[ti]quest[/ti][closed] A SIREN'S PERISH SONG

QUEST: A SIREN'S PERISH SONG

CLOSED QUEST 3 PARTICIPANTS SWIMMER CLASS REQUIREDARTWORK BY タイジュ

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While exploring the water's depths surrounding the Drowned Harbor, you heard a cry for help pass through the water. As you've hurried towards the source of the cry, however, you couldn't help but notice a faint melody at the very edges of your hearing, a haunting sound urging you to dive deeper, to find the source of the harmony no matter what. The next thing you knew, you suddenly found yourself inside a large, white, crystalline entryway with an elegant chandelier overhanging a grand staircase with a locked door and two doors, one inset with elegant swirls of ocean coral and the other with the sharp curves of glittering ice - and all the while, the melody continues onwards, pervading your every move...

OBJECTIVES

• Make your way through the Ocean Door (left side)
• Solve the Water Puzzle on the other side
• Retrieve the lighthouse keeper's key
• Make your way through the Ice Door (right side)
• Solve the Ice Puzzle on the other side
• Retrieve the siren's jewel and place it in key
• Make your way through the Siren's Door (upstairs)
• Solve the Water Puzzle on the other side
• Solve the Ice Puzzle on the other side
• Defeat the siren

Note: This quest satisfies the requirements of the Opportunity Knocks quest line!

MECHANICS

Party Mechanics Characters enter the dungeon with up to 6 Pokemon in their party. This party cannot be switched or adjusted mid-thread. Should a player white out, they will awaken in the entryway of the Drowned Manor with full health but must spend 1 action progressing through each room to return to the party unless the party has engaged with the boss. Once the boss is engaged, the door is locked until the boss is defeated or all characters white out, which functionally resets the boss with a minor difficulty decrease.

Actions Each character is allowed to make one primary action during their post. This action can be movement (moving from one room to another), recovering (healing the party or increasing perish count), progression (working on the puzzle or engaging with the freeform objective), or combat (fighting a basic swarm or the boss).

Perish Song While within the Drowned Manor (the entryway, puzzle rooms, and boss' chambers), characters are subject to the siren's Perish Song. All characters have a perish count of 5, and this perish count will decrease by 1 for each post they make while under the effects of Perish Song (unless they do not take an action that turn, in which case, it will not decrease). Characters can partially restore their perish count by resting, which will increase their perish count by 3 if they have a Psychic Pokemon in their team or by 2 if they do not. If a character's perish count reaches zero, they will immediately white out.

Puzzle Mechanics The Puzzle Rooms function as a collaborative progression mechanic. Each puzzle requires a total of 50 points to solve, which all characters contribute towards with their actions. By default, a character will contribute 5 points with their action; however, a Water or Ice Pokemon will contribute an additional 10 points for their respective puzzle type or 5 points for the opposing puzzle type; alternatively, a Fire Pokemon will also contribute the same 5 point bonus to the Ice Puzzle and an Electric Pokemon the 5 point bonus to the Water Puzzle. Point bonuses do not stack!

Enemies No enemies will spawn in the entryway or puzzle rooms. On the other side of the Ocean Door and Ice Doors, spawns are possible but should be thematic for what awaits on the other side. The Boss inside the Siren Door is a corrupted Primarina (Water/Ice type, knows Perish Song) following Medium Difficulty Colossal Battle Mechanics, with the addition that each party wipe decreases the Boss' max HP by 100.

ADDITIONAL

Activity Expectations For the sake of progression, participants are expected to be able to post at least once a week. Double-posting is permitted as long as at least 3 calendar days have passed from the previous post. If a player goes more than 2 weeks between posts without a valid reason, their quest rewards may be reduced.

GM Involvement Since the quest is fairly self-sufficient, participants will only need to wait for a GM post following solving each door's final puzzle and entering the corresponding loading zone. This is so that the new scene can appropriately be set for the location and freeform objective.

Quest Repetition While I don't have a problem with other members doing this exact same quest with a different party, I do ask that, as a courtesy, they wait until this initial run has concluded before starting theirs.