Two kids eating many pizzas at home with family.
This was a tough one. Might not have even been fair. This is the winner with one correct word. I actually used the oldschool memory device to remember the planets in order when there were 9 of them: "My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas."
You already have an unused free +1, and I don't want people stockpiling them, so I'll give you a choice:
You can give a free +1 to IronyOwl, who came close with 'pizza' instead of 'pizzas', or take mystery prize which may or may not be as good. ---
The next day you show up to your homeroom with a carton of milk and a bottle of pesticides.
"The Cockroach Graveyard. Really?"
Its where I tracked your stuff. Somebody named Chihuahua Joe has it. Sound familiar?
"Yeah. He's one of the unaffiliated dweller losers who hangs out down there, doing drugs and practicing necromancy. The jerk is a known kleptomaniac. If he has my shit, I'm going to shove a spell so far up his ass the Heartkeepers will have to take corrective action to prevent him from walking funny when they bring him back to life. If we can find him, that is." You don't like our chances?
"...Could be dicey. They say the lord of the Cockroach graveyard looks out for the loners and outcasts among my kind. The locals don't take kindly to people like me who are clearly repping a faction. We will likely have to scratch and claw through everything that breaths and some things that don't to find Joe." Sounds like a good time!
"*sigh* ...Well I don't have any material things to lose, so no skin off my back if I die. Thanks for sticking your far less expendable neck out for me. I'll try not to let you down."You spend the next few minutes properly mixing the milk with the pesticides. You then pour the concoction onto the ground and order Jameson and Diode to jump in the puddle. They both do so, and they both vanish. Gray goes next. Finally, it is your turn to jump.
For a brief moment you feel yourself falling through something that is at the same time both liquid and incorporeal. It tastes foul in your mouth, and burns your eyes.
Then, with a thud, you land on solid ground in some sort of dimly lit crypt. It looks as though you can travel Southeast through a corridor, or north through a set of oversized saloon doors. The passage to your west is clearly a dead end.
The intercom flares to life.
"Ah. The Cockroach Graveyard. It looks like Dark Lord Hercules has renovated, and is now using a more open labyrinth floorplan as opposed to clearly defined 'rooms'. For now, lets just say that one combat encounter equals one room for the frequency of your spells and abilities, mmmmkay? Mmmmkay. Oh. And have a Minimap... Well this one isn't so mini, but it should help you navigate better nonetheless."How do you proceed?Assets by DALL-E, Midjourney, and Playground AI. Character Sheet.
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Topic: (AIsg) The Level Up Club: Cockroach Graveyard, Turn 23 (Read 20403 times)