NOPE!

Ahhh you coward let me break that crown ;)

alright i was pretty busy but now im back. can someone catch me up?

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alright i was pretty busy but now im back. can someone catch me up?

 

 Certainly!

Before you is a throne, in which there sits, slumped, a suit of armour containing a skeleton. Sticking out of the suit of armour are 12 swords, each with a different coloured gauntlet grasping the handle. The skeleton is wearing a crown. His shield leans against the side of the throne, and in one hand, on his lap, is held a small book.

Looking around, you are in a large, cold, flag-stoned chamber. Moth-eaten tapestries line the walls, the holes showing the stones behind them. As you look behind you, you see 12 figures stood stock still in painted armour, and behind them, the only door. Each figure is missing one gauntlet, and you see that their hands are naught but bones.

The book is a children's rhyme, which reads:

"A Dozen Knights on a Dozen Horse
Rode to Challenge the King by Force!
The Red Knight, The Grey, and the Green Knight struck True
So too did the Orange, the Yellow, and Blue!
The King bore his Arms to Defend this Attack
and took Impalement from Front, as well as from Back!
For the Pink Knight, the White Knight, the Black and the Beige
With the Brown and the Burgundy, Murdered their Leige!
These 12 slew their King for the sake of the Town,
But which, do you think, Should now wear the Crown?"

Jerry and Stella have determined that the word "Impalement" is in fact a reference to the combination of coats of arms, typically through marriage, where the coat of arms is split in half; the males side on the left, the females side on the right (bolded because it's extra info which might have been missed).

Hunter has established that you are probably supposed to take the crown and give it to the correct knight, who should have it.

You look around the room and the shields are as follows:

The King: A lion, looking right, on a red background.

Red: 5 black feathers on a pink background
Grey: an eye on a green background
Green: A Green dragon on an orange background
Orange: A Stag looking left on a brown background
Yellow: A pickaxe and a snake, on a yellow and blue split background
Blue: 3 dogs looking left on a yellow background
Pink: a lion looking left on a Blue background
White: an Eagle, looking right, on a white background
Black: a white unicorn looking right on a purple background
Beige: A Griffin looking right on a red & white split background
Brown: a star beside a mace, on a white & blue split background.
Burgundy:  Two maces on a blue background.

Stella started trying to break the crown but stopped when all of the skeleton knights and the king turned to stare at him.

 {edit} now that I see it all in one place, this is a big ol' puzzle XD lots of information here! good luck, everyone!

I have a feeling jerry can't burn this room

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I have a feeling jerry can't burn this room

 It is made of stone, though the wall hangings are crumbly, dusty old cloth.

I try to return a sword to the knight of its corresponding color. i return yellows first since PRAISE THE SUN!

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I try to return a sword to the knight of its corresponding color. i return yellows first since PRAISE THE SUN!

 

So you're pulling one of the swords out of the dead king?

I approve! So long as it’s your head!

now that i think about it, maybe the knights left the sword in there for a reason. 

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now that i think about it, maybe the knights left the sword in there for a reason. 

So you're not pulling one of the swords out of the dead king?

I attempt to give therapy about sharing to the knights. "Let's think rationally, If simply one of you claim the crown, although you may rule in peace for a while, the more someone has the more they want and greed will overtake. Don't follow in the steps of the old king. If you do, you will die the same way as him. Share your power and establish new laws to not give peace to the land for as long as you rule, but for as long as your kingdom will last. Don't repeat history."

also im not pulling a sword

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I attempt to give therapy about sharing to the knights. "Let's think rationally, If simply one of you claim the crown, although you may rule in peace for a while, the more someone has the more they want and greed will overtake. Don't follow in the steps of the old king. If you do, you will die the same way as him. Share your power and establish new laws to not give peace to the land for as long as you rule, but for as long as your kingdom will last. Don't repeat history."

 Make a persuasion roll?

Ability scores: [roll]4d6dl1rr1

Ability scores: 14

((so this is basically a not-campaign for you to DM, so you can get better at DMing? can I join?))

anyone is welcome. you are going to have to ask thorukduckslayer to actually dm though.

Yo Thoruk? Can you give my most kind and generous master, I mean the mindflayer a shot at DMing?

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((so this is basically a not-campaign for you to DM, so you can get better at DMing? can I join?))

You can indeed join, and if you would like to take a shot at DMing then let me know and I'll direct the adventurers your way!

the current premise is that they are trapped in a series of generally deadly rooms, where they face puzzles and trials to solve. each room completed gets them back to the waiting room, where stand the various doors, completed ones emblazoned wit ha flaming "X" of red or green, depending on how well they were completed.

It's very informal - I'm treating all stats as 10, and things tend to either "hurt a bit", "hurt a lot" or "kill". I give people logical bonuses for their characters (EG an artificer is good at working out how things work, a ranger might know plants, that sort of thing).

Let me know what you want to do - feel free to drop in as a player for the last of this room if you want to DM the next one!