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First level - Introduction of Jack alias Darkus Kuragari

Jack alias. Darkus Kuragari

It was one of those days, actually I am not quite sure what day or time it was, since I couldn’t remember a thing of getting here, I just know it was a day, at least probably it was one, could have been a week in Aurinko’s time zone. Whatever, I woke up in a weird room, not remembering how I got there or what the hell I got mixed up in again. As if getting along with my already pretty messed up life wasn’t enough already! Besides scheming Demigods, I now had to fight kidnappers as well? I was pretty sure this was Arias fault, since she was always getting me into trouble, but that didn’t matter at that moment. As I looked around in the room, I realized that it had only one door, the one behind me and that one was made from a material, where I couldn’t use any of my powers or it was due to the pretty annoying flickering lamps on the ceiling. There were other things in the room: a small table with some cards and a deck, a half burned old book and a half full glass of an unknown black liquid on it and an old foldable chair by its side. On the wall to the left was a little mailbox, while the left wall was empty, but up ahead someone freshly drew a one on the wall in bright red. Since the paint was still dripping I assumed, that the room was prepared just before I came here, and I wasn’t asleep for that long. On the ceiling, between the ever-stronger shining lambs was a vent, but it seemed shut and my shadows couldn’t reach in. I guessed had to solve a riddle to get out, even though nothing of the things given seemed very helpful. I decided to take a seat and get a better look at the table. On the left side of the round table just under the burned book was a heart symbol and on the right under the half-filled glass was a diamond, both were painted in the same color, as on the play cards. In the middle lay a deck of cards, with four red cards to each side. The cards showed an eight of hearts, a five of hearts, a five of diamonds and a king of diamonds on the left side of the deck and a two of hearts, an eight of diamonds, a two of hearts and a five of hearts on the right side of the deck. I looked through the card pile and realized that there were just red cards in it and each card just one time. I looked at the cards on the table and realized that something was off: Why were there two fives of hearts, but every other card just ones? Another thing I realized was, that of course no red one was in the pile, so I guessed that this was either an identification number for the chamber or it was meant as a hint. The dark water remembered me of the river Styx in the Salmāwæt, my realm back in Drîzehan, so I decided not drinking it. I looked at the book and some markings caught my attention. The markings led me to two separate pages, on each just one word was decipherable together with its translation. The book seemed to be an English-German dictionary. The first marking led me to the translation of heart, what stands for “Herz” and the second one to the translation of diamond, what meant karo. “Words huh? I guess I must know the translation for something. Let’s see, we’ve just got those so called “Herz” and “Karo” cards here, maybe I have to form words or something?”. I looked at the cards for a while, thinking about what kind of code this could be, when I realized another detail: It was the lower half of the book that was burned and quite perfectly at that. “Hmm, a half empty glass and the upper half of a book, could have something to do with the signs on the table, maybe it indicates that the heart cards are relate to some upper half and the diamonds to the lower half of something.”. And then it was like a switch just got, well … switched. I started counting the cards and then everything was clear! “The number of cards correlates perfectly to the number of letters in the alphabet! Okay, heart belongs to the upper half and diamond to the lower one then I guess. Then the eight of hearts is…”, I went through the letters in my mind, “… H and the five is equal to an E then and the other one a R, but what’s the king? A twelve maybe? Then it would be a Z, so the first word is HERZ, German for heart, so I was correct!”. I did the same with the other cards and got the word BUBE. “Weird, what is BUBE? Hmm, B. B? B! Boy! It’s probably German for boy!”. I started looking through the pile and found the boy of hearts. “So, what do I do with that now? Right! The mailbox!”. As I wanted to push the card in, it got pulled in like from an ATM and then … nothing. I waited for a bit and then I heard a loud *DINGDINGDING*, so I guessed I was right, but still nothing else happened. The only thing that seemed to happen, was that the vent started making weird sounds. The lambs seemed to get stronger and the light started to affect my abilities I was quite sure about that, because I had the sudden taste of sleeping gas in my mouth. Usually I wouldn’t even realize that, because of my immunity thanks to be the demigod of shadows, but the lights really had to affect my condition, maybe it was because it was such a long time ago, that I was home in my realm, so my powers were nearly depleted as I was brought here. I shouted: “Ah, frick this, okay come at me gas! Then I at least will get some sleep!”. Shortly after the effects kicked in and everything went black, at least I didn’t have to see any shaman faces or dead eyes of friends while it happened. I don’t know how many times past in between and how much sleep I could get, but the next time I opened my eyes, I found myself somewhere completely different.

