adventureic | Archive Race!

ARCHIVE RACE

On Wednesday, March 6th, Adrian Flyte and Curio request the help of their coworkers (and any interested parties from the QF) to come help them test out their new, experimental maps of the Archives. And because nothing's fun if it isn't competitive, they've also decided to make a little competition out of it. Come prove your navigational mettle, explore an extra-dimensional space and maybe find a cool toy to take home!

The rules are simple: each participant will draw a random card from the Archives' extensive card catalog, and then use one of the experimental maps to navigate their way to the location that item is stored. Once they've retrieved it and brought it back to the main floor, they'll receive their final time - and be allowed to keep whatever junk they've dug up.

THE MAPS

Because the Archives exist in a Escherian multi-dimensional space, they can be pretty difficult to map and navigate thoroughly. The maps Adrian and Curio have produced reflect this, folding over on themselves in origami-like patterns. Some of them even have rotating parts which must be aligned correctly in order for the map to be properly read.

THE ARCHIVES

The Archives have one main staircase which runs through all the levels in roughly numerical sequence, but it's much faster to navigate the space by the multiple hidden shortcuts on each level. Some levels make dreamlike transitions into one another, some are full of trapdoors or secret chutes, and some have access to secondary staircases that go in counterintuitive directions. It's hard to get lost on the main staircase and very easy to get lost anywhere else.

SAFETY MEASURES

Everyone who's sent into the Archives is given one of the teleportation medallions crafted by Byron Best. These magical devices will pop their wearers back to the main level of the Archives if any extradimensional destabilization occurs, but they also sometimes malfunction randomly. They can also be triggered manually if the wearer gets lost (or finds their target item!).

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Fill out this form if your character would like to attempt to retrieve an item from the Archives to receive a time & learn which item they find!

Name: bracken hemming
How competitive are they?: 1, he's just here to help and have fun.
Are they good at navigating?: 6! what could have been a ten gets docked because the archives are sooo not his style.
Anything Else: he's (finally) doing this on two legs instead of four, which makes him slightly less adept at Navigation and Speed but more adept at other important tasks like Holding the Map Without Drooling On It and also Having Opposable Thumbs.

Edited 2024-03-07 00:33 (UTC)

Bracken makes his Archives run in 29 minutes and 18 seconds. He was sent to sublevel 27.8, "Liquids (Opaque)". The item he was sent to retrieve is a quart of 2% milk in a plastic jug, which is always magically full and never spoils. Good thing, too, because it's been unrefrigerated in here for God knows how long.

"is this a reward."

Name: Maya
How competitive are they?: 5? Just here to try to help make the maps better.
Are they good at navigating?: 6
Anything Else: Werewolf scent? If that's applicable for her item.

Maya makes her Archives run in 29 minutes and 5 seconds. She was sent to sublevel 332, "Abjured Objects". The item she was sent to retrieve is a glow-in-the-dark vintage Hasbro Ouija Board, printed circa 1990. Its archive card notes that the matching planchette has been archived separately "for safety concerns".

Name: Barbie
How competitive are they?: 4, also here to make maps better
Are they good at navigating?: 6
Anything Else: doesn't get physically ill/disorientated by Escherian space or need food/rest. Has been to the Archives for work before (probably not deep or extensively)

Barbie makes her Archives run in 20 minutes and 20 seconds, and is currently in the lead! She's sent to sublevel 17 and 7/8ths, "Mantelpiece Decor". The item she was sent to retrieve is a solid gold apple.

"Is this an apple from Eris?!" gasp!

"For the fairest," Adrian confirms as he notes down that the item is being removed from the Archives. "I won't fight for you for it."

"I get to keep this?" Barbie, fashion enthusiast, is already imagining a Halloween costume as a Greek goddess.

Name: sandy nygard
How competitive are they?: 7! winning is fun but no part of his self-worth depends on such a BASE idea.
Are they good at navigating?: idk let's say 7 he has magic
Anything Else: feel free to ignore the 7 in competition because he's more interested in "oh, what does this do!" vis-à-vis messing with his map. can he influence the space around him via his map?!?! THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

Sandy makes his Archives run in 32 minutes and 11 seconds. He was sent to sublevel 190 (2), "Adventurer Memorabilia". The item he was sent to retrieve is a wanted poster, circa 1860, for an elf named Banquo Arrington (apparently colloquially known as "The Terror of Tuolumne"). It's even signed!

Name: Elliott Woodhouse (QF)
How competitive are they?: 10. He wants to show how much better he is at this than his AS counterparts.
Are they good at navigating?: 5; he's used to his own well-organized Knowledge Department, so anything too chaotic throws him for a loop.
Anything Else: Elf eyes.

Elliott makes his Archives run in 21 minutes and 47 seconds. He was sent to sublevel 0.005, "Kobold Culture & History". The item he was sent to receive is a rowan wand, delicately hand-carved with a creeping vine motif.

Name: Hyacinthe
How competitive are they?: 5; he's giving it a try because he has FOMO, but he doesn't care that much either way.
Are they good at navigating?: 2; he hates it here!
Anything Else: If he gets too spooked or flustered, he'll just give up and pop out of there (he's got unicorn teleportation in addition to the medallion).

Hyacinthe makes his Archive run in 26 minutes and 43 seconds. He was sent to sublevel 3.759, "Decorative Beading Projects". The item he was sent to receive is a frog-shaped handbag.

Name: Henri/Eddie
How competitive are they?: 0
Are they good at navigating?: 6???
Anything Else: They are just using this as a good excuse to snoop around the AS archives. Probably stopped all over the place just looking around and making note of what the AS have.

Name: Dick
How competitive are they?: 10, he wants to win.
Are they good at navigating?: 7
Anything Else: Flight?

Name: Cyprien du Voy
How competitive are they?: like, 7 since this is something he could conceivably win at
Are they good at navigating?: Giving him a 8 because of cheat code reasons
Anything Else: By that I mean he can go through walls and ignore material restrictions. He's also spent as much time in the Archives as Adrian himself would have been willing to grant, and is terminally curious about their contents anyway.

Name: Cinder Lewis
How competitive are they?: 8. Mapping the Archives is cool, she supposes, but winning is better.
Are they good at navigating?: 6
Anything Else: She promises not to blow anything up :(

i wish i could throw my enemies into the archives without a map

There is water and light rations pack (chocolate bar, energy bar, trail mix etc) at the start. You cannot pay Leeds enough to go in there. The Archives are 10000% scarier than the library.

Archive Race!

ATTEMPTS

ATTEMPTS: Bracken

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ATTEMPTS: Maya

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ATTEMPTS: Barbie

ATTEMPTS: Barbie

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ATTEMPTS: Sandy

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ATTEMPTS: Elliott

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ATTEMPTS: Hyacinthe

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ATTEMPTS: Heddie

ATTEMPTS: Dick

ATTEMPTS: Cyprien

ATTEMPTS: Cinder

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OOC (Questions, Comments, Concerns!)

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