Insane Cafe 3: The Curse of the Haunted Hotel

Kor · **Reply #5120 on:** January 13, 2010, 01:22:51 PM

"Maybe there are other places we can go to. a mall in another universe. Maybe to Dinotopia or Pern. Reminds me. I wonder how those humans get those cute fire lizards." Sara said.

"Easy, as Menolly said. The moment they hatch just stuff their little bellies with food and they'll impress on you." Moran said.

"I wonder if they'd like a cheese burger." Brooklyn said.

"It would be ok, though the are carnivores. They do need plenty of boron in their diet though." Jason said.

Serris · **Reply #5121 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:32:07 AM

"So where do we start?" Rime asked.

"Try geology," Hans suggested.

Clive, Dirk, Jose, Al and Kurt were browsing through the stacks for anything related to demons.

Nick22 · **Reply #5122 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:38:58 AM

Scooby, Agumon, and Spyro started looking on the left side of the room, Dixie, Tigress and Angel on the right side.. Cynder sat in the middle of room, glancing around at the others..
Stripetail looked at a shelf od books that looked old and worn..

Kor · **Reply #5123 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:47:52 AM

Jason, Moran, Sara and Odysseus put on white gloves, the type similar to what some folks who deal with old books and paper wear, before they started looking through any of the old books to see if they could find anything they were looking for. Sara's being a high class type and designed for dragons to wear.

Guilmon and Brooklyn took as much care as they could. And with their claws wearing gloves would be difficult.

Nick22 · **Reply #5124 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:02:03 AM

Tai, Martt and Sora took dowb book and paged through them hoping to find anything to could. as Tai closed a book he notice a slight bulge in its spine. he carried the book over to Stripetail and gently pushed the space between the bounbd book and its cover, and a some piece of paper and a piece of metal slid out. " the small piece of paper was actually part of a later " Here in Rome I buried My Treasure, where Jupiter looked down I placed.. Stripetail picked up the small piece of metal which bore the image oif a trident.. ' We've found.. something" He said to the others..

Kor · **Reply #5125 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:43:39 AM

"What would that be?" Jason said.

"A Dickens first edition like this book?" Moran asked looking up from a book he was looking over.

"And this is a first edition of the Wizard of oz." Sara said.

Serris · **Reply #5126 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:48:52 AM

The NUMA group turned around.

"Hey, the trident is the symbol of Neptune, god of the sea!" Dirk said.

"So maybe the clue is something to do with water," Jose added.

"Wait, don't tell me we may have to do a diving expedition?" Clive asked.

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"Wait, what's this?" Dr. Kerzach asked as he found an old piece of paper wedged inside an an old book on geology he was looking at.

He opened the folded piece of paper up and read it. The paper read, "I am born from fire but I have the appearance of ice,"

"Guys! We have another clue! I think we need to find something that's made of diamond," Dr. Kerzach said, holding up the piece of paper.

Nick22 · **Reply #5127 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:01:36 AM

Stripetail examined the piece of paper, it was part of the same letter he had found. "Nice work.gentlemen, you have found a clue..
_ Er Stripetail" Agumina spoke up, can our armor work underwater../"
_ Well I wouldn't have you go down to the bottom of the ocean, but yes the armors magic can protect you underwater. the magic creates an air bubble around you, so that you can breath comfortably underwater. like with others things the armors powers aren't infinite, there are limits. i personally wouldn't want you deep underwater longer than a couple hours, for safety reasons.'
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Wait so this armor will let me breath underwater?' Tiger asked " stripetail nodded, then tjuurned to the NUMA group, there is likely a third piece in one of these books.. find it..

Kor · **Reply #5128 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:45:17 AM

"Deep underwater diving? Sounds like some may have to use that liquid stuff that has lots of oxygen in it. I saw that in a movie." Brooklyn said.

"I have some of that in the tardis I think. And some vac suits." Jason said. "I may have some electronic gills, but those are not safe for deep diving. Only liquid breathing apparatus type of diving is." Jason said. "unless you have access to a force field or some other super high tech, or an aquatic form designed to dive that deep."

