Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Challenge Descriptions

Hullo! This is what I did this morn with laying out the challenges in order. Any comments on the layout or the info included would be awesome. Otherwise I'll just keep steaming on.

OVERALL CHALLENGE
Find the elements: Isis is charged with collecting the four elements of Air, Earth Fire and Water from four separate worlds, in order to bring aid to her Masters whose health is slowly fading. Because of his ailment, he can only give Isis access to the areas and so she must navigate them on her own.
AIR CHALLENGE
1. Collect information: The first world encountered holds the Air element and a watch guard of a near-by village issues the next challenge of finding 3 missing children, as well as warning against the dangers that lurk in the fog. Asking questions of the guard and villagers uncovers the likely location of the children and source of the mysterious fog. It is possible the Air element lies there as well.
2. Low-level combat: En route to the probable position [still undecided what, something open-air prefereably], she is attacked randomly by monsters, who seem unusually weak – perhaps an effect of the fog.
3. Rite of Passage 1: Arriving at the gap seperating huge stone cliffs, a being – unbenknownst to Isis, one of the missing children transformed by the fog – blocks the way through. Isis must either answer questions correctly or destroy the being to pass.
4. Rite of Passage 2: The stone cliffs continue on either side and before long another being (the second transformed child) blocks the way, again asking a riddle. Again Isis has the choice to answer or destroy it to get past.
5. Rite of Passage 3: Another being (third transformed child) blocks the path for a third time and Isis must answer or kill to get past.
6. Bodyguard: Once the element has been collected, the beings (if not killed previously) return back into children and ask for Isis to accompany them back to the village. Doing so will bring great reward, choosing to leave them to their own devices means the element is the only thing received in the level.
7. Give Master the element: take the element back to the Master, so his strength will improve.
EARTH CHALLENGE
1. Choosing sides: Isis has time to orientate her surroundings before coming upon a conflict between drow and elf, where she must choose a side or die.
2. Collect Information: Isis’ chosen side will direct her towards the earth element, as thanks for helping them out (either side will cooperate). Kept in a crypt on the outskirts of the village/town/place it is said to be guarded by the undead.
3. Low-level combat: Encountered en route to crypt is the side Isis didn’t choose to align with. They randomly attack and hinder her progress as well as other beings within the area; Elf, Aranea, Revant, Troll, Halfling
4. Undead Gauntlet: Nasty undead creatures lurk in the levels of the crypt’s catacombes and Isis must fight her way down to the last tier, where the element resides.
5. Earth Boss - Mummy: the vial of Earth so close within reach, Isis must battle one of the strongest undead, a mummy, who seems to have gained extra power through its proximity to the element.
6. Give Master the element: take the element back to the Master, so again his strength will improve.

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