Ilphyl Palace Run

[spacetogrow]

Content Warning

Parts of Ilphyl’s past deal with religiously motivated child abuse, sexism (albeit fantasy sexism as it is against male drow), transphobia and fantasy racism. If you want to engage with Ilphyl’s Palace, but not this content, let me know and I can make sure you stay on an alternate route. I’ll also put warnings on particular rooms if it seems likely to come up, and use the subject lines of threads to add in warnings if it comes up unexpectedly.

Goal
Find and return Ilphyl's consciousness to prominence. You know it will take the form of a small bat, but aren't sure how you know this.

Comments

The Hall

[spacetogrow]

There are a number of doors here. They are all roughly the same size and shape but have differences in materials. Many of them have obvious padlocks, but three are unlocked (and the first person will see the masked dark elf unlock a fourth, but block it). All have clocks over them. The clocks read 9:00, 8:00, 4:00 and 2:00.

The masked elf points to the 8 and 9 doors. "For people who can't behave themselves." They point to the 4. "That one is fine, but you are going through it before this one." They gesture to the door they are blocking. "And you aren't going through that side if you don't think you can just observe. No matter what. There are things in here that you can't win against."

Re: The Hall

[terribletwos]

[Gives a flat look now]

Fine, I'll start with the 4 and see what I'm actually dealing with.

Re: The Hall

[spacetogrow]

[Look, Ilphyl just saw you try to fight a demon lord. None of the aspects of Ilphyl's personality trust you to back down if need be.]

[The door is woodlike, but not quite made of wood. It opens into nighttime ]

Re: The Hall

[beexceptional]

[...well, that's fun.]

If you're blocking something, its important. We'll start with 4.

Re: The Hall

[spacetogrow]

Suit yourself.

[the door is open.../

Re: The Hall

[hermit_crab]

... I see I'm the last to select.

Eight, then?

Re: The Hall

[spacetogrow]

There are many routes to your primary goal, but that way mostly shows stuff from the surface.

I should have realized that if I told the other two 'no, this is for people who are ready for it', that just encouraged them.

[hermit_crab]

[ A faint snort. ]

Humans tend to be like that. I'll take the long route.

[spacetogrow]

Suit yourself. Pick a door.

[OOC: I'm okay with running everyone through the same half and just noting what folks missed in my aftermath post; I mostly wanted to account for non-close CR or people who wanted to participate but not with the content-warning stuff, so I designed the thing with branching paths.]

[hermit_crab]

[ OOC: Fair enough! whatever works best. ]

Eight.

[spacetogrow]

Eight it is