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Wed 14th Sep 2022 06:37

The Comfy Room

by Thomas Tallfellow

Relieved that there was no trap sprung when the timer counted down to zero, the party made their way toward the new doorway that opened. Thomas lit a torch and took the lead. Through the door, he saw what appeared to be a comfortable chamber with some furnishings a door on the far side of the room and a chest in the center of the room. Thomas carefully made his way toward the chest and discovered a key with a symbol of a sword upon it. Attached to the key was a letter that simply read that it would open when brute force failed. At this point, Thomas noticed that there were three chains wrapped around the chest. Each with a lock and a lock upon the chest itself. Each lock has a symbol upon it. The lock on the chest itself has the symbol of a coin and the locks on the chains have the symbols of a sword, a wand and a chalice. Thomas places the key with the sword symbol into the lock with the sword symbol but something is preventing the key from turning.
 
The party now enters the room, Bob attempts to open the far door but it is locked. Jade removes an oil cloth from a piece of furniture. The furniture is a vanity with a mirror, a bowl and a key with the symbol of a coin. There is a note on the vanity with a single question: what has 100 heads and 100 tails? Jade finds that she cannot pick up the key from the vanity.
 
Meanwhile, Eeblock was searching the room and found another key with the symbol of a chalice hanging from the wall behind a tapestry. It's note indicates that only your heart's greatest desire can release the key.
 
While the group is pondering what it takes to acquire the two keys, Thomas notices that the image in the mirror on the vanity doesn't match the room. The image also has a rope with a key attached to it hanging from the center of the room but there's no rope to be seen in the room. The group decides to rearrange the furniture in the room to match the image in the mirror. Once that is completed, Jade watches herself in the mirror and reaches to where the rope and key are. This time, she grasps a rope which can only be seen in the mirror. She unties the key from the rope and now has the key with the wand symbol.
 
Jade then places exactly 100 coins in the bowl of the vanity. When the 100th coin is placed in the bowl, they all vanish but she can now lift the key from the Vanity.
 
Eeblock suggests that maybe the heart's greatest desire is blood, so Bob uses a dagger to draw blood from his hand and uses that hand to take the key from the wall.
 
Jade attempts to insert the coin key into the lock of the chest, it fits but like the sword key, won't turn. But this time, the door begins to rumble and the room grows warmer. Jade realizes that the symbols are the same symbols on a deck of cards and that they have a specific order of importance, but can't quite remember what that order is. By a matter of dumb luck, Bob inserts the wand key into the wand lock and it turns, unlocking that chain. Eeblock then tries the chalice key and that too opens. Next, Thomas tries the sword key and that lock pops open as well. Lastly, Jade tries the coin key again, this time the chest pops open as the chains fall to the floor. Inside the chest is another key, this one appears to be for the locked door. Bob tries that key in the door and it does indeed open the locked door.

Continue reading...

  1. The Beginning
  2. King Baptiste's Feast
  3. Pursuing the Goblins
  4. Nightstone Under Assault
  5. Nightstone's Last Stand
  6. Nightstone's New Troubles
  7. The Whispering Caves
  8. The Goblin Boss
  9. The Goblin's Prisoners
  10. Nightstone's Residents Come Home
  11. Returning the Crown
  12. The Council's Decision
  13. The Departure of the Congenial Bastard
  14. Turtle Bay
  15. The Party's New Look
  16. Arrival in the Dwarven Isles
  17. Cleansing the Mine
  18. Explaining the Mine Mission
  19. Exterminating the Fire Newts
  20. The Diner at the Edge of the Universe
  21. The Underground Fights
  22. Another Ghostly Encounter
  23. Jade and Eebrock's Fight
  24. Maxwell Boulder's Story
  25. Dino Island
  26. Cornelius Doolan's Mission
  27. The Dinosaur Research Cave
  28. The Crystal's Ultimate Purpose
  29. Return to Arcadia
  30. Something's Up in Arcadia
  31. The Rush to Nightstone
  32. The Comfy Room
  33. The Final Puzzle
  34. Chaos Erupts in Arcadia
  35. A Bold New Voyage
  36. The Derelict Ship
  37. The Rock of Bral
  38. Commodore Krux
  39. Trouble on Braal
  40. Off to See the Wizard
  41. The Wizard Topolah
  42. The Vampirates
  43. Retaking the Last Breath
  44. Off to Doomspace
  45. Vocath's Arena

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