Checking the vein reveals no visible sensors that could be rigged up to it. Another one of your allies dumps a bucket of water onto it, confirming no traps have been set on it. The same ally then takes the BLOCK OF TNT with them. Once the block is removed, you swear you can hear the noise of machinery pushing each other.

Meanwhile, a second ally takes the GOLD resting on the GRAVE and digs it up. While digging it up revealed nothing, it looks like something feels slightly off in his thinking.

What will you do?

So i'm guessing that the TNT was used as bait to activate that machine. Interesting to note. I wonder what else is of interest?

Maybe there's something else about the VINES...

You examine the VINES. They're holding up the CAGE, and have what appear to be red dots placed onto them. How curious.

That doesn't really help me. But now that I think about it, why does that Redstone person feel off? Maybe there's something else I should check about the altar, so let's see if there's something I can read on there. Perhaps it can shed light on this.

(I tried to change "Pit"'s shade of purple. What do you think of it?)

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 05:27:00

/facepalm
Well it coulda gone worse, I guess... shoulda mentioned I was going for a baiting tactic, if that would have worked at all. But I guess going in guns blazing works ok too.

(I allow Piono to move before me.)

*Sigh* Anyway, I move to J8, and prepare to attack the Tree Guard. I empty out the remaining water from the DWC, and promptly attack it by breaking all of its limbs, and then cutting it down. Because I have an axe, and it's a tree, so...

TIIIIIMBEEER!

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 06:19:00

Okay, I'm going to guess the cage is going to fall on us or something...

I tell people to clear a small area under it, and throw things at the cage until it falls down.

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 15:16:00

I keep mining the gold anyways, and try to sell my old staff to Temmie.

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 17:30:00

/null
Is that the me Redstone, or Redstone Dust?

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 17:41:00

I take a few steps back, then shoot the vine holding the cage up.

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 21:17:00

Augh!

I blow up the 1st Glitch Spider with my Shotgun. I can't move so I'm stuck with dealing with the other guy. Piono, please kill the Tree Guardian before he tries to kills m via Leaf Storm, Please?

Originally posted on 2015-10-18 23:17:00

>NEW POLL ON THE FIRST PAGE! GO CHECK IT OUT!

Originally posted on 2015-10-19 00:43:00

Wilson moves off the the area outside the shack. Willow stays behind and moves towards the matriarch corpse.


Sleep tight... and be free.

Then she follows Wilson.


Originally posted on 2015-10-19 01:27:00

...one of the main reasons I think I should split updates is to make people not posting in a combat situation less deadly, while still providing updops. What do you think?

Originally posted on 2015-10-19 04:45:00

Oh crap, I forgot about that, yeah.
Question, would it be possible to specify our actions as happening before someone else's to try and avert friendly fire?

I move up to H7 and pop a grenade onto the tree guardian, and try to do it before Darkside's move so that he doesn't get caught in the explosion.
Darkside! Edit your post! We have a 75% chance of having it down by the end of this round if both of us attack it at full strength, we don't need to use the splinters just yet, those are probably better saved for a boss.

Originally posted on 2015-10-19 11:38:00

"You do not have permission to delete polls."
...what?

=TURN TWENTY-FOUR=
B r i g h t a n d e a r l y .
...compared to other updates.

Pit heads over the Altar, and examines it further. There appears to be text etched into the grave, by two different sources. The first one, done in a highly formal fashion, reads "Here lies the SLEUTH. Well, if we could find his body, that's where he'd lie, anyway." The second bit of text is lightly scratched into the altar, reading "So apparently I'm him? It makes no sense, but the people of this world believe me to be his "ancestor" somehow. We can't be related. There's absolutely no way.

...looking closer, there's a bit of text lining the side of the grave. It reads "THE TOTEM'S PAIN IS THE KEY." What could that mean? Numbersoup then assumes that the cage will fall on them, and directs everyone in the zone away from the area beneath the cage. She then chucks rocks, twigs and various other things to try to get the cage down. The vine gets cut slightly; it won't take much more to bring the cage down now! Insert then pickaxes the gold, obtaining 2 units of it! He then heads to the TEM SHOP and tries to sell his staff...

"tem want staf, but tem need money 4 colleg..."
Temmie then offers you a single gold for your staff. You can always refuse and try to get more money out of Temmie...

Engie then obliterates the vine, sending a cage down to the ground. The cage fragments on impact, revealing a Memory Orb and a skeleton. This Memory Orb appears to be glowing an ominous red. A piece of TNT has also been revealed, which Engie promptly loots. Willow then talks to the matriarch corpse. It suddenly ceases twitching, and goes completely limp. Wilson then heads to the area outside of the shack.

Suddenly, the vine that was once holding up the cage lights up, the redstone glowing! However, there's nothing for the redstone to power. Elsewhere, the wind blows, and a new section is revealed.

=BATTLE: INSIDE TREE TURN TWO=
Half the foes are dead, and the loot should be easy to take now. Nothing interesting will probably happen during this battle. N o t h i n g a t a l l .

Originally posted on 2015-10-19 23:29:00

I collect some vines

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 00:05:00

QUOTE (Irecreeper @ (time=1445293770))

=BATTLE: INSIDE TREE TURN TWO= Half the foes are dead, and the loot should be easy to take now. Nothing interesting will probably happen during this battle. N o t h i n g a t a l l .

That's not suspicious at all...

Piono, nab those items. I'll help Tazz.

((Will have Tazz to attack before me so that I can ensure a kill thanks to the axe's ability.))

I rush to (I6), and, while charging, I swing my axe at the Glitch Spider 2 in an upward motion (like an uppercut, but with an axe). I then punt and/or stomp on the spider. If Tazz did considerable damage, then it will be a finisher. Don't want this thing to do any clutch dodges.

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 00:30:00

I refuse. For now. I also finish mining.

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 01:22:00

I move to J9 and loot the item pile, I also reload my boomstick.

I really hope nothing screwy is going to happen this battle and that we wait for it to happen next battle.
Tazz, start healing yourself up next round, I think me and darkside can take down the tree shooter with little to no difficulty.

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 01:40:00

On shotgun nerfs: It's ranged, and its passive forces me to go up-close every shot for effective damage, plus I have no weapon skill. By raw stats, its a slightly higher Broadsword that traded its Skill for relatively weak ranged capacity.. It's only a damage up from a Broadsword aside. I think the Passive could incur -4 damage penalties instead of -3 damage.

On the actual battle: I give a shotgun blast to the Glitch Spider 2, being closer. Bam! I'll heal next round, I think.

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 02:39:00

Cue me headbutting the memory orb like the genius I am.

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 04:43:00

I do the only logical thing and go outside the shack. I take Engie's TNT and place it next to the vine like a baws. I look away and walk away.

Originally posted on 2015-10-20 23:27:00

Hey! Pit! Put down a totem so we can beat it to death!

Wilson moves up north to do some poking around.

Originally posted on 2015-10-21 01:20:00