Would you go beyond this point?
>>46182242
>Experienced divers have died here
Who'd pass up loot like that?
>>46182242
>>46182293
Are we talking "experienced" as in levels 2-5, or levels 15-20?
Do you think they'd drop SCUBA Tanks+3 and High-Quality Neoprene rares?
>>46182242
Is that one diver giving a us thumbs up while another blows him?
My character would.
>Vacuum-sealed battle armor good for fifteen minutes
>Crazy strong and with great stamina
>Very hard to actually get stuck due to beinga ten foot tall space slug
>Likely has his lightsaber modified for underwater use due to crazy military preparedness, so doesn't need a flashlight or a cutting tool if necessary
>>46182242
> There is nothing in this cave worth dying for
That's what people hiding treasure say
>>46182242
If only death awaits me in that cave, I'm going in. Death has sweet loot, I've played Diablo.
>>46182242
I'd go about 2 feet beyond this point, just to say I did.
Life is won on technicalities.
>>46182397
yes
>>46182491
Hutt from Star Wars or giant amoeba slug from Hulks & Horrors?
>>46182539
Moron! There is no treasure, only bodies.The mob is using that cave to hide the bodies of their victims. In the rare case that someone does find the corpses they just think that Jimmy Hoffa went for a midnight dive and died that way. Where do you think the "sleeping with the fish" phrase comes from?
>>46182539
Exactly. Why put such a big sign there if nothing would be in the cave?
>>46182242
It's probably a trick to keep people away from something valuable.
>>46182242
A D V E N T U R E
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>>46182539
Treasure your life!!!
>>46182826
Will Crowther based Colossal Cave on this cave in real life. The first computer RPG.
>>46182928
XYZZY!
>>46183031
Nothing happens.
>>46182928
So, what's inside?
>>46183147
Darkness. And a grue. You're liable to get eaten by a grue.
>>46183129
2/10 "Unintuitive gameplay" - IGN
What is inside that cave that apparently kills divers? Murmaids?
>>46183387
>2/10 "Not enough waifus" - IGN
FTFY
>>46183473
Darkness mainly. Most of the tunnels are very long and underwater, and Underwater + Darkness = Confusion. You can't even remember which way is up without visual cues. People run out of tank air before they realize they should have turned back half an hour ago. Many of the tunnels are also very tight, and some people have gotten wedged inside them or hooked gear on rock formations.
>>46183387
>>46183530
"Unacceptable level of LGTBQ relationships and strong womyn portrayals, clearly a racist game, 2/10." -Every gaming site out there
>>46183620
"IT'S LITERALLY PERFECT" - /v/, March 21, 2016
"ITS SHIT" - /v, March 22, 2016
>>46183575
That and not all tunnels may be all that stable, it's a constantly being eroded cave for gods sake.
>>46183575
>>46184013
>darkness
>underwater
>claustrophobic tightness
>disorientation
>time limit
>random chance of literally "rocks fall, everyone dies"
>"There's nothing in this cave worth dying for!"
This sounds like the worst adventure ever!
>>46184421
>not liking a dungeon that challenges your skills and objectives
whoa what a scrub
>>46182491
>15 minutes
This is actually the thing most likely to save you - if you can only enter for 7 minutes, you're probably not going in far enough to get lost disoriented, which is the biggest killer in this situation. It's still possible if you move fast enough though.
Unless you mean in addition to a normal air supply, in which case never mind, hope you wrote a will.
>>46182242
I am an SSI-certified scuba diver and I've seen signs exactly like this one...I pussed out and didn't go in the cave.
>>46184421
Or the best.
>>46184421
"there's nothing in this cave worth dying for!" is what would get my party
We simply wouldn't trust that line and think its a cover up.
>>46184625
>I am an SSI-certified scuba diver
Sorry to tell you, but those are just roleplaying games, not real life.
>non-PADI scum
>>46184421
theres a mediocre movie about cave divers
Sanctum, it is actually quite terrifying
>>46184800
Running Pools of Radiance gave me the bends.
