: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 02:56:22 PM
You open your eyes and see blue sky. You are on your back.
There is sand to your left and right. You feel water around your feet.
What do you do?
: clockworkjoe December 21, 2009, 09:00:51 PM
Smoke monster wakes up. He has had a very bad night after huffing paint fumes. This is not LOST island. It is a different island.
He looks around the beach for signs of where this island might be.
: Setherick December 21, 2009, 09:25:06 PM
"Ah, hell, I was just on my way back from Utopia. Where am I now?"
Raphael uses "Exploring Unexplored Places" skill to scan the area.
: Murph December 21, 2009, 10:00:50 PM
Erik the Viking wakes up naked in the surf after falling off his ship coming back from pillaging. He is hungy, so he looks for a tree to headbutt to get food to drop down.
Using "Head butting" to get food.
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 10:43:19 PM
SMOKE MONSTER
Smoke monster wakes up. He has had a very bad night after huffing paint fumes. This is not LOST island. It is a different island.
He looks around the beach for signs of where this island might be.
The island is clearly devoid of crashed planes. There are trees with large leaves behind the Smoke Monster and clear blue water in front of his. White sand is to his left and his right, unless he turns around in which case he would have white sand to his right and left. The beach curves around the trees in a shallow bend. The water curves around the sand in a sharp bend. Yet the width of the beach appears to remain constant.
Smoke Monster can use Plot Device to force things to advance by force. His surroundings currently do not Make Sense so his skill in that area may also be useful.
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 10:46:33 PM
RAPHAEL HYTHLODAY
"Ah, hell, I was just on my way back from Utopia. Where am I now?"
Raphael uses "Exploring Unexplored Places" skill to scan the area.
Rolling 4d6: (3+1+6+4): Total = 14
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 10:54:14 PM
Cold dark blue water and white capped waves crash against the rock beach on which Raphael stands. Trees with long green needles stand behind him and the rock beach extends to his left and right. A line of larger than normal rocks is visible some distance down the beach to the left.
Raphael recognises that his beach is similar to those of the Pacific Northwest, a region of the world which stopped being unexplored sometime ago (in other words a waste of time for a master like Hythloday).
Ten meters across the water is another island which appears to have white sand on it. There is clearly not a Smoke Monster on the section of the island that Raphael can see.
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 10:55:13 PM
Erik the Viking
Erik the Viking wakes up naked in the surf after falling off his ship coming back from pillaging. He is hungy, so he looks for a tree to headbutt to get food to drop down.
Using "Head butting" to get food.
Rolling 3d6: (1+5+6): Total = 12
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 11:00:08 PM
Erik now has tree bark on his forehead. He also successfully knocks 3d6 roasted chestnuts from the tree, which drop into the ash around him.
Rolling 3d6: (4+5+3): Total = 12
: Murph December 21, 2009, 11:08:03 PM
Erik roots around for the falling nuts. He is happy about his new hat, and has decided to feast upon the fallen nuts in order to celebrate his new hat, and to get his strength up for the trials ahead.
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 11:18:45 PM
Rolling 3d6: (5+2+5): Total = 12
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 11:25:53 PM
Erick is now well prepared for the trials which surely await him.
: Setherick December 21, 2009, 11:28:30 PM
"Excellent, an unexplored place, but first must make a shelter."
Raphael uses his survival skills to make a shelter and procure some food.
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 11:38:53 PM
Rolling 3d6: (3+4+3): Total = 10
: Tadanori Oyama December 21, 2009, 11:52:37 PM
For the time being, Raphael can huddle quite well in the hallow of a tree. But it's just not as nice as it could be.
Oh, and there's a pile of canned goods in the hallow too. Kind of weird that.
: ugnis13 December 22, 2009, 12:56:39 AM
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 01:40:16 AM
Rolling 4d6: (6+4+6+6): Total = 22
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 01:48:11 AM
The initial flood of crabs moves quickly into the massive patch of cactus plants which stand infront of Fanboy, returning with a large armload of purple and pink cactus fruits and a crown fashioned to look like crab claws which they appear to have crafted from cactus thorns.
Fanboy's masterful use of his announcer voice appears to have subjugated the native crab population on this island and they are attempting to crown him their king.
: Boyos December 22, 2009, 02:07:08 AM
: ugnis13 December 22, 2009, 02:18:30 AM
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 02:30:32 AM
Junge Jim looks up while on his back and attempts to spot clouds.
Jungle Jim spots one cloud.
