: 1

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:02 am

Special gift, man.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:47 pm

She blinks and the jets of fire disappear. What will you offer her?

A Silver Mirror?
A Hairbrush? (We don't have one)
A jar containing a Spider-Man?

If you have none of these, you must make some excuse about losing your gift and go back onto the balcony where you may take either the middle door or the far door.

(We do have some of these. Two, in fact.)

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:49 pm

Maybe Spider-man can escape her wiles and make his way back to us, so that.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:12 pm

Spider-Man has "Trap Item" written all over him, having already killed us once. I say go with the mirror.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:15 pm

(Will wait for one more vote to break the tie. And Spider-Man didn't kill us; trying to block this bitch's eye rays did. But getting him did fuck us up.)

Dr_Noface · Post by **Dr_Noface** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:09 pm

I vote Spider-Man because that is possibly the worst gift I could think of.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:03 pm

The mirror of course, so that she can kill herself with her fire shooting eyes.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:21 pm

(Damnit, tied again. Next vote gets it for reals.)

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:09 pm

She probably has no reflection in the mirror, so she'd kill us if we give that to her.
So I'd say stab her. Since that is not an option, toss her the spider.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:00 pm

She grimaces as she looks at the ugly little thing, pulling the bedclothes up around her neck.

"What do I want with that?" she exclaims. Again her eyes turn deep red and the jets of fire shoot towards you. Will you cast a Shielding Spell or leave the room and head down the corridor for the middle room?

(Since we know that Shielding gets us fiery death here, I assume we leave.)

You listen at the door and can hear squeaky voices laughing and squabbling. You try the handle and the door opens. Inside is a brightly colored room. A few small beds are in one corner, and strewn about the floor are small mannequins of various brutish creatures. Along the right-hand wall is a large box and just beyond the box is a door. In the center of the floor, and looking up at you quizzically, are three small creatures. They are human-like but have green skin, pointed ears and slit-like eyes. What will your approach be? Will you:

Draw your sword and prepare to fight them?
Look in your pack for something to offer them?
Walk confidently across the room to the far door?

Dr_Noface · Post by **Dr_Noface** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:37 pm

Maybe these kids want the man-spider

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:39 pm

Killing children! That's what DND is all about!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 3:33 am

SCREW THIS

NOT WAITING FOR ANOTHER TIEBREAKER

WE KILL THE ORC BABIES NOW

TO SHOW BALTHUS DIRE HOW METAL WE ARE

DESPITE BEING WTFPWNED BY A LEPRECHAUN AND A LADY WITH EVIL EYES

AND GETTING THE SHIT BEATEN OUT OF US BY A GOLEM

AND NEARLY KILLED BY A STAIRCASE

(Ahem. What I meant to say is that I'm saying we fight.)

The little creatures squeal and huddle together as you approach. You run them all through with your sword, but they put up no resistance! You feel a little wary at such an easy battle and make for the door at the far end of the room.

(Manstaff Cockbeard thought that baby Orcs were like Bethesda Children, and were functionally immortal. But more importantly this was Dirk von Facestabber III levels of metal.)

You leave the room and head down a short corridor. Some meters down you find yourself at the foot of a staircase. This is a spiral staircase which leads right into the Citadel Tower. You climb the stairs and eventually arrive on a small landing with two doorways in front of you. Will you take the left-hand door or the right-hand door?

CapnTthePirateG · Post by **CapnTthePirateG** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:53 am

Ok, did it actually ever tell us that the shield spell doesn't work on magic? Because that is straight up bullshit.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:31 am

I vote we continue taking the lefthand path.

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Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #2: The Citadel of Chaos

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