How about not going to fight the slayer right now, or really in the immediate future at all.
Also maybe finally we get to do some looting?
YES OKAY YES THAT'S GOOD
Looting. Okay. There's a bronze statue here. Wow this thing is heavy. It's called... "Abbeyabbey the Abbey Abbey Abbey-Abbery of Abbey"? You think the universe might be making fun of someone.
There's a couple boonbucks over there. Score.
You also try to pick up the Colossus' head to bring it back. Wow that thing is bigger than you. Which is to say, way too heavy.
>Try to get a trophy from this kill. Somehow.
Bronze statue, fuck yeah.
Go kill those night creatures. On the way, try to find a shitty sord to train our swordkind skills.
Which night creatures?
You head to the nearest tavern to rest and ask around. The mayor calls you a legend. Here we go.
Thankfully, he doesn't seem to treat you that differently. He tells you about his husband and yadda yadda all that stuff he'd say normally. This is nice. You ask about anyone well traveled and he leads you to a dersite in the back room. You guess every tavern has a back room dersite waiting for travelers? The dersite says yeah, that's about right. Name's Sinur. Pleased to meet you, there's a cyclops to the southwest, a vile hag mate just east of here, a freak bridegroom of shadow to the west, a vile troll (night creature, not you're kind) to the southwest, a forest titan to the northwest, and a hill titan that's killed 60 far to the northwest.
Wow, uh, thanks, you say. That's quite a dump of info there. No problem, she says, just doing her duty as the well-traveled wise dersite in the back room. You ask how she feels about her duty. She says it's not perfect, but it's good enough. Why fret about it?* The Moist Tongues is a fine enough place to be.
The Moist Tongues, you ask? Yeah, Sinur says, trolls are weird.
You head into town to go to bed and sell off that awfully heavy statue. You find out that you have to go to another town to sell it off. Joy.
You got a big dump of info just now and you've got nothing to do with it. What do you do with it?
INVENTORY:
Some inconsequential clothes
Some consequential armor
Opossum leather waterskin (full)
Llama wool backpack
Prepared gray langur lung [4]
Armor grist [1]
Weapon Grist [1]
Stray Asparagus
Honey Badger meat [5]
Hemp plant fiber bag
Asparagus [28]
Unbreakable Katana
SKILLS:
Butcher: 0.120
Alchemist: 1.7166666
Bladekind: 5.605
Armor: 0.576
Throwing: 0.540
Sneaking: 0.032
Swimming: 2.072857
Tracking: 5.608
Observer: 4.31111
Reading: 1.0
Fighting: 2.09142857
Archery: 0.54
Fistkind: 3.385
Dodging: 0.774
Experience points: 200
PARTY:
Glafli Unnask, Stress-filled and thoughtful.
Excitement seekers:
Herido Ebbeir, Curious and singleminded.
Harlin Sjalda, Polite supergenius.
JOURNAL CONTENTS:
You've heard rumors that The Abysses of Wilt, a group of bandits, is harassing Mostring, about a half-days travel to the west.
The Mint Shanks is harassing Lockskunks.
There's a troll (of the underground cyan-blooded big n' dumb sort, not the gray-skinned sort) a half-days travel to the west. False.
You've taken care of a bandit.
You've killed 3 night creatures. One of them killed you.
You've killed a bunny. It nearly killed you, ok???
The Sovereign Slayer is in the Shaft of Mining, far to the west. Pls no.
The titan Ared the Pine of Flowers is in Skunkgrottoes, very far to the west.
There are bandits in Masterbook.
There's a bronze colossus to the east. Dead. Destroyed? Deactivated.
There's a hill titan in The Natural Glade far to the northwest. It's killed almost as many as the colossus.
You have a heavy-ass statue on you that you need to drop off somewhere.
You are some sort of Hearty Person and your companions have Life and Rage. Nobody else seems to have these. You are confused by this, as is Harlin. The most likely explanation is that you three were destined to be together and wander and do random crap. Harlin is confused by this, as it doesn't seem to indicate much.
APPEARANCE:
Very sparse, dry black hair in double braids; narrow ears with large lobes; short, upturned nose with convex bone bridge; broad head; thin lips; short, thin horns, at a very acute angle to the ground. All previous injuries, including missing teeth, have been healed. Brown blood.
*author's note: direct quote from the game