This is a test drive for The Last Resort. You can use one of the handy prompts or make up your own.
Prompts
Prompt #1
Your character is sent as part of a team to explore Subterranean Library #12. There are hostiles hiding in the dark that have to be safely bypassed without creating explosions and without getting shot. There are books that can be brought to the museum (or sold). What happens if two people with different intentions collide?
Prompt #2
So your character is out in the desert. It might be for a dig, a nice walk, doing something they shouldn't. Who knows? But unfortunately one of the worst invasive species is about to rear its head: a young sandworm.
This isn't something that happens often to people, and even this young it's going to take more than a normal gun as permitted on the planet, or the limited abilities that people currently possess. Most of what you would do would just slow it down.
This is one of these cases where it's better to run; you want to get to security or to a guide and report this, and you want to get out of the range of those teeth as fast as you can.
Prompt #3
You've been given a chance to tell the entire universe about your reasons for coming to the village and town as a part of a documentary in progress. Alternately, you have done so and are being confronted by your first fan in front of a friend. They've read all your fanfiction,, they ship you with some other import (maybe your friend, maybe someone else, maybe they actually hate your friend), and they printed out a picture of you that they want to have signed.
Prompt #4
Choose your own adventure (first network or log posts can later be used as game canon once related apps are approved).
Please help tag out if you're currently in the game and help introduce people to the game. If you have definitive preferences in play style, please mention it in your posts.
[Sneak in, takes some photos, grab a few books, don't be seen. Nothing too different from what Jade did for IRIS back home, minus the fact that she had no idea what kind of enemies she will run into. She always preferred to get through places without needing to resort to head-on fighting, mostly because that would easily kill her, but also having whoever guarded this place never knowing it was infiltrated was always a plus.
She was sent in front to scope out the area, being sure to stay near walls and check around corners. There was something sitting in one of the corridors, though it didn't look like it was moving. If they were lucky, they could silently sneak past it.
Quietly, she walks back towards her partner.]
There's two ways we can get forward. [She speaks in a whisper] One, take the path that goes right by a monster, but it probably will notice us. Two, go down the other path. [A pause. There's always the option she took all the time.] We can always look for a secret passage to climb up some of the beams to get around it.
[Belloq waits, pleased that someone else is going ahead. If there are deadly traps, he'd rather someone else spring them. When she returns, and presents the options, he thinks it over.]
I like option number three. Walking right by a monster would be foolhardy, but the advantage of the path with the monster is that the monster itself would have tripped any floor traps on that route if there were any. The second path is unknown and untried.
[Traps...right. Normally she wasn't sent to explore ancient ruins, considering how few there were near her home, so she hasn't considered security measures that didn't involve lasers and guard bots.]
Glad you pointed that out. We'll need to find a way to check for traps each time we head down a hallway. [Belloq did mention that he had experience with investigation archeological finds, right?] You have any practice with that kind of thing?
[Although, as with this instance, he usually finds someone else to do the dangerous work of taking point.]
Look especially for holes in the walls where spears or darts might shoot out and cracks in the floor that might indicate that the spot is a hidden pressure plate, a the trigger for a trap.
Holes and cracks, right. If we climb up on some of the beams, we can avoid almost all of them. [If ancient civilizations were anything like modern ones, they wouldn't think of intruders using passages created by the building itself breaking down.]
[She honestly hopes that he can be quiet enough to sneak past the monster if need be. She's snuck into building with Pey'j and Double H, but she always went through high-security locations on her own.
Then again, this wasn't filled with military guards, and this Mister Belloq knows more about ancient temples than she does.
She observes what she can inside the room: there's a pile of fallen stones that they can climb up, and looking further, there's a hole in the ceiling that they fell from. That could work to their advantage.
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Prompt 1
She was sent in front to scope out the area, being sure to stay near walls and check around corners. There was something sitting in one of the corridors, though it didn't look like it was moving. If they were lucky, they could silently sneak past it.
Quietly, she walks back towards her partner.]
There's two ways we can get forward. [She speaks in a whisper] One, take the path that goes right by a monster, but it probably will notice us. Two, go down the other path. [A pause. There's always the option she took all the time.] We can always look for a secret passage to climb up some of the beams to get around it.
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I like option number three. Walking right by a monster would be foolhardy, but the advantage of the path with the monster is that the monster itself would have tripped any floor traps on that route if there were any. The second path is unknown and untried.
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Glad you pointed that out. We'll need to find a way to check for traps each time we head down a hallway. [Belloq did mention that he had experience with investigation archeological finds, right?] You have any practice with that kind of thing?
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More than I could recount.
[Although, as with this instance, he usually finds someone else to do the dangerous work of taking point.]
Look especially for holes in the walls where spears or darts might shoot out and cracks in the floor that might indicate that the spot is a hidden pressure plate, a the trigger for a trap.
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Holes and cracks, right. If we climb up on some of the beams, we can avoid almost all of them. [If ancient civilizations were anything like modern ones, they wouldn't think of intruders using passages created by the building itself breaking down.]
How good are you at climbing?
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[Then, a proper answer.]
I couldn't scale a sheer cliff bare-handed, but I can climb trees, gates, walls if there are sufficient hand holds.
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Let's get in. We'll both walls to look for any hidden passages or fallen rocks to climb over.
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[He gestures in faux politeness. In truth, he still wants someone else to hit any potential traps before he does.]
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By the time they get close enough to peek inside, she's partially crouched over and moves slowly enough that her footsteps don't make any noise.]
See that? [She whispers.] Try looking around for a crawlspace first. It'll be a lot easier than sneaking right next to it.
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I will begin searching. Perhaps we'll get lucky and find a secret passage that bypasses all danger.
[A man can hope.]
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Then again, this wasn't filled with military guards, and this Mister Belloq knows more about ancient temples than she does.
She observes what she can inside the room: there's a pile of fallen stones that they can climb up, and looking further, there's a hole in the ceiling that they fell from. That could work to their advantage.
She quietly steps away from the entrance.]
Did you find anything yet?