achtungnight posted:

Bullshit maze, drat it. Forget Sword, Go Right. The maze may be counter-intuitive, you never know with Dever!

Mikl posted:

Sword's obviously a trap. Pick up the sword and then

ulmont posted:

With Dever! you always know the paths will diverge and then reconverge before you move to the next phase. This is an image of how the paths all converge into the "you are stunned and tossed into the maze" section.

Bifauxnen posted:

I would love to see more of these, and at a more legible size. Got a link?

achtungnight posted:

Forget Sword.

Mikl posted:

Castle Death posted:

After a few hundred yards, the passage turns abruptly to the right. Glinting in the dim light is a cluster of huge bubbles floating languidly up and down in the passage ahead. A slight breeze lifts them, and slowly they bounce towards you.

Healing: +1 EP (30/32).

Bifauxnen posted:

I would love to see more of these, and at a more legible size. Got a link?

Tiggum posted:

take the other passage?

Comstar posted:

Go the other way

ulmont posted:

How could bubbles possibly hurt us? Let's not find out and take the other passage.

Castle Death posted:

You walk along the passage for several minutes until it turns sharply to the left. Cautiously you peer around the corner, your basic Kai instincts alerting you to a potential threat. Peering down, you see a beam of light shining from one side of the corridor to the other. The passage ahead looks no different to those in the rest of the maze, but you feel sure that it contains a deadly trap.

Healing: +1 EP (31/32).

Castle Death posted:

Jets of fire spurt from the floor and walls momentarily blinding you. A wave of searing heat buffets your face, singeing your hair and eyelashes (lose 2 ENDURANCE points), and forcing you to retreat for fear of being burned alive.

Suddenly there is a ghastly scream. Something is approaching you through the flames. In the next instant, a blazing human form staggers into view; it shrieks in agony and lurches out of the fire-jets, its arms flailing wildly as it launches an attack.

Endurance: 29/32.

The creature’s flaming fists scorch your tunic, but your Mastery of Nexus enables you to survive the worst of the searing heat. The attack is wild and haphazard and you have no difficulty avoiding the blows. Ducking beneath the creature’s arm, you sprint away towards the jets of flame in the hope of evading the attack, but the sight of the inferno ahead makes you hesitate.

Healing: +1 EP (30/32).

Leraika posted:

Man, remember when I said 'oh I'm glad they lay off the random insta-deaths later on'?

I was a fool, a damned fool, and also forgetful as hell.

edit: not spoilers

Tiggum posted:

Do we walk through the fire or stand and fight the burning man?

Also, does anyone else think it's bullshit that we still took two damage even though we have Nexus? Because that's bullshit.

Jedit posted:

Yeah, you were a damned fool because they actually made them worse. One book in the Grand Master series has you go through the entire book before throwing up back to back random instadeath rolls to reach 350.

Then again, about 80% of the gameplay in the Grand Master series is picking the disciplines in exactly the right order to avoid being DMW from page 1.

Tiggum posted:

Do we walk through the fire or stand and fight the burning man?

Tiggum posted:

Also, does anyone else think it's bullshit that we still took two damage even though we have Nexus? Because that's bullshit.

Comstar posted:

Fight the Burning man he seems easy enough to disarm.

Castle Death posted:

With a cry that shakes your soul, the creature leaps forward to claw at your throat. The creature is immune to Mindblast (but not Psi-surge). Unless you have the Magnakai Discipline of Nexus, double all ENDURANCE points that you lose during the combat, due to the severity of the burns you sustain.

Castle Death posted:

A heap of molten ash is now all that remains of the Flame-man. Then, as suddenly as they began, the jets of flame shut off, leaving the passage ahead shimmering with a heat haze. A laugh, cold and distant, echoes above the ceiling of mist, stirring you to curse Lord Zahda and his deadly maze.

Healing: +1 EP (18/32).

You cover fifty yards before the passage opens into a large, circular chamber. There, on a plinth in the centre of the floor, rests a severed human hand. The skin is mottled and swollen, the fingers black and decayed. Beyond the plinth, the passage continues straight ahead, flanked by two pillars of speckled green stone.

Healing: +1 EP (19/32).

Castle Death posted:

Without any warning, the hand springs to life. It stands upright on its fingers, the first two drawn back so that it resembles a monstrous spider preparing to attack. You step back aghast as it scurries around in a circle on the granite plinth.

Healing: +1 EP (20/32).

Mikl posted:

Just don't bother it by giving it a wide berth.

Castle Death posted:

As you draw level with the plinth, the fingers on the hand begin to move. They rise and fall, drumming a slow and clumsy rhythm on the granite surface. The dull thudding causes your head to ache, and the pain increases with every tap of the swollen black fingers.

Healing: +1 EP (21/32).

The pain quickly becomes unbearable (lose 5 ENDURANCE points). As you reel back in agony, the drumming increases speed: unless you act quickly it will destroy your mind.

Endurance: 16/32.