fandomhigh | Teamwork Training and Combat Skills; Thursday, Second Period [11/14].

"Alright, guys!" Prompto started out class that morning with his usual good cheer and excitement, with maybe a particularly eager grin to put what he'd been working on in the danger shop to good use for the lesson that week. "Today, we're going to start putting some of our teamwork training and combat skills," hey! He said the name of the class!, "to good use in what's essentially a dungeon crawl."

"Or," Gladio offered, "you could think of it as sort of a an escape room plus monsters."

"An escape series of rooms," Ignis corrected lightly.

"Basically, though," Prompto continued, "the concept is pretty simple: you guys wanna get out of the dungeon, but first, you all have to team up to solve the puzzle to get out of the room, and while solving the puzzle means getting to move on, you'll also have to fight monsters to get to the next one. Which is kind of a slog when it's a real dungeon, but thankfully, we're only doing three rooms, because we only have so much time.

"And each of the monsters themselves," Gladio elaborated, "will also require different methods of attack."

"So essentially," Ignis gestured faintly, "each step of the way should require you to work with your teammates in figuring out how to defeat both puzzle and monsters and hopefully find your way to victory."

"So grab some weapons of choice," Gladio grinned, "warm up a little and ask some questions, and then we're throwing you in and seeing if you can get out by the end of class."

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Dungeon crawl escape room time!

Gray

Nell Ingram

Get yourself prepared for battle of the body and the mind, make sure you're good and warmed up, and ask any questions you may have before getting into the challenge!

Each room and battle will be posted below in subthreads for you all to work together to progress through the dungeon!

The type of puzzle should be pretty obvious in this first room: there are five panels in the floor. When you press on one of them, it starts up a sequence of lights and tones among the five. The point is to then repeat the pattern by stepping on the panels. If you get it wrong, though, the next pattern is different....and slightly more complicated.

So it's basically like a giant game of Simon.

Once you've figured out the pattern and successfully completed it, the door opens, and a bunch of fireballs come rushing out. They are three different colors: red, blue, and yellow, and it probably won't take long to realize that their attacks align with their colors....fire, ice, lightning....but so do their weaknesses.

It's pretty obvious who was behind the puzzle in the next room, as the room is clearly a kitchen. On the main counter, there is a large basket, and, in that large basket, is a random assortment of ingredients. To get out of the room (although there are no instructions telling you so), you must work together to create some sort of dish out of the ingredients in the box.

Your ingredients include: Cup Noodle^TM (obviously), a can of Ebony coffee, and a bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Good luck!

While that last battle involved several enemies, this one has only one, but he's a big one! A bulette comes barreling into the room to tear up the kitchen, occasionally rolling into a ball to either escape your attempts to hit its hard shell or just roll right over you. It's big, but it's fast, and is sure to give you quite the run for you money.

The next room is very nice and cozy, a little library with some books on the shelves, comfortable couches and arm chairs, lots of tables with neat artifacts on them. And on the door leading out is just a simple message: Find the words to help you through.

Scattered around the cozy room, in various spots of your choosing, are little scraps of paper with a word on each one. Find the papers with the words and then put them together to form a phrase, and once you do that, the door will open!

The words scattered around the room are: "For" "Every" "Lock" "There" "Exists" "A" "Key"

Fluttering into the library come four Dynoaevises, sizeable birds that are quick in their flight and vicious in their divebomb attacks. They stick near the high ceiling unless they're swooping in to attack, so the difficulty in getting to them is pretty clear...unless you've equipped yourself well!

You've made it through all the rooms! Congratulations! There's pizza and cupcakes awaiting you on the other side and you can use whatever remains of the class period (or beyond!) to celebrate!

Because celebrating your victory with your team is just as important as the victory itself!