It’s the dawn of the final task! Woooo! But before we do all that stuff, let’s get some scorekeeping and story stuff out of the way:
Here are the average number of subtasks completed by each team:
Fire team: 7 subtasks / 6 members = 1.167 subtasks/member
Water team: 7 subtasks / 3 members = 2.333 subtasks/member
Grass team: 4 subtasks / 6 members = 0.667 subtasks/member
The Water Team wins the advantage this week (surprising, right?!) and they have been awarded the usual bonus points! Anyway, here are the current standings for all you people who don’t want to view the scoreboard or want to be official or something:
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Wyvern (1,710)
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obfusc8 (1,310)
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Tggtt (1,295)
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Rhewin (1,235)
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Koharo, Thorn (1,070)
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drd (475)
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prose42 (415)
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Dragoon (365)
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Scipio Xaos (350)
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Siiw (285)
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Letaali (175)
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eMander (155)
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Eilatan (140)
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james_uk2008 (120)
And… I have a positive number of points this week.
And with that out of the way, stay tuned for Task 5, which is going to be slightly delayed! Until then, have some story:
[i]You enter the temple and find yourself in a large labyrinth. You travel around the maze, this first area curiously absent of any monsters. You come upon some stairs and decide to ascend to the next level. You hear a distant roar as you reach the second floor. As you scan around this new room, you see a barrel in the corner that is continuously making a thumping sound and moving around slightly, almost as if something’s trapped within it. You approach it cautiously and it bursts! You jump back, ready to attack whatever is in it… and find that strange old man from earlier!
“Aha, traveler! I knew you’d make it!” You wonder what he was doing in that barrel, but you’re not sure you want to know. “Your adventure is reaching its end, traveler. But that does not mean it’ll be getting any easier. Push on, and become an elemental master!” he says. His hamminess almost makes you laugh, but you try to take him more seriously. He flings his arm into the air, trying to be more dramatic, before running off into the maze. You follow him, as he seems to know his way around, but he pays no attention to you.
After ascending two more floors, and defeating only the occasional slime monster in the process, you find yourself on the penultimate floor of the dungeon… the last one contains whatever the secret to elemental mastery is. The man turns around and stares at you. “You managed to keep up with me, eh?”
He runs up to a wall and dusts it off… revealing a secret room somehow? He opens the newly appeared door and locks it behind him. You bang on the door with all your might, wondering what his motivation behind this all is. You begin kicking at the door. You see a burst of glowing light from the cracks through the door. You deliver one final mighty kick to the door before it flies off of its hinges… and instead of the old man in the room, you now see a Mew floating before you! You look around the room, but the strange man is gone. Your vision focuses on the Mew now. You both stare at each other for a moment before the Mew flies away in a panic. You try to catch up but it phases through the ceiling somehow.
You look upward to the ceiling before quickly exploring around the area for the stairs to the next level. The temple begins to quake violently, which only makes you want to find the stairs more. You finally find the stairs in the last unchecked room on the whole floor and ascend for what seems like eternity. After what feels like the longest spiral staircase ever, you find yourself in a small hall, almost like where a king would reside in a castle. Where a throne should be is a pink glowing sphere floating in the air. It makes a slight humming sound.
You approach the sphere and see what appears to be the sky reflecting off of it. You tap it with your finger, but it just phases right through it? You pull it out and feel a bit of resistance while doing so. You think it’s some kind of hologram? You try to step through it to prove your hypothesis… and get sucked in! The next thing you know, you’re falling through the sky, with the sound of wings flapping in the distance…[/i]