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 02:34:28 AM
Fanboy figures being wet is better than being naked, and quickly dons the clothes. He then looks at the crown while deciding whether or not to take on such a large responsibility. After several moments of indecision, Fanboy dons the crown carefully, and asks his subjects what his first task as king shall be.
Fanboy's crab subjects rejoice. They express their happiness in crab fashion: walking sideways. This is also how crabs communicate. Conversing with the king is left to the former high chancilor, who skuttles up to Fanboy, raises his claws, and walks sideways. Fanboy may require an interperitor to assist in communication of his new authority.
: ugnis13 December 22, 2009, 02:42:38 AM
: Boyos December 22, 2009, 03:17:57 AM
: Murph December 22, 2009, 11:22:27 AM
Erik knows that settlements that are easy to pillage are on the beach. He picks a random direction and starts walking down the beach.
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 11:33:53 AM
Discovering that he is in a pickle, Fanboy tries to think of a way to get through to his subjects. Since he did spend time being around ninjas in the world of Synnibar, Fanboy attempts to communicate telepathically with the crabs with his Ninja-ing skill. If that fails he will attempt to find a translator, wherever he thinks one might be.
Ninja-ing
Rolling 3d6: (3+4+4): Total = 11
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 11:44:20 AM
The other subjects walk sideways in panic.
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 12:04:12 PM
Jungle Jim is disapointed in the only cloud in the sky. He sits up and begains to scout his surrounding area, after wiping the sand from his bear ass.
Once Jim has wiped the sharp gravel from his ass he discovered he is standing on a beach of sharp gravel. Trees with small, round, green leaves stand behind him and dead calm water which is so salty it appears to be white.
Ten meters across the dead water Jungle Jim can see an island with a volcano at its center, a forest of leafless trees, and a beach of black ash.
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 12:16:32 PM
Erik the Viking
Erik knows that settlements that are easy to pillage are on the beach. He picks a random direction and starts walking down the beach.
Following Viking instinct, Erik sets off to his left, down the black ash beach. After five minutes he has not discovered any pillagable settlements but he can now see another island about ten meters across the water, which Erik now notes is very thick and nasty, likely due to the massive amount of ash and sultur being pumped into it by the volcano, which Erik is fairly sure he should have noticed sooner and will make sure to tell people he totally saw the entire time, should he be forced to recount this story.
The other island appears to have a beach of sharp gravel on it and trees with small, round, green leaves. A naked man is standing on the beach, looking at Erik.
: Boyos December 22, 2009, 03:10:34 PM
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 04:20:09 PM
Jungle Jim grabs some good small sharp rocks to help in any future bone carvings. Jungle Jim does not like his island, its not like the jungles hes used too, but hes very glad hes not on the volcano island infront of him. Jungle Jim starts to walk stright back into the round leaf jungle hoping to come across another beach on the other side. He scouts for large bones or small ones as he walks threw the trees.
Jungle Jim enters the trees and discovers that there is grass and small plants rather than sharp gravel under their shade. The trees are all between one and ten meters tall with many round green leaves and no visible fruit or flowers.
As Jim moves inland the smell of the ocean fades away and the smell of trees replaces it. After half an hour Jim detects a vaguly familiar smell. It smells almost, but not quite like, zebra and its coming for behind a large tree ahead.
Inspection reveals a single horse which is grazing on grass. It is currently upwind of Jungle Jim, hince the smell.
: Murph December 22, 2009, 05:38:08 PM
Erik the Viking watches the naked man walk into the forest, and begins yelling, partially because he enjoys yelling, and partially because he wants to get the man's attention. This is a very strange island. Erik hopes he doesn't bump into any Smoke monsters. Smoke monsters are fresh on his mind, because his cousin told him a very confusing story recently, about some folk on a peninsula, where there was a smoke monster who would show up randomly. It made very little sense, as Erik's cousin was not right in the head and kept talking about finding something.
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 06:04:16 PM
Erik the Viking
Erik the Viking watches the naked man walk into the forest, and begins yelling, partially because he enjoys yelling, and partially because he wants to get the man's attention. This is a very strange island. Erik hopes he doesn't bump into any Smoke monsters. Smoke monsters are fresh on his mind, because his cousin told him a very confusing story recently, about some folk on a peninsula, where there was a smoke monster who would show up randomly. It made very little sense, as Erik's cousin was not right in the head and kept talking about finding something.
Erik's impressive yelling is surely heard. If the naked man will respond or not is impossible to know.
However, Erik receives a more direct responce in the form of a starfish which is currently laying in the thick ashy water at Erik's feet.
