20k Leagues Under the Sea: Taisho

[idolpro]

[The elevator deposits you in the interior of a spacious submersible with a decidedly steampunk aesthetic. All of the metal is brushed bronze, and the navigation tools look to be turn of the century]

[Through the periscope, you can still see the sky; the water visible through the circular windows is a pale blue-green, kissed by filtering sunlight]

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RULES

[idolpro]

[The following rules are visible scrawled on a piece of paper on the navigation desk:]

Welcome to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

Your goal is for your team to travel a distance of 20,000 leagues in your submersible. The teams that continue the longest will win a ~fabulous prize~: instant and painless revives, and full healing for one team of their choosing.

The journey won't be easy, though. Every time you choose to take your submersible further into the briny deep, you run the risk of suffering a fatal setback imposed by the challenges of the sea.

You can turn back at any time, safely surfacing. However, fortune favors the bold, and once you ascend, you cannot return to the challenge.

So the decision each round is up to you: will you boldly press onward, to discover the unknown? Or will you return to the realm above, and leave behind the ocean's watery secrets?

ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[Are you ready to set out on your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision]

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

It seems like the smartest choice in this game is to not play and retire immediately.

But there is full healing for a team of our choosing on the line as well.

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[auguryofinnocence]

It would be wisest to simply never participate, wouldn't it? Although I do wonder what they would do in that case. There is nothing in the rules about nonparticipation, however...

That is a tempting prize.

ROUND 1 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 1 SUBMISSION

[time5kip]

Are we going: yes
Roll:

Nadeko
BOT
— Oggi alle 21:24
Delitan | Five Dice rolled: 11 - 100
Rolls
75
Sum
75 + 0 - 0 = 75

ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

"A slight declivity ends in an uneven bottom, at fifteen fathoms depth. Here, there is no fine sand, no submarine prairies, no sea-forest. It is the coral kingdom.

The light produces a thousand charming varieties, playing in the midst of the branches that are so vividly coloured. You seem to see the membraneous and cylindrical tubes tremble beneath the undulation of the waters. You're tempted to gather their fresh petals, ornamented with delicate tentacles, some just blown, the others budding, while a small fish, swimming swiftly, touches them slightly, like flights of birds. But if your craft approaches these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony would take alarm. The white petals would re-enter their red cases, the flowers fade as you look, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs."

[You take in the sights through the portholes, beholding the wonders of the sea. All around you, your submersible hums like a well-oiled machine, performing the duty of keeping you safe most admirably]

[At this depth, the pressure is beginning to increase. It will be more dangerous to continue from here]

[You think that you could coax the submersible's delicate robotic pincers to take a sample of coral and bring it in as a keepsake from your journey. Would you like to try? y/n]

[Are you ready to continue your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision if you plan to continue]

[To try for the keepsake, please roll another 1d100]

Re: ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

I feel like trying to get the coral is going to bite us in the ass, but at this point why not go all out.

ROUND 2 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 2 SUBMISSION

[time5kip]

WE DO NOT TAKE A SOUVENIR
WE KEEP GOING
ROLL RESULT: 86

Delitan | Five — Oggi alle 21:51
.roll 1d100

Nadeko
BOT
— Oggi alle 21:51
Delitan | Five Dice rolled: 11 - 100
Rolls
86
Sum
86 + 0 - 0 = 86

ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

"There are rays of gigantic size, five meters long and with muscles so powerful they could leap above the waves, sharks of various species including a fifteen–foot glaucous shark with sharp triangular teeth and so transparent it is almost invisible amid the waters, brown lantern sharks, prism–shaped humantin sharks armored with protuberant hides, sturgeons resembling their relatives in the Mediterranean, trumpet–snouted pipefish a foot and a half long, yellowish brown with small gray fins and no teeth or tongue, unreeling like slim, supple snakes.

Among the bony fish, you notice some blackish marlin three meters long with a sharp sword jutting from the upper jaw, bright–colored weevers known in Aristotle's day as sea dragons and whose dorsal stingers make them quite dangerous to pick up, then dolphinfish with brown backs striped in blue and edged in gold, handsome dorados, moonlike opahs that look like azure disks but which the sun's rays turn into spots of silver, finally eight–meter swordfish from the genus Xiphias, swimming in schools, sporting yellowish sickle–shaped fins and six–foot broadswords, stalwart animals, plant eaters rather than fish eaters."

[You take in the sights through the portholes, beholding the wonders of the sea. All around you, your submersible hums like a well-oiled machine, performing the duty of keeping you safe most admirably]

[At this depth, the pressure is beginning to increase. It will be more dangerous to continue from here]

[You think that you could coax the submersible's delicate robotic pincers to catch a fish and bring it in as a keepsake from your journey. Would you like to try? y/n]

[Are you ready to continue your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision if you plan to continue]

[To try for the keepsake, please roll another 1d100]

Re: ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

Do we continue to leave the fishes alone?

The scenery is surprisingly nice by the way. I didn't expect that.

