Temple Quest part 2: Find The Temple

This opens with a cutscene of The Sainted One standing at the drummer. She’s fighting with him because she brought him the metal disk which is what he asked for. So all should be good but he’s all noooo you gotta find a temple and she’s all shut up jerk. It should be something like this only with kick ass graphics and not just sound.

Now I didn’t really have a clue what was going down until someone called in to Nightmare Confessions and was all “OMG! SAINT FELINE’S LOOKING FOR A TEMPLE! I DUNNO WHERE THE TEMPLE IS? YOU KNOW WERE THE TEMPLE IS?!” And so then it was OMG WE GOTTA FIND A TEMPLE!

So then Mapmaker and I started going through all the nightmare confessions calls that had come in the day before (December 8 & 9] and we started to realize that there was someplace suspicious. Here’s the map we came up with.  So I jumped in and started checking the place out and good thing I did cause I had all this OMG FREAKS THERE DO NOT GO! knowledge that others didn’t plus none of the folks that were looking for the temple, not even The Sainted One, had a clue where the temple might be – they were looking all over the place.

The map was pretty dead on, but I’ve made a couple changes and added a bunch of the freaks and stuff.  See…

SOMEPLACE SUSPICIOUS

So, see that area in the center – that’s Someplace Suspicious. It’s hard as hell to get to the temple what with all the fiendy fiends hanging around ready to kill and eat you, so you gotta have The Sainted One with you. We knew that the alley by the drugstore was a dead end , but checked it out to be sure and yeah, don’t go down there – there’s no way out and if some freaks come in you’re screwed. But the alley by the museum seemed like a good bet.  I mean dark doesn’t kill you, right? Right. But it’s totally filled with things that will, which sucks. Also checked out the alley in between the buildings with the water tower, but yeah, they were right  – totally filled with freaks.

But! There was a way in… which is obvious if you’ve looked at the map a couple paragraphs up and traced the yellow line. See, we wanted to check out what must be a fourth alley, but we couldn’t get down the street. The drummer dude was surrounded by a mob and, sure, they were all into him, but he gets em all worked up. So that was a no go for us. I mean one cat might get by without being noticed but like twenty? Not a chance. We had to work our way around to this coffee shop that The Sainted One likes and came up with a plan to head down that alley and try to find a way to cut across. We went through the alley by the library and ran into a mess of people and long story super short, I’m lucky to have any fur left but it was so worth seeing the look on the freak’s face when my claw caught him in the eye. So we checked out this other alley that was freak free. There were a couple of houses there and one didn’t have a door anymore so we cut through. Not the smartest of moves cause we got trapped by a couple loonies hanging out in the place and had to down these stairs and make our way to a window that wasn’t totally broken but we were able to push it open and get out.

So we ditched across the street and cut through this old house figuring the alley behind it was our last best chance. I mean if the nutters couldn’t see it to get to it, it’d probably be pretty safe, right? Right! A couple of em had wandered over from the park, but one or two of em aren’t bad if you can get by before they get all freaked out drawing attention to them and you. It went right to the square path with the statues on the corners (well, a couple of em were more big pile o rock than statue, but they were statues before the hell that is this place got to em).

Things got a bit tricky here. We had to cut our way about three quarters of the way around the path. On the one side was a whole mess of folks hanging out in what musta at some point been a shallow little pond. That made it a bit easier cause they were sort of in a divot in the ground but it wasn’t like it was hard for them to get out if they saw us. Plus, on the other side were random freaks. We lucked out at this one place cause there was big arch thing that had sort of crumbed down enough for us to climb up and over. They couldn’t reach us there, but it’s not like they didn’t try and I thought at one point the whole thing was gonna come crashing down with about 8 of us up there. That would have sucked.

So we get around to the temple and it’s crazy. I mean it’s not like you’d ever see this place as some huge mysterious wonder. When you’re not looking at it really it just looks like some falling down old building but when you look at it, I mean really look at it, you see it for what it is or was. And right on the outside, there’s a big arch that’s just like the one on the other side or close enough but this one is built into the temple. And under it is what you have to assume is a door but you’d never think that it was one unless you were looking for it. And so you just keep looking at it all trying to soak it all in and while you do, these loonies of the lake start running up after you cause, well, you’re just standing there staring at this building like a dumbass with a target on your back.

The Sainted One is there to help you fight em off, but it’s not like she can do much against like a hundred of the dudes. Plus she’s gotta get inside. Which she can’t… until a bunch of us complete some sort of ritual.

Notes: We could totally beef this up by making it much more of a maze to get into and also by forcing them to find The Sainted One first – I mean they need her to fend off the freaks, right? So if they get to Someplace Suspicious without her, they’re fucked. Also, not sure how to have people figure out where the temple is. For me, it came in via phone calls. I’m thinking, though, there could be some sort of mechanism where clannies have to explore the city a bit and over time, this part of the map is revealed. The Wall could be a good place to have the map come together – maybe there’s a map on The Wall that updates with places a player has visited and if they spend enough time or get enough of  em out exploring, the Someplace Suspicious will be revealed. We can also have clues and shit dropped by some NPCs about what’s going on.

The Temple Quest

• The Temple Quest: Introduction
• Temple Quest Part 1: Find the Key
• Temple Quest Part 2: Find the Temple (you’re reading this one!)
• Temple Quest Part 3: Complete the Ritual
• Temple Quest Part 4: Save the World in NYC?!