Summary / Last Time on Monastery
Here is the summary of where things stand for today (these events run from page 1 to 11):
1. Heroes descent stone staircase into darkness. It smells like mildew. The statues have sealed the entry way behind them.
2. Oliver runs down the stairs, but being unable to see, he stumbles like a broken slinky and smashes into the ground as he was distracted by an owl on the staircase.
3. Albert wall jumps over Oliver's mangled body and it was glorious.
4. Bixby heals the
idiot Oliver, but there's still something "off" about his body but he can't quite put his once shattered finger on it.
5. They learn the ground is wet. bixby licks the floor and determines it's salt water.
6. There's a mist in the distance. Jif doesn't have a flashlight, because flashlights don't exist yet.
7. Milkmire believes there are ghosts in there.
8. Albert uses his ability, and gets PM'd information.
9. Heroes continue on their merry way and bump into a half wall. On the other side is a small row boat that is attached to a rope that rushes off into the distant water.
10. Jif finds a torch and the mist in the distance turns into a flame that ignites the torch and gives our heroes some light. The flame floats away, but a voice is heard:
Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!
How many various-fated years have past,
What happy and what mournful hours, since last
I skimm’d the smooth thin stone along thy breast,
Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest
Sink the sweet scenes of childhood, that mine eyes
I never shut amid the sunny ray,
But straight with all their tints thy waters rise,
Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows grey,
And bedded sand that vein’d with various dyes
Gleam’d through thy bright transparence! On my way,
Visions of Childhood! oft have ye beguil’d
Lone manhood’s cares, yet waking fondest sighs:
Ah! that once more I were a careless Child!11. Albert reveals the information he received in his PM from his ability:
What floats will sink.
What sinks is gone forever.
What is gone forever will cause pain.
What floats can sink.
If it doesn't sink, it can be used.
If it can be used, pain will be avoided.12. The flame returns and lights up the room, showing them just how far the river travels.
13. Oliver skips a rock "skippity pippity" and no one is impressed.
14. Bixby takes a deep breath and jumps at the water, but instead of sinking, he lands with solid footing. Then he did begin to sink, like quick sand. He might die!
15. He didn't die. He gets out. He brushes the water off his body like its dirt.
16. Tim uses his ability to scan the area:
17. Albert then uses his ability:
18. Oliver and Bixby pull at the rope and in comes the battled and aged boat.
19. It seems not all our heroes can sit in the boat.
20. Bixby and Oliver get into the boat and Bixby pulls his shirt over his face and screams that he is a pirate. The boat, in retaliation, starts to sink.
21. Tim pulls Oliver out of the boat and the boat rises back to the surface.
22. Tim identifies the rope as a pulley system for the boat.
23. Tim gets into the water and starts pulling the rope, dragging the boat and himself across the river.
24. Bixby pretends he's contributing to the boat moving by doing shitty paddling with his chubby little hands.
25. The other heroes follow after Tim's lead.
26. Milkmire breaks the fourth wall and freaks out the DM.
27. A horn blasts in the distance. Everyone quiets themselves and waits, until it blasts once more.
28. They continue forward, into the sound of the horn and soon they are enveloped in a whirlpool of water that changes colors and rushes them forward:
29. At the other end of the whirlpool, they hitch the boat to an identical looking platform.
30. Bixby, keeping his pirate "hat" on, marches face first into a wall. Gold flakes fall from it, and Bixby gathers it and starts to make random shapes with it to entertain himself.
31. Some flakes fall into Bixby's mouth and his tongue glows. He tries to make a knife but fails.
32. Oliver slams his face into the wall and his blood lights up the gold flakes even more.
33. Jif eats the flakes. His tongue reveals markings on the wall.
34. Oliver screams for someone to do something. No one is sure if he means to progress, or to help his bloodied face after he smashed it into a wall. Perhaps we will never know.
35. Bixby juggles some bloody gold flake balls with Jif's blood that reveal the following script on the wall:
Sogar ein Mann, der im Herzen rein ist und nachts seine Gebete spricht, kann ein Wolf werden, wenn der Wolfsbann blüht und der Herbstmond hell ist.36. Everyone takes a closer look at the markings and Bixby drags his fingers across their indentations before the wall shifts and an entry point opens up.
37. Our heroes move in to the entry and hear a noise behind them. The water has disappeared, the boat sits at the bottom of the pit on a bed of rocks, and the rope is still attached to it and tethered to the edge of the platform.
Have 9 points in celebration of this monumental achievement!