"Or we can use magic." Sara said.

Serris · **Reply #5129 on:** January 15, 2010, 01:10:55 AM

"Myself, Clive, Jose, Al and Kurt are experienced SCUBA divers," Dirk said.

"Even though I am a powerful swimmer, deep diving is out of the question," Ms. Swimmer said. She was looking around the room for clues as she was mostly illiterate.

"Ms. Swimmer, you shouldn't be in the water with your injuries anyways," Dr. Zanasiu replied.

Mr. Bigmouth held his chin in thought. "We've got fire and water. Wait, Stripetail, perhaps we are looking at an elemental link. We've found earth, represented by the underground ballroom; fire, represented by the diamond; aether, represented by the moon and water, represented by the trident! So the missing element may be air!"

"Mr. Bigmouth, I think you may be onto something!" Strut said. He was browsing an old book on pharmacology.

"So that means that we'll need to find a book on weather?" Deimos asked. He was reading a book on ancient weaponry.

Kor · **Reply #5130 on:** January 15, 2010, 01:15:46 AM

"The chapter where Bilbo finds the ring in this first edition of the hobbit is very different then the cartoon or the book I read before." Brooklyn said.

"Tolkein edited the chapter so it would fit in better with the lord of the rings." Jason said.

Nick22 · **Reply #5131 on:** January 15, 2010, 01:53:38 PM

Thats possible.. The riddle said something about Rome" stripetail said " hid his treasure where Jupiter looked down.. look for a book on Roman history...'

Kor · **Reply #5132 on:** January 15, 2010, 03:35:37 PM

"Like this dusty one?" Jason said holding up a book." Jason said. "I bit dusty but it is a book on roman history."

Nick22 · **Reply #5133 on:** January 15, 2010, 03:59:24 PM

Look through it see if theres a piece of paper stuc inside.. or some amulet.." stripetail said.. as he poured over the shelves looked for books with "Rome in the title..

Kor · **Reply #5134 on:** January 15, 2010, 06:28:52 PM

Jason felt along the top and felt a spot where the pages were not all together, but a bit of paper or something was sticking up. He opened the book near that spot and turned the pages, taking care considering the age of the book. He found and held up some paper wrapped around something.

Brooklyn sniffed at it. "It smells pretty old." He said.

Jason held it in one hand and unwrapped it. "Looks like something wrapped in some old paper." He said.

Nick22 · **Reply #5135 on:** January 16, 2010, 12:27:27 AM

Put it on the table over here" stripetail said "so we can have a better look at it.. its probably an amulet.."
_ So we're close to the end?' Dixie said lookimng at him..

Kor · **Reply #5136 on:** January 16, 2010, 12:44:36 AM

Jason walked over towards the table. Sara did a clean cantrip to clean the table before Jason put the object wrapped in old paper onto the table.

"I do hope it is the next bit of clue that we need." Jason said.

"Maybe it'll make more sense once we have all the clues together." Velma said.

"It well may." Sara said.

Serris · **Reply #5137 on:** January 16, 2010, 02:10:20 AM

Hans was reading a book on the Roman Empire when something fell out of the pages. He picked it up. It appeared to be a lightning bolt pendent. He turned it over to Stripetail.

Nick22 · **Reply #5138 on:** January 16, 2010, 02:21:02 AM

Ah, this is Jupiter's symbol' Nick said looking at the pendant.. " Now Jupiter and Neptune were brothers and they had another brother Pluto.. so I'm guessing thats Pluto's emblem that Jason found.

Kor · **Reply #5139 on:** January 16, 2010, 02:30:22 AM

Jason slowly unwrapped the paper and held the amulet in one hand as he unwrapped the note and used the amulet to hold down one side of the paper.

"Not a long one. Says: "In the lands where Pluto dwell, I can be found."

"The greek name is Τάρταρος. means something like deep place in English." Odysseus said.