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Blue spores, running water, signs of civilized life... you're close! Ears peeled, you follow the noise of the soft trickling of water. As the sound of running water grows louder, the blue spores glow brighter and brighter, until you're very nearly blinded by them! Shielding your eyes, you press on through the corona of blinding light...

And find yourself in a decrepit grotto, devoid of any signs of care. A large, dry basin extends through the middle of the area and under an overgrown cave's lip. You can just barely make out humanoid shapes through the humongous fungal growths jutting out of the area. A large boulder appears to be blocking an opening further into the cave.

You wager a guess that this is the Fairy Fountain. It's a shame that it's in such a state of disrepair! Perhaps you could fix it up, some, and make camp for the night?

Time for collaborative action! There are three tasks that need to be completed before the Fountain can be considered "fixed". You will be required to use your cliches to solve these tasks. Anyone can try, and you don't have to focus on one task at a time. If someone wants to complete the last task while someone else wants to complete the first task at the same time, that's completely okay. If there are multiple people working on a single task, the highest roll has the lower rolls' 6s added to it.

The tasks are, ranked from least challenging to most challenging:

Restore The Statues (Difficulty 10)

These statues are absolutely disgusting! However, you can see a faint, magical glow beneath the fungus. You're gonna need to scrub the fungus off the statues before you can put these statues to use... whatever that is.

Replenish the Fountain (Difficulty 12)

Truly, one of the saddest sights in the world is a dry basin. In the past, the fountain was probably fed by some stream from further in the cave. Now, it appears to be blocked off by something. Maybe you could find out what's stopped up the water?

Reveal the Cave's Mouth (Difficulty 14)

There's a cave connected to this fountain, but it's blocked off by a boulder! You'll need to find a way to move this hunk of rock before you can check it out. Maybe there's treasure inside!
Two Hours Until Sunset

You feel that you're going in the right direction, but...
The markings on that tree look familiar. Have you been walking in circles all this time? It couldn't be, that tree's markings are completely alien to you! You briefly stop to assess your surroundings and regain your sense of direction.

Roll for Navigation. Score to beat: 8

A cursory glance at the map you've been making as you went reveals nothing special. Deep in the woods, the only way to recognize one's surroundings is by way of landmarks, and there aren't too many of those deep in the eternally-stagnant Fungiwoods. You're at least thankful that the cool blue these bioluminescent fungi lets off is better for reading than the sickly green tint you've been seeing everywhere else.

What did that Ironwood Deku say about fungi that glows blue?
Museum, Museum World, UMMA Territory

ΞΆ-662221, Snakeman

The Snakeman, seeing Cinder Fall for who she was, hissed in pain as the crystals shattered in his thick, augmented hide. Having been bred en-masse for combat and augmented far beyond the level of any normal human, the Snakeman felt neither pain nor fear enough to falter at his job. His muscles undulating rhythmically, the Snakeman fired off a carefully-aimed Heavy Plasma bolt straight at Cinder. The bolt crackled with searing energy, ensuring that even a miss would not go without incurring painful burns on its target's form.

Sindibad Darude, Human

Sindibad chuckled lightly as yet more reinforcements arrived for both the Shadow Eternity dog and the UMMA civilians' forces. Gritting his teeth in mock anger, he opted to go for a bald-faced lie to further add confusion to the situation.

"Did you think Shadow Eternity could forgive your betrayal!? You're gonna pay for what you did! UMMA or no, we're gonna teach you not to abuse The Leader's good will!"

Hasse, Trandoshan

Seeing Sindibad engage in foul subterfuge was infuriating to the proud Trandoshan, but tolerable. The exhibit room had become a quagmire in just a few seconds, but it was easy to see who was on whose side.

That grunt with the uniform and the two combatmen in the gaudy armor were obviously with Shocker+, judging by their confident and cheerful demeanor. The smug-looking thugs wearing medieval armor and a pink hoodie respectively were obviously rubes who still hadn't realized what Shadow Eternity had planned and how unprofitable it was. The... good lord, who is that?! The girl wearing a crude, poofy mockery of a bishop's uniform without any leggings had to be either UMMA or else a stripper who had gotten lost on their way to a very suspect party. Either way, she was a low-priority target.

Currently, it appeared that one of the Shocker+ minions was in danger! With practiced precision, the Trandoshan set his blaster to its 'less-than-lethal' setting, and aimed at Kiba while he was focused on the Kurokage Trooper.
With a fearsome "P-KREENG!", a neon-blue ring of paradoxically unheated directed plasma shot forth, aiming straight for Kiba's unguarded backside!