I also once witnessed a PADI-instructor nearly drown someone who was going for the dive master certification during the 'simulated rescue'. For some reason when he slapped the regulator out of her mouth while thrashing around she just couldn't remember to grab the hose and pop it back in so she just sort of struggled around with him till he grabbed it and stuffed it back in her mouth for her. It's hard to laugh hard underwater.
>>46182242
If it wasn't underwater yes.
I risked drowning multiple times and i can tell you is not really pleasant
>>46184885
>she just couldn't remember to grab the hose and pop it back in
Hah. Maybe she was tough and wanted to get her Underwater Combat I cert.
>>46182242
No? I wouldn't go diving in the first place. And you literally couldn't pay me enough to go cave diving.
>>46185013
>And you literally couldn't pay me enough to go cave diving.
You say that as if we believe you.
>>46185227
I can buy a Klondike bar for the change in my wallet. Why would I risk my life for one?
>>46185294
>The joke
>Your head
This is not spam, stupid system.
>>46185294
A dark, post apocalyptic future where sadistic warlords have monopolized the planet's Klondike bar supply and force people to cave dive to prove themselves worthy.
>>46185385
No, I got it, but it was stupid.
>>46182242
That's a pretty effective sign. Anyone that goes past that has been thoroughly warned.
>>46185397
I'd watch that show.
>>46182242
As a novate diver I wouldn't, because 1. I know it's dangerous. 2. I have brain that works. 3. Caves are fucking cold as FUCK.
>>46183814
Nah they need to be on the same day to truly capture /v/
>>46185397
>the caves are actually the ruined skyscrapers of the now-sunken cities
>divers are prized for their abilities to retrieve lost technology
So uh... Has nobody thought of like, bringing a really long hose with? Or a drone or something like that?
>>46185844
A hose is likely to get caught on something in those narrow passages.
>>46185889
Then send in a fucking robot, or reinforce the hose
>>46185822
I'm sure there is a setting somewhere like that.
>>46185822
setting when?
>>46186015
That's actually the setting for Agent Aika, where the main character is a salvager who uses a submarine, as well as for Gargantia, which use submersive robots, as well as Future Boy Conan, who free dives because he's a super humanly athletic.
And Water World. That thing.
Why is a corner of the sign missing? What the hell happened there?
>>46182242
Nope
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Not a fucking chance.
We have seen the suffering at the end of this road.
>>46182491
>fifteen minutes
You just died
My character has an amulet that lets him breath in any environment, 18 dex, 19 str (from magic gauntlets, its 6 without them), 20 wisdom (with the observant feat to boot), and a sword that doubles the range of the light and the duration of the light cantrip when said cantrip is cast upon it. He, obviously, knows the cantrip.
He also has glasses that grant him advantage on perception, so his visual passive perception is 27 and general perception is 22
Sounds like a good way to hide diver deaths caused by the Deep Ones
>>46186260
What D&D are those freaky aboleths from?
>>46186449
Make a spot check. DC 20.
>>46186553
No need to, 27 passive visual perception.
>>46182242
They're obviously hiding something.
>>46182242
>Warforged
>No need to breathe
>Has elemental magic should he need it
If he had reason to, yes.
>>46186639
>He rusts over and his wood warps
>>46186668
How long would that take?
>>46182242
>Desire to run games there intensifies
Seriously, just an accident or something worth dying for in there and this is prime territory for a dank fucking survival-maybe-horrorone-shot.
>>46186715
You're gonna hate this answer, but...
It...
Depends.
What kind of alloy is he made of, what kind of wood, is said wood sealed, what are the primary elements in the water, etc
Like, if he was aluminum alloy, and the water had a good deal of mercury in it, he's gonna rust pretty fast.
>>46182242
>There's nothing in this cave worth dying for.
Would totally go in, searching for adventure, and die. Then, would totally make a That GM thread on /tg/ about how unfair it was.
>>46186668
Preeeeety sure exposure to water doesn't hurt warforged, anon.
>>46182242
There are more pleasant ways to die than wandering aimlessly in complete darkness and waiting for my air to run out, so no thank you.
