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Beejoux rolled 1 4-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-4)
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 Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:49 pm
Merry took a moment to ti shake herself off, right down to a flick of the tail that sent a cascade of droplets flying across the kitchen. When she had finished she looked quite a bit more disheveled than her usual, more sleek appearance, though she hardly seemed to mind. She suspected she'd be getting a bit more ruffled by the end of this. Or perhaps doused again, as poor Ahm was. She raised eyebrows at the bucket as it went bouncing across the tile. "They've got a thing for you, love." It was said with a snicker, though only a brief one. With a hum the chimera ghoul headed across the room, keen to try another of the doors. It was about time they found their way out of this damnable kitchen, and they couldn't do it by not checking. She turned the handle, drawing open the door, and gave a very loud trill. "I've found it!" The way out! In her excitement she managed to knock down yet another bowl with bones in it, but she hardly seemed to notice. She was far too excited to move on.
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Syrie rolled 1 4-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-4)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:51 pm
Ahm rolled his eyes and used his damp sleeve to wipe at his face with a sigh. Jacking buckets. Wait 'til Nahm hears about this crap...whole place is going down. Hard. He was wringing out the lose parts of his robes when he heard Merry trilling happily - she'd found the Jacking exit! The boil's tail curled in a pleased manner and he headed after her. "Good job baby! You're the best." The bones caught in his hem and nearly tripped the tall Grue, but he managed to stay on his feet and lurch out of that Jack-forsaken kitchen. "Well...now what garbage does this place have to put us through? Better not be more buckets..."
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Beejoux rolled 3 6-sided dice:
2, 6, 2
Total: 10 (3-18)
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:11 am
Merry lingered in the doorway, ear giving only the slightest twitch as Ahm's robe scattered the bones that she'd spilled across the floor. Her attention was on the next challenge, or rather trying to figure out what that might be. "It looks like a library," she answered as the Grue moved up beside her. With a from she headed inside, fingertips trailing along a row of book spines. She didn't see a door, just shelves of books, but she was fairly certain this was where they had to be. Going back wasn't the answer, which meant it lie somewhere in here. "A puzzle, maybe?" She paused, pulling a book from the closest shelf and thumbed through it, before closing it with a snap and a giggle, murmuring something along the lines of naughty as she slid it home. The answer was obviously not in there.
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Syrie rolled 3 6-sided dice:
1, 3, 2
Total: 6 (3-18)
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:47 am
Ahm looked around and came to the same conclusion as Merry - this was a library, full of delicious smelling books - and he supposed it was also a puzzle. But Ahm didn't really have any patience for puzzles just then, he was cold and wet, he was annoyed, and he was done already. The elder Grue heard his ghoulfriend chittering at something in a book she'd found as he moved around a corner, only to find himself tangled up in a rope. Of paper. Which he swore at and fought with mightily, snapping and snarling about being cold, wet, and Jacking done with this ******** house. "Burn you down, down to ash--" And then suddenly he was free and falling through...a door. Half in, half out of the library, Ahm stared incredulously. "You gotta be kidding me...Jack but that's lucky." "Merry, got a door here! C'mon let's get the hell out while I've got the damn thing open!"
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Beejoux rolled 1 100-sided dice:
31
Total: 31 (1-100)
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:45 pm
There came a lot of howling and snapping and what seemed an unending stream of curses from around the corner of one of the book shelves. Merry frowned, stepping back around, just in time to see Ahm stumble through a door that had not been there a moment before. How he'd found it, she didn't know, but she was delighted by the discovery none-the-less! "Good job, baby!" Hurrying over, the ghoul carefully stepped around the boil before bending and curling her hands under an arm to help him back to his feet. "We've gotta be getting close to finished in here, right?" How long had they been in the house now? Jack, Merry couldn't remember. Too long. Especially with them both wet and uncomfortable. The room they found themselves in now looked to be a bedroom. It was large, a little cluttered, but somehow managed to be spacious. The ghoul walked around it once before heading to the far door to try the knob. It didn't turn. "Locked." With a from she crouched down, peering at the keyhole. It was a big, old fashioned thing, and there were various things around them that could be used as tools. Humming, she picked a couple up, trying her luck, but having no success.
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Syrie rolled 1 100-sided dice:
87
Total: 87 (1-100)
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:31 am
“It’s about time we had some luck.” After all, he was Ahm deVarr and one day he’d be a grand elder, like his grandfather. He was supposed to be resourceful, lucky, skilled, and a dozen other things that should have made their journey through the house easy as cake and pie. Instead he’d been ‘loved’ by buckets. Jacking buckets-But the next room, once he got himself sorted, seemed to be a bedroom with a single door leading out. A locked door. The true smiled. This was far, far more his style. He and Nahm were quite the accomplished petty criminals. “Darling, step aside. Picking a lock is simple, Nahm and I’ve done it thousands of times.” He was reaching into his robes, pulling out a squiggly bit of metal as he moved towards the locked door. Once Merry had moved enough for him to get to the lock, he shoved the metal bit in and wriggled it around in a purposeful manner. Fifteen seconds later, the lock sprung with a heavy clack and he straightened, tucking the metal lock pick back into his robes with one hand and opening the door with his other. “After you, my dear.” He could afford to be gallant; wet and uncomfortable as he might have been, getting through not one but two rooms quickly had put him in a brighter mood. And the door opened to…the outside. Where a smarmy looking Trick or Treater was cradled in a tree and holding a pair of parchment rolls. Parchment that proved to be their Exam Completion certificates. “Thanks.” Ahm had no intention of mentioning that he was going to burn the place down. Instead he would pick up his beautiful ghoul friend and spin her around with a celebratory whoop. They were Knobs now. They’d done it!
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:36 pm
Merry was all too happy to move aside so the grue could have a whack at the lock, though she didn't go far. The ghoul's arm pressed into his side, head on his shoulder and tail curling loosely around his hips as she watched him work. He'd even had his own set of lock-picks! It was impressive. And then the mechanical bits inside the lock gave a wonderfully promising click. Merry held her breath, then Ahm was rising to his feet and offering a hand down to help her up as well. She took it, bouncing up excitedly to bound through the door and out into freedom. They'd made it! They'd escaped the house of a thousand buckets, the library, the bedroom, all of it! "Oh." There was someone else there. A Trick or Treater perched comfortably in a tree with a pair of rolled parchments. She gave him a curious look before she was handed one of the two rolls. Then she was being scooped up in a pair of still wet arms. Laughing, she wrapped her arms around his neck as he twirled her around excitedly. When he'd slowed she'd wrap her legs around his waist, leaning in to steal a kiss within the shadows of his cowl. Seconds, minutes later she withdrew, breathless and still laughing. "Nahm is going to be thrilled." They were finally all on equal ground. "Let's go tell him the good news."
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