Octagon - Another Purpose - Game Thread.

Waiting Nyoms input in order to advance (others can and should act too)

Lucas, being quite silent lately, takes last spot in the row, smiling tiredly to Ronna said calmly: "I'll watch our backs"

Zinobia turns his face towards Mandoric waiting for his confirmation of move.

Results of the Mandoric check:
Area seems to be safe, for now.

Zinobia nodded, and with determined pace moved towards the cave entrance.

Lucas, being quite silent and looking tired lately, said calmly to Ronna "I'll watch your back" and moved himself to the end of the party.

Zinobia activated glow globe and signaled to Lucas to do the same.

The party entered the cave. Inner cave was quite damp inside and was quite narrow.

Party advanced into the cave already for 5 minutes through it's wet and narrow corridors, when the Zinobia's glow globe revealed wide square hall.
It had walls made of dark gray stone, which had very even surface. It, obviously, was something very ancient. In the dim light Zinobia noticed door opening on opposite side of the hall and pointed towards it with his palm - "I guess..... there...." - and without any hesitation he moved towards the door.

It was octagon shaped hole, with heavy and wide frame around it. Zinobia peeked inside and his head returned from the hole and said: "Stairs. Not so high. Watch your step".

He entered the hole , and the light from his globe started to descend.
Party followed him. It was staircase made of same dark gray stone, seemingly same material used to make the door frame and the walls in the hall. It was not high - arund 3 metres. It led towards Octagon shaped hall. It was really big. It's central area was elevated - around foot above outer circle level, and it had some pedestal in the middle. The room was really huge, but even from the edge of the hall, in the darkness, which was disturbed only by two weak glow globes, odd light surrounding the pedestal was visible.

Zinobia, without any doubts and with firm determination moved quite quickly towards the pedestal, while all the party descended from the staricase. Mandoric and his Seskii reached the inner, elevated level, Nyom been close nearby, and Ronna few steps from the staircase.
Lucas still stood on the last, bottom step of the staricase, trying to provide the light to advancing forward Ronna and Nyom.

Zinobia touched the pedestal.

There been white Light. Shake, Tremor. Then Nothing. Silence, and sucking, powerful whirlpool. Each one's eyes became blinded and conciousness slipped away.

It's not the start of new turn. It is GM Plot Intrusion. All the party losing conciousness and unable to move.
Every party member Gets 1 XP point.

Soon to be continued. Next post will come soon.

You can not post or do anything that is not in-character private thoughts before the next post, which will be the start of the Act II . During this transition, characters can not move or speak.

Act II

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Conciousness was returning slowly. And the sharp, artificial light struck the eyelids of the party members, forcing them to open their eyes and to see the new reality around them. Each party member found himself lying on the dry, even, silvery floor, and noticed other party members lying nearby.

Each party member tried to stand up. Zinobia was the first one and he immidiately helped Ronna by giving her his hand.
The space around the party appeared to be an octagon-shaped room with diameter around 30m. It was filled with artificial sharp white light, which was emmited by crystals embedded into the ceiling of the room.

At first, it was unclear what was going on with the walls of the room - they looked like flowing, almost liquid dark gray substance. But after a while it became apparent - the walls were made of glass, almost invisible and very thin. And all the space outside of the room was filled with fog. The fog was not static, and there was some kind of movement outside the walls of the room.

There was no sight of Lucas anywhere.

The light blinked for a second, and then the party noticed two strangers in the room - a young girl with slim body, silver hair and visible implant port module attached to the back side of her head, and a young male who looked like a jack adventurer from Northern Steadfast.

Then the light dimmed out and soft but loud "pfffff" sound emerged from below, and then the room started to move slowly downwards. The movement outside of the room intencified.

The room slowly, but steadily descends.

New Turn.
Players (all 5) can and should do their moves now
Wellcome to new 2 players (OOLIN and T'Jekyll).

The room continued to descend. The view around the room's walls cleared abit, and it became apparent that the room moving through glass tube downwards, towards the ground. The fog dissolved abit and the party saw huge clouds, which fought each other and were running with incredible speeds across the space around and below them, hiding and covering the ground. The distance between the party and the ground was decreasing with each second. The land was covered with fog. There were clouds eveywhere - above, around and below.

Then the walls revealed themselves. They were very high, and covered by thick fog. They were visible from the above, thick gray lines, coming from point which was exactly below the party, and going like beams outwards. Eight beams, at perfect angles, were running towards horison at eight directions. Huge walls, separating precisely all the space below to eight even sectors.

The room, the lift which was moving inside of octagon-shaped glass tube, was closing the distance with the ground.

Zinobia scratched his head and said calmly "Well, adapting is good, i hope we will survive all this...." and continued to stare on the approaching ground in order to catch more details and extract some more information from the thick fog, which evenly covered all the land around their landing point.

Then he pulled his octagon-shaped compass out and suprised "Oh" emerged from his throat.

He turned the compass screen towards the party, showing it.
There were colorfull signs running. It's surface turned into colorfull screen with colorful writings running by it's perimeter. Right in it's center it had stylized image which resembled prism with light going through it, and the big sentence which was blinking and changing colors. All the texts were in unknown language.

New Round.

Advancing further because the situation probably is "better to wait and see what happens" for majority of characters/players especially that seemingly initiative have been taken By Oolin and seems that it going to have some fruits. Yes, there is reason to advance further abit, to the results.
Huge note >> Oolin

The room continued to descend, and invietably was closing the distance with covered by dense fog landcape and eight walls going towards the horison.
Party watched OOLIN interacting with Zinobia's compass in silence. There was something going on. It was clear that she got something with her attempt to "contact" with this "thing".

New Round. Actions are anticipated and wellcomed but not required in order to advance the round. I will advance 24-36h after this post - eventually.