ROUND 3 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 3 SUBMISSION

[time5kip]

WE CONTINUE
WE LEAVE THE FISHIES ALONE
ROLL: 90

Delitan | Five — Oggi alle 22:20
.roll 1d100

Nadeko
BOT
— Oggi alle 22:20
Delitan | Five Dice rolled: 11 - 100
Rolls
90
Sum
90 + 0 - 0 = 90

ROUND 4 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

"The mountain along the sea floor rises only 700 to 800 feet; but on its far slope it crowns the receding bottom of this part of the Atlantic by a height twice that. Your eyes scan the distance and take in a vast area lit by intense flashes of light. In essence, this mountain is a volcano. Fifty feet below its peak, amid a shower of stones and slag, a wide crater vomits torrents of lava that are dispersed in fiery cascades into the heart of the liquid mass. So situated, this volcano is an immense torch that lights up the lower plains.

"This underwater crater spews lava, but not flames. Flames need oxygen from the air and are unable to spread underwater; but a lava flow, which contains in itself the principle of its incandescence, can rise to a white heat, overpower the liquid element, and turn it into steam on contact. Swift currents sweep away all this diffuse gas, and torrents of lava slide to the foot of the mountain, like the disgorgings of a Mt. Vesuvius over the city limits of a second Torre del Greco."

[You take in the sights through the portholes, beholding the wonders of the sea. All around you, your submersible hums like a well-oiled machine, performing the duty of keeping you safe most admirably]

[At this depth, the pressure is beginning to increase. It will be more dangerous to continue from here]

[You think that you could coax the submersible's delicate robotic pincers to take a sample of the lava and bring it in as a keepsake from your journey. Would you like to try? y/n]

[Are you ready to continue your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision if you plan to continue]

[To try for the keepsake, please roll another 1d100]

Re: ROUND 4 DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

[ he's glad it's lava and not outright flames but he does look worried. ]

We're definitely not touching the lava.

ROUND 4 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 4 SUBMISSION

[time5kip]

NO SOUVENIRS
WE CONTINUE
ROLL: 98

Delitan | Five — Oggi alle 22:46
.roll 1d100

Nadeko
BOT
— Oggi alle 22:46
Delitan | Five Dice rolled: 11 - 100
Rolls
98
Sum
98 + 0 - 0 = 98

ROUND 5 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

"The seafloor changes little by little. Its fine–grained sand is followed by a genuine causeway of smooth crags covered by a carpet of mollusks and zoophytes. Among other specimens in these two branches, you note some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange–hued lucina with circular shells, awl–shaped auger shells, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rise under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean.

There amid this display is an oyster of extraordinary dimensions, a titanic giant clam, a holy–water font that could hold a whole lake, a basin more than two meters wide. Its mass of filaments attach it to a table of granite, and there it grows by itself in the midst of the cave's calm waters.

There, between its leaflike folds, you see a loose pearl as big as a coconut. Its globular shape and perfect clarity make it a jewel of incalculable value."

[You take in the sights through the portholes, beholding the wonders of the sea. All around you, your submersible hums like a well-oiled machine, performing the duty of keeping you safe most admirably]

[At this depth, the pressure is beginning to increase. It will be more dangerous to continue from here]

[You think that you could coax the submersible's delicate robotic pincers to pick up the pearl and bring it in as a keepsake from your journey. Would you like to try? y/n]

[Your journey nears its end]

[To try for the keepsake, please roll 1d100]

Re: ROUND 5 DISCUSSION

[auguryofinnocence]

[He's enjoying the view! But obviously we're not dumb enough to try taking the pearl, right? Let's just look at the ocean.]

ROUND 5 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 5 SUBMISSION

[time5kip]

no souvenirs
we keep going
rolled a 9
Delitan | Five — Oggi alle 23:23
.roll 1d100

Nadeko
BOT
— Oggi alle 23:23
Delitan | Five Dice rolled: 11 - 100
Rolls
9
Sum
9 + 0 - 0 = 9

ROUND 5 RESULTS

[idolpro]

"Through the portholes, before your eyes there quivers a horrible monster worthy of a place among the most farfetched teratological legends."

"It is a squid of colossal dimensions, fully eight meters long. It gazes with enormous, staring eyes that are tinted sea green. Its arms (or more accurately, feet) are rooted in its head; they stretch a distance twice the length of its body and are writhing like the serpentine hair of the Furies. The monster’s mouth—a beak made of horn and shaped like that of a parrot—opens and closes vertically. Its tongue, also of horn substance and armed with several rows of sharp teeth, flickers out from between these genuine shears. What a freak of nature! A bird’s beak on a mollusk! You can plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles and shaped like semispheric capsules."

[Those suckers have taken hold of the side of the submersible; each one is large enough to obscure a window on its own, and the metal of the vehicle creaks and groans in protest. There is a snap, and a ping, perhaps of a rivet giving way]

[Quickly, you order the craft to surface, a race between the speed of the ship and the squeeze of the tentacles, even as water seeps through minute cracks in the glass. Your ears pop as you race to the surface perhaps too fast for safety.

And yet, the next groan you hear seems to come from the squid itself, finally unfurling itself from the ship now that you've entered shallower waters. The waters begin to pour more freely into the vessel--

And then you've surfaced, surviving perhaps through grumpy old man will alone. A dark, tentacled shadow menaces the water as you leave, but other than some wet socks, you have no troubles making it back to the exit...]

WINNER'S BONUS

[idolpro]

[As soon as the winners are announced in endgame, you may notice something pop up on all of your phones: a notice that, as winners, you get to choose one team to fully heal and revive]

[When the first person inputs an option, the popup disappears from every phone and the healing and revival commences]

Re: WINNER'S BONUS

[time5kip]

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