Pick up lizard and throwing at Mongo, the giant goop man who I just named right about now
[Your accuracy roll: 1-->6]
You hurl the lizard at Mongo, but severely undershoot your mark. Mongo, perplexed, looks at the lizard, which immediately charges.
[Lizard vs. Mongo: 6-->6 vs. 6-->3]
The lizard immediately scrambles up his leg and buries its maw into the right hip, extending a set of spikes immediately to complicate removal. Mongo panics and grabs the lizard, and with his great strength immediately pulls it out!
Much to his chagrin, though, the lizard seems to have a token of gray in its mouth. Mongo's mouth makes a soundless "oh" before his left leg completely dissolves.
[Mongo's balance roll: 5]
He remains standing there for a moment, lizard in hand, before he looks at you, probably not thinking happy thoughts. Pointing at you with the lizard, he gives the order for his two fellows to commence a charge.
[Small Goop Man 1 vs. You: 6-->1-1+
1 vs. 1-->2+1]
The first goop man charges straight at you, and with a single punch of his small fist manages to pierce straight through your guts, his hand coming out the other side. Blood begins pouring out of the hole where the hand appears to be, though it seems to also be quite stuck in place as the silvery stuff closes in around it. You guess that's sort of lucky, in a way.
[Your endurance roll: 4]
Not that it doesn't hurt to a horrific degree anyway, of course.
[Small Goop Man 2 vs. You: 3-1+1 vs. 4+1-
1]
The other goop man charges in a similar manner, though he merely seeks to punch you in the face - fortunately, he misses as you tilt your head a tiny smidgen.
Onwards to the next area.
You move on to the Unholy Chambers of Satiation, sensing loot that way, and the FACTS corroborate this idea.
Once you reach inside, you observe several things. Firstly, the whole place is arranged a little bit like a dinner table, with giant bowls and plates of gray goop placed all around the place, with no walls around the area or a ceiling - just the floor and the things on it, suspended in darkness! Secondly, one group of men of goop, two small and one twice as large a regular person, the two small ones fighting Barry Goldstein, rather successfully, one might add, since one of them appears to have punched their hand right through his steeled abdomen - a wound that will prove fatal within minutes should the goop man be killed or his hand otherwise removed. Thirdly, a Coffee/Rum machine and one of the Gray Snack Machines, both of which are here to provide you with some form of sustenance, though the latter needs tokens of gray to operate. Fourthly, four gray goop men sitting on the edge of a bowl and observing all of this.
Speaking of, you sense that there are valuable tokens of gray inside the goop men. One in the small ones, two in the normal ones, and three more in the large one with the missing leg. One is in the mouth of Barry's Biological Attack Platform. You feel a strange attraction to these tokens, as if they were an extension of yourself, in a way, attached to you via some invisible string.
"HEAR THE WORDS OF RADIX THE OMNISCIENT! WELCOME TO THE UNHOLY CHAMBERS OF SATIATION! TEN TOKENS OF GRAY BUY YOU AN EXIT! LESS BUY YOU SOMETHING FROM THE SNACK MACHINE! COFFEE/RUM IS FREE! I'M SURE YOU CAN FIGURE OUT THE REST!"Stargazer waits for it to come closer.
You're going to be waiting for quite a while, needless to say. It is starting to slowly come your way, though.
Go to the sin pits.
In the Festering Pits of Sin, you find the burning form of Starn Gundar and the epileptic shape of Redshirt on the top floor, Stargazer waiting for the slug bus on the floor right below, and a staircase bringing you down to the Festering Pits of Sin themselves on the bottom floor.
"HEAR THE WORDS OF RADIX THE OMNISCIENT! DRINK FROM THE FESTERING PITS OF SIN AND GAIN POWERS BEYOND YOUR HUMBLEST DREAMS! OR DO NOT, AND PROCEED ALONG WITHOUT THEM!"
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