Having Advanced Open Water license myself, I can say that Scuba diving is one of those hobbies where you can die in all imaginative and possibly stupid ways possible. It's like real life King's Quest.
>>46186769
Even in the worst case scenario, rust is a slow reaction.
It may be fast on the scale of rust. It'd be months.
If the Warforged goes in an out, assuming it is't an excessively long cave, there shouldn't be a problem.
>>46185822
Kevin Costner called, he said he wants the lead role in Waterworld 2.
>>46186815
Not always.
Some things rust really fast. Like, a day fast.
>>46186838
Like what?
Still, a day is a while. A Warforged can get in and out before the rust sets in too hard.
>>46186823
Tell him he can drink his own piss.
>>46186917
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Ilxsu-JlY
Two hours, arr
>>46182293
>>46182539
>>46182655
>>46182768
>>46182787
>>46182826
>>46186625
>>46186770
Ladies and gentlemen, the next batch of Darwin Award nominees!
>>46187043
Yeah, but that video is less about rusting real fast in water with components that speed it up, as it is about it rusting stupidly fast when exposed to a fair quantity of material that rapidly gets dissolved in and reacts with it.
>>46187179
Amalgam actually forms quicker in water.
>>46182242
Been there, touched that sign, no way in hell.
>>46187219
Ooh, interesting, though really I should have expected that.
Even so, concentrations may be tons lower which would bring back the rate of corrosion again.
>>46186148
I thought the setting for Agena Aika was that everyone is trying to find themselves some pants that actually cover themselves?
>>46187155
Ladies and gentlemen, the next That DM!
Time to get the pumps. Then I'll go inside that necromancer's lair with my trusty mob of angry peasants.
>>46187155
I bet you're still at lvl1 with that kind of mentality.
>>46182242
If I was a cave diver, yes. That's a rather standard sign around cave diving sites.
The key part of that sign was the mention of open water. Open water divers have no business being in a cave. It requires a specialist skill set.
>>46187532
Not a diver.
How exactly is cave diving different from open water diving?
>>46187365
That is the general plot, yes.
With the evil main character knocking them all out before they do.
>>46187558
Not being able to just bug out to the surface if things go wrong for one. Disorientation, lack of ambient light, tight spaces, gas pockets...
>>46187701
So how do you get around? Trail thread behind you?
>gas pockets
Is that a big deal when you're wearing an oxygen mask?
>>46183575
Solution: Bring a cord with lights attached to it to find your way out.
>>46187558
Currents in a much different type of setting.
>>46187736
I'm not actually a cave diver so we're stretching what I know here, I'm just familiar with some of the hazards as it's something I am interested in getting some training in. But yes, guidelines are certainly a thing.
>Gas pockets
Depends on whether you take your mask off or not when you find that lovely looking air pocket. No guarantee that it's actually air.
>>46186260
>Aboleth with even more eyes
I'd like to know what the Unholy Fuck that is if you'd be so kind.
>>46187760
>>46187854
Ah, I gotcha.
Now how can we adapt this into a setting?
>>46187854
The problem with guide lines when cave diving is they can get tangled in your gear. Another issue with cave diving is it shares many of the hazards with spelunking IE narrow choke points. Vortex Springs, where OP's sign is from, has several areas that are only accessible by taking your tanks off and pushing them through a small gap ahead of you or pulling them through after you. I've talked to cave divers who got stuck half way though or had their gear get wedged fast and we're lucky to make it out.
>source on the above info
I'm an under water salvage diver and wreck dive recreationaly. I tried cave diving and fuck that noise.
>>46182242
The characters in my games would. They die to water more than monsters. People have no fucking concept of drowning.
> Ok so, it's night time, you're in full armor, encumbered, have no knowledge of swimming, have never swam before, and you want to hop into the ocean, whose water is near-freezing, and try to find the underwater cave, which you know is 'around here', and you then wish to swim through it until you find air.
> "Yes"
> Are you SURE you want to do this?
> "Yep"
Results play out fairly predictably.
>>46188121
>Vortex Springs, where OP's sign is from, has several areas that are only accessible by taking your tanks off and pushing them through a small gap ahead of you or pulling them through after you
Fuck all that shit.