Explanations:

Darkus: also known as Jack in his human form, Demigod of Shadows, got his powers after he and his girlfriend and best friend got kidnapped by a shaman and his group to perform a sacrificial rite, in which Darkus lost his girlfriend

Aurinko: Demigod of Light, Darkus’ Archenemy

Aria: Demigod of Wind, one of Darkus’ best friends, person that introduces him to the Willmark

Willmark: Demigods, which each inherit the power of one element, there are is assumed to be thirteen of them

Drîzehan: parallel world to earth, consists of thirteen realms, which includes Salmāwæt and the realm of Aurinko as example

Salmāwæt: Realm of Darkus

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The Doctor (10th)

“Ow, my head!” When the doctor wakes up, he’s in a small room, sitting in an old chair next to a table. He looks around. No sign of anyone around him. There’s a door in one wall, and a big red “1” written on another. “How did I get here?” He reaches in his cloak and pulls out his sonic screwdriver. No lifesign anywhere. The doctor scans the only two openings in the room, the door and a vent in the middle of the ceiling. “Locked from the outside, and no lock on the inside. Great. And this… Oh, poison gas! Amazing! Nothing anyone wants to crawl through. Ok, what else?” The doctor’s eyes flicker to a mailbox on the third wall, then to the cards on the table. He sits back down, examining the playing cards. He takes a sip of the liquid in the glass and spits. “Soda, at least three weeks old. Brr, all the taste is gone from soda after such a long time.” He sets the glass back down and picks up the half burned book, a german-english dictionary. “Remember me to never let you near my library.”, he mutters while he opens the dictionary at one of the marked pages. “Oh, german! Beautiful language, if a bit harsh. ‘Streichholzschächtelchen’, seriously, who thinks of words like that? Herz-Heart, Karo-Diamonds. What a coincidence that all the cards laid out are either hearts or diamonds.” The doctor eyes the eight laid out cards. “Five of hearts and two of hearts are here twice.” He thinks for a moment. “Wait, the mailbox. Nothing in this room fits into it, except the cards. I will probably have to put one of the cards into the box or…” He looks up at the vent. “But which one?” He looks at the laid out cards again. “These eight have to point me at the one I have to put into the mailbox. There’s a german translation for hearts and diamonds, but not for spades and clubs. Both 'Karo’ and 'Herz’ have four letters, both piles of cards have fours cards each, so one pile of cards probably points to either hearts or diamonds, every card representing one letter of the alphabet.” He stands up and starts walking around the table. He picks up the glass and the first card of the left pile and drinks the soda while he continues to mutter to himself. “The left pile starts with the eight of hearts. This can be the letter H. But why are there two colours of cards?” He stops walking. “Ah, stupid doctor, of course!” The doctor starts walking around the table again. “There are only 13 different cards in each colour, so to match the number of letters in the alphabet, you need more than one colour! So the eight of hearts is either H or…” He stops walking again. “… or U. Which doesn’t make sense. So the left pile is probably the colour of the card I need.” He sets down the eight of hearts on the table and quickly looks through the other three cards on the left side. “Five of hearts equals E, five of diamonds is R, and the king of diamonds would be Z. This would make the left cards spell 'Herz’, the german word for heart. Fantastic!” He sits down again and picks up the four cards on the right, after setting down the now empty glass. “The two of hearts is B, twice, the eight of diamonds is U, and we already know the five of hearts stands for E. That makes the second word 'Bube’.” He sets down the four cards and picks up the burned dictionary. “As my german is a bit rusty, let me check this out. I just hope this word didn’t get burned.” He stops at one page. The word 'Bube’ is covered in soot, far down on towards the burned edge. The doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver again and uses it to carefully free the translations to make them visible again. “'In cards: Jack’. There we go! So I need to throw in the jack of hearts.” The doctor lays down the dictionary and searches the deck in the middle of the table until he finds the jack of hearts. He then walks up to the mailboy and lets the card slide into the opening with an “Allons-y!”.

