The Last Poster Wins! [v8]

[Sir Sivelos]

What's this guy's deal? *SIVELOS tenses up*

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

Mahgda: You crazy idiots have got the Mining King all riled up, and nobody really survives getting him riled up like that-except you idiots, thus far! He's a bit cranky whenever someone interuppts the digging, ya' see. Really everyone is. Myself included. BUT! I'm not letting the king's cranky nature slaughter us to the last because the two of you are too stubborn to listen. You're looking for a guy, 5-foot-6 tall with a Deoxys, correct?

Lillith-Tazz: We were looking for SOMEONE, yes...

Maghda: Excellent! Now, he's outside, atop of a cliff. We've tethered him to the edge with some Unyielding Rope so he can't escape. It's kind of hard to get up there from anywhere other than the throne room...Very slippery. BUT, if you go and rescue him that way, my people survive, my king survives, and we can go back to digging!

Lillith-Tazz: Group huddle!

*Everyone huddles*

Storm: What do you make of it?

Lillith-Tazz: Bulls**t. He wouldn't betray the king that easily, and he's got a right to believe that we'd still kill them all anyways. I say it's a deathtrap.

Rin-Tazz: It might not be, of course, but that's the way I'm hedging the bets!

Storm: The dwarf's abilities are blocking my mind from his...I cannot confirm anything.

Light Chaos: Ugh, same here...But, I sense a level of logic to it. And if it's right, we won't need to go and murder every last fighting dwarf here...

Rin-Tazz: Dwarfs would like nothing more than to go out swinging at something, though...Silvy, what do you think? *Pokes Sivelos*

*Is Maghda's offer a trap?*

*YES: You confront Maghda, go forwards into the rest of the fortress, defeat the mining king, and rescue the Elder Sou*

*NO: You climb out on the cliffside and face the cliffs as well as any other dangers on the mountainside that Maghda didn't know of/forgot. If any. As well as any traps in case you were wrong. Keep in mind, gravity defiance in dungeons is typically punished with death, so flying is still out of the question.*

[Sir Sivelos]

Hm... Well, LC, you have your Extended Sight, right? We could use that to scout it out before we make any rash decisions.

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

*LC attempts to, but the sight fails within the dungeon. Maghda's presence seems to be a natural miasma on psionic abilities like that...Or he's purposely blocking it. It's hard to tell. LC can only shrug.*

[Sir Sivelos]

*sigh* What do you think would be worse, fighting the mining king, or a trap?

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

*They shrug*

Storm: It's hard to tell. We can't really predict what the possible trap is, or how tough the Mining King is...Ugh.

[Sir Sivelos]

*double sigh.* Well... Uh... Maybe we could split up? Nah, that's a horrid idea...

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

Maghda: I hear guards! If they get here, well, I'll have to kill you myself, a prospect I am well-suited to do. Not like that huddling and muttering is making me suspicious of 'ya already...So, seriously, make 'yer choice already!

Lillith-Tazz: We've gotta choose soon or we're going to have a bad day.

[Sir Sivelos]

UUUGH. Fine, we'll go up the cliffs...

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

Maghda: I knew it wasn't a waste of breath! Quickly now, out of that door! Oh, yes...Keep in mind, there is a rather nasty vulture problem, right aggressive a**holes they are, but I'm pretty sure it's not that much of an issue to you. The guy you're looking for is close to the top, but you're already pretty high up, so keep that in mind!

*You make for the door and open it. There is a small (but sturdy and untrapped) walkway leading to another exit outside. You see the vultures already, and they are pretty big.*