>>46188235
Agreed. Get me a damn chisel
>>46187253
Whoa, small world.
In fact, I'm a little surprised by how many divers there are on this board.
>>46187155
>level 1 commoners posting on /tg/
get the fuck out
>>46185397
Nigga, cold and sugar make my teeth hurt.
Now andes mints...
>>46182242
Yes
How else am I going to hide more treasure in there?
>>46188513
Teleporting?
>>46188496
>A dark, post apocalyptic future where sadistic warlords have monopolized the planet's Klondike bar and Andes Mints supply and force people to cave dive to prove themselves worthy.
>>46188540
NOOOOO
>Must I face my fear of water, of darkness, of unnatural formations IN the water
>Or will I know a future bereft of happiness
>>46187558
Tight spaces, often not enough to turn around to pass back through normally. Utter darkness. Lack of current, so if you kick too hard/at the wrong time and stir up silt you're literally hand in front of your face blind until it settles, which could take an hour assuming you dont panic and stir up more. Utter lack of treasure of any sort.
Dangerous to the point that any and all "rescue" attempts are just them looking for your body. I have a friend who cave dives down here in FL, and we continually remind him of how stupid it is when he tells us about it.
>>46187558
In open water, you can always go up.
Not the case in caves.
>>46188635
>an hour
Try days in some cases. Pont being longer than you have air.
>>46188426
A lot of divers in the world these days, this makes me happy. I'm kind of surprised at how many divers are on a roleplaying board.
>I got into roleplaying to have something to do during squeeze down/decompression.
What's every one else's excuse?
>>46188635
Days in some cases anon. Talked to a guy who dove caves in south america. Last divers into the cave before we them was 3 days before and they could still tell where they had gone because of the silt suspended in the tunnels.
>>46188635
>Utter lack of treasure of any sort.
Are you sure it wasn't inside you?
I will find the skeleton's treasure!
Sharks think they're clever putting up signs like this, not gonna fool me though that aztec gold is mine
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
>>46189095
I chuckled.
But, those sweat drops triggered my autism in the same way Sponge Bob's tears do.
>>46189226
***TRIGGER WARNING***
>>46189495
That's way saltier than tears though.
Those underwater lakes are also trippy as fuck.
>>46189495
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
>>46189721
I never realized just howdeepthat song was.
>>46182242
Already did. Posting from inside. It's pretty great in here guys, come check it out.
>>46189133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8l2UtJ83I4
>>46186015
>>46186039
CATASTROPHE.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Setting:CATastrophe
>>46182242
Just means there's treasure in there. That sign protests too much.
>>46182343
you know there will be a bunch of lvl 2-5 and a couple 15-20 here and there.
>>46182242
Myself? Nope, but I would totally mark the location down and later send in underwater drone for all the loot.
>>46188121
That's just stupid.
isn't this basically just Out of the Abyss type shit but with less monsters
This was a surprisingly good thread.
>>46193488
This basically. They have drone versions of the Eddy Izzard copter now.
This reminded me of something I thought the other day.
The difference in mindset between a 'normal' person and an adventurer is huge whatever the context or setting. Imagine how many bricks most people would shit if they explored an old tomb and an actual skeleton attacked them.
>>46182242
>Call of Cthulhu / Delta Green
Yes I would, to my violent horrible detriment
>>46190152
Underrated post. But yeah. That song is fucking amazing, as is most of the Talking Heads catalog.
Looks you are about to get fucked
>>46197845
Bud, skeletons are real. There's one inside you. I think you meant an actual animated/undead skeleton.
>>46198444
Obviously you retard.
>>46198470
I'm not the one who literally misused the word "actual."
>>46186449
>Roll Wisdom
>You are sure it is not wise to dive here.
>>46182242
nope the fuck out. There is a good reason why people put sing and symbols warning you not to do something in water sports. Cosmic horrors like water
source: im a sailor, i'v seen some shit.
>>46192358
Fuck off to the next life hungry ghost anon, no one wants to feed you.
