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Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

Carry the keys ourselves and check the possible warning notice on the floor.

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Guy Fawkes
Aug 1, 2014

Lvl 62, +5 meadow defense

nelson posted:

Give all the keys to Tanith.

Examine the floor.

This.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Guy Fawkes posted:

Give all the keys to Tanith..

Beyond the Nightmare Gate posted:

You bend down and examine the inscription and read:
    ‘A life that’s spent at odds with death,
    Can dull the mind—the broadsword’s edge.
    But even-tempered swords and heads,
    Fall easy where the foolish tread.’
While crouching, you catch sight of the ceiling. A dense mass of swords are suspended, points downward, in the air above your head. You feel sure that there is a connection between these swords and those inscribed in the flagstones.
Directly ahead of us is a flagstone with two swords. Forward to the left is a flagstone with one sword, and the same ahead of us to the right. Do we go straight ahead (two swords) or diagonally left or right (one sword)?

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

IF I EVER MISS VOTING IN AN ELECTION (EVEN AMERICAN IDOL) ,OR HAVE UNPAID PARKING TICKETS, PLEASE TAKE AWAY MY FRANCHISE

Tiggum posted:

Directly ahead of us is a flagstone with two swords. Forward to the left is a flagstone with one sword, and the same ahead of us to the right. Do we go straight ahead (two swords) or diagonally left or right (one sword)?

:goleft:. Or right. But nowhere with an even number of swords.

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
Left is beft.

Xarn
Jun 26, 2015
Right

nelson
Apr 12, 2009
College Slice
:goleft:

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

ulmont posted:

:goleft:. Or right. But nowhere with an even number of swords.

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It
Only the penitent man may pass, so make like a bishop and :goleft:

TooMuchAbstraction
Oct 14, 2012

I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.
Fun Shoe

PMush Perfect posted:

Left is beft.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.



Beyond the Nightmare Gate posted:

Slowly and carefully you step onto your chosen flagstone. Nothing happens and you breathe a sigh of relief.
Do we step onto the one-sword flagstone in front of the door, the two-sword flagstone directly ahead of us, or the one-sword flagstone diagonally ahead of us to the right?


The door is in the left wall; we haven't been told where the stairs are or how many flagstones across the room is.

nelson
Apr 12, 2009
College Slice
Let’s check out the door.

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

nelson posted:

Let’s check out the door.

That's the door we just came in, right? Forward and right.

ETA: nope, door!

Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 18:10 on May 22, 2019

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
Door?

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Runcible Cat posted:

That's the door we just came in, right?

No, that door's behind us. We're still facing the same direction we were when we came in, so the door that was originally to our left is still to our left.

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

Tiggum posted:

No, that door's behind us. We're still facing the same direction we were when we came in, so the door that was originally to our left is still to our left.

Thanks. Changed vote!

TooMuchAbstraction
Oct 14, 2012

I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.
Fun Shoe
It would be kind of funny if the book just let you walk out the door you came in and made you do the key puzzle again.

Guy Fawkes
Aug 1, 2014

Lvl 62, +5 meadow defense
Door.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Beyond the Nightmare Gate posted:

You step on the flagstone: nothing happens. You are now standing before the wooden door. You try the handle and find that the door is locked.
Shall we give it a blast from our staff or use Sorcery?

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Blast the door, kid!

Mister Perky
Aug 2, 2010
congratulations goons: we found the one spot where we could've actually used Psychomancy if we had it (I think)

anyway, Sorcery

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
Instant Sorcery!

nelson
Apr 12, 2009
College Slice
Sorcery!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

have we tried turning the handle the other way

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Mister Perky posted:

congratulations goons: we found the one spot where we could've actually used Psychomancy if we had it (I think)

Not here, but there have been a couple of opportunities to use it. This is a spot we could use Alchemy if we had the right ingredients.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


achtungnight posted:

Blast the door, kid!

Beyond the Nightmare Gate posted:

At the cost of 2 WILLPOWER points, you throw down the door with a sheet of magical fire. As the door falls from its hinges and crashes to the ground, a narrow flight of stairs is revealed.

Willpower: 33
Shall we take these stairs or the other stairs behind us?

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Whoa, there are stairs behind us now? Go up the stairs in front of us.

Decoy Badger
May 16, 2009
We were dancing with the swords, now dance up these stairs.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


achtungnight posted:

Whoa, there are stairs behind us now?

Behind us as we're now facing the door that was to our left as we came in. The layout of this room is not well described, but the stairs were mentioned briefly. So the stairs ahead of us are through the door we just blasted open, the stairs behind us are the stairs we saw as we first entered this room.

nelson
Apr 12, 2009
College Slice

Decoy Badger posted:

We were dancing with the swords, now dance up these stairs.

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Decoy Badger posted:

We were dancing with the swords, now dance up these stairs.

Guy Fawkes
Aug 1, 2014

Lvl 62, +5 meadow defense
Let's go forward on These stairs.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Beyond the Nightmare Gate posted:

You walk down the stairs into a dimly lit cellar full of rusty armour. You have entered the tower’s store room and the weapons of countless adventurers lie corroding at your feet. A tangle of cobwebs brushes against your face as your attention is caught by the glint of new metal. A closer examination reveals a large Bunch of Keys. If you wish to keep the Bunch of Keys, mark it on your Action Chart as a Special Item.

You climb back up the stairs.

Automatically took Bunch of Keys.

You try to decide on a route back to the stairway, finding the darkness of the other doorway sinister and uninviting.
Shall we step on a flagstone with one sword or a flagstone with two swords?


We are now heading to the stairs we have not yet tried in case that's not clear. The Grey Star books seem to make more use of repeating the same sections in different situations than the Lone Wolf books do but aren't really written carefully enough to do that seamlessly, so this bit seems to assume that we haven't yet opened the door and gone through and therefore only know of one staircase.

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
One, more time!

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
2 swords for variety.

TooMuchAbstraction
Oct 14, 2012

I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.
Fun Shoe
There can be only one.

nelson
Apr 12, 2009
College Slice

PMush Perfect posted:

One, more time!

RudeCat
Aug 7, 2012

The rudest cat for the rudest jobs


achtungnight posted:

2 swords for variety.

Spice of life and all that

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

PMush Perfect posted:

One, more time!

:autotune FX:

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Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


TooMuchAbstraction posted:

There can be only one.

Beyond the Nightmare Gate posted:

You step on the flagstone and, to your relief, no sword drops. The stairway is ahead and to the left, the tower entrance is behind, and the small doorway is to the left and behind.
Shall we step on the one-sword flagstone ahead and to the left, the two-sword flagstone straight ahead, or the one-sword flagstone diagonally behind us (ie. back to the door we were just at).


Because of those reused sections we have turned around again so we are now facing the same direction we were when we first entered the room, which makes this needlessly confusing, but hopefully there's enough information there to make things clear.

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