Nothing happens. The doctor looks around the room. Finally, slowly, sounds emerge from the vent in the ceiling. “Oh come on! I’ve done everything you wanted!” A fume of gas emerges into the room. The doctor scans it with his screwdriver. “Oh, non-lethal. But it will knock me out. Oh brilliant.” He puts his screwdriver back in the pocket of his coat and says “I don’t want to go!” before he loses conscioussness. Thanks to luilien for the Level :)

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A square room, with one door, one small clock on each of the right and left wall, and a big clock opposite of the door. None of them works.

In one corner is a table with multiple wind-ups.

In the middle of the room, on the floor, is a big metal dial.

Next to every clock and the center dial is a sign, on one wall is a poster that shows the timezones of the world. A red dot marks the location of London .

Upon entering the room, every player has a digital wristwatch on his or her wrist, which is not removable and shows the time: 1pm. This does not change.

Written on the signs next to the clocks and the dial in the middle is “Finland”.

To win this room, the players have to set the right time on the center dial.

Hints:

General: Based on the red spot, the players have to assume that their wristwatch is set to GMT (which is true).

1. Find the right wind-up for one of the clocks (the clock on the left wall, the wind-up has the same ornamental pattern as the hands of the clock) and wind the clock up.

2. Set the clock to the right time: Finland has GMT+1, which makes it 2pm there

A bunch of more wind-ups will drop out of a box behind the clock once the time is set right, and the sign next to the other clocks and the dial changes to “Argentina”

3. Repeat step 1 for the next clock (which will be the one on the right wall)

4. Repeat step 2, Argentina has GMT-3, which makes it 10am

More wind-ups will drop out of a box behind the clock once the time is set right, the signs next to the big clock and the dial will change to “Java, Indonesia”

5. Repeat step 1 for the big clock

6. Repeat step 2 for the big clock, Java, Indonesia has GMT+7, which makes it 8pm

The case opens and hands for the big dial in the center can be picked up, the sign next to the dial changes to “Hawaii”.

7. The hands have to be placed on the center dial, showing the correct time. Hawaii has GMT-10, which makes it 3am there.

If the player manages to set the time right, a needle in the wristwatch injects him or her with a sedative so he or she can be moved to the next level.

If a player fails to set a time right on the clocks, simply nothing will happen until the player does so or dies of starvation.

If a player fails to set the time right on the center dial, he or she gets electrocuted. Not immediately, of course, but after a while. (To give you no time for guessing, but enough time for correcting the right position of the hands if you don’t place them properly at the first try)

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#level

This level is a kind of basement room with 4 walls and a small metal door on one side. In the middle of the room there is a round table with an old chair next to it. The wall in front of the door has the number “1” written over it with dripping wet red paint. On the third wall there is a small mailbox. The 4th wall is empty. The room is lit up with two rows of neon lamps. In the middle of the ceiling there is a vent.

The table has several items on it:

On the left side there is a german-english dictionary with marks on pages with the translation of the different red card types: Heart: Herz Diamond: Karo The books lower half is burned away. Next to the book there is a heart symbol drawn onto the table (with the same red paint from the walls).  Still on the left side there are 4 cards laid out next to each other:  heart 8, heart 5, diamond 5, diamond king.

On the right side there is an almost empty glass with a dark liquid inside. Next to that there is the symbol diamond on the table. On this side there are the following 4 cards: heart 2, diamond 8, heart 2, heart 5. between the sets of cards there is another pile of the remaining red cards of the classical common play cards.

To win this room the player has to find the correct card from the pile in the middle and shove it into the mailbox. 

Hints: - every card one letter - 8 letters in total, WORD - WORD - numbers show position in alphabet (A=1) - first half of alphabet: heart cards - second half: diamond cards - Jack=11, Queen=12, King=13 - Heart: A-M (A=1, B=2, … , M=13) - Diamond: N-Z

If the player manages to find the correct card (HERZ - BUBE), a gas is blown out of the vent so the player gets unconscious (and can be brought out of the room). If he doesn’t, another gas is blown so he dies. 

Good Luck! >:] 

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Levels

Basement Level by luilien (claimed by jakemnlo)

Time Level by jakemnlo (claimed by darkus)

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Character List

Characters:

10th Doctor (by jakemnlo)

Jack (OC by darkus)

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