The starfish is completely immobile and is likely, in the manner of starfish, conveying a welcome to the stranger.
: ugnis13 December 22, 2009, 06:48:58 PM
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 07:01:59 PM
Fanboy attempts to pacify his subjects by also walking sideways in random orders. Hopefully he conveys to his people that the High Chancellor displeased him, and that what he did was entirely on purpose. After his attempts in communication, Fanboy will try to find a translator among the crabs. if there is not one, he will search around in the wildlife for aid.
Ninja-ing
Rolling 3d6: (5+5+2): Total = 12
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 07:05:26 PM
A moment later the Vice Chancilor emerges from the crowd to speak with the King. Much sideways is walked before the Vice Chancilor has finished speaking his mind and the crowd walksides in agreement.
Fanboy could really use some translation here.
Trolling
Rolling 2d6: (1+1): Total = 2
: Tadanori Oyama December 22, 2009, 07:14:13 PM
Their leader, a tough looking crab easily an inch in height, walks sides, clearly demanding an explaination for Fanboy's behavior.
: Setherick December 22, 2009, 10:14:06 PM
Raphael marks his tree hollow and then goes in search of a volcanic island, islands don't just magically appear after all in the ocean, that is nearby. He'll be making good use of his Explore Unexplored Places skill.
: Boyos December 23, 2009, 01:45:32 AM
: clockworkjoe December 23, 2009, 04:15:47 PM
Smoke Monster is both bored and angry. He engages his inherent plot device abilities!
Rolling 3d6: (3+4+6): Total = 13
: clockworkjoe December 29, 2009, 12:39:24 PM
: Setherick December 29, 2009, 04:17:45 PM
anyone know why Tad hasn't been on for so long?
I assume vacation.
: Boyos December 30, 2009, 12:54:00 AM
anyone know why Tad hasn't been on for so long?
perhaps he hit max number of post and no longer able to log on due to his greatness of number of post! either way hope its nothing bad, i assume its just vacation time also.
: Tadanori Oyama January 07, 2010, 02:56:12 PM
Long story short: I'm not fired. Bank of America can suck my balls. I'm buying a house. I move at the end of the month. For the first time in my life I'll be able to have a whole room dedicated to gaming. I had to give control of the other five rooms in the house over to my fiance (including the bedroom), but I secured the gaming room.
I'll update tonight.))
: clockworkjoe January 07, 2010, 02:58:35 PM
((I'm back from my hiatus.
Long story short: I'm not fired. Bank of America can suck my balls. I'm buying a house. I move at the end of the month. For the first time in my life I'll be able to have a whole room dedicated to gaming. I had to give control of the other five rooms in the house over to my fiance (including the bedroom), but I secured the gaming room.
I'll update tonight.))
Horray!
: Boyos January 08, 2010, 12:06:16 AM
: Tadanori Oyama January 08, 2010, 01:37:09 AM
: Tadanori Oyama January 08, 2010, 02:15:58 PM
RAPHAEL HYTHLODAY
Raphael marks his tree hollow and then goes in search of a volcanic island, islands don't just magically appear after all in the ocean, that is nearby. He'll be making good use of his Explore Unexplored Places skill.
Exploring Unexplored Places
Rolling 4d6: (1+1+1+5): Total = 8
: Tadanori Oyama January 08, 2010, 02:40:48 PM
A careful examination of the shoreline reveals the presence of shells from Roasted Nuts, typically found on nut trees on Volcanic Island.
Farthermore, the shells show evidence of partial exploration! Someone is stepping on Raphael exploration turf. All this is compounded by the unfortunate fact that Raphael is unable to determine where the shells came from.
: Boyos January 08, 2010, 06:42:51 PM
Jungle Jim is now withen pouncing range of the zebra! he readys for his attack!
: Tadanori Oyama January 08, 2010, 07:09:46 PM
Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim is now withen pouncing range of the zebra! he readys for his attack!
Zebra Wrestling 3
Rolling 3d6: (4+3+5): Total = 12
: Tadanori Oyama January 08, 2010, 09:07:35 PM
Jim is able to quickly fashion a folding chair and shatter it over the zebra's back. The zebra quickly pushes to it's hooves and responds with an elbow chop.
: Setherick January 08, 2010, 09:16:18 PM
Annoyed at this trespassing on his unexplored island, Raphael returns to his tree hollow to plot how to deal with the person or persons who will soon become his subjects. Raphael will, of course, use his Machiavellian Political Discourse skill to plan the best way to deal with his future subjects who he will enamor and then control with an iron fist.