>>46182242
I will go, under-equipped and completely unprepared, shouting loudly about how I'm an expert roleplayer who does what is best for his narration, and should I start to get even uncomfortable in those dark tridimensional mazes where I have no idea of where up and down are, I will complain loudly about railroading and how the GM is a shitlord with a god-complex who refuse to let players be empowered by their decisions and that I will post a That DM thread on /tg/, and then keep bumping into walls while doing train noises until the situation goes my way.
>>46198780
Storytime?
>>46198780
Please mistah?
I need a good story before I go to bed. I've been such a good girl too!
>>46182242
Now that's not a very adventurous sign is it?
>>46198513
By "attacked" I think it was pretty clear it meant it was animated
>>46184800
>Curse of the Azure Boobs
>>46198780
Can it be story tiem?
>>46182748
A Hutt. A Force-sensitive, combat-focused Hutt with basically everything barring the head and torso replaced with cybernetics thanks to constantly losing limbs in battle.
>>46199718
kek well memed
>>46189721
>>46190152
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJUBPiMSbg
>>46198399
isn't that from Frankenfran?
>>46199352
>>46200429
>>46199382
>46199382
Alright here we go, Its a bit long so bear with me here but its hard for me to retell it.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden aeons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things—in this case an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor. I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out; certainly, if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a chain. I think that the professor, too, intended to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not sudden death seized him.
>>46201965
Go on . . .
>>46202795
That's the opening lines of Call of Cthulhu you dumdum
>>46182397
I believe he is and if underwater slightly necrotic blowjobs are the order of business beyond this point... does this add to the danger or reward?
Necrotic almost sounds erotic,
>>46187940
>using diving bell and searching the city for treasures
>>46185805
With timestamps separated by about 3 hours.
>>46201965
Holy fuck, this is like reading a modern version of lovecraft, i'm intrigued.
>>46187155
Hey guys I found the NPC
>>46205051
>>46202795
This is literally an exact copypaste of the beginning of Call of Cthulhu, you nitwits.
>>46205051
Yeah, I'll bet you're a real big fan of lovecraft.
>>46202795
>>46205051
Seriously guys
>>46193423
>you know there will be a bunch of lvl 2-5
Okay, just a standard dungeon run, let's do thi-
>and a couple 15-20 here and there.
NOPE NOPE NOPE
>>46187750
Underwater caves kick up dust very instantly. One jerk and your entire vision is a dark fog.
>>46201774
You can tell it's not Franken Fran by the distinct lack of quality waifus.
Fish by Junji Ito, the guy who did Spiral and "this is my hole, it was made for me".
>>46187043
Now, test it on flesh!
>>46199718
I legit laughed.
>>46204166
I'm probably going to have to include an old fashioned diving bell in my next adventure.
>>46182242
Is the cleric nearby? If so, does he have any resurrection spells prepared?
>>46199718
You think they'd save more lives this way?
>>46182491
I hope you're buoyant and doing a modified frog kick, otherwise you're kicking up so much silt you'll never find your way out.
>>46184800
Get on my AAUS level
>>46186449
Good, you have enough wisdom to know not to go in. Doesn't matter how much light you have or how good your perception is, once you kick up silt you've got about 3 inches of visibility and beyond that you're basically trying to see through a wall.
>>46182242
I am the one waiting at the end of the cave and the reason they put a sign bitch.
Looks out you are not alone anymore...
If we're talking most recent character, fuck yeah. Dude's a witch with the waterlung hex. I can literally sleep underwater with no issues whatsoever at all. It's basically any other cave as far as he's concerned.
>>46184800
Does anyone else smell baking bread?
>>46184421
the only thing that's missing is an escort NPC
>>46218078
Problem solved.
>>46192730
>https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Setting:CATastrophe
>open link
>first thing I see is catgirls
>close tab
>>46200344
I don't know about the vidya, but I liked the book+series an awful lot.
>>46182242
>diving deeper without hesitation
>"Hello darkness my old friend" starts to play
>>46219588
Forgot the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
>>46186639
Undead master race anyway
>>46185294
Because you could have an additional one.
