Shadowdancers 077
└ posted on Tuesday, 22 January 2013, by Novil
- Viviana: If the map is still up-to-date, then they’ll have to walk through this hallway on their way to the place of execution.
- Chereck: And?
- Viviana: The floor is outside the wizard wing! So we might be able to get there somehow.
- Viviana: Of course, our man will then be taken out by Lilith’s escorts and the guards at the doors.
- Chereck: Dear Gaia! That looks even worse than I thought!
- Ilias: That means… you give up?
- Viviana: We’ll only give up if we still don’t have a plan one hour before Lilith’s execution.
- Viviana: By the way, how old is this map?
- Chereck: About 15 years.
- Viviana: That old!? We must get a newer one!
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Can’t they just use google maps or something?
Still they need newer map?
This was meant to be a RPG Mod/Adventure/game etc.
How many quest “Fetch the prison map ” would there be!?
What? Do you really expect maps of heavily-guarded prison facilities to come easy, Viviana? Give Chereck some credit for at least finding a map.
In other news, it seems Viviana’s telling the guys to just wing it–a plan an hour before the execution?!!
*looks at panel 4*
See, Viviana, it’s faces like that that make people ship you with others so much.
Landbark wrote:
Given my luck, fifteen stages of the quest. And one of them would be a jump quest.
Malchus wrote:
*panel 3, I mean
Someone’s about to play errand boy, I imagine.
It’s kinda odd that Viviana would bring up a potential option only to immediately dismiss it as unviable as the rest, though. Was she hoping to hear from the start that there’d be another way to reach that hallway?
Malchus wrote:
I read so many manga that I immediately looked at the right panel… (To used to read right to left)
But anyway Viviana sure is a nice girl for a criminal, Ilias should just go for her, he sure has a chance looking at how she trusts him… At least chance seems to be better than with Lilith. Though presents for such a girl will be much harder to pick…
Ali wrote:
Well but at least “We must get a newer map” is constructive thinking, maybe newer map will have something new, and struggling with older map may just be a waste of time anyway…
ILIAS: “Why must we get a new one? I don’t believe anything has changed in such a short time.”
VIVIANA: “Ooooohhhh Ilias, you’d be surprised how many changes can be made in fifteen years. Heck, maybe a door or wall got busted and they patched it up with a rush job, making it a weak point in their security. Who knows?”
Hmmm… Methinks that once they get the newer map, they’ll make a plan that will free Lilith.
Haha, did you think things were going to progress? Well the joke’s on you! Now you must fetch the map from the secret vault which can only be opened by the silver key found in the chancellor’s house, but to bypass the estate’s security to access the house you must fool the guards by disguising yourselves as groundskeepers, which means you must first acquire the uniforms, except they don’t have extras and never seem to take them off, but they’d be willing to trade them to you for some fantastic MacGuffin Muffins and perhaps a kiss on the cheek…
And thus the rest of the chapter will be acquiring eggs and bacon to make delicious muffins to trade for clothes to access the estate to steal a key that opens a vault where they’ll find a map that will show a location that prompts a new quest. Also Ilias will have to kiss a couple of skeevy guys for their clothes after giving them biscuits.
If they want to be daredevils (or boringly conventional for storytelling), the final plan would involve rescuing her a few seconds before the execution itself (e.g. in a hanging, a precision fired arrow that slices through the rope, combined with a diversion to keep everyone busy).
However, working on a plan that involves rescuing Lilith before she gets to the site of execution would probably be preferable. I’d assume the other trope of someone going undercover as a guard is out of the question…
mittfh wrote:
Well maybe not really “as a guard”… What if real guard helps… Like that guy that brings her food seems to be a nice guy…
@ O-(-’.'Q):
Or we could just go buy a @#$% map from a store…
Attention everyone! I have shocking new news! I did a calculation of the planet of gaia’s calander and i discoverd something. They say that a year there is 360 days but i discoverd that the actual days in a year is…..216! Thats right, that mean that the average person would lose 36.74 days in his life compered to earth!
kor wrote:
@ kor: i miss worded a word in my sentence. I have afixed one.
O-(-’.'Q) wrote:
Reminds me of the Hidden Treasure arc from Sandra and Woo, when Larisa was on her little tirade. XD
kor wrote:
Actually that would mean that, if he lived the same length of time, he would be 36.74 years OLDER at the end of life.
And on the newer map they find a fast track lane from the prisoners’ cells to the execution stand so the guards can set land-speed transport records. 2 minutes and 3.55 seconds and holding by Bob and Larry from cell to chopping block written in the top right.
Also, the maps do not have a list of the guards and their shifts. If you want to raid a fortified installation you pick the time just before a shift change in the middle of the night with the laziest guards on duty and not before (or on) an important date (such as the night before an execution). This cuts down on the amount of attention “span” that the guards will have at the time of the jail break and their competence level.
@ W1MRN:
I dont think it would work like that, i think that to them it would seem like 90 years but to us it would be 54.