Roidmude 96, Spider Roidmude

Good lord, this transformation was taking its time! Last time he'd tried this, he had the legs out within seconds! The Roidmude greatly regretted leaving that Viral Core in his pockets on Cleansing Day; it had apparently lost most of its power in the wash! Though he was confident he'd be relatively safe while transforming (after all, nobody, not even villains, would attack someone mid-transformation), he did worry that, by the time he finished, the battle would be over!
Looks interesting. What's the general plotline going to be? I understand the bit about "you wake up in a field, now try to go home", but I don't want to use a character that will completely fail to fit with the theme and setting we'll be going into.
Three Hours Until Sunset

Deku safely recontained and party gathered, you set off in the direction of the Fungiwood. Following the savory smell of molds and fungi, you brace yourselves for the journey ahead.

The familiar sound and smells of the forest fade away, as you walk. The air grows dry and musty, thick with errant spores. With little other choice, you press on through clouds of spores, wincing as particularly thick regions explode against your ranks. Though only some of the Fungiwood's growths are harmful to humans, the feeling of spore-dusted clothes is still unpleasant.

There is little to see in the Fungiwood. Thick clouds of spores mar any clear view, and what little can be seen is awash in a sickly pallor. There is no bark on the trees around you; their sides are as smooth as a stalk. The dirt at your feet is hard and starved for water. Gently-luminescent toadstools emerge in small outcroppings amongst some of the more decrepit giant stalks, like tubeworms around a volcanic vent. The only life you can see is faint flickers of tiny troglodytic insects, silently worming their way into openings in the giant stalks they call home. It seems that, whatever might live down here, it has gotten used to not seeing the sun.

Though you feel you are on the right track, exploring the Fungiwood is a dangerous and confusing procedure. If you do not finish soon, you fear the toxic spores of the Fungiwood's inner spheres might take their toll on you.

Roll for Navigation. Score to beat: 14
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Parking Lot

Sindibad and his comrades huddled together, speaking amongst one another.
"Alright, one more time..." Sindibad said, "while the Distraction Team goes in at the target's insertion point, we go in at the target's current position. Are we ready to do this?"
"As ready as I'll ever be!" said the Trandoshan.
"They won't know what hit them!" said the Roidmude.
"Hreeeee!" said the Snakeman.

Sindibad nodded. To think that he'd be going on black ops missions against his own employers mere minutes after quitting was preposterous, and yet... it felt good!
"You know the plan, you know the location, you know the time. Teleport on 3. Ready? 1...2...3!"
With a subtle 'fwip', the trio were gone. On a direct trip to this unknown Client World's museum campus, not even an attempt at a signature-masking. Shadow Eternity would know who did this, and they wouldn't be happy.

Client World [???] Museum, 'Great Chairs Of The World' Exhibit

With an equally-subtle 'fwip', Sindibad and his comrades appeared in a bright flash of light, just a few steps behind Cinder Fall herself.

"HAIL SHADOW ETERNITY!" howled the Trandoshan, already firing his blaster wildly just after teleporting in. Screaming cries of support to Shadow Eternity at the top of his lungs, he made sure that anyone monitoring this incursion would fully understand who was doing it.

The Roidmude merely stood, crossing his arms and assessing the area. Certainly, this area was large enough for that. Chuckling hollowly, the Roidmude procured a strange vaguely car-shaped object. With a strangely nonchalant air, the Roidmude popped the strange object into his mouthpiece, and immediately disappeared in a bright flash of smoke and light.

Sindibad and the Snakeman looked around wildly, hoping to find some civilians to terrorize. Unfortunately, it seemed the only person in here was a pink-haired woman wearing a white scarf and hoodie. Still, a single civilian casualty would be better than none. They'd kill this civilian, and then go off to find Cinder Fall.
Baring his teeth in a rictus grin, the Snakeman brought his Heavy Plasma rifle to bear, and launched a volley of neon-green shots right at Cinder Fall!
If the points don't matter, why include them? Why not just ask for a list of weapons, equipment, and Miracles/Sorceries/Pyromancies?
Is there a system in place here? Will the stats mean anything, or are they just fluff?
Interesting idea. I'd probably make multiple versions of the map: one for your use with all events and locations listed, and one for the thread's use with all the locations listed.
How many players do you want